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STATE SUPPORT Proposition 14 Bond - Allows State to borrow $5.5 billion for stem cell research.

STATE PROPOSITIONS NEUTRAL Proposition 15 –- Increases funding for schools, etc.Home-Purchase by taxing commercialAssistance and industrialfor prop. on current value.

SUPPORT Affordable Housing and Veterans SUPPORT PROP 1 – Affordable Housing and Home-Purchase Assistance for Veterans Jarvis (old "Prop 13") Dollars tax breaksfor there.

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volume 34, # 769, Oct. 8-15, 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, Lily Hopwood, 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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The Indy’s web content managers, Saehee Jong and Celina Garcia, recently embarked on a new frontier in our paper’s ever-evolving social media strategy: TikTok, the video-sharing service developed in China that’s been courting American buyers while annoying President Trump.

“Being on TikTok means we’re reaching out to a younger demographic and ultimately sharing important information and stories to a more diverse crowd, which is one of the goals in journalism,” explained Jong, who said one of the first videos already nabbed nearly 1,200 views. The goal is to showcase the events, businesses, people, and places that make Santa Barbara unique.

“I see TikTok as an opportunity to capture the stories of our town that may slip through the cracks, especially when it comes to the way our base readers typically view our material,” said Garcia. “This is a fun way to showcase what I love about my city.” They hope to post a video each week on TikTok under @sbindependent.

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Believe Deputies, Not Your Ears, Authorities Say

CORONAVIRUS The S.B. Foundation, in partnership with the City of Santa Barbara, will support grants of up to $7,500 to qualifying small businesses in the city that have faced economic hardship as a result of COVID-19.

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by Tyler Hayden he Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office has ruled the fatal 2019 shooting of Cameron Ely by four Sheriff ’s deputies a justifiable homicide.

Ely, the 30-year-old son of Tarzan actor Ron Ely, was unarmed when he was shot 22 times outside his family’s Hope Ranch estate, where earlier in the evening authorities say he had stabbed and killed his mother, Valerie Ely. A large portion of the 12-page report published Tuesday by the District Attorney’s Office focuses on the few brief moments leading up to the shooting. It states that after deputies found Valerie and were searching the property, they spotted Cameron walking up the driveway toward them. They saw he had blood on him and “yelled multiple times to get down on the ground and to keep his hands up,” states the report, which based many of its findings on deputy interviews conducted internally by the Sheriff ’s Office.

Ely appeared to initially comply, but then “sprang upward” and yelled “I have a gun!” while reaching for his waistband, the report continues. All four deputies opened fire, striking Ely in the torso, neck, and arms.

They provided investigators with vivid descriptions of how Ely had purportedly moved, saying he was “like a runner out of the gate … lunging up and forward, but more forward than upward … like a lineman in a football game.” A search of his pockets turned up an iPhone, car key fob, small baggie of cocaine, and other items, but no gun.

“When Ely disobeyed verbal commands by deputies, sprang to his feet and moved his hands to his waistband as if grabbing a weapon while saying, ‘I have a gun!’ shortly after killing his mother, his actions created a reasonable fear of death or great bodily injury in the minds of Deputies Gruttadaurio and Farley, Sergeant Thome, and Senior Deputy Rogers,” the report concludes. “Therefore, the shooting of Cameron Pierce Ely is a justifiable homicide.”

The Sheriff ’s audio recording of the shooting, however, does not reflect two of the report’s key findings—that multiple deputies loudly ordered Ely to drop to the ground, or that Ely yelled at them that he had a gun. Ely’s voice cannot be heard in the recording at all, and the only audible direction given to him comes from a single deputy who gently tells him to keep his hands up.

This discrepancy between the Sheriff ’s narrative and the audio recording is a major component of a wrongful death lawsuit filed this summer by Ron Ely and his family against the Sheriff ’s Office. The lawsuit claims

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Resources are currently available for eligible residents who demonstrate the need for rental support. United Way’s COVID-19 Emergency Rental Assistance Program is providing funds to people in the county’s unincorporated areas who have experienced a loss or reduction of income to meet their essential needs. Officials estimate that the program will assist 600 households. Residents of the City of S.B. may also be eligible for rental support through United Way’s City of Santa Barbara Rental Assistance program. Both programs will be available until all funds are expended or 11/30, whichever is first. For more info and eligibility criteria, visit unitedwaysb.org/rental-assistance.

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KILLED BY COPS: An autopsy found Cameron Ely (right) was suffering from the early stages of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) at the time of his death.

Cameron was actually trying to surrender to the deputies when he was killed and had approached them with his hands already in the air, hence the initial order in the recording to “keep” his hands up. The lawsuit alleges the deputies opened fire without warning or justification then conspired to lie to investigators. The complaint notes none of the deputies’ body cameras were activated at the time of the shooting.

Ely’s attorney, DeWitt M. Lacy, said it was “disappointing but not surprising” that the District Attorney’s Office is standing by what he called the deputies’ “self-serving” and “dishonest” statements. Lacy, who is based in Los Angeles and specializes in police misconduct cases, said the report wouldn’t impede the Ely family’s civil litigation. “If anything,” he explained, “it strengthens our resolve. It helps us understand that we are once again having to battle the attitude of backing the blue no matter what.”

District Attorney Joyce Dudley said technical issues were to blame for the omissions in the recording. “This has been a long time frustration for me and the other Deputy District Attorneys — law enforcement agencies throughout our county can’t afford the recording systems our jury and community expect,” she said in an email Tuesday evening. “In this case I believe it has to do with the distance the recorders were from the vehicles. The recording was very scratchy at other times as well. It is very unfortunate the statement was not captured but their mindset of him being armed is apparent from their statements immediately after the shooting.”

Dudley said the department’s Coban recording system captures audio from a microphone on a deputy’s person and saves it to a hard drive in the deputy’s patrol car.

“The microphone is most likely to pick up what the deputy says (especially if it’s said loudly) because the microphone is usually on his/her uniform or in a pocket,” she said.

“As the source of sound is further away from the microphone, the Coban is less likely to pick it up. All four of the deputies said they heard Ely say clearly, ‘I have a gun,’ but all were at varying distances from Ely when he said it.” The report states the deputies had moved to within 10 feet of Ely when they opened fire.

“The quality of the recording also depends on the proximity of the deputy’s patrol car to the deputy at the time the sound is made,” Dudley continued. “So, if a deputy is right next to her car, the saved audio is better/ clearer than if she is far away from her car. At the time of the shooting, the deputies were on the driveway on the east side of the house and their patrol cars were parked at various distances down the street to the west side.”

Dudley’s office’s report noted that Cameron Ely, who was 65, weighed 236 pounds, and played football in high school and college, was suffering from the early stages of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) at the time of his death. His two sisters told detectives his behavior had become increasingly “erratic” and “unstable” in the days leading up to October 15, 2019. Valerie Ely was stabbed seven times in the chest, back, and right forearm, an autopsy found.

No motive for the killing was provided. n

A campaign to buy and preserve 104 acres of open space adjacent to the San Marcos Foothills Preserve just received a big boost. Last week, Channel Islands Restoration, which leads the campaign, received an anonymous million-dollar donation toward the effort. Developer Chadmar Group has owned the right to build eight luxury homes since 2005 and indicated construction could begin as early as December. Environmental groups warn the project would irreversibly disrupt critical wildlife habitat.

The campaign has now raised over $1.2 million of the $5.5 million needed to buy the property at fair market value.

BUSINESS As of 9/30, El Capitan Canyon Resort and Ocean Mesa RV Resort have formed a partnership with Sun RV Resorts, a Michigan-based company operating over 400 resorts and recreational-vehicle communities in 32 U.S. states and Ontario, Canada. El Cap and Ocean Mesa founder Roger Himovitz says the decision comes after years of searching for a like-minded partner to help achieve long-term development goals. Himovitz says Gary Shiffman, head of Sun RV Resorts, has been familiar with the Capitan operation for more than 15 years. Shiffman and his team will take over daily management of both El Cap and Ocean Mesa.

COMMUNITY The body of pilot Deborah Nicholson, 61, was recovered on 10/2 from the wreckage of her Cessna 182, which crashed into the ocean off the coast of Isla Vista on 9/27. Nicholson, 61, was an estate-planning attorney in the Lake Tahoe area and was the mother of two sons. She was an experienced, instrumentrated pilot, a colleague said, and based at the Truckee Tahoe Airport. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash. n

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hough maintaining its spot in the red tier, Santa Barbara County is experiencing a slight uptick in case rates and is also grappling with the best ways to reduce the disparity of virus transmission between Latinx and Indigenous residents and the rest of the county — an undertaking the Public Health Department has worked at throughout the pandemic.

“COVID shows us that we’re all in this together, that we can’t get out of whatever tier we’re in until we raise the people in the lowest quartile,” 3rd District Supervisor Joan Hartmann said at Tuesday’s hearing.

The quartile Hartmann mentioned is in reference to the California Healthy Places Index (HPI), a metric which the county has to meet at the same time as the color-coded tier metrics. The metric aims to reduce disparity in the transmission levels of COVID-19 among county residents and shows which areas in the county are the least safe from COVID-19.

“We asked, how do we prevent the increase in cases, the hospitalizations, and how do we prevent the deaths in Latinx community members?” Public Health Director Van DoReynoso said. “And that was the genesis of the Latinx and Indigenous Migrant COVID-19 Task Force.”

She introduced Melissa Smith, the director of health equity initiatives at the county, who described the massive undertaking. She said that many Latinx and Indigenous immigrants in the county face systemic reasons outside of their control for catching the virus, such as crowded housing, so her role throughout the pandemic has been finding ways to combat those.

She said the Latinx and Indigenous Migrant COVID-19 Task Force has formed 93 cross-sectoral partnerships with other organizations and nonprofits, has outreach in Spanish and multiple Indigenous languages, and has reached 21 small farms with resources such as face coverings, hand sanitizers, and information. It also has bimonthly workgroup meetings for farmworkers and their families, mental health and wellness, and one for Lompoc prison inmates and their families.

Public Health’s success with closing the health equity gap can actually help the county move ahead faster toward reopening businesses, too. In order for the county to move to the next orange tier, it would have to have an adjusted case rate of 1 to 3.9 per 100,000, an overall test positivity rate between 2 and 4.9 percent, and the lowest HPI quartile must have lower than a 5.25 percent positivity rate for three weeks.

But there is one way to speed things up.

If the county maintains lower than a 2 percent positivity rate overall and in the lowest

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HPI quartile for two weeks or longer, it can progress to the orange tier and open more businesses if the case rate is declining — even if the case rate metric is still above the required rate for orange.

Do-Reynoso said she will go into detail about the county’s lowest quartile and its specific demographics on Tuesday, October 13.

KEEP HALLOWEEN COVID-FREE

While the topic of Halloween did not come up at Tuesday’s hearing, it was a main focus of Friday’s Public Health update. “Halloween must look different this year,” said Supervisor Gregg Hart on Friday. To keep Halloween from becoming a super-spreader event, Public Health is enlisting public support for creative alternatives.

Costume contests using virtual technology, watching a Halloween movie with online chat or video with friends, or holding a candy scavenger hunt to replace trick-or-treating are among the list of ways to make a festive Halloween but keep it safely within your own household at the Public Health website publichealthsbc.org.

The county will do its part by hosting a costume parade, and Hart invited parents and children to send a high-resolution photo of themselves or their pets dressed in costume to news@countyofsb.org. The images will be assembled into a livestream to be televised on Saturday, October 31.

If families do decide to go trick-or-treating, Do-Reynoso said on Friday, she encouraged them to stay in neighborhoods they were familiar with and avoid crowds in which they couldn’t control physical distancing. An alternative is to use vehicles to hold a “trunk or treat” or to visit Halloween displays — and to be sure to keep a good physical distance away from each other.

She suggested that those who plan to give away candy at the door should also plan on maintaining social distancing from trickor-treaters — perhaps by setting up a table lengthwise at the door or moving the treats to the end of the driveway or walkway. Greeters should also use tongs to hand out the candy and wash their hands frequently.

They also stressed the importance of wearing a face covering, encouraging the public to make them part of the costume or to let children decorate their own. n

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Was your bank everything you needed when it counted most?

mid an economic crisis fueled by the pandemic, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors granted themselves a 3 percent pay raise on Tuesday.

“I just want to say that this job is a very demanding one with a lot of responsibilities that are very diverse,” Supervisor Joan Hartmann said.

“If you’re somebody who was kind Supervisor Joan Hartmann of retired, like me, or if you have a business or you’re independently wealthy, a giant raise,” Adam said. “And I don’t you could do this. But if you’re trying to think this raise is giant, but if you didn’t support a family and this is your only have those things, you’d probably be worth means, it is not a huge compensation for $250,000-$300,000 a year.” the responsibilities of this job.”

With the 3-2 approval, the supervisors’ Hartmann’s sentiments were shared salaries will be increased by 3 percent, by supervisor Das Williams and Steve from about $3,855 to about $3,971 biweekly.

Lavagnino but not by all.

In addition, Chair Hart will also receive a “At this moment in time with the 3 percent increase in the biweekly chair COVID pandemic and the issues others allowance, from approximately $71 to are facing, I’m not comfortable with that $73 biweekly. The county will also pay personally,” said 2nd District Supervisor approximately $427 in health insurance Gregg Hart. “I understand that we are not contributions twice monthly, auto overcompensated and that this has been a allowance of $230 biweekly in 2021, and troubling, difficult thing for many boards other benefits.

The amount was decided using the over many years.”

Hart voted no along with Supervisor Consumer Price Index-Urban (CPI-U) for Peter Adam, who pointed out that the the Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim county has $480 million of deferred area, which the board had previously maintenance and roughly $1 billion of decided on using with a minimum unfunded liability toward pensions. increase of 0 percent to a maximum of 3 “If a board of directors of a private percent. The October 2019 CPI-U index company was that far underwater was 3.2 percent, so the recommendation on pensions or especially deferred to the supervisors was 3 percent to stay maintenance, they would not be deserving within the maximum. —Delaney Smith

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COVID Costs, Eight Months Later s Santa Barbara County moves into a less restrictive COVID mode, Santa Barbara health care providers are still shaking off the impacts of the crisis. Cottage Hospital, for example, reported a significant drop — 2,012 fewer — in overnight inpatient stays this year from March 1 to August 31. Surgical procedures dropped as well, from 5,574 to 4,329. Emergency Sansum executive Kurt Ransohoff room admissions saw a smaller decline stopped all elected mammograms for — a reduction of about 1000 patients.

These numbers apply only for Cottage’s a while, it is now catching up with the downtown Santa Barbara hospital, where backlog by scheduling mammograms on administrators took pains to maximize Saturdays, as well as some elective surcapacity for COVID caseloads. The worry geries. Ransohoff said 97 percent of the is that people delayed medical care, pos- employees furloughed at the height of the crisis have returned to work. None were sibly exacerbating their health issues.

