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COVER STORY

ARTS ADVOCATE An editor at the Independent since 2004, Charles Donelan splits his time between covering a wide range of arts and entertainment for the paper while teaching high school students at Laguna Blanca. He wrote this week’s cover story about the future of live performance in Santa Barbara.

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How’s teaching going during the pandemic? The pivot to remote learning was challenging in many ways. Fortunately, I had a great team supporting me, and my students responded to the crisis with grace and courage. In the end, we learned a lot and definitely discovered some things that we will keep when we are back on campus in person.

Top takeaway? The biggest lesson was that anything is possible with sustained individual attention. I am still Zooming with students almost every day.

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Santa Barbara Arts Community Pivots in the Pandemic (Charles Donelan) ON THE COVER AND ABOVE: Westwind Drive-in. Photos by Daniel Dreifuss.

NEWS.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 FOOD & DRINK .. . . . . . . . . . 22 Guy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 OPINIONS.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 The Restaurant Guy Voices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 A&E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Arts Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

OBITUARIES.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 THE WEEK.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 ODDS & ENDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology . . . . . . . . . . 27 LIVING.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 CLASSIFIEDS.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Living Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

What’s your hope for live arts? I’m optimistic by nature and look forward to discovering new ways of experiencing Santa Barbara and the arts. I’m spending more time than ever in, on, and under the water (see photo), and I’m embracing the opportunities presented by innovations in digital media.

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Funk Zone Memorial Honors Slain Black Americans

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anta Barbaran Leticia Resch organized the installation of a memorial in the Funk Zone last week that honors 216 Black people killed as a result of racial injustice or police brutality. A photo of each person, along with floral arrangements, was weaved into a chain-link fence on a vacant lot on the corner of Yanonali Street and Helena Avenue.

Many of the faces are of those more recently deceased, including Santa Barbara High graduate Meagan Hockaday, who was killed in 2015, but there were also faces of those killed decades ago, such as Emmett Till, the 14-year-old teen lynched in Mississippi in 1955. Resch, who is stepping up as one of the new leaders of the activist group Healing Justice: BLM S.B., said she expects they will add more photos in the coming weeks.

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Fallout Shelters for COVID? County Supes Set Aside Money for Rental Relief and Sears Medical Center

by Nick Welsh t may still be premature to say the sky has collapsed where COVID-19 is concerned, but the Santa Barbara County supervisors spent much of this Tuesday crafting as large and as bulletproof an umbrella as they could, in anticipation of more bad news in the months ahead.

With California and Florida neck and neck for the dubious distinction of posting the most new confirmed COVID cases, California Governor Gavin Newsom just hit the brakes on the state’s economic reawakening, ordering that all tattoo parlors, massage parlors, nail salons, barber shops, and hair salons be shut down, as well as all indoor dining and drinking establishments. In Santa Barbara County, Health Officer Dr. Henning Ansorg followed suit this Tuesday.

In response to predictions by the World Health Organization that the rate of COVID-19 infection will continue to spiral further out of control, the county supervisors approved spending up to $1.2 million to lease the empty Sears department store—72,000 square feet— located at La Cumbre Plaza to create space for 200 additional medical beds for non-COVID cases, freeing up space at Cottage Hospital for a possible influx of COVID patients.

For the time being, Cottage and other county hospitals have more than enough capacity to meet the existing demand, but Santa Barbara County’s rate of new infections has increased by 43 percent in the past two weeks. The number of positive tests has grown dramatically and is now 20 percent higher than the state threshold for what’s acceptable. Thirtyone people have died. It’s true only 8 percent of the county’s 4,140 positive cases are currently active — the vast majority having recuperated. And though 66 percent of the county’s

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medical surge beds and 63 percent of its intensive care units are currently occupied, most are not by COVID patients.

Beyond that, county administrators have also hammered out a deal with their counterparts in San Luis Obispo County to secure another 250 overflow medical beds in SEARS MEDICAL CENTER: County supervisors approved spending up to $1.2 million this Tuesday to lease the a pop-up medical center empty Sears building at La Cumbre Plaza to create space for 200 additional medical beds for non-COVID cases, already created on the freeing up space at Cottage Hospital for a possible influx of COVID patients.

Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo campus at no cost.

Williams also led the charge to earmark $2 million of the $46 That facility—built four months ago at a cost of $3 million million Santa Barbara County recently secured in federal CARES —would be more conveniently located for residents of Santa (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security) Act dollars— Maria, where roughly two-thirds of the county’s COVID designated to help small businesses and local governments defray cases have been documented. San Luis Obispo, which has COVID-related costs—for emergency rental-housing assistance been blessed with exceptionally modest COVID numbers to designed to help economically distressed tenants remain in their date, built a temporary medical facility capable of handling homes. Supervisor Joan Hartmann worried $2 million might be more than 900 patients. To date, it has yet to treat anyone. a little steep. Williams countered, “You can’t tell me when we just Barney Melekian, an executive administrator for the County got $49 million, we don’t have $2 million for our renters.” of Santa Barbara, likened the deal to “an insurance policy,” Despite a few emotional outbursts reflecting ideological differences between the supervisors, the vote was unanimous. stressing, “We have not come close to even needing it.”

To the extent there was any quibbling from the supervisors’ Even Supervisor Peter Adam, who typically votes against tenant dais, it fell to 1st District Supervisor Das Williams, who protection measures, supported it. As the sole supporter of wondered whether the Sears site could be used to provide President Donald Trump on a board of Trump bashers, Adam emergency housing for tenants who might find themselves took delight in stating, “I want to thank the president for sending displaced as the pandemic drags on. us this money.”

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Commercial Cannabis Banned in Rural Neighborhoods

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Supervisors Approve Amendments on North County Conditional-Use Permits, Setbacks, and Odor Control t’s been a painful lesson that it’s much harder to pare back than it is to loosen things up.”

The statement made by 3rd District Supervisor Joan Hartmann on Tuesday summed up the supervisors’ months-long struggle to reform the county cannabis ordinances after they were criticized for being too relaxed. At their height, licenses in Santa Barbara County accounted for 35 percent of all cannabis acreage in California.

The board voted to implement new restrictions affecting North County — the harshest is a total ban on commercial pot grows in areas zoned as existing developed rural neighborhoods (EDRNs). The move was controversial and preceded by dozens of growers and residents PUMPING BRAKES ON BUD: The board voted Tuesday to implement new restrictions affecting North County — the harshest from Tepusquet Canyon, an is a total ban on commercial pot grows in areas zoned as existing developed rural neighborhoods.

EDRN in North County, who either begged the board to adopt the ban “There is obviously a problem with traf- ogy. She said the smell of cannabis in fic on Tepusquet Road. It can’t support the area is “pervasive,” so she asked the or to reject it.

“After making my leap into the industry, vehicles making 249 trips in 10 days over board to consider lowering the threshold I never looked back,” Luis Gonzalez said. substandard roads,” said Renée O’Neill, a for requiring CUPs to grows larger than “For 12 years, I have completely devoted resident who has pushed in major neigh- 20 acres. my life to producing the highest-quality borhood efforts for stricter cannabis “I am here in my final plea to ask you cannabis in the place that I have considered reform. O’Neill presented a slideshow to to reconsider before making the Santa my backyard, the Tepusquet mountains. demonstrate the traffic issues.

Ynez Valley and the Sta. Rta. Hills area … We have the natural barrier of moun“The growers have created multiple a sacrifice area,” she said to her fellow tain ranges in between any other neighbor. problems in our community, and this is supervisors. Her plea did not gain tracWe believe it is the safest place to grow why there is so much contention,” she con- tion, as the supervisors voted to adopt cannabis.” tinued. “The conflict between neighbors all four of the amendments as staff preMany growers, including Gonzalez, said and growers has escalated as a result of the sented. She was the only dissenter. the new limits would be devastating for escalated, illegal, noncompliant, massive The other two amendments adopted them financially. Others also said that the expansion of industrial operations in our at the hearing require a 50-foot setback from cannabis cultivation areas to all rural area is perfect for growing cannabis small, rural community.” and that they feel the decision to further Aside from the cannabis ban in rural surrounding lot lines and that all canrestrict it is being made based on political neighborhoods, the County Planning nabis processing and drying be located Commission proposed three other ordi- within an enclosed building that utilizes pressure or fears of lawsuits.

“I don’t think people are coming nance amendments. One amendment sug- best available odor-blocking technology. together as a result of more restrictions,” gested more stringent permits for future The vote for the ordinance amend1st District Supervisor Das Williams said, North County cannabis grows called ments came at the final of three hearings though he ultimately voted to adopt the conditional-use permits, or CUPs, for can- on the Planning Commission’s amendban. “I don’t see the point in embrac- nabis cultivation that spreads over more ment recommendations. Though further ing restrictions when all I see in results than 50 percent of the property. Supervi- amendments will be made in the future, are more lawsuits, vitriol, hate, and more sor Hartmann quickly pointed out that it it is clear to supervisors that no matter what they choose, they will not make rumor, gossip, and innuendo.” wouldn’t apply in her district.

Public comment grew more heated “Unfortunately this does nothing in every constituent happy. when Tepusquet Canyon neighbors slipped our prime Sta. Rita hills,” Hartmann “I understand everyone has strong snide remarks into their comments, calling said. “Of the 19 projects proposed there opinions about this and that the public each other names like “NIMBYs,” “busy- involving about 720 acres, not one would has very strong opinions about this and bodies,” and “liar” when describing con- involve cultivation of over 50 percent of they are diverse and different and hard to flicts between growers and surrounding the parcel. So not one would require a reconcile,” 2nd District Supervisor Gregg neighbors. For those opposed to the grows CUP.” Hart said. “We’re making progress. Not in their neighborhoods, increased traffic Hartmann pointed out that with- to the degree that many, everyone would has become a central complaint after issues out a CUP, the properties wouldn’t be like to see, and probably too much for with odor. required to have odor-control technol- other people.” n

A fire broke out at a homeless camp in Goleta between the Los Carneros and Fairview exits of the southbound 101 on 7/13, County Fire Captain Daniel Bertucelli reported. Both ground crews and a helicopter responded to put out the fire. A significant amount of smoke blew across the freeway, Bertucelli said, limiting traffic to one lane. No injuries were reported, and the cause of the fire is under investigation.

Goleta officials closed the 30-year-old wooden footbridge at the northern end of Lake Los Carneros this week, citing extensive wood rot. Before it can reopen, “significant reconstruction or replacement” will be needed, they said. “We know this is an inconvenience to the many Lake Los Carneros visitors who enjoy using the wooden footbridge to view wildlife, connect with nature, and find a nice place to relax and reflect,” a message from the city reads.

“Visitors are encouraged to detour around the footbridge via Covington Way to the north or do a loop hike through the many alternative trails at the eastern and southern portions of Lake Los Carneros.”

CORONAVIRUS UC Santa Barbara is asking students to report information to Student Health services about a “COVID party” that was allegedly held in Isla Vista over the Fourth of July weekend. “With the number of confirmed cases in Isla Vista continuing to rise,” an email from UCSB to students reads, “we are concerned that some students are not taking the precautions necessary to mitigate the spread.” UCSB stated that students who violate public health orders or university policies on COVID-19 violate the Student Conduct Code and may face disciplinary action.

The Metropolitan Transit District (MTD) is conducting a community survey on public transit changes as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The survey seeks to understand the experiences of past, current, and future bus riders. It addresses the comfort level of bus riders following MTD’s pandemic response and allows respondents to rank its suspended bus lines in order of personal importance. To take the survey, which is available in English and Spanish, visit surveymonkey .com/r/F8X2MJX.

COMMUNITY Santa Barbara’s Pacific Pride Foundation (PPF) announced its new director this week. Kristin Flickinger brings with her two decades of work in the LGBTQ+ movement, including seven years with the Los Angeles LGBT Center, the organization said. Before that, she spent four years as the Southern California director of AIDS/LifeCycle, where she headed up a $25 million fundraising effort. “PPF is the largest LGBTQ+ center between L.A. and San Francisco,” said Board President Lynn Cunningham Brown.

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any Santa Barbara County residents took a deep breath Tuesday when the county extended the pandemic eviction moratorium that was set to expire this month through September 30.

“There are many people who can’t pay their rent,” 2nd District Supervisor Gregg Hart said. “Unemployment insurance that the federal government has offered and the state has offered is a broken system at best.”

Though the ordinance is meant to ease financial pressure and maintain stable housing for those who suffered an income loss to the COVID-19 pandemic, some supervisors were on the fence about others who might be taking advantage of the ability to put off rent. The ordinance explicitly requires tenants to provide landlords with written notice and

documented proof that their income loss is due to the pandemic.

The ordinance also requires tenants to eventually pay back the missed rent after the pandemic ends, leaving a yet-to-be-decided day of reckoning ahead. Fourth District Supervisor Peter Adam was the only supervisor to go against the ordinance for that reason.

“I have a fundamental problem with encouraging or telling people not to pay their rent,” Adam said. “I worry that at the end of this thing, everybody’s going to wind up with unpaid rent that’s due, and they are going to get themselves into a pickle because they’re not going to be able to come up with that much money.”

The full ordinance can be found at tinyurl .com/eviction-moratorium. —Delaney Smith

COVID Fallout Shelters cont’d from p. 4 Supervisor Gregg Hart expressed logistical misgivings whether the funds will still be on hand when tenants need it most. But with federal unemployment benefits set to expire in two weeks — with no follow-up relief measures yet in sight — Williams and Hart both agreed the real economic pain to be inflicted by COVID could be right around the corner. “This might be the cliff,” they both said.

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I’ve kind of been hoping I’d get it [COVID].

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For about 45 farm-labor-rights advocates affiliated with the organization CAUSE (Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy) who showed up to testify, however, that cliff is right now.

Farmworkers, brought to Santa Maria as part of a guest worker program known as H2A, are already feeling the impacts. Twenty percent of Santa Maria’s COVID cases are farmworkers, and Santa Maria residents make up twothirds of the county’s total caseload.

Farmworkers, one speaker testified, can’t pick crops via Zoom, and they can’t afford the luxury of staying home from work. Many large agricultural employers, the supervisors were told, forced sick employees to work.

Those that didn’t would be fired. Many live in cramped, dorm-like motel rooms — four to a unit — and then are driven to the fields in large vans. The opportunity for social distancing was nonexistent, and workers were not told of their rights to take sick time.

Longtime CAUSE organizer Hazel Davalos charged that a 51-year-old employee of Alco Harvesting named Leo Begario Chavez-Alvarado died after testing positive for COVID. His job, Davalos stated, was to drive workers from Mexico to Santa Maria to pick crops for a large agricultural company.

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He lived in a motel set aside to house workers for that company, she said. Cal/ OSHA, the federal Labor Department, and County Public Health were investigating the circumstances of his death, Davalos claimed, but she urged more aggressive inspections and greater local enforcement. Large companies, she charged, retaliated against employees who insisted on safe working conditions.

Supervisors Lavagnino and Adam — who runs one of the lager agriculture concerns in the county — took exception. Lavagnino said the numbers cited by CAUSE sounded worse than they actually were. Twenty-two percent of all jobs in Santa Maria, he noted, were farm jobs. The county clinics were totally free, and they don’t ask questions about legal status.

Given how crowded farmworker housing was — not to mention the bus rides to and from work — Lavagnino suggested the safest place for most farmworkers was out in the fields. “I don’t want us to laser focus in on just one group,” he cautioned. “There’s a lot of people out there suffering.”

While the supervisors took no official action, Williams “implored” Public Health officials to increase their presence while praising them for having stepped up their efforts already.

