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District Officials Celebrate Successful First Week of Distance Learning by Delaney Smith espite the County Public Health Department’s announcement last week that school districts may now apply to reopen elementary schools to in-person instruction, it was clear Tuesday night that Santa Barbara Unified might pass up the offer. “I was really disappointed to hear the County Public Health’s decision through the grapevine,” Boardmember Kate Ford said. “I have no reason to be truly encouraged. They admitted their data is flawed. It’s clear that testing is less than optimal in this county, and receiving results is really slow if you do get a test, and contact tracing is clearly behind. “I suppose it would be very interesting to apply for the waivers, and it gives us a feeling of hope for the future, but I want the board to think long and hard about that decision.” Generally, the only chance for schools to reopen in-person is if the entire county remains off of the state’s COVID-19 monitoring list for two weeks or longer—Santa Barbara has remained on it for more than two months. However, transmission rates have dropped enough in recent weeks that some county districts may apply for and receive the state’s okay to reopen with additional safety protocols, though ultimately, it is the state’s decision. District superintendents would need to fill out the waiver, show there was consultation with parents and teachers and other stakeholders, and publish a comprehensive reopening plan online, and then County Health Officer Dr. Henning Ansorg can take the waiver to the state public health officer for approval. It also requires that the district pay to test 25 percent of its staff every week, constantly rotating and re-testing to ensure everyone is tested monthly. This alone would cost the district upward of $180,000 that it would not be reimbursed. “The Public Health Officer Susan Klein-Rothschild mentioned that most of the waivers they are expecting are from private schools,” said Superintendent Hilda Maldonado. “This is because private schools obviously have a lot smaller numbers of students, smaller numbers of staff, and the ability to do testing and pay for it and get the 24-hour results because they can afford

to pay doctors or clinics to do the work for them.” Since the pandemic’s onset, the district has spent approximately $7 million on distancelearning technologies, PPE, food services, in-person learning expenditures such as outdoor tents, and more. Meg Jetté, assistant superintendent of business services, explained that all of these costs will be reimbursed to the district through the federal CARES Act. The district is supposed to get $10.9 million in total, leaving it some cushion before the December spending deadline.

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The first week of online DAY ONE AT A DISTANCE: Dahlia Alvarez takes her 1st-grade class online during the first day of school. instruction showed a 98.5 percent attendance rate districtwide. And despite the 307 students dents,” Reed said about her shared virtual classroom. “When who unenrolled since last July, district officials celebrated the students are in the physical classroom, they can usually interact high attendance and overall success of week one. with everything, so we wanted students to be able to do that in Todd Ryckman, chief educational technology officer, said the virtual setting as well.” that every student enrolled in the district has internet access, But despite the successes, distance learning is still not a perwhether that be via Wi-Fi or a wireless hotspot. And aside from fectly equitable solution. the encouraging data, district officials said families are gener“I do want to share anecdotally with you that the stories we ally reporting positive experiences with distance-learning as heard during the spring are still occurring,” said Frann Wagecompared to in the spring. neck, assistant superintendent of the district. “We had a boy who Harding Elementary 6th-grade teachers Megan Reed and was doing his distance learning in a closet the other day, because Natalie Ramirez showed off their virtual classroom, in which that was the quiet space that he could find in his home.” they use Bitmoji avatars to represent themselves in the class. She said that the district is partnering up with community Students can click on their avatars or other items in the room organizations to give students in need a place to work during the day. The organizations include the Boys & Girls Club, United to interact and access learning activities. So far, it’s been a hit. “We wanted to make a virtual space to create a sense of com- Way, Girls Inc., and the YMCA. There are 350 scholarships availn munity and to make the online world a classroom for our stu- able, but 3,500 students are eligible.

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Supervisors Reject Emergency Mask Ordinance Public Opposition and Falling Number of Cases Influenced Vote by Delaney Smith anta Barbara County supervisors voted on Tuesday to reject a proposed urgency ordinance that would have fined anyone refusing to comply with county health officer orders just when active COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations across the county have started declining in recent weeks. “I wear a mask anytime I’m out,” said 5th District Supervisor Steve Lavagnino, who voted against the ordinance. “If I go into a store, go just about anywhere around, I wear it. But at the same time, I just think that this is a significant overreach.” The timing made it difficult for him to justify the ordinance because data shows the disease situation is finally getting better. Active cases in Santa Maria, once the county’s largest COVID-

19 hotspot, Lavagnino said, are now declining, which proves education and outreach works without giving out citations. The urgency ordinance, which only got three votes instead of the required four, would have allowed for fines of up to $100 on the first violation, $200 on the second violation within one year, and $300 for the third violation within a year. Barney Melekian, assistant county executive officer, stressed that enforcement by citations would only be used in the most egregious cases and that education would always be the first foray. About a dozen public commenters vehemently opposed the ordinance. Some cited studies that claim wearing masks is futile, while others brought up the mental-health and increased suicide rates as side effects of COVID-related ordinances. Many said

the enforcement is unconstitutional, advising listeners in the public not to worry about fines if the ordinance passes because it’s unlawful. “I feel like many of the mask dissenters that spoke brought up some important points, but I feel like they reached the wrong conclusion,” said 1st District Supervisor Das Williams. “To me, this mask-wearing is about control — returning to local control. It’s about that we are all concerned about the health effects and economic and psychological effects the other speakers talked about…. The only way we can help society return back to normal is to reduce transmission rate, and there is decent scientific evidence that mask wearing in addition to other measures can help us return to that. CONT’D ON PAGE 7 

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JUDGMENT DAY: “I’ve listened to all your statements, each one of them,” serial killer and rapist Joseph DeAngelo told the victims and family members gathered for his sentencing in Sacramento on Friday. “And I am really sorry for everyone I hurt.”

‘Today, the Devil Loses’ Golden State Killer Gets Life Without Possibility of Parole by Jean Yamamura oseph DeAngelo — the mass murderer and serial rapist known as the Golden State Killer, who admitted to killing 13 people and raping dozens more across California during the 1970s and ’80s — was sentenced to 11 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole in Sacramento on Friday. His sentencing followed heart-wrenching statements delivered by his victims and their family members over the prior three days. One of the most powerful judgments on the cruel torment he had inflicted came on Thursday from Debbi Domingo McMullan, daughter of Cheri Domingo, who was brutally killed in Goleta in 1981. In a curse directed at DeAngelo, Domingo McMullan said she would settle for seeing him shackled and humiliated, “nervous as hell because everyone around him in prison will know exactly who he is and exactly what deplorable actions he’s done. Today, the devil loses.” Domingo McMullan described her mother’s persistence and love, and the charming joy of her friend, Greg Sanchez, who was also DeAngelo’s victim that night. She had spent the night at a friend’s house, and in the 40 years since her mother’s death when she was 15, she said, “only now am I understanding the impact of losing my mother in a violent way. When I was first stopped at the yellow crime-scene tape around my house, I knew my life was changing.” Once an outstanding student, she dropped her university plans, eventually becoming addicted to methamphetamine. For years, she relived her mother’s and Sanchez’s deaths

was the beginning of the end. He said that their memories of Greg Sanchez would not be tarnished by it all: “He was in the prime of his life at 27. He had all his dreams ahead of him, a big presence with a big smile.” In 1979, DeAngelo, an ex-cop who law enforcement believed had worked as a painter in Goleta, committed his second known set of homicides, the deaths of Debra Alexandria Manning and Robert Offerman. Manning’s friends and colleagues Roseanne Howard and Natasha Holiday spoke of how “Ally” had felt like she was being followed, she told them in a phone call. The next day, DeAngelo broke into Offerman’s condo through a sliding glass door, tying them both, raping Manning, and fatally shooting them. At some point, DeAngelo ate the leftovers from their Christmas dinner. Howard and Holiday had met Manning at Boston Hospital during a neurology internship, they said. A deep friendship developed, and they expressed the loss of her presence. Her patients in the Santa Maria community where she’d practiced had sent heartfelt letters and drawings, they said, “a testament to how much they valued her.” DeAngelo was finally captured at his home in the Northern California city of Citrus Heights in 2018. By then, he was 72 years old, having retired the year before from his job as a mechanic with the SaveMart distribution center in Roseville. The DNA he’d left at crime scenes had been saved, notably by a medical examiner in Ventura, and was used to identify the relatives of a suspect who was known as the Visalia Ransacker, East Area Rapist, Original Night Stalker, and Golden State Killer. Investigators narrowed the search to men of the right age and general location. In exchange for life in prison in lieu of the death penalty, DeAngelo admitted to crimes of first-degree murder, rape, kidnap, robbery, burglary, and false imprisonment against 87 people at 53 crime scenes over the years 1975 to 1986.

in her dreams. It wasn’t until her two children were taken away at age 30 that she struggled back to sobriety, avoided suicide, and felt a miracle through Jesus Christ, she said. For the past 20 years, she has been a “voice and advocate for the many, many victims in this series of crime.” Her brother, David Domingo, also spoke, saying that the shock he’d been in since hearing of the death of his mother had never left him. At the age of 14, he learned that he couldn’t talk with his friends about his mother and the vile things DeAngelo had done. “It was too rough,” he said. He acknowledged the only justice he’d see for the torture and murder of his mother, while imperfect, would be that the last words DeAngelo heard outside prison were damning. Brian Sanchez, speaking for Greg Sanchez’s family, also noted what felt like the lack of true FINDING CLOSURE: Debbi Domingo McMullan (left) and S.B. DA justice for his family’s grief. He Joyce Dudley at Joseph DeAngelo’s June plea-bargain hearing expressed his frustration after In her closing statement, Santa Barbara hearing victim family after victim family speak and having to answer his young son’s County District Attorney Joyce Dudley — questions about how the murders could go who was among those seeking the death penalty for DeAngelo when charges were filed in unsolved for so long. “He [DeAngelo] was a police officer,” San- 2019 — offered solace to the victims’ families. chez noted. “He knew the likelihood that “I believe that what you need to know is what each jurisdiction wanted to solve its own you already know. In life, you loved them, case” and that a lack of cooperation and and they loved you,” she said. “Now that this coordination had prolonged finding the case is finally over … focus on the things murderer. The wait had been crippling, San- that made them lovable. Let those memories chez said, and he hoped the ordeal of the trial allow you to smile again.” n

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NEWS BRIEFS CORONAVIRUS The Four Seasons Biltmore Resort announced it is carrying out an “extensive renovation and upgrade” of the luxury Montecito hotel, following months of questions over its ongoing closure amid the coronavirus pandemic and a large protest earlier this month over its lack of communication with staff. The Biltmore’s announcement came during a one-way conference call in which corporate execs told staff they could continue to collect unemployment but would not be offered any benefits. They are being allowed, however, to accumulate a week’s worth of vacation time during the closure, which is expected to last for at least six months. The Sheriff’s Office has announced an additional 14 incarcerated individuals and a civilian staff member have tested positive for COVID-19 in the County Jail. The facility has seen a substantial uptick in positive cases among incarcerated individuals over the last several weeks, increasing from a total of 15 positive cases among the incarcerated population on 8/3 up to 41 at the time of the sheriff’s latest press release on 8/26. Thirty-nine sheriff’s staff members at the jail have also tested positive, 36 of whom have recovered.

PUBLIC SAFETY Fire agencies across S.B. County have sent 147 personnel to Northern California’s massive wildfires in the past two weeks. Many are on the LNU and SCU Lightning complex fires. The state’s 24 active infernos, a number of which grew together from more than 600 separate blazes, have burned over 1.5 million acres. The county, as of press time Wednesday, suffers no significant fires. “The word we got back from our crews was, ‘There’s so much fire, not enough fire crews,’” said S.B. City Fire Chief Eric Nickel. COU RTESY P HOTOS

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Two live military explosives were found by family members of a deceased military veteran at a Ladera Lane home and detonated by a bomb squad at Pershing Park on 8/22. The residents called the police, who determined the explosives were military ordinance and called Vandenberg Air Force Base explosive experts to the scene. The explosives were deemed not safe enough to make the long haul back to Vandenberg, so they were taken to Pershing Park to be buried and safely detonated with counter-charge. No one was hurt during the denotation, and the hole has been filled back.

COURTS & CRIME Santa Maria man Jordan Peter Gerbich, 30, was charged on 8/25 by the U.S. Attorney’s office of fatally shooting an elephant seal last September at the elephant seal rookery along Highway 1 just outside San Simeon. The female seal was shot one time in the head, and when its body was found, its tail had been cut off and its chest cavity cut open. Gerbich is not being charged in connection with the mutilations. Northern elephant seals are a protected species under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, and killing one is punishable by one year in prison or a fine of $28,000.