Sansum Health Clinics, the largest laid off, though a few opted not to return health-care provider on the South Coast, for a host of reasons. Year to date, he said, saw a 7 percent drop in patients and a 14 revenues were down by “dozens of milpercent reduction in actual visits. Accord- lions of dollars.” At one point, he said, “I ing to Sansum executive Kurt Ransohoff, worried we were going to lose three times 23 percent of office visits were done via that much,” adding, “We can’t do this too telehealth, not in person. Over this time, many times.” Sansum received $6.2 milSansum experienced a 16 percent drop lion in federal stimulus funds, roughly — at one point, Ransohoff stated, surger- the equivalent of one week’s worth of rev—Nick Welsh ies dropped to 90 percent. Since Sansum enues.

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Penthouse or Affordable Housing?

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ith housing seen as the new salvation for everything that ails downtown Santa Barbara, the question increasingly has become: what kind of housing and for whom? Based on a civil but heated debate among Santa Barbara’s city councilmembers this Tuesday, a clear council majority wants to increase the affordability requirements on new rental housing built downtown, so long as such developments are built with special density bonuses and other incentives provided by City Hall.

Without such requirements, they insisted new downtown housing would resemble—at least in the words of Councilmember Michael Jordan—“the top floor of the Granada building,” famous for its exclusive penthouse amenities. In addition, they wanted these same affordability requirements to apply citywide.

(That’s only for new developments approved as part of the city’s Average Unit-size Density [AUD] program, adopted seven years ago to give developers the incentives needed to build bigger, denser rental projects with more units that would be “affordable by design.”) Ultimately, these four councilmembers agreed to an interim compromise that exempts the central business district from these new structures, though not happily. “I’m not feeling comfortable about it” declared Councilmember Meagan Harmon. “Not comfortable at all.”

Councilmembers Harmon, Jordan, Kristen Sneddon, and Oscar Gutierrez all are pushing for new rules requiring that 15 percent of all

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units built according to the high-density AUD rules are affordable to moderate-income families, defined as $81,000-$104,000 per year.

Currently, the city rules now require that 10 percent of such units be affordable. This fourperson bloc argued the AUD program has failed to live up to its promise of affordability by design and has instead yielded mostly high-end or luxury rental units.

Leading the charge for the status quo was Mayor Cathy Murillo and councilmembers Alejandra Gutierrez and Eric Friedman. Gutierrez cautioned the 15 percent requirement might sound good on paper but could chase away prospective developers. Murillo said she needed “more data points” showing the 15 percent would not be a deal killer for developers, noting that the city was still in the throes of a housing crisis. She cited a two-year-old citysponsored economic study indicating that 15 percent was at best financially “marginal.”

It was a debate that could have gone on for hours with little change in outcome. Councilmembers Harmon and Sneddon noted, for example, that City Hall had given developers even more “giveaways” since the study Murillo alluded to was written: Developers now have the option of not providing parking, they noted. That, they argued, has to help such developments tip away from “marginal” and toward “feasible.”

This was just the first volley of what promises to be an extended war of words and ideas.

Next stop will be the city’s Planning Commission.

—Nick Welsh

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he battle over growing cannabis in Santa Barbara County this time pits a coalition of residents and vintners against Castlerock Family Farms LLC in the Santa Ynez Valley.

The Santa Barbara Coalition for Responsible Cannabis appealed the Planning Commission’s approval of the project to the Board of Supervisors, but it was denied 4-1 with Supervisor Peter Adam voting against.

The 23-acre grow will be leased from Castlerock’s parcel is outlined in pink.

Williams Ranch, at 2200 West Highway 24. Close by is another cannabis operaexplained the county would have a mechanism tion, Busy Bee, which fought a similar appeal to look at concentration in the CUP process in March and won the right to plant 22 acres. if a cannabis operation covered 51 percent or Supervisor Joan Hartmann, who represents more of its parcel. the area, worried that having two cannabis Hartmann quickly noted that even if the operations so close together would be part of 100 acres in planning for cannabis near Casa foreseeable problem, since there are winery tlerock were affected by the 51 percent rule, that did not solve the concentration of grows. The tasting rooms also in the area.

Vintners have charged that the “skunk Santa Rita Hills area alone was slated to hold smell” from cannabis plants negatively affects 800 acres of cannabis. Hartmann bristled, “To their wine tasting rooms and sales. County claim we have one, then lo and behold, we have Counsel Michael Ghizzoni told the board that no tools, that’s disingenuous.” so far, odor control was unenforceable since Hartmann asked planning staff to report tracking down the source of the smells has back on what the 51 percent rule meant for probeen unsuccessful. posed projects. And despite the frustrations, Castlerock is seeking a land-use permit she made the motion to approve the project.

(LUP), which lacks the requirement to deter- Hartmann noted that the grow consumed less mine if a project is a detriment to the neigh- than a quarter of its parcel, sat in a bowl of borhood that a conditional-use permit (CUP) land, and was set well back from highway 246.

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Remembering Not to Forget Deborah Barnes Launches Website for Those Who Die on Streets

the odds are even worse. You would be surprised who is on the streets: professors, doctors, teachers — not just who you picture in your mind.

Although mental illness is a major factor in homelessness, they are not all addicts, ‘OFTEN ORNERY & CHARMING’: Above, Leland Earl “Hobo” Goodsell helps Deborah Barnes with a sleeping-bag especially the seniors who campaign. According to Barnes’s new website, Goodsell was the first COVID death in Santa Barbara and a “story are becoming homeless at an teller, flirt, cowboy & mechanic” who was “often ornery & charming.” alarming rate.

Every time I write an obit, your comment to me is: “Thank That brings to mind a story. I was setting up a very large you for showing me who this person was.” Everyone has high school reunion a few years ago when an old friend called. a purpose on earth. They have abilities, talents, gifts. Each She said her family thought her brother had become homedecides through circumstances often unknown to us how to less and might be living in Santa Barbara. She had searched deal with their trauma or demons. Each one deserves to have obits and citations all over but couldn’t find him. It turned out their life remembered. Life on the street is very, very hard. he was going by his middle name, and he was on the advisory When you are cited, spit on, stolen from, board of my nonprofit! I reconnected them. She had not seen can’t find a place to lay your head down, are him in over 22 years since their mom died. beaten or worse, then yes, without regular This man had worked for Wells Fargo for many years, then at food, medical attention, and the ability to be Sears. Jobs phased out and costs kept rising. He was kind, softclean, you might die sooner. spoken, and well-loved. No addictions. Just loss of a job that prevented him paying rent, so he eventually lived in his vehicle.

What moved you to make the site? Long ago My high school friend planned to come see him the following I met a street person, a Vietnam veteran. month, but he died the week before she was due to arrive.

The memorial site will be a place for loved ones to find He was smart and a survivor. He was an alcoholic but followed the rules mostly. He family if the typical ways of searching (usually arrests and stayed at the Mission Rose Garden and slept citations) don’t work. The site is a place to have some closure on a stone bench under a tree, then would and for family to know their loved one will not be forgotten. walk every day to East Beach. Long, long walks. While in a crosswalk on State Street Recently, I’ve been struck more by the toughness and resilience one day, he was hit and killed of street people than I am by their frailty. As vulnerable as they by an unlicensed, underage teen are, they keep going in the face of circumstances and challenges driver who claimed, “He didn’t that might make a so-called “normal” person want to take a long walk fast enough.” No charges walk off a short bridge. Any thoughts? Yes, if we had a major were filed. That life vanished. It hit earthquake, I know who we would reach out to for help. me very hard. He was just gone. I’ve learned how to make a toilet, open a can of food with How would his wife and kids learn no opener, take a shower, where to find hot food — all by of his death? What about other befriending nomads. Street people are forced to survive family members? There was no each and every day without begging. Panhandling is not way for them to know. So I wrote the norm for most. They have earned my respect in many What is the importance of this proja piece, and his family was found. areas because I realize how very sheltered I am. They have ect? What light do you hope gets A closure could be had. I’ve been made me a stronger person by learning from them. Women shed? There has never been a place so busy each and every day that have the constant threat of rape and beatings. You menyou could go to learn about a I could not create the site. It was tion walking off a bridge. They eventually turn to what is homeless death in Santa Barbara, a long-term goal. COVID’s stay- offered — alcohol or weed or worse. That is their “bridge.” unless someone wrote an obituhome policy provided me that That is how they calm the threats of their existence. ary. This site provides a place for opportunity. family, street friends, and others I’m also struck by how many homeless people have not died of to honor their memories, and it Doing this project, what struck you COVID. At the beginning of the pandemic, we expected the homehelps the public realize these are the most? How hard it is to find less and their camps to be a vector, and a lot of energy was spent real people living real lives in our real information about street trying to come to terms with this possibility. Yes, lots of energy community. people. They are wiped off the and nothing was done. Everyone panicked but really did face of the earth. But they are nothing despite the fact they received large funds to get Gaston “Gator” Crittendon-Doke I suspect most people, myself someone’s child. We were often so them into motels. Being outside is better than inside is my included, believe that life on the close to housing them. Too many feeling. My concern was street friends who sleep together street is hard and people die. That if thoughts run through my head…. in cramped camps to prevent theft and beatings…. This is you drink and live in the elements, the chances are higher of dying What if we rented congregate living homes? How many where I figured we would have issues. But the issues never n sooner. And for people who decline services or can’t be reached, more could we have helped and prevented their deaths? arose. We must all be forever grateful.

by Nick Welsh ack in 2006, Deborah Barnes was still working as a landscape architect. Then the floods came that winter, and she found herself “called to the street,” at which point she became a one-woman rescue squad for homeless people who might otherwise have been washed away. She helped pass out tarps, rain gear, socks, and food to hundreds of people. When the rains stopped, Barnes figured life would go back to normal. But the phone calls kept coming. “‘There’s a woman under a bush who’s been beaten up,’” she recalled.

“It was endless.”

Her life, she discovered, would never go back to normal.

Back then, Barnes was struck by the large number of people who die on the streets. What happens to their stories? Barnes has never been one to let thoughts nag at her without doing something about it. A few months ago, she started a new website — HomelessMemorialofSB.com — to keep track of the people who’ve died homeless and poor in Santa Barbara and to share their stories.

The data, she acknowledged, has been hard to come by. For years, county social service worker Ken Williams tried to keep track of homeless deaths on a wall in his Mesa home, but his list of about 400, Barnes said, is often “sketchy.” Williams died three years ago, and his house was sold — but not before Barnes could copy down all the names, which now reside on a page of her website titled “Ken’s List.”

“When someone dies on the streets, there’s a lot of grieving going on,” Barnes Larry Shepperd said. “But there’s no place to do it.” She hopes her new website can help fill that void while providing a portal into a world most people know little about.

Barnes took the time to answer some questions via email. The following is an edited version of that exchange.

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BE AFRAID: Donald Trump on steroids?

Really? The answer, it turns out, is yes.

This might well prove to be the epitaph of the United States of America, crowning pinnacle of Western civilization. After 244 years on Planet Earth — one year, it turns out, for every pound on Trump’s pinkly obese body — the United States is at risk of going the way of the Nehru shirt because of just one especially egregious case of ’roid rage.

Trump — who insists on gallivanting about commando-style where facial coverings are concerned — woke up last week with a case of COVID bad enough to warrant the heavy-duty one-two punch of oxygen infusions and steroids strong enough to keep his antibodies from killing him before the COVID does. Naturally, the Prez could not be constrained.

First, he busted loose from Walter Reed for his now-infamous joyride, during which he basked in the adulation of wellwishers. Taken along in Trump’s presidential SUV — hermetically sealed tighter than a can of tuna fish — were a couple of Secret Service men. They knew all about “taking a bullet” for the Prez; no one ever warned them about inhaling his potentially fatal sputum vapors.

The next day, Trump sprung himself from Walter Reed. After wheezing his way up the White House steps, he dramatically stopped

and ripped off his black face covering with enough sudden force to suggest it had been affixed with duct tape. If only.

The situation at the White House, we are told, is very fluid. That’s like saying the waterfalls of Niagara Falls are “very fluid.” At this point, no fewer than 11 of Trump’s personal Goebbels and Mengeles-in-waiting have been reported infected, but that number keeps metastasizing. The entire Joint Chiefs of Staff of the mightiest military power in the history of eternity are in now in self-imposed lockdown.

And Wall Street is at last in a tizzy — finally — because Trump unilaterally guillotined negotiations with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi over a stimulus package that could have extended, among other things, supplemental unemployment benefits for 26 million people. Trump’s dramatic refusal to do his job took place only moments after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell implored the President to pass a stimulus bill.

Hanging in the balance was the economic

stability of pretty much the entire Western world, which, I suspect, includes your job

and my job.

People want to judge. Me, I have compassion. I’ve had my own steroid moments.

A few years ago, the ligaments controlling all the rippling muscles that slither throughout my left forearm had become inflamed because I’d gone on a serious ukulele bender

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and was intent on learning to play better than Jake Shimabukuro in just one weekend. The steroids definitely helped relieve my forearm ligaments, but along the way, I found myself transformed from the well-mannered Dr. Jekyll I am into the hair-on-fire rage-aholic Mr. Hyde. Before it was over, police would have to be called.

Tragically, they did not arrive in time to prevent the abuse that befell my poor uke.

The cops, for the record, could not have been more compassionate. In hindsight, I like to think race had nothing to do with it. But I can’t help but wonder. Few things on the planet are as screamingly white as our most recent fixation with all things ukulele, despite the instrument’s third-world origins and trajectory of colonization.

If I were Congressmember Salud Carbajal, who represents Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties in D.C., I might be less forgiving. Carbajal, as has been reported, just tested positive for COVID, having contracted it — he’s all but certain — from Utah’s über-right-wing Senator Mike Lee, who lives right next door to Carbajal in the very same apartment house. Lee attended the now-nefarious White House garden party ceremony on September 26, at which Trump announced the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court.

A giddy, gloating, triumphant time was

had by all, excepting that many participants

took the COVID virus home with them as a souvenir. Lee, like most everyone attending, wore no mask during the event, though

he did dangle a wispy blue surgical mask provocatively from one hand as he mowed through the crowd, bear-hugging anyone in sight.

Did Trump infect Lee? Can we say that Salud Carbajal got infected indirectly by Donald Trump? It would be nice to know, but the White House won’t be conducting any track-and-tracing of that garden party. Like masks, track-and-tracing is manifestation of deep state power.

For the record, I’d point out certain instances of deep state overreach have proved beneficial in the extreme. Because of seatbelt requirements, 255,000 people lived who would have otherwise been killed in car crashes between 1975 and 2017. Airbags were good for another 50,000. Two years after California mandated motorcycle helmets, UCLA reports a 40 percent drop in motorcycle fatalities. And state-imposed restrictions on our God-given and Constitutional right to inhale cancer-causing chemicals in the form of cigarettes have saved an estimated 22 million worldwide.

