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OCTOBER QUICK LEARNING LUNCHES Bring your lunch and join us for an overview of current housing laws – a new topic every week in the month of October. English sessions will be taught by SBRPA President Betty L. Jeppesen Betty L, Jeppesen, Esq. Betty has 38 years’ experience in real estate, contract, aircraft leasing law and civil litigation.

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In 2018 she founded the Law Offices of Betty L. Jeppesen where she currently practices and is affiliated as a broker with Sun Coast Real Estate.

Week 1, Tue, Oct 6 – 1482 & Just Cause What are the ONLY reasons an owner can terminate a tenancy?

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volume 34, # 768, Oct. 1-8, 2020 Editor in Chief Marianne Partridge Publisher Brandi Rivera Executive Editor Nick Welsh Senior Editors Tyler Hayden and 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 Rob Brezsny, Melinda Burns, Ben Ciccati, John Dickson, Leslie Dinaberg, Keith Hamm, Rebecca Horrigan, Eric HvolbØll, Tom Jacobs, Shannon Kelley, Kevin McKiernan, Carolina Starin, Ethan Stewart, Tom Tomorrow, 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

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COVER STORY Tech Talk

From Start-ups to Success Stories, an In-Depth Look At Our High-Tech Industry

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OPINIONS.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Angry Poodle Barbecue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Voices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

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STAN MACK’S REAL LIFE NOT-SO-FUNNIES For an artist who made his reputation working with material that was “100% Guaranteed Overheard,” Stan Mack has one of the most distinctive voices in American letters. Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies, the strip he drew weekly for the Village Voice for more than 20 years, has had an outsize impact on the development of one of today’s most popular and culturally revered forms — the literary graphic novel.

These Days, the new occasional feature that Mack has begun contributing to the Independent, pushes off from the overheard street scenes of Manhattan into the bewildering, often isolated, always borderline absurd era of the current global pandemic. Using text derived from phone interviews, Mack delivers — this time in a single-frame format — trenchant, pitch-perfect snapshot/soundbites of contemporary life. The Indy is honored to host his remarkable talent in this latest, most timely manifestation.

Find These Days at independent.com/these-days and send your ideas to Mack at stan@independent.com.

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In years past, many have looked to the Santa Barbara Independent for our endorsements.

In response to this year’s accelerated election process, we will be posting our endorsements online beginning this Thursday, October 1, at independent.com/endorsements2020.

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INDEPENDENT ENDORSEMENTS ONLINE NOW at independent.com/endorsements2020. In the meantime, the website for the county’s elections department will be posting the candidates’ statements online.

See countyofsb.org/care/elections/home.sbc.

This whole thing, we realize, has caused much consternation among political candidates and their campaign managers. It’s also set the Independent’s phone lines on fire. For better or worse, this year’s election has already started, as county election czar Holland has noted.

As of Monday, October 5, county voters can avail themselves of 30 drop-off boxes throughout the county where they can personally hand-deliver their ballots. Those drop-off boxes will be available between then and November 3. For drop-box locations, see independent.com/drop-boxes.

County Elections will also open 35 sites where voters can cast their ballots the old-fashioned way. Making this new and different, these voting centers will be open October 31-November 3. For polling places, see countyofsb.org/care/ elections/voting/polls.sbc.

In the meantime, we encourage everyone to vote.

Ron Ely Sues Sheriff over Family Deaths Audio Recording of Son’s Shooting Appears to Contradict Deputies’ Statements

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arzan actor and Hope Ranch resident Ron Ely has filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit against the Santa Barbara County Sheriff ’s Office for the 2019 deaths of his wife, Valerie, and their son, Cameron.

The lawsuit claims that the five deputies who responded to a 9-1-1 call at the Ely residence the night of October 15 neglected to give timely medical aid to 62-year-old Valerie, whom authorities say Cameron had stabbed, and then shot 30-year-old Cameron 22 times as he attempted to surrender to them unarmed with his hands in the air.

“The reprehensible conduct of the Santa Barbara Sheriff ’s Department Deputies was egregious, entirely unreasonable, and, accordingly, unconstitutional,” states the civil claim, which was filed in July and seeks an unspecified amount of punitive damages. Ely is represented by Los Angeles attorney DeWitt M. Lacy, who specializes in police misconduct cases and in recent years has secured multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements against the cities of Santa Clara, Antioch, and Alameda.

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hortly before press time we learned that, out of an abundance of caution, Santa Barbara County’s elections czar Joe Holland mailed out 227,000 election ballots this past Monday, a week sooner than normal. Holland was driven to do so by a sense of urgency that all votes be counted. This year’s election is like no other, and this year’s provisions to conduct the election—mail-in—are like no other either.

There was the COVID virus; there were allegations that the postal service might be effectively sabotaged from the top. “Vote early,” Holland has said, over and over.

What Holland failed to do, however, was to mail out the candidates’ statements at the same time as the ballots. Usually, these go out sooner. As a result, many voters—alarmed by pervasive media warnings that mail delivery times could be seriously hamstrung because of recent changes instituted at the top of the Postal Service food chain — might feel pressed to fill out their ballots and turn them in sooner than usual.

In years past, many have looked to the Santa Barbara Independent for our endorsements. In response to this year’s accelerated election process, we will be posting our endorsements online beginning this Thursday, October 1,

could not comment on the pending litigation. The incident itself remains under criminal investigation, and the District Attorney’s Office review of the shooting is ongoing, as well. One of the active-duty deputies involved, Jeremy Rogers, has now been sued three times in connection with the deaths of five Santa Barbara County residents. His other two cases settled for a combined $5.5 DEATH IN THE FAMILY: Ron Ely (center) has sued the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office over the death of his wife, Valerie, and their son, Cameron. million in taxpayer dollars.

The Ely lawsuit relies on 9-1-1 transcripts and an audio recording of the shooting for its alle- family’s home at 4141 Mariposa Drive because his mother was gations, and it contradicts many of the public statements attacking his father. The call then abruptly ended. made by the Sheriff’s Office in the days following the inciDispatchers tried calling Cameron back, the suit says. dent. It notes none of the deputies had their body cameras Ron answered instead. Due to an existing medical condition, turned on at the time of the shooting. The Independent Ron could not verbally communicate with the dispatchers. obtained a copy of the audio recording through a Califor- They heard him crying and trying to speak. “An unidentifinia Public Records Act request, and it is now published at able female voice, presumed to be Decedent Valerie, was independent.com. heard in the background of this call indicating Decedent According to the lawsuit, Cameron Ely called 9-1-1 at Valerie was alive when the second call occurred,” the filing approximately 8 p.m., asking that deputies be sent to his says.

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County Officially Enters State’s Red Tier More Businesses Can Now Reopen; Supes Hit Pause on COVID-Caused Commercial Evictions

by Delaney Smith truggling businesses in Santa Barbara County saw their COVID silver lining Tuesday when the county officially passed into the state’s red tier, allowing them more leeway to reopen, and the Board of Supervisors also passed an urgency ordinance temporarily prohibiting commercial evictions through the end of next January.

Public Health Director Dr. Van Do-Reynoso said that all of the metrics that determine how widespread the disease

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is in the county are continuing to decrease, and the past two weeks have been no different. From September 14-28, hospitalizations have decreased by 30 percent; medical surge rates by 19 percent; and intensive care unit rates by 50 percent.

As of Tuesday afternoon, Santa Barbara County is now listed in the red tier on the state’s COVID-19 website. That moves the county out of the state’s most restrictive purple tier and, beginning Wednesday at 8 a.m., allows gyms to reopen at 10 percent capacity; indoor museums, places

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of worship, movie theaters, and restaurants at 25 percent capacity; all retail and shopping centers at 50 percent capacity; and nail salons and other personal care services can open indoors. Bars and entertainment centers would remain closed.

Even with the bump in business that the red tier will provide for many, others still are a long way away from financial stability. So the supervisors on Tuesday also adopted an urgency ordinance that temporarily prohibits commercial CONT’D ON PAGE 8 

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BODY AT BLACKLAKE: The dismembered body of alleged white supremacist Joseph Martin Govey (below) was found in a lake at Blacklake Golf Resort in Nipomo (above) on September 21.

Three Arrested in Dismembered Body Case

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Machleit and Mersai are charged with homicide in the Govey case, and Anderson is booked as an accessory. When Anderson and Machleit were arrested, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office stated the two knew Govey but would not disclose any details.

Govey had been arrested in 2001 for alleged meth charges while driving a U-Haul truck in Huntington Beach. The case apparently involved a sale of drugs to Govey by a police informant, according to the OC Weekly. According to court documents, Govey was allegedly at one time a member of the Public Enemy Number One Death Squad gang, a white supremacist group that originated in Long Beach — allegations that Govey’s lawyer had refuted.

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by Jean Yamamura hree people have been arrested for the alleged murder of Santa Maria’s Joseph Martin Govey, whose dismembered body was found in a lake at Blacklake Golf Resort in Nipomo on September 21. Sheriff ’s detectives believe Govey was murdered, dismembered, and then dumped into the lake in December 2018.

The most recent arrest took place September 28, when Benjamin Mersai, 33, of Grover Beach was apprehended “as he was recreating at the same golf course where the decedent’s remains were located,” according to the Santa Barbara County Sheriff ’s Office. Mersai’s LinkedIn account lists him as a bartender and “drink creator” at the golf resort in 2016.

Two other people were charged earlier in the homicide: Kimberly Machleit, 35, and Donald Anderson, 37, both of Santa Maria.

All three are being held at the Santa Barbara County Jail; Machleit’s bail of $2 million was rescinded. Mersai is being held without bail. Anderson has pleaded not guilty to the charges. Mersai was to be arraigned on September 30, and Machleit on October 1, both after press time.

Mersai and Anderson worked as independent contractors for Green Light Go, a company based in Garden Grove that schedules big-rig trucks, flatbeds, and drivers. In Santa Maria, they worked out of 2291 Professional Parkway. Machleit worked for Anderson and was his girlfriend, according to Carrie Allen, who is with the company’s location in McAllen, Texas. The company had severed ties with Anderson and the others in August after learning that Anderson and Machleit had been arrested for methamphetamines and guns, Allen said.

The two were arrested on August 25 with a third man, Kevin Rasmussen, 27, of Tustin, at the same Professional Parkway location. They had been released from jail without bail under Emergency Rule 4, which allows many felonies to have bail set at zero. The evidence allegedly included 605 grams of meth, 12 grams of heroin, an AR-15-style rifle, a sawed-off shotgun, and two handguns without serial numbers. The Sheriff’s Office stated they found five vehicles that had been purchased using identification belonging to other people, including birthdates and social security numbers.

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His case got wrapped into what became a notorious use of jailhouse informants by Orange County law enforcement; six cases, including Govey’s, were thrown out of court by federal Judge Cormac Carney in 2018.

Govey’s attorney Tim Scott, who called his former client “Joey,” said the prosecutor’s case fell apart after a witness, a sheriff’s deputy, declined to testify and took the Fifth to avoid incriminating himself in a murder case unrelated to Govey. The informants were the same, however, and Scott said the deputies tried to settle the score by overstating the evidence in n the drug cases.

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County Red Tier cont’d from p. 6 evictions through January 31, 2021.Though it just made the 4/5 required vote, with 4th District Supervisor Peter Adam voting against it, there was push and pull on the dais.

“It’s not a perfect solution,” 2nd District Supervisor Gregg Hart said. “That would be something at the federal level that treats borrowers and lenders with some sort of holiday that would allow everyone to take a breath and get through this moment.

Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem likely in this political environment, so we are left here at the local level with the actual realworld consequences.”

The ordinance stops commercial evictions from happening if they are directly linked to the renter’s loss of income or substantial medical expenses related to COVID-19. There is already a nearly identical ordinance in place that is set to expire September 30, and last week the governor issued executive order N-80-20 that allows the county to extend it through March 2021.

The ordinance the supervisors passed Tuesday was also intended to be parallel with the recently enacted Tenant Relief Act that provides the same protections to residential tenants.

“I’m surprised to hear everyone’s concern of businesses and business owners, and I think it’s ironic that you have that much concern but you don’t do anything about opening businesses,” said Jim Knell, owner of Sima Corporation, which rents to about

250 retail commercial tenants in the county.

“This onerous process that’s being developed by the state and backed by the county is causing commercial tenants to have problems.

Most residential tenants are on month-tomonth leases, but retail tenants are on longterm leases with expiration dates.”

Knell explained that commercial tenants will try to use the process as a way to extend their leases after they’ve already expired, even if he already has a new tenant lined up.

Supervisor Adam agreed with Knell, saying to his colleagues: “You may want to put a Band-Aid on, but the root cause of this is our failure to open.”

But they did not agree. Fifth District Supervisor Steve Lavagnino, who asked for the ordinance to come to the board with Hart, said that the characterizations simply aren’t true.

“I take exception to the idea that somehow we created COVID or somehow we have shut down this community and harmed business,” Lavagnino said. “That is not a decision of the Board of Supervisors…. I could have gotten a million pats on the back for giving the governor the finger and saying, ‘Businesses, do whatever you want to do. Let’s just roll the dice and see what happens.’ That is not good public health policy. Rolling the dice with people’s health is always bad policy.”

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Sergeant Desiree Thome, Deputy Jeremy Rogers, Deputy Phillip Farley, and Deputy John Gruttaduario arrived at the house 15 minutes later. They found Valerie on the floor of the dining room with multiple stab wounds to her chest. “Defendant Deputies did not know, and failed to check, if Decedent Valerie was alive when they arrived,” the suit states. Medical personnel were then allegedly blocked from entering the home for over 30 minutes, and by the time they reached Valerie at 8:42 p.m., she was pronounced dead.

An hour later, at approximately 9:40 p.m., the deputies had congregated outside in the driveway when they saw Cameron walking from around the back of the house and down the driveway toward them. The lawsuit notes, and the audio recording confirms, the deputies ordered Cameron to “keep” his hands up, indicating his hands were already raised as he approached.

Cameron was bleeding from several stab wounds to his lower abdomen, the lawsuit says. It is not made clear if he had been attacked or if his injuries were self-inflicted.

He was also suffering from a torn MCL and meniscus in his right knee. In the recording, one of the deputies asks for gloves.

Cameron was covered in blood. “Keep your hands up, okay?” a deputy gently tells him.

“Keep your hands up.”

“Suddenly, and without any warning or legal justification, multiple Defendant Deputies opened fire on Decedent Cameron,

striking him a total of 22 times with bullets from several department issued weapons,” the claim states. “The shooting occurred less than 20 seconds after Defendant Deputies saw Decedent Cameron walk around the corner with his hands up, the universal act of surrender.”

Sheriff’s officials have publicly claimed that Cameron announced to the deputies that he had a gun, “advanced” towards them, then “motioned with his hands as if he were drawing a weapon.” None of those assertions are reflected in the recording.

Cameron was left to bleed to death for 13 minutes before medical personnel were allowed to assess him, the lawsuit says. “Decedent Cameron was unarmed, nonviolent, and acting calmly during the entirety of the short encounter. He did not make any aggressive movements or furtive gestures nor did he utter any threats which would have led a reasonable Sheriff ’s deputy to believe that he posed a risk of death or serious bodily injury to anyone.”

The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors discussed the case this Tuesday in a closed-session meeting. County Counsel Mike Ghizzoni declined to comment on the content of that meeting or any of the allegations within the lawsuit. “[The County Counsel’s Office] generally does not comment about ongoing litigation,” he explained, “particularly when plaintiffs have requested a jury that might be exposed to pre-trial publicity.” n

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SIGN OF THE TIMES: City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to change the name of Indio Muerto Street to Hutash Street.

Indio Muerto Street to Be Changed Council Votes to Rename the Eastside Street Hutash

by Nick Welsh he Santa Barbara City Council voted unanimously Tuesday, September 30, to change the name of Indio Muerto Street — which means “Dead Indian” in Spanish. “It’s just a bad name for a street, no matter how you cut it,” declared councilmember Oscar Gutierrez. “The name flat-out, bottom line is offensive.” Councilmember Kristen Sneddon wondered how people would react to streets named “Dead Woman or Dead Child,” adding, “It’s unbelievable it took this long.” Councilmember Michael Jordan joined in, agreeing, “When it comes to the smell test, the name is offensive.”

The new name adopted for the narrow Eastside street running from Salinas to Milpas is Hutash, a Chumash word. How that translates, however, did run into some controversy at the council meeting.

Via Zoom, Marcus Lopez of the Barbareño Chumash Council explained Hutash meant “Mother Earth.” Others, members of a rival band of Chumash, contend it means “God” and questioned if it was appropriate to name any street after God. (It’s also the name of the Chumash Harvest festival as well as a shiny black seed grain once used by Chumash to make nutritious, oily dough balls.) They questioned whether Lopez and his group were authentic Chumash. Lopez in turn dismissed his critics as a band of “naysayers” who believed they were the only real Chumash.

The council also got a virtual earful from name-change supporters and only a few detractors. A spokesperson for the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians called the name “a stain on the beauty of Santa Barbara,” and a spokesperson for Assemblymember Monique Limón said the name change was “past due.”

Many affiliated with Healing Justice, Santa Barbara’s version of Black Lives Matter, said the name Indio Muerto expressed decades of “white supremacy and cultural genocide.” Simone Ruskamp, a leader in Healing Justice, said that there would be

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no gratitude for Tuesday’s vote; the council could and should do better. “Martin Luther King warned about moderate white folks.”

Local historian Neal Graffy gave a mini tutorial of his own, pointing out the street — one of 10 original street names that harked back to Chumash culture — was named Indio Muerto in 1851 when city street surveyors then laying out Santa Barbara’s first urban grid stumbled onto the body of a dead Chumash man. “Indio Muerto street is the only monument to the burial place of an unknown Chumash man who died alone in the empty fields of Santa Barbara,” Graffy said. “This street is like the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier,” he went on. “There are thousands of others who died alone, scared, beaten, sick, and forgotten. Indio Muerto should be seen as a memorial to them all.” Some councilmembers gave Graffy props for his efforts, but none bought his argument.

There are only 40 homes and five businesses that will be affected by the name change. The Post Office will deliver mail to both addresses for one year, but then only to the Hutash address. Sam Clifford, owner of Santa Barbara Chemical Corporation, said no one from City Hall had ever notified him of the proposed name change, which he estimated would cost him “tens of thousands of dollars.” City administrators acknowledged that was true. Councilmember Jordan expressed vexation that City Hall hadn’t mailed out notices to 45 affected residents and had done nothing to verify the meaning of Hutash.

Lopez said he made efforts to reach out to Clifford and his business, but he never heard back. Clifford insisted he’d reached out to Lopez multiple times without getting any response.

The new Hutash street signs will be installed sometime in December at a cost of about $1,500. After all was said and done, the council made clear, that whatever Hutash means — and however it should be spelled — it’s not offensive. n

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The 15-year goal may prove a heavy lift.

Project planner Rosie Dyste characterized it as “aspirational.” Still, all speakers expressed confidence that the city could meet the target — as long as state and federal climate goals (such as Newsom’s recent order to phase out gas-powered car production) provide momentum to push local efforts. “This is the same goal that the city of San Luis Obispo also adopted,” Dyste added. “It’s something we could achieve potentially together.”

