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Clover the lamb was born on May 15, the latest baby to land at the ranch near Lompoc where our editor in chief, Marianne Partridge, lives with her extended family, including her daughter, Elizabeth Poett.

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“Sadly, her mother did not produce enough milk,” said Poett, who adopted the lamb, to the joy of her two sons. “Life is good for Clover. She relaxes all day on the ranch, she plays with the dogs and goes on adventures with two young cowboys that live in ‘her’ house, she gets fed every four hours — that’s right, every four hours all night long. And she gets to sleep on her own little bed in the house.”

When big enough, Clover should rejoin her flock. Until then, she’s content with her human parents scratching behind her ears.

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PROJECT PROPONENT: Councilmember Alejandra Gutierrez passionately advocated for the private agreement throughout Tuesday’s meeting. “It is really rare to have private developers offer this high percentage of affordable housing,” she said.

AD HOC: The Grand Jury report cites a slew of ethical issues with the Board of Supervisors’ cannabis ordinances, starting with the initial ad hoc committee on which Steve Lavagnino (left) and Das Williams were the only two supervisors.

Grand Jury Blasts Supervisors on Cannabis Ordinance Report Criticizes Their Objectives, Ethics, and Dismissal of Public Complaints

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Grand Jury report released Monday blasted the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors for its mismanagement of the county’s cannabis production, for dismissing public input, ignoring major environmental impacts, and allowing excessive production, among other criticisms.

“Instead of a balanced approach carefully evaluating how the cannabis industry would be compatible, both as to amount of acreage and location, the board simply opened the floodgates. These ordinances must be amended,” the report states.

Last year, at this time, cannabis farms in Santa Barbara County held 35 percent of all cultivation licenses issued in California last year, despite the county having only 1.8 percent of the state’s land.

An ad hoc committee was formed in 2017 to review and create regulations for adult use and cannabis cultivation in the county, with Das Williams and Steve Lavagnino as the only two supervisors on the committee, so it was not subject to the Brown Act and therefore not open to the public.

The committee’s first objective was to “develop a robust and economically viable legal cannabis industry to ensure production and availability of high quality cannabis products to help meet local demands, and, as a public benefit, improve the County’s tax base.”

This objective, the report contends, was the wrong one to have.

“This objective became the guiding principle for the board,” the report reads, which is what led the board to more easily justify the environmental impacts — loss of agricultural resources and air quality, greenhouse-gas emissions, and smell. Smell, in particular, sparked massive community outrage and hours of public backlash.

The City of Carpinteria seemed to be hit with cannabis odors the hardest, and on two occasions, the school district wrote letters to the board saying Carpinteria High School was being blasted by strong cannabis odors to the point that by afternoon, the students and staff were reporting headaches from the “nauseating odor.” The Santa Ynez Valley also voiced complaints, particularly wineries and tasting rooms that said the skunky odor drove away business.

“This was not an unexpected result of the board’s actions in creating the cannabis ordinances,” the report states. “They knew about the quality of life concerns and chose the revenue potential of cannabis instead.”

The report also cited a slew of ethical issues with the board’s cannabis ordinances, starting with the initial ad hoc committee. “The jury learned that notes and minutes were not prepared in order to avoid any Public Records Act Requests for such documents. The lack of a paper trail does not fit with the concept of open government which seeks input from all interests.”

In addition to the lack of transparency in the ad hoc meetings, the board allowed cannabis industry lobbyists open access during the creation of the ordinances, and the report states that the lobbyists were seen regularly “roaming the halls of the board’s offices.”

The report obtained copies of emails from cannabis lobbyists and cannabis growers to boardmembers that were “unnerving.”

“The tone of these emails appeared at times as if to direct specific actions to the board members and gave the perception of an attempt to command instead of recommend,” the report said. “Understanding that no such authority exists with the lobbyists, the Jury felt that limits on such direct conversations should have been established by the board members receiving these emails.”

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City Council Approves Controversial Development Milpas Building Will Now Include Affordable Housing, New Look

by Delaney Smith ne of the most controversial housing projects to survive Santa Barbara’s planning review process has reentered the spotlight, but this time its developers are looking to drastically overhaul the original plan approved last year.

The project at 711 North Milpas Street, currently occupied by Capitol Hardware, was approved on March 2019 as a four-story, 76-unit complex of one- and two-bedroom units. The project’s style is modern, and it has no affordable units.

It received immense backlash for its potential to gentrify the mostly low-income, Latino Eastside neighborhood and for its style and height, which clashed with the older, Spanish-style businesses and homes along Milpas Street. Nevertheless, it was approved, and the developers may pull building permits to begin construction, according to Jarrett Gorin, principal with Vanguard Planning LLC. But then Capitol Hardware owner Alan Bleecker realized he didn’t have the capital to actually build his approved project, so he partnered with developer Ed St. George, a prominent landlord in the region. St. George proposed adding six units, increasing the height from 45 to 52 feet, designating 16 moderate-income apartments, and redesigning it as a Spanish-colonial building.

Taking the project directly to City Council, though highly unconventional, was the developers’ approach to avoid the city’s notoriously convoluted planning review process a second time. The approach worked.

The council voted 6-0 to enter into negotiations with Bleecker and St. George for a development agreement. Councilmember Meagan Harmon was absent. The vote specified developing a term sheet that would include councilmembers’ deliberative comments.

“It is really rare to have private developers offer this high percentage of affordable housing because of the tough system we have in place and how much money they waste in the waiting process,” said Councilmember Alejandra Gutierrez, who represents the Eastside, where the project is located. “I mean, let’s be honest here; they are taking a risk. They’re providing affordable housing because they are local and invested and they understand the need.”

Gutierrez, who brought the proposal to the council with Councilmember Eric Friedman, passionately advocated for the private cont’d

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Notorious Serial Murderer and Rapist Joseph DeAngelo Pleads to 13 Homicides Across California

by Jean Yamamura oseph James DeAngelo admitted he was the Golden State Killer on Monday morning, pleading guilty to four murders and two rapes committed decades ago in Goleta. They are among the 13 first-degree murders and nearly 50 rapes he will admit to committing between 1975 and 1988 at a hearing in Sacramento. Grisly accounts of the crimes were heard from prosecutors from Tulare, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties before the court took its first break.

The hearing was specially called to accept 74-year-old DeAngelo’s guilty pleas in exchange for life in prison instead of the death penalty. Prompting the decision to let DeAngelo plead was COVID-19 and the advanced ages of DeAngelo, his victims, and the witnesses. Lengthy preliminary hearings for evidence before trial were expected to take months and survey 100 witnesses. Sacramento Superior Court Judge Michael Bowman told DeAngelo his plea would result in 11 consecutive life sentences for the murder charges and 15 concurrent ones on the kidnap charges. He was also to admit his guilt to acts that were as-yet uncharged in seven counties.

Chief Deputy District Attorney Kelly Duncan presented a detailed account of DeAngelo’s breaking into the Goleta homes occupied by Robert Offerman and Debra Manning in 1979 and Cheri Domingo and Greg Sanchez in 1981. She recounted in brief, grim detail how they’d been tied up, the women raped, the bullet or blunt trauma wounds they sustained, and which ones caused their death.

The Santa Barbara DA’s Office was one of nine at the hearing that represented the wide swath of California that DeAngelo terrorized between 1975 and 1988.

The hearing continued with depictions of DeAngelo’s increasingly violent and sadistic crimes from the attorneys for Sacramento, Contra Costa, Orange, San Joaquin, Yolo, and Alameda counties, when the unknown killer was called the Visalia Ransacker, the Original Night Stalker, and the East Area Rapist.

Thienvu Ho of the Sacramento District Attorney’s Office led off the hearing. Even police detectives in retirement continued to comb through the DeAngelo case, Ho said, because it had held such a grip on their communities as DeAngelo committed burglaries, rapes, and murders relentlessly. The killer’s DNA had been left at scenes in Ventura and Santa Barbara — and collected and preserved — and a match was made in 2018 through his family members.

Officers in Sacramento County picked up DeAngelo’s trash using an empty garbage truck, Ho said, recovering a tissue that held

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agreement throughout the meeting.

She referenced the recent Grand Jury report on housing, which slammed the city for failing to build affordable rentals. She said the units could help fill the hole left by the Average Unit-sized Density incentive program, a program that was intended to motivate developers to build more housing but created mostly market-rate units that are unaffordable to local families and workers.

But not everyone agreed.

“When this project was originally proposed, residents screamed … because of the significant impact the neighborhood would suffer because of this monstrosity,” said Natalia Govoni, a business owner on Milpas Street. “And yet, here we are again, facing the same issue…. This project is different from the original and therefore should start over from the beginning. These developers should not get special treatment.”

The developers also said the units would be considered for police officers and teachers first, though exactly how that could be executed was unclear. Several teachers and supporters of police spoke in appreciation of the proposed preference, but other members of the public did not.

“We’ve heard real smooth and quick talking here this evening,” Rosanne Crawford said. “To be honest, it makes my skin crawl to hear that this affordable housing is going to teachers. What about the working poor and the rest of the community?”

On the virtual dais, Mayor Cathy Murillo was most concerned with receiving public input, and she asked Gorin if the developers would be willing to hold a community meeting and take the revisions to the Architectural Board of Review.

Gorin said they intended to have the changes reviewed by the ABR, and they would hold a public presentation with questions rather than a community input meeting because if plans changed too much, it would have to go back through the planning process. But it is likely Murillo’s requests for more public participation will be in the list of terms.

“This is not a normal process, but this is not a normal project,” Friedman said.

“We now have something that tries to address the lack of affordable housing.”

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COLD CASE CLOSED: Former police officer Joseph James DeAngelo admitted he was the Golden State Killer at a plea-bargain hearing in Sacramento on Monday morning, pleading guilty to four murders and two rapes committed decades ago in Goleta.

the evidence needed to charge DeAngelo.

DeAngelo sat in a wheelchair at a table with his three attorneys, his mouth agape, responding to Judge Bowman’s questions in a quavering, hoarse voice: “Guilty … I admit.” DeAngelo and his attorneys wore clear face shields in the ballroom of Sacramento State University, which was converted to a courtroom to hold the victims, victims’ families, attorneys, and press present amid COVID distancing requirements.

The four at the defense table had their faces covered with face shields. Judge Bowman and the bailiffs wore black face coverings when not speaking.

DeAngelo is a former police officer, and Ho accused him of gaming the system, of “feigning feeble incoherence.” When DeAngelo was stopped for shoplifting a hammer and dog repellent in 1979, Ho said DeAngelo pretended to have a heart attack and then fought with store security. He screamed incoherently and wheeled maniacally in a chair, but DeAngelo later told detectives he’d acted crazy to avoid getting in trouble, said Ho. He was subsequently fired from the Auburn Police Department.

When DeAngelo was brought in for questioning in 2018, alone in the interview room, DeAngelo began to talk to himself, Ho said. DeAngelo was recorded saying he’d “done all those things” and stating he’d “pushed Jerry out and had a happy life. …

I did all those things. I destroyed all their lives.” The week earlier, Ho said DeAngelo had ridden his motorcycle on the highway, weaving in and out of traffic in “sophisti-

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cated” surveillance avoidance techniques.

He’d “vigorously” gardened and “jumped in and out of his truck” just hours before his arrest.

The procedures of the day included Bowman asking defense counsel if they concurred with the other attorneys’ statements. They did in every instance during the morning’s hearing.

The agreement included a sentencing hearing, scheduled to take place for the week of August 17-21, at which victim statements will be heard without limit to time or content. Santa Barbara’s District Attorney Joyce Dudley commented that she believed delaying DeAngelo’s admissions would be a case of “justice delayed is justice denied.” She expressed her thanks to Sacramento DA Amy Schubert and her staff ’s efforts in bringing justice to many of the victims and families, which “many of them rightfully believed … would never come.”

Cheri Domingo’s daughter, Debbi Domingo McMullan, is one of the victim family members who has spoken publicly about the murders, appearing in Michelle McNamara’s book I’ll Be Gone in the Dark — which dubbed DeAngelo the Golden State Killer — now made into a series streaming on video. McMullan tweeted, “We are in the home stretch” recently, and noted on June 16: “My mother, had she lived, would have turned 74 a few days ago.

Instead, her murderer has lived … to the same age. Rest in peace, Mom & Greg. It’s n almost over.”

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by Delaney Smith espite Santa Barbara’s reputation as a beachy, high-class tourist destination, two Grand Jury reports released last week call out the city and county for neglecting its own residents — homelessness and affordable housing shortages plague the picturesque community.

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“The City Council needs a change in vision,” the housing report states about the council’s “silence” on low-cost housing developments that have failed and the city’s lack of affordable housing. “It has spent recent years guarding the interests of certain residents and neglecting the diversity of people that the city celebrates.”

In¢ the separate report on homelessness, the hardships on workers and families seeking stable, affordable housing in Santa Barbara are intertwined with those who live on Santa Barbara’s streets — 76 percent of whom were residents of Santa Barbara County at the time they became homeless, making the city’s and county’s lack of affordable housing an impetus of its homelessness crisis. ¢ to the most recent January 2020 According Santa Barbara County Point-in-Time Count, 1,223 homeless individuals were counted, including 674 people living in emergency shelters or transitional housing. Most imagine a stereotypical person suffering from untreated mental illness or addiction as the average homeless person, but in fact, they make up 32 percentGOLETA of the county’s total homeless 5757 Hollister Ave population.

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they couldn’t afford — nearly half of those surveyed said it was their first time experiencing homelessness. Eleven percent of those on the county’s streets are veterans, and 40 percent of all 1,897 individuals are female. The county also has one of the highest rates of homeless children in the state. Of all school-aged children across the county, one in eight is considered homeless as defined by Kidsdata.org.

The report supports Housing First, a national program adopted by the state that aims to house the most vulnerable homeless people first and remove any barriers to shelter like sobriety requirements. But in a city where building enough housing for average working families is akin to fighting an uphill battle, building housing for people who are homeless can seem impossible.

The report highlights the strong opposition the community holds against homeless housing and architectural change in neighborhoods, despite the urgent need for more types of housing. It referenced two proposed affordable housing projects for downtown: the tiny homes project for the formerly homeless that was nixed after community opposition, and the workforce housing site that is being shot down by neighbors.

“Without the backing of city leaders, affordable housing is fiercely resisted,” the housing report states about the city’s lack of change and direction around affordable housing. The Grand Jury report on homelessness pointed to city and county leaders to educate and influence the public, too.

“Strong leadership from local government can go a long way toward alleviating the stigma of homelessness,” the report says. “Positive messaging on a consistent basis from local leaders and targeted neighborhood meetings that provide information and solicit input on specific development proposals could lay the groundwork.”

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our jail inmate deaths in 2019 are the subject of a new Santa Barbara County Grand Jury report that found lapses in protocol and “serious errors” by staff during three of the incidents. Two of the deaths were suicides.

