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volume 34, # 775, Nov. 19-25, 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, Christine S. Cowles, 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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2020 Schools of Thought Our Annual Education Guide Looks at Schooling in the Time of COVID-19

by Leslie Dinaberg ON THE COVER: A student at The Littlest Little Farm learns about gardening and life.

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NEWS.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 OPINIONS.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 In Memoriam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

OBITUARIES.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

FEATURE.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

THE WEEK.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

LIVING.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 FOOD & DRINK .. . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Restaurant Guy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

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LILY HOPWOOD’S JUSTICE JOURNALISM Born in London but raised in the Bay Area, Lily Hopwood studies history and sociology at UCSB, where she has also been director of fundraising for the Delta Gamma sorority. As a news intern for the Independent, Hopwood is tackling such diverse issues as state consumer protection laws, the Indigenous Hawaiian movement, and Isla Vista Foot Patrol’s reluctance to wear masks. On page 31 of this week’s paper, Hopwood writes about Heath House, which is being renovated to sheath formerly homeless women. She tells us more about herself here.

Did living in London as a child have much influence on your life? I moved to California when I was 3 years old. I remember it was hard to leave friends and family behind, but I don’t recall much about living in London. My accent is still slightly mixed, which I appreciate now but hated when I was younger as my classmates and even their parents would constantly ask me to say different words. I think I’m more assertive and independent as a result, as I had to learn how to stand up for myself and set boundaries relatively young.

What did you do in your role as a “jails intern” for the ACLU? I responded to grievances reported by incarcerated persons and their family members regarding violations of the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment in Los Angeles County jails. This work was fulfilling but frustrating, as I felt that in many cases my hands were tied — ameliorating the harms of mass incarceration is important, but real reform can only be achieved by completely dismantling the systemic issue.

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NEWS BRIEFS COMMUNITY Ernie Brooks II, the famed under- ocean photographer, died on 11/17 at the age of 85.

His rich black-and-white images were collected in the book Silver Seas in 2003, work that was recognized in awards and tributes, including from students, colleagues, and mentors at the Santa Barbara Underwater Film Festival in 2013, a night Brooks called a highlight of his career. His father created the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, where Brooks established the school’s underwater photography courses after stints with the Air Force — some say flying the U2 spy plane — and Jacques Cousteau aboard the Calypso. One of his many philanthropic works is the UC Santa Barbara Leaney-Brooks Diving History Archive.

ENVIRONMENT Residents of the Santa Ynez and Lompoc valleys saw a low-flying helicopter towing a hexagonal frame about 100-200 feet above the ground as of 11/16. It’s part of a groundwater survey looking at geologic formations at much as 1,400 feet below the surface using a weak electromagnetic field. The county and Santa Ynez River Water Conservation District expect the survey to reveal groundwater basin shapes, aquifers, direction of flow, barriers to flow, and otherwise invisible features like faults and folds. The electromagnetic field emissions are equivalent to standing a foot from a toaster, the county stated. The flights will finish within two weeks, depending on the weather and also activity at Vandenberg Air Force Base.

OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS: This graph depicts the percentage of COVID-19 cases in the county by occupation. The black outlined bar represents the percentage of cases over the entire pandemic, while the red, overlapping bar represents the percentage of cases by occupation during the first week of November.

County Pushed Back into Purple Tier

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Supervisors Decide to Fight One of Governor Newsom’s Rules

by Delaney Smith anta Barbara County had the rug pulled out from under it this week when it joined 40 other California counties that were ordered by the state to move back to the most-restrictive purple tier.

“I’m tired of getting reprimanded to wear a mask,” said Terri Strickland, owner of the Hitching Post steakhouse in Casmalia. “Ninety-nine percent of the people I know wear a mask even when they don’t want to. Everybody’s doing what they’re supposed to be doing…. Purple means total shutdown for businesses.”

Strickland was joined by other public commenters who were equally upset at the state’s move and the Santa Barbara Board of Supervisors’ decision to abide.

Some commenters — and even boardmembers — called on the board to push back against Governor Newsom and not force Santa Barbara businesses back into the new restrictions.

“I think people are not just infuriated, but they are completely disheartened by the governor changing the rules once again,” said Andy Caldwell, who recently ran

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unsuccessfully against Salud Carbajal for Congress. “You were elected to represent the people who live here, not to be a representative of Governor Newsom.”

At stake is the ability for businesses to continue operations through the winter.

Many restaurants have barely been making ends meet on the 25 percent capacity allowed inside in the red tier, but with the switch back to purple, dining establishments will only be allowed to serve guests outdoors.

“I very much understand and empathize with the frustration that’s been expressed, but I do think people are under a misimpression of what’s happening here,” 1st District Supervisor Das Williams said. “We are not sitting in a room formulating these laws.

We and, in this case, the health officer are issuing health orders that are complying with state law. This is state law determining these.

“I would maintain that we still have some good weather. We can still try to maintain the best of these moments,” he said about outdoor dining.

Aside from dining, the purple tier also means that movie theaters, gyms, museums,

and more are only open outdoors while bars, breweries, and brewpubs not offering outdoor sit-down dining are closed entirely.

All retail stores are allowed to operate at 25 percent capacity.

And another major change — the twoweek cushion counties had to keep cases down is gone. Now, a county may be pulled back a tier after just one week of increased cases. Tier assessments used to happen on Tuesdays; now counties can move multiple tiers backward or forward at any time of the week, multiple times a week.

The supervisors ultimately decided to fight one of Newsom’s rules, though.

“Everybody is wondering what is the justification that allows you to go into a retail establishment at 25 percent capacity, but you can’t go into your place of worship,” 5th District Supervisor Steve Lavagnino said. “You have to go outside. My response to them has been, ‘Well, you’re going to have to do what the nail salons, barber shops, and folks who do hair did. You’re going to have to pressure the governor into doing that.’”

And he motioned for just that. Lavagnino, along with Williams and 4th District Supervisor Peter Adam, successfully motioned for CONT’D ON PAGE 13 

The Olive Mill Road roundabout in Montecito moved closer to becoming a reality when the county supervisors voted unanimously on 11/17 to reject an environmental appeal of the project filed by Cars Are Basic. Last month, Santa Barbara City Council unanimously rejected a similar appeal filed by the group. Tom Becker of Cars Are Basic threatened to take his case to the California Coastal Commission, which has the final say over the proposal’s fate. Construction is estimated to cost $5.5 million and last at least 14 months once started.

COURTS & CRIME UCSB police identified the man who died at Campus Point on 11/12 as Geoff Jewel, a 52-yearold Bren School staff member. Police consider Jewel’s death suspicious and under investigation.

Police initially sent alerts to campus members of a possible fight on campus. Officers found Jewel unconscious, and despite life-saving efforts by first responders, he died at the scene. Within hours, UCPD officers and Sheriff ’s deputies identified and detained a person of interest, who was released after an autopsy on 11/17 showed Jewel died of a heart attack, unconfirmed

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he first round of plans for Santa Barbara’s new police station drew a mixed bag of reactions Monday from the city’s Architectural Board of Review (ABR).

While boardmember Richard Six praised the “very successful” design, Dennis Whelan said its “brutally modernist” aesthetic didn’t fit with Santa Barbara’s “Mediterranean tradition.” Kevin Moore said parts struck him as “austere” and “a little cold.”

Whelan also worried that the main entrance to the new $80 million station— slated for the Cota Street commuter lot and forcing the relocation of the Saturdaymorning farmers’ market — felt hidden from view and would be only accessible by car from a one-way street. It seemed at odds with the “qualities of openness and service to the community” that the police department claims it wants to project, he said.

Lead architect Brian Cearnal said his firm was inspired by the city’s downtown post office “and how it reflects its time and place.

We want this building to do the same.” He said designers sought to incorporate “distinctly Santa Barbara detailing while meeting the modern program for the police department” and infuse the site with sustainability elements, including green roofs,

bioretention planters, and solar panels. Of the 44 existing trees at the lot, 35 would be removed, Cearnal explained. Twenty-six new trees would be planted.

The ABR concluded the mass, size, and bulk of the project, which would reach a maximum height of 53 feet, were generally

acceptable, but its members stressed that the devil was in the details. “It’s a great project,” said David Black, “but it’s definitely going to take some looking at.” Whelan couldn’t help but also question the overall constraints of the Cota lot. “The site plan is completely full and leaves no room for inevitable expansion,” he said. “I think it is rather unfortunate that after all of the site selection we came up with, this site that just barely fits.”

The project heads to the Planning Commission on September 10 for further review and the opportunity for public comment.

—Tyler Hayden

NEWS of the WEEK CONT’D DOWNTOWN

License Plate Readers Will Replace ‘Kioskateers’

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ven over Zoom, you could read the disappointment in Rob Dayton’s expression as Santa Barbara’s head transportation planner informed the City Council that the COVID-19 shutdown would likely spell the end for downtown parking kiosk workers, or “kioskateers.”

“They are the face of downtown,” Dayton said of the 45 or so individuals who see State Street shoppers and workers in and out of the public lots. “It’s an amazing culture, and we love it. For ERASING ‘FACE OF DOWNTOWN’? The popular city parking program has fallen victim to COVID cutbacks. us as a team to be facing this crisis this option would be to raise revenue by elimiway, and having to have this discussion nating the lots’ 75-minute grace period or today, is not easy.”

The kioskateers, Dayton explained, will be increasing the hourly rate to $2, Dayton told replaced over the coming year with automated the council. But neither customers nor downlicense plate readers, though about 20 or so town businesses owners have the appetite for of the hourly employees will remain in their that right now, he said, a sentiment echoed booths to monitor the new systems. Others by Robin Elander, director of the Downtown may be offered part-time positions roam- Organization. ing lots and assisting customers. The switch, The council ultimately voted to allocate which had already been in discussion but is $700,000 toward adopting the automation now being hastened along, is expected to save technology, which Dayton promised had been thoroughly vetted and is successfully used in the city approximately $1.1 million a year.

Dayton explained Santa Barbara is bleed- communities across the country. ing around $50,000 in lost parking revenue Councilmember Kristen Sneddon was the while pandemic closures drag on. At that pace, lone dissenting vote. “It is a gateway job for his department’s $5.8 million in reserves— so many high school students,” she said. City already down from $8 million since March— Administrator Paul Casey empathized with will be depleted by the end of fiscal year 2022. Sneddon and suggested hourly positions at “We’re falling fast and need to do something the library or in the parks department may be good alternatives for those looking for partto right the ship,” he said.

Instead of cutting costs, the only other time work.

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hree reports of traffic deaths were released last Friday, two that happened that day and one the week before.

The identity of the man who dove headfirst from La Cumbre Road overpass to the 101 below on November 5 was released on the 13th. He was 44-year-old Chancellor “Chance” Bernard of Amarillo, Texas, who was found in the center median of the highway around 9:45 a.m. as cars swerved to avoid his body. His death was determined to be a suicide, according to law enforcement, and his history included episodes of mental illness.

His obituary published in Texas recalled he loved fast cars and had been a drag racer since the age of 16.

A 50-year-old man — Kelly Chadic — released from County Jail and walking home to Lompoc was clipped by a car in a northbound lane of the 101 at around 8 p.m. near El Capitan.

The driver swerved to avoid Chadic but hit him with the right side of his car. Chadic had been released from jail at around 3 a.m. after an arrest 13 hours earlier for meth possession and being under the influence. He’d been offered a ride home by Sheriff’s deputies who met up with him near Winchester Canyon, but he refused.

Chadic was an Afghanistan War veteran who had served from 2007-08. He was diagnosed

with PTSD and schizophrenia, and family members stated he had a history of suicidal ideation and had made an attempt in the past.

Volunteers had run the County Jail’s ride system until it was discontinued because of COVID-19. It was for inmates, who are often released from jail at around 3 a.m., and it offered cab fare to the Santa Barbara Rescue Mission or a bus pass to Lompoc or Santa Maria. The buses ran only during daylight hours.

In the third incident, Cathedral Oaks Road closed for several hours after Travis Gottlob was struck at 8:36 p.m. by a car headed westbound from Los Carneros Road. Gottlob was said to have been walking in the lane of traffic, and the coroner is conducting a toxicology report.

Witnesses to the incident or who saw Gottlob that day are asked to call Deputy Matthew Dawson at (805) 961-7519 or email mjd1267@ sbsheriff.org.

Officers stated the drivers in the Chadic and Gottlob deaths did not appear impaired and were not cited for alcohol or drugs. For people in distress, free and confidential support is available day and night at the national Suicide Prevention Lifeline at (800) 273-TALK (8255). In Santa Barbara, a mobile crisis team and hotline can be contacted at (888) 334-2777.

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The batteries by themselves can power the plant only for about a day and a half should an emergency shutdown of other energy sources occur. But that’s not the point. The plan is for the batteries to suck in electricity during peak hours — noon-4 p.m. — when demand and the cost per kilowatt hour is typically low. The strategy is then for the electric batteries to be discharged during the four hours after 4 p.m., when demand for electricity tends to be much higher, the cost even greater, and the carbon impacts more problematic.

The batteries typically take about five hours to recharge. In an ideal scenario, they’d be recharged with solar-powered photovoltaic cells. Because so much energy is required to pump water, Parenteau explained, one would need far more photovoltaics at Cater than the open space there allows.

Parenteau is the energy manager for a new department just approved by the city council, the Sustainability and Resilience Department. The new department will focus on achieving new energy efficiencies that reduce the city’s carbon footprint, among many other things. The Tesla project will be one of the first, allowing the city to work out “proof of concept,” Parenteau said. “It will give experience with operating a system of this size.”

In the meantime, she noted, she was in the preliminary exploratory stages for creating a similar system at the nearby Laur0 Reservoir, where, she said, there might be enough space to install enough solar pann els to recharge the batteries.

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BACK IN PURPLE: This graph of the county’s adjusted case rate over the entire pandemic period shows how the local case rate has recently spiked back into the purple tier.

staff to write a letter to the governor asking him to give places of worship in Santa Barbara the same rules that retail shops like grocery stores get.

“I am identifying with one of the speakers. I’m getting really tired of the attempt to shame me for disagreeing with this strategy,” Adam said. “We’re acting like everybody on the planet has an equal chance of dying from this thing, which is absolutely not true…. Let’s tolerate people making their own choices and trust people a little bit instead of being big government and trying to be everybody’s mother.”

Public Health Director Van DoReynoso said she wanted it on the record that she would personally feel very uncomfortable drafting the letter and that she attends outdoor church service herself weekly. Both 3rd District Supervisor Joan Hartmann and 2nd District Supervisor Gregg Hart also said they felt the idea was dangerous and voted against it.

“There are 247,000 COVID deaths in the United States today.

It is projected to go higher than all of the American servicepeople who have lost their lives in wars in the 20th century over the next few months,” 2nd District Supervisor Gregg Hart said.

“We are being asked to wear masks and avoid each other for a period of time to prevent those consequences happening to neighbors, friends, and family members. I don’t think this is extreme.”

At the end of the day, the numbers speak for themselves. Do-Reynoso presented new charts showing how fast the county’s cases began climbing in recent weeks and how much the data — particularly demographic data gleaned from contact tracing — has drastically changed.

For example, college and university students make up 6.1 percent of all COVID-19 cases in the county since the pandemic began. The same group makes up 16.5 percent of all cases in the past week. For agricultural workers, a reverse trend is

showing up. Although they make up 18.7 percent of all county cases since the pandemic began, strong outreach has helped change their rising cases, and in the past week agricultural workers represented just 4.1 percent of all cases.

Besides businesses scrambling to meet the new restrictions, the reverse to purple has also left parents scratching their heads. But this regression does not necessarily mean that in-person schooling is out of the question for their children. The schools in the area that have already made the shift to some form of in-person education may continue despite the tier change because they switched to in-person learning in a red tier.

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I don’t think this is extreme.’

—Supervisor Gregg Hart

dicey. As long as the county is currently in the red tier or better the week that school starts — January 19 and 11, respectively — then school may resume on campus as planned. Otherwise, they will have to remain in distance-learning models.

Hartmann, who used to run marathons, compared the frustration and pandemic fatigue experienced by many to her mindset while running. It’s around mile 17 you start to question why you’re doing it, she said, and the county and the rest of the state and country are at mile 17 now.

“I would tell myself to get through it, and then I’m never doing it again.”

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by Delaney Smith anta Barbara County has so far navigated the pandemic-fueled recession, but the relentless downturn is not ending anytime soon. The supervisors grappled with the five-year county fiscal forecast on Tuesday, ultimately preparing for three different scenarios.

“I’m shocked at how many businesses have survived through this tough COVID recession,” said 1st District Supervisor Das Williams. “I’m shocked at how many people are still getting by, barely. At some point, the shoe drops. And it will affect our revenue.”