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TWO SEATS SECURED: Pictured from left, Don Eversoll, Dorinne Lee Johnson, and Ed Martin are Water Security candidates for the sanitary board. There are three seats open, and there is one challenger, Gary Fuller (right).

Pre-Election Meltdown at Montecito Sanitary With General Manager and Three Directors Quitting, Is Merger with Water District in Works?

by Melinda Burns ome call it a “quiet revolution.” Others, a “hostile takeover.”

Either way, on the heels of a severe drought, a group of wealthy Montecitans, many of them members of the Birnam Wood and Valley Club golf courses on East Valley Road, will gain control over all aspects of water policy on November 3 and for the foreseeable future in this exclusive enclave of one-acre lots and large estates.

It’s been a five-year crusade. In the 2016 and 2018 elections, candidates backed by $210,000 in donations swept out all five Montecito water board members, riding a voter backlash against rationing and heavy fees for over-watering. They billed themselves as “Your Water Security Team,” and they gained a foothold on the Montecito Sanitary District board, too.

In this November’s election, a slate of Water Security candidates is set to finish the job, capturing the sanitary district board majority: They are running virtually unopposed.

Campaign donations to the slate total $45,600, including $25,000 from Joseph Hardin Jr., a retired Walmart executive and former boardmember of the Birnam Wood and Valley clubs who also donated $25,000 to the 2018 campaigns.

Water and sanitary board elections have profound consequences for the availability and cost of water in a small community where residential water use, at 200 gallons per capita per day, is among the highest in the state. This year, saying that residents couldn’t be expected to conserve more than they already have, the Montecito Water District signed a deal with Santa Barbara for a $33 million supply of city water for the next 50 years — and raised rates to pay for it.

“A quiet revolution has been taking place in Montecito … we can have the top-notch sanitary district Montecito deserves,” states a recent ad in the Montecito Journal, signed by the Committee for Montecito Water Security.

But Hillary Hauser, executive director of Heal the Ocean, a nonprofit environmentalist group, believes the committee is bent on a “hostile takeover.” What the committee really wants, she said, is to merge the water and sanitary districts.

“They’re playing dirty pool,” Hauser said. “They used quotes from our literature and put it in their ads when they were first running for their seats on the water and sanitary boards. That isn’t nice.”

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The three Water Security candidates currently running on a slate for three seats on the Montecito Sanitary District board say they would scrap the district’s long-standing plans to build a $5 million wastewater recycling plant at 1042 Monte Cristo Lane. The plant would have provided

non-potable water to keep the vast lawn green at the Santa Barbara Cemetery, beginning next spring.

“This is one of the most frustrating situations that Heal the Ocean has ever encountered,” Hauser said. “It is just a crime to be using drinking water on the cemetery.”

In place of the district’s current proposal, the Water Security slate favors building a much larger, more expensive plant from the start, one that could provide recycled water well beyond the cemetery to such customers as the golf courses and the Biltmore and Miramar hotels. A 2018 water district study on water recycling options for Montecito estimated the cost of such a project at $16 million.

“It’s important for the environment,” said Ed Martin, a Water Security candidate for the sanitary board. If 100 percent of Montecito’s wastewater can be recycled, he said, there would be no need to continue shipping treated wastewater, or effluent, through an ocean pipeline that discharges 1,500 feet off Butterfly Beach.

That’s the beach where “the affluent bathe in the effluent,” Martin said.

Dozens of communities in California discharge their effluent offshore under state permits. It is impossible to recycle 100 percent of it, sanitary officials say; a residue of brine would still have to be discharged into the ocean.

PURGING, THEN MERGING?

Do the Water Security candidates support a merger with the water district? They’re not saying. But Bob Hazard — Montecito Journal associate editor, past president of Birnam Wood, and one of the chief movers and shakers behind the Water Security committee — has been promoting the idea for years.

Along with the cemetery, the golf courses are among the largest water users in Montecito. According to the water district study, Birnam Wood could be expected to use an average 89,000 gallons of recycled water per day, and the Valley Club, 134,000 gallons.

Hazard wants to dispel any notion that Birnam Wood members are backing Water Security candidates “to get cheap recycled water for golf course millionaires.” Both golf courses have their own wells, he said. As for a potential merger of the water and sanitary districts, Hazard said, “Personal fiefdoms are destructive and expensive.”

Phil Bernstein, a Water Security committee cofounder, declined to predict what the future might hold.

“I’d hardly call it a hostile takeover,” he said. “There’s a gaping opportunity here.”

There is indeed. Three sanitary board members whose terms are up in December — President Tom Bollay and directors Tom Kern and Jeff Kerns — have decided not to run.

General Manager Diane Gabriel, a civil engineer who has been a frequent target of Water Security members and supporters, is resigning on October 2 after 19 years at the district. Toni McDonald, the district administrator, has already left, along with two sewer maintenance workers.

Further defections from the original staff of 17 employees are expected later this fall.

In 2018, the district won a Project of the Year award from the American Society of Civil Engineers for building a $5 million, one-of-a-kind wastewater lift station for the Miramar hotel on South Jameson Lane. As a badge of financial soundness, the district enjoys a coveted AA+ rating from Standard & Poor’s, the global business intelligence firm.

Judith Ishkanian, a former sanitary board veteran who lost her seat to the Water Security team in 2018, said independent districts are the “gold standard” for small communities such as Montecito, she said.

“We’re throwing away the venerable system we’ve had for generations for an unknown future,” Ishkanian said.

“It’s the end of Camelot.”

THE NEW ORDER

The candidates on the Water Security slate for the sanitary board are Don Eversoll, a former Long Island real estate developer; Dorinne Lee Johnson, a Montecito Association boardmember; and Ed Martin, a former Los Angeles attorney.

With three seats open on the board and four contenders, the slate is assured at least two seats. Add those to the two board members elected in 2018 and a Water Security majority is assured. Their only challenger is Gary Fuller, an attorney and plumber who doesn’t plan to spend any money on advertising.

“I feel the term ‘Water Security’ team is an oxymoron,” Fuller said. “It appears they are intent on securing a public resource for private enterprise.”

Also on the November 3 ballot are water board President Floyd Wicks, an advisor to private water companies; and Director Tobe Plough, a management consultant with a “social membership” at Birnam Wood. They are running for reelection unopposed.

The Water Security candidates oppose the district’s plan to build a $4.6 million “essential services building” at 1042 Monte Cristo Lane, replacing its aging headquarters. The candidates call it “wasteful overspending.”

Outgoing board Director Kern said the current building has asbestos, mold, and a leaky roof. As for the cemetery project, he said, “We need to move ahead on that quickly, and I felt the Sanitary District was being discouraged from doing it. The plan was a good one.” n

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RUN BLUES: I missed Tuesday night’s presidential debate, which is to say — having

caught some of it—I saw too much. It was like watching a belligerent drunk driver going the wrong way up a freeway onramp with all the inevitable consequences. If there is to be a rematch, ESPN should moderate. Joe Biden blinked too much for my taste but still managed to get off a good throwaway line: “Trump wouldn’t know a suburb unless he took a wrong turn.” This came in response

to Trump’s wild-hair charge that Biden is hell-bent on wiping suburbs off the face of the planet.

This, presumably, is the game plan for scaring suburban white women into submission. If these women only belonged to the same charismatic “community” of faith as Trump’s latest Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett. People of Promise, the community to which Barrett has been involved,

does not allow women to serve on their board. As has been widely reported, women

are permitted certain ancillary leadership roles, that of “handmaiden” being the best known.

The body of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, scientists have just discovered, was already spinning well before they put her in the ground.

Having forgotten to take my Ritalin, I found myself struggling to focus on Tuesday night’s jibber jabber. I kept flashing on the

$70,000 tax write-off the New York Times

just reported Donald Trump claimed for haircuts. As I attempted to do the math, my head exploded. Until COVID hit, I was a loyal customer at Willie’s Barber Shop on Figueroa Street. Willie’s son Gilbert —who runs the place now—is a peach of a human being, and Willie himself — ageless and unstoppable — never fails to astonish with tales of adventures, only a few of which can be printed in a family publication. For all Willie’s gruffness, he too is a peach and can be seen — when he thinks no one is looking — extracting bottles and cans from the recycling receptacle on behalf of older customers for whom such deep dives are no longer physically possible but for whom the redemption fees remain economically essential.

How many haircuts would I have to get, I wondered, to claim such a tax deduction? At the rates Willie’s charges, that’s between 2,800 and 3,500, depending on the size of the tip. At the rate I’m going, I’d have to live another 800 years, at which time, I might be right up there with Willie himself.

What I may have missed by such musings was any mention of supplemental unemployment benefits by either of the candidates. The silence on this subject—by either party—has also caused my head to explode.

It’s hardly academic. I have loved ones who are fully or partially unemployed as a result of COVID. Those benefits were a lifeline, not

some luxury. That federal aid expired July 31.

Trump’s stopgap “solution” was to make available to states limited funds — recipients would get half as much — otherwise designated for disaster victims. Those funds recently expired, and there’s no credible threat of help on the horizon. For millions of people, this ticking time bomb has become the metronome of their life. In Santa Barbara County, that’s reality for 16,800 people.

The good news is — as usual — things could be worse. In fact, they just were. The month before, the number of unemployed here was 21,700. But compared to a year ago, it’s still grim. Today’s unemployment rate for Santa Barbara County hovers at 8 percent. A year ago this time, it was 3.4 percent.

To be fair, the Democrats agreed upon a $3 trillion bill in May. Republican leadership laughed. They proposed a $1 trillion plan instead. Trump sat uncharacteristically silent. Later, the Republicans amended their offer to $660 billion, some of which would go to school vouchers, thus making it certified deal-killer for Democrats.

At some point, Trump broke his silence on the subject and suggested he was open to a deal with bigger numbers than GOP leaders wanted. But in fact, it was all kabuki theater, faux negotiations conducted in bad faith just to make the other side look bad.

Last week, a bipartisan Congressional crew known as the Progress Makers —to which Santa Barbara Congressmember Salud

Carbajal belongs—proposed a $1.5 billion deal. The Democratic leadership unveiled

yet another variant just this week, this one for $2.2 trillion. The timing, of course, is suspect, coming just one day before the debate. But then, the timing of everything these days is politically suspect and for good reason.

I could mention, of course, the imminent threat posed to beneficiaries of the Affordable Care Act posed by the Trump Administration, but that might feel like more rhetorical noise. In Santa Barbara County, 16,000 people are now enrolled in one of Covered California’s many plans. More than that, there’s the 34,000 more people who have qualified for MediCal coverage only because of eligibility expansions triggered by the Affordable Care Act. In one breath, Trump has famously claimed to support coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. In the other, he’s challenging the constitutionality of the only program — Affordable Care — that’s mandated such protections. I’m not sure how that adds up, but you can do the math yourselves: 50,000 people in a county of 425,000.

I guess we’ll find out soon enough when Amy Barrett gets confirmed to the high court.

Say what you want about Trump’s performance, but he was dead right about one thing.

“Elections,” he said, “have consequences.”

At this rate, we’ll all be raiding the recycling bins. If you see Willie, be sure to say hi.

—Nick Welsh

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OAST and SBBIKE have advocated over a decade for a people-focused, car-free stretch of State Street. When the city created a promenade for COVID-19 recovery, it appeared our dream came true! But there’s more to do to make the dream a long-term reality. We love this new shared public space but are disheartened that the “Wild West” of the Promenade has yielded negative discourse and even dangerous actions toward cyclists on State Street. We understand. It can feel unsafe to pedestrians when cyclists and skateboarders share the street.

This has led some to question if bicycling should remain on the Promenade.

Bikes belong on State! More people are biking downtown than ever before — families, friends, residents, and tourists alike—creating an active, vibrant, and desirable culture. Bikes equal business: Nearly 50 percent of downtown retail and restaurant patronage arrives by bike, and our business owners see those economic bike benefits. Bicycling helps our environment; more visits by bike mean cleaner air! Bikes get hundreds to work every day!

State Street is the spine of our bicycle network defined by the S.B. Bicycle Master Plan. It’s the only safe, direct way to ride to and from Stearns Wharf.

Our downtown corridor must remain open to all people, walking and rolling. We just need the space to share it together—yet apart.

With restaurants far into the street, some feel their State Street was taken away; it’s not for them anymore. No one should feel excluded!

We ask city officials to modify public space rules now and make “people flow” improvements, such as a center two-way bike lane, so everyone can feel safe, welcome, and included.

Let’s remember: ‘We’re ALL on State Together!’

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he Cannabis Grand Jury Report contains clear and convincing evidence that the Board of Supervisors failed in fulfilling their mission to “Protect the Health, Safety, and Welfare” of their citizens.

All supervisors are culpable regardless of whether they were aggressively pushing or meekly following.

The Grand Jury is composed of individuals appointed to keep watch over government agencies, cities, and districts. To accomplish their mission,

the Grand Jury must have full cooperation when investigating, which evidently did not occur. Even with the obstruction, the Grand Jury amassed compelling evidence and outlined factual findings and recommendations, most of which were unilaterally dismissed by the supervisors.

The supervisors did not address the underlying issues or acknowledge their wrongdoing. What they did was provide excuses and distractor responses.

This is extremely disappointing. What was accomplished is making the cannabis lobbyists and growers very, very happy, validating the findings of the —Judy Paulson, Santa Maria Grand Jury.

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just read “Inside the Minds of Young Voters”—a very necessary and enlightening piece in unprecedented times. I am however deeply confused as to how not one Black person made it on your displayed list of those interviewed. You can’t look at your phone or walk down the street without facing some sort of cry for inclusivity among the Black population in the U.S.—how did you miss this? I understand that it’s difficult to represent every group, gender, and ethnicity with such a small pool of 18-34 year olds in Santa Barbara. But 0/21 people?

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am disappointed and exasperated about your recent article profiling the young voters in our city. You featured 13 Biden voters, including a smiling, beaming face for each. In contrast, none of the faces were shown for three Trump voters. Why the partisan bent? None of those ratios approached the national or state demographic of voters. Santa Barbara has much more viewpoint diversity than you are showing, and it’s a betrayal of the politics of the —Robert Holmes, S.B. city.

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Gary Michael Kluss 3/12/1962 - 9/13/2020

Gary Kluss passed away suddenly on September 13, 2020. He leaves behind his heartbroken family members and friends, who will greatly miss him.

Gary was born on March 12, 1962 to Janet and Ronald Kluss, the youngest of three children close in age. He and his sisters played together all through childhood. Wife Sandra credits Gary’s sisters with helping him later become such a sensitive and caring husband. Growing up in Santa Barbara, Gary attended Foothill School and La Colina Junior High, graduating from San Marcos High School in 1980. The friends he met in school and through Little League became lifelong friends, taking part in each others’ weddings and special events.

Most of his career, Gary worked in medical sales; his territory covered most of the local clinics and labs and up the coast as far as San Luis Obispo. In 1993, Gary married his wife Sandra. They were a devoted couple for 29 years until Gary’s untimely passing at the age of 58.

From a young age, Gary was involved in sports. He was a huge Los Angeles Dodgers fan and was a top player in City League baseball, eventually earning a place in the Santa Barbara Softball Club Hall of Fame.

He was an outstanding and highly sought-after pitcher with quick reflexes, able to stop line drives that would take out any normal person.

He was a hitting machine and fast baserunner, turning singles into doubles or even triples. Friends who played with Gary in the 1980’s still share vivid memories of his team, the Tequila Shooters.

Most importantly, his teammates remember his upbeat and infectious competitiveness and team spirit.

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Gary adored his wife Sandra above all else and devoted himself to caring for her, mother-in-law Eva, and rescue dogs Bella and Petey. They shared many happy years together, enjoying time with friends and family at home and traveling to Alaska, Hawaii, French Polynesia and Europe. Gary was a top-notch Ping Pong player and won a few tournaments on cruise ships for the coveted logo keychain, luggage tag, or casino voucher. He was always up for a fun game or two, especially while on vacation with Sandra.

Everyone who knew Gary seemed to have a funny story about him. There was the time his co-workers in the lab gave his mom a card on Mother’s Day thanking her for giving birth to Gary. Or the time he tried to teach a friend to use a stick shift and the friend blew up Gary’s car. One friend remembered Gary as “one of life’s good people. Quiet, thoughtful, funny and kind.

And he could bench press a mid-sized Toyota.”

One thing everyone who knew Gary agreed on was that he was one of the best people they knew and he brought out the best in everyone he met. Gary’s nieces remember him as someone who lived a happy, carefree life, waking up each day with a smile. He had a goofy, contagious laugh, and they were never able to hold a conversation with him without laughing or smiling themselves. Co-workers remember Gary as loving a good, cold Coke and giving away bags full of his famous avocados. He was always willing to help his friends with anything. An old friend spoke for the rest of us when she said, “Loved this guy, so much.”

Gary is survived by his loving wife Sandra Kluss, sisters Julie Kluss (Scott Bailey) and Terrie Kluss (Jesse Sambrano), mother-in-law Eva Esquivel, and sister and brother in law Marie and Rick Landof. Gary was a beloved uncle, nephew, and cousin to numerous others of our family, both living and deceased. He was pre-

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ceded in death by parents Janet and Ronald Kluss. All who survive mourn his passing; He was a friend to all and truly represented the best in all of us.

A memorial service will be held at a future time yet to be determined.

William “Bill” Ray Gross 12/21/1953 - 9/4/2020

and Robert “Bob” Carl Gross on December 21, 1953 in Santa Barbara, California.

He is survived by his siblings Kathy Gross Jones of Raleigh, North Carolina, Brenda Gross Jehle of Ojai, California, brother-in-law, Bob Jehle, four nieces, and two great-nieces.

A memorial service for Bill will be held in Santa Barbara at a later date.

Phil Odd Fredrickson 10/8/1928 - 9/26/2020

William “Bill” Gross passed away on September 4, 2020. He was born and raised in Santa Barbara, California and attended Harding Elementary, La Cumbre Junior High, and graduated from Santa Barbara High School in 1972. Bill had been employed by Air Liquide and Praxair in Santa Barbara and Ventura Steel in Ventura, the company from which he recently retired.

Bill’s most treasured lifetime memories were those of growing up in Santa Barbara. While he moved to Ventura several years ago, one of his favorite pastimes was to return to the old Westside neighborhoods where he grew up, sometimes stopping in to visit long-time friends.

During these trips he would also bicycle the Santa Barbara area coastline. In earlier years, he enjoyed dirt biking in the back country of Santa Barbara.

A die hard Dodgers fan, Bill’s passion was baseball.

He played, listened to, and watched baseball his entire life.

From a young age Bill had a great appreciation for music. A member of the Bonnie Langley Youth Band where he played the trumpet, his interest in music continued. He loved 60’s and 70’s music and enjoyed many hours listening to his favorite songs through his extensive sound system.