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The purpose of the charette and the survey is to help fix what’s been ailing downtown long before the pandemic: empty storefronts, the collapse of retail, and a lack of mojo. The survey asked respondents what they wanted to see downtown long term; 94 percent said dining, 91 percent said music, 88 percent said places to sit, 84 percent said art, and 63 percent said food trucks. All those, however, are accent notes on the main attraction long advocated by members of the AIA: housing. Of the respondents, 64 percent said they thought there should be more housing downtown, 17 percent opposed the idea, and nearly 20 percent were undecided. The big question in all this is how high buildings should be allowed to go: 54 percent said three stories, 28.6 percent said four stories, and 12 percent said five. As to parking, 64 percent said they’d need parking near their home if they lived downtown. Of those, 91 percent said they’d be willing to pay extra to have a parking space in their building, and 22 percent said they’d be willing to make arrangements elsewhere. In the meantime, 173 AIA architects are laboring away on their new plans for downtown. The results of their efforts will be made public next month. —Nick Welsh

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ere’s the good news for this decade’s Census count: With only one month left, Santa Barbara County has already surpassed the percentage of households that were counted during the 2010 Census. This past weekend, squads of Census workers fanned out throughout the county, knocking on doors of households that didn’t turn in their written questionnaires. By Monday morning, 68.6 percent of the county’s households had been counted. That’s up a smidgen from 68.5 households from 10 years ago. And there’s still a month left before the September 30 deadline. The bad news nationwide is that the COVID pandemic and the foreshortened counting period — insisted upon by the Trump White House — is calling into question the thoroughness of the 2020 count. With the counting deadline moved up a month, about one-third of all households throughout the country — 38 million — have yet to be counted. The Census population count is the basis by which about $1.5 trillion in federal grants and aid is apportioned throughout the country annually. Every person counted translates into about $2,000 a year for 10 years in federal disbursements to individual counties. The counts also determine how many seats each state gets in the House of Representatives, among other things.

As of August 24, the cities of Santa Barbara, Buellton, Solvang, and Lompoc have exceeded their final tallies from 10 years ago. The cities of Guadalupe and Santa Maria have not. Traditionally, reporting problems tend to be more prevalent in high-density neighborhoods with high concentrations of apartment complexes, low-income individuals, and recent immigrants. Beginning August 11, the local Census organizers dispatched “non-response follow-up” workers to begin the process of knocking on doors. About 1,500 people were hired to handle the tri-county area. Census organizers have stressed that the answers to the nine questions will be kept strictly confidential. The questions take no more than five minutes to answer and entail such things as how many people live in your domicile, names, birthdates, whether the occupants own or rent, ethnicity, and heritage of origin. They will wrap up September 22. Because Census data is the basis for determining counties’ nutritional assistance, food stamps, educational funding, and energy services, among other things, local Census organizers have made a point to reach out to as many households as possible, using everything from social media campaigns to yard signs to get the message out. In addition, they collaborated with more than 100 —Nick Welsh nonprofit organizations.

Supervisors cont’d from p. 4 “My grandmother lived in occupied Europe,” he continued. “Mask wearing to me does not fit the description of draconian or Orwellian or allude to Robespierre’s Reign of Terror. I don’t think that they are comparable as someone who’s had a family member live in such regimes. I feel like it is a small price to pay for returning to a free society.” Ultimately, Lavagnino and 4th District Supervisor Peter Adam voted against the urgency ordinance because they felt it constituted government overreach. Williams proposed that the supervisors revisit enforcement as a regular ordinance rather than an urgency one, even though it would take weeks longer to go into effect and require more detailed changes. The supervisors voted 3-2 to bring it back as a regular ordinance at a later date; Adam and Lavagnino dissented. Third District Supervisor Joan Hartmann was most concerned about Isla Vista. Although active cases and hospitalizations have declined across the county, Isla Vista has seen a more than 225 percent increase in positive cases in the past few weeks after college students have moved back. Recent videos circulating on social media have shown young people at parties in Isla Vista without wearing masks or practicing social distancing. The chancellor of UCSB, Henry Yang, is encouraging students who can move

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DEBRIS BASIN MAJORDOMO: Curtis Skene stands near the corner of Randall Road and East Valley Road, where a debris basin will be built thanks in large part to his efforts.

Holy Grail of Flood Control to Be Built in Montecito Digging the New San Ysidro Creek Debris Basin Could Start as Early as Next Year by Jean Yamamura t’s the holy grail of flood control. That’s what 1st District Supervisor Das Williams called Montecito’s first post-fire debris basin to be approved since 1971.This one will spread across eight acres along San Ysidro Creek on Randall Road, protecting downstream homes and properties from the brutal assault of boulders and mud in severe rain storms. In 2018, a freak cloudburst fell on hillsides burned by the devastating Thomas Fire, causing massive debris flows, flooding existing debris basins, and killing 23 people in Montecito. On Randall Road, two people died, and seven properties were buried in mud. On Tuesday, August 18, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors gave their unanimous approval to the project’s final Environmental Impact Report, bringing it closer to realization. It took the collective energy of a lot of people to get this far, but many attribute the success to Curtis Skene, who has lived across the road from Randall since he was a boy. In 1969, Skene stood at his home’s plateglass window, holding his father’s hand as they watched three feet of mud lap against the four feet of sandbags circled around their house. “It scared the living daylights out of my father and myself,” he remembered. In 2018, he cheated death. “I was almost a statistic,” he said. This time, the mud rose to 16 feet and swept his home away. Everyone was in shock, but Skene decided to act. He asked his fiancée, the architect Kris Kirkelie, to collect maps of the area. He talked with his Randall Road neighbors, most of whom didn’t want to return. He started a nonprofit, Partners in Community Renewal, to raise funds for the project. He checked with County Public Works, who agreed that Randall Road would be ideal for a debris basin. “The perfect grade is 6 percent,” Skene said. “Randall Road is about 6.2 percent.”

The basin will sit on 9.2 acres of 10 parcels along Randall and East Valley Roads. The county already owned one parcel and purchased another for $4 million in May 2019. Another only requires county easements, and the other seven, privately held, are largely fields of mud and invasive plants. Since the Randall Road location was already degraded it was the best choice for the basin. Once completed, the basin will be 3.2 acres at bottom and eight acres at its top, larger than 97,000 cubic yards, which is the amount of soil and rock that will be removed to create it. The project has its drawbacks. The Montecito Association issued a long letter asking about truck travel, rush hours, road deterioration, and the ugly view of the denuded basin from East Valley Road. Others worried about landscape restoration, oak trees, the noise of rock crushing, and where the dirt would go. The county said the roughly 15,000 truck trips over 150 workdays would usually take Sheffield Road to the highway, and Caltrans would screen the worksite from view. Work hours were limited to Monday-Friday, 7 a.m.-4:30 p.m., and water sprinkling would keep the dust down. Some dirt would be used on-site and some would go to nearby construction sites, but none will go to Carpinteria or Goleta beaches, according to Maureen Spencer with County Public Works. Three trees will replace each of the 49 native trees removed during construction. According to Skene, the project is still working with the Army Corps of Engineers, National Marine Fisheries Service, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife. California wildlife and water quality agencies are also to be consulted. Public Works has been working closely with FEMA on the roughly $25 million project, which costs are to be split 75/25 between the federal and local governments. If all goes as planned, both Skene and Spencer said, the work will commence about a year from now. n

Amendments to the County Land Use and Development Code (LUDC) for Telecommunications Facilities Appurtenant to Natural Gas Distribution Facilities

Hearing on the request of the Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) for the County Planning Commission to recommend that the Board of Supervisors amend the LUDC regarding telecommunications facilities appurtenant to natural gas distribution facilities. SoCalGas proposes incorporating a new LUDC Section 35.44.030 and amending LUDC Articles 35.2, 35.4, 35.44, and 35.11 of Chapter 35, Zoning, of the Santa Barbara County Code, to address the permitting requirements and development standards for telecommunications facilities appurtenant to natural gas distribution facilities; and to determine that the proposed amendment is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guideline Sections 15061(b)(3), 15301(b) and 15303(d). The County Planning Commission hearing begins at 9:00 A.M. The order of items listed on the agenda is subject to change by the County Planning Commission. The staff analysis of the proposal may be viewed at the Planning and Development Department website, located at https://www.countyofsb.org/plndev/hearings/cpc.sbc prior to the hearing. For further information about the project, please contact the planner, Selena Evilsizor Whitney, at sevilsizor@countyofsb.org. If you challenge the amendment in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in correspondence to the County Planning Commission prior to the public hearing. IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING PUBLIC PARTICIPATION Based on guidance from the California Department of Public Health and the California Governor's Stay at Home Executive Order N-33-20, issued on March 19, 2020, to protect the health and well-being of all Californians and to establish consistency across the state in order to slow the spread of COVID-19, the County Planning Commission hearings will no longer provide in-person participation. We have established alternative methods of participation in the County Planning Commission hearings, pursuant to the California Governor’s Executive Order N-29-20, issued on March 17, 2020, which states: 

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of my mouth a couple of weeks ago, my dentist recommended an especially lethal mouthwash, at least where germs are concerned. It’s so badass, he exclaimed, it kills COVID-19 dead in 30 seconds flat. So I was all in, despite the stuff ’s prohibitive price. It had to be ordered online, direct from the manufacturer. So I did. Fourteen days later, and I’m still waiting. No antiseptic package has yet arrived in my mailbox. Obviously, it had to have been Trump. He’s that desperate. Expect him to spring my mouthwash on the public at the end of this week’s televised coronation as yet another surefire crackpot cure for COVID. Sure, it’s a crime to steal mail from another man’s mailbox. But so long as Trump occupies the White House, he can’t be charged for anything — except crimes against sense and taste. As for COVID-killing mouthwash? It beats the hell out of his bleach idea. If it wasn’t Trump, then it had to be Louis DeJoy, the fat-cat Trump donor who lives in a palace he calls “The Castle.” Trump appointed him Mailman in Chief only this May. DeJoy is one of those Triple A+ personality disorders who talks about running government like a business. Since he took over, however, the rate of First-Class mail that gets delivered on time plunged by 8.1

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Monday’s subcommittee hearing, DeJoy got vague in a hurry. Middle management was to blame, he said. When is it not? DeJoy is the one who launched the nowinfamous crusade to cut Postal Service costs just as a COVID-spooked nation girds its loins for its first mail-in election in history. Though Trump himself prefers the convenience of the mail-in ballot, he contends mail-in elections are inherently fraudulent, one of the ways he says Joe Biden will

steal the election. So naturally, when the big blue mailboxes started disappearing, Democrats got nervous. When one in front of the Patterson Avenue post office in Goleta got abducted by aliens two weeks ago, progressive activists protested, planted flowers, took selfies, and posted it all on Facebook. Congressmember Salud Carbajal held a press conference at the scene of the crime. A vote delayed is a vote denied, he thundered, accusing Trump of vote tampering and election sabotage. Soon, where there was no mailbox, there were two. Thus, the people spake. Reports then circulated that one of the mammoth mail-sorting machines from the mail-sorting annex on Storke Road had been hauled off to the junk heap. Dutifully, I tried to track this down. I called all the postal-worker union leaders I could find. But they were under strict orders to say nothing. I contacted the authorized spokes-

person for the western branch of the Postal Service, who provided me copies of statements made by DeJoy that conspicuously did not address my questions. Ultimately, Carbajal’s staff ferreted out an answer: No

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from any Santa Barbara post offices. People are understandably jumpy. This is the darkest, starkest presidential election in living history. I am hardly immune. If I were any more jaundiced about Trump, I’d have hepatitis. Even so, I’ve been tuning in to the Trump convention. Most shocking is what I didn’t hear. I didn’t hear a single word, for example, about the 176,000 Americans killed by COVID. (It would take until Day Two, when Melania Trump took to the podium, before any of the suffering was acknowledged, and she was the only one.) The silence, as they say, was deafening. Instead, we heard how Trump made the economy the greatest it’s ever been and how he will do it again. Likewise, I didn’t hear word two about how Trump will resume the enhanced unemployment benefits cut off a month ago for 30 million Americans now without jobs thanks to the pandemic. And I didn’t hear word three, four, or five about Trump enacting eviction protections or mortgage relief for renters, landlords, and homeowners. Basic and obvious stuff, you’d think, if your goal is to keep the economy from imploding.