Public Health Director Van Do-Reynoso stated her department is now doing more enforcement — sending out notices of violation, for example — in addition to the strictly educational outreach it initially did.

It was not made clear, however, whether that enforcement was taking place now or if it was about to start.

Adam has argued against the quarantine, insisting it inhibits the development of natural immunity. “I’ve kind of been hoping I’d get it,” he stated.

Lavagnino had questioned public health officials about swap meets that take place at the Santa Maria Fairpark and whether they intended to enforce social-distancing protocols. The stalls are packed tightly together and people attending — many farmworkers — likewise. “If you want to get coronavirus,” he said to Adam, “this would be a good place to get it.” n INDEPENDENT.COM

Could COVID Permanently Cure the Overcrowded Jail?

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ne of the brightest silver linings of the otherwise disastrous coronavirus pandemic has been the dramatic decrease in the Santa Barbara County Jail’s average daily population, or ADP. Since midMarch, the jail’s ADP has been reduced by almost 37 percent from 900-950 people to 550600 people — the lowest Santa Barbara County Jail it’s been in decades — in order to minimize the risk of infection and transmission within the confined and congested facility.

This Thursday, July 16, the Board of Supervisors will examine whether this change could be made permanent. They’ll hear a presentation from Undersheriff Bernard Melekian, now an Assistant County Executive Officer. “The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on Memorial Day prompted a national outcry for greater racial and social equity, particularly in the field of criminal justice,” he wrote in his report. “In reviewing various aspects of the criminal justice system in the county, one of the most significant issues is the need to reduce the number of incarcerated people.”

Melekian attributed the drop in ADP to three main strategies — law enforcement agencies writing more citations in lieu of making physical arrests in the field; the District Attorney and Public Defender departments increasing the number of people being released under pretrial supervision, with and without electronic monitoring; and mental-health programs funneling more people to the crisis PAU L WELLM AN F I LE PHOTO

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stabilization and the sobering centers instead of jail.

Melekian also made special mention of the county’s relatively new co-response team, a deputy sheriff and behavioral wellness specialist who respond together to calls of persons experiencing mental-health crises.

“The program has been enormously successful,” Melekian said, noting that from March to May 2020 alone, the co-response teams responded to 759 calls, only 10 (1.3 percent) of which resulted in an arrest.

“The ADP reduction produced by the COVID response protocols has been clear and significant,” Melekian said. “What is less clear is the long-term public safety impacts of this reduction to the jail population.” While overall misdemeanors have dropped by 31.6 percent compared to the same time period last year, Melekian explained, certain types of felonies have risen in number, mainly larceny and auto theft, which jumped by 31.8 percent and 17.6 percent, respectively. Assaults and burglaries, however, fell by 12.5 percent and 26.1 percent, respectively. —Tyler Hayden

News Briefs cont’d from p. 5 our strategic plan to take the organization to the nex t level of growth, to make us the recognized leader for issues relevant to the LGBTQ+ population, and to broaden our programming to meet the challenging a n d d i ve r s e n e e d s o f o u r c o m m u n i t y.”

COURTS & CRIME An inmate worker on a laundry detail was arrested and rebooked into custody after briefly escaping from the Sheriff ’s laundry facility adjacent to the Main Jail, officials said on 7/11. Gerardo Vasquez Rivera, 19, of Oxnard was on the loose for approximately 40 minutes. Deputies searched the area and located Vasquez Rivera on Cathedral Oaks at Via Chaparral, where he was apprehended without further incident. Vasquez Rivera was originally arrested on May 11 for burglar y during a state of emergenc y, obstructing a peace officer, and possession of a loaded stolen weapon.

A man allegedly wielding a machine gun chased a woman and man dining together out of Los Agaves on Milpas Street on 7/9. Santa Barbara police arrived at the location at around 6:30 p.m., but the suspect had fled in a vehicle, reportedly leaving a loaded gun magazine behind. A restaurant employee who witnessed the incident said the suspect approached the female victim with the gun pointed down toward the floor, and everybody fled immediately. No shots were fired, and the police confirmed the suspect knew the female victim.

Detectives continue to investigate the incident.

Law enforcement chiefs countywide announced dispatchers are now able to receive texts sent directly to 9-1-1, stating that the ability to text 9-1-1 became especially important during the pandemic. The four largest cellphone service providers — AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless — are participating in the county’s program. The Sheriff’s Office notes that such texts should be limited to emergencies and include a location, and that voice calling should always be considered the first option when practical. n

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BE PREPARED: “Know that no matter where we land on August 18, we will need to be ready, we will need to be agile, and we will need to be fluid and pivot as conditions change,” said new superintendent Hilda Maldonado at Tuesday’s school board work session about the possible reopening of schools next month.

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by Delaney Smith eachers from the Santa Barbara Unified School District pleaded with the school board for remote-only instruction amid increasing county COVID-19 hospitalization rates Tuesday, citing fears that the physical classroom may pose more risks than remote learning. The board is scheduled to make its final decision on July 21.

“Most teachers look forward to meeting our students, but all I feel is anxiety,” Santa Barbara High teacher Maggie Light said.

Many teachers shared Light’s concern that the hybrid or fully open models depend on students and staff following safety protocols perfectly, which is unlikely.

Though surveys and public discussion in recent weeks have demonstrated strong parent support for reopening public schools this fall, dozens of teachers dominated the Zoom call meeting, imploring the board to start the new year remote-only.

The work session Tuesday was intended to garner more community input and learn more about the possible reopening of schools on August 18. The Zoom call, which included a panel of local health and social experts to answer board questions, drew nearly 900 viewers overall.

“With all due respect, this is not about the teachers; this is about the students there to learn,” said Maureen Wooten. “I have two children in Santa Barbara High School, and they deserve to go to school full time.… I fear for the mental health of these kids. The cure will be worse than the cause.”

Though most of the public spoke to advocate for one position or the other, boardmembers stuck to asking the panelists about the implications of either sticking with remote instruction or utilizing a hybrid model without stating a preference.

Most asked questions on behalf of parents.

“We have received dozens and dozens of letters for the last three days, and so many are concerned about one thing and one thing alone: How would we determine when someone goes home, teacher or student, and when do we allow them to return?” Boardmember Kate Ford asked.

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“What’s it like when people are sick, and how do we know when they should come back?”

Panelist Susan Klein-Rothschild with the Santa Barbara Public Health Department explained that if a child shows symptoms, tests positive for the virus, or was determined to be a close contact to someone else who contracted the virus, they will be immediately removed from the class. If the child tests positive, a letter informs the cohort of students and staff to quarantine for 14 days. Children can only come back after a doctor confirms they no longer have the virus.

However, Klein-Rothschild said that the turnaround time for lab test results is backed up throughout the state, which delays contact tracers from notifying close contacts of positive cases for days.

She said the public health department is providing the district with guidance charts that outline how to recognize symptoms and how to determine who is a close contact when a person is suspected to have the virus to notify the close contacts sooner as a best solution until faster testing is available.

Susan Klein-Rothschild was joined by panelists Melinda Cabrera, director of strategic partnerships for the United Way of Santa Barbara County; area pediatrician Dr. Dan Brennan; Suzanne Grimmesey, chief quality care and strategy officer with the Department of Behavioral Wellness; Kelly Moore, safety coordinator for the district; and Margie Yahyavi, executive director of the Santa Barbara Education Foundation.

It was moderated by Ellen Barger, assistant superintendent of the county education office.

The discussion was also the first official board meeting for the new superintendent, Hilda Maldonado.

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ram. It takes two strikes to breach the door. “Nice and slow,” Feller starts to say when, suddenly, Alcaraz opens fire at the officers from the top of an inside stairwell. After a moment, the team starts shouting, “Shots fired! Shots fired!” as Officer Justin Cruz drops to a knee and returns fire.

As they run to take cover in their armored vehicle, Alcaraz cumstances of the arrest affidavit. Alcaraz scored a 28; a score begins shooting at the group from a second-story window. of 25 or above means the SWAT team should be deployed to Once they reach cover, they shoot back. The officers said they couldn’t see Alcaraz clearly — the blinds were closed, serve the warrant, the assessment tool says.

Alcaraz was also unlikely to surrender without a fight, and there was a glare on the window — and sprayed dozens officials believed. “Two-striker per wife,” a handwritten note of rounds through and around the glass and walls.

The shooting stopped as quickly as it states. “Knew next strike would mean prison started. Not knowing if Alcaraz was still a or death.” threat, the SWAT team and other respondPolice commanders decided the safest way to arrest Alcaraz was to catch him alone at ing officers began to evacuate adjacent buildhome, before he could travel back to his other ings after checking each other for injuries. residence in Lompoc and out of their jurisdicNearby San Marcos High School was put on tion. They also wanted to move in quickly and lockdown, and Highway 101 was closed in quietly because Alcaraz was known to possess both directions. Three hours passed before a a police scanner that allowed him to monitor camera-equipped robot confirmed Alcaraz had been killed. He sustained two gunshot their radio communications. wounds to the chest and two to the head.

Detectives staked out Apartment 147 at 25 Camino de Vida and waited until Alcaraz’s Near his body lay spent bullet casings and wife, their four children, and his wife’s mother a .40 caliber handgun with a high-capacity magazine. had all left. At around 12:45 p.m., the SWAT Francisco Alcaraz team arrived and divided into an entry team in The Police Department’s shooting review a line outside the apartment’s front door and a containment board agreed with the DA’s Office that the officers were justified in using lethal force against Alcaraz. “In closing, Denteam around a corner of the building in case he ran.

What happened next was captured by Sgt. Andrew Feller’s brook said that if he hadn’t shot at the suspect, he was certain audio recorder. “Give it. Give knock notice,” he orders. Offi- the suspect would kill someone,” the board said. The rest of cer Aaron Denbrook bangs on the door, announces it’s the the SWAT team made similar statements.

Police Department with a search warrant, and orders Alcaraz to open the door three times. Almost immediately after Denbrook gives his last command to no response, Feller orders The Independent will publish these reports on police use-of-force Officer Bryce Ford to the front of the line with his battering incidents on a rolling basis as the records are made available.

by Tyler Hayden hat exactly happened on May 7, 2019, when Santa Barbara police shot and killed Francisco Alcaraz, 32, in an apartment off Turnpike Road? Why did a SWAT team, armed with M4 carbines and bulletproof shields, break down his door and within seconds fire 58 rounds? Why did police consider Alcaraz so dangerous and choose to confront him when and where they did?

Answers to these questions and others are contained among internal police records released to the Independent under a California Public Records Act request, including audio and video recordings of the incident. The Alcaraz materials align with information in a previously published finding by the District Attorney’s Office that the shooting was lawful, and they provide greater insight into the events and dynamics that led up to that day. The materials also dispel accusations by some in the community that officers had ambushed Alcaraz with guns blazing.

Alcaraz was well known to law enforcement, the files show. He was a documented gang member with multiple felony convictions and went by the street name “Stranger.”

In 2008, he was indicted in a countywide crackdown on organized crime called “Gator Roll.” At the time of his death, Alcaraz was wanted in connection with two recent shootings in the City of Santa Barbara and had been charged with attempted murder.

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students, faculty, staff, and alumni signed letters to Westmont College’s administration calling for action to address racism. In light of the Black Lives Matter protests sweeping the nation, three Black alumni (Brittany Bland-Boyd, ’18; Alesha Bond, ’20; and Brittany Bancroft, ’19) and three Black students (Miah Williams, ’21; Skylar Peterson, ’23; and Ebun Kalejaiye, ’23) speak up about their Westmont experiences involving racism and white supremacy that warred with their expectations of a Christian college.

What was your experience at Westmont as a Black woman?

Bland-Boyd: The administration shows little interest and instead places the work back on Intercultural Program leadership. They asked students of color to educate white faculty and administration on America’s history of white supremacy.

Westmont needs to embrace antiracism because it’s what Jesus would have done. Jesus was subversive, and he dismantled the system the Pharisees enforced. Westmont can no longer just talk about how bad racism is but must dismantle it from within.

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Brittany Bland-Boyd: Growing up in the

East Bay, it was a very diverse environment.

Coming to Westmont was a complete culture shock. I was often the only Black person in my classes, and I’d get excited anytime I saw a Black professor!

One of my most diverse classes was the Racial Justice series, but I became an encyclopedia for all things pertaining to my race. I’d get into heated discussions, trying to educate people on my basic existence and the rights I should have.

When race-related crimes would occur around our country, however, Westmont students would go about like it was another day. I couldn’t count on the administration to address these injustices or its own race-related issues.

There’s a reason why so few Black students are on that campus and why the retention rate is so low, and that reason is racism.

Ebun Kalejaiye: I have written articles

about racial justice for the school newspaper and participated in petitions for change. Students, staff, and faculty gave a positive response to my articles, but the administration simply ignores anything that doesn’t glorify the school. They only become interested when people outside the Westmont community are involved.

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Miah Williams: Only 2 percent of the entire student body

looks like me, but Westmont never reflects that in their promotional magazines or websites. My resident assistant has never looked like me, my professors have never looked like me, and not one person in the administration has looked like me. Westmont has been a constant reminder of how lonely it can truly feel on a campus that likes to use the word “diversity” but never implements it.

Skylar Peterson: When I go to events, it feels like they target

minority students for photo ops. It’s gotten to a point where my friends and I attempt to duck out of pictures so that they’re unable to tokenize us to push their image of diversity.

When I toured Westmont before I committed, they continually preached how diverse their campus was, but I remember feeling completely lost my first week on campus.

I grew up on the East Coast, where there’s more diversity.

With other Black people, you immediately have a shared experience. It was scary to see no one the first week who looked like me.

I was at a Westmont event when the n-word was uttered repeatedly by an older gentleman from the community. Not a single faculty member said anything; they acted like it hadn’t been said. The only Black professor in the room finally spoke up to condemn its use. It hit me really hard that the professors who are supposed to mentor and teach students could willfully ignore a word rooted in hate. They clearly have no concern for the safety of their minority students.

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administration at Westmont be an ally for Black students. Whenever a racial incident occurred on campus, administration would never respond or respond far too late. Anytime I or my colleagues brought racial issues to the forefront, we were met with more anger about the manner in which we talked about the issue rather than the actual issue itself.

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and faculty. How can I feel safe? My mind is at war between wanting a good education and wanting to prioritize my mental health and physical well-being. It seems to me that at Westmont you cannot have both.

Brittany Bancroft: Being a Black student was challenging,

but my most difficult experience happened after graduation.

I co-led a study abroad program in Cairo, where I experienced an egregiously racist act by an Egyptian. Reeling from shock, I turned to my three colleagues, two professors and another recent Westmont graduate. They belittled me and said I misinterpreted the situation. After many difficult conversations, they apologized, but my sense of well-being was stripped away. They then treated me dismissively, excluded me from most decision-making, and mocked me in my final performance review. Three months have passed since I reported the experience. The administration says it will be addressed in July.

Alesha Bond: When Black students and Westmont’s three

Black professors raise concerns of unacceptable behavior or racism or hate speech on campus, nothing is done. That silences us. Only within the Intercultural Program community and among other students, staff, and faculty of color do I feel respected.

As a Black student leader, I went above and beyond to prove I was worthy of respect — I knew that was not the case for white students. What I learned at Westmont is that a Black woman will not be as respected as her white peers.

What is the response when you advocate for racial justice?

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Bond: The administration believes it is

open to change — surface-level changes occur, like diversifying chapel speakers, lectures, and events on campus — but when it comes to structural changes, they drag their feet. Westmont seems to value our well-being but keeps us as tokens. Some staff and faculty care deeply, and Intercultural Programs does a phenomenal job giving Black students a chance to be heard.