Bill was born to the late Martha Lou Ruddick Gross

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Phillip Odd Fredrickson was born in Detroit, Michigan on October 8, 1928, to Swedish/Norwegian immigrant parents, Andreas Peder (Per) and lngeborg Hagen Fredriksen. The family briefly moved back to Norway when Phil was 3, but then returned to Michigan. Following graduation from Cooley High School in 1946, Phil signed up for a 4-year hitch in the U.S. Navy, serving on the USS Sierra, a destroyer tender off the coast of Japan after WWII. In 1949, he married Joan Bradley, sharing 58 wonderful years together until her passing in 2008. Phil studied electrical engineering at the Lawrence Institute of Technology and was hired into General Motors’ Research Technology Center. In 1961, Phil and Joan packed up sons Mark, David, and Ken and joined the wave of 200 employee transfers out to GM’s Defense Research Lab in Goleta, California. Their fourth son, Jim joined the family soon after. Throughout Phil’s 30+ year career with GM, he enjoyed participating in projects ranging from the Firebird gas turbine engine, to the 1970’s Lunar rover soil samplings, and even monitoring Russian submarine activity while billeted for 3 months on Fletcher Ice Island where he experienced temperatures of minus 60 degrees.

Phil and Joan were active members of Santa Barbara Community Church and enjoyed leading and attending numerous community Bible studies, including Joan’s Honeycomb series.

Their boys were raised in a loving, God-honoring, and sporty home. Phil rarely missed a son’s game, and often coached their baseball teams. His time to play came later in retirement when he enjoyed many years at first base in a local senior softball league. Travel, woodworking, and card games were highlights into his 70’s. As the extended family grew, we cherished his BBQ skills, spa lifeguarding, riding the bull on the Salmon river, and his love for Norwegian brown cheese. However, we will greatly miss his instigations to In-and-Out, and his lifetime GM employee car discount.

On September 26th, 2020, Phil was promoted to heaven to finally see Jesus, the One to Whom he committed his life at the age of 20. That decision forever changed his heart, his purpose, and direction in life, and our family is eternally grateful for his leadership and influence to follow Christ. Phil is survived by his brother, Harold Fredriksen of Monterey and sister, Signy Johnson of Santa Barbara, children Mark (Becky) of Goleta, Dave (Mia) of Stephenville, TX, Ken (Dawn) of Ballard, and Jim of Santa Maria, along with 16 adored grandchildren and 5 sweet great grandchildren.

All well prayed over! He is predeceased by his parents, beloved wife, and sister, Margaret Murray.

We would also like to gratefully acknowledge the wonderful support which the Covenant Living at the Samarkand community and caregivers provided in Phil’s later years.

A private family graveside service with military honors is planned at Goleta Cemetery. Donations to honor his memory may be made to Santa Barbara Community Church (Missions), or Santa Barbara Rescue Mission.

obituaries Elizabeth Boon Hughey 10/3/1925 - 9/10/2020

Elizabeth Boon Hughey died in Santa Barbara on September 10, 2020 at the age of 94.

Liz was born in Hartford, Michigan to Peter and Agnes Boon, the eldest of five children. The family later moved to Grand Haven and she attended Nursing school in Grand Rapids, earning her RN degree in 1946. She left the snowy Michigan winters for Florida and loved the sunshine and palm trees. Did private duty in Miami Beach, then on to Dallas, Galveston, and University of Texas Medical School, working in surgery (very little air conditioning in 1947, and surgery had air conditioning). Continued west with RN girlfriends to hospitals in Los Angeles.

On a whim, they went to an Airline Hostess class at night which led to a surprise spot for Liz on Ralph Edwards’ “This Is Your Life” radio show in 1949 and a job with TWA. Went sailing with pilots to the Isthmus on Catalina Island where she met her future husband, J. Benedict Hughey on his Tahiti Ketch, Gay Lady.

Thus began years of highspirited adventures on land and sea with many dear friends. Married in 1952 in their Brentwood home.

After the birth of daughter Lisa in Mexico,

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they moved to Montecito in 1956 and bought El Fureidis, a house and gardens designed

by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue for Waldron Gillespie in 1906, which Ben called “The Ruins”.

Son Boon was born in Santa Barbara two years later. In the 1960’s, they built a house in Acapulco and spent part of each year there while the kids were growing up. When the kids left the nest, Liz and Ben had a house in Southern Arizona where they loved the warm, dry air and peaceful quiet, and enjoyed many long-time friendships.

Wherever they gathered, there was always lively dialogue.

In Santa Barbara, Liz was an active supporter of Casa Serena and was honored in 2010 with their “Pillar of Strength” award. She was a devoted mother and friend with a positive outlook and strong faith. Her caring and loving nature will be greatly missed.

Liz valued nursing excellence and kept her California RN license current into her late 80’s.

She was always nurturing and attentive to any ailing friend or family member.

Liz will join husband Ben up under the big palm tree in Santa Barbara Cemetery.

A private graveside farewell blessing will be held with family. Please remember her with love.

Kenneth R. Ryals 8/20/2020

On August 20th, 2020 Kenneth R Ryals a beloved brother, uncle, great uncle, and dear friend to many passed away unexpectedly in Santa Barbara, CA. Ken was most known for his passion for music which started at an early age while planning music for church services with his mother, Martha Ryals. His music career began with the Tucson Boys Chorus, where he traveled the world performing at the age of 9.

His talents led him to perform professionally with the vocal jazz group “Cloud Burst”, on cruise ships and at venues in both Las Vegas and Reno.

During his tours he performed with artists such as Linda Ronstadt, Stevie Wonder, and flamenco guitarist Paco Peña. After graduating with his MA in music from the University of Arizona, Ken moved to Santa Barbara, CA to be close to his sister, Karen Ryals. He served as music director at the Santa Barbara Mission and for the last 11 years at the Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara, he was also a vocal teacher and jazz choir director at Santa Barbara City College.

Ken’s humor and infectious laugh had a way of making strangers feel like old friends and lifting the spirits of

those around him. His charisma was captivating and impossible to ignore.

With a warm smile and a hilarious story, he brightened every room he was in. His light will forever be missed.

We invite you to join us in celebrating his life.

An online service will be held on zoom on Oct 3rd at 11am. Zoom ID #99382231332 or contact the Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara to R.S.V.P. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Ridley-Tree Cancer Society (where Karen was treated) or PAW’s, to honor his girls.

Leanna D’Andrea Merritt 11/17/1949 - 9/11/2020

Leanna (D’Andrea) Merritt passed away peacefully at Serenity House on September 11, 2020. Leanna was born in Santa Barbara, CA, on November 17, 1949 to parents Louise and Graciano D’Andrea. She attended local schools including Franklin Elementary, Cold Spring School, Santa Barbara Junior High, and Santa Barbara High School, graduating in the class of 1967. As a child and teenager she was surrounded by many close friends and cousins, most of whom still live in Santa Barbara today.

Leanna spent her younger days raising her three beloved children: Jim, Jason, and Lanette, and worked hard giving them a happy and healthy childhood in Santa Barbara. She began her long insurance career with Dean & Estabrook and continued her tenure with agencies that combined forces including MFC&V, Manchester, DWP and Brown & Brown Insurance. Leanna was admired as an empathetic and sup-

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portive leader, and she was highly regarded among her colleagues before her retirement in 2019. When she wasn’t working, she enjoyed time with her book club and taking Pilates classes. She was also a proud member of the Italian Boot Club in Santa Barbara, and was elected to the Board in 2019.

Leanna married Laurence Merritt on February 24, 1996 in Maui. They shared a joy of travel, taking many trips to Hawaii, Europe, and an unforgettable cruise to Alaska over the course of their marriage.

Leanna was an independent, strong, beautiful, intelligent, and vibrant person who was known for her caring nature and infectious laugh.

What she loved most was spending time with her husband, children, and grandchildren, and she was looking forward to more family time, travel, and time at the beach in her retirement.

She is survived by her mother Louise D’Andrea, brother Gary D’Andrea (Theresa), aunt Catherine Romero, husband Larry Merritt, sons Jim Herrick and Jason Herrick (Kelly), daughter Lanette Oviedo (Rosendo), niece Nicole D’Andrea, and beloved grandchildren Christian Oviedo, and Jocelyn, Sophia, Spencer, and Tristan Herrick, as well as a granddaughter, Peyton Herrick, on the way.

She had many cousins and members of her extended family whom she remained close to, and many friends that were in her life since childhood. Our family’s loss is immeasurable.

We will miss her incredible sense of humor, her infectious laugh, and her ability to see the silver lining in every situation.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in Leanna’s name to Ridley Tree Cancer Center. A celebration of life is being planned at the Santa Barbara Mission in October.

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s a retired firefighter, I have

been asked frequently, “What do you think about what’s going on this year?”

Well, this is what I know, what I think, and how I feel.

The U.S. wildfire world has changed dramatically in the last several years.

When the Thomas Fire (above) reached Santa Barbara County in 2017, 8,700 The temptation is to point to one thing firefighters were assigned to the fire. This year’s August Complex fire, at and say, “That’s it. That is the source of 900,000 acres today, has 2,100 firefighters on the front lines. the problem.” That is simplistic and gets us no closer to a solution. This is an extraordinarily by decadent brush, 10 years of drought, and strong sundowner winds, blew up in the hills above Santa complex issue and needs to be looked at as such.

Barbara. On that day, more than 8,700 firefighters • America is de-urbanizing. The 2010 U.S. Census and support personnel were assigned to the fire. Over showed that 100 million people are now living in the 2,000 were in South Coast communities and had Wildland Urban Interface (WUI). There are 43 mil- been for three days, prepping houses, laying lines, lion houses in the WUI. Between 1990 and 2010, 12.7 scouting escape routes, and becoming familiar with million houses and 25 million people were added into the landscape. None of the fire professionals I talked that total. The 2020 Census will show this trend has with have ever heard of a fire with resources of that continued. Humans spark 90 percent of all wildfires. magnitude. Anywhere. It was December; the Thomas • Land and forest management issues remain unre- Fire was the only wildfire in the nation. solved. Development interests and government planThe 900,000-acre August Complex has 2,100 firening processes need to study the risks and do appro- fighters. The 292,000-acre Creek Fire has 3,100. The priate planning before subdivisions are built farther 305,000-acre North Complex has 3,500. With the into the WUI, not in response to a crisis afterward. astonishing number of fires burning in the West, Forest managers need funding to remove trees and competition for resources is intense. Planes, engines, brush and conduct controlled fires where appropri- crews, and logistical support shift around unceasate. These issues are so infused with politics that we ingly from fire to fire to where lives and property are are locked in a zero-sum game; those with either at highest risk. point of view are not satisfied unless the other side The system was simply not made for the catastroloses. Policy paralysis is the result, and the problem phe we are experiencing. continues to grow.

I am frustrated and angry. While the debate rages • Addressing climate change sits atop all of these in the political, academic, and cultural worlds in this problems. The impact is ongoing and real. No matter country, we are still asking someone’s son or daughthe politics, temperatures and sea levels are rising. ter, mother or father, husband or wife to be out there In August, the United States had four separate cli- fighting these fires — under-resourced, exhausted for mate-related disasters; the response required FEMA months at a time — they fight on with very little relief and no end in sight. During other natural disasters, expenditures of over a billion dollars each. hurricanes, floods, tornados, we evacuate, we move In 2018, the Thomas Fire became the largest fire people out of the way. Wildfire is the only natural in California history at 282,000 acres. Two and half disaster where we engage human beings on its edges years later, it is the sixth largest. Six of the 10 largest and expect them to control it and extinguish it.

In the almost 40 years I spent in the Fire Serfires in California history have occurred in the last six weeks. Unfathomable fire runs are occurring. On vice, I experienced the normal wear and tear that September 8, the Bear Fire went from 5,000 acres to go with this career. The last 10 years, from 2008 to about 250,000 in one day. Fire spread can now be 2018, were my most intense wildfire experiences of measured in acres per second. Think about that for those decades. Firefighters in Santa Barbara County or anywhere in California, have experienced more a moment.

The Thomas Fire had red flag conditions, with fire, more strain on their bodies and emotional state humidity hovering around one percent, for 10 days in the last 12 years than I did in 40. How can they in a row in December 2017. It was still burning when sustain this for 20, 30, 35 years? They cannot.

The political stakeholders, public agencies, and it was extinguished by a storm that caused a debris flow from the denuded watershed that resulted in the environmental and private interests that continue deaths of 23 people. The Cave Fire of November 2019 this ceaseless debate, without any meaningful impact was extinguished in the hills above Santa Barbara on the problem, need to understand the increasingly by snow. futile task they have handed the firefighters of this California has the best Fire Mutual Aid system in country. That is the very least we can do for them. the world. It has the most experienced wildland fire- They deserve so much more than that. fighters working anywhere. But the cascading flow of Pat McElroy was a firefighter for 37 years and served as chief of large fires has strained the system.

On December 16, 2017, the Thomas Fire, fueled the Santa Barbara City Fire Department for the final five.

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La Casa de la Raza Doors Open

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Community Center Continues to Serve

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BY PETE LEYVA, FOR L A C A S A D E L A

RAZA B OA R DM E M B E R S

AND S T E E R I N G C O M M I T T E E

he COVID-19 crisis has exacerbated the

vulnerabilities and inequities that have long been present in marginalized communities.

Despite its affluent reputation, Santa Barbara is no exception to the issues many immigrants, domestic workers, and people of color face in impoverished neighborhoods.

Prior to the pandemic, members of our community were already under constant attack, being displaced and pushed out of neighborhoods. With the current health crisis, it is more critical than ever to stand together as a community and persist.

La Casa de la Raza was founded in 1971 to provide a nonprofit community center in Santa Barbara. Our mission is to develop and empower Latino/a/x and marginalized community members by affirming and preserving cultural heritage, providing an umbrella for services, and advocating for participation in the larger community.

The efforts to sustain this community resource have been longstanding. Some of the challenges have been published in the media, sometimes without much attempt to provide context or to allow us the opportunity to voice our perspective. In recent times, none of the established media outlets have attempted to provide balanced reporting and highlight the resilient staff and boardmembers who have maintained services and programs for the community despite the financial struggles not atypical of small nonprofit organizations such as La Casa.

In the article “Plug Finally Pulled on La Casa de la Raza” in the Santa Barbara Independent in May, our voices were again undermined in reporting the sale of our building. Members of the board were given less than three hours to respond with comments — an impractical time frame for nonprofits of our size where services to the community are prioritized.

The outcome was an article with no comments from any of the affected parties. While detached journalists might prioritize sensationalism and refer to our existence as a “death rattle,” we are alive — very much present and working every day to serve our community. Forty-nine years of history and three years of working to defend La Casa cannot be reduced to seven paragraphs.

When Governor Newsom issued a statewide stayat-home order, we immediately evolved with the situation and quickly adapted our organization to meet new needs.

In a short time, we expanded our services to include: • Assistance with 805 Undocufund and United

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• Document translation • Grocery shopping and compassion calls for

our elder community and those with compromised immune systems • Food distribution • Assistance with employment and tenant rights, and with Medi-Cal and CalFresh paperwork • Assistance with résumés and email accounts for employment/unemployment purposes • Online support for managing stress and anxiety and practicing self-care

La Casa de la Raza • Behavioral wellness resource support • Famous tri-tip torta sales at La Casa to gen-

erate funds and keep the community aware that La Casa is still here.

Our monolingual Spanish-speaking families depend on the services we provide, which are often the only way to bridge access to online applications ranging from basic needs to the most critical. We are averaging 50 calls per day, and La Casa is working hard to meet the moment.

In the past seven months, leaders of La Casa have made substantial progress in addressing board and transparency issues that were previously in question.

An all-community volunteer steering committee was formed to create a new vision for the organization, establish a membership structure, and make recommendations to the board.

The board began to move forward with the steering committee recommendations, which include a member election for the board. The current COVID19 pandemic has delayed the process. But the process is underway again as the steering committee is developing an election process that will be inclusive and invite members of the community and public officials to participate in the election process. The ultimate goal is to establish a Board of Directors that is vetted and elected by members of La Casa de la Raza.

At present, we are working with Mr. Tomas Castelo — the current note holder of the building — and past La Casa members, who have voiced support and concerns, to come up with a strategic plan that will guide us to the future without financial worries and ensure that the vibrant programs and services continue.

Our most recent efforts have been to make La Casa’s building a historical landmark, which recently received a unanimous vote from the Historic Landmarks Commission. We continue to partner with UC Santa Barbara to preserve and archive historical information. KZAA, our public broadcasting radio station, and agencies like the Fund for Santa Barbara, County of Santa Barbara, Behavioral Wellness, and the Hutton Foundation have supported us despite rumors and conjectures. Geoff Green of SBCC Foundation and Jon Clark from the Bower Foundation continue to be strong advocates for us.

La Casa’s mission, vision, and its capacity to lift our community were never intended to be the responsibility of a few individuals or personalities. Instead, the fabric of our collective experiences is held together by each thread we weave into its existence.

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T A H L C K E T 2020

From Start-ups to Success Stories, an In-Depth Look at Our Vast High-Tech Industry

by Leslie Dinaberg • photos by daniel dreifuss

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here’s no question that technology plays an increasingly critical role in all of our lives.

Think about what it would have been like if the global pandemic had hit in 1980 instead of 2020: no cell phones (cordless phones weren’t even mainstream yet!), no internet, and no public email, let alone video calls, instant messaging, texting, and screen-sharing. Home computers, if you even had one, were clunky and slow, and, while ubiquitous, TVs only had four channels, and the whole family would have to agree on what to watch.

Fast-forward to today. With COVID forcing us to move our lives indoors and online, everyone from toddlers to grandparents have been whiplashed into relying on devices for school and business, health and wellness, to learn, communicate, connect, and be entertained. For many of us, the classroom, home, and workplace are headquartered on a single device in a tiny corner of the house.

“Organizations are fundamentally changed now,” explains Kyle Lewis, a UCSB professor and chair of its Technology Management Program. “Working in any type of organization — especially in one that is focusing on innovation, has technology products,

or uses technology to do their work — the world has completely shifted.”

The shift is happening in Santa Barbara too. As technology becomes more central to all of our lives, the region’s high-tech sector is enduring big changes and enjoying sustained growth.

Once dominated by the aerospace industry, which is still a prominent player, a wave of significant, broad-ranging tech companies began in this ecosystem, including Citrix Online (formerly Expert City), Software.com, Alias Wavefront, Yardi, Lynda.com, AppFolio, and Sonos, amonag others. Maturing startups such as Procore and Apeel Sciences continue to grow, as do the wealth of exciting new technologies and companies. Meanwhile, our investment community is on the rise, and the already-critical UCSB just keeps getting better and better, pumping out more and more motivated-to-stay-in-town entrepreneurial energy.

Meanwhile, some of the biggest players in tech — Google, Amazon, Zoom, Apple, Microsoft — now have a presence in Santa Barbara. And then there are the increasing numbers of tech pros who can work from anywhere and have chosen to make Santa Barbara their homes.

The last time the Santa Barbara Independent addressed the tech sector in any depth was a special section called Tech-Topia in 2015, in which author Matt Kettmann described the scene as “quietly booming.” Having talked to more than 30 executives and researched more than 100 tech companies for this issue, I can attest to how much bigger, broader, and more interesting our tech sector is today.

Like a lot of the very best people and things in Santa Barbara, many of these tech companies still operate on the down-low, not interested in tooting their own horns or bragging about their accomplishments. They’d rather just do good work than talk about it.