Joseph Rose, 48, was booked at the County Jail on April 10, 2018, on burglary charges. Rose, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia and had a long history of “suicidal ideations,” the Grand Jury said, languished in custody for 14 months while his court date was delayed 25 times. Other inmates accused him of being a child molester, which he denied, and fights left him with a broken nose and broken eye sockets. Rose threatened TROUBLED HISTORY: Joseph Rose already had a long history of severe mental illness when he was arrested for suicide unless he was housed in a cell by burglary and booked into jail in April 2018. His condition himself. Before he could be moved, he worsened during the 14 months he waited for his case to be killed himself on June 25, 2019. heard. In June 2019, he committed suicide.

The Grand Jury found that Rose’s threats of suicide were not reported to a jail mental distress. It noted that while Johnson supervisor and he was not promptly moved had refused initial treatment attempts, no to a safety cell where he could be monitored. referral to a psychiatrist was made.

The third inmate death in 2019 involved a There was also a “significant date inaccuracy in both the Santa Barbara County Sheriff ’s man who had a long history of diabetes and letter [to the Grand Jury] and the Coroner’s heart problems. At the time of his arrest, he Report, giving the false impression that his was unable to walk. The Grand Jury said he incarceration was two months rather than should have been admitted to Cottage Hospital not booked in jail. He died of cardiac fourteen months.”

Isaiah Johnson, 23, was arrested on Octo- arrest on April 12. Two times that day, as his ber 19, 2019, on outstanding warrants for condition deteriorated and nurses offered burglary and failure to appear in court. “A care, the jail’s on-call doctor couldn’t be thorough review of prior booking assess- reached, the Jury noted. In the fourth death, ments would have revealed a history of drug the Jury found “no evidence of mistreatment use and suicidal ideations,” the report states. or negligence by any member of the custody On October 23, Johnson complained about staff.”

Last year, the Grand Jury investigated the withdrawal symptoms and was observed exhibiting “bizarre behavior.” On October 2018 suicide of jail inmate Alexander Braid. It accused the Sheriff ’s Office, which operates 31, he killed himself.

The Grand Jury found Johnson did not the jail, of obstructing its work and withholdreceive treatment upon his first complaints ing information. The Sheriff ’s Office has 60 of withdrawals and was housed in a cell not days to respond to the latest report.

—Tyler Hayden appropriate for someone in the throes of

Cannabis Grand Jury cont’d from p. 6 The report recommends that the Board of Supervisors:

• direct the county planning and development department director to prepare Environmental Impact Reports addressing each region of the county after holding public hearings to evaluate public concerns; • develop new project objectives for the environmental impact reports that reflect a balance between cannabis, traditional agriculture, and the residents of the county; • require all future ad hoc committees be open to the public and subject to the Brown Act; • develop standards that require the supervisors to publicly disclose all access granted to lobbying individuals or groups; • require all cannabis-related permit applications and licenses pending, who claim legal nonconforming status, to prove their claimed status; • require all future ordinances involving taxation include the treasurer-tax collector in its creation;

• suspend all unpermitted cannabis operations until proof of odor control is accepted by the Planning Commission; • establish, staff, and empower an independent ethics oversight commission for Board and its staff; • require supervisors to publicly disclose campaign contributions from donors who have matters pending before the board; • and require those members receiving such campaign contributions to recuse themselves from those matters or return the campaign contributions.

The Board of Supervisors has 90 days to respond to the report, which can be read in full at sbcgj.org/2020/Cannabis.pdf.

“The jury believes the Board of Supervisors, in their hubris, failed the people of Santa Barbara County,” the last line of the report reads. “Now they must amend the cannabis ordinances to regain the people’s trust.” n

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s Santa Barbara and the rest of California continue to grapple with an acute housing shortage, city leaders are once again fine-tuning the biggest tool in their toolbox to build more affordable units. This Tuesday, the Ordinance Com- Councilmembers Michael Jordan and Kristen Sneddon mittee made a set of recommended changes to the Average-size on most points, Sneddon and Jordan politely Unit Density (AUD) Program, which was butted heads over the height increase and open adopted in 2013 with the intention of incen- spaces. Sneddon worried that the three-foot tivizing rental projects that would fall within addition, which architects had argued would the price range of the region’s working class. allow for taller ceilings and make small units Instead, the program has mostly led to more feel less cramped, could again drive up price. high-end units that continue to push out the She also expressed concern about losing too much open ground to dense developments. “missing middle.”

Architect Brian Cearnal said 48 feet would The proposed changes focused on creating affordable housing in the downtown core, a also allow projects to reach four stories and strategy nearly all agree would reinvigorate therefore “pencil” for builders who might State Street by injecting much-needed energy otherwise balk at the investment. If he had his and capital. They included increasing the maxi- way, Cearnal said, he’d allow downtown housmum building height in the area from 45 to 48 ing developments to reach 60 feet tall, which feet, eliminating open yard requirements for is permitted for projects that are designated AUD projects between Chapala and Anacapa as a “community benefit,” such as the recently streets, allowing parking to be leased separately approved, five-story mental-health housing from housing, and reducing parking require- project slated for West Anapamu Street.

The Planning Commission had previously ments to a maximum of one on-site space per given its approval of the proposed changes. The unit.

While the Ordinance Committee—com- discussion will continue when they are heard posed of councilmembers Oscar Gutierrez, by the full City Council in the coming weeks.

—Tyler Hayden Kristen Sneddon, and Michael Jordan—agreed

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by Melinda Burns this money the first time around, igning off on a historic deal with and they never used it, and they its wealthiest — and thirstiturned it off. The second time, est — neighbor, the Santa Barthey were in a desperate situation, and no environmental group bara City Council on Tuesday voted 6-0 to ship a supply of the would have been willing to say we city’s drinking water to Montecito every shouldn’t be doing it.” year for the next 50 years, rain or shine.

Redmond cites city data showIn return, under a Water Supply ing that running at current capacAgreement to be concluded in August, ity, the electricity required to filter the Montecito Water District has agreed and treat ocean water to drinkingto fund 46 percent, or $33 million, of water standards at Santa Barbara’s the city’s $72 million desalination plant plant has increased the total energy use in city-owned facilities by 50 through 2072, plus interest and a share percent. of operation and maintenance costs.

Haggmark prefers to compare “This truly is exemplary of a mutually beneficial agreement,” Mayor electrical use at the plant to electrical use throughout the city, includPro Tempore Kristen Sneddon said ing at homes and businesses: The on Tuesday. “It really speaks to our strengthening our resilience, our water DESAL DEAL: The Montecito Water District has agreed to fund $33 million of Santa Barbara’s $72 million desalination plant through plant represents only 4 percent 2072, plus interest and a share of operation and maintenance costs, as part of a deal that would supply Montecito with a share of the city’s of the total. In October 2021, the quality, and our water supply.” city plans to switch to 100 perThe district’s initial payments to the drinking water for the next 50 years. city will be $4.6 million annually for cent renewable power through a In an interview, Josh Haggmark, the city’s water resources city-run Community Choice Energy program; when that 1,430 acre-feet of water. That’s 46 percent of current plant capacity and enough water to meet nearly 40 percent of Mon- manager, said the agreement with Montecito does allow the happens, Haggmark said, greenhouse gas emissions from tecito’s customer demand. city to operate its desalination plant in standby mode — at a desalination will drop nearly to zero.

Desalination provides the surplus that is available for sale, savings to the city of about $2 million yearly — so long as the but under the agreement, the city can supply Montecito with city can supply Montecito with water from other sources.

“This agreement leaves the city with the ultimate flexibility The question of desalination as a short- or long-term supply water from any source. The district will raise rates through 2025 to help pay for the project, and the water will start flow- on how we want to operate,” he said, adding that the city may will come up again on July 28, when the City Council considchoose to “pivot” from desalination to potable recycled water ers whether to accept a $10 million state grant for the plant. ing on January 1, 2022.

The council, with Councilmember Meagan Harmon in the future.

The problem, as critics see it, is that the city would have to absent, hailed the agreement as a coming to fruition of the “I don’t believe any of the investments we’re making here commit to operating the plant at full capacity during 36 of regional partnerships that began to form in the early 1990s, today are taking away any opportunities the next 40 years to qualify for when the city built — and then mothballed — its original we may have in the future,” Haggmark the grant. desalination plant in the wake of a six-year drought. told the council.

“The community has been For now, Haggmark said, the desali“We are going to be in drought cycles from here on out,” sold that the desal plant was Councilmember Eric Friedman said. “This really does us nation plant is operating at full capacto be our drought buffer,” City allow us flexibility.” ity, meeting 30 percent of the city’s water Water Commissioner Dave And, he said, it’s a local water supply. In 1991, countywide demand. By relying equally on desaliDavis wrote in a letter to the voters approved the construction of a state aqueduct branch nated water and reservoir supplies, the mayor and City Council last to Lake Cachuma, a $575 million project to import water from city hopes to help bring back groundmonth.

Northern California. During the recent statewide drought water basins that were depleted by heavy The Water Commission of 2012 to 2018, the aqueduct supply dropped to 5 percent of pumping during the drought, Haggmark voted 3-1 on May 21 to recomwhat member agencies were entitled to. Faced with shortages, said. mend that the city accept the the Montecito Water District was forced to impose strict Once the basins have been replenished grant. Davis called the state’s rationing and heavy penalties for over-watering. by rains and Cachuma spills again — it operating condition a “poison But Kira Redmond, executive director of Santa Barbara hasn’t spilled since 2011 — the city can pill” and voted no.

Channelkeeper, a nonprofit environmentalist group, objected idle its desalination plant, Haggmark RAIN OR SHINE: S.B. Channelkeeper Executive “I don’t believe the public has to the agreement with Montecito on Tuesday. She told the said. The agreement with Montecito, he Director Kira Redmond objected to the agreement with had adequate input or say in council that it would keep the plant running, year in and year said, is “insured by ‘desal,’ like the gold in Montecito, saying it would keep the plant running, making this decision,” he said. year in and year out, in contradiction of the city’s out, in contradiction of the city’s longstanding policy that Fort Knox as the ultimate backup,” but it longstanding policy that desalination is for drought Haggmark wants to use the desalination is for drought emergencies only. grant in part to construct a doesn’t represent a change in city policy. emergencies only.

“You’re effectively making the decision to continue to Santa Barbara’s original desalination $10 million pipeline to convey operate your ‘desal’ facility at full capacity indefinitely, or plant cost $34 million. It was operated for only three months desalinated water from the plant to the Mission, and from worse, to expand its capacity to produce even more water in 1992, then dismantled when the weather turned wet and there through existing lines to Montecito. The pipeline proj… regardless of whether this water is even needed or makes both Goleta and Montecito dropped out as potential partners. ect was approved 6-0 by the City Council on Tuesday; conWhen the city began to reactivate the old plant in the depths struction is expected to begin in September. The Montecito economic sense,” Redmond said.

In an interview, Redmond said the city should put the of the recent drought, Channelkeeper was the only environ- Water District has agreed to pay 65 percent of the cost if and plant in standby mode. The city’s 2011 Long-Term Water mentalist group to sound a note of caution, warning that when the city decides to expand its desalination plant.

Supply Plan, she said, states that the city’s desalination plant is desalination was energy intensive and hard on marine life.

Haggmark says that accepting the state grant is a business “a back-up for potential prolonged drought.” Channelkeeper, “Other communities that didn’t have a desalination plant decision, not a decision on the long-term operation of the Redmond said, promotes the use of potable recycled water, started developing recycled water and stormwater capture, plant or the role of desalinated water in the city. If necesor wastewater that is treated to drinking-water standards, as and we didn’t do that,” Redmond said this week. “This desal sary, he said, the city can repay the grant money to the state n a better alternative. plant has been kind of an egg on the city’s face. They spent all someday.

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TICK-TOCK: “Life’s a beach and then you die.”

I always hated that line—now more than ever, since it accurately depicts the increased risk we face as Santa Barbara enters the Fourth of July weekend, if we keep our beaches wide open.

The hot-potato issue of beach closures got unceremoniously sprung on the Santa Barbara City Council’s lap this Tuesday. Even so, the vote was close enough to eke out a 3-3 tie. But under council protocol, a tie doesn’t go to the baserunner; unless you affirmatively win, you lose.

In shying away from making what would have been yet another historically unprecedented decision — who in their right mind would want to shut down Santa Barbara’s beaches on the Fourth? — councilmembers relied on the advice of county health officers, who insist there’s no evidence that COVID-tainted droplets are transmitted in open air. In this case, I’d say the public health officers gave all the right answers, but to all the wrong questions.

I am hoping there is time enough for cooler heads to change their minds. And if not them, then bolder ones.

Here’s the deal. Los Angeles and Ventura Counties have just shut down their beaches for the Fourth. That leaves Santa Barbara County—and all our wonderful beaches—as the escape of choice for the teeming millions living to our south seeking respite.

“It’s going to be a scourge of tourists,” councilmember Kristen Sneddon notso-delicately put it this Tuesday. Sneddon alluded to all the usual facts and figures that indicate California’s COVID numbers are off the charts in terms of new cases, new hospital admissions, new ICU admissions, and, most importantly, the strained capacity of the state’s medical infrastructure.

Santa Barbara County’s numbers are not remotely that bad, but they’re not remotely good enough either. We’ve been on the “watch list” for state public-health officials for a reason. Our number of active cases per 100,000 people is significantly higher than what public health gurus think it should be.

Our active case count is 122.5 out of 100,000.

The state’s action threshold is 112.

Yes, we are testing much more than ever— in fact, people now have to wait eight very long days to get their test results. Santa Barbara’s rate for positive test results, it should be noted, is higher than the statewide average. We’re at 6.1 percent, and the rest of the state is at 5.9. (That number two weeks ago, by the way, was 4.1 percent.)

Not to gild the lily here, but New England states now require visitors from California to self-quarantine for 14 days upon arrival.

The European Union won’t allow Americans to visit at all.

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in calling for beach closures; they expressed alarm that face-mask rules and other socialdistancing measures have been either nonexistent or utterly ineffective since State Street became a pedestrian promenade more than a month ago.

Making the case against beach closures were senior county administrators Barney Melekian and Nancy Anderson. Melekian hammered home the lack of evidence that beaches are a vector for the virus. He is, of course, totally correct.

But Melekian’s argument seems dangerously beside the point. I’m not as worried about people getting sick at the beach, where there tends to be an abundance of fresh air.

I worry more about people getting sprayed when all those Fourth of July visitors hit the downtown bars and restaurants. Droplets tend to fan out in wider profusion in tightly packed, close-quartered establishments where patrons shout to be heard and sizable concentrations of alcohol tend to be consumed.

That’s the vector of transmission that needs to be short-circuited. Not the waves.

And we know that people are coming and they’re booking rooms in local hotels. Last weekend, city hotels boasted a 61 percent occupancy rate. According to Visit Santa Barbara, 50 out of 80 hotels and motels are accepting reservations.

Rates, we are told, are pretty high, with

some places requiring two- to three-night bookings.

Not to bag on visitors — who keep so many of us employed either directly or indirectly— but they tend to be less inclined to wear face masks when out in public. When you’re on vacation, you’re on vacation from everything.

The county’s track record here is not reassuring. For example, county health officials actively fought a face-mask ordinance for three weeks before capitulating to common sense.

Even now, as our new infection counts hit the 80s and 90s, county health officers gave the green light to massage therapy, nail salons, tattoo parlors, and genital piercers.