Kalejaiye: Westmont does not value, protect, or prioritize the

well-being of their students of color. They claim to protect us from harm, when in reality, we need protection from them.

The school held a first-responders breakfast one morning and didn’t notify students. As I walked down to the Dining Commons, I saw police officers and firefighters. Even though I had obviously done nothing wrong, my first inclination was to skip breakfast. My community faces racial discrimination from the police force, and we’re raised to avoid any form of contact with the police.

Westmont is an educational institution. It should be aware of these things. I was too scared to enter my own dining hall.

How is that putting my well-being first?

Bancroft: Very little changed while I was a student or an

employee, but the potential is great if Black students’ concerns are addressed. I loved many aspects of Westmont, and I’ll always be grateful for the relationships, resources, and opportunities I was blessed with. My greatest hope is that Westmont becomes more thoughtful and compassionate and aligns itself more closely with its Christ-centered mission so more Black students can thrive without the existing n obstacles of racism and prejudice.

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oday, our culture and society stand at

a critical inflection point. As we grieve the current events that have galvanized our country’s anger, our attention must shift to issues of race as we realize that a fresh understanding and a different approach is necessary in every sphere of our society. At Westmont, we’re developing a greater capacity to listen by opening our hearts to the most aggrieved members of our society. We want to understand and empathize with those groups who have been left out and left behind. We want to be a community of learners that seeks to reconcile even as we experience the rich impact of God’s reconciling and transforming work on our own life. We’re working to develop a capacity to see the wider hurt in our society and the role we’ve played in it.

Concerns with the image of Jesus as portrayed in the stained-glass window in the Nancy Voskuyl Memorial Prayer Chapel have prompted us to take a fresh approach to this sacred space as well as all spaces on campus. The chapel was built to honor Nancy Voskuyl, who was 19 years old when she was tragically killed in a car accident in December 1959. She was the youngest daughter of Roger Voskuyl, then the president of Westmont. During the last few years, the chapel window has become a significant distraction to the chapel’s primary purpose as a place for prayer.

We’ve continued to move forward, working to address some of the most significant concerns.

Lisa DeBoer, professor of the history of art and chair of the art department, along with Telford Work, professor of religious studies, are working with others from diverse cultural backgrounds to broaden our understanding of the universal reach of Christ. We’ve also engaged outside religious architects and consultants.

Together, these and other campus voices are helping us craft a plan that will add a variety of images to the chapel to more fully educate us and represent the global life of the church and the various events that distill the life and impact of Jesus.

We’re also committed to curricular innovations that tell a broader story Gayle D. Beebe and incorporate all parts of our society and culture into course offerings at Westmont. Under the leadership of Provost Mark Sargent, appropriate faculty committees have approved a revitalized and repurposed ethnic studies minor. Several developments make this possible, including the ongoing hiring of people of color on the faculty, who are expanding and broadening our curriculum. Across the spectrum, professors from all disciplines are thinking anew about what it means to approach their discipline with fresh

eyes, attentive ears, and curious spirits, anxious to understand and learn the full implications of these new realities.

We’ll also offer college-wide implicit bias training. We all carry subconscious prejudice toward individuals and groups different from our own, and we’re mostly ignorant of our own implicit bias. Drawing on the research and expertise of our own Professor Carmel Saad, a social psychologist and daughter of Egyptian immigrants who fled religious persecution, we intend to launch a multiyear effort to provide relevant and essential training on implicit bias, diversity, equity, inclusion, and intercultural competence.

A great scholar and teacher, Professor Saad has gained national recognition for her work, and she consults with a variety of organizations, including a police department.

We’ll amplify our focus on diversity, global engagement, and intercultural competency. We’re committed to raising money for student scholarships to support diversity and global engagement.

In the past 14 years, the diversity of the student body has increased from 30 percent to more than 45 percent. We recognize that we still have a lot to do and a long way to go to get this work done.

We’re expanding resources available collegewide, and beginning this fall, we’ll strengthen staff working with intercultural programs by adding key advisers who can assist us. Carol Houston, a Black pastor who serves on our board of trustees, will come to campus weekly to work on issues of diversity, global engagement, and intercultural competence.

With her guidance, we’ll improve our capacity for conversations that matter on race, equity, and inclusion. We’ll also ask bridge-building alums from previous classes to get involved with student clubs on campus to provide intergenerational perspective and leadership. In addition, we plan to work with Arrabon, an organization headed by David Bailey, an African American. He advises a variety of organizations as they develop a capacity for cultural understanding and work across racial boundaries, helping them learn how to engage in ways that build trust and promote healing and draw on a biblical perspective.

We’re committed to doing better, and we will.

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Ken Mastinick 9/10/1940 - 6/26/2020

We are deeply saddened by the recent loss of our father, grandfather and great grandfather Geronimo “Jerry” Luna at 92 years of age. Originally from Texas where he was born and raised, he enlisted in the Army in 1948. He married his beloved wife Eloisa in 1957 and in 1962 he moved to Santa Barbara with his wife and 5 children. In the construction field, he helped build many homes in the growing housing tracts in Goleta where he quickly purchased his first home.

He was fortunate to retire from his profession and doing what he liked best, traveling with his beloved wife Eloisa, gardening and keeping up with his children and their families.

We have many wonderful memories of our father, most memorable included weekend camping – Red Rock, Cachuma being his favorites, coastal beaches of Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, and visiting the California Missions. An avid swimmer he enjoyed swimming laps from the wharf to East Beach. He was an avid boxing fan and would tell us stories of his boxing days as well and his love of playing his guitar.

Our father was predeceased by his wife of 55 years, Eloisa and son Ruben.

He is survived by his children and their families – Frances Ramirez and husband Frank, Rudy Luna and wife Mideya, Lucy Egger, and Carmen Severn and husband Jeff.

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Born in El Monte, CA, September 10, 1940, Ken was the son of Joseph & Dorothy Mastinick of Los Angeles. His family moved to Santa Barbara in 1959, where he lived the most of the rest of his life. He was always interested in cars & took apart & rebuilt them as a young man. He also surfed the local waters. In the early 60’s he went to work for JC. Penney Co. starting in the Santa Barbara store & then was transferred to Lompoc.

In 1967 he was a partner in a small sailboat which he kept in the SB harbor. He met his future wife, Judy there while flirting with her & her roommates. They dated for 1-1/2 years & were married at El Montecito Presbyterian Church Sept.

1, 1968. In the next few years they had two sons, Philip & Brian. Ken wanted to return to SB & did so, becoming the manager of the Pool Supply & Patio Center, eventually buying the business & the property.

He worked extremely hard building the retail business up, then becoming a swimming pool contractor, doing repairs & installations. He continued doing the contracting work after selling the retail business. One could say his passion was working hard & doing the best possible job he could.

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the commercial property & being a good landlord. He & his wife took a number of trips, loved RVing & seeing much of our country & Canada. They took their boys to as many national parks & scenic wonders as they could. Those were the best of times.

Ken passed away due to complications of Multiple Myeloma on Friday, June 26th. He requested that no services be held. He was a faithful, hard working and unique man. If anyone wishes to make donations in his name, please consider Ridley-Tree Cancer Center or Direct Relief International.

Dylan Corselius Willson 5/27/1986 - 7/14/2008

Once again life’s most difficult time carries with it a reminder of the beauty and depth of the heart of my son. No more words are needed. Dylan says it all here……

For the stiff glider he has no purpose but the will of wind and follows ends of breath in sky he pushes up naked but is not driven floating, falling, diving, drowning with frozen form snow foam and sterile the sky fills him I am this glider with no shoes on on the roof with breeze on the roof with the sun warm

by Dylan Thank you for always keeping Dylan present in the dancing flames of your candles and in the smiles in your hearts.

Gregory Allan Franks 6/26/2020

Gregory Allan Franks beloved son of Larry and Donna Franks died in Santa Barbara June 26 after giving joy to his family for over fifty-six years. Greg, a native Santa Barbarian, spent most of his life in Santa Barbara the city he loved . Greg’s primary education was gained in the Santa Barbara public schools : Peabody Elementary , La Colina JHS and San Marcos HS .While at La Colina he played trumpet in Mr.Vander Ark’s Advanced Jazz Band . During these years he was a member of the YMCA swim team and later a member of the water polo team at San Marcus .

Following high school Greg attended UCSB where he graduate with a degree in political science.

He was a handsome man with a with ready smile and made friends where ever he went. He had great interest in the human condition particularly the plight of the less fortunate. His other interest included the environment especially the ocean and wildlife and supported a number of organizations devoted to these concerns . He loved the ocean and took advantage of all it offered from swimming ,to fishing to surfing where he became highly skilled. He had a life –long interest in music and had a sizeable record collection.

Following graduation from UCSB Greg worked at various retail jobs , as he did through college, but

found the perfect place at Radon boat works . The job fitted well with his skills and allowed him to help build things he loved. He enjoyed the harbor scene and took particular pride in the fire boats he helped build which now serve at the Santa Barbara harbor, Port San Luis Obispo and the Fire Rescue Unit in Kauai. Unfortunately he suffered a back injury and multiple surgeries that followed never ended the pain. The injury prevented him from enjoying many of the activities he loved but despite the pain and later medical problems he courageously continued to find pleasure in life without complaint .As a diversion he turned to the guitar and found great pleasure in sessions with his long-time friend Ray Willig.

Now in some distant realm where the is no pain and birds sing songs of peace chord progressions from two 12 string guitars float on rarified air to the enjoyment of old and new -found friends.

Greg is survived by his parents and sister Wendy Brady of Corning CA ,nephews Kaleb and Karson Brady, nieces Kelli and Kylie Brady and Kacey Renaud ,cousins Christina and Michelle Zahalka, Steven Franks and Victoria Hughes .

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Ron Hill In the North County the majority of new

cases are from our essential agricultural workers who are housed “dormitory style.” This bug isn’t going away, and any community with a college should expect to see these numbers again in the fall as our educational institutions go back to business as normal.

Silvana Boggio Troccoli We experienced the lockdown in Spain, and believe me, U.S. citizens have no idea what a real lockdown is. We were only allowed to go for groceries and medicine for three months. When we slowly went back to what is the new normality, it meant mandatory masks and distancing. You didn’t see anyone on the streets without a mask except if running or biking. You could be fined up to 600 euros if caught not wearing one.

Spain has done a good job in containing the virus.

Now we are back in Santa Barbara. We are terrified at how fast the virus is spreading and how some believe wearing a mask takes away their freedom or are not concerned how it may affect others.

Anna Pilhoefer With schools reopening, do you suppose coronavirus cases will slow down despite these rising numbers? If adults won’t responsibly model how to take proper precautions, how do we suppose teachers will manage the surveillance of 10+ students in a confined classroom with poor ventilation, etc., etc. • Nancy Shobe Schools should not be reopening. Why on earth would we sacrifice our children and teachers?

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am deeply grateful to Reverend Dr. David Moore for his powerful critique of both the explicit and complicit actions and attitudes of our local white churches toward the black citizens who live in our midst. (“Dear White Santa Barbara Churches,” July 9, 2020) As the mother of an adult African-American daughter and the aunt of two African-American nephews, I can attest to their respective existential experiences of pain, anguish, and confusion. In addition, as a Jew, I can also confirm the presence of a condescending demeanor on the part of white

Christian fundamentalists who have let me know of their perception that the New Testament has supplanted the Old, thus negating the validity of the Hebrew religion and Jewish experience.

Peaceful and respectful coexistence between Christians and others is predicated upon white Christians fully embracing worldwide diversity in a spirit of genuine humility, receptivity, and a desire to truly walk in the shoes of our brothers and sisters.

—Elizabeth Araluce Mason, Goleta

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am part of a community action group that is working to rename San Andres Street in honor of Dolores Huerta. To inform everyone in the neighborhood about our project, we produced a flyer in English and Spanish that we posted along San Andres Street and the streets nearby. It explained that Dolores Huerta is a Latina hero who has devoted her life to helping the poor and disadvantaged. She worked side by side with César Chávez, and we renamed a street after him. Dolores Huerta equally deserves a street named after her.

The very same night these flyers were posted, someone came and ripped down every single one.

Why would anyone stoop to this level? A person who wishes to express their opinion can go to the City of Santa Barbara website and sign up for the Neighborhood Advisory Council to receive reports and meeting dates. They can email their point of view or call in to express their opinion in the public comment section of the meeting.

We each have a right to say what we think. What is not a right is ripping down more than 200 color posters and ripping off the efforts of concerned citizens trying to promote change.

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GAME ON: UCSB Arts & Lectures takes its popular summer film series from the Sunken Gardens at the S.B. County Courthouse to the West Wind Drive-In in Goleta.

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hree weeks ago, we planned this issue as a guide to the reopening of the arts in Santa Barbara. The speedy coronavirus raced ahead of our intentions, and, like everyone else, we had to reconsider what seemed more predictable than it really was. Santa Barbara’s arts organizations ordinarily plan far ahead, but COVID-19 has imposed a kind of paradox on them.

When in-person services shut down in mid-March, many people in the arts were already working on what they would be doing in 2022 and beyond. Within weeks, the whole intervening period was put into question; by the time two months of quarantine had passed, the death of George Floyd had sent protesters into the streets all over the country in numbers not seen since the 1960s. It was as though the virus, along with our wobbly response to it, had exposed the ugly stitches of institutional violence suturing an unhealthy and unequal society.

Fortunately, even a pandemic can’t stop artists, performers, and the organizations that support them from doing great work. To understand the ways in which the arts in Santa Barbara have been transformed by these extraordinary times, the Independent sent out a survey. Many people and organizations responded, and we plan to continue gathering that information and providing a place for it both in print and on Independent.com so that people can report and find out what’s happening.

The observations that follow were drawn from the survey results and from a score of recent interviews with various arts leaders. While we could not possibly aspire to a comprehensive account of such a diverse and dynamic topic, we invite our readers to become sources and to have their voices heard as we continue telling this deep, multifaceted story.

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Pull Up to the Show Once mostly consigned to the dustbin of entertainment history, the drive-in movie theater has, thanks to the panpan demic, experienced an abrupt and unexpected return to relevance. First the Rubicon Theatre in Ventura partnered with CBF Productions to open the Ventura County Fairgrounds parking lot as a live music venue; then, on Wednesday, July 15, at 8:30 p.m., UCSB Arts & Lectures moved their beloved free outdoor Summer Film Series from the Santa Barbara County Courthouse Sunken GarGar dens to the West Wind Drive-In in Goleta, featuring the film A League of Their Own, starring Tom Hanks as the coach of an all-female professional baseball league in 1943.

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this season caters to all ages with “Game On,” a sports film theme. Patrons are invited to set up chairs around their cars, but they are also required to wear masks and observe social distancing. The next film is the ever-popular The Karate Kid on Wednesday, June 22, and the series continues on Wednesdays through August 19. Whether this impromptu solution can revive the intense loyalty that grew up around the screenings at the courthouse is anybody’s guess, but there’s no question this is one of the biggest examples yet of thinking outside the indoor box. See artsandlectures.ucsb. edu for the full schedule.