Jeff Frapwell, the county’s budget director, explained that he and his team created three different budget scenarios that depend on how severe the recession becomes over the next five years. The first is the mild recession, the second is the baseline scenario, and the third is a pronounced recession.

Because of the recession, the “gaps” between county expenditures and revenues are larger and have to be filled a little each year, rather than all at once over the five years. In the best scenario, there is a projected $11.6 million gap; in the baseline example, there is a $27.2 million gap. And in the worst-case scenario, the county will have to fill in a $39.4 million gap between now and 2025.

Williams quipped that these forecast reports are historically “dour” in nature, but because of the pandemic he believes the projections are spot-on this time. The key takeaways early on in the presentation were clear: There are many unknowns to budget around, and it may be time to look to costcutting initiatives now.

Cannabis may also come in to help fill some of the gaps. The county received $12.2 million dollars in cannabis tax revenue in the fiscal year 2019-20, and it’s currently projecting $14 million in 2020-21. The five-year forecast assumes it will generate $16.7 million in 2021-22 and 15 percent increases each year after because cannabis is considered

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“recession resistant.”

In the forecast, cannabis tax dollars will not only go to fully fund cannabis enforcement and cannabis program administrative activities, but it will fund libraries and pay salaries for new planners in the county’s Long Range Planning Division.

Frapwell and his team predict that there are five main themes for the county’s main fiscal issues: legislative and policy changes, deferred maintenance backlog, investment in technology, and facility conditions.

For example, a legislative and policy change happened in September when Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1869, which made California the first state in the country to repeal administrative fees in the criminal system. As a result, Santa Barbara County Probation will take a projected $1.9 million per year hit, the Sheriff ’s Office a projected $465,000 per year hit, and the Public Defender’s Office a projected $50,000 per year hit.

Another example is the county’s deferred maintenance category, which altogether has a backlog of $377 million. In the innovations category, the Holistic Defense Program run out of the Public Defender’s Office costs the county $650,000 a year.

Though some supervisors like Williams thought the forecast was severe, 4th District Supervisor Peter Adam felt it still wasn’t enough. This was Adam’s last five-year forecast as a supervisor, so he made his stance known. He felt there is too much “status quo” with budget choices when the pandemic calls for more dire action.

“If this thing [the pandemic] gets as bad as some people are saying it’s going to get when the rope comes tight on all of these lockdowns, I hope you guys have the ability to take some drastic actions and tighten the belt a lot,” said Adam. “Maybe we’ll be the better for it for a decade, instead of running the county into failure.”

The board will review the budget again in n December.

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PRESSURE SQUEEZE: Since COVID arrived, Dr. Cherylynn Lee says, the number and intensity of mental-health calls for service have increased dramatically. Likewise, Cottage Hospital’s Emergency Room saw a 58 percent spike in acute mental health referrals.

Standoff on Westmont Road Stressing Out an Already Stressed System

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ovember has been rough. Two pedestrians got killed, perhaps accidentally but maybe on purpose, while walking on separate unlit roads late on Friday night. A 44-year old man from Texas divebombed off La Cumbre overpass onto the freeway below the week before. Nobody got up and walked away. And on the 700 block of Westmont Road, a woman in her fifties barricaded herself in her house for five hours last Wednesday as more than a dozen city police officers played a waiting game while persuading her to come out.

When cops first arrived on the scene, they thought they were responding to a domestic violence dispute. But they found the spouse safely outside, having sustained unspecified damage while inside. In the words of police spokesperson Anthony Wagner, “The female subject used an array of household items as weapons that injured her spouse.” When pressed for more specificity, Wagner added only that “kitchenware” had been deployed.

The damage inflicted was bad enough for an arrest warrant, but not bad enough to require an ambulance ride to the hospital.

It soon became apparent, however, that the incident was more complicated. The female subject, as Wagner had described her, refused to come out. She expressed interest in having the police shoot her. Police came to the conclusion that the origin to the standoff—which involved more than a dozen cops, including members of the SWAT team—might be more “medical” in origin than criminal. Or more precisely, as reported elsewhere, the woman had suffered from mental-health outbursts stemming from a recent medical condition.

The cops settled in for the long haul. They established a perimeter. They blocked off the street. And they maintained constant contact with the woman via telephone. “We wanted to slow everything down. We wanted to de-escalate the situation,” Wagner said. “We wanted to protect the sanctity of life.”

Helping with that de-escalation was one of the three co-response teams now working for the County of Santa Barbara. These teams include one Sheriff’s deputy and one

caseworker from the county’s Behavioral Wellness Department. The whole point of their existence is to keep encounters between law enforcement officers and people with mental illness from ending up with somebody dead. People in the throes of a mental-health crisis, it turns out, do not respond well to orders issued from someone deploying the command-and-control voice of law enforcement. De-escalation is a martial art of sorts, requiring specialized training.

In this case, the co-response team did what co-response teams are supposed to do. They tapped into their respective databases to find out if the woman had a criminal or mentalhealth history that might be relevant to negotiators. They talked to family members to find out what might help calm her down, whether she’s exhibited these symptoms before, whether there’s been a change in medication, and if there were certain topics to stay away from. Their supervisor, Dr. Cherylynn Lee, spoke with the woman’s doctor. They got the picture. A waiting game ensued. After about five hours, the woman agreed to come out. She was then medically evaluated in a waiting ambulance, arrested, charged, and booked into County Jail.

With or without COVID, this dance is taking place with greater frequency as law enforcement agencies throughout the nation find themselves under intense scrutiny over the use of force, lethal or otherwise. But since COVID, the challenges that mentally ill people pose to law enforcement officers —and vice versa—has intensified.

In Santa Barbara, which has a long history of not having enough psychiatric hospital beds, this is especially true. County mental-health workers have long had to ship psychiatric patients who pose an imminent threat to themselves or to others to outof-county facilities. A locked psychiatric hospital in Encinas stopped taking patients from Santa Barbara County after a dispute over reimbursement rates. County officials say the dispute was quickly resolved; mental-health advocates say this has caused a continuing log jam. Either way, there’s not enough beds.

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county. Residential and hotel growth and the rise of big-box stores have all added to more traffic on Goleta’s roads than they were built to handle, Jenkins said. “It will take $60 million to fix everything the way they ought to be fixed,” he said.

The 30 percent of Goleta’s sales tax and the 50 percent of its property tax that goes to the county in perpetuity is simply too much, Goleta argues. Its letter to the county in October asking for negotiations suggested ratcheting back the amounts over several years.

County Executive Officer Mona Miyasato noted the county had updated its information on services to Goleta and their costs, and that “the current revenue is still not adequate to cover the cost of providing county services to Goleta.” For instance, Miyasato said, the county received $10.9 million of revenue to cover the most recent year’s $13.8 million in services. Fire services for the city alone, she noted, had to be beefed up with $2.8 million from the county.

In addition to augmented fire services, the county provides Goleta with property tax assessment support and tax collection and disbursement, public protection and criminal justice support, and services such as Public Health, mental health, social services, and elections, Miyasato wrote.

Goleta’s October letter requested more details on those items as well as revenue and expenditure information from the county budget and financial reports since 2001. Jenkins said another meeting would be set after the additional information was provided.

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t was a very cordial meeting,” said Goleta City Attorney Mike Jenkins of the city’s first discussion with the county last Thursday about amending their controversial Revenue Neutrality Agreement (RNA).

At stake is the roughly $7 million Goleta has given to the county on average out of its annual share of property and sales tax. The RNA was meant to compensate the county for tax losses when Goleta became its own entity in 2002, but Jenkins said that roads were a good way to understand the inequity that has developed in the 18 years since.

As in all city incorporations in California, Goleta took over the care and maintenance of its roads from the

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In the meantime, the county has upped its commitment to co-response interventions. A year ago, there was one team; today there are two-and-a-half. According to Dr. Lee, the number of mentalhealth calls for service has significantly increased since the pandemic, both in number and severity. Between March and October, she said Sheriff’s deputies have received 2,165 calls involving someone with a mental-health problem. Of those, she said, co-response teams were dispatched to nearly 60 percent. Because of their involvement, she stated, only 16 have resulted in arrests.

But the numbers, Lee said, tell only part of the story. Nearly two months into the pandemic, Lee said, “The volume and acuity of mental-health calls increased significantly. We saw more threats of violence—to oneself and others, and engaged with more persons who were seriously planning for suicide.” More specifically, she added, “We’ve had more and more non-criminal subjects barricading themselves in their home. They don’t want to come out, and we’re called because they pose a threat to themselves.” In one incident, co-response workers found themselves confronting someone armed with a gun threatening to shoot himself. In that case, Lee said, there was no room to put this patient in a locked psychiatric hospital.

The Cottage Emergency Room has been inundated by the demand. According to the hospital’s spokesperson, patients with mental-illness symptoms have increase by 58 percent since the pandemic began. And Lee worried that some mentally ill patients have had to wait there as long as 60 hours.

By any reckoning, the standoff on Westmont Road had a happy ending. No one got shot. Police waited until the woman came out.

What happens to the woman now remains to be seen. Maybe she’ll qualify for a post-booking diversion program that the District Attorney just started in conjunction with the Department of Behavioral Wellness and the Public Defender’s office. Or maybe not.

—Jean Yamamura

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The news that “Isla Vista Police Resist Mask Mandate” got varied feedback from Facebook readers: Maxwell O’Kieffe I’d think it would be hard for a student operating with serious concern for the virus to have a run in with police. • Brett Stephen The students throw big parties with no masks and are the reason our county is about to go backward from the red to purple tier. • Jeremy Sean Steffen If you knew how long students have collectively stayed inside, you’d realize it’s only a select few who are making it impossible to go outside.

Danielle Chaikin Setting a bad example.

Can’t expect the students to wear them if law enforcement doesn’t! • Nancy Knight Wear a mask or quit your job! Don’t put students at risk. • Dana Cohn “Medical exemptions” a k a too dumb to know the benefit of masks. And when they get COVID, we will then have to pay their workers comp and disability bills!

Erin Eliza Unfortunately police have a mandate to not arrest anyone. We’ve had several robberies at homes in Montecito, and the last guy was essentially ticketed and released within an hour. It’s not police’s fault, it’s the politicians’. Montecito doesn’t have a single encampment in our parks. Isla Vista has a bicycle chop shop in the park adjacent to Pardall. Why is I.V. allowed to look like this with one of the most vulnerable populations? • Chris Knight With COVID, the jail population is highly susceptible to infection, that’s why jailing rates are down.

Road in Carpinteria near Arroyo Paredon Creek, I often notice strong, malodorous odors between Nidever and the creek. I would appreciate G & K being required to do a wind study to determine where the malodorous smells are emanating from in addition to having an objective measurement of the odors emitted.

I frequently have to close all my car windows when I drive that stretch of Foothill Road on my way to or from locations north of my home. It is important to me that the malodors do not leave the perimeter of G & K’s property.

I am also concerned that the 25-foot height of the proposed cannabis processing building will be seen from Foothill Road and will mar the scenery and beauty of the surrounding neighborhoods. The anticipated additional 50 employees at the cannabis processing plant gives rise to the potential for increased traffic on Foothill Road, which will make it difficult for local residents to travel to and from their homes.

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Election Questions and Praise

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uring Fox News comments on mail-in ballots, Tucker Carlson cited three instances of mail-in ballots returned by people whom he profiled in a charming way before delivering each time the hook — they happened to be dead. By these instances, the election is being called into question.

Among Republican skeptics, the smell of fraud is strongest concerning mail-in ballots because each registered voter was sent one whether requested or not.

The Office of Registrar exists to update voter information. One of their off-season duties is the monthly checking of death certificates. The process is more or less effective in eliminating deceased individuals. Still, it is possible to overlook an update and send ballots by mistake. There is nothing to prevent these ballots from being signed and returned by opportunists taking advantage of unclaimed mail.

However, it makes no sense to claim that the Democrats are the sole beneficiary of this margin of error.

Since Democrats and Republicans die at the same rate, one must assume that these orphan ballots can fall into the hands of either political persuasion for its own nefarious purposes. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Like so much in life, there will always be impurities. In an honest system, they are still present, but by exception and not by rule, like allowable insect parts in packaged flour. Scattered reports of fraud do not invalidate the efforts of a mostly honest enterprise.

President Trump is hardly the person to argue for perfect purity. History has shown us that every party has its cheaters. They are unlikely, though, to account for a five-million-vote advantage. —Doug Hechter, S.B.

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hen will people wake up to the fodder they are being fed by Democrats? Their old saying of “Let’s raise taxes on the rich.” When will people wake up? The rich don’t pay the taxes. They just raise their prices and services so that those who voted for more

taxes end up paying those taxes. When they say they want more money for schools, what they mean is, “We want more money for teachers’ salaries so the union can have more money to buy politicians with.” The teachers today are not the teachers I had in the 1950s.

Those were patriotic.

What we are seeing in the big cities is what happens in every country making the alteration to communism. Look how the Democrats are putting out orders for people to obey or suffer the consequences. They can do what they tell you not to do, and smile when they are found out. That smile is actually a smirk that means, “We do what we want to do, and you do what we tell you to do.”

Every country like Argentina and other countries in South America have gone through what we are going through today. It is communism on the uprise. Our freedoms hang in the balance.

—Ed Pilkington, Santa Maria

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y compliments to Joe Holland and the Elections Division staff for the way they prepared for and conducted the Early Voting and Election Day process.

I was a poll monitor for the California Dems Voter Protection Team and visited each of the voting locations in the city and Goleta several times. Each polling place was operated relatively seamlessly and without interruption or delay. I interacted with all the leads and several poll workers at each location. All of these volunteers were helpful and courteous to me and to the voters navigating the electoral process.

Santa Barbarans can be proud they live in a community that encourages citizen participation and volunteers willing to work to protect democracy.

—Mike Hackett, S.B.

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Karen Lynn Hathaway 8/15/1962 - 9/30/2020

Karen Lynn Hathaway passed on quietly to her new life on September 30, 2020 at home in Santa Barbara, California. She was born in Big Spring, Texas on August 15, 1962, the middle child of USAF fighter-pilot Major Donald Foss Hathaway and Patricia Anne (Hall) Hathaway. A luminous person with a big heart and an incredible sense of humor, Karen made people feel accepted and welcome wherever she went. She was especially a delight to the younger members of her family, who had the pleasure of knowing the beauty of a soul that never grew old. Karen derived an equal pleasure from the role she played in their upbringing.

During her childhood Karen lived in New Mexico, Arizona, California, Maine, and Okinawa, Japan as well as Texas—but the two places she always returned to were her mother’s childhood home in Troy, Illinois and her father’s childhood home in Island Falls, Maine, where the family moved when she was in middle school. She graduated from Portland (Maine) High School in 1980.

After high school she attended Pitzer College, spending a semester in Paris and graduating in 1985 with a degree in English literature and friendships which would become life-long.

Living in Santa Barbara, California with her mother, her sister Keely, and their pets, Karen hosted rollicking international parties and relaxed family gatherings. She also traveled abroad annually with her former fiancé Karim Teymourtache, and her love of cooking, culture, music, and gardening were nurtured in these happy, lively years.

Karen was loved by many and touched all our hearts. She is predeceased by her dearest brother Craig, her father Donald, her mother Patricia, and her sister Keely. She is survived by her brothers Alan and Eric, sister Crista and sister-in-law Kim, foster- brother Dan Cerepanya, and brother and sister William and Anna Fenton-Hathaway. Her beloved uncle Tim Hathaway was a constant presence in her last years, acting as caregiver and companion along with Karen’s partner, Richard Armstrong.

Karen will be greatly missed by her nieces and nephews Ian, Hayley, Gaia, McCrae, Aaron, Marion, Bo, Vera, Silas, Ryan, and Alba, in whom the love of 20

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her passions will live on. She is also survived by her aunts Elvira Mae (Aunt Toos) Fletcher, Maxine Rorer, and Mary Hathaway Sherwood; and her uncle James Hathaway, stepmother Katharine Fenton-Hathaway, and her many beloved cousins.

Karen cared for her family the same way she cared for her gardens, with love and devotion.

The strength of Karen’s character and determination was evident daily throughout her 18-month painful struggle to regain her health. When it became obvious to her that she would not have a quality of life which was acceptable to her in spite of all best efforts, she refused further treatment with dignity and grace. She then returned to Maine to say goodbye to family and old friends, and to see the places she loved there one last time.

Always dignified, much respected, exuding grace, terribly missed, and forever loved, Karen is no longer suffering.

