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CONTENTS

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CORONAVIRUS.. . . . . . . . . . . 06

NEWS FEATURE . . . . . . . . . . 09 OPINIONS.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Angry Poodle Barbecue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

In Memoriam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

OBITUARIES.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 THE WEEK.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 LIVING.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

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COVER STORY

LOS MENSAJEROS MULTILINGÜES

Multilingual Messengers Deliver Coronavirus Info to Our Latino and Mixteco Communities

(Delaney Smith)

on the cover: Clockwise from top right, Alejandra

Cortez (also above, photos by Daniel Dreifuss), Arcenio López (courtesy photo), Jose Fierros (photo by Daniel Dreifuss), and Louis and Melissa Meza (courtesy photo).

FOOD & DRINK .. . . . . . . . . . 26 The Restaurant Guy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Stay In/Take Out Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Dining Out Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

A&E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Arts Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 .

ODDS & ENDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology . . . . . . . 32

CLASSIFIEDS.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

This Modern World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

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SALES-TEAM SUPERSTARS Name: Sarah Sinclair Title: Advertising Director How has the Indy sales staff been adapting to this very weird new normal? What have been the biggest challenges? Any silver linings? The ad reps are an outgoing, gregarious bunch. Ordinarily, we conduct a lot of our business in person, so this has all been a 180-degree turn, with each of us locked in our own cocoon rather than mingling with our clients and each other.

But everyone adapted immediately and admirably. We’re Zooming all the time and on the phone constantly.

And yes, there are so many silver linings. The obvious, like being home with our kids and dogs more. Also, hearing about some of the positive things that our clients are experiencing. Last week, for example, Tom from Santa Cruz Markets told us about one of their regular customers who anonymously bought over $500 worth of groceries that his staff assembled into gift bags and delivered to the Rescue Mission.

As their leader, how have you helped the sales team through this? We’ve been meeting virtually a lot, and every time we do, we mix in a little fun.

We’ve played show and tell and Family Feud, and we even made a rainbow for our colleague Emily on her birthday.

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Full-Court Press Waged to Get Sansum Relief

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The Medical Clinic May Not Qualify for the Federal Relief Program

by Nick Welsh y most metrics, Sansum Medical Clinic qualifies as the proverbial 9,000-pound gorilla when it comes to providing medical care throughout Santa Barbara County. With more than 200 doctors on payroll and nearly 2,000 employees, Sansum treats about 130,000 patients a year throughout its 22 clinics.

Sansum — now approaching its 100-year anniversary — easily ranks as the county’s single biggest health-care provider. One-third of its patients are insured by the federal government.

But for a host of esoteric legal reasons, Sansum may not be eligible for any of the $75 billion Congress voted to help hospitals hard hit by the costs of the COVID-19 crisis. That’s because Sansum is not legally affiliated with any hospital. That makes it unique in California, perhaps in the nation.

Though they are hoping that the most recent federal relief bill has language that might allow Sansum to apply, it’s still dangerously uncertain.

The worst-case scenario, according to Dr. Kurt Ransohoff, CEO of Sansum, is very bad, but “we’re still thinking we can pull out of it.”

Since the pandemic began, Sansum patients have been canceling about 60 percent of their visits. Most of the other visits are by Sansum’s new teleconferencing platform. Typically, elective procedures — such as cosmetic surgery or what Though Sansum Medical Clinic is hoping that the most recent federal relief bill has language that might allow it to apply, the worst-case scenario is very bad, Ransohoff termed “my-knee-hurts-when-I-jog” according to CEO Dr. Kurt Ransohoff (above), who nonetheless remains optimistic: “We’re still thinking we can pull out of it.” operations — account for about one third of SanA recent statewide survey conducted by the Califorsum’s revenues. When all that stopped, Sansum found patients and insurers. Had that merger gone through, nia Medical Association estimated that up to 13 million it had bled $5 million in March. In response, late last Sansum would not be in its current jam. month, the clinic furloughed 600 workers, cut its docSupporting all their efforts have been the Cottage Californians could lose access to their physicians unless tors’ pay by half, and took out a line of credit. Sansum Health system and the California Medical Association, state and federal lawmakers take action. The survey — like other major health-care providers — announced a political juggernaut in Sacramento. Ransohoff is opti- reported that 75 percent of all practices had taken big plans to partially resume elective surgeries and proce- mistic something will come of it. “The good news here,” financial hits. Half of all practices had to lay off or furlough employees, 65 percent reduced physician and dures beginning next week. It’s not clear, however, the he said, “is that I never heard the word ‘never.’ ” extent to which that will provide the degree of relief staff hours, and 34 percent have cut physician salaries. needed.

To date, it remains uncertain if any doctors practices in Into this pending catastrophe stepped State SenaSanta Barbara have qualified for the federal businesstor Hannah-Beth Jackson, State Assemblymember relief loans popularly known as PPP or Personal PayMonique Limón, and Congressmember Salud Carbajal. Although Sansum’s challenges are the most dramatic check Protection.

“Sansum is so critical to Santa Barbara. You can’t over- and dire, it’s only one manifestation of the widespread In the meantime, Dr. David Dodson, an internal state it,” Limón said. “Without Sansum, people would fiscal woe wrought by the COVID crisis on local health- medicine specialist at Sansum and the former presihave to drive to Ventura or Santa Maria for treatment.” care providers. Dr. Kevin Casey, a vascular surgeon, is dent of the Central Coast Medical Association, wonders Limón and Jackson began scouring Sacramento, the president of the Central Coast Medical Association, how he can provide the preventative care that reduces looking for a spare $20 million that the clinic projected which represents about 800 doctors. “Cottage’s income the risk of heart attacks and strokes. It’s hard to do that it would need by year’s end. “We’re looking under every is down to 25 percent,” he said. “And on average, most when patients are staying away in droves. rock,” said Jackson, but it is not an easy task. By law, practitioners have seen an 80 percent drop.” Some pracDodson works out of Sansum’s downtown digs where 40 percent of the state’s general fund must be spent on tices have been forced to temporarily close; others have the waiting rooms are empty. He used to see about 17 education. And then everybody thinks Santa Barbara is had to cut back staff. Everyone is seeing fewer patients. patients a day. Now, it’s a busy day if he sees seven. One so wealthy it doesn’t need help.

Dr. Chuck Fenzi, who runs the Santa Barbara Neigh- day he saw no one. “And we’re open. We have normal Meanwhile in the halls of Congress, Carbajal is work- borhood Clinics, reported an average 363 patients a business hours.” Last week, he was supposed to see a ing to get the Energy and Commerce Committee to day visited his clinics during the first week of March, patient with a family history of melanoma, an aggresexpand its definition of a health infrastructure. As it is but only 131 patients visited two weeks later. When the sive form of skin cancer. This patient complained of a now worded, Sansum’s corporate structure would dis- clinics went live with their new tele-health platform, skin rash, so Dodson wanted to see him in person; but qualify it from any future congressional relief package. those numbers went up to 267. Fenzi said the clinics he never showed up, and Dodson is not sure why. A lot About 10 years ago, Sansum and Cottage Hospital had to lay off some staff. His biggest concern was for all of patients, he stated, are simply too afraid. launched an effort to merge. But the Federal Trade the patients dealing with diabetes, hypertension, and And as a doctor working for Sansum, Dodson’s pay Commission and the California Attorney General even- chronic heart disease. People are afraid they might con- has been cut in half. “I consider myself lucky,” he said. tually objected, citing the undue market influence such tract the virus at a clinic, he said. But these are also the “With the limited number of people I actually see, I don’t a monopolistic entity could wield at the expense of very patients most at risk because of their conditions. know that I’m earning my keep.” n

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As of Monday, April 27, less than a month since the first case was reported at the Lompoc federal prison complex (above), 104 inmates and 32 employees have been infected with COVID-19. The figures are essentially doubling every week.

Prison Crisis Threatens to Pop could overwhelm Santa Barbara’s hospitals.

(The complex consists of the medium- and minimum-security United States Penitentiary Lompoc with 1,520 inmates and the low-security Federal Correctional Institute Lompoc with 1,224 offenders.)

In two sharply worded letters to BOP Director Michael Carvajal, the congressmembers urged the federal agency to get the situation under control, including taking better care of staff, some of whom are reportedly sleeping in their cars between shifts to avoid bringing the virus home. They also asked about an elderly inmate who was released while in the late stages of an infection and died days later at home. They have not received a response. Carbajal warned journalist Jerry Roberts in an interview last week that the prison needs additional respirators and other resources to avert a potential “disaster that’s unfathomable.”

Supervisor Joan Hartmann told the Independent her office is frequently hearing from the community on Carbajal Warns of the issue. “County residents are making many sacrifices in slowing Potential “Disaster That’s the spread,” she said, “and I have Unfathomable” heard from several residents who would like to know more about ing its online “COVID-19 Resource Page” what BOP has been doing to slow the spread with data on the Lompoc outbreak, though it of the virus, protect its workforce, and isolate is for its other facilities. Information on new those that have been exposed.”

Three weeks ago, as the numbers in the infections is instead being provided by Santa Barbara County health officials during their penitentiary started to climb, Santa Barbara officials — who struggled mightily in daily press briefings.

These same officials, however, have also recent years to establish communications been admonished by BOP administrators to with prison administrators on other matno longer disclose how many Lompoc peni- ters — were surprised to learn how limited tentiary inmates and staff are being treated the complex is in its ability to provide even at area hospitals. “For safety, security, and basic health care. Its only means of treating privacy reasons, we do not discuss the condi- inmate patients is through a small, rudimentions of confinement for any individual or tary medical bay with few supplies and even group of inmates, including any assignments fewer beds. (Vandenberg Air Force Base also to local hospitals,” explained the national lacks health-care resources.)

BOP spokesperson Emery Nelson.

Various ideas to increase the prison’s Regional leaders — from the County medical bed capacity were discussed, with Board of Supervisors to Congressional Rep- a plan eventually settled upon to renovate a resentative Salud Carbajal and California decommissioned military uniform factory Senators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Har- on the property. Phase 1 involves convertris — have repeatedly expressed concern that ing 11 office spaces into isolation cubicles that COVID-19 patients from the prison complex will house 22 patients. Phase 2 will convert a

by Tyler Hayden he confused and chaotic response of the U.S. government to the COVID-19 pandemic continues to plague Santa Barbara County, with the locus of the regional outbreak— outbreak the federal prison complex in Lompoc— Lompoc showing few signs of containment.

As of Monday, April 27, less than a month since the first case was reported at the prison, 104 inmates and 32 employees have been infected. The figures are essentially doubling every week. One inmate has died. The number of prison cases combined with the number of sick residents in surrounding North County communities, where the majority of guards and other staff live, account for 79 percent of Santa Barbara County’s confirmed COVID-19 infections.

For reasons unclear, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), which operates 22 correctional institutions across the country, is no longer updat-

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Every day, Santa Barbara County and its hospitals have about 550 COVID-19 tests available. Public Health Officer Dr. Henning Ansorg hopes to know this week if testing capacity could be increased.

Can County Test Its Way Out of Pandemic? patient has tested positive. However, when o the list of symptoms the Centers patients test negative, it does not mean that for Disease Control and Preven- the body is free of the virus, but only that is tion acknowledges COVID-19 can not yet detectable.

Because Cottage Health lacks sufficient cause has been added chills, sore throat, muscle pain, headache, and the loss collection supplies and reagent kits, it is only of taste and smell. That’s just the latest infor- able to process 50-70 PCR tests daily. It sends mation. We already had learned that young about the same number to an outside facility, people get it, we should all wear facemasks, LabCorp. The hospital hopes to have antiperfectly healthy people could be full of coro- body testing onsite in a month or two, said navirus germs, and it’s an economy destroyer. spokesperson Maria Zate. Lompoc Valley Santa Barbarans first became vocally Medical Center declined to comment on test alarmed about coronavirus in March when availability.

Another type of testing, serology, can the Grand Princess cruise ship was scheduled to approach our shores with 21 infected tour- detect coronavirus antibodies through blood ists aboard. Though the ship never docked serum. Its reliability for detecting COVID-19 here, the worry, lockdown, and economic is in the 90th percentile, and it can show how pain began. And none of that will be going widespread the virus is within a community. away soon. Public Health Officer Dr. Henning Quest Diagnostics announced it would proAnsorg, on whose shoulders rests the health of the county and who declared a local emergency the week Ability to Test All Residents before the governor announced his Still a Couple of Months Off, shelter-in-place order, recently told Say Officials the Independent: “We will need to have social distancing, mask wearing at work and in public, no congregations cess a serology test for anyone who thought they’d had COVID-19. No doctor’s order is of more than 6-10 people for a LONG time.”

In California, Gov. Newsom listed six cri- required. Quest stated that the results will be teria before he would suspend the shelter- shared with federal and local health officials. in-place requirement, now in its sixth week.

The Shutdown The first hurdle must be a greatly enlarged campaign to test people, and then, to track all Wears On those who have come into contact with any “The vast majority of residents are doing person who tests positive. Right now, the state what they need to do,” said Supervisor Gregg is not at a stage where it could accomplish Hart, noting that about 40 percent are working from home or wearing a mask. “People either of these requirements efficiently.

Every day Santa Barbara County and its are taking this seriously.” Indeed, COVIDhosptials have about 550 tests available. Front- 19 cases have not overwhelmed the county’s line medical workers and high-risk patients hospitals, but the small number of cases has still have priotity, with others tests going to also reduced the number of people with commercial labs. Ansorg hopes to know this antibodies.

The $64,000 question is whether the PCR week if testing capacity could be increased, but the ability to test all symptomatic and or serology testing will tell us if we can stop asymptomatic county residents was still a sheltering in place. The answer is “not really.”

The similar virus SARS (severe acute respiracouple of months off, he said.

In Santa Maria, Marian Medical Center tory syndrome), which caused a pandemic in can process upward of 200 PCR (polymerase 2003, only conferred immunity for a couple chain reaction) tests a day, said Dr. Kevin Fer- of years. Doctors who’ve recovered from guson, who runs the pathology lab. Doctors COVID-19 are taking no risks, said Dr. Lynn can completely rely on a PCR test where a Fitzgibbons, who heads up infectious disease at Cottage Health. “They are still using all the

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Lompoc Prison cont'd from p. 7 Dear Readers,

The Santa Barbara Independent changed the trajectory of my career. After majoring in history at UCSB, I was planning to go on to graduate school when I got an arts internship at the Independent. I never looked back.

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portion of the factory’s open floor plan into a congregate area with 60 to 80 beds. These efforts, however, have been hampered by delays, and it remains unknown how much construction has actually taken place, or if the BOP has secured the necessary equipment and staff to operate the facility once it’s completed.

“With regard to the medical provider or the medical resources, I’d have to refer you to the Bureau of Prisons for direct responses,” said Dr. Van Do-Reynoso, director of the county Public Health Department, at a press conference last week. The BOP did not respond to requests for information on the status of the factory project.

Meanwhile, the friends and relatives of inmates, many of whom live out of state, continue to clamor for information about their loved ones. The Lompoc prison has initiated what amounts to a complete communication blackout during a two-week lockdown it said is meant to limit further spread of the virus. Inmates are currently confined to their dorms and cells and not allowed to leave their bunks except to use the shower or restroom.

“Unfortunately, our guidance for better sanitation, to practice social distancing, and encouraging inmates to wear masks has not proven effective,” wrote Acting Complex Warden B. von Blanckensee in an April 17 memorandum announcing the new restrictions. Blanckensee said BOP-issued masks were mandatory for all prisoners at all times, and commissary purchases were suspended.

