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Taste of the Town

“On Pause”

The 39th Annual Arthritis Foundation’s Taste of the Town, Santa Barbara’s original and premier food and wine tasting event, is on pause this year.

But, we’re still celebrating in spirit and there are some easy ways to join in on the fun while helping your local community and the Arthritis Foundation: 1. Please consider dining in, taking out and supporting locally from Taste of the Town’s 80+ food and beverage partners.

2. Donate to fight the Nation’s #1 Cause of workplace disability and to support children, adults and families suffering from Arthritis and related diseases.

3. Stay tuned for more information on next year’s Taste of the Town. We look forward to celebrating again with you in September 2021, when we will be back bigger and better than ever for our 40th Anniversary.

To learn more, donate or participate:

arthritis.org/tasteofthetownsb The Arthritis Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity.

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This September through January we’re sharing hope, ideas and fun in a series of interactive digital events spanning the globe. This is better than front row seats! $140 All Access Pass includes 15 events Advance tickets start at $10 Buy early, events will sell out.

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Celebrate Santa Barbara’s 21st Annual

Creek Week September 19 - 26 Wednesday, September 23

Coastal Cleanup Month!

Every Saturday in September 9am - 12pm

Watershed Wednesdays: Live Creek Walk

This year Coastal Cleanup Day is becoming Coastal Cleanup Month!

Clean up your neighborhood, favorite park, trail, or beach. Learn more and sign up to participate at exploreecology.org/ccd. Don’t forget to exploreecology.org/ccd collect and submit cleanup data!

Time TBA - Watch on Facebook!

Join the City of SB Creeks Division on Facebook Live for a creek walk and talk about creek and ocean water quality.

Details to come! Like us at Facebook.com/SBCreeks. For more Facebook.com/SBCreeks information contact Liz Smith at LSmith@SantaBarbaraCA.gov.

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Carpinteria Dune & Shoreline Management Public Workshop 5:30pm Online

Join the City of Carpinteria for a virtual public workshop on this exciting new project. To RSVP and receive link to join the meeting, contact Erin Maker at erinm@ci.carpinteria.ca.us or Marie Laule at marie.laule@woodplc.com marie.laule@woodplc.com.

Saturday, September 19 Higgins Spring Weed Day

Monday, September 21 Eco-Film Nights Kiss the Ground Premiere

8:30pm, West Wind Drive-In

Join SB Permaculture Network and Ojai’s Big Picture Ranch filmmakers Josh & Rebecca Tickell.

Admission is $10 per person or $20 per car (cash only, pay at event). Admission kiosk opens at 7:30pm. For more information visit sbpermaculture.org. sbpermaculture.org

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Winners Selected Monday 9/28 Grab your sidewalk chalk and create art at your nearest storm drain. Share a pic on Facebook or Instagram tagged with #sbcreekweek for a chance at fun prizes! Find out how to get free chalk (while supplies last) at Facebook.com/sbcreekweek.

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Thursday, September 24 Don’t Move a Mussel! Virtual Lunch & Learn 12pm on Zoom

Join the SB Zoo to learn about the dangers of aquatic hitchhikers and how you can get involved in invasive species work. Register at sbzoo.org/event. sbzoo.org/event

Mission Canyon Crisis Community Forum 7pm on Zoom

10am, Carpinteria Tar Pits Park

All ages welcome! Wear a mask and maintain social distancing. Help Carpinteria Tar Pits Stewards remove invasive weeds.

Bring gloves and digging tools. Meet at Tar Pits Park sign at south end of Carpinteria State Beach or over railroad tracks at the end of Calle Ocho. Contact Andrea Adams-Morden at (805) 886-4382 for more information.

Storm Drain Chalk Art Contest

Watershed Restoration in SB County: A Progress Report 6:30pm on Zoom

Join SB Urban Creeks Council and South Coast Habitat Restoration’s Mo Gomez for a progress report on watershed restoration efforts. Learn more at sb-urbancreeks.org/events. sb-urbancreeks.org/events

Film Screening Public Trust - The Fight for America’s Public Lands 2 Showings, 7:15pm and 9:15pm, West Wind Drive-In

Join UCSB Arts & Lectures for FREE film screenings. Gates open at 6pm. Arrive early for food trucks and concessions. For more information visit artsandlectures.ucsb.edu.

Creek Week Cross Stitch

Let’s Get Crafty!

Share your project with us on Facebook or Instagram tagged with #sbcreekweek! Get the pattern at bit.ly/cwcrossstitch. bit.ly/cwcrossstitch

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Join SB Urban Creeks Council for a panel discussion on public safety and ecological restoration issues associated with SCE’s September 2019 grading of the Tunnel Trail along Mission Creek. Learn more at sb-urbancreeks.org/events. sb-urbancreeks.org/events

North Campus Open Space

Self-Guided Tour Tour UCSB’s North Campus Open Space Restoration (formerly Ocean Meadows Golf Course) at your convenience. View the map on your smart phone with the QR code here, or get the printable map at ccber.ucsb.edu. The site is open dawn until dusk, 6969 Whittier Dr. in Goleta.

Visit sbcreekweek.com or Facebook.com/sbcreekweek for newly added events!

volume 34, # 766, Sept. 17-24, 2020 Editor in Chief Marianne Partridge Publisher Brandi Rivera Executive Editor Nick Welsh Senior Editors Michelle Drown, Tyler Hayden, Matt Kettmann News Reporter Delaney Smith Opinions Editor Jean Yamamura Executive Arts Editor Charles Donelan Arts Writer Josef Woodard Calendar Editor Terry Ortega Sports Editor John Zant Sports Writer Victor Bryant Food Writer George Yatchisin Associate Editor Jackson Friedman Copy Editors Alexandra Mauceri, Tessa Reeg Creative Director Caitlin Fitch Graphic Designers Ricky Barajas, Esperanza Carmona, Ben Greenberg Production Designer Ava Talehakimi Staff Photographer Daniel Dreifuss Web Content Managers Celina Garcia, Saehee Jong Columnists Dennis Allen, Gail Arnold, Sara Caputo, Roger Durling, Betsy J. Green, Jerry Roberts, Starshine Roshell Contributors Camie Barnwell, Rob Brezsny, Melinda Burns, Ben Ciccati, John Dickson, Leslie Dinaberg, Keith Hamm, Rebecca Horrigan, Eric HvolbØll, Tom Jacobs, Shannon Kelley, Kevin McKiernan, Ninette Paloma, Carolina Starin, Ethan Stewart, Brian Tanguay, Tom Tomorrow, T.M. Weedon, Maggie Yates Robert A. Sollen Fellow Brian Osgood Editorial Interns Ian Anzlowar, Sean Cummings, Miranda de Moraes, Melody Pezeshkian, Sophie Spievak, Sheila Tran Director of Advertising Sarah Sinclair Marketing and Promotions Manager Emily Cosentino Advertising Representatives Camille Cimini Fruin, Suzanne Cloutier, Remzi Gokmen, Stefanie McGinnis, Tonea Songer Sales Administrator Graham Brown Accounting Administrator Tobi Feldman Office Manager/Legal Advertising Tanya Spears Guiliacci Distribution Scott Kaufman Columnist Emeritus Barney Brantingham Photography Editor Emeritus Paul Wellman Founding Staff Emeriti Audrey Berman, George Delmerico, Richard Evans, Laszlo Hodosy Honorary Consigliere Gary J. Hill Indy Kids Bella and Max Brown, Elijah Lee Bryant, Henry and John Poett Campbell, Chloë Bee Ciccati, Emilia Imojean Friedman, Madeline Rose and Mason Carrington Kettmann, Olivia Pando-McGinnis, Izzy and Maeve McKinley, Sawyer Tower Stewart, Phoenix Grace White

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Meet Nine Entrepreneurs Who Launched Businesses During COVID-19 Photos by Daniel Dreifuss ON THE COVER: Zach Baum & Olivia Jewell

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Sean Cummings was raised in the great outdoors growing up as a child of Midland School faculty in the Santa Ynez Valley. After a brief time at Stanford, Cummings got his first taste of journalism while attending Whitman College, where he was able to write for Bozeman’s Mountain Journal. Following a job with the Land Trust of Santa Barbara County, Cummings is now bringing a nature-centric mentality to his journalism as an intern at the Independent.

Tell us about growing up at and attending Midland. Growing up somewhere so permeated by the biological world beyond humans left me with a deep sense of love for that world, and I like to think having humanities teachers as parents helped foster my enthusiasm for reading and writing.

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Why is environmental journalism important? Environmental issues are often enshrouded in the languages of formal science and legal bureaucracy, which can be intimidating if not downright inaccessible to a lot of people. The role of the environmental journalist is to bridge that gap — to translate that information into something anyone can understand.

There’s another critical role for environmental journalists, and that’s to give science the voice it deserves. The existence of human-caused climate change, for instance, has become a point of controversy in American culture despite overwhelming and long-standing scientific consensus that it exists and poses a real threat.

Yes, there are two sides of this argument — but giving them both equal attention, when in reality it’s 99 percent agreement and one percent uncertainty (if not less) within the scientific community, only serves to further mislead the American public.

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DETROIT RIOTS, BLACK LIVES MATTER, AND THE COLLISION OF ART AND POLITICS A CONVERSATION WITH ARTIST EDGAR ARCENEAUX Thursday | September 24 | 12 pm In a wide ranging and informal conversation with the audience, artist Edgar Arceneaux shares his thoughts about his art, current and past projects, and how we construct history and memory in a racially divided country.

Los Angeles-based artist Edgar Arceneaux constructs drawings, installations, video, and film works as complex arrangements between implausible relationships. Constantly working in new modes, Arceneaux directed his first play at the Performa Biannual in NYC in November 2015 and was awarded the Malcolm McLaren, Best of Show Award. Solo exhibitions have been presented at the Vera List Center at MIT in Cambridge, MA; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; The Studio Museum in Harlem; and Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, Switzerland.

Edgar Arceneaux, A Four Dimensional City Casts a Two Thousand Mile Shadow. Three Mounds and Three Wedges (detail), 2014. Acrylic, chalk pastel, vinyl, and enamel on paper. SBMA, Museum purchase with funds provided by the General Art Acquisitions Fund.

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by TYLER HAYDEN, NICK WELSH, DELANEY SMITH, and JEAN YAMAMURA, with BRIAN OSGOOD and INDEPENDENT STAFF

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CORONAVIRUS

County’s COVID Rates Hit Purple-Tier Plateau

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Seven-Day Average Just Shy of State’s Red-Tier Requirements

by Delaney Smith ollowing weeks of consistent declines in COVID-19 hospitalizations and case rates, Santa Barbara County has hit a plateau — holding business reopenings hostage for now.

Since the state replaced the old metric system with the new, color-coded one, the county has remained in the highest purple tier with the most restrictions. Santa Barbara County’s seven-day average is a little more than eight new cases per 100,000 residents, but the state requires that that number drop to seven PURPLE PLATEAU: The above graph shows the trajectory of Santa Barbara County’s COVID case rates through the or fewer in order for the county to move state’s new color-coded system. Over the last few weeks, the trajectory has plateaued just above the red zone, which into the red tier. would allow for further business reopenings.

“We were trending down dramatically from July 11 until August 22 and ment in recent weeks on behalf of smallA handful of public commenters also have now plateaued just above the red line,” business owners in the county who are spoke out about the disproportionate infec2nd District Supervisor Gregg Hart said at suffering under the state’s current purple- tion rates in people of color and farmworkers in North County. Despite the sharp case the Tuesday hearing. “All the things every- tier restrictions. body was doing to get us from the very high “It’s also about the mental health of the decline in Santa Maria, what was once the peak to just above the red line, if we could owners,” she said. “I don’t want to down- county’s largest hotspot for the virus, farmjust do a little bit more. If you’re invited to play the virus, but 162 [active cases] out of workers in the community are still getting a gathering, say no; wear your mask all the 450,000 — does anybody else see that it infected by the virus at significantly higher time outdoors; and wash your hands regu- seems we need to be opening up our busi- rates.

“If we are ever going to move into the larly. If just a few more people did these a ness? My question today is, what is the date? little more diligently, we could make it into When will we be able to open up indoors? next tier, we need to address more than ever … I just think you need to tell the governor the issue that we have higher rates [of the the red.” virus] among lower-income folks,” said 1st And Hart was correct: Just a difference that these metrics are unattainable.” of a few cases a day could make the difBut the Public Health Department is District Supervisor Das Williams to Public ference between purple and red. Once the confident that the county’s progress is a sign Health Director Van Do-Reynoso. “But you county enters the red zone, certain busi- that the county will be able to move into the have been focused on that all summer, so nesses will be allowed to further reopen. red tier soon. The department has recently what more can we do?”

That includes restaurants, which are cur- started pushing residents to get tested, Do-Reynoso said her department has rently only allowed to provide pickup or regardless of whether or not they’re symp- been health-equity minded since day one outdoor dining but would be allowed to tomatic, to try and reduce the metric to of the pandemic and that Santa Barbara was offer limited indoor seating, as well, were seven positive cases per 100,000. There are one of the first counties in the state to stand the county to move into the red tier. three state-sponsored testing sites that are up a Latinx and Indigenous immigrant task “I want to emphasize that this isn’t just free and available to the public in Goleta, force to work with community partners to about money, about the thousands of dol- Santa Maria, and Buellton. Residents can address prevention efforts, testing efforts, lars in revenue lost by some business that also get tested by their health-care provider. and treatment efforts in a “culturally and What was not discussed at the hear- linguistically appropriate manner.” was barely surviving before COVID,” said Terri Strickland, owner of the Hitching ing was the COVID-19 outbreak at the She also said that the county joined the Post steakhouse in Casmalia. Strickland has County Jail, which could make or break Housing for the Harvest program, which made several appearances at public com- the county’s chances at moving into the provides temporary hotel rooms for Calired tier. More than 80 fornia farmworkers who have been exposed inmates have tested to or tested positive for COVID-19 but are positive inside the jail unable to adequately quarantine at home. since the pandemic Last week, the county also issued a health began — there were order requiring temperature screening, 39 new cases between self-evaluation, and reporting of COVIDAugust 28 and Sep- 19 cases at all homeless shelters and H-2A tember 4 alone. The housing in the county.

“So we have done quite a bit, but we’re not Public Defender’s Office has taken the resting,” Do-Reynoso said. “We continue to sheriff to court over explore with our partners what more innothe outbreak, alleg- vation we can do to decrease the rates.” ing the conditions are As of Tuesday’s hearing, there have been ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM: Not discussed at Tuesday’s hearing was the unsafe for inmates.

8,718 positive cases in the county since the COVID-19 outbreak at the County Jail (above), which the Public Defender’s Forty Sheriff ’s Office pandemic hit. Of those, 162 cases are curOffice has taken the sheriff to court over. See independent.com/sheriff-taken employees have also rently active, and 106 people have died as a -to-court. tested positive. n result of the virus.