Her family is extremely grateful for the wonderful care Karen received from UCLA Medical Center, and especially for the loving attention she received from Diane and Gabriella at Santa Barbara Assisted Hospice Care. In memory of Karen, donations may be made there, or to the St. Francis Pet Clinic in Santa Barbara.

Avery Diamond

6/24/1995 - 11/5/2020

We lost our beautiful son and brother and the world lost an artistic, talented and deeply sensitive person. Avery easily accomplished anything that he chose to master….guitar, skateboard, basketball, trampoline, unicycle, and much more. He was born with exquisite physical agility and innate artistic sensibility and these were expressed throughout his life. Avery was a bluesman who revered the greats and sang and played from the depths of his soul. Some of the highlights of his life were musical gigs in many venues starting at age 17.

He was born and died in Santa Barbara and touched many people. He worked at a number of businesses in the funk zone including Hot Spots, Wheel and Fun, The Beach House, and Bluewater Grill. The past 2 years he worked at the University Club.

Those fortunate enough to have his help at any of those establishments loved him for his care, knowledge, and service. His many friends created a spontaneous memorial for him at the skatepark that has kept growing. He

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was often accompanied by his beloved scruffy terrier, Spud.

Avery struggled with severe depression and anxiety which he was usually able to conceal with kindness and humor. He was compassionate and generous and was usually the life of the party. On Thursday November 5 at 8:30 PM he found peace outside of this world. He is survived by his parents Anne and Dan and his brother Jeremy. We are remembering him singing and playing jaw dropping lead guitar, swishing a turn-around fall-away jump shot, landing difficult skate tricks, and making us laugh with lightning quick wit. A celebration of life is planned for his birthday June 24, 2021

Patrick Potter

10/25/1965 - 5/2/2020

Patrick Potter left this earth unexpectedly on May 2, 2020, leaving behind many loved ones who miss him every day. Born in New Orleans on October 25, 1965, as the fifth of six children in a Catholic family, Patrick moved at a young age to Jackson, Mississippi, where he grew up through high school. A skilled and competitive bowler with professional aspirations, Patrick graduated Sigma Phi Epsilon from the University of Southern Mississippi.

He eventually relocated to Atlanta and worked there for more than a decade in sales operations for AT&T. In his early 40s Patrick made the bold life change of moving to San Francisco. Proudly holding the title of “Mr. October 2011” on SF’s Bare Chest Calendar, he met the man who became his husband, and together they came to Santa Barbara in 2014 and built a new life together. As an “honorary mayor” of the Villa Capri Aire complex, Patrick made quick friends with his neighbors thanks to his Southern charm and manners, not to mention his impeccable cooking skills. His door was always open to anyone who wanted a cocktail or even something to eat, because as Patrick said of the South: “You always make enough for someone who might drop by.” An annual highlight here in Santa Barbara were the Mardi Gras parties he proudly orchestrated with his remarkable social energy. While he worked hard full-time in the telecom industry, Patrick always knew how to have fun, among all else as a super-fan of the Go-Go’s.

Now he’s with his father and one of his brothers in paradise, where no doubt “the cup is flowing.”

Patrick is survived by his hus-

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band, Ryan, his mother, Meme, one sister, three brothers, several extended relatives, a number of close friends, and his chosen Santa Barbara family. (A full-page tribute appears in the October 22 issue.)

Nancy Louise King 10/8/2020

Our loving mother and wife, Nancy Louise King passed away October 8th, surrounded by loving family, after a brief battle with Pancreatic cancer. A tough, strong gal all her life, she gave her cancer a run for it’s money and was a warrior through to the end. Born Nancy Louise Coffer in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania in 1940, she soon moved to Newton Highlands, Massachusetts, before the family decided to move out to California in the mid 1940’s and she lived in San Luis Obispo, San Francisco and Redwood City, and ended back in San Luis Obispo where she attended California Polytechnic State University. There she met and fell in love with her college sweetheart, Bascom Holt King, whom she married in 1960. They moved to Santa Barbara, where Bascom lived with his mother prior to college and settled in with a new house and their first child, Everett. Not long after came his sister, Cassandra to complete the family. Nancy and Bascom lived in their La Cumbre area home together for nearly 60 years, and Nancy lovingly attended to the large backyard, gardening being one of her largest passions, planting fruit tree’s and roses as well as finely engineered vegetable gardens.

Nancy had an education in Early Childhood Development and ran the Goleta Valley Nursery School for many years, becoming a favorite among hundreds of children for her uplifting and loving spirit. Later in life she turned her passion for travel into a business, opening up Magic Carpet Travel Agency with another agent and had the agency for several decades. Nancy was a keen business woman with a good sense for budgeting and enjoyed the benefits of small business ownership. For the last nearly 18 years, she ran another business out of her home, Santa Barbara Custom quilting, which brought her much joy.

Nancy was a very creative woman, trying out any number of crafts , starting with jam making and moved to stained glass making, basket weaving, and hand looming carpets and a long stint

with pottery, to name but just a few. And Nancy would dive-in, full force to master her skills and make numerous pieces of each craft before moving to the next.

She also was very fond of woodworking and had collected a nice set of tools over the years. But her most favorite mainstay was quilting, and she was a very accomplished quilter and won several awards. She was a member of the Coastal Quilters Guild of Santa Barbara & Goleta and volunteered to quilt hundreds of quilts used by local charity agencies to give comfort to children of abuse, seniors in facilities, etc.

Some of the places Nancy has traveled to include Japan, France, Ireland, England, New Zealand, South America and a rare hardto-get trek into Bulgaria in the mid 1970’s. Her last trip was with her daughter to France and Ireland in 2019 where she got to fullfill a lifelong dream to see the prehistoric cave paintings in the south of France, as well as the neolithic site Newgrange in Ireland.

Nancy will be remembered for her beautiful smile and bright brown eyes and nearly everywhere she went people instantly warmed up to her. She also had a slightly mischievous streak and great sense of humor, which always brought smiles out of people.

Nancy will reside in our hearts forever but will be missed dearly on this earth. She is survived by her husband, Bascom Holt King, her son Everett, daughter Cassandra and two grandsons as well as a younger sister and a brother.

Lorton L. Clough IV

2/12/1964 - 10/21/2020

Lorton was a native-born and lifetime Santa Barbara resident.

He was brought into the world on February 12, 1964, and taken from us on October 21, 2020, after an extended illness. He is greatly missed by his loving immediate and extended family, and his many friends. Lorton is survived by his mother, Mrs. Janet Tartalia, his brother, Brenton, several uncles, aunts and cousins.

Lorton has been well described as a “great guy,” kindly and a wonderful friend who was a local painting contractor for many years. He had a love of the outdoors and especially enjoyed deep sea and surf fishing. A private memorial will be held at a later date.

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In Memoriam

Lad ‘Laddie’ Handelman Deep-Water Pioneer

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BY P E T E R H O W O R T H AND D O N B A R T H E L M E S S

Laddie would never admit his birth date, and in truth, we all prefer to think of him as timeless. He was a mentor-turned-friend to so many, and a legend in the abalone business and commercial diving. Here are just a couple remembrances out of thousands.

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hen you’re lying peacefully at anchor in

ABALONE: Lad Handelman first entered the Pacific as a hard-hat diver searching for abalone, a fishery he tried to replenish at the Channel Islands in the 1980s through a company he started called California Sea Farms.

By the early 1990s, I was very concerned about offshore projects that potentially could harm marine wildlife. Since 1976, I had rescued marine mammals as the founder and volunteer director of the nonprofit Santa Barbara Marine Mammal Center, which is still involved in whale rescue. I

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a secluded cove, preparing dinner, you don’t appreciate things that go bump in the night. I rushed out of my cabin to find the bow of a boat pushed against my stern.

The intruder from the abalone boat Bottom Bandit introduced himself as Laddie Handelman. I had heard of Laddie from fellow abalone divers. I invited him aboard for dinner, thus beginning a friendship that endured from our introduction in 1984 until his death on October 26, 2020.

Laddie had heard of me and asked if I knew of any abalone spots. I had retired from abalone diving because of several cases of the bends. I told him about an overlooked spot.

Laddie liked my boat so much that he bought into it as a partner. We decided to negotiate a contract for the boat’s use. We wrangled over terms, then simply shook hands.

Since then, we’ve done the same. Our handshakes were our bond. The partnership was built on trust, seemingly a rarity today.

Laddie and I got involved in another boat, the Spirit.

We chartered it mainly to scientists. Laddie agreed to my using it for marine mammal rescue. Over the years, my team rescued thousands of marine mammals along the coast and at the Channel Islands.

PIONEERS: Handelman was among the first deep-ocean divers to experiment with a helium-oxygen mixture. Here, he’s headed for 250 feet with topside vigilance from Bob Ratcliffe, who invented the “Rat Hat” that metered the gas through the dive helmet. Handelman, Ratcliffe, Gene Handelman, and Kevin Lengyel started the company Cal Dive in Santa Barbara.

had no intention of volunteering my services to the military (again), or to industry or government. Accordingly, Laddie and I formed the Marine Mammal Consulting Group, a for-profit organization.

Laddie, as a graduate of the Harvard Business School and founder of two major global commercial-diving firms, certainly had the business knowledge. I was the biologist. I loved getting into the field with animals and with many great people who joined us. Later, we were joined by Patricia Putnam, an able administrator and someone who looked after everyone.

The partnership worked because we listened to one another and respected each other, even when we disagreed. As one example, Laddie didn’t like sea otters because they ate abalones. As an abalone diver, I understood, but I had extreme respect for sea otters because they were survivors.

When Laddie broke his neck in a skiing accident in 1985, he kept right on with everything. He didn’t complain; instead, he praised the courage of wheelchair patients and founded a support group here called Outlook. He also supported the local Boys & Girls Club because the Boys Club had such a positive influence on him in his teens.

Three years ago, I had two strokes and a heart attack.

Laddie stayed at my bedside for hours, hoping I would pull through. I think his indomitable fighting spirit helped me during those difficult times.

Very recently, I visited Laddie to say hello, to bring him and Linda, his wife, some of my smoked salmon, and to swap abalone stories. One favorite was when we brought retired abalone divers over to San Miguel Island. But one fellow was the broker who managed insurance for the Spirit. He was a member of the Long Beach Neptunes, a club that spawned some world-class free-divers.

We all splashed around, but I could see the retired divers were having trouble, so I picked some abalones for

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Jeannete (Jan) Close-Cibull 12/16/1932 - 11/1/2020

Jeanette (Jan) Close-Cibull (Breschini) died on November 1, 2020 in Santa Barbara, California with her loving husband by her side.

Jan was born in Monterey, California on December 16, 1932 and grew up in Salinas with her parents, Joseph and Elena Breschini. Jan majored in English at Cal Berkeley and has been a Bears fan and supporter ever since.

In 1959 Jan married Joe Close and the two of them were very involved in state politics. Jan’s career was in social work, specializing in facilitating adoptions.

After her first husband’s death, she reconnected with Bob Cibull, a college sweetheart. She moved to Santa Barbara and she and Bob married in 1988. They were an adorable couple who were deeply devoted to each other and were still sneaking kisses until the end. Soon after arriving in Santa Barbara, Jan began volunteering with Transition House helping with fundraising and serving as president of the board. Even when she was suffering from severe back and neck pain, she was always there to help whoever needed it. Jan will be remembered as a bright, strong, independent woman with a fierce passion for helping families. She was a great step-mother that always supported and loved her kids and grandkids. Jan was also an artist, a lover of Jazz music, crossword puzzles, travel, the Golden State Warriors, Joe Montana and the 49ers, and all animals, but especially cats.

Jan was predeceased by her parents, Joseph and Elena Brischini, her brother, Patrick Breschini, and her first husband, Joseph Close. She will be dearly missed by her husband, Bob Cibull, three step-children, Jeff Cibull (Liza) of Stevenson Ranch, Julie Fischer (Randy) of Goleta and Steve Cibull (Marileen) of Alameda as well as seven grandchildren- Michael, Nathan, Jacqueline, Jack, Ryan, Lindsey, Jason, and a great grand-son, Mason, as well as many friends including those in “The Dirty Dozen”, a friend group that has lasted since her school days, and her cat Indy.

Due to Covid 19 there will not be a service. In Lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Transition House at 425 E. Cota Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, ASPCA. org (cat rescue), or Hospice in Jan’s name.

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George Lawrence Matthaei 8/28/1923 - 10/20/2020

George Lawrence Matthaei passed away on October 20, 2020, at age 97, after a long, full life.

George was born on August 28, 1923 in Tacoma, Washington, the youngest son of Hazel (Pfeffer) Matthaei and William Peter Matthaei, a Tacoma baking family.

George grew up in Tacoma with his older siblings, Margaret and Charles. As a youth he had a keen interest in airplanes and became an accomplished model airplane builder, winning awards in his teens. He developed an interest in aeronautical engineering which would lead him to pursue interests outside the family baking business. He attended the University of Washington until he was called from ROTC to active duty in the army in April 1943.

During basic training he became interested in the Radar Unit and managed to join by simply moving into the barracks.

During WWII, George served with an anti-aircraft unit in New Guinea and the Philippines where he transitioned his engineering interest to microwave component design. At the end of the war, he returned to the University of Washington to complete a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. In 1952 he completed his PhD at Stanford University.

His first PhD position was as an assistant professor at UC Berkeley. During that time, he went on a high Sierra pack trip in Kings Canyon, where he met his future wife, Jean Barker. They were married in 1953, and had two daughters, Jane and Susan.

In 1955, George decided to gain industrial experience at Ramo Wooldridge. Three years later he received an offer to participate in writing a book on microwave filters for the Army Signal Corps while doing research at Stanford Research Institute. The book was published in 1964 and is still in publication today.

In 1964, George became a full professor at UCSB. His tenure saw the growth of the small engineering school into a large college of engineering by the time of his retirement in 1991.

Following his retirement, George joined STI (superconductors) where he worked part-time until age 85. He also joined his wife, Jean, in volunteering as a docent at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, sharing their mutual passion for nature and science.

Much of George’s personal time was spent hiking in and exploring nature, and he often

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carried a camera to capture its beauty. He had a very unassuming appearance, and a modest, softspoken demeanor. He could often be seen sporting a long-sleeved plaid shirt, pants with large and full pockets, a sweater vest, windbreaker, flip-up sunglasses, and a duckbill hat. Yet he was an accomplished microwave researcher, could be a jokester, and looked quite dapper in his trademark bowtie when attending more formal events. He was an exceptionally thoughtful, intelligent, and kind man who will be missed by everyone who knew him.

George is survived by his daughters, Jane Bell (Douglas) and Susan Larsen (James); grandchildren, Laura and Lisa Bell, Rebecca Wendlandt (Jansen), Matthew Larsen (Jennifer); and great grandchildren, Taevyn and Daylen Wendlandt and Gunnar Larsen.

A memorial service will be scheduled in the near future.

Darrell Bernard Tate 7/4/1928 - 10/24/2020

Darrell Tate of Santa Barbara passed away on October 19th, 2020 at the age of 84.

Darrell was born in Pittsburgh and raised there and in Corvallis, Oregon. As a senior in high school he moved to San Diego, where he met his wife Arlene, had their first child together, and attended San Diego State University. He graduated from SDSU in 1963, and witnessed President Kennedy speak at his graduation.

Darrell then took a job with GE Tempo and moved to Santa Barbara that same year, where he and Arlene had their second child.

Later, he ran his own consultancy before working for the County and for Raytheon, from which he retired in 1995.

He enjoyed being outdoors, whether he was hunting, fishing, golfing, or taking daily walks with his dogs Daisy and Alicia at Elings Park. He was also an avid hobbyist, and spent much of his time woodworking and building models, including 58 airplanes that lined the walls of his home office. He attended Saint Mark’s United Methodist Church, and

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was involved in various church ministries throughout his life.

He had an unmistakable presence, and his stubbornness and sense of humor will be missed dearly by those that knew and loved him.

He is survived by his wife Arlene, daughters Charlene and Marcene, and grandchildren Charles and Katherine. He was predeceased by his brother, Lee.

Brian D. Kelley

10/3/1959 - 11/2/2020

On Monday, November 2, 2020, Brian D. Kelley, passed away at age 61, after a short illness. He died peacefully, with his two daughters Briana Kelley and Chelsea Kelley, and his former wife, Kathy Kelley at his side.

Brian was born on October 3, 1959 in Cincinnati, OH to Thomas and Elsie (Meyers) Kelley. He was raised in Glenville, N.Y. and moved to Santa Barbara, CA in 1980. His career as a financial advisor began in 1992, which he practiced at for nearly three decades.

Brian had a passion for the ocean and logged many hours on various seas, boating, fishing and recreating. He also loved to travel and to spend time of the golf course. He was a lover of music and playing the drums. He was a talented builder and loved doit-yourself, home improvement projects. He will be missed for his quick wit, his gourmet cooking skills, and his kind and compassionate spirit.