Blanckensee assured inmates that they would still be allowed to send and receive mail during the lockdown. Family members say otherwise. “I recently received a large manila envelope with several letters addressed to my brother (approximately 10) inside,” said Marina Santana in an email to the Independent. “They were stamped with ‘Return to Sender’ and ‘Wrong Address.’ I called the facility, and they confirmed that I had the correct address. I was not given an explanation as to why the letters were sent back.” Deb Hoover had a similar experi-

ence. “Mail posted to my husband has been “returned to sender,” she said. “This has put a stop to all of our communication.”

Sunny Sisneros cried with concern for her 75-year-old father, who is due for release in August. Shortly before the lockdown began, he called to tell her he was sick— with the virus or not, he didn’t know—but was not receiving medical attention. She hasn’t heard from him since. When Sisneros calls the prison, an officer says he is not allowed to give out private information on inmates and directs her to the BOP website.

Sisneros, who lives in Wyoming, said she doesn’t care about the bureaucratic or political mechanisms that drove the federal government’s response to the virus. She just wants to know if her dad is okay. “I don’t care how we got here,” she said. “It is what it is. I just want my dad to come home.” Sisneros offered to make or buy masks after her father reported a shortage of them among the inmates. Without yard time or access to the “weight pile” to let off steam, growing tensions are exploding into fistfights, other sources say.

Lompoc inmates and their families are also distressed the prison isn’t doing more to comply with U.S. Attorney General William Barr’s April 3 order to release medically fragile and low-risk offenders to home confinement. It appears, however, that the Lompoc facility isn’t alone in its inaction.

An article published April 25 by the Marshall Project, a nonprofit journalism project that covers the U.S. criminal justice system, revealed that the BOP has so far transferred only 1,027 inmates to home confinement— about 0.5 percent of the more than 174,000 people in the bureau’s custody.

Lawsuits are now being filed on behalf of prisoners at other BOP penitentiaries throughout the country. In one case in Ohio, a judge said the BOP had treated the health and welfare of its inmates with “deliberate indifference.” In a separate case, a judge called the federal agency’s process for approving transfers “Kafkaesque” and said it prevented many appropriate releases.

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COVID-19 Testing cont'd from p. 7 PPE (personal protective equipment) available,” she said.

Fitzgibbons explained. “We have to be very careful,” she said. “A positive serology test might indicate a patient had the disease — that the body recognizes the virus — but we don’t yet know if it means they are protected from getting it again. And there’s always the possibility of a false positive.”

When the county begins contact tracing, it will take an “army,” said Hart. People in the public defender and district attorney departments are being trained to join public health employees when the state is ready to begin tracing.

The governor’s checklist also includes having enough beds in hospitals to meet a potential second surge of COVID-19

patients, employing safe distancing for businesses and schools, and reinstating shelter-in-place if infections soar.

County meetings are ongoing to discuss the strategies employed by San Luis Obispo County. “S.L.O. County had about a twoweek head start,” said Bob Nelson, who is currently Supervisor Peter Adam’s chief aide and will become the county’s 4th District supervisor in January.

“We want to make sure that the … ‘turning of the dimmer switch,’ as Governor Newsom has described [the gradual easing of the stay-at-home order] is done with great precision,” said Hart, “to ensure that we are prepared to deal with future COVID19 complications without having to shut our economy down for a second time.” n

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Lawsuit Seeks to Shut Down Busy Bee’s Organics

by Melinda Burns

WINE V. WEED: In a lawsuit filed on April aking aim at an industry it views 23 in county Superior Court, the vintneras out of control, a citizen coalibacked nonprofit Santa Barbara Coalition for tion is suing the Santa Barbara Responsible Cannabis alleges that Busy Bee County Board of Supervisors owner Sara Rotman (right) illegally expanded a medicinal operation from a single greenhouse in and the owner of Busy Bee’s Organics, early 2016 to more than seven acres in 2018. a 22-acre cannabis project on Highway 246 that was unanimously approved for a zoning permit last month.

In a lawsuit filed on April 23 in Superior Court, the nonprofit Santa Barbara Coalition for Responsible Cannabis alleges that Sara Rotman, the Busy Bee owner, illegally expanded a medicinal operation from a single greenhouse in early 2016 to more than seven acres in 2018 — and that the supervisors broke their own zoning rules in validating that expansion with an after-the-fact permit.

The coalition claims that the county failed to fully consider the environmental impacts of cannabis, including the strong smell of marijuana plants, on the lucrative wine-tasting business in Buellton. Coalition backers are asking for a court order to void Busy Bee’s permit and halt its operations, pending further review.

“This lawsuit is a last resort,” said Debra Eagle, a coali- On January 23, the coalition and three Carpinteria hometion boardmember and the general manager of Alma Rosa owners filed suit against four cannabis greenhouse operaWinery at 7250 Santa Rosa Road. “Respect and moderation tors, seeking a court order to stop the “ever-present noxious is all we are asking for.” odor” of marijuana from wafting into their neighborhood.

The coalition of more than 200 residents includes vintSanta Barbara County has set a cap for cannabis at 1,761 ners, farmers, and homeowners from Carpinteria to the acres. To date, permits have been issued for only about 240 Santa Ynez Valley and the foothills of the San Rafael Moun- acres. By contrast, the coalition notes, Sonoma County has tains. It is the second major lawsuit brought by the group capped cultivation at one acre per parcel; 88 growers are this year, and it is sure to widen the fissures in the commu- currently operating on 88 acres there.

“Santa Barbara County is deliberately taking an approach nity over how and whether to crack down on the cannabis that is a completely different tack from every other county in industry.

On one hand, the Board of Supervisors majority views the state,” Eagle said. “It’s very upsetting to those of us who cannabis as a tax bonanza and strives at every turn to want to live here.”

According to the coalition, 19 cannabis permits are pendaccommodate the growers, most of whom continue to operate here without county permits or business licenses, ing on 610 acres in the Sta. Rita Hills, a federally designated three years after California voters legalized marijuana for American Viticultural Area between the cities of Lompoc recreational use. and Buellton.

On the other hand, residents who say industrial-scale “My winery and grape-growing businesses are being cannabis is damaging their quality of life are fighting on threatened with their demise, my land will no longer be able multiple fronts: They are routinely challenging cannabis to produce historically high-value agriculture, my employpermits on policy grounds, and, as a political matter, an ees and loved ones are at risk, and I cannot breathe,” said active faction campaigned hard but unsuccessfully to oust Blair Pence, a coalition cofounder and the owner of Pence Supervisor Das Williams, the chief architect of the county’s Vineyards & Winery at 1909 West Highway 246. “Does that cannabis ordinance. provide the requisite clarity?”

County Counsel Michael Ghizzoni said Tuesday that the county would respond formally to the coalition’s lawsuit in Busy Bee was the first cannabis project to come before the May. But Susan Petrovich, a Santa Barbara land-use attorney supervisors on appeal. The second, Santa Barbara West who represented Busy Bee during county review, said the Coast Farms, a 50-acre cannabis cultivation and processing owners were disappointed that the coalition had decided to operation on Highway 246, half a mile west of Busy Bee file suit. Busy Bee, she said, is a “model, outdoor, sun-grown and more than twice the size, was approved by the board cannabis farm that is frequently held as the gold standard by 3-2 on April 21. Pence appealed both projects as they made government officials. their way through county review.

“More than 10 local and state agencies have reviewed and A third project on Highway 246, Santa Rita Valley Ag, approved the project and found it to meet or exceed their for up to 32 acres of outdoor cannabis cultivation, will be rigorous requirements,” Petrovich said. “This is an end run reviewed by the board on May 5. Again, Pence is appealing around the long-since-expired statute of limitations to chal- the county Planning Commission’s approval of the project. lenge the county’s cannabis laws.”

In a written statement this week, Andrew Rice, a spokesman for Rotman, called the coalition’s lawsuit a “frivolous”

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County Must Rein in Booming Cannabis Industry, Citizen Coalition Says attempt to “obstruct the farming of a pesticide-free, organic, legal and environmentally friendly crop” and undermine “the broad public support Santa Barbara voters have shown for cannabis legalization.”

The Busy Bee owners, Rice said, are “not surprised” that Pence “has followed through on his numerous public threats to fight every single cannabis project that is approved in a two-mile stretch of the Santa Ynez Valley near his winery .…

We’re not his first target, and we won’t be his last.”

Vintners say the smell of cannabis from Busy Bee will discourage tourists who are drawn to Highway 246 west of Buellton for its scenic vistas and boutique wines.

They worry that they could be sued by cannabis operators if the pesticides they use on wine grapes, including organic chemicals, are carried by wind or fog onto cannabis, a product with zero pesticide tolerance.

“The voters approved cannabis, but the process has failed us,” said Marc Chytilo, an attorney for the coalition.

“The wine industry has realized they may not be able to operate in close proximity with cannabis.”

County officials argue that their overarching environmental impact report for the cannabis industry covered all the bases. It found that “significant and unavoidable impacts,” including “objectionable or offensive odors,” would be created by clusters of cannabis operations; but the board voted to override these considerations in the interest of “a robust and economically viable legal cannabis industry.”

ILLEGAL EXPANSION?

At the board’s hearing on Busy Bee last month, Chytilo displayed slides of aerial Google Earth photos from 2015 and 2018 — proof, he said, that Rotman illegally expanded her “grow” from a single greenhouse to six greenhouses and 16 hoop houses.

Most of the permit applications in the pipeline, including those in the Sta. Rita Hills wine region, are for cannabis operations such as Busy Bee’s that were designated by the county as “legal, nonconforming” — that is, the owners signed affidavits affirming that they were growing medicinal marijuana before 2016.

The county’s land-use ordinance prohibits the expansion of “nonconforming” uses. The county began an investigation of an alleged zoning violation at Busy Bee but dropped it when Rotman applied for a permit — a decision that doesn’t sit well with other farmers.

“You can’t build a winery and get permission after the fact,” Eagle said.

In her recent letter to the board, Amy Steinfeld, an attorney for Busy Bee, said that after Rotman bought her property in 2014, she began plowing up all of the arable acreage and grazing farm animals in order to restore the depleted soil for medicinal cannabis.

“Busy Bee began planting cannabis seeds throughout the farm in July 2015,” she said. “Busy Bee’s project not only meets, but exceeds standards.” n

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I LIKE IKE: Somewhere outside the cow-mad town of Abilene, Kansas, the body of Dwight D. Eisenhower —buried in an $80 standard

military-issue coffin—is spinning wildly in its grave. Eisenhower often gets a bad rap, as a tapioca president during the most vanilla of times—the 1950s. But how tapioca could Eisenhower have been, having led the Allies to blood-drenched victory over the Nazis in Europe? With the stench of World War II forever in his nostrils, Eisenhower knew governments could not be trusted to get along, so in 1956, he created Sister Cities International as an opportunity for citizen-to-citizen diplomacy.

Now it seems Santa Barbara’s Sister Cities Board —a robust machine of international engagement—is dancing on Eisenhower’s grave, having just picked an inexplicable fight with the tiny town of Dingle, Ireland. In fact, thanks to their actions, we’re now facing a fullfledged international incident. Instead of building bridges, we are burning one down.

On April 7—when the world was otherwise distracted by the pandemic— Santa Barbara City Council quietly voted unilaterally, and without adequate warning, to cut off Sister City relations with the town of Dingle—population 2,000 — scenically located on Ireland’s westernmost promontory.

No one from Dingle’s Sister Cities Board had been notified this was even in the works.

No one notified them on January 27 when the Santa Barbara committee voted to pull the plug on a 17-year bilateral relationship. To listen to the Dingle crew—led by the redoubtable Mairead de Staic —no one even told Dingle there was a problem.

De Staic is fighting mad. “We got no indication that Dingle/Santa Barbara Sister City has being dissolved. We got no chance to defend our community or our committee,” de Staic objected. Her committee, de Staic vowed, “is challenging this injustice.”

Members of the Santa Barbara board — Pat Fallin and Tom McCool —insist otherwise.

They claim they were forced to step in a couple of years ago and save the floundering committee. In official documents, they claimed Dingle doesn’t have any committee at all, that it’s just de Staic and her husband, Brian de Staic. They also argue Dingle is too small, and that the de Staic couple have refused to abide by the newand-improved guidelines adopted in 2019.

Adding insult to injury, they stated there’s been only “a couple of exchanges” since 2003 —when Erin “Go Bragh” Graffy de Garcia almost single-handedly conjured the Dingle/ Santa Barbara connection out of whole cloth.

Worse yet, the Santa Barbarans allege that members of their delegation “did not feel all that welcome” during a visit in 2018.

However, having investigated the pertinent documents, there were, in fact, 12 exchanges between the two towns, not just a couple. Many, the minutes reflect, were lively, fun, and well

attended. A couple involved former mayor Helene Schneider.

A Dingle delegation arrived in 2018 to show solidarity with Santa Barbara during the 1/9 Debris Flow. That same year, 25 Santa Barbarans went to Dingle, where they were greeted by representatives of 40 civic and cultural organizations there. It’s also true some wires got crossed. A delegation of three former Santa Barbara poets laureate showed up to a Dingle pub for a reading to be greeted by a crowd of only four people. Somewhere in another Dingle pub, I am told, a crowd of poetry lovers waited in vain for Santa Barbara’s poets.

De Staic is righteously pissed. She’s accused her Santa Barbara sisters of half-truths and flat-out lies. She provided names of everyone on her committee and considered the matter settled. She likewise expressed coolness to expanding from Dingle to include the entire County Kerry. How would Santa Barbara like it if it had to include Santa Ynez and Santa Maria?

Santa Barbara, she said, never replied to her replies.

No matter how hard one squints, it’s not clear in any of the exchanges that Dingle was ever put on notice.

As usual, all communication took place via email. No one on either side ever picked up the phone.

I’ve never been to Dingle, but friends of mine have. They loved it. One in particular was struck by how eloquent he became while drinking Guinness in a Dingle pub one night

years ago. Based on what he remembers, he has condemned “the despicable decision” of the S.B. Sister Cities Board.

Dingle, it turns out, is a genuinely happening surf spot; like Santa Barbara’s, its beaches face south. The Dingle Bay has been adopted by one specific dolphin, which inspired Santa Barbara dolphin fountain sculptor Bud Bottoms to create a dolphin statue for Dingle. This predates the establishment of Sister Cityhood.

Dingle has a working harbor and an art scene that tilts heavily in the direction of the traditional. In fact, everyone there speaks Gaelic, Dingle being the epicenter of Ireland’s insurrectionary Gaelic revival. Its leader was Irish revolutionary Thomas Ashe, who died in 1917 after being force-fed by British authorities while on a hunger strike against British rule. Ashe, it turns out, was related to American actor Gregory Peck, whose Dingle relations showed up at a recent film festival.

Dingle goes back about 5,000 years and was the scene of the mythical battle waged by legendary Irish hero Finn McCool —at least that’s the Americanized version of his name — who beat “The King of the World” in a third-century throwdown that lasted a year and a day.

Finn ultimately chopped off the king’s head, reattached it backward, put him on a boat, and sailed him out of the harbor.

That is one possible ending here. Or maybe someone could just pick up the phone. But do so soon. Dwight D. Eisenhower needs his rest.

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hank you for the articles about the issues at Lompoc federal prison. My brother is an inmate there. He has Parkinson’s disease and uses a cane to get around. I’ve not been able to find out how he is doing for more than two weeks, and I’m terribly worried.