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A new lawsuit against UC Santa Barbara’s police department alleges sexual assault committed by interim police chief James Brock, according to the student-run Daily Nexus. Brock has been accused by a student of coming up behind her at a dining commons in August 2019, where he “grabbed her buttocks, slid his hand up her back and whispered in her ear,” the lawsuit states. The Sheriff’s Office is investigating the case, and UCSB’s response to the Nexus was that “an employee tripped and fell into another person.” This is the seventh lawsuit against UCPD since 2018, most involving allegations of retaliation by UCPD brass against officers who complained of others’ conduct, including sexual harassment or assault.

CORONAVIRUS Thomas Barrack Jr., Santa Barbara vineyard and Neverland Ranch owner and investment capital mogul, has reportedly been lobbying the Trump administration for COVID-related financial relief, having gotten nearly $2 billion behind on loans he took out to buy what the New York Times described as a “collection” of 160 hotels. Barrack is one of several big-time Trump donors who are now lobbying Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to extend the boundaries of federal COVID relief to include large commercial investment enterprises. Such relief would require congressional approval, and to date, Congress has shown no inclination to oblige.

PUBLIC SAFETY The Lito Fire, which burned 24 acres south of Lompoc on 9/7, was caused by recreational target shooting, the County Fire Department investigation has concluded. The fire started on private land in Miguelito Canyon, and a full vegetation response quickly began by engine, dozer, and hand crews from county, Lompoc, and Los Padres fire departments, as well as aircraft. The county’s fire departments have fought all the summer’s wildland fires aggressively, corralling them rapidly to contain fire spread; Lito was out by the following day.

ENVIRONMENT The county’s focus regarding traffic and new developments will shift from maximizing driver comfort — such as wider roads and reduced traffic — to minimizing vehicle miles traveled, a new evaluation strategy under the California Environmental Quality Act. The change brings the county’s Environmental Threshold and Guidelines Manual into compliance with Senate Bill 743, which is intended to promote California’s goals of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions and increasing urban density. The board approved the amendment 4-1, with 4th District Supervisor Peter Adam abstaining. n

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an issue since the promenade opened in the wake of the pandemic.

In the meantime, the city’s Historic Landmarks Commission (HLC) is trying to put the kibosh on plans to open downtown Santa Barbara—and State Street—to a new electric-bike share program that the Trek bicycle company hopes to launch this fall.

The City Council approved a contract with Trek several months prior to the COVID onslaught that called for as many as 350 e-bike docks on State Street and another 200 along the waterfront. A majority of the HLC members made it clear at a meeting last week they didn’t think the e-bike plan still made sense in the wake of the pandemic and the promenade. Trek representatives and city traffic planners argued the HLC’s sole decision-making authority was over the color of the electric bicycle docks. The HLC members were not persuaded, and the dispute could well be appealed to the City —Nick Welsh Council.

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PROP. PROJECTIONS: Above are county consultant Blue Sky’s early estimates of the increase in property taxes to Santa Barbara County governments if Prop. 15 passes in November.

Supes Endorse Prop. 15 Hotly Debated Initiative Would Increase Property Tax for Large Businesses

by Jean Yamamura itting in the Santa Maria hearing room, Supervisor Peter Adam predicted the outcome of the resolution to support Proposition 15, and he was right. Voting along the south and north county fault lines, the county supervisors split 3-2 on Tuesday afternoon to support the state initiative, which requires commercial and industrial properties to pay property tax based on market-rate value assessments.

Strong arguments on both sides pitted stressed businesses against underfunded schools and governments—all under the economic strain of coronavirus.

Property taxes in California are currently based on the price paid to purchase a property, and increases are limited to 2 percent per year or the rate of inflation, whichever is smaller. These rules come out of Proposition 13, which passed in 1978, famously to keep “grandma in her home.”

That was the recollection of Michel Lynch, a speaker at the debate who remembered the campaign to pass Prop. 13 and shield seniors on fixed incomes from California’s ever-rising property values.

Importantly, residential renters, homeowners, and small business and agricultural lands are excluded from Prop. 15’s increases, Darcel Elliott emphasized, a staffer for Supervisor Das Williams, who brought the resolution to the board.

A small business was defined as having fewer than 50 employees, Elliott explained, and those worth less than $3 million were exempt from Prop. 15, as was personal property like equipment and fixtures.

Larger companies had a personal property exemption of a half-million dollars.

If Prop. 15 were to pass in November, said Elliott, it could raise $6.5 billion-$11.5 billion statewide, to be split 60/40 between local governments and schools, including community colleges. In Santa Barbara County, that could amount to over $100 million among the county and its various cities, special districts, and schools. The $30 million the county’s general fund could receive, Supervisor Gregg Hart observed,

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would in itself solve the problems of maintaining infrastructure like roads and buildings.

How a market-rate tax would be imposed would be the work of a task force, Elliott explained, formed by the proposition. Public meetings would include county assessors and businesses to determine how many could get reassessed per year and how long they’d have to pay the new assessment.

The increases were to start in the 2022-2023 fiscal year for most businesses and in 20252026 for properties at which half or more of the tenants are small businesses.

Supporting the initiative is the League of Women Voters, whose Pam Flynt Tambo told the supervisors the organization had long been seeking to fix the problems of Prop. 13. In the 1970s, homeowners and corporations paid property tax at about a 50/50 ratio to the state. “Now, corporations and industry pay 10 percent compared to 90 percent paid by residential sources,” said Flynt Tambo, because homes change hands more frequently than corporate or industrial lands. “Large industry and corporations benefit from the old low property tax, which effectively discourages new industry from coming into the state,” she said.

Regarding public education and business, Flynt Tambo raised the serious concerns with the ability of schools to educate workers for today’s corporate, industrial, and social climate. “Counselors, nurses, and librarians are needed to help children with issues around COVID-19, immigration, and poverty,” she said, as schools’ roles have grown but staffing has shrunk. California had the largest classroom sizes in the nation, she stated, and had once been 7th in the nation in education excellence; it now found itself ranked “37th or 41st depending on what reports you read.”

What advocates did not understand, other speakers said, was the negative effect Prop. 15 would exert on business, especially when they’ll be trying to recover from the pandemic-induced economic downturn.

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a Casa de la Raza — a longtime cultural and political hub for the city’s Latino community — is poised to be designated as a community landmark. La Casa’s building at the corner of East Montecito Street and Calle César Chávez was initially a building supply warehouse built in 1917. It’s architecturally distinguished by the threestory octagonal tower with a belvedere and a weathervane on the top. But it’s its 50-year cultural history as a Latino cultural center that marks its importance to the city.

Started in 1970 as the Chicano Positive Movement, it morphed into La Casa de la Raza three years later. Though in recent years La Casa fell on protracted economic troubles that recently led to the building’s foreclosure, in the 1970s, it was the place where César Chávez of the United Farm Workers would stop and where El Teatro Campesino and later Teatro de Esperanza would perform.

Inside, muralist Manuel Unzueta used the walls of La Casa as his urban canvas.

By the 1980s, La Casa offered space for classes, after-school programs, work training, counseling, dances, concerts, weddings, quinceañeras, and other community events at extremely affordable prices. Since mid-March, La Casa has opened its doors, providing food, clothing, and supplies to families in need and space for organizations focused on racial and social justice.

Tomas Castelo, one of the original founders of La Casa and the man who assumed ownership of it after the foreclosure, said he enthusiastically supports the historical landmark designation. The landmark question goes before the city’s Historic Landmarks Commission this week. Such a designation would not preclude Castelo from changing the interior of the property but would prevent him from altering the exterior in any way. Whatever decision Historic Landmarks makes, it will be up to the City Council to make the final —Nick Welsh call.

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Roy Reed of the County Taxpayers Association noted the increased tax payment would ultimately come from customers’ pockets as costs were passed on from landowners to tenants to consumers. In addition, the proposition funneled away funds that could be used for wages, job creation, and other opportunities, he said.

Coming out of retirement to speak, Mike Brown, who was formerly the county’s chief executive and lives in the Santa Ynez Valley, saw a serious effect for his local gas station, grocery store, and medical clinic. “They’re worth more than $3 million and have more than 50 employees,” he pointed out.

Supervisor Williams argued for the equity the initiative was trying to balance. “If one person who owns a $5 million property pays vastly more than another who owns a $5 million property” — because of the difference in time when the properties were

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purchased — “that is a preference, not the free market…. It’s wrong to give preference to someone who has owned commercial property because their parents or grandparents owned it,” he said, and it put new entrepreneurs at a disadvantage.

“The next person on that list, I can promise you,” Supervisor Steve Lavagnino warned, “is the individual in a home who is not paying their fair share. The argument will be made, why should you pay a higher property tax when your neighbor is not paying their fair share?” Per-pupil spending was up 23 percent in the last five years, Lavagnino said, “and $72 billion was spent per year on education in California. Throwing additional money at the problem does not work.”

“I’ve been hammered by this debate for the entirety of my political life,” Williams responded. “It would simply be too disruptive for society to change it,” he said of Prop.

13’s homeowner protections. “It’s scare tactics to bring that up,” he added, stating, “If that were brought up for 13, I would oppose n it.”

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BETTER DAYS: Zach Gill performs on State Street in 2017.

Should the Show Go On? Performing Artists Pressure Leaders to Allow a Little Live Entertainment

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veritable who’s who of Santa Barbara’s performing arts community are rallying their respective troupes and putting pressure on government officials to allow small, socially distanced outdoor shows to resume amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Led by Realtor and guitarist Steve Epstein, the group—including the heads of the Granada and Lobero theaters, as well as the directors of Opera Santa Barbara and Symphony Santa Barbara—is asking city leaders to lay out a set of guidelines for modest, busker-style live music along State Street and in other public spaces.

“We all feel we can do this in a safe and sane manner,” said Epstein, citing the ever-mounting financial pressure on artists as the shutdown drags on. “We need to support this important aspect of Santa Barbara’s character. Otherwise, we’re going to lose a lot of great local talent.” So far, Epstein said, he hasn’t gotten much help from city staff, who say the pandemic must completely subside before performances can resume. “Cool,” Epstein said, “then everyone will have moved to L.A.” Meanwhile, Opera Santa Barbara leader Kostis Protopapas wonders why many other California communities have resumed outdoor shows. He cited well-publicized events in Ventura, Santa Monica, and the San Francisco Bay Area. “I’m convinced that the ‘no live performance’ order is unique to Santa Barbara, and I want to know why,” he said. When Protopapas presses the city for answers, he said, he’s referred to county health officials, and when he tries talking to them, he’s told they’re only following state rules that forbid public gatherings.

But what about church services or restaurant patios? Protopapas asked.

Aren’t those public gatherings? “Our local authorities need to take an official position about what is in their bailiwick, and what isn’t,” he said. “Because right now everyone is just passing the hot potato.”

Jackie Ruiz, a spokesperson for the county’s Public Health Department, said the state has yet to issue any guidance around the resumption of outdoor performances. “The county is allowed to be more restrictive than the state in its permissions, but not less restrictive,” she said. Ruiz also wondered if the shows taking place around the state are actually legal under their counties’ respective health orders.

Mayor Cathy Murillo said she and city staff are following the lead of Public Health, which has stated that any live production in a public space could congregate people too closely and lead to transmission of the virus. Murillo referenced a previous proposal by Protopapas to allow a pair of opera singers to perform from a secondstory State Street balcony. “It sounded good,” she said, “but the risk was too great.

“I know these rules are irritating to people, that everyone wants things to go back to normal,” Murillo said. “We are so looking forward to programming State Street, with children’s activities, deejays and dance floors, concerts, portable basketball hoops, and, yes, street musicians. Those things are just not possible right now.”

Epstein insists it is possible with the right safety measures. His group suggested limiting acts to predetermined locations, keeping amplified music to certain levels, and issuing warnings and fines to performers who break the rules.

Protopapas recently put forth a separate idea for an opera production at SBCC’s La Playa Stadium. The stadium seats 7,000, he said, but he’d only sell 500 tickets to allow for widely spaced seating. Security would be present, and all health protocols would be strictly followed, he promised. “I’m not asking our officials to go to any extremes,” he said. “Just give us some breathing room, because what we’ve got right now is an industry that is completely shut down while so many others are allowed to operate. I need to go to bat for my people.” n

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CROWDED FIELD: From left, school board incumbents Laura Capps, Wendy Sims-Moten, and Jackie Reid are being challenged by Virginia Alvarez, Brian Campbell, Monie de Wit, and Elrawd MacLearn.

Who Will Sit on the Santa Barbara Unified School Board?

Three Incumbents Face Unprecedented Competition from New Challengers

by Delaney Smith he three incumbents running to keep their seats on the Santa Barbara Unified School Board are facing unprecedented competition from five emerging challengers. The race is a stark contrast to 2016, when all three incumbents walked onto the board unopposed.

It’s an eclectic bunch. Incumbents Laura Capps, Wendy Sims-Moten, and Jackie Reid are up against candidates with vastly different political views and criticisms of the district at one of its most turbulent periods in recent history.

Brian Campbell and Elrawd MacLearn are the most conservative-learning candidates — a major difference from the five boardmembers currently occupying the dais. After several high-profile controversies in recent years on issues such as sexual education, ethnic studies courses, and outrage over perceived lack of transparency between the district and parents, these candidates have garnered support from those who felt unheard by the board over those issues.

There is also candidate Monie de Wit, who, despite leaning left and holding views that align closer with those on the dais, has vehemently fought against the district over one issue — literacy. With low literacy and math scores across the district, de Wit has been a community advocate for literacy and students with dyslexia for years before her decision to run.

Candidate Virginia Alvarez is most closely aligned with the current elected board, but she brings with her practical experience other boardmembers don’t have, such as her two decades of experience working in the Montecito Union School District in various roles, including as its chief business official and human resources manager. Alvarez grew up in Santa Barbara Unified’s public schools after arriving here at the age of 7 from Mexico.

A fifth challenger, Sebastian Antonio Fernandez-Falcon, filed for candidacy, but the Independent hasn’t been able to reach him for an interview.

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LAURA CAPPS

Capps currently holds the position of board president and has been most recognized for her efforts in sustainability and reducing child hunger, among other initiatives. The district will soon run on 94 percent solar energy after the board voted to approve a plan to install microgrids at sites throughout the district, an initiative Capps pushed for.

“I’ve gotten complaints that I just care about solar and I don’t care about literacy. To that, I’m like, ‘Okay, do you want another $1 million for literacy programs? Let’s try not spending extraneous money on electricity.’ ” Capps said. “Our water bills are so high…. To get to 100 percent renewable energy means massive cost savings, which will fund literacy programs.”

Capps is also a large proponent of finding a path toward safe, outdoor education as soon as possible to get students back in school face-to-face.

“Outdoor education was a reliable solution during the last pandemic in 1918 and in other epidemics, so I’ve been pushing our staff to be as bold and forward-thinking as possible,” she said. “I’ve gone as specific as asking for funding for outdoor canopies and tents at each campus, and I was told by a few principals that that is really happening.”

Capps is endorsed by dozens of individuals and organizations, including Democratic Women of Santa Barbara County, Santa Barbara County Democratic Party, and Congressmember Salud Carbajal.