Brian was preceded in death by his father, Thomas, and his mother, Elsie. He is survived by his two daughters, Briana and Chelsea, his brother Tom, and a host of cousins, nieces, and nephews.

Due to the Santa Barbara COVID-19 gathering restrictions, the family will hold a private Celebration of Life service.

Flowers or donations may be sent to The Serenity House, 930 Miramonte Dr. Santa Barbara, CA. 93019 or online @ https://vna.health/services/ serenity-house/ Condolences can be expressed to the family @ KelleyfamilySB@ gmail.comaspx?name=E9655&a

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Pauline Helen Coffman 6/27/1921 - 11/7/2020

Pauline Helen Coffman, age 99, died on November 7, 2020, peacefully in her sleep of natural causes. She was born on June 27, 1921, in Oxnard, California to proud parents Rudolph and Mary Pfeiler, the youngest of four daughters including Margaret (Borchard), Viola (DeBusschere) and Ethel (Gill). Pauline enjoyed growing up on a ranch on Rice Road in Oxnard. One of her fondest memories was riding horses with friends through downtown Oxnard to the beach.

Pauline grew up in the Oxnard area, attending local schools. She attended Ventura Junior College, where she met the love of her life, Albert Coffman. Both played violin in the Ventura College Orchestra. After finishing college, Albert and Pauline were married in 1945. Shortly after being married, Pauline and her husband moved to Avenal, California, where Pauline raised her daughter and son, Linda Louise and Keith Jacob.

After living in Avenal, California for 14 years, Pauline and her family moved to Santa Barbara in 1961, where she was a resident ever since. In her 59 years living in Santa Barbara, Pauline finished raising her family, worked parttime as a bookkeeper, was an active volunteer at St. Raphael’s and enjoyed traveling with her husband.

Pauline was predeceased by her husband Albert L. Coffman and is survived by her son Keith Coffman-Grey and his husband Neil; daughter Linda Collins and her husband Daniel; two grandsons, Daniel Collins, Jr. and Shawn Collins; and two great-grandsons, Bayley Collins and Austin Collins.

The family wishes to thank the caregivers at Mission Terrace for the wonderful care she received the past three years.

A celebration of Pauline’s life will be planned at a later date, hopefully around June, to celebrate what would have been Pauline’s 100th birthday.

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them. I got back aboard, and the insurance man asked how I did. He had only two or three abalones in his bag. I tossed my abalone bag aboard, and he was dumbfounded.

He measured all my abalones and was astounded because they were well above legal size — and there were plenty of them. Apparently, he had never been beaten. I told him, “If I’d known this was a contest, I’d have really whipped your ass.” Laddie couldn’t stop laughing. The irony of the story is that we were in the same spot that I had told Laddie about when we first met. I ended my last meeting with Laddie by saying, “Thanks for everything.”

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n 1979, I was a 19-year-old student at Florida Institute of Technology’s diving program when I attended a convention in New Orleans. At the booth for Oceaneering, a leading commercial diving firm, was Lad Handelman. By then, he was a whitecollar businessman who traded in his copper collar from his abalone days to create and run a company that still dominates our industry today. We were wide-eyed wannabes, full of hopes and dreams. We were in awe of Oceaneering’s deep saturation diving technology and atmospheric diving systems.

Lad was one of the few busy executives who took time to talk to us. That made a huge impact on us and is something I always remember. Lad knew we were the future of his business, and a small investment of his time would later yield good returns.

He was indeed correct.

In 1982, I ended up in Santa Barbara working for a competing diving firm.

I met Lad again off Goleta Pier, when we were demonstrating a new atmospheric diving system, called the JIM Suit, for NASA astronaut Kathy Sullivan.

At Lad’s urging, we had Sullivan become an “aquanaut” as she piloted our submersible to contrast the weightlessness of inner space versus outer space from the pier. It was not a highly publicized event at that time, but I was impressed with our joint collaboration and her effortless skill as a sub pilot. She later became the first woman to walk in space from the space shuttle Challenger.

The JIM Suit has been on display at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum. Laddie was instrumental in the

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OPTIMIST: Handelman’s smile stayed with him, diving for Barney Clancy’s abalone fleet out of Morro Bay as a young man and after a skiing accident left him partially paralyzed in 1985. He grew with his companies, earning a Harvard business degree and taking them to international waters.

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establishment and development of our maritime museum in the harbor 20 years ago. As president of the board there, I was very fortunate to have had a longtime friend in Laddie to advise us and give input.

I recently retired after 30 years of training commercial divers at Santa Barbara City College’s Marine Diving Technology Program. Laddie served on our advisory committee for decades. That same willingness to spend time with aspiring young students, to give back to an industry that he helped pioneer, always existed. He was accessible — a tremendous resource for everyone. I witnessed that same excitement and optimism in my students that I felt over 40 years ago. He was the consummate teacher.

EDUCATOR: The ocean diving industry in Santa Barbara gave rise to a technical program at City College, for which Lad Handelman was a favorite speaker. Here he delivers one of his self-deprecating but invaluable talks to a class held at his home in 2019.

His mantra to our students was “Take care of each other; sweat the small stuff.” Quite a simple statement but profoundly significant for people who put themselves in a harsh environment where mistakes can be fatal.

In commercial diving, a camaraderie exists regardless of who a person is, whether you like them or not, agree or disagree. Lives are at stake, and we all rely on each other to be successful in getting a job done. It is both a brotherhood and sisterhood. It is taught and passed on from one diver to the next.

Before I retired at SBCC, I took my 20 mixed-gas diving students up to Laddie’s house so they could meet a man who paved the way for an industry. You could have heard a pin drop as he told sea stories and advised them how to be successful in diving. I will cherish that moment. True long-term learning is accomplished by rich, real-life experiences with a diversity of people within a community.

Laddie’s spinal injury in 1985 did not stop his work or change his bright and positive demeanor. That same tenacity he applied to industry was channeled into the founding and service of other organizations. Recently, he said, “I used to think that gang members and divers were tough. Now I know what being tough really means. People in wheelchairs are amazingly upbeat. I am constantly inspired by these heroes.” He shifted into a higher gear and began broadening his efforts, not for his personal gain, but for altruism.

Although we have a lot of big egos in commercial diving, Laddie was never one of them. He came up the hard way. He learned from his mistakes and the mistakes of others. He treated all people with dignity and respect, regardless of who they were, including their economic or social status. Laddie was never traditional or conventional. That is the true entrepreneurial spirit and why Laddie’s life is an American success story.

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ixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project (MICOP), much like the 29,000+ Indigenous residents of Santa Barbara and 21,000+ Indigenous residents of Ventura County that it serves, toils each day out of view of much of society, but it plays a vital role in assisting Indigenous communities, in COVID times and normal times.

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and, where needed, make referrals to other MICOP programs and county programs. When funding allows, this programming will be replicated in Santa Maria.

Healing the Soul — a recent, innovative project funded by the State of California and Ventura County — used traditional Indigenous healing practices to alleviate symptoms associated with stress, anxiety, and depression. With an Indigenous-led research team and promotoras, last year the program served nearly 500 Indigenous residents with remedies such as healing saunas and herbal/spiritual cleansings. Further funding is being sought.

MICOP, along with Future Leaders of America (FLA) and CAUSE, founded the 805 Undocufund, which provided financial assistance to undocumented immigrants in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties after the Thomas Fire and 1/9 Debris Flow. The fund was resurrected during COVID and, under FLA’s leadership, has released $2.6

The communities MICOP serves are primarily Mixteco, but there are small groups of Zapotecs, Purépecha, and other Indigenous groups as well. Most are farmworkers, and many live in Oxnard and Santa Maria and speak only their native language.

MICOP, with a $5 million budget (half of which comes from public sources) and a staff that is 80 percent Indigenous, has earned the trust of those it serves through LIFE SKILLS: UCSB group leaders Daniela Miranda and Alex Brum take turns answering “icebreakers” with 6th grader Zoe 19 years of outreach and assistance Jacinto during their first friendship group of the new semester. Jacinto is in her second round of friendship groups and quickly confided in her mentors after they opened up to her. in Ventura County. It began serving Santa Maria residents in 2017, opened a small office last year, and is presently expanding MICOP has distributed 50,000 masks, including a large million to 2,543 families. staff and services.

MICOP’s annual fundraiser, A Night in Oaxaca, went number of children’s masks. Its monthly distribution of culWhen COVID hit, MICOP functioned as the criti- turally appropriate food in Ventura has continued throughout virtual this year, but this celebration of MICOP’s work and cal bridge between Indigenous residents and community the pandemic, providing rice, beans, and other traditional Indigenous culture once again was a highly informative and resources. Its Oxnard offices began with wellness calls to cli- food, along with diapers and PPE kits. entertaining event. The passion of the speakers — frontline ents to learn of their needs and provide immediate assistance.

MICOP’s Census teams in both counties helped Indig- workers, MICOP leaders, boardmembers, donors, and comAt the same time, staff were translating official health infor- enous, undocumented residents understand that they should munity leaders and supporters — shined through. Intermation into Indigenous languages and making the technical participate, despite President Trump’s efforts to put a citizen- spersed with the speeches were vibrant dance performances health information intelligible to its clients. This was challeng- ship question on the Census and a general fear of government. by Las Chinas Oaxaquenas, comprising MICOP staff and ing work, according to MICOP Associate Director Genevieve COVID complicated outreach efforts, leading MICOP to shift volunteers, and by Los Elegidos de Asis and performances by Flores-Haro, who noted that Mixteco does not even have outreach from door-to-door to food distribution and other soprano Maria Reyna. a word for “virus.” Working with Ventura County’s Farm- sites, as well as through social media and Radio worker Resource Program, MICOP created informational Indígena. videos, which it distributed through social media, Zoom During COVID, in addition to the intensive calls, and its own radio station, Radio Indígena (94.1 FM and COVID relief and Census outreach work, MICOP has continued most of its 19 programs in direct serFacebook Live).

At the start of COVID, MICOP’s Santa Maria office had a vices, community organizing, and empowerment, sole staff member focused on immigration and a small Cen- with modifications where necessary.

Among its more important ongoing programs, sus team. However, when the office learned of 15 Indigenous families with at least one member having COVID, it quickly according to Flores-Haro, are its domestic vioconnected them to community resources, including quaran- lence programs. With the stay-at-home orders tine accommodations. The Santa Maria office has since grown and increased stress brought on by the pandemic, to a staff of four and has immediate plans to hire more. there has been an increase in domestic violence MICOP has worked to persuade farmworkers with symp- incidents locally and across the nation. In Ventura, toms to get tested. Not only do farmworkers not get sick MICOP has both prevention and early interven- Health Navigators Rosita Lopez (left) and Lidia Lopez doing a show on Radio Indígena days, according to Flores-Haro, but some employers warned tion programs, which include acting as the bridge employees that they or their entire crew would be fired if with Child Protective Services and social workers. In Santa In the program, Ventura County CEO Mike Powers lauded they tested positive. Farmworkers are at heightened risk for Maria, domestic violence programming is slated to begin MICOP for its partnership with the county in many programs. contracting COVID because of crowded living situations and within the next year.

Ventura County Community Foundation President and CEO shared transportation. They are at heightened risk for COVID Mental-health programming also has taken on added Vanessa Bechtel thanked MICOP’s hardworking staff and complications because of comorbidity factors. importance in the pandemic, with anxiety and depression volunteers and shared that “especially in times of COVID, I Among those who were ill, there was a reluctance to get rising among all population groups. During COVID, cultur- cannot imagine the community without MICOP.” For more info or to make an online donation, go to treatment, as well. To address cost concerns, MICOP advo- ally appropriate workshops in Ventura have moved online, cated to both counties that they waive co-pays for COVID with staff assisting clients unfamiliar with Zoom. Promotoras mixteco.org. To view Night in Oaxaca, go to youtube.com/ (community health workers) have stepped up wellness checks watch?v=7OvSyW9J14Q. n treatment, which the counties did.

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Chaucer’s Virtual Author Discussion: NBC/ MSNBC’s Jacob Soboroff Correspondent Jacob

Soboroff will discuss his 2020 book, Separated: Inside an American Tragedy about the human story behind the current child separation crisis. Author, professor, and UCSB Chicano Studies chair Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval will join. 6pm. Free. tinyurl.com/JacobSoboroff

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11/19: Spoken Word: Reclamation and Resistance: An Evening of Poetry with Denice Frohman Accomplished

Design & Architecture Museum at UCSB will present this free online lecture by

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11/19: Zoom Webinar: The Women and the Waves: 93 Letters from Marge Watch the film 93 Letters from Marge about surf pioneer and icon Marge Calhoun (1924-2017) followed by a Q&A with film producer and S.B. resident Heather Hudson.

Registration is required. 7-8:30pm. Free.

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The film, almost entirely signed with captions, highlights the work of deaf artists in the community and increases accessibility to the arts for the deaf and hard of hearing communities. 2-2:30pm. Free.

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tion Celebrate owner Kathy Mullins and enjoy special discounts on select items, a historical display of the store’s past 50 years, and various fun events for the entire family, such as live music and a chance to meet the Little Mermaid and the Snow Queen.

The Book Loft, 1680 Mission Dr., Solvang. Free.

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El Distrito Escolar Unificado de S.B. ofrecerá desayuno, almuerzo y cena, y el Distrito Escolar Unificado de Goleta ofrecerá paquetes de almuerzo. Haga clic en el enlace para locaciones, horarios y más.

The Peabody Charter Seamless Summer Food Option will offer free homemade lunch and breakfast for the next day to community members 18 years old and younger through December 31. Meals are available in front of Peabody Charter School marquee, 3018 Calle Noguera, Monday-Friday, 11:30am-1pm. Children do not have to be present to pick up meals. Masks are required. For more information, call Chef Hallie at (805) 563-1536 or email hallie.ingram@peabodycharter.net.

La Opción de Alimentos de Verano de la Carta de Peabody ofrecerá un almuerzo casero gratuito, así como el desayuno del día siguiente, a los miembros de la comunidad de 18 años o menos, hasta el 31 de diciembre. Las comidas están disponibles frente a la carpa de la Escuela Peabody Charter, 3018 Calle Noguera, de lunes a viernes, de 11:30am-1pm.

Los niños no tienen que estar presentes. Se requieren máscaras. Para más información llama al Chef Hallie al (805) 563-1536 o envíe un correo electrónico a hallie.ingram@peabodycharter.net.

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SATURDAY 11/21 11/21: Livestream: S.B. Symphony Presents Beethoven @ 250 This intimate evening will stream live from the Music Academy of the West and feature principal symphony musicians alongside guest performers and other celebrated symphony musicians in solos, duos, trios, and quartets. 7pm. $65. Call (805) 898-9386.

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New York City poet, performer, educator, and former Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion Denice Frohman will perform spoken word via Zoom. 7:30pm. Free.

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who, at 21 years old, performed for more than 35 million people worldwide at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, will play in this recital with his 24-year-old sister, Isata, from their home in Nottingham, England, followed by a conversation with S.B. Independent Executive Arts Editor Charles Donelan.

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retro feminist horror film The Love Witch (not rated), followed by the iconic 1982 slasher The Slumber Party Massacre (rated R). Gates open: 6pm; screenings: 7-11pm. Goleta West Wind Drive-In, 907 S. Kellogg Ave., #3833, Goleta. Free.

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11/19: State Street Promenade “Shop Local” Market Downtown S.B. will host a market every Thursday to highlight downtown businesses and area artisans and local goods. The marketplace will be located on the 1000 block of State Street between Carrillo and Figueroa streets November 19 and December 3, 10, and 17. 3-7:30pm. Free. downtownsb.org/events 11/19-11/24: A Crimson Holiday S.B.’s uptown artisan gift gallery offers safe shopping for items from 40+ of the area’s most talented artists, designers, and authors through January 15, 2021. Visit the website to learn about Monday-morning private shopping and Thursdaymorning senior shopping opportunities. Mon.-Fri.: 11am-7pm; Sat.-Sun.: 11am-6pm. La Cumbre Plaza (across from Chico’s), 121 S. Hope Ave. Free. Call (805) 570-1987.

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Discover your inner superpower and save the day with super science and engineering activities. All materials are available for pickup at MOXI, including a camp T-shirt and selfguided activity extensions to keep the super-fun going when camp is done. Campers are expected to have an adult available to assist as needed. Goes through November 25.