For those willing to drive a few extra miles and spend money, the Rubicon’s concert series at the fairgrounds in Ventura presents an attractive option. There are four more events scheduled, each of them running for three nights at

PINTS FOR PRESS The Santa Barbara Independent Pints for Press presents: “New Theater Now” Wednesday, July 22, 7 p.m., live on Zoom. Join Indy Executive Arts Editor Charles Donelan for a panel discussion about the ways in which area arts organizations are responding to the pandemic and to the increasing public awareness of systemic racism in American culture. Participants include Ensemble Theatre Company’s Jonathan Fox, Out of the Box Theatre Company’s Samantha Eve, On the Verge’s Kate Bergstrom, Lit Moon Theatre Company and Westmont College’s John Blondell, UCSB’s Irwin Appel and Risa Brainin, PCPA’s Mark Booher, and SBCC’s Katie Laris. See independent.com/pintsforpress for details.

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8 p.m., offering a total of 12 opportunities to experience a 75-minute concert performed on a raised stage platform, bounced to four giant LED screens, and audio broadcast to your car’s radio. Look for some very well-known special guests to join Jim Messina when he takes the stage there August 17-19. See rubicontheatre.org. rubicontheatre.org

Open On-Site Now Art galleries like Sullivan Goss and outdoor facilities such as Lotusland and the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden have been able to reopen by limiting the number of people admitted at any one time and observing safety protocols. Several dance studios, including the Dance Hub and the Santa Barbara Centre for Aerial Dance, continue to offer in-person classes by observing social distancing. The Dance Hub reports benefiting from strong interest among its members in virtual classes, and the Centre for Aerial Dance was among the first organizations to record expressions of artists’ responses to the pandemic in a series of short videos called “body/antibody.”

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Coming Soon The Santa Barbara Historical Museum has been busy presenting free online talks and docent-led children’s lessons online. They plan to reopen in person on July 25 with a free outdoor exhibition on the history of Fiesta. The Santa Barbara Museum of Art reports that its popular (and free) Summer Art Camps were filled in record time this year despite the fact that they must be offered virtually on Zoom.

The SBMA also delivered hundreds of art kits to children in Santa Barbara and Santa Maria that include art supplies and coloring pages featuring images of works from the permanent collection. They look forward to announcing their official reopening dates for on-site visits on July 22. In the meantime, see sbma.net/events/sbmaathome to learn more about their rich virtual offerings.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara will also be open again as soon as the governor’s office issues its next set of guidelines. The Genevieve Gaignard show Outside Looking In, which opened right before the shutdown, has been extended so that it can again be visited by the public.

The new Museum of Sensory & Movement Experiences located in La Cumbre Plaza plans to open its doors for the first time this summer. Director Marco Pinter describes this innovative space as “a new way to experience art completely,” yet he also assures me that despite the emphasis on interactivity at MSME, contact with common surfaces is not required to enjoy these startling displays, many of which were developed by graduates of UCSB’s Media Arts and Technology program.

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eventually allow more flexibility when the time comes for a gradual return to capacity. At the Granada, which is home to the Santa Barbara Symphony, CAMA, Opera Santa Barbara, the Music Academy of the West, and the State Street Ballet, among others, reopening continues to be a big question. At this time, both the Santa Barbara Symphony and Opera Santa Barbara have events scheduled there for as early as September and October 2020. In-depth, recent conversations with both Nir Kabaretti of the Symphony and Kostis Protopapas of Opera Santa Barbara revealed the extent to which Santa Barbara benefits from extraordinary leadership in this regard. Expect to hear more very soon from them, and from Rodney Gustafson of State Street BalBal let, about how some of our city’s biggest locally produced shows will go on.

when I turned to the area’s arts education programs. It seems that when it comes to the much-discussed pivot to remote learning, our educational institutions are providing a multitude of vivid and engaging examples. These programs are so elaborate and so successful that they deserve entire sections devoted to extolling the many virtues of what they have managed to do in the last three months.

MARLI: The Music Academy of the West’s Online Season: When I last reported on the Music Academy of the West’s MARLI program (independent.com/2020/04/29/ music-academy-creates-remote-learning-institute), it was in the planning stages. Since then, this four-week virtual version of our city’s most ambitious music education program and festival has blossomed into one of the web’s most impresimpres sive and joyous classical music experiences.

Thanks to the talents of the academy’s faculty and fellows, and to an enormous effort on the part of the staff, participating musimusi cians around the world received technical assistance, including special equipment kits, and that has allowed them to not only stay in regular contact with their teachers —Nir Kabaretti, Music Director, but also to begin producing spectacular Santa Barbara Symphony online content.

Online content advisor Joyce Kwon, whose choral/solo arrangement of the song “(Sometimes I Feel Like a) Motherless One encouraging insight I gleaned from Kabaretti and Child” can (and must!) be seen here, has been working tiretire Protopapas is that Santa Barbara, thanks to its robust com- lessly since June to support the development of artist-driven munity support and its optimal size — not too big, like video productions like her own. Kwon put me in touch with Broadway and the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and Gabrielle Pho, a returning MAW fellow who plays the horn, not too small either—may lead the nation in conceiving and who is sheltering with her family in Utah. Pho is working and executing safe reopening plans. As Kabaretti pointed on a video performance that will feature her playing a section out, “the word ‘local’ means more now” that musicians can- of From the Canyon to the Stars by Olivier Messiaen that’s not travel so freely, and, as Protopapas asserted, “no one can titled “Interstellar Call” outdoors in Utah’s Bryce Canyon. keep you safer than a stage manager.” Wise words from two Messiaen wrote the work after a visit to the state, and he comveterans of some of the most intricate and highly organized posed it as an elegy for a dear friend. Pho, who recently lost her uncle, an aerospace engineer who died at the young age events in all of the performing arts. of 55, plans to memorialize him and to celebrate Messiaen’s visit to the American west with this unique video offering.

For Kwon, the support of the MARLI technical staff and Education to the Rescue the inspiration provided by the fellows have come together At the same moment when the vexed issue of schools to create something new in the classical music world. reopening is making so much news, I am delighted to report “These artist-driven videos make the music more accesthat many of the brightest spots in this research appeared sible,” she told me. Personal storytelling by the individual COURTESY

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musicians gives listeners a porous surface through which to experience the music more intimately. Digital production skills are now compulsory for young musicians, according to Kwon, and with live in-person performances prohibited, the current situation “calls for unprecedented approaches.”

At the same time that MARLI is providing young musicians with the tools to go global, the academy’s grant-making Alumni Enterprise Awards program has been supporting the efforts of musicians who seek to make a difference in the world beyond the concert hall or the web. One recent morning, I spoke with violist Molly Carr (MAW ’07) and pianist Anna Petrova (MAW ’17) from their campsite in Jackson, Wyoming, about Novel Voices, the debut album the duo just released as part of their Refugee Awareness effort. Thanks to receiving an Alumni Enterprise Award, the pair has spent the past two years traveling the world and visiting refugee camps where they play music, conduct interviews, and provide moral support to displaced people.

The album takes its name from a haunting three-movement composition by Fernando Arroyo Lascurain that incorporates sounds and musical idioms that Carr and Petrova encountered on their trip. In addition to their work in support of refugees, in April, the duo began livestreaming one-on-one concerts to patients hospitalized for COVID. While a full report on the whole range of MARLI would require another whole story longer than this one, no account of the program would be complete without mentioning how easily you can enjoy it from home. The Music Academy posts a new video online every day at 5 p.m., and all of it is worth watching. To get started, head for the “Concert Hall” section at musicacademy.org musicacademy.org,, which features the vocal fellows in The Many Adventures of Hansel and Gretel, Gretel the brass ensemble in Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man,” and the festifesti val orchestra playing Haydn’s London Symphony.

Symphony These performances received an extra helping of studio magic on their way to the web, and they represent the state of the art in the recordrecord ing, mixing, and presentation of music made by ensembles of musicians in widely separated locations. From every point of view—technical, musical, and emotional—they they will blow you away with their virtuosity and kinetic sizzle.

MARLI AND THE MOUNTAIN: Horn fellow Logan Bryck performs in the Music Academy of the West video for Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man.”

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Theater Journeys to Zoom and Beyond: As a dedicated theatergoer, I was understandably bereft when things shut down. I had been looking forward to so many of the upcoming shows, such as Ensemble Theatre Company’s American Son, and none of them were happening. Since that time, however, live theater online through Zoom and other streaming technologies has flourished, and Santa Barbarans are in the vanguard of the movement.

Within the first few weeks of lockdown, UCSB’s theater department began using Zoom to present plays from its Launch Pad program. Soon the elite cadre of playwrights who have benefited from Launch Pad’s development process had banded together to write a series of short pieces expressly designed for the nascent medium. Launch Pad founder Risa Brainin rallied her troops and gave the university’s BFA students an incredible opportunity to show their talents when the 24 short plays premiered in one marathon day on June 6.

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Next, UCSB theater department chair Irwin Appel found an outlet for his energies as director and actor with Arizona’s Southwest Shakespeare Company. Appel directed three full Shakespeare plays while acting in one and appearing in multiple roles in a fourth. By the end of the school quarter, including class work with his UCSB students, Appel had directed an astonishing five full Shakespeare plays on Zoom in a period of a little over two months.

Another distinguished area theater professor, John Blondell of Westmont College, also found inspiration in the new medium, and he created a marvelous version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya called Vanya in Quarantine with actors from all over the world meeting simultaneously on Zoom and streaming the results on Facebook Live.

Blondell followed that with A Midsummer Night’s Quarantine, a short film that was edited together from footage that each of the actors recorded separately. That short film is still available at vimeo .com/432935077.

Back at UCSB, other faculty members such as Anne Torsiglieri and Michael Bernard also helped their MFA students create amazing work throughout this period of desperate uncertainty.

What Matters Now What’s driving this outpouring of theatrical creativity? The answer is simple and refreshingly positive. What these professors of theater have in common with one another, and with the faculty at the Music Academy, is their commitment to giving their students whatever they need to become the next generation of great performing artists.

Whether that’s through rehearsals and theaters and costumes or by performing online from makeshift sets in their childhood bedrooms, they will still get to do meaningful work in the present moment.

With that in mind, consider one more promising development onthevergefest.org), the onthevergefest.org from the time of COVID. On the Verge (onthevergefest.org), upstart summer theater festival founded by Kate Bergstrom, Riley Berris, Jessica Ballonoff, and Josiah Davis, and employing a cadre of students, teachers, and local talent, has been operating for several years using alternative models of producing and space to make world and regional premieres of new plays. From humble beginnings, these young artists created a safe space for truly inclusive theater in Santa Barbara. By prioritizing female, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ perspectives, and by producing work by emerging playwrights such as Roxie Perkins, Michael Perlman, and Thais Francis, they remade the theater experience here at a grassroots level. In addition to new play development with their OTVReads initiative gearing up for next summer, OTV is currently focused on the urgent work of audience engagement in social justice. Their OTVAmplifies series, a sequence of virtual town halls intended to boost Black voices, has its next virtual meeting on July 29. The timing could not be better. n

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Drive-In Movie Mondays: Back to the Future Watch 1985’s COURTESY

ArtSEE: 6th Annual Abstract Art Collective Virtual Exhibition This show at Bronfman

7/16: Virtual Art Hour Children

7/20:

FRIDAY 7/17

7/16-7/22: Art at the JCC Presents

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MONDAY 7/20

Volunteer Opportunity

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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Back to the Future about Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), a 17-year-old high school student who is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean.

Music and entertainment will be provided before the movie, which includes prizes for the best car and costume. Proceeds will go toward One805, providing funding for first responder groups. Visit the website for social distancing guidelines and pre-sale ticket information. Gates open: 7:30pm, screening: 8:30pm. Goleta West Wind Drive-In, 907 S. Kellogg Ave., #3833, Goleta.

Donation: $50 or more/car. Rated PG.

Carpinteria Middle School (June 16-Aug. 14)

S.B. Central Library

5351 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria 12:30-1:30pm

40 E. Anapamu St. 11:30am-12:30pm

Canalino Elementary School (June 16-Aug. 14)

565 Atterdag Rd., Solvang 12:15-1:15pm

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.

Visite el sitio web para obtener más información y un mapa.

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sbunified.org/lunch-services-during-closure Breakfast and Lunch Service (11:30am-1pm)

TUESDAY 7/21

Monroe Elementary Dos Pueblos High School San Marcos High School (off Hollister) Santa Barbara High School (flagpole) La Cumbre Junior High La Colina Junior High Goleta Valley Junior High Las Flores Preschool (at Haley and Bath streets)

WEDNESDAY 7/22

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.

Tampoco se necesita registrar para poder participar. Si va a conducir, te traerán losalimentos embol embolsados hasta usted. Si va llegar caminando por favor manténgase a seis pies de distancia de los demás.

Llama (805) 681-1200 o envíe gusd@goleta.k12.ca.us gusd@goleta.k12.ca.us. goleta.k12.ca.us/departments/food-services

El Camino Elementary

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Isla Vista Elementary

5020 San Simeon Dr.

Goleta Valley Community Ctr.

6875 El Colegio Rd., Goleta

7686 Hollister Ave., Goleta

5679 Hollister Ave., Goleta

555 N. La Patera Ln., Goleta

Ellwood Elementary

Todos los estudiantes de inglés pueden mejorar su habilidades de conversación en Inglés todos los miércoles. Venga y practique el inglés en un espacio informal. Por favor regístrese para recibir un código de acceso a la reunión virtual. All English language learners can improve their English conversation skills every Wednesday. Come practice in an informal setting. Register to receive the virtual meeting code.

Free/ . Call/llama Call/llama (805) 4:30-6pm. Free/gratis 654-5619.

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

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Grupo Virtual de Conversación en Inglés / Virtual English Conversation Group

23 S. Canada St. 4-4:20pm.

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)

munity is invited to this virtual event to celebrate 10 outstanding entrepreneurs selected from 30 finalists and Lynne Tahmisian, president of La Arcada Investment Corporation, as the recipient of the 2020 Rock Star: Life Achievement Award. 4-5:30pm. Free.

7/22:

Supper Service Eastside Locations:

Adams Elementary Franklin Elementary Harding Elementary

7/21: Women’s Economic Ventures (WEV) 10th Anniversary of the Spirit of Entrepreneurship Awards The com-

Civil Discourse

Solvang Elementary

1480 Linden Ave., Carpinteria 12:30-1:30pm

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THURSDAY 7/16

7/22: Virtual Pints for Press with Charles Donelan: New Theater Now Join Santa Barbara Independent Executive Arts Editor Charles Donelan for a panel discussion with artistic directors about the ways in which area theater companies are responding to the pandemic and to increasing public awareness of systemic racism in American culture.

Participants include Jonathan Fox, Samantha Eve, Kate Bergstrom, John Blondell, Irwin Appel, Mark Booher, Katie Laris, and Risa Brainin.Visit the website for the Zoom link.

7pm. Free.

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La Patera Elementary

S.B. Botanic Garden Is Open to All Guests can once again explore, discover, and be inspired by the diversity of California’s native plant communities, with members having an extra hour of access 9-10 a.m.

Measures are in place to ensure the safety of visitors such as mandatory masks, frequent sanitation of high-touch surfaces, and hand-sanitizing stations at all entrances and restrooms. Visit the website for social distancing guidelines. Fri.-Tue.: 10am-5pm.

S.B. Botanic Garden, 1212 Mission Canyon Rd. Free-$16. Call (805) 682-426.

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LINDSAY SKUTCH

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Health

Meet the

Lavender Lady FULFILLED: “My life is … eclectic,” said Melissa Broughton. “Bunnies, writing, lavender, and mental health work. And yet, it really all makes crazy, amazing sense.”

strong and hardy. “I think I relate to the properties of lavender and its resiliency,” she said. “That’s why I love it so much.”