WENDY SIMS-MOTEN

Community involvement is an integral part of incumbent Sims-Moten’s life, which is why she is pursuing a second term to continue her efforts and help lead through the COVID-19 pandemic. As the CEO of the First 5 Commission, she understands the importance of reaching children and families young.

“For me, asking the question ‘Where do we start?’ is essential,” Sims-Moten said. “There’s always a beginning, and we start much stronger at the beginning. We’re gearing up in our

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early learning…. That’s huge for me. We have to make sure that the younger ones are there because that’s when they are optimal to develop and retain it.”

Sims-Moten said connecting with parents and families as early as possible is vital to a student’s success not just academically but socially, too.

“The earlier we engage with our parents and students, the better,” she said. “Right now, we have a lot of focus on racism, and those impressions are formed early. So how do we talk about it? Kids are not born saying, ‘I don’t like you because of your color.’ It’s more like, ‘I like you because we can play together in the sand and you like that truck and I like this truck.’ ” She reflected on her own childhood growing up in a Black family and her mother’s drive to defy expectations in the ’60s that she would only work as a housekeeper, instead going to college and becoming a nurse. She said part of her role on the school board is keeping the same expectations high for all students regardless of who they are and to begin as early as possible.

Sims-Moten has also been known for her commitment to fiscal responsibility, usually being the boardmember most concerned about the financial impacts of district projects and programs. She said she hopes to continue playing that role in her second term.

JACKIE REID

Reid, who’s running for reelection this November, has teaching woven into her DNA. Her father was a professor at UCLA, and her mother was a music teacher. She said her father told her to “work hard and get your education, but then you have to give it back,” and that’s exactly what she did.

Reid holds a master’s and a PhD in education from UC Santa Barbara, was a classroom teacher, and is currently a teacher educator.

She has used her education to give back to students facing barriers to education, as when she co-launched her nonprofit, Teachers for the Study of Educational Institutions (TSEI), in 2012, which aims to engage teachers in a push to provide more opportunities for all students to learn at grade level.

Reid’s more important moves over her fouryear term were her leadership on the High School Graduation Requirements Committee to establish ethnic studies as a graduation requirement and her support of initiatives to support equity.

“Four years ago when I decided to take the leap, it was because I was concerned that there were three open positions and I knew that the board [at that time] had been driving equity, but it was still at a really stagnant pace,” she said.

“One of my main goals was to have ethnic studies be a high school graduation requirement.

“Now that we have it, my concern is that I don’t want to see all the work that we have done to get this far to have it removed or pulled back or delayed. And that’s a main motivation to rerun. There are people out there, we know, who are seeing this [ethnic studies] as a detriment, when in fact it is going to ensure achievement for our students.”

VIRGINIA ALVAREZ

If Alvarez is elected, one thing will be for sure: Sims-Moten wouldn’t be the only person with a fiscal-first approach on the dais. Alvarez has worked in the Montecito Union School District for nearly two decades and in the Santa Barbara Unified School District before that.

She learned English in district schools, graduating from San Marcos High School.

“I’m the chief business official and human resources manager at Montecito Union,” she said. “But what does that mean? I’m responsible for all of the fiscal services in the district, budget preparation, payroll, you name it. I also manage the human resources portion of it. I’m the only bilingual candidate with that sort of experience.”

The decision to run has been a long time coming for Alvarez, who said she knew she could only commit once she had done her due diligence and could give 200 percent to the role. Now, she said, she is ready to give it her all.

“There is a great need at the board level to have someone with my background,” she explained. “I already have a career; I don’t need a career. I want to serve my community. I care about Santa Barbara, and I’ve lived here most

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BRIAN CAMPBELL

Campbell wears many hats—including father, real estate agent, and attorney—but he’s looking to juggle an additional role. Campbell is running for one of three open seats on the Santa Barbara Unified school board after he tried his shot at running for Santa Barbara City Council last November and lost.

“The main issue [I’m running on] is literacy and educating the children,” Campbell said.

“I’ve been volunteering in the classrooms for nine years.… It’s been very disheartening for a few years now to see when our [Campbell and his wife’s] kids spend time with other kids in 3rd, 5th grade, and the kids can’t read or write English with any proficiency. It’s frightening.”

And when it comes to literacy reform and turning around the district’s overall low literacy and math scores, Campbell said the district needs to explore already successful models and get tips from those rather than reinventing the wheel. He pointed to Santa Barbara Unified’s own Franklin Elementary as an example, which has seen a rise in scores over recent years. Campbell said the district should be trying to duplicate these kinds of success stories.

He is also a large proponent of safely reopening schools as soon as possible because of the other negative side effects of continuing to keep school virtual, including an increase in youth gang violence, suicides, and general hardship on children.

MONIE DE WIT

Perhaps de Wit is most known for her unwavering advocacy for dyslexic children, her main motivation for running. As a dyslexic woman herself who raised a dyslexic son in Santa Barbara, the issue is very close to her.

“I think I am uniquely qualified to help the district close the achievement gap and address what I see as a civil rights issue—literacy is a human right,” she said. “…I’ve been begging the district to do this one simple thing, which is to get rid of that Lucy Calkins reading program. That program only works for some people. It’s basically a way for people to guess at a word. Our district and our whole county has

the same problem: Reading scores are going down with Lucy Calkins.”

De Wit said she is extremely concerned about the school-to-prison pipeline, and her goal is to ensure all students have access to a quality education and literacy so that they have options for success. Without these, many turn to poor life choices, she said.

“We have to stop the link between the education system and the judicial system,” she said. “La Cuesta has 4 percent literacy. I know people from La Cuesta, and you know where they go? Los Prietos [Boys Camp, a juvenile detention facility]…”

She said she is committed to making communication more transparent on the board and advocating for literacy reform and equitable opportunities for all students and families.

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ELRAWD MACLEARN

He doesn’t have kids of his own, but 27-yearold MacLearn is the third eldest of 11 siblings and had to play the “de facto parent and teacher” role for years with his brothers and sisters. Between his youth and practice playing father and teacher, he said he has the most unique understanding of what constituents want from their district.

“As an elected representative, my job is just to convey the desires and the will and the purpose of the electors,” MacLearn said. “…For example, there have been multiple issues that have been brought toward the board, and a lot of parents showed up, and the board was like, ‘No, we’re going to do something different.’ … Number one is that I am for parental involvement.”

MacLearn is a county health inspector, a job he landed after moving here from Los Angeles, where he obtained his biology degree at UCLA. Though he didn’t grow up in Santa Barbara Unified schools, he said that his and his siblings’ poor experiences with other public schools has given him the understanding needed to represent constituents.

“I know that some people will say that’s your experience and that wasn’t Santa Barbara Unified,” he said. “And I will say this: That school system was vastly better rated than Santa Barbara. If we look at the scores and proficiency levels, we’re barely making it overall.”

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phone rings. It’s still early in the morning.

A major mover-n-shaker in downtown business circles is wondering whether I’ve read the Book of Revelations. “Do you think we’re in the End of Times?” he asks. I say no.

How many times throughout human history, I ask him back, have we gone to hell in a handbasket? Yet somehow, I say, we always managed to make it back.

Only thing wrong with this: I have no clue what a handbasket is.

Couple weeks ago, we started our days waking up to an egg-yolk-orange sun rising high in a Martian sky. Back then, the fires were just getting warmed up. Now, our days start out with a cool and drizzly faux fog so fat with smoke and ash we have to keep the streetlights lit until 8 in the morning.

That’s what happens, I guess, when more than five million acres of forest go up in smoke all at the same time. Hurricanes of heat. Showers of lightning. Nuclear winter in the middle of a long hot summer. Even the street preacher by the San Andres Street gas station who screamed salvation through his exhausted amplifier has fled.

But where can you go?

So long as we keep things Biblical, we can always blame God. Insurance companies would love that. They don’t have to pay out for calamities that can be chalked up as “Acts of God.” Unfortunately for them, however,

the facts suggest the Almighty cannot be held responsible for our current mayhem.

We are.

Not all humans, however, are equally culpable on the question of climate change.

Our 45th president saw fit to break his month-long silence on our raging infernos this Monday and actually met with firefighters, Governor Gavin Newsom, and a slew of state officials up in Sacramento. “It will start getting cooler,” he assured them, speaking in his customary mask-free manner. “You wait and see.”

Coming from the lips of a man who predicted no less than 32 times COVID would miraculously disappear — when we now know he believed it to be the paramount national security challenge of his administration—I was less than reassured.

It should be noted 45 was getting hot under the collar when he said that. A state official named Wade Crowfoot with the Natural Resources Agency had just admonished him against “burying our heads in the sand.” Climate change, Crowfoot insisted, must be acknowledged. The mercury just hit 130 in Death Valley. Perhaps more astonishingly—he could have said but did not—it climbed all the way to 122 in downtown beautiful Solvang. “I wish science agreed with you,” Crowfoot told El Prez. In a rare display of controlled curtness, El Prez retorted, “I don’t think science knows, actually.”

Well actually, it does.

It turns out that 99.9999 percent of all scientists really do agree climate change is real, and that it’s been caused by human activity. That includes scientists working for the oil industry, who as far back as 1988 expressed concern — though only in internal memos — that by the time climate change is detectable it could already be too late. The only scientists, it turns out, who believe otherwise are the ones hired by the right-wing think tanks that the oil companies fund to insist otherwise for their PR purposes.

A case in point is Dr. David Legates, an associate professor of geography at the University of Delaware, who has made a comfortable career blaming the sun for climate change, not the carbon dioxide we put in the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide, he said, is the molecule by which big government “can take control of your lives, of your efforts, and everything that goes on.”

I mention Legates only because El Prez just appointed this man second in command of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the agency now most responsible for climate forecasting within the federal government. Legates insists fossil fuels have gotten a bad rap by climate catastrophists — whom he has described as “a bunch of thugs” and who he says cashed in on the easy research dol-

lars to be had by providing doom-n-gloom forecasts. (Legates forgot to mention that he himself received significant research funding from oil companies and the Koch brothers when specifically asked about such support by a federal judge who heard a climate change case in the Bay Area at which Legates testified.)

When not blaming the sun for climate change, Legates has also argued that the global surge in temperature can be chalked up to the capricious whims of natural variability. But it’s well worth noting that five of the hottest years on record — globally — have happened since 2015. And nine out of the 10 hottest happened since 2005.

This year appears poised to break all heat records with temperatures of 100 degrees being recorded for the first time above the Arctic Circle.

Santa Barbara’s climate has always been defined by the violent extremes; it’s feast or famine, fire or flood. But with three significant fires followed immediately by violent debris flows since 2016 alone, our record indicates things are getting more violent and more extreme. And it’s not random.

I have since learned that handbaskets are where they used to put the heads of people decapitated by the guillotine. So maybe we are going to hell in a handbasket.

—Nick Welsh

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Craig Steven Palonen 10/24/1947 - 7/24/2020

Craig would have loved the word polymath, as it describes the Renaissance man that he was. That was Craig. He was curious and interested in everything and never stopped learning. After graduating from UCSB in 1969 with a degree in biology, and while pursuing a master’s degree in business at Cal State Long Beach, he discovered his love of construction. He worked in the trades while in college gained his contractor’s license in 1973 and embarked on a long and successful career in real estate development. Craig was a creator.

He built numerous projects, single family homes, subdivisions, condominiums, office developments and other income producing projects in Ventura, Carpinteria, Summerland, Montecito, Santa Barbara, Isla Vista, Lompoc, Buellton, Canyon Country and Grants Pass, Oregon, completing 23 projects in 24 years. But he also tirelessly pursued other interests, continuously taking Spanish lessons, voraciously studying his monthly science magazines, playing his piano at least once a week; he always found time for tennis, racquetball, golf, or skiing, with his best buddies. Dancing was a pursuit of Craig’s. He and his wife, Marjorie, met 45 years ago at the Yankee Clipper – dancing of course. A few years after they married it was Craig’s idea to take weekly dance lessons to learn how to dance all the Smooth and Latin dances.

They continued that weekly dinner and dance date night until just a few years ago. As the dance dates waned, he and Marjorie pivoted and started the Parkinson Association of SB weekly dance/exercise class for people dealing with the disease. It started with four couples and expanded to up to 25 participants twice weekly with two teachers. The class has continued on Zoom and a Hispanic class is in the works. Craig’s devotion to the 16

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organization led to two terms as president and membership on the board for many years.

PASB was a place where he found comfort, support, and friendship in his battle with the disease. His ever-stoic attitude and warm smile inspired those around him.

Craig’s interest in plants and biology began where he was born in Los Angeles, spending his early years in his beloved Grandma Mumu’s garden. He came back to his biology roots in the form of community involvement as a board member at the Botanic Garden and a docent at Lotusland. He created a magical garden at the family home in Montecito. A wooden bridge stretched over the creek to the garden and featured his whimsical rock cairns and wooden sculptures, carved by Marjorie’s father. He spent hours tending to the tropicals he propagated along the stone pathways, and his experimental coffee orchard. He loved creating room-like areas in the garden, patterned after Madam Ghana Walska’s Lotusland. His belief system seemed to rest in the wonders of biology.

Craig was a guiding light in the eyes of his two sons, Tye and Nicholas, never overtly describing right behavior but practicing it. They saw in him a man of honor, always patient, fair, and incredibly kind. They shared in the experience of mentoring a young boy through the Fighting Back Youth program, as well as hosting a student from Spain one summer. Craig, Tye and Nick were members of the YMCA father-son Indian Guides program where they all met lifelong friends. Nick remembers his dad making time to support every activity he participated in; “I love you to pieces,” Dad would say with a nightly kiss on the forehead. Craig created opportunities for his sons to experience the world of hard work and play by restoring an RV park in Oregon one summer, kayaking on the Rogue River, boating through the San Juan Islands, traveling to St Petersburg, Russia, Mexico, Hawaii, and many countries in Europe. Craig installed in his sons the benefits of physical exercise and the joy of sports. Tye and Craig played many rounds of golf together at home and on vacation. Nick took up Karate

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and had a regular Saturday session and lunch at Stacky’s with his dad. The boys saw in Craig the value of true friendship, demonstrated through his solid cohort of friends from early school days, college, and the lifelong friends in the community he loved.

He exemplified how to be a father and a husband and modeled the right behavior in the gentle and generous caring of Marjorie’s parents in their later years.

Marjorie’s mom, Terry, called Craig “that Greek God” the first time she met him.

She was right. He came to dinner to meet the parents, he was tall, tan, incredibly handsome, with tons of curly, blondish hair and a full beard.

He was ambitious and hardworking, just what George and Terry Mullen thought was perfect for their daughter. He was also a gentleman, taking Marjorie to an elegant dinner at Pelicans (now Cava) on their first date. She loved that he said things like, “let’s rendezvous at 7:00”. She was smitten. They married in 1977. He was the real deal, the complete package, adventurous, fun-loving, intelligent, he knew something about everything, the stars, geography, building a house, business and politics, the botanical names of all the plants in the garden, or how the human body functioned, and he loved to dance. She picked the right door and he said yes. He called her “Babe” the entire 45 years they were together, and she loved that. He was generous, compassionate and she passionately loved him with all her heart. She loved that he was loyal to his friends and family, that he was devoted to his mom and grandmother, and that he had unconditional love for his sons.

