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Lifelong Santa Barbara arts journalist and musician Josef Woodard wrote for the Independent’s predecessors, the News & Review and The Weekly, and so was with this paper from day one. For this week’s edition, Woodard interviewed Santa Barbara–raised director Max Barbakow, whose film Palm Springs is breaking streaming media records.

Your band flapping, Flapping recently came out with a new album. What is a musician’s life like during COVID? Fortunately, we had finished all the tracking and most of the mixing by the time of the hermitage/lockdown, so we were able to release our album, seeyoutonite, by our old and renewed rock band flapping, Flapping. The pandemic has had an extremely punishing effect on live music and musicians, but one positive is spending time working on new music, begging for ideas from the muse, and, in my case, learning about recording remotely.

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You’ve covered theatrically released films for us for years, but Palm Springs came out on Hulu. What are your thoughts on streaming versus traditional movie releases? Another positive about this period is the extra time to catch up on cinema — and the “good” television — from vintage to modern eras, and there is a thrill sinking into a quirky feelgood treasure like Palm Springs, along with the collective civic pride of Barbakow’s prime-time moment. That said, I desperately miss the old-school virtues of the movie-house experience, the way films are supposed to be seen. It’s a shared experience, with massive screen and wrap-around sound, the whole sticky-floored enchilada. Some day.…

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City Housing Authority Pitches 103 Units of Workforce Housing

by Lily Mae Lazarus he Housing Authority of the City of Santa Barbara unveiled a long-awaited housing project to build workforce apartments at the Carrillo-Castillo Commuter Lot to an online crowd of neighbors and interested Santa Barbarans on Monday evening. The anticipated rents for the 103-unit project aimed at the “missing middle” would range between $1,600 for studios up to $2,200 for a two bedroom.

The commuter lot, the lowest-performing of the city’s parking lots, has been explored by the Housing Authority previously. Among them was a proposal in 2018 for temporary housing in the form of tiny homes for the homeless community. As city Public Works’ Rob Dayton said after a community forum for the concept, “The neighborhood was not okay with that.” However, Santa Barbara residents responded differently when approached with the idea of permanent housing.

A large number of questions during Monday’s presentation revolved around providing enough parking for residents. The 103 apartments are served by 46 parking spaces, and six extra spaces for guests. Skip Szymanski, Housing Authority’s chief operating officer, offered that Casa de las Fuentes, an earlier Housing Authority building that sits kitty-corner to this lot, advertised for tenants who were not vehicle dependent. They worked downtown, walked or biked, or customarily took public transportation. He said its lot, built to the one-to-one ratio that was the rule at the time, sits about 50-60 percent full.

The neighbors made it clear that on-street parking in the area was bumper-to-bumper.

Attendees also questioned the staff about possible traffic and road hazards as West Carrillo Street is by the heavily used Highway 101 on-ramp. They also wondered about accessibility onto the property and preserving the yellow-flowered tipuana trees that have matured in the parking lot.

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The Workforce Housing Program intends to help mitigate rising rent prices and the scarcity of available affordable housing by building for Santa Barbara’s “missing middle”—or, according to Symanski, the “backbone of Santa Barbara’s workforce.” They are the teachers, construction workers, mail carriers, medical assistants, hospitality and serviceindustry employees, and office workers in the area whose annual income does not support current rental rates or homeownership in the city; they also earn too much to qualify for federal subsidy programs. In addition to the affordable housing, the project could curb ‘MISSING MIDDLE’: The proposed development at 400 West Carrillo Street would replace the Carrillo-Castillo the environmental impact Commuter Lot with 103 apartments aimed at Santa Barbara’s “missing middle” workforce. of some of the more than 15,000 commuters that travel to Santa Barbara daily.

At the Carrillo-Castillo project, currently, studio apartThe median income for those in the missing middle is ments would be available for $1,600 a month. Single-bedroom around $60,000. This income is incompatible with housing apartments would be offered at $1,900 a month, compared to prices in Santa Barbara, where the median home price is $1.29 the normal midrange price of $3,000 a month. Two-bedroom million. Szymasnki continued, “If you look at what is needed apartments would be available for $2,200 a month, compared to afford a rent of $2,550 a month and still pay no more than 30 to the midrange rent of $3,800. Comparatively, however, twopercent of your income, a person would need to make almost bedroom apartments at the recently completed apartments at $50 an hour, which is about $100,000 a year.”

Anacapa and Ortega streets go for as high as $5,200.

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Republicans Push to Lower Unemployment Benefit Still Under Negotiation, Unemployment Funds in Next Stimulus Package Would Affect 24,000 in Santa Barbara County

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nsulting” is what Senator Kamala Harris called her GOP colleagues’ view that $600 a week was too much to give “people who are out of work through no fault of their own.” The economic divide has Senate Republicans pushing to lower to $200 the federal unemployment payment meant to help sustain workers who lost their jobs due to COVID-19 — 24,000 in Santa Barbara County alone— while President Trump wants to add $1.75 billion to retain the FBI building kitty-corner to one of his hotels. If the headquarters moved to Washington’s suburbs, as is proposed, a rival hotel developer is reportedly eyeing the spot.

The additional unemployment benefit terminates this Friday. More than $19 billion poured into the economy weekly from the extra stimulus money paid to an estimated 32 million Americans on unemployment nationwide. Thirty-nine million of those dollars were spent in Santa Barbara County.

“The benefits don’t only help the recipients; they also support local business where the money is spent,” California’s Senator Dianne Feinstein said. “The Economic Policy Institute estimates that more than five million jobs were supported by this additional income, including 800,000 jobs in California.

This program has kept the economy from suffering even more harm.”

Jobless Santa Barbarans who contacted Assemblymember Monique Limón expressed their fear and concern over the potential benefit loss: “We are hearing many stories from constituents that are struggling even with the additional $600 to meet their financial obligations,” Limón said. “They are afraid of losing their home, car, and not having access to health care.

The additional dollars have become a much-needed lifeline for some families who want to go back to work but cannot for a number of reasons.” Her office has been hearing frequently from people in the last tiers of California businesses allowed

to open, including hairstylists, barbers, performers and craftspeople in entertainment, and freelancers.

Supervisor Gregg Hart punctuated the weekly COVID report on Tuesday by stating that state unemployment paid on average $1,350 per month, with many getting less than that.

“It doesn’t take an economist to understand how difficult it is to pay rent and survive in Santa Barbara County on $1,350 a month when our housing costs are some of the highest in the state,” Hart said. He predicted the loss would ripple through the entire economy, which was approaching Depression-level hardship.

The United States holds the unenviable position at the top of the death list for countries, having just passed 150,000 people who have died from COVID-19. The number of cases surpasses 4.4 million. California occupies the top spot for total cases in the nation: 471,310 on July 28. More than 8,600 people have died in the state.

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CRIMINAL JUSTICE while Lompoc managers claimed in statements to DOJ inspectors that the prison was well-stocked with hygiene items, such as soap and hand sanitizer, 55 percent of staff said offering more for employees was another “immediate need”; 36 percent said the same for inmates.

A vacuum of leadership at Lompoc also likely contributed to the severity of the outbreak, as the complex “did not have communications protocols in place to fully inform staff about the spread of the virus,” the report states.

Lompoc cycled through three different wardens during the emergency, and most of its management BEHIND THE SCENES: A Lompoc prison employee stands in the complex’s staff testing area. Four Lompoc inmates have died amid the positions were filled with outbreak with others suffering debilitating medical complications. either temporary duty staff from other prisons or local staff working in an “acting” capacity.

“In addition,” the DOJ said, “a union official reported to us that during the early stages of the outbreak the institution did not inform staff members that they had been in close contact with a colleague

by Tyler Hayden March after experiencing COVID-19 symp- who had tested positive for COVID-19. This taffing shortages, inadequate screenings, toms, but their symptoms were not detected failure to inform staff members of their cona scarcity of protective equipment, in the screening process.” Responding to a tact with an infected person meant that BOP poor communication, and a lack of confidential survey conducted by the DOJ as staff who had possibly been exposed to the leadership all contributed to the deadly part of its inspection, multiple Lompoc staff virus—and therefore could themselves have COVID-19 outbreak that swept through the raised concerns that nonmedical employ- been infected— were potentially exposing federal correctional complex in Lompoc, an ees had been administering the screenings, colleagues, inmates, and family members.”

Perhaps the most damning section of the inspection by the Department of Justice has which often failed to look for symptoms other than fever. report focuses on Lompoc’s resistance to found.

Even before the virus was first detected Detection among inmates was problem- a March 26 order from Attorney General in late March, the agency’s 36-page report atic, as well. “We found that Lompoc did William Barr to prioritize the use of home states, medical staffing at the complex was at not seek to test an inmate who, according confinement for the dual purposes of proa mere 62 percent. That made it difficult to to Lompoc medical records, informed staff tecting medically at-risk, nonviolent inmates implement new COVID-19 protocols while on March 22 that he had begun to experi- and thinning the overall prison population also providing routine care to the institution’s ence several different physical symptoms, to allow for better social distancing. The 2,700 inmates. Correctional staffing was also including nausea, vomiting, and reported DOJ called Lompoc’s use of the new policy, critically short, which prevented officers general malaise and a dry cough over the enacted under the CARES Act, “extremely from limiting their movement between the prior 2 days,” the report says. “Both vomit- limited.” Inspectors found in May that of the property’s multiple facilities, a key strategy in ing and cough were known symptoms of 509 Lompoc inmates eligible for home conreducing transmission of the virus in a closed COVID-19 at that time.” The inmate was finement, only 34 had been transferred out prison setting. finally admitted to the hospital on March of the prison.

In fact, the report states, it took Lompoc 26. By that time, the virus was starting to One of the complex’s acting wardens had officials more than two weeks to carry out take hold across multiple units in the prison, attempted to argue to inspectors that addian order from their superiors at the Bureau ultimately infecting more than 1,000 inmates tional transfers would threaten public safety. of Prisons (BOP) to begin the “compartmen- and staff. Four inmates died from the virus, The inspectors acknowledged the complexity talization” of staff because the complex didn’t and others suffered debilitating medical of the issue—“These are difficult, risk-based have enough bodies to fill all its mandatory complications. At one point, the complex decisions,” they said—but then stated firmly posts, including 24-hour guard duty at local had one of the highest infection rates in the that by early April, at a time when Lompoc was facing a growing COVID-19 crisis, “the hospitals where some Lompoc inmates were entire federal prison system.

While Lompoc officials have insisted Attorney General had directed the BOP to receiving care. By the end of April, the BOP had dispatched nine medical staff and 99 that ample supplies of personal protective ‘immediately maximize appropriate transcorrectional officers from other prisons equipment (PPE) have always been avail- fers to home confinement of all appropriaround the country to fill Lompoc’s ranks. able to both staff and inmates, 70 percent of ate inmates’ at prisons, like Lompoc, ‘where Staff screenings were dangerously defi- prison staff who responded to the DOJ sur- COVID-19 is materially affecting operations.’ cient at times, the Department of Justice vey in late April said additional PPE for staff Despite this admonition, the data does not (DOJ) also found. “Specifically, we identified was an “immediate need”; 46 percent said reflect that the BOP took immediate action two staff members who came to work in late inmates needed more PPE, as well. Similarly, at Lompoc.” n

Why Did Lompoc Prison Explode with COVID?

Federal Inspectors Point to Bad Policies and Bad Leadership

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NEWS BRIEFS CORONAVIRUS The United Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County had to temporarily shut its doors on 7/28 when a child member at its East Canon Perdido Street club was reported to have contracted COVID19. CEO Michael Baker said he was first notified by the child’s parents around 11 a.m. that the child had tested positive for the virus, and staff members immediately began calling parents to pick up their children. The facility had been deep cleaned and staff ordered to get tested when Baker received a call from the Public Health Department that the test had actually been a false positive.

COMMUNITY Sheriff’s deputies discovered the body of Long Beach resident Michael Currier, 36, in a creek 7/24 after he rolled his green Ford Expedition in the 200 block of Winchester Canyon Road. According to Sheriff’s spokesperson Raquel Zick, Currier told a witness near the scene of the accident he was “attempting to get his vehicle back on its wheels.” Later, deputies responding to a 9-1-1 call about the crashed car found Currier’s body 100 feet down a cliff side in a creek approximately 20 feet west of his vehicle.

Detectives do not suspect foul play, Zick said.

SBUSD School Board President Laura Capps announced her campaign for a second term 7/27.

“The most important role of a school board member is to be a strong voice for the community,” Capps said in a statement. “Now that we are facing the unprecedented challenges of a global pandemic, that community voice in our schools is more important than ever. And experience matters.”

Boardmembers Wendy Sims-Moten and Jackie Reid are also terming out, though they have not yet announced if they’re also running for a second term. The deadline to run is 8/7.

City Administrator Paul Casey has appointed longtime Public Works chief Rebecca Bjork as interim director of the city’s Community Development Department. Bjork will fill the vacancy created by the recent resignation of George Buell, the embattled department head whom critics faulted for failing to tame the city’s regulatory beast.

Bjork has worked for City Hall since 1989 but has run Public Works for the past six years. She will oversee Community Development while an executive search committee beats the bushes for national candidates. Filling in for Bjork while she runs Community Development is Brian D’Amour, the city engineer.

COURTS & CRIME A Santa Barbara man who refused to leave a vacant Isla Vista apartment was arrested 7/24 by Sheriff’s deputies after an hour-long standoff. The landlord of 897 Camino del Sur called 9-1-1 to report Donald Cameron, 51, had entered one of the empty units, and when deputies arrived, they found Cameron locked in the apartment’s bathroom. After Cameron refused to surrender peacefully, deputies deployed a chemical irritant, and he immediately exited the bathroom. He was arrested and booked into County Jail for burglary, vandalism, and obstructing a peace officer, with bail set at $50,000. n

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“Taking into consideration the calf ’s very calves born at the zoo, is the most genetipoor prognosis for survival, we made the cally important Masai in the U.S.—he has decision to euthanize her,” said Barnes. “We no other relatives beside his offspring, which makes him genetically desirable. share this news with a very heavy heart.”

While the determinant factors of the calf’s “The loss of any animal is heartbreaking underlying health issues aren’t yet known, for our entire zoo family, and we are grieving a necropsy (animal autopsy) will be per- this loss,” shared Rich Block, Santa Barbara formed at the UC Davis California Animal Zoo’s president & CEO. “Despite the unforHealth and Food Safety Laboratory in San tunate outcome, I’m proud of the zoo team Bernardino. A pathology report will be for the great measures they took to try to received in several weeks. save Audrey’s calf. We are grateful for the Over the years, there have been many suc- support of our community, as well as from cessful giraffe births, such as Twiga, who was our professional conservation community, born in March 2020. Audrey, who is back as we continue our commitment to working with the herd and doing well, has had four to protect the future of wildlife.”

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he State Street promenade has transformed what was once a retail ghost town into a bustling atmosphere dotted with diners enjoying meals in the street and bicyclists and strollers darting to and fro, despite the pandemic. But what about the many restaurants on SAFE SPACE: Santa Barbara Public Market owner Marge Cafarelli says the the side streets? They outdoor seating on Victoria Street has been a lifeline. could not compete with all these al fresco dining opportunities. After that people can feel safe, and now we can a dynamic effort by restaurant owners, how- offer that. It’s only been expanded into the ever, to persuade Santa Barbara city officials, street since Thursday and people started filloutdoor dining is now available along West ing tables immediately.”

Before the pandemic restrictions, the Victoria Street just off State.

“Outdoor seating is a lifeline,” said Marge Public Market had over 350 indoor seats and Cafarelli, owner of the Santa Barbara Public 40 seats on its patio. With the additional parMarket at 38 West Victoria Street. “As long as klet street seating now, the Market is able to we can continue this, businesses still have a seat 105 people including the patio. Neighchance at surviving the pandemic.” boring restaurants along Victoria are buildThe 00 block between Chapala and State ing out parklets this week, too. streets has the second-highest concentraOther downtown blocks are also looktion of food and retail establishments in ing to expand into the street. Since the State one single downtown block — 13 in total. promenade ended at the 500 block, restauOver 325 people work in these restaurants. rants between Haley and Gutierrez streets Cafarelli said all of the businesses on the demanded the city give them the okay to block, including those housed inside of the build parklets. They were helped by City Public Market, were suffering as a result of Councilmember Oscar Gutierrez, whose district includes that block. He put heat on the new outdoor-only dining regulations.

“State Street actually hurt us because peo- city administrators to expand the promeple want to sit outside and we weren’t able to nade, and they did. Now the 500 block resoffer that,” Cafarelli said. “It is so important taurants have parklets, too. —Delaney Smith

Unemployment Benefits cont’d from p. 4 The disease that has put 24,000 people out of work in Santa Barbara County was headed upward so quickly that Cottage Hospital canceled some elective surgeries to keep its beds available, the county suspended personal care businesses again, and indoor dining was ordered to take place outdoors only. The 10-day delay in test results makes it difficult to interpret trends in daily positive cases, but the past seven-day total is 850 new cases com-

COVID testing, $1,200 to individuals, and $1 trillion in funding to states. It went next to the Senate, where Republicans, who hold the majority, began to take the matter up only last week. No money goes to states in the Republican bill released late on Monday, although the strictures are loosened somewhat for the $150 billion to states in the CARES Act from March.

As well as setting the unemployment stimulus at $200, the Republican bill, which is still in negotiations with Democrats, It is critical that funds another $1,200 in payments to households and $500 to dependents. It representatives work would also protect businesses, schools, together to find the and hospitals from COVID liability claims best temporary relief to to some degree. An education-focused help the most affected portion includes $70 billion to schools, $30 billion to colleges, and $5 billion to during this crisis. state governors to spend on schools. The — ASSEMBLYMEMBER MONIQUE LIMÓN Democrats allocated $100 billion before pared to 993 for the seven days before that. fall school closures were announced because It was 559 for the previous seven-day period of the spiraling pandemic, and House Leader starting July 7. A more certain statistic might Nancy Pelosi announced she would push to be hospitalizations, which hit a high of 86 increase the amount. patients on July 23 and has gradually declined Assemblymember Limón called on legislators to find a compromise as the pandemic to 79 as of July 27.

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Late on At Tuesday’s council meeting, it Tuesday morning, July 28, Santa looked as if this recalcitrance would Barbara Mayor Cathy Murillo continue. City Attorney Ariel Calohit the 700 block of State Street nne and Councilmember Oscar Gutierrez both suggested offering armed with a boxful of face masks — more properly known unmasked people to choose between in these COVID times as face taking a free mask or getting a citation is tantamount to “stop and frisk.” coverings. As she has on other occasions, she was about to hand What? And it was beyond absurd out masks to people not wearfor Councilmember Eric Friedman ing them. As usual, it was a quiet to liken administrative citations for endeavor. By that, I mean no not wearing masks to the Gestapo brass band accompanied her, tactics of the Third Reich. Really?

Presumably Friedman, normally not just Independent photographer Daniel Dreifuss to document a hysteric, was tired — it was a long the moment. meeting.

Most people, she said, will Councilmember Kristen Sneddon, who leads the charge for accept them with sheepish embarrassment. One woman, enforcement, said police would not intent on a cell phone conversahesitate to take action if someone tion, made it clear she was not to walked down State Street wearing no pants. So why not for no mask? be interrupted. A homeless guy, by contrast, was happy to get It’s not rocket science, folks.

Other cities, such as Monterey, have a little protection, and Murillo was happy to offer him three. On already done this. Up there, City Hall previous mask distribution outhas dispatched two code enforceings, she has met with heated ment officers — wearing red shirts resistance, sometimes getting and khaki pants — to Fisherman’s HAVE YOU HUGGED YOUR MASK TODAY? Mayor Cathy Murillo took to the streets Tuesday to pass out face masks. In this F-bombs dropped on her head. case, her intrusions were warmly received by Lowell Madson (above); in others, the F-bombs rained down upon her head. Wharf and Cannery Row, where This day, she got a mouthful from there are so many tourists that it’s a tall, stringy guy in his twenties physically impossible to maintain dressed in black, smoking what looked to be a hand-rolled off about 50,000 people every year. In other words, that’s life. six feet of separation. cigarette. He was ideologically opposed to face masks, he This type of indifference calls to mind Joseph Stalin’s sublime For seven days a week, these two — not cops, by the declared, and there was no scientific evidence they did any cynicism when he reportedly observed that one dead person way — pass out about 5,000 free masks and make sure local constitutes a tragedy, but a million is just a statistic. businesses comply with emergency measures. On rare occasion, good. And besides, they made it hard to breathe.

Unlike the cigarette he was smoking.

Well, guess what? Right now, the uncommon COVID has they also issue tickets, about 20 so far. What happens if people Smoking, of course, is a deeply personal choice, and as killed more people than all the flu deaths, car crashes, refuse to stop? Here, City Attorney Calonne worried unduly such must be respected no matter how stupid it is. But I have suicides, and homicides the United States in a given about the prospect of what he called “high-risk detentions.” In an ornery friend in his eighties who argues that the per- year — combined. And COVID managed to inflict all this Monterey, the compliance officers simply walk away.

The pressure on the council not to enforce was intense. sonal choice of others to not wear face masks while walking death in just five months. Those other miseries had 12 months City Hall should up and down the great State Street promenade should end to rack up their body bags. where his baseball bat begins. Given what’s happening with Here in Santa Barbara not squander limCounty, we remain “lucky” COVID in this country, I think he makes a compelling case. ited resources when to have had just 32 fataliAll these years, and I never even knew he liked baseball. the real fire was up in Santa Maria, On the same Tuesday, the Santa Barbara City Council ties, and COVID cases have addressed the obvious question of mask enforcement on not exceeded the number of where the problem State Street. To its credit — sort of — the council voted to our hospital beds, ICU units, is undoubtedly far authorize the issuance of enforcement citations for people or ventilators. But we happen more dire. All that, of refusing to wear masks on State Street and other outdoor loca- to live spitting distance from course, is totally cortions. The caveat here is that such citations will be issued “only Los Angeles, which accounts rect, but utterly beside as a last resort,” only in “high-risk locations,” and only after for more than half of Calithe point. State Street TOXIC MASCULINITY: A large gathering of dude brahs occupied the all efforts at educational compliance have failed. Although fornia’s total death count of is the main drag of the Rose Garden to play beer pong, laugh loudly, and spray aerosolized the vote was unanimous, the final action was mushy and over 8,700. county seat. Sending human sputum into the ambient airstream. No face coverings were threatens to go the way of all legislation written on wet toilet Not everyone who gets the message that anyevident. paper: down the drain. infected gets sick. Not everything goes in Santa It should be noted that city cops viscerally hate the idea one who gets sick dies. But here in Santa Barbara, our numbers Barbara fatally undermines the unity of purpose absolutely of getting into the business of face mask enforcement, and are moving dramatically in the wrong direction. One week required to get this monster under a modicum of control and the city’s red-shirted State Street Ambassadors may lack before Memorial Day, we were averaging 13 new cases a day. does nothing to solve the problem in Santa Maria. the training, legal authority, and attitude to pull it off. Yet Two weeks later, it was 25. Since then, every two weeks our Back in June, I was urging City Hall to hire roller-skaters these are the two agencies the council charged with making numbers have hopscotched like a frog on speed: to 60, to 96, dressed in personal protective equipment to glide up and enforcement happen. Nevertheless, Tuesday’s vote goes down and finally — last Friday — to 121. The California Department down the promenade, passing out free masks along the way as a positive step forward — tiny, incremental, and timid as it of Public Health’s official “Watch List” for COVID-19 cases is to those who forgot to bring their own. In our grief over what seven per 100,000 residents (S.B. County has over 400,000). appears to be an endless slog into oblivion, pointed reminders appears to be.

The Santa Barbara County public health authorities and are necessary. For the beer pong bro brigade that colonized As for my ornery friend, it turns out he doesn’t like baseball after all; what he likes to do is breathe. If he gets infected, he’s our elected officials have insisted on a strictly educational and the Rose Garden this Sunday, maybe something more than honor system approach with doctrinaire rigidity and stub- pointed might be needed. likely dead.

As of this writing, more than 150,000 Americans have now born recalcitrance. Why? Such an approach ceased to fit the As State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, the legendary died from COVID. Back when this nightmare started, it’s worth facts months ago. Remember all the anguished hand-wring- “Bullhorn from Boston,” has argued long and loud: Nothing remembering how skeptics warned against “overreaction.” ing that ensued back in March over whether we could — or says you mean business like a little enforcement.

After all, they insisted on repeating, the common flu carries should — prevent cruise ships from disembarking?

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opefully, governors, county boards of supervisors, and city councils in states across the nation are considering how they would address having “federal” agents in full military gear, weapons, and unmarked vehicles appearing on our streets authorized to assault and kidnap civilians and arbitrarily search them at will.

Meanwhile, the ACLU is suing the Trump administration for what it says are the unconstitutional actions of the federal agents.

Hopefully, democracy and not despotism will prevail in our United States of America.

—Elizabeth Colón, S.B.

How to Open Schools

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he level of uncertainty and anxiety in our community is higher than we can ever remember.

As of July 24, 35 California counties (94 percent of our state’s population) are on the Watch List, and Santa Barbara County has been included in this alarming statistic for over a month. Meanwhile, it’s late July, and everyone’s thoughts have turned to schools reopening. They have been closed since March 13; more than ever, children deserve a meaningful, rigorous academic education, and they desperately need social interaction in a safe, caring environment. Nevertheless, distance learning will start next month, and our schools will be shuttered until further notice. In other words, until we — as a community — begin to get this virus back under control.

With the hundreds of letters and public comments we have received, it is clear that while perspectives vary, we are all united in the strong belief that kids belong in the classroom. It is our wish that this shared motivation will prove to be the powerful incentive our community needs to reverse our infection rates. That means making short-term sacrifices and changing behaviors, the way we did in April.

Recently, the Centers for Disease Control estimated that if everyone in the U.S. wore a mask and practiced social distancing for merely one to two months, we would stop this virus in its tracks. Just look around our beautiful community. Some people are wearing masks, but many are not. Some people are practicing social distancing, but many are not.

And our local leaders have yet to enforce the statewide mask requirement.

District leaders, teachers, and staff will no doubt do their best to create a distance-learning program that is engaging, inclusive, reasonable, and even fun. Parents will no doubt do their best to support

the teachers and their children’s success, despite the immense professional and personal obstacles that many face. Now, everyone else must also do their best, just for a matter of weeks.

Nothing really takes the place of school, so let’s keep our eye on that prize. Please wear your masks, practice social distancing, and limit your gathering in groups. City and county leaders, please help us open schools by using every tool you have, including enforcing mask wearing. It will be good for our county, and it will be wonderful for kids.

—Laura Capps, president, and Kate Ford, member, Santa Barbara Unified School District Board of Trustees

Building Bridges

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f the City Council wants to seriously hear from the African-American, Latino, and Chumash communities about developing a better relationship with the police department, don’t ask the City Attorney’s office. Ask existing community organizations that represent these communities and whose leaders are from them.

The basis for this comment is because I have brought thoughtful and powerful African-American voices, such as Pastor David Moore, to my congregation. As a result, we facilitated several serious conversations with members of the police department and individuals from the African-American community. Moreover, I am compelled by my Jewish tradition to weigh in heavily in support of fundamental teachings that clearly confront racism: “You shall love the stranger and love your neighbor as yourself ” (Leviticus 19:18,34).

I suggest that such a community organization should be: (1) A well-known one with a strong and respected reputation for bringing together voices from marginalized and other groups in our community; (2) one with leaders who are from marginalized communities within Santa Barbara; (3) and one with proven engagement techniques that allow for community input in a civil, respected, and honest manner to maximize the opportunity for all voices to be heard.

Organizations to consider could include Fund for Santa Barbara, Healing Justice, Common Table, and El Centro. —Rabbi Arthur Gross-Schaefer, S.B.

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Edward Shelton Henderson, MD

7/19/1932 - 6/25/2020

Dr. Edward Henderson, whose work as a Senior Investigator at the National Cancer Institute in the 1960s and later as Chief of Medicine at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute proved a major contribution to the fight against childhood leukemia, died on June 25 in Montecito, California, after a period of declining health.

He was 87.

Edward Shelton Henderson was born on July 19, 1932 in Ventura, California, and raised on a citrus ranch in neighboring Santa Paula. His father, also named Edward, was a prominent lawyer and later Ventura County Superior Court Judge, and his mother, Leigh (Shelton) Henderson, was a homemaker. After obtaining his M.D. from Stanford University in 1956 and completing a three-year internship at Los Angeles General Hospital, he came east to work at the National Cancer Institute, a division of the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, M.D. During his twelve-year tenure there, first as a clinical associate studying hematological oncology with combination-chemotherapy pioneers Emil Frei, Emil Freireich and David Rall, and later as a senior researcher and head of the Leukemia Service, Dr. Henderson was centrally involved in experimental breakthroughs in the treatment of the leukemia and lymphoma, advances that would eventually contribute to a decline in the mortality rate in children from 90% to less than 20%—one of the great success stories in modern oncology.

Dr. Henderson moved to Buffalo, New York in 1973, to take the position of Chief of Medicine A at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, the nation’s first research facility devoted exclusively to cancer research and treatment. In the course of over two decades at the institute, he oversaw numerous advances in the field of oncology, and was senior editor of Leukemia, the seminal medical text on that disease. After retiring from his position in 1990, he went on to serve as a medical officer at the Food and Drug Administration in Washington, then returned to Buffalo to work at the Veterans Administration Hospital for the last years of his professional life.

After his retirement, Dr. Henderson returned to the Southern California of his childhood, settling first in Summerland, then in Montecito, with Carolyn Kincaid, whom he met at his fifty-year Stanford reunion and married the following year.

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tennis, time with his extended family, and work at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, where he served as a docent from 2006 until 2016.

In addition to his wife, Dr. Henderson is survived by three daughters, Emilie Henderson Ganter, Jacqueline Henderson, and Nadine Henderson, as well as by a son, John Henderson, and nine grandchildren—Maria Consuelo Henderson, Ian Henderson, Emilie Rivkin, Thomas Ganter, Cambria Revsine, Mahler Revsine, Stephen Earl Showalter, Sophia Magdalena Showalter, and Julián Henderson. His eldest son, Peter Joret Henderson, predeceased him in Due to the pandemic, no memorial service will be held at this time.

Andre Meir Saltoun 1/21/1930 - 7/17/2020

Andre Meir Saltoun passed away peacefully, from heart failure, at his Montecito home on Friday, July 17, 2020 with his wife Michele, by his side.

Andre was born in Baghdad, Iraq on January 21, 1930. Tragically, his parents were killed in an accident when he was one year old. Fortunately, Andre was surrounded by a large family who took care of him. At the age of 13, he left Baghdad to attend the American University of Beirut. Fluent in French, Arabic and English, as well as being a motivated student, Andre finished high school in three years.

A teacher, seeing great promise in Andre, encouraged him to pursue higher education in the United States. Andre undertook a harrowing journey which included traveling on a coal boat filled with unsavory characters from Marseilles, France, to Galveston, Texas. A $100 loan from a boat officer enabled Andre to get to the East Coast where bridge games and washing dishes paid for his successful completion of an undergraduate degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Andre saved money for seven years by working in a number of sales jobs, including driving a liquor truck, so that he could attend the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1957. Andre served as managing editor of the Wisconsin Law Review. Upon graduation from law school, Andre accepted an offer at the first and only international law firm at the time, Baker & McKenzie in Chicago. He joined the firm in 1960 when it had twentyeight lawyers and revenue of less than one million dollars.

When Andre retired in 2005, the firm had 3200 lawyers, revenue of over two billion dollars and offices all over the world. Andre

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was one of the first lawyers to advise companies regarding the tax implications of operating internationally. Clients included Wrigley, International Paper, Levi-Strauss, Kellogg’s, Sherwin Williams, Mattel and Sun Microsystems. Given his language skills and counsel to American and French multinationals, Andre worked closely with another senior partner, Christine Lagarde of Baker & McKenzie(Paris). Ms. Lagarde currently serves as President of the European Central Bank. Among many other professional accolades, Andre was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 1975. This is the highest decoration awarded to a civilian

by France and recognized Andre for the many years he served as legal counsel to the French government in Chicago.

In the late 1980’s Andre was asked to oversee the growth of Baker & McKenzie’s offices in San Francisco and the Silicon Valley. With foresight, these offices became a substantial part of the firm’s base. While Andre still served his clients in Chicago, the California weather beckoned him to re-locate to the West Coast. Andre moved to San Francisco where he met his wife, Michele, in 1995. Their shared joy for exploring the world resulted in wonderful memories over many years and miles. As Andre looked forward to retirement in 2005, the couple chose Montecito, California as their community to call home.

Andre enjoyed a very active life in Santa Barbara. Tennis was a passion supported by many years of play with the Montecito Tennis Mafia (famous for his lobs and drop shots) and memberships at the Santa Barbara Polo and Racquet Club (where Andre won a pie contest) and Birnam Wood Golf Club.

At Birnam Wood Andre also enjoyed backgammon, bridge and countless social events with many friends. He loved classical music and was committed to the Community Arts Music Association (CAMA). Andre joined the CAMA Board in 2005 and served for 14 years, including as President from 2012 through 2015. CAMA named Andre Director Emeritus in 2019.

Andre is survived by his wife and partner of 25 years, Michele, who feels a tremendous loss.

Beverly Saltoun, Andre’s first wife, and their daughters Synthia Saltoun (Norm Siever), Myra Saltoun and Julie Saltoun (Fred Weiner), who reside in Southern California, will miss Andre, as will Francine Saltoun (whom Andre married in 1960) and their daughters, Diane Saltoun (Bruce Braun), Josiane Saltoun and Carol Saltoun (Tim Calkins).

All reside in Chicago, Illinois.

Michele’s extended family shares in her grief, especially her mother, Sandra Neely.

Andre cherished and is remembered with love by thirteen grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.

Andre considered his first cousins, spread across the globe, to be his brothers and sisters. He found great joy in the reunions

and frequent communications shared with relatives in the U.S., Canada, England, France, Israel and Australia.

A celebration of Andre’s life will be held when family and friends are able to gather. The family will sit shiva, virtually, with Rabbi Arthur Gross-Schaefer presiding.

Donations in Andre’s memory may be made to the Community Arts Music Association (CAMA) of Santa Barbara and Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital.

Sheryl Trevethan-Scott 7/1/1967 - 7/13/2020

Sheryl Trevethan-Scott (Mary Sheryl) first graced this earth on July 1, 1967. Born the fifth child in San Jose, California to Ron and Mary Trevethan, it took less than a week before her Grandpa T nicknamed her Sunny: as a ray of sunshine was beaming within her. This spirit of joy would continue through her life, and up to her very last days on earth.

Sheryl was the great-great grand-daughter of the first president of Panama (from her mother’s lineage) and her Trevethan roots dated to the first land grant owners and pioneers of California (1820-1840). Today, Trevethan Avenue in Santa Cruz and Pacheco Pass mark some of the areas of her ancestors’ homes.

Eventually, her father’s joint purchase of property in the San Juan Islands, Washington, would become what is now Trevethan Lane.

Just after the age of one, Sheryl and her family moved to Santa Barbara; and Carpinteria would be Sheryl’s home from kindergarten through 12th grade.

She excelled in school, sports and music. In high school, she earned top academic honors, was Editor of the Year-book and a member of the Muses. After graduation, she became an exceptional skier and her love for learning, education, music and reading continued—as well-as-her running. She trained for four marathons with her best friend and younger sister Carol Ann and husband Chris. Sheryl ran the International Las Vegas Marathon (2000), Suzuki Rock’N’Roll Marathon (San Diego, 2000), Santa Barbara’s first Pier to Peak, and the ING New York City Marathon (2003).

After a foot injury, Sheryl became an avid Bikram Yogi for many years. She loved reading books by the Dalai Lama and was instrumental in having her sisters Carol and Monica, brother Patrick and niece Mary-Grace join her in a Los Angeles walk with His Holiness Dalai Lama.

Sheryl was of the mind that life on earth was not just a spiri-

tual experience: but that we were spiritual beings having a human experience. Sheryl delighted herself daily in natural beauty and found the presence of God in the wonders of nature.

Devoted to her Shih Tzu, Mac, “Macaroni,” Sheryl had a symbiotic LOVE relationship with him for 18 years. As well she had an exceptional love for animals and the homeless, often sharing homemade goodies and a warm touch. She was extremely compassionate—always willing to listen to one’s joys or sorrows and she lived life with an integrity that honored and respected all.

Married and living in Santa Barbara over 32 years, Sheryl’s volunteer work spanned decades and genres. Some of her community service included: Volunteering with Guide Dogs for the Blind, Goodwill, Food Bank, PATH, SB Rescue Mission and the Santa Barbara Old Mission.

Her entire life, Sheryl had a wonderful mind and memory.

Her everyday walks of miles on State Street, Cabrillo Boulevard or up Milpas Street always included her million-dollar smile and a sweet hello to the many people she knew by name.

As a couple, she and Chris traveled extensively… together they enjoyed countless hikes, bike rides and kayaking locally, and were just as active while on their numerous trips to Northern California, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Utah, Hawaii and Alaska. It was their dream and goal to retire on their property in Coos Bay, Oregon.

Sheryl was a devoted and gracious wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, sister and friend. She is preceded in death by her loving parents Mary Esther Hill and Ron T, and her adoring brothers Ron and Patrick Trevethan. Sheryl leaves behind her beloved husband Chris; beloved daughter Alicia Marie Sinclair; sons Christopher and Patrick, grandchildren Gabriel Munoz, Andrew, Nathaniel and Zachariah McGrew and Tori Scott; and her sisters Monica Langhorne, Linda Keasler and Carol Ann Trevethan.

As well, our darling Sheryl is survived by stepsisters and brother Bonnie, Nickie and Tommy Adams, along with many loved and treasured nieces, great-nieces, nephews, cousins and heartfelt friends.

Sheryl exemplified Grace, Joy and God’s unconditional love to all May we follow her example.

Fr. Dan Lackie of SBOM will officiate a Service and Celebration of Life for Sheryl at the Santa Barbara Rose Garden, tentatively planned for Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020.

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the only stage of the justice system that produces racial disparity. Disadvantage accumulates at each step of the criminal justice process and contributes to a disproportionate number of people of color who are incarcerated and criminalized.

The Public Defender’s Office is witness to this disparity.

To illustrate, consider what would have happened if George Floyd had lived. In Santa Barbara County, he would have likely been arrested for passing a counterfeit bill and resisting an executive officer. He would have been held in custody on $25,000 bail, an amount that he would not have been able to afford to post. He would have been appointed a public defender. But, in the post-COVID-19 world, Mr. Floyd would be quarantined for 14 days in the county jail, where his ability to speak with his attorney would be severely limited.

When they finally met, Mr. Floyd would ask his public defender to explain why he was being charged with resisting arrest when he was the victim. His public defender would empathize and tell Mr. Floyd that they see this happen too often. They would talk about his right to a trial. Mr. Floyd’s public defender would explain that they could assert that the officer used excessive force, but that the prosecutor would likely argue that the use of force was justified because Mr. Floyd “didn’t obey their commands.” His public defender would explain that it would be up to a jury to decide his fate.

Mr. Floyd’s public defender would also have to explain the harrowing reality that Mr. Floyd might be the only Black person in the courtroom during the jury selection portion of his trial and the high probability that he would not have a single person on his jury that had the same skin color as he did. This conversation would also entail “strategies” meant to give Mr. Floyd “juror appeal” in this circumstance: Our office will provide you with a suit and tie.

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While these jury selection “strategies” are not specific to Black clients, the conversation would be dif different in context and tone because of Mr. Floyd’s race.

Mr. Floyd would express his fears to his public defender. Fear that the jury would not believe him over a white police officer. Fear that the prosecutor would vilify him by using his criminal history against him. Fear that he would not get a jury of his peers and that racial bias might taint their deliberations. Fear of the negative impact his prolonged absence in jail awaiting trial would have on his 6-year-old daughter.

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cumulative fears would likely result in him accepting a plea bargain resulting in a felony conviction, and if he was lucky, no more than a year in the county jail and a five-year felony probation grant.

There is a growing consciousness about how discriminatory criminal justice practices affect poor communities and communities of color and undermine the perceived legitimacy of the criminal justice system. While the Black Lives Matter movement and other grassroots organizations continue to push for greater activism and public awareness around the need for criminal justice and police reforms, the Public Defender’s Office is uniquely positioned to provide the leadership that our local justice system needs to achieve racial equity.

We are the only participants in the criminal justice system with the perspective and the position to make objections, arguments, and demands on behalf of our clients for improved police practices and racial equity in court. If we do not do it, no one else will. If we do not do it, no one else can.

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ne thing to know about the deliciously eccentric, faux mainstream film Palm Springs is that it throws us for a loop. And then another and another. The film begins innocently enough, with Judd Apatow-esque comic ribaldry as a wedding in Palm Springs begins to go wrong in various ways. Star power is in the house, with

anti-plot spoilers among us are hesitant to get into. Suffice it to say, the story’s time-space continuum goes awry, sci-fi sauce mixes with bravura genre-mashing, and dollops of subversive cinematic ideas are tossed into the stew. Et voilà: We have a thinking person’s feel-good summer hit. “Sensation” might be a better description, as the film garnered a record acquisition prize (more than $17.5 million, from Hulu and Neon distribution) when it premiered at Sundance Festival earlier this year, and the film had a record-breaking bonanza of streamers on its recent opening weekend on Hulu.

Adding to the buzz is a matter of civic pride — homegrown Santa Barbaran Max Barbakow directed and created the winning film with screenwriter Andy Siara, his friend from the American Film Institute (AFI). Barbakow is a familiar name in Santa Barbara’s filmculture scene thanks to his family’s deep involvement with the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF); his

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father, Jeffrey Barbakow, was SBIFF president for six years, and the family name adorns the organization’s Barbakow Family Center for Film Studies. Prior to Palm Springs, the 31-year-old filmmaker made a documentary about his life as an adoptee called Mommy, I’m a Bastard!, which premiered at the 2013 SBIFF. Barbakow studied at AFI (class of 2015) and Yale, and had a stint working with iconic German-gone-Los Angeleno director Werner Herzog. His subsequent IMDb profile includes The Duke: Based on the Memoir ‘I’m the Duke’ by J.P. Duke in 2016, and the 2017 short Mi Dulcinea.

Palm Springs is Barbakow’s introduction into the Hollywood big leagues. With this auspicious feature-film debut, Barbakow instantly joins the ranks of internationally noted Santa Barbara–raised directors, including Mike Mills (the S.B.-related 20th Century Women and Beginners) and Taylor Hackford (An Officer and a Gentleman, Hail! Hail! Rock and Roll!, Ray).

I spoke over the phone with Barbakow just after the Hulu salvo bumped him ever higher up the ranks of what’s new and who’s who in American film.

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This year would seem to be a banner one for you — despite the ongoing struggles of COVID-19. Your record-breaking responses at Sundance and on Hulu suggest a delicious double whammy. Does this feel like a whirlwind moment and a launching point for your life as a director? It’s been an incredible time on a personal level, but obviously quite devastating for our country and the world. Our film is really small potatoes in the scope of this challenging moment, but hopefully it allows people to escape for 90 minutes and laugh. Personally, it’s definitely been a whirlwind ride. It’s extremely gratifying that people are responding to the film.

I was preparing to feel some of those postpartum blues after putting Palm Springs out into the world — after living with an idea for so long, realizing it, and releasing it, the movie no longer exclusively belongs to me — but the way people have engaged and started discussing its meaning extended the ride a bit. It’s been really special.

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I also proposed to my now-fiancée, which provided a little shot in the arm for us at home, and we have a rascally new puppy to keep things interesting, as well.

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I was really dazzled by Palm Springs — maybe due to little shocks of recognition in that I have attended a wedding in that gilded desert outpost and noted the surrealist potential. Andy Siara’s screenplay morphed from the version he wrote while at AFI with you. How long has this project been brewing with you two, and has it changed shape

and direction a lot along the way? We actually started working on the project after we finished AFI. We decided we wanted to make a feature together and keep the productivity from film school going while rediscovering some of our instincts. We took a drive out to Palm Springs for a weekend brainstorm and came home with the basic idea for Nyles’s character.

That was almost five years ago, and while the story evolved from an absurdly comic, existentialist, mumblecore death bender movie into the love story you see now, the tone and the energy at its core — Andy and I in a room, trying to make each other laugh, trying to understand more about ourselves, our relationships, and make sense of a confusing world — remained consistent throughout.

Did the project really grow wings and get wider attention once Andy Samberg got involved, and how was the creative working process with him? He immediately made the project “real” and gave us a chance to get financed. When you have Andy Samberg starring and producing your film, other talented people want to get involved. And working with Samberg was a dream collaboration. From the first time we met, it was clear we saw the same movie — tonally, comedically, energy-wise — and he helped us make it way better during the time we spent working on the script together.

Then, when I went to shoot it and the machine got bigger, he was supportive every step of the way, protecting the essence of the movie and teeing me up to do my best work. I tried to return the favor.

Palm Springs seems to live in a place similar to the wonderful film Parasite, in that both somehow blend elements and attitudes of both art films and popcorn movies. Was that a conscious goal for you and Andy Siara, to find that tricky balance?

We tried to turn that critical voice off throughout the writing of it, not overthinking where our sensibilities were leading us. But, yes, I would say that blend of tone and scope is right where our authentic sensibilities reside. I would also say Anomalisa and Jurassic Park were two big and very disparate references.

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You manage to fuse genres organically—the Murphy’s Law–afflicted wedding story, time-loop cinema, aspects of rom-com—with genuine romantic magnetism between the central couple. And even references to the multiverse and quantum physics come together, all in a package that is now being screened at U.S. drive-ins.

How did you get away with it? That was the most exciting challenge to tackle with Palm Springs. I figured we could get away with the genre playfulness by keeping the human threads of the story—Nyles and Sarah—grounded and prominent. Andy Siara and I spent a lot of time creating fully fleshedout, emotionally messy, dynamic characters to keep the story relatable throughout its more heightened madness. I always hoped they would be our anchors.

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Speaking of famed SoCal cities, can you reflect on your life growing up in Santa Barbara, and how that might have shaped or colored your outlook and approach as a filmmaker? It’s paradise. I love it so much. But being aware of that, I made it a priority to travel a lot as I grew up, to collect experiences outside of SoCal, to meet people, get into (good) trouble, have adventures, all in an attempt to force myself outside of a comfort zone and figure out who I was and develop something to say. But definitely, growing up in Santa Barbara and going to SBIFF—seeing amazing cinema from all around the world, seeing incredible artists speak on panels—was extremely integral to me finding myself as a filmmaker.

When did the notion of becoming a director enter your life and take over your vision of a future? My brother Bennett, who I idolize and work with and is the most talented creative I know, turned me on to all the directors coming into their own in the ’90s, so that’s when I fell in love with film and the idea of being a filmmaker. I was probably about 8 [years old] and seeing those films way too young, but by the time high school came around, I really started consuming and making shorts in a more dedicated way.

I notice in your bio that you studied with Werner Herzog, who I know has some pretty radical views about film, and about film theory. What was your takeaway from your encounter with him? “Invent! Invent! Invent!” And “conspire.”

Those are words Werner loves. While my time at AFI was all about taking emotional inventory and telling personal stories that were very well thought-out and made on larger-scale sets, Werner works from an opposite place. When I was in Cuba with him, he preached searching for an “ecstatic truth” by not overthinking your creativity and working outside-in, conspiring with your surroundings to invent story as you go, guerilla style. That time with him very much allowed me to regain a lot of my instincts that had been dulled by overthinking the craft at AFI.

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I love the last scene, in which your parents and brother are engaged in funny, pile-up horseplay, but you pass on hopping into the pile, saying, “I like to watch.” Without making too much of a symbolic point of it, is that indicative of your general attitude as an artist and person — preferring the role of observer and behind-the-scenes artist versus seizing spotlights? That was such a spontaneous moment! I’m not that passive or shy, but I do prefer to let the work

You’re set to direct a film called Good Bad & Undead, with Peter Dinklage. Can you give us a hint of what that’s about, and is it forestalled by the pandemic? Similar to Palm Springs, it’s a pretty fun and offbeat twohander set in a heightened, genre-fluid world. I’m really excited about what we have brewing, and hopefully we can go make it once there’s some clarity with the pandemic. I’m also doing a bigger-scale project with Andy Siara that’s going to build on our collaboration — that’ll be announced soon.

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I actually recently realized that with everything I do, I’m trying to recapture the magic of making Bastard, just being in the moment and open-minded and laying it all out in the frame. It was so fun to make.

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As you embark on your higher-profile life in film, do you have a sense of what you’d ideally like to achieve in your work? Do you like this idea of creating commercially viable films that maintain an artistic edge, à la Palm Springs?

I do like that idea! I will say that I never had any ambition for our strange little flick becoming commercially viable, but now that it is, I definitely feel encouraged to keep doing the work the way I know how. Where does that lead? No clue. But it’s all been so special and surprising, and I guess I want to continue to surprise myself, to stretch myself, to work to keep myself interested in new things.

I had a mentor who always said, “Have the courage of your peculiarities.” As long as I can tell stories in new ways with the people I love and hold a mirror up to the world in a small way, I’ll be happy.

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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.

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

Supper Service Eastside Locations:

Adams Elementary Franklin Elementary Harding Elementary

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)

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. goleta.k12.ca.us/departments/food-services

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from Ascension Academy’s How to Raise Your Vibration will teach the basic techniques of meditation and breathwork. Those who are experienced are welcome as well as beginners, who will learn about the benefits of meditation and how to incorporate it, and its techniques into your daily life. 10-11:30am.

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Graham hit .389 with four RBI and his first 2020 homer while helping the Foresters go 6-0. He also made several sparkling defensive plays, including a diving stop that helped cut down a run at home plate. Also getting votes was pitcher Justin Campbell for an incredible 14-strikeout, six-inning, one-hit performance on July 21. n

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hile Santa Barbara continues to grapple with the coronavirus, a new disease threatens our local rabbit population. Rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV), dubbed “bunny Ebola” because it causes massive internal bleeding and bloody discharge around the nose and mouth, is highly contagious and deadly among both domestic and wild rabbits. First identified in France, it has been spreading across southwestern states and is now in California, emerging in Palm Springs in May. Dana Morton, a volunteer with Bunnies Urgently Needing Shelter (BUNS), talked about the virus and what the rescue organization is doing to preBUNS is ordering a vaccine from Europe to inoculate domestic rabbits from a deadly pare for its arrival. “There are virus that recently appeared in Southern California. two different strains, and the one that we are currently worried about is RHDV2,” she said.

“Once infected with RHDV2, rabbits typically show new rabbits or adopt any out. Fortunately, the State of symptoms and die within a couple of days. It’s spread California is not requiring shelters to depopulate if the through insects, scavenging animals, infected rab- virus gets in, which used to be the case.”

Because there is no treatment for RHDV2 and its bits, and on the soles of shoes.” The virus can survive for several months on a dead rabbit carcass, Morton mortality rates are very high, prevention is critical, noted, and it can withstand high temperatures. “Once Morton stressed. And the best form of prevention is the ERAVAC vaccine, which BUNS is now approved it is in an area, it typically stays in that area.”

BUNS has implemented strict biosecurity protocols to import from Europe. BUNS will be conducting to help reduce the risk of exposure, Morton said. All vaccination clinics in the coming weeks with help new rabbits are quarantined for two weeks upon their from several veterinarians. To attend, fill out the arrival, and staff tending to them wear full protective online form at bunssb.org/bunnies/rhd. Each dose of equipment to avoid cross-contamination. “We have the vaccine is expected to cost $30, but that is subject also put up screening on the hutches as a way of keep- to change.

Bunny owners are advised to house their pets ing flies away,” Morton said. “We are making sure all of our volunteers are wearing clean clothes that have indoors. If that’s not possible, screen outdoor hutches not been in contact with other rabbits, and everyone is to keep flies and other insects away. If you find a sick or dead rabbit in the wild, do not handle or move it. disinfecting their shoes.”

If the virus were to infect the BUNS facility, Morton Instead, call the state’s Wildlife Investigations Lab at explained, “All of the rabbits would have to be quar- (916) 358-2790 or Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Netantined for three months. We could not take in any work at (805) 681-1080.

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“It started as trying to find something to keep my family safe,” said Benjamin Anderson.

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veryone double-checks a combination of things before leaving the house, but the usual phones, keys, and wallets are now joined by face masks and hand sanitizer. The new additions make it impossible to fit everything in your back pocket anymore, but Benjamin Anderson, a Santa Barbara artist for the past 20 years, invented a solution to our overburdened woes.

HandiGuru is a refillable wristband that holds and dispenses liquids like hand sanitizer, sunscreen, bug repellant, and more. The wristbands are made with recyclable silicone and come in gray, blue, and black. The entire product, including the squeeze bottle and applicator tip, is completely BPA-free. As a further feel-good bonus, HandiGuru is matching the first 2,500 wristbands sold by donating that many to Santa Barbara organizations in need, including Girls Inc., which is already benefiting from the goodwill.

Born in Clearwater, Florida, Anderson comes from a family of artists that moved him to Santa Barbara when he was 4 years old.

After training in Florence, Italy, and at the Academy of Arts in San Francisco, Anderson returned to Santa Barbara to start his family and pursue a painting career. With the pandemic changing our habits, Anderson wanted to ensure that staying free from germs was easy for his family.

“I needed something that I could take with my family that we could take outside,” said Anderson. “It started as trying to find something to keep my family safe.”

Moving from creating art to inventing a product, he’s spent the past four months learning how to navigate the business world. From product design to finding production facilities, HandiGuru is bringing Anderson into a whole new world. “We want to make sure that it’s quality, so we had to make sure that it was all FDA-approved and hypoallergenic, etc.,” he explained. “That stuff was way out of left field for me.” With distribution moving to South Africa and Australia, HandiGuru has potential to become a product that’s second nature for people who use it.

Most surprising to Anderson? The response from the public and the desire for a product like this. “It’s based on our current situation that people want that kind of easy protection,” he explained. “The response was really gratifying and surprising.”

See handiguru.com.

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SHRIMP AND SAFFRON: SB Paella’s most popular dish is the “Traditional Mixed” style, with shrimp and other seafood as well as meats and veggies.

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Channels Spain Caterers Supporting Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation

SQUARE SLICES: Noemi’s Roman-style pizza comes in square slices, unlike its triangular Neapolitan cousin.

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ast month, two days before Aymiee and

Kevin Ricks were set to open Noemi Pizza Romana on upper State Street, they listened intently to the thick Italian accent of Massimiliano Saieva. The pizza master was detailing the dough’s 72-hour-long fermentation process, the blue-steel pans, and the heatcapturing ovens required to perfect the soft and airy yet crispy crust of Roman-style pizza.

“The dough is healthier, and it’s all about finesse — it’s the perfect combination of cuisine and pizza,” said Saieva while working in the sparkling new kitchen of the former Pizza Guru, which the Rickses purchased in February and set about turning into their first restaurant.

“Now is the moment for Roman pizza. It’s not just trendy in the U.S.A. It’s not just Europe. It’s everywhere.”

The couple recently graduated from Saieva’s Roman Pizza Academy in Miami, so their teacher had come west for a final lesson before they launched Noemi. Together, they were training Noemi’s young cooks Giuseppe Dattilo and Quentin De Haro, dialing in the recipes, tweaking the oven, and practicing their supplì, which is Rome’s egg-shaped, cheese-filled version of the Sicilian risotto balls called arancini.

Since Roman-style pizza is usually cut to order from a large, rectangular pie — that’s why it is more accurately known as pizza al taglio, or “by the cut” — Saieva was particularly excited about Noemi’s single-serving pans. “This is going to be the first place in the United States

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making Roman-style individuals,” said Saieva.

He should know, given that he estimates his students have opened more than 80 percent of the existing Roman-style pizza joints in the country.

“We just wanted to bring something to Santa Barbara that wasn’t here,” said Aymiee Ricks, who’s lived in town for two decades. “There are a lot of Neapolitan-style pizza places, but no Roman-style.”

The trend took off in the United States about three years ago, when American eaters began welcoming the thicker, square-shaped Romanstyle pizza as a counterpoint to the circles and triangles of the dominant Neapolitan style.

Rome’s pizzaiolo Gabriele Bonci delivered the style to Chicago with much fanfare in August 2017, followed almost immediately in California by il Romanista in El Segundo and Triple Beam in Highland Park.

The Rickses could have kept the Pizza Guru concept alive but wanted to refresh the space and do something new. Their edible research led to an epiphany that came after visiting il Romanista. “I drove an hour and a half back here and it was still crispy,” said Aymiee. “I knew that was the pizza.”

They met their own pizza guru at the Roman Pizza Academy. Born in Sicily but raised near Rome, Saieva ran an Italian restaurant in Caracas, Venezuela, for seven years. He made traditional recipes, but then got inventive, as well.

“I was doing modernist cuisine with pizza,” he

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n 2015, Benjamin and Carol Schuster decided to leave their prior

career in order to pursue his passion for food and dedicate more time to their children. “Catering became our primary foodservice choice because it offered the greatest work/life balance, personal creativity, and the freedom to explore different cooking approaches,” explains Carol, who’s used her 20-plus years of sales experience to help grow SB Paella Catering. The menu is based on Benjamin’s memories of preparing paella in Spain, where he was born and raised before moving to the United States in 2001 with just a suitcase and his grandmother’s paella pan.

Their success is thanks to Schuster’s most popular dish: the “Traditional Mixed” paella, a Catalonian-style version with fresh vegetables, meats, seafood, and, of course, rice. “The most difficult ingredient is the rice,” explained Benjamin. “Rice is the very last ingredient in the paella, and it can be the most unforgiving part.”

A key component is saffron, which they import from Morocco and Iran. “In conjunction with the other ingredients, the beautiful yellow discoloration of the rice due to the saffron is visually appealing,” he said.

The Schusters also offer various tapas, including the Aguacate con Langostinos. “The pink brandy sauce creates an incredible balance between sweet sauce and savory langoustine tail, avocado, and grapefruit,” said Benjamin, who imports the fresh langoustine tails from Spain and sources the other organic ingredients from nearby farms and orchards.

As for everyone in the events business, the COVID-19 pandemic abruptly stopped most of the Schusters’ business. “The stay-athome order right after the outbreak of the pandemic led to massive event cancellations and deposit reimbursement requests,” confirmed Carol. Their pivot included launching a food truck to cook on-site for customers and deliver with no-contact doorstep drop-offs. That’s been very successful and enabled them to rehire much of their staff.

They’re now using their food to raise money for the Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation, which supports children with cancer. This Saturday, August 1, SB Paella Catering and Andersen’s Danish Bakery will host a pickup drive-through outside Villa Properties, in which customers will receive a package of four paella meals, wine, dessert, and gifts. To support this cause, pre-order a picnic basket ($200 for four people), wine ($25-$100 for one to five bottles), and raffle tickets ($25 for a chance to win a Sonos system, shopping spree, or staycation package).

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MESA BURGER Opens in Montecito

Manager Pixie Saavedra opened a new Mesa Burger location at 1209 Coast Village Road in Montecito, the former home of Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf and Tutti’s. Mesa Burger offers gourmet, handcrafted burgers (including turkey, chicken, fish, and vegetarian options), farm-fresh salads, locally brewed beers, Santa Barbara County wine, and ice cream in scoops, hand-spun shakes, and ice cream cookie sandwiches.

Saavedra says that one of the most popular items on the menu is the Montecito Burger (glazed mushrooms/onion ring/ arugula/grilled onions/goat cheese/truffle aioli), second only to Mesa, their classic burger, which most people modify. Mesa Burger Montecito is open Sunday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-8:30 p.m., and Friday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Call (805) 565-0642 or visit mesaburger.com.

RINCON BEACH BAR NOW OPEN: Events by Rincon, a longtime catering company, is pivoting from full-production events to an outdoor dining restaurant called Rincon Beach Bar at 3805 Santa Claus Lane in Carpinteria.

The company has adapted their most popular event dishes into small plates, shared meals, brunch items, and sweets, plus a full bar with craft cocktails, beer, and wine. The eatery offers 100 percent outdoor dining, is mindful of social distancing, includes a ninefoot minimum table spacing, and operates with a contactless ordering and payment system Rincon Beach Bar is open Wednesday-Thursday, noon-8 p.m.; Friday-Saturday, noon-9 p.m.; and Sunday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., when brunch is also available until 2 p.m. The restaurant also offers takeout and curbside pickup for the “Invisible Chef” program, where cooked items are blast-chilled to keep food fresh, pack packaged securely with heating instructions, and ready to be heated in your own kitchen. Call (805) 566-9003 or visit eventsbyrincon.com.

DUTCH GARDEN PART DEUX? Readers Lynn and Alphonso

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and possibly inside the recently closed Dutch Garden restaurant at 4203 State Street. I am told that the iconic Dutch Garden sign is still on the roof. Rumor has it that the kitchen and landscaping are in the process of being updated and that the restaurant might reopen in a few months as the Dutch Garden and have the same recipes that it had before.

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their late friend, and raise money for a social justice cause, Artiste Winery’s winewine maker and owner Bion Rice collaborated with artist James-Paul Brown to release a red blend that features the painted face of legendlegend ary bon vivant Archie McLaren. Responsible for hosting the influential Central Coast Wine Classic for many years, McLaren was also a proud proponent of civil rights since his early days in Memphis, so 10 percent of sales of the blend of 29 percent syrah, 29 percent grenache, 29 percent mourvèdre, and 13 percent cabernet sauvignon are going to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

“Bastille Day reminds me of Archie every year because he was such a Francophile,” said Rice, who met McLaren through Brown in 1994 and then sponsored many of his events through Artiste and his family’s Sunstone brands. “He was very much in support of what we now call Black Lives Matter,

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229 W. Montecito St., Santa Barbara 805.884.4664 | sbbrewhouse.com ROMAN STYLISTS: The Noemi Pizza Romana crew includes, from left, Giuseppe Dattilo, Quentin De Haro, Roman Pizza Academy founder Massimiliano Saieva, and owners Kevin and Aymiee Ricks.

explained. “I was making pizza with foam, just to play around.”

As Venezuela grew dangerous, Saieva moved to Miami and opened what may have been this country’s first Roman-style pizzeria in 2012. He started teaching as a favor, but that student went on to win an international pizza competition, so interest grew. He opened the Roman Pizza Academy in 2016 and now rattles off prize-winning students, Michelin-starred chef friends, and consulting clients faster than a pen can keep up.

Aside from Kevin working at a pizza joint during his UCSB days and Aymiee’s dad owning a Thai place in Atwater when she was a kid, restaurants are a brand-new world for the Rickses.

She works as a software developer for a finance company by day, and he worked until recently as an operations manager for an environmental company. They saw the restaurant as an interesting business opportunity and named it after their daughter Naomi, opting for the Italian spelling.

“She’s our miracle baby, she’s so precious to us,” said Aymiee, explaining that doctors had said they couldn’t have a child together. “Running a restaurant is like raising a kid. You really have to be here.”

The Ricks readily admit the timing could have been better, and the COVID-19 pandemic did delay the opening. But pizza restaurants are the cornerstone of the American takeout and delivery experience, so they persevered, serving their first slices on June 27. They also serve calzone, salads, sandwiches, and more and are now open every day of the week.

Noemi delivers to San Roque and other nearby neighborhoods and investigating other delivery options for orders from farther away.

Upon Noemi’s opening, Saieva returned to Miami, ready to take on new students. “I just show the technique; that’s my job,” he explained.

“When my students are doing great, I can say, ‘Yes, I’m an artist.’ ”

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t could be argued that playing a video game depicting a dystopian Santa Barbara decimated by a virulent infection and loaded with jump scares may not be the best way to currently unwind. Going to bed sweaty-palmed and palpitating has not proved conducive to restful sleep or soothing distraction from real-life worry. And yet, with its exceptionally well-crafted storytelling and convincing portrayal of a post-apocalyptic Santa Barbara, The Last of Us Part II on PlayStation 4 serves as an arduous but essential experience for any Central Coast gamer with the stomach for horror.

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The Last of Us Part II II’s version of America is an unrelentingly bleak place, far more evocative of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road than the broadly drawn comic book environment of The Walking Dead. If your gaming skills are anything like mine, you will see Ellie die a thousand times in a thousand horrendous ways, ranging from zombies feasting on her carotid artery to zealous cultists bludgeoning her with sledgehammers. It strikes me as a kind of strange feminist triumph to play a game in which a non-sexualized female protagonist is afforded the type of gruesome deaths traditionally reserved for the men of Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption.

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Though one can opt to employ stealth and avoid confrontation, I chose to take the fight directly to the Rattlers in the Santa Barbara train station. There, near the fireplace, I dispatched a couple bandits with a series of shotgun blasts. The battle spilled onto State Street, where some Molotov cocktails and a silenced submachine gun helped bring the skirmish to a quick end. Apologies to Loquita; I’m afraid I left their building in shambles.

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CANCER

LIBRA

(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): Aries poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti is

(June 21-July 22): The Italian word nottivago refers to

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “One must think with the body and

renowned for his buoyancy. In one of his famous lines, he wrote, “I am awaiting, perpetually and forever, a renaissance of wonder.” Here’s what I have to say in response to that thought: Your assignment, as an Aries, is NOT to sit there and wait, perpetually and forever, for a renaissance of wonder. Rather, it’s your job to embody and actualize and express, perpetually and forever, a renaissance of wonder. The coming weeks will be an especially favorable time for you to rise to new heights in fulfilling this aspect of your lifelong assignment.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): I live in Northern California on land

“night roamers”: people who wander around after dark.

Why do they do it? What do they want to accomplish?

Maybe their ramblings have the effect of dissolving stuck thoughts that have been plaguing them. Maybe it’s a healing relief to indulge in the luxury of having nowhere in particular to go and nothing in particular to do: to declare their independence from the obsessive drive to get things done. Meandering after sundown may stir up a sense of wild freedom that inspires them to outflank or outgrow their problems. I bring these possibilities to your attention, Cancerian, because the coming days will be an excellent time to try them out.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Notice what no one else notices and

that once belonged to the indigenous Coast Miwok people. They were animists who believed that soul and sentience animate all animals and plants as well as rocks, rivers, mountains — everything, really. Their food came from hunting and gathering, and they lived in small bands without centralized political authority.

According to one of their creation stories, Coyote and Silver Fox made the world by singing and dancing it into existence. Now I invite you to do what I just illustrated: Find out about and celebrate the history of the people and the place where you live. From an astrological perspective, it’s a favorable time to get in touch with roots and foundations.

you’ll know what no one else knows,” says actor Tim Robbins. That’s perfect counsel for you right now, Leo. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, your perceptiveness will be at a peak in the coming weeks. You’ll have an ability to discern half-hidden truths that are invisible to everyone else. You’ll be aggressive in scoping out what most people don’t even want to become aware of. Take advantage of your temporary superpower! Use it to get a lucid grasp of the big picture — and cultivate a more intelligent approach than those who are focused on the small picture and the comfortable delusions.

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(May 21-June 20): “When I look down, I miss all the

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Look on every exit as being an

good stuff, and when I look up, I just trip over things,” says singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco. I wonder if she has tried an alternate approach: looking straight ahead.

That’s what I advise for you in the coming weeks, Gemini. In other words, adopt a perspective that will enable you to detect regular glimpses of what’s above you and what’s below you— you as well as what’s in front of you. In fact, I suggest you avoid all extremes that might distract you from the big picture. The truth will be most available to you if you occupy the middle ground.

entrance somewhere else,” wrote playwright Tom Stoppard. That’s ripe advice for you to meditate on during the coming weeks. You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when every exit can indeed be an entrance somewhere else — but only if you believe in that possibility and are alert for it. So please dissolve your current assumptions about the current chapter of your life story so that you can be fully open to new possibilities that could become available.

the soul or not think at all,” wrote Libran author and historian Hannah Arendt. She implied that thinking only with the head may spawn monsters and demons.

Mere conceptualization is arid and sterile if not interwoven with the wisdom of the soul and the body’s earthy intuitions. Ideas that are untempered by feelings and physical awareness can produce poor maps of reality. In accordance with astrological omens, I ask you to meditate on these empowering suggestions.

Make sure that as you seek to understand what’s going on, you draw on all your different kinds of intelligence.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I always wanted to be commanderin-chief of my one-woman army,” says singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco. I think that goal is within sight for you, Scorpio. Your power over yourself has been increasing lately. Your ability to manage your own moods and create your own sweet spots and define your own fate is as robust as I have seen it in a while.

What do you plan to do with your enhanced dominion? What special feats might you attempt? Are there any previously impossible accomplishments that may now be possible?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your meditation for the coming

weeks comes to you courtesy of author and naturalist Henry David Thoreau. “We can never have enough of nature,” he wrote. “We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder cloud, and the rain which lasts three weeks and produces freshets. We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.” Oh, how I hope you will heed Thoreau’s counsel, Sagittarius. You would really benefit from an extended healing session amid natural wonders. Give yourself the deep pleasure of exploring what wildness means to you.

WEEK OF JULY 30 CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Author and activist bell hooks

(who doesn’t capitalize her name) has taught classes at numerous American universities. She sometimes writes about her experiences there, as in the following passage. “My students tell me, ‘we don’t want to love!

We’re tired of being loving!’ And I say to them, if you’re tired of being loving, then you haven’t really been loving, because when you are loving you have more strength.” I wanted you to know her thoughts, Capricorn, because I think you’re in a favorable position to demonstrate how correct she is: to dramatically boost your own strength through the invigorating power of your love.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian author Langston Hughes

(1902-1967) was a pioneering and prolific AfricanAmerican author and activist who wrote in four dif different genres and was influential in boosting other Black writers. One of his big breaks as a young man came when he was working as a waiter at a banquet featuring the famous poet Vachel Lindsay. Hughes managed to leave three of his poems on Lindsay’s table.

The great poet loved them and later lent his clout to boosting Hughes’s career. I suspect you might have an opening like that sometime soon, Aquarius — even if it won’t be quite as literal and hands-on. Be ready to take advantage. Cultivate every connection that may become available.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): Author Faith Baldwin has renounced

the “forgive and forget” policy. She writes, “I think one should forgive and remember. If you forgive and forget, you’re just driving what you remember into the subconscious; it stays there and festers. But to look upon what you remember and know you’ve forgiven is achievement.” That’s the approach I recommend for you right now, Pisces. Get the relief you need, yes: Forgive those who have trespassed against you. But also: Hold fast to the lessons you learned through those people so you won’t repeat them again later.

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LEGALS ADMINISTER OF ESTATE NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ROBERT JAMES MASK Case No.: 20PR00186 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of ROBERT MASK

BOB MASK A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: MICHAEL MASK in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION for probate requests that: MICHAEL MASK be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow

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There are currently vacancies for the Design Review Board, the Santa Barbara County Library Advisory Committee and the Parks and Recreation Commission.

Design Review Board Vacancies The DRB has three vacancies: • 1 licensed landscape professional (landscape architect or landscape contractor) • 2 At-Large Members (Must be a resident) The DRB meets the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at 3:00 p.m., and the position is compensated $50 per meeting.

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Deadline Friday, July 31, 2020 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Design Review Board Goleta City Hall – Council Chambers (Electronically and Telephonically) 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B Goleta, CA 93117 Tuesday, August 11, 2020 at 3:00 P.M. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Design Review Board (DRB) of the City of Goleta will conduct an Electronic public hearing on the date set forth above to consider the following new project: Preliminary Review Goleta Energy Storage Facility 6864 & 6868 Cortona Drive (APN 073-140-027) Case No. 19-0201-DP ATTENTION: Pursuant to of the Governor’s Executive Order N-29-20 dated March 17, 2020 authorizing local jurisdictions subject to the Brown Act to hold public meetings telephonically and electronically in order to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, the regular meeting of the Design Review Board for August 11, 2020 will be conducted telephonically and electronically. It will be broadcast live on the City’s website and on Cable Goleta Channel 19. The Council Chambers will not be open to the public during the meeting. Design Review Board Members will be participating telephonically and will not be physically present in the Council Chambers.

IN LIGHT OF THE CITY’S NEED TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETINGS ELECTRONICALLY AND TELEPHONICALLY DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, written comments may also be submitted as instructed above or via email to the DRB Secretary, Mary Chang at mchang@cityofgoleta.org or by electronic means during the Public Hearing (date and time noted above), provided they are received prior to the conclusion of the public comment portion of the Public Hearing. Instructions on how to submit written comments during the hearing will be available on the City’s website: https://www.cityofgoleta.org/i-want-to/news-and-updates/government-meetingagendas-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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the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 10/01/2020 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, 1100 Anacapa Street, P.O Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93102 Anacapa Division.

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

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk. Petitioner: Michael Mask6437 Deadwood Road Las Vegas, NV 89108,; (702) 807‑8013.

Published July 23, 30. Aug 6 2020.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: DONALD IRVIN JACK Case No.: 20PR00255 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of DONALD IRVIN JACK A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: DONALD W. JACK in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION for probate requests that: DONALD W. JACK be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

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

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 9/10/2020 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, 1100 Anacapa Street, P.O Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93102 Anacapa Division.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in

section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

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

Attorney for Petitioner: Stephen T. Frank;1114 State St, Ste 271, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 963‑1114.

Published July 30. Aug 5, 13 2020.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: JACQUELYN JEAN LARSEN Case No.: 20PR00265 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of JACQUELYN JEAN LARSEN A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: LISA VAN DILLON in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION for probate requests that: LISA VAN DILLON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 9/3/2020 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, 1100 Anacapa Street, P.O Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93102 Anacapa Division.

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

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: Erik D. Black;1114 State St, Ste 272, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 957‑1922.

Published July 30. Aug 5, 13 2020.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: LYNNETTE COSTA NIEVARES, also known as LYNNETTE C. NIEVARES Case No.: 20PR00254 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of LYNNETTE COSTA NIEVARES, also known as LYNNETTE C. NIEVARES A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: CHERYL PETTIT in the

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION for probate requests that: CHERYL PETTIT be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 8/20/2020 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, 1100 Anacapa Street, P.O Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93102 Anacapa Division.

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

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

Published July 30. Aug 5, 13 2020.

FBN ABANDONMENT STATEMENT 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.

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned:

WESTERN PROPANE SERVICE at 2326 Meredith Ln. Santa Maria, CA 93458; The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 7/30/2018 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original file no. 2018‑0002167. The person (s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Evelyn Jeanne, Inc. (same address) This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 2, 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 Jazmin Murphy, Published: Jul 23, 30. Aug 5, 13 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The 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 NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: KUMON CENTER OF GOLETA at 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 STATEMENT The 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 STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MATRIX, SOLUTIONS FOR ORGANIZED LIVING at 27 W Anapamu St #237 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Teresa Glenn (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Teresa E Glenn, 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 STATEMENT 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 York, NY 10012 conducted 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.

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LEGALS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The 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 NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: COMEHOME at 201 Spear Street, Suite 1400 San Francisco, CA 94105; HouseCanary, Inc. (same 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 NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA CIGAR & TOBACCO at 10 W Figueroa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Helios Cigars Santa Barbara, Inc 9811 W Charleston Blvd. Ste 2762 Las Vegas, NV 89117 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 NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DETAILS

BY MADDS at 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 STATEMENT 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 NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE NAIL NOOK SANTA BARBARA at 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.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TORQUE at 706 Union St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Avelino Vasquez 1116 Carpinteria, CA 93103 conducted by a Individual Signed: Avelino Vasquez 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: 2020‑0001509.

Published: July 23, 30. Aug 6, 13 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DOCTOR RYAN CHIROPRACTIC at 123 W Padre St, STE E Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Ryan A Rogers 2626 Calle Real Apt B Santa Barbara, CA 93105 conducted by a Individual Signed: Ryan Rogers Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 14, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0001705. Published: July 23, 30. Aug 6, 13 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MCCLURE REPORTING at 5080 Rhoads Ave, Apt E Santa Barbara, CA 93111; James M. McClure (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: James M McClure Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 15, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0001716. Published: July 30. Aug 5, 13, 20 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ALTER ERA at 1187 Coast Village Rd #126 Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Barrett Taylor 316 W Anapamu St Unit 10 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 conducted by a Individual Signed: Barrett Taylor Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 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: 2020‑0001752. Published: July 30.

Aug 5, 13, 20 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BURKE DESIGN at 4141 State St., Suite C 4 1 Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Burke Advisors, Inc. (same address) conducted by a Corporation Signed: David L. Burke Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 21, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0001787.

Published: July 30. Aug 5, 13, 20 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CALYX PEAK FARMS at 1628 Cravens Lane Carp (same address) conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Ed Schmults Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 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: 2020‑0001740. Published: July 30. Aug 5, 13, 20 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HORSE TRADER at 955 Jimeno Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Anthony J Fornasero (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Anthony J. Fornasero 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: 2020‑0001565.

Published: July 30. Aug 5, 13, 20 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MCPHERSON TREE CARE at 130 Garden St. Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Adam M. Clarke 200 Birch Ave. Lompoc, CA 93436; Malcom M.R. Stevens 356‑B E. Mountain Dr. Santa Barbara, CA 93108 conducted by a General Partnership Signed: Adam M. Clarke Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 8, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0001665.

Published: July 30. Aug 5, 13, 20 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SIMPLY SHOLEH at 1008 Via Regina Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Sholeh Jahangir (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Sholeh Jahangir Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 22, 2020.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0001795. Published: July 30. Aug 5, 13, 20 2020.

NAME CHANGE IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF ROSA SALDANA LOPEZORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 20CV02202 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: ROSA SALDANA LOPEZ TO: ROSA SALDANA GOMEZ THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Sep 4, 2020 10:00am, Dept 4, Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Jul 13, 2020

by Donna D. Geck, Judge of the Superior Court. Published:July 23, 30. Aug 6, 13 2020.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF GARY JAMES LOPEZ ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 20CV02210 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: GARY JAMES LOPEZ TO: GARY JAMES FAUST THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Aug 25, 2020 10:00am, Dept 3, Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Jul 13, 2020 by Thomas P. Anderle, Judge of the Superior Court. Published:July 23, 30. Aug 6, 13 2020.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF KELSEY O BRAY ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 20CV02229 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: KELSEY O BRAY TO: KELSEY OLGA SAMUEL THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Sep 8, 2020 10:00am, Dept 3, Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Jul 13, 2020 by Thomas P. Anderle, Judge of the Superior Court. Published:July 23, 30. Aug 6, 13 2020.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF HAILEY DWIGHT SAGAR ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 20CV02137 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: HAILEY DWIGHT SAGAR TO: RACHNA HAILEY COSSART THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Aug 31, 2020 10:00am, Dept 5, Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition.

Dated Jul 14, 2020 by Colleen K. Sterne, Judge of the Superior Court. Published:July 30. Aug 5, 13, 20 2020.

PUBLIC NOTICES THE PRACTICE of Dr. 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 Valley Road Suite 19, Montecito, CA 93108. Authorization for release of medical records can be faxed to 805‑969‑6070 or emailed to dof@drfareed.com.

Dr. Fareed is referring all of his patients to Dr. William Gallivan. Dr. Gallivan can be reached at 805‑220‑6020.

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If you’re fortunate enough, as I am, to have your parents still around, part of the challenge of middle-aging is watching your own parents age. We’re tiptoeing onto that sensitive tightrope of still being their children, while slowly becoming their caregivers.

As Bette Davis famously said, “Getting old ain’t for sissies.” But staying active, engaged, and prepared for the future with solid plans in place will certainly make all of our golden years shine a lot brighter.

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restriction), Ettna Miller is full of vim and vigor. In early July, she celebrated her 105th birthday with a small gathering at Vista del Monte, where she has resided in her own apartment for the past year. Her “baby brother” Dr. Dean Vogel, a longtime Santa Barbara resident, also lives there and moved “Honey” to the facility after she broke her back at home in Indiana.

When she’s not entertaining her caregivers and fellow residents with tales of her storied life, Honey receives a variety of rehabilitative therapies through VNA Health’s home health-care services. A physical therapist, occupational therapist, and case manager bring therapies directly to her home, working with her to improve her strength through various activities and fall-prevention strategies.

Here are some highlights from a recent chat with Honey and her caregiver, Carolina Navarro.

Their responses have been briefly edited for clarity.

Happy Birthday, Honey. Do you have a favorite birthday memory?

Ettna “Honey” Miller: My 100th birthday. There were well over 100 people at that birthday party. I don’t know if I ever greeted all of them or not. Everybody was running around with a camera. There were a lot

of little kids there and everybody wanted to get pictures for show-and-tell.

How was your 105th birthday?

EHM: That was really a lovely affair. My brother Dean did the arranging. Of course, we were all quarantined, so there were limits. They arranged a new area with outdoor seating, and they had beautiful umbrellas. They had tables that seat nine, and they seated three people per table. We were only allowed to have 10 people at the luncheon. It was really lovely. We had dinner and we had birthday cake.

Carolina Navarro: For her 105th birthday, Honey received well over 50 birthday cards in the mail. She was still getting greeting cards yesterday in the mail.

EHM: It was amazing, people sent cards that I hadn’t talked to for years. People I hadn’t even thought about.

One lady said she knew a friend of hers that went to high school when I did, and so she said that she wanted to send a card. I’m amazed at these people, how nice that it is to hear from them.

It’s very special to live to 105. You’ve seen things that most of us haven’t.

EHM: I’ve been blessed in so many ways.

Are you the oldest person you know?

EHM: I don’t know anyone older than me.

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EHM: He is 87; let’s see, he was born in 1933. I was graduating high school when Dean was born. I didn’t even know my mother was pregnant. I said, “Well, that’s keeping a girl pretty dumb, isn’t it?”

Did you have other brothers and sisters?

EHM: There were nine of us, five boys and four girls.

We had two older sisters that were bit by rattlesnakes and one of them died, and the other one, Vera, they were able to get her to a doctor and she survived and lived to be 90 years old. We lived in a prairie, in the rural area of South Dakota, a place called Lemmon [current population 1,227].

Where did you live after Lemmon?

EHM: Well, my father was born in Germany, and he came to the United States when he was about 16, and his mother wanted to keep him out of the German army. Then she wanted him to come over to Germany again and learn the cheese manufacturing business.

We only had a three-month visa, so we had to come back to the states. We went over in 1926 and came back in 1926. The big ocean liners were something great back then.

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That sounds very exciting.

EHM: There was a shipwreck. Our ship, the Berlin, when we were coming back from Germany to the U.S., received an SOS that an English freighter was in distress, and we were to return and assist them.

Turning around in the ocean was fierce. The waves were 30 to 40 feet high, and you’d look out the window and you would see them 100 feet up above you and then the next instant they were down below you. When our ship turned around, the waves were so high they broke down the main door to the entrance to our ship, so we had water pouring down our stairways.

I didn’t go to the cabin like I was supposed to. My dad had his hands full, keeping everybody in line. I was behind some drapes in the dining room where there was a porthole and I could see out. I watched them put everybody they could into a lifeboat and lower it.

But when they lowered it, the ropes broke, and it tipped over and dumped them in the ocean.

They were all drowned because there was just no way of getting out of that with the high waves and the boat falling and everything. That crew was lost, but the captain stayed with the ship.

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And you witnessed all of this at 10 years old?

EHM: Yes. I remember that when we got back to New York, it was early morning when we came by the Statue of Liberty, and everybody got down and was kissing the deck thanking god that we were safe.

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Wow. Can you talk a little bit about your typical day now?

EHM: Well, mostly every day is similar. They wake you up fairly early.

CN: There are a lot of us that come in here to visit, and we want to chat with Honey.

She has a very close relationship with the Vista del Monte staff.

How’s your back now?

EHM: I really don’t feel bad or sick. A lot of people have a sickness or a sore place that hurts all the time. I’ve never had that in my whole life. I didn’t know what a headache was or aspirin until I was old. I just didn’t hurt even when I was in the hospital; the only thing that hurt was my tailbone. I couldn’t get a cushion that would relieve the pressure on that bone. It still gets sore.

CN: Honey has always been very active. She likes to swim, and if you see her physically, she’s very fit and very light on her feet. When she stands up, she’s very light, and she looks like she’s floating.

EHM: I love to dance, too; I’ve always danced. I took ballroom dancing when I was 100 years old.

What are some of your other favorite things to do?

EHM: I like to knit and crochet and sew. I can make things.

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Can you share some advice for people who want to live a long, active life?

EHM: I think if you take every day as it comes, do what you have to do, and if there’s something coming up, try not to put off tomorrow, that would be the best thing I could think of. Don’t put off tomorrow what you can do today. Whoever thought that up thought up something good.

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The countywide program is free, with no qualifications or proof of age, income, or citizenship required. ParPar ticipants simply sign up for either the home-delivery option or to eat with others at community centers, though those are currently to-go meals because of COVID-19.

“Many of the regular guests to comcom munity sites changed to home delivdeliv ery once the lockdown occurred,” said Keelean. “But there was still a need to feed people without homes or with an

inconsistent address or other delivery issues, so this distribution still goes on, and demand here has also grown.”

Requests have increased during the pandemic more than 50 percent, so the CAC now provides meals to more than 700 seniors on a daily basis.

When the CAC put out a call for volunteers to help with increased demand in April, about two dozen contacted the commission, and most were over the age of 55, said development director Linda Rosso. Their first project was organizing personalcare packages that were delivered to homebound seniors with one of their daily meals.

“With a robust program of trained volunteers, Senior Nutrition can meet the needs of our growing list of enrollees without incurring the additional expense of paid delivery drivers and on-site meal hosts,” said Rosso, who could always use more help. “Using volunteers as drivers and site hosts, we can put the dollars saved on paid staff back into food procurement.”

That means the CAC can feed even more seniors.

“By expanding the number of drivers and site hosts through volunteerism,” added Rosso, “we can also give more time to individual seniors, supporting socialization and safety checks.”

Consider leaving a legacy to the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

There are many ways to plan for the future through your will or trust. A good plan will help you care for loved ones after you’re gone, plan for your own care, and make a gift to charity.

If you’d like to include the Museum in your planning, please contact us to have a confidential conversation about charitable gift planning options. If you’ve already planned a gift to us, let us know, so we can make sure you’re thanked today and your legacy is honored tomorrow.

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Contact Development Officer – Legacy Giving Rochelle Rose, CFRE at 805-682-4711 ext. 179 or rrose@sbnature2.org.

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How do you know when it’s time to choose senior living?

“Ideally, families should start looking for an appropriate senior living commu-

nity when there isn’t a sense of urgency,” said Nick Begane, community relations director at Mariposa at Ellwood Shores, a senior community offering independent and assisted living as well as memory-care options.

Waiting lists can be very long for desirable senior living situations. Can you get on a waitwait ing list even if you’re not quite ready to move?

“A family should start their research at least one year ahead of your desired move,” said Jack McCarty, vice president of sales and marketing for Westmont LivLiv ing, which also runs The Oaks in Nipomo and will open The Oaks in Paso Robles in

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What questions should you ask about a community?

• Is the building secure and do they follow the recommended CDC guidelines?

• How competent is their health support? Are they licensed to provide health services? Are nurses on-site every day? What are their COVID-19 procedures?

• Does the building look like a place that you would like to live?

• Do they have a fitness center or exercise options for optimum health and wellness?

• Is therapy after hospitalization available?

• Does the dining program provide the right menus?

2021. “When you find a place that meets a majority of your criteria, consider placing a deposit with the community so that you can secure a place when you are ready or when they have an opening.”

“Once you have determined that a particular community is a good fit for your family member, then meet with a community relations person to review the payment structure and termination and refund policies,” said Begane.

How can you tell if a place is right for you?

“Some communities allow short-term or respite stays,” said McCarty. “This allows for your parent(s) to spend time getting to know the community, those that work there, and to enjoy the amenities firstfirst hand. Interestingly, some people stay rather than move out again. When that happens, it’s a win-win for the seniors and their families.”

How can you best learn about the culture and vibe?

“Ask to see the community schedule and look at the quality of the activities available and the frequency of social activities,” said McCarty. “Find out if the community can support the mind, body, and spiritual needs of your parent(s).

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MEET JEN KOPCHO, BSN Jen is a registered nurse and one of our amazing Hospice Liaisons. She is one of the 300+ employees at Central Coast Home Health and Hospice, devoted to our local community. She is a native Californian, born on the central coast of CA. Jen has enjoyed living in Tianjin, China, Kalaheo, HI, and Phoenix, AZ. Jen’s wealth of experience as a nurse is one of the many reasons CCHH is one of the fastest growing companies in the Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties.

We are very proud to have Jen on our CCHH team. During the Covid-19 pandemic, she was an essential part of our “front line care.”

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‘SEEING’ YOU NOW: Dr. William Gallivan of the Orthopedic Institute of Santa Barbara is exploring telemedicine in the time of COVID-19.

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ll it took was a pandemic and a govern-

ment-mandated shutdown, but it looks like telemedicine — the modern version of the house call — is here to stay.

tute is managing more than one-third of patient visits via telehealth.

In order to train seniors and other non-digital natives in the process, Gallivan is a “heavy utilizer of scribes,” enlisting tech-savvy, pre-med students to work with patients in advance of their appointments to set up remote communication. There’s a learning curve. “Sometimes it’s three or four calls to connect,” said Gallivan. “And with the outliers, it takes me two days of calling them to actually get a connection to do the telehealth. But most of them, more than 90 percent now, are set up and engaged with the telemedicine portal.”

How does this work for orthopedic exams, say, for a bad knee? “If it’s not a post-op, the patient actually can do a self-examination as we instruct them how to do it,” he said. “If we can see their range of motion, assess the swelling a little bit, and they can point out where it’s tender, we have

THE NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION IS IMPORTANT, AND I THINK WE GET THAT WITH TELEMEDICINE PRETTY WELL. Dr. William Gallivan and his team at Orthopedic Institute of Santa Barbara were using telemedicine on a limited basis for years before COVID-19, primarily for out-of-town patients who wanted to discuss possible surgical procedures and for short, post-surgical follow-up appointments. So when the pandemic mandated physicians to digitize their health-care process in March — while lifting some privacy restrictions to allow virtual exams — his office was better prepared than most. Even with restrictions now eased, the Orthopedic Insti-

DR. WILLIAM GALLIVAN’S ORTHOPEDIC INSTITUTE LEADS THE NEW WAY

a reasonable way to assess the problem and make recommendations.”

He plans to continue with telehealth as a bigger part of the practice even when the pandemic is over. Of course, he can’t replace the first post-op visit, when sutures are removed — “at least it would be a bit more of a challenge,” he said — but telemedicine works well for the six-week checkups.

“We can really be quite effective,” he said. “The communication has been excellent. Actually, some of it may even be better than the in-person stuff, because you are looking at the screen, instead of staring at a knee most of the time, you’ve got the patient’s face right there. The nonverbal communication is important, and I think we get that with telemedicine pretty well.”

He’s been happily surprised with how well it works, leaving visits confident that he provided a good service and not a second-rate one just because it is remote.

“It’s certainly not perfect, and I’m a big fan of in-person communication,” he said. “But the efficiency of not having sick people that have to travel for a meeting, and being able to get stuff done and having direct communication, is enhanced.”

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BROAD COLLABORATION IS TAKING SENIORS INTO NATURE and trails of Santa Barbara is a surefire way to stay fit.

“Many doctors and other health professionals cite moderate physical activity, including walking, as a ‘magic pill’ for excellent health,” said Margaret Weiss, director of health education for Sansum Clinic. “It can maintain the body’s systems in good condition and reduce the risk of chronic illness.”

Plus, getting outside is free, requires no special equipment, and can relieve stress. With this in mind, a broad group of organizations — including CenCal Health, City of Santa Barbara Parks and Recreation Department, Cottage Health, Sansum Clinic, Healthy Lompoc Coalition, Santa Barbara County Public Health Department, and Santa Barbara County Trails Council — developed Healthy People Healthy Trails to motivate people to embrace an active lifestyle and connect to the outdoors. The website offers maps to easy and enjoyable walks around Santa Barbara County.

Walking is a particularly good activity for older adults, as it can be done year-round by people of all ages and abilities. “Walking serves many purposes —

exercise, fun, and transportation,” said Weiss. “And in challenging times, such as the pandemic, walking is an effective stress reliever and provides a distraction from WALKING IS WISE: Susan Liles (left) and Margaret Weiss, the health education director at everyday worries.”

Sansum Clinic, take a leisurely walk around Lake Los Carneros in Goleta, one of many easy To maintain good health, places to get outside safely. experts suggest 30 minutes of activity on most days, 60 minutes for youth. But not those who were in nature had lower levels of the stress even these moderate goals are being achieved, said hormone cortisol, lower blood pressure, and lower Weiss, explaining, “Less than 25 percent of adults and pulse rates.” less than 50 percent of youth get the recommended At a time when we are all advised to stay home as amount of activity.” much as possible, especially seniors, walking around For older adults, such activity is known to extend your neighborhood or in a nearby park can be the safest, lifespans, reduce the risk of falls, improve balance and easiest choice. For those just starting a walking program, agility, prevent osteoporosis and muscle loss, and delay Weiss suggested finding somewhere flat and firm, but the onset of cognitive decline. And evidence suggests also somewhere that is interesting. “Walking is great that when the exercise is done outdoors, nature enhances for health, and it is even better when you get a glimpse the health benefits. of the mountains, the ocean, or a beautiful tree in your “Recent studies compared people who walked in neighborhood,” she said. a forest with people who walked in a city,” said Weiss. “Consistently, even Healthy People Healthy Trails: when the groups switched locations, healthypeoplehealthytrails.org/easy-hikes

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BUILDING BETTER BONE HEALTH

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lmost everyone knows about the increased dan-

gers of falling and breaking bones as we age.

But traditional workout programs never really focused on enhancing bone strength to aid in the fight against osteoporosis.

OsteoStrong, a five-year-old wellness studio franchise operation owned by Yvonne and Jim Parsons,

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FIGHTS AGAINST OSTEOPOROSIS who originally brought Curves for Women to town, hopes to change that.

“We help people with issues with bone health,” said Yvonne, explaining that people stop producing the mineral and tissue that make our bones strong after we turn 30. “If you’re playing tennis or you’re doing highimpact sports — hiking, running, tennis, those kinds of things—generally people maintain their bone mass.

But as we age, especially for women, we start losing

it when we start menopause because our body leaches the calcium out of our bones.”

That leads to osteoporosis or osteopenia, with half of all women and a third of all men over 50 eventually CALCIUM COACH: OsteoStrong’s assistant manager Lauren Farewell helps breaking a bone. “It’s the third leading client Nancy Folk (right) work on her bone health. cause of death after 65,” said Parsons ominously. “Forty percent of people who have a fracture will be staying in a nursing home after 65, and 20 percent will never Parsons offered a few analogies to explain how it walk again.” works. “If you go into a dark room, how long does it Developed by biomechanics engineer John Jaquish, take for your pupil to enlarge? If you start to put your OsteoStrong works on the principle of “osteogenic” hand on a fire, how quickly does your body respond by loading. Using super-resistance machines that cover pulling it away?” she asked. “It just is like a nanosecond, every section of the body — a chest press, leg press, so it only takes five seconds to hit the degree that you core pull, and skeleton-stressing vertical lift that resem- need to for the axial loading when you’re doing it on ble weight machines and feature feedback monitors the equipment.”

— OsteoStrong clients come in once a week, briefly Curious to try it out? An initial visit is free. stand on vibration platforms to warm up, then exert 30 seconds of all-out force at each workout station. A OsteoStrong: osteostrong.me session is designed to take approximately 10 minutes from start to finish.

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type of loan available to homeowners aged 62 and older, reverse mortgages allow people to borrow money based on the value of their homes. Unlike other loans, the debt isn’t immediately due. Instead, payment is deferred until the borrower either dies or sells the home, at which point the debt comes out of their estate or sale.

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MONTECITO OFFICE OFFERS PLANNING ADVICE “In the right circumstances, a reverse mortgage can be a really nice thing for older homeowners in retirement,” said Tom Kronen, an advisor at Mutual of Omaha’s Montecito office who has specialized in this type of loan for almost 20 years. He often works with multiple family members and also prefers to get a trusted advisor involved, whether an attorney, accountant, or financial advisor. “This is much more of a relationship business than the traditional one between a broker and client,” said Kronen.

A reverse mortgage should not be seen as a silver bullet for financial survival, and Kronen does not suggest using it as a “stand-alone product.” He explained, “So you are utilizing home equity, but it’s better if you utilize home equity in coordination with retirement income PAY YOURSELF: Tom Kronen says reverse mortgages shouldn’t and other assets.” be a silver-bullet solution, but can help with financial survival But it can be a worthy tool during tough when used with other assets. times. “When financial markets are really volatile, and especially if you sustain losses in the market, that’s not a good time to pull money It’s better if it’s used earlier in retirement and as part out of your savings and investment accounts,” said of a coordinated plan.”

Kronen. “Instead, you can use a reverse mortgage to You can actually use a reverse mortgage to finance supplement your income and carry you over until the purchase of a new home. “If a retired couple or the markets rebound.” individual is downsizing or rightsizing into a new Many are concerned that this arrangement will home from their old home, they can use a reverse interfere with their ability to leave money to their mortgage exactly like they would get a mortgage in a family when they’re gone, and there’s truth to that. new home,” he said. “But you are not obligated to have “Legacy is a really important thing, and it’s some- mortgage payments on that new house. You’re going thing that we always bring up in the conversation to get to put more money in the bank.” because it can really affect decisionmaking,” said Kronen. “But a reverse Tom Kronen, Mutual of Omaha in Montecito: mortgage sometimes can be even betmutualreverse.com/tom-kronen ter for legacy; it just depends on the situation. One thing we like to say in our business is: A reverse mortgage is Additional resources: reversemortgage.org best when it’s not used as a last resort.

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Learn ways to reduce stress, adjust to your role, and care for yourself. Join a free and confidential caregiver support group or talk individually with a counselor specializing in caregiver support.

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hen it comes to senior services,

the Newquists are keeping it in the family.

Sensitivity, understanding, and compassion are so important when it comes to helping people with the big changes in their lives. When seniors are moving out of family homes—either to “rightsize” into something more suitable, or

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care business for 24 years. He started his career in the early days of tech, founding Computer Plaza in 1981 (near Harry’s Plaza Café), as well as Montecito Video and Summerland Video. He was looking for a new venture in the mid1980s when his sister Lyn Dorenzo, the oldest of the seven Newquist siblings, came to him with her gerontology degree in hand and a thesis project describing a new assisted-living model that was more like a home and less like an institution.

She’d taken the thesis to the bank for a loan, but they wanted a business plan. “Well, my sister was a great gerontologist, but she wasn’t very well schooled in business,” said Dana. “So she called me to write her a business plan.”

That plan turned into Country Village (countryvillagecare.com) in Chico, California, which is still operating. “She was very progressive in her thoughts,” said Nancy about her admired oldest sister, who is now 78 and still actively involved.

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to transition into life in an assistedliving environment — it can have a dramatic impact on the entire family.

The brother-and-sister team of Dana Newquist and Nancy Newquist-Nolan works closely with families to help them through these changes in this emotional time in their lives.

Dana Newquist, who owns and operates the downtown Santa Barbara assisted-living dementia care specialist Mission Villa, has been in the memory-

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SIBLING TEAM: Mission Villa owner Dana Newquist (left) his sister, senior real estate specialist Nancy Newquist-Nolan, help families plan for memory care-focused assisted living.

bers’ pants pockets, coat pockets, flip through their books, because they tend to get dementia and start putting money in those places, and we want to make sure that we didn’t sell a book by accident that had a thousand dollars in it.”

The hardest thing is letting go.

“They love their home, they have their memories, and they’re afraid,” said Nancy. “And you’re telling them to let go and move forward on to what will be a safer place for them. We try to be proactive instead of reactive.

And being proactive means they can make the choice, and that’s what we highly suggest. That way, they still are able to have their say in what happens to them.” Added Dana, “Trust is the whole deal — you’re dealing with the most important thing they have, and that could be a spouse, or a mom or dad.”

That’s especially true when going to a memory-care facility like Mission Villa, which works closely with hospice providers and is designed to be the last home a person will live in.

“This is really an end-of-life kind of facility,” said Dana.

The pandemic is only making compassionate care more challenging, as visitors are currently prohibited.

“Because we’re dealing with dementia, if you take a daughter or son away for even a week, let’s say, when the

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The family ties keep coming. NanNan cy’s husband, Keith Nolan, principal of ON Design Architects (ondesignar(ondesignarondesignar chitects.net), designed both Country chitects.net Village and Mission Villa senior care homes. Meanwhile, Nancy is Coldwell Banker’s senior real estate specialist (nancynewquistnolan. nancynewquistnolan.

Billy Goodnick com), ), with training from the California WE TRY TO BE PROACTIVE Association of RealReal tors on understandunderstand INSTEAD OF REACTIVE. AND ing what seniors need when they go to sell a BEING PROACTIVE MEANS THEY house.

Dana is also a RealReal CAN MAKE THE CHOICE, AND THAT’S tor and frequently works with Nancy WHAT WE HIGHLY SUGGEST. on deals. In addition, Nancy used to own —NANCY NEWQUIST-NOLAN an estate liquidation business and brings years of experience in working with seniors and their families to sell the contents dementia patient has to be reinforced of their homes. in memory all the time, they forget “When you’re going into a house who somebody is,” said Dana. “We to liquidate everything, you learn totally become their family.” about so many aspects of life,” laughed Thankfully, the Newquists are up to Nancy. “When they get older, they the task. “When you have seven kids in stuff everything in their pockets or the family, you have to have grace and in books or in weird places. I always patience,” said Nancy. “We all seem to tell the family prior to us coming in: have that, which makes us really evenPlease go through your family memmem keeled to help the seniors as we do.”

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Committed to nonviolent action and demanding urgent measures to

SENIORS BAND TOGETHER TO FIGHT EARTH’S DESTRUCTION address the Earth’s climate emergency, Santa Barbara’s Society of Fearless Grandmothers was formed last October. After their first training session — led by two of the founding grandmothers of the indigenous group Idle No More S.F. Bay, and the Bay Area Society of Fearless Grandmothers— the group quickly built momentum.

They rallied in front of the County Administration Building on Valentine’s Day, demanding the denial of new fossil-fuel project permits; they

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hosted a virtual Earth Day art project collaboration with their grandchildren; and they wrote postcards as part of an NAACP effort to reach people in states where voting rights are under attack, urging them to make sure that they are registered and to pledge to vote in November.

“Our hope is that people will really start to talk about the climate crisis issue and demand that we take some action, because otherwise our grandchildren are going to be in a world of hurt,” said Irene Cooke, one of Santa Barbara’s Founding Grandmothers. She’s a longtime climate activist who moved from Colorado to Santa Barbara in 2018, primarily to be near her widowed daughter and young grandson.

“I replaced my mountain hikes with beach walks, and it makes me so sad to walk these beaches and know that, when my grandson is my age, those beaches won’t be here,” said Cooke. “They’ll be underwater. There won’t be any beaches, not to mention the issues with food production and migration and disease. The climate crisis will impact every aspect of life on earth.”

Frustrated with the restrictions mandated by the pandemic, the Society of Fearless Grandmothers — which

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“ GET UP STAND UP: Irene Cooke is leading the charge to combat climate change and fight for social justice as part of Santa Barbara’s Society of Fearless Grandmothers.

has about 40 members ranging in age from their late fifties to 85 — is currently using technology and other physically distanced tools to demand that COVID-19 responses focus on a transition away from the fossil-fuel economy to a system that addresses climate justice and protects people, not profit.

They are also adamantly opposed to racial violence, and one of their official statements connects that movement to climate activism: “We recognize that the impacts of climate change disproportionately affect people of color. We can no longer tolerate a planet where anyone’s right to breathe is compromised — whether by police brutality or by pollution.”

The Fearless Grandmothers fear that time is running out. “At a certain point, if enough action hasn’t been taken, it will be too late,” said Cooke. “And we’re not there yet. A lot of people have just said, ‘It’s too late, we can’t do anything,’ but that’s not true. The technology is there. It’s just a matter of the political will and people rising up to demand that we do something about this.

That’s the main thing that we want to communicate.”

WE CAN NO LONGER TOLERATE A PLANET WHERE ANYONE’S RIGHT TO BREATHE IS COMPROMISED.

The Society of Fearless Grandmothers: fearlessgrandmotherssb.org

he death of a loved one can be over-

whelming,” says Dan Flynn, owner of Simply Remembered Cremation Care, a funeral home offering cremation services, home funerals, and green burials. “Planning for one should not be.”

When considering cremation services, it’s important to get the facts straight. Test your knowledge with this short True-or-False quiz.

SIMPLY REMEMBERED EDUCATES ABOUT END-OF-LIFE OPTIONS 1) The County of Santa Barbara regulates funeral homes and cemeteries.

False. They are regulated by The Cemetery and Funeral Bureau of the California Department of Consumer Affairs.

2) Embalming (preservation of a corpse from decay) is required by law.

False. Embalming is not required by law. The embalming trend was kicked off by the first celebrity embalming, Abraham Lincoln, said Flynn, explaining, “They stopped at every single town on their way to his final resting place.”

3) A deceased loved one’s body must be removed from the home within 72 hours.

False. There is not an amount of time by which a loved-one’s body must be removed from the home.

4) It is legal to hold a funeral in your home.

True.

5) Ashes may not be scattered at sea in California.

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False. Ashes may be scattered at sea, provided they are at least 500 yards from shore.

6) Ashes may not be scattered in a lake, pond, or river in California.

True.

7) Ashes may be scattered on land in California.

True, provided you have permission from the landowner.

8) Cremation accounts for just 25 percent of all dispositions in the United States.

False. Cremation now accounts for 52 percent of all dispositions in the United States, 63 percent in California, and 90 percent in the Santa Barbara region.

9) Full-body burial at sea is not legal.

False. Full-body burial at sea is legal. The only requirements for full-body burial at sea are that the boat be a minimum of three miles offshore (federal waters) and in 600 feet of water. Due to the shallowness of the coastline in Santa Barbara, boats must go out eight miles to reach a depth of 600 feet.

10) A “green burial” means that no fossil fuels were used in the preparation of the body.

False. “Green burials,” which are legal provided the cemetery allows them, are when there is no embalming, no casket, and the body is wrapped in a cloth shroud and buried directly in the ground.

There are currently no cemeteries in Santa Barbara that offer this option. A loved one’s ashes can also be planted in a “Bio Urn” that will grow a tree of your choosing.

11) “Water cremation” is illegal in California.

False. Effective July 1, 2020, California became the 14th state to allow “water cremation,” also known as alkaline hydrolysis. This is literally a warm, soapy bath, where the high-alkaline solution dissolves the soft tissue over a couple of hours.

What remains is only the skeleton, which is then processed to a fine white powder.

Simply Remembered Cremation Care: simplyremembered.com

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