Just sayin’.

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hen the most protected person on the planet contracts the coronavirus, it is now reasonable to ask all citizens to adhere to the official CDC guidelines: • Keep social distancing • Wash your hands frequently • Avoid crowds • Wear a mask The CDC further estimates that if roughly 95 percent of the population were to wear a mask, it would potentially save 100,000 lives in the coming months.

During these unstable times, we must rally together if we have any hope to better contain this virus before the regular influenza season is upon us, ushering in what could result in an even deadlier, second wave.

Brothers and sisters, do your part. We are all in —Grace Note, S.B. this together.

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he COVID-19 crisis has caused turmoil and sorrow throughout our community. Yet it has also reminded us of the strength and tenacity of Goleta’s citizens.

Nowhere is this more true than in Goleta’s schools, as our teachers and staff have worked around the clock preparing study packets, handing out meals, and identifying internet connections.

Through them, we have learned that our schools are more than a collection of classrooms. They are a place where our children learn, connect, explore, grow, and thrive. Schools are at the very core of what we stand for as a community and are our most valuable public resource.

This is why we so strongly support Measure M, an $80 million school improvement bond. Measure M will repair and improve our schools and classrooms, offer critical protection to local neighborhoods, and help rebuild our local economy.

Quality schools protect property values and have an enormous impact on the price of a home. By repairing and upgrading classrooms and campuses, we will strengthen our neighborhoods for generations to come.

Our local economy needs help. Good schools attract businesses, retain employees, and build a stronger community. Projects such as renewable energy boost local business activity.

The world has changed, and our students need up-to-date access to programs and technology to ensure they have the top academic skills to remain competitive.

Goleta’s schools have not asked voters to approve a school bond in over 20 years. Now is the time to invest in Goleta’s schools, to improve the education of our children, and to come together for the future of our community.

If there were ever a right time to invest in our schools, it is now.

Please join us in voting Yes on Measure M.

—Yvonne DeGraw, Past President, Goleta Board of Education; Dana Costello, Ellwood Elementary School Parent; Dr. Lanny Ebenstein, Past President, Santa Barbara Board of Education

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My family has been part of our community in the tri counties for over 70 years; Andy Caldwell is the true watchdog for our community. Andy Caldwell supports lower taxes for our families and jobs and will fight against all the other skillful taxes that have been put in by Democrats. Salud Carbajal has supported over and over more taxes on your paychecks and property tax, and all services or supplies needed by your family. Salud Carbajal has voted 90 percent with the socialist squad and has voted against our police and your protection, such as HR7120.

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Wisner Avery Galbraith 10/25/1939 - 7/14/2020

2/18/1941 - 9/23/2020

Wisner Avery Galbraith (Avery) passed away on July 14, 2020 in Santa Barbara, California. Avery was born in Pontiac, Michigan on October 25, 1939. He was the second child born to Wisner and Mary Ellen (Webster) Galbraith. Avery spent his early years in Michigan and after the death of his father, his mother moved with her four children (Clinton “Chief,” Avery, Steven, and Lady Mary) to Santa Barbara to pursue a job in teaching.

Avery attended local schools and made many close, life long friendships. He graduated from Santa Barbara High School in 1957. As a young man, Avery was very active in desert motorcycle racing and at one point he and his brother built the Phantom Bantam, a drag car which broke the standard 1320 record of the time. Through his own hard work, Avery became a mechanical engineer and worked at Astro Industries, Santa Barbara Research Center, and he later retired from Raytheon. He was an avid reader and collector of model airplanes, books, and records. Additionally, Avery was active in the Cursillo and Kairos movements. Avery enjoyed photography, motorcycle racing (in his youth), reading books, and listening to music, as well as spending time with family and friends. You could often find him enjoying breakfast or lunch with his buddies while talking history, political issues, and life experiences.

Avery is survived by his son, Robert Galbraith (Erin) and daughter, Suzy Galbraith and five grandchildren; Sierra, Kailyn, Ava, Alaina, and Roman, as well as his brother Chief, former wife Jane, and several nephews and nieces. If you were lucky enough to have known Avery, you know he had a kind spirit, an enjoyable humor, and a contagious laugh. He will truly be missed by all who loved him.

A celebration of Avery’s life will be held at a future date at a local park.

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Bea Howorth, longtime business executive, public relations official, educator, and La Cumbre Plaza promotion director, passed away September 23 from complications following a 2004 stroke. She leaves behind David Howorth, her husband of over 50 years. Bea was known for her managing and marketing expertise with the EW Hahn Company in establishing La Cumbre Plaza in Santa Barbara in 1967. During her tenure she handled car, boat, aircraft, fashion, music, art, and many other shows and activities. She frequently visited the Channel Islands with friends in her six-bed Columbia sloop, and also loved hosting in her Old Spanish Riviera home, where many enjoyed drinking from her unique wine fountain and attending her pool parties. She enjoyed attending Hollywood movie previews, receptions, and meeting cast and crew with her husband David, an Academy member.

She spent 30 years in regional, national, and corporate public relations and marketing, and coordinated the opening of Hahn’s Palm Desert Town Center. She was past president, Palm Desert Chamber of Commerce; Palm Springs Women’s Press Club woman of the year. She was raised in New Jersey, received a masters degree in education administration, Pepperdine University, and taught marketing and computer skills at Santa Barbara City College.

She was with Hospice care at VNA, Serenity House. They provided outstanding care, she was comfortable without pain and with dignity.

She leaves behind her husband, David, and many friends and associates.

Her final words to David were, “I love you.”

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Dr. Robert John Rockabrand 9/8/1931 - 9/23/2020

On September 23, 2020, Robert J. Rockabrand passed away peacefully at Serenity House in Santa Barbara surrounded by his family. He had just celebrated his 89th birthday. He is survived by his wife Sara, daughter’s Melissa and Steffani, and son Brad.

The younger son of Claude and Anna May Rockabrand from Chicago, Illinois, Bob enjoyed a playful childhood in the company of his many cousins. As an avid White Sox fan, he would spend his free time listening to the radio announcers and cheering on the team that he would eventually spend a season with as a bat boy at age 15. He graduated from Austin High School where his choir director recognized and encouraged his musical talents.

As the first in his family to attend college, Bob was accepted to Principia College in Elsah, Illinois where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing. He was also very active in music and the dramatic arts while at Principia. It was here that he first conducted a choir, a student group called Starlight Chorus, and found the passion for his career as a choral director.

He was also very active in his dormitory house of Rackham Court West and served as its President during his senior year.

Immediately upon graduating, he was drafted into the Army where he served the country for two years before returning to academia to pursue a Bachelor and then a Master of Music degree at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. As a student at Westminster, he was a member of a choir that toured the globe over the course of five months in 1956-1957. During his final years of graduate studies, he met his lifetime sweetheart, Sara Turner and when Sara

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graduated in 1961, they were married. After teaching at Westminster for six years, where he was the assistant conductor of Westminster Choir and prepared choirs for performances with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and The National Symphony, among others, Bob and Sara headed to Stanford University where he earned a Doctorate of Musical Arts. He went on to teach for five years at Ball State University in Indiana and for one year at The North Carolina School of the Arts before joining the music department at Principia College in 1975. He served the department and the college for 22 years as a Professor of Music where he held the Charles Stewart Harding Mott Distinguished Professorship Chair. He also served as the academic advisor to the gentlemen of Rackham Court West until his retirement in 1997.

As Principia’s choral director, “Rocky” led frequent tours with a combined chorus of college and high school singers. With his wife Sara, he directed Principia Travel Studies Programs in the United States and Europe. He also taught at Alumni Week, Summer Session and other adult continuing education programs. In 1989, Bob was awarded a Certificate of Merit from the American Council of Teachers for innovative academic advising, and, with Sara, an Alumni Merit Award from Westminster Choir College in 1996. He was also a lifetime member of the American Choral Directors Association.

After Sara’s retirement in 2010, she and Bob left their Elsah home of thirty-five years, where they raised their three children, to relocate to Goleta, California. Shortly after settling in, Bob, always happiest in the classroom and with students, introduced himself at Westmont College in Santa Barbara where he and Sara have taught for almost ten years. Affectionately known there as Dr. Bob, he continued his life’s calling at Westmont, teaching voice lessons, singing with the choir and touring both domestically and internationally.

He was also honored to be

selected as a charter member of the Phi Kappa Lambda Music Fraternity.

In over 60 years of teaching, he mentored hundreds of young men and women, delighting in the relationships that were natural to his boyish, playful demeanor.

He maintained consistent correspondence with many of his students, stood with some at their weddings and even officiated at others as an ordained Minister.

Bob was a lifelong Christian Scientist. He was an active member of the church, soloing in various branches for over 60 years and served as first reader for three years in Elsah, Illinois. As a musician and music scholar, Bob served the church on two hymnal revision committees spanning three decades, as well as contributing to the 2008 Hymnal Supplement and then the 2017 Hymnal with his own compositions and arrangements. He was also the producer-director of the 1988 recording of hymns published by The First Church of Christ, Scientist entitled: “The Healing Word of Love.” Until just two weeks before his passing, he and Sara were making the final revisions to a book they are writing, detailing the history of the Christian Science Hymnal and its heritage, including testimonies of healing.

Those who knew Bob need no explanation of what an incredible man he was.

His conviction was impenetrable and his laughter contagious. Throughout his entire life, he demonstrated an unquenchable curiosity and an unparalleled passion for life. A beloved husband and loving father, Bob will be deeply missed. His wife Sara, to whom he was married for almost 60 years, cherishes the countless memories that she and Bob made over the course of a lifetime love affair.

The family will not be holding any kind of service at this time. In lieu of flowers or cards, the Rockabrand Family is inviting contributions to “The Robert J. Rockabrand Legacy Fund” through their GoFundMe page found here: https://www.gofundme. com/f/robert-j-rockabrandlegacy-fund.

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Edwin Austin Shaw

Kay A. Phillips 9/23/2020

1947-2020

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BY T O B I A S S H AW AND K A I A R O S E ur dad, Edwin Shaw, was many

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Poet, Artist, Teacher, Father things over his 73 years — mask maker, poet, teacher, storyteller, dancer, Tuvan throat singer, bird watcher, songwriter, body surfer, artist, friend, father.

He was from a long line of Edwins and his father and both his grandfathers were Detroit engineers. Along with the family name, Edwin was expected to be a builder. And he was, in his own way. But instead of drafting paper, his canvas was salvaged cardboard, a glue gun, and yellow paint in place of a T-square and drafting compass.

Edwin engineered masks and puppets — from a 10-foot-tall chicken to giant monocular heads — as part of Santa Barbara’s Solstice celebrations. One mask had a full-size PVC-pipe skeleton, working joints, and a second face on the back of its snaking neck. The eyes were usually Edwin’s last addition because once they were in, the mask told him its name. And, he’d say, it just wouldn’t do to glue the ears on some- Edwin Shaw, photo booth quadrant one that you’d just been introduced to (Edwin was also a big fan of Alice in Wonderland).

Edwin wore these masks in almost every Solstice wildest circus ideas out of recycled cardboard. And parade between 1974 and 2013, meandering between every school year, he worked as a teaching assistant the various ensembles to interact with the audience: for developmentally disabled teenagers in classrooms saying hello to children, asking people to dance with around Santa Barbara County. For years, Edwin was him, and playing games. His one-eyed, big yellow the Artist-in-Residence of the Summer Solstice Workhead Yelsbit was featured in local newspapers, and he shop, helping many to create their own masks and enjoyed that Yelsbit had some local notoriety, though puppets. The folds of corrugated cardboard, distinctive eyes, and bright primary colors were always a he showed little interest in sharing it with her.

He was born in Detroit on June 22, 1947, and grew giveaway of his tutelage. up outside Columbus, Ohio. It was “the frontier where When his children were young, Edwin delighted post-war suburban prosperity met abandoned farm in inventing bizarre facts and fantastical stories of lands,” he would say. He then moved to Oxnard, Cali- his childhood but would always tell the truth if they asked him three times. He loved Patti Smith and Thefornia, in time to become a teenage surfer.

His mother died unexpectedly when he was in lonious Monk and the board game Sorry! He hated college, though she remained a beloved presence in mint chocolate chip ice cream. He would bike to the his life and writings. On May 4, 1970, when he heard beach before work every morning and could tell you the news of the Kent State shootings, he walked out the names of most California birds. And every Friday of his UC Berkeley French class and never went back. night for over 30 years, Edwin went to Dance Away Years later, he found out that he had nevertheless been on the corner of Arrellaga and Santa Barbara streets. granted a BA in Anthropology.

On the morning of Sunday, September 6, Edwin In 1972, Edwin moved to Santa Barbara, where he Austin Shaw died peacefully, surrounded by his loved became a longstanding member of the Solstice, Dance ones. He will be missed greatly by his family, his wide Away, and poetry communities. His first two poetry circle of friends, admirers of his writing and masks, books, Crippled Parrot Talks Back and Nightingale Do and a few friendly guys who worked the loading docks Not Nightingale, sparked an annual tradition of self- at various Santa Barbara stores and would always save publishing small volumes of poetry, stories, and songs him the best cardboard boxes. Edwin always said to give to his friends and family during the holiday that he wanted his last words to be “curiouser and season. In his later years, he published two novels, curiouser.”

Larry’s Rock and Tubes of Time. He often said about his poems, “Read ’em aloud to yourself, or somebody; Excerpt from How to Write a Poem by Edwin Shaw: they’re fun to say.”

Edwin struggled with dyslexia, so when he pereverybody, including Billy Shakespeare, had formed in readings around Santa Barbara, he would to start somewhere, and that where often memorize the poems, which sometimes ran is usually here where language begins, more than a dozen pages, so he wouldn’t trip over the in the playful or painful place of trying to words. Among the many places he performed were say things the Public Library, Presidio Chapel, Book Den, Lost we don’t quite understand yet.

Horizon Bookstore, vanished places like the Green Dragon coffeehouse and Earthling Bookshop, and, Edwin Shaw is survived by his son, Toby; his daughter, Kaia; his now and again, random deserted church corridors brother, Richard; his sister, Barbara; and the mother of his chilor stairwells with no audience but the saints affixed dren, Valerie. A virtual memorial will be held on Sunday, October 11. For information please email RememberingEdwinShaw@ to the walls. gmail.com. If you have any photos, videos, or stories of Edwin you Edwin was a natural teacher. Every summer, he would like to share with his family, please send them to the same helped children at the Lobero Circus Camp build their address.

Kay Alicia Phillips (Kekoanui/Reed) died at the age of 73 on September 23, 2020. She passed away peacefully at home in Santa Barbara surrounded by her loving family who cared for her in her final days. She died as a result of complications from a stroke suffered in early September.