Craig Steven Palonen was born in Los Angeles, California on October 26, 1947 and passed away on July 24, 2020.

He was preceded in death by his Grandma Mumu, and his parents Genevieve and Amo Palonen, and Marjorie’s parents George and Terry Mullen.

He is survived by his wife Marjorie, son Tye and wife Chanel, son Nicholas and wife Nikki and grandson Phoenix, sister-in-law Kitty Bell and husband Russell, brother-in-law Johnny Mullen and wife Kim, brother-inlaw Michael Mullen and wife Pam. Nieces Angela Chan and

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husband Bernard, children Peter and Mady, Nicole and husband Mack, children Bear, Kendry, August, nephews Connor Mullen and wife Ned, Preston Mullen, Landon Mullen, Corbin Mullen and wife Kylie, Tanner Mullen. Also puppy, Sophie-girl.

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Rita A. Doyle 1931 - 2020

Rita made the final gesture of her 89 year life by departing Sept 2, 2020 at home in Santa Barbara, CA to be united with her late husband Verne, who passed away in 2001.

She was born in Kansas City, MO in 1931, and was raised in Sturgis SD by Vivian and Squire Watson beginning age 5. Before then, she was fostered by the Farbers in Ames, Iowa who cared for her during those young years.

Rita was the eldest of five Watson siblings, and being raised during the depression era shaped her formative years, resulting in a lifetime of frugality, self-reliance, competitive drive and a desire to excel.

Rita first met her future husband in South Dakota when both were 5 years old - Verne reportedly charged Rita a nickel to see his sixtoed right foot - eventually leading to a lifetime of successful bargaining and negotiation.

After graduating high school in South Dakota, Rita began a successful career in Minneapolis working for a large bank. She reunited

with Verne and they married in 1953, and then had three children - Christy, Beth and Mike.

Rita and Verne spent their early marriage in South Dakota, where Rita was a homemaker and Verne was a high school science teacher in Sturgis after graduating from University of South Dakota. In 1963, Verne was commissioned as a Captain in the Army. He, Rita and their children then began their adventures traveling for Army assignments: Kentucky, Washington DC, Germany, Missouri, South Korea, Phoenix and Chicago. Rita was quick to adapt to a new environment, immersing herself in local activities, benefits and entertaining, and taking advantage of the local culture.

Aside from raising three largely well-behaved and successful children, Rita’s most memorable successes include becoming a Bridge Life Master less than three years after beginning the game; earning a Master Gardener degree and working for the Univ of Arizona in diagnosing plant diseases and solutions; and winning a dispute against the IRS. After Verne’s death in 2001, Rita soon moved to Santa Barbara to be close to her daughter Christy. She resumed her prior interests in bridge and gardening, and also continued walking 6-8 miles per day.

She enjoyed traveling locally to Santa Barbara county wineries, and with Christy and Beth to Italy. Rita also enjoyed the food, art and shopping in France, England, the Caribbean, the Baltic, and several other memorable vacations. Wherever she traveled, Rita could find a piece of art or jewelry as a reminder of her enjoyable escapades.

Rita is survived by: daughters Christy, Santa Barbara, CA; and Beth,Salem, OR; grandson Brandon, Camarillo, CA; granddaughter Ariel, Albany, OR; sister Connie, Sturgis, SD; brother Jim, Boise, Idaho, and five grandchildren.

Rita’s beautiful smile and her life will be remembered in a private ceremony in Santa Barbara; she will later be interred in the Black Hills National Cemetery where she and Verne will rest together.

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hen COVID-19 first began to take hold globally, my wife and I were in Indonesia, where our 10-year-old twins were attending an international school. I had recently retired as Santa Barbara County’s Fire Chief, and the plan was to stay there for six months and then return home. In mid-March, it became clear that the crisis was going to be a worldwide problem. We became concerned that third-world language barriers and different approaches to health care could put our family at greater risk, so we packed up and came home.

As a former first responder, I tend to plan for the worst-case scenario. Precautions were taken.

Grocery trips were handled like a hazmat incident, and everything that came into the house was treated with a bleach solution. Hand sanitizer was liberally applied after and during every trip outside. The CDC had not yet made clear their recommendations on wearing masks, but after having just been in Singapore where literally everyone wore them, we did too.

In mid-May, the governor relaxed some of the restrictions, and we followed suit. We went on a couple of socially distanced hikes with friends, went to the beach, and allowed a few socially distanced playdates for the kids.

In early July, within days of each other, my wife and I both felt sick with minor cold symptoms. We did not really think we had the virus, but in an abundance of caution, we went and had a test. We were shocked when we both came back positive.

From that point on, we did not leave our home for a solid month. We were lucky in that the virus never got into our lungs. Bad headaches, major fatigue, and a complete loss of taste and smell were our symptoms. We depended on Instacart and good friends dropping food off on the porch.

Thankfully, we are now fully recovered. The kids were unaffected and are fine. Food no longer tastes like paper towels, and we can exercise again. We will never know for sure how this thing got into our house. The point of this is that I have heard people say that Santa Barbara is a bubble, and the risk of getting the virus is overblown or maybe even a hoax.

Not true.

I have also heard people say things to the effect of, “I wish I would just get COVID and get it over with.” Not a good idea. We still don’t know what the long-term effects of the virus are or how long the resistance to it will last now that we have recovered.

We are relatively healthy people with no preexisting

health problems. Although we never felt the need to go to the hospital, neither one of us can remember feeling that sick for that long of a time.

Avoid this damned thing. If you don’t know anyone who has had the virus, but you know or have met me, well, now you know someone. Stay safe, Santa Barbara. Stay healthy. —Eric Peterson, S.B.

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hy do I support Elrawd MacLearn as Trustee for Santa Barbara Unified School District?

Elrawd comes to us from a large family with 11 children. As the third eldest, he homeschooled his younger siblings and watched their academics improve. He participated in student government while in college and earned a biology BS from UCLA. I met him when he came to work at Santa Barbara County Environmental Health Services.

As a young professional, Elrawd follows the SBUSD meetings, addressing the board about proposed curricula. During the meetings that I attended, the board rarely listened to parents and concerned citizens. Instead, the current board has voted in favor of special-interest groups and activist student speakers.

In contrast, Elrawd promotes a return to basics for education, redirecting divisive ethnic studies in favor of strengthening the moral character of the individual. He will restore curricula that advances critical thinking, computation skills, literacy, and Western civilization, while increasing transparency and parental involvement. Elrawd reviewed the dramatic student success of Franklin Elementary School and would like to implement the model of Principal Casie Killgore to other schools in the district.

“The status quo has got to go!” Join me and elect Elrawd for S.B. Unified School Board! To learn more, please visit learnwithmaclearn.com. Thank you.

—Lisa Sloan, S.B.

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Yvonne Gray-Ferren 7/30/1944 - 8/29/2020

Yvonne Gray-Ferren (Von Gray), 76 Former Los Angeles and Santa Barbara resident Yvonne Gray-Ferren, 76, died August 29, 2020, at her home in Las Vegas, Nevada, following a brief illness. At her request, no services will be held.

Mrs. Gray-Ferren (aka Yvonne Davida Gray and Von Gray) was born July 30, 1944, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Virginia Evans and David Santiago. “Von,” as her family and friends called her, was raised by her grandparents William and Pearl Evans and graduated from Germantown High School in 1962. She was raised in the Baptist community in Philadelphia and was a very spiritual person.

Von attended classes at Temple University before enlisting in the US Air Force in 1963. She served at March Air Force Base near Riverside, California, and with her first husband Cedric Bradshaw was transferred to the Royal Air Force - Bentwaters near Ipswich, England, before returning to March Air Force Base near Riverside, California, where she was an assistant to the base commander during the Vietnam War. She received an honorable discharge as an Airman Third Class. Von returned to England in the late 1960s to pursue a music career, where she performed as a studio singer and also traveled as a background singer for Sonny & Cher, Rod Steward, Engelbert Humperdinck, and Tom Jones, among others.

Von also was a successful solo singer, songwriter, pianist, and dramatic actress. She was a staff writer, producer, and background vocalist for Mighty-Three Music where she wrote or co-wrote songs recorded by Billie Paul, Jean Carn, Archie Bell and the Drells, and others. Her most well-known song “Lady Love,” which she wrote and 18

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co-produced on the album When You Hear Lou, You’ve Heard It All, was a hit record for Lou Rawls for which Von received a BMI Achievement Award for airplay 1979 and a Gold Record for sales. It has become a classic recording. Von owned her own publishing company, Alighta Mak-in’ Music, which has an extensive catalog of material. She traveled with her group “Gray Matter” in the 1970s and performed in many venues throughout the western Unites States, especially the Los Angeles area. Von performed under the professional name “Lady Gray,” recording her album YvonneGray – Lady Gray in 1972, which included many of her own songs. It has received a five-star rating and today is a much sought-after collectors’ recording.

Mrs. Gray-Ferren was a resident of Santa Barbara, California, for many years where she was a licensed massage therapist, singer, and actress, performing in several theater groups and numerous plays including “A Street Car Named Desire,” for which she also wrote original music, and “Voices from the Well,” “The Legend of Lima Beane,” “Uncommon Women,” “Hot L Baltimore,” “Theater in the Key of G,” “Steel Magnolias,” “An American Daughter,” and “My Name Is Alice,” among others. Her one-woman show, “Von – Her Music N’ More,” was highly regarded and was reviewed as a “warming and thoroughly enjoyable experience…the singer/ actress takes obvious joy in performing, has a big, beautiful four-octave voice, which was showcased in a variety of songs, many of which she wrote…She has an expansive and likeable personality.” Von also appeared in TV commercials and dramas, print adds, and was a member of SAG-AFTRA. Mrs. Gray-Ferren was a friend to all animals and supported many animal welfare organizations. She supported the Boys and Girls Club of Santa Barbara, sponsored a young man in the organization, and received several recognitions for her work. She was a first-rate administrative assistant and office manager throughout the many aspects of her life, and later a successful realtor while living in

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New Jersey, California, and Nevada during the past two decades. Her clients loved her. Von loved to paint and created inspired works of art throughout her life.

Von was a complex, gifted, and multi-talented woman who will be greatly missed by a multitude of fans, friends, and loved ones. She is survived by her husband, Wayne R. Ferren Jr., sons Lance Bradshaw and Darion Ferren, and granddaughters JeTaime Bradshaw and Aliyah Bradshaw, brother-in-law Howard Ferren and his wife Dyan, and many extended family members.

Donations in her honor may be sent to your local animal welfare society, women’s shelter, or homeless organization.

Phyllis G. Stephenson

1997, just short of her 80th birthday, she sold her Santa Barbara home of 44 years and moved to Tahoe City to start the next phase of her life. She wanted to experience mountain living and the seasons, and although she had planned to stay only a few years before returning to Santa Barbara, she instead spent the remaining 23 years of her life there, soaking up nature in all of its glory and enjoying every minute of it.

She wished to bid a fond farewell to her four very individual children: “it was my greatest pleasure having you all and being your Mother.”

Her spirit lives on in the joy she brought to all who knew her. A small family gathering will be held in Tahoe in the Spring . . . when the flowers are blooming.

10/14/1917 - 9/24/2020

On August 24th, 2020, surrounded by family and loved ones, Phyllis Gay Stephenson left us for her next adventure.

She was born October 14,1917 to Frank Herbert Gay and Eva May Stratford in Detroit, Michigan. The family moved west to Santa Monica in 1924 and in 1942 she married William Hughes Stephenson, then a medical student at the University of Southern California. With a low draft number and World War II ramping up Bill enlisted in the Army, which eventually took him to the east coast and then overseas.

Phyllis followed and lived in Groton, Massachusetts for the remainder of the war, awaiting his homecoming.

In 1945 they returned to Los Angeles where Bill resumed his medical training.

Their four children, Gaye, William Anderson (Andy), Lynne and James Kirk were born during this time, and the family moved to Santa Barbara in 1953 when Bill joined the Sansum Clinic.

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Iris (Dugas) Rigoli 7/23/1931 - 8/18/2020

Iris (Dugas) Rigoli died peacefully on Tuesday, August 18, 2020, in Santa Barbara, CA. She was born in Waltham, MA, on July 23, 1931, daughter of the late Oliver and Eva (Comeau) Dugas. She moved with her family to Santa Barbara in 1958.

She had four daughters: the late Karen (Rainbow) Tietjen, Robin Rigoli, Doreen Miller, and Leann Rigoli; grandchildren: Eric, Aurora, Daniel, Leland, Carson, Weston, and Mona; great-grandchildren: Desiree, Alice, Kinsley, Coen, and Georgia; siblings: Laurette Billig, and the late Elmer Dugas, Robert Dugas, Esther Murphy, and Roland Dugas; and many nieces, nephews and cousins.

Her ex-husband, Fran Rigoli, continued to be a dear friend through the years. Her ashes will be joined with those of her long-time partner, Joey

Birmingham.

Please make donations in Iris’ name to the Sarah House, PO Box 20031, Santa Barbara, CA 93120, (805) 682-1515.

Iris loved to dance!

John Edwin Ramos 5/16/1959 - 8/4/2020

It is with deepest sorrow and in loving memory that we announce the death of John Edwin Ramos, which occurred on August 4, 2020 in Santa Barbara, CA. John Ramos was born on May 16, 1959 and grew up in Dangriga, Belize. He attended the University of Notre Dame and graduated with two masters degrees before settling in Santa Barbara. In 1996, he founded Emmaus of Santa Barbara, a nonprofit, educational organization committed to empowering young people to break the cycles of abuse, violence, addiction and other destructive behaviors by providing the techniques, skills, and guidance necessary for them to realize their selfworth, fulfill their potential, and learn responsibility to self and others. John believed that one true encounter with unconditional acceptance could change a person's life.

He lived and breathed the Emmaus core philosophy of non-judgement and positively impacted hundreds of lives during his time here on Earth. He was buried in Dangriga, Belize by his loving family on September 2, 2020. A life of such generosity, selflessness, and kind-heartedness deserves to be beautifully remembered. All are welcome to share memories at a Zoom remembrance (no service) on October 18, 2020 at 1:00pm at https://us02web. zoom.us/j/88554328780

obituaries Peter James Hamilton Winn 1/26/1961 - 8/23/2020

Peter James Hamilton Winn, born on January 26, 1961 in Dorset, England, passed away on Sunday, August 23, 2020 at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital where he was cared for by the angels in Compton 1.

Peter was diagnosed in early 2020 with Multiple Myeloma, and staged a courageous battle against this vicious blood cancer.

Having studied arboriculture at Merrist Wood College in Guildford, England, Peter was recruited by Griffin Tree and Landscape in 1983 to come and work in Santa Barbara. Falling in love with Santa Barbara and meeting Jan, Peter decided to stay. For over 30 years, Peter owned and managed Westree Arborist Services in Santa Barbara. In 1992 Peter and Jan welcomed their only daughter Allison into the world.