But success begets success. As Jason Spievak, the managing partner for Entrada Ventures, put it, “Some of the biggest names in technology are waking up to Santa Barbara and are establishing themselves here through acquisition and investment.”

Read on for a hefty helping of the Santa Barbara tech scene’s players, history, innovations, and opportunities. Once quietly booming, I’d say Santa Barbara’s tech sector is now awake, ready, and raring to go. 

See more tech coverage at independent.com/techtalk2020.

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s Santa Barbara’s tech sector continues to grow and evolve, so do the challenges and opportunities presented here. I asked a bunch of industry leaders for their observations, and what follows is a snapshot of what’s going on today.

ATTRACTING TALENT IS EASIER: A common complaint is

that it’s hard to attract employees here compared to larger markets like Silicon Valley. “There’s a little bit of truth to that—you generally have a bigger pool—but you also don’t have the extreme competition and somewhat lack of loyalty of employees in that market,” said Elizabeth Cholawsky, president and CEO of HG Insights. “There’s a lot more turnover of employees in the Bay Area.”

As the former CEO of the Sunnyvale-based Support .com, Cholawsky said the challenges of attracting top talent are offset by advantages. “It is a small community, so people that aren’t at the top of their game often

don’t survive in Santa Barbara because everybody knows everybody and experiences get shared pretty openly,” she said. “The cream of the crop rises in Santa Barbara because a lot of people want to stay here because it’s such a beautiful place to live. So you do your best to do your best, and if you’re not, it gets weeded out by the fact that we’ve got a tight-knit community.”

Others appreciate that advantage as well. “Santa Barbara is very underrated in terms of its ability to offer a challenging and a healthy tech environment, maybe without some of the rat-race elements that Silicon Valley has become,” said Mike Muench, CEO and president of Seek Thermal, who worked in Silicon Valley while a VP for Apple. “I’ve talked to a number of transplants from Silicon Valley at the executive or professional level, and, almost without exception, they’ve felt the same way: Why didn’t I do this 10 years ago? This still gives me all the technical and professional challenges that I need,

but from a lifestyle tradeoff, it’s a lot more balanced and healthy.”

LONGER TENURES: “People who join the company tend

to stay in the company longer, which is nice,” said ParentSquare cofounder Anupama Vaid. “In the Bay Area, the churn is so high.”

Having been a VP of the Leaf Group in Santa Monica, Entrada Ventures’ operating partner Julie Henley McNamara agrees. “There’s a real sense of loyalty here,” she said.

“You’re not stressed when you get to the office because there wasn’t a lot of rigmarole to get there. From Carpinteria to Goleta, there is traffic, but nothing like the Bay Area or L.A.” WORK-LIFE BALANCE: “Santa Barbara, especially in the

day and age of COVID, offers a great quality of life and a growing, thriving, tight-knit community,” said Amy Continued on p. 20

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ith a career as an investor and founder spanning three decades and a broad range of technologies from agricultural sciences to virtual reality, Entrada Ventures cofounder Jason Spievak believes these five things are critical for attracting investors.

1 INTEGRITY “There’s some core criteria that we look for,

and job one is integrity, far and away. Because if you can’t trust someone, you can’t rely on them and you can’t work with them, so that is absolutely binary. There is no wiggle room on what I call situational ethics.”

2 THE RIGHT FIT “Does this person have the skill and the

experience to do the thing that they need to do to succeed in their role? Are they actually the right person for the job, so to speak, in terms of skills, experience, and aptitude?”

3 A WINNING MINDSET “We all, unfortunately, know people

who were raised from childhood to believe that success happens to other people and it’s their job to get the ball to the one-yard line and toil away in anonymity while somebody else makes it happen. We really want to invest in folks that believe that they deserve success.”

4 SOMETHING TO PROVE “It’s a little bit esoteric, but do they

have something to prove? You want to bet on someone — I don’t care if you’re proving it to your mom, your dad, your teacher who gave you a B, your coach who didn’t start you, your boyfriend who broke up with you. Who feels like they have something to prove? They work really, really hard. And they work hard when no one’s watching.”

Julie Henley McNamara and Jason Spievak of Entrada Ventures 5 CHEMISTRY “Would you want to sit next to this person

on an airplane for six hours? The only guarantee is you’re going to spend a heck of a lot of time together when you invest in someone’s company, and as a result, you want to enjoy that time. You want to be learning; you want to look forward to that time together and not roll your eyes when you see their name on the phone, so it’s pretty important.

People talk about investing in someone’s company as being like a marriage. It’s more than marriage in a way because you can’t get divorced.”

BONUS POINTS: PROVEN TRACK RECORD “There’s absolutely an

overwhelming amount of evidence out there that shows that founders who build and successfully exit a company are more likely to do it again. So a proven track record is ideal. However, when you’re doing early-stage investing, as we like to do here in the region, it’s often the case that this is the first company for these founders; otherwise, they would not necessarily be seeking early-stage capital—they would have it already.”

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Meyer, Chief People Officer at AppFolio. “There are a lot of interconnections, just a couple degrees of separation, and the Santa Barbara community has a lot to offer. We also do a lot of work in the community—giving back through our employeedriven give-back program.”

ParentSquare’s employees have access to Gold’s Gym just downstairs, explained Vaid, “and our Christmas parties and our annual get-togethers are always something outdoorsy.”

Nathan Ziv of Invoca said that their employees did a lot of team hikes prior to COVID, and that he often will take an employee out for a one-on-one meeting by walking to Stearns Wharf, just a few blocks from their office at the bottom of State Street. “When surf is good, go take a longer lunch and get in the water and then come back,” he said. “After that, you can do meetings and whatnot. I don’t think you can do that as easily in a big city.”

what’s working and what’s not in navigating COVID and how to support employees through that,” she said.

Henry Ventura, who manages diversity, inclusion, and equal employment for the County of Santa Barbara, is spearheading a Diversity Roundtable coalition with a diverse group of companies. That includes leaders from Amazon’s Alexa branch on State Street, MarBorg, Deckers Brands, Just Communities, Invoca, Sonos, and Procore, among others, to promote equitable practices in the workplace.

Community Collaboration: The tech community’s interconnectedness is in part due to its relatively small size, but there’s also a concerted effort on the part of leaders to work together.

As the COVID pandemic began, Meyer from AppFolio helped create a forum for HR leaders in the tri-county area. “There’s about 15 to 20 of us from various tech companies that meet every couple of weeks, specifically to share best practices and

Continued Evolution: Success will only create more opportunity, as Meyer explained, “Often, companies are headquartered wherever the founder lives.” But she believes the biggest continued growth will be thanks to UCSB’s established tech ecosystem and a growing talent pool from Westmont College. She explained, “Both will continue to create the space for n entrepreneurial, innovative thinkers and draw them.”

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Cost of Housing: The cost of living is “definitely a challenge,”

said Meyer. “In light of living in a pandemic, people are now more than ever choosing where they want to live and having more flexibility. It’s going to get easier in some respects to recruit and to attract people to Santa Barbara because of that quality of life.”

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ounded in 2018 by a who’s who of veteran Santa Barbara tech operators, entrepreneurs, and investors, Entrada Ventures focuses on early investments that help start-ups develop into strong businesses ready for their first round of institutional financing. The firm and its team’s list of affiliations include ACT (Medtronic), Apeel Sciences, Aurrion (Juniper), CallWave, Invoca, Local Market Launch, SmartReceipt (Mobivity), Software.com, ValueClick (Conversant), and Web Ignite, among others.

Entrada was started under the principle that there was not much investor support in Santa Barbara. “There’s money but not a lot of support about how to navigate fundraising, building a company, operations, financials, marketing, and all of that,” explained Julie Henley McNamara, Entrada’s operating partner and a Cal Poly grad. “We want to give money but also be helpful to the community with our portfolio of companies. It’s all about the 805.”

When business is not restricted by COVID, the VC fund team holds regular office hours at UCSB, Cal Poly, and the downtown Kiva Cowork space. “Julie is really the inspiration behind some of this,” said managing partner Jason Spievak. “We want to make that capital conversation more accessible to small businesses here in the region.”

They aren’t necessarily looking for proper pitches, just an introduction. “The office hours are also a way to put less pressure on young people if they just want to talk.”

Once Entrada invests, the collaboration is geared to the need. That ranges from becoming part of the board and meeting weekly to a much less active role. “It really kind of depends on the company,” said McNamara. “The way we like to work with them is to be as helpful as we can but not be interfering and not be intrusive.” And if she’s the interface but the need is something she cannot provide, McNamara can call on one of her partners or search through her extensive network to find the right solution.

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ntrepreneurs follow all kinds of inspirational paths. For Anupama Vaid, it was the halls of Santa Barbara’s Peabody Charter School that inspired her to start ParentSquare, a communication platform connecting parents to teachers and school administrators that is now used by 4,500 K-12 schools across the country.

A former computer engineer for Citrix, Vaid came up with the idea in 2011, when she took a sabbatical to be home with her young children and realized how much more school information was available to stay-at-home parents.

The platform’s development by Vaid and her husband, Sohit Wadhwa, emphasized a simple format that could be accessed via phones, laptops, tablets, and desktops for parents, teachers, and office staff. But making a solid product was only step one.

“Even if you build a good product, there is hindrance in adoption primarily because the education tech industry is a government industry and there are regulations and lots of things to learn,” explained Vaid, who spent almost four years learning the ins and outs of ed tech. “Education really teaches us about technology, but they are not the first ones to adopt technology. Whenever they are buying something, it has to be a collective decision. Plus, it has to be priced correctly because they are buying it with state funds.”

Upon cracking that nut, ParentSquare grew rapidly, but COVID-19 is presenting new challenges. The schools

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pay a fixed amount per student, but with online education becoming the norm in the spring, their normal usage patterns have gone up tremendously. “But we’re happy to be able to serve the schools during this time,” said Vaid.

“It’s very satisfying to be able to do that.” In addition to consistently delivering helpful tips for better online communication, ParentSquare also added Health Screening Forms to the platform to help schools prevent the spread of COVID. A more persistent challenge is hiring developers, as ParentSquare uses the same Ruby on Rails web-application framework that’s also used by some of the biggest companies in town, such as AppFolio and Procore. “Obviously, their pockets are much deeper,” she said.

But ParentSquare offers a unique advantage. “This is such a soulful company,” she said. “It’s a feel-good experience, and every one of the education industry people is so nice to work with because you know you’re all in it together for the common good. Unlike other industries I’ve been in, this is tech for a social cause, and it’s a different feeling being a part of such a company.”

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He sees a lot of similarities between people who choose to work in Kauai. “For the most part, they are there because they want to be there, and they’re making it work,” he explained.

“It’s a concerted initiative to live in that place. What comes with that is a certain joy. In Hawai‘i, there’s a real aloha, where people are just happy that they’re here and are able to make it work. To some extent, we have that in Santa Barbara.”

That aloha sensibility doesn’t appeal to everyone. “It’s not a one-size-fits-all mentality, and that’s fine,” he admitted. “But I think for the folks it does work with, it feeds off itself, and we’ve been able to create this very collegiate, very congenial community that’s really willing to help each other and is much less sharpelbowed and worried about somebody taking something from them.”

For him, success is all about the people. “Great people can turn a marginal opportunity into a fantastic one,” he explained. “It’s all about making sure you start out with a great core team, and then you’ll deal with the vagaries of the market. If you have the right team, they’ll be the winners.”

Concluded Greathouse, “I feel really bullish about Santa Barbara long-term.”

hen Joe Bruzzese founded Sprigeo in 2010, he wanted to help schools prevent bullying and provide a safe, anonymous method for students to report things that made them feel unsafe. The service has since evolved into a full-fledged school safety tip line reporting system, with a 24/7 call center accessible by phone, email, text, an app, or the website.

“Everything goes through the call center,” explained Bruzzese. “They triage those tips based on pre-set criteria to determine how serious of a threat the tip is. Some are very serious—‘There’s a planned school attack,’ or ‘I’m planning to take my own life and I’m calling or reporting to get help’—to something that’s far less serious, like, ‘I don’t like what they’re serving in the school cafeteria.’ We get the gamut of reportable tips, not all of which qualify obviously as a school safety threat.”

A virtual company from the get-go, Sprigeo now serves more than 4,000 schools across 28 states as well as administering the statewide tip lines for Oregon and Idaho. They recently signed on to provide the tip line for the state of Illinois, their largest customer so far.

That provides a lot of data to digest. One trend that Bruzzese sees is an uptick in middle-school students “really struggling with cutting and depression and other forms of self-harm.” Vaping is also on the rise, not just in high school but in middle school. Prior to the pandemic, Sprigeo was working on a series of videos featuring high schoolers telling middle schoolers how “uncool” and unhealthy vaping really is.

Unfortunately, that project is on hold at the moment, but one thing the company has been able to move forward on is an online educational conference that will launch on September 14.

“The culture around meetings and professional development really has changed, and people are now very comfortable with sitting in front of a screen and attending a Zoom meeting or a training session,” explained Bruzzese. “Districts still have the same professional development requirements by law, [so this is] helping them in a way that makes sense, which has been great.

Everyone is really looking for opportunities for quality online training.”

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He recalls a time when there was a belief that building a tech career in Santa Barbara meant compromising on some level. “I never bought that argument, but John Greathouse people made it,” said Greathouse, who recruited many people over the years, some of whom would wonder what would happen if it didn’t work out. “I wouldn’t want to hire the person who is worried about that, though it’s a reasonable concern,” he laughed.

“But there are plenty of places in town, and once you get a great reputation in Santa Barbara, it’s actually easier. You don’t even have to put your résumé out there — people are going to hear about you.”

The concerns evolved into finding spouses jobs, but that stopped about six years ago. “I would hear the opposite,” he said, “‘I can’t believe how much is here.’”

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obots are no longer a futuristic notion. In fact, they’re becoming more and more common in nearby operating rooms. Robotic surgery is an advanced form of minimally invasive surgery that makes use of computer-controlled robots to do what humans can’t—and also to do what surgeons can, only better.

Think about how bulky human hands are when compared to a robot’s. “The robotic instruments are articulated at the end of the instrument where the working end is, so the working end can move like a hand would, as if it had a wrist,” explained Dr. Anne Rodriguez, a gynecologic oncologist and breast surgeon who heads up the Cottage Health Robotic Surgery team.

“That gives you the ability to maneuver much more than you would with a straight instrument. And that ability can get you into small spaces, can get you into difficult spaces, and can allow you to do a lot finer technique, so to speak.”

In 2019, the Cottage Robotic Surgery Center performed 574 robotic surgery procedures with the da Vinci XI manufactured

by Intuitive. The most common surgery was hysterectomy, with 117 of them performed last year, said Maria Zate, the hospital’s public relations manager, followed by prostatectomy and hernia.

Dr. William Gallivan of the Orthopedic Institute of Santa Barbara is a big proponent of the technology. “In 2005, I started using computer navigation,” said Gallivan. “It was new technology back then, and I haven’t gone back.” He’s performed robotic surgeries on knees since 2014, tallying 350 surgeries as of August 2020, using the NAVIO Surgical System and recently the MAKO Robotic-Arm System.

The precision advantages of robotics for knee surgeries are critical. “When we use

robotics, we can actually do a better preservation of bone,” he said. “For young people who want to be active, they will be able to have a very high level of activity. We’ve got this technology that allows better preservation and maintenance of bone and other soft tissues and is very effective.”

Rodriguez also pointed out the advantages of the robots for surgeons themselves.

“You’re basically sitting at a console to control the instrument rather than controlling the instrument at the bedside,” she said. “So ergonomically, it’s easier on the surgeon and that gives advantages both short-term and long-term in terms of your ability to continue to do surgery.”

Other advantages include shorter hospital stays and faster recoveries, in part because there is less need for narcotic pain medicine. “About 95 percent of my patients are wide awake with a spinal anesthetic,” said Gallivan. “It’s the safest way to do it, and the patients have more fun being awake.”

Patients can listen to music (“unless it’s something bad,” he laughed) and watch 3D models and cartoon versions of the operation.

Virtually scar-less, single-site surgeries can also be handled by robots, such as single-incision hysterectomies. Rather than making several incisions, the robotic process makes just one incision through the belly button, which decreases blood loss and shortens recovery time.

“Robots have obviously been used for a long time by the aviation, automotive, and military [sectors], and then health care,” said Gallivan. “But the robotic technology has never diminished or exited from an industry that’s adopted it. It’s not going anywhere. I’m a firm believer that this technology we’re using is here to stay.”

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THE BIRTHPLACE OF MODERN SURGICAL ROBOTICS UCSB graduate Dr. Yulun Wang is considered one of the fathers of modern surgical robotics. The founder of both InTouch Health and Computer Motion, Wang developed AESOP, the first FDA-approved surgical robot (1990), and the ZEUS Robotic Surgical System. ZEUS was used in the world’s first tele-surgery procedure, known as the Lindbergh Operation, in 2001. The da Vinci surgical system now used by Cottage Health was developed by Intuitive Surgical following its merger with Computer Motion in 2003.

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And the cost of living was out of control. In addition, turnover is a way of life in Silicon Valley. It wasn’t what I wanted for WELL. I want to build a community of people who are happy to be here and excited to help build this company.”

WELL relocated its headquarters to Santa Barbara in 2017 and now operates on Chapala Street in Invoca’s former headquarters. Listed as number 170 on the Inc. 500 list of the fastestgrowing privately held companies in the U.S., WELL employs 102 people, with 62 of them in Santa Barbara.

In March 2020, WELL unveiled its Rapid Release Program, which allows health systems to manage urgent COVID-19 patient communications at scale. A technology that seems tailor-made for our time, it can be deployed by users in just 48 hours, which is far quicker than a typical implementation. Seeking to address the pandemic as effectively as possible, WELL offered the program below cost and was able to serve an additional 2.5 million patients within weeks of launch.

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ELL Health’s CEO Guillaume de Zwirek first discovered health-care tech as a patient. During an Ironman triathlon, he landed in the back of an ambulance, suffering from acute heatstroke.

In the months after his hospital discharge, he navigated a complex medical system full of antiquated communication practices. Seeing an opportunity, de Zwirek created WELL to solve those challenges.

“WELL enables health systems, private practices, and vendors to conduct seamless conversations with patients across multiple channels, including texting, email, telephone, and live chat,” said Pamela Ellgen, WELL’s health editor. Through WELL, patients receive all of their healthcare communication from one trusted source—their provider—and service providers can converse with patients in real time.

The first WELL office opened in 2015 in Redwood City, the heart of Silicon Valley. “I quickly realized that wasn’t the right thing for the company, or for our team,” said de Zwirek.

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to solve with technology.” He sees that revolutions are particularly underway for healthcare and education.

“The challenges, of course, are around engagement,” he explained, “how to keep people engaged when they are remote.”

Michael Curtis, who completed his Masters of Technology Management degree in June, is seeing these changes firsthand in his new job as an associate project manager at Apeel Sciences, which itself was launched after winning TMP’s New Venture Competition in 2012.

He was hired in April, right as everyone went into full lockdown. “We had a virtual online orientation, and it went a lot better than I was anticipating,” Curtis said.

“I’ve been very pleasantly surprised with how much of a relationship I’ve been able to build with a lot of my coworkers. I thought that being online would be a little weird, but I do feel like I’ve been absorbed into the community and culture of Apeel.”