As all that knew her would agree, Kay was a beautiful soul. She loved deeply and unconditionally and provided that love until the end to her daughters, Kim Kekoanui Blair (Chris Blair) and Kristin Kekoanui Smith. Her family was her greatest joy; especially her five grandchildren and one great-grandchild (Brandon, Shelby and Savannah Smith, Joe and Jade Blair and Baby Brandon Smith).

Her sisters, Sue Phillips King and Jan Phillips Gould, with whom she shared an unbreakable bond were with her until the end, providing loving care and prayers throughout her final days. Her brother Roddy Phillips called daily and stated numerous times, “Her love remains in my heart.” She was likely welcomed to Heaven by her loving parents, Doug and Alice Phillips and brothers Johnny and Dougie Phillips, whom she missed dearly throughout the years. Kay was married after high school to Joe Kekoanui, III and referred to him as, “the love of my life”.

Many years after Kay and Joe divorced, Kay was married to Gary Reed until he tragically passed away too soon.

Together they shared a love of Gary’s children Jennifer Reed Blackmon, Jodi Reed McKechnie Brian Reed and Renee Reed and the sweet baby (at the time) grandchild, Kayla Peralez Sparks. After Gary’s death, Kay chose to remain alone and focus all her love and care on her grandchildren. She showered them with love, understanding, compassion and acceptance.

As Savannah says, “She could always put a smile on your face.” Shelby, “GMA Kay was my #1 supporter and all she wanted in return was for me to be her Shellybean.” Joe, “I will always have you in my

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heart grandma, I miss and love you more than anything.”

Jade, “Grandma was my person, one of the only people in this world that truly understood who I was.” Brandon, “I will miss my grandma. I love you.” They are beyond heartbroken that their “G-ma” is gone. Gone but not forgotten. Forever love to you Kay, mom, mom-in-law, grandma, sister, daughter, aunt and loyal friend. Private family only service to be held in October. Memorial for all will be planned in the near future when it’s safe to gather again. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation in Kay’s name to Alzheimer’s Association, PO Box 96011, Washington DC 20090-6011 or Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care, 512 E. Gutierrez St., SB, CA 93103.

Ronnie Balguna Tuliao 10/24/1944 - 9/4/2020

Ronnie Balguna Tuliao was born in Piddig, Ilocos Norte, The Philippines on Oct. 24 1944 to Jose M. Tuliao and Mercedes B Tuliao. He passed away September 4 2020 in Santa Barbara. He graduated from Roosevelt High School in Piddig and attended the University of the East in Manila. Ronnie came to the USA in 1974 where he worked at Infomag and Applied Magnetics for many years. His final position before retiring in 2010 was Process Engineer at Advance/ Imaging in Camarillo. Ronnie traveled the world through his work. From Puerto Rico, Mexico all the way to Malaysia, Singapore and throughout the U.S. he was always on the go with his career. Ronnie loved his family, gardening, golfing, fishing and cooking.

If you ever wanted some good *authentic Filipino cuisine Ronnie was the man to cook up a good batch of pfUt( adobo and pancit. He is survived by his wife of 47 years Ann, his son Patrick, daughter-in-law Wendy and his beloved granddaughter Sunny Ann. Ronnie also leaves brothers and sisters in Hawaii, Canada, The Philippines and the USA. And many cousins in the US and Philippines.

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Brother Malcolm told us, “When White America catches a cold, Black America catches pneumonia.” White America today has something much worse than a cold, so where does that leave us? It leaves us where we’ve always been: in the struggle.

Without due recognition, we have always had to fight against disparities and for our dignity. Frederick Douglass, the first African American to visit the White House, threatened a boycott by Negro troops. While we can applaud Abraham Lincoln for weathering the contempt of spiteful white folks over the meeting, Lincoln’s discomfort is nothing compared to the brutal lashings Douglass absorbed before he escaped slavery. Oh, the courage of this bold Black man, but “history” celebrates Lincoln.

We have always had to fight. A. Philip Randolph promised a military boycott that pressed FDR to enact changes and caused Harry Truman to order the desegregation of the military. “History” remembers Truman.

Attorney Thurgood Marshall argued Brown v. Board of Education before the most forward-looking Supreme Court in history, but the Warren court gets the credit. Later, as a justice on that high court, Marshall did what he could to “keep ’em honest.”

Lyndon B. Johnson was a conservative president, and although he certainly deserves some praise for enthusiastically signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and later the Voting Rights Act, these landmark documents did not come to his desk without the presence of King and other Black champions for equality and dignity.

Congressman John Conyers was valiant in the effort to win federal holiday recognition for Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., reinforced by Coretta Scott King and a number of entertainers, most prominently Stevie Wonder. President Ronald Reagan signed into law the bill creating a national holiday honoring King’s birthday, but it was never Reagan’s design.

We as a people are fueled by anger, outrage, and a desire for righteousness, but mostly we are compelled by love. One of the things I admire most about Black people is our capacity to love, along with our skepticism of power. The reason we are suspicious of power is because we worry that those who crave power must waive moral authority. It could cost us more of our humanity. Power-tripping is always madness.

Love has sustained us. So many Black folks, especially women, are mourning the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

As in countless other dramas, it is unrequited love. When Ginsburg criticized Colin Kaepernick for his protest against police brutality, some of us took a closer look to find that she hired but a single Black law clerk, one of over a hundred, in all her years on the bench. You can’t love us if you don’t know us.

Someone asked me if I was saying that Ginsburg was racist. I replied, “That is not the question.” We should ask how it was that she could get away with it. Did the other clerks ever call her on it? What needs to be addressed is the Court, the government, and the society that does not demand better.

We love those who don’t love us. We take Jesus to heart when he tells us to love even our enemies. This can only happen if we love ourselves. We are also to love and cherish our nonBlack friends. But not only them. Jesus taught, “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you” (Matthew 5:34-35).

In these words, Jesus empowers us to live bold, liberated lives of persistence with a clear conscience, knowing that when we fight for one another, we are fighting for humanity’s humanity, for even the worst of humanity.

Especially disruptive to our solidarity is the centuries-old phenomenon of self-hating Blacks. Self-hating Blacks, of course, are those who see themselves through the eyes of a

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white-dominant system. Rather than resist, they surrender.

The struggle is real.

Self-loving Blacks are known for intoxicatingly loving everybody, and especially the disinherited, whom God favors, but self-hating Blacks often hate the same people that white supremacists hate: LGBTQIIA family, immigrants, Muslims, Sikhs, and people who speak Spanish or any language other than English.

But we will love the self-hating, just as we will love all people. We find renewed energy and courage when we refuse to hate and when we refuse to relinquish moral authority by envying those who wield power.

God is with you. Jesus said as much. His words recorded in Matthew 5 were, 3 Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

4 Blessed are the meek, for they shall possess the earth.

5 Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be consoled.

6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they shall be satisfied.

7 Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. 9 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. 10 Blessed are those who endure persecution for the sake of justice, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

I especially relate to verse six. When a person is truly hungry or thirsty, all they can think of is food or water. Many of us think about justice day and night. We preach encouragingly about justice every week, not just on MLK Day weekend, but

on Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, and every other day, because God, our Hope, is on the side of the meek, mourning, hungry, merciful, pure in heart, peacemakers, and the persecuted.

The verses that ensue are loaded with empowerment for us. Jesus says, 11 Blessed are you when they have slandered you, and persecuted you, and spoken all kinds of evil against you, falsely, for my sake: 12 be glad and exult, for your reward in heaven is plentiful.

For so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

He was speaking to his fellow Jews, warning them that when they advocate for their own people they will pay a price, but not to sweat it. It’s always rewarding. So, my sisters and brothers, don’t you lose heart. Keep on standing up for our people. We have always had to fight. Don’t be ashamed that you’ve had some setbacks that should never have happened.

It’s been a long time comin’ but a change gon’ come, because all kinds of humans are coming together with the power of love to create that change. We have always had to fight. We have a long history of struggle that shows that, no matter what happens in this world, we were made for this.

It is time for us to be Rosa, Frederick, A. Philip, Thurgood, and Coretta.

We pray, in Thomas Dorsey’s words, Oh, oh, oh, can’t turn a-round, We’ve come this far by faith.

All of this to say, “please vote.”

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e occupy a frightening and historic moment.

The reasons not to vote for President Trump are so many that it is impossible to list them all in this endorsement. Most of you already know them.

Trump has given voice to the dark side of the American soul while smearing the legitimate grievances of those many who still suffer. And importantly, Trump has repeatedly tried to discredit this election, suggesting he may not leave the White House if Biden is declared the winner.

No president in our history has ever done that.

It is easy to say a vote for Biden is the lesser of two evils. But that is wrong. Dangerously wrong. Joe Biden has amassed an affirmative record of accomplishment over a 47-year career that’s been defined by compassion, pragmatism, results, and consistency. Has he made mistakes? Yes. But is he ready and capable to be president of the United States? Absolutely yes.

He brings a mastery of the political arts combined with a genuinely empathic spirit. Biden believes government can and should help those who need help. A consummate centrist, he knows that working together is not a hokey campaign slogan; it is how the world works when it works well.

As Americans once again grapple with the bitter legacy of systemic racism, we are confident President Biden will be a force for bridging our inflamed divide.

All the issues that have been undermined and denied by Trump — from the dangers of the coronavirus to climate change — Biden will set our country back on the right track. Under a Biden presidency, our country will again move into the future. He will support the curtailing of greenhouse gases, repair our national infrastructure, encourage green energy alternatives, address the wide gap between the superrich and everyone else, and institute better health initiatives. Importantly, he will again introduce the United States of America to the rest of the world as a nation who has not abandoned its ideals.

The choice has never been starker. Vote for Joe Biden.

CONGRESS, 24TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT

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alud Carbajal has spent the past 30 years trying to make government work. His opponent, Andy Caldwell, has spent the past 30 years trying to unravel it.

As a lobbyist for pro-development groups, Caldwell’s outrageous style can sometimes seem amusing, but it is exactly what we don’t need any more of in Washington — another political show-off in a demolition derby to destroy functioning government.

We know too well what that car crash looks like.

Carbajal, by contrast, knows how government can work to protect its citizens. And few people in government work harder to do just that. Before he became a congressmember four years ago, he served three terms as county supervisor, representing Santa Barbara’s 1st District.

During these years as an elected official, Carbajal achieved an unimpeachable record of prompt constituent service, most notably when he obtained the needed federal emergency funds during the Thomas Fire. In Congress, he has been a voice and a vote reflecting the values and concerns of the 24th District. He fought to preserve the Affordable Care Act and spoke out against offshore oil drilling and the cruel tactics of Trump’s immigration policy.

Carbajal, the son of Mexican immigrants who, as a boy, worked in the farming fields of Oxnard and later served in the United States Marine Corps, is a pragmatic, nonideological Democrat. His legislative history is one of finding solutions. A recent example is his membership in the bipartisan “Problem Solver” congressional caucus, a group of 25 Democrats and 25 Republicans, working to reach a compromise for a new, desperately needed stimulus spending plan.

Yet Caldwell shamelessly seeks to tar him as a “socialist.” Ridiculous. And not true.

Come this November, we ask that you send Carbajal back to Washington for another term. Given what’s happening there, you may or may not be doing him a favor. But you’ll be doing yourself, and this nation, a big one. Vote Salud Carbajal on November 3.

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However, there are many other races and propositions on the ballot that are also important and will affect our lives in Santa Barbara County. From deciding who will represent you in Congress or on water boards and school boards, your vote will matter.

As always, the Independent endorses only when we are confident

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While sitting on the State Assembly Banking Committee, Limón took on the banking industry numerous times — winning some and losing others but always standing up to its powerful lobby. She successfully limited the interest rates bankers could charge for payday loans, and even though she lost her recent attempt to give mom-and-pop landlords some mortgage relief when tenants could not pay rent during the COVID crisis, she successfully worked to get eviction protection for the tenants. Though a solidly liberal Democrat, she was not afraid to take heat from left-wingers when she did not support single-payer health insurance.

She succeeded in requiring Hollister Ranch to make what has long been one of the world’s most amazing private beaches available to the public. That she even took on the challenge seemed foolhardy. That she succeeded remains astonishing. On a less contentious but more serious matter, she helped facilitate the rebuilding of Ventura’s Vista del Mar psychiatric hospital destroyed during the Thomas Fire. As a result, Vista del Mar was quickly able to serve those in desperate need.

Born and raised in Santa Barbara, Limón has deep roots throughout the community. With her skills, knowledge, and cache, she will be just the person we need representing us in Sacramento.

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aura Capps is exactly the leader the Santa Barbara Unified School District board needs in this time of transition and crisis. She has proved her talents during the last four years when her knowledge, energy, and vision have helped move the district toward a more successful future.

She showed no fear in asking tough questions of the then superintendent and took positions on heated issues that were not always popular.

That’s an important, often rare quality for a school boardmember, but Capps could do this because she did her homework, and it showed. She pushed for better academic equality and more mental-health support for all students. Her knowledge about childhood poverty and food security allowed her to bring vitally needed solutions to the sad realities facing many Santa Barbara families. Laura Capps is an outstanding, hardworking boardmember who truly cares about the children who depend on the school district to do the right thing. Laura Capps does just that.

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endy Sims-Moten brings to the board a strong commitment to financial responsibility, consistently and effectively paying close attention to the budget — not a simple chore for such a large district. Her experience with the First 5 program brings important insight to board decisions, especially now as the board faces the serious consequences that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused in schools. Younger children are particularly vulnerable to experiencing learning loss, which is one of the most challenging issues the district is facing. And we have been particularly impressed by some of her recent actions on the board, showing more personal independence and knowledge. Sims-Moten is an important voice on the board, and she should be returned for another term.

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xperience always counts, but never more so than now. As California’s legislature wrestles with the $54 billion budget shortfall caused by the COVID pandemic, we are relieved to be able to recommend a candidate as seasoned as Steve Bennett for State Assembly.

Smart, crusty, and effective, Bennett spent the past 20 years working as a Ventura County supervisor.

Always about getting stuff done, Bennett is perhaps most famous for spearheading the SOAR Initiative, Ventura County’s signature ordinance that preserves open space and ag land from urban sprawl. Enacted in 1998, it remains the most effective line in the sand drawn by any of California’s 58 counties.

More recently, Bennett played a key role getting the City of Ventura’s first homeless shelter opened. He’s also been a longtime, powerful advocate for alternative transportation. Given that thousands of workers commute from one county to the next twice a day, that’s critical.

As a lifelong educator and school administrator, Bennett will be ideally situated to advocate on behalf of education reform and funding.

With the state’s excruciating housing crisis, we expect Bennett to effectively represent the middle ground, protecting the land-use autonomy of local governments while devising incentives to produce genuinely affordable housing. No wonder the state real estate lobby spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on negative ads to defeat him in the Democratic primary.

Running against Bennett this time is Charles Cole, a first-time Republican candidate, whose youthful energy is eclipsed only by his lack of experience or knowledge.

