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volume 35, # 776, Nov. 25-Dec. 3, 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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For this Giving Tuesday, the Santa Barbara Independent is encouraging our readers to participate in supporting good causes by highlighting area nonprofits and their great work. This has been a year unlike any other, and our community needs our nonprofit community more than ever. In this paper on page 32 and online at independent.com/givingtuesday, you will find a sliver of the nonprofits doing good work in the Santa Barbara community. We encourage our readers, if able, to contribute this season to one of the listed or a favorite nonprofit.

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

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Health Officials: Keep Fighting Lockdown Fatigue

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t’s time to batten down the hatches again, county officials implored the public Friday, as the rate of new coronavirus infections continues to climb and an inevitable surge in hospitalizations and deaths looms over the coming weeks.

“We are facing another rapid increase in COVID19 cases,” said Dr. Van DoReynoso, director of the Public Health Department.

“I anticipate more difficult days ahead.”

Detailed information on Santa Barbara’s metrics is available on the county’s HEALTHY HOLIDAYS: Sacrifices made during Thanksgiving will keep others alive and out of the ICU for Christmas. newly released Community Data Dashboard (tinyurl.com/sb-covid- spelled out in Santa Barbara’s relapse into Dr. Lynn Fitzgibbons, an infectious-disdashboard). The current number of active the purple tier and the nighttime curfew ease specialist with Cottage Health, said the cases as of press time Tuesday — 333— mir- that went into effect for most of the state county is “clearly entering the next chaprors those reported over the summer during over the weekend — will be reflected in the ter” of the COVID-19 battle. The sacrifices the last major spike. The death count stands number of people who fall ill shortly before that are made now will “dictate the shape at 133.

Christmas. of December,” she said. Things are moving Since March, eight long months ago, “Let us not become weary in doing so rapidly that “no one knows what January Santa Barbarans have shown incredible good,” Do-Reynoso intoned, quoting from will look like.” patience and fortitude in fighting the spread the Bible, “for at the proper time we will As the virus lives on, the medical comof the virus, Do-Reynoso said. Our figures, reap a harvest if we do not give up.” munity’s knowledge of it grows, Fitzgibwhile cause for serious concern, remain Second District Supervisor Gregg Hart bons said. Infected people typically develop below the rates of neighboring San Luis echoed Do-Reynoso and emphasized the symptoms 3-14 days after exposure, with Obispo and Ventura counties. But we can’t unrelenting demand on Santa Barbara’s symptoms steadily getting worse after the let our guard down. Limiting Thanksgiving doctors and nurses. first signs of sickness. Approximately 10-15 gatherings to your immediate household is “There will be no holiday break for the percent of patients need to be hospitalized, critical, she said, acknowledging the lock- exhausted health-care community,” he said. Fitzgibbons said, with death taking the sickTesting demand has increased so much est in one to three weeks of being admitted. down fatigue felt by all.

How well we follow health orders now, at the Goleta site that it will now open on Stay home, wear a mask, and wash your Do-Reynoso continued — including those Tuesdays.

—Tyler Hayden hands, she reminded.

SBCC to Update Student-Teacher Sex Policy

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SpaceX and Vandenberg Air