This kind of training and connection is becoming the new social norm. “With so much change happening in the world right now,” said Adornetto, “I’m excited to see what’s going to come out in terms of student creativity and ideas, because I think natural applications will emerge from their experiences with these technologies.”

Though TMP has long been associated with startups, that’s not the program’s only application. “A lot of the students are thinking about joining established firms, and they’re joining in positions where innovation is required,” said Lewis. “The skills and the learning are absolutely portable to all kinds of organizations where innovation has to occur constantly, and they are learning how to do that.”

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reparation meets opportunity in UCSB’s Technology Management Program (TMP), which trained 2,400 undergraduate students last year alone. The certificate program covers subjects such as business strategy, entrepreneurship, marketing, management, finance, and startup business models as well as current issues in technology, business, and society.

“Because UCSB doesn’t have a business school, students aren’t really exposed to the basics about what it’s like to work in an organization,” explained Kyle Lewis, TMP’s chair. “So we have courses that the students would otherwise not get.”

TMP is technically part of the College of Engineering, but it’s open to all students, and 80 percent who enroll are not engineers. “Often, these are very motivated students, and they’re taking our courses because they believe it will help them get jobs, and in fact it does,” she explained. “So we have a lot of students who have gone through the certificate who have been very, very successful on the job market with majors that could have made it more challenging for them to get good jobs.”

Lewis said that a primary goal is to keep students of all backgrounds aware of how technology is changing our world. “What we’re able to bring to the classroom is research that we’ve been doing for a long time that’s now very, very relevant,” she said. “How does tech influence human behavior and decision making? And how do humans affect technology?”

The COVID pandemic is making this sort of training all the more relevant. “Change equals opportunities in this type of environment,” said Dave Adornetto, the executive director of TMP’s entrepreneurship program.

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rom filament LED lighting and cloud computing to medical diagnostics, virtual reality, and everything in between, researchers at UCSB have played a key role in developing technologies that improve our lives. Tasked with building relationships between UCSB and industry is the Office of Technology & Industry Alliances (TIA), which was established in 2005 with Sherylle Mills Englander as director. She answered some questions about the office’s role.

HOW DOES TIA WORK? A lot of our discoveries are what’s called curiosity-based research, aimed at getting a fundamental understanding. The more we understand fundamentally how things work, the more innovation we can place on top of that. A lot of the research we do is extremely important and not necessarily ready for a commercial partnership.

CAN YOU GIVE AN EXAMPLe? Let’s say we have a new

way of sorting cells for diagnostics where we can really quickly separate out cancer cells from any other cell and we can do it very rapidly and very effectively, so that’s got a definite benefit. If our researchers publish in scientific journals to let others learn about it and build upon it, that’s great; we’ve given a whole new process to the world.

But if absolutely anybody can use it commercially, that can be a disincentive for a company to develop it.

We need a company partner to invest in making that initial discovery something that can be used in every doctor’s office.

SO THE SCIENCE AND THE PRODUCT ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. It’s a very different question. How do you sort

cells quickly and rapidly without hurting them? Or how do you build a machine for it that is going to be affordable, reimbursable, and easy enough to use to be in everybody’s office?

If we simply publish, would a company invest the millions of dollars it takes to create a product only to have the fundamental discovery of that product be able to be used by competitors? Most likely not.

So to encourage it to be translated into actual commercial products, we apply for a patent on that original idea and then we go to a company who has a strong passion and expertise for it. If they commit to developing something that will benefit the public, we will give you the exclusive access to that patent.

What we’re basically doing is using the intellectualproperty scheme of patents and copyrights to encourage and facilitate companies to create products and services based on our discoveries.

DOES UCSB GET COMPENSATED FOR SUCCESSES? What

we do is called a license, effectively giving permission for a company to use it. There are some standard deal

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HOW ABOUT THE INVENTORS THEMSELVES? Most of our

innovations have students named as an inventor or author because they are so active in our research. The university will give the inventors 35 percent of our net revenue, and they share it equally. Just because you are a faculty member doesn’t mean you get more. If there are three inventors, they each get a third of that net revenue.

Their job is to teach and to discover science, and it takes an enormous amount of help to make that innovation happen. So that 35 percent back is a recognition of the effort of the effort that they are doing to take this invention out.

IS THIS A BIG MONEYMAKER? This is not a scenario where

tons of money is coming in. The university has over 12,000 active inventions. The top 25 patents earn anywhere from 70 to 80 percent of our income in a given year.

We want our contribution to be respected, and we want the California taxpayers to get a return on that investment. Every bit of money we get in royalties is reinvested to support future research at UCSB, and we want to keep that going.

SO THE MOTIVATION IS NOT THE FINANCIAL RETURN. The

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“We just topped 100 employees, which is fantastic,” she said. “We were half that about when I got here two and a half years ago, and about threequarters of those employees are in Santa Barbara.”

The former CEO of Support.com and a VP at Citrix Online, Cholawsky jumped at the opportunity in 2018 to work at HG, which is known as a “data as a service,” or DaaS, company, in 2018. “It was way too good to pass up, because the company is just a growing blockbuster,” she said.

“It’s really been fun.”

One of her first moves was purchasing Pivotal iQ, a London-based partner that’s now home to much of her sales team.

“When we could travel, one of the things that I did was make sure there was a lot of back and forth, so that we could cross-pollinate,” Cholawsky explained. “People from Santa Barbara were thrilled to go spend a week or two in London. And for the London team, we keep one of the apartments at El Escorial, so we can house people coming over. We really encourage that to keep the bicoastal thing going. I do encourage my executive team to get out of what I call the four walls of Santa Barbara and make sure you get that influence from other things going on.”

She’s never felt “too disadvantaged” as a woman in the traditionally male-dominated tech industry, and she has seen increasing opportunities open for women to progress within organizations. “But I don’t think Santa Barbara is immune from the problems, or from the progress that we’re making,” she said.

She’s a fan of basing companies on the Central Coast, where the culture centers on enjoying the outdoors and natural beauty. “I’m not talking about taking time off to go surfing,” she said. “You have more time here. You don’t have the congestion and the traffic problems. And for your life, you just have more hours. That impacts the culture of companies because the stress level goes down and people have both more time to invest in themselves as well as in the company.”

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“We have really had to remain agile for the last few months since March and COVID,” said Nathan Ziv, the company’s VP of product management.

“And not just learning internal ways to adapt, but consumer buying behaviors have shifted a ton.”

With a client list that includes big-name brands such as Samsung, Mayo Clinic, LendingTree, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, and Open Table, Invoca specializes in studying the behaviors of their “customers’ customers.” For obvious reasons, they’re seeing a lot more online and phone-call buying now.

“We’re seeing that the volume of calls from consumers calling into these brands has never been higher,” explained Ziv. “We know those conversations are more important than ever. Luckily, we’re in a good place to help brands do that.” Some sectors, though, like the travel industry, are hurting despite Invoca’s help.

Invoca’s team, which includes about 200 people headquartered in Santa Barbara with offices in Denver and San Francisco, is very used to meeting with customers in person, whether in quarterly meet-and-greets or taking clients out to dinner to review their portfolios. With the pandemic restrictions, said Ziv, “We’ve had to learn to do all of that over Zoom and find different ways to keep engaged with them.”

Invoca has ramped up webinars as one tool to engage their customers.

“We’ve helped a lot of our clients understand that they have a lot of customers calling and talking about the pandemic,” said Ziv, explaining that healthcare clients are receiving insights into the confusion over elective surgeries.

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epresenting tech-sector businesses for more than 30 years, attorney Michael Pfau, who is a founding partner of Reicker, Pfau, Pyle & McRoy LLP, provides a unique vantage point of the Santa Barbara scene.

HOW HAS OUR TECH SECTOR EVOLVED? The

FLIR's technology used in the 2018 film Rampage

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ith appearances in Sicario, Ozark, Silicon Valley, The Haunting of Hill House, Transformers: The Last Knight, Speechless, and Extinct or Alive, among others, FLIR is more than familiar with the on-screen close-up.

The thermal imaging tech company, which employs approximately 450 of its 3,000 employees in Goleta, uses product placement as an important part of its marketing strategy. “We really approach placement in a collaborative way,” said Vatche Arabian, director of content marketing. “While some companies may actually go out and buy a placement on a show, we don’t typically do that. Often, it’s cases where folks want to achieve something unique, and we partner with them to help them do that.”

Of course, sometimes opportunity just knocks. “The crazy, lastminute ones are the ones that we seem to get the biggest lift out of,” said Arabian, referring to the 2017 VMA performance of 30 Seconds to Mars, in which actor/musician Jared Leto wanted to do the thing with thermal cameras. “We had maybe a week-and-a-half notice for that one. Trying to realize what they were trying to do and find the best way to do that was terrifying, but then the end result was amazing.”

FLIR cameras were also used on the two Sicario movies. “In the tunnel, when it’s in thermal vision, we worked with Roger Deakins to have him use the FLIR science camera, and he couldn’t have told that story without it,” said Stacy Jones, CEO and founder of Hollywood Branded, the marketing agency that works with FLIR. “They were in a pitch-black tunnel, and he was trying to actually show what it is like for the military and for those people who were running from across the border.”

In the movie Rampage, FLIR provided a pilot and its plane, fully kitted out with all the FLIR technology, usually reserved for large-scale demonstrations of their product line to military or government buyers. “There was a fictional big quarry scene,” said Jones. “It existed, but they made it look way bigger than it was through movie magic. And they had the plane sweeping over it, filming in thermal and feeding a livestream down to the director at the same time, so they could get the vision and the day scenes and the night scenes and the thermal all captured while the big ravaging beast that they put in later on was able to storm in with special effects.”

Product placement works best on-screen when it’s helping to tell the story, said Jones, who founded her agency in 2007, with BlackBerry as her first client. “Technology is something that is a great storyteller when it’s contributing to who the character is, to driving a story element, and contributing to making that scene more real,” she explained. flir.com

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same way it did in Silicon Valley. What happened was that the university attracted some real national quality talent to its faculty.

Many of those people were entrepreneurially inclined, and they exported technology from the university and formed companies.

Michael Pfau Some of those were sold off and were successful; they put money into people’s hands. solve it? and (c) what is your sustainable competitive Over time, you have a collection of technology, engi- advantage? In other words, why are you different from neering, and management talent that has some money everybody else? in its pocket and wants to do it again. One success You have to be solving a real-world problem. What begets two successes and four successes, which beget they all have in common is they believe they can go eight successes, and it just evolves naturally that way. through brick walls, and they will do it to get to their In parallel with that, we had the build-up of infra- outcome. structure to support these companies: angel investing, like the Santa Barbara Angel Alliance; venture SO ENTREPRENEURS ARE ENTREPRENEURS THEN? It’s just firms like Kevin O’Connor’s ScOp Venture Capital grit and gristle, and in the end, a disciplined approach and Entrada Ventures; and law firms and CPAs that to business always pays off. The technology guys are more successful because they’re building companies are used to dealing with these things. with what we call fatter revenues — lower expenses to It becomes a self-perpetuating cycle. higher net revenue — so they are more profitable, and ARE TECH ENTREPRENEURS DIFFERENT FROM PEOPLE WHO that’s why people think that maybe there is something START OTHER KINDS OF BUSINESSES? Maybe, but the better about it. But no, I’m just selling something or answer is probably no. creating something that can be sold as more valuable.

The analysis for any opportunity is (a) what is the problem you are trying to solve? (b) how do you reickerpfau.com

thermal imaging

HOTSPOT FOR SEEKING HEAT S anta Barbara is a world leader in infrared technology, with a long history that dates back to the scientists at the 1960s-era Hughes Aircraft Co., which later became the Santa Barbara Research Center. With present-day industry bigwig FLIR located here, along with defense and aerospace industry heavyweights like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin and companies such as SE-IR Corporation, Electro Optical Industries, Seek Thermal, and Teledyne Scientific & Imaging developing technology for consumer and industrial applications—from smartphones and cars to night-vision cameras and sensors—this sector of tech is definitely a hot one.

“The Santa Barbara office is really the nerve center of a lot of our cores and components,” said Vatche Arabian, director of content marketing for FLIR, whose name is an acronym for “forward-looking infrared.”

With the Central Coast as the home to approximately 450 of its 3,000 employees worldwide, FLIR is considered the global leader in the design, manufacture, and marketing of thermal imaging infrared cameras.

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neering scientists Bill Parrish and Tim Fitzgibbons, who spent 40 years advancing the state of military and professional-grade thermal-imaging technology. Seek is their third venture, following the successful acquisitions of their last two companies, Amber Engineering and Indigo Systems, which is now part of Raytheon and FLIR, respectively.

Their mission is to make thermal imaging a part of everyday life. “We make devices, for example, that turn your phone into a thermal imager,” explained Seek’s CEO and president Mike Muench. “We make handheld thermal imagers. We make products specifically for the fire and safety space, which are also stand-alone thermal scanning products.”

With manufacturing on-site in Goleta, the team of 100 employees at Seek Thermal was able to respond quickly to the COVID pandemic and the demand for screening measures. Said Muench, “We now make a scanning system for helping businesses to screen employees for elevated body temperature.”

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n increasing number of tech companies are working to create products and applications to improve our lives and make a difference in ways both small and large.

While Apeel Sciences works to end hunger on a global scale, Last Call for Food matches hungry college students with discounted end-of-night restaurant meals. Founder and CEO Erin McGeoy, a Santa Barbara High water-polo standout, developed the platform while at George Washington University.

Despite scholarships and working throughout college, she still struggled financially and developed clever ways to access more affordable food.

After working on the foodwaste team at the World Wildlife Fund, she focused her energy on the intersection of college food insecurity and wasted restaurant food to launch Last Call in 2017.

“The technology we use allows restaurants and other food vendors to share deals they have on surplus food to the Last Call website, and it enables Last Call to communicate these deals to our subscribers,” said McGeoy, who launched on the East Coast but is now actively working in her hometown to bring the service to UCSB and SBCC students. See lastcallforfood.com.

ChowMatch is also counteracting food waste locally. The initiative was launched by the Community Environmental Council (CEC) in partnership with the Santa Barbara County Food Rescue Program and is supported by COVID-19 relief funding. Explained the CEC’s Julia Blanton, “We help build relationships between donors with surplus food and charitable organizations to prevent produce and restaurant-quality prepared food from going to the landfill and instead direct it to those facing hunger throughout the county.” See chowmatch.com.

Wildnote’s mission is to protect natural resources by empowering professionals to accurately collect, efficiently manage, and effectively report on environmental compliance. Making the world a better place is emphasized at every meeting, said founder and CEO Kristen Hazard, who is based in San Luis Obispo. “It’s often the reason employees want to come work for Wildnote, because they feel a calling for their work to have meaning around the environment,” she explained. See wildnoteapp.com.

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Heather Hochrein used a grad-school group thesis idea to win third place at UCSB’s New Venture Competition, and then she founded EVmatch, a peer-to-peer network for finding electric-vehicle charging stations. The app directs drivers to privately owned charging stations, allowing apartment dwellers and travelers a flexible way to charge their vehicles. See evmatch .com.

Technology is also an excellent resource for crowdfunding and marketing innovative, eco-minded products. Frustrated with trying to eliminate waste in their everyday lives, Remaker Labs cofounders David Silverander and Sky Gilbar developed Hitch, a full-size reusable water bottle with a removable, barista-approved cup hidden inside. Through funny videos featuring familiar landmarks, Hitch raised $1.2 million on Kickstarter and is still preselling through Indiegogo. They plan to deliver in November, just in time for the holidays. See carryhitch.com.

The Final company sports a similar ethos of eliminating single-use products and also used humorous videos of mermaids to market FinalStraw, a reusable straw that folds down to keychain-size.

“The idea around the mermaid is this human connection to the ocean, which has a fun fantasy aspect,” said founder Emma Rose Cohen, who was part of the Save the Mermaids activist group as a student at UCSB, dressing in mermaid costumes to encourage the City of Santa Barbara to ban plastic bags. Her Kickstarter campaign raised $1.8 million, and FinalStraw is now available at REI, as well as online, with additional products — FinalFork, FinalSpork, and FinalWipe— available for preorder. See final.co. n

n a creation story fit for a feel-good film, the food-preservation company Apeel Sciences was founded by UCSB grad student James Rogers when he heard a radio story about global hunger while driving through California’s lush farmlands. He wondered how so many could be so hungry when there was much food around.

Upon learning that the culprit is spoilage, the materials science PhD candidate developed a product—made entirely from natural things in the food we already eat—that slowed down the rotting of various fruits and vegetables. Rogers won UCSB’s New Venture Competition, and the seeds of Apeel quickly began to sprout, funded in part by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation due to the promise of fighting malnourishment around the world.

That was around 2012. Fast forward to today, and Apeel, which is headquartered in Goleta and employs nearly 200 “Apeelers,” is growing like crazy, developing products for dozens of produce categories and working with a range of partners, from small organic growers to the world’s largest food brands. In late August, Apeel, which is currency valued at more than $1 billion, announced a partnership with the largest German retailer that will put Apeel-treated avocados and oranges in more than 11,000 EDEKA and Netto stores.

And they’re just getting started.

I spoke with “Chief People Officer” Megan Opp about Apeel’s appeal.

WHY IS EVERYONE SO EXCITED ABOUT YOUR COMPANY? The technology and product are

so innovative and world-changing. We are thankful for UCSB for providing a strong pipeline of incredible talent, which of course includes our founders. People have the opportunity to positively change how the world accesses and enjoys fresh produce. What’s exciting is that it all started in this beautiful community of S.B. and has grown very quickly into a global company.

Most of our R&D happens right here at headquarters, but innovations can come from any part of the world. You can be based in Santa Barbara but also have opportunities to travel and work in new places. This is one of the most globally mobile companies I’ve seen, where we’ll give these opportunities as a way of sharing our company values and culture in different locations and also as a way to grow in one’s career and skills and global mindset.

WHAT ARE SOME HIGH AND LOW POINTS OF BEING A BIG EMPLOYER HERE? We’re extremely fortu-

nate to have great access to top tech talent who have chosen to study and live in the Santa Barbara area. We’ve also been able to attract talent

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from surrounding metro areas, including L.A. and the Bay Area. We always notice an uptick in applications from the East Coast and Midwest during winter months! Like any region for tech talent, Santa Barbara isn’t without its challenges. Santa Barbara’s cost of living and housing availability is one.

WHAT ARE SOME CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN SANTA BARBARA COMPARED TO OTHER TECH HUBS? Our employees are very philanthropic,

connected with nature, and embrace all of the outdoor adventures and amenities this area has to offer.

Does being a humanitarian-focused company lead to a certain type of employee? We are

a global company that hires talent based not only abilities but the aligned belief in our mission—enabling a world that works with nature; we use food to protect food — and wanting to be part of something that will change the world. We hire and reward people with strong alignment with our values, which include humility and teamwork. We support each other and want to see us all succeed so that Apeel produce will be available throughout the world.

HOW ARE YOU HANDLING HIRING DURING COVID?

Food waste is a global crisis, and we are continuing to aggressively staff up to be able to tackle this issue head-on. Even through this challenging time of COVID, we’ve come up with creative ways to create a welcoming virtual environment for candidates and new hires. We always put people first and have created additional programs to support our working parents and caregivers and all of our employees during these challenging times.