I filled out a Voice a Concern form listed on the BOP website and was instructed to contact the county morgue to find out the status of my brother. I was informed, “If he’s not there, he’s fine.”

Corruption runs rampant through the prison. My brother went without his Parkinson’s medication for more than six months because they ran out and didn’t know when they would get the meds in again. The top plate of his 20-year-old dentures broke in October, and my brother was placed on a waiting list to get teeth. He was #340 on the list. The dentist at Lompoc only works on Monday and Friday (and that’s not every Monday and Friday) and sees four patients a day. My brother wouldn’t get in to see the dentist until August 2022. He has Parkinson’s disease and now no teeth and can’t eat.

Why don’t they just line them up and shoot the inmates? It would be more merciful than what they are doing to them now. —Chris Enss, Grass Valley

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his little city of ours does indeed have a strange sense of propriety regarding just what is socially acceptable or isn’t.

I, Moss, arrived here in our dear “town of dreams” in August of ’79 to see a truly unique landscape on the south coast of western California. Being a devout naturalist in my years of youth — one cat calling me “Breezy” — I and my dear companion, Joel, set out to establish our lives here … in this beautiful environment in which the “environment” is truly on our side and is so kind. Well, we made it!

Through these some 45 years here, I’ve noticed just how much of a role money plays in our local constitutionality. That’s exactly just what I was speaking about at the beginning of this piece. Just what I’m talkin’ of is the “illegality” as well as the “horrendous” ticket involved thereof if a “bum” finds the pittance to purchase a beer or a cheap vodka, and usually steps in the shadows, or not, and opens it, heaven forbid. They are called “against the law” according to Mickey and Minnie’s gov.com plan.

But just down the way, the rich folks are sitting within their little fences, drinking away, in public, I will add freely (no problem), of their dearly paid-for

EXPERIENCE MATTERS imbibements. Now is this truly just plain ole hypocrisy … er, what?!

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Why are we trying to rescue a polluting oil industry with our tax dollars, risking our precious water table and deteriorating our climate? The coronavirus crisis is our opportunity to move massive oil industry subsidies to better use, underwriting clean energy development. Oil workers can learn how to install solar panels, wind turbines, and batteries!

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place later in Davis, Illinois.

Memorials in lieu of flowers to the food pantry of choice.

The family would like to thank VNA Hospice of Santa Barbara, and Pearl’s dedicated and kind caregivers, Liliana and Yesenia.

“Her children rise up and call her blessed.” Prov.31:28

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11/5/1925 – 3/11/2020 Douglas Bolling Lambert passed away peacefully the evening of April 17, 2020, surrounded by loving family and friends. He fought a good fight against a difficult illness. He was 73.

Douglas was born in Dayton, Ohio on Sept. 28, 1946 to Marjorie Sherriff and Edward Lambert. He is predeceased by his sister Laura Lambert. He was an all-star athlete in high school, competing in swimming, football and golf. He was proud to be a Marine.

Forever the innovative and creative spirit, Douglas reinvented himself through many occupations including the ministry, laying asphalt, selling pies in Florida, and selling insurance to the tobacco industry in the Southeast.

Douglas arrived in his dream town of Santa Barbara with nothing but his Gremlin and backpack for his days ahead at Brooks Institute in 1983. Following the birth of his daughter Lauren, the love of his life, he returned to the insurance industry in 1987. He singlehandedly carved out a niche market selling maritime insurance locally, then nationally for passenger boats.

Douglas loved his family, business, boats and the people who operated them. He was known for his charm, quick wit, knack for storytelling and ability to make others laugh over more than one martini.

He was a kind man with a compassionate spirit.

He is survived by his wife, Veronica Walmsley Lambert who he married in 2006, his daughters, daughters Cheryl Crowder, Heather Kicelemos, Lesley Hatfield, Shannon LeMintier and Lauren Lambert; grandchildren Aneize, Zorn, Cole, Jack, Elyse and Sloane; step-children Somerset Walmsley and Miles Evans.

Douglas was well known for saying, “drive fast and stay to the left.” And that is just what he did. He will be sorely missed and will live on in our hearts forever.

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Edward Joseph Zaske of Los Alamos, California, formerly of Jackson, Michigan passed away on Tuesday, April 21, 2020 at the age of 69. He was the son of Edward and Ellen (Jackson) Zakrzewski, born November 24, 1950. Edward was preceded in death by his Father. He is survived by his wife, Margarita, stepsons Daniel and Javier Arana, his mother Ellen, sister Linda (Richard) Faber, nephew Scott (Terri) Sharrar, and niece Lisa (Ryan) LaRose. He was a 1968 graduate of Northwest High School and had an Associate Degree in Engineering from Jackson College and a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from Michigan State University. He served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War from 1972 to 1975 and was stationed in Germany. Ed worked for EDS for 15 years as Systems Engineer. After 16 years with the County of Santa Barbara, CA, he retired as Information Systems Manager in March 2017. He lived most of his life in Michigan and the las 23 years in his beloved state of California. He loved spending time with family and friends, and enjoyed singing and playing music with his band “The Citations”, and enjoyed outdoor activities, camping, hiking, mountain biking, cooking, entertaining, beach volleyball, gym, sports, the ocean, golf, wine tours, country drives, western movies and country music. He liked to find bargains at estate sales and to shop for kitchen gadgets for his “Honcita” (Margarita). Due to Covid19, there will be no funeral service. Burial will take place Friday, May 1, 2020 at Santa Barbara Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, please donate to the Cancer Foundation of Santa Barbara (www. cfsb.org). The Cancer Foundation is the largest contributor to the Ridley-Tree Cancer Center where Ed received his health care treatments.

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Pearl A. Cuddy, 87, passed away peacefully at home Thursday, April 9th, 2020, in Santa Barbara, California. A long- time resident of Davis Illinois, she was born June 23rd, 1932 in Leaf River, Illinois, the daughter of Leland Kendel and Caroline (Kappenman) Kendel.

Married on December 20th, 1952 to Lynn Cuddy in Atlanta, Georgia, they were happily married 60 years before Lynn passed in 2013. Pearl was a 1950 graduate of Mt. Morris IL High School, and served in the U.S. Women’s Army Corps. She had two careers; the first in the printing field for over twenty years, where she and Lynn worked together. After retiring, Pearl missed being busy and returned to work in the Dakota School District cafeteria, until the age of 80. Never one to be idle, she was a volunteer with the Rockford Rescue Mission, the Faith Community Church Food Pantry, and with Hospice.

Pearl was a former member of Faith Community Church, Davis, IL, and Woodside General Baptist Church, Rockford, IL. She was also a lifetime associate member of Blue Star Mothers of America. She loved to garden, cook and bake. She loved having family dinners, and having her grandchildren stop by. She often baked cookies to give to the neighbors and their children. Pearl was a gentle person, sweet natured, known for her kind eyes and smile. She will be greatly missed, but her wish was to be reunited with her husband, Lynn, and we know she has finally had that wish granted.

Her children and grandchildren feel fortunate to have been loved by her all their lives and could not have asked for a better example in a mother and grandmother, nor in our father (Papa). Pearl is survived by her son, William (Nelsy) of Honduras, and her three daughters, Cynthia Maney (Edward) of Shalimar, Florida, Suzanne (Steven Schwartz) of Santa Barbara, California, and Lori Schult (Jeffrey), of Davis, Illinois, her 26 grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. Predeceased by her husband, Lynn, two sons, Robert and Jeffrey, her parents, and four sisters, Arlene, Verla, Vera and June. A celebration of her life will take

Gloria Anita Levien (née Siff) died peacefully at Maravilla on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 in Santa Barbara, California at the age of 94. Gloria was born November 5, 1925 in New York, N.Y. to Albert and Gertrude Siff. In 1946, she graduated from Barnard College phi beta kappa and magna cum laude, with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She married Maurice Levien, a civil engineer and a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army during WW II, after his return from military service.

They lived in New York City for a few years and then moved to Long Island to raise their two boys, David and Philip, moving first to Glen Cove and then to Roslyn. After their sons went off to college, they moved back to Manhattan, where they lived for many years on Sutton Place.

Gloria moved to Santa Barbara in 2013, living at Maravilla the entire time.

In addition to raising a family, Gloria worked at Town and Country Magazine, Clocktower Realty, and McMillan Publishing (Subsidiary Rights). She did volunteer work at The United Nations and taught reading to disadvantaged children. She also volunteered at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gloria is survived by her children David (Merril) and Philip (Darlene); grandchildren Michael (Suchi), William (Brooke), Rachel (Frank DiStefano), Josh (Simone), and Katie (Jason Babineau); and great grandchildren Kai, Finn, Paxton, Stokely, and Asha. Gloria was preceded in death by her husband, Maurice Levien, and her brother, Andrew Siff.

Memorial contributions can be made to Alzheimer’s Association or Barnard College, in memory of Gloria A. Levien.

The family would like to thank the staff at Maravilla Senior Living, Assisted Hospice Care, and Nancy (Dhyana) Kuta for their care and dedication to Gloria.

He was born in Lexington, IL to Alma and Gayle Arnold.

He spent his early years on a farm near Lexington, graduating from Lexington High School in 1940. He entered the University of Illinois, majoring in Mechanical Engineering. He participated in the ROTC program and was called to active duty in July of 1943 into the Army Engineer Corps.

While on temporary duty at the U of I in late 1943 He met Viola McCord who was a student. They married in 1944 and were together for 66 years until her death in 2011. His time in service was mostly spent in the Pacific Theatre with final duty in MacArthur’s Headquarters in Tokyo.

He returned to the U of I in 19465 to finish his Engineering Degree in 1947. He and Viola migrated to California in 1948 where he joined Schlumberger Well Surveying Corp. as a field engineer.

He resigned in 1956 to join Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co as a financial representative in the Los Angeles area. In 1960, the family moved to Santa Barbara. He represented NML in Santa Barbara until retiring in 2012. He was a charter member of several insurance and financial organizations in Santa Barbara. At various times, he was a volunteer with the American Cancer Society, Montecito YMCA, and others.

He was a member of El Montecito Presbyterian Church for 60 years and a member of Montecito Rotary club for 25 years. He had a love of sports cars and owned many over the years, which he enjoyed restoring, driving and selling.

He is survived by his children, David, Diane, Joan, and Christopher and their spouses, his grandchildren Nicole and Zachary, as well as, from his later years, his best friend Joy. At his request, there will be no memorial service. His ashes are at sea; send a hello, when you walk the beach.

obituaries Bryant Shoemaker

10/24/1956 – 3/6/2020

Bryant Shoemaker passed away from a difficult battle with pancreatic cancer on March 6th at age 63 at his home in Santa Barbara surrounded by his family.

Bryant was born in St. Louis to parents Ed and Barbara. He had two siblings, Sally and Mark with whom he remained close his entire life.

He went to UCSB and graduated with a degree in film. At UCSB he met the love of his life, Peggy, and married her in 1984. Bryant and Peggy had 4 children together, Sarah, Sean, Ann and Elizabeth. He worked at local company Yardi Systems for over 30 years, retiring shortly before his passing.

Bryant was an expert at enjoying life and he brought joy to everyone he met. During Bryant’s battle with cancer he would save his best jokes for his Oncology team to brighten up his appointments.

Prior to his diagnosis, Bryant played tennis and golf multiple times a week, rode his bike and enjoyed swimming in the ocean and pools as frequently as possible. Bryant was an avid gardener who took pride in growing vegetables, fruit trees, and native plants. His Wednesday golf game and Harry’s nights were some of the things he missed most after his diagnosis. During the times when he felt good enough to meet his friends and indulge in a margarita he would excitedly update his whole family. His tennis community brought him such joy through the years, and while he loved being on the court competing, it paled in comparison to the friendships he built off the court. The support of his friends through his battle brought Bryant and the family such comfort. He will be remembered for his good humor, kindness, love of family, and friendship.

Bryant is survived by his wife Peggy, child Sarah, her husband Matthew, son Sean, twin daughters Ann and Elizabeth, two grandchildren Brennan and Owen, siblings Sally and Mark, nieces and

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nephews, and many cousins.

Bryant was a family man, who loved nothing more than being with his family. The joy he exhibited when everyone was together was contagious, and he imparted on his children a deep understanding of the importance of family. Bryant’s advice to his family was to live a life of joy, build deep friendships, and always work on cultivating new ones. His loss will forever be a source of pain, but his children all feel a deep gratitude for having had him in their lives.

A remembrance of life will be held later in the year. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network or Ridley Tree Cancer Center.

The family would like to thank the staff of Ridley Tree Cancer Center, Dr. Davis and Dr. Meyers for their support through the long battle. Their dedication to his case and support through the progression of the disease made a dif difficult journey much easier.

Katheryn Geyer Becker Blanton 8/26/1934 – 4/24/2020

Kathy Becker Blanton passed away peacefully on 4/24/20 at 2:03 pm in her home surrounded by her loving family: Andy and Cathy Blanton of Laguna Beach, Layne and Barbara Wheeler of Santa Barbara, and Rodney and Julie Blanton of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Known as “Honey”to her 9 grandchildren: Donald and wife, Kelly, Kate and husband, Daniel, Benjamin, Emily, Anne, Jessica, Charlie and wife, Stephanie, Rachel and husband, Tommy, and Tyler, and her 5 great-grandchildren: Nathan, Connor, Emmett, Millie and Lucy.

“Honey” will be forever fondly remembered for her red lipstick, celebrating all occasions, circumnavigating the globe: 1977-1983, owning the restaurant, Judge for Yourself: 1986-1996, and being a housemother for UCSB Kappa Alpha Theta: 1995-2014. She will be dearly missed and remain in our hearts for eternity!

William Dennis Romero 10/21/1958 – 3/31/2020

William Dennis Romero (Billy) 61, passed away peacefully on March 31, 2020 at his home in Ventura surrounded by his loving family after a long hard fight with cancer. Born October 21, 1958 in Santa Barbara to Dennis Romero and Judith Michal; he was 10th generation Santa Barbarian. His father, Dennis, raised him and taught him how to be the man he was, which was truly the hardest worker. He attended local schools: Hollister Elementary, La Colina Jr High, and graduated in 1976 from San Marcos High School. Billy’s first job was at Turnpike Shell, he then followed his father’s footsteps and became a truck driver.

He drove for Jordanos Food Service for many years and then drove for US Foods until he retired in 2014. He also had a detailing business where he took great pride in a shiny clean ride.

He enjoyed camping in his motorhome at the beach and going to car shows. He had a passion for cars whether it was buying cars, detailing cars, or just cruising. He enjoyed hanging out with The Vdub Classics in Ventura. Billy loved showing off his super clean VW bug and making new friends Billy is survived by his daughter, Shannon Ashlea Joyce (Nick), son, Shayne Romero, grandson Killian, his 3 sisters: Terri Andersen, Roxanne Euglow and Dianna Cottriel, along with several nieces, nephews, and so many wonderful friends.

He also leaves behind his fur babies, Koda Bear and Bella.

Preceded in his passing is his father, Dennis, and best friend, Michael Castillo. During his long battle with cancer he never complained and he was always ready to fight the fight. He definitely earned his Warrior Badge.