9:30-11:30am. $110/members; $140/ nonmembers. Grades 2-4. moxi.org

TUESDAY 11/24 11/24: Virtual Book Discussion Group: The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa: A New Translation Join in a reading from the most beloved book by Tibetans about the great 11thcentury poet and saint Milarepa in a translation by Christopher Stagg. 7-8:30pm. Free.

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fter years of construction, the renovated Peabody Stadium served as the perfect backdrop for Santa Barbara High’s signing day ceremony last Tuesday.

Water polo standout Bella Obando and versatile volleyball player Sam Meister cemented their commitments to Loyola Marymount and UCSB, respectively, by signing their National Letters of Intent at the 50-yard line in a memorable moment for the two seniors.

“From us here at the school, we can’t tell you how proud we are,” said Santa Barbara High athletic director Todd Heil. “This is a huge moment for the two of you, and to be able to honor you guys and celebrate this with you is very important to us.”

For Meister, the short trip up the 101 freeway to UCSB is a dream come true and the culmination of years of hard work.

Bella Obando and Sam Meister sign their Letters of Intent.

“I grew up practicing there for the past four years, and I’ve always wanted to go to In addition, the stadium pays tribute to former [UCSB].They’re a great program that was super close to winning a [national] championship a Dons who served our country in times of war with the year ago, and hopefully we can win one in the future.” Doug & Ann Allred Veterans Memorial Meister was a versatile weapon for head coach Chad Arneson at Santa Barbara High. He’s an elite athlete at 64 with a nearly 40-inch vertical leap.

The Royals had a large contingent of eight student athletes taking advantage of the early signing period.

Among the group were twin brothers Caden and Jared Vom Steeg, who signed to play for their father, UCSB men’s soccer coach Tim Vom Steeg.

“It was a tough recruiting deal, but I was able to secure them,” said the elder Vom Steeg with a smirk.

BY VICTOR BRYANT “We’re looking forward to watching them develop over the next four years.”

“The guy could jump out of the gym, but he was San Marcos standout pitcher Henry Manfredonia also coordinated, so that always helped out a lot,” will stay close to home after signing with UCSB. Head Arneson said. “He’s a good kid, a good athlete, and it’s coach Andrew Checketts is known for developing really neat to see how much he progressed through- pitching prospects, and Manfredonia hopes to be the out each year.” next in a long line of success stories.

Obando’s journey to Loyola Marymount was any“My dad used to work at UCSB, and I would go thing but typical. She did not play water polo until to their games every weekend, so it has always been the 8th grade, which is very late by Santa Barbara a dream of mine to go there,” Manfredonia said. standards, but a strong foundation in swimming gave Coincidentally, Manfredonia was on the Goleta her the tools to excel once she made the move.

Valley South all-star baseball team with the Vom “I was thrown into swimming when I was 6 years Steeg twins that won their section when they were old, and that gave me a good base to go play water 12 years old. polo,” Obando said. “My brother [Mateo] and sister The San Marcos High girls’ water polo team con[Olivia] started playing water polo before I did. I stuck tinues to churn out elite players as Caroline Courtois with swimming, and then they convinced me to get and Chloe Spievak signed with UC San Diego and into it, and now I love it.”

UC Irvine, respectively. In addition, Zosia Amberger The $39 million Peabody Stadium construction will be attending Pomona College and playing water project to update the nearly 100-year-old structure polo, but she was unable to sign Tuesday due to Diviwas marred by setbacks and delays but is now com- sion 3 regulations. plete. It’s hard to imagine a more picturesque venue Track and field standout Annabelle Tiller signed for high school sports. with Cal. She excels in multiple events at San Marcos “It’s breathtaking, and there’s these moments where but specializes in the 300 meter hurdles.

I catch myself thinking, ‘I can’t believe I am the prinBeach volleyball is an emerging sport at the colcipal of this beautiful school and Peabody Stadium,’ ” legiate level, and Madison Oriskovich will continue said Santa Barbara High Principal Elise Simmons. her career at Pepperdine. Taylor Wilson was unable “We appreciate all of the support of our community, to attend the signing ceremony, but she signed to play district, alumni, and everybody who has helped and beach volleyball at Stanford. stuck with us through this whole thing.”

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he Book Loft in Solvang is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and that’s very good news for those who crave sanity, authenticity, and steadiness. Founded by Kathy Mullins and her late husband, Gary, in 1970, it is the oldest independent bookstore in Santa Barbara County under continuous ownership, replete with new releases, rare books, a bountiful children’s section, and an impressive assortment of puzzles and games. Kathy is still very much involved, and the rest of the allBY CYNTHIA CARBONE WARD women team—Elaine, Echo, Dawn, Paige, Heidi, Ali, and Heather—are knowledgeable and helpful, the kind of folks who are sincerely happy to assist you or leave you to your browsing, all in a safe masked way that adheres to COVID protocols. It’s a veritable house for the human spirit, where thoughts both great and frivolous line the shelves, a sacred space in our beautiful Valley, well-known by locals and appreciated by tourists, still going strong after 50 years. It even smells like a bookstore, that elusive fusion of paper, print, and wood.

When I began frequenting the Book Loft, Tom Gerald and Ed Gregory worked there. I might walk in and see Father Chuck Stacy leaning at the counter, his bicycle propped outside the door, and I’d briefly join a conversation and then go hunt for books, and it was so small-town and charming that I breathed a sigh of wonder and relief at having somehow found such a place. Bibliophile Ed still owns the intriguing Solvang Book Company on the second floor, which sells used, rare, and antiquarian books. Adjacent to that is the tiny Hans Christian Andersen Museum, dedicated to the Danish storyteller whose tales are beloved throughout the world, and I suppose you could call the setup quirky, but it works. Something about climbing the stairs to the area above the main part of the store feels secret and special. There is a wood-floored room with folding chairs, narrow windows, and a podium, and in pre-pandemic days, people gathered there, sometimes for various meetings, but more often than not for readings by local poets and authors. It was always a little stuffy, and it smelled like the 19th century, and the late-afternoon sunlight slanted in and imparted it with a sort of holiness, but at the same time it was intimate and friendly.

In the ensuing years, the Book Loft has responded to changing buying habits and the challenges of the pandemic with determination and creativity, and despite obstacles, its heart and energy are intact. “We are fortunate to have a wonderfully loyal customer base,” says manager Echo Molina. “We have our locals of course, but also those who live elsewhere, who have made a point to still buy books from us even if they are unable to get here in person. We have filled more email and phone orders than ever before. We have also partnered with Bookshop.org and libro.fm.”

Real-world customers are welcome in a safe, COVID-savvy way. A yearlong series of commemorative events have already begun, and an official anniversary celebration will be held on Saturday, November 21, coinciding with the bookstore’s annual Holiday Open House. The event will include giveaways, special guests, music, activities for the young and old, and of course kransekage, the traditional Danish celebratory confection.

Much has changed across the decades, but the Book Loft has never lost its soul or sense of purpose. It has been here for our community for 50 years, and it is an institution worth celebrating, protecting, and supporting.

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Live Like a Local in One of L.A.’s Coolest Neighborhoods

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Part of the Palisociety collection of boutique hotels, the oversized rooms at Silver Lake Pool & Inn have an effortlessly hip residential feel. The warm-toned furniture, fixtures, and art are all locally sourced and über-comfortable, from the wood and leather chairs to the framed prints, vintageinspired telephones, and ceramic planters. I stayed in a Deluxe King room and was mesmerized by my view of the leafy cityscape with the Griffith Observatory and the Hollywood sign in the distance.

I spent an afternoon relaxing by the cactus-lined pool, sipping a mezcal cocktail, noshing on a refreshing cucumber salad, and—in the name of “research”—eavesdropping on conversations that educated me on the property’s clientele. That day, it was a mix of artists, musicians, actors, and people visiting friends who live in the area. Very apropos for Silver Lake! Locals were also among the patrons of the buzzy onsite restaurant, Marco Polo Trattoria & Bar. There, I feasted on a platter of perfectly dressed oysters and a zesty pasta dish paired with a crisp Italian white, while my companion dug into the Bavette steak with a Buona Sera cocktail, their version of an Old Fashioned.

There are so many delicious places nearby to lure you away from the hotel, too. Get your morning caffeine fix at Intelligentsia around the corner. Place an order for breakfast sandwiches at the Yeastie Boys Bagels truck typically parked nearby, or

grab breakfast burritos at Tacos Delta down the street. Tartine, of San Francisco fame, is another solid spot for takeaway bakery fare with a tempting menu of sweet and savory toasts. For dinner in the Sunset zone, you can’t go wrong with Pine & Crane (Taiwanese), Night + Market Song (Thai), Bar Restaurant (French), or Ma’am Sir (Filipino). If you venture a bit farther afield, my go-tos on Silver Lake Boulevard include Alimento (Italian), L&E Oyster Bar (seafood), and Botanica (healthy organic fare).

When it comes to what to do, the shopping and people-watching up and down Sunset can’t be beat, from L.A. originals Mohawk General Store (clothing) and Yolk (gifts) to Clare V. (accessories), The Odells and Buck Mason (clothing), and Parachute (linens). There’s also a great little Saturday farmers’ market with a section dedicated to vintage vendors and local artisans.

My absolute favorite way to explore Silver Lake is via the walks from the guidebook Secret Stairs: A Walking Guide to the Historic Staircases of Los Angeles by Charles Fleming. The hilly neighborhood abounds with staircases dating back to the early 1900s—many now painted with contemporary murals — and the book provides insights and trivia about the area’s colorful history and notable architectural landmarks with pop culture references aplenty. For example: the Music Box Stairs named for the 1932 Laurel & Hardy comedy; the nautical-looking building where Beck recorded Guero; and the residence at the top of the Mattachine Steps where one of the earliest gay rights organizations in the U.S. gathered in the 1950s.

Not only do the stair walks offer a great workout, but they feel akin to scavenger hunts, and the photo ops are plentiful between the street art, eclectic homes, and peekaboo views of Downtown L.A., Hollywood, and Glendale. If you don’t want to commit to buying the whole book, staircases that are easier to find with a quick Google search include the Micheltorena Steps, Esther’s Steps, and the Swan Stairs. Another option for an iconic urban hike or jog is the 2.1-mile loop around the Silver Lake Reservoir, which wraps around two reservoirs, a dog park, and Silver Lake Meadow. n

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Located on Sola Street, the historic Heath House—formerly a community AIDS hospice but no longer in use—was purchased by Peoples’ SelfHelp Housing earlier this year. After extensive rehabilitation, renovations, and furniture donations by community members, the

BY LILY HOPWOOD two-story, 2,500-square-foot building is preparing to open its doors to residents. With a capacity of seven beds, Heath House will provide permanent, affordable housing to formerly homeless women and their children, if necessary. Onsite supportive services, including job training, case management, counseling, and education programs will be offered to residents free of charge.

“We’re addressing the elements that made them homeless in the first place,” said Ken Trigueiro, CEO and president of Peoples’ SelfHelp Housing. “We have several licensed clinical social workers on our staff who will take a case-management approach with an initial assessment to see what led the women to that point. We aim to understand that, help create a plan to address those things, and create some level of motivation, accountability, and counseling along the way.”

Residents chosen by application will be funded by the Housing Authority of the City of Santa Barbara, which has committed to providing rent assistance. The support of community organizations has been critical in furthering the mission of Peoples’ Self-Help Housing to provide homeless people with permanent accommodation—state funding, compounded with additional financing from individual donors and the City of Santa Barbara, has allowed Heath House to become a reality. As noted by Trigueiro, this has been an inherently collaborative effort regarded by local residents as a positive addition to the community.

“This kind of housing is such a critical need in Santa Barbara. It’s a pretty novel situation—unoccupied properties aren’t just sitting around,” said Trigueiro. “That’s why this one is super special, and it’s a real achievement of our mission.”

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hat a difference a year makes, particularly when that year And make no mistake, the inequity here is not about political will is 2020.

— it’s all about the money. The independent schools simply have As I revisited some of the latest news and trends related drastically fewer students to worry about with far more resources to to education in Santa Barbara County for the second year in a row take care of them right now, which translates to much better teacher/ to prepare this special issue, priorities have shifted dramatically. student ratios and the ability, in some cases, to devote separate teachOutdoor space is at a huge premium — not only for its eduers to online and on-campus teaching cohorts. They enjoy cational value and the boost to our Zoom-fatigued spirmuch more outdoor space to spread out and be physically

by LESLIE its that nature provides, but also simply because being distanced, and they have the money to make facility DINABERG outside has a much lower risk for COVID-19. With improvements more easily — both indoors and outdepression and anxiety at high levels for people of all doors — to accommodate health and safety concerns.

Photos by ages, social-emotional learning and strategies that They also have more resources to test and regulate stuDANIEL embrace the whole child as a priority over straight dent and staff health and to enforce consequences on DREIFUSS academics are also more important now than ever those who don’t follow the safety rules. before. And as always, so is keeping in step with the latest That being said, Midland Head of School Christopher technologies, both programmatically and with new facilities.

Barnes summed up the way I think most everyone in every Unfortunately, like just about everything else in 2020, the kind of educational institution is feeling these days. “With all of my pandemic has amplified the inequities in education even fur- heart and soul, I’m pouring everything I can into our particular little ther. I’m a public school daughter of two public school teachers, project, but also being a participant with other schools … that aspire and I’m a big believer in and supporter of our public school mightily to follow all of the recommendations of public health, and be system. That being said, if I had a K-12 age child at home right their partner, not their adversary,” he said. “Do I have too much stuff now, this would be the year I would be scrimping and saving to read and figure out? And does it sometimes contradict itself? Yes, to send them to an independent school. For one thing, they’re absolutely. In any case, we’re dealing with a global health pandemic. actually able to open.

This is not some little thing.”

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ometimes it’s all in the timing. Take Laguna Blanca’s new Center for Science and Innovation, the school’s first major facility addition in at least 20 years. “We decided to go forward with construction on March 11 of this year, and two days later we were closing school because of the pandemic,” said Head of School Rob Hereford.

Hope Ranch Campus Provides Proper Home for Project-Based Learning Plans for the 5,500 square feet of modern, dedicated space have been in the works since 2014, a drought year where the first big rains damaged the chemistry lab. They did a short-term fix, but Hereford knew it was past time to do some real improvements.

“When I give tours to people who were here back in the ’50s and ’60s, and they say, ‘Oh, it looks just like when I was here as a student,’” said Hereford. “That

is comforting on one level, but a little disturbing if you’re trying to teach chemistry in the 21st century.”

Working with the school’s buildings and grounds committee, KBZ Architects, and the science department, the team settled on renovating two older existing locker rooms that had morphed into what Hereford called “the campus junk drawer, Laguna Blanca Head of School Rob Hereford stands in one of the newly built classrooms. where anything we didn’t know what to do “We had an outstanding science program, and we were with we would just throw it into that space.” But the size was right, and there was already plumbing, which would doing it in spite of our mediocre facilities,” said Hereford.

“This allows us to have really up-to-date facilities that we be needed for lab space.

One of the “odd advantages” of having closed the can grow into. There is space for teachers to be able to do campus for so many months is that the project — which more and expand the programs in ways that are really includes biology and chemistry labs, a STEM Research going to be terrific. When I think of what we’ve been able and Innovation Lab, outdoor research areas, a physics lab, to pull off in these substandard facilities, it’s exciting to and a teacher innovation lab, which gives teachers from think about what our teachers will be able to do in these different grades and disciplines a space for collaboration brand-new spaces.”

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Inspired by the documentary The Biggest Little Farm, the Littlest Little Farm teaches young students about soil nutrition, worm composting, and life on a small property near Hope Ranch.

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nature, but an even more bountiful example of community connectedness has sprung to life on the Littlest Little Farm.

O’Connor Family and AHA! Engage Students on a Hope Ranch Annex Property Tucked away in the Hope Ranch Annex neighborhood, this dynamic collaboration brings together teens from AHA! to work alongside two facilitators/farming educators to create, maintain, and grow a biodynamic farm. And it all takes place at the home of Laurel and Matt O’Connor, who host the farm in what is literally their backyard, working alongside the team to turn a little less than half an acre of “hard pan dirt” into an impressive urban farm.

Along with revitalizing the land, the Littlest Little Farm has also sparked something special in the teens. “At the beginning of the program, I’ll admit I was reluctant to join because I’m normally not someone who enjoys the outdoors,” said Owen Hubbell, a senior at San Marcos High.

“But the amazing facilitators and environment allowed me to enjoy the outdoors more than I ever have before. I was able to learn about the value of nature and the value of taking care of it. Not only that, but I also learned the science of farming, which was very eye-opening to me, because I was never aware of the amount of work that goes into farming. The feeling of watching something grow and

develop, and to do it with a community of people I trust, is a gift I will never forget.”