Say what you will about the Democratic Party, but at least they crafted a stimulus plan in May. Since then, they expressed willingness to cut it by a trillion bucks just to make a deal. But from the Senate — nothing. And from Trump — worse than nothing. Naturally, DeJoy says he’s not trying to disenfranchise anyone. Perhaps that’s even true. But if you want to make sure your vote gets counted in time, Santa Barbara County elections officials are making it pretty damn easy. Here’s how: If you’re not registered already, you can do so now online; just hit Santa Barbara County elections on your Google search. You can register up to Election Day itself, November 3. If you’ve moved recently, you need to re-register. Ballots go out on October 5. Everyone gets a mail-in ballot whether you ask for one or not. If you want to track where your ballot is, you can sign up for that too. If you don’t trust the mail, the county will set up 33 drop-off sites. If you like voting in person, there will be 25 sites available, open for four days — from October 31 to November 3. For your ballot to count, however, it has to be postmarked no later than November 3. And they won’t stop checking the mail for straggler ballots until November 17. In other words — no excuses. If you don’t have a bad taste in your mouth, you’re not paying attention. In the meantime, I’ll be by my mailbox, waiting for the mouthwash to come. —Nick Welsh

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Michael Silverander 4/9/1950 - 8/11/2020

Michael Silverander, a resident of Santa Barbara for close to four decades, died at home on August 11, 2020 after a tenacious, sixteen-month battle with multiple metastatic cancers. Michael died as he lived—on his own terms, with strength and dignity. Michael David Silverglat was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, the second son of Louis and Esther Silverglat. His parents ran a successful and beloved shop, American Loan & Jewelry, where he learned the ins and outs of business and customer service as a young man working behind the counter. In his later years, Michael would credit the majority of his success as an entrepreneur to the lessons that he absorbed from his parents during this time. Michael attended the University of Missouri, where he received a degree from the renowned School of Journalism. Though he never worked as a journalist, the communications skills and keen editor’s eye that he acquired during his studies were the other key factors in securing his success as an independent businessperson. Upon completion of his undergraduate studies, Michael followed his heart and his fate to California, moving with two friends to Lake Tahoe. When the friends decided to return home, Michael found that he was called to stay in this new place and began to make a life there, eventually entering the field of communications, in which he would work for the remainder of his career. In Tahoe, Michael met and fell in love with a woman named Barbara Bohlander. Upon their marriage in 1976—in accordance with their creative natures and the spirit of the times—the two combined their respective family names to create a new one, Silverander. Though the marriage ended in divorce, it first brought to Michael his only child, David Silverander. Michael was a devoted and loving father, who never ceased to share with his son the incredible quantity of information and insights that he amassed throughout his life. In keeping with the generosity that distinguished his character, Michael worked tirelessly to provide David with access to an excellent education and abundant resources to pursue his passions. Michael was endlessly 12

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proud of his son’s accomplishments and a highlight of both of their lives was the day that Michael masterfully officiated David’s wedding to his amazing wife. In 1985, Michael created what could rightly be regarded as his second child, his company Silverander Communications. Michael poured himself into his work and the decades-long relationships that he enjoyed with many of his clients speak to the stellar results that he was able to achieve for them. Michael approached his work with both passion and principle, relentlessly drilling down to the core of any matter with which he was presented. He was never content to accept anything less than the very best for his clients, continually holding both himself and his collaborators to the highest standards of excellence. Michael ran Silverander Communications for 35 years, fully half of his life, ceasing operations just a few months before his death. As Michael was fond of saying, he loved love and he loved marriage. In the second half of his life, he was blessed to know the partnership and devotion of two wonderful women. His second wife, Carol Silverander, came into his life as a client and left as someone who would forever shape his perspective on just about everything in the world. For most of their marriage, Carol fought her own valiant and graceful fight against breast cancer. With the support and succor of her eternally devoted husband, Carol survived for years longer than any doctors initially believed was possible, and together they traveled the world and savored the sweetness of life. Though he was devastated by the loss of Carol in 2008, Michael persisted, inspiring those around him with the strength of his character and his unshakeable commitment to forward progress. In due time, life brought another great love into Michael’s life, Robin Yudelson. Introduced by a friend in 2011, Michael and Robin were soon inseparable companions and not too long after that became husband and wife. Robin challenged and pushed Michael as no partner had before and, as he would be the first to tell you, he was much the better man because of it. Robin’s devotion to Michael during the final, difficult chapter of his life was a great and invaluable blessing, and she was relentless in working to facilitate his final wishes. In addition to his loving relationships with people, Michael’s life was greatly enriched by his love of animals, particularly dogs. He was often known to opine that “most dogs are better than most people” and he could form fast friendships with

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nearly any canine in his presence. As with anything important to him, Michael lavished a great deal of care and attention on his animals, sparing no expense or effort to ensure that they were well cared for, healthy and comfortable. Michael is survived by his wife Robin, his son David, his daughter-in-law Kate Elliott and his grandson Milo Silverander, all of Santa Barbara, California; his brother and sister-in-law Alan and Cindy Silverglat of Sarasota, Florida, and his step-daughter, Kim Romano, of Austin, Texas. The family asks that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Ridley-Tree Cancer Center of Santa Barbara, California.

Wanda Weston

6/23/1925 - 8/14/2020

Loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and friend passed away peacefully on August 14. She was 95 years old. Wanda was born in Los Angeles, California to Era Smith and Johannes Debes. Upon graduating from Santa Monica High School, she entered Stratford College in Danville, Virginia. Returning to Los Angeles, Wanda entered the Art Center School of Design where she met and married Eugene Weston III. They shared an extraordinary marriage of 65 years. Their professional lives centered on the design world: he, a prominent architect and she, an interior designer practicing 20 years in La Jolla, California. Wanda and Gene loved to travel and visited many parts of the world. After retiring they lived happily at The Sea Ranch in Northern California before moving to Santa Barbara in 2001. Wanda is survived by her four daughters: Karen Weston, Sherri Adler, Candy Weston, and Marianna Weston. She leaves six grandchildren: Robin Palmer, Erik Witholt, Ryan Witholt, Kristofer Witholt, Rebecca Anderson, and Daniel Adler. She was blessed with nine great-grandchildren: Lea and Ara Anderson; Geneva, Eliza, and Ivy Palmer; and Alexander, Trevor, Sonny, and Jay Witholt. A private family service will be held at a later date. In lieu of sending flowers, Wanda’s wish was that a special kindness be done for a friend or loved one.

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Alice Rawsthorne Douglas

12/8/1928 - 7/30/2020

Alice was born in Globe, Arizona and moved to Santa Barbara as a toddler with her family. Always a gifted athlete, she was the only girl to compete as a member of the Boys’ Tennis Team at Santa Barbara High School. She married Walter Douglas after graduation from high school and together they raised four children and many wellloved pets. The family made life-long friends when living in a Santa Barbara community along the Santa Ynez River, Paradise. They lived across the meadow from the schoolhouse, enjoying potluck dinners and ice cream socials at the Community Building. The family piled into the station wagon for summer camping trips to Kings Canyon. After divorce, she took teenaged daughter, Jena, on a summer road trip around the entire United States in 1977 – sleeping in a camper on the back of her Ford Courier truck. Alice was adventurous and fearless. She enjoyed working as a Census-Taker, school bus driver (on mostly mountain roads), retail at Mission Paint & Art & Riverside Gift Shop, Children’s Medical Clinic business office and helping many after obtaining her Counseling Certificate from UCSB Extension. Alice missed her desert roots and returned several times to live remotely in Why, AZ and Golden Valley, AZ, thriving in the “dry heat;” mesmerized by magnificent desert skies. She also enjoyed the beauty of country living in Mariposa, CA. Alice was a gifted artist, singer and pianist. She enjoyed camping, fishing and sailing (once owning her prized Star sailboat). She could sew, embroider, knit and crochet any pattern created, always with beautiful results. She was a rock hound and made jewelry. She always had a novel by her side, Sudoku puzzle book, and a jigsaw puzzle going. She enjoyed Bingo – always feeling lucky. Alice was loved wherever she lived. People were drawn to her. She was the best listener and always spoke the truth. We were happy to have her return to Santa Barbara in 2008 to be closer to family. She felt blessed to have granddaughter Kelly as

her caregiver. Alice was the third of four children born to Elizabeth White Rawsthorne and Wilbur Rawsthorne. Survived by children Dudley, Aaron (Darlene) & Jena Douglas, many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Preceded in death by siblings Lorraine Rawsthorne, Owen Rawsthorne and Alene Congdon, daughter Kim Douglas, grandchildren Jerome and Phillip Coberly and Adriana Douglas. When asked years ago how she’d like to be remembered she said simply, “She was a rebel.”

Jocelan G. Rainey Reif 5/29/1930 - 8/4/2020

Jocelan G. Rainey Reif, 90, Born May 29, 1930 in Detroit, Michigan to Wanda Voss and Edward Hammerberg. Her given name was Patricia Ann Hammerberg. She became a professional Ballerina at age 16 and later became a professional opera singer with the National Opera Company. Jocelan’s career included being a singing and dancing actress on Broadway. Jocelan toured the East Coast and Europe as a folk singer even performing for The British Royal Family. One of her hobbies included creating beautiful oil paintings on canvas. Jocelan moved to Santa Barbara where she met her husband Donald Reif in 1998. Jocelan passed away peacefully at home with her husband and stepdaughter, Kristin Reif Shi, at her side on August 4, 2020. A small memorial with close friends and family will held.

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see much concern expressed about people who are not wearing masks, but I do not see any acknowledgement that many people are exempt, under California law, from having to wear a mask due to either young age or disabilities that preclude wearing a mask. In fact, the state has eight specific categories pertaining to people who are exempt. Information about these exemptions can be found at page two of cdph.ca.gov/ guidance-for-the-use-of-face-coverings. I am one of those people with a disability that precludes wearing a face mask. Yet no one seems to have been given this information, so I get a hassle about it wherever I go. Actually, people who hassle me about not wearing a mask are breaking the law. I have reached the point where I am simultaneously afraid to leave my apartment and ready to file suit against any poor soul who thinks s/he is just doing their job and/or performing a public service to accost me about not wearing a mask. Neither should be happening to me. I am already disabled. My options are already limited. And I can’t be the only disabled person who is suffering this kind of persecution. The Americans with Disabilities Act supersedes California law, requiring that accommodations be made so that I have access to any place open to the public and to be able to fully participate in the same way as anyone else. Those are my legal rights. It’s time people become informed —Carol Barringer, S.B. about it.

liquor store too. Cuz that does waaaay more damage than pot. ● Jeannine Serbanich Would rather have a dispensary near me than a liquor store in terms of clientele. Justine Sutton I live near a pot shop in Santa Barbara, and whenever I go there, it’s the least sketchy scene around — people waiting six feet apart to pick up their orders, wearing masks, all very well behaved. ● Greg Hockey I was going to say the same. Regulated, security guards on staff, only one/ two people in at a time, and everyone is respecting COVID. More than I can say for any other store in our area. Melissa Fichera Compton There already was a dispensary in Summerland. Nobody remembers The Green Room? That memory faded quick. It was closed when all the dispensaries in S.B. County were shut down. Chris Stone A destination to buy locally grown products and then shop at the other Summerland stores? Sounds good!

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In last week’s story on a potential cannabis shop in Summerland, concerns voiced that the town would become a destination to buy drugs or less family oriented garnered comments on Facebook that ranged from first-person accounts to history lessons. Rodrigo Uribe To buy drugs? It’s weed, not meth, not heroin, not coke, just weed. I don’t see the issue; alcohol is worse. ● Rhonda Sparks There is a liquor store in Summerland, why should a dispensary be frowned upon? ● Darryl Genis You mean like the gigantic LIQUOR sign that stands above the freeway? Tony Landeros You can either live in the past or live for the future. I choose the future. No different than buying a six-pack. ● Jennifer Adler Pacella If you are concerned about people using mind-altering things, maybe you’ll need to petition to close the

he assault on the United States Postal Service is an assault on all of us. There are many who depend on the postal service for their medications, social security checks, and keeping connections in these challenging times. With the crucial election coming up in November, it is imperative that the Postal Service employ all means at their disposal to ensure election mail is delivered without delay. Our mail carriers are trying to deliver the best possible service and need our support now. —Lisa Guravitz and Fred Shaw, Carpinteria

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Morgan-Braitsch, and his siblings Werner Braitsch, Johanna Russell, Rosemarie Widmann and Edelgard Geiger. Special thanks to his caregiver Alyssa Prendergast and VNA Hospice for your support and compassion. There will be a small graveside memorial service Friday, August 28th at 11:00am at Oak Hill Cemetery in Ballard. Loper Funeral Chapel, Directors

Roland Braitsch of Solvang, CA passed away at home with his wife by his side on August 16, 2020. He was 87 years old. Roland was born on July 20, 1933 in Bad Sulza, and grew up in Rudolstadt, Germany. In 1953 he emigrated to Canada, and subsequently in 1958 to Los Angeles, California. He obtained a degree in business administration and marketing, and worked for Brunswick Corporation and its various subsidiaries for many years. He became Vice President of International Operations and was in charge of establishing corporate subsidiaries in Crawley, UK, and Frankfurt, Germany. During this time, he also worked for Mallinckrodt, a company with headquarters in St. Louis, MO. After returning to the US in 1983, he joined Advanced Technology Laboratories in Bellevue, WA as Vice President International. In 1989, he decided to purchase a MAACO Franchise in Everett, WA and built a very successful business that he sold in 1999, after deciding he needed a bit more sunshine than the Northwest had to offer, and moved to Solvang, CA. He purchased another franchise, Padgett Business Services, which he owned and operated until 2011, when he fully retired. Roland loved the recreational opportunities the Northwest had to offer, especially boating and fishing for salmon and crab. He took the family on many boat trips to the San Juan Islands and British Columbia. His favorite destination was Desolation Sound. In Solvang he enjoyed helping small businesses with their administrative needs, and taking care of his beautiful rose garden. Roland is survived by his wife of 44 years, Hermien Braitsch, daughters Lisa Davila and Stephanie (Brett) Castle and son Roland Braitsch Jr., as well as four grandchildren: Mikayla and Kaleb Davila, Oliver Braitsch and Margot Castle. He is also survived by his sister Erika Huennemeier and various nieces and nephews in Germany and the US. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Rosetta Joan

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Maria “Reyna” Alvarez was granted her angel wings on Aug 13th, 20. Her final days were spent surrounded by Family, Friends, and lots of love. She was born on January 6th 1930, In Eloy, AZ. She then resided in Santa Barbara, CA before re-locating to Fresno. Maria was born into a large family, she was one of 9 children to Carlos & Antonia Alvarez. She is preceded in death by: her parents, 6 siblings, Her sons: Tony, Jesus, Bobby, Beto and grandson Mikey. She is survived by her sisters: Eva and Armida, Her sons: Eddie, Joe, Raymond and daughters Rosie, Susie, Dawn, and Erika Her grandkids: Loryann, Christina, Marissa, Luciano, Ray, Daniel, Nico, Eddie, Analese, Arcelia, Carlos, Tony, Beto Jr., Ruben, Bj, Vincent, Reyna, Sophia, Angelene, Joshua, Jakob, Nathan, Anthony, Gabriel, Destiny, And many great grandchildren. We will truly miss the fresh delicious tortillas and frijoles that she would often make, and great conversation and wisdom our special lady had. “Mama/Nana echaremos de menos tu risa, tu sonrisa, tu humor, tu afecto, tu amor incondicional, ¡Te queremos! Ahora puedes descansar tranquilamente con tu familia en el cielo” In lieu of flowers, Please reach out to Susie (559)4129388 for any contributions you would like to make. If you would like to attend, Please join us on Aug 28th from 12-2PM Calvary Cemetery 199 Hope Ave. Santa Barbara, Ca 93110 Please note masks must be worn.