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irginia Alvarez is running for the first time to join the school board, but she brings with her 30 years of experience in education and a lifetime of understanding Santa Barbara schools. From attending McKinley Elementary School to graduating Santa Barbara City College, from being a first-generation college graduate to being a mother of three children who all attended district schools, Alvarez knows the concerns of children and their parents. For 10 years she worked in district classrooms, and for 20 years she was a school administrator at Montecito Union. With her master’s degree in education and as a certified school business official, Alvarez brings critical knowledge to the table. Her ability to decipher the imposing regulations governing California schools will be invaluable to all the boardmembers and will inform her own contributions. Alvarez will contribute a fresh, dynamic voice to the board, one that will reach a wider community. During the campaign, Virginia Alvarez promised that she is uniquely qualified to step into this job on day one. And we believe her.

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erhaps the least-understood government entity in Santa Barbara County is the County Superintendent of Schools and its board of directors. The four incumbent candidates have done an admirable job, eschewing limelight while working hard to improve all public schools in the county. It was surprising to see four challengers pop up at the last minute. And it was even more striking that all four newcomers are ideological, right-wing conservatives.

The challengers showed stealth and ingenuity in taking on a district far out of the public eye. But they picked the wrong incumbents to challenge. The only problem with this attempted coup is that the current occupants of this board currently are—and long have been—truly stellar public servants. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.

The incumbents — Weldon Howell, Peter MacDougall, Richard Fulton, and Roberta Heter—are outstanding public servants. They have not only served on the County Board of Education, but all have volunteered enthusiastically in promoting youth and educational nonprofits throughout all of Santa Barbara. As president of Santa Barbara City College, Peter MacDougall led that institution to become the number-one junior college in the country. Joe Howell and Dr. Richard Fulton played leading roles in developing the Partners for Education and Computers with Family programs that have helped students immeasurably. Heter was a highly praised principal of Lompoc High, and she has worked to turn the Lompoc Library into a community centerpiece.

Why mess with success? And for what? Mischief?

Confusion?

The Superintendent of Schools and its board might appear mysterious, but take it away and you’ll be sorry.

It provides an array of programs that helped the most vulnerable students and families in the county’s 20 school districts. It credentials and trains teachers; it provides special ed instruction; it oversees the state’s preschool programs and runs the oral health collaborative in which the poorest kids in the district get screenings and braces. It handles migrant education and presides over homeless and foster youth education, keeping at-risk kids from falling through the cracks.

We need people in that office who understand the system and know how to help and improve education. Not inexperienced people helicoptering in with unneeded political agendas. We’ve seen how that played out in the White House. Let’s avoid that fiasco here in Santa Barbara. Our students and teachers deserve better that that.

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n our eyes, the race for Goleta mayor may as well be uncontested. Paula Perotte has proved a capable and well-liked leader for the city during the past four years. For two of those years, she was voted in as mayor by the people, and for two of them, she was chosen by her own councilmembers.

Perotte has consistently championed the slowing of growth in the burgeoning city and the preservation of areas that remain untouched. In doing so, she has not ignored growth proponents like the city’s Chamber of Commerce and has helped to fund its community endeavors with city grants.

Paula Perotte has given her time to the city’s wellbeing since working on safety at school crossings decades ago. With the city dividing the council seats into districts in 2022, now more than ever, Goleta needs a reliable and fair individual in the mayor’s seat.

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he wheels of city government have been spinning efficiently in Goleta lately, largely due to a City Council that works together more than it works at odds. Important projects like parking, sidewalks, and a new park in Old Town were started, and more importantly completed, and when the pandemic recession hit, the city reacted quickly to freeze new projects and hiring in order to conserve its cash.

The two incumbents running to be reelected to the council — Stuart Kasdin and Kyle Richards—are part and parcel of the greater ease city dwellers feel with the slower pace of development today. The large projects the city has approved or undertaken are ones that directly benefit the commu-

nity, such as the new fire station and the new train station, senior housing at Willow Springs, and affordable housing at Westar’s triangle property.

It’s commendable that three newcomers are contending for a council seat—one of them, Grace Wallace, often offers public comment at council meetings. But Kasdin and Richards have proved to be hardworking and thoughtful in their four years on the council, clearly putting in the time to understand the issues and ask perceptive questions. They don’t vote in lockstep with the council, either, which is a healthy practice of democracy. For those reasons and many more, we can endorse Stuart Kasdin and Kyle Richards with enthusiasm.

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eeping water clean and drinkable is an essential duty of any community water district. Understanding the complicated systems of pipes and the challenging California water rules requires stamina and dedication. The three incumbents running for reelection to the Goleta Water District—Bill Rosen, Lauren Hanson, and Farfalla Borah—have proved themselves to be just that: dedicated, hardworking public servants. They have set policies that include introducing hydro-turbine power to some pipelines, transitioning to electric vehicles, and opposing the Exxon trucking plan, all with an eye to cost savings, while staying focused on

environmental concerns and keeping an open communication with the community. Hanson and Borah also displayed a brave show of good governance by voting to raise water rates to pay for needed repair and an upgrade to its pumps, valves, and treatment system.

Their vote prevented the district from being burdened by long-term debt, an option Rosen was willing to consider. The vote inspired four challengers to run against the incumbents, though not one challenger has attended a district board meeting for the last year. Running a water district requires more attention than that. Goleta is lucky to have Rosen, Hanson, and Borah as directors on their Water Board.

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her sense of responsibility to do what is best, to make possible what is right, that has been guiding her and the district through the enormous educational challenges brought on by the pandemic. With her leadership, families have been able to receive daily meals on campuses.

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waste-management projects and has tried to increase food security for students in the district. Ben-Yaacov attends school board meetings regularly, is conversant with the district’s goals, and, perhaps most importantly, believes that children should learn in ways that allow them to develop creative, questioning minds. A vote for Vicki Ben-Yaacov is a vote well cast.

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he world changed with the killing of George Floyd this spring. Three of the candidates now running for the City College board of directors get it; three do not. We are endorsing the three who do — Robert Miller, Anna Everett, and Erin Guereña.

Our endorsement is not an attempt at purity politics.

Given that people of color make up a large percentage of City College’s student body, it’s critical that the values of the school’s boardmembers reflect the day-to-day realities of their students. It’s that simple.

City College is a true gem of a school. In recent years, it has been twice named the top community college in the nation, yet its achievement gap has not budged.

And now, in the wake of COVID, it faces massive challenges not of their own failings: declining enrollments, plummeting revenues, facilities in desperate need of upgrades, and mounting deficits. There are no easy answers, only hard questions.

Having a board that is up to the challenge is critical.

Incumbent Robert Miller, representing the district including Goleta has served one term and two stints as chair. He is steeped in the grim minutia of the school’s

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financial picture. After a few confusing missteps, such as how he mishandled a Pledge of Allegiance debate, he sought to expand his understanding. His style is softspoken but thoughtful, more of a mediator than a trial attorney, which is what he was before retiring. That tone will help bring the changes needed for SBCC to become a truly inclusive campus.

Two other candidates who’ve never run for office before, Erin Guereña and Anna Everett, bring the skills and life experiences that will add depth and clarity to the board meetings. That Guereña—and her husband—managed to successfully open a new barbershop in the face of the pandemic speaks volumes for her grit, skill, and determination.

Anna Everett, recently retired as chair of UCSB’s Film and Media Department, is herself a product of a community college education. At UCSB, she expanded educational opportunities to all students, bringing new perspectives to the discussion. Civically active, she has served on a number of boards, including the County Commission for Women, where she earned a reputation as a hardworking leader who listens to all voices with civil humanity.

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t the risk of sounding churlish, we already gave on this one. Sixteen years ago, state voters approved—and the Independent endorsed—Prop. 71, which set aside $3 billion in state bonds to underwrite a new stem-cell research institute for cuttingedge research on Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, strokes, and other central nervous system disorders for which stem cells provided the necessary regenerative tissues. Now, that center, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, is back, requesting $5.5 billion in bonds. Translated, that’s $260 million from the general fund for the next 30 years. Or more succinctly, $7.8 billion. Given the serious strains on the state’s purse strings, we wonder why the institute has not entered into other research partnerships—both private and public—to secure a sustainable future. Proponents for Prop. 14 instead offer hyperventilated vagueness. They allude to “92 MEDICAL TRIALS” and “2,900 MEDICAL DISCOVERIES,” but they provide no details as to what end. For $7.8 billion, we deserve more than unspecified claims written in uppercase letters.

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hen state voters overwhelmingly approved Prop. 13 in 1978, they did so because elderly homeowners on fixed incomes were facing foreclosures as California property values were rising astronomically. Prop. 13 limited the rates by which property tax assessments could be increased. Only when a property was sold could its tax-assessed value reflect market realities.

One unintended consequence of Prop. 13 is that commercial property owners reaped great financial benefits, resulting in California cities, counties, and school districts losing billions and billions of tax revenues.

Prop. 15 seeks to remedy this. If passed, commercial property owners would be taxed based on their current property values, not on what their land was worth when they first bought it. The money involved is hardly insignificant.

Supporters and opponents alike estimate Prop.

15 could generate $6.5 billion to $12.5 billion a year in new property tax revenues. In Santa Barbara County, it would generate $51 million a year, 40 percent of which would go to school districts. The rest will be split among local governments.

Let us be as clear as we can on what Prop. 15 does not do.

If passed, Prop. 15 will not affect how residential properties are currently assessed and taxed. All agricultural lands and structures will remain under Prop. 13 assessment rules. There is some debate on whether this would apply to orchards and vineyards. Proponents say yes; opponents say no.

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Here are some undisputed facts: First, the new assessment rate will be introduced gradually. For properties used by businesses with 50 or fewer employees, the changes won’t start until 2025. For smaller properties worth less than $3 million, the new rules will not apply. Small businesses with less than $500,000 in equipment and fewer than 50 employees will pay no taxes on the value of their equipment.

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A recent study showed that in the three years following Prop. 209’s passage, 1,000 fewer Black and Latino students applied to UC schools, and those who did were less likely to be accepted. Those applicants went to lowertier schools and upon graduation received salaries 5 percent less than those graduating from UC schools. The same study also found that, when affirmative-action programs were in place, white and Asian students who did not get into UC schools typically attended other high-ranking schools with no adverse economic consequence.

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209 by giving priority to first-generation college applicants. But this same ingenuity was not used when hiring faculty members reflecting the state population. When the United States becomes the meritocracy it’s always said it was, Prop. 16 won’t be necessary. For now, however, it is.

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Prop. 17 would return the right to vote to nearly 50,000 Californians who have completed their sentences and been freed. Nineteen other states have already enacted such laws. Studies have shown that bringing ex-convicts back into the community, engaging them in civic life, and avoiding continuing stigmatization reduces recidivism. They have paid for their crimes, and they now work, raise families, and pay taxes. Some are veterans.

All should be afforded the same rights as other citizens.

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oting, it turns out, is habit-forming, the experts tell us. If so, it’s a habit to encourage.

Prop. 18 will allow 17-year-olds the right to vote in certain circumstances. If voters will be 18 by the general election, then Prop. 18 would allow them to vote in the preceding primary, even if they are still 17. The number of people affected is nominal, but anything that invites, encourages, or merely allows voting is to be embraced. Opponents of the measure argue that the human brain is not biologically fully baked by that age.

Such grumpy objections are red herrings. The real deal here is that in the past primary, less than 40 percent of eligible voters bothered to cast ballots. Prop. 18 won’t singlehandedly turn this around. But it is a step in the right direction.

rop. 19 has way too many parts for its own good and is too clever by half. We suggest a quick no vote.

As near as we can tell, Prop. 19 was generated by the state’s real estate lobby to help empty nesters encumbered in homes larger than they need but who are reluctant to sell because of the higher property taxes they would have to pay.

Prop. 19 would insulate these older homeowners—defined as 55 years old or more, handicapped, or whose homes were destroyed by natural disasters—from those higher property taxes. Under Prop. 19, such sellers could buy more expensive homes anywhere in the state and get a tax break. Right now, they only get a break if they buy in the same county. Also new is that they could use these special rules three times.

But Prop. 19 also penalizes people who inherited homes in which they do not reside—their property taxes will go up a lot if the difference between the sale price and the taxable price exceeds $1 million. The additional tax revenues would be directed into a state fund to help fight fires, wild or otherwise. But if you cannot recite what Prop. 19 will do while walking a straight line, we suggest you vote no. Even if you can, we suggest a no vote.

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ing state prison guards and the Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs. It is opposed by victims’ rights groups statewide, worried that state funds would be taken from rehabilitation programs. If passed, it would lower the threshold for felony thefts from $950 to $250.

For more than 30 years, California pursued a host of lock-’em-up policies. During this time, we built 14 new prisons but not one new university. Crime rates continued to soar, and ultimately federal judges ruled that our severely overcrowded prisons violated constitutional prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment.

Under Propositions 47 and 57, thousands of nonviolent offenders were released to reduce the overcrowding.

Most had to persuade a judge they’d reformed. No doubt some judges got duped. But even with the release of thousands of prisoners, California has not experienced the crime wave fearmongers had predicted. Now is not the time to return to expensive mass incarceration. Not only is it unjust, but we can’t afford it, and it just doesn’t work. We know. We tried it.

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nly last year, Governor Gavin Newsom signed a statewide bill that limited how landlords could increase annual rents to 5 percent plus the consumer price index. That’s rent control. The same bill also included language for just-cause eviction protections and relocation assistance landlords will have to pay tenants asked to leave for reasons other than nonpayment of rent or other noncompliances with the lease. That’s just-cause eviction right now. The City of Santa Barbara is poised to enact even tougher relocation assistance requirements than the state measure.

Let’s see how these new regulations work before layering on more. Especially now. Since the COVID pandemic, state and local officials have prohibited the eviction of tenants who can’t pay rent—the right thing to do—but landlords got no relief from their banks and lending institutions for their mortgage payments. For smaller landlords especially, this has been a significant hardship and one that could have negative effects on tenants and the city’s rental housing stock. Given this, we’re not inclined to pile on.

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rop. 22 was hatched by Uber, Lyft, and companies like DoorDash to exempt them from AB 5, the sweeping bill passed by the state legislature last year that sought to give workers in the gig economy the same protections afforded full-time workers. Since its passage, the state legislature has passed numerous piecemeal bills exempting some workers and industries from its proscriptive protections—such as freelance writers. Efforts by Uber and Lyft to get similar exemptions failed, and they have since been sued by the state Attorney General for declaring their drivers as “employees.” Prop. 22 was written by these companies in an attempt at a get-out-of-jail card. If it doesn’t pass, they’ve threatened to shut down operations in California. For many people, such “jobs” keep them financially afloat, but the company’s counteroffer to pay their drivers 120 percent of the area minimum wage only applies to when they are driving customers. Fully one-third

E N D O R S     C  OCVO EVRE R S TSOTROYR Y of their time is waiting, and that time is not compensated. It’s little wonder that drivers for such companies have been struggling for better working conditions. This bill won’t help them. Vote no.