We feel so fortunate to be based in the Santa Barbara area with so many benefits within our reach!

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Forum S.B. Unified School District invites you to learn from teachers, students, and community leaders about the new ethnic studies graduation requirement. 6-8pm. Free. Zoom link: sbunified.zoom.us/j/94905743050.6-8pm.

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from S.B. Art Works will showcase abstract works by 20 area artists with developmental disabilities. A portion of the proceeds go to the artists and studio fund. The exhibitions will show through October 22. Free.

SUNDAY 10/4 10/4: Camerata Pacifica Concerts @ Home Enjoy a one-hour concert every Sunday created from Camerata Pacifica’s video library.

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Classes are Wednesdays through November 11. Sessions are online and in person outdoors (socially distanced in small groups). 4-6pm.

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Penske Projects Presents A Peripheral Reverie Featuring 22 artists portraying moments, locations, figures, or themselves expressing spirituality, joy, humor, and reflection, this exhibition seeks to offer a time and place for a moment of reprieve and release amid the important and radical times we are all currently living in. Visit the website to reserve a time to visit and avoid wait times. Masks are required and safety guidelines will be followed. The exhibit will show through October 10. 11am-4pm. Montecito Country Mart, 1014-G Coast Village Rd., Montecito. Free.

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Bring your own book and join the discussion (in Spanish) about Hispanic novels, share what you have been reading, and get new book recommendations from fellow Spanish language readers and the librarians. Also, if you want to get a head start, the November 2 book will be No One Writes to the Colonel by Gabriel García Márquez. Visit the website to register and put a book on hold to pick it up with Sidewalk Service. 4:30-5:30pm. Free. Llame al (805) 564-5634 o envíe un correo electrónico a ecastro@SantaBarbaraCA.gov.

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financial incentives, charging, range, and how to pair home solar with an EV for maximum savings. Join Michael Chiacos, Community Environmental Council director of energy and climate programs, and Barry Rands, S.L.O. Climate Coalition’s green transportation specialist.

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MEMORIES GALORE: Drew Wendland (far left) started the “I partied in Isla Vista ’95-’02” group on Facebook to share memories like this, in which the group’s co-administrator Chris Costales licks Wendland’s face.

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s outrage over Facebook’s shady ways flows like never before, there remain a few sunny corners of goodwill, warm memories, and great laughs within the social media beast. Though often used to fire up political ire or fuel conspiracy theories, Facebook Groups are places to connect with people of similar interests, ensuring that conversations usually stay on point rather than veer into vitriol.

I’ve long been a member of the “Memories of Old Santa Barbara” group (founded August 2011, 15,000-plus members) and joined “Support Santa Barbara Biz Online” (March 2020, 6,800+) during the pandemic.

But now one fast-rising group dominates my Facebook feed, making me and most of my college buddies smile every day: “I partied in Isla Vista ’95-’02.” Just founded on August 27, the group also already boasts nearly 12,000 members, some of whom are now pushing for a real-life reunion next summer.

“I’ve heard that there’s been an uptick in people visiting Isla Vista to see their old haunts, going to Sands, going to Freebirds, going to Island View Outfitters to get shirts,” said founder Drew Wendland, a West Virginia–raised contractor who attended UCSB from 1996 to 2001 and now lives in Thousand Oaks. “I’m glad that people are excited about reconnecting with the community.”

Wendland had been following a different Isla Vista group that had been founded by Ollie Ongpin in 2008, but it then renamed itself on August 22 as “I partied in Isla Vista ’88-’94.”

That’s about the time that UCSB grad and Santa Barbara resident Tyler Tomblin was killing pandemic time by posting new content on that group’s page. “I got my photo album and started scanning shots, and it really took off,” said Tomblin, whose friends started sharing and bumped that membership to more than 6,000. “We had 34

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this little group of friends that became a catalyst for the second group.”

Once those specific years were identified, Wendland realized that he wouldn’t know many people in that group, so he started the new one five days later. “I tried to get a swath of years where people would know each other and have had similar experiences,” he explained of picking the 1995 to 2002 range. “I invited about 200 friends from college, and they invited their friends, and now it’s like a Sprint commercial.

It’s pretty incredible.” The content is mostly old photos, questions to the crowd about life then and now, and plenty of forgotten memories and friendships revived.

Support for the reunion is not quite so viral, with just over $2,500 raised of the $50,000 goal.

The loose plan is for July 16 to 18, 2021, with a concert, ideally starring a big UCSB alum like Jack Johnson or Steve Aoki. Some are joking that it sounds like the notoriously swindly Fyre Festival, but Wendland assures he’s not taking anyone’s money, just testing the waters. “I still don’t really know how that’s gonna go,” he admitted.

As the group’s administrator, Wendland now checks the site multiple times a day, takes down any posts deemed offensive, and recently banned politics completely. “I want to stay on top of it and keep it a fun group,” said Wendland.

It’s working, as this recent post illustrated.

“One thing I’ve noticed within these thousands of posts and comments is not one negative or disparaging comment about anyone or anything,” wrote Emi Juhasz Saffian. “It’s the most feel good vibe energy group I’ve ever been a part of and it just further proves what a magical, special experience we shared and obviously all appreciate. I feel like we are all chillin’ in one big living room, passing the bong around, and trying to piece those years together laughing and reminiscing like one big family.” n INDEPENDENT.COM

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hen I heard that the independent hospitality group behind two affordable boutique hotels I adore — Sparrows Lodge in Palm Springs and Casa Laguna Hotel & Spa in Laguna Beach — had worked their magic on a small property in San Luis Obispo, it was the perfect excuse for a little road trip north.

The new-and-improved San Luis Creek Lodge charmed me from the getgo. Set along a stretch of unremarkable chain hotels on Monterey Street, just outside of the downtown core, the lodge stands out for its thoughtful, understated style. L.A.-based designer Nina Freudenberger reimagined what was an ordinary roadside inn into a soulful urban farmhouse with a distinctly coastal vibe.

I stayed in a spacious Premiere King with a fireplace on the second floor of one of the three buildings that house their 25 inviting guest rooms. Full disclosure: This is not a place you stay to take in the views — San Luis Creek Lodge is the perfect base for exploring downtown S.L.O. and the surrounding wine regions. When you’re in your room, it’s all about enjoying the comfort, design, and amenities.

The mix of natural textures, modern graphic art prints, and sleek light fixtures creates a cozy, contemporary atmosphere. I was literally oohing and ahhing aloud as I got settled in, feeling like I was inhabiting a spread straight out of Dwell magazine. My room featured a statement wall covered with a patterned grass-woven wallpaper that served as the backdrop to the ultraplush bed outfitted with Italian linens and a handsome rattan headboard.

A large rattan armchair was perched in front of the fireplace (very hygge!),

which was framed by a brick wall painted a subtle shade of navy. Even better that the fireplace turns on and off with the click of a switch.

The Lodge makes a point to embrace the region’s artisans and introduce guests to some of their beloved global brands. The curated minibar selection features local makers and treats from the upscale California health food minichain Erewhon. The pastry and coffee delivered to your room each morning (in a reusable tote bag you get to keep) are sourced from local favorite HoneyCo, the roasters behind S.L.O.’s Scout Coffee. The bathrooms are stocked with luxurious Aesop bath products, and Linus bikes are available for guest use at no charge.

One of the reasons I chose to stay at the lodge was its proximity to downtown S.L.O.’s restaurants and shops.

I walked into town for dinner each evening, an easy 20-minute stroll that felt very safe in that small-town way.

My alfresco meals at Granada Hotel & Bistro and the Peruvian gem Mistura were excellent. I also visited a couple of wineries: Biddle Ranch Vineyard in the Edna Valley, an easy 15-minute drive to the lodge, and Niner Wine Estates 30-minutes north in Paso Robles.

During my time as a guest, I could not stop thinking about what good value San Luis Creek Lodge is. The fact that you can visit midweek and get a room of this quality for under $200 a night is impressive — if it was in another zip code, you can bet it would be double the price and still worth every penny.

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n mid-March, the sports world underwent a massive transformation. Here are just a few of the differences.

THEN: During the 2016-17 basketball season, some members of the UCSB women’s team took a knee during the national anthem to protest social injustice in the manner of Colin Kaepernick and Megan Rapinoe.

Older spectators in the Thunderdome were visibly scowling during the demonstration.

“It was tough,” said Coco Miller, a sophomore guard who chose to remain standing.

“I was 19. I didn’t know if the message was properly being displayed. But standing or kneeling, all of us as a team supported each other.”

Coach Bonnie Henrickson also supported them, noting that female athletes have long been fighting for justice on a number of fronts. “They’re forced to be activists to create change,” she said.

NOW: Too many tragic events in the past year have validated such demonstrations, but meanwhile, athletes have moved on from symbolic gestures to forcefully speaking out.

They are backed by their institutions and leagues. UCSB men’s basketball coach Joe Pasternack and five players are appearing in a televised public service announcement along with, among others, Santa Barbara Police Chief Lori Luhnow, who proclaims, “We stand together against racial injustice.”

THEN: Cynics have been inclined to ridicule the term “student-athlete” repeatedly uttered by college officials and coaches. Okay, some football players and one-and-done basketball players don’t take the student part seriously. And when they’re being recruited, they are offered inducements amounting to bribery to assure their attendance.

NOW: It turns out schools themselves have been bribed on behalf of unqualified applicants who are falsely portrayed as talented athletes so they can gain “admission by exception.” A California state audit found that 22 such students in the UC system, including four at UCSB, were improperly admitted at the behest of donors or other people of influence. UCSB says it is addressing the issue by implementing reviews of all applicants inside and outside the athletic department.

Meanwhile, instead of cataloguing wins and losses during the COVID pandemic, schools are extolling the academic achievements of their athletes. UCSB’s 426 athletes boasted a combined grade-point average of 3.46 in the spring quarter, and 80 of them were honored on the Big West Academic All-Conference teams.

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THEN: Striking out 330 batters in a season would put a major league pitcher in rarefied territory. Hall of Famer Randy Johnson was the last to exceed that number of K’s (334 in 2002).

NOW: It takes some math to show how remarkable was Cleveland righthander Shane Bieber’s performance during the COVID-abbreviated 2020 season. He recorded 122 strikeouts, which projects to 330 in a 162-game campaign. His 8-1 record translates to 22 wins in a normal season, and his earned run average of 1.63 is phenomenally low. Here comes the Cy Young Award.

Bieber, the ace of UCSB’s pitching staff in 2016, has been joined in the big leagues by two other hurlers who were his Gaucho teammates: Dillon Tate (2015) with the Baltimore Orioles and Kyle Nelson (2017), recently called up by the Indians. Is there a better college coach at grooming pitchers than UCSB’s Andrew Checketts?

THEN: NBA fans in March were looking forward to a Western Conference showdown between the Lakers and Clippers at the Staples Center.

NOW: Their expectations burst in the Orlando bubble. Denver’s upset of the Clippers was an amazement. It’s why we watch sports, to be surprised. These playoffs, even with fake fan noise, have been chock-full of excitement.

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FOURTH ESTABLISHMENT: Brandon Ristaino (left) and Misty Orman recently opened their fourth establishment in Santa Barbara by unveiling Venus in Furs on East Cota Street, a collaboration with the team at Barbareño. They’re serving wine, wine cocktails, and food, including the cucumber gazpacho with spot prawns tomato and basil seed lavosh (below).

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andemic, meet unstoppable Santa Barbara business force. Brandon Ristaino and Misty Orman, the couple behind The Good Lion, Test Pilot, and Shaker Mill, have teamed up with Jesse Gaddy and Julian Martinez, partners behind Barbareño and Cubaneo, to open a new wine bar. Say hello to Venus in Furs on East Cota Street, in what was most recently The Middle Child.

Yes, the new spot’s name is a huge Velvet Underground shout-out, minus most of the shocking song’s S&M references. Ristaino compares the band’s punk-rock energy “to young, rebellious, hippie guys and girls in France in the late 1960s, early 1970s,” and “the rad bars that were popping up in Paris then through the 1980s.” It’s that kind of neighborhood natural wine bar

ted, “I would hesitate to use the word natural, but we serve non-interventionist, biodynamic wines. The phrase I like is ‘climate-sensitive farming’ — for the most part, nothing added, nothing removed. It’s fun wine that’s got integrity.”

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list. “She’s great, and we love her and her work,” Ristaino says. “She did the list and training. While she’s living in Sonoma, she comes down once a month.”

The unique list is broken into sections like Electric Whites (subtitled “acid speaks louder than words”) and Pitch-Black Reds (subtitled “tbh, Adam Driver is only slightly more brooding”).

Ristaino insists the goal is to be “approachable, fun, and affordable,” claiming 50 percent of the wine is $25 to $44 per bottle and pointing to 18 by-the-glass options. The list will be everchanging, too, as they’re rarely Cucumber gazpacho with whey-poached spot prawns tomato and basil seed lavosh. stocking up more than a couple of cases of that Roark chenin Venus in Furs aims to emulate, a spot that blanc or Scholium Project cinsault, for in the City of Lights might be called a cave example. à vin.

But wine is just one attraction. “We Knowing how the term “natural wine” are huge fans of chef Julian [Martinez], has grown to mean everything and noth- and it’s an honor to collaborate with him,” ing (thanks, marketers!), Ristaino admit- explained Ristaino. The kitchen’s goal, he

Santa Barbara City College and then studying entrepreneurship at Antioch University, Zimbabwe-born Patience Ncube didn’t need any help identifying Santa Barbara’s dearth of African cuisine and culture.

To fill that void, she’s launched two enterprises to share her Bantu roots with us: the clothing, shoes, and accessory company called Bantu Crafted, and AfroFusion Catering, which delivers, literally, the flavors of western, central, eastern, and southern SADZA WITH A SMILE: Patience Ncube’s Afro-Fusion Catering menu Africa to our doorsteps. includes traditional African dishes such as jollof rice, piripiri sauce, and Although she grew mbuzi curry. up in Zimbabwe’s metropolitan capital of Harare, Ncube can women and open up their work frequently visited her grandmother’s to larger markets,” she explained. “It’s village, which was devoid of any of West- my way of contributing to economic ern conveniences, such as a refrigerator. development back home and empowerNcube’s menu is a combination of the ing families and communities toward recipes that her grandmother passed self-determination.” down to her as well as dishes gleaned On the culinary side, Ncube’s initial from friends in other African countries. idea was to do a series of pop-ups. But After teaching jobs in Zimbabwe and such fun wasn’t in the cards for the panEngland, Ncube came to Santa Barbara demic of 2020, aside from a curbside in 2009 for more schooling, getting pickup fundraiser and some sporadic deliveries. Instead, in September, she officially launched Afro-Fusion Catering as a meal subscription and private catering service, showcasing a full menu of options via AfroFusions.com.

BY BRIAN YAEGER The family-style meals come with a choice of sides that may degrees in math, science, and economics sound unfamiliar or unusual to most from SBCC and then a BA and master’s American ears but can lure even fussy from Antioch in business, leadership, foodies-in-training. Ugali, also known and organizational management. She’s sadza, is a maize-based food that’s a worked as an employment specialist natural fit for fans of grits or, given its for PathPoint since 2015. “While it was density, polenta. Chapati is an African scary,” she said of her leap to California, bread akin to East Indian paratha, which “it was exciting because it was an oppor- is similar to naan. Rice options include coconut rice, jollof rice (simmered in tunity to seek greener pastures.”

She’s hoping to sprinkle a bit more of tomato and pepper sauce), or peanut Africa onto those pastures today with butter rice. No Skippy is harmed in its these two businesses. “I love sharing my preparation, as the rice is simmered in culture,” she said. “That’s how we build an African peanut sauce made from organic peanut butter and crushed peacommunity.”

Ncube started Bantu Crafted in 2016 nuts. Additional options include planby importing handicrafts made by tains or sautéed veggies. women in Southern Africa. “The goal The delivery menu remains a work is to market the work of mainly Afri- in progress, always being updated

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he Paradise Café, which opened on the corner of Anacapa and Ortega streets in 1983 and became a preferred watering hole and eatery for generations of Santa Barbarans, has closed for good.

Upon shutting down in mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 37-year-old restaurant never resumed operations, not even for takeout. The ownership group Acme Hospitality, which had just purchased the iconic restaurant in November 2019, announced that a new concept is in the works.

“We fell in love with the vintage charm of the buildings at 702 Anacapa Street that have lovingly been home to a neighborhood café for more than 100 years,” said Acme’s owner Sherry Shop.

Villanueva. “When the Paradise Café replaced the beloved La Paloma Café in 1983 after nearly 50 years in operation, there was consternation, as change comes hard for our community. After 37 memorable years as the Paradise, we decided it’s now time to reimagine the future 18 W” Anapamu St for this iconic location.

Longtime owner805 Randy962-5353 Rowse, who remained a partner after selling to Acme last year, was bitSavoyWines.com tersweet over the news. “Paradise Café had a great run and had been the second-oldest restaurant in the city under the same ownership when we left at the end of last year,” he said. “We had a fabulous relationship with the family that has owned that property since 1938. It lasted a lot longer than anyone would have imagined.

To say these are difficult times is a gross understatement, particularly if one is trying to run a

restaurant, but I have faith that the Acme team is going to develop something exciting and fun in the old Paradise location.”

DEAN COFFEE OPENS: Dean: A Coffee Shop recently

opened at 6100-1 Hollister Avenue in Goleta, a newly built office plaza directly across the street from the former home of High Sierra Grill and Elephant Bar. Dean serves coffee; grab-n-go items including salads, sandwiches, snacks, and reheat reheatable meals; and numerous toasts with such toppings as avocado, goat cheese, smashed bean, and salami and gruyère.

“Peace, quiet, light, good espresso, friendly folks, easy food, breezy patio — that’s who we are,” said owner JenJen nifer Shively, who hopes to host events on the large patio. “Named after my grandfather, I made Dean an ode to relaxed hospitality and added all of the elements that I always wanted in a coffee shop. If we can bring his natural warmth and ease and blend it with uncomplicated modernity, then I have achieved my goal of creating a space of peace and welcome on Hollister.”

Dean aims to fill a niche for reasonably priced, simple fare while becoming a favorite hangout. “If you’re on your way to work and stop for a coffee, you may find yourself picking up your lunch; and if you stop in for lunch, you may well find yourself having a cup of coffee,” said Shively. “Hopefully we will make the locals happy with our offerings.

Dean is also a great spot to bring your four-legged friend.”

Call (805) 350-4110 or visit deancoffeeshop.com.

John Dickson’s reporting can be found every day online at SantaBarbara.com. Send tips to info@SantaBarbara.com.

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says, is to celebrate the bounty of the earth from the Santa Barbara Channel to the Santa Ynez Valley. The menu is driven by vegetables and seafood, said Orman, explaining, “At Barbareño, the menu is so meat-centric, so Julian was happy to go in this direction here.” Think a high summer cucumber gazpacho with a home-baked basil seed lavosh supporting a delicious dice of tomatoes and whey-poached spot prawns. Or, for the carnivorous, a luxuriously spiced lamb belly with rosemary corn pudding, chimichurri, and shishitos.