The Littlest Little Farm, which celebrates its one-year anniversary this month, was indeed inspired by the documentary The Biggest Little Farm. Both Laurel (a clinical therapist) and her friend Jennifer Freed (the cofounder of AHA!’s nonprofit social-emotional education program) were fans of the film.

“I was having my dream of wanting a farm, and she was trying to figure out how to bring a farming program to the teens,” said Laurel. “It happened really fast. Jennifer is a visionary; she’s amazing. That was in the summer a year ago, and (with support from the Manitou Foundation and other generous donors) we had kids with boots on the ground in early November.”

Under the guidance of two AHA! alums — Julian Castillo, a clinical therapist, and Stevie O’Connor, a facilitator (and Laurel and Matt’s daughter) — teens learn about soil nutrition, composting, rowplanting, amending soil, irrigation installation, worm composting, and noninvasive and chemical-free pest and weed management at the same they’re building social and emotional skills and self-awareness.

“I work with a lot of adolescent boys, and it’s definitely way better to meet outdoors and explore something than just sit there,” said Castillo. “The bigger picture that I like to tell them is that this is a little part of changing the world.

The soil can actually sequester carbon. A lot of them have taken home not only plants and produce, but they’re starting their own little home gardens. So we really think it’s a lot bigger deal, and I think they’re getting that it’s a much bigger thing than just putting stuff in the ground.”

“It’s exciting to see teens get excited about their impact on the planet,” said Stevie. “Also, we’ve harvested a ton in the last couple of months, so the teens are able to take some home and then we donate the extra produce to the Unity Shoppe. It’s great to be able to give that fresh produce back, because we want this to be appreciated.”

“Once we get more volume going, then we can expand to give to other nonprofits,” said Laurel.

“So many people are always like, ‘Thank you so much for this,’ and I always feel like I’m the one who should be saying, ‘Thank you.’ I feel so lucky. It’s just a win-win situation.

And especially given this time. Things are hard, and this is just such a positive experience out here every time. It’s just a feel-good place for all of us. And we all come together in a safe way and get in touch with ourselves, with each other, with the soil, just all of it. It’s really amazing.” ahasb.org ahasb.org

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balancing the needs of families, staff, and students.

But in 2020, it’s more like being a tightrope walker.

Very early on in the pandemic, Crane Country Day School’s head of school and chief plate spinner, Joel Weiss, decided that a dual approach (online and on-campus) would make the most sense for his families — if, of course, there was any way of pulling it off.

Montecito Campus Embraces Its Outdoor Superpowers “For us, it was trying to be honest but also respectful to the situations that every family really is unique,” said Weiss. “There are new rules every two weeks, and it’s just constantly changing. So having that two-pronged approach, though it’s exhausting to implement, at the same time it’s a really flexible approach.”

Crane’s back-to-school plan organized each grade into smaller groups for less exposure. For example, the 3rd grade has 22 students: 18 on-campus students are split into two cohorts of nine, each with their own teacher and dedicated indoor and outdoor spaces. The other four online students also have their own teacher, who is physically with one of the two cohorts, making sure that they

still have a social connection with their classmates, and doing much of the same work.

That ability to use the outdoor classes is what Weiss described as “Crane’s superpower that we wanted to maximize. That’s our strong suit.”

Crane has always been an indoor/outdoor school, and Weiss worked closely over the summer with Director of Development Debbie Williams, who took the lead on designating and constructing 23 unique outdoor learning spaces. With names like Pythagorean Patio, Morning Meadow, and Laureates’ Landing, they are distributed across Crane’s 12-acre Crane Country Day School developed numerous outdoor classrooms for safe learning campus. “Part of it was training ourselves during the pandemic. to see teaching spaces where maybe prior freedom to be wacky, and now it’s like, ‘Don’t walk here; you saw utility spaces and nature spaces,” said Weiss. walk there; don’t touch your face; put the mask on; stay six Each grade now has at least two indoor spaces and feet away,’ and on and on and on. So much effort is going outdoor spaces with fun layouts designed to deliver the into maintaining systems for safety that the outdoors is a education program in a physically distanced, safe manner. little bit of a chill time. We’re trying to introduce a fun facIt even lets the kids relax a little. tor to all of this that feels kid-centered and lighthearted.”

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Though developed a century ago, the Waldorf education model works well in the modern day, even when classes must be outside.

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he 101-year-old Waldorf educational tradition is still thriving today at The Waldorf School of Santa Barbara. One of the key components is the wholechild educational approach, which Administrator Teddy Macker described as, “Trying to encourage the intellectual, artistic, and practical capacities of our children

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equally in a loving, reverent holistic manner, and I think that in itself is unique.”

Instead of “teaching to the test,” as a focus, “We want our children to flourish as human beings, wholly,” said Macker. “So we privilege working in the garden like we might privilege math. We privilege painting like we privilege history, so it’s an integrated, holistic curriculum wherein all of the human is honored.”

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“Head, Heart, and Hands” is one of the catchphrases you often hear. “When we talk about the head, we are talking about the academic and intellectual development of the child,” said 6th grade teacher and Administrator Carolyn Kaster. “So we see that we have a rigorous curriculum, but in addition to that, we are working with building capacities within the children. Rather than having a vessel that you’re filling up with information, we see it as building capacities in the children to learn and also fostering imagination and creativity.”

The heart, she explained, refers to social and emotional learning. “In our philosophy, we value the relationships,” said Kaster. “It’s very common in our school and in all Waldorf schools for the teacher-student relationship to span several years.” The long-term teacher-student and teacher-parent relationships create a unique partnership and connection.

The “hand” component, Kaster said, concerns the artistic approach to education, whether that means visual art, music, dance, woodwork, or another discipline. “All of the artistic parts of the curriculum are really woven throughout,” she explained. “So what you’ll see is that there’s not much of separation between art and the curriculum, but that there is art woven through.”

Altogether, Macker said that these programs ensure that their students’ socioemotional is thriving. “We’re really wanting the children to not be these mere heads sitting in desks who can pull off cognitive feats,” he said. “We’re really wanting them to be whole. For us, happiness is wholeness, so we proudly — and we do it fallibly, of course, and imperfectly — but we proudly fabric the social emotional into everything.” waldorfsantabarbara.org

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“When you come into college, there are literally hundreds of majors that you could choose from and thousands of different kinds of jobs, so one of our approaches is trying to simplify that for students as much as possible,”

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said SBCC Career Center Director Chris Phillips, who uses the “Guided Pathways” model to clarify a career path for students. “We try to help them make good, informed choices about their direction at the college.”

To do so, the center helps students narrow down their major and then follows up with work-based learning content. “We bring employers to campus and we try to get them internships and have kind of a career awareness about what they’re going to do after their major,” he said.

With that end in mind, the center offers one-onone academic counseling, workshops, career planning classes, and faculty collaborations. Two staff members focus on employers and one specializes in internships, even helping employers develop an internship program if they don’t have one. There’s also an online job and internship posting system exclusively for SBCC students.

The center works closely with the Office of Equity. “We are really trying to acknowledge the populations of our students who might not be getting this information,” said Phillips. “We want to really actively reach them and try to bring some more equity to the students when it comes to finding jobs and supporting all of our students. That’s really at the front and center of what we’re doing as a career center and as a college.” sbcc.edu/careercenter

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he SBCC Promise — which provides regional high school graduates the opportunity to attend Santa Barbara City College full-time, free of charge, for up to two years — started its fifth year this fall, with 5,000 students projected to have benefited by the end of the year.

SBCC Foundation CEO Geoff Green gave us an update.

Have there been any changes to how the SBCC Promise works?

We’ve been adjusting the offerings of the Promise based on feedback, so for us it’s a real-time experiment. One of the things we’re trying to figure out is how many students complete two or three years of the Promise but still have to stay one or two or three more semesters to be ready to transfer.

An Update on the College’s Signature Project We’ve also gotten requests from a few students saying, “I’m ready to go, but I can’t afford to pay for all of these transfer applications.” So we just added that if they go to a counselor and say, “I need help with this,” we’ll pay for their transfer apps. We’ll do that for students who were Promise students in, say, 2016-17 and are just now completing what they need for transfer.

You also changed the program so students who have a unit load accommodation, and take fewer classes because of a disability, can stay in SBCC Promise for longer. Yes, as we learn about different things, we’ve been doing that kind of stuff as we’ve also tried to measure and monitor.

Does SBCC Promise pay the college the same amount it would get if the students were paying individually? Yes, and in fact this was one of the unanticipated benefits that [former SBCC president] Jack Friedlander told me about the first semester we did this, before he retired. He said, “Do you SBCC Foundation CEO Geoff Green realize you actually generated a half million dollars last semester for the college? All of those stu- money to get all the way through year one and two and part dents, who based on previous data would not have been of year three very early and then it sloughed off. full-time, they went full-time so they could take advantage Basically, we were excited, we put all our energy into of the Promise. Because of those additional units they paid the program, and now we have to circle back and kick up for, that equaled half a million dollars of revenue for the our fundraising. So you can expect after the pandemic moment starts to shift back to whatever our new normal college.” is, you’ll see a big public campaign around funding the How are you doing right now in terms of funding? It’s tough. Promise.

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etting teens and tweens outside and active is particularly challenging during the days of COVID, so Santa Barbara Middle School (SBMS) — wellknown for embarking on pedal-powered learning adventures — challenged students to ride at least 26 miles during the month of September, while they were still learning from home. (They returned to in-person classes in October.)

The 26-mile marker is approximately the same distance students normally ride for their two-day orientation bike ride, explained Communications Manager Merritt Bauer. Since the pandemic restrictions shut down that activity, they decided to use the Strava app to challenge students and families to ride at least 26 miles.

Riviera Campus Finds Creative Challenges to Keep Kids Active “Families were very into it,” said Bauer. Providing even further incentive, they had the kids vote on what the prize would be if they hit their total goal of 5,000 miles of activity within the month. “Prizes were everything from a dunk tank to having our headmaster dress up in a pink gorilla suit for a week, which is exactly what ended up being the winning choice,” she laughed.

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ties such as surfing, hiking, walking, and even golf to be logged — ended up exceeding their goal by almost 800 miles. “We had all of our families participate in over 800 individual activities, which I think is pretty incredible,” said Bauer.

As a celebration when the Strava challenge was complete, and with strict and complicated health and safety mandates firmly in place, staff and students were able to do some bike rides in small groups. “We actually ended up driving through Goleta on our bikes and seeing a lot of SBMS alums and families who know our school and were screaming as we biked past, ‘We’re so happy to see you guys back on the road,’ ” Unable to do their annual orientation bicycle ride, SBMS students clocked 26 miles on their own, said Bauer. “It was definitely posi- riding through the Ellwood Bluffs and elsewhere. tive feedback all around just seeing people in the community and our families who had them in a pink gorilla suit, jumping hairy feet first into the just been dying to get our kids back together.” ocean with the kids on the final day.

When they ended their rides at Goleta Beach, as promsbms.org ised, Head of School Brian McWilliams was there to greet

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sing the garden as a classroom is certainly a welcome adaptation during the days of COVID. But this type of outdoor education has been a key curriculum component at Santa Ynez Valley Charter School since its founding in 2000, said Executive Director John Dewey.

Irises, and Intellect, Bloom When the Garden Is a Classroom Last year, the public charter school added a new iris garden to the mix, planting more than 120 unique irises. Each student in grades 3-8 chose and planted their own individual breed of the flower, complete with fun (and legit!) names like Rainbow Shadow, Milk in My Coffee, and Ice Sculpture. Tending these flowery plants and their showy flowers, students learn about planting, cultivating, harvesting, and composting, and teachers are able to incorporate lessons about the natural world, plant biology, ecology,

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S.Y.V. Charter School and the environmental impact of humans on the planet.

The Iris Garden is the newest feature in an almost three-acre garden on the property, which is cared for exclusively by students and parents. In order to plant the irises, the team reclaimed a hillside and the 5th graders did the work to terrace it, using railroad ties and “other bits and bobs,” said Dewey. “We have also logged the names of each plant, who planted it, as well as a photo of their blooms.”

As students Students at the Santa Ynez Valley Charter School learn about gardening by tending to their iris patch. start to return to school, the new 3rd graders will plant their garden focus, with flowering plants that attract insects irises, and so will all the staff members — and butterflies. they might even “dig down” to 2nd gradSanta Ynez Valley Charter School also recently became ers. “It’s pretty exciting for the kids,” said an Ocean Guardian School, a program sponsored by Dewey. “They have ownership of it, and NOAA for schools to do projects that foster the protecthey get so excited when their iris blooms.” tion of watersheds and the ocean. They are using the funds Also in the works for this school year are to separate food waste from trash and turn it into compost a series of grade-level gardens, which the stu- for the gardens. dents take care of and choose the themes for. The syvcs.org first gardens had a native plant theme and a butterfly

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hallenged by their teachers in their coding class to create some sort of an app, Providence Engineering Academy junior Sydney Whited and sophomore Ruby Kilpper created the Santa Barbara Volunteer Opportunities (SBVO) app, matching service-minded students to volunteer-seeking nonprofits.

Coding wasn’t either one of the girls’ favorite aspects of engineering prior to the project. But Kilpper explained, “I like to tackle each problem on its own and each assignment on its own, so I kept an open mind, and I really ended up enjoying it.”

Students Create App to Connect Kids with Nonprofits Inspired in part by Whited’s experience with the National Charity League’s sign-up program for volunteering, the pair designed the SBVO to improve on that concept with an easier interface and a bit more emphasis on the types of work (homeless services, elderly, special needs, children, animals, etc.) that might interest students. The idea is to find a service opportunity with the best fit for you.

“Especially in the beginning of the app, I was definitely the brainstormer,” said Whited. “But Ruby was

the go-getter the whole time,” she said, recalling the various challenges they went through to create the project. “Having a one-step signup was something we thought would really increase the amount of student volunteers in Santa Barbara.”

The girls were recognized for their creative efforts by Representative Salud Carbajal, who presented them with the Congressional App Challenge award on January 6, 2020, and invited them to a reception at the House of Representatives in Wash- Ruby Kilpper and Sydney Whited ington, D.C. “My office and I looked at all the entries,” Carbajal told them. “It was a very competitive pool, but your app rose to the top very quickly. It was innovative, practical, and userfriendly. Concept-wise it is very strong, but the way you approached it was very well executed.”

The students were excited to go to D.C. to participate in the annual #HouseOfCode on March 24, but that was canceled due to the pandemic. Additionally, work on the

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app, which is still in the development and testing stage, was derailed a bit when school went online last spring. But with Providence students back in class as of mid-October, Whited and Kilpper are hoping to continue to fine-tune SBVO and eventually make it available for the whole community to use. providencesb.org

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Here are a few reasons why Montessori continues to be prized by so many of today’s parents.

but there’s a peace shelf or a peace corner in every Montessori classroom. “It basically helps children to learn conflict resolution skills really early, so even in our 3- to 6-year-old classrooms, you might see something like a talking stick or a love light,” said Jacobs, who has been with the school for 27 years and is in her fifth year as head of school.

These tools are used to talk out conflicts and to learn to listen to what the other person is saying, “and then together they try to find some sort of compromise to solve their conflict. When they’re younger they need more guidance, but then as they get older into the elementary grades, a lot of the time they’re really able to work out what the problem is on their own.”

Development of a Lifelong Love of Learning “Children are encouraged to develop a love of learning for their whole lives,” said Melanie Jacobs, head of school at Montessori Center School. “We try to hook into their motivations and interests so that their learning is guided by that and they’re wanting to learn from inside. I think that’s how self-motivation is formed. We want it to be a lifelong love of learning, so that they’ll be inspired to continue to learn throughout their whole lives.”

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The Montessori focus on self-sufficiency and resilience is critical now.

“We also focus on independence and self-sufficiency and resilience, which this year especially, I think is actually very important,” said Jacobs. One of the Montessori sayings is “Never do for a child what they can do for themselves.” “We certainly guide a child that needs help, but then we step back and allow them to do as much of it as they can so that they become advocates in their own learning, especially as they get older. There is a lot of cre-

ative thinking and thinking out of the box, and there’s also a lot of collaboration with their classmates, which I think is really important right now because in their future work endeavors, collaboration is a big part of how companies encourage their employees to work.”

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Strategies vary depending on the level of the children,

Respect and Appreciation for Differences

A big Montessori theme is to encourage a lot of respect for and curiosity about other cultures.

“In today’s world, I think that’s very relevant,” Jacobs said. “Families are encouraged to share their culture in our community, and then it allows the children to sort of see the commonalities across all of the races and cultures for better understanding and respect.” mcssb.org

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through the summer, and we definitely had to tell some people no,” said Barnes.