Billy was a funny guy, making it so easy for him to meet people that became instant friends. Everywhere he went he knew someone. He was always cracking jokes or doing something funny. His

neighbors nicknamed him The Mayor of Doyle Lane because he always knew what was going on in the neighborhood. He also had quite the little black book, it seemed all the ladies adored him; he definitely had that charm about him. We’re convinced Dennis, Michael, & Billy are having a blast up there talking about cars, trucks, and all their lady friends. Until we meet again…Rest easy, Billy.

A memorial service will be planned for a later date due to Covid-19.

Virginia Oakley Norris 1/14/1928 – 3/19/2020

Virginia (“Ginny”) Oakley Norris was born in Los Angeles, California on January 14, 1928 to Marian and Earl Oakley. Following her parents’ divorce, she and her older sister Betty were raised by their mother who worked as a district nurse for Los Angeles county.

For Ginny and her sister, growing up not only meant moving from place to place with their mother’s changing assignments, it also meant learning early to take responsibility for both schoolwork and household management.

By the time she started an art degree at UCLA in the 1940s, her lifelong habits of frugality, initiative and inventiveness were well established.

One evening in the fall of 1949,Ginny attended UCLA’s homecoming festivities and happened to bump into a young man with whom she’d shared a class a year or so earlier. She couldn’t have known it as they chatted, but the fellow in question, then Scripps grad student, Robert M. Norris, would become her husband.

Married in 1952, Ginny and Bob moved to Santa Barbara where he took up a position in the new Geology department at UCSB. Santa Barbara would become their ‘happily ever after’, as they raised three children (Don, Jim and Betsy) in a community they would both contribute to, and participate in, for the rest of their days.

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couple joined the First ConCon gregational Church shortly after arriving in Santa Barbara and were active in its events for their entire lives.

Over the years, they would also both contribute to a wide variety of community and University organisations and committees. Ginny applied her formidable organizational talents to the UCSB Faculty Women’s Club, the Santa Barbara Library board, the Goleta Cityhood campaign, and other civic organizations.

Ginny was a born artist whose talent for sketching and painting became obvious by the time she was in her teens. But while she continued to draw and paint watercolors throughout her life, she discovered her greatest creative passion when she joined a spinners’ group while the family lived for a year in New Zealand.

Through spinning and knitting, Ginny would combine her design talents, her problem-solving skills and perhaps most of all, her love of teaching and sharing knowledge. Few things gave her greater satisfaction than seeing a student experience an ‘ah-ha’ moment as they mastered a new skill or grasped a key concept.

Through her membership of the Santa Barbara Fiber Arts Guild, Ginny taught and mentored several generations of spinners and knitters, many of whom became lifelong friends.

There was nothing Ginny loved more than to be in the company of friends and family. She had the natural curiosity of someone with an inventive mind and took special delight in learning new things. But, perhaps above all, she was blessed with a wonderful sense of humor and sparklingly quick wit. And, though Alzheimers stole much from Ginny in her final years, to the very end she could still raise an eyebrow at a bad joke.

Virginia Oakley Norris, 92, passed gently away in Santa Barbara on March 19, 2020 holding her son Jim’s hand.

Ginny is survived by her children Don (Christine), Jim and Betsy (Bob), her sister Betty and her grandchildren Ariel Norris and Aaron Dodson. She was preceded in death by her half-sister Mary, her husband Bob Norris and grandson Jack Norris.

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BRIDGING THE

INVISIBLE DIVIDE Connecting with Latino and Mixteco Communities During the Coronavirus Crisis

BY DELANEY SMITH

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ong before the COVID-19 pandemic

hit Santa Barbara County and triggered mandatory social-distancing orders, some residents have experienced a different form of social distancing for their entire lives.

Pockets of densely populated communities throughout the county have historically been home to working-class, Latino families living near or below the poverty line. In Santa Barbara County, even though Latinos make up 48 percent of the population, 61 percent of coronavirus patients identify as Hispanic or Latino.

Across the United States, the virus has infected people of color at disproportionately higher rates than white people.

The invisible separation between these individuals and their whiter, often wealthier counterparts has only been further highlighted by the stay-at-home and social-distancing orders imposed by California Governor Gavin Newsom.

“They don’t have the choice of staying home,” said Liliana Encinas, the City of Santa Barbara Fire Department’s bilingual outreach coordinator and the executive manager of Listos, the statewide disaster-readiness program for Spanish speakers.

“They try to take the precautions they can, but it’s really hard for that population,” Encinas said. “They can’t work from home…. They would rather go to work and expose themselves to the virus than not be able to feed their families. We’re in the same storm but not the same boats.”

People of color are more likely to live in poverty and lack adequate health care, which can lead to underlying health conditions. They often live in multigenerational housing and have to use public transit to commute to work.

Though an additional factor that could contribute to the disparity is language, it isn’t as simple as translating the English messages and delivering them through mass public service announcements. It has to take into account the invisible separation across cultural lines.

A PROBLEM OF CULTURAL COMMUNICATION

“I personally don’t think language is the issue,” Encinas said. All the county websites posted information in both languages, she explained. “In all my years of disaster translating, I’ve never seen so much messaging go out simultaneously in Spanish.

“What I think is the missing link is cultural sensitivity and relevancy,” she continued. “The preliminary data

showed Latinos were affected the most, but it also showed that only 20 percent of those who caught the virus don’t understand English. The problem isn’t as much language as the messages are not relatable to them.”

Supervisor Steve Lavagnino, whose 5th District encompasses Santa Maria, agreed with Encinas. He raised concerns early on in the pandemic that his Spanish-speaking constituents were not getting the message to social distance and follow the guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

“The reality is that Santa Maria can’t social distance,” Lavagnino said. “You can’t ‘Zoom’ to a strawberry field or a construction site.

Then they come home to a more densely populated area than anywhere else. Multigenerational housing is the way that our culture is and the way people live here. It’s great for family bonding but not great for a pandemic.”

Many well-respected public officials with Hispanic backgrounds — including Congressmember Salud Carbajal, Santa Maria City Councilmember Gloria Soto, and retired judge Rogelio Flores — have posted bilingual warnings about COVID19. However, Lavagnino believes that it is really one man who is succeeding in spreading the word about the dangers of the virus. “Louis Meza did more than anyone in terms of reaching that community,” Lavagnino said.

the hospital with COVID-19 symptoms and was put on a ventilator. Realizing that his wife, Melissa, was at death’s door, he took to social media to let his friends and family know about how deadly this virus really was. “By the time the hospital takes you in, you feel like you are on your deathbed,” he said.

“I think that did more than any elected official can do,” Lavagnino said about Meza’s social media campaign. “People can connect to someone in their community and see that this is not a joke; it’s real.”

Meza began to understand that his postings about his

A MAN WITH A MESSAGE

Louis Meza is a 47-year-old father of two who’s worked as a chef and manager at the Hitching Post barbeque restaurant in Casmalia for more than 20 years. When the pandemic hit, he continued to go to work as usual and did not believe the virus was such a big deal.

“At the Hitching Post,” Meza said, “we greeted our customers, and we worked in tight quarters with people coming in from all over the place.… I never thought it was going to affect me.”

Then Meza came down with COVID19 and was in the ICU. Though he was released after six days, his wife went to

STRAIGHT TALK: Alejandra Cortez with the Santa Barbara Response Network films short videos in Spanish about COVID-19 resources from her backyard. // CHARLA SINCERA: De su patio del fondo, Alejandra Cortez de la Red de Respuesta de Santa Bárbara graba videos cortos en español sobre recursos para COVID-19.

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Noticia de primera plana

REDUCIENDO LA

BRECHA INVISIBLE Conectando con comunidades latinas y mixtecas durante la crisis del coronavirus

POR DELANEY SMITH

demia de COVID-19 azotara el condado de Santa Bárbara y desencadenara órdenes obligatorias de distanciamiento social, algunos residentes han pasado una forma diferente de distanciamiento social durante toda su vida.

Los grupos de comunidades densamente pobladas en todo el condado han sido históricamente el hogar de

familias latinas de clase trabajadora que viven cerca o por debajo de la línea de pobreza. En el condado de Santa Bárbara, aunque los latinos constituyen el 48 por ciento de la población, el 61 por ciento de los pacientes con coronavirus se identifican como hispanos o latinos.

En todo Estados Unidos, el virus ha infectado a personas de color a tasas desproporcionadamente más altas que a las personas blancas. La separación invisible entre estos individuos y sus contrapartes más blancas, y a menudo más ricas, solo se ha destacado aún más por las órdenes de quedarse en casa y de distancia social impuestas por el Gobernador de California Gavin Newsom.

“No tienen la opción de quedarse en casa”, dijo Liliana Encinas, coordinadora de alcance bilingüe del Departamento de Bomberos de la Ciudad de Santa Bárbara y directora ejecutiva de Listos, el programa estatal de preparación para desastres para hispanohablantes.

“Tratan de tomar las precauciones que pueden, pero es realmente difícil para esa población”, dijo Encinas. “No pueden trabajar desde la casa .... Prefieren ir a trabajar y exponerse al virus que no poder alimentar a sus familias.

Estamos en la misma tormenta pero no en los mismos barcos”.

Las personas de color tienen más probabilidades de vivir en la pobreza y carecen de atención médica adecuada, lo que puede conducir a condiciones de salud preexistente. A menudo viven en viviendas multigeneracionales y tienen que usar el transporte público para ir al trabajo.

Aunque un factor adicional que podría contribuir a la desigualdad es el idioma, no es tan simple como traducir los mensajes al inglés y entregarlos a través de anuncios masivos de servicio público. Tiene que tener en cuenta la separación invisible a través de las líneas culturales.

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UN PROBLEMA DE COMUNICACIÓN CULTURAL “Personalmente no creo que el problema sea el idioma”, dijo Encinas. Todos los sitios web del condado publicaron información en ambos idiomas, explicó. “En todos mis años de traducir de desastres, nunca había visto tantos mensajes simultáneamente en español”.

“Lo que creo que es la pieza faltante es la sensibilidad y relevancia cultural”, continuó. “Los datos preliminares mostraron que los latinos fueron los más afectados, pero también mostraron que solo el 20 por ciento de los que contrajeron el virus no entienden inglés. El problema no es tanto el lenguaje como el hecho de que ellos no se pueden relacionar con los mensajes”.

El Supervisor Steve Lavagnino, cuyo 5° Distrito abarca a Santa María, estuvo de acuerdo con Encinas. Al principio, en la pandemia, expresó su preocupación de que sus electores hispanohablantes no recibían el mensaje de distancia social y la necesidad de seguir las normas de los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC).

“La realidad es que Santa María no puede practicar la distancia social”, dijo Lavagnino. “No se puede hacer una junta de Zoom en un campo de fresas o con un sitio de construcción. Luego vuelven a casa a un área más densamente poblada que en cualquier otro lugar. La vivienda multigeneracional es nuestra cultura y la forma en que la gente vive aquí. Es excelente para la unión familiar, pero no para una pandemia”.

Muchos funcionarios públicos respetados con antecedentes hispanos, incluyendo al Congresista Salud Carbajal, la Concejala de la Ciudad de Santa María Gloria Soto y el juez jubilado Rogelio Flores, han publicado advertencias bilingües sobre COVID-19. Sin embargo, Lavagnino cree que hay realmente sólo un hombre que está logrando correr la voz sobre los peligros del virus. “Louis Meza hizo más que nadie en términos de llegar a esa comunidad”, dijo Lavagnino.

UN HOMBRE CON UN MENSA JE

Louis Meza es un padre de 47 años con dos hijos. Ha trabajado como chef y gerente en el restaurante de barbacoa Hitching Post en Casmalia durante más de 20 años.

Cuando llegó la pandemia, continuó de trabajar como siempre y no creía que el virus fuera tan importante.

“En el Hitching Post”, dijo Meza, “saludamos a nuestros clientes y trabajamos en espacios reducidos con gente que venía de todas partes …. Nunca pensé que me iba a afectar”.

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Cover Story wife’s illness were reaching a larger and larger audience. He kept it up so others could see the devastating effects of not adhering to social-distancing orders. He said his first video is now at more than 74,000 views, and he’s been contacted by people all over the world who were moved by his story.

“I speak Spanish on my social media, too,” Meza said.

“I felt like all the communication wasn’t getting out in the beginning, but it is now. A woman at the store yesterday recognized me and asked me how me and my wife are — and she was speaking in Spanish. She said she knows my story.”

His wife, 43-year-old Melissa Meza, has been hospitalized for almost a month. When her Marian Hospital doctor told Louis that she needed an ECMO machine, a highly specialized oxygenation machine that was only at Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, he was faced with a choice. The chances of Melissa surviving the ambulance ride were uncertain, but the ECMO treatment was the best that doctors could offer.

“The doctors said she might not make the ride to the new hospital,” he said. “Me and my family had to make that decision, and it was one of hardest decisions I’ve ever had to make in my life.”

But the move is proving to be successful.

“Melissa is awake now, but she still can’t talk,” Meza said.

“Today the doctor let us FaceTime, and her eyes were fully open. I said, ‘I love you,’ and she mouthed, ‘I love you’ back, and we blew each other a kiss. My kids got to FaceTime her yesterday, and that was the first time they’ve seen their mom in 20 days. You could see the smile in her eyes.”

Traditional news media plays a major role in COVID-19 messaging, too. Radio Bronco 107.7 FM is one of the county’s most popular Latino media sources.

“In Santa Barbara, there is not a lot of Spanish media; it’s just us,” said Jose Fierros, the radio station’s program director. “It’s overwhelming how much info is out there. We just focus on COVID, COVID, COVID. It’s a big responsibility, but I feel very happy doing it for my people.”

He said that he oversees six radio stations, including Radio Bronco, covering South County in Santa Barbara, Goleta, and Carpinteria. Though his studio is in Santa Barbara, he has to broadcast from his home in Ventura to stay with his family during shelter-in-place restrictions.

“I’ve been doing two shows a day on Radio Bronco with Liliana Encinas,” Fierros said.

“We talk about the news and recommendations for COVID. We invited elected officials, everyone, and we talk about what’s going on.”

Fierros also is on Twitter and Facebook every day, updating his followers in Spanish about daily case counts, new CDC guidelines, and more COVID-19-related information.

Radio Bronco isn’t the only non-Anglo media working to inform the county.

Arcenio López is the executive director of the Mixteco/Indígena Community OrganizTRANSLATIONS AND ing Project, or MICOP. His organization is also the home of Radio Indígena 94.1 FM, TRANSLATORS Alejandra Cortez, on the Santa Barbara Response Net- a radio station with programming in indigwork’s (SBRN) Board of Directors, is one of several mes- enous languages, such as Mixtec.

The radio station is based in Oxnard, sengers in the county who realize that when translating a but López said there are apps available for language, you must also translate the culture.

“They need to see someone who looks and talks like Android and iOS devices to listen to the stathem so they know the person on the other end of the line tion in Santa Barbara County, as well as a way won’t tell them ‘no’ or judge them if they need help,” said to listen via phone by dialing (605) 475-0090.

ON THE BRINK OF DEATH: Melissa and Louis Meza are pictured here before either of them became sick with the virus. Melissa The station aims to help the indigenous MexiCortez. has been in the intensive care unit for over a month but is now “To let the Latino community know about resources can community overcome barriers of literacy, recovering. // A LAS PUERTAS DE LA MUERTE: En la foto aparecen available to them, we started doing short interviews with language, discrimination, poverty, and illness, Melissa y Louis Meza antes de que ninguno de los dos cayó con el Spanish speakers from community resources like the as well as inform them in their language durvirus. Melissa ha estado en la unidad de cuidados intensivos durante Foodbank, Stand Together to End Sexual Assault, and La ing times of crisis like the pandemic. más de un mes pero hoy se está recuperando.