With her harvest, and as a licensed esthetician, Broughton makes oils, soaps, hand sanitizer, and other pleasant-smelling things. She sells them at the Route One Farmers Market in Vandenberg Village every Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and she intentionally keeps her price points low so everyone can experience her products. Broughton appreciates the small-town friendliness of the North County community, especially her regular customers. “I love them to pieces,” she said. One recently brought her their meatloaf recipe.

As a relative newcomer to the agricultural art of lavender growing, Broughton is still experimenting with her technique. She’s narrowing down the best times to harvest, the most efficient way to distill, the right conditions for drying, and so on. Each batch is meticulously documented in a log book. But she’s not in it for the money. She just likes seeing people’s faces light up when they breathe in the health-giving scent.

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, she’s even started handing out small satchels for free just to brighten people’s days. “It’s instant joy,” she said. “It’s like I’m giving away money or something.”

—Tyler Hayden

Follow Broughton on Instagram at @lavender_naps and @ thelavenderproject2020.

Sports Foresters Player of the Week:

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econd baseman Jace Jung did everything right this week to earn Foresters Player of the Week honors. He hit an impressive .571, scored 12 runs, and knocked in nine. He had homers in both ends of a doubleheader and stole three bases. He also played sterling defense, making several diving stops and taking part in three double plays. Perhaps Jace’s highlight moment was scoring the tying run in a thrilling Foresters comeback 3-2 win over Santa Maria on Saturday. Jung heads back to Texas Tech in the fall to continue his baseball career. n

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y day, Melissa Broughton works for the Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, managing two dozen school-based therapists. By night and weekends, she’s the Lavender Lady, or the Bunny Lady, depending on who you talk to.

Broughton recently published her second children’s book illustrated by Santa Barbara artist Mary Harrison. The first, Sleepy Bunny, is the true story about her pet Amos, who liked to eat lavender and take extremely long naps. (Parents appreciated the subtle messaging to enjoy naptime.) Bunny Colors, now available at Chaucer’s Books along with lavender-filled sachets, is a fun lesson in vocabulary and, of course, colors that was inspired in part by Broughton’s new big-eared pal, Leo. Leo was a rescue from BUNS (Bunnies Urgently Needing Shelter) who’d had a tough go of it. He was missing a chunk from one ear and needed surgery to remove all of his overgrown teeth. “And yet, he’s okay,” Broughton said. “I thought he represented kids who may be picked on for various reasons, and that he could be a character to model good behavior in recognizing and appreciating differences.”

Leo, Broughton, and the lavender she grows all have something in common —they’re remarkably tough.

Broughton grew up the daughter of a small-town rancher in Colorado who struggled for years with severe alcoholism, and the 200 lavender bushes she tends to at Robert Rae Ranch in Buellton are just as

Meredith Tynes (center) and her children

Porch Portraits

Support Habitat for Humanity

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abitat for Humanity of Southern Santa Barbara County (Habitat) has launched a creative fundraiser, Porch Portraits, which gives residents the opportunity to have a portrait taken outside their home while supporting this worthy nonprofit. In exchange for a donation, families get a portrait taken by a professional photographer, and Habitat raises funds for its homeownership and home repair programs.

Professional photographers, who are donating their services, include Lindsay Skutch, Christian Seaton, Ken Pfeiffer, Michael Elkington, and Lisa Penny Sherratt. While wearing masks and at a social distance, they take portraits outside donors’ homes. So far, it has been popular with birthday, graduation, and anniversary portraits and even photos of the pet pooch. One generous donor gave $5,000 and gifted photo opportunities to neighbors. Reservations for portraits are being accepted through July. A minimum suggested donation is $100.

Habitat’s three main sources of income have taken a huge hit this year because of COVID-19: (1) its annual gala and other planned fundraisers had to be canceled; (2) its donations from individuals and foundations have fallen as donors face economic uncertainty and donate to COVID relief efforts; and (3) its ReStore has been shuttered since March. Nevertheless, Board Chair Paul Wilson related that the need for new affordable housing and home repairs for low-income people is still pressing.

Habitat partners with low-income individuals to build homes and make repairs for low-income residents. Recipients build alongside volunteers and purchase their home with a mortgage capped at 30 percent of their income. To qualify, homeowners must make between 40 and 80 percent of the area median income. In its 20 years, Habitat has built 22 new homes for 84 people and helped repair more than 150 homes.

Wilson describes Habitat’s business model as “building something for $10 and selling it for $3.”

Montecito Bank & Trust VP Meredith Tynes, who had a Porch Portrait done, shared, “In this time of chaos and ambiguity, the image represents us through this journey. And reminds me that I have much to embrace and be grateful for each and every day.”

For more info about Habitat, including Porch Portraits, or to make a donation, go to sbhabitat.org or email elizabeth@sbhabitat.org. elizabeth@sbhabitat.org —Gail Arnold INDEPENDENT.COM

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FOOD &DRINK makers

MISSION ROSE PASTA’S PANDEMIC RISE

CHIEF NOODLER: After more than two decades of making pasta, Michael Glazer is now selling his noodles, cream sauces, flavored butters, and more under the name Mission Rose Pasta.

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ith just organic semolina flour and water as his

recipe, Mission Rose Pasta founder and chief noodler Michael Glazer is really not sure what makes his fusilli, casarecce, and dozen other pastas so delicious.

“It’s love, Matt, it’s love,” he tells me over the phone with an audible smile. “I have no idea what makes it good. But it’s time-tested. It’s been the same process for years and years and years.”

Those of us lucky to know Glazer and his wife, Val Selvaggio, fell in love with their fresh, handmade noodles years ago. Many others got a taste through his pop-up lunches and dinners at a commercial kitchen in the Funk Zone and the former Goodland Kitchen in Old Town Goleta.

Fans who go back to the glorious Isla Vista days of the late 1990s would recall the earliest incarnation, when Glazer owned Pasta 101 at the corner of Embarcadero del Norte and Seville, a bottlecap’s toss from SOS Liquors.

But only during the COVID-19 pandemic, when we’re mostly eating what we prepare ourselves at home, did Mission Rose Pasta mature into an official packaged goods company. Renting space in Duo Catering’s East Haley Street kitchen, where he houses a brand-new noodle machine that he bought after 20-plus years of using his original one, Glazer now offers a pasta club for weekly or monthly deliveries. The everchanging products — including about 15 different shapes as well as creams, butters, and sauces— can be ordered through Farm Cart Organics, Local Harvest Delivery, Farm Box Collective, and Plow-to-Porch, and there are pickup stations in the works, too.

The food business runs deep in Glazer’s blood. Growing up in Philadelphia, his family owned a food distribution warehouse. “We had this massive building in a super gritty, gnarly part of town,” he explained. “It was a playground for us.” He recalls hanging with the ex-cons who worked

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the conveyer belts and laughing at the less-than-flattering graffiti about Uncle Joel scrawled on the bathroom stalls.

In 1993, he moved to Santa Barbara to attend City College, but really to see more Grateful Dead shows. Living on Del Playa in I.V., he tended to a massive garden, often with Selvaggio at his side. “Sourcing food from that garden was the beginning of the movement for me,” he explained, “understanding how to grow your own food and then enjoying the rewards and flavors from that.”

He started working at Pasta 101 in 1996 and then bought the business in 1998, but he openly admits that lots of drinking led to its demise by 2001. (He’s long since traded booze for a running habit.) He then worked at “almost too many restaurants to count and remember,” including a turn at Epiphany on West Victoria Street with Chef Michael Goodman, who’s since become an architect. “That was definitely a profound six months, or however long it was,” said Glazer, who considers that his first fine-dining work. “It helped shape who I became and even who I am now.”

In 2002, the couple moved to Georgia, where Glazer attended culinary school while also working at Woodfire Grill and the RitzCarlton in Atlanta. “It seemed like that hands-on experience was far outweighing the classroom knowledge,” said Glazer of why he didn’t get a degree.

They came back through Santa Barbara on their way to a wedding in 2006, and Glazer recalls visiting the Tuesday farmers’ market on State Street. “We yearned to get back,” he said, so they did that year.

He was the opening chef at Couchez, the bizarre eatfancy-food-and-drink-cocktails-on-beds concept that didn’t last long in the Funk Zone. “Yeah, I was part of that disaster,” admitted Glazer, who then got another short-lived gig at the Four Seasons Biltmore just as the recession was

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rearing its head. “I don’t stay very long at jobs,” he said. “I get what I can get out of it, and then move on.”

In 2010, after taking a year off to watch his newborn son, Luca, Glazer started making pasta again at a comcom mercial kitchen on East Yanonali Street—much of it went to Los Angeles caterers—while also serving lunch and dinner. That was the official birthplace of Mission Rose Pasta, but he moved to the Goodland Kitchen in Goleta in February 2018. Pasta was the core of his weekend dinners there, too, in part for economic reasons. “I never knew what was going to happen at dinner,” he said. “Maybe there’d be two people, maybe there’d be 20, but it was easy enough to make pasta.”

He got the boot from that location last year to make way for Lemon & Coriander—which opened in December but didn’t survive the pandemic—and and his catering gig for Sonos stopped on March 10 when the company initiated its own quarantine. When shelter-in-place orders came down to the rest of us, friends were instantly knocking on his door for fresh pasta. I was one of the knockers, as the pasta is incredibly easy to cook—just just a few minutes in salted boiling water, even when frozen—and fascinatingly delicious. My kids can’t get enough.

I recall my first taste maybe a decade ago. I wondered how good pasta would be, and the noodles were a revelarevela tion, even just with butter, something so simple yet satisfysatisfy ing in texture and flavor. Now I’m incorporating Mission Rose Pasta’s sauces, too—pasilla chile cream, caramelized onion and applewood bacon butter, and tomato and herb, to name just three—often often with my own slight enhanceenhancements, such as mozzarella chunks in the roasted red pepper cream or Calabrian chile butter on steamed corn.

“The sauce potential is endless,” said Glazer, who also makes flavored pastas, such as smoked paprika fettuccine and lemon-pepper linguini. “I’ve never found anybody who doesn’t like the pasilla chile cream, except my son.”

After Decades of Noodle Making, Michael Glazer’s Products Are Ready for You

BY MATT KETTMANN His business started booming in March, when Farm Cart Organics said they could move a lot of his pasta through their produce delivery service. “Since then, it’s snowballed,” said Glazer. “Clearly, there’s a desire for it.” Other services upped orders significantly, and Mission Rose Pasta is also delivering in Los Angeles.

In April, after 21 years of using the same machine, whose bronze extruder adds to the pasta’s slightly porous, adhesive texture, Glazer purchased a new device. It’s now cranking out 90 percent of the noodles, except for a couple styles he has to make on the old one.

After years of threatening to “really do this,” Glazer is happy to have a bustling business. But he’s taking it all in with grains of shutdown salt. “Is it an anomaly?” he wonwondered aloud. “How many people who are getting delivery are going to continue getting boxes when things return to normal?” At this point, who knows anything?

Meanwhile, the noodles are flowing, and there’s always a challenge to deal with, whether it’s the heat, humidity, or something more mysterious in the air that makes one pasta work better than another on any given day. Said Glazer, “Every batch for me is a learning opportunity.”

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ity of Your Choice. With a bold Thai tea base that is surprisingly strong with crunchy bits of Oreo blended in, Piti explained, “The trial and error has paid off.” He’s most proud of how prominent the Thai tea is compared to the subtle flavor in commercially available versions. Providing a crunchy break from sweet cream tea, the Oreos make this Piti’s idea of cookies ’n’ cream.

Vietnamese Coffee Mud Pie: Vietnamese coffee is a cohesive combo of bitter and sweet, which is what Piti attempts here, starting with a strong, dark base that’s bitter at first but then cut with sweet Oreos and chocolate chips. The condensed milk stays true to a traditional Vietnamese coffee, creating a smooth transition between bitter and sweet.

Classic Coconut: This vegan option, according to Piti, is the one that “started them all.” The coconut-milk base mimics the creamy texture of a dairy base, though Piti admits this factor is the most challenging to perfect. But with his mother’s foundation and his own experimentation, this is the most nostalgic and traditional flavor at Your Choice.

Basil Mint Chip: This rendition of traditional mintchip ice cream uses a milk base infused with fresh mint leaves, and that raw flavor brings out their most risky addition: Thai basil leaves. Piti thought of this memorable collaboration with his wife, Kathy, “while driving back and forth across Santa Barbara.”

Mango: Piti’s most personal flavor, made with a creamy milk base and seasonal champagne mangoes, is a tribute to his late mother, who used to make him homemade mango ice cream as a child, and a reminder of how she contributed to his work at Your Choice. Now that he is left with the restaurant to run, he is most motivated by her words: “Just taste and adjust.”

32-Year-Old Thai Restaurant Serves ‘Creaminal’ Desserts

BY LINDA CHONG ice cream from scratch, Piti’s research and experimentation led to creative options that transcended his mother’s Classic Coconut. “Her recipe laid the foundation for all the other flavors,” he said, explaining that expanding the menu took time, testing, and tasting with his ice cream maker. The results are now sold under a brand of Thaiinspired flavors called Creaminal.

YOUR ICE CREAM CHOICES Your Choice’s Creaminal ice cream costs $4 for a scoop and $9 for a pint. Here are five favorites.

Thai Tea Oreo: This most popular flavor represents the history and authentic-

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Barbara’s culinary scene, Your Choice is thriving in its 32nd year as a bustling Thai restaurant on upper State Street. Founded in 1989 by husband and wife Aungkoon and Sukanya Sukavivatanachai in what had previously been a Mexican restaurant called Maya — and before that, Carl’s Steakhouse — the family stuck to the location’s minimalistic and cozy design in order to focus on something more important: their food.

Currently in charge is Piti Sukavivatanachai, who left his potential medical career in 2012 to focus on the restaurant with his wife, Kathy Dao. What started with “helping out” his family quickly transformed into inheriting the restaurant. After condensing the menu, he started innovating their ice cream selections, which were originally developed by his late mother, Sukanya, who died in August 2017.

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CAFÉ STELLA OPEN: After a few weeks of remodel-

ing and “re-inventing” their dining process, Café Stella at 3302 McCaw Avenue is once again open for business.

“During these few weeks, we have utilized the downtime and volunteer work for interior and exterior improvements to the building,” said owner Philippe Rousseau. “This was done while also incorporating a new approach to on-site dining, app ordering development, and contactless ordering platform in keeping with mandated restrictions and providing our customers with a feeling of safety and comfort. Our goal is to offer the café dining experience while adhering to new guidelines that will offer an environment our customers feel safe in and are excited to return to.”

Takeout and delivery began on July 15. There will be no table service, but the lower patio, upper patio, and front patios are available for seating. Drive-in takeout is set to begin July 21. The mountain side of Café Stella’s parking lot is currently transitioning to “drive & park” outdoor booth seating, socially distanced with safety in mind.

Café Stella is open Tuesday-Saturday, 3-7 p.m. Pre-order online anytime and schedule your pickup or delivery by visiting

201 West Mission St., Santa Barbara

MERMAID FOOD: Here’s the interior of La Sirena, which is opening in the Cabrillo Pavilion at East Beach.

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stopped by State Street Coffee this morning to confirm reader Steve H.’s tip that the java joint has finished relocating from 29 State Street to 1 State Street, the former home of Eladio’s.