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ost law enforcement officers go their entire careers without ever firing their gun in the line of duty. In fact, according to a recent national survey of nearly 8,000 cops across 54 cities and counties, only 27 percent said they have ever used their service weapon on the job. Yet in just 15 years of working for the Santa Barbara County Sheriff ’s Office, Deputy Jeremy Rogers has been involved in three shootings, all of them fatal. The first resulted in a wrongfuldeath lawsuit. The second prompted allegations of excessive force. The third remains under investigation. Rogers, it seems, has a knack for putting himself in the middle of the action. In 2017, he helped evacuate hundreds of people trapped at Camp Whittier by a fast-moving wildfire, which earned him an award for bravery. But earlier in his career, he also inadvertently caused a head-on collision during a wrong-way DUI pursuit that killed two people, maimed another, and led to a negligence claim that cost Santa Barbara taxpayers $4.8 million. Rogers remains on active duty with the Sheriff ’s Office, and it is unknown if he has ever been disciplined for any of the aforementioned incidents. The department won’t say. The Sheriff ’s Office would also not disclose what specific assignments and posts Rogers has held, where he is currently stationed, or if any other public complaints have been lodged against him. “Your questions are outside of the scope of what I can release,” said Sheriff ’s Office spokesperson Raquel Zick. Rogers did not respond to direct requests for comment. The information in this article was obtained primarily through a California Public Records Act request filed by the Inde-

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continues to serve the people of Santa Barbara County honorably and courageously,” he said in a prepared statement. “His duty to protect the community has placed him in harm’s way on numerous occasions. The three shootings he has been involved in, while tragic, were all precipitated by the actions of criminal suspects. All three shootings were meticulously investigated. Two of them have been deemed to be within Sheriff ’s Office policy, and a Shooting Review Panel will convene later this month to review the last shooting. Each shooting was also independently reviewed and found to be justifiable under the law by the District Attorney.” Rogers, 40, was born in Oklahoma and went to college in Texas, where he worked as a jail guard for three years. He then spent two years as a correctional officer at the federal prison complex in Lompoc before joining the Sheriff ’s Office. During his training, superiors noted he had difficulty following directions and managing his impulses. In an interview with detectives following his second shooting, Rogers briefly talked about his motivation for becoming a peace officer. “My cousin was killed by a wrongway drunk driver,” he said. “That had an effect on why I chose this profession.”

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pendent in June, following the death of George Floyd and amid renewed scrutiny over how and when law enforcement officers use physical force against civilians. Whether Rogers is ultimately a sinner or a saint is a matter of debate. Policing is stressful, challenging, and traumatic work, and his deeds may indeed be justifiable. What deserves equal consideration, however, is that such lethal behavior by Rogers and others is in fact trained, protected, and vigorously defended by American law enforcement culture. Santa Barbara sheriff ’s deputies, like many of their counterparts across the country, are given a wide latitude when deciding in the heat of the moment to use lethal force. They must “reasonably believe,” the department’s policy manual says, that they or others are facing an “imminent threat” that would result in serious injury or death. The local law enforcement bodies that scrutinize shootings — the Sheriff’s Office Shooting Review Panel and the District Attorney’s Office — use equally broad discretion in deciding what was “reasonable” at the time and how “imminent” the threat truly was. Sheriff Bill Brown stands by Rogers and his record. “Deputy Jeremy Rogers UNSTEADY: Donald George, recently disabled by brain surgery, was standing at his walker and holding a gun when he was shot.

SHOOTING #1 Donald George had recently undergone surgery to remove a brain tumor when he was shot and killed by Rogers and two other deputies on March 6, 2008. The procedure, which didn’t go well, left the 64-year-old retired engineer and Vietnam veteran highly compromised and severely depressed. He had difficulty speaking, could barely hear, and used a four-wheeled walker to get around. At 7:44 a.m. that morning, George’s wife of 40 years, Carol, frantically called 9-1-1 because he’d retrieved the loaded handgun he kept in his truck and was threatening to commit suicide. “I don’t want to live like this,” he told her after a restless night of little sleep, according to the Sheriff ’s Office final report. “I’m going to be a vegetable.” But the wrongful-death lawsuit that Carol filed in federal court paints a very different picture of events than the Sheriff ’s narrative. It states that when Donald saw how distressed Carol was, it softened his resolve. “This is a beautiful day,” Donald told her as he guided both of them to the backyard of their stately home off San Antonio Creek Road. “Let’s just sit and have a nice day.”

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Deputies Rogers, Jarrett Morris, and Joseph Schmidt, all of whom had been with the department for less than three years at that time, soon arrived armed with AR-15 rifles. Carol went to meet them at the front door, but the deputies blew right past her. “They did not ask her any questions,” the lawsuit says. “They did not interview her. They did not assess the situation. They did not evaluate the physical layout of the property. They did not wait for properly trained deputies or for their supervisors to arrive at the scene.” Instead, Rogers and his partners fanned out over the property. As they took their positions, Carol begged them not to scare Donald. Rogers was supposed to watch the front of the house, but he left his post, walked along a side path to the backyard, and suddenly confronted Donald, who was standing at his walker on a small bedroom patio. He was holding a small silver pistol. The deputies ordered Donald to drop the gun. He refused, saying something like “No you won’t,” and then pointed it at them, the deputies told investigators. They fired 11 rounds, and Donald fell. The bullets struck his chest, thigh, and forearm and shattered his right femur. Rogers then jumped onto the patio, “stood over [Donald], and fired a round, point blank, through his face.” Rogers told investigators he did so because Donald appeared to “manipulate” the gun and lift his head to look at him. Carol’s attorneys argued Donald was likely convulsing from the trauma and glancing around in shock and panic. Rogers described Donald’s eyes as “very large, like he was in a hurry.” Just before the gunfire erupted, Carol said she’d heard her husband, who wasn’t wearing his hearing aids that day, loudly call her name. The following afternoon, Sheriff Brown told reporters the deputies had acted appropriately. They were forced to make a split-second decision in a life-or-death moment, he said. The District Attorney’s Office deemed the killing a justifiable homicide, citing George’s alleged decision to

threaten deputies with a loaded pistol and calling it a clear- Office protocol. Rogers had also not been trained on how cut example of “suicide by cop.” to safely manage an oncoming wrong-way driver. County attorneys fought tooth and nail for the next five According to court records, Rogers entered the Glen years to quash Carol’s lawsuit. They argued Donald died Annie/Storke Road on-ramp and, seemingly confused because of his own “negligence and misconduct.” Federal about how to proceed, slowed to a crawl as he merged judges, however, ruled the civil matter should be allowed onto the highway. He failed to signal or put on his overto proceed to trial because of significant discrepancies in head lights and siren to indicate there was an emergency. the deputies’ statements to investigators, including which Eighteen-year-old Marcos Arredondo was driving south of them spotted Donald first, whom exactly he pointed the along the 101 with his two teenage sisters and a family friend. gun at, which deputy fired first, and so on. None of the deputies’ audio-video recorders were turned on at the time. Deputy Jeremy Rogers continues to serve the The judges also noted that Donald was shot even though he had not committed people of Santa Barbara County honorably a crime; he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee; the domestic disturbance and courageously. His duty to protect the had apparently ended by the time deputies arrived; and he was entitled by the community has placed him in harm’s way Second Amendment to possess a loaded firearm on his property. on numerous occasions. The case went all the way to the U.S. — Sheriff Bill Brown Supreme Court, which denied a petition by the county to have it dismissed on immunity grounds. A trial date was scheduled for 2015 in They were on their way home from a wedding in Lompoc. Los Angeles. But before opening statements could begin, His mother and father were traveling in another car a short Carol accepted a $650,000 settlement from the county distance ahead. that released the deputies and the government from any Arredondo had to quickly change lanes to avoid hitting Rogers, the records show, which put him directly in the official wrongdoing. Carol, a retired schoolteacher, might have been able path of the oncoming suspect. Arredondo and the family to secure a larger payout if the litigation had continued, friend, 58-year-old Macrina Ocampo, were killed in the but that wasn’t her priority, those with knowledge of the ensuing crash. His parents saw the whole thing in their case have said. She cared more about improving training rearview mirror, while his sisters Yessika and Karina in the for sheriff ’s employees who encounter disabled and men- backseat suffered severe head trauma and spinal damage. tally ill people in high-stress situations. No departmental Yessika still uses a wheelchair today. Arredondo’s surviving family filed a negligence lawsuit reforms, however, were stipulated in the final agreement. against Rogers and the Sheriff ’s Office, alleging his “breach of protocol” and “reckless behavior” caused the collision. “By exceeding Department jurisdiction, traveling at a danA year and a half after the death gerously low rate of speed, merging into Plaintiffs’ lane of Donald George, in the early- without signaling, and compelling them to change their morning hours of November course of travel, Rogers created a hazard to Plaintiffs that 8, 2009, Rogers was on duty in did not exist before,” the claim says. Goleta when he overheard a radio The county, which represents the Sheriff ’s Office and callout of a wrong-way driver individual deputies in such liability cases, faced up to $15 on Highway 101. The California million in potential damages from the lawsuit. It opted to Highway Patrol has jurisdiction settle with the Arredondo family for $4.8 million with no over such incidents, but Rog- admittance of guilt. The family’s attorneys said they were ers decided to respond anyway, happy with the outcome, explaining that Yessika and Karina in apparent violation of Sheriff ’s desperately needed the funds for their long-term medical care. Sheriff Brown takes issue with the suggestion that Rogers carries any responsibility for the deaths and injuries RIPPLE EFFECT: Marcos that occurred that night. “The Independent’s assertion Arredondo’s parents witnessed his death from that Deputy Rogers ‘caused a collision during a vehicle their own car, and his sister pursuit that led to a lawsuit’ is erroneous,” he continued Yessika was paralyzed in the in his prepared statement on Rogers, which he requested crash. be printed in full. “There was no vehicle pursuit. Deputy Rogers responded to the report of a vehicle traveling the wrong way on a freeway. That vehicle ultimately crashed head-on into another car. The collision was caused by the highly intoxicated driver of the wrong-way vehicle, whose reckless actions took the lives of two innocent people and resulted in life-altering injuries to another person. This heartbreaking incident was also thoroughly investigated, and it was determined that Deputy Rogers’s actions did not violate department policy. The reason a lawsuit was filed against the county and the Sheriff ’s Office was because the county had deep pockets, while the suspect in the case had no financial assets. The county settled the case as a business decision in order to end litigation, but it did so without admitting any guilt. That’s because the guilt belongs to the suspect in the case, Richard Rodriguez, who pled guilty to