Casa de la Raza,” Cortez said. “They [the Spanish-speaking “It’s difficult to share some of the messages community] don’t trust these brochures and websites.” in Mixteco because there is no direct translation for some of the medical terminology about the virus,” López said. “Trying to describe what COVID is, we just call it a virus.”

López himself is very close to the issue, as he grew up in Oaxaca, Mexico, speaking Mixtec as his primary language and Spanish as his second.

At 20 years old, he moved to Oxnard to work in the strawberry fields with no understanding of English. A year later, he worked on a vegetable-packing line —Liliana Encinas while attending Oxnard Adult School to learn English and become a louder voice for his community.

As social-distancing restrictions became tighter, Cortez “Historically, local government agencies have not done had to move her interview setup to her backyard — but a good job at having diversity and linguistically sensitive now the SBRN team also makes Spanish meditation and people on their team,” López said. “In Santa Maria, there relaxation videos that are still geared toward Hispanic is a large indigenous population. Santa Maria government culture. is very diverse, but they are still forgetting the Mixteca “We even have a video about feng shui,” she said. “You population.”

López is on the County Public Health Department’s can do something small in your home wherever you are Immigrant Health Rapid Response Task Force, a network and make it feel nice.”

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Entonces Meza cayó con COVID-19 y estaba en la UCI. Aunque fue dado de alta después de seis días, su esposa fue al hospital con síntomas de COVID-19 y fue puesta en un respirador. Al darse cuenta de que su esposa, Melissa, estaba a las puertas de la muerte, recurrió a las redes sociales para avisar a sus amigos y la familia cuán mortal fue realmente este virus. “Para cuando te ingrese en el hospital, sientes que estás en tu lecho de muerte”, dijo.

“Creo que eso hizo más de lo que cualquier funcionario electo podría hacer”, dijo Lavagnino sobre la campaña de redes sociales de Meza. “Las personas pueden conectarse con alguien en su comunidad y ver que esto no es una broma; es real”.

Meza comenzó a comprender que sus publicaciones sobre la enfermedad de su esposa estaban llegando a un público cada vez más grande. Lo mantuvo para que otros pudieran ver los efectos devastadores de no cumplir con las órdenes de distanciamiento social. Dijo que su primer video ahora tiene más de 74,000 visitas, y ha sido contactado por personas de todo el mundo que se conmovieron con su historia.

“También hablo español en mis redes sociales”, dijo Meza. “Sentí que toda la comunicación no estaba circulando al principio, pero ahora sí. Una mujer en la tienda ayer me reconoció y me preguntó cómo estábamos mi esposa y yo, y ella estaba hablando en español. Dijo que sabe mi historia”.

Su esposa, Melissa Meza, de 43 años, ha estado hospitalizada durante casi un mes.

Cuando su médico del hospital Marian le dijo a Louis que necesitaba una máquina ECMO, un sistema de oxigenación altamente especializado que solo estaba en el Centro de Salud de Saint John en Santa Mónica, tuvo que elegir. Las posibilidades de que Melissa sobreviviera al viaje en

ambulancia eran inciertas, pero el tratamiento con ECMO fue lo mejor que el médico podía ofrecer.

“Los médicos dijeron que ella a lo mejor no podría sobrevivir el transporte al nuevo hospital”, dijo. “Mi familia y yo tuvimos que tomar esa decisión, y fue una de las decisiones más difíciles que he tenido que tomar en mi vida”.

Pero la transferencia se está probando ser exitoso.

“Melissa está despierta ahora, pero todavía no puede hablar”, dijo Meza. “Hoy el doctor nos dejó hacer FaceTime, y sus ojos estaban completamente abiertos. Le dije: ‘Te amo’, y ella articuló: ‘Te amo’, y nos besamos. Mis hijos pudieron hacer FaceTime ayer y esa fue la primera vez que vieron a su madre en 20 días. Se podía ver la sonrisa en sus ojos”.

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SPANISH MEDIA COVERAGE: Jose Fierros, the voice of Radio Bronco, is broadcasting news about COVID-19 in Spanish from his makeshift studio in his Ventura home. // COBERTURA DE LOS MEDIOS EN ESPAÑOL: José Fierros, la voz de Radio Bronco, transmite las noticias sobre COVID-19 en español de su estudio improvisado en su casa en Ventura.

Alejandra Cortez, de la Junta de Directores de la Red de Respuesta de Santa Bárbara (SBRN), es una de las personas en el condado que envían mensajes y se dan cuenta de que cuando traducen un idioma, también deben traducir la cultura.

“Necesitan ver a alguien que se vea y hable como ellos para que sepan que la persona que está al otro lado de la línea no les dirá ‘no’ ni los juzgará si necesitan ayuda”, dijo Cortez.

“Para informar a la comunidad latina sobre los recursos disponibles para ellos, comenzamos a hacer entrevistas cortas con hispanohablantes de recursos comunitarios como el Banco de Alimentos, Unirnos para Terminar con el Asalto Sexual y La Casa de la Raza”, dijo Cortez. “Ellos [la comunidad hispanohablante] no confían en estos folletos y sitios web”.

A medida que las restricciones de distanciamiento social se hicieron más estrictas, Cortez tuvo que mover sus entrevistas a su patio, pero ahora el equipo SBRN también hace videos de meditación y relajamiento en español que están orientados a la cultura hispana también.

“Incluso tenemos un video sobre el feng shui”, dijo.

“Puedes hacer algo pequeño en tu hogar donde sea que estés y hacer que se sienta bien”.

Los medios de comunicación tradicionales también juegan un papel importante en la mensajería COVID-19.

Radio Bronco 107.7 FM es una de las fuentes de medios latinos más populares del condado.

“En Santa Bárbara, no hay muchos medios españoles; somos solo nosotros”, dijo José Fierros, director del programa de la estación de radio. “Es abrumador la cantidad de información que existe. Solo nos centramos en COVID, COVID, COVID. Es una gran responsabilidad, pero me siento muy feliz de hacerlo por mi gente”.

Dijo que supervisa seis estaciones de radio, incluida Radio Bronco, que cubre el sur del condado de Santa Bárbara, Goleta y Carpinteria. Aunque su estudio está en Santa Bárbara, tiene que transmitir desde su casa en Ventura para quedarse con su familia durante las restricciones de refugio en el lugar.

“He estado haciendo dos shows al día en Radio Bronco con Liliana Encinas”, dijo Fierros. “Hablamos sobre las noticias y recomendaciones para COVID. Invitamos a funcionarios electos, a todos, y hablamos sobre lo que está sucediendo”.

Fierros también está en Twitter y Facebook todos los

días, informando a sus seguidores en español sobre el recuento diario de casos, nuevas reglas de los CDC y más información relacionada con COVID-19.

Radio Bronco no es el único medio no anglófono que trabaja para informar al condado.

Arcenio López es el director ejecutivo del Proyecto Mixteco/Indígena Organización Comunitaria, o MICOP. Su organización también es el hogar de Radio Indígena 94.1 FM, una estación de radio con programación en idiomas indígenas, como el mixteco.

La estación de radio tiene su sede en Oxnard, pero López dijo que hay apps disponibles para Android e iOS para escuchar la estación en el condado de Santa Bárbara; también hay una forma de escuchar por teléfono marcando (605) 475-0090. La estación tiene como objetivo ayudar a la comunidad indígena mexicana a superar las barreras de la alfabetización, el idioma, la discriminación, la pobreza y la enfermedad, así como informarles en su idioma durante tiempos de crisis como la pandemia.

“Es difícil compartir algunos de los mensajes en mixteco porque no existe una traducción directa de parte de la terminología médica sobre el virus”, dijo López. “Tratando de describir qué es COVID, simplemente lo llamamos el virus”.

El propio López está muy cerca del problema, ya que creció en Oaxaca, México, hablando el mixteco como su idioma principal y el español como el segundo. A los 20

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“Históricamente, las agencias del gobierno local no han hecho un buen trabajo al contar con personas diversas y lingüísticamente sensibles en su equipo”, dijo López. “En Santa María, hay una gran población indígena. El gobierno de Santa María es muy diverso, pero todavía se están olvidando de la población mixteca”.

López forma parte de la Fuerza de Tarea de Respuesta Rápida de Salud de Inmigrantes del Departamento de Salud Pública del condado, una red de grupos comunitarios que trabajan para identificar y responder a las preocupaciones relacionadas con COVID-19 para las comunidades hispanohablantes e indígenas.

“Hemos estado usando muchas más las redes sociales, pero por lo general hemos hecho contacto directo en las lavanderías o supermercados antes de que todo se cancelara”, dijo. “Un buen porcentaje de ellos no puede leer ni escribir, por lo cual grabamos nuestras voces hablando o grabamos videos para las redes sociales. También hacemos alcance a través de WhatsApp porque es el más popular”.

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of community groups that work to identify MIXTEC NEIGHBORS: Arcenio López, and respond to COVID-19-related conpictured in his office at the Mixteco/ cerns for Spanish-speaking and indigenous Indígena Community Organizing Project, communities. is working with his team to educate the “We’ve been doing a lot more social indigenous community about COVID-19 and reach even the ones who are unable to read media, but we usually have done direct or write. // VECINOS MIXTECOS: Arcenio outreach at laundromats or supermarkets López, que en la foto está en su oficina del before everything was canceled,” he said.

Proyecto Mixteco/Indígena Organización “A good percentage of them cannot read Comunitaria, está colaborando con su equipo or write, so we record our voices talking para informar a la comunidad indígena sobre or videos for social media. We also do outCOVID-19 y llegar incluso a los que no pueden leer ni escribir. reach through WhatsApp because it is the most popular.”

WhatsApp, a call and texting app popular worldwide, has become a vital tool for immigrants living in the United States to communicate with their families in their home countries because of the low cost compared to using the cellular phone network for calls and messages. Sending COVID messages out to Spanish- and Mixtec-speaking people through WhatsApp is a way to culturally tailor messages toward their preferred methods of communication.

Also in the Immigrant Health Rapid Response Task Force is Frank Rodriguez, from CAUSE (Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy). The Public Health Sundays Department relies on translators from its internal joint information center along with 10AM-6 PM CAUSE for Spanish translation.

Rodriguez said creating culturally relevant videos that highlight crisis resources available to the community is vital. 805 UndocuFund, for example, is a disaster-relief fund for area immigrant families who aren’t eligible to receive unemployment or stimulus checks because of their immigration status. Both CAUSE and MICOP are partners in it.

Rodriguez’s videos are more like “intimate conversation” than straightforward public service announcements. CAUSE created a Spanish-language video about alternative ways to celebrate Easter, a holiday that holds cultural and religious significance for many Latinos.

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Santa Barbara City Councilmember Alejandra Gutierrez was raised on Santa Barbara’s Eastside, a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and has worked in the school district with Latino families for 20 years before being elected to the City Council last November.

She said that some of the earlier messaging the city put out during the pandemic was not reaching Spanish-speaking families in her district.

“It is a cultural thing. Especially during the Easter season, it has been hard for people to understand why they can’t go to their tía’s house for Easter,” Gutierrez said. “Once it started to hit Mexico and the Mexican media started to show images of the virus in Mexico, a lot of the people here realized it was real, and they’re panicking.”

Gutierrez pointed out that although Spanish-language videos on social media are an effective way to reach people, not everyone has easy access to the internet. And if they do, unemployment forms, which can be accessed online, are translated via Google Translate and do not necessarily make sense to a native Spanish speaker, she said, let alone a Mixtec-speaking person. Because all physical offices are now closed due to the pandemic, she said, many in her community who know her call and ask for help.

“Yesterday I helped 12 people fill out unemployment forms alone,” Gutierrez said.

“It started with four, and then the word got out. I’m really trying to encourage them to have their teenage child help walk them through. In a week, I easily go through it with 25 families.”

She said that ultimately, the first-generation children are the heroes in those families.

Just last week, she said, she helped a mother over FaceTime with filling out an application.

Gutierrez had forgotten how to say certain words in Spanish, but the woman’s 12-yearold bilingual daughter was able to bridge the gap between her mother and Gutierrez.

“That young girl doesnt understand the responsibility she has, but she is a key during this crisis,” she said. “They are little heroes in their own families.”

Gutierrez is passionate about representing her community and helping them to succeed.

“Overall, yes we need to work on [Spanish outreach],” Gutierrez said. “But also as a member of the Spanish-speaking community myself, we have to be proactive. We are learning. It’s not a time to point fingers or wait for someone to tell you what’s going on; we are all in this together.” n

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También en la Fuerza de Tarea de Respuesta Rápida de Salud de Inmigrantes está Frank Rodríguez, de CAUSE (la Alianza Unida por una Economía Sustentable). El Departamento de Salud Pública depende de traductores de su centro de información junto con CAUSE para la traducción al español.

Rodríguez dijo que es vital crear videos culturalmente relevantes que destacan los recursos de crisis disponibles para la comunidad. Por ejemplo, 805 UndocuFund es un fondo de ayuda por los gastos relacionados con desastres naturales para familias inmigrantes del área quien no son elegibles para recibir desempleo o cheques de estímulo debido a su estado migratorio. Tanto CAUSE como MICOP son socios en esto.

Los videos de Rodríguez son más como “conversación íntima” que anuncios directos de servicio público. CAUSE creó un video en español sobre formas alternativas de celebrar la Pascua, una festividad que tiene un significado cultural y religioso para muchos latinos.

TRADUCTORES JÓVENES Y OSCUROS La Concejala de la Ciudad de Santa Bárbara Alejandra Gutiérrez se crió en el lado este de Santa Bárbara, un vecindario predominantemente latino, y ha trabajado en el distrito escolar con familias latinas durante 20 años antes de ser elegida para el Concejo Municipal el noviembre pasado. Ella dijo que algunos de los mensajes anteriores que la ciudad emitió durante la pandemia no llegaban a las familias de habla hispana en su distrito.

“Es una cosa cultural. Especialmente durante la temporada de Pascua, ha sido difícil para las personas entender por qué no pueden ir a la casa de su tía en Semana Santa”, dijo Gutiérrez. “Una vez que [el virus] comenzó a afectar a México y los medios mexicanos comenzaron a mostrar imágenes del virus en México, mucha gente aquí se dio cuenta de que era real, y se pusieron en pánico”.

Gutiérrez indicó que aunque los videos en español en las redes sociales son una forma efectiva de llegar a las personas, no todos tienen fácil acceso al internet. Y si lo tienen, los formularios de desempleo, los que se puede acceder en línea, se traducen a través de Google Translate y no necesariamente tienen sentido para un hablante nativo de español, y mucho menos para una persona de habla mixteca. Debido a que todas las oficinas físicas ahora están cerradas por la pandemia, muchos en su comunidad que la conocen la llaman y piden ayuda.

“Ayer ayudé a 12 personas llenar formularios de desempleo”, dijo Gutiérrez.

“Comencé con cuatro, y luego se corrió la voz. Realmente estoy tratando de alentarlos para que su hijo adolescente los ayude a atravesarlos. En una semana, lo paso fácilmente con 25 familias”.

Ella dijo que, al final de todo, los niños de primera generación son los héroes de esas familias. La semana pasada, dijo, ayudó a una madre en FaceTime llenar una solicitud. Gutiérrez había olvidado cómo decir ciertas palabras en español, pero la hija bilingüe de 12 años de la mujer pudo cerrar la brecha entre su madre y Gutiérrez.