Describing Peter as gregarious would be an understatement. Always a smile, always a laugh or witty joke, always there to lend a hand or loan a friend something from his sporting-goods garage. Peter was an avid motorcycle rider and kept fit through paddle boarding and kick-boxing.

Since 2008, Peter participated in twelve different Friendship Paddle events to support an honoree experiencing a life-threatening disease. He is the honoree in September of this year. The true loves of his life were his wife Jan and daughter Ally, and they called Carpinteria home. Peter lived a big life with his family, traveling often and never taking for granted any experience he was offered. Peter is preceded in death by his mother and father, Mary and Eric Winn, as well as brother, Michael Winn. He is survived by his wife Janice, daughter Allison, brothers David and Robin Winn (Angelika Pelzer).

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to Ridley- Tree Cancer Center. A Celebration of Life will be planned for Spring, 2021.

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William (Bill) Lester Crawford, Jr.

10/27/1926 - 8/20/2020

William (Bill) Lester Crawford, Jr. passed away peacefully in his sleep at Mission Terrace in Santa Barbara on August 20, 2020. He was 93 and lived a long, satisfying life which he often summed up as “dynamite” and one of no regrets.

Bill was born on October 27, 1926 in Dallas, Texas to parents William Lester Crawford and Doris Doran Crawford. His family moved to Los Angeles during the Depression when his father took a job with 20th Century Fox. He attended parochial school, was an altar boy and had a daily paper route until his family returned to Texas.

Bill attended high school in Dallas, then enlisted in the Navy at age 17 where he served as a radio technician in the Pacific during World War II. After the war ended, he went to the University of Missouri on the GI Bill and majored in journalism.

On one summer break from college, he joined his parents in Laguna Beach, Calif. — and there he noticed a spirited young woman playing beach volleyball.

A year later, Bill married Joan Trautman. They moved to Columbia, Mo. where Bill completed his major, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. With a commanding voice and degree in hand, Bill took a job as news director for KNUZ radio in Baytown, Texas. In 1954 he accepted an anchor position on the evening news from a TV station in Houston.

A few years later he joined his father in oil drilling ventures before entering the car business. He started as a salesman in Dallas, then took sales manager positions in Lubbock and Amarillo.

By 1965, he’d purchased his first Chevrolet dealership in Pasadena, Calif. He named it Champion Chevrolet which spoke to Bill’s goals for excel-

lence and achievement in all facets of the business.

Champion Chevrolet relocated to Manhattan Beach in 1968. It was recognized as Southern California’s largest Corvette dealer and for its work environment which placed employees first and recognized their value and contributions. In the 70s, he expanded his operations to include Bay Buick in Torrance, Calif.

After selling Champion and Bay in 1985, Bill and Joan began envisioning where they would retire. Bill lobbied for San Clemente and warmer Pacific waters, as he loved body surfing. But Santa Barbara won out, and he and Joan bought two acres, and began the process of designing a house — as he said, “for the love of a good woman”.

They decided on a cuttingedge firm Morphosis as the architects. The result was a bold, ingeniously sited contemporary home which provided unending satisfaction and pleasure.

Bill was a big fan of Santa Barbara, and often praised its “benign climate”. He joined the Unitarian Society, threw pots in SB Adult Ed ceramics, and planted trees, most of them oak or citrus. He was called Pa by his grandchildren, and was famous for Pa’s Bread which he regularly baked, then served toasted.

He was supportive of his children and grandchildren in all their ventures and adventures, all of whom continue to be guided by his enthusiastic urging to “make money while you sleep” , “go for it!” and “be stronger than horseradish”.

His wife Joan passed away earlier in the summer of 2020. August 1 would have been their 71st anniversary.

Bill is survived by daughters Sheridan (and husband Laury Wolfe), and Susan (and husband Gregg Goggin) and grandchildren Ian, Taylor, Cory, Julia, Erik, Ingrid and Kelly. His son, Bill, predeceased him.

Gifts in Bill’s memory may be made to benefit the Doris Doran Crawford Nursing Scholarship at Santa Barbara City College set up by Bill in 1992 to honor his mother, c/o SBCC Foundation, 721 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109.

Joseph Hurd Connell 10/5/1923 - 9/1/2020

Joseph H. Connell passed away in his sleep the morning of September 1, 2020 at his home in Goleta, California. An ecologist and Professor of Biology at UCSB, he was known for his pioneering use of manipulated ecological experiments in the field, most prominently with his work on the Great Barrier Reef and in the rainforests of Queensland, Australia.

Mr. Connell earned a bachelor’s degree in meteorology at the University of Chicago, followed by a master’s degree in biology from the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD in zoology from Glasgow University in Scotland. His first academic position was at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts from 1955-56. In 1957 he began teaching at UC Santa Barbara, moving his family to Goleta, CA. His early research examined interspecies competition amongst barnacles in Millport, Scotland, followed by a study of competition and predation between snails, starfish, and barnacles in the San Juan Islands in Washington. In 1962 he received a Guggenheim grant to support new research in Australia, investigating population dynamics, diversity, and species interactions of coral on the Great Barrier Reef and amongst plants and trees in the rainforest in wwQueensland. He took two major sabbaticals to pursue this endeavor, moving his family to Brisbane, Australia in 1962-63 and 1971-72. His research on coral spanned more than 30 years and remains a landmark ecological study.

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almost 20,000 times in the scientific literature, including a 1978 article in the journal Science, “Diversity in Tropical Rain Forests and Coral Reefs,” which has been cited 6,280 times. He was awarded the Mercer Award in 1963 and the Eminent Ecologist citation in 1985 from the Ecological Society of America. For the latter award, Sally Holbrook, Professor of Biology at UCSB, wrote that “Joe is surely the outstanding experimental field ecologist of the latter half of [the 20 th century].” A beloved teacher and mentor, Mr. Connell’s students are employed in university faculties around the world. After retiring from UCSB in 1992, he continued his research as an emeritus professor well into the 2000s.

Joe Connell was born in Gary, Indiana in 1923 to parents Grace Connery & Joseph A. Connell. The family eventually moved to Pittsburgh, PA, where his father worked as an engineer in the steel industry. During WWII, Joe served as a weatherman in the Army Air Corps, where he was stationed in the Azores, flying missions over the Atlantic to gather the data used to predict the weather for Europe during the war. In his off hours he explored the Azores, an activity that he said sparked his interest in the natural environment. It was while studying barnacles in Millport, Scotland, that he met his wife-to-be, Margaret Harvey, who was also studying zoology. They married in 1954 in Margaret’s hometown of Exeter, England.

Joe was a lifelong baseball fan, cheering for his beloved Los Angeles Dodgers for over six decades. He loved classical music and Marx Brothers movies. He is survived by his wife Margaret and their four children: Andrew, Jane, Tim, and Kate, niece Mary Rollins Jones, along with eleven grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Because of Covid-19, no memorial is planned at this time.

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Jo Ann E Hubbard 9/1/1927 - 8/17/2020

11/4/1954 - 8/25/2020

It is with a heavy heart that I announce to friends and family, the passing of Erik Lindrose AKA Riko Grande. Erik passed away August 25, 2020 and leaves behind his wife, Debra Jo Lindrose, of 29 years, his two sons, Ryan & Jansen and his Number 1 daughter, Tara. He is also survived by his sister, Suzanne Fuselier, nephew Tarl Cragun, and his wife and baby girl, as well as his family in Norway. Erik was a Hardwood Flooring Contractor for over 30 years and leaves his legacy in Affordable Hardwood Floors, established in 1994. He loved his business and customers and always took pride in his work and friendships he’s gained over the years with his business. Erik loved the drums and was in a number of bands in Santa Barbara but most notably, The Thunder Rose Band. He was born in Fresno in 1954, lived in Hawaii for 10 years and ended up in Santa Barbara where he started his life and family. We would like to thank the Friendship Center for all the love and support for him and his family and also Liv Home Care. Rest in Peace and Keep on Rockin’ in The Free World, Love you my Rock Star.

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Astonishing Patience, Cheerful Lovingkindness Jo Ann died in her Goleta home after battling neurovascular degeneration for several years. Jo Ann spent most of her 92 years in Santa Barbara County, graduating from Santa Barbara High School then taking a job selling tickets in the ticket booth outside of the Arlington Theater. This is where she met her husband Dale who would often come by asking for change as an excuse to speak to her. Jo Ann completed a semester at UCSB and sold Avon products before devoting her time entirely to raising her daughters Barbary and Roseanna while Dale worked for Shell Oil. Jo Ann was an avid tennis player, birdwatcher and talented painter who loved cats, nature and small children.

She could tell you the name of every bird that landed in her backyard. Jo Ann is interred at the Goleta Cemetery right next to the grave of her husband Dale and near the grave of her brother Leslie, just as she requested in her advanced health care directive.

Erwin A. Nobbe

4/5/1928 - 8/23/2020

Erwin Arnold Nobbe, CPO passed peacefully at 92 years old, August 23, 2020, on his 62nd wedding anniversary. His wife of sixty two years, Hermine Nobbe passed on June 9, 2020.

Born in Osnabrueck, Germany on April 5, 1928

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Erwin was preceded by his mother, Johanna Nobbe, father, Franz Nobbe, brother Hans Nobbe, sister Magda Schoebel, all of Germany. He is survived by his sisters, Ute, Elke and Pueppi all still of Germany. Erwin is survived by his son Ralph W. Nobbe and his wife Sharadi L. Nobbe, four grandchildren, two step grandchildren and five great grandchildren.

His life was one of challenge, adventure and fortitude. The Nobbe family home and business were destroyed by allied bombing during WWII. His dream of medical school was derailed when he was “drafted” into the German army at age 14. He was captured and became an American prisoner of war in Cherbourg, France. While imprisoned, Erwin became proficient in French and English. He was assigned to the medical barracks with the International Red Cross to assist injured and disabled war veterans. He had found his calling. Following the war, he entered the orthotic and prosthetic field. He quickly excelled and obtained his Meisterbrief in orthotics and prosthetics at the University of Freidrichsburg, Germany.

During his internship in Bad Tolz, Germany, he met the love of his life, the late, Hermine Nobbe.

Following their engagement, Erwin accepted a challenging position with the International Red Cross to establish an orthotic/ prosthetic facility at the University Hospital in Istanbul, Turkey. He became conversant in Turkish and continued with those early friendships to this day. Upon completion of his contract with the University, he returned to Bad Tolz and married Hermine Schmuck on August 23, 1958.

Erwin had decided to emigrate to the United States following his WWII imprisonment. Erwin was offered employment at J.E. Hanger and Co. in Washington, DC. He found that more opportunities presented as a business owner, and he acquired Pava Orthopedic

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Lab in Santa Barbara. That became Nobbe Orthopedics, Inc. which ultimately grew to three locations. For sixty years, Nobbe Orthopedics, Inc. served the local medical community and the tricounties earning local, state and national recognition.

Erwin and Hermine were founding members of, and remained active in the German American club, both locally and regionally. Erwin loved travel, chess, riddles, languages, family and maintained a vast network of friends worldwide. Erwin and Hermine were re-united on their 62nd wedding anniversary. They will be missed by all who knew them.

Alice T. Merenbach 2/21/1936 - 8/31/2020

It is with profound sadness that the family of Alice T. Merenbach announces her passing August 31, 2020 in her Bakersfield home, after a long illness. Alice was born on February 21, 1936 in Puerto Rico, were her father was working as a teacher. Alice grew up in Santa Monica, California and graduated in 1953 from Venice High School. She spent a year at Mexico City College in Mexico City where she became fluent in the Spanish language.

Returning to California, she attended U.C.L.A graduating in 1960 with a minor in Sociology and a Bachelors in Spanish. She worked as a Social Worker in Los Angeles County for three years then decided on a career change and entered Loyola Law School of Los Angeles in 1963. It was in law school that she met her husband Dennis Merenbach and they were married on December 20, 1964. She was awarded scholastic scholarships for her three years at school and graduated with a JD degree

in 1966. In the fall of 1966, on a trip to Santa Barbara, she saw the famous Court House and walked into the District Attorney’s Office on Figueroa Street. The then District Attorney, Vern B. Thomas, talked to her and hired her as the first women Deputy District Attorney in the history of Santa Barbara County. In 1966 there were only 10,000 women attorneys in the entire United States. Alice was proud of the fact that today there are 400,000 woman attorneys who make up 1 out of every 3 attorneys in the United States. In 1972 Alice was admitted to the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington D.C. as a personal appearance was mandatory. It was a great event in her life being introduced to the Supreme Court sitting “en banc” with 15 men and introduced by the Solicitor General as “gentlemen and Mrs. Merenbach I introduce you to the Supreme Court of the United States.” She was only one of 400 women then admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States. After her divorce to Dennis Merenbach she entered the private practice of law specializing in family law, probate, wills and Trusts and general legal matters. In 2000, she moved to Bakersfield to retire after deciding life is much more than work. Retired from the bar, bored with retirement, she worked for H&R Block as an enrolled agent for 20 plus years. Alice had a passion for Bridge and became a Life Master, while playing at the Bridge Center in Santa Barbara. Alice also enjoyed travel. She visited all fifty states, and all seven continents. Alice was preceded in death by her father William J. Thacker, her mother Alice L. Thacker, and her sister Dorothy Thacker Borland, and is survived by her children, son Michael, his wife Vickie, daughter Ogden, and brother William J. Thacker Jr.. At her request, there will be no celebration of her life, but she will be remembered by the many who knew her.

In Memoriam

Mike Moropoulos 1930-2020

truly a man for all seasons. He coached football, swimming, baseball, and golf. He fished for calico bass and trout. He dived for lobster and abalone. He hunted pheasants and ducks.

In all those pursuits, Mike preached and practiced good sportsmanship.

You must observe the rules and regulations. You do not demean your competitors. You do not catch more than you can eat (or give to friends for their meals). You take both victory and defeat — whether it’s winning a big game or getting skunked on a long day’s fishing trip — with gratitude and humility.

Moropoulos instilled those values during a 35-year career as a coach, teacher, and administrator at Santa BarFAIR PLAY: Mike Moropoulos coached high school players in life lessons of bara High. There was no other school gratitude and respect. that mattered to the Los Angeles native after he graduated with a teaching credential from weeks short of his 90th birthday, it seemed fitting for UCSB, where he was captain and MVP of the Gaucho a memorial celebration of his life to be held at Peabody football team in 1954. He proclaimed his devotion Stadium, the shrine of SBHS football. But the reconwith a vehicular tattoo, a personalized license plate struction of the stadium was still incomplete, and the that read: SB DONS. His wardrobe consisted of vari- COVID pandemic has since put off indefinitely any ous combinations of the school’s colors, olive green large public gatherings. and gold.

Moropoulos cared about all Santa Barbara Dons, He was in the middle of some of the most cherished not just budding football stars. He became the school’s memories of Dons’ football fans. He was line coach in second athletic director in 1965 and served until his 1960 when Santa Barbara won the CIF large-school retirement in 1989. Soccer and volleyball teams were championship, defeating Centennial in the L.A. Coli- established on his watch, as well as the entire girls’ seum. Later in the decade, the Dons’ defensive front sports program.