“As much as I would love to welcome even more kids, we’re sort of at capacity relative to the situation we find ourselves in now. It leaves us with a few spare cabins for isolation or quarantine if needed; we need to reserve some of that bandwidth for that.”

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Olivos campus possible. “The seniors are “We’re dealing with Black Lives Matter like, ‘Yeah, we’re going to make sure every- and a profound shift in perspectives with body wears their mask.’ Inside of these regard to social justice issues — and we are challenging moments are also these incredible opportunities for students to learn how to tolerate adversity, to find the grit and really evaluate what the needs are versus the wants, and really discover the very best version of themselves. That is profoundly exciting as an educator.”

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always know that Mrs. Broderick will say ‘self-reflection leads to self-correction.’ We don’t really do detention here or punitive discipline. It’s all about how we figure out how we made a mistake based on our own ideas about something. And how do we then restore ourselves and the community and say I’m sorry, change your actions, move on.”

Marymount also recently announced a forward-thinking policy on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), while expanding its offerings to include 3-year-olds. A new director of student wellness and DEI and a licensed Independent School Welcomes clinical social worker, a full-time learning specialist, a full-time Diverse Backgrounds school nurse, and a full-time director of student wellness are available Kaleidoscope, the school’s signature to work with all students and families. curriculum developed more than a “We don’t have a traditional org chart,” decade ago in collaboration with UCSB, said Broderick. “We have learning and “uses the top 10 world religions to allow leadership teams, and we all make very students to find out about how we collaborative decisions. It’s fun — it’s a decide on our moral decision-making lot of fun.” and ethical decision-making through Though she admits it sounds “super the lens of different ethnic cultures smarmy,” Broderick is proud that her and backgrounds, both religious and favorite social media hashtag is #Hapnonreligious around the world,” said pyKidsLearn. “If they’re happy, their Broderick. brains are going to be open, and they’re “We are really here to welcome all going to be able to take in all the inforfaiths and traditions and to make sure mation we’re going to give them,” she that we have a very inclusive and wel- said. “But if they’re anxious or they’re coming community to all faiths and worried about their social interactions ethnic backgrounds,” said Broderick, or worried about stuff at home, they’re who recently formalized the inclusive not going to be paying attention in class. values of Marymount with new Mission There’s a ton of research to support that, but whether the discussion is inclusiv& Vision statements.

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thing on the market that was good enough,” Bourbon told me in my backyard a few weeks after dropping off a 32-ounce batch that my family slurped down in two days, its lusciously rich, ginger-spiced kick enjoyed by my kids and (mostly vegetarian) wife alike. Bourbon found the commercially available versions to be watered down and feared that the non-organic ones might be dangerous. And, she explained, “The shelf-stable ones creep me out.”

Initially, the broths were part of meals that Bourbon and Philkill brought to family and friends who’d JARS OF NUTRITION: Wishbone Broth is made from organic beef femurs, free-range chicken just had babies, believing the mar- bones, and an assortment of regionally sourced vegetables. row- and collagen-rich beverage to be a nutritional boost. The list of friends included Scott Walker and Erin Gomez, who Foods in Carpinteria, New Frontiers in Solvang, Rainown the Juice Ranch chain of juice bars. “They were bow Bridge in Ojai, and Gladden & Sons in Goleta. dying over the bone broth,” said Bourbon. “We could The 32-ounce jars, which contain four servings, are not make enough. They were finishing it so quickly.” $26, while the 16-ouncers are $16.

If they could bottle it, said the couple, Juice Ranch They’d also started a delivery service, with a minwould sell the bone imum order of four 32-ounce jars for $88. “When broth.

COVID hit, that became our primary thing,” said So Bourbon and Bourbon. “It’s basically a liquid gold mine for health.

Philkill got to work, If you drink it in the morning, it boosts your entire ordering organic, immune system and sets you up to protect yourself. grass-fed beef femurs So bone broth became important all of the sudden.” from SunFed Ranch; They’re developing a vegetarian version as well. necks, backs, and “How do I make a bone broth for someone who feet from Mary’s doesn’t drink bone broth?” said Bourbon of what Free-Range Chicken; inspired that challenge. They’ve honed a recipe to and Central Coast– deliver 25 percent of suggested daily calcium and grown produce, from potassium by using gypsum, Epsom, and sodium alliums to root veg- bicarbonate powders. “It’s a chemistry project,” she etables, to bolster the said. “We’re perfecting it so that it is high protein.” broth’s vitamin kick.

To that rocky core, they add their usual alliums, They started stocking root veg, and ginger, but also shiitake and lion’s mane Juice Ranch shelves mushrooms; toasted and pulverized pumpkin seeds about two years ago, for omega-3 fatty acids; sweet potato for iron; kelp, marking the first time kombu, and dulse for minerals and umami; and nutrithe chain sold a meat- tional yeast for B-12. I tried the veggie broth, which derived product. sells for the same price. While not quite as savory or “It really picked lush as the traditional bone broth, it hits the familiar up speed and became flavor and viscosity marks. one of their top sellThough bone broth is now the core of their busiers very quickly, ” said ness, Wishbone Wellbeing actually started as a BROTH SISTERS: Lena Philkill (left) and Isa Bourbon started their Wishbone brand as a catering company but are Bourbon, who now catering company nearly five years ago. That’s when now primarily focused on making and delivering bone broth. also sells Wishbone Bourbon moved back to her hometown of Santa BarBroth at Pacific Health bara after a decade spent learning — at a boarding cont’d on p. 37

hen the bone broth trend started simmering nearly a decade ago, I was not a quick convert. Though I am a lifelong meat eater, the phrase “bone broth” didn’t exactly scream “delicious,” nor did the cloudy, gelatinous appearance appeal to my eyes. Given that its rise came on the heels of the kombucha craze — another iffy-looking-andsounding liquid, full of magical promises — I was also dubious of the unchecked health claims, so prevalent in the modern healthy-eating market.

Then one day a couple of years back, as I stirred yet another spice-stacked stock made from our roast chicken remains, I realized how familiar we actually were with bone broth (at least by another name), and that countless cultures tout the body-nourishing, soul-warming effects of chicken soup and similarly savory salves. So by the time Wishbone Wellbeing reached out to share their Wishbone Broth with me this year — in the midst of a pandemic, when staying well was top of mind for everyone — I was open arms, ready to embrace the bone broth that Isa Bourbon and Lena Philkill were making from organic beef and chicken bones, boosted by locally sourced vegetables.

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Rescuing California’s Hellish 2020 Wine Vintage

SMOKE SALVATION? Santa Barbara County was one of the few wine grape-growing regions in the state that wasn’t burning during the harvest season. But this small wildfire scorched some vines just west of Buellton before harvest back in June.

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Which is why, more than ever before, there were ravaging the state and spreading the specter of numerous winemakers from up north poking around smoke taint far and wide, California was prepar- Santa Barbara County vineyards come harvest time. ing for a rough vintage of wine in 2020, particu- Especially in search of high-end pinot noir, but also larly for growers in Santa Barbara County. Coming ready for everything from syrah to cabernet sauvignon, off of two bountiful and beautiful vintages in 2018 and these out-of-town producers helped boost grape prices 2019, facing an oversaturated market of producers for many Santa Barbara growers. large and small, and then smashed with the unprecMost still earned less than the usual price per ton, edented uncertainties of the COVID-19 pandemic, and plenty of fruit was just left unpicked, as the market farmers expected the price of grapes to be the lowest remains flooded and pandemic-spooked. But the doom in recent memory, harking back to those pre-Sideways days that were predicted mellowed out considerably by days. harvest, while those growers from up north who’d otherAnd then much of California went up in flames, wise lost everything found some solace in Santa Barbara. including many wine-growing regions. While Napa “The one place that seems like it came and Sonoma attracted most of the national attenthrough largely unscathed was Santa Barbara tion, critical Central Coast appellations County,” said Adam Lee, the Santa Rosa– faced similar disasters. based founder of Siduri, Clarice, and Beau Winemakers in the Santa Cruz Marchais wines. Lee knows a number Mountains beat back flames around of producers from both Monterey and their homes and wineries, only to lose Sonoma counties who came to the region entire crops to smoke and heat. In Monfor grapes. “Then there are other producterey County, many vintners in the Santa ers, like Siduri and Walt [which buys Lucia Highlands were so surrounded by most of the Clos Pepe Vineyard], who N fires from Salinas and the Carmel Valley already work in Santa Barbara, but it’s N A TTM TT KE that they didn’t pick any red grapes, a stungoing to be a far greater emphasis for A M Y B ning blow to one of the world’s top pinot them than in previous years.” noir regions. (White-wine grapes were less Though Jeff Pisoni and his family did make some affected.) Smoke taint, which comes across on the experimental lots from their Santa Lucia Highlands red nose and palate more like acerbic ashtray than toasty grapes — “As a winemaker, I still wanted to pick somehickory in finished wines, is also affecting a tiny frac- thing,” he said — he came to the Sta. Rita Hills to fulfill tion of grapes in Paso Robles and the Edna Valley in what he needed for his Luli brand, which usually proSan Luis Obispo County. duces about 6,000 or so cases of pinot each year. Their Yet, for once, wildfire-weary Santa Barbara was not fears over smoke taint were compounded by the fact that beset on all sides by flashes of orange flame and sky- there was a massive delay in testing, so big decisions had high columns of smoke this summer. With very rare to be made somewhat blind. exceptions, our grapes are testing free from smoke But by sourcing this year from Peake Ranch, La taint. And while it was a furious, all-at-once kind of Encantada, and Zotovich, Pisoni was able to fill more vintage due to the heat spikes that started around than half of what was needed for Luli. His neighbors, the Labor Day, the fermenting wines appear to be in line Franscioni family of Roar Wines fame, also came to the with those beauties of the past two vintages.

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They’ve been impressed with what they found. Luli is typically a blend of vineyards, but Pisoni explained, “The grapes were really good, so maybe some will be single-vineyard wines.” For Lucia and Pisoni, the family’s top-end estate brands, there won’t be any 2020 reds, only about 1,000 cases of chardonnay.

“Surely, Santa Barbara County helped fill that gap in the fire zones,” confirmed Jeff Newton, whose company Coastal Vineyard Care manages numerous properties. But he’s quick to note that the bulk wine market — which consists of finished but unbottled wines that are sold from winery to winery — also came through in the clutch for many wineries.

“Two weeks before the fires, the bulk market was super flooded with wine,” said Newton, specifically referring to the unsold amounts from the 2019 harvest.

“Then after the fires, people were coming to Santa Barbara County, but they were also dipping into the bulk market in a big way. They are way down on the bulk inventories now.”

Therein lies a potential upside: After a few years approaching a glut of wines across California, the fires and smoke taint fears may have forced the overall market back in balance. “It’s a little hard to tell right now, but some people say that we are back in an equilibrium,” explained Newton.

The downside, of course, is that many small, familyowned vineyards that couldn’t sell any fruit at all might not recover at all. “You’re gonna lose some growers in this process, and that’s concerning,” said Lee, who works with vineyards from Lompoc to Oregon, which also suffered from wildfires. “Some very good people perhaps won’t make it because they didn’t get paid for their work this year.”

For the most part, Santa Barbara County growers narrowly escaped such a fate in 2020 and helped other regions survive along the way. But as our summers keep getting hotter, drier, and more wildfire-friendly, it’s highly possible that Santa Barbara winemakers may need to look north during harvests to come. n

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by Wine Enthusiast as part of the magazine’s annual Wine Star Awards. (Full disclosure: I also work for Wine Enthusiast and wrote the article that accompanied Brewer’s award.)

A humble, thoughtful vintner who also makes the Diatom and Ex Post Facto wines, Brewer sees the honor as vindication not of himself but of the Sta. Rita Hills, the appellation between Buellton and Lompoc that he’s touted for a quarter century.

“It really is an acknowledgement of the appellation in my eyes,” Brewer told Wine Enthusiast.

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“I want to make healthy eating approachable, and I want people to be inspired to take health into their own hands,” said Bourbon. “So much of the issue is that we’re not educated around food. It’s not something we learn in school and, if our parents don’t know about it, we miss that education. On the other side, you have big business pushing you to have unhealthy things.”

Her upbringing emphasized the right side of food.

“The kitchen was the living room; it was the focus of the home,” she said. “We cooked together. We ate together.

My dad is more the mad-scientist chef. He never makes the same thing. My mom is much more the organized baker, using recipes. I have both of those aspects within me.”

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Eleven years ago, a group of community artists came together to invent a tradition that’s been going strong ever since.

Each fall at around this time, whimsically painted pianos, mostly of the upright persuasion, would appear on State Street as if by magic, and with the expressly implied invitation that passersby feel free to sit down and play them as much or as little as they liked. “Chopsticks” was heard, as was “Row, Row, Row Your Boat,” and other pieces from the beginner’s repertoire, but so were many beautiful improvisations and even some certified canonical classics. For many of us, this kind of delightful spontaneity, set amid the splendor of our gorgeous downtown, came to represent one of the most precious aspects of life in this city—its collective willingness to stop and hear the music of life. The easy accessibility of rare and wonderful experiences at no cost, for no particular reason, and with no external agenda made Pianos on State an instant and undebatable hit.

Needless to say, clusters of people hovering around while strangers play keyboards that unknown others have lately touched is a nonstarter in this era of COVID. Nevertheless, the dauntless crew behind Pianos on State has rallied, determined that not just in spite of, but explicitly because of the current necessity of social distancing, Pianos on State must go on. The result, “Pianos on State 2020: Pianos Online,” combines elements of the traditional event — in particular, the gloriously colorful painted pianos — with a new approach to making them public. From November 6 through November 25, six pianos painted

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FEELIN’ IVORY: Zach Gill (pictured in 2017) performed an online concert at the Lobero this week as part of Pianos on State 2020.

JINGLE BURGERS: by six artists will be fanned out across six of the city’s performing arts venues. Solange Aguilar, David Diamant, Jack Mohr, Steven Harper, Karen Putnam, and Irene Ramirez have been hard at socially distanced work in the atelier SBCAW, creating their musical masterpieces for distribution. Now that the pianos are in place, there will be online concerts available to celebrate the season and to support music, the arts, our performing arts venues, and the human spirit at these fine locations: the Lobero Theatre, the Santa Barbara Bowl, the Marjorie Luke Theatre, SOhO, Center Stage Theater, and the Community Arts Workshop. Performances kicked off on Friday, November 13, at the Bowl, and continued on Tuesday, November 17, at the Lobero featuring Zach Gill and performers from Opera Santa Barbara. SBCAW will upload their contribution on Sunday, November 22, and

the Marjorie Luke will present a six-pack of keyboard artists online on Wednesday, November 25, just in time for your Thanksgiving holiday.

It wouldn’t be Pianos on State, however, if it didn’t provide opportunities for members of the community—like possibly you!—to participate. There are two social media platforms @pianosonstate, one on Facebook and the other on Instagram, where the hashtags #pianosonstate2020 and #arthelps will be enabled to allow folks to upload and find their own and others’ keyboard performances on video. Made possible by a team of volunteers and seven generous sponsors, Pianos on State 2020 promises to deliver just the kind of Santa Barbara serendipity that we’ve all been missing so much. Even if we can’t do it downtown like we used to, we can still do what we can to keep this charming and heartfelt tradition alive.

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Parry Gripp, still probably best known as the leader of Nerf Herder, has built a gently twisted 21st-century musical empire out of social media and silly singles.

Jingle Burgers represents one more gleeful expression of Gripp’s irrepressible internet drive toward ridiculousness. As with his many amazing YouTube hits, plus the Emmy Award–winning work he’s done for cartoons on television, these 90-second musical snowballs will appeal to that well-loved demographic commonly known as “children of all ages.” With meticulously crafted toddler symphonies like “Raining Tacos (On Christmas Eve)” and “Pirate Santa Claus,” Gripp comes on like a kindergarten Brian Wilson or a Phil Spector for the preschool set.

One way to enjoy Jingle Burgers that doesn’t necessarily require singing along (although that’s always highly recommended) is to listen for the hip genre experiments that give each track a distinctive flavor. For example, “Pancakes We Have Cooked on High,” which extols the singer’s preference for slightly burned but still soggy in the middle flapjacks, cops its chorus from “Angels We Have Heard on High,” a carol that is itself ripping off the hymn “Gloria in excelsis Deo.” Taco-chewing as percussion on “Raining Tacos” adds crunchy texture to a song that’s already loaded with tasty musical cheese. “Pirate Santa Claus” comes on like an outtake from Paul’s Boutique only to morph into a holiday-themed sea shanty. The album’s title track, “Jingle Burgers,” celebrates the appeal of a Christmas tree hung with hamburgers in the catchy robot-chic idiom of Lipps Inc.’s immortal “Funkytown.”