“Esa joven no entiende la responsabilidad que tiene, pero es clave durante esta crisis”, dijo. “Son pequeños héroes en sus propias familias”.

Gutiérrez es apasionada de representar a su comunidad y ayudarlos a tener éxito.

“En general, sí, tenemos que trabajar en alcance latino”, dijo Gutiérrez. “Pero también como miembro de la comunidad de habla hispana, tenemos que ser proactivos.

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Friendship Center Call to Action The Friendship Center is challenged to find creative ways to serve and support our senior community. In addition to hygiene and home activity supplies for their Take Care Totes, they are accepting monetary donations to fund virtual support for the center’s seniors and their families. Call Kathryn at (805) 705-4106 or email Kim at kim@friendshipcentersb.org. friendshipcentersb.org/contribute-2/donate

New Beginnings Counseling Center Amazon Wish List Donation Registry In an effort to get food and basic necessities to their clients, New Beginnings, a nonprofit mental-health center providing psychological counseling and supportive services to low-income families and individuals in the S.B. community, has created an Amazon Wish List containing food, hygiene products, and other essentials. The items will be delivered to the center and distributed to clients promptly. Visit the website for the Amazon link.

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Eos Family Fundraiser: Save the Disco Eos Lounge is committed to keeping the Eos energy going strong by radiating positivity, remaining hopeful for the future, and supporting our community by sharing love and light in dark times. If you would like to support the Eos staff and the future of Eos, please consider donating any amount. Visit the link for a list of “Thank You Gifts” for donors, such as free entry to any three future nights at Eos for a donation of $20-$59. tinyurl.com/EOSSaveTheDisco

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’ve heard the prophecy. You’ve heard the prophecy. By now we’ve all heard it: Nine months from now, we’ll see a wave of “quarantine babies,” conceived while humans across the globe stayed indoors and *wink, wink* found ways of entertaining themselves.

But I don’t believe it for a minute.

Have you ever seen a porno featuring a couple in sweatpants and rubber gloves wiping down boxes of frozen waffles and Minute Rice with spray bleach after returning, face-masked and reeking of Purell, from a terrified jaunt to the market? The answer is no, my friends. No, you have not.

Because this moment we’re suffering through is not a sexy moment. In fact, this bizarre blip in history couldn’t be less of a turn-on if it were a glob of ketchup-flavored spittle dangling from Donald Trump’s twaddle-spewing flaptrap.

As a rule, viruses make lousy aphrodisiacs. Add a dizzying daily death toll, millions out of work, ill-equipped hospitals, staggering political ineptitude, and the reckless endangerment of lives by

by Starshine flag-wearing, sign-waving imbeciles — and you’ve got widespread existential email: starshine@roshell.com angst that’s better suited to baking things and binge-eating said baked things than to getting one’s freak on.

To be fair, social distancing has made all human interactions suddenly awkward and conspicuous. At once a cramming together of families and a tearing apart of friends and colleagues, the #saferathome mandate demands forced, uncomfortable togetherness even as it prescribes painful, unnatural isolation.

I take walks in my ’hood just to see human faces beyond Zoom’s rectangle frame, and I wave at strangers across the street with a grin that says unmistakably, “Nice to see you! Are you also pretending for 11 minutes that your home isn’t a prison?” Yet when I accidentally pass too close to another masked stranger in a grocery aisle, I look coldly and reflexively away, as if ignoring their existence could prevent a contamination I still don’t understand.

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Starshine Roshell is the author of Lather, Rage, Repeat.

In a world where proximity threatens our longevity — where closeness is sickness — how could intimacy stand a chance? You’re more likely to nab the last package of Charmin Ultra Soft at Vons than you are to get lucky right now.

For one thing, if you’re quarantined with kids, there is no privacy. Ever. From anyone. I feel for folks who are separated from their loved ones right now, and I’m grateful to be with my family— family but most nights, we spring to the four corners of our home like pinballs, desperate to get as far from one another as we can without having to don masks. If absence makes the heart grow fonder, then quarantine … just makes you really fond of absence.

Also, very few of us are rocking a hot look just now. Personally, there were a few weeks in there when I honestly forgot I had a face. Or hair. I just stumbled around from room to room, looking confused and white-knuckling a brownie. I might have been wearing a blanket? But it was no come-hither blanket, I can assure you.

The biggest sex-tinguisher of all: emotional exhaustion. The chunk of my brain normally reserved for romance is busy bouncing between reptilian concerns like WHICH NEIGHBOR COULD WE ROB IF THE STORES RUN OUT OF COFFEE? and philosophical considerations like IS THIS NATURE’S NOT-SO-SUBTLE WAY OF MANAGING A POLLUTED AND OVERCROWDED PLANET? My heart swings from abject horror over cadaver-filled refrigeration trucks to utter enchantment at the creativity and focus of sorcerers who re-create 1981 music videos frame-for-frickin’-frame in their front yards.

Last week, though, my husband and I remembered that we like each other and that we were long overdue for a date night. So we dressed up, put on jewelry (me) and cologne (him), and absconded to our backyard hammock to watch an old movie on our laptop under string lights, lanterns, and stars.

Hanging there together, suspended in a precarious tangle of gravity and rope, heaved inelegantly toward one another by the netting around us, it felt like a sweet sort of mini-quarantine: Awkward but cozy. Impermanent and safe. And a welcome place to hide out from the world until sexy returns.

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One of the properties that remains open is the Upham Hotel (1404 De la Vina St.; [805] 962-0058; uphamhotel.com), which will turn 150 years old in 2021. That makes it the longest continually operating hotel in Southern California, according to the hotel’s director of sales and marketing, Diana Wickline. They weren’t about to let the pandemic kill that streak.

“We want our community to know we are here for them,” explained Wickline. “Hotels are considered an essential business during this time — people needing to travel to take care of loved ones, health-care workers needing a safe place to stay.”

So far, there have been a couple of guests who decided to make The Upham their home base during the shutdown, said general manager Denise Spain. “We are certainly not the bustling hotel that we are used to being, but we are seeing other guests choosing to stay with us throughout the week,” said Spain. “We offer a safe home away from home, and a relaxing, stress-free environment.”

The hotel’s onsite restaurant, Louie’s California Bistro, is closed.

Instead, guests are doing curbside pickup and delivery via Grubhub and Restaurant Connection from the nearby Public Market, as well as Uncorked and Bossie’s. The typical safety protocols are in place, as well, with employees and guests wearing masks and gloves and maintaining the social distance protocol.

The hotel did furlough a number of employees. “But we are bringing them back slowly to prepare for what we hope will be a busy summer season,” said Spain, who hopes to have the whole team back together when this is over.

There is already some hope for the future, as reservations for rooms and events are happening. “We have helped several wedding couples postpone their weddings to new dates so they may continue to look forward to their special day and make it a stress-free process,” said Wickline. She’s also helping reschedule annual meetings and corporate events, though she is sad about the graduations and other seasonal events that probably won’t happen.

She has advice for other hotels persevering in this time. “To not lose hope,” said Wickline. “The Santa Barbara hospitality community has never been competitive with each other. We have always worked together to ensure that all visitors have the perfect, memorable experience…. The most important thing is to stay positive and to know that we will come out of this stronger and wiser.”

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For those who have the space, which can simply be a small yard, raising chickens for eggs What sort of housing do you need to build for them to be safe? Chickens need a coop: an is another step in the direction of DIY food enclosed house that protects them security. Demand for baby chicks is way from nighttime predators like up at Dare 2 Dream, located just west raccoons and the natural eleof Lompoc. There’s been a fivefold ments like wind and rain. increase in the family-owned The coop should also profarm’s chick business, and they vide a nesting box to use sold 600 birds in 13 minutes on as a safe place to lay their one April night alone. eggs and roosts for them to The farm’s co-owner perch on to sleep at night.

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During the last recession, we Why are backyard chickens a good identified backyard chickens teaching tool? Chickens make great as an answer for food insecurity pets, so kids and adults alike stay in urban areas and began working engaged with them. They don’t require a with households to help them start lot of initial investment: a small coop, chicken keeping chickens for a steady supply of feed, and containers for the feed and water. Then fresh eggs.

As time moved on, and food security became with proper care, they provide one of the most basic less of a concern for many individuals, the bonds staples in the kitchen, which makes keeping them between chickens and their owners remained, so seem like a no-brainer. They become an example for keeping chickens shifted from being a necessity kids about where their food comes from and how we to more of a hobby. Our farm has been at the fore- should care for the animals that provide food for us.

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Improving Mental Wellness In Our Community Since 1947, the Mental Wellness Center has been building hope for individuals and families, providing support in recovery and raising awareness of mental health within the Santa Barbara community.

Did you know?

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This means that right here in Santa Barbara County, thousands of local community members are experiencing a mental health condition each year.

While 1 in 5 people will experience a mental illness during their lifetime, everyone faces challenges in life that can impact their mental health.

Because mental illness impacts the whole community and takes a great toll on individuals and families, the Mental Wellness Center is here to serve the Santa Barbara community and offer support, resources and hope to all those in need.

Each year, millions of Americans face the reality of living with a mental illness.

During May, the Mental Wellness Center and the rest of the country are raising awareness of mental health.

Join us in celebrating Mental Health Month this May and learn how the Mental Wellness Center is raising awareness of mental health, supporting wellness, and strengthening our community.

Visit our website at www.mentalwellnesscenter.org to stay connected and informed of Mental Health Month at the Mental Wellness Center.

The Mental Wellness Center is here for you!

Every day, the Mental Wellness Center fights stigma, provides support, educates the community and advocates for people with mental illness and their families. And now, more than ever, mental health has never been more important. Here are some ways the Mental Wellness Center is supporting the community during this time.

Mental Wellness Center Family Advocate The Family Advocate is trained and familiar with issues faced by families impacted by a mental health disorder and can assist families who are trying to understand and deal with the impact of serious mental health disorders in their family. Currently, the Mental Wellness Center Family Advocate is available to offer those in need individual and family support. To learn more, please contact the Mental Wellness Center Family Advocate at: 805-884-8440 ext. 3206.

Community Wellness Program Offers Virtual Support Groups During these difficult times, we know how important it is for you to take care of yourself and support your loved ones. The Mental Wellness Center is proud to offer several support groups virtually to those looking to stay connected, please visit our website at: www.mentalwellnesscenter.org for more information and a listing of support groups available. All groups are free and almost all are open to the public.

The Fellowship Club Continues to Serve

During this time, the Fellowship Club continues to support its members by providing a warm meal, as well as an emotional daily check-in from a safe distance.

If you’re a member of the Fellowship Club, please visit our website at www.mentalwellnesscenter.org for current lunch distribution schedule. Special thanks to our Lunch Program Heroes – Rosewood Miramar Beach and Catering Connection, who’ve been providing delicious meals to our members, allowing the Mental Wellness Center staff more time to connect with members and share words of support and community resources.

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Mental Wellness Center 2nd Annual Stigma Buster Virtual Celebration

Join us online as we celebrate Mental Health Month this May! The Stigma Buster Celebration shines a light on the Mental Wellness Center and aims to spread awareness, reduce stigma, and increase resiliency in our community. This year, we will host our event virtually for the entire month of May, allowing YOU to take the Stigma Buster Pledge and join our Mental Wellness Giving Society!

Take the Stigma Buster Pledge TODAY, visit us online at www.mentalwellnesscenter.org.

Mental Wellness Center Unveils Organization’s New Website

This May, in honor and celebration of Mental Health Month, the Mental Wellness Center debuted a brand new website. Visit us online at www.mentalwellnesscenter.org to learn more about our programs and services and how we’re working hard to improve mental wellness, spread awareness, reduce stigma, and increase resiliency in our community.

Mental Wellness Center & NAMI Santa Barbara County

First Ever Virtual Book Club

The Mental Wellness Center & NAMI Santa Barbara County invite you to our virtual book club where we will be reading the newest addition to Oprah’s Book Club for 2020: Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker.

Join us through May as we dive deeper into the heartrending story of a mid-century American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia that became science’s great hope in the quest to understand the disease.

Interested in learning more and joining our Book Club? Please send an email to aconroy@mentalwellnesscenter.org.

Leave a Legacy of Mental Wellness in our Community The Mental Wellness Center depends on the generosity of the community to ensure essential services will be provided for individuals and families impacted by mental illness for years to come. Please consider leaving a legacy gift to the Mental Wellness Center and become a charter member of our new Circle of HOPE Legacy Society. Your gift today ensures a future of mental wellness in Santa Barbara. For more information, please visit www.mwclegacy.org.

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“It’s unfortunate that we had to open during a pandemic, but we are pushing forward and hopefully getting through this soon,” said co-owner Eva Umejido, who said the restaurant has been her dad’s dream since he arrived in Santa Barbara in the early 1990s from Mexico.

There weren’t many taquerias here then, but he did not have the means to open his own.

Instead, her dad and mom started cleaning houses and did so for more than 25 years.

“When my mother passed away seven years ago, my dad decided that it was time that he finally accomplish his lifelong dream and began planning his taqueria,” said Umejido. “Years later and we are here, finally open for business. Sadly, we are opening during the worst time, but I am hopeful that we will survive this.”

They are currently open for takeout Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Call (805) 869-6618. Delivery is also offered through Restaurant Connection. See taqueriasb.com.

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THREE PICKLES OPEN AGAIN: On April 27, Clay Lovejoy celebrated Three Pickles Deli’s 14th birthday by reopening for takeout business, to honor the popular sandwich shop that he cofounded on East Canon Perdido Street with his late father, Bob Love Lovejoy, and their partner, Bob “Bubba” McCourt, who runs the Goleta deli.

“In March, when we had to shut our doors, there was a big question of us being able to open up again,” said Clay. “The last 14 years have been incredible feed feeding and meeting so many people in the community. Now, being able to open back up feels amazing and gives us hope everything will get better soon.”

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Wonderful, ambitious concerts had been planned, not only for the academy’s Hahn Hall performance space, but also for Santa Barbara’s premier venues: the Lobero, the Granada, and the Santa BarBar bara Bowl. While it’s not a certainty that all of those large public events will have to be canceled for 2020, it is a likelihood that Music Academy President and CEO Scott Reed and his team have had to face in the last few weeks.

As of now, the academy plans to reconstitute itself as the Music Academy Remote Learning Institute (MARLI) for at least the first month of its season.

There will be an announcement on May 15 as to whether conditions have been Music Academy President and CEO Scott Reed met that would allow at least some of the planned public concerts and in-person instruction scheduled for the program’s sec- at the academy, and that team includes our faculty and our board in addition to some of ond four weeks to go forward.

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Are fellows who participate in the remote What have your priorities been as you deal learning institute eligible to return in 2021? with the disruption of your program? Always Yes. We are deferring admissions to all of the first and foremost concern is the safety our fellows. So, although our fellows do have and well-being of our entire Music Academy an opportunity to participate in our remote family, and that includes all of our alumni program this summer, we are not seeing this since 1947, our community of supporters, as a replacement of the summer school. If and our fellows of course. You start there, you were admitted this year, you are guarand then you start looking at how do we still anteed a spot in 2021. deliver our mission. Then the roadmap starts presenting itself. I am super fortunate to have What steps have you taken to support the a fantastic team of solution-oriented people pivot to remote instruction? We’ve hired

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Any final thoughts? One of the things I think people love most about the Music Academy is the commitment this organization has had well before me and will have well after me to the fellows that attend our program.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY by Rob Breszny ARIES

CANCER

(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): I always hesitate to advise Aries

(June 21-July 22): In your efforts to develop a vibrant

people to slow down, be more deliberate, and pay closer attention to boring details. The Rams to whom I provide such counsel may be rebelliously annoyed with me — so much so that they move even faster, and with less attention to the details. Nevertheless, I’ll risk offering you this advisory right now.