Moropoulos had a strong friendship with Sut included Bob “Big Man” Pointer, at 447 pounds the largest player in the land. One night he intercepted Puailoa, a former UCSB teammate and coach at crossa pass and chugged almost 10 yards before several town rival San Marcos High, known as the “Smilin’ Camarillo players tackled him. Years later, Moropou- Samoan.” Mike could have been called the “Gregarilos said he could still hear the wildly roaring crowd ous Greek.” When both were done with prep football, at Peabody Stadium. The best player he remembered they teamed up again to coach a club team at UCSB from that era, in both character and physical tal- in the mid-’80s. ent, was fullback and linebacker Sam Cunningham.

Between scholastic seasons, Moropoulos enjoyed Mike was head football coach in 1977 when his son, the great outdoors. He and soul brother Bud BotCraig Moropoulos, quarterbacked SBHS to a league toms would go trout fishing in the Eastern Sierra. He title; and in 1980, when Randall Cunningham, Sam’s had a love of the ocean that was spawned when, as a younger brother, led the Dons to a record 13 consecu- hungry college student, he would dive for abalone in tive victories before losing to Long Beach Poly in the the Carpinteria Reef, once plucking a limit of five in a single dive.

CIF final.

Nothing made him happier in his retirement years “I am grateful for my experience in high school,” said Randall Cunningham, a four-time All-Pro quar- than seeing a youngster catch his first fish at Cachuma terback in the NFL. He was the all-time leading rusher Lake. He hung out at the lake with Neal Taylor, an at the position when he retired, but he never would expert fly fisherman and nature guide. One of the best have made it, he said, if Moropoulos had not tempered things I did as sports editor of the News-Press was to his instincts when he was young and raw. “From the talk Mike into writing a weekly outdoor column for first day, he told me: ‘If you run, you will not play the paper. He diligently put his knowledge into words quarterback for me,’ ” Cunningham said. “He didn’t and presented solid scientific information about fish want me to be injured. That is the best thing that could and game. The depletion of abalone that he once harhave happened. I worked on my passing and became vested raised his awareness of resource management.

“My excuse, a lame one at that, was that I was uneda complete quarterback.”

Booker Brown said Moropoulos was a no-nonsense ucated about the issue of conservation,” he confessed. coach who laid the groundwork for him to become a “Your kids and mine will not have, and should not rising star as an offensive lineman at SBCC, USC, and, need, that weak rationale. Education is the answer.” ultimately, with the San Diego Chargers. “You weren’t My favorite column of his pulled at the heartgoing to talk back to him,” Brown said. “He taught me strings. It was about his last hunt with Kota, a beloved the fundamentals: footwork, keep your head up and black Labrador, before he had to put the dog down. It butt down, how to pull, how to trap block. He taught was a wonderful revelation of Mike’s humanity.

He is survived by his wife, Pat, a teacher herself, and me to keep my composure. I came out of high school sons Chris and Craig, SBCC’s head football coach for knowing how to play football.”

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“This pandemic has taught me not to take things for granted and to go with the flow of life,” explained Alex Ramirez, who went digital with his personal training business when gyms closed. “When one door closes, it’s not the end of the world, because another door will open. Now I have the courage and faith to open that door and walk through it knowing everything will be all right.”

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JUDE COMER HAMMER HEAD HAND PLANES The 10-year-old son of the owners of Casa de Comer Foods, which makes “smokin’ good” salsas in Goleta, Comer (left) started making these bodysurfing devices after seeing a neighbor use one on a flat day. “This came out of a need to channel his energy in a positive way during long stay-at-home orders,” said his mom, Silvia Comer. She and her husband, Sean, helped Jude make the first one from an old cutting board, and then his friend Kyvon Reeder (right) got involved. They’ve sold a few to friends and family since, with more orders on the way.

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EMILIO ROSSI 1348 BIKERY When this civil engineer was laid off in December, he combined his two passions of riding bikes and baking sourdough by delivering fresh loaves, cookies, and scones between Summerland and Goleta on his two-wheeler. “It has been a fun and challenging experience — I have had to learn a lot about the financial, marketing, and administrative sides of running a business,” said Rossi. “It has helped me use my extra time toward something that I am passionate about, and I get paid for it!”

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ZACH BAUM AND OLIVIA JEWELL WHALE TAIL PIZZA PEELS When Jewell’s downtown bakery job dried up in May, they began making peels from scratch out of hardwood, first wanting to up their own Saturday-night pizza game and then realizing that they wanted to share their signature design with others. “We have been able to put some of our anxiety and uncertainty about the situation into something productive and beneficial to the community,” they said. “It’s so rewarding to put work into something that you care about and end up with a beautiful product. When people appreciate the work, it’s even better.”

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JENNIFER CURRAN AND JAIMIE KYTLE 805 SIDE HUSTLE These two friends have no idea when their jobs as bartenders will return at The Cliff Room, the legendary dive bar on the Mesa that closed due to shutdown orders on March 16. So they turned to their artistic sides — both Kytle’s already-established painting skills and Curran’s driftwood art, beaded jewelry, and emergent painting talents — by applying designs onto denim and selling the works as JMeK jeans. They’ve built a small studio and plan to keep it going when the bar reopens, albeit in separate shifts. “A bartender is a social animal and deals with many different personalities and drama all day long, and then there is our ‘family’ of regulars,” said Curran (seated). “We’re always center stage, and when the stage lights dim, the depression sets in. Being together with a purpose has helped us stay sane.”

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CASSIDY DRURY-PULLEN DEEP BLUE BIKINI CO. When her internship — and potential post-graduation gig — with rising tech star TripActions was derailed, this 21-year-old UC Berkeley senior started a beachwear line, learning a lot about sales, marketing, web development, finance, and, yes, sewing. “This gave me the opportunity to gain the experience that I lost through losing my internship, plus helped me start saving for post-graduation,” said Drury-Pullen, who hopes to get her bikinis in boutiques soon. “Growing up in Santa Barbara, I basically lived at the beach, playing beach volleyball as much as I could as well as loving the ocean. This business gave me the opportunity to connect with a lot of my passions that had to take a backseat while being a student.”

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S.B. Permaculture Network Presents: EcoFilm Nights at the Drive-In Watch the premiere

of the 2020 documentary Kiss the Ground, which sheds light on an alternative approach to farming called “regenerative agriculture” that can potentially balance the climate, replenish water supplies, and feed the world. Ojai’s Big Picture Ranch filmmakers Josh and Rebecca Tickell will talk about the making of the movie. 8:30-10pm.

Goleta West Wind Drive-In, 907 S. Kellogg Ave., #3833, Goleta. $10/ person; $20/car. Not rated. sbpermaculture.org/events.html

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or roll 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) September 18-28 to help bring light to people living without electricity. Visit the website to learn how to participate. tinyurl.com/YouLightTheNight

Webinar: Recovery of White Sharks Off California and What This Means for Coastal Communities The S.B. Maritime Museum

presents Dr. Chris Lowe, professor of marine biology and director of the Shark Lab, CSU Long Beach, who will discuss his work with acoustic and satellite telemetry techniques that study the movement, behavior, and physiology of sharks.

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9/19: Coastal Cleanup Day Instead of gathering at beaches and sites throughout the county on a single day, protect the coast from home by cleaning up your neighborhood this Saturday and September 26. Visit the website to learn about safety guidelines and how to record your litter collected to be included in the statewide count. 9am-noon. Free.

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9/19: Alice and Mad Hatter’s Wacky Virtual Tea Party Join Alice and Mad Hatter at this magical, virtual tea party that will feature manners and etiquette lessons, a scavenger hunt, interactive games, and question/answer time. Email any birthday shoutouts prior to the party. 11am-noon. Donations for general admission are accepted to support the actresses and Administration.

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socially distanced Tashlich. Come with your family or household to cast off your sins into the Pacific Ocean. The Jewish Federation will provide attendees with special Tashlich kits for this informal gathering. Noon-4pm. Free. Call (805) 957-1115 or email rvargeson@sbjf .org. tinyurl.com/TashlichAtLeadbetter

Opening Exhibition: Siempre Más / Always More Fourth-generation Chilean textile artist

Minga Opazo explores the relationship of textiles to climate change, contemporary industrial textile production, and Chilean textile history in this exhibition. Opazo will be present September 19 and October 24. Self-screening, masks, and social distancing will be required. The exhibition will show on Saturdays and by appointment through October 31. 1-4pm. Architectural Foundation of S.B., 229 E. Victoria St. Free. Call (805) 965-6307.

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TUESDAY 9/22 9/22: Grandparents for Democracy Virtual Postcard Party Join this organization of grandparents, great-aunts and great-uncles, and fellow baby boomers who are concerned about the future of democracy, the environment, and the safety of future generations. Hang out via Zoom and write postcards to voters across the country. Sign up for a shift to receive a Zoom link, script, and addresses. Visit the supplies link below on where to purchase postcards and postage (your cost). Free.

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WEDNESDAY 9/23 9/23: Readings with Friends presents Parting Ways Join on Zoom to watch this original one-act play written by Edward Giron and directed by E. Bonnie Lewis about the unlikely meeting between two opposites (Felicia Hall, Paul Canter) as they deal with grief and the past and the present during a chance encounter at a cemetery. 7pm.

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Film Screening: Public Trust: The Fight for American’s Public Lands Patagonia and UCSB Arts &

Lectures present two screenings of Patagonia Films’ award-winning documentary that is part love letter, part political exposé about the investigation of 650 million acres of America’s Public Lands. Arrive early for food trucks, concessions, and entertainment. 7:15 and 9:15pm. Gates open: 6pm; film: 7:15 and 9:15pm. Goleta West Wind Drive-In, 907 S. Kellogg Ave., #3833, Goleta. Free.

Not rated. artsandlectures.ucsb.edu

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bursting with love. All painters will receive a 16”x20” canvas, paints, and brushes. Register to receive the Zoom link by email. 1pm. $35.

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9/20: Painted Cabernet Virtual Paint Class: Whispering Heart Unleash your inner-artist at home to create a tree

FREE AND REDUCED-PRICE FOOD PROGRAMS S.B. Unified School District will provide Grab & Go breakfast, lunch, and supper meals to students, and Goleta Union School District will be offering meal kits to all children ages 18 and under. Visit the link for locations, times, and more.

El Distrito Escolar Unificado de S.B. ofrecerá desayuno, almuerzo y cena a los estudiantes, y el Distrito Escolar Unificado de Goleta ofrecerá paquetes de almuerzo a todos los niños de 18 años o menos.

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returned to Treebones Resort last month for a couple of nights of glamping on a remote stretch of coastline south of Big Sur proper. Treebones offers varying degrees of “roughing it,” from traditional camping sites, a human nest, and twig hut to the signature yurts and a luxurious autonomous tent. Whichever type you reserve, all guests get full access to their grounds and amenities including a pool, jacuzzi, and two excellent restaurants.

It had been at least a decade since the last time I stayed in one of Treebones’ tricked-out yurts, and I was delighted to find it was exactly as magical as I’d remembered. After getting checked in at the front desk, a staff member picked me up in the parking lot to transport me and my bags to my yurt. As the buggy climbed up the steep dirt pathway and the vastness of the Pacific came into full view, we talked local hiking trails, and he gave me the scoop on the next morning’s yoga class.

I could barely contain my excitement as I arrived at ocean-view yurt #9, perched on the perimeter and outfitted with a redwood deck and two Adirondack chairs. Inside, my spacious home away from home had a comfortable king-sized bed, seating area, dining nook, sink (with very fresh, drinkable water), and a fireplace-like heater that made early mornings and evenings extra cozy. Since these are canvas tents, it’s worth noting that sound carries, so while you may have a sense of privacy inside, discretion is necessary! Fortunately, the only raucous neighbors that woke me up at night were the sea lions down at one of the nearby beaches.

Going into the stay, I was a bit wary of the communal bathroom scenario. Unless you book the autonomous tent, you’ll be sharing shower and toilet facilities. I ended up feeling very safe between the hourly cleaning schedule, disinfecting spray bottles at every station and my fellow guests honoring the mask rules. And, while I’d normally dread a middle-

of-the-night walk to the loo, at Treebones it simply served as another opportunity to gaze up at the Milky Way thanks to the absence of light pollution.

You always feel immersed in nature at Treebones, amplified by the fact that there’s no cell service. The views are ever-changing as the fog rolls in and out and the sun rises and sets. One evening at dusk, I encountered a regal-looking deer nonchalantly drinking from one of the fountains. In the evenings, after the PCH traffic dies down, you can hear the ocean crashing below.

My first night, I dined outside where the main Wild Coast Restaurant lunch and dinner service has been moved. No complaints about the sunset view — or the fresh halibut paired with Grassini Family Vineyards sauvignon blanc! The second night’s dinner was a revelation. At the time I booked my room, I took advantage of the option to reserve a seating at the intimate Sushi Bar that’s only open March through November. They reduced capacity to six people to create social distance, and it felt like private dining as course after course of Chef Yancy Knapp’s omakase menu rolled out and we peppered him and the sous chef/beverage guru with questions. The exquisite sushi, libations, personal service, conversation, and curated soundtrack made it hands-down the best, most memorable meal I’d had since quarantine.

During my stay, I was looking to unplug and eke out every ounce of goodness at Treebones, so I didn’t venture off property. If you do want to explore more of Big Sur while in the vicinity, the hiking options are plentiful and Treebones provides a comprehensive list of trails. Big Sur Bakery and Nepenthe are classic stops for a bite to eat, and the Henry Miller Memorial Library bookstore is always worth a browse. A stay at Treebones will certainly give you a taste of why the legendary writer made Big Sur his “first real home in America.”

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Or you are a developer and want to convince the powers that be your project won’t upset the natural balance of the area. Or you’re just a curious nature-lover who’d like to learn more about the life cycle of Santa Barbara birds.

Enter the Breeding Bird Study (BBS), a longstanding effort by the Santa Barbara Audubon Society that just received a massive technological upgrade so that it’s much more accessible and useful to the masses. It launched this summer and culminated a five-year effort in partnership with UCSB’s Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration (CCBER).

The new BBS Web Map Application, Audubon member Mark Holmgren explained, is an interactive way to explore the location, A pair of timing, and other key details of western screech owls the breeding activity of 188 different bird species. “It’s an amazing resource,” Holmgren said. Already, he explained, Caltrans used the data to plan around the endangered Belding’s Savannah sparrow near the Goleta Slough. “It improves ability to make good decisions, and that’s what we’re most proud of,” he said.

While other California counties have put together their own breeding bird atlases, none have developed a way to so easily view, filter, and search the data, including with a nifty spatial selection tool. “Its specificity is really unparalleled,” Holmgren noted.

Thus far over its lifetime, the BBS has collected more than 9,300 observations from over 320 citizens and scientists. And breeding activity, Holmgren is quick to explain, doesn’t just mean nest construction. It also includes singing males, adults carrying food, and dependent young birds.