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Rogers’s dash-cam clearly captured the shooting, though the Sheriff’s Office initially told the Independent the shooting had occurred outside of the camera’s view. Only after being pressed by It was July 2, 2012, when a Los Olivos woman caught Matthew the Independent did the departBerg burglarizing her home. He’d stolen watches and jewelry, ment provide the video. That including her deceased husband’s wedding ring, before lead- copy, however, blurs out Berg for ing authorities on a winding high-speed chase along Highway the entirety of the incident and 101 and side streets, at times on the wrong side of the road. ends shortly after Rogers stops firing. The Sheriff ’s Office has Rogers again sprang into action. By the time Rogers caught up to Berg, Berg had shaken the not explained why the video was other pursuing deputies and CHP officers and stopped on the edited. (Recently released dashsouth side of the Santa Ynez River Bridge. He was standing, cam videos that the department shirtless and shoeless, next to the open trunk of his turquoise provided to the Independent of Saturn and peering over the edge. It looked as if he were about other law enforcement shootto toss his loot into the riverbed below. ings, including those of Michael As Rogers approached, Berg turned his head, and the two Ledesma and Bryan Carreño, locked eyes, according to Rogers’s statement to investigators. were not edited.) Berg ran back to his car, which was facing Rogers. Rogers In 2012, Berg’s sister, Debcame to a quick stop, jumped out and drew his gun, and yelled bie Quisenberry, watched an at Berg to surrender. Rogers failed to put his cruiser in park, unaltered version of the footage obtained by her attorneys and it started rolling toward Berg. when she was considering filing an excessive-force lawsuit against Rogers. In a letter previously published by the Independent, Quisenberry claimed Berg’s arms were raised when he was shot. Quisenberry also wrote how she was struck by the “complete lack of regard for human life” displayed by Rogers and his colleagues as Berg’s head lolled back and forth and he bled out in his —Debbie Quisenberry, sister of Matthew Berg seat. “The officers were clearly happy with Rogers’s Rogers’s training should have told him to either box in performance,” she said. “They are seen slapping Rogers on Berg between his cruiser and the railing or stop farther back, the back for a job well done, and Rogers is seen strutting with take cover behind his car, and wait for backup — not exit his pride over his kill.” None of them, she said, made any effort rolling vehicle in the middle of the road. to save her brother’s life. “That day, Matt had committed a crime,” Quisenberry It appears from Rogers’s dash-cam video that Berg then attempted to steer around the deputy’s driverless car on the said, “but he did not deserve to die.” Quisenberry ultimately did not file a lawsuit because she narrow two-lane bridge, but Rogers claimed in his interview with detectives that Berg was headed right for him. “He would couldn’t afford the legal fees. But she said she remains haunted have run me over and possibly killed me,” he said. “I believe that a “trigger-happy” deputy continues to patrol Santa Barthat’s what he was trying to do.” Berg, 47 years old and from bara with impunity. “Rogers still carries a gun and is still out Santa Maria, had a long rap sheet of arrests and jail stints, there ‘Protecting and Serving,’” she said. though never for any violent crimes. As in the case of Donald George, the Sheriff ’s Office Rogers also told investigators that as Berg came closer, he determined Rogers had used a reasonable amount of force seemed to reach for a weapon. Berg was in fact not armed. to protect himself and others against what he perceived to Rogers opened fire, putting eight quick rounds through the be an imminent threat. Authorities noted that Berg had put Saturn’s windshield and hood and hitting Berg in the face, many motorists at serious risk during his high-speed chase shoulders, and chest. that at times exceeded 100 mph. In her final report, District Attorney Joyce Dudley quoted from the majority opinion delivered by the U.S. Supreme Court in a precedent-setting excessive-force case from 1989. “We must never allow the theoretical, sanitized world of our imagination to replace the dangerous and com-

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plex world that policemen face everyday,” the justices wrote in Graham v. Connor. “What constitutes ‘reasonable’ action may seem quite different to someone facing a possible assailant than to someone analyzing the question at leisure.”

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The October 15, 2019, shooting death of Cameron Ely by four deputies, including Rogers, remains an open case. As a result, little information is publically available. Sheriff ’s officials have only divulged that Cameron — the 30-year-old son of Tarzan actor Ron Ely — stabbed his mother to death at the family’s Hope Ranch estate and then called 9-1-1 to try to blame the murder on his father. “The caller was out of breath, unintelligible, and crying,” a 9-1-1 dispatcher said in a radio communication to nearby units. When the deputies arrived, they found Ron inside unharmed and Cameron outdoors. “The suspect told deputies that he had a gun, advanced towards the deputies, and motioned with his hands as if he were drawing a weapon,” the Sheriff ’s Office said in a media statement at the time. “In response, four deputies fired a total of 24 rounds from their service weapons, fatally wounding the suspect. When deputies were able to safely approach Cameron using a ballistic shield, they found that he had feigned being armed and did not have a weapon.” Two months later, a member of Santa Barbara’s law enforcement community leaked an audio recording of the encounter to news organizations. The clip begins with the deputies — Sergeant Desiree Thome, Deputy Phillip Farley, Deputy John Gruttadaurio, and Rogers — first confronting Cameron. “Hey!” Rogers yells. “We got somebody over here!” “Keep your hands up, okay?” another deputy gently says to Cameron. “Keep your hands up.” There is no audible response from Cameron and no clear indication when he told the deputies he was armed. “You got gloves?” one deputy asks another. Cameron was flecked with blood. “We need somebody to glove up … [radio cross-talk]. Standby.” A couple beats of silence pass before a sudden cacophony of gunfire. “Fuck!” Rogers yells right after. Then, a few moments later, he yells again: “He’s still moving! There’s a gun under him!” The lone female-sounding voice, which likely belongs to Sergeant Desiree Thome, cuts in. “One person give him instructions,” she says calmly. Rogers shouts at Cameron to move his right hand out from under his body. No response. The order is repeated. Again, no response. The recording ends. It’s also not clear at what point in the encounter Cameron had “advanced” on the deputies. Cameron Ely attended Harvard University, HEAD-TO-HEAD: When Rogers where he played football and graduated with exited his cruiser and drew his gun, a psychology degree in 2012. He worked as a he failed to put the car in park, and it started rolling toward Berg as security guard for two years before his death. Berg attempted to flee. n

That day, Matt had committed a crime, but he did not deserve to die.

UNHEARD: Sheriff’s officials said Cameron Ely told deputies he had a gun then advanced on them. But it’s not clear from the audio recording of the incident when, or if, either of those things actually occurred.

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his intestines. bara County law officer to be associated All three deputies told investigators Borwith five deaths over the last decade. degaray was driving directly toward CaldeBut he is not the only sworn member of the ron when he shot. Dash-cam footage showed Sheriff ’s Office to face allegations of miscon- that wasn’t true. “The deputies colluded and duct in the same time period, to cost taxpay- conspired to write police reports containing ers dearly in civil litigation, yet seemingly to false and misleading statements in order to avoid any professional consequences. cast their actions in a more favorable light,” As part of its records request, the Inde- the lawsuit says. Bordegaray sued and won pendent asked for information on the largest $800,000. civil settlements against the Sheriff ’s Office His attorneys also claimed that after the since 2010. The George and Arredondo cases were among them. A third major lawsuit came to a close just last year, when the county shelled out $950,000 to a 29-year-old homeless man named Chandler French. According to court records, French was traveling along Highway 101 on June 1, 2018, when Deputy Anthony Muneton attempted to pull him over for driving erratically. French led Muneton on a short chase before crashing into the median and stopping. Soon after French got out of his car, his attorneys said, Muneton picked him up and slammed him to the ground, breaking his back. Muneton reportedly told French to “stop resisting” as he did so. “Muneton’s voice was monotone and flat,” the claim states, “which PAID IN PRISON: Habitual gun and drug offender indicated the comments were Jeremy Bordegaray received his $800,000 excessive-force for show and simply pretext settlement while behind bars. for the use of excessive force.” French’s attorneys said Muneton then dragged French behind a deputies pulled Bordegaray from the car, nearby off-ramp, out of view of his dash- they left him “unconscious and bleeding cam, and pummeled him with punches on the pavement for an extended period of and kicks. Muneton had graduated from time” before calling an ambulance. When his training academy only a year before the they did finally contact paramedics, they incident. Sheriff ’s officials would not com- intentionally reported the incident as a trafment on the case or say whether Muneton fic accident, the lawsuit states. A Shooting Review Panel convened by was reprimanded in any way. The fourth big payout came from the the Sheriff ’s Office found the deputies acted shooting of Jeremy Bordegaray on October “within department policy and procedure.” 6, 2013. Bordegaray, a serial criminal from Bordegaray was a desperate, dangerous Cayucos, had broken into a Carpinteria area felon armed with a moving vehicle, it said. beach house. Sergeant Daniel Calderon, Calderon had every right to shoot. The DisDeputy Wesley Johnson, and Deputy Sean trict Attorney’s Office agreed, determining Hampton handcuffed him and locked him Calderon was reasonably scared for his and in the back seat of one of their cars. They others’ safety and therefore legally allowed to found a loaded gun in his backpack as well use lethal force. as baggies of methamphetamine in his truck. Bordegaray was ultimately sentenced While the deputies were searching the to five years in prison after pleading guilty house for more evidence, Bordegaray some- to gun and drug charges. He received his how slipped the cuffs under his legs, broke payout three years into his term. He has through the cruiser’s plexiglass partition, since been released. and wiggled his way into the driver’s seat. As Sheriff ’s officials would again not speak he threw the car in gear to make his escape, about the case or disclose if any disciplinCalderon opened fire and hit Bordegaray in ary action was taken against the deputies. the arm and lower abdomen, obliterating n

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smaller ones each year, split evenly between weddings, corporate gigs, and nonprofit fundraisers. “This was going to be our best year. We were gonna crack a financial milestone. But that’s how the cookie crumbles, as my parents would say.” Borowitz quickly ramped up the existing “Invisible Chef” program—in which people can order finished, safely chilled family meals to be warmed up at home—and pumped out about 500 dinners for Passover and Easter. That got them through the initial pandemic lockdown months. “When it was obvious that this was going to go on for an extended period of time, it seemed like the best approach would be to try to use the assets we have,” said Borowitz, who took over a seaside space on Santa Claus Lane in 1999 and developed it into a beautiful banquet facility that hosted about 100 events per year. He also had a full liquor license, a restaurant license, a kitchen, chefs, and plenty of otherwise outof-work employees who could be servers. Becoming a restaurant shouldn’t be too hard, they figured. Said Borowitz, “We made the decision, and three weeks later, we were open.” Rincon Beach Bar was unveiled on June 26 and continues to attract new fans every week, offering an outdoor dining room with plenty of space between tables, an app that makes contactless ordering incredibly intuitive and easy, and a great menu overseen by Chef Ron True, who ran Arlington Tavern on West Victoria Street a few years ago. “We’ve got kinks, no doubt,” said True when I visited in mid-July. “But we’re figuring it out.” Rather than develop a brand-new menu, Rincon Beach Bar simply enlisted its most popular catering items, including cedar-plank salmon, beer-braised short ribs, and a long list of small plates for sharing, such as bao buns, street tacos, and pulled pork sliders. They’re pouring fresh-made cocktails, too, and may one day start delivering to the beach. “It’s been going great,” said Borowitz. “People have really responded to the contactless ordering. They’ve responded to the fun food. They’ve responded to the cocktails. People are going crazy over the fresh-made products.”

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most “rock,” The Beatles’ album Revolver reflected both a security in their sound and a hearty leap into the future. “In my career right now, this is my Revolver,” explains Nick Bodden, chef and owner of Revolver, a new pizza shop on the Westside. After fine-tuning his culinary prowess through work in Michelin-starred kitchens from New York City to Santa Barbara, Bodden is now making the jump into opening a restaurant of his own. “If I could, I would call this a psychedelic pizza shop,” he said with a laugh. Showcasing an assortment of records ready to spin from his Marantz/Pro-Ject turntable setup and pizza so good it tastes as if you’re entering another dimension, I’d grant him rights to the “psychedelic” title. Bodden is composing this delectable collage of flavors with Nick Gebhardt, a former colleague from Sama Sama BY REBECCA HORRIGAN Kitchen; and Ron Allen, from Beefhearts Pop-Up & Catering. The three worked together during Bodden’s event-driven pop-up dining experience called The Coterie Club, and they all share a mutual love of music and cooking. “They wouldn’t do anything artistically unless the four of them agreed on it,” said Bodden of The Beatles. “That’s kind of how it is here.” You can taste the harmony in their food and feel it in their casual yet thoughtful atmosphere, which features vintage furniture and hanging lights on their charming patio, old-school bar stools inside, and the collection of records just beyond the register. “It’s all about the experience,” said Bodden, who took over the longtime home of Paesano’s Pizzeria on San Andres Street. “Obviously, the first thing is the food, but very close behind it is the aesthetic, the sound, and the vibe of the place.” He’s excited to build community there. “I can’t wait until people can bring in their own records and just hang out and drink and eat and listen to music,” explained Bodden, the longing in his voice palpable. “It’s really hard for me to only be the pickup and delivery guy right now, because we can offer so much more.” For now, their menu offers an incredible pizza experience unlike any I’ve tasted in Santa Barbara. Bodden’s roots are in Long Island, where he grew up

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Carpinteria icon Fosters Freeze’s final day was August 23, with long lines and many customers getting their final dipped cones, burgers, shakes, and that retro feel from days gone by. Fosters Freeze also closed on the Mesa in March 2010, which leaves Ventura as the nearest outlet now. The Carpinteria property will soon be the home of farm-to-table restaurant The Good Plow. DOS MAS TAQUERIAS: Crazy Jim’s Tacos y Más is

now open at 505 State Street, the former home of Ana’s Taco Bar and Mad Dogs. A little farther south, Yona Redz Queso Tacos recently opened at 330 State Street, the former home of Casa Blanca, which apparently has closed after nearly nine years in business. Your meal includes soup that you dip your meat and cheese taco into (tacos au jus?). Yona Redz is only open on Sundays, noon-5 p.m., and accepts just cash and Venmo. WOE IS WETZEL’S: Longtime Paseo Nuevo tenant

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State Street last November, has closed for good. “We are changing concepts and will be back in another form,” said a message from management. “This was a difficult decision but we felt it had to be done. Thank you for all the support during these difficult times.” If you have an outstanding gift card, you should send an email to info@ onusdonuts.com and they’ll take care of it. ENTERPRISE EXPLANATION: Enterprise Fish Com-

pany closed for good in June, but co-founder Michael Bank sent a message to us all, explaining the last 43 years. “In the mid 1970s, Randy LaFerr and I graduated from UCSB and wanted to open a restaurant that grilled fresh seafood over charcoal with seating around an exhibition kitchen. We found the right site at 225 State Street, in a property built around 1925 with an iconic brick facade and smoke stack, previously home to a commercial laundry. We decided to call the restaurant Enterprise Fish Company to honor the legacy of that business. “When we started the restaurant in August of 1977, we and the staff we hired were mostly in our twenties, so there was a tremendous sense of camaraderie. The energy of the staff was felt by the customers, and the Enterprise quickly became one of the top places to eat in Santa Barbara…. “What makes one business successful while others struggle? For us, it was the people who worked there. They made the restaurant what it was, showing great spirit and pride until we had to close this year with the pandemic. “I took my last walk around the Enterprise a few days ago, and I thought about the last 43 years. The building is so full of memories. I would like to thank all of the thousands of people who have worked there over the decades. I am tremendously grateful to the customers, both locals and tourists, who came in night after night for our lobster special, happy hour, birthday dinners, or just a regular meal with loved ones. We love being part of the Santa Barbara community because it is a community that is grounded, giving, generous, and supportive. I knew that I wanted to find a way to stay in this beautiful city and eventually raise a family here. Thanks to the Enterprise Fish Company, I was able to do that! I will be forever grateful.”

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Rincon Beach Bar cont’d from p. 22 More than 75 percent of the employees are working again, albeit not quite as much as during high season and perhaps in different roles. “It’s a real morale booster,” said Borowitz, who said the new model is nearly self-sustaining. “It’s a different rhythm completely; there’s no doubt about that. But it is a positive rhythm.” The Borowitzes have seen a lot of fluctuations over their years. Originally from Pacoima, Borowitz arrived here in 1981 to attend UCSB, where he spent five years but never graduated. “I finally realized that I didn’t really belong in college,” he said. “Some of us weren’t made for following the rules and turning in assignments.” Instead, he worked in restaurants, learning the proper points of hospitality under Norbert Schulz and Brigitte Guehr, Santa Barbara’s original fine-dining power partners. “I owe a lot to them,” said Borowitz. From 1984 to 1988, he ran Brandon’s Restaurant in the old Piccadilly Square, getting the boot when the Paseo Nuevo mall was built. After another restaurant called The Bear’s Picnic, the Borowitzes began catering for Pacifica Graduate Institute in 1989 and did so for 25 years. They launched the catering company in 1996, first from a kitchen on Linden Avenue in Carpinteria, where Esau’s is now, and then moving to their cur-

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or a couple of starry nights late in 2018, a certain poetic and multipurpose logic settled into the space known as Lost Chord Guitars in Solvang. Movie icon and late-blooming musical artist of note Jeff Bridges was in the house with his band, the Abiders, for a pair of sold-out shows in the daze between Christmas and New Year’s Eve. The events served as both a holiday treat and a christening for the store/venue bravely launched by Chris Pelonis and his wife, Kim Pelonis. With Lost Chord, Pelonis added music store owner to a hyphenated list of talents and projects: Best known as a go-to studio and speaker designer, he is also a guitarist-songwriter, producer, martial arts practitioner, photographer, and winemaker. Significantly, he is also the music director of the Abiders, boasting a stellar roster of area players (bassist Randy Tico, drummer Tom Lackner, pedal steel guitarist and miscellaneous ax man Bill Flores), which was born out of the buzz over Bridges’s musical coming-out after his Oscargarnering role as a musician in the film Crazy Heart. An album on Blue Note, national tours, and TV spots on Colbert and elsewhere followed. Connective links abounded during those Solvang starry nights. Apart from the musical goods there, in-house wine flowed (crafted by Frank Ostini of Hitching Post fame), and a selec-

tion of Bridges’s fine art photography hung on the walls — “Art and photography are part of my very being,” said Chris Pelonis in a recent interview with the Independent, “so I wanted Lost Chord to also be a gallery.” The shop is also equipped as a recording studio and sells high-quality acoustic guitars. It’s all part and parcel of this unique, malleable space’s evolving agenda. It was an ambitious enterprise from the outset. Fast-forward to the past four months of quarantining and shifting business regulations, and 2020 has been, well, a major cluster chord for Pelonis’s operation. Life since March has been “a real struggle,” he admitted. “[The shop] was getting quite popular before the lockdown. Always had great music, and people were coming around. Had some name acts booked as well as newer acts. All the shows were home runs. Then COVID-19 hit. Lockdown. I barely left my ranch [he lives with his family in Hollister Ranch]. I spent a lot of time reinventing my musical ideas. I started doing a bunch of Facebook Live improvisations. Lo-fi, sloppy, and usually after quite a bit of Lost Chord Wine. Some good stuff came out of it.” One of the positive aspects of life in the midst of the lockdown was the recent release of a longlabored-over project, a special Jeff Bridges model acoustic gui-

tar, created by master craftsman Tom Bedell and his acclaimed, boutique Breedlove Guitar brand. The custom instrument, made from myrtle wood and bearing Bridges’s axiomatic motto “All in This Together” on the fretboard, is a model sold through Lost Chord, with partial proceeds going to the Amazon Conservation Team, “so we are helping out the lungs of the Earth,” said Pelonis. The Bridges guitar has been warmly embraced — and selling out — thanks to customers who might admire the down-to-earth legend but also appreciate the fine points of fine guitars. “I think the solo acoustic guitar has taken on a profound place in our world,” said Pelonis. “Although times are tough, investing in something that will last and bring some peace of mind and joy is sensible. There is something magical and healing about the guitar.” For the moment, Lost Chord is an online enterprise and is “open by appointment for guitar showings, wine, and merch sales,” said Pelonis. He, like music fans everywhere, eagerly awaits the rebirth of music in the live forum. “As soon as live music is once again allowed, it will be happening pretty much whenever we are open,” he promised. —Josef Woodard

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CANCER

(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): Aries author Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

(June 21-July 22): It’s sometimes tempting for you to seek

TAURUS

LEO

(Apr. 20-May 20): “There are all kinds of love in the

(July 23-Aug. 22): “To be successful, the first thing to do

writes, “Some stuff can be fixed, some stuff can’t be. Deciding which is which is part of maturing.” I offer this meditation as your assignment in the coming weeks, Aries. You are in a phase when you’ll be wise to make various corrections and adjustments. But you should keep in mind that you don’t have unlimited time and energy to do so. And that’s okay because some glitches can’t be repaired and others aren’t fully worthy of your passionate intensity. You really should choose to focus on the few specific acts of mending and healing that will serve you best in the long run.

world, but never the same love twice,” wrote author F. Scott Fitzgerald. This is true even between the same two people in an intimate alliance with each other. The love that you and your spouse or friend or close relative or collaborator exchanged a month ago isn’t the same as it is now. It can’t be identical, because then it wouldn’t be vibrant, robust love, which needs to ceaselessly transform in order to be vibrant and robust. This is always true, of course, but will be an especially potent meditation for you during the next four weeks.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): As a professional writer, novelist

Thomas Wolfe trained himself to have keen perceptions that enabled him to penetrate below surface appearances. And yet he wrote, “I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.” In other words, it was hard even for him, a highly trained observer, to get a deep and accurate read of what was going on. It required a long time and many attempts—and rarely occurred for him on the first look. Even if you’re not a writer, Gemini, I recommend his approach for you in the coming weeks. You will attune yourself to current cosmic rhythms—and thus be more likely to receive their full help and blessings—if you deepen and refine the way you use your senses.

stability and safety by remaining just the way you are. When life pushes you to jump in and enjoy its wild ride, you may imagine it’s wise to refrain—to retreat to your sanctuary and cultivate the strength that comes from being staunch and steadfast and solid. Sometimes that approach does indeed work for you. I’m not implying it’s wrong or bad. But in the coming weeks, I think your strategy should be different. The advice I’ll offer you comes from Cancerian author and aviator Anne Morrow Lindbergh: “Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.”

is fall in love with your work,” says author Sister Mary Lauretta. Have you been making progress in accomplishing that goal, Leo? According to my astrological analysis, fate has been offering and will continue to offer you the chance to either find work that you’ll love better than the work you’re doing, or else discover how to feel more love and excitement for your existing work. Why not intensify your efforts to cooperate with fate?

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theme for you right now, since you’re entering a phase when your original ideas will be crucial to your growth. So listen up, Libra: If you want to stimulate your creativity to the max, adopt the fresh-eyed attitude of a rookie or a novice. Forget what you think you know about everything. Make yourself as innocently curious and eager as possible. Your imaginative insights and innovations will flow in abundance to the degree that you free yourself from the obligation to be serious and sober and professional. And keep in mind that Stevens said you need courage to act this way.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “As idiotic as optimism can sometimes

seem, it has a weird habit of paying off,” writes author Michael Lewis. According to my analysis, the coming weeks will provide you with ample evidence that proves his hypothesis—on one condition, that is: You will have to cultivate and express a thoughtful kind of optimism. Is that possible? Do you have the audacity to maintain intelligent buoyancy and discerning positivity, even in the face of those who might try to gaslight you into feeling stupid for being buoyant and positive? I think you do.

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Self-love is also remembering to

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things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation.” Her statement is especially apropos for you right now. The experiences you’re yearning for will indeed change you significantly if you get them—even though those changes will be different from what your conscious mind thinks they’ll be. But don’t worry. Your higher self—the eternal part of you that knows just what you need—is fully aware of the beneficial transformations that will come your way when you get what you yearn for.

let others love you. Come out of hiding.” Poet Irisa Yardenah wrote that advice, and now I’m passing it on to you, just in time for a phase when you will benefit from it most. I mean, it’s always good counsel for you Virgos to heed. But it will be especially crucial in the coming weeks, when you’ll have extra potential to bloom in response to love. And one of the best ways to ensure this extra potential is fulfilled is to make yourself thoroughly available to be appreciated, understood, and cared for.

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran poet Wallace Stevens wrote

that if you want to be original, you must “have the courage to be an amateur.” I agree! And that’s an important

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Author Rebecca Solnit writes, “The

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): At age 22, future pioneer of science

Isaac Newton got his college degree just as the Great

Plague peaked in 1665. As a safety precaution, he proceeded to quarantine himself for many months. During that time of being sealed away, he made spectacular discoveries about optics, gravity, and calculus—in dramatic contrast to his years as a student, when his work had been relatively undistinguished. I’m not predicting that your experience of the 2020 pandemic will prove to be as fruitful as those of your fellow Capricorn, Isaac Newton. But of all the signs in the zodiac, I do think your output could be most Newton-like. And the coming weeks will be a good time for you to redouble your efforts to generate redemption amid the chaos.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The rapper named Viper has released

over 1,000 albums. In 2014 alone, he created 347. His most popular work is You’ll Cowards Don’t Even Smoke Crack, which has received over three million views on YouTube. According to The Chicago Reader, one of Viper’s most appealing features is his “blatant disregard for grammar.” I should also mention that he regards himself as the second Christ and uses the nickname “Black Jesus.” So what does any of this have to do with you? Well, I’m recommending that you be as prolific, in your own field, as he is in his. I’m also inviting you to experiment with having a fun-loving disregard for grammar and other noncritical rules. And I would love to see you temporarily adopt some of his over-the-top braggadocio.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): “If you don’t ask the right question,