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY by Rob Breszny ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19): Back in 1974, poet Allen Ginsberg and his “spirit wife,” Aries poet Anne Waldman, were roommates at the newly established Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. The school’s founder asked these two luminaries to create a poetics program, and thus was born the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Waldman described its ruling principle to be the “outrider” tradition, with a mandate to explore all that was iconoclastic, freethinking, and irreverent. The goal of teachers and students alike was to avoid safe and predictable work so as to commune with wild spiritual powers, “keep the energies dancing,” and court eternal surprise. I think that would be a healthy approach for you to flirt with during the next few weeks.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): Any legal actions you take are more

likely to be successful if you initiate them between now and the solstice than if you begin them at other times. The same is true for any contracts you sign or agreements you make: They have a better chance to thrive than they would at other times. Other activities with more kismet than usual during the coming weeks: efforts to cultivate synergy and symbiosis; attempts to turn power struggles into more cooperative ventures; a push to foster greater equality in hierarchal situations; and ethical moves to get access to and benefit from other people’s resources.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Never follow an expert off a precipice.

Nor a teacher. Nor an attractive invitation. Nor a symbol of truth nor a vibrant ideal nor a tempting gift. In fact, never follow anything off a precipice, no matter how authoritative or sexy or appealing it might be. On the other hand, if any of those influences are headed in the direction of a beautiful bridge that can enable you to get to the other side of a precipice, you should definitely consider following them. Be on the alert for such lucky opportunities in the coming weeks.

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(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “A little bad taste is like a nice splash

into the Dagara tribe of Burkina Faso. After being initiated into the Dagara’s spiritual mysteries, he immigrated to America, where he has taught a unique blend of modern and traditional ideas. One of his key themes is the hardship that Westerners’ souls endure because of the destructive impact of the machine world upon the spiritual world. He says there is “an indigenous person within each of us” that longs to cultivate the awareness and understanding enjoyed by indigenous people: a reverence for nature, a vital relationship with ancestors, and a receptivity to learn from the intelligence of animals. How’s your inner indigenous person doing? The coming weeks will be an excellent time to enhance your ability to commune with and nurture that vital source.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Psychologists have identified a quality

they call NFD: “need for drama.” Those who possess it may be inclined to seek or even instigate turmoil out of a quest for excitement. After all, bringing a dose of chaos into one’s life can cure feelings of boredom or powerlessness. “I’m important enough to rouse a Big Mess!” may be the subconscious battle cry. I’ll urge you Leos to studiously and diligently avoid fostering NFD in the coming weeks. In my astrological opinion, you will have a blessed series of interesting experiences if and only if you shed any attraction you might have to histrionic craziness.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Give up the notion that you must be

sure of what you are doing,” wrote philosopher Baruch Spinoza. “Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure.” Spinoza’s thoughts will be a great meditation for you in the coming weeks. If you go chasing phantom hopes, longing for absolute certainty and iron confidence, you’ll waste your energy. But if you identify what is most genuine and true and essential about you, and you rely on it to guide you, you can’t possibly fail.

of paprika,” said Libran fashion writer Diana Vreeland. “We all need a splash of bad taste,” she continued. “It’s hearty, it’s healthy, it’s physical. I think we could use more of it. Having no taste is what I’m against.” I understand that her perspective might be hard to sell to you refined Librans. But I think it’s good advice right now. Whatever’s lacking in your world, whatever might be off-kilter, can be cured by a dash of good, funky earthiness. Dare to be a bit messy and unruly.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): To convey the spirit of the coming

weeks, I’m offering you wisdom from two women who were wise about the art of slow and steady progress. First, here’s author Iris Murdoch: “One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.” Your second piece of insight about the wonders of prudent, piecemeal triumph comes from activist and author Helen Keller: “I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian statesman Winston

Churchill said that he was always ready to learn — even though there were times when he didn’t enjoy being taught. That might be a useful motto for you to adopt in the coming months. By my estimates, 2021 could turn out to bring a rather spectacular learning spurt — and a key boost to your lifelong education.

If you choose to take advantage of the cosmic potentials, you could make dramatic enhancements to your knowledge and skill set. As Churchill’s message suggests, not all of your new repertoire will come easily and pleasantly. But I bet that at least 80 percent of it will. Start planning!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In accordance with upcoming astro-

logical indicators, I’ve got some good advice for you courtesy of your fellow Capricorn David Bowie. You’ll be well-served to keep it in mind between now and January 1, 2021. “Go a little bit out of your depth,” counseled Bowie. “And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.” For extra inspiration, I’ll add another prompt from the creator of Ziggy Stardust: “Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you’re pretty much on the way out.” In that spirit, my dear Capricorn, please take measures to expand your sense of wonder during the next six weeks. Make sure you’re on your way in.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Most of us aren’t brilliant virtuosos

like, say, Leonardo da Vinci or Nobel Prize–winning scientist Marie Curie. On the other hand, every one of us has a singular amalgam of potentials that is unique in the history of the world — an exceptional flair or an idiosyncratic mastery or a distinctive blend of talents.

In my astrological opinion, you Aquarians will have unprecedented opportunities to develop and ripen this golden and glorious aspect of yourself in 2021. And now is a good time to begin making plans. I encourage you to launch your year-long Festival of Becoming by writing down a description of your special genius.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In 1969, humans flew a spaceship to the moon and landed on it for the first time. In 1970, the state of Alabama finally made it legal for interracial couples to get married. That’s a dramatic example of how we humans may be mature and strong in some ways even as we remain backward and undeveloped in other ways. According to my astrological analysis, the coming months will be a highly favorable time for the immature and unseasoned parts of you to ripen. I encourage you to get started!

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LEGALS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) SACRED LOTIONS at 1221 State Street, Suite 12 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Charlena R Cooper (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Charlene Cooper Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 26, 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: 2020‑0002640.

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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: 2020‑0002641.

Published: Oct 29. Nov 5, 12, 19 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) THE NECK at 15 Arroyo Vista Dr Goleta, CA 93117; Isabella Santi Esteves Freiria (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Isabela Santi Esteves Freiria Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 26, 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: 2020‑0002651.

Published: Oct 29. Nov 5, 12, 19 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) S U P E R VA L U E S M O G a t 403 De La Vina Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Scott C Brodie (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Scott Brodie Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 15, 2020.

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Published: Oct 29. Nov 5, 12, 19 2020.

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Santa Barbara, 93105 conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Jeanette Webber Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 8, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002542. Published: Oct 29. Nov 5, 12, 19 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) SR TECHNOLOGIES at 5671 Ekwill St #103 First Floor Goleta, CA 93111; Christopher B Moore 16387 C o n e s t o g a R d . H i d d e n Va l l e y Lake, CA 95467 conducted by a Individual Signed: Christopher B Moore Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 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: 2020‑0002583. Published: Oct 29. Nov 5, 12, 19 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) VERCIEL a t 6 7 1 1 S a b a d o Ta r d e R d Santa Barbara, CA 93117; Mitchell B Lewis (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Mitchell Lewis Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 22, 2020.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002625.

Published: Nov 5, 12, 19, 25 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) V E N T U C O PA H I G H L A N D S V I N E YA R D a t 6 4 8 5 C a l l e Rreal, Suites E & F Goleta, CA 93117; Anacapa Fund 407 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 conducted by a Corporation Signed: Gail Zannon Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 26, 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: 2020‑0002638. Published: Nov 5, 12, 19, 25 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) GOODLAND DINING at 231 South Magnolia Ave Goleta, CA 93117; Monrroy Enterprise LLC (same address) conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Rosalinda Monrroy Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 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: 2020‑0002667. Published: Nov 5, 12, 19, 25 2020.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) DRESDEN BODY AND WELLNESS at 1805 East Cabrillo Blvd, Suite E Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Dresden Holden 5693 West Camino Cielo Santa Barbara, CA 93105 conducted by a Individual Signed: Dresden Holden Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 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: 2020‑0002680.

Published: Nov 5, 12, 19, 25 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) CORNERSTONE HOME LENDING at 1828 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Cornerstone Home Lending, Inc. 1177 West Loop South, Suite 700 Houston, TX 77027 conducted by a Corporation Signed: Adam Wade Laird Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 26, 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: 2020‑0002637.

Published: Nov 5, 12, 19, 25 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) C O A S TA L GROWN APOTHECARY at 516 Myrtle Ct Solvang, CA 93463; Amy M Donnelly (same address) conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Amy Donnelly Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 4, 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: 2020‑0002729. Published: Nov 12, 19, 25. Dec 3 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) GROOMIN N AT I O N at 4067 State St Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Justin S P l a c k e t t 1 4 1 Va l d i v i a D r Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Andrea M Plackett (same address) conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Amy Donnelly Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 4, 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: 2020‑0002672. Published: Nov 12, 19, 25. Dec 3 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) LINDA ALANIZ ART at 3835 Connie Way Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Linda Alaniz (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Linda Alaniz Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 27, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002658. Published: Nov 12, 19, 25. Dec 3 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T The following person ( s ) C O A S TA L , C O A S TA L DISPENSARY at 901 E m b a r c a d e r o D e l M a r, S u i t e 104 Goleta, CA 93117; C o a s t a l R e t a i l I V, L L C 8 1 9 Reddick Street Suite D Santa Barbara, CA 93103 conducted by a Limited Liabilty Company Signed: Julian Michalowski Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 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: 2020‑0002706.

Published: Nov 12, 19, 25. Dec 3 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: SYCAMORE FARM at 801 Highway 246 Solvang, CA 93463; Ballard Ranch LLC 8460 San Fernando Rd S u n V a l l e y, C A 9 1 3 5 2 T h i s business is conducted by an Limited Liability Company Signed: Solomon Aryeh Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 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: 2020‑0002766.

Published: Nov 19, 25.

Dec 3, 10 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) S A N TA B A R B A R A S C E N T S , INDIE, RIVER, S A N TA BARBARA, B U T T E R F LY BEACH, MISSION, INDIE OCEAN, RIVER SEA, V A C A Y, B E A C H Y, HAMMONDS, SAND & STONE, CASHMERE, BEACHY CASHMERE, S TAY C AY, ROSE GARDEN, SAN YSIDRO, LEADBETTER, MIRAMAR BEACH, HENDRY’S, THE P I T, B U T T E R F LY B E A C H , MESA LANE, SANDYLAND, RINCON, TRAIL HIKE, H I K E , S A N TA B A R B A R A TRAILS, SUMMERLAND, MONTECITO, MONTECITO M I S C H I E F, STRAIGHT FIRE, B E T, SHADE, L E W K , L O W K E Y, L I T a t 3740 Alcamo Place Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Heather J Andrew (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Heather Andrew Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 5, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002740. Published: Nov 19, 25. Dec 3, 10 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) RIVIERA PRIVATE WEALTH SERVICES LLC at 7 W Figueroa St, Suite 305 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Joshua Griep 980 Miramonte Dr Unit 3 Santa Barbara, CA 93109 (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Joshua Griep Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 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: 2 0 2 0 ‑ 0 0 0 2 7 7 7 .

Published: Nov 19, 25. Dec 3, 10 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: INTELSIO at 1218 E De La Guerra St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Mobile Focused Media, Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by an Corporation Signed: Matthwe Frank Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 4, 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: 2 0 2 0 ‑ 0 0 0 2 7 2 4 .

Published: Nov 19, 25. Dec 3, 10 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: BOOM BOOM BIKE ROOM at 1924 De La Vina St. Suite E Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Erin J Guerena 715 W Pedregosa St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Alejandro S Guerena (same address) This business is conducted by an Married Couple Signed: Erin Guerena Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 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: 2 0 2 0 ‑ 0 0 0 2 7 6 3 .

Published: Nov 19, 25. Dec 3, 10 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: STREETON CREATIVE at 5057 Santa Susana Avenue Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Katherine K Streeton (same address) This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Katherine Kelly Streeton Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 4, 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.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: SUMMERLAND PETS at 4551 Oak Glen Drive, Unit E Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Alisha N Ayers (same address) This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Alisha Nicole Ayers Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 12, 2020.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002783.

Published: Nov 19, 25. Dec 3, 10 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) is/are doing business as: IDYLL MERCANTILE at 1841 Loma St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Idyll LLC (same address) This business is conducted by an Limited Liability Company Signed: Hannah Bangs Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 4, 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: 2020‑0002732.

Published: Nov 19, 25. Dec 3, 10 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: GOUVION CLOTHING at 1320 East Gutierrez St Apt B Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Andres M Rivera (same address) This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Andres Rivera Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 26, 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: 2020‑0002648. Published: Nov 19, 25. Dec 3, 10 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) is/are d o i n g b u s i n e s s a s : S TAT I O N HOUSE ENTERPRISES at 2 1 0 0 R e d R o s e W a y, A p t S Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Joanne Marie Station (same address) This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Joanne M. Station Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 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: 2020‑0002694. Published: Nov 19, 25. Dec 3, 10 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: I AM HEALING at 121 W Pueblo St Suite 14 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Allyson A Avila 97 Nectarine Ave Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by an General Partnership Signed: Allyson Avila Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 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: 2020‑0002722.

Published: Nov 19, 25.

Dec 3, 10 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: ZEN AI at 726 Chelham Way Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Jamie B Watson (same address) This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Jamie Watson Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 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: 2020‑0002778. Published: Nov 19, 25. Dec 3, 10 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: HEART SHAPE LIFE.COM at 6221 Muirfield Dr Goleta, CA 93117; Victoria A. Bennett (same address) This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Victoria A. Bennett Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 26, 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: 2020‑0002653.

Published: Nov 19, 25.

Dec 3, 10 2020.

NAME CHANGE 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 R I TA C L E R I H E W TAT E O R D E R TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 20CV03297 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): F R O M : R I TA C L E R I H E W TAT E TO: R I TA CLERIHEW BRIND’ AMOUR 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, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition

without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Dec 4, 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 t h i s c o u n t y, a t l e a s t once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition.

Dated Oct 22, 2020 by Donna D. Geck, Judge of the Superior Court.

Published: Oct 29. Nov 5, 12, 19 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 R O B E R T GEORGE LUCIE‑SMITH ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 20CV02811 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: ROBERT GEORGE LUCIE‑SMITH TO: ROBERT ANTHONY BENNETT 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, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must aooear 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 withouta hearing. Notice of Hearing Dec 15, 2020 10:00 am, Dept 3 , C o u r t h o u s e , S A N TA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in t h i s c o u n t y, a t l e a s t once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition.

Dated Nov 9, 2020. by T h o m a s P. A n d e r l e . of the Superior Court.

Published. Nov 12, 19, 25. Dec 3 2020.

IN THE M AT T E R OF T H E A P P L I C AT I O N O F N ATA L I E K A R E N Y E S C A S ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 20CV03059 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): F R O M : N ATA L I E K A R E N YESCAS TO: N ATA L I E KAREN GOTO 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, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must aooear 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 withouta hearing.

Notice of Hearing Jan 8, 2020 10:00 am, Dept 4 , C o u r t h o u s e , S A N TA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in t h i s c o u n t y, a t l e a s t once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Nov 6, 2020. by Donna D. Geck. of the Superior Court. Published. Nov 19, 25. Dec 3, 10 2020.

PUBLIC NOTICES S TAT E O F N E W M E X I C O C O U N T Y O F S A N TA F E FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT C a s e N o .

D‑101‑CV‑2020‑01341 RODEO ELECTRICAL SERVICES, INC. AND SCOTT ROSENBERG, Plaintiffs, v.

SUNFLOWER BANK, N.A., CHARITY FELCH, AND M AT H E W F E L C H , Defendants.

COMPLAINT F O R V I O L AT I O N O F T H E UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE AND UNFAIR PRACTICES A C T, BREACH OF C O N T R A C T, BREACH OF THE COVENANT OF GOOD FAITH AND FAIR DEALING, NEGLIGENCE, I N T E N T I O N A L INFLICTION OF EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, C O N V E R S I O N , FRAUD, NEGLIGENT MISREPRESENTATION, AND BREACH OF FIDUCIARY DUTY Service by publication is hereby made against Defendants Charity Felch and Mathew Felch.

This is legal notice that Plaintiffs Rodeo Electrical Services, Inc. and Scott Rosenberg have filed a Complaint against you in the First Judicial District Court in Santa Fe, New Mexico for money damages relating to your conduct while employed

by Plaintiffs. Plaintiffs are represented by the law firm Bardacke Allison L L P, w h o y o u c a n c o n t a c t at 141 E. Palace Avenue, 2 d F l o o r, S a n t a F e , N M 87501, by telephone at 505‑995‑8000, or by email at info@ bardackeallison.com. If you do not file a response to plaintiffs’ Complaint within thirty (30) days after the third publication of this notice, the court may enter a default judgment against you.

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