Find the BBS and tutorials on how to use it at santabarbaraaudubon.org.

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CONSISTENCY AND QUALITY: After spending most of his career in finer dining establishments, David Medina started delivering breakfast burritos under the name Better Burrito, which is also expanding into daytime versions as well.

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such as Emilio’s, where he started as a busboy at 15 years old, and Toma, which he helped open in 2013, David Medina quit his coveted role as bar manager at Loquita to open a new State Street restaurant earlier this year. Then the pandemic hit, leaving the Goleta native with no job but plenty of time to plot his next move.

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Though Medina had a film degree from the Art Institute in North Hollywood and once premiered a short film at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, food was still the obvious choice. Not only had he built a career in restaurants, but as Medina explained, “Hospitality practically runs in our blood.”

His brother, Alejandro Medina, co-owns Bibi Ji on State Street, while their mom’s first cousin Isodoro Gonzalez founded and owns the famous La Super-Rica Taqueria on Milpas.

On July 3, just two weeks after deciding what to do, Medina launched Better Burrito, a breakfast burrito delivery service that also sells lunch and dinner burritos wholesale to a number of markets, bars, and cafés around town. “Making burritos is nuts,” said Medina, when comparing the concept to his sit-down restaurant experience. “But sitting on the couch wondering what you’re gonna do is even more nuts.”

That COVID-19 couch sitting revealed the region’s dining deficiencies to the Dos Pueblos High grad, whose mom went to San Marcos and grandpa went to S.B. High. “With people in their houses and not wanting to go out for obvious reasons, I just wondered if there was a better way to offer delivery,” explained Medina. He’d been underwhelmed by the services available, which often overcharge restaurants and then deliver an overdue meal.

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casual and not require a lot of chemistry in the kitchen, but just be about quality and consistency,” said Medina, who homed in on breakfast. The morning meal is not commonly delivered, despite being a critical kickstart for busy professionals as well as parents feeding Zoom-schooled kids—frequently one in the same demographic these days.

As to the menu, that was easy. “The breakfast burrito is something I have always enjoyed,” he explained, “but none have ever fired me up to get them again and again.”

Breakfast burritos are very personal. Because there’s no dominant version—nor a settled history, though stories about Santa Fe or Austin seem most likely—the variations on ingredients and proportions are endless. What you consider just enough potatoes may seem way too starchy for me, while my need for crunchy bacon will fail to quench your craving for chunky ham.

Medina walks a smart line between such proclivities by keeping his menu to just two items, both of which include browned-butter scrambled eggs, multiple cheeses, and fresh salsa verde. The applewood-smoked bacon burrito offers just enough savory pork, griddled potato, and sweet caramelized onion to satisfy morning meat lovers, while the chile relleno version is even more distinctive, starring smashed pinto beans in a supporting role. He’s about to roll out a vegan version too, pairing cauliflower al pastor (!) with turmeric tofu scrambled eggs.

The burritos, which are $12 each, must be ordered by 7 p.m. the night before for a delivery between 8 and 11 a.m.

There’s no delivery fee, but the minimum order is $24. (I found that each burrito could adequately serve, although not fully gorge, two people.)

Medina’s daytime options include that cauliflower al pastor in a veggie burrito as well as poblano-marinated chicken, smoked carnitas, and achiote carne asada versions. They can be found at Break Time Sports Bar and on Fridays at Draughtsmen Brewing while the breakfast burritos (and sometimes daytime options) are also available at Old Town Coffee, Dart Coffee, Santa Cruz Market in Goleta, Gladden & Sons, and Plow to Porch (as an addon to boxes). Better Burrito is also contributing food to SB ACT’s efforts to feed the homeless and others in need.

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idea to the county supervisors, the Santa Barbara County Vintners Association announced a retooled assessment model this week, proposing to add a one percent fee to all in-state sales for Santa Barbara County wineries.

Since that amount is tied to the California sales tax, it is a much easier metric to track than the previously proposed assessment of 1.5 percent of all tasting-room sales. In addition to tasting-room sales, the new one percent fee would include all wine-club sales to California residents.

The fee — which would be levied as part of a new Business Improvement District, or BID — is estimated to generate more than $1 million annually for the association, which is charged with marketing the region’s wines, attracting visitors, and boosting sales.

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BY MATT KE That would nearly triple the association’s current budget of about $400,000, which pales in comparison to the marketing war chests of competing regions, such as Napa, Paso Robles, and Temecula Valley.

“The big picture, from 30,000 feet, is that this is a highly complex situation,” said Stephen Janes, who is the general manager of Pence Vineyards and sits on the board of the S.B. Vintners, which has struggled since its inception to raise enough money through membership fees alone.

“We’re trying to be very accommodating in everything,” he said. “It’s been two years, and we’ve had something like 25 meetings.”

Janes said the change was in response to the county supervisors’ concerns over how to audit tasting-room sales, whereas in-state sales are already monitored by third-party entities. The new proposal also focuses strictly on raising money for marketing and not using such funds for advocacy, which was also troubling some supervisors.

He said that the supervisors are “thrilled” with the changes.

There remains loud opposition to the idea from both industry veterans and newer players on the scene. Most of that is philosophical in nature — “no taxation without representation” is becoming a common, if askew, rallying cry — and few are providing viable alternative funding mechanisms.

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Kitchen recently opened Nella Kitchen & Bar in Los Olivos, inside the Fess Parker Wine Country Inn where the Bear & Star Restaurant once existed. The new wine country venture, headed by executive chef/co-owner Luca Crestanelli, is now offering daytime dining via “The Farm & Cheese Bar,” with a lengthy cheese list and a curated charcuterie plate. The eatery’s wine list is local and international, and there are craft and classic cocktails.

Nella’s initial hours are 5-9 p.m., Thursday through Monday (closed Tuesday and Wednesday). The next stage of this soft opening will reveal an open-kitchen concept serving scratchmade Roman-style pizza, or pinsa. Once able to do so, the restaurant and bar will launch full lunch and dinner service.

The restaurant is a collaboration with the Fess Parker family and will eventually provide all food and beverage for the hotel’s pool area, as well as room service and take-away options for hotel guests. All private events booked at the inn will be catered by Nella Kitchen & Bar. Call (805) 686-1359 or visit nellakitchen.com.

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behind Julienne and other eateries around town, has been serving as the consulting chef for Noemi Pizza Romana, 3534 State Street, focused on operations. He will soon add some menu content for them, as well as some of his own recipes to transition Noemi into more of a “made in-house” program. Explained West, “They have an epic 96-hour dough that they make in house, and I look forward to creating some new pizzas to add to their already stellar lineup.”

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is opening two new establishments soon in the Santa Barbara Harbor: Salty at the Beach and Chomp on the Rocks, both family-friendly culinary and cocktail experiences with a seaside setting.

Salty should open by the end of September, and Chomp will come in October, occupying the former locations for the Endless Summer Bar Café and Chuck’s Waterfront Grill, which closed in April after about 20 years in business.

The building, which is the historic Naval Reserve Armory, is also home to the Maritime Museum.

The new restaurants represent Petersen’s first foray into the City of Santa Barbara following many years of success with Chomp restaurants in the Santa Ynez Valley.

Salty at the Beach will take over the upstairs space, with room for approximately 100 guests on two outdoor patios, complete with seven flat-screen TVs. Chomp on the Rocks will feature al fresco seating for another 50 guests on its ground-floor patio. Indoor dining will begin once COVID-19 regulations are relaxed. Both will begin with lunch and dinner service as well as afternoon and late-night happy hours, with weekend brunch starting in 2021.

Salty will feature California-style tavern cuisine, popular wines, and breezy cocktails, including the previous fan-favorite Endless Summer Mai Tai. Menu items range from snacks to big plates, featuring fun takes on time-tested dishes such as a deviled egg trio; popcorn rock shrimp with house-made rémoulade; warm pretzel bites with sea salt, smoked gouda and cheddar sauce, and a spicy honey mustard; “Birria-style” chicken nachos; the restaurant’s rendition of a French dip sandwich; and a rock shrimp po’ boy.

Chomp’s menu will feature dressed-up burgers, Nathan’s Famous hot dogs, “Old School” sandwiches (patty and tuna melts, a corned beef Reuben, hot pastrami), and “Fish” (fish tacos, crab-cake salad, and a Pacific lobster wrap), with shareable sides along the lines of onion rings and chili cheese fries. Dessert will include handmade shakes, malts, floats, sundaes, and an old-fashioned banana split. The design is a retroinspired, modern take on a diner, with clean lines, black-and-white tiles, red leather booths, and stool-tops, with additional seating at the shiny aluminum counter.

Petersen’s partners in this new venture are Solvang residents Max and Laura Hanberg, who own the 55-year-old Solvang Shoe Store, as well

as longtime Santa Ynez Valley residents Ken and Ronna Sorenson, owners of the 31-year-old Sorenson & Associates. Also joining the team is Southern California native Scott Gold, as well as Petersen’s daughter and son-in-law, both U.S. Navy lieutenants stationed in San Diego.

“The history of this building definitely won me over, with its ties to Santa Barbara’s place in naval history,” added Petersen. He originally opened his three Chomp businesses in Solvang from 2013 to 2019, and he also co-owns Mortensen’s Danish Bakery, which will celebrate its 45th anniversary in 2021.

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Dine-in on our patio - Enjoy delicious French comfort food and savory Ethiopian cuisine on our outdoor patio or for take-away. Pair it with a bottle of domestic or imported wine from our collection to create a tasty feast at home!

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Andersen’s Danish Restaurant & Bakery. Menu available for curbside or walk-up pickup. For dining in, order inside and we’ll bring you everything you need at an outside table. Open Daily 10am-6pm, closed Tuesday.

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Milk & Honey Tapas is SB’s go-to for creative & delicious tapas, award-winning craft cocktails, and friendly, inviting atmosphere. We are safely open for outdoor dining while adhering to strict public health protocols. Open Mon-Wed: 5-10pm; Thur-Sat: 5-11pm and offering online ordering/payment for all take-out and local delivery: www.milknhoneytapas.com.

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Nor are many opponents suggesting that their customers, who typically pay around $35 or more for one bottle of wine, would fret much at adding less than 50 cents to that bill. Even a $100 bottle of wine, which is rare here, would only go up by $1. It’s doubtful that there’d be too many tears shed by such customers into future glasses of pinot noir, especially since so many are familiar with paying similar add-on fees at hotels and restaurants in many regions around the world.

When pressed for what the future will bring if there is no such marketing money, some opponents wonder aloud whether the Santa Barbara County Vintners Association is even a useful organization in today’s world. Its demise, some say, would be just fine.

The idea of creating a grape commission has been voiced, which would assess vineyard income rather than bottle sales.

(Compared to winemakers, people who just own vineyards and sell grapes, but do not make their own wine, are not directly targeted by the BID.) There are worries about this idea, including some confusion over whether it would require involving San Luis Obispo County as well. Questions seeking to clarify this were not returned as of press time.

The association hopes to send out the official petitions to wineries in October. If supported, then the county and each affected city must also approve the BID’s creation or opt out. There’s already an effort underway to agendize these votes at each jurisdiction this fall, so Janes hopes the BID will be functional by January 1, 2021.

To ensure that the money is spent fairly based on a broad range of input, Janes said that the association plans to cycle out its current leadership in the months and years to come, aiming for a brandnew set of board members by 2022.

While a thorough understanding of those for or against the idea remains elusive—some ignored the straw polls taken so far, while opponents have also conducted their own surveys—the association believes that at least 60 percent of winemakers are supportive. For a BID to pass, it needs to be approved by wineries that represent more than 50 percent of overall county sales. That means votes are weighted toward the larger producers for the creation phase—they will be the ones paying more fees, after all—but once approved, BIDs are renewed on a predetermined schedule through straight one-to-one votes.

“We wouldn’t be proceeding if we didn’t think we would have the numbers,” said Janes. He recognizes that the creation of a BID is almost always controversial, whether to clean up blighted neighborhoods, which was the mechanism’s original intent, or to raise marketing money for tourism boards, which is the most common usage today.

But once created, Janes said BIDs are widely supported. “They are obviously popular once they get enacted,” he said. “The trick is to get them enacted.” While other wine regions are currently considering BIDs, Santa Barbara County would be the first to use n the fundraising tool.

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Take this unchallenged organic fact of musical life and put it onstage, unadorned, accompanied by an acoustic instrument, and you’ve got the approach favored by Mendeleyev Allan Blitz, the talented young singer/songwriter whose upcoming virtual concert from the Marjorie Luke Theatre premieres on Friday, September 18, at luketheatre.org. The artist, who grew up in Santa Barbara, has developed an international following over the last several years thanks to the way his creamy baritone wraps the listener in a rich, layered sound experience. It’s a voice that, once you’ve heard it, is impossible to forget.

Take that same fact—the primacy of the human voice—and costume it, make it up, light it, and produce it until it gleams and glows with every gimmick known to contemporary network television, and you’ve got NBC’s long-running vocal competition series The Voice, now entering its 19th season. Combine the two, however, and you get one hell of a story.

When Mendeleyev got the call that he would be a contestant in season 17 of The Voice, this barefoot child of Santa Barbara’s Mountain Drive hippie community had never seen the show. Throwing caution to the social-media wind, he accepted the challenge, delivering one of the most memorable (and YouTube popular) Blind Auditions in the entire history of the show and earning the program’s highest audition accolade, the “four-chair turn.” This moment is the show’s

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Mendeleyev chose John Legend, and Legend in turn chose … 15-year-old Preston Howell in the show’s “Battle Round,” effectively ending Mendeleyev’s run before it really got started. Nevertheless, that fourchair moment revealed his talent to a huge audience, even as Legend’s decision revealed what many of those audience members thought was his poor judgment.

Hearing Mendeleyev talk about the experience, one gets a slight sense of the personal earthquake this kind of sudden fame can set off. I’ll let him describe it, or try to: “I wish I could explain what happens to your cell phone overnight,” he told me. “It was absolutely wild.” Although that wild ride may have been cut short, Mendeleyev has no regrets about the way he handled the competition or the fame it has brought him, saying that when he realized how slick the program’s production values would be, he did everything he could to “strip it down.” “I was the only one to opt out of playing with the band” that season, he said, and, as one of the program’s only baritones, he had his own lane.

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When said venue was shuttered in May, the annual exhibit was postponed. It opened briefly to artists and families in August and now continues online at westmont.edu/museum/adjacent.

Twelve student artists have created the aptly named Adjacent, with themes hovering around notions of isolation and alienation: signposts of the times.

Spirituality, biblical resonances, and a probing sense of self and artistic voice converge in Alyssa Beccue’s life-size self-portraits. A similar identity-questing buzzes in Julianna Carl’s color-coded portraits of subjects in the throes of grooming.

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Jordan Marshall’s detailed floral painting, on round canvases, heeds the antique example of Victorian floriography, with blossoms serving as genteel symbols of family members, and as a self-portrait. Emily Mata, conversely, challenges heteronormative American family values, with her Kienholz-ish, funk-edged sculptural tableau of domestic life. Also in the threedimensional realm (a realm meagerly served in cyberspace), Noah Terrill’s abstracted fort-like structure of wood-mimicking ceramics conveys ritual, nostalgia, and mortality.