Here’s my reasoning, which I hope will make the prospect more appealing: If you commit to a phase in which you temporarily invoke more prudence, discretion, and watchfulness than usual, it will ultimately reward you with a specific opportunity to make rapid progress.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): Is there an area of your life where

you would like a do-over? A chance to cancel the past and erase lingering messiness and clear a path for who-knows-what new possibility? The coming weeks will be an excellent time to prepare — not to actually take the leap, but rather make yourself ready for the leap. You will have God and fate and warm fuzzy vibes on your side as you dare to dream and scheme about a fresh start. Any mistakes you committed once upon a time could become irrelevant as you fantasize practically about a future breakthrough.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In 1855, Gemini-born Walt Whit-

man published his book of poetry Leaves of Grass. A literary critic named Rufus Wilmot Griswold did not approve. In a review, he derided the work that would eventually be regarded as one of America’s literary masterpieces. “It is impossible to imagine how any man’s fancy could have conceived such a mass of stupid filth,” Griswold wrote, adding that Whitman had a “degrading, beastly sensuality” driven by “the vilest imaginings.” Whitman’s crafty Gemini intelligence responded ingeniously to the criticism. In the next edition of Leaves of Grass, the author printed Griswold’s full review. It helped sell even more books! I invite you to consider comparable twists and tricks.

while not asleep, well up with outlandish fantasies and exotic desires. I don’t regard any of these likelihoods as problematical. In fact, I applaud them and encourage them. They’re healthy for you! Bonus: All the wild action transpiring in your psyche may prompt you to generate good ideas about fun adventures you could embark on once the coronavirus crisis has ebbed.

community and foster a vital network of connections, you have an advantage. Your emotionally rich, nurturing spirit instills trust in people. They’re drawn to you because they sense you will treat them with care and sensitivity. On the other hand, these fine attributes of yours may sometimes cause problems. Extra-needy, LIBRA manipulative folks may interpret your softness as (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It’s time to work your way below weakness. They might try to exploit your kindness the surface level of things, Libra; to dig and dive into to take advantage of you. So the challenge for you is the lower reaches where the mysteries are darker and to be your generous, welcoming self without allowing richer; to marshal your courage as you go in quest of anyone to violate your boundaries or rip you off. Everythe rest of the story. Are you willing to suspend some thing I just said will be helpful to of your assumptions about the way meditate on in the coming weeks, as things work so as to become fully HOMEWORK: What’s the bravyou reinvent yourself for the future alert for hidden agendas and dorest thing you ever did? What will be time when the coronavirus crisis mant potentials? Here’s a piece of the next brave thing you do? Testify will have lost much of its power to advice: Your fine analytical intelat FreeWillAstrology.com. disrupt our lives. ligence won’t be enough to guide you through this enigmatic terrain.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Now is an excellent time to take inven- If you hope to get face-to-face with the core source, you’ll have to call on your deeper intuition and nontory of your integrity. You’re likely to get crucial insights rational hunches. if you evaluate the state of your ethics, your authenticity, and your compassion. Is it time to boost your com- SCORPIO mitment to a noble cause that transcends your narrow (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When was the last time you researched self-interest? Are there ways you’ve been less than fully the intricacies of what you don’t like and don’t desire fair and honest in your dealings with people? Is it posand don’t want to become? Now is a favorable time to sible you have sometimes failed to give your best? I’m take a thorough inventory. You’ll generate good fortune not saying that you are guilty of any of those sins. But for yourself by naming the following truths: (1) goals most of us are indeed guilty of them, at least now and and dreams that are distractions from your primary then. And if you are, Leo, now is your special time mission; (2) attitudes and approaches that aren’t suitto check in with yourself—and make any necessary able for your temperament and that don’t contribute to adjustments and corrections. your maximum health; (3) people and influences that are not in alignment with your highest good.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I predict that you will have more flying dreams than usual in the coming weeks — as well as more dreams in which you’re traveling around the world in the company of rebel angels and dreams in which you’re leading revolutionary uprisings of oppressed people against tyrannical overlords and dreams of enjoying eight-course gourmet feasts with sexy geniuses in the year 2022. You may also, even

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky believed

that the cleverest people are those who regularly call themselves fools. In other words, they feel humble amusement as they acknowledge their failings and ignorance — thereby paving the way for creative growth. They steadily renew their commitment to

WEEK OF APRIL 30 avoid being know-it-alls, celebrating the curiosity that such blessed innocence enables them to nurture.

They give themselves permission to ask dumb questions! Now is a favorable time for you to employ these strategies.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): What wonderful improvements and

beautiful influences would you love to be basking in

by May 1, 2021? What masterpieces would you love to have as key elements of your life by then? I invite you to have fun brainstorming about these possibilities in the next two weeks. If an exciting idea bubbles up into your awareness, formulate a plan that outlines the details you’ll need to put in place so as to bring it to fruition when the time is right. I hereby authorize you to describe yourself with these terms: begetter; originator; maker; designer; founder; producer; framer; generator.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If I asked you to hug and kiss yourself

regularly, would you think I was being too cute? If I encouraged you to gaze into a mirror once a day and tell yourself how beautiful and interesting you are, would you say, “That’s too woo-woo for me.” I hope you will respond more favorably than that, Aquarius. In fact, I will be praying for you to ascend to new heights of self-love between now and May 25. I will be rooting for you to be unabashed as you treat yourself with more compassionate tenderness than you have ever dared to before. And I do mean EVER!

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): In the coming weeks, I’d love to see you get excited about refining and upgrading the ways you communicate. I don’t mean to imply that you’re a poor communicator now; it’s just that you’re in a phase when you’re especially empowered to enhance the clarity and candor with which you express yourself. You’ll have an uncanny knack for knowing the right thing to say at the right moment. You’ll generate blessings for yourself as you fine-tune your listening skills. Much of this may have to happen online and over the phone, of course. But you can still accomplish a lot!

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LEGALS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: VIZFINDER. COM at 761 San Fernando Dr Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Life Mounts, LLC (same address) conducted by an Limited Liability Company Signed: Christoph Pierre, Officer Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 30, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0000890.

Published: Apr 9, 16, 23, 30 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SUNSTONE WINERY at 125 N. Refugio Rd Santa Ynez, CA 93460; Channel Islands Management LLC 1212 Santa Teresita Dr Santa Barbara, CA 93105 conducted by an Limited Liability Company Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 30, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0000886. Published: Apr 9, 16, 23, 30 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MONKEY KNIFE FIGHT at 1187 Coast Village Road #10‑M Montecito, CA 93108; Fantasy Sports Shark, LLC (same address) conducted by an Limited Liability Company Signed: William Asher, Managing Member Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 25, 2020.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Maria F Sanchez. FBN Number: 2020‑0000858.

Published: Apr 9, 16, 23, 30 2020.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.

ORDINANCE NO. 20-06 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLETA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING TITLE 3 CHAPTER 3.05 OF THE GOLETA MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO THE CITY OF GOLETA PURCHASING SYSTEM On April 21, 2020 at Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California, the City Council of the City of Goleta conducted the second reading and adopted an ordinance that involves increasing the City Manager’s authority for supplies/equipment, general services and professional services from $30,000 to $45,000, (2) allowing the City Manager to make nonfinancial amendments to contracts, (3) allowing the City Manager to enter into agreements with other entities to receive monies as tax revenue or grant funds; (4) allowing the City Manager to enter into agreements with other entities who the City Council has determined to be a recipient of a City grant, (5) conform the contract amounts of public work projects with the Commission’s recommendations, and (6) allowing City Manager to join in the professional services contracts on regional efforts led by other government entities and to directly contract with other government entities for services without following the Request for Proposals process.

The City Council of the City of Goleta passed and adopted Ordinance No. 2006 at a regular meeting held on the 21st day of April 2020, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

MAYOR PEROTTE, MAYOR PRO TEMPORE RICHARDS, COUNCILMEMBERS ACEVES, KASDIN AND KYRIACO

NOES:

NONE

ABSENT:

NONE

ABSTENTIONS:

NONE

Any interested person may obtain a copy of the proposed ordinance at the City Clerk’s Office, City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California 93117 or by calling City Hall at (805) 961-7505.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: QUICKSILVER RANCH at 1555 Alamo Pintado Rd. Solvang, CA 93463; Achievable Solutions, Inc. 3579 E. Foothill Blvd., #546 Pasadena, CA 91107 conducted by an Corporation Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 1, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck.

FBN Number: 2020‑0000904.

Published: Apr 16, 23, 30. May 7 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 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: 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: 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: 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.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DESTINED FOR GRACE‑CHILDREN’S RELIEF at 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.

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.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CITY COUNCIL MEETING May 19, 2020 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Goleta will conduct a public hearing on Tuesday, May 19, 2020, at 5:30pm on the following matter: Adjustments to Residential and Commercial Solid Waste Collection Rates For Fiscal Year 2020-2021.

Notice is hereby given that the City Council will conduct a public hearing to accept both written and verbal protests regarding the increased solid waste collection rates and track the number of protests in accordance with California Proposition 218. Rates charged to Goleta residents and businesses for the collection of solid waste and recyclable materials are scheduled to increase, effective July 1, 2020, as a result of increases to the Consumer Price Index, and the fees charged to dispose of material at the Tajiguas Landfill, and to process recyclable and organics.

MEETING DATE/TIME:

Tuesday, May 19, 2020, 5:30 P.M.

PLACE:

Goleta City Hall, Council Chambers 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, CA 93117

PUBLIC COMMENT: Any property owner or tenant may file a written protest against the proposed annual adjustments for inflation at any time before the end of the public hearing. The protest must identify the (a) Assessor’s Parcel Number(s) of the property (listed on your Tax Bill) or street address, (b) the name and signature of the property owner/protestor and (c) a clear written statement for the reason for protesting the fee increase. Note: Reason for the protest may be based on anything personal, technical or legal in nature.

Written protests may be mailed or submitted to the City Clerk at City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, CA 93117. In order to be disseminated to the City Council for consideration during the Council meeting, written information must be submitted to the City Clerk no later than Monday at noon May 18, 2020. Material received after this time will be provided to City Council, but may not be reviewed prior to the meeting. If you do not object to the rate adjustment, no action is required.

HOW DO I PROTEST If you wish to protest any of the above increases, you must mail or deliver your protest signed and in writing, including your name and service address or assessor parcel number to the City Clerk of the City of Goleta at 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, CA 93117. On the envelope please note: Attn: Public Hearing of Solid Waste Rate Changes. A protest letter can be done by any property owner or tenant (i.e. a customer of record) directly responsible for the payment of solid waste collection fees. Only one protest will be counted per identified address/parcel.

IN LIGHT OF THE CITY’S NEED TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETINGS ELECTRONICALLY AND TELEPHONICALLY DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, written protests may also be submitted as instructed above vial email to cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org or by other electronic means during the Public Hearing (date and time noted above), provided they are received prior to the conclusion of the public comment portion of the Public Hearing. Instructions on how to submit a written protest or comment during the hearing will be available on the City’s website: https://www.cityofgoleta.org/i-want-to/news-and-updates/government-meetingagendas-and-videos IF YOU CHALLENGE the nature of the above action in court, you may be limited to only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice or in written correspondence delivered to the City on or before the date of the hearing (Government Code Section 69009[b][2]).

DOCUMENT AVAILABILITY: The staff report may be obtained at the City of Goleta, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, CA 93117. The documents will be posted on the City’s web site at www.cityofgoleta.org.

This ordinance shall take effect on the 31st day following adoption by the City Council.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Additional information is on file at the City Clerk’s office, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, CA 93117 or can be obtained by calling (805) 961-7505. Contact: Deborah Lopez, City Clerk (805) 961-7505.

Note: In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this meeting, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (805) 961-7505. Notification at least 72 hours prior to the hearing will enable City staff to make reasonable arrangements.

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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: A. MCBRIDE CONSULTING at 945 Ward Dr, Spc 13 Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Allan Douglas McBride (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Allan McBride Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 16, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0000988. Published: Apr 30.

May 7, 14, 21 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Name Statement The following person(s)is/are doing business as: METROPULOS FINE FOODS MERCHANT at 216 E. Yanonai St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Metropulos Inc. (same address), conducted by a Corporation, signed: Ann E. Addis, President filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara county on Apr. 21, 2020. This statement expires 5 years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number 2020‑0001003.

Published: April 30, May 7, 14, 21 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SERENO RELIEF SERVICES at 325 E Valerio Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Miriam Christina Ketcham (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Miriam C. Ketcham Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 16, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck.

FBN Number: 2020‑0000972.

Published: Apr 30. May 7, 14, 21 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: E‑VOLK, E‑VOLK RIDES, EVOLK SKATEBOARDS at 2985 Steele Street Los Olivos, CA 93441; 4Skin Industries (same address) conducted by an Corporation Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 9, 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: 2020‑0000943. Published: Apr 30. May 7, 14, 21 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: A.C.T. INSTALLS at 7280 Tuolumne Dr Goleta, CA 93117; Andy J. Triant (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 16, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0000987. Published: Apr 30. May 7, 14, 21 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ROADRUNNER ORGANICS at 308 South E Street Lompoc, CA 93436; George Mark Raugh (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 16, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0000986. Published: Apr 30. May 7, 14, 21 2020.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CENTRAL COAST PALLETS at 1571 E Betteravia Santa Maria, CA 93454; Erik Ortiz 305 S Oakglen Ave Nipomo, CA 93444 conducted by an Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 23, 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: 2020‑0001035.

Published: Apr 30. May 7, 14, 21 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: A. MCBRIDE CONSULTING at 945 Ward Dr. Spc 13 Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Allan Douglas McBride (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 16, 2020.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0000988.

Published: Apr 30. May 7, 14, 21 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: POPPINS FAMILY SERVICES at 3803 Connie Way Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Michele Martin (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Michele Martin 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: 2020‑0000912.

Published: Apr 30. May 7, 14, 21 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SOUL CITY SURVIVORS at 2043 Mountain Avenue Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Winfield Shiras (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 21, 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: 2020‑0001001.

Published: Apr 30. May 7, 14, 21 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WILD ROOTS at 3730 Avon Ln Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Lia Grippo (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 14, 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: 2020‑0000963.

Published: Apr 30. May 7, 14, 21 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: INGREDIENT WINE COMPANY at 2670 Ontiveros Rd Los Olivos, CA 93441; Thomas L Beckmen 1318 Monaco Dr Pacific Palisades, CA 90272 conducted by an Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 14, 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 Jo. FBN Number: 2020‑0000969. Published: Apr 30.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CORPS ESSENTIALS at 5441 Toltec Dr Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Thomas Soto (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 13, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0000951. Published: Apr 30. May 7, 14, 21 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MANDRAKE WINE, MANDRAKE WINES, PROTECTOR CELLARS at 2705 Aviation Way #100 Santa Maria, CA 93455; Project Cabernet, LLC (same address) conducted by an Limited Liability Company Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 21, 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: 2020‑0001006. Published: Apr 30. May 7, 14, 21 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GAL FRIDAY at 4739 Greenway Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Erika C. Robinson(same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Erika C. Robinson Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 21, 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: 2020‑0000999. Published: Apr 30. May 7, 14, 21 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

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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.