every answer seems wrong,” says singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco. I suspect you may have experienced a version of that predicament in recent weeks, Pisces. That’s the bad news. The good news is that I expect you will finally formulate the right questions very soon. They will most likely be quite different from the wrong and irrelevant questions you’ve been posing. In fact, the best way to find the revelatory questions will be to renounce and dismiss all the questions you have been asking up until now.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: D E C T O N PA R T N E R S a t 3 8 2 0 State Street Suite B Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Partners Personnel‑Management Services LLC (same address) conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Scott Houston Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 3, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0001873. Published: Aug 13, 20, 27. Sep 2 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: THIRTEEN 9INETY ONE at 810 Stanford Rd Santa Maria, CA 93454; Luis A Morales (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Luis Morales Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 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: 2020‑0001894. Published: Aug 13, 20, 27. Sep 2 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE BANKERS GROUP at 826 W. A n a p a m u S t r e e t , U n i t A Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Daniel J Oriskovich (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Daniel J. Oriskovich Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 20, 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: 2020‑0001769. Published: Aug 13, 20, 27. Sep 2 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 10‑40 E N T E R TA I N M E N T a t 3 3 1 Parejo Circle Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Greg K. Sorenson (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Gregory K. Sorenson Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 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: 2020‑0001895. Published: Aug 13, 20, 27. Sep 2 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: J O N AT H A N SMITH PA I N T I N G a t 9 2 0 E H a l e y S t . Santa Barbara, CA 93103; The Environment Makers, Inc (same address) conducted by a Corporation Signed: Jonathan Smith Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 3, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0001924. Published: Aug 13, 20, 27. Sep 2 2020.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g person(s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA CONCRETE CUTTING at 3969 Foothill Road Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Thomas C. Harden J r. Tr u s t e e ( s a m e a d d re s s ) J e n n i f e r J G r g i c h , Tr u s t e e (same address) conducted by a Tr u s t S i g n e d : T h o m a s C . Harden Jr. Trustee Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 31, 2020. This statement expires f i v e y e a r s f ro m t h e d a t e i t w a s f i l e d i n t h e O ff i c e o f the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0001899. Published: Aug 13, 20, 27. Sep 2 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SPENCERS SANTA BARBARA MATTRESS, SANTA BARBARA MATTRESS A N D F U R N I T U R E , S A N TA BARBARA TEMPURPEDIC SHOWROOM at 909 De La Vina Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Spencer L Simcik 3250 E r i n l e a Av e N e w b u r y P a r k , C A 9 1 3 2 0 ; K a re n L S i m c i k ( s a m e a d d re s s ) conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Spencer Simcik Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 23, 2020. This s t a t e m e n t e x p i re s f i v e y e a r s from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0001814. Published: Aug 13, 20, 27. Sep 2 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g person(s) is/are doing business as: CLP TAX & ACCOUNTING S A N TA B A R B A R A a t 4 2 2 N M i l p a s S t re e t U n i t 7 S a n t a Barbara, CA 93103; Jose Luis & Claudia M Paz Multipurpose Business Inc 6737 Hazeltine Av e Va n N u y s , C A 9 1 4 0 5 conducted by a Corporation Signed: Claudia M Paz Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 11, 2020. This statement expires f i v e y e a r s f ro m t h e d a t e i t w a s f i l e d i n t h e O ff i c e o f the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002011. Published: Aug 20, 27. Sep 3, 10 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g person(s) is/are doing business as: KNIFE & BARREL at 2446 A l a m o P i n t a d o Av e S u i t e B Los Olivos, CA 93441; De Tro p 2 1 6 C S a n t a B a r b a r a S t re e t S a n t a B a r b a r a , C A 93101 conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Willow Wayne Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 10, 2020. This s t a t e m e n t e x p i re s f i v e y e a r s from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002006. Published: Aug 20, 27. Sep 2, 10 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) is/are d o i n g b u s i n e s s a s : TAY L O R BUSINESS SERVICES at 923 W. M i c h e l t o re n a S a n t a B a r b a r a , CA 93101; Nan Taylor (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Nan Taylor Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 7, 2020. This statement e x p i re s f i v e y e a r s f ro m t h e date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0001987. Published: Aug 20, 27. Sep 2, 10 2020.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HOPTIONS TAPROOM AND EATERY, LOMPOC PRODUCTION FACILITY at 234 North H Street Lompoc, CA 93436; Solvang Brewing Company 1547 Mission Drive Solvang, CA 93463 conducted by a Corporation Signed: Stephen Renfrow Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 7, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0001986. Published: Aug 20, 27. Sep 3, 10 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BROADWAY WINE CLUB at 92 2nd Ste E Buellton, CA 93427; Broadway Wine Club LLC 4298 E Mercer Way Mercer Island, WA 98040‑3824 conducted by a Corporation Signed: Nathan Brown Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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: 2020‑0002021. Published: Aug 20, 27. Sep 3, 10 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GINO’S SICILIAN EXPRESS at 12 West Figueroa St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Loren Manser 414 West Figueroa J Santa Barbara, CA 93101 conducted by a Individual Signed: Loren Manser Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 13, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002042. Published: Aug 20, 27. Sep 3, 10 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: M KITCHEN at 634 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; M. Kitchen, LLC 201 Santa Cruz Blvd Santa Barbara, CA 93109 conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Chris Chiarappa Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 6, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0001974. Published: Aug 20, 27. Sep 3, 10 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA HOT ROD LIMO at 47 Sunshine Ln Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Hot Rod Paradise LLC (same address) conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Virginie Firon, Manager Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 29, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0001870. Published: Aug 20, 27. Sep 3, 10 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: REPUBLIC ELEVATOR COMPANY at 77 South Fairview Ave. Goleta, CA 93117; Schindler Elevator Corporation 20 Whippany Road Morristown, NJ 07960 conducted by a Corporation Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 5, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0001953. Published: Aug 20, 27. Sep 3, 10 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g person(s) is/are doing business a s : D I RT S H E E T D ATA a t 3 9 0 P r i n c e t o n Av e G o l e t a , CA 93111; Jeremy B Guida (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Jeremy B Guida Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 13, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002037. Published: Aug 20, 27. Sep 3, 10 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g person(s) is/are doing business as: ALPHA SURFACE PROTECTION at 924 W Apricot Ave Unit 102 Lompoc, CA 9 3 4 3 6 ; J a d u s L e g a c y, L L C (same address) conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Ricardo Jaimes Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 7, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0001989. Published: Aug 20, 27. Sep 3, 10 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g person(s) is/are doing business as: AVANIA INN OF SANTA BARBARA at 128 Castillo St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Epic Hospitality, LLC (same address) conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Pradeep Patel Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 20, 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: 2020‑0001767. Published: Aug 27. Sep 3, 10, 17 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g person(s) is/are doing business as: MIRAMAR RANCH at 115 T iburon Bay Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Jeremy A Crail (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Jeremy Crail Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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: 2020‑0002115. Published: Aug 27. Sep 3, 10, 17 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g person(s) is/are doing business as: ABC AIRSPORTS at 900 Airport Road Santa Ynez, CA 93460; Yves P Bajulaz (same a d d re s s ) conducted by a Individual Signed: Yves Bajulaz Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 13, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002049. Published: Aug 27. Sep 3, 10, 17 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g person(s) is/are doing business as: PARAMOUNT PLASTERING at 33 Valdivia Dr Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Jesus Rodriguez ( s a m e a d d re s s ) conducted by a Individual Signed: Jesus Rodriguez Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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: 2020‑0002034. Published: Aug 27. Sep 3, 10, 17 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g person(s) is/are doing business as: VENUS IN FURS BAR + BOTTLE SHOP at 18 E Cota Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Wine Cocktails LLC (same a d d re s s ) conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Misty Orman Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 10, 2020. This statement expires f i v e y e a r s f ro m t h e d a t e i t w a s f i l e d i n t h e O ff i c e o f the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002010. Published: Aug 27. Sep 3, 10, 17 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g person(s) is/are doing business as: CITY BY THE SEA MERCH, SB CITYBYTHESEA.MERCH, S B M E R C H a t 3 1 7 A rd e n Road Apt A Santa Barbara, C A 9 3 1 0 5 ; A l e x i s D F l o re s (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Alexis Flores Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 19, 2020. This s t a t e m e n t e x p i re s f i v e y e a r s from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002098. Published: Aug 27. Sep 3, 10, 17 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g person(s) is/are doing business a s : 7 1 PA I N T E D W I N E S , HUMBLE WINE CO at 2717 Aviation Way, Ste 101 Santa Maria, CA 93455; Miller F a m i l y W i n e C o m p a n y, L L C (same address) conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Stephen T. B. Miller Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 24, 2020. This statement e x p i re s f i v e y e a r s f ro m t h e date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0001830. Published: Aug 27. Sep 3, 10, 17 2020.

NAME CHANGE 2ND AMENDED IN THE M AT T E R OF THE A P P L I C AT I O N OF M A RY ESTELA CARDOZO ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 20CV01242 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara S u p e r i o r c o u r t p ro p o s i n g a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: MARY ESTELA CARDOZO T O : K I A U T L I M A RY E S T E L A CARDOSO THE COURT ORDERS that a l l p e r s o n s i n t e re s t e d i n t h i s m a t t e r s h a l l a p p e a r b e f o re t h i s court at the hearing indicated b e l o w t o s h o w c a u s e , i f a n y, 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 t h a t i n c l u d e s t h e re a s o n s f o r the objection at least two c o u r t d a y s b e f o re t h e m a t t e r i s s c h e d u l e d t o b e h e a rd a n d 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 18, 2020 10:00am, Dept 4, Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 9 3 1 0 1 A c o p y o f t h i s o rd e r to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed i n t h i s c o u n t y, a t l e a s t o n c e each week for four successive

weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Jul 24, 2020 by Donna D. Geck, Judge of the Superior Court. Published: Aug 6, 13, 20, 27 2020. I N T H E M AT T E R O F T H E A P P L I C AT I O N O F S T E P H A N I E L A U R E N B AT T L E O R D E R T O SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 20CV02181 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara S u p e r i o r c o u r t p ro p o s i n g a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: STEPHANIE LAUREN B AT T L E TO: STEPHANIE LAUREN B AT T L E B R O C E THE COURT ORDERS that a l l p e r s o n s i n t e re s t e d i n t h i s m a t t e r s h a l l a p p e a r b e f o re t h i s court at the hearing indicated b e l o w t o s h o w c a u s e , i f a n y, 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 t h a t i n c l u d e s t h e re a s o n s f o r the objection at least two c o u r t d a y s b e f o re t h e m a t t e r i s s c h e d u l e d t o b e h e a rd a n d 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 13, 2020 8:30am, SM‑4, Superior Court of California 312‑C E a s t C o o k S t re e t S a n t a M a r i a , CA 93456 A copy of this o rd e r t o S h o w C a u s e s h a l l b e published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed i n t h i s c o u n t y, a t l e a s t o n c e each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Jul 1, 2020 by Jed Beebe, Judge of the Superior Court. Published: Aug 20, 27. Sep 3, 10 2020. I N T H E M AT T E R O F T H E A P P L I C AT I O N O F E D G A R OMAR GOMEZ ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 20CV02547 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara S u p e r i o r c o u r t p ro p o s i n g a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: EGAR OMAR GOMEZ TO: AMADEUS LUX DIVINUS THE COURT ORDERS that a l l p e r s o n s i n t e re s t e d i n t h i s m a t t e r s h a l l a p p e a r b e f o re t h i s court at the hearing indicated b e l o w t o s h o w c a u s e , i f a n y, 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 t h a t i n c l u d e s t h e re a s o n s f o r the objection at least two c o u r t d a y s b e f o re t h e m a t t e r i s s c h e d u l e d t o b e h e a rd a n d 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 28, 2020 10:00am, Dept 5, Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 9 3 1 0 1 A c o p y o f t h i s o rd e r to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed i n t h i s c o u n t y, a t l e a s t o n c e each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Aug 12, 2020 by Colleen K. Sterne, Judge of the Superior Court. Published: Aug 20, 27. Sep 3, 10 2020.

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LEGALS PUBLIC NOTICES AMENDED PLAINTIFF’S Claim and ORDER to Go to Small Claims Court Notice to Defendant: Janett E m e r y. Yo u a re b e i n g s u e d b y P l a i n t i ff : K e i t h B ro w n : • Yo u a n d t h e p l a i n t i ff m u s t g o to court on the trial date listed b e l o w. I f y o u d o n o t g o t o court, you may lose the case. • If you lose, the court can o rd e r t h a t y o u r w a g e s , m o n e y, o r p ro p e r t y b e t a k e n t o p a y this claim. • Bring witnesses, re c e i p t s , a n d a n y e v i d e n c e you need to prove your c a s e . Av i s o a l D e m a n d a d o : • Usted y el Demandante t i e n e n q u e p re s e n t a r s e e n l a carte en la fecha del juicio indicada a continuation. Si n o s e p re s e n t a , p u e d e p e rd e r e l c a s o . S i p i e rd e e l c a s o la corte podria ordenar que le quiten de su sueldo, d i n e ro u o t ro s b i e n e s p a r a p a g a r e s t e re c l a m o . • L l e v e t e s t i g o s , re c i b o s y c u a l q u i e r otra prueba que necesite para p ro b a r s u c a s o . Case Number: 20CV00725 C a s e N a m e : B ro w n v. E m e r y Order to Go to Court on 10/5/2020 at 9:00am in Dept. 3 , b y v i d e o c o n f e re n c e . Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara 1100 A n a c a p a S t re e t S a n t a B a r b a r a , CA 93101 For information on how to participate in this court hearing and how to obtain a c o p y o f t h e P l a i n t i f f ’s Amended Claim and Order to Go to Small Claims Court, contact the Santa Barbara Superior Court at (805)882‑4520, option #7. Published Aug 13, 20, 27. Sep3 2020. Published Aug 13, 20, 27. Sep3 2020. AMENDED PLAINTIFF’S Claim and ORDER to Go to Small Claims Court Notice to Defendant: James J M i r a n d a . Yo u a re b e i n g s u e d b y P l a i n t i ff : G a b r i e l R i c h a r d : • Yo u a n d t h e p l a i n t i ff m u s t g o t o c o u r t o n t h e t r i a l d a t e l i s t e d b e l o w. If you do not go to court, you may lose the case. • If you lose, the court can o rd e r t h a t y o u r w a g e s , m o n e y, o r p ro p e r t y b e t a k e n t o p a y this claim. • Bring witnesses, re c e i p t s , a n d a n y e v i d e n c e you need to prove your c a s e . Av i s o a l D e m a n d a d o : • Usted y el Demandante t i e n e n q u e p re s e n t a r s e e n l a carte en la fecha del juicio indicada a continuation. Si n o s e p re s e n t a , p u e d e p e rd e r e l c a s o . S i p i e rd e e l c a s o la corte podria ordenar que le quiten de su sueldo, d i n e ro u o t ro s b i e n e s p a r a p a g a r e s t e re c l a m o . • L l e v e t e s t i g o s , re c i b o s y c u a l q u i e r otra prueba que necesite para p ro b a r s u c a s o . Case Number: 19CV05755 C a s e N a m e : R i c h a r d v. Miranda O rd e r t o G o t o Court on 9/21/2020 at 9:00am in Dept. 3, by video c o n f e re n c e . Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara 1100 A n a c a p a S t re e t S a n t a B a r b a r a , CA 93101 For information on how to participate in this court hearing and how to obtain a c o p y o f t h e P l a i n t i f f ’s A m e n d e d C l a i m a n d O rd e r t o Go to Small Claims Court, contact the Santa Barbara Superior Court at (805) 708‑3436, option #7. Published Aug 20, 27. Sep3, 10 2020.

SUMMONS SUMMONS ( C I TA C I O N JUDICIAL) N O T I C E T O D E F E N D A N T: ( AV I S O A L D E M A N D A D O ) : SETH BRUCKER and ALL persons unknown claiming

a n y i n e re s t i n t h e S u b j e c t P ro p e r t y a s D o e s 1 t h ro u g h 10 YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO E S TA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): DARIO L. PINI, TRUSTEE OF THE DARIO L . P I N I T R U S T D AT E D M A R C H 2, 2015 NOTICE! Yo u h a v e b e e n s u e d . T h e court may decide against you without your being heard u n l e s s y o u re s p o n d w i t h i n 3 0 days. Read the information b e l o w. Yo u h a v e 3 0 C A L E N D A R D AY S after this Summons and legal p a p e r s a re s e r v e d o n y o u t o f i l e a w r i t t e n re s p o n s e a t t h i s court and have a copy served o n t h e p l a i n t i ff . A letter or phone call will n o t p ro t e c t y o u . Yo u r w r i t t e n re s p o n s e m u s t b e i n p ro p e r legal form if you want the c o u r t t o h e a r y o u r c a s e . T h e re may be a court form that you c a n u s e f o r y o u r re s p o n s e . Yo u can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center ( w w w. courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), y o u r c o u n t y l a w l i b r a r y, o r t h e c o u r t h o u s e n e a re s t y o u . I f you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. I f y o u d o n o t f i l e y o u r re s p o n s e on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, m o n e y a n d p ro p e r t y m a y b e taken without further warning f ro m t h e c o u r t . There are other legal re q u i re m e n t s . Yo u m a y w a n t to call an attorney right a w a y. I f y o u d o n o t k n o w a n a t t o r n e y, y o u m a y c a l l a n a t t o r n e y re f e r r a l s e r v i c e . I f y o u c a n n o t a ff o rd a n a t t o r n e y, y o u m a y b e e l i g i b l e f o r f re e l e g a l s e r v i c e s f ro m a n o n p ro f i t l e g a l s e r v i c e s p ro g r a m . Yo u can locate these nonprofit g ro u p s a t t h e C a l i f o r n i a L e g a l S e r v i c e s W e b s i t e ( w w w. lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center ( w w w. courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or a r b i t r a t i o n a w a rd o f $ 1 0 , 0 0 0 o r m o re i n a c i v i l c a s e . T h e c o u r t ’s l i e n m u s t b e p a i d b e f o re t h e c o u r t w i l l d i s m i s s the case. AV I S O ! L o h a n d e m a n d a d o . S i n o re s p o n d e d e n t ro d e 3 0 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion. Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO d e s p u é s d e q u e l e e n t re g u e n esta citación y papeles legales p a p a p re s e n t a r u n a re s p u e s t a por escrito en esta corte y h a c e r q u e s e e n t re g u e u n a copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefónica n o l o p ro t e g e n . S u re s p u e s t a por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y m a s i n f o r m a c i ó n e n e l C e n t ro d e Ay u d a d e l a s C o r t e s d e California ( w w w. s u c o r t e . ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas c e rc a . S i n o p u e d e p a g a r l a c u o t a d e p re s e n t a c i ó n , p i d a al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exención de pago de cuotas. S i n o p re s e n t a s u re s p u e s t a a t i e m p o , p u e d e p e rd e r e l caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su s u e l d o , d i n e ro y b i e n e s s i n mas advertencia. H a y o t ro s re q u i s i t o s l e g a l e s . E s re c o m e n d a b l e q u e l l a m e a

un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de re m i s i ó n a a b o g a d o s . S i n o puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con l o s re q u i s i t o s p a r a o b t e n e r servicios legales gratuitos d e u n p ro g r a m a d e s e r v i c i o s l e g a l e s s i n f i n e s d e l u c ro . Puede encontrar estos grupos s i n f i n e s d e l u c ro e n e l s i t i o w e b de California Legal Services, (wwwlawhelpcalifornia.org), e n e l C e n t ro d e Ay u d a d e l a s C o r t e s d e C a l i f o r n i a , ( w w w. sucorte.ca.gov) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AV I S O : P o r l e y, l a c o r t e t i e n e d e re c h o a re c l a m a r l a s cuotasy los costos esentos por imponer un gravamen s o b re c u a l q u i e r re c u p e r a c i o n de $10,000 o mas de valor re c i b i d a m e d i a n t e u n a c u e rd o o una concesión de arbitraje e n u n c a s o d e d e re c h o c i v i l . Tiene que pagar el graveman de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso. C A S E N O : ( N u m e ro d e l C a s o ) B C V‑ 2 0 ‑ 1 0 0 7 0 1 T h e n a m e a n d a d d re s s o f t h e c o u r t i s : ( E l n o m b re y d i re c c i ó n de la corte es): SUPERIOR C O U R T F O R T H E S TAT E o f CALIFORNIA COUNTY of KERN 1 4 1 5 Tr u x t u n Av e B a k e r s f i e l d , C A 9 3 3 0 1 T h e n a m e , a d d re s s , and telephone number of t h e p l a i n t i f f ’s a t t o r n e y, o r p l a i n t i ff w i t h o u t a n a t t o r n e y, i s : ( E l n o m b re , l a d i re c c i ó n y e l n u m e ro d e t e l e f o n o d e l abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): L a w O ff i c e s o f P a u l R . B u r n s , P. C . ; E s q . 1 1 1 4 S t a t e S t . Ste 213 Santa Barbara, CA 9 3 1 0 1 ( 8 0 5 ) 7 0 8 ‑ 7 1 4 4 ; D AT E 3/12/2020 Deputy Clerk; Cindy Rodriguez Published. Aug 6, 13, 20, 27 2020. SUMMONS ( C I TA C I O N J U D I C I A L ) N O T I C E T O D E F E N D A N T: ( AV I S O A L D E M A N D A D O ) : C H RY S I KARTELA,an individual; D o e s 1 t h ro u g h 2 0 , i n c l u s i v e YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO E S TA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): AMERICAN E X P R E S S N AT I O N A L B A N K NOTICE! Yo u h a v e b e e n s u e d . T h e court may decide against you without your being heard u n l e s s y o u re s p o n d w i t h i n 3 0 days. Read the information b e l o w. Yo u h a v e 3 0 C A L E N D A R D AY S after this Summons and legal p a p e r s a re s e r v e d o n y o u t o f i l e a w r i t t e n re s p o n s e a t t h i s court and have a copy served o n t h e p l a i n t i ff . A letter or phone call will n o t p ro t e c t y o u . Yo u r w r i t t e n re s p o n s e m u s t b e i n p ro p e r legal form if you want the c o u r t t o h e a r y o u r c a s e . T h e re may be a court form that you c a n u s e f o r y o u r re s p o n s e . Yo u can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center ( w w w. courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), y o u r c o u n t y l a w l i b r a r y, o r t h e c o u r t h o u s e n e a re s t y o u . I f you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. I f y o u d o n o t f i l e y o u r re s p o n s e on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, m o n e y a n d p ro p e r t y m a y b e taken without further warning f ro m t h e c o u r t . There are other legal re q u i re m e n t s . Yo u m a y w a n t to call an attorney right a w a y. I f y o u d o n o t k n o w a n a t t o r n e y, y o u m a y c a l l a n a t t o r n e y re f e r r a l s e r v i c e . I f y o u c a n n o t a ff o rd a n a t t o r n e y, y o u m a y b e e l i g i b l e f o r f re e l e g a l s e r v i c e s f ro m a n o n p ro f i t l e g a l s e r v i c e s p ro g r a m . Yo u can locate these nonprofit g ro u p s a t t h e C a l i f o r n i a L e g a l

S e r v i c e s W e b s i t e ( w w w. lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center ( w w w. courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or a r b i t r a t i o n a w a rd o f $ 1 0 , 0 0 0 o r m o re i n a c i v i l c a s e . T h e c o u r t ’s l i e n m u s t b e p a i d b e f o re t h e c o u r t w i l l d i s m i s s the case. AV I S O ! L o h a n d e m a n d a d o . S i n o re s p o n d e d e n t ro d e 3 0 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion. Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO d e s p u é s d e q u e l e e n t re g u e n esta citación y papeles legales p a p a p re s e n t a r u n a re s p u e s t a por escrito en esta corte y h a c e r q u e s e e n t re g u e u n a copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefónica n o l o p ro t e g e n . S u re s p u e s t a por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y m a s i n f o r m a c i ó n e n e l C e n t ro d e Ay u d a d e l a s C o r t e s d e California ( w w w. s u c o r t e . ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas c e rc a . S i n o p u e d e p a g a r l a c u o t a d e p re s e n t a c i ó n , p i d a al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exención de pago de cuotas. S i n o p re s e n t a s u re s p u e s t a a t i e m p o , p u e d e p e rd e r e l caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su s u e l d o , d i n e ro y b i e n e s s i n mas advertencia. H a y o t ro s re q u i s i t o s l e g a l e s . E s re c o m e n d a b l e q u e l l a m e a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de re m i s i ó n a a b o g a d o s . S i n o puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con l o s re q u i s i t o s p a r a o b t e n e r servicios legales gratuitos d e u n p ro g r a m a d e s e r v i c i o s l e g a l e s s i n f i n e s d e l u c ro . Puede encontrar estos grupos s i n f i n e s d e l u c ro e n e l s i t i o w e b de California Legal Services, (wwwlawhelpcalifornia.org), e n e l C e n t ro d e Ay u d a d e l a s C o r t e s d e C a l i f o r n i a , ( w w w. sucorte.ca.gov) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AV I S O : P o r l e y, l a c o r t e t i e n e d e re c h o a re c l a m a r l a s cuotasy los costos esentos por imponer un gravamen s o b re c u a l q u i e r re c u p e r a c i o n de $10,000 o mas de valor re c i b i d a m e d i a n t e u n a c u e rd o o una concesión de arbitraje e n u n c a s o d e d e re c h o c i v i l . Tiene que pagar el graveman de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso. C A S E N O : ( N u m e ro d e l C a s o 19CV03951 T h e n a m e a n d a d d re s s o f t h e c o u r t i s : ( E l n o m b re y d i re c c i ó n de la corte es): S A N TA BARBARA COUNTY SUPERIOR C O U R T, 1100 Anacapa S t re e t S t S a n t a B a r b a r a , C A 93121 The name, address, and telephone number of t h e p l a i n t i f f ’s a t t o r n e y, o r p l a i n t i ff w i t h o u t a n a t t o r n e y, i s : ( E l n o m b re , l a d i re c c i ó n y e l n u m e ro d e t e l e f o n o d e l abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): Brian P. McGurk, Esq., SBN:250091 Michael & Associates, PC 555 St. Charles Drive, Suite 204, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (805) 3 7 9 ‑ 8 5 0 5 ; D AT E 7 / 2 9 / 2 0 1 9 Deputy Clerk; Narzralli Baksh Published. Aug 6, 13, 20, 27 2020.

ORDINANCE NO. 20-__ AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLETA, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING VARIOUS AMENDMENTS TO TITLE 17 OF THE GOLETA MUNICIPAL CODE AND REPEALING VARIOUS DEVELOPMENT IMPACT FEE REGULATIONS On September 1, 2020 at Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California, the City Council of the City of Goleta will conduct the second reading and possible adoption of a proposed ordinance that would make revisions to Title 17 of the Goleta Municipal Code. The revisions include “clean-up” amendments to the recently adopted New Zoning Ordinance to address recent changes to state law, remedy issues identified during early implementation, and provide clarity to the regulations adopted. Other revisions include non-substantive amendments to clear up ambiguities and improve formatting. Any interested person may obtain a copy of the proposed ordinance by emailing the City Clerk’s Office, at cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org or by calling City Hall at (805) 961-7505. Deborah Lopez City Clerk Publish:

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