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f passed, Prop. 23 would require that all clinics have at least one physician or physician’s assistant present when patients—for whom kidney dialysis treatment is a life-ordeath necessity—are being treated. It also prohibits the two medical monopolies that run most clinics from rejecting patients based on type of treatment—code speak typically for Medi-Cal or Medicare. Given the urgency of the treatment, we feel these requirements will help safeguard the most vulnerable from the cruel indifference of the marketplace.

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hether you snore, are about to give birth, or listen to Icelandic acid jazz music, chances are that some device that you use has tracked this information. Chances are even better this information has been sold without your knowledge or consent.

Two years ago, California’s legislature passed the first and only state law in the nation giving residents some privacy protections against the mighty reach of Google and Facebook. Prop. 24 broadens those protections.

Under the current law, companies must notify consumers that they’re collecting or selling their personal data and how they intend to use that data. Under Prop. 24, consumers

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But how long can California’s state legislature resist the extreme pressure exerted by the Googles of the world to amend the state law as currently written? For all its imperfections, Prop. 24 will provide a baseline of protections that are better able to stand the test of time.

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n America, we like to say everyone is created equal, excepting, of course, those accused of crimes. Those with money can pay their bail and get out of jail; those without can stay behind bars until they go to trial—which can take years. Rarely have the inequalities plaguing our criminal justice system been so nakedly evident.

Two years ago, the state legislature passed a landmark law — Senate Bill 10 — that addressed this system. That law never took effect, thanks to the interventions of the bail bond industry and the insurance companies that back it.

Had it passed, SB 10 would have outlawed cash bail outright. Those, regardless of wealth, who are deemed too violent, too dangerous, or too inclined to flee would be denied release. It was that simple. This would drastically reduce the number of county jail prisoners awaiting trial. Many of those who are eventually found guilty spend more time locked up before trial than they do after sentencing. Ultimately, many prisoners plead guilty to charges of which they are not guilty simply to get out.

With Prop. 25, we all now have the opportunity to weigh in on SB 10.

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Virtual Inaugural Lecture: Living Democracy in Capitalism’s Shadow: Creative Labor, Black Abolitionists, and the Struggle to End Slavery John Majewski,

author and UCSB professor and dean of humanities and fine arts, will give this lecture about how we in the 21st century “live democracy” in a society that valorizes creativity amid growing inequality and systemic racism. An audience Q&A will follow the lecture. Register in advance to receive the link. 4-5pm. Free.

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10/8: Live Music Society’s SOhO Fundraiser and Film Screening The Live Music Society and S.B. Independent will partner together to livestream the 15-minute film Empty Spaces: SOhO, which features S.B. venue SOhO Restaurant & Music Club. During the screening, viewers can donate directly to this beloved club. 6-8pm.

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10/11-10/14: Fishing for the assist you in creating a drawing inspired Future: S.B. Sea Glass & Ocean opment adapts in response to social media technologies like Twitter and TikTok. Register by Joseph Stella’s charcoal on paper, The Arts Festival Join this silent auction in advance. 6:30-7:30pm. Free. Call (805) Crusher and Mixer Building (1918–20). through October 18 that will feature 12

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this celebration of over 70 films that offer diverse global and local perspectives of the natural world and the relationship between humans and Earth.

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10/8: CWC Virtual Screening: Picture a Scientist Carsey-Wolf Center invites you to watch this 2020 film, which chronicles the surge of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists. A Q&A with co-directors and producers Ian Cheney and Sharon Shattuck will join moderator Emily Goard Jacobs (Psychological and Brain Sciences, UCSB) for a Q&A about the making of

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10/8-10/14: Solvang Farmer Pumpkin Patch Select your pumpkin from an amazing selection and find your way out of a 10-acre corn maze that has 10-foot-wide pathways.

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10/8-10/14: Santa Ynez Valley Scarecrow Festival Scarecrows will be displayed in the Santa Ynez Valley in the four main communities around Solvang (Buellton, Los Alamos, and Los Olivos) in hopes of winning the 2020 Harvest Cup. Visit the website to cast an online vote for the best and view the roster of business participants. Scarecrows are on display through October 31. Free. syvscarecrows.com 10/8-10/14: Lompoc Library: 31 Dreadful Days of Terrifying Treats Participants can win one of 10 $25 gift cards to Five Below by watching and participating in daily Halloween-themed activities through October 31. Free. Ages 4-12. Call (805) 875-8781.

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10/10, 10/14: Thrills & Chills Virtual Halloween Dance Fest 2020 World Dance for Humanity will be offering online dance classes so you can participate in this year’s Worldwide Thriller event on October 24. You can also learn easy Halloween dances to songs such as “Ghostbusters,”“Superstition,” and more. Visit the website for a full schedule.

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10/15-10/21: Montecito Country Mart Honor System Pumpkin Patch Celebrate the season by picking out a locally grown pumpkin, then place your payment in the white drop box. Thu.-Sat., Mon.-Wed.: 11am-6pm; Sun.: 11am-5pm. Montecito Country Mart, 1016 Coast Village Rd., Montecito. Free.

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ho makes the comforts we sit, sleep, lounge, and entertain in? The couches, patio furniture, breakfast nooks, and car interiors. What makes these things not only inviting but visually appealing? A tactile mix of fabric, color, texture, cushions. And who creates these functionally exquisite combinations? Upholsters — mostly men behind closed doors in cities far away.

This is the story of a different sort of upholster. One who, you could say, is swimming upstream. An upholstress, working and living in Santa Barbara. Challenging the status quo of fast furniture and IKEA throwaways. Homing in on a trade that demands incredible skill, artistry, and hustle.

This is a story about Joanna “Bea” Shultz, owner and operator of Bea Furnishings.

Born and raised in the Santa Ynez Valley, Bea played goalkeeper on the soccer team, attended Hebrew School and Torah Practice into the evenings, and, despite loathing dresses, found herself homecoming princess.

At Santa Barbara City College, she discovered interior design, which led her to San Francisco State University and a degree. Realizing the field was not the hands-on hustle she desired, she embarked on a trade tour of carpentry, welding, and upholstery, which eventually brought her to an upholstery trade school in the onetime furniture capital of the world: High Point, North Carolina.

“I was most definitely the anomaly of the class,” Shultz said. “The only woman, the first to get there and the last to leave. Definitely the one who traveled farthest to attend. I was starved to learn, and it was an absolute dream situation.”

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Without the demand of the once-thriving American furniture factories nearby, and the trend of production going overseas, Shultz soaked up the last bit of wisdom Guilford Technical Community College had to offer.

You know how it goes from here: Santa Barbara and its rubber-band effect plays out on yet another innocent young resident, and Shultz returns with foreign knowledge, fresh drive, and a novel approach to an elusive trade.

Cut to today, and there’s a football flying through the air outside her upper State Street shop against a backdrop of slender palms and the static roar of the 101. Shultz catches the ball.

Willie Glover, a MarBorg sanitation engineer, revives an old touchdown dance in celebration.

Worn out, they slump into none other than a dumpster-turned-sofa upholstered in tufted velvet.

It’s a supreme, jaw-dropping juxtaposition—the red velvet royalty mingling with society’s rubbish receptacle. An expedition into the frontier of furniture design and upcycled comfort. To Shultz, the Dumpster Sofa is a rite of passage from laborer to designer, and also a celebration of Glover, a fellow member of the blue-collar family.

Embosomed in the dumpster’s embrace sit these two Santa Barbara natives, united through their respective trades that too often go unseen and unappreciated. What a moment. What a couch.

Check out Shultz’s hands-on hustle at beafurnishings.com. Email her at BeaFurnishings@gmail.com for your custom furniture and upholstery needs.

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Astrophotography Whiz Kid Recognized by Royal Greenwich Observatory

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t was at the ripe old age of 14 that Winslow Barnwood got the astronomy bug, and it was only a year later that he captured two deep-space images that just earned him major recognition from the Royal Greenwich Observatory during its annual astrophotography competition for young stargazers.

Barnwood, a junior at Dos Pueblos High School and a member of the Santa Barbara Astronomical Unit (SBAU), received the 3rd place “Highly Commended” distinction for his image “Collision Course!” of the Andromeda Galaxy.

His “Awash in Blue Starlight” photo of the Pleiades star cluster was among the finalists. Both were taken using equipment he bought himself from working at the Santa Barbara Rock Gym.

just how incredibly abstract and beautiful astronomical objects can be.

How do you choose what to shoot? As the seasons change, so does what is visible in the sky. This is the first deciding factor.

Most of the time, my inspiration will then come from fellow astrophotographers. I follow many astrophotography accounts on Instagram and spend lots of time on websites such as AstroBin and Cloudy Nights. Oftentimes, I’ll see an image and decide I either want to replicate it or try a new take. If I’m feeling really creative, I will open a map of the night sky and spend time scrolling around, looking for an interesting part that often goes unphotographed.

We caught up with Barnwood by email this week. More of his recent work can be seen on his Instagram feed — @rooftop .astro.

What does it take for you to get these amazing shots? I use three main pieces of gear: a camera, a telescope, and a mount. The camera takes a series of pictures over the course of the night. Then I stack all of them together using software to make dim objects brighter and reduce digital noise. From there, I edit the pictures in a program called PixInsight to achieve the final result. This is a vastly simplified description, as it takes hours to set up each night and even more hours to gather data, with some images requiring multiple days’ worth of data.

What first got you into astrophotography? It was the summer of 2018, and Mars was at opposition (the closest it will come to Earth in its orbit). I decided to try and see it with a pair of binoculars I had, and even though all I could see was a tiny red speck, it was enough to hook me. I knew I wanted to go bigger. I started looking at telescopes and going to outreach events with the SBAU. It was during this time that I came across an image of the Heart and Soul nebulae. I realized then that astrophotography was a way to share with other people

How did it feel to be commended by the Royal Greenwich Observatory? While I believe that astrophotography is its own reward and needs no outside approval, being recognized by a scientific organization was an incredible feeling. I’ve spent hundreds of hours trying to improve, and having other people say that all my hard work has yielded something of worth was incredible. It also spurred me to push even harder in my attempts to create better, more creative views of the night sky. n

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Someone please intervene Even as I type this, though, there’s a muddy-muzzled, before I take up cosplay.

We named her Ziggy filthy-pawed, remorseless little furball on the pale rug in honor of the late David beside me gnawing maniaBowie; she shares his “snow cally on one of the five plants white tan” and is inarguably, she uprooted today and unfairly adorbs. There are definitely moments—usually lugged into my office, dirt clods and all. at 3 a.m. when I’m standing in It’s not like we needed a the dark, wet fog, repeating the word “potty” to an anipuppy. We have a perfectly good adult dog already, and mal that doesn’t speak Engour life was pleasantly pre- email: starshine@roshell.com lish—when I wonder what the mutt we were thinking. dictable. We could sleep through the night. We could open our front For the most part, though, this minor mondoor without fear of any residents escaping. grel — aka The Ziglet, Zigfield Follies, or Zig Our hands were not covered in lacerations Zig Sputnik — is a welcome distraction from from tiny, “YOW!”-inducing needle teeth. the world’s worries. She’s the fluffy, mischieBut when it became clear that life out- vous embodiment of everything we’ve been side of our wearisome walls would not be devoid of for six months: Exuberance. Innoresuming anytime soon, we joined thousands cence. Pure joy. At a time when it’s easy to across the nation and took this quaran-tunity fixate on things we can’t control, it’s a relief to adopt a furry friend. to have something that requires our immeThe ASPCA reported an increase of 400 diate attention. And someone who wants us percent in foster applications during the to protect her … from things we can actually first two months of COVID, and one of protect her from. Like the vacuum cleaner. the local shelters told me that they, too, had four times more inquiries this summer than usual. Why are so many folks hankering for a pandemic pet? Brilliant pragmatism: Hell, we’re stuck at home anyway—might as well be training a critter. And admitted desperation: Okay, look, we’re lonely and need something to love us hard.

But it’s hard to find a dog when the whole world The author's pandemic pup, Ziggy wants one! I had multipage applications in every shelter for 150 miles, To be honest, in this suspended global got daily alerts from petfinder.com, and took moment, things like brushing my hair and several screener calls from discerning volun- eating a balanced meal feel pointless some teers. They phoned my references and asked days. And yet somehow, teaching a sixme for videos of our backyard fence line and pound beastie how to sit, fetch, and ba-doing, photos of the latches on our gates. I’ve had job ba-doing down a summit of stairs feels productive, doable, and worthwhile. interviews that weren’t as grueling.

Then one morning we awoke to find a It reminds me of when my kids were local nonprofit had a litter of puppies res- babies: The disrupted sleep. The constant cued from a backyard breeder who was out- “what’s she doing now??” The managing of raged because her bitch had “let any ole male someone else’s poop. In this monotonous Groundhog Day loop, it’s fun to chart the dog get on her.”

Yep, that’s right. She slut-shamed her passage of time, to see growth and change cockapoo. in the daily developments of someone brand There were over 50 applications for these new to the world. half-dozen pups, and we hit the jackpot and Of course, my kids didn’t dig up our garbrought one home. Our family has always den.… But they’d also never have fit in my had dog-sized dogs, and this one … well, she’s purse.

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open outdoor space, the Alisal Guest Ranch in Solvang feels very wellprepared for the challenge of safe, socially distanced dinners. Now they’re even bringing celebrity chefs — and celebrities who’ve become chefs — to the resort for a series of dinners this fall.

Leading off the celebturned-chef department is Saved by the Bell star Tiffani Amber Thiessen, who parlayed her youthful acting fame into a TV series called Dinner at Tiffani’s on the Cooking Channel from 2015 to 2017 and published her first cookbook, Pull Up a Chair, in 2018. On October 17, she’ll be joined

by Santa Ynez Valley catering pro Maili Halme and Alisal’s own Chef Anthony Endy — who recently won an episode of Beat Bobby Flay — for the next California Ranch Cookout. They’ll be followed by a plant-based cookout on October 24 showcasing Chef Kristen Thibeault from Nybll in Oakland.

Thiessen recently answered a few of my questions via email.

I don’t think many of your Saved by the Bell fans are aware of your transition to becoming a celebrity chef. When did that happen?

Well, maybe not 20 years ago, true, but in the last five to 10 years I have been cooking very much out in front, from my Food Network/Cooking Channel show Dinner at Tiffani’s to my debut cookbook, Pull Up a Chair.

Have you always been proficient in the kitchen? I have always had a love for

food and cooking. Since I was a little girl peering into the kitchen, watching all the women in my family cooking up a storm and having a great time, I wanted to be there with them, doing what looked to be fun. My love of cooking then grew as I started traveling to different countries when I was a teenager and learning about many different cultures and types of cuisines.

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tered corn, and berry pie for $18. “Sunday was a lost day for me,” said Amador of the past.