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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

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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

NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF FINAL MITIGATED NEGATIVE DECLARATION AND PLANNING COMMISSION HEARING (Held Electronically and Telephonically) Monday, May 11, 2020 at 6 pm Ritz-Carlton, Bacara Beach House Replacement and Demolition Project 8301 Hollister Avenue; APN 079-200-012 and -013 (Project is on Parcel -013) City of Goleta Case No. 16-002-DPAM/CDPAM/DRB ATTENTION: Pursuant to of the Governor’s Executive Order N-29-20 dated March 17, 2020 authorizing local jurisdictions subject to the Brown Act to hold public meetings electronically and telephonically in order to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, the regular meeting of the Planning Commission for May 11, 2020 will be conducted telephonically and electronically. It will be broadcast live on the City’s website and on Cable Goleta Channel 19. The Council Chambers will not be open to the public during the meeting. Planning Commissioners will be participating telephonically and will not be physically present in the Council Chambers.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Goleta has completed a Final Mitigated Negative Declaration (Final MND) for the Ritz-Carlton, Bacara Beach House Replacement and Demolition Project (described below). Further, the Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing on the adequacy of the Final MND and on the project. The date and time of the Planning Commission hearing is: DATE/TIME:

Monday, May 11, 2020 at 6:00 PM

LOCATION:

Goleta City Hall – Council Chambers (Electronically and Telephonically) 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, CA 93117

ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW FINDINGS: A Final Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND) has been prepared pursuant to the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (Public Resources Code §§ 21000, et seq., CEQA), the regulations promulgated thereunder (14 California Code of Regulations, §§ 15000, et seq., CEQA Guidelines), and the City’s Environmental Review Guidelines. The City of Goleta is acting as the Lead Agency. The Final MND is appropriate pursuant to CEQA Guidelines §1064(f)(2), as the project would not create any significant adverse effects on the environment with the inclusion of mitigation measures in the following areas: biological resources, cultural resources, hazards and hazardous materials, and tribal cultural resources. These mitigations along with conditions, agreed to by the applicant, would mitigate the effects of the project to a point where clearly no significant effect on the environment would occur and there is no substantial evidence in light of the whole record that the project may have a significant effect on the environment.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Ginger Anderson of Stantec on behalf of the Ritz-Carlton, Bacara, Santa Barbara Hotel, Watermark Capital Partners has requested approval of a Development Plan and Coastal Development Permit Amendments (16-002- DPAM-CDPAM-DRB).

The project consists of the following physical construction components to replace the existing Beach House snack bar and restrooms facilities consistent with the existing hotel conditions of approval (Development Plan No. 86-DP-46 and Coastal Development Permit No. 96-CDP-078). The existing building was compromised by winter storms and high tides in 2016. The project includes: 1. Construction of one new 325 square foot single-story building with four restrooms, a storage room, two exterior showers and drinking fountains in a location approximately 250 feet to the northeast of the existing Beach House. To construct the new restroom building, a 743 SF concrete pad, grading and trenching for utilities will be needed; a 65-foot long masonry retaining wall ranging in height up to a maximum of 3 feet is proposed; and a 60-foot linear concrete drainage ditch and a 200 SF earthen stormwater infiltration basin will be constructed.

2. Use of an electric food truck as a snack bar. A designated 15 x 30-foot parking space with utilities along the western side of the existing emergency turnaround is planned to support the food truck.

3. Emergency access road adjustments include replacement of a 2,020 SF section of existing asphalt, the addition of 253 SF of asphalt to improve the turnaround capacity, and regrading of the earthen beach access ramp.

4. Once the new facilities are open to the public: • The Beach House would be demolished, utilities removed, and the site graded and restored.

• A new east-west segment of the existing public access trail/path with informational signs will be installed along the south edge of the former Beach House building footprint parallel to the ocean.

• A movable fence will be installed along the shoreline terrace to accommodate future shoreline changes.

• The emergency shoreline protection revetment and sheeting placed by permit (16-002 EMP) will be removed.

The Planning Commission will be the decision maker for this project, unless its decision is appealed to the City Council. The California Coastal Commission has jurisdiction over this project and will be the final decision maker. This project was reviewed under Article II, Coastal Zoning Ordinance as the project was vested and deemed complete prior to September 1, 2019.

PROJECT LOCATION: The project site is an approximately 1.4-acre area located along the shoreline at Haskell’s Beach in the City of Goleta Coastal Zone. The site is part of the previously developed 72.73-acre Ritz-Carlton, Bacara Hotel (hotel) property at 8301 Hollister Avenue in the City of Goleta (City) at the western city limits. The hotel property is on the south side of Hollister Avenue approximately 0.6 miles west of the Highway 101 and Cathedral Oaks Road overpass ramps. The hotel is located on Assessor Parcel Numbers (APN) 079-200-012 and -013 with the project site located entirely on parcel -013. The City’s GP/CLUP Land Use Designation and Zoning for the site is Visitor Serving Commercial (VS). The previous Coastal Zoning Ordinance designation for the site was Resort/Visitor Serving Commercial (C-V).

CORTESE LIST: The Project site is listed on the EnviroStor online database of hazardous site records maintained by the California Department of Toxic Substances Control TSC in coordination with the California State Water Resources Control Board consistent with Government Code § 65962.5 (the “Cortese list”).

DOCUMENT AVAILABILITY: The proposed Final MND and all documents referenced therein are currently available and is posted on the City’s web site at www.cityofgoleta.org. Staff reports and related materials for the Planning Commission hearing will also be posted on this website at least 72 hours prior to the meeting.

IN LIGHT OF THE CITY’S NEED TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETINGS ELECTRONICALLY AND TELEPHONICALLY DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, written comments may be submitted as instructed above or via email to Deborah Lopez, City Clerk e-mail: cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org or by electronic means during the Public Hearing (date and time noted above), provided they are received prior to the conclusion of the public comment portion of the Public Hearing. Instructions on how to submit written comments during the hearing will be available on the City’s website: https://www.cityofgoleta.org/i-want-to/news-and-updates/government-meeting-agendas-and-videos.

FOR PROJECT INFORMATION: For further information on the project, contact Mary Chang, Supervising Senior Planner at 805-961-7567 or mchang@cityofgoleta.org.

Note: If you challenge the City’s final action on this Project in court, you may be limited to only those issues you or someone else raised in written or oral testimony and/or evidence provided to the City on or before the date of the public hearing (Government Code Section 65009(b) [2]).

Note: In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need assistance to participate in this hearing, please contact Deborah Lopez, City Clerk, at (805) 961-7505. Notification at least 72 hours prior to the hearing will enable City staff to make reasonable arrangements.

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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.

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CNS‑3359085# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD STATE OF CALIFORNIA WCAB No.: ADJ11158356 To: DEFENDANT, EDUARDO BUENROSTRO APPLICANT, MARTIN LERENA NOTICES 1) A lawsuit, the Application for Adjudication of Claim, as been filed with the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board against you as the named defendant by the above named applicant.

You may seek the advice of an

attorney in any matter connected with this lawsuit and such attorney should be consulted promptly so that you response may be filed and entered in a timely fashion.

If you do not know an attorney, you may call an attorney reference service or a legal aid office. (See telephone directory.)

2) An Answer to the Application must be filed and served within six days of the service of the Application pursuant to Appeals Board rules; therefore, your written response must be filed with the Appeals Board promptly; a letter or phone call will not protect your interests.

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3) You will be served with a Notice(s) of Hearing and must appear at all hearings or conferences. After such hearing, even absent your appearance, a decision may be made and an award of compensation benefits may issue against you.

The award could result in the garnishment of your wages, taking of your money or property or other relief.

If the Appeals Board makes an award against you, your house or other dwelling or other property may be taken to satisfy that award in a non‑judicial state, with no exemptions from execution.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Goleta Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing to consider a resolution recommending to the City Council adoption of Title 17 Amendments (Case No: 20-0001-ORD).

Any recommendations from the Planning Commission will be provided to City Council. City Council will consider the recommendation at a later hearing to adopt any amendments to Title 17. The date, time, and location of the Planning Commission public hearing are set forth below. The agenda for the hearing will also be posted on the City website (www.cityofgoleta.org).

HEARING DATE AND TIME:

Monday, May 11, 2020, at 6:00 P.M.

PLACE:

City Hall (Electronically and Telephonically) 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B Goleta, California 93117

PROJECT LOCATION: The amended regulations would apply citywide, including all areas of the City within the Coastal Zone.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: On March 3, 2020, City Council adopted Title 17 of the Goleta Municipal Code, commonly referred to as the New Zoning Ordinance (NZO). The proposed amendments to Title 17 include several “clean-up” amendments to the recently adopted NZO to address recent changes to state law, remedy issues identified during early implementation, and provide clarity to the regulations adopted. The topics for “clean-up” amendments include: • • • • • • • •

Housing Regulations in Response to Senate Bill (SB) 330 (2019) Environmentally Sensitive Habitat Areas (Applicability and Biological Study sections) Water-Efficient Landscaping Requirements Previously Excluded Parking Requirements Sign Regulations (Exempt Signs, Non-commercial Sign Message Substitution, and Overall Sign Plans) Case Closure Procedures for Inactive Cases Design Review Board Applicability Other Non-Substantive Clerical Revisions

In addition, during the NZO adoption hearings with the City Council, several topic areas were flagged by Councilmembers as requiring further research and analysis by planning staff. Included in the list of specific follow-up items that Councilmembers wanted additional information on are chain-link fences and Accessory Dwelling Unit height standards. Planning Commission will be asked to consider any revisions to Title 17 regarding these two issues and may include recommended changes regarding these two topics in addition to the topics listed above to be submitted to City Council.

Environmental Review: This Ordinance is not subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 15060(c)(3) of the CEQA Guidelines (Title 14, Chapter 3 of the California Code of Regulations) because the activity is not a project as defined in section 15378 and Section15061(b)(3) of the CEQA Guidelines, because the activity is covered by the general rule which exempts activities that can be seen with certainty to have no possibility for causing a significant effect on the environment. Any subsequent development project will be separately examined in accordance with CEQA. PUBLIC COMMENT: All interested persons are encouraged view the meeting and to provide written and/ or oral comments. All letters/comments should be addressed to City Clerk cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org.

Letters must be received by City Clerk on or before the date of the hearing or can be submitted at the hearing.

IN LIGHT OF THE CITY’S NEED TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETINGS ELECTRONICALLY AND TELEPHONICALLY DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, written comments may also be submitted as instructed above via email to cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org or by other electronic means during the Public Hearing (date and time noted above), provided they are received prior to the conclusion of the public comment portion of the Public Hearing. Instructions on how to submit a comment or to call in during the hearing will be available on the City’s website: https://www.cityofgoleta.org/i-want-to/news-and-updates/government-meeting-agendasand-videos

attorney: Ghitterman, Ghitterman & Feld, 418 E. Canon Perdido St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101; FORM COMPLETED BY: Benjamin P. Feld, Esq. Ghitterman, Ghitterman & Feld, 418 E. Canon Perdido St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101 Telephone No.: (805) 965‑4540.

NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served: as the person sued under the fictitious name of: Concrete & Pavers Specialist.

Published: Apr 30. May 7, 14, 21 2020.

ORDINANCE NO. 20-07 U

NOTICE OF PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING (Held Electronically and Telephonically) Title 17 (Zoning) Amendments ATTENTION: Pursuant to of the Governor’s Executive Order N-29-20 dated March 17, 2020 authorizing local jurisdictions subject to the Brown Act to hold public meetings telephonically and electronically in order to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, the regular meeting of the Planning Commission for May 11, 2020 will be conducted telephonically and electronically. It will be broadcast live on the City’s website and on Cable Goleta Channel 19. The Council Chambers will not be open to the public during the meeting. Planning Commissioners will be participating telephonically and will not be physically present in the Council Chambers.

A lien may also be imposed upon your property without further hearing and before the issuance of an award.

4) You must notify the Appeals Board of the proper address for the service of official notices and papers and notify the Appeals Board of any changes in that address.

TAKE ACTION NOW TO PROTECT YOUR INTERESTS Issued by: WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD Name and address of Appeals Board: WCAB Santa Barbara 411 E. Canon Perdido Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Name and address of applicant’s

AN URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF GOLETA, CALIFORNIA, ENACTING A TEMPORARY MORATORIUM ON EVICTIONS AND FORECLOSURES DUE TO NONPAYMENT OF RENT BY RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL TENANTS IMPACTED BY THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) On April 21, 2020 at Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California, the City Council of the City of Goleta adopted Urgency Ordinance No. 20-07 U that will impose moratoria on residential and commercial evictions and foreclosures due to a tenant or mortgagor’s financial inability to pay their rent or mortgage because they have suffered lost income as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic or having to adhere to governmental orders requiring them to shelter in place and close businesses. Nothing in the ordinance would require landlords or mortgagees to forgive any rent or mortgage. Repayment of all debt would be required to be made after emergency orders regarding COVID-19 are over and must occur within a certain period of time as provided by the ordinance.

The City Council of the City of Goleta passed and adopted Urgency Ordinance No. 20-07 U at a regular meeting held on the 21st day of April 2020, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

MAYOR PEROTTE, MAYOR PRO TEMPORE RICHARDS, COUNCILMEMBERS ACEVES, KASDIN AND KYRIACO

NOES:

NONE

ABSENT:

NONE

ABSTENTIONS:

NONE

The Urgency Ordinance is effective immediately.

Any interested person may obtain a copy of the proposed ordinance at the City Clerk’s Office, City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California 93117 or via email at cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org or by calling City Hall at (805) 961-7505.

Deborah Lopez City Clerk Publish:

Santa Barbara Independent April 30, 2020 ORDINANCE NO. 20-05 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF GOLETA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING TITLE 15 (BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION) OF THE GOLETA MUNICIPAL CODE ESTABLISHING A STREAMLINED PERMITTING PROCESS FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATIONS

On April 21, 2020 at Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California, the City Council of the City of Goleta conducted the second reading and adopted an ordinance that creates an expedited, streamlined permitting process for electric vehicle charging stations while promoting public health and safety and preventing specific adverse impacts in the installation and use of such charging stations, pursuant to Government Code Section 65850.7.

The City Council of the City of Goleta passed and adopted Ordinance No. 20-05 at a regular meeting held on the 21st day of April 2020, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

MAYOR PEROTTE, MAYOR PRO TEMPORE RICHARDS, COUNCILMEMBERS ACEVES, KASDIN AND KYRIACO

NOES:

NONE

ABSENT:

NONE

ABSTENTIONS:

NONE

NOTE: If you challenge the nature of the above action in court, you may be limited to only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice or in written correspondence delivered to the City on or before the date of the hearing (Government Code Section 69009[b][2]).

This ordinance shall take effect on the 31st day following adoption by the City Council.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Additional information is on file at the City Clerk’s office, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, CA 93117 or can be obtained by calling Deborah S. Lopez, City Clerk (805) 961-7505.

Any interested person may obtain a copy of the proposed ordinance at the City Clerk’s Office, City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California 93117 or by calling City Hall at (805) 961-7505.

Note: In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need assistance to participate in this hearing, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (805) 961-7505. Notification at least 72 hours prior to the hearing will enable City staff to make reasonable arrangements.

Deborah Lopez City Clerk

Publish: Santa Barbara Independent, April 30, 2020

Publish:

Santa Barbara Independent April 30, 2020

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