But early this week, Governor Gavin Newsom forced Santa Barbara County— technically, it was only a recommendation— to reverse course and shut down its bars.

I would suggest it’s too late to get the bar genie back in the bottle. Exempt from this bar closure edict are all establishments that serve “dine-in” food. That’s pretty much all 27 of them. In the past month, all downtown bars secured permits to serve food — if only pickles, pretzels, and cheese— from the state’s Alcohol Control Board. Good luck telling them they can’t stay open.

Happy Fourth. Drink lots of sunscreen.

And of course, wear a mask.

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he recent rapid spread of COVID-19 means we should all strive to increase use of the three main prevention strategies of physical distancing, handwashing, and face covering.

Our increased knowledge of the virus shows that covering one’s face is essential. This fact is reflected in California’s requirement that face coverings be used in any public setting where physical distance cannot be assured. The new car-free zone of State Street is such a place.

We counted people using face coverings outside on State Street, and the results are encouraging — but we have a long way to go.

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isten up, you who go to Yale instead of jail.

Listen up, you who count your relatives on the Mayflower.

Listen up, you who when your sheets are dirty sleep in other bedrooms until the maid comes.

Listen up, you who think your pronunciation and grammar give you entrance privileges.

Listen up, you who think you can drive without knowing how to back up.

The landlord is about to change the locks.

Listen up.

—Patty Look Lewis, S.B. Your lease is up.

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I The crowds on State Street have increased substantially. The percentage of persons using face coverings is edging up but is not keeping pace.

This means more interactions posing risks of transmission.

Face masks are easy to make, low-cost, effective, and easy to use. They effectively decrease the risk of aerosols that can travel farther than six feet.

Countries most effective in reducing the spread of COVID-19 have implemented universal face covering.

We need to increase our coverage. There are strategies proven to improve compliance with public health regulations. A consistent message from all levels of government would help.

Enforcement may be another useful tool but should be undertaken in an equitable and fair manner, without imposing undue burdens. We should consider starting such efforts now because when a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available, we will face similar challenges in trying to convince vaccine skeptics to protect themselves and their communities.

—Dr. Daniel B. Fishbein and Ben Pettit, S.B.

grew up around police officers who were friends and colleagues of my dad. He was “on the job” for 33 years, a superior officer, in every sense, with the NYPD. I think I know something about good cops, effective policing, and fine character.

I have met and spoken with Jim Thomas, a former sheriff now seeking a seat on Solvang’s City Council. He has been doing public relations for a big oil company trying to ramp up operations here in our midst. This is an effort that, if successful, would jeopardize our attraction as a tourist destination.

And Jim has expressed deeply insensitive racial views about a tragic police incident in New York.

This does not speak well for his judgment in these socially fraught but hopeful times.

Furthermore, he has been quick to cry “socialism” when criticizing folks who seek to grow a safe and renewable energy economy here in our county, while preserving our health and environment.

Does Solvang really want him on the City Council?

—Seth Steiner, Los Alamos

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his brothers, Frank Harding (La Jolla) and Jeffrey Harding (Santa Barbara), and nephew Matthew Harding.

John became afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease and resided at Oak Cottage in Santa Barbara when he passed away. The family wishes to thank his caregiver Tavo Moreno for his kind and loving care. A celebration of John will be held in the future.

10/9/1937 - 6/13/2020

Daniel Francis Higgins John Harding was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts to Franklin H. Harding, Jr. and Elsie Ruth Harding (Gens). Both parents were graduates of Boston University Law School. His father practiced law in Boston until his death in 1946. After living in the Boston area and then in Augusta, Georgia, his mother moved him and his two brothers to La Jolla, California in 1950. John attended La Jolla Jr.-Sr. High School and graduated in 1956. It was in La Jolla where John took up his lifelong passion for surfing, mainly at Windansea. Surfing called John to Santa Barbara and UCSB where he could surf the Rincon, Hammonds, and Campus Point. At UCSB John pledged SAE. He also met his future wife there, Maylo Lewis, whom he wed in 1960. John earned his BA degree from UCSB in 1961.

John and Maylo stayed in Santa Barbara, where eventually John became involved in real estate, first as a broker, then as appraiser, and as an investor. John became a Member of the Appraisal Institute, earning the coveted title of an MAI qualified appraiser. John was well known in the real estate community, first as a member of the Board of Realtors, then as member and president of the Society of Real Estate Appraisers in Santa Barbara. John became an expert in appraising Montecito and Hope Ranch properties and was often called as an expert witness in litigation matters.

John and Maylo raised two children, Christopher (1963) and Jill (1970) in their home in Montecito. John’s first love was surfing, but he also became an avid skier, tennis player, and golfer. Often family vacations revolved around his love of surfing and skiing which was passed down to his children. In the early ‘60s he was a member of the Hollister Ranch surf club and spent many weekends surfing there. John, always looking for the perfect board, would make his own boards, then made of balsa wood. Then he met Rennie Yater who made many boards for him over the years. He and Maylo made many trips to their favorite place, Hawaii. John was a member of Knowlwood Tennis Club (president), Birnam Wood Golf Club, and supported the Montecito YMCA (board member).

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2/24/1946 - 6/22/2020

Daniel Francis Higgins died of cancer and of cancer treatment in the early morning of June 22, 2020, in Santa Barbara, California.

Dan was born in Decatur, Illinois, on February 24, 1946, the eldest of the five children of John Higgins and Jane Shaw Higgins. He excelled as both a student and an athlete during his primary and secondary schooling, and was proud of his academic achievements and his position on his high school football team. Dan continued his education at the University of Illinois (Champaign) and, in 1968, he received a B.S. degree in Engineering Physics. He then moved to California to study at the California Institute of Technology (Cal Tech) from which he received an M.S. in Physics degree in 1970. After graduation, he entered the United States Air Force with the rank of First Lieutenant and served his country as a research scientist at the Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Upon honorable discharge in 1972, he accepted a position in Santa Barbara at Mission Research Corporation where he was engaged in research on electromagnetic effects. Some years later, he worked at JAYCOR, another research company. The final phase of Dan’s career involved a very different kind of scientific work.

He accepted a position at UCSB at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. He worked at NCEAS for seven years before retiring and took delight in meeting researchers from around the world and learning about the ecological issues they were investigating.

In 1974, Dan met Jo-Ann Shelton on a Sierra Club hike at Figueroa Mountain. They were married on June 21, 1975, and enjoyed 45 very happy years together. Dan and Jo-Ann shared a love of animals and found joy in caring for a large menagerie, including dogs and cats (all “rescues”), horses, a pig and a chicken.

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about their animal companions, especially about the amazing intelligence of his Arabian horse, Sur Neetar, and the exploits of Stella the pig.

Dan and Jo-Ann also shared a love of travel and adventure. They travelled extensively throughout Europe, and to Greenland, Australia, Morocco, Indonesia, Costa Rica, New Zealand, Egypt and many other places. All their experiences were positive. Everywhere they went, they met kind and helpful people. Their favorite location (besides Santa Barbara, of course) was Rome, and they made frequent visits to the Eternal City. During their most recent sojourn, they rented an apartment near Campo di Fiori and right across the street from a favorite restaurant, Da Pancrazio.

Dan recommends their Bucatini all’Amatriciana.

Dan loved trail rides with his beloved Sur Neetar, discussing current events, snorkeling at the Great Barrier Reef, walking the dogs at Wilcox, and attending the productions of Ensemble Theater and SBCC Theater Group. He disliked narrow-mindedness and dishonesty.

Dan cherished the friendships of the YMCA Tai Chi group, and Jo-Ann is very grateful for their support during the difficult period of his illness, made even more difficult by the Covid restrictions which prevented hospital visits and social contact. The restrictions are sensible and necessary, but they do make patients and their families feel very isolated.

Nonetheless the staff at Cottage Hospital – nurses, doctors, aides, technicians, counsellors – do an outstanding job of caring for patients and their families during these challenging times. Also deserving of heartfelt thanks are Yellow Cab driver, Hernan, and our wonderful neighbors, Barry and Sue, Kathy, David and Vicki.

Dan was slow to anger and quick to forgive. He was a kind, strong, honest, funny, tolerant, and wise man. And he was the very best of husbands.

Dan is survived by his brothers Timothy, Patrick (and wife Donna), and Kelly, his sister Rena Leake (and husband Dave), his sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Maxine and Kimber Hasselriis, and several nieces and nephews.

He was predeceased just a few weeks ago by Kelly’s wife, Donna Libby.

Always proud of his Irish heritage, Dan wanted his death to be commemorated with a wake.

Since Covid restrictions preclude large social gatherings, the wake will be postponed. In the near future, a Zoom memorial may be arranged.

If you wish to make a charitable donation in Dan’s memory, please consider VNA Health, 512 E. Gutierrez Street, Santa Barbara, 93103, or PAWS (Performing Animal Welfare Society), P.O. Box 849, Galt, Ca 95632.

George T. Chelini

6/18/1931 - 6/17/2020

With great sorrow in our hearts, we are saddened to announce the passing of George T. Chelini.

George, born and raised in Santa Barbara, CA died in his sleep, June 17, 2020, one day shy of his 89th birthday.

George lead an honorable life, always leading by example, with his wife of 45 years, Margie, by his side. His children, Karen, Marilyn, Eric, Remy and step daughter Polly feel blessed to have George as their role model. Additionally, George’s 10 grandchildren, Tony, Gina, Mychal, Vincent, Ariana, Kyra, Cole, Niccolas & Melissa and great-grandchildren Isabella and Vincent will miss their Grandpa immensely. Stepson Dan and Granddaughter Michaela, preceded in death, will light the way for George’s final journey. George also leaves behind two sisters, Margaret and Millie, a brother Ed, and a multitude of nieces, nephews and cousins.

George, a native of Santa Barbara, was one of seven children.

After graduating from Santa Barbara High, George entered the US Air Force and served time during the Korean War in Okinawa, Japan and South Korea. George, honorably discharged, returned home and attended UCSB, earning a Bachelor degree. Shortly after, George met his first wife and had 4 children.

George started his illustrious career with the Boys Club of Santa Barbara (now known as Boys & Girls Clubs) in 1955, working in the library. George earned his way to Executive Director of Goleta Boys Club in 1958. George stayed at the Goleta Club until 1975, creating many groundbreaking programs like a Baseball League before Little League; Day Camp, so working parents had a place to send their kids; Football League; Basketball League, fondly known as the “Tomahawk League." because George loved playing and watching basketball, and many more unique programs that benefited both members and staff.

During this time, the 60s-70s, George ran and was elected to the Goleta Union School District School Board, first as a member, then as President. Girls at that time were grateful for one of George’s many contributions, allowing females to wear pants to school!

In 1975, George and his mentor, Gordon Wormal, formed the United Boys Club and George was named Executive Director of the United Boys Club. Through George’s efforts, Santa Barbara, Goleta, Westside, Carpentaria, Lompoc, and Camp Whittier, were brought under the umbrella of United Boys Club, which George was CEO from 1975 to 1993.

George briefly retired only to returned to United in order to find a suitable replacement for him.

The obvious choice was, someone who was always by George’s side, starting in the early days of Goleta Boys Club, Sal Rodriguez.

In retirement, George enjoyed traveling to the Southwest with his wife, and collecting art from many of the sights they enjoyed together.

Even several bouts of stomach cancer never stopped George.

George always looked forward to spending time with his children and his many grandchildren.

George was passionate about photography and would take pictures of the Santa Barbara coast, his grandkids, and anything that caught his eye. George became very skilled in the ancient Japanese art of flower arranging, Ikebana. As an adept photographer, George would arrange the flowers, take pictures, print and frame his works of art. Family always treasured George's original art.

A Celebration of George's Life TBD at a future date. In lieu of flowers, you may donate to the George T. Chelini Memorial Fund through the United Boys and Girls Clubs, PO Box 1485, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Mark Lincoln Torrey 7/26/1961 - 6/7/2020

On June 7, 2020, Mark Lincoln Torrey, loving son, brother, friend and partner was lost to cancer at The Serenity House.

Mark was born in Santa Maria on July 26, 1961 and was raised in Santa Barbara, where he attended local schools. As a youth, he participated in Indian Guides, Cub Scouts, and 4-H, raising market lambs. Another joy was being on his horse. Mark worked for many years with his father in the family business, Mission Hardware, and moved up to the Santa Ynez Valley, where he was able to return to his love of horses, leasing a few ranches and training facilities. For the past several years, Mark lived and worked at Cielo Celeste Farm, where he enjoyed dear friendships and a bucolic, happy life.

Mark was a true friend to many; he was extraordinary in literally making friends everywhere he went and endeared himself to many. He will be greatly missed by all. Mark is survived by his mother, Marilyn Torrey, siblings David Torrey, Lorilee Torrey and Karen Sloan, sister-in-law Lisa, as well as extended family. Mark was preceded in death by his father, Jay Torrey.

We wish to thank Serenity House and Mark’s dear friend and partner, Paul Keenan, for Mark’s wonderful care along with Cielo Celeste Farm, especially in the last few months of his life.

The immediate family gathered for a graveside service at the Goleta Cemetery.

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George Chelini 1931-2020

BY S A L R O D R I G U E Z y mentor and good friend,

George Chelini, passed away on Wednesday, June 17, 2020. He would have been 89 the next day. He was my friend and did excellent work with the United Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County.

I first met George in 1956. He was a young man who had just graduated from UCSB and got a part-time job in the library at the Santa Barbara Boys Club. My family moved to Goleta in 1957, and I joined the Goleta Boys Club. In 1958, George became the executive director, and that was the start of our lifelong friendship.

One evening, George got a group of us together and asked if we were planning on going to college. We started to laugh — some of us didn’t know what college meant, and most of us were trying to get to high school and hopefully graduate. I never forgot that meeting, and for me, the seed was planted about going to college.

I’m sure George had that conversation with many other members.

In 1959, George hired me as a Day Camp counselor. He paid me one dollar an hour, and for once in my life, I had a little bit of money in my pocket. The Goleta Club was DEEPLY INVOLVED: George Chelini, who ran the Goleta Boys Club and located at the airport in a T-shaped buildthe United Boys & Girls Clubs from 1958-1993, was a big, positive influing. The building lease ran out, so George ence on the kids. and his committee talked the Goleta Union School District into leasing the lot behind the school At the time, I wanted to buy a new car, and George on Hollister Avenue. He then spearheaded the drive agreed to co-sign for me. I bought a brand-new Chevy to build the new clubhouse at its present location at Nova for $2,500. In 1975, when George left for United 5701 Hollister Avenue. George remained executive Boys Clubs, he took a chance on me and promoted director until 1975 and developed more programs and me to Unit Director. made more accomplishments during that time than George formed the United Boys Clubs that year I have space to list here. Among them were a baseball with Gordon Wormal. Gordon soon retired, and league, before Little League, with 600 players playing George was named executive director. He brought in summer ball; a basketball league; a Day Camp; tutors all the clubs, and we all reported to him until he retired from UCSB; a weight room; Christmas and Thanks- in 1993. During that time, George built a very strong giving dinners for club members; and part-time jobs board and acquired Camp Whittier and the Lompoc for teenage members. (Go to independent.com/chelini Boys Club. He raised so much money he was able to for the full story.) build up the Endowment for the United Boys & Girls I worked part-time for George while I was in high Clubs and the Santa Barbara Boys & Girls Clubs. He school and at Santa Barbara City College. In 1964, I made sure that all of our members were provided with went off to Fresno State. Before I left, I visited George, a safe environment.