Taking a cue from Foreign Cinema in San Francisco, he throws a pinch of curry in the batter for the big boneless thighs. “That makes all the difference,” he said. Uncorked now sells about 100 dinners every Sunday.

Marketing strategy: “Social media is important,

but where I’ve gotten all of our business is our email list,” said Amador, who’s doubled his to 2,400 people in the past six months. “I’ve been collecting emails, and I knew at some point this might be important for marketing. But I never realized to what extent.”

wines — many from smaller garagiste producers, most poured from self-serve taps — and serve some bites to go along with the sips.

Wine still works: “I’m almost a wine store right Come the pandemic shutdown in March now,” he explained. “All of the tables are full of 2020, that intimate, educational, drinks- wine, and there’s nowhere to sit in here.” He focused business model no longer made shifted focus a bit to more affordable wines sense. But being on a busy corridor between such as Ballard Lane, just $10 a bottle, but also downtown and many residential neighborhoods, a simplified, affordable, special-of-the-day takeout menu did.

Uncorked’s business shot through the roof.

“We’re doing great,” said Michael Amador last week. Although September was a bit slow, it was still better than any month of 2019, and that’s with just a handful of patio dine-in tables each week. “Our demographics totally changed,” said Amador. “People like the idea of quickly getting their food, just in and out.”

This month, Uncorked is also defending a victory in last year’s Vegan Chef Challenge. Until the end of October, 15 restaurants are competing in this third PIVOT PROWESS: Uncorked owners Lisa and Michael Amador annual competition organized by Elizaquickly shifted focus to takeout when the pandemic hit and are beth Wettstein to get chefs and diners now enjoying success with less stress while defending their Vegan excited about the healthy, sustainable Chef Challenge crown this month. possibilities of plant-based foods.

In 2019, Amador’s barbecued pumpkin ribs sells smaller brands like Azios Cellars for $18 tied with the Chase’s lasagna for first place in and higher-end bottles such as Kimsey and the “best entrée” category, so he’s bringing the Lavender Oak. “I’m not making much, but dish back, plus another idea, with hopes of a I want people to get a bottle every time they repeat. It certainly helps business, as last year’s come in,” said Amador. He sold 200 cases in six win put Uncorked on the vegan food circuit. months, which is more than a case per day and “We get a number of out-of-town guests who triple the usual volume, although with tighter come here just for that,” he said. margins.

Last week, I talked to Amador about his success in both the pandemic and vegan realms, Unforeseen upsides: “Everything has benefited and he shared some thoughts and advice for from an owner standpoint,” he said. “Revenue others. is up; expenses are down. And we’re only open from 5 to 7 p.m. now. I used to be here from 10 Specials rule: Offering at least one special, all-in- a.m. to 10 p.m.” He’s sad to see other restaurants one meal each day drives 90 percent of the busi- struggle and close during this time, but admitness now, including stars like lobster ravioli and ted, “It’s strange, but in good ways for us. Quite seared ahi niçoise. Every day changes, except honestly, I’m in no rush to change how it is. I for Fridays, which is surf ’n’ turf for $20, and could use a few more people who want to dine Sunday’s fried chicken night, which includes with us, but I love leaving at 7:30 p.m.” spicy coleslaw, potato salad, baked beans, but-

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reminding me of places in Richmond, my hometown. My entire family ordered their chicken chipotle sandwich, and we all gushed over how well the spicy sauce meshed together with the crisp bread.

We were treated with such attentiveness and kindness that I made it a mission to visit again.

Every chance since, I’ve visited the panaderia to order a hot cup of the thick, chocolatey drink champurrado and a white concha. It was hard to find a champurrado similar to the one my family makes for Christmas gathering, but Cristino’s tasted almost identical, like a warm hug for your insides.

I recently called Cristino’s to learn more about their story, and co-owner Lorena Casas answered the phone herself. “We wanted something for ourselves instead of working for someone else,” she told me, explaining that she and her business partner, Cristino Vazques, opened the business on October 2, 2017. “Cristino had some background in baking,

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Casas hails from Oaxaca, while Vazques is originally from Guererro, and their menu reflects those backgrounds.

“All the recipes that we make are the same ones we had when we were kids,” Casas said. “Our inspirations come from our hometowns.” They bake a wide selection of sweet breads daily, ranging from puerquitos, which is a type of cookie, and muffin-like mantecadas to jam-filled treats they call “Monio” and “Cono Relleno.”

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“There were a lot of people coming from Lompoc, Santa Maria, and Ventura to work over here, but now a lot of those customers are working from home.”

But Cristino’s Bakery remains open and is doing plenty of takeout. They’ll be selling their annual Día de los Muertos bread toward the end of October, just another reason to visit this hidden Goleta gem, especially for Latinx college students who miss the taste of pan dulce.

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rather than coalesce. There’s one classic exception, tain Brewing Company, the Central Coast’s though: Banyuls, a port-like, fortified wine made in second-largest beer producer after Firestone- a southern French region of the same name.

Walker. But according to owner Jaime Dieten“It’s considered to be the only wine that really hofer, the best way to get there is reorganizing under goes with chocolate,” said winemaker Douglas Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which the company filed for Margerum, who recently released his own take on the style. Called “Mute-Age”—a reference to the on October 5.

“The good news is we have demand, but the Banyuls process of mutage, during which alcohol demand is actually higher than we can do,” said is added to stop fermentation and keep the beverDietenhofer, a Los Olivos native who founded “Fig age sweeter — the wine was spiked with barrel-aged Mountain,” as it’s best known, with his father, Jim brandy and then left to “bake” in 34-liter glass demiDietenhofer, in 2010. The elder Dietenhofer died johns on the sunny roof of Margerum’s Buellton last year. winery for two years. “That gives you a confectionPrior to the COVID-19 pandemic, esque flavor,” he explained.

Fig Mountain’s production was split Mute-Age is the latest in Marevenly between packaged beer and gerum’s exploration of dessertdraft beer, which is more profitable. friendly options to serve in his With the pandemic hitting the restasting room. He also produces an taurant and bar industries so hard herbally enhanced digestif Amaro, and people drinking more at home, which is now also the base flavor of demand became 80 percent packan ice cream made by Rori’s Artiaged, and Fig Mountain started sanal Creamery and in a truffle made

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by Twenty-Four Blackbirds. The lat“Investors saw demand and ter company also curated chocolate offered to help,” said Dietenhofer, who secured a pairings for both the Mute-Age (the new round of funding from Creekstone LLC. “The Tanzanian one) and the Amaro, which goes with the Bolivian bar, and there may be more collaboravehicle to get there is reorganization.”

Prior to COVID, Dietenhofer said production tions on the horizon. “We kind of have a bromance was just above 20,000 barrels in 2019. By 2021, he going,” said Margerum of his growing relationhopes to be topping 27,000. There will also be no ship with Twenty-Four Blackbirds owner Mike change to the network of Fig Mountain taprooms, Orlando. which run from Arroyo Grande to Westlake Village, All of these can be tasted at Margerum’s tasting with four locations in Santa Barbara County alone. room at 19 East Mason Street. See margerumwines Indeed, the new investment includes money for tap- .com. room upgrades as well as more brewery equipment.

“Nothing is changing in the business,” said MELVILLE’S RESTAURANT SYRAH: Melville Winery is Dietenhofer, explaining that the public’s perception raising money and awareness for the Independent of bankruptcy seems to be the only downside of this Restaurant Coalition by producing a specially strategy. “If anything, we are hiring more employees. labeled syrah and donating 100 percent of proceeds We were harbored by the current structure of the to keeping restaurants alive through the pandemic. debt. We’re excited about the next steps.”

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Restaurants Syrah” to the cause, and each bottle features the IRC’s robin-egg-blue and bright-yellow MUTE-AGE = BANYULS: Despite the popular reputation heart label. The IRC is working to make $120 billion as a great dessert pairing, chocolate and wine don’t available via the Restaurant Act of 2020, which was usually go together so well, as their complex sweet, introduced by a bipartisan coalition. sour, bitter, and savory elements tend to conflict n See saverestaurants.com.

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Complaining aside, I don’t think I’ve ever learned so much about people as I have in my months as a host. I have always heard that working in a restaurant is an essential experience for any teenager, and I fully endorse that now. A few months ago, I might’ve shied away from making small talk with random strangers; now it comes naturally. Whenever I pick up a phone, I start to say, “Hello, this is Daisy at Finney’s Crafthouse.

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When I see hosts, servers, and bartenders at other restaurants, I have a new perspective and increased respect. Interacting with customers all day and working to please them is no easy task, and the pandemic only adds another burden on top. I’m happiest when my work adds a little bit of joy to people’s days—even when all the smiles I can show are in my eyes. n

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I became one of the many employees necessary for restaurants to stay in business. Besides wearing a mask for six hours straight and dealing with impatient customers, it hasn’t been all that bad—so long as you don’t count the times I’ve been used as a verbal punching bag for the state’s health mandates by people who refuse to get their temperatures taken or cover their nose and mouth.

Even on good days, there’s a lot of pressure on a host when a mask is covering half of our faces.

While trying to be courteous and kind with only the top of my face visible, I do my best to understand what customers are mumbling, hoping to convey a welcoming feeling without my smile as a cue.

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HAVE A SEAT: Metropolitan’s Camino Real and Fiesta 5 cinemas are open at 25 percent capacity and are observing a variety of safety precautions.

RACE TO JUSTICE: UCSB Arts & Lectures will present a year-long series designed to forward the cause of racial equality in America.

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s a lifelong habitué of Santa Barbara’s Metropolitan Theatres system, I’ve been making regular visits as film critic — and film addict — for decades. During the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, I have sometimes spent 10 hours in one or another of their screening rooms in a single day.

Despite this deep familiarity, my most recent visit, which involved scoping out the Camino Real Cinemas days before they reopened to the public, felt strange, like braving a forbidden zone.

Metropolitan Vice President of Operations Kim Tucker and veteran theater manager Tammy Stewart ushered me through a maze of sanitation stations into theaters retooled for 25 percent capacity, and past sneeze guards at the refreshment stand, among other signs of the times, as we stood on the brink of the long-shuttered theaters going public again.

Thanks to Santa Barbara County’s official approval of theater reopening on Tuesday, September 28, which was allowed because the area’s COVID status dropped from purple to red, two multiplexes in Metropolitan’s seven-venue local holdings reopen on Friday, October 2. A total of 11 screens will come to life at Goleta’s Camino Real Cinemas and Santa Barbara’s Fiesta 5, with more possibly opening soon.

For six months, the closest would-be theater customers have come to “going to the movies” has been through the company’s online “Virtual Cinema” offerings and weekend servings of food and bev-

erages — a concessions concession for patrons hungry for at least a semblance of theater experience. Metropolitan theaters have been shuttered since mid-March, and the company had to furlough or lay off nearly 450 employees.

David Corwin, president of the multigeneration Corwin-run Metropolitan chain, explained that “we’ve been running a family business for 97 years, and obviously we’ve never experienced something like this. One of the amazing things about movie theaters is that whatever else is going on in the world — the economy, war — theaters are open, 365 days a year.

To have this situation is extraordinary.”

Corwin points out that a recent poll revealed that “only 35 to 40 percent of people knew if their movie theaters were open. It’s almost like we’re starting over again — out of sight, out of mind. The product is the number one important thing. No matter how safe it is, if there aren’t movies people want to see, they’re not going to come. Without New York and a lot of California being open, the studios have been reluctant to release significant films, so that’s made it hard. But we’ve got to start somewhere.”

He believes that “a lot of people are craving some social interaction. You need to experience something other than sitting on your couch. We want to provide that.” A movie theater, he says, is “a social gathering place for the community. At the same time, as far as COVID is concerned, our environment is a lot safer than others people are putting themselves in, from

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By nature, it’s a safe environment, but we’ve been grouped into the social gathering distinction, one of the last to get greenlighted, as far as reopening.”

The theaters are limited to a 25 percent capacity rule, with a contactless ticketing system via a new Metropolitan app and a reserved seating system which automatically distances viewers. Every other row is closed, and a misting system is installed in the theaters, alongside strict cleaning protocols throughout. Among the new policies is a “Private Screening” option, available to parties of up to 20 people for $125 and up.

Metropolitan has reopened theaters in other states — Colorado, Utah, and Idaho — where restrictions have been more lenient, and the company adheres to a “cinema safe” program designed by the National Association of Theater Owners (NATO).

“We’re not out of the woods yet,” says Corwin. “We could open and be doing great, but then the county sees cases rise, tells us to close again. That’s why we want to get open while we can, while there’s new product.” That product list of new movies includes Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, The Broken Hearts Gallery, and indie films The Last Shift, The Secrets We Keep, and Infidel.

From inside the theater, Stewart noted, “We’re looking forward to it, getting people back in the seats and the movies going again — and seeing them instead of talking about it.”

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Fortunately, alongside the tragically growing litany of lives cut short by racial violence that’s memorialized by the protest injunction to “say their names,” another list has also been expanding, the one that tallies the names of the Black scholars, activists, and public intellectuals who are leading a radical shift in our collective understanding of the role of race in the history and politics of this country. Isabel Wilkerson, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Rhiannon Giddens, Ibram X. Kendi, Brittany K. Barnett, and Nikole Hannah-Jones — these are some of the names that you will hear and the people that you will meet through UCSB Arts & Lectures’ Race to Justice, a season-long series of talks, performances, and workshops designed to bring the world’s leading Black scholars and activists directly into our community, and to amplify their voices so that people in Santa Barbara and beyond can hear and understand them.

The first event of Race to Justice will be a conversation on Monday, October 19, between two giants of recent scholarship, National Book Award Winner and New York Times #1 best seller Ibram X. Kendi, and UCSB’s own Dr. Jeffrey C. Stewart, whose biography of Alain Locke, The New Negro, won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. From there, the series proceeds to feature attorney and author Brittany K. Barnett on October 27, musician Rhiannon Giddens in a Sunday Brunch concert on November 15, and appearances by documentarian Dawn Porter; authoractivist Sister Helen Prejean; the creator of the 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones; and the prolific, multifaceted writer Ta-Nehisi Coates. And it doesn’t stop there — when it’s safe to return to public venues in 2021, Arts & Lectures will continue its Race to Justice with live performances by Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, pianist Jon Batiste, and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Reserve tickets now and explore the full range of options at artsandlectures.ucsb.edu or by calling (805) 893-3535.

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This is part of why Eisaguirre created the NatureTrack Film Festival in 2018: No medium, she says, transports people beyond their seats and inspires them to get outside better than film.

Now in its third year, the festival was conceived to fund the NatureTrack Foundation, a nonprofit Eisaguirre founded in 2010 with the mission of connecting kids to the outdoors through docent-led field trips. After attending the Telluride Film Festival, Eisaguirre realized Los Olivos would be perfect for a similar event. “Plus, we’re right here at the gateway of the [Los Padres National] Forest,” she said. “So if they didn’t want to sit indoors the whole time to watch films, they could get out to hike with our docents.”