The Black Leather cocktail at Venus in Furs The Velvets’ kink does rise to the surface when you spy the cocktail list. It’s extra twisted inside is something special, too. Dramatic stripes fun, given that not one of the drinks, from a Kiss of black and white highlighted by red and green the Boot to The Gentle Whip, will smack you line the arched ceiling. That ceiling will soon feawith lots of alcohol—remember, there’s no hard ture fancy Italian chandeliers — so Italian they liquor license. “It’s a way to make really interest- originally arrived wired for 220 volts. And the ing cocktails, with just a beer and wine license also-delayed tables, both inside and out, will be —these are sessionable,” Ristaino explained. “I’m etched with rock lyrics for even more of an edge.

“This is 12 new jobs for the city; that means getting older, and now I have vicious hangovers the team grows from 33 to 45,” said Ristaino of after three Manhattans.”

Much kinder on your tomorrow is that aptly Good Lion Hospitality’s employment impact. named Gentle Whip, an amaro sour with “lots “Plus, we’re selling wines that are good for Mother of bitter Italian stuff,” according to the menu. Earth and promoting local food purveyors—it’s The “lots” are five types of vermouth, bitters, and a win-win.”

Ristaino and Orman have had only five days off amaros, but if Ristaino told me which, John Cale would have to beat me to death with his viola bow. since February 29, but they’re not complaining or (Go listen to the song if that doesn’t make sense.) resting. Indeed, they’ve got another project afoot Right now, patrons can only sit outside in in Ventura, the Bank of Italy Cocktail Trust, that the Cota Street parklet or in the charming rear they hope to open this fall. patio space, which reminds Orman of “sitting in a Brooklyn or New Orleans backyard.” But the 18 E. Cota St.; venusinfurswine.com

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according to better-selling dishes that appeal to local palates. Menu items are also affected by limited availability of ingredients.

Seasoning-wise, African cuisine includes cayenne, paprika, chili powder, cumin, coriander, and plenty more found in curries and other spice-filled delights.

“There’s no spice we don’t use, to be honest,” explained Ncube.

Afro-Fusion’s meat dishes include beef, chicken, and, in lieu of native African fish, snapper and tilapia, which is actually found in Zimbabwe. Mbuzi, which means “goat” in many African dialects, is the star of the piquant mbuzi curry. Oxtail stew is also a Afro-Fusion Catering’s pepper-crusted fish with coconut rice fixture of the menu. Nothing goes to waste in African cooking—“We eat everything but the hooves,” promised Ncube—but offal still There’s another item that is also sure to cause family in-fighting over who gets the last one: puff is largely dismissed in many American kitchens.

The piripiri sauces, including mango habanero puff. These egg-shaped pillows of fried dough — and pineapple green chili, are the African-style think African æbleskivers — go by many names hot sauces that kickstarted Ncube’s first food con- from one African country to another, but puff cept in 2012 and are deserving of their own cult puff seems to be the common denominator. following. The original idea was to start a line of They’re a testament to how doughnuts, for lack bottled African sauces to fill the gaping hole found of a better analog, can be quickly beloved by any in supermarkets between the Latin-American and palate, no matter which culture creates them.

Asian flavors featured in the “ethnic” aisles.

Ncube’s puff puff style is based on her grandRelegated to the secret menu is gizdodo, which mother’s version, but she puts an American spin are plantains garnished with peppered chicken on them, adding mango and chili or coconut or gizzards. These bite-sized gizzards are chewy chocolate, among other flavors. “That’s my infubut high in protein, low in fat, and the one part sion,” beamed Ncube. “I’m a big foodie.” everyone in my family fought over on our baked afrofusions.com; bantucrafted.com chicken night.

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managing emotions, and cultivating understanding.

Even those already steeped in the literature of conflict resolution will find valuable concepts here, observations that capture key nuances within the more familiar larger categories of behavior.

Sure, you know how to mirror the position of the person you are talking with by restating and paraphrasing their key points, but are you “nuggetizing” them? You will be after reading Israel’s Bubble. Deftly mixing substantial documentation of recent research in psychology with illustrative dialogues featuring Kevin and Celine, liberal and conservative cousins who wish to reduce their discomfort when encountering each other at family events, the book paints a picture of political conflict that’s at once realistic and optimistic. We can’t agree on everything—an unreachable goal—but together we can begin the process of dismantling positions based on labels by learning how others have arrived at the beliefs they hold.

Israel identifies the fact that “we see others as more extreme than they really are” as one of the most consequential discoveries in her work. When she asks readers to identify their motivations for dialogue, she does so in the hope that they may eventually listen to understand, rather than just to respond.

It’s this quality of curiosity and “intellectual humility,” which Israel describes as “being righteous without being self-righteous,”

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he idea for Tania Israel’s book Beyond Your Bubble: How to Connect Across the Political Divide, Skills and Strategies for Conversations That Work, which provides readers with concrete strategies for reducing the stress and misunderstandings associated with political polarization, came, like so many other things in America today, immediately following the election of November 2016. Israel, professor of counseling psychology at UCSB, saw a nation increasingly unable to connect across the red/blue divide, and she knew from years of experience as a teacher, as a psychologist, and as a facilitator of workshops that her discipline had useful tools that could help reduce this conflict.

The first expression of this impulse to do something about a divided America was a diagram called “The Flowchart That Will Resolve All Political Conflict in Our Country,” and it’s included in Beyond Your Bubble as Figure 1.1, a testament to both the idealism of the mission and the wisdom of Professor Israel’s self-awareness. While she acknowledges that, “shockingly,” the chart did not succeed in eliminating all political conflict in America, it did accomplish something important by initiating this project, which then became a series of workshops in which hundreds of people participated in versions of the various exercises and techniques detailed in the book. These messy, real-world encounters with actual humans laid the essential groundwork for Beyond Your Bubble’s incisive, richly detailed, and, above all, useful descriptions of such crucial activities as being a good listener,

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The book has come out at a moment of extraordinary historical importance, an unprecedented crisis in our country’s self-understanding. It’s published by the American Psychological Association, a multifaceted organization perhaps best known among the general public for APA Style, the standard procedure for documenting sources in the social sciences. When the APA first approached Israel about writing a book, they were after something on LGBTQ+ counseling and advocacy, another area in which she has demonstrated expertise. But when she suggested the idea for Beyond Your Bubble instead, they went all in, agreeing not only to back the timely volume, but also—and this was a deal-making point for the author—to get it out before November 2020. Read it now, and begin to listen as though our lives and the future of our country depend on it. —Charles Donelan

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BY ATTICA LOCKE The Cutting Season by Attica Locke is a fresh take on Southern Gothic literature. It is a fast-paced murder mystery that zooms in on the intersection and continued entanglement of history and modernity in the American South. iddeLocke — a television screenwriter best known for Empire — places the reader so completely in the South that you can almost feel the suffocating humidity and see the dappled light through hanging Spanish moss. Locke looks at law enforcement and racism through the themes of history, family, and politics while telling the gripping tale of a woman killed too young and a justice system that may fail her.

In the novel, it is the early years of Barack Obama’s administration, and Caren, a young Black mother, is the manager of Belle Vie, a rural Louisiana sugarcane plantation turned historic tourist attraction, where her ancestors were once enslaved. One morning, while making her daily rounds, Caren discovers a young woman’s body buried on the property, and her world is thrust into chaos. Soon, a full investigation into the murder is in the process and one of her staff members has gone missing.

Caren is forced to face both her family’s history and the fate of the plantation’s murky future.

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In the every-man-thinketh-his-burden-is-the-heaviest department, live music venues feel and know that weight more than most during the COVID-19 pandemic. Concerts small and large are effectively banned in most places, and there’s no clear sign of when they’ll return.

To help their survival, Pete Muller — a math whiz, hedge fund manager, and musician who lives in Santa Barbara — founded the Live Music Society, which is doling out grants of $10,000-$50,000 across the country to venues that have capacities of fewer than 250 people. The society is also producing a series of short documentaries about these culturally critical locations called Empty Spaces, the first of which features our city’s very own SOhO Restaurant & Music Club.

“These small club owners are part of the fabric of many towns — they’ve spent years cultivating touring artists and audiences that appreciate hearing them,” said Muller, who’s played with his band at SOhO many times. “Live Music Society is helping these venues get through the economic challenges of the pandemic and to still be around when things open up again.”

Shot over two days at SOhO a couple of months ago, the 15-minute film features commentary and performances from Glen Phillips of Toad the Wet Sprocket, Zach Gill of ALO/Jack Johnson, John Kay of Steppenwolf, and Muller himself. Alan Parsons also chimes in, as do familiar faces such as Hale Milgrim, Matt Buckmaster, and George Short, as well as the recently passed photographer Alan Kozlowski, whose images have long adorned SOhO’s walls. SOhO’s staff is particularly highlighted — longtime patrons will recognize many faces from the photos of years past — with special attention paid to co-owner Gail Hansen, whose nurturing spirit contributes to the club’s family-like feel.

As a fundraiser for SOhO, the Live Music Society and Santa Barbara Independent are partnering to livestream Empty Spaces: SOhO via the newspaper’s Facebook page (facebook.com/sbindependent) on Thursday, October 8, at 6 p.m. During the screening, viewers can donate directly to SOhO or, for a deductible write-off, through the Live Music Society.

For more information, see livemusicsociety.org.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY by Rob Breszny ARIES

CANCER

(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): “I am, indeed, a king, because I

(June 21-July 22): “I’m the diamond in the dirt that ain’t

know how to rule myself,” wrote 16th-century author Pietro Aretino. By January 2021, Aries, I would love for you to have earned the right to make a similar statement: “I am, indeed, a royal sovereign, because I know how to rule myself.” Here’s the most important point: The robust power and clout you have the potential to summon has nothing to do with power and clout over other people — only over yourself.

Homework: Meditate on what it means to be the imperial boss and supreme monarch of your own fate.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): “The basic principle of spiritual

been found,” sings Cancerian rapper Curtis Jackson, also known as 50 Cent. “I’m the underground king and I ain’t been crowned,” he adds. My reading of the astrological omens suggests that a phenomenon like that is going on in your life right now. There’s something unknown about you that deserves and needs to be known. You’re not getting the full credit and acknowledgment you’ve earned through your soulful accomplishments. I hereby authorize you to take action!

Address this oversight. Rise up and correct it.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The author bell hooks (who doesn’t

life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.” Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield made that brilliant observation. It’s always worth meditating on, but it’s an especially potent message for you during the first three weeks of October 2020. In my view, now is a highly favorable time for you to extract uplifting lessons by dealing forthrightly with your knottiest dilemmas. I suspect that these lessons could prove useful for the rest of your long life.

capitalize her name) has spent years as a professor in American universities. Adaptability has been a key strategy in her efforts to educate her students. She writes, “One of the things that we must do as teachers is twirl around and around, and find out what works with the situation that we’re in.” That’s excellent advice for you right now — in whatever field you’re in. Old reliable formulas are irrelevant, in my astrological opinion. Strategies that have guided you in the past may not apply to the current scenarios. Your best bet is to twirl around and around as you experiment to find out what works.

GEMINI

VIRGO

(May 21-June 20): “My business is to love,” wrote poet

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Your relationship with yourself

Emily Dickinson. I invite you to adopt this motto for the next three weeks. It’s an excellent time to intensify your commitment to expressing compassion, empathy, and tenderness. To do so will not only bring healing to certain allies who need it; it will also make you smarter. I mean that literally. Your actual intelligence will expand and deepen as you look for and capitalize on opportunities to bestow blessings. (P.S. Dickinson also wrote, “My business is to sing.” I recommend you experiment with that mandate, as well.)

sets the tone for every other relationship you have,” says motivational speaker Robert Holden. Hallelujah and amen! Ain’t that the truth! Which is why it’s so crucial to periodically take a thorough inventory of your relationship with yourself. And guess what, Virgo: Now would be a perfect time to do so. Even more than that: During your inventory, if you discover ways in which you treat yourself unkindly or carelessly, you can generate tremendous healing energy by working to fix the glitches. The coming weeks could bring pivotal transformations in your bonds with others if you’re brave enough to make pivotal transformations in your bonds with yourself.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In her high school yearbook, Libra-

born Sigourney Weaver arranged to have this caption beneath her official photo: “Please, God, please, don’t let me be normal!” Since then, she has had a long and acclaimed career as an actor in movies. ScreenPrism .com calls her a pioneer of female action heroes.

Among her many exotic roles: a fierce warrior who defeats monstrous aliens; an exobiologist working with indigenous people on the moon of a distant planet in the 22nd century; and a naturalist who lives with mountain gorillas in Rwanda. If you have ever had comparable fantasies about transcending normalcy, Libra, now would be a good time to indulge those fantasies — and begin cooking up plans to make them come true.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio-born Prince Charles has

been heir to the British throne for 68 years. That’s an eternity to be patiently on hold for his big chance to serve as king. His mother, Queen Elizabeth II, just keeps going on and on, living her very long life, ensuring that Charles remains second-in-command. But I suspect that many Scorpios who have been awaiting their turn will finally graduate to the next step in the coming weeks and months. Will Charles be one of them? Will you? To increase your chances, here’s a tip: Meditate on how to be of even greater devotion to the ideals you love to serve.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Inventor Buckminster Fuller was a

visionary who loved to imagine ideas and objects no one had ever dreamed of before. One of his mottoes was, “There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” I recommend that you spend quality time in the coming weeks meditating on butterfly-like things you’d love to have as part of your future — things that may resemble caterpillars in the early going. Your homework is to envision three such innovations that could be in your world by October 1, 2021.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): During World War II, Hollywood filmmakers decided it would be a good idea to create stories based on graphic current events: for example, American Marines waging pitched battles against Japanese soldiers on South Pacific islands. But audiences were cool to that approach. They preferred comedies and musicals with “no message, no mission, no misfortune.” In the coming weeks, I advise you to resist any temptation you might have to engage in a similar disregard of current events. In my opinion, your mental health requires you to be extra discerning and well-informed about politics — and so does the future of your personal destiny.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Pretending is imagined possibility,” observes actor Meryl Streep. “Pretending is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.” In other words, fantasizing about events that may never happen is just one way we use our mind’s eye. We also wield our imaginations to envision scenarios that we actually want to create in our real lives. In fact, that’s the first step in actualizing those scenarios: to play around with picturing them; to pretend they will one day be a literal part of our world.

The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to supercharge the generative aspect of your imagination. I encourage you to be especially vivid and intense as you visualize in detail the future you want.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): “My own soul must be a bright invisible

green,” wrote author and philosopher Henry David Thoreau. Novelist Tom Robbins suggested that we visualize the soul as “a cross between a wolf howl, a photon, and a dribble of dark molasses.” Nobel Prize–winning poet Wisława Szymborska observed, “Joy and sorrow aren’t two different feelings” for the soul. Poet Emily Dickinson thought that the soul “should always stand ajar” — just in case an ecstatic experience or rousing epiphany might be lurking in the vicinity. In the coming weeks, Pisces, I invite you to enjoy your own lively meditations on the nature of your soul. You’re in a phase when such an exploration can yield interesting results.

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HOMEWORK: Make up a song that cheers you up and inspires your excitement about the future. It doesn’t have to be perfect. FreeWillAstrology.com

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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: 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: 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: 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 a s : G O L E TA S C H O O L O F 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 STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GRANITE PEAK PARTNERS at 301 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 STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LORI’S MOBILE NOTARY & FINGERPRINTING 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.

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 STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SHEARS TO YOU at 130 South Hope Ave, Suite 120 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Brittany K Jones 1924 Elise Way Unit A Santa Barbara, CA 93109 conducted by a Individual Signed: Stephen C. Swinchatt Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 15, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002354.

Published: Sep 24. Oct 1, 8, 15 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARABARA BBQ at 415 W Gutierrez St #11 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Cesar J Trujillo (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Cesar Joaquin Trujillo Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 16, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002369. Published: Sep 24.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ULTIMATE LONGEVITY at 315 Meigs Rd, Ste A108 Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Katherine Bernhardt 34122 Selva Rd Dana Point, CA 92629 conducted by a Individual Signed: Katherine Bernhardt Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 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: 2020‑0002307.

Published: Sep 24. Oct 1, 8, 15 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CROSBY WINE CO. at 84 Industrial Way Buellton, CA 93427; Stephen C Swinchatt 3865 Sterrett Ave. Santa Barbara, CA 93110 conducted by a Individual Signed: Stephen C. Swinchatt Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 15, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002349. Published: Sep 24. Oct 1, 8, 15 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: GINO’S SICILIAN EXPRESS at 12 West Figueroa St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Connie Milano 1613 Chapala St. C Santa Barbara, CA 93101 conducted by a Individual Signed: Connie Milano Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 16, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002375.

Published: Sep 24. Oct 1, 8, 15 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: JARROTT & CO REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS at 821 Paseo Alicante Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Leonard S Jarrott (same address) Margaret S J a r ro t t ( s a m e a d d re s s ) conducted by a Copartners Signed: Margaret S Jarrott 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: 2020‑0002334.

Published: Sep 24. Oct 1, 8, 15 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: GUZMAN GENERAL LABOR at 1121 E Rice Ranch Santa Maria, CA 93455; Juan D Guzman Machuca (same a d d re s s ) conducted by a Individual Signed: Juuan De Jesus Guzman Machuca Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 2, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002233.

Published: Sep 24. Oct 1, 8, 15 2020.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LIVE SCAN SANTA BARBARA, SANTA BARBARA SHREDDING at 411 E Canon Perdido St Ste 15 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Lawcopy, LLC (same address) conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Charles J Rao Jr Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 16, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002370. Published: Sep 24. Oct 1, 8, 15 2020.

the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002378. Published: Sep 24. Oct 1, 8, 15 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JUST SHORT AND SWEET at 1125 Olive St, Apt 2 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Blythe E Rhoads (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Blythe Rhoads 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: 2020‑0002344.

Published: Sep 24. Oct 1, 8, 15 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AMBER ROSE at 1316 Viola Way Lompoc, CA 93436; Amber R Hogan (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Amber Hogan Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 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: 2020‑0002308.

Published: Sep 24. Oct 1, 8, 15 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LUA PAPIER at 2118 Red Rose Way Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Victoria Earle 705 Calle De Los Amigos #A Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Flavia Giuzio Dos Santos Diaz 2118 Red Rose Way Santa Barbara, CA 93109 conducted by a General Partnership Signed: Victoria Earle 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: 2020‑0002351. Published: Sep 24. Oct 1, 8, 15 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HPC at 4860 Calle Real Santa Barbara, CA 93111; HPC of Santa Barbara, LLC (same address) conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Beth Thuna Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 16, 2020.

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FORESTGYPSEA at 2431 Murrell Road Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Melody Ann Alvarez (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Melody Ann Alvarez Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 15, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002360. Published: Sep 24. Oct 1, 8, 15 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SPIRIT PAINTING at 212 Sycamore Lane Apt A Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Heron Pardes (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Heron Parrdes Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 9, 2020.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002299.

Published: Oct 1, 8, 15, 22 2020.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EGAN MARKETING, REPAIR SHOP VIDEOS, SPARK INTERACTIVE at 3905 State St. 7‑235 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Patrick Egan 3826 Center Avenue Santa Barbara, CA 93110 conducted by a Individual Signed: Patrick Egan Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 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: 2020‑0002402. Published: Oct 1, 8, 15, 22 2020.