George Chelini was ahead of his time regarding and his parting words were, “If you ever get in trouble and need help, call me.” In 1968, I had two months of endowment building. He was well known at a national school left and my car broke down; I didn’t have any level and was invited to speak to other Boys & Girls money. I called George and explained the situation. Club professionals. George knew every important He asked me how much I needed to finish the year, person in Santa Barbara, Goleta, and Carpinteria, and and I said $200, which he sent. It got me through the especially people in Montecito.

Two years ago, Ben Howland called me and said final semester.

I tell this story because I was just one young man that we ought to thank George with a barbeque. We he helped, and there were many others. I was talking had alumni coming from Chicago, Arizona, New to my sister, and I asked her how we got through our Mexico, Sweden, Sacramento, Fresno, Bakersfield, home life. Her response: “You were never home; you and all over California. It turned out to be a very fun were always at the Goleta Boys Club.” George saved day. George called me and Ben a few days later and invited us to his beach house, where again he thanked my butt.

In 1968, after I graduated, George Chelini hired me us. as the athletic director, but I was drafted into the U.S. George Chelini had a big, positive impact on the Army. George tried to get me out by appealing to the kids growing up in Santa Barbara County. He was a draft board, saying that I was working with under- true Boys & Girls Club professional. I owe whatever privileged kids. It didn’t go very far. I worked for two success I have had to that gentleman, George Chelini. weeks at the club and then was off to the army. I ended RIP, my friend. up in Vietnam in 1969, and while I was there, George My condolences to his family: his wife, Margie; wrote me a letter saying that I still had my job back if children Karen, Marilyn, Eric, and Remy; stepdaughn ter, Polly; and all the grandchildren.

I wanted it. I came back in 1970.

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Robert Paul Dominguez 10/17/1927 - 6/10/2020

Robert Paul Dominguez, fondly known to all as “Budgie”, was a loving husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather, brother, uncle, and friend. On the evening of June 10, 2020, he passed away peacefully at his home surrounded by his family.

Born October 17, 1927, to Paul and Mary Dominguez, Budgie lived a vibrant and active 92 years. He was married to the love of his life Betty (Romero) Dominguez for 67 years and together they built a large family of 6 children, 9 grandchildren, and 8 great grandchildren.

Budgie left a lasting impression amongst the Santa Barbara community. He was a Santa Barbara Native and a proud tribal member of the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians. He was active in the Chumash Community and served on several committees. At the time of his passing, he was one of the oldest living Elders.

He was deeply committed to his family and has left them with many fond memories to remember him by. He often led the family convoy of RV’s when going on a camping trip; loved playing the family’s favorite card game, Scat; enjoyed backyard bbqs; took numerous road trips to National Parks and Monuments; explored Native American country in New Mexico and Arizona; went river rafting with his grandchildren; and traveled to attend his grandchildren’s baseball and softball games.

These are just a handful of the many memories our family has.

He had a passion for outdoor sports and activities. He looked forward to going on the annual boys’ salmon fishing trip to Alaska. He couldn’t wait for fishing season to open up in the High Sierras; his favorite place to fish was Crowley Lake. He would stay there all day waiting to catch the big one but often ended up being the net boy. He INDEPENDENT.COM

hunted deer in the back mountains of Santa Barbara. Up until the age of 89, he took an annual deer hunting trip to Wyoming.

His children will never forget his ongoing support in their sporting activities growing up.

He spent many years coaching his 3 sons’ baseball teams at the Goleta Boy’s Club; he rooted them on during basketball, baseball, and football games at Dos Pueblos High School; he served as President of the Booster Club and was instrumental in getting a new baseball dugout built. He attended his daughters’ baton competitions and watched them march in local parades. He instilled a love of the outdoors at a young age by taking us on camping trips to the Pendola and Red Rock.

He was a man of many hobbies and always had a way to keep himself busy. He was a collector of sports cards and memorabilia. He often traveled to various sports cards shows to sell items from his collection and would typically go back home with more items than what he left home with. Another hobby he had was to create “Welcome Rocks” by installing decorative tiles into large rocks, which could be used as garden décor. He enjoyed seeing the fruits of labor around town and in the gardens of his family and friends.

Dad was always a hard worker. He proudly served in the United States Navy from 19451948. He was a member of the Laborers International Union of North America and was employed by several local construction companies throughout the years. Although he worked tirelessly, he was always there for his children. He retired at the young age of 50 and was able to spend the remainder of his life doing what he loved.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Paul and Mary Dominguez; his brother, Manuel Dominguez; and his eldest son, Paul Dominguez, who passed away from cancer in February of this year.

He is survived by his loving wife of 67 years, Betty; his children Gloria Dominguez of Santa Barbara, David (Tamra) of Mesquite, Nv. Don (Deolinda) of Buellton, Ca. Anna Shinkwin (Mike) of Parker, Co. Rose Mainhardt (Jim) of Buellton, Ca. and daughter-in-law Diana Dominguez of Las Vegas, Nv. Nine grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren. He is also survived by brothers, David Dominguez, Richard Valencia, and Alex Valencia. Sisters Barbara Holguin, and Carmelita Cordero, in addition to many nieces and nephews.

Budgie had a kind and gentle spirit. He was a simple man who was loved by many. He will truly be missed and will always be remembered. A Celebration of Life will be held at a later date.

Please email gjdominguez@ yahoo.com if you’d like additional information.

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MICHAEL ARNTZ May 27, 1939 - June 2, 2020

“I want to make a statement in clay” - Michael Arntz

Commenting on the placement of his work at the Esther Bear Gallery, Montecito, Michael said ‘placement in the outside environment is what interests me. Nature is my inspiration. I am equally interested in the way my pieces relate to the environment and the environment to each piece.’ Michael will be remembered as one of the pioneers in Southern California’s 20th Century Modern trail-blazing list of craftspeople and designers. In high fire stoneware, porcelain and Raku he created an extensive body of small and monumental work.

Each thrown piece or sculpture embodies a freedom of form and zest for experimentation with his distinctive style and energized strength.

His interests expanded to multi-piece pit fired ceramic ‘wall systems’, to ceremonial

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fetish clay pieces with feather and bone, to big porcelain luster glazed cover jars, a stoneware series of 50 ‘particles of the universe’ exhibited at Fermi Lab Chicago, to clay books of all sizes, to fabricated stones used as soup bowls, to fiberglass masks and tribal referenced fiberglass decorative shirts, to intricate large scale watercolors, to color photography particularly of the Sedgwick Ranch and the UC’s Nature Reserve System.

Long before retiring from 38 years at UCSB, having achieved the status of Professor Emeritus, he was a member of his Oklahoma Northwest Classen High School’s wrestling and football teams. As a valued linebacker and pulling guard he went on to land a place on Santa Monica City College’s 1958 Junior College National Champion Team. The final championship game was played at the filled to the brim Rose Bowl. Because of his football scholarships he was able to pursue his growing passion for clay at Long Beach State University achieving a post graduate MFA degree. Time with Dave Cressey of Architectural Pottery blended in with his academic studies, as he created countless unsigned large textured planters by throwing huge 75 pounds of clay on a potter’s wheel.

He was sought out and offered a position at UCSB. Seeing the massive ceramic studio with its walk-in kilns, the nearby lagoon and ocean cemented the deal. Over his 38 years there he influenced countless students many of whom have written the family heart warm-

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ing tributes at his passing. He loved his undergraduate and graduate students, loved mentoring and challenging them and feeling pride in their success.

He loved fly fishing, tying flies and making split bamboo fly rods.

He loved lobster fishing on his 26’ Wilson ‘Coquille’. He felt inspiration from Native American and African Art. He loved to anchor his boat off Goleta Beach and swim in to faculty meetings with his clothes held high.

He enjoyed designing and building two family homes. He loved back packing and canoeing with UCSB colleagues and family in most of the west’s trout streams and National Parks.

His wife Penny, their son Chris (wife Kristin and eight-month-old Hunter), their daughter Rebecca (husband Dan and two adult children Ciel and Danny), and their daughter Michele (husband Eric and two adult children Chloe and Spencer of Portland OR) are planning an inclusive celebration of Michael’s well lived life when the virus climate allows.

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LADIES WHO LAUNCH: Sara Rotman of Busy Bee’s Organics describes the challenges and benefits of cannabis cultivation at Women First, an agricultural think tank session for and by women.

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n 1984, during the heart of the historic farm crisis that

swept across much of the nation, it was impossible to turn on the television without witnessing the fallout of an industry brought to its knees seemingly overnight.

Through a perfect storm of government policy, distressing weather conditions, and high interest rates, farmland value had dropped a monstrous 60 percent in some parts of the Midwest, while farm debt soared to over $215 billion.

Images of men with hats in their hands gazing over foreclosure signs flooded the networks. Journalists spoke grimly about the mental-health impact on male farmers, reporting on the spiraling number of suicides, homicides, and cases of domestic violence. The year had ushered in a grim portrait of America’s heartland, and U.S. farming as we once knew it seemed poised for a seismic shift.

Mushrooming out of the shadows of fiercely private communities, that change came in the form of the underacknowledged female farmer. Once thought to play little more than a supportive role in the agro-industry, these women led the charge toward operational changes, implementing viable solutions that would effectively help to curtail a burgeoning crisis.

“Many farm women had experienced the first-hand implications of 1970s-style agriculture: the dangers of borrowing large amounts of money, the costs of purchasing expensive inputs, and the constant stress of being on this treadmill to ruin,” wrote author Mark Friedberger in Agricultural History: American Rural and Farm Women in Historical Perspective. “They knew this was no way to farm and they made sure their husbands knew it, too.”

Agricultural historians would call this era “the time of female transformation,” with farm communities adopting

a more egalitarian approach to leadership that would reap tangible benefits in the decades to come. “Farm women and their allies brought a fresh impetus to the difficult task of working through problems previously addressed by males behind closed doors,” added Friedberger. “[They] had a decisive impact on power relationships on and off the farm, and also steered the farm community toward new attitudes about farming and the land.”

According to the United States Department of Agriculture’s latest census, women now make up 36 percent of all reported U.S. farmers — a 27 percent increase from 2012. California itself boasts a top-five position in the number of female producers, and in Santa Barbara County, that diversity adds up to an agricultural landscape as wide-ranging as the $1 billionplus industry itself.

“Just take a look around our farmers’ market,” said Noey Turk of Yes Yes Nursery. “It’s probably the most diverse and balanced group of farmers you’ll ever encounter, with some of the most inspiring women I’ve ever met.”

Like Turk, many of these women have come from a storied lineage of agricultural producers, shifting with both literal and figurative climates to adapt to an ever-evolving market. Others, like Anna deLaski of Solminer vineyards, are newcomers lured in by the prospect of connecting to the land in a lasting and impactful way. And some, like Sara Rotman of Busy Bee’s Organics, turned to farming out of sheer necessity, cultivating medicinal plants to help alleviate severe ailments.

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Santa Barbara County’s agro women forged ahead, adjusting their

approaches to reflect a fast-changing crisis much like their predecessors had done almost four decades earlier. Farmers with wildly diverse productions described similar challenges or sources of inspiration: agricultural teachings to help fuel the industry for generations to come. I asked them to offer up a little occupational wisdom, and their answers read more like life lessons than formulaic business advice.

FIVE LIFE AND BUSINESS LESSONS FROM OUR FEMALE FARMERS TEXT AND PHOTOS BY NINETTE PALOMA Both our initial conversations and current updates are included; an education in fluidity and inclusivity revealed between arduous chores and blossoming fields, and undeniably steeped in the female experience.

1. MAKE IT A FAMILY AFFAIR Remy Becker is carefully arranging tidy piles of fresh hay when she jumps up suddenly with an idea. “Want to take the goats for a walk with me?” she asks eagerly, and though I’ve never herded anything more than a group of raucous girlfriends on a Saturday night, I nod my head in agreement.

The goats, it turns out, are much easier to maneuver.

I’m spending the afternoon at Valley Heart Ranch, a 10-acre property with killer views of the Pacific that also

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holds the distinction of being Montecito’s first coffee plantation. Ten-year-old Remy Becker is the property’s youngest farmhand, dedicating her afternoons and weekends to mucking stalls and grooming her two miniature rescue ponies, Regina and Clementine, while balancing schoolwork and an active equestrian schedule. Her mom, Kirsten Becker, sees it as a perfect opportunity to encourage an active lifestyle firmly rooted to the land. “When we lost our home in the mudslides, suddenly the need to nurture and feel nurtured became central to our family,” she recalled. “I had no background in farming, but I love hard work. And, boy, I learned quickly.”

With roughly 4,000 plants and a handful of varietals with fancy-sounding names such as Catuai Rojo and Geisha, the Beckers hope to foster a symbiotic relationship between the ranch and their Haley Corridor property The Mill, collaborating with area artisans to begin marketing the fruits of their labor. Asked whether she minds the early-morning hours and laborintensive lifestyle, Kirsten paused thoughtfully. “It’s not for the faint of heart, that’s for sure,” she said after a moment. “But being surrounded by family and animals and Mother Nature feels soulful in a way that I could have never imagined.”

Sixth-generation farmer Clara Cadwell of Tutti Frutti Farms agrees. She and her siblings have been running the family business alongside their dad ever since she could remember, braiding garlic and selling organic produce at the Saturday farmers’ market as kids and driving the tractor and overseeing certification as adults. “My dad used to make a game of it, telling us if we sold all of the cherry tomatoes, he’d take us to the movies,” she recalled.

Most recently, Tutti Frutti Farms has partnered up with the Pilgrim Terrace Community Gardens, where Cadwell hosts youth garden tours, focusing

heavily on nutrition and seasonality.

“There’s nothing more enriching than kids being outside using their energy and bodies in a way that extends beyond the classroom,” she emphasized. “There’s so much wonder outdoors, and it’s so empowering to know you have the ability to raise your own food.”

The harvest season roared in with as much fervor as the pandemic itself, and both the Beckers and Cadwells set to work securing a full field staff for the task.

For Kirsten, that meant recruiting her entire brood, who rolled up their sleeves to pick coffee cherries and feed the compost pile between online school sessions.

They’ve had two subsequent mini-harvests and are well underway to produce what aficionados have coined the “California coffee experience” — an organic coffee style gaining traction globally.

The Cadwells were able to secure a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan for Tutti Frutti Farms, allowing them to retain their entire staff while recovering from the blow to what is traditionally their most lucrative time of the year.

“Farmers’ markets have been whack,” Cadwell exclaimed. “We’re currently running at about 50 percent and are only now starting to see some of our major restaurant orders return.” Eliminating food waste is a major priority for Cadwell, so she and her family continue to donate excess produce to area organizations such as Veggie Rescue, a nonprofit delivering fresh produce and prepared foods to the county’s underserved community.

2. LEAD BY EXAMPLE Many experts point to a strong Mexican and Central American workforce as a leading factor in California’s ability to have weathered the 1980s’ agro-calamity, when labor-intensive crops fared much better than their capital-intensive counterparts.

“California’s relative economic stability during the farm crisis is related to the salience of hand labor,” writes Miriam J. Wells in her book Strawberry Fields:

‘THERE'S SO MUCH WONDER OUTDOORS, AND IT'S SO EMPOWERING TO KNOW YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO RAISE YOUR OWN FOOD.’

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— CLARA CADWELL, TUTTI FRUTTI FARMS Politics, Class, and Work in California Agriculture.

“Increasing its focus on high-value, labor-intensive fruits and vegetables is largely responsible for the vitality of its agricultural sector.”

When Maria “Lupe” Monroy of Jalisco, Mexico, began looking for work on the Central Coast, she wasn’t interested in one of the many housekeeping and caretaking jobs her friends kept suggesting. “The truth is, I get bored indoors,” she said with a laugh before adding: “I’ve never been afraid of hard work and long days, and using my hands to earn a living felt more satisfying to me.”

C O VC E O VRE RS TS O T ORRYY Instead, Monroy found her calling in the vineyards of Santa Barbara County, where she sowed seeds and planted cover crops before moving up the ranks to tractorista, a free-wheeling tractor driver who could expertly maneuver around narrow row spacings. “I was willing to try my hand at anything that was needed around the vineyard,” she says proudly as she pours us glasses of a shimmering syrah blend. We’re drinking a 2018 Stolpman Para Maria, named in her honor as the forewoman of Stolpman Vineyards and team manager of La Cuadrilla. The latter is the employee profit-sharing program created by Tom Stolpman and Lupe’s husband, Ruben Solorzano, born of the idea that the vineyard’s success “would not be on the backs of people being taken advantage of.”

These days, Monroy spends most of her days circling the property on her ATV, inspecting blocks and overseeing the progress of La Cuadrilla’s team members. But she still gets up at 5 a.m., making sure she’s the first one on the field and last one to leave. “It’s important for me to send a strong message to the team,” she emphasized. “Earning what you’re paid should be a priority, and I need to set that example first.”

When Governor Gavin Newsom anointed California’s agricultural labor force “essential worker” status, he underscored what many Americans have known all along: Those who tend to our food and fields are vital contributors to our economy and communities. “We take pride in the work that we do,” emphasized Monroy, “and we consider ourselves part of one collective family.”

Working during a pandemic, however, is not without its risks, and of particular concern to Monroy is COVID-19’s disproportionate impact on Santa Barbara County’s Latinx community. “I’m constantly advising my team on ways to stay safe and responsible, and so far our diligence has worked and everyone has stayed healthy,” she reported. La Cuadrilla is currently in the throes of bottling its namesake wine for an October release, and Monroy is unwavering in her optimism for the year ahead. “How can anyone be stressed with so much good wine around?” she laughed.

3. DON’T BE AFRAID TO START A REVOLUTION There’s a scene in the 1984 film Country when Jessica Lange, on the brink of having her family farm seized by corporate lenders, stays up late into the evening dialing numbers from a long list of neighbors in a focused effort to save her land. I thought of her delivery—calm and with expert persuasiveness—while navigating the back roads of Buellton one late, sunny morning, my very urban Honda Civic kicking up dust clouds in protest.

An invitation to Women First had landed in my inbox earlier that week, the first of a series of farm events hosted by Sara Rotman and promising an afternoon of aperitifs, agriculture, and activism. Would she be calling on us to disrupt a Planning Commission meeting like Lange did? And what exactly does one wear to a revolution? The answers arrived as I followed a sea of print dresses and plaid shirts toward a welcoming Rotman, her arms outstretched with glasses of lemony Casa Dumetz wine as we huddled around her pickup truck.

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“As women, it’s in our DNA to gather information,” she emphasized, addressing a sizeable crowd of female farmers, winemakers, politicians, hospitality leaders, and neighbors. “Because we’ve been historically marginalized, we’re appropriately skeptical and less dogmatic about the next new thing, which is why I value your voices first,” she added.

Walking around the property, its manicured rows of stout cannabis plants framed by lush olive trees and an expansive herbal garden, it was hard to imagine that WOMEN OF THE VINE: As forewoman of Stolpman a property so laboriously Vineyards, Lupe Monroy oversees an all-female crew at cared for could be at the epiLa Cuadrilla, the vineyard’s worker-led and profit-sharing center of so much debate. wine project.

“The truth is, I had a lot of preconceived notions about cannabis in the past, too,” Rotman acknowledged. “But education really does go a long way in separating fact from fear.”

Rather than focus on discord, the women in attendance rolled up their sleeves and offered up proactive words of advice and support: Broccoli and chicken farmers regaled stories about neighbors protesting over their own “perfumed acreage”; Lompoc Mayor Jenelle Osborne gave a stirring speech about celebrating diversity in our communities and in our fields; and Casa Dumetz winemaker Sonja Magdevski gifted everyone a bottle of her Feminist Party red, describing it as “a wine of radical inclusion where everyone’s invited.”

In the sobering light of reason and information, one of the county’s newest and fastestrising cash crops seemed less controversial and more like a savvy way to continue the area’s long-standing farming traditions. “Agriculture is agriculture,” said Magdevski as she popped open a fresh bottle of wine.

As a woman living with severe Crohn’s disease, Rotman isn’t one to squander her health or the health of those around her. “We incorporated safety measures on the ranch immediately, taking daily temperatures and maintaining required distances with diligence,” she said. She’s also continued to gain allies in the wine industry while awaiting the next round of Planning Commission hearings; the next one is slated to take place on July 14.

But one of the brightest feathers in Rotman’s cap these days is the knowledge that Santa Barbara County’s cannabis industry is on track to contribute over $9 million in tax revenue to the community. “I’m grateful our tax dollars are directly impacting social services and COVID response,” she emphasized. “And I believe those numbers are only going to get bigger.”

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The moon is just starting to rise behind Anna deLaski’s towering red barn when she motions for our group to gather around an inviting farm table, beautifully arranged with bouquets of fragrant herbs and bottles of her effervescent 2018 Solminer Pétillant Naturel Rosé. The deLaski farm and vineyards is the final stop on The Yogi Sommelier’s Wellness Weekend, a two-day event curated by certified somm Chiara Shannon that connects the L.A. set to “an entire world of agriculture in our own backyard.”

For the past three years, Shannon has been leading weekend tours for a mostly female crowd that might begin with a morning yoga session on a vineyard followed by helping with daily chores on a biodynamic farm or receiving a tarot card reading from herbalist Stephanie Shaffer before being prescribed an herbal remedy. “As women, we have a sensibility about balance and mental health and mystical connection,” said Shannon. “Cultivating the mind and spirit encourages a deep connection to our food sources and land, something most of us are missing in our daily lives.”

By helping to host hands-on experiences like the Wellness Weekend, deLaski also hopes to shed light on what it means to live and work on an independent farm, the joys and tribulations that can only be discovered when you pull on a pair of boots and kick around in the fields for a day. “There’s obviously a romantic part to farming that has always drawn me in,” she explained.

“But it’s also a lot of work and takes a focused commitment — and that’s an important part of the business for people to see.”

For Elizabeth Poett of Rancho San Julian, drawing people into the world of full-time cattle ranching is done through her creative endeavor called The Ranch Table, where recipes and stories of life on the farm are shared over community workshops and farm-to-table dinners.

[Poett is the daughter of Independent Editor in Chief Marianne Partridge.] “Agro-tourism is

C OV C OEVRE RS T S TOO RR YY an amazing way to connect people with the land and provide the community with honest and traceable food, she emphasized. “It’s also another way for people to support local businesses that are doing right by the land.”

Embracing a shelter-in-place lifestyle with full abandon, both Poett and deLaski have been tending to their farms and homeschooling their respective children with enviable tranquility—at least according to their wistful Instagram accounts. “Social distancing is kind of the norm around here,” writes Poett below a bucolic capture of her frolicking sons, while deLaski’s account highlights her son getting a crash course in red-blend bottling. Spring lambs were born, and new business models were implemented by both women, who introduced delivery services that have brought their artisan goods to the doorsteps of loyal customers.

“If you would have asked me two weeks ago if I wanted to do an Instagram Live Story, I would’ve said no,” writes deLaski. “Now here I am….”

5. COLLABORATION IS KEY One of the points all of the farmers I spoke with agreed on was the nonexistence of an isolated, man-versus-the-land farmer frequently portrayed in the movies. “I don’t know anyone—man or woman—who can sustain an agricultural business and lifestyle without a healthy team of supporters both on and off the field,” said Cadwell. And when discussing Santa Barbara County’s most effective way to bring the farm to the people, all roads inevitably lead to Katie Hershfelt.

“Building relationships with your farmers is the single best way to connect to the heartbeat of your community,” said Hershfelt over dessert during a recent food and farming supper club event—a monthly, underground gathering that unites female farmers, artisans, and advocates together for a casual evening of comradery. “Santa Barbara is so agriculturally and culturally rich; it would be silly not to connect the two together.”

In 2013, Hershfelt left a steady day job to realize her lifelong dream of pairing two of her favorite things—food and education—in a way that felt compelling and personalized. She called her production company Cultivate Events, focusing on bringing awareness to the area’s bountiful food sources and the dedicated people behind them. “Women are relationship builders,” she emphasized, “and see the immediate value of connecting with community.” Through events like the Santa Barbara Vintners Festival, KombuchaKon, and the Fermentation Festival, Hershfelt balances information and experiences on a brilliantly executed platform that draws people together in an impactful way. “If I can reach people who aren’t already in the choir, then I feel like I’ve accomplished what my company set out to do.”

By the end of the night, only a few supper club stragglers remained. As we polished off the last of the wine, Hershfelt suddenly turned to me with a laundry list of farmers I should reach out to next: Marcia Jimenez of Jimenez Family Farms, Mo Foley of Red Hen Cannery, Anne Cole of San Marcos Farms Honey Co., and Johanna Finley of Finley Organic Farms.

“How much space do you have?” she asked with a smile, before putting her arm around me.

“Maybe we’ll need to turn this into a monthly column.”

When the pandemic wiped Hershfelt’s entire Cultivate Events calendar clean, she recognized an immediate opportunity for activism and quickly set to work connecting all of her resources together. “When a crisis happens, you begin to see the cracks in a system, and the potential for improvement becomes a clear focus,” she explained.

After encouraging the Julia Child Foundation to divert funds that would have otherwise supported their postponed Santa Barbara Culinary Experience event to the Community Food Collaborative, Hershfelt turned to the Santa Barbara County Food Action Network, offering her assistance with a soon-to-be-disclosed project that could potentially solve one of the county’s most pressing food sustainability and distribution challenges.

For now, she’s content with making weekly personal connections with her beloved farmers at the Saturday market, and looks forward to being able to put her arms around people once n again.

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FOODBANK PICNIC IN THE PARK 2020 Children and teens, ages 1-18, are invited to pick up a free nutritious meal. There are no income requirements, sign-ups, or registration needed. Meals are served on a first-come, first-served basis.

Please wear a face mask and be prepared to follow social-distancing guidelines. Lunches will be served “grab and go” style, Monday-Friday. Visit the website for North County locations.

Los niños y los jóvenes, de 1 a 18 años, pueden comer una comida nutritiva y gratuita. No hay requisitos de ingresos ni de documentos. Tampoco se necesita registrar para poder participar. Las comidas se sirven por orden de llegada. Favor de usar mascarilla y estar preparado seguir medidas de guardar la distancia. Se sirve los almuerzos para llevar a menos lunes hasta viernes. Visite el sitio web para obtener información sobre las ubicaciones del norte del condado.

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YDM (Yoga Dance Magic) Soundwave

Sessions Morning Beach Yoga Experience music and

what you’ve been reading this summer and if you have any reading suggestions. Complete a summer reading challenge and get a recommendation for your next great read. Wear your mask and meet on the Anapamu lawn between the lobby entrance and the historic library doors, where there will be social distancing. 11:30am-12:30pm. S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free. Ages 5-12.

voice instruction through wireless headphones to captivate your senses in this beautiful beach setting. You control the volume! Fridays and Mondays offer a total body workout with aerobics-inspired yoga and dance, while Wednesdays offer restorative yoga and meditation. Visit the website for instructions on what to bring and social distancing. 9:3010:30am. Leadbetter Beach, 801 Shoreline Dr. $15.tinyurl.

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THURSDAY 7/2 welcome to this weekly online meditation group that includes practices inspired by the Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) curriculum and is appropriate to those new to MSC (or new to meditation), as well as MSC graduates. Hattie Bluestone and Anahita Holden will lead this class. Noon-12:30pm. Free.

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one-of-a-kind virtual fundraising experience will feature area speed-painting artist Amy Burkman. Watch and donate live as she creates an original artwork with each donation over $100 a chance to win another of her originals. Donations will go toward Girls Inc. scholarship requests from families who have been financially impacted by COVID-19. The donation window will be from noon July 7 to noon July 9. Free.

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S.B. UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT FREE MEALS The S.B. Unified School District will provide Grab & Go breakfast, lunches, and supper from the Mobile Cafés to students age 18 and younger at the following sites and times, Monday-Friday.

Students do not have to be present; parents or guardians may pick up meals for students. Visit the website for more information and a map.

El Distrito Escolar Unificado de S.B. proveerá desayuno, almuerzos y cenas de los Cafés Móviles a los estudiantes de 18 años y menores en los siguientes sitios y horarios, de lunes a viernes. Los estudiantes no tienen que estar presentes; los padres o tutores pueden recoger las comidas para los estudiantes.

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Supper Service Eastside Locations:

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1104 Cacique St. 4:30-4:50pm.

1124 E. Mason St. 5-5:20pm.

900 E. Haley St. 5:30-5:50pm.

(Corner of Arrellaga and Gillespie, in front of the A-OK office)

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Westside Locations: 601 Eucalyptus Ave. 4-4:30pm.

1507 San Pascual St. 4:40pm-5:10pm.

320 W. Gutierrez St. 5:20-5:50pm.

GOLETA UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT FREE MEALS GUSD will be offering free meals for anyone 18 years and younger at the following locations from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Both breakfast and lunch will be provided. You do not have to be a student to receive meals. No application or sign-up required. If you are driving, food will be brought to you. If you pick up in person, please take it from the table and maintain six feet of distance from others. Call (805) 681-1200 or email gusd@goleta.k12.ca.us.

GUSD (El Distrito Escolar de Goleta) volverá a proveer alimentos gratis para personas 18 años y menos en las siguientes locaciones de 11:30am-1pm. El desayuno y el almuerzo se proporcionará a cada persona.

No es necesario ser estudiante para recibir las comidas. No hay requisitos de ingresos ni de documentos.

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New Day, New Director for

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BIG WIN: Shantay Legans hoists his son Maksim while addressing the crowd after Eastern Washington won the Big Sky regular season basketball championship.

HARD DRIVE: Sky Adams has also advised the Girls Who Code club at Adams Elementary.

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she would like to increase the range of classes offered in the academy, continue to increase diversity and support in the program for underrepresented students, and expand involvement and opportunity for extracurricular activities in preparation for a career in the field. Field trips to Santa Barbara tech companies are part of the learning package, as well as trips to Silicon Valley and Silicon Beach.

Adams’s leadership was noted by the academy’s foundation board president, Paula Cassin: “Sky Adams’s impact has already been felt in the CS Academy as a supportive teacher and inspiring mentor to many students, including females who are underrepresented in this field.” She’s a natural fit for the academy and the oncoming fall semester, currently set for some classes online, entirely underpinned by code.

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he window to run the virtual 2020 State Street Mile has been extended to Sunday, July 5, organizers announced.

This year, COVID-19 put the kibosh on a traditional version of the annual race, which is known as the “Fastest, Funnest Mile in the West” and benefits the county’s Crime Victim Emergency Fund. “We encourage every person, family, and dog who runs, jogs, or walks to participate in their safe virtual State Street Mile, an opportunity to have fun and get outside,” FOR EVERYONE: Families run the 2017 State Street Mile. said race director Megan Rheinschild.

“Now more than ever, victims of crime Last year, Therese Haiss of San Diego broke the desperately need financial assistance.”

The fee is $15 per person for the Ranked Mile or women’s record by three seconds, storming through Dog Mile or $5 per person for the Family Mile. Reg- the downhill course in 4:19. With a time of 3:53, ister at sbmile.com/register. “In these stressful times,” Weston Strum of San Francisco led six runners under said District Attorney Joyce Dudley, “when people the four-minute barrier in the men’s elite mile. In the are isolated and without social support, the risk of Dog Mile, Dan Wehunt of Bozeman, Montana, took abuse is elevated, as is our need to experience the joys first with Odessa, a German shorthaired pointer, in 4:07. of health, exercise, and freedom.”

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ome fall, Sky Adams will lead the esteemed Computer Science Academy at Santa Barbara High School. She replaces Richard Johnston as director, who chose her as his co-director last year ahead of the transition. The comprehensive education program saw four young women win the Congressional App Challenge in 2019, and students and teachers have won National Center for Women and Information Technology awards every year. “I just love the kids,” Adams said. “I think they are awesome.”

Adams’s passion for computer science began at an early age, thanks to her older brother. He taught her how to write “something simple, like one of those programs where you ask it something and it answers you,” she said. Busy encouraging young people’s interest in the dynamic job sector, Adams has also advised the Girls Who Code club at Adams Elementary, taken the lead in developing the SBHS annual Hackathon, and established a summer program for incoming 7th and 8th graders called the Summer of CS. The high school program was created by former principal John Becchio in 2012 with the simple intent to help the Robotics Club learn rudimentary programs for a competition. Calculus teacher Johnston was recruited, and Becchio organized outreach to young women and underrepresented students with SBHS teacher Joe Velasco. With the addition of an AP Computer Science class and an innovative curriculum taught by Paul Muhl, a senior analyst at Toyon Research and the academy’s first director, the program became a rousing success.

Adams has lofty goals for the coming semesters. Working closely with the other instructors,

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hantay Legans began his ascent in organized basketball at the Goleta Boys & Girls Club after he had been banned from other youth gyms in the area.

“I had the worst attitude when I was 10, 11 years old,” Legans confessed. “I got kicked out of Eastside, Westside, Carpinteria.” He found a savior in Sal Rodriguez, the legendary director of the Goleta club. “Sal loved me for all my faults. He saw the good stuff too.”

Rodriguez said, “In the 2nd or 3rd grade, he was so quick, dribbling with both hands. I thought, ‘This guy’s got skills.’ He did talk trash. He’s never been shy.”

Legans built on the good stuff to become a standout point guard at Dos Pueblos High, Cal, and Fresno State. He enjoyed a post-collegiate playing stint with the Santa Barbara Breakers semi-pro team. Rodriguez gave him a job at the Boys & Girls Club and took him on as an assistant coach at Laguna Blanca School.

Eleven years ago, Legans’s confidence paid off as he landed a job as assistant coach at Eastern Washington University. “Coach Legs,” as he is known at EWU, was promoted to head coach in 2017.

In 2019-20, his third season at the helm, the Eagles went 23-8 and won the regular-season championship of the Big Sky Conference.

Legans, 38, was chosen the league’s Coach of the Year. ESPN ranked him high on its “40 Under 40” list of the top NCAA Division I basketball coaches under the age of 40.

While the accolades were rolling in, it was a bittersweet time. His mother, Susan Legans, died at 70 in Santa Barbara just days before the Eagles clinched the top spot in the Big Sky standings. “She was the best,” Legans said. “She went to all my AAU tournament games and watched [online] every game I coached.”

Then the COVID-19 virus wiped out the Big Sky and NCAA tournaments. “It came crashing down pretty hard,” Legans said of the sudden end to EWU’s banner season.

The college is located in Cheney, a small town south of Spokane.

“I’m in a good spot,” said Legans, who has two children with his wife, Tatjana, a former player for EWU women’s team. “The kids are doing great. It’s very peaceful here.”

The worldwide Black Lives Matter movement swept into the area this month. When several EWU players wanted to participate in a protest march in Spokane, Legans, who is of mixed race, did not hesitate to give them the go-ahead. “I’m proud to see them support a cause that’s important to them,” he said.

Rodriguez is happy to see how far Legans has come. “He was living with a single mom in a one-bedroom condo,” he said. “That’s what the Boys & Girls Club is all about.”

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On June 26, 2019, I was cited to meet with Officer Fontanilla under the impression that ICE only needed an up-to-date photo and proof of residency for their files. However, once there, I found out I wasn’t going to see my daughters for some time. Fortunately, my case was put “on hold,” which prevented me from being deported on the spot. Six weeks later, I was released from the Adelanto Detention Center on $10,000 bail raised by family and friends.

I left the facility with an ankle GPS monitor. I have monthly check-ins at ICE’s Santa Maria location and weekly home visits, which is a hardship because I am a single mom providing my household’s sole income.

Adelanto was a nightmare. We slept by day and stayed awake all night. The system separated us by three different jumpsuit colors, blue being for minor offenses, orange for medium, and red for deportable felonies. I wore orange because I have FAMILY UNIT: Adriana Jazmin, who came to the U.S. as a young girl, worries a previous criminal conviction. The she could be deported and separated from her two daughters staff was about 70 percent Latino.

When you’d ask them why they had joined ICE, they’d say they wanted to be the dif dif- viction. I remember my psychologist asking me to ference in a racist system. Just like me, many had crumple up a piece of paper and then asking me to make it exactly as it was. I couldn’t, but it was still migrated to the United States for a better future.

At 3 years old, I crossed the hills on my grand- the same piece of paper. I know that I will never father’s shoulders as we followed a “coyote” and be the same, but it’s okay because I am the strong chased the American Dream. My mom, dad, and I individual I am today. I am a human being and I filed for asylum, but we lost our case to a fraudulent too make mistakes.

I deserve a second chance. I deserve to take my lawyer. However, we did get our Social Security numbers and permission to work, which expired kids across the border to see their grandparents. after 25 years. My parents applied for the cancel- Most importantly, my kids deserve their mother caring for them and cheering them on, because if I am deported, the greatest hardship will be on them.

So with all that said, I want to ask my friends, my family, and my community for help to pay my lawyer fees. Please help me stay with my girls. Checks can be sent directly to my attorney at 330 East Carrillo Street. I want to thank lation of their removal. They were approved, but those who have helped, continue to help, and plan what we found out on June 26 was that I wasn’t on helping. I love you all!

Lord, listen to my prayer. It’s like a sacrifice I included and I had to go through the removal probring to you; I must have more revelation of your ceedings again.

At 5 years old, I became a victim of molesta- word!

Take my words to heart when I ask you, Lord; tion, and at 16, I was raped. Although it is hard to talk about, I feel it is necessary to explain in order rescue me, just like you promised!

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Casting an eye toward few things focus Yvonne at the bar with the memory like a dangler, I was embarrassed beyond explafood. nation. Years later that In my mind, Odile’s food was the best and former friend became the most delicious food a chain smoker himin Santa Barbara. Her self. C’est la vie! specialty was quiche; There also seemed to be a certain amount her daily special was quiche; her quiche was of luck associated with hanging around Odile’s. special.

Regardless of the It was a lengthy stroll from my house on East savory ingredients, it was creamy and full of Micheltorena to Cota.

One day, as I turned flavor, with a delicious the corner from State thin and crispy buttery Street, a young man was crust. This lovely lunch was $1.79 and came getting a Martin guitar case out of his trunk. He with a salad dressed was a nicely dressed felin Odile’s vinaigrette.

Also included was a SINGING FOR SUPPER: Songwriter Cyrus Clarke fondly recalls low, wearing a tie. I hapsmall plastic container eating at Mousse Odile in the 1980s and ’90s. pened to pass by at the of the most delicious exact moment he was chocolate mousse in the world. Hence the name taking it out of the trunk and couldn’t help myself.

I asked, “What do you have there?” of her place: Mousse Odile.

But there were also ficelles, roulés, steaks, He explained that it was a Martin D-18 guichicken, lamb, remoulade, couscous … every tar, but he never played it and he really needed delicious morsel created from her brilliant reci- money so he was going to sell it at the pawn shop pes and beautiful spirit. The coffee was the best around the corner.

At this point I was hooked and couldn’t help I’ve ever had. myself, so I asked him how much he wanted for So where does one start?

Odile’s food sustained me for years. I was her it. I tried to not look too eager but almost fell over most beloved acolyte. I loved her. She was witty, when he said $60. I contained myself and kindly charming, affectionate, kind, temperamental, said, “Oh my goodness, I could probably pay and very loyal. $60 for that guitar if you could just wait a minute But it wasn’t just about Odile. There was also while I go down the street where my girlfriend Yvonne. They were sisters — born and raised in works and get $60 from her?” To my surprise, French Algeria, and, as Odile loved to say, they he said okay.

That’s how I was able to buy a $1,200 Martin were creole.

Yvonne worked the front of the house; Odile for $60 on the way to lunch. Some may believe ran the kitchen. Odile learned her craft, her art, I took advantage of this young man, but I could her blessed skills in the house of a wealthy colo- tell he was extremely grateful to get that $60, and I was extremely grateful to get that guitar, nial family where she was the cook.

Needless to say, her couscous was beyond sub- so it seemed like a good deal all the way around. lime; lamb and chicken essentially flavored in Eventually I sold the guitar to one of my friends harmony with its ingredients. She didn’t make it for a few hundred bucks. The luck continued very often, so I asked her to promise to call me for him.

After about 20 years, the restaurant became when she did. Best phone call a guy could ever too much for the sisters to handle and they get in the morning.

Yvonne was a chain smoker and consequently retired — after successfully marketing the vinhad a cigarette hanging out of her mouth all day aigrette. So the happy ending is that there was a long. This was back in the day when people happy ending. smoked in restaurants and no one was the wiser.

Odile and Yvonne — I never got an opportuOnce, during lunch, a friend I was with pub- nity to tell you how much I loved you; hope you licly castigated a very nice man for smoking. can tell that I still do. n COURTESY

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The grape was long considered to make only tepid wine, which is why so much of it was historically turned into brandy. But a revival—particularly in the natural-wine, return-to-historic-roots set—is revealing that the grape can indeed make a variety of zesty styles, from pale whites and crisp rosés to darker-hued reds. This is happening quite a bit in not only Baja California but also Chile, the Canary Islands, and California.

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I drank most of an entire chilled bottle last Friday night almost by accident. For a red wine, it was light, crisp, and refreshing, with just enough acid to battle the snappy red fruit flavors.

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When the pandemic hit, I had the idea of creating a version that could be released in audio form for people to experience in the safety of their homes. With a lot of time on my hands, I was able to finally focus on what was necessary to complete the project including orchestrating the music, editing, and mixing this version of the show.

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trusty maxim in the field of film composers states that one shouldn’t judge the artist by the filmography —or at least not only by that measure. Many famed Hollywood-linked composers have spent time and energy working on concert music and other creative, not-necessarilycommercial projects, including the late, great film music legend Elmer Bernstein, who lived for years in Santa Barbara.

Another Santa Barbaran, Brad Fiedel, who moved here with his family in 1996, had a stellar run in the film music world with high-profile movies such as the Arnold Schwarzenegger action vehicles Terminator and True Lies. But it’s a whole other story— or set of stories—when it comes to Fiedel’s highly personal new project, a longlabored-over musical called Full Circle. It finally had its premiere with an elaborate audio version released on SoundCloud for all to hear on June 24.

Fiedel’s story incorporates aspects of his own father’s life that cleverly weaves teen angst, Jewish mysticism, and apparitional memories of the Holocaust into a tapestry of infectious songs with a cohesive dramatic thread. The cast includes Mia Burridge, Ken Ryals, Ann Dusenberry (Fiedel’s wife), and Dan Gunther. Music, lyrics, and book are by Fiedel, who recently found the concentrated time to complete his musical thanks to the order to shelter in place.

What brought you to Santa Barbara? Have remote technologies allowed you to work from your 805 home? We moved up from L.A. full time in 1996. I maintained studios in both places for a while. In the ’90s, when I was doing a lot of Hollywood projects, the remote technology was not that developed. I remember running downtown to the Greyhound station to pick up the latest video sent on the bus from the editing room in Burbank. The technology is amaz-

ing now. I’ve been focused on developing my own projects for quite a while, so that’s been easier.

Full Circle is a fascinating piece that manages to cover various terrain — from a troubled teenager self-isolating in an N.Y.C. apartment (eerily prescient, that touch) to storylines on Jewish mysticism and the Holocaust.

What was the original impetus for the story, and how did it develop? Having lived in New York and Los Angeles, I was always haunted by the fact that I often had to close off my heart just to get from one place to another.

This is particularly relevant now. There’s so much pain and injustice that’s existed for so long, partially perpetuated, I believe, because so many of us have learned to turn off our empathy to “get through the day.”

I wanted to explore what would it be like if we didn’t have those filters. I explored this through Sarah, the heroine of the story; she has no filters to block others’ thoughts and feelings. Her empathy has become so extreme that she feels everyone’s pain so intensely she can’t go out anymore. My grandfather escaped from eastern Europe at an early age, and he plays the violin, so elements of his life were an early inspiration for part of the story. How trauma can be passed down through generations was also something on my mind. Sarah’s estranged grandfather enters the story, bringing with him the mystery of his past.

Sarah and her grandpa are able to help each other deal with their respective challenges as they face their quest together.

This all sounds pretty heavy, so I do want to mention that there is also comic relief and a romance.

The pandemic has been devastating for performers who rely on live performance, whereas writers, composers, painters, and others who often work in solitude have at

After your rich life as a film composer, were you drawn to musical theater and other media to seek more personal creative modes of expression? During my career as a film composer, I learned a lot working with amazing writers and directors, from Arthur Miller to James Cameron. It was a wonderful opportunity to make my contribution to the stories they wanted to tell.

After over 20 years, I came to a time when I wanted to create the stories and see what came out of me as an artist without someone else’s images to work with. I have always loved stage musicals, and writing the book, music, and lyrics for Full Circle has been my chance to take a very personal dive into that area.

You were anticipating an orchestral performance of your classic Terminator score at Royal Albert Hall this spring. Is that something that will be happening in the future?

Are events such as that rewarding for you?

Terminator Live is a performance of my score to the picture by the wonderful Avex ensemble. They had several very successful shows in Japan right before everything shut down. I’m sure that eventually they will do it again at various venues. It is rewarding to see the excitement generated by this kind of event.

Also, it’s very gratifying in this age of social media to hear directly from the fans how much film music has meant to them in their lives. Frankly, it was a pleasant surprise to find out how many people really listen.

—Josef Woodard

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BY GABRIELA WIENER Translator and scholar of Latin American literature Jessica Powell has added another bold voice to the chorus of authors she has ushered into English. In Nine Moons, the Peruvian journalist Gabriela Wiener offers a deeply personal and often irreverent account of her experience conceiving, carrying, and giving birth to Lena, her first child. Coming out of the Latin American tradition of crónicas, a hybrid, mostly urban genre that blends fearless truthtelling with journalistic research and comic selfawareness, Wiener delivers an account of the nine “moons” of her pregnancy that’s unsentimental and yet touching in its openness and vulnerability.

Living in Madrid with her husband, whom she identifies throughout simply as “J,” Wiener lacks most of the classbased comforts that make modern bourgeois childbearing distinctive. Both parents are only fitfully employed, either at literary magazines or odd jobs.

They live in a tiny apartment next door to an abandoned building that’s been taken over by thousands of pigeons. Not having a car in particular comes to play an important role when Wiener goes into labor.

It’s not only her distance from upper middle-class privilege that gives the author her vivid, sometimes excoriating perspective on the maternity establishment. Her best-known work prior to Nine Moons is a collection of essays called Sexographies, in which she and J navigate the subculture of swingers, sex clubs, threesomes, and S & M. There are no trips to the dungeon in Nine Moons, but Wiener retains the gonzo sensibility that allowed her to access those regions as she encounters the guardians of a new realm — Barcelona Maternity hospital.

You don’t have to be pregnant to read Nine Moons. In fact, I would caution those who might consider it as a baby shower gift to read it first to be sure that it’s the message you want to send. But Wiener, and now Powell, has made a significant contribution to the growing feminist bookshelf of candid reflections on the complex and ever-changing experience to which we all owe our existence.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY by Rob Breszny ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19): Aries author Marge Piercy writes,

“The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.” The Aries people I love best will do just that in the coming days. Now is not the right time to wait around passively, lazily hoping that something better will come along. Nor is it prudent to procrastinate or postpone decisions while shopping around for more options or collecting more research. Dive, Aries, dive!

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): “Calvin and Hobbes” is a comic

strip by Bill Watterson. It features a boy named Calvin and his stuffed tiger, Hobbes. In the first panel of one story, Calvin is seated at a school desk looking perplexed as he studies a question on a test, which reads “Explain [Isaac] Newton’s First Law of Motion in your own words.” In the second panel, Calvin has a broad smile, suddenly imbued with inspiration.

In the third panel, he writes his response to the test question: “Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz.” The fourth panel shows him triumphant and relaxed, proclaiming, “I love loopholes.” I propose that you use this scenario as your victorious metaphor in the coming weeks, Taurus. Look for loopholes! And use them to overcome obstacles and solve riddles.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves,” wrote philosopher and activist Simone Weil. I’m hoping that this horoscope of mine can help you avoid that mistake. In the coming weeks and months, you will have a stronger-than-usual need to be seen for who you really are — to have your essential nature be appreciated and understood by people you care about. And the best way to make sure that happens is to work hard right now on seeing, appreciating, and understanding yourself.

CANCER

LIBRA

(June 21-July 22): Some readers wish I would write more

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): What do you want to be when

like Cormac McCarthy or Albert Camus or Raymond Chandler: with spare simplicity. They accuse me of being too lush and exuberant in my prose. They want me to use shorter sentences and fewer adjectives. To them I say: It ain’t going to happen. I have feelings similar to those of best-selling Cancerian author Oliver Sacks, whom the New York Times called, “one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century.” Sacks once said, “I never use one adjective if six seem to me better and, in their cumulative effect, more incisive. I am haunted by the density of reality and try to capture this with ‘thick description.’ ” I bring these thoughts to your attention, my fellow Cancerian, because I think it’s important for you to be your lavish, sumptuous, complex self in the coming weeks.

Don’t oversimplify yourself or dumb yourself down, either intellectually or emotionally.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Travel writer Paul Theroux has jour-

neyed long distances by train: once from Britain to Japan and back again, and then from Massachusetts to Argentina. He also rode trains during part of his expedition from Cairo to Cape Town. Here’s one of his conclusions: “It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.” I’d like to offer a milder version of that counsel as your metaphor for the coming weeks: The funky, bumpy, rickety influences will bring you the best magic.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno

declared, “Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.” This idea will be intensely true for and applicable to you in the coming weeks, Virgo.

It will be your sacred duty—both to yourself and to those you care about—to enlarge your understandings of how the world works and to push your awareness to become more inclusive and empathetic. What’s your vision of paradise on earth? Now is a good time to have fun imagining it.

you grow up, Libra? What’s that you say? You firmly believe you are already all grown up? I hope not! In my vision of your destiny, you will always keep evolving and transforming; you will ceaselessly transcend your existing successes and push on to accomplish further breakthroughs and victories. Now would be an excellent time to rededicate yourself to this noble aspiration.

I invite you to dream and scheme about three specific wonders and marvels you would like to experience during the next five years.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren has

advice that would serve you well in the coming weeks.

She says, “Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won’t regret it.” In accordance with your astrological potentials, I’m inclined to amend her statement as follows: “Keep a sizable space in your heart for the improbable. You’ll be rewarded with catalytic revelations and intriguing opportunities.” To attract blessings in abundance, Scorpio, be willing to set aside some of your usual skepticism and urge for control.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Author Malidoma Somé lives in the

U.S. now, but he was born in the West African country of Burkina Faso. He writes, “In the culture of my people, the Dagara, we have no word for the supernatural.

The closest we come to this concept is Yielbongura, ‘the thing that knowledge can’t eat.’ This word suggests that the life and power of certain things depend upon their resistance to the categorizing knowledge that human beings apply to everything.” I bring Somé’s thoughts to your attention, Sagittarius, because I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will encounter more than the usual number of experiences that knowledge can’t eat. They might at times be a bit spooky or confounding, but will mostly be interesting and fun. I’m guessing that if you embrace them, they will liberate you from overly literal and materialistic ideas about how the world works.

And that will be good for your soul.

WEEK OF JULY 2 CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Pioneer Capricorn scientist Isaac

Newton is often hailed as one of history’s greatest geniuses. I agree that his intellectual capacities were sublime. But his emotional intelligence was sparse and feeble. During the time he taught at Cambridge University, his talks were so affectless and boring that many of his students skipped most of his classes. I’ll encourage you to make Newton your anti-role model for the next eight weeks. This time will be favorable for you to increase your mastery of three kinds of intelligence beyond the intellectual kind: feeling, intuition, and collaboration.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When future writer (and Aquarius) Charles Dickens was 12 years old, his parents and siblings got incarcerated in a debtors’ prison. To stay alive and help his family, he took a job working 12 hours a day, six days a week, pasting labels on pots of boot polish in a rotting, rat-infested warehouse. Hard times! Yet the experiences he had there later provided him with rich material for the novels that ultimately made him wealthy and beloved. In predicting that you, too, will have future success at capitalizing on difficulty, I don’t mean to imply you’ve endured or will endure anything as harsh as Dickens’s ordeal. I’m just hoping to help you appreciate the motivating power of your challenging experiences.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): Maybe you feel that the ongoing

pandemic has inhibited your ability to explore and deepen intimacy to the degree that would like to.

But even if that’s the case, the coming weeks will provide openings that could soften and remedy your predicament. So be extra receptive and alert to the clues that life reveals to you. And call on your imagination to look for previously unguessed and unexpected ways to reinvent togetherness and tenderness. Let’s call the next three weeks your Season of Renewing Rapport.

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

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YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk. Petitioner: Cristi Michelon Vasquez;132 East Figueroa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 882‑2226.

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: REZA SALAFIAN Case No.: 20PR00124 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of REZA SALAFIAN, RAY SALAFIAN, GHOLAMREZA SALAFIAN A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: MARYAM SALAFIAN in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION for probate requests that: MARYAM SALAFIAN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for the examination in the file kept by the court.

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

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 7/23/2020 AT 9:00 a.m.

Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, 1100 Anacapa Street, P.O Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93102 Anacapa Division.

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

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk. Petitioner: Maryam Salafian;1415 Shoreline Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109; (805) 452‑7344.

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be interested in the will or estate, or both of ELVIRA MILLER A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: JACQUELYN A. QUINN in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION for probate requests that: JACQUELYN A. QUINN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 8/27/2020 AT 9:00 a.m.

Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, 1100 Anacapa Street, P.O Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93102 Anacapa Division.

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

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: Jeffrey B. Soderborg;1900 State Street, Suite M, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 687‑6660.

Published July 2, 9, 16 2020.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: SAMUEL A. YOUNGMAN Case No.: 20PR00227 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of SAMUEL A. YOUNGMAN A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: MARGARET A. YOUNGMAN in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION for probate requests that: MARGARET A. YOUNGMAN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for the examination in the file kept by the court.

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

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 9/03/2020 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, 1100 Anacapa Street, P.O Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93102 Anacapa Division.

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

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250.

A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: Jeffrey B. Soderborg;1900 State Street, Suite M, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 687‑6660.

Published July 2, 9, 16 2020.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Goleta shall hold a public hearing on Tuesday, July 21, 2020, to consider the following: 1. The levy and collection of taxes for the Goleta Library Special Tax for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2020, and ending June 30, 2021.

A public hearing is hereby set for July 21, 2020 at 5:30 P.M., or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard at the City Council Chambers of Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B as the time and place for the hearing of protests or objections to the levy of the proposed Goleta Library Special Tax on the lots and parcels of property within the City for the 2020/21 fiscal year. An Administration Report consisting of, among other things, the assessed parcels, is filed in the Office of the City Clerk for public review.

PUBLIC COMMENT: All interested persons are encouraged to attend the public hearing and to present written and/or oral comments. Written submittals concerning agenda items may be sent to the City Clerk Group e-mail: cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org; or mail: Attn: City Council and City Clerk at 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B Goleta, California 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, July 20, at noon.

Material received after this time may not be reviewed by the City Council prior to the meeting.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Please see the posted agenda, available on Thursday, July 16, 2020 on City of Goleta’s website www.cityofgoleta.org.

Note: In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this hearing, please contact the City Clerk at (805) 961-7505 or email cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org.

Notification at least 72 hours prior to the hearing will enable City staff to make reasonable arrangements.

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 City Council for July 21, 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. City Council will be participating telephonically and will not be physically present in the Council Chambers.

IN LIGHT OF THE CITY’S NEED TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETINGS ELECTRONICALLY AND TELEPHONICALLY DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, written comments may also be submitted as instructed above or via email to the City Clerk at 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.

Deborah Lopez City Clerk Publish: July 2, 2020 · Publish: July 9, 2020

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Goleta shall hold a public hearing on Tuesday, July 21, 2020, to consider the following: 1. The levy and collection of assessments within the Goleta Street Lighting Assessment District for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2020, and ending June 30, 2021.

A public hearing is hereby set for July 21, 2020 at 5:30 P.M., or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard at the City Council Chambers of Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B as the time and place for the hearing of protests or objections to the levy of the proposed assessment against the lots and parcels of property within the citywide District for the 2020-2021 fiscal year. A draft Engineer’s Report consisting of, among other things, the assessed parcels, will be filed in the Office of the City Clerk for public review. A final version will be filed upon approval at the July 21, 2020 City Council meeting.

PUBLIC COMMENT: All interested persons are encouraged to attend the public hearing and to present written and/or oral comments. Written submittals concerning agenda items may be sent to the City Clerk Group e-mail: cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org; or mail: Attn: City Council and City Clerk at 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B Goleta, California 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 prior to the City Council meeting. Material received after this time may not be reviewed by the City Council prior to the meeting.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Please see the posted agenda, available on Thursday, July 16, 2020 on City of Goleta’s website www.cityofgoleta.org.

Note: In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this hearing, please contact the City Clerk at (805) 961-7505 or email cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org.

Notification at least 72 hours prior to the hearing will enable City staff to make reasonable arrangements.

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 City Council for July 21, 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. City Council will be participating telephonically and will not be physically present in the Council Chambers.

IN LIGHT OF THE CITY’S NEED TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETINGS ELECTRONICALLY AND TELEPHONICALLY DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, written comments may also be submitted as instructed above or via email to the City Clerk at 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.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: LONEWOLF SUSPENSION at 3455 State St,. Suite 6 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Brian Alexander 33 Van Reposa Solvang, CA 93463 conducted by an Corporation Signed: Brian Alexander Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 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: 2020‑0001143. Published: Jun 11, 18, 25. July 2 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: GPM GOLETA PROPERTY MAINTENANCE at 301 Santa Rosalia Way Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Steven A Fuhrer (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 2, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0001357. Published: Jun 11, 18, 25. July 2 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: THAI KITCHEN at 4317 State Street #D Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Pira Israchanpanich 102 N. Hope Avenue #110 Santa Barbara, CA 93110 conducted by an Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 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: 2020‑0001142. Published: Jun 11, 18, 25. July 2 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: DOWNTOWN BEACH NEIGHBORHOOD COALITION at 1421 State Street, Suite B Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Carpinteria Downtown Beach Neighborhood Coalition (same address) conducted by an Corporation Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 12, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck.

FBN Number: 2020‑0001186. Published: Jun 11, 18, 25. July 2 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: DAWN’S HOME ESSENTIALS at 232 W De La Guerra St B Santa Barbara, CA 93101 conducted by an Individual Signed: Stephanie Kay Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 29, 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: 2020‑0001322. Published: Jun 11, 18, 25. July 2 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: KENMAR SALES ASSOCIATES at 6137 Manzanillo Dr Goleta, CA 93117; Kenneth Just (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Kenneth Just Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 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: 2020‑0001207. Published: Jun 11, 18, 25. July 2 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: CJ BOLIVAR at 900 W Laurel Ave #11 Lompoc, CA 93436; Christine Bolivar (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 28, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0001311. Published: Jun 11, 18, 25. July 2 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SB MOBILE NOTARY at 4509A Auhay Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Alexis C Henderson (same address) Nels Henderson (same address) Married Couple conducted by an Married Couple Signed: Alexis Henderson Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 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: 2020‑0001267. Published: Jun 18, 25. July 2, 9 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHRYSTYLES BEAUTY at 120 S Hope Building F127, Suite 105 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Chrystal S Martinez 130 Alisos St Santa Barbara, CA 93103 conducted by an Individual Signed: Chrystal S Martinez Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 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: 2020‑0001386. Published: Jun 18, 25.

July 2, 9 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: DH FAMILY GENEALOGY at 125 Canyon Acres Dr. Santa Barbara, CA 93105; David M. Hirt (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: David M. Hirt Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 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 John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0001290. Published: Jun 18, 25. July 2, 9 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 88 STRS ENTERPRISES at 1060 Collen Way Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Jamaal Wilkes (same address) conducted by an Trust Signed: Jamaal Wilkes Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 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: 2020‑0001407.

Published: Jun 18, 25. July 2, 9 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LEGACY INVESTMENT WORKS at 102 Hixon Road Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Legacy Investment Works (same address) conducted by an Limited Liability Company Signed: Carl Palmer Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 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: 2020‑0001402. Published: Jun 18, 25. July 2, 9 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: CASTANEDA REALTY at 3868 State St Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Castaneda Dance Inc. 7076 Sunland Ave Ventura, CA 93001 (same address) conducted by an Corporation Signed: Felipe Castaneda Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 22 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: 2020‑0001277. Published: Jun 18, 25. July 2, 9 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: VIVA SANTA BARBARA at 1416 San Andres Street Ste C3 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Rafael C Martel (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Rafael Martel Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 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: 2020‑0001417. Published: Jun 18, 25. July 2, 9 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SONYA’S INTERIORS at 1608 Bath St Santa Barbara. CA 93101; Sonya Chiacos (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Felipe Castaneda Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 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: 2020‑0001433. Published: Jun 18, 25. July 2, 9 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: PRO FARMS at 5756 Thornwood Drive Goleta, CA 93117; Thornwood Distribution LLC (same address) conducted by an Limited liability Company Signed: Wil Crummer Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jone 11 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0001446. Published: Jun 18, 25. July 2, 9 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LARS DESIGN at 621 North St. Lompoc, CA 93436; Leslie Robimson‑Stone 621 North Y St Lompoc, CA93436 conducted by an Indicidual Signed: Leslie A. Robinson‑Stone Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 15 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: 2020‑0001232. Published: Jun 18, 25. July 2, 9 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DOUGLAS ELLIMAN at 150 El Camino Drive Beverly Hils, CA 93210; Douglas Elliman of California 575 Madison Avenue New York NY 10022 conducted by an Corporation Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 12 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0001457. Published: Jun 18, 25. July 2, 9 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EYEWRIS at 220 W Montecito St Santa Barbara, CA 93101 Times 4 (same address) conducted by an Limited Liability Company Signed: Kenzo Singer Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 5 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0001395 Published: Jun 18, 25. July 2, 9 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BOONBANI at 2508 Janin Way Solvang, CA 93463; Alexandra Senechal (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Alexandra Senechal Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 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: 2020‑0001337 Published: Jun 25. July 2, 9, 16 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CROPLAND HEALTH at 321 N 2nd St Lompoc, CA 93436; CLH Retail Solutions, LLC (same address) conducted by an Limited Liability Company Signed: Richard L. Smith Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 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: 2020‑0001436 Published: Jun 25. July 2, 9, 16 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CROSSNOKAYE at 1216 State Street, 3rd Floor Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Crossno & Kaye, Inc. (same address) conducted by an Corporation Signed: Bryan Kaye, President & CEO Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 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: 2020‑0001423 Published: Jun 25. July 2, 9, 16 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ST. JOHN PUBLISHING COMPANY at 1220 Coast Vilage Rd., Ste.310 Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Beta Financial (same address) conducted by an Corporation Signed: J. Wesley St. Clair, President Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 2 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0001364 Published: Jun 25. July 2, 9, 16 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: COAST SIDE SKATES at 3400 Calle Real Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Candice J Clifford 2120 State College Blvd #1015 Anaheim CA 92806 conducted by an Individual Signed: Candice Clifford Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 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: 2020‑0001491 Published: Jun 25. July 2, 9, 16 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ESSENCE’TIALLY YOU at 819 Portesuello Ave. Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Melanie B Elkin (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Melanie Elkin Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 19 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: 2020‑0001517 Published: July 2, 9, 16, 23 2020.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LEFTWICH ARCHAEOLOGY at 236 Palo Alto Drive, Goleta, CA 93117; Brent Leftwich (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Brent Leftwich Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 4, 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: 2020‑0001385.

Published: July 2, 9, 16, 23 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SECRET BAO at 2720 De La Vina St Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Seung H. Lee 1062 Coast Village Road D2 Santa Barbara, CA 93108 conducted by an Individual Signed: Seung H Lee Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 24 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: 2020‑0001563.

Published: July 2, 9, 16, 23 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ONE STONE AUDIO at 835 Puente Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Forrest W Brewer (same address) Joseph Alderson 703 Carmel Ave Pacifica, CA 94044; Brian Morones 20352 Souder St. Perris, CA 92570; Nick Capimalis 27 Oval Rd. Oakland, CA 94611 conducted by an General Partnership Signed: William Brewer Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 18 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0001506.

Published: July 2, 9, 16, 23 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HAIR TODAY at 1333 De La Vina Suite C Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Sharon I Teitelman 4541 Oak Glen Dr. Unit E Santa Barbara, CA 93110 conducted by an Individual Signed: Sharon Teitelman Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 24 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: 2020‑0001560.

Published: July 2, 9, 16, 23 2020.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FRANCEWASREALESTATE at 1435 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Francoise Geneviev Crannell 698 Mission Canyon Rd. Santa Barbara, CA 93105 conducted by an Individual Signed: Francoise Crannell Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 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: 2020‑0001482 Published: July 2, 9, 16, 23 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NATURE’S RETREAT at 4862 Vieja Dr. Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Cathy C. Green (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Cathy C Green Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 19 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: 2020‑0001520 Published: July 2, 9, 16, 23 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FARMOUTUSA at 315 Meigs Road Suite A‑421 Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Richard Flores (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Richard Flores Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 18 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0001505 Published: July 2, 9, 16, 23 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: CHAD’S at 216 W Cabrillo Blvd Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Palm Beach Restaurants, Inc. (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Chad Stevens Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 19 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: 2020‑0001514 Published: July 2, 9, 16, 23 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BAILEY’S HANDCRAFTED FRAME at 511 E Gutierrez St., Suite I Santa Barbara, CA 93103; John C. Bailey 7336 Aviano Ave Goleta, CA 93117 conducted by an Individual Signed: John C. Bailey Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 24 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: 2020‑0001570 Published: July 2, 9, 16, 23 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TRANSFORMATION BUTTERFLY PROJECT at 307 E Main Street Santa Maria, CA 93458; Vicki C. Edralin 2460 N Baldwin Way Santa Maria, CA 93458 conducted by an Individual Signed: Vicki C. Edralin Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 17 2020.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0001501.

Published: July 2, 9, 16, 23 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: YESENIA’S BOUTIQUE at 4960 Carpinteria Ave Carpinteria, CA 93013; Martha Marquez (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Martha Marquez Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 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 John Beck.

FBN Number: 2020‑0001586. Published: July 2, 9, 16, 23 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE PERFECT CUT/EL CORTE PERFECTO at 4962 Carpinteria Ave. Carpinteria CA 93013; Martha Marquez 5445 Shamara St Carpinteria, CA 93013 conducted by an Individual Signed: Martha Marquez Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 4 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: 2020‑0001390. Published: July 2, 9, 16, 23 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: STATE STREET BEVERAGES at 439 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; ASB Liquor Inc. (same address) conducted by an Corporation Signed: Sarkis Abdulhai Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 19 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: 2020‑0001513. Published: July 2, 9, 16, 23 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PALMERA VIRTUAL SERVICES at 55 Ocean View Avenue, Unit 7 Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Stefanie O Colburn (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Sefanie Colburn Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 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 John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0001583.

Published: July 2, 9, 16, 23 2020.

PUBLIC NOTICES 01‑NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS CALLING FOR BIDS 1.OWNER: Montecito Union School District 2.PROJECT IDENTIFICATION NAME: 2020‑2021‑01: 363 San Ysidro Road Demolition Project 3.PROJECT LOCATION: 363 San Ysidro Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108 4.PROJECT DESCRIPTION: 1.

Removal and disposal of existing residence and carport complete with foundation.

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Capping and disconnection of existing utilities outside the area of work to be by owner.

3. Existing asphalt to be protected in place.

4. Existing trees are to be protected in place.

5. Patios, decks and associated hardscape elements to be removed by contractor.

6. Soils disturbed by demolition process to be compacted to stable condition.

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Any items to be salvaged are to be removed by the owner prior to demolition.

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Hazardous materials report to be provided by the owner. Removal of hazardous materials (if any) to be by contractor 9.Project to start on or by 7/27/2020 and to be completed by August 14, 2020 5.BID DEADLINE: Bids are due on Monday, July

20, 2020 not later than 2:00 p.m.

6.PLACE AND METHOD OF BID RECEIPT: All Bids must be sealed. Personal delivery, courier, or mailed via United States Postal Service and addressed to Montecito Union School District, 385 San Ysidro Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. ATTN: Virginia Alvarez 7.SCOPE OF WORK AND INSTRUCTIONS ARE AT: Montecito Union School District, www.montecitou.org and at, www.tricoblue. com 8.ALTERNATES: If alternate bids are called for, the contract will be awarded to the lowest bid price on the base contract without consideration of the prices on the additive or deductive items.

9.MANDATORY JOB WALK:Meet at Montecito Union School Office on July 7 at at 9:30 a.m. Attendance at the entire job walk is mandatory and failure to attend the entire job walk may result in your bid being rejected as non‑responsive. Contact OWNER for details on required job walks and related documentation.

10.This is a prevailing wage project. OWNER has ascertained the general prevailing rate of per diem wages in the locality in which this work is to be performed for each craft or type of worker needed to execute this contract.

These rates are on file at OWNERâs office, and a copy may be obtained upon request, or at www.dir.ca.gov. Contractor shall post a copy of these rates at the job site. ALL PROJECTS OVER $1,000 ARE SUBJECT TO PREVAILING WAGE MONITORING AND ENFORCEMENT

BY THE LABOR COMMISSIONER. It shall be mandatory upon the contractor to whom the contract is awarded (CONTRACTOR), and upon any SUBCONTRACTOR, to pay not less than the specified rates to all workers employed by them in the execution of the contract.

11.A Payment Bond for contracts over $25,000 and a Performance Bond for all contracts will be required prior to commencement of work. These bonds shall be in the amounts and form called for in the Contract Documents.

12.Pursuant to the provisions of Public Contract Code Section 22300, CONTRACTOR may substitute certain securities for any funds withheld by OWNER to ensure CONTRACTORâs performance under the contract. At the request and expense of CONTRACTOR, securities equivalent to any amount withheld shall be deposited, at the discretion of OWNER, with either OWNER or a state or federally chartered bank as the escrow agent, who shall then pay any funds otherwise subject to retention to CONTRACTOR. Upon satisfactory completion of the contract, the securities shall be returned to CONTRACTOR. Securities eligible for investment shall include those listed in Government Code Section 16430, bank and savings and loan certificates of deposit, interest bearing demand deposit accounts, standby letters of credit, or any other security mutually agreed to by CONTRACTOR and OWNER. CONTRACTOR shall be the beneficial owner of any securities substituted for funds withheld and shall receive any interest on them. The escrow agreement shall be in the form indicated in the Contract Documents.

13.To bid on or perform the work stated in this Notice, CONTRACTOR must possess a valid and active contractor’s license of the following classification(s) C‑21 No CONTRACTOR or subcontractor shall be qualified to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, subject to the requirements of § 4104 of the Public Contract Code, for a public works project (submitted on or after March 1, 2015) unless currently registered with the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) and qualified to perform public work pursuant to Labor Code § 1725.5. No CONTRACTOR or subcontractor may be awarded a contract for public work on a public works project (awarded after April 1, 2015) unless registered with the DIR. DIRâs web registration portal is: www.dir.ca.gov/Public‑Works/Contractors. html 14.CONTRACTOR and all subcontractors must furnish electronic certified payroll records (eCPR) to the Labor Commissioner monthly in PDF format. Registration at www.dir.ca.gov/ Public‑Works/Certified‑Payroll‑Reporting.html is required to use the eCPR system.

The following notice is given as required by Labor Code Section 1771.5(b)(1): CONTRACTOR and any subcontractors are required to review and

comply with the provisions of the California Labor Code, Part 7, Chapter 1, beginning with Section 1720, as more fully discussed in the Contract Documents. These sections contain specific requirements concerning, for example, determination and payment of prevailing wages, retention, inspection, and auditing payroll records, use of apprentices, payment of overtime compensation, securing workersâ compensation insurance, and various criminal penalties or fines which may be imposed for violations of the requirements of the chapter. Submission of a bid constitutes CONTRACTORâs representation that CONTRACTOR has thoroughly reviewed these requirements.

15. OWNER will retain 5% of the amount of any progress payments.

16. This Project does not require prequalification pursuant to AB 1565 of all general contractors and all mechanical, electrical and plumbing subcontractors

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17. BID PACKET will be provided at the job walk to attendees.

Advertisement Dates: June 22‑July 6, 2020 Virginia Alvarez 805‑969‑3249 X420 SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA KIM HAM, Plaintiff, VS. DAWN WILLIAMSON, individually, and as Person Representative of the Estate of Robert William Williamson, PHILIP M. NONNEMAN, and All Persons Unknown, Claiming Any Legal or Equitable Right, Title, Estate, Lien, or Interest in the Property Described in the Complaint Adverse to Plaintiffs Title, or Any Cloud on Plaintiffs Title Thereto, and DOES 1‑50, inclusive, Defendants, Case No. 18CVO4554 NOTICE OF INTENT TO SELL REAL PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE Date: July 17, 2020 Time: 10:00 am Dept: 4 Honorable Donna Geck Notice is hereby given that, subject to confirmation by this Court, on July 17, 020 at 10:00 am, or thereafter within the time allowed by law, the undersigned, as !ourt Appointed Referee, will sell at private sale to the highest and best net bidder, on ae terms and conditions mentioned below, all right, title and interest of the parties, in ae real property located in Santa Barbara County, State of California. The property is commonly referred to as 456 Valdez Avenue, Goleta, CA 93117, and legally described as Follows: LOT 21 OF TRACT NO. 102225, IN THE CITY OF GOLETA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, AS PER MAP RECORDED IN BOOK 59, PAGES 1 TO 7 INCLUSIVE OF MAPS TN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF SAID COUNTY. SUBJECT TO COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS; AND RIGHTS, RIGHTS OF WAY AND EASEMENTS FOR PUBLIC UTILITIES, WATER COMPANIES, ALLEYS AND STREETS; NOW OF RECORD, IF ANY, AND THAT CERTAIN DECLARATION RECORDED AUGUST 20, 1962 IN BOOK 1947, PAGE 649 AS INSTRUMENT NO. 34731 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, IMPOSING CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS ON SAID TRACT. APN#o77‑331‑o22 The sale is subject to current taxes, covenants, conditions, restrictions, .eservations, rights of way and easements of record, with any encumbrances of record to )e assumed by the purchaser.

The property is to be sold on an “as is” basis, except for title. Bids or offers are invited for this property. They must be in writing and will be eceived at the Law Office of Cristi Michelon Vasquez, court appointed referee, at 132 i’ past Figueroa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, or they may be filed with the Clerk of this ‑d’ourt or delivered to Cristi Michelon Vasquez, personally at any time after the first )ublication of this notice and before the sale, including presentation at the hearing on his matter in the above entitled court. The terms of sale are: Cash; the current pending offer is subject to inspection at he office of the referee.

The undersigned reserves the right to reject any bids.

Dated: Published Jul 2, 9 2020.

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