This year, of course, is different. COVID-19 bumped the festival from March to October and from in-person to virtual. Rescheduling and reformatting at the last minute, Eisaguirre said, required tremendous effort — as well as halving the all-access pass price to $100. “Yesterday, we had a field trip with little kindergartners from Lompoc, and when I arrived to meet them, one little guy said, ‘Why do you look like a grandma?’” she laughed. “So this has aged me.”

Despite its drawbacks, the virtual format allows the festival to reach more viewers; Eisaguirre expects this year’s audience, not just its films, to be truly international. She’s even considering a dual format, with both in-person and virtual options, for future years.

To contrast recent heat and wildfires, this year’s festival focuses on the theme of water. One example is The Beaver Believers, a 60-minute film detailing efforts to restore beavers to rivers across the northwestern United States. The film shows that in addition to improving habitat, beaver dams enhance an ecosystem’s capacity to store water—a crucial function for western landscapes suffering the water scarcity of climate change.

“The common apocalyptic, doom-and-gloom narrative—it’s not actually an effective way to bring about change,” director Sarah Koenigsberg said, explaining her strategy for the film’s tone. “You get a big reaction in the moment, but studies show that doesn’t inspire lasting action.”

To inspire viewers, Koenigsberg highlights Sherri Tippie, a Colorado hairdresser who live-traps and relocates beavers, alongside scientists in the film. “You don’t have to have a PhD to make a difference,” Koenigsberg explained. “You can be a normal person who sees something that’s wrong and figures out how to do something good!”

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY by Rob Breszny ARIES

CANCER

(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): “A person’s best ally is some-

(June 21-July 22): “Leave the door open for the

one who takes care of herself,” says actress Susan Clark. I heartily agree. The people with whom you can cultivate the most resilient bonds and most interesting synergy are those who have a high degree of self-sufficiency — those who take rigorous responsibility for themselves and treat themselves with tender compassion. In the coming weeks, Aries, I think it’s especially important for you to emphasize relationships with allies who fit that description. Bonus! Their exemplary selfcare will influence you to vigorously attend to your own self-care.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): According to my reading of the

unknown, the door into the dark,” writes Cancerian author Rebecca Solnit, adding, “That’s where the most important things come from.” I think this is good advice for you in the coming weeks. What exactly does it mean? How and why should you do what she advises?

My first suggestion is to reframe your conception of the unknown and the dark. Imagine them as the source of everything new; as the place from which the future comes; as the origin of creative changes. Then instruct your imagination to be adventurous as it explores brewing possibilities in the dark and the unknown.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “If something comes to life in oth-

astrological potentials, the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to take a vacation in reverse. What’s that? It’s when you devote yourself to renewing and reinvigorating your relationship with the work you love. You intensify your excitement for the vocation or job or long-term quest that teaches you important life lessons. You apply yourself with sublime enthusiasm to honing the discipline you need to fulfill the assignments you came to earth to accomplish.

ers because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality,” wrote author Norman Cousins. Whether or not you believe the “immortality” part of his formulation, I’m sure you understand how fabulous it is when you help activate beauty and vitality in someone. You may even feel that inspiring people to unleash their dormant potential is one of the most noble pleasures possible. I bring these thoughts to your attention, Leo, because I suspect that you now have exceptional power to perform services like these for your allies, friends, and loved ones. I dare you to make it one of your top priorities.

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VIRGO

(May 21-June 20): “If you are not having fun, you

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “The messiah will come when we

are doing something wrong,” said comedian Groucho Marx. He was exaggerating so as to drive home his humorous point, but his idea contains some truth — and will be especially applicable to you in the immediate future. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you have a temporary exemption from feeling frantically dour and unpleasantly dutiful. As crazy as the world is right now, you have a cosmic mandate to enjoy more playtime and amusement than usual. The rest of us are depending on you to provide us with doses of casual cheer.

don’t need him anymore,” said author Franz Kafka. In that spirit, and in alignment with current astrological omens, I will tell you that the precise help you wish you could attract into your life will show up as soon as you make initial efforts to provide that help to yourself.

Here are some additional nuances: The gift or blessing you think you need most will be offered to you by fate once you begin giving that gift or blessing to yourself.

A rescuer will arrive not too long after you take steps to rescue yourself. You’ll finally figure out how to make practical use of a key lesson as you’re teaching that lesson to someone you care for.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran author Ursula K. Le Guin

said that we don’t just naturally know how to create our destinies. It takes research and hard work. “All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them,” she wrote. “We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don’t, our lives get made up for us by other people.” I bring this to your attention, Libra, because the coming weeks will be an excellent time to upgrade and refine your mastery of these essential powers. What can you do to enhance your capacity to invent your life? Which teachers and information sources might be helpful?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 1984, hip-hop group Run-DMC was

and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

Take maximum advantage. Aggressively gather in the gifts being offered by your inner teacher.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Calling on my expert knowledge of

healing language and imaginative psychology, I have formulated a mantra for you to use in the next six weeks. I suggest you say it five times after you wake up, and again at mid-day, and before dinner, and before sleep. It should help keep you intimately aligned with the dynamic groove that the cosmos will be conspiring to provide for you. For best results, picture yourself as glowing inside with the qualities named in the mantra.

Here it is: StrongBrightFree ClearBoldBrisk DeepNimbleKind AdroitSteadyWarm.

the first to achieve a gold record in their genre, meaning they sold more than 500,000 albums. Their next album sold over a million. They were pioneers. In 1986, legendary producer Rick Rubin encouraged them to do a remake of “Walk This Way,” a song by the hard rock band Aerosmith. The members of Run-DMC didn’t want to do it; they felt the tune was in a genre too unlike their own. But Rubin eventually convinced them, and the cross-pollination was phenomenally successful. The Run-DMC-meets-Aerosmith collaboration launched a new genre that sold very well. The song was later voted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In this spirit, and in accordance with current cosmic rhythms, I urge you to try a bold hybrid or two yourself, Scorpio: blends of elements or influences that may seem a bit improbable.

They could ultimately yield big dividends.

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SAGITTARIUS

in progress,” writes author Nora Roberts. That’s bad news and good news. It’s bad news because even for the most loving bond, you must tirelessly persist in the challenging task of reinventing the ways the two of you fit together.

It’s good news because few activities can make you more emotionally intelligent and soulfully wise than continually reinventing the ways the two of you fit together. I bring these thoughts to your attention because the coming weeks will be a fertile time for such daunting and rewarding work.

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You Sagittarians periodically go

through phases when you specialize in stirring up fresh intuitions. I mean, you’re always one of the zodiac’s Intuition Champions, but during these special times, your flow becomes an overflow. You have a knack for seeking and finding visions of the interesting future; you get excited by possibilities that are on the frontiers of your confidence. From what I can tell, your life in recent weeks has been bringing you these delights —

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The Grammy Museum in Los Angeles

features displays that extol the musicians who’ve won Grammy Awards over the years. A few years ago, a distinctly un-famous musician named Paz Dylan made professional-looking fake posters touting his own magnificent accomplishments and managed to sneakily hang them on the museum walls. They remained there for a month before anyone noticed. I’m going to encourage you to engage in similar gamesmanship in the coming weeks, Aquarius. It’ll be a favorable time to use ingenuity and unconventional approaches to boost your confidence and enhance your reputation.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): “Relationships never stop being a work

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LEGALS ADMINISTER OF ESTATE NOTICE OF PETITION TO A D M I N I S T E R E S TAT E O F : M I C H E L E L O U I S E PA R O L A Case No.: 20PR00343 To a l l h e i r s , b e n e f i c i a r i e s , creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of MICHELE LOUISE PAROLA A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: DORIAN PAROLA in the Superior Court of Califor nia, County of Santa Barbara T H E P E T I T I O N f o r p ro b a t e requests that: DORIAN PA R O L A b e a p p o i n t e d a s p e r s o n a l re p re s e n t a t i v e t o administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

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

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 10/29/2020 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, 1100 Anacapa Street, P.O Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93102 Anacapa Division.

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

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition o r a c c o u n t a s p ro v i d e d i n Probate Code Section 1250.

A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk. Attor ney for Petitioner: Law Offices of Jean Alexander ;4644 Vista Buena Rd., Santa Barbara, CA 93110; (805) 569‑0587.

Published Sep 24. Oct 1, 8 2020.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO A D M I N I S T E R E S TAT E O F : W I L L I A M B A R N H A RT VA N VALIN II Case No.: 20PR00351 To a l l h e i r s , b e n e f i c i a r i e s ,

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creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of WILLIAM BARNHART VAN VALIN II A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: NORMA HUBBARD in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION for probate requests that: NORMA HUBBARD, executor of Estate of Amy Smith be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval.

Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 10/26/2020 AT 8:30 a.m. Dept: SM4 SUPERIOR COUR T OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, 312‑C Cook Street Santa Maria, CA 93454 IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the Califor nia Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

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

A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: Miles Lang/BONAVENTURE LAW GROUP ;PO Box 7576., Ventura, CA 93006; (805) 622‑7576.

Published Oct 8, 15, 22 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 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: 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.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) is/ are doing business as: L O R I ’ S M O B I L E N O TA R Y & 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 N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) is/ are doing business as: SY W H I T E B A R N + V I N E Y YA R D at 2266 Edison Street Santa Ynex, CA 93460; Mark Falcone (same address) Te r e s a 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.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) is/are d o i n g b u s i n e s s a s : G O L E TA SCHOOL OF BALLET at 303 Magnolia Avenue Goleta, CA 93117; Goleta School of Ballet, Inc (same address) conducted by a Corporation Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 03, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002244.

Published: Sep 17, 24.

Oct 1, 8 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) is/ are doing business as: G R A N I T E P E A K PA R T N E R S 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 N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e 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 S TAT E M E N T The following 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 The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: S A N TA B A R A B A R A B B Q a t 415 W Gutierrez St #11 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Cesar J Tr u j i l l o (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Cesar J o a q u i n Tr u j i l l o F i l e d w i t h 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. Oct 1, 8, 15 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) is/are doing business as: 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 S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AMBER ROSE at 1316 V iola 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 S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: U LT I M AT E L O N G E V I T Y a t 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 N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e 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 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 S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LUA PA P I E R a t 2 1 1 8 R e d R o s e 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 S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JARROTT & CO REAL E S TAT E INVESTMENTS at 821 Paseo Alicante Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Leonard S Jarrott (same address) Margaret S Jarrott (same address) 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 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 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GUZMAN GENERAL LABOR at 1121 E Rice Ranch Santa Maria, CA 93455; Juan D Guzman Machuca (same address) 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.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T 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 S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LIVE S C A N S A N TA B A R B A R A , S A N TA BARBARA SHREDDING at 411 E Canon Perdido St Ste 15 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; L a w c o p y, L L C ( s a m e a d d r e s s ) 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.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) is/ are doing business as: 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 N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHEESE S H O P S A N TA B A R B A R A 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.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) is/are doing business as: TUNED IN MUSIC STUDIOS at 2 8 2 9 M i r a d e r o D r. U n i t 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 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 93111; A l l y To A c c o m p l i c e ( s a m e 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.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: E X P E R T‑ A D U D E S I G N A N D BUILD, LLC at 7823 Wagon Wheel Drive 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.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: HAR PUBLISHING at 4821 P a g a l i n g D r. G u a d a l u p e , C A 9 3 4 3 4 ; L u i s L o p e z J r. (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: L u i s L o p e z J r. F i l e d w i t h 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 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EGAN MARKETING, R E PA I R SHOP VIDEOS, S PA R K 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.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MIKES H E AT I N G AND AIR at 8 2 0 E Ya n o n a l i S t r e e t # 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.

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LEGALS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) is/ are doing business as: L I M I T L E S S C R E AT I O N S a t 91 Depot Rd Goleta, CA 93117; Thomas E Zepeda 1 2 5 S Vo l u n t a r i o S t A p t 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.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) is/ are doing business as: SPIRIT PA I N T I N G 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.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) NAP CLUB at 298 Carpinteria Ste 2 Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Brittney Meyer 2809 Serena Rd A Santa Barbara, CA 93105 conducted by a Individual Signed: Brittney Meyer 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: 2020‑0002327.

Published: Oct 8, 15, 22, 29 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) RED BLUFF ROAD SELF STORAGE at 5901 Encina Rd Ste C‑5 Goleta, CA 93103; Daniel E. Braun 1461 Holiday Hill Road Goleta, CA 93117 conducted by a Individual Signed: Daniel E. Braun Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 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: 2020‑0002506.

Published: Oct 8, 15, 22, 29 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) is/are doing business as: SIX STRANDS at 720 Bath St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Charlene W Macharia (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Charlene Macharia 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: 2020‑0002421.

Published: Oct 8, 15, 22, 29 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: COMMUNIFY at 5638 Hollister Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93117; Community Action Commission of Santa Barbara County (same address) conducted by a Corporation Signed: Patricia D Keelean Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 29, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002460.

Published: Oct 8, 15, 22, 29 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) ULTRALIFE SPORTS & FAMILY CHIROPRACTIC at 23 Hitchock Way Ste 110 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Antonia J Forsyth 5080 Rhoads Ave Apt D Santa Barbara, CA 93111 conducted by a Individual Signed: Antonia J Forsyth Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 30, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002481.

Published: Oct 8, 15, 22, 29 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g person(s) is/are doing business a s : S TA G E C O A C H P L A Z A at 2948 Nojoqui Ave. Santa Barbara, CA 93441; Robert W Bartlett 27 W. Anapamu St. #351 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 conducted by a Individual Signed: Robert W Bartlett 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: 2020‑0002440.

Published: Oct 8, 15, 22, 29 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) J & G MANAGEMENT SERVICES at 4526 Auhay Drive #B Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Gary Lynd Inc. (same address) conducted by a Corporation Signed: Gary Lynd Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 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: 2020‑0002501.

Published: Oct 8, 15, 22, 29 2020.

NAME CHANGE IN THE M AT T E R OF THE A P P L I C AT I O N OF GUADALUPE CRISTINA CARDOSO PINON ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 20CV02738 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: GUADALUPE CRISTINA CARDOSO PINON TO: GUADALUPE CRISTINA JACINTO PINON THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below t o s h o w c a u s e , i f a n y, w h y the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before

the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Nov 2, 2020 10:00am, Dept: 5, Superior Court of California County of Santa Barbara 1100 Anacapa Dtreet Santa Barbara, CA 93101; anacapa Division A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this 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 9, 2020 by Colleen K. Sterne, Judge of the Superior Court. Published: Sep 17, 24. Oct 1, 8 2020.

I N T H E M AT T E R O F T H E A P P L I C AT I O N O F 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 Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: JEREMY KING ECKLUND TO: JEREMY KING THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below t o s h o w c a u s e , i f a n y, w h y the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING 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.

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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.

If you cannot pay the filing 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.

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