The Romasanta family owns the neighboring Harbor View Inn and operated Eladio’s restaurant on the property for 20 years. The family launched State Street Coffee in July, 2006, and it has built up a strong following over the years.… I am hearing that a new pizza place named Revolver is coming to 1429 San Andres Street, the former longtime home of Paesano’s Pizzeria, which closed in August 2018.… Reader Tara says that another refresh is underway at 7 West Haley Street, the former home of Mosto, Mosto Crudo, and the Champagne Room. I am told that the new business is called “Aperitivo” and that they expect to open in early August with a variety of wines and small plates.

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“La Sirena, the new restaurant at the Cabrillo Pavilion, serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and operates a beachside snack bar seven days a week,” explains the website. “Patrons enjoy traditional and trending fare, and La Sirena will open a full-service bar. With comfortable indoor and outdoor seating—and a mermaid motif reminiscent of its mythical namesake—La Sirena prides itself on providing an exceptional, familyfriendly dining experience. La Sirena also offers catering for weddings and special events at the Cabrillo Pavilion.”

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CLOSURES OR NOT? Reader Primetime let me

know that Subway deli at 1021-A State Street has closed. Magnolia Shopping Center Subway at 5146 Hollister Avenue in Goleta also closed, earlier this year.… Reader Valerie says that Dawn Patrol at 324 State Street continues to be closed even though they have a large patio, which would normally make them a prime candidate for a COVID-19 comeback. Their website hasn’t been updated in ages, and the contact email address is no longer valid. I’ll add them to the Closed list unless I hear otherwise.… Because I live nearby, I walked over to Sharky’s Woodfired Mexican Grill in Goleta this afternoon to follow up on a rumor that they are closed for good.

Sharky’s is quiet for sure, but not gone. I called the corporate office, who said that the restaurant is switching franchisees right now and will reopen when that is completed.

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LIVE MUSIC

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SANTA BARBARA VENUES SPEAK UP

Iration during a live stream of their new album at SOhO in Santa Barbara.

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t’s October 12, 2019. You hit the hair salon in the morning, picked a new ’fit on State Street. Dined at Los Agaves, tipping big for the tasty molé. Called up the babysitter, who you’ll pay a little extra for overtime. And at last, you arrive at the Santa Barbara Bowl for a Bob Dylan concert. Now multiply that one ticket holder’s spending by 4,500—the seating capacity at the Bowl—and the ripple effect loss in revenue reverberates through the community.

Clearly, more than just ticket sales took a hit the day COVID-19 killed live music, as concerts are interwoven into the culture and economy in Santa Barbara County, which has the highest relative number of arts and culture nonprof nonprofits per capita in California. Nonetheless, when disaster strikes, the music industry is often one of the most affected.

“A lot of [music venues] weathered during the recession in ’08, then again with the Thomas Fire and debris flows during the 2017-2018 holiday season. A lot of small businesses are still getting back on their feet from those closures,” said Sarah York Rubin, executive director of Santa Barbara County Office of Arts & Culture.

But when the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the Santa Barbara Bowl went dark, along with the rest of live music venues across the county.

“We were just in the process of embarking

on the 2020 concert season. We normally announce a handful of events that coincide with Coachella, but when it was postponed, bands rerouted tours to 2021,” said Rick Boller, the Bowl’s executive director.

The staff at SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, the privately owned venue on State Street, has yet to forget the moment everything changed.

“We shut down March 13, with Glove and Special Sauce canceling their tour right after per performing here,” said venue manager Alec Beloin.

In the meantime, SOhO has been playing catch-up by talking to agents, refunding tickets, and selling gift cards to fundraise. “We are also auctioning artist regalia, like guitars signed by Jeff Bridges,” said SOhO co-owner Gail Hansen.

SOhO audio engineers are also hard at work, demolishing the old sound booth and doubling it in size. “This will make things a lot safer for mixing in the club, where drinks are flying everywhere,” explained Beloin. “For me, I’m getting this natural itch to return to productivity.”

But that itch doesn’t appear to be abating anytime soon. Recently, SOhO sent a survey in their newsletter asking community members what they would like to see from the restaurant/music venue in the coming months.

The majority of respondents said they were

not ready to return to the concert hall that fits 400 people for at least two months, and then with only 50 attendees maximum.

“Concerts are very high-risk places [for transmitting the coronavirus]. You could sit down at a restaurant and there’s social distancing, but how do you really manage social distancing in a bar?” said Beloin.

“What opening might look like is seating 25 people on the patio for an intimate acoustic show.” He noted a nightclub in South Korea that became another epicenter for coronavirus transmission as a lesson to be learned.

“I’m kind of glad we’re not open right now. When I was last in [downtown] Santa Barbara, I felt like it was mostly tourists, and I’m not ready to be responsible for a bunch of people’s health,” said Hansen. Discussions about how doors will slowly reopen at SOhO are currently taking place.

Waiting is difficult, especially for nonprofit performance centers that are losing money needed for facility upkeep. “In times of crisis, that finite funding from fundraising shifts to immediate needs, so the arts and culture community often takes a substantial hit,” said Rubin.

The Santa Barbara Bowl is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, where revenue is reinvested into youth performances and theater upkeep.

“As you can imagine, fundraising has really diminished, so we are looking to streaming options and reduced-capacity shows,” said Boller. “We’re preparing so as soon as it’s safe for everyone to get back to attending events at the Bowl, we want to be poised and ready.”

Whether a mid-sized, privately owned club such as SOhO or a large amphitheater like the Santa Barbara Bowl, each venue is ultimately battling the same beast: time.

To support SOhO during COVID-19, see sohosb.com; to donate to the Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation, see sbbowl.com/give/ donate.

—Miranda de Moraes

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Patricia Chidlaw's “Ghost Train” is one of paintings on view in her latest exhibition, Elsewhere, Paradise at Sullivan Goss.

Any time is the right time to check in on the evolving artistic life of Patricia Chidlaw, but, ironically or not, her work — with its attitudinal and stylistic links to the lonely luster of Edward Hopper’s painting — suddenly feels timelier and more emotionally resonant than ever in our current era. Chidlaw’s latest exhibition at Sullivan Goss, Elsewhere, Paradise, is a strong, introspective set of mostly 2020-vintage canvases. The show affirms the quiet magnetism and deeply honed character of the artist’s personal language as a painter.

—Josef Woodard

Elsewhere, Paradise shows through July 27 at Sullivan Goss, An American Gallery (11 E. Anapamu St.). See sullivangoss.com.

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TO CHECHNYA In 2017, the Chechen Republic targeted all gay people and lesbians in a country-wide “gay hunt.” Its tactics and its atrocities are noted with precision in the poignant documentary Welcome to Chechnya.

The film follows a network of activists who smuggle LGBTQ+ individuals out of Russia, focusing on two rescuers and two rescuees as they navigate their way to safety. In verité style, the documentary exposes a human rights tragedy that, for one reason or another, has been purged from headlines.

We first meet crisis coordinator David Isteev responding to a frantic phone call with a cool, comforting ease. The static voice on the other end painfully details her family’s abuse (she’s lesbian) as she begs, pleads, and cries for help. Like so many others, Isteev’s network of safe houses and foreign connections is her only chance at escape. Those fleeing Russia are spirited to a nearby country — identified as “somewhere in Canada” or “somewhere in Europe” for security reasons. And the film does all it can to keep its subjects safe.

Director David France uses “deep fake” technology to overlap their faces with that of a volunteer, allowing France to not only follow his subjects from safe house to safe house but also capture their daily routines. In the tradition of guerrilla filmmaking, France zeroes in on hangout scenes, where the subjects chat, joke, and make love while hiding from authorities. There are nail-biting moments, too — checkpoints, blown covers, savage archival footage — but France doesn’t show bias toward these episodes.

Rather, he treats the banal and the pivotal equally to speak to his greater point: The queer people of Chechnya live in fear day and night, at home or in public.

France blends this terrifying message with glimmers of hope and resistance, a magnificent light shining through a thick Russian fog.

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Welcome to Chechnya is now streaming on HBO Max.

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY by Rob Breszny ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19): “If the time is not ripe, we have to

ripen the time,” wrote Aries educator and activist Dorothy Height. This approach worked well during her 98 years on the planet. Her pioneering advocacy for African-American women generated a number of practical improvements in their employment opportunities and civil rights. In accordance with the current astrological omens, Aries, I highly recommend her guiding principle for your use. You now have the power to ripen the time, even if no one else believes the time is ripe.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): “Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous ‘I don’t know.’ ” A wise and talented woman said that: Nobel Prize–winning poet Wisława Szymborska. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, it’s excellent advice for you to embrace during the coming weeks. You’re close to finding and accessing a mother lode of inspiration, and one of the best ways to ensure that happens in an optimal way is to make “I don’t know” your mantra. In other words, be cheerfully devoted to shedding your certainties. Lose your attachment to the beliefs and theories you tend to overly rely on. Make yourself as empty and clear and spacious as you possibly can.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Gemini-born author Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) was a world traveler who wrote in several different genres, ranging from lesbian fiction to essays on boxing to plays that used poetic language. She was experimental and empirical and experiential. On one occasion, she voluntarily submitted to the force-feeding endured by hunger-striking suffragists so she could write about what it was like to be tortured. Another fun fact about Barnes: Every morning, she did up her hair and put her makeup on, then climbed into bed and wrote for many hours. In the coming weeks, Gemini, I recommend you draw inspiration from every aspect of her life — except the torture part, of course. The coming

weeks will be a fine time to be versatile, exploratory, and committed to expressing yourself purely in whatever ways make you comfortably excited.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): As a Cancerian, you have a natural propensity to study and understand what author Margaret Atwood describes as “echoes and emptiness and shadow.” I believe this aspect of your repertoire will be especially active and available to you in the coming weeks. For best results, regard your attunement to these echoes and emptiness and shadow as an asset, even a precious talent. Use it to discern what’s missing or lost but could be recovered. Invoke it to help you navigate your way through murky or confusing situations. Call on it to help you see important things that are invisible to others.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Time can turn a scab into a beauty

mark,” said actor and screenwriter Nia Vardalos. That’s a rousingly poetic speculation — and more metaphorically true than literally. But I suspect that if it ever might have a useful and meaningful application to an actual human struggle, it will be yours in the coming months.

In my view, you are in fact capable of harnessing the magic necessary to transform a wound into a lovely asset. Be bold and imaginative as you carry out this seemingly improbable feat — which is actually not improbable.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Would you like to boost your mental

and physical health in the coming weeks? Try this: Immerse yourself in the understanding that you’re interconnected with everything in the world. Tell yourself stories about how the atoms that compose your body have previously been part of many other things.

This isn’t just a poetic metaphor; it’s scientific fact. Now study this passage by science writer Ella Frances Sanders: “The carbon inside you could have existed in any number of creatures or natural disasters before finding you. That particular atom residing somewhere above

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your left eyebrow? It could well have been a smooth riverbed pebble before deciding to call you home. You are rock and wave and the peeling bark of trees, you are ladybirds and the smell of a garden after the rain.”

ing and ripening in your inner depths. Keep doing this important work, even if there are not yet any productive results. Eventually, it will enable you to “act with grandeur,” as Genet said.

LIBRA

CAPRICORN

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It’s a favorable time to celebrate the fantastic privilege of being alive. Are you willing to believe that? Will you cooperate with my intention to nudge you in the direction of elation and exaltation? Are you open to the possibility that miracles and epiphanies may be at hand for you personally? To help get yourself in the proper mood, read this passage by Libran author Diane Ackerman: “The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one’s curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sunstruck hills every day.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are,” writes poet Robert Pinsky. That’s useful counsel for you right now, Scorpio. You’re entering a phase when you can substantially reframe your life story so that it serves you better. And one of the smartest ways to do that is to take an inventory of the memories you want to emphasize versus the memories you’d like to minimize. Another good trick is to reinterpret challenging past events so that you can focus on how they strengthened you and mobilized your determination to be true to yourself.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “A person must dream a long time in

order to act with grandeur,” wrote Sagittarian author and activist Jean Genet. “And dreaming is nursed in darkness.” According to my analysis of your astrological omens, this is an apt description of what has been unfolding for you, Sagittarius — and will continue to play out for you in the next two weeks. If you’re aligned with cosmic rhythms, you have been nursing your dreams in darkness — exploring and cultivating and learning from the raw creative energy that is simmer-

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau

said, “There are truths that one can only say after having won the right to say them.” In my estimation, you have recently earned the right to express a fresh batch of scintillating and useful truths. Please do us all a favor and unveil them — preferably with both candor and tact. In behalf of everyone who will benefit from your insights, I’m sending you congratulations for the work you’ve had to do on yourself so as to win them.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “After you make a fool of yourself

a few hundred times, you learn what works,” testifies musician and singer Gwen Stefani. In my own life, I’ve had to make a fool of myself more than a few hundred times to learn what works. My number is closer to a thousand — and I’m still adding new examples on a regular basis. In the coming weeks, Aquarius, I highly recommend that you try what has served me and Gwen Stefani so well. You’re entering a phase when your foolishness will generate especially useful lessons.

Being innocent and wildly open-minded will also be very useful.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): “It is better to err on the side of dar-

ing than the side of caution,” wrote author and futurist Alvin Toffler. While I hesitate to declare that idea to be absolutely and always true, I do recommend it to you in the coming weeks. Given the fact that you have recently been expanding possibilities and cultivating breakthroughs, I’d love to see you keep on pushing forward until you climax your momentum. To boost your courage, try to think of a crazy cry of exhilaration you might exclaim as you make your leaps, like “YAHOO!” or “HELL YES!” or “HERE I COME!”

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

PUBLIC COMMENT: This hearing is for design review only. All interested persons are encouraged to participate in the public hearing electronically (by phone) as described above. You may also request your written comments to be read into the record during the hearing.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: The items in this notice are new items. The DRB agenda may also include items continued from prior meetings. All persons wanting to review any project applications may do so by contacting City of Goleta, Planning and Environmental Review at (805) 961-7543. The Agenda, staff reports and project plans will be available approximately one week before the hearing on the City’s website at www.cityofgoleta.org.

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Cabrillo Business Park Lot 6 Building– Navigator Way 6765 Navigator Way; APN 073-610-039 Case No. 19-120-PCR-RV-OSP NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Director of Planning and Environmental Review of the City of Goleta intends to issue a Revised Project Clearance pursuant to the Cabrillo Business Park (CBP) Specific Plan (City Ord. 13-04) for the following Individual Project described below, on July 27, 2020 at 5:00 P.M.: Case No. 19-120-PCR-RV-OSP: The project includes a Revised Project Clearance (PCR) for one new building and an Overall Sign Plan (OSP) for new signage for Lot 6. Case No. 16-162-PCR-OSP originally approved the building on Lot 6 to encompass 16,750 square feet of area. The applicant proposes revisions to the existing approved Project Clearance (Case No. 16-162-PCR-LLA-OSP) consisting of an interior reduction in manufacturing, and research and development space and the addition of 800-square feet of warehousing.

Additional revisions include converting the northern truck parking and maneuvering area into a vehicle parking area with additional landscaping. The building footprint is not changing.

No new additional square footage is proposed to be added to the approved building on Lot 6 (1.27 acres).