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CANCER

(Mar. 21-April 19): In one of your past lives, maybe you

(June 21-July 22): Cancerian songwriter Mathangi Arul-

were a Neanderthal midwife in what’s now southern France. In another incarnation, you may have been a 17th-century Guarani shaman who shared your knowledge about local plants with an Italian Jesuit missionary in what’s now Uruguay. All the powers and aptitudes you perfected in those and other previous ages could prove helpful as you cultivate your genius in the coming weeks. JUST KIDDING! Cancel my previous speculations. For you Aries folks, past achievements are often of secondary importance as you create your future. In fact, your mandate is usually to transcend the old days and old ways. It may be better not to imitate or rely on old stories, no matter how dazzling. This will be especially true in the coming weeks.

TAURUS

pragasam is better known by her stage name M.I.A. She has accomplished a lot in her 45 years on the planet, having been nominated for three Grammy Awards and an Academy Award. Esquire magazine named her the 75th most influential person of the 21st century. One key to her success is the fact that she formulated a clear master plan many years ago and has used it to guide her decisions. In her song “Matangi,” she refers to it: “If you’re gonna be me, you need a manifesto / If you ain’t got one, you better get one presto.” I bring this to your attention, Cancerian, because the coming weeks will be an excellent time to formulate (or re-formulate) your life manifesto and master plan.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “If you’re not invited to the party, throw

says poet Dean Young. “Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.” That’s always true, but it will be especially true for you in the coming weeks. I suspect you will be host to a wealth of interesting, unique, and profound feelings. They might be a bit overwhelming at times, but I think they will mostly provide rich opportunities for your soul to grow deeper and stronger and more resilient.

your own,” declares singer and actress Diahann Carroll.

In the coming weeks, I urge you Leos to use that advice as a metaphor in every way you can imagine. For example, if you’re not getting the love you want from a certain someone, give it to yourself. If no one hands you the opportunity you need, hand it to yourself. If you wish people would tell you what you want to hear, but they’re not saying it, tell yourself what you want to hear. It’s a time when you need to go beyond mere self-sufficiency.

Be self-gratifying, self-rewarding, self-acknowledging.

GEMINI

VIRGO

(May 21-June 20): “There should be a science of discon-

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “At the necessary moment, going

(April 20-May 20): “There are no ordinary feelings,”

tent,” said novelist Frank Herbert. “People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.” I partially agree with that observation, but I also think it’s a gratuitous cliché that’s not at all absolute. In fact, our culture is under the spell of a mass delusion that tempts us to believe “no pain, no gain” is the supreme learning principle. I’d like to see the development of a robust science of contentment: how fascination and freedom and generosity can build psychic muscles.

You’ll be a good candidate to study that subject in the coming weeks.

naked will be your most convincing disguise,” writes poet Dobby Gibson. As I apply his witty statement to your life, I’ll interpret it metaphorically. My sense is that you could really use the kind of “disguise” he’s talking about. What I mean is that you would benefit by appearing to be different from what people expect of you. You can gain key advantages by shifting the image you present to the world — by expressing a part of your identity that is not usually obvious. And I think the best way to do that is to “go naked” — i.e., be candid and transparent and vulnerable about your core truths.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran playwright Wendy Wasser-

stein wrote, “Every year I resolve to be a little less the me I know and leave a little room for the me I could be.

Every year I make a note not to feel left behind by my friends and family who have managed to change far more than I.” I recommend Wasserstein’s practice to you, dear Libra. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to launch this ritual as an annual tradition. For best results, write it out as a vow. I mean take a pen and paper and compose a solemn pledge, then sign it on the bottom to seal your determination.

SCORPIO

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You know what perfectionists are:

people who obsessively strive to finesse every last detail, polishing and honing so compulsively that they risk sucking all the soul out of the finished product. In contrast to them, I propose that we identify a different class of humans known as imperfectionists. They understand that a ferocious drive for utter purity can make things sterile and ugly. They resolve to cultivate excellence while at the same time, they understand that irregularities and eccentricities may infuse their work with beauty. I hope you’ll act like an imperfectionist in the coming weeks, Capricorn.

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I may not lead the most dramatic AQUARIUS life,” confesses singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Everything good I’ve ever gotten “but in my brain it’s War and Peace every day.” He was referencing Leo Tolstoy’s sprawling, exuberant 1,200page novel War and Peace, which features stories about five families who lived through Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in the 19th century. I’m guessing that these days, your fantasy life may also be filled with epic fairy tales and heroic sagas and tear-jerking myths. Is there a problem with that? Not necessarily. It could be quite entertaining and educational. I do recommend that you keep your actual life a little calmer and saner, however.

in life, I only got because I gave something else up,” writes author Elizabeth Gilbert. To that melodramatic declaration, I say, “Really? Everything? I don’t believe you.” And yet I do think she has a point. On some occasions, the most effective strategy for bringing good new influences into our lives is to sacrifice an influence or habit or pattern we’re attached to. And often the thing that needs to be sacrificed is comfortable or consoling or mildly pleasurable. I suspect that the coming weeks will offer you one of these opportunities, Aquarius.

SAGITTARIUS

PISCES

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “I rejoice to live in such a splendidly

disturbing time!” said author Helen Keller (1880–1968).

She was a smart activist who worked hard in behalf of women’s equality, labor rights, antimilitarism, and socialism. Was she being sarcastic in saying she loved being alive during a time of upheaval? Not at all. She derived excitement and vigor from critiquing injustice.

Her lust for life soared as she lent her considerable energy to making life on earth more enjoyable for more people. I invite you to consider adopting her attitude in the coming weeks. It’s a good time to experiment with generating the personal power that becomes available by taking practical action in behalf of your high ideals.

(Feb. 19-Mar. 20): “I and me are always too deeply in conversation,” confessed philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. I wonder why he said “too deeply” and not just “deeply.” Did he mean his dialogs with himself distracted him from important matters in the world outside of his imagination? Was he implying that he got so consumed while conducting his self-interviews that he lost his bearings and forgot what his goals were? With these cautions in mind, Pisces, I invite you to dive into an intense but spacious communion with yourself. Make this a delightful and illuminating conference, not a raging debate or a debilitating argument.

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THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)

The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 10/08/2020 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, 1100 Anacapa Street, P.O Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93102 Anacapa Division.

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

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

Attorney for Petitioner: Bradley C. Hollister;228 West Carrillo Street, Suite D, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 284‑0711.

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: WILLIAM CHARLES NEILSON Case No.: 20PR00260 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of WILLIAM CHARLES NEILSON A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: WENDY NEILSON in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION for probate requests that: WENDY NEILSON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

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

A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: Law Offices of Mark C. Sherwood ;340 N. Westlake Blvd Suite 220, Westlake Village, CA 91362; (805) 497‑1730.

Published Sep 10, 17, 27 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following 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 STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CITY BY THE SEA MERCH, SB CITYBYTHESEA.MERCH, SB MERCH at 317 Arden Road Apt A Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Alexis D Flores (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Alexis Flores Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 19, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck.

FBN Number: 2020‑0002098.

Published: Aug 27. Sep 3, 10, 17 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MIRAMAR RANCH at 115 Tiburon 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.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following 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 address) 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 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: 2020‑0002010.

Published: Aug 27. Sep 3, 10, 17 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GRASSHOPPER EDUCATION at 5290 Overpass Road, Unit 131 Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Leanne K Thomason 3890 Pueblo Ave, Unit B Santa Barbara, CA 93110 conducted by a Individual Signed: Leanne Thomason Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 10, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0001998. Published: Sep 3, 10, 17, 24 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PARAMOUNT PLASTERING at 33 Valdivia Dr Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Jesus Rodriguez (same address) 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 STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RIVIERA ELECTRIC SANTA BARBARA at 812 Spring St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Royner Rodriguez (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Royner Rodriguez Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 25, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002132. Published: Sep 3, 10, 17, 24 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ABC AIRSPORTS at 900 Airport Road Santa Ynez, CA 93460; Yves P Bajulaz (same address) 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 STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OVERLANDSPRINTERS at 725 E. Micheltorena St. Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Simhavaktra Dakini Holdings Inc. (same address) conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Eric Wilmanns Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 27, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002166. Published: Sep 3, 10, 17, 24 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 71 PAINTED WINES, HUMBLE WINE CO at 2717 Aviation Way, Ste 101 Santa Maria, CA 93455; Miller Family Wine Company, LLC (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 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: 2020‑0001830.

Published: Aug 27. Sep 3, 10, 17 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GOLDEN CAGE FILMS at 777 Embarcadero Del Mar, Apt 5 Goleta, CA 93117; Mitchka L Saberi (same address) Francisco Lopez 141 Hayes San Jose, CA 95123 conducted by a Copartners Signed: Mitchka Saberi Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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: 2020‑0002109. Published: Sep 3, 10, 17, 24 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA WIRELESS, CENTRAL COAST BROADBAND at 119 N Milpas St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Securepro Inc (same address) conducted by a Corporation Signed: Abraham Schryer 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: 2020‑0002113. Published: Sep 3, 10, 17, 24 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MIGHTY BRIGHT at 5540 Ekwill Street Suite 130 Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Gold Crest LLC (same address) conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Roger Edgar Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 28, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck.

FBN Number: 2020‑0002177.

Published: Sep 3, 10, 17, 24 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DARIN JON STUDIO SB at 271 North Fairview Ave, Suite 102 Goleta, CA 93117; Darin Jon Yee 180 Kingston Ave Apt B Goleta, CA 93117 conducted by a Individual Signed: Darin Jon Yee 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: 2020‑0001931.

Published: Sep 3, 10, 17, 24 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JOHN MICHAEL WINES, DEAD ZED at 2717 Aviation Way Ste 101 Santa Barbara, CA 93455; Miller Family Wine Company, LLC (same address) conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Stephen T.B. Miller Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 03, 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: 2020‑0002246. Published: Sep 10, 17, 24. Oct 1 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BALANCE AVE. at 6244 Marlborough Dr. Santa Barbara, CA 93117; Adornwell LLC (same address) conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Joshua Knight Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 01, 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: 2020‑0002212. Published: Sep 10, 17, 24. Oct 1 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CREATIVE KITCHEN SPACES at 4410 La Paloma Ave. Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Jason Tapia Construction of Santa Barbara (same address) conducted by a Corporation Signed: Jason M. Tapia Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 02, 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: 2020‑0002226. Published: Sep 10, 17, 24. Oct 1 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SALON MAXINE at 121 South Hope Ave #F147 Suite 113 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Kelly S Hewlett 424 East Sola St Santa Barbara, CA 93101 conducted by a Individual Signed: Kelly S Hewlett Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 27, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002169. Published: Sep 10, 17, 24. Oct 1 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RISE at 1812 Olive Avenue, Apt A Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Rise Santa Barbara (same address) conducted by a Corporation Signed: Jascylette Aviles 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: 2020‑0002040. Published: Sep 10, 17, 24. Oct 1 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AMR at 240 E. Highway 246 Ste 300 Buellton, CA 93427; American Medical Response West 6363 S. Fiddler’s Green Circle Suite 1400 Greenwood Village, CO 80111 conducted by a Corporation Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 04, 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: 2020‑0002259.

Published: Sep 10, 17, 24. Oct 1 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SY WHITE BARN + VINEYYARD at 2266 Edison Street Santa Ynex, CA 93460; Mark Falcone (same address) Teresa Falcone (same address) conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Mark Falcone Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 14, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002343. Published: Sep 17, 24. Oct 1, 8 2020.

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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 : G O L E TA SCHOOL OF BALLET at 303 Magnolia Avenue Goleta, CA 93117; Goleta School of Ballet, Inc (same address) conducted by a Corporation Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 03, 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: 2020‑0002244. Published: Sep 17, 24. Oct 1, 8 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GRANITE P E A K PA R T N E R S a t 3 0 1 E .

Carrillo Street, Suite B Santa Barbara, CA 93101; GP Real Estate Advisors, Inc. (same address) conducted by a Corporation Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 28, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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

FBN Number: 2020‑0002173.

Published: Sep 17, 24. Oct 1, 8 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: LORI’S MOBILE N O TA RY & F I N G E R P R I N T I N G at 4390 Calle Real #A Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Lorraine Cole 843 Portesuello Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93101 conducted by a Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 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: 2020‑0002240. Published: Sep 17, 24. Oct 1, 8 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ILLUMACARE at 1495 Hosmer Ln Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Illumacare (same address) conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Laurel Huston Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 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: 2020‑0002254. Published: Sep 17, 24. Oct 1, 8 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CANNA ONC RESEARCH at 2914 Lomita Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Michelle E Kendall (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Michelle Kendall Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 1, 2020.

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

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002211. Published: Sep 17, 24. Oct 1, 8 2020.

NAME CHANGE IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF GUADALUPE CRISTINA CARDOSO PINON ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 20CV02738 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: GUADALUPE CRISTINA CARDOSO PINON TO: GUADALUPE CRISTINA JACINTO PINON THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must

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NOTICE OF HEARING Nov 2, 2020 10:00am, Dept: 5, Superior Court of California County of Santa Barbara 1100 Anacapa Dtreet Santa Barbara, CA 93101; anacapa Division A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Sep 9, 2020 by Colleen K. Sterne, Judge of the Superior Court. Published: Sep 17, 24. Oct 1, 8 2020.

PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE OF COURT HEARING Name of Person Asking for Order: Bonnie TeVelde Your lawyer in this case: John Mahan State Bar: 178497 (If you have a lawyer for this case, give your lawyer’s information.

II you do not have a lawyer and want to keep your home address private, give a different mailing address instead. You do not have to give your telephone, flux, or e‑mail.)

Address. City: 51 Zaca Lane Suite 150 San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 (805) 781‑6418 legaldept@ standstrongnow.org Name of Person to Be Restrained: Jessica Bonaccorso The court will fill out the rest of

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Notice of Hearing A court hearing is scheduled on the request for restraining orders against the person Electronically FILED: 3/25/2020 San Luis Obispo Superior Court by: Simms, Chelsie Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo 1035 Palm Street Rm 385 San Luis Obispo, CA 93408 Court fills in case number when form is filed.

Case Number: 20R‑0158 Hearing Date: 9/30/2020 Time 9:00 am Date Dept.: Via Zoom meeting Room: Name and address of court if different from above: Temporary Restraining Orders (Any orders granted are attached on form DV‑110.)

Restraining Orders for personal conduct and stay‑away orders as requested in form DV‑100, Request for Violence Restraining Order, are (check only one box below): (1) ALL GRANTED until the court hearing.

Service of Documents by the Person in At least five days before the hearing, someone age 18 or older—not you or anyone to be protect personally give (serve) a court file‑stamped copy of this form (DV‑109, Notice of Court along with a copy of all the forms indicated below: (b) DV‑110, Temporary Restraining Order (file‑stamped) IF GRANTED Published Aug 27. Sep 3, 10, 17 2020.

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