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60 Toe the line 1 “Groovy” relative 61 Soap that’s evidently 4 Bitter-tasting 0.56% impure 9 With celerity 62 Unable to escape 13 Citrus beverage suffix censorship?

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MIKES HEATING AND AIR at 820 E Yanonali Street #B Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Michael J Dominguez (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Michael J Dominguez Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 23, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002419.

Published: Oct 1, 8, 15, 22 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HAR PUBLISHING at 4821 Pagaling Dr. Guadalupe, CA 93434; Luis Lopez Jr. (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Luis Lopez Jr. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 11, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002328.

Published: Oct 1, 8, 15, 22 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g person(s) is/are doing b u s i n e s s a s : E X P E R T‑ A D U DESIGN AND BUILD, LLC a t 7 8 2 3 Wa g o n W h e e l D r i v e Goleta, CA 93117; Expert‑adu design and build, LLC (same address) conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Margaret J Stevens Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 17, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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

FBN Number: 2020‑0002384.

Published: Oct 1, 8, 15, 22 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 : A L LY T O A C C O M P L I C E , A L LY 2 ACCOMPLICE, A2A at 72 South Patterson Ave Apt 108 Santa Barbara, CA 9 3 1 1 1 ; A l l y To A c c o m p l i c e (same address) conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Donte Newman Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 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: 2020‑0002395. Published: Oct 1, 8, 15, 22 2020.

PUBLIC NOTICE FOR COMMENT Public Housing Agency Annual Plan FY2021 Housing Authority of the County of Santa Barbara (HACSB) is inviting all interested parties to comment on the Public Housing Agency Plan for 2021 and the Capital Fund Program CA16-PO21-501-21 Annual Statement/Five Year Action Plan in accordance with Section 903.17 of Title 24 of the Code of Federal Regulations. This public notice is hereby posted a minimum of 45 calendar days prior to the public hearing scheduled on November 19, 2020.

The draft PHA plan is now available for review on HACSB’s website www.hasbarco.org.

Written comments may be sent to the Housing Authority of the County of Santa Barbara at P.O. Box 397, Lompoc, CA 93438-0397or by email to jackiebordon@hasbarco. org The deadline for submitting written comments is November 14, 2020.

A public hearing on the draft plan will be held on November 19, 2020 at 5:00 PM. https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/437299749 You can also dial in using your phone.

United States: +1 (872) 240-3412

In compliance with the American with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in the public hearing, please contact the Housing Authority of the County of Santa Barbara at (805) 736-3423 Ext. 4002. Notification at least 24 hours prior to the meeting will enable the Housing Authority to make reasonable arrangements.

October 1, 2020

AVISO PÚBLICO PARA COMENTARIOS Plan Anual de la Agencia de Vivienda Pública EFF 2021 La Autoridad de Vivienda del Condado de Santa Bárbara (HACSB por sus siglas en inglés), invita a todas las partes interesadas a ofrecer sus comentarios sobre el Plan de la Agencia de Vivienda Pública para el año 2021 y el Programa del Fondos Capitales CA16-PO21-501-21 Declaración Anual / Plan de Acción de Cinco Años de acuerdo con la Sección 903.17 del Título 24 del Código de Regulaciones Federales. Esta notificación pública se anuncia por lo menos con un mínimo de 45 días consecutivos antes de la audiencia pública programada para el 19 de noviembre del 2020.

El proyecto del plan PHA en revisión ya está disponible para su revisión en el sitio web de HACSB www.hasbarco.org.

Comentarios por escrito pueden ser enviados a la Autoridad de Vivienda del Condado de Santa Bárbara en P.O. Box 397, Lompoc, CA 93438-0397 o por correo electrónico a jackiebordon@hasbarco.org La fecha límite someter comentarios por escrito es el 14 de noviembre del 2020.

Una audiencia pública sobre el proyecto de plan en revisión se llevará a cabo el 19 de noviembre del 2020 a las 5:00 PM. https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/437299749 Usted también puede llamar usando su teléfono.

Estados Unidos: +1 (872) 240-3412 Código de acceso: 437-299-749 En cumplimiento con la Ley de Americanos con Discapacidades, si necesita asistencia especial para participar en la audiencia pública, por favor comuníquese con la Autoridad de Vivienda del Condado de Santa Bárbara al (805) 736-3423 Ext. 4002. Una notificación con al menos 24 horas de antes de la reunión permitirá a la Autoridad de Vivienda hacer los arreglos necesarios.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TUNED IN MUSIC STUDIOS at 2829 Miradero Dr. Unit B Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Leana Rae V Movillion. (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Leana Rae Movillion Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 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: 2020‑0002447. Published: Oct 1, 8, 15, 22 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LIMITLESS CREATIONS at 91 Depot Rd Goleta, CA 93117; Thomas E Zepeda 125 S Voluntario St Apt B Santa Barbara, CA 93103 conducted by a Individual Signed: Thomas Ernesto Zepeda Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 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: 2020‑0002443. Published: Oct 1, 8, 15, 22 2020.

NAME CHANGE IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF GUADALUPE CRISTINA CARDOSO PINON

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHEESE SHOP SANTA BARBARA at 827 Santa Barbara St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Graham Fine Foods, Inc. (same address) conducted by a Corporation Signed: Michael Graham Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 11, 2020.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002323.

Published: Oct 1, 8, 15, 22 2020.

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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 m a t t e r s h a l l a p p e a r b e f o re t h i s court at the hearing indicated b e l o w t o s h o w c a u s e , i f a n y, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection t h a t i n c l u d e s t h e re a s o n s f o r the objection at least two c o u r t d a y s b e f o re t h e m a t t e r i s s c h e d u l e d t o b e h e a rd a n d must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Nov 2, 2020 10:00am, Dept: 5, Superior Court of California County of Santa Barbara 1 1 0 0 A n a c a p a D t re e t S a n t a Barbara, CA 93101; anacapa D i v i s i o n A c o p y o f t h i s o rd e r to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed i n t h i s c o u n t y, a t l e a s t o n c e each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Sep 9, 2020 by Colleen K. Sterne, Judge of the Superior Court. Published: Sep 17, 24.

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I N T H E M AT T E R O F T H E A P P L I C AT I O N O F J E R E M Y KING ECKLUND ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER:

20CV02594 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara S u p e r i o r c o u r t p ro p o s i n g a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: JEREMY KING ECKLUND TO: JEREMY KING THE COURT ORDERS that a l l p e r s o n s i n t e re s t e d i n t h i s m a t t e r s h a l l a p p e a r b e f o re t h i s court at the hearing indicated b e l o w t o s h o w c a u s e , i f a n y, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name c h a n g e s d e s c r i b e d above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Oct 30, 2020 10:00am, Dept: 4, 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 c o u n t y, a t l e a s t o n c e e a c h week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition.

Dated Sep 10, 2020 by Donna D. Geck, Judge of the Superior Court. Published: Sep 24. Oct 1, 8, 15 2020.

PUBLIC NOTICES AMENDED PLAINTIFF’S Claim and ORDER to Go to

Small Claims Court Notice to Defendant: J a m e s J M i r a n d a . Yo u a r e being sued by Plaintiff: Gabriel Richard Et. Al. and restraining order by G a b r i e l R i c h a r d : • Yo u and the plaintiff must go to court on the trial date l i s t e d b e l o w. I f y o u d o n o t go to court, you may lose the case. • If you lose, the court can order that your w a g e s , m o n e y, o r p r o p e r t y be taken to pay this claim.

• Bring witnesses, receipts, and any evidence you need to prove your case. Aviso al Demandado: • Usted y el Demandante tienen que presentarse en la carte en la fecha del juicio indicada a continuation. Si no se presenta, puede perder el caso. Si pierde el caso la corte podria ordenar que le quiten de su sueldo, dinero u otros bienes para pagar este reclamo. • Lleve testigos, recibos y cualquier otra prueba que necesite para probar su caso.

Civil Case Number: 19CV05755 Case Name: Richard Et. Al. v Miranda and Restraining Civil Case Number:20CV00180: C a s e N a m e : R i c h a r d v.

Miranda Order to Go to Court on 11/2/2020 at 9:00am in Dept. 3, by video conference. Both cases to b e h e a r d c o n c u r r e n t l y.

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara 1100 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 For information on how to participate in this court hearing and how to obtain a c o p y o f t h e P l a i n t i f f ’s Amended Claim and Order to Go to Small Claims Court, contact the Santa Barbara Superior Court at (805) 882‑4520, option #7 (civil) option #8 (restraning

NOTICE OF CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC HEARING (Held Electronically and Telephonically) COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM 2019-2020 Draft Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Goleta will conduct a public hearing on the date and time set forth below to consider the following: Pursuant to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) regulations, the City of Goleta has prepared the draft Consolidated Annual Performance Evaluation Report (CAPER) for the 2019-2020 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program year. The CAPER provides an assessment of the City’s performance in meeting Fiscal Year (FY) 20192020 housing and community development goals as outlined in the previously adopted FY 2019-2020 Action Plan. Additionally, the CAPER discusses any changes the City anticipates making in the upcoming year as a result of the assessment of FY 2019-2020 annual performance.

The City of Goleta encourages participation in the CDBG process. A copy of the CAPER is required to be made available to the public for review and comment for a fifteen (15) day period. The CAPER draft will be available for public review from October 5, 2020 to October 19, 2020, and is posted on the City’s website at www. tinyurl.com/goletacdbg. Due to the closures of Goleta City Hall, Goleta Valley Public Library, and the Goleta Valley Community Center as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, no hard copies will be available for review.

PUBLIC REVIEW PERIOD: Comments on the CAPER are being accepted during a 15-day public review period beginning Monday, October 5, 2020, and ending Monday, October 19, 2020, at 5:00 pm. Comments should be submitted to: City of Goleta, Neighborhood Services & Public Safety Department, Attn: Claudia Dato, 130 Cremona Drive Goleta, CA 93117 or preferably emailed to cdato@cityofgoleta.org. For more information you may contact Claudia Dato, Senior Project Manager, at cdato@cityofgoleta.org or at (805) 961-7558.

All interested citizens, residents, and public or private agencies serving the Goleta community are invited to attend the public hearing.

MEETING DATE AND TIME:

Tuesday, October 20, 2020 – Meeting begins at 5:30 p.m.

MEETING LOCATION: Pursuant to of the Governor’s Executive Order N-29-20 dated March 17, 2020 authorizing local jurisdictions subject to the Brown Act to hold public meetings telephonically and electronically in order to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, the regular meeting of the City Council October 20, 2020 will be conducted telephonically and electronically. It will be broadcast live on the City’s website and on Cable Goleta Channel 19. The Council Chambers will not be open to the public during the meeting. City Councilmembers will be participating telephonically and will not be physically present in the Council Chambers.

IN LIGHT OF THE CITY’S NEED TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETINGS ELECTRONICALLY AND TELEPHONICALLY DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, written comments may also be submitted as instructed above via email to cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org or by other electronic means during the Public Hearing (date and time noted above), provided they are received prior to the conclusion of the public comment portion of the Public Hearing. Instructions on how to submit a comment or to call in during the hearing will be available on the City’s website: https://www.cityofgoleta.org/i-want-to/news-and-updates/government-meeting-agendasand-videos Note: In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this meeting, please contact Deborah Lopez, City Clerk, at (805) 961-7500. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable City staff to make reasonable accommodation arrangements.

Date of Publication: October 1, 2020 (Santa Barbara Independent)

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SUMMONS SUMMONS ( C I TA C I O N JUDICIAL) N O T I C E T O D E F E N D A N T: ( AV I S O A L D E M A N D A D O ) : C I N D Y S . R E I L LY; D O R O T H Y C AVA G N A additional Parties Attachment Form is Attached YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO E S TA D E M A N D A N D O E L DEMANDANTE): RIMMA WILSON NOTICE! Yo u h a v e b e e n s u e d . T h e court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information b e l o w.

Yo u h a v e 3 0 C A L E N D A R D AY S after this Summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff.

A letter or phone call w i l l n o t p r o t e c t y o u . Yo u r written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can u s e f o r y o u r r e s p o n s e . Yo u can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center ( w w w. courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), y o u r c o u n t y l a w l i b r a r y, o r the courthouse nearest you.

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fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form.

If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements.

Yo u may want to call an attorney r i g h t a w a y. I f y o u d o n o t k n o w a n a t t o r n e y, y o u m a y call an attorney referral service.

If you cannot a f f o r d a n a t t o r n e y, y o u m a y be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit l e g a l s e r v i c e s p r o g r a m . Yo u can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifor nia. org), the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more i n a c i v i l c a s e . T h e c o u r t ’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

AV I S O ! L o h a n d e m a n d a d o .

Si no responde dentro de 30 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion.

Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales papa presentar una respuesta por

escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefónica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California ( w w w. s u c o r t e . c a . g o v ) , en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exención de pago de cuotas.

Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia.

Hay otros requisitos legales.

Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente.

Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (wwwlawhelpcalifornia.org),

en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, ( w w w. s u c o r t e . c a . g o v ) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de a b o g a d o s l o c a l e s . AV I S O : P o r l e y, l a c o r t e t i e n e d e r e c h o a reclamar las cuotasy los costos esentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperacion de $10,000 o mas de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. T iene que pagar el graveman de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.

CASE NO: (Numero del Caso) C V‑ 4 2 0 4 8 9 The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): S U P E R I O R C O U R T O F S TAT E of CALIFORNIA COUNTY LAKE 255 N. Forbes Street, 4th Floor Lakeport, CA 95453 The name, address, and telephone number of t h e p l a i n t i f f ’s a t t o r n e y, o r p l a i n t i f f w i t h o u t a n a t t o r n e y, is: (El nombre, la dirección y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): Law Offices of Michael R. O’Neil, Esq. Peter A. Austin Murphy Austin Adams S c h o e n f e l d L L P, 5 5 5 C a p i t a l Mall Suite 850 Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 446‑2300; D AT E 6/01/2020 Deputy Clerk; Stephanie Juarez Published. Sep 24. Oct 1, 8, 15 2020.

NOTIFICACIÓN DE AUDIENCIA PúBLICA DEL CONCEJO MUNICIPAL (Celebrada Electrónica y Telefónicamente) PROGRAMA DE SUBSIDIOS GLOBALES PARA EL DESARROLLO COMUNITARIO (CDBG por sus siglas en inglés) BORRADOR DEL REPORTE DE LA EVALUACIÓN DEL DESEMPEÑO ANUAL CONSOLIDADO 2019-2020 SE NOTIFICA que el Concejo Municipal de la Ciudad de Goleta llevará a cabo una audiencia pública en la fecha y hora indicadas abajo para considerar lo siguiente: En conformidad con los reglamentos del Departamento de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano de los Estados Unidos, el Concejo Municipal de la Ciudad de Goleta ha preparado el borrador del Reporte de la Evaluación del Desempeño Anual Consolidado (CAPER, por sus siglas en inglés) del Programa de Subsidios Globales para el Desarrollo Comunitario (CDBG, por sus siglas en inglés) del Año Fiscal 2019-2020. El CAPER proporciona una evaluación del desempeño y rendimiento de la Ciudad de las metas establecidas para la vivienda y desarrollo comunitario durante el Año Fiscal 2019-2020 tal y como se delineó en el Plan de Acción Anual 2019-2020 previamente adoptado. Este reporte a su vez expone cambios que la Ciudad anticipa llevar a cabo durante en el año que viene debido al resultado de la evaluación del desempeño anual del Año Fiscal 2019-2020.

La Ciudad de Goleta urge la participación en el proceso CDBG. Se requiere que una copia del CAPER esté disponible para el público para su revisión y comentarios por un periódico de quince (15) días. El borrador del CAPER estará disponible para revisión pública a partir de octubre 5, 2020 hasta octubre 19, 2020. El Borrador del Plan de Acción de CDBG 2020-2021 está publicado en el sitio web de la Ciudad en www.tinyurl.com/ goletacdbg debido a los cierres del Ayuntamiento de Goleta, la Biblioteca Pública de Goleta Valley y el Centro Comunitario del Valle de Goleta Valley como resultado de la pandemia de coronavirus (COVID-19), no habrá copias impresas disponibles para su revisión.

PERÍODO DE REVISIÓN PÚBLICA: Los comentarios sobre el CAPER se aceptarán durante un período de revisión pública de 15 días que comienza el lunes 5 de octubre de 2020 y termina el lunes 19 de octubre de 2020 a las 5:00 p.m. Los comentarios deben enviarse a: City of Goleta, Neighborhood Services & Public Safety Department, Attn: Claudia Dato, 130 Cremona Drive Goleta, CA 93117 o por correo electrónico a cdato@ cityofgoleta.org. Para obtener más información en español, puede comunicarse con Jaime Valdez, Gerente Principal de Proyecto, al jvaldez@cityofgoleta.org o al (805) 961-7568.

Todos los interesados ciudadanos, residentes y agencias públicos o privados sirviendo a la comunidad de Goleta están invitados a asistir a la audiencia pública.

Reunión FECHA Y HORA: Martes, 20 de octubre 2020 - Reunión comienza a las 5:30 PM

“[Democracy] requires an active and informed citizenry” —President Barack Obama, DNC Speech 2020

UBICACIÓN DE LA Reunión: De conformidad con la Orden Ejecutiva del Gobernador N-29-20 con fecha del 17 de marzo de 2020 que autoriza a las jurisdicciones locales sujetas a la Ley Brown a realizar reuniones públicas por vía telefónica y electrónica para responder a la pandemia de COVID-19, la reunión ordinaria de la Ciudad de Goleta el 20 de octubre de 2020 se llevará a cabo de forma telefónica y electrónica. Se transmitirá en vivo en el sitio web de la Ciudad y en Cable Goleta Canal 19. Las Cámaras del Concejo no estarán abiertas al público durante la reunión. Los Concejales de la Ciudad participarán telefónicamente y no estarán presentes físicamente en las Cámaras del Concejo.

DEBIDO A LA NECESIDAD DE LA CIUDAD DE REALIZAR REUNIONES PÚBLICAS ELECTRÓNICAMENTE Y TELEFÓNICAMENTE DURANTE LA PANDÉMICA DEL COVID-19, también se pueden enviar comentarios por escrito, como se indica arriba, por correo electrónico a cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org o por otros medios electrónicos durante la Audiencia Pública (fecha y hora mencionado anteriormente), siempre que se reciban antes de la conclusión de la sección de comentarios públicos de la Audiencia Pública. Las instrucciones sobre cómo enviar un comentario o llamar durante la audiencia estarán disponibles en el sitio web de la Ciudad: https://www.cityofgoleta.org/i-want-to/news-and-updates/government-meeting-agendas-and-videos Nota: En cumplimiento con la Ley de Estadounidenses con Discapacidades (ADA), si usted necesita asistencia especial para participar en esta reunión, por favor póngase en contacto con Deborah Lopez, Secretario Municipal, al (805) 961-7500. Notificación al menos 48 horas antes de la reunión permitirá a personal de la Ciudad a tomar las medidas razonables de alojamiento.

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