Proposed revisions include the reconfiguration of the parking lot and circulation system located on the north side of the building that will improve circulation between the adjacent buildings. The research and development/office building will have a lot coverage of 25.09%. The building will be 34 feet tall, with a mechanical equipment screening area extending an additional 4 feet, for a total building height of 38 feet. The building will have a floor area totaling 16,750-square feet, as follows: 4,650 square feet manufacturing; 4,600 square feet research and development, 4,650 square feet warehouse, and 2,850 square feet office. 49 parking spaces (13 compact spaces, 3 ADA spaces and 33 standard parking spaces) will be provided for the project. A trash enclosure will be located along the southern property line screened by landscaping. Customer pick-up and shipping/receiving access will be located in the loading area along the southwestern portion of the site, while employee/visitor access will be located along the north elevation. Access to adjacent Lots 5, 7, and 9 will be available along the drive aisles adjacent to the northern elevation of the building, as well as the southern property line. Landscape islands will occur within the north, south and east parking lots, with a landscaped employee/lunch area adjacent to the west elevation of the building. A decomposed granite pedestrian path will be located adjacent to the north elevation of the building and provide pedestrian access through to Lots 5, 7, and 9, Navigator Way, and Coromar Drive. Drainage will be handled by a system of bioswales and storm drains and will be directed to an off-site detention basin (approx. 0.42 acres) located in the southern portion of Lot 19.

The project statistics are as follows: 25.09% building coverage; 28.68% landscape coverage; 49 parking spaces for employees/visitors are provided; grading volumes, 300 cubic yards of cut and 2,300 cubic yards of fill (to be provided from CBP stockpiles).

Overall Sign Plan (OSP) Per the CBP OSP, 2 wall signs are allowed on the building. The applicant is requesting 1 wall sign measuring 64 square feet on the northwestern corner of the building and 1 wall sign measuring 64 square feet on the northeastern corner of the building. Other signs, such as a freestanding monument sign, directional signs, and other associated signage meet the criteria listed under the current CBP OSP. The project was filed by Troy White of TW Land Planning and Development, agent, on behalf of Steve Leonard of RAF Pacifica Group, LLC, property owner.

ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW FINDINGS: The project falls within the scope of the CBP Specific Plan approved earlier as part of the CBP Final Environmental Impact Report (EIR). The CBP Final EIR adequately describes the project for the purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). No new effects would occur as a result of the project revisions and no new mitigations would be required as the project falls within the scope of the project covered by the CBP Final EIR. The project is also found to be consistent with the Environmental Thresholds Checklist in the CBP Specific Plan; therefore, no further environmental review under CEQA is required. (CEQA Guidelines Sections 15162 and 15168).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: The project plans and submittal may be reviewed at the City of Goleta, Planning and Environmental Review Department, located at 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, CA 93117.

City Hall is open from Monday through Thursday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and on Friday from 8:00 a.m. to noon. For further information please contact Darryl Mimick, Associate Planner, at (805) 961-7572 or via email at dmimick@cityofgoleta.org or Kathy Allen, Supervising Senior Planner, at 805-961-7545 or via email at kallen@cityofgoleta.org.

APPEALS PROCEDURE: The action of the Director may be appealed to the City of Goleta Planning Commission within ten (10) calendar days following final action. If you challenge the City’s final action in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised in written or oral testimony and/or evidence provided to Planning and Environmental Review prior to final decision-maker action (Government Code § 65009(b)(2)).

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LEGALS ADMINISTER OF ESTATE NOTICE OF PETITION TO A D M I N I S T E R E S TAT E O F : E LV I R A M I L L E R C a s e N o . : 20PR00215 To a l l h e i r s , b e n e f i c i a r i e s , creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or e s t a t e , o r b o t h o f E LV I R A MILLER A P E T I T I O N F O R P R O B AT E has been filed by: J A C Q U E LY N A. QUINN in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION for probate r e q u e s t s t h a t : J A C Q U E LY N 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, h o w e v e r, 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 t h e a u t h o r i t y.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court a s f o l l o w s : 8 / 2 7 / 2 0 2 0 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF S A N TA BARBARA, 1100 Anacapa

S t r e e t , P. O B o x 2 1 1 0 7 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 b e f o r e t h e h e a r i n g . Yo u r appearance may be in p e r s o n o r b y y o u r a t t o r n e y.

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 a s a c r e d i t o r. Yo u m a y want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in C a l i f o r n i a l a w.

Y O U M AY E X A M I N E t h e f i l e 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.

Notice Date: July 16, 2020 NOTICE OF INTENT TO ISSUE Cabrillo Business Park Revised Project Clearance July 27, 2020 at 5:00 P.M. Cabrillo Business Park Lot 7 Building and Site Improvements – Navigator Way 6759 Navigator Way; APN 073-610-040 Case No. 19-123-PCR-RV-OSP NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Director of Planning and Environmental Review of the City of Goleta intends to issue a Revised Project Clearance pursuant to the Cabrillo Business Park (CBP) Specific Plan (City Ord. 13-04) for the following Individual Project described below, on July 27, 2020, at 5:00 P.M.: Case No. 19-123-PCR-RV-OSP: The project includes a Revised Project Clearance (PCR) for one new building and an Overall Sign Plan (OSP) for new signage for Lot 7. The building on Lot 7 was originally approved (16-163-PCR-OSP) to encompasses 30,956-square feet in area and the Revised Project Clearance increases the building area to 36,432-square feet by enlarging the mezzanine area. The size of the building footprint is not changing.

The property’s zoning is SP-CBP (CBP Specific Plan), with a subzoning of Business Park. The General Plan Land Use designation is I-BP (Business Park). Lot 7 (2.11 acres) will consist of a 36,432-square foot, two-story building. The research and development/office building will have a lot coverage of 30.31%. The building will be 34 feet tall, with a mechanical equipment screening area extending an additional 4 foot, for a total building height of 38 feet. The building will have a floor area totaling 36,432-square feet, as follows: 9,216 square feet manufacturing; 9,382 square feet research and development, 9,216 square feet warehouse, and 8,618 square feet office. A total of 94 parking spaces will be provided. The parking spaces will be composed of 24 compact spaces, 4 ADA spaces, and 66 standard parking spaces. A trash enclosure will be located along the southern property line screened by landscaping. Customer pick-up and shipping/receiving access will be located in the loading area along the southeastern portion of the site, while employee/visitor access will be located along the north elevation. Access to adjacent Lots 5, 6, and 9 will be available along the drive aisles adjacent to the northern elevation of the building, as well as the southern property line. Landscape islands will occur within the north, south and east parking lots, with a landscaped employee/lunch area adjacent to the east elevation of the building. A decomposed granite pedestrian path will be located adjacent to the north elevation of the building and provide pedestrian access through to Lots 5, 6, and 9, Navigator Way, and Coromar Drive. Drainage will be handled by a system of bioswales and storm drains and will be directed to an off-site detention basin (approx. 0.42 acres) located in the southern portion of Lot 19.

The project statistics are as follows: 30.31% building coverage; 23.06% landscape coverage; 94 parking spaces for employees/visitors are provided; grading volumes, 2,300 cubic yards of cut and 2,200 cubic yards of fill (to be provided from CBP stockpiles).

Overall Sign Plan (OSP) Per the CBP OSP, 2 wall signs are allowed on the building. The applicant is requesting 1 wall sign measuring 64 square feet on the northwestern corner of the building and 1 wall sign measuring 64 square feet on the northeastern corner of the building. Other signs, such as a freestanding monument sign, directional signs, and other associated signage meet the criteria listed under the current CBP OSP The project was filed by Troy White of TW Land Planning and Development, agent, on behalf of Steve Leonard of RAF Pacifica Group, LLC, property owner.

ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW FINDINGS: The project falls within the scope of the CBP Specific Plan approved earlier as part of the CBP Final Environmental Impact Report (EIR). The CBP Final EIR adequately describes the project for the purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). No new significant environmental effects would occur and no new mitigations would be required as the project falls within the scope of the project covered by the CBP Final EIR. The project is also found to be consistent with the Environmental Thresholds Checklist in the CBP Specific Plan; therefore, no further environmental review under CEQA is required. (CEQA Guidelines Sections 15162 and 15168).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: The project plans and submittal may be reviewed at the City of Goleta, Planning and Environmental Review Department, located at 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, CA 93117.

City Hall is open from Monday through Thursday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and on Friday from 8:00 a.m. to noon. For further information please contact Darryl Mimick, Associate Planner, at (805) 961-7572 or via email at dmimick@cityofgoleta.org or Kathy Allen, Supervising Senior Planner, at 805-961-7545 or via email at kallen@cityofgoleta.org.

APPEALS PROCEDURE: The action of the Director may be appealed to the City of Goleta Planning Commission within ten (10) calendar days following final action. If you challenge the City’s final action in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised in written or oral testimony and/or evidence provided to Planning and Environmental Review prior to final decision-maker action (Government Code § 65009(b)(2)).

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO A D M I N I S T E R E S TAT E O F : SAMUEL A. YOUNGMAN Case No.: 20PR00227 To a l l h e i r s , b e n e f i c i a r i e s , creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of SAMUEL A. YOUNGMAN A P E T I T I O N F O R P R O B AT E 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.

THE PETITION requests t h e d e c e d e n t ’s w i l l a n d c o d i c i l s , i f a n y, b e a d m i t t e d 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, h o w e v e r, 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 t h e a u t h o r i t y.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court a s f o l l o w s : 9 / 0 3 / 2 0 2 0 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF S A N TA BARBARA, 1100 Anacapa S t r e e t , P. O B o x 2 1 1 0 7 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 b e f o r e t h e h e a r i n g . Yo u r appearance may be in p e r s o n o r b y y o u r a t t o r n e y.

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 a s a c r e d i t o r. Yo u m a y want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in C a l i f o r n i a l a w.

Y O U M AY E X A M I N E t h e f i l e 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.

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO A D M I N I S T E R E S TAT E O F : REZA SALAFIAN Case No.: 20PR00124 To a l l h e i r s , b e n e f i c i a r i e s , creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of REZA S A L A F I A N , R AY S A L A F I A N , GHOLAMREZA SALAFIAN A P E T I T I O N F O R P R O B AT E h a s b e e n f i l e d b y : M A R YA M SALAFIAN in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION for probate r e q u e s t s t h a t : M A R YA M SALAFIAN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests t h e d e c e d e n t ’s w i l l a n d c o d i c i l s , i f a n y, b e a d m i t t e d 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, h o w e v e r, 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 t h e a u t h o r i t y.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court a s f o l l o w s : 7 / 2 3 / 2 0 2 0 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF S A N TA BARBARA, 1100 Anacapa S t r e e t , P. O B o x 2 1 1 0 7 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 b e f o r e t h e h e a r i n g . Yo u r appearance may be in p e r s o n o r b y y o u r a t t o r n e y.

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 a s a c r e d i t o r. Yo u m a y want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in C a l i f o r n i a l a w.

Y O U M AY E X A M I N E t h e f i l e 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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NOTICE OF PETITION TO A D M I N I S T E R E S TAT E O F : I N E S M A R I A TA L A M A N T E Z Case No.: 20PR00024 To a l l h e i r s , b e n e f i c i a r i e s , creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of INES M A R I A TA L A M A N T E Z A PETITION FOR P R O B AT E h a s b e e n f i l e d by: COURTNEY DESOTO in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION for probate requests that: COURTNEY DESOTO 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, h o w e v e r, 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 t h e a u t h o r i t y.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court a s f o l l o w s : 9 / 0 3 / 2 0 2 0 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF S A N TA BARBARA, 1100 Anacapa S t r e e t , P. O B o x 2 1 1 0 7 Santa Barbara, CA 93102 Anacapa Division.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your

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LEGALS objections or file written objections with the court b e f o r e t h e h e a r i n g . Yo u r appearance may be in p e r s o n o r b y y o u r a t t o r n e y.

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 a s a c r e d i t o r. Yo u m a y want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in C a l i f o r n i a l a w.

Y O U M AY E X A M I N E t h e f i l e 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 M i c h e l o n Va s q u e z ; 1 3 2 E a s t Figueroa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 882‑2226.

Published July 2, 9, 2020.

FBN ABANDONMENT S TAT E M E N T OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: HAWKEYE WORKSHOP at 825 Coronel St. Santa Barbara, CA 93109; The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 08/30/2017 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original file no.

2017‑0002452. The person (s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Alex Brandon Abatie (same address) Carla Neufeldt‑Abatie (same address). This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 22, 2020. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck, Published: July 9, 16, 23, 30 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) is/are d o i n g b u s i n e s s a s : S T. J O H N P U B L I S H I N G C O M PA N Y a t 1220 Coast Village Rd., Ste.310 Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Beta Financial (same address) conducted by an Corporation Signed: J. Wesley St. C l a i r, 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 S TAT E M E N T 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 S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: CROPLAND H E A LT H 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 S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) is/are doing business as: COAST S I D E S K AT E S a t 3 4 0 0 C a l l e 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 S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: C R O S S N O K AY E a t 1 2 1 6 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 S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: T R A N S F O R M A T I O N B U T T E R F LY P R O J E C T a t 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 N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e 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 N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) is/are doing business as: HAIR T O D AY a t 1 3 3 3 D e L a V i n a Suite C Santa Barbara, CA 9 3 1 0 1 ; S h a r o n I Te i t e l m a n 4 5 4 1 O a k G l e n D r. U n i t E Santa Barbara, CA 93110 conducted by an Individual S i g n e d : S h a r o n Te i t e l m a n 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 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Y E S E N I A’ 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 N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e 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 N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) is/are d o i n g b u s i n e s s a s : S TAT E 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 N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) is/ are doing business as: PA L M E R A 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.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e 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 N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) is/ are doing business as: F R A N C E WA S R E A L E S TAT E 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 N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e 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.

Notice Date: July 16, 2020 NOTICE OF INTENT TO ISSUE Cabrillo Business Park Revised Project Clearance July 27, 2020 at 5:00 P.M. Cabrillo Business Park Lot 5 Building 6789 Navigator Way; APN 073-610-038 Case No. 19-117-PCR-RV-OSP NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Director of Planning and Environmental Review of the City of Goleta intends to issue a Revised Project Clearance pursuant to the Cabrillo Business Park (CBP) Specific Plan (City Ord. 13-04) for the following Individual Project described below, on July 27, 2020 at 5:00 P.M.: Case No. 19-031-PCR-RV-OSP: The project includes a Revised Project Clearance (PCR) for one new building and an Overall Sign Plan (OSP) for new signage for Lot 5. The building on Lot 5 was originally approved (16-161-PCR-OSP) to encompasses 23,882-square feet in area. The Revised Project Clearance increases the building area to 26,621 square feet (a 2,739 square foot increase) by enlarging the mezzanine area. The size of the building footprint is not changing.

The property’s zoning is SP-CBP (CBP Specific Plan), with a subzoning of Business Park. The General Plan Land Use designation is I-BP (Business Park). Lot 5 (1.93 acres) will consist of a 26,621-square foot, twostory building, that includes an increase of 2,739-square feet to the second story office space mezzanine. In addition, a change to the configuration of the parking lot and circulation system located on the north side of the building is proposed to provide improved circulation between the adjacent buildings. The research and development/office building will have a lot coverage of 24.38%. The building will be 34 feet tall, with a mechanical equipment screening area extending an additional 4 feet, for a total building height of 38 feet. The building will have a floor area totaling 26,621-square feet, as follows: 6,493 square feet manufacturing; 7,145 square feet research and development, 6,864 square feet warehouse, and 6,119 square feet office. 89 parking spaces (21 compact spaces, 4 ADA spaces and 65 standard parking spaces) will be provided for the project. A trash enclosure will be located along the southern property line screened by landscaping. Customer pick-up and shipping/receiving access will be located in the loading area along the southeastern portion of the site, while employee/visitor access will be located along the north elevation. Access to adjacent Lots 6, 7, and 9 will be available along the drive aisles adjacent to the northern elevation of the building, as well as the southern property line. Landscape islands will occur within the north, south and east parking lots, with a landscaped employee/lunch area adjacent to the east elevation of the building. A decomposed granite pedestrian path will be located adjacent to the north elevation of the building and provide pedestrian access through to Lots 6, 7, and 9, Navigator Way, and Coromar Drive. Drainage will be handled by a system of bioswales and storm drains and will be directed to an off-site detention basin (approx. 0.42 acres) located in the southern portion of Lot 19.

The project statistics are as follows: 24.38% building coverage; 25.85% landscape coverage; 149 parking spaces for employees/visitors are provided; grading volumes, 6,500 cubic yards of cut and 2,300 cubic yards of fill (to be provided from CBP stockpiles).

Overall Sign Plan (OSP) Per the CBP OSP, 2 wall signs are allowed on the building. The applicant is requesting 1 wall sign measuring 64 square feet on the northwestern corner of the building and 1 wall sign measuring 64 square feet on the northeastern corner of the building. Other signs, such as a freestanding monument sign, directional signs, and other associated signage meet the criteria listed under the current CBP OSP The project was filed by Troy White of TW Land Planning and Development, agent, on behalf of Steve Leonard of RAF Pacifica Group, LLC, property owner.

ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW FINDINGS: The project falls within the scope of the CBP Specific Plan approved earlier as part of the CBP Final Environmental Impact Report (EIR). The CBP Final EIR adequately describes the project for the purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). No new effects would occur as a result of this project and no new mitigations would be required as the project falls within the scope of the project covered by the CBP Final EIR. The project is also found to be consistent with the Environmental Thresholds Checklist in the CBP Specific Plan; therefore, no further environmental review under CEQA is required. (CEQA Guidelines Sections 15162 and 15168).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: The project plans and submittal may be reviewed at the City of Goleta, Planning and Environmental Review Department, located at 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, CA 93117.

City Hall is open from Monday through Thursday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and on Friday from 8:00 a.m. to noon. For further information please contact Darryl Mimick, Associate Planner, at (805) 961-7572 or via email at dmimick@cityofgoleta.org or Kathy Allen, Supervising Senior Planner, at 805-961-7545 or via email at kallen@cityofgoleta.org.

APPEALS PROCEDURE: The action of the Director may be appealed to the City of Goleta Planning Commission within ten (10) calendar days following final action. If you challenge the City’s final action in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised in written or oral testimony and/or evidence provided to Planning and Environmental Review prior to final decision-maker action (Government Code § 65009(b)(2)).

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LEGALS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T 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 S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g person(s) is/are doing b u s i n e s s a s : E S S E N C E ’ T I A L LY 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.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T 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 S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g p e r s o n ( s ) i s / a re d o i n g b u s i n e s s as: BAILEY’S HANDCRAFTED F R A M E a t 5 1 1 E G u t i e r re z St., Suite I Santa Barbara, CA 93103; John C. Bailey 7336 Av i a n o Av e G o l e t a , C A 9 3 1 1 7 conducted by an Individual Signed: John C. Bailey Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 24 2020. This statement e x p i re s f i v e y e a r s f ro m t h e d a t e i t w a s f i l e d i n t h e O ff i c e of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0001570 Published: July 2, 9, 16, 23 2020.

NOTICE INVITING SEALED BIDS FOR THE 9009A SAN JOSE CREEK CHANNEL EMERGENCY REPAIR PROJECT 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, City of Goleta, CA PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Goleta (“CITY”), invites sealed bids for the above stated project and will receive such bids in the office of the City Clerk, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California 93117, before 3:00 PM, August 4, 2020, and will be publicly opened and read aloud promptly thereafter. Faxes or any electronic format is not acceptable. Electronic copies of the Contract Documents and Specifications are available online from Construction Bidboard, Inc. at http://www.ebidboard.com/, or the CITY website at http://www.cityofgoleta.org/i-want-to/view/city-bid-opportunities.

The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to construct and deliver a finished 9009A SAN JOSE CREEK CHANNEL EMERGENCY REPAIR PROJECT. A) Coordinating delivery of the new Articulated Slope Revetment (ASR) which will be provided to the contactor as owner-furnished material. This material will be furnished by the CITY because of the longlead time for fabrication and short construction window.

B) Temporary removal of chain link fencing and /or metal guard rail to provide construction access. This material will be reinstalled near the end of construction.

C) Constructing a stream by-pass.

D) Removing the temporary rock slope protection and fabric which was placed in 2017.

E) Excavation and shaping the channel subgrade.

F) Furnishing and installing crushed rock, geogrid and rock slope protection fabric.

G) Installing galvanized “eyes” in channel wall to connect the ASR. H) Installation of the ASR; includes effort to join ASR to channel walls using owner-furnished polypropylenes “cables” and crimp fasteners.

I) Installation of soil anchors.

J) Constructing new concrete fish weir and “timber wedges”.

K) Constructing the improvements with the limited construction access identified in the Contract Documents.

L) All other items needed to complete the work and meet the requirements identified in the Contract Documents.

Work shall be performed per the project plans and specifications in San Jose Creek Channel within the City of Goleta, CA. The contract period is 20 Working Days.

The Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) per California Labor Code Section 1771.4, including prevailing wage rates and apprenticeship employment standards. Affirmative action to ensure against discrimination in employment practices on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, or religion will also be required. The CITY hereby affirmatively ensures that all business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this notice and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, or religion in any consideration leading to the award of contract.

Bids must be prepared on the approved bid forms in conformance with the “Bidding Instructions” and the General Provisions and submitted in a sealed envelope plainly marked on the outside, “SEALED BID FOR 9009A SAN JOSE CREEK CHANNEL EMERGENCY REPAIR PROJECT. DO NOT OPEN WITH REGULAR MAIL.” The bid must be accompanied by cash or cashier’s check, certified cashier’s check, or bidder’s bond executed by an admitted surety, made payable to CITY. The bid security shall be an amount equal to ten percent (10%) of the total maximum amount bid with their proposals as required by California law.

A contract may only be awarded to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder that holds a valid Class “A” Contractor’s license or specialty licensing in accordance with the provisions of the California Business and Professions Code.

The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a Performance Bond and a Payment Bond each in an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Price. Each bond shall be in the forms set forth herein, shall be secured from a surety company that meets all State of California bonding requirements, as defined in Code of Civil Procedure Section 995.120, and that is a California admitted surety insurer.

Pursuant to Labor Code sections 1725.5 and 1771.1, all contractors and subcontractors that wish to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, or enter into a contract to perform public work must be registered with the DIR. No Bid will be accepted nor any contract entered into without proof of the contractor’s and subcontractors’ current registration with the DIR to perform public work. If awarded a contract, the Bidder and its subcontractors, of any tier, shall maintain active registration with the DIR for the duration of the Project. Failure to provide proof of the contractor’s current registration pursuant to Labor Code Section 1725.5 may result in rejection of the bid as non-responsive.

The Contractor Company, including the Responsible Managing Officer (RMO) for the Contractor Company, shall demonstrate a minimum of three (3) years’ experience successfully performing projects of substantially similar type, magnitude, and character of the work bid. The CITY reserves the right to reject all bids, reject any bid that is not responsive to the invitation, or to waive any minor irregularity and to take all bids under advisement for a period of up to ninety (90) days.

Pursuant to Public Contract Code section 22300, the successful bidder may substitute certain securities for funds withheld by CITY to ensure performance under the Contract or, in the alternative, request the CITY to make payment of retention to an escrow agent.

Any protest to an intended award of this contract shall be made in writing addressed to the City Clerk prior to the award. Any protest may be considered and acted on by the City Council at the time noticed for award of the contract. To request a copy of the notice of agenda for award, please contact the City Clerk (805) 9617505 or register on the CITY’s website (www.cityofgoleta.org).

For information relating to the details of this Project and bidding requirements contact Gerald Comati in writing at gcomati@cityofgoleta.org.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) is/ are doing business as: N AT U R E ’ S R E T R E AT a t 4 8 6 2 V i e j a D r. S a n t a B a r b a r a , 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 N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) is/ are doing business as: COMEHOME at 201 Spear Street, Suite 1400 San Francisco, CA 94105; H o u s e C a n a r y, I n c . ( s a m e address) conducted by an Corporation Signed: Jeremy Sicklick, CEO and President 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: 2020‑0001511. Published: July 9, 16, 23, 30 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) is/ are doing business as: HAWKEYE WORKSHOP at 825 Coronel Street Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Alex B Abatie (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Alex Abatie Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 25 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0001577. Published: July 9, 16, 23, 30 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) is/ are doing business as: SANISWIPER at 617 Olive Road Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Skylr LLC (same address) conducted by an Limited Liability Company Signed: Brandon Crane 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: 2020‑0001466.

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) is/ are doing business as: SUN SOL CLOTHING at 317 Rancheria Street, Unit C Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Victoria Tice (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Victoria Tice 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: 2020‑0001573.

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: M AT R I X , S O L U T I O N S F O R ORGANIZED LIVING at 27 W Anapamu St #237 Santa B a r b a r a , C A 9 3 1 0 1 ; Te r e s a Glenn (same address) conducted by an Individual S i g n e d : Te r e s a E G l e n n , Owner Principal Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 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: 2020‑0001440.

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: KSCOPE HOLDINGS CO at 803 Chapala Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; KSCOPE HOLDINGS CO 64 Wooster Street Fl 6 New Yo r k , N Y 1 0 0 1 2 c o n d u c t e d by a Limited Liability Corporation Signed: Karen Jorgensen, CEO Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 06, 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: 2020‑0001640.

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KUMON C E N T E R O F G O L E TA a t 5707 Calle Real Goleta, CA 93117; Kiki Educational Services, Inc. (same address) conducted by an Corporation Signed: Sunni Kang Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 30 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck.

FBN Number: 2020‑0001612.

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: D E TA I L S B Y M A D D S a t 1830 Grand Ave. Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Madison C Carlentine (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Madison Carlentine Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 07, 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: 2020‑0001667.

Published: July 16, 23, 30.

Aug 6 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FREEDOM SIGNS at 816 Reddick Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Elizabeth K Harris (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Elizabeth K. Harris Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 07, 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: 2020‑0001659.

Published: July 16, 23, 30.

Aug 6 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) is/ are doing business as: S A N TA B A R B A R A C I G A R & TOBACCO at 10 W Figueroa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Helios Cigars Santa Barbara, Inc 9811 W Charleston Blvd. Ste 2 7 6 2 L a s Ve g a s , N V 8 9 1 1 7 conducted by a Corporation Signed: Amit Mehra Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 07, 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: 2020‑0001653.

Published: July 16, 23, 30. Aug 6 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE NAIL N O O K S A N TA B A R B A R A a t 205 San Napoli Dr Goleta, CA 93117; Miraya Ramirez (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Miraya Ramirez Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 23, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0001546. Published: July 16, 23, 30. Aug 6 2020.

PUBLIC NOTICES THE PRACTICE of D r.

Donald O. Fareed is announcing its closure as of June 1st, 2020. Patients needing assistance in locating another physician should contact his office before July 30, 2020 or call the local medical society at 805‑683‑5333.

With written patient authorization, a copy of the medical records will be available at 1483 East Va l l e y R o a d S u i t e 1 9 , Montecito, CA 93108.

Authorization for release of medical records can be faxed to 805‑969‑6070 or emailed to dof@drfareed. com.

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Fareed is referring all of his patients t o D r. W i l l i a m G a l l i v a n . D r.

Gallivan can be reached at 805‑220‑6020.

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Residential Unit in Old Town Goleta 5836 Hollister Avenue; APN 071-053-013 18-076-DPAM/CUP ATTENTION: Pursuant to of the Governor’s Executive Order N-29-20 dated March 17, 2020 authorizing local jurisdictions subject to the Brown Act to hold public meetings electronically and telephonically in order to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, the scheduled meeting of the Zoning Administrator on July 27, 2020 will be conducted telephonically and electronically. City Hall will not be open to the public during the meeting.

The Zoning Administrator, staff, applicant and interested public, will be participating telephonically and will not be physically present at the City Hall.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Zoning Administrator will conduct a public hearing on merits of the proposed Development Plan Amendment (DPAM) and Minor Conditional Use Permit (CUP). The date and time of the Zoning Administrator hearing is: DATE/TIME:

Monday, July 27, 2020 at 11:00 AM

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

ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW FINDINGS: The Zoning Administrator hereby finds the proposed DPAM and CUP is categorically exempt pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (Public Resources Code §§ 21000, et seq.; “CEQA”) and CEQA Guidelines (14 Cal. Code Regs. §§ 15000, et seq.). Specifically, the project is categorically exempt from environmental review pursuant to CEQA Guidelines § 15301(a) (Interior alterations); § 15303(b) (Conversion of small structure); § 15304(b) (New gardening or landscaping) and § 15311(b) (Small parking lots).

The existing development is located within an urbanized area in commercial land use and zoning designations (described in Project Location). The proposed DPAM and CUP will make minor changes to the site layout for parking and landscaping. No new building square footage is proposed and the use of second floor of an existing building will be changed from commercial to residential. The property will continue to be served by existing streets and driveways, and will not change the demand on the existing services. Further, the project would not alter any biological resources, cultural resources, geologic, drainage, or have visual resources.

Therefore, given the minor nature of improvements, the project will not a significant effect on the environment.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Dennis Story of HomeSafe Design & Build on behalf of John Weh Ho, property owner, has requested approval of a Development Plan Amendment and Minor Conditional Use Permit (18-076-DPAM-CUP). The project consists of converting a 1,953 gross square foot portion of an existing warehouse space to legalize a new residential apartment unit. Existing development on the project site includes a retail commercial space of approximately 4,427 square feet on the front portion of the property, and 3,737 square feet of warehouse consisting of a 1,784 square foot first floor and a 1,953 square foot second floor. The most recent permit for the property included a small landscape strip at the rear of the property which will be relocated to the parking lot area as a rock garden. The parking lot will be reconfigured to accommodate ten parking spaces with two garage parking spaces for the residential unit.

The Zoning Administrator will be the decision maker for this project, unless its decision is appealed to the City Council. This project was reviewed under Article III, Inland Zoning Ordinance as the project was vested and deemed complete prior to September 1, 2019.

PROJECT LOCATION: The site is located at 5836 Hollister Avenue; Assessor’s Parcel Number 071-053013. The project site is a .31-acre site with a commercial building fronting Hollister Avenue. The proposed residential unit is in the rear of the property, in a separate building, occupying the second level. Access to the residential unit is from Magnolia Avenue using an easement across adjacent property to the west. The City’s GP/CLUP Land Use Designation and Zoning for the site is Old Town-Commercial (OT). The previous Zoning Ordinance designation for the site was General Commercial (C-2).

CORTESE LIST: The Project site is not listed on the EnviroStor online database of hazardous site records maintained by the California Department of Toxic Substances Control TSC in coordination with the California State Water Resources Control Board consistent with Government Code § 65962.5 (the “Cortese list”).

DOCUMENT AVAILABILITY: Staff reports, project plans and related materials for the Zoning Administrator hearing will be posted on this website at least 72 hours prior to the meeting. Materials will not be available at the City as City Hall is closed to the public due to Covid-19.

ELECTRONIC PARTICIPATION: Please register for Zoning Administrator Hearing on July 27, 2020, at 11:00 AM at: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/824049188774830096 After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

You will be connected to audio using your computer’s microphone and speakers (VoIP). A headset is recommended.

Webinar ID: 144-617-947 You can also select the option to use your telephone, but you must use the Go To Webinar software to interact with the meeting. Select “Use Telephone” after joining the webinar in order to use your telephone. Oral comments during a meeting may be made by electronic participation only.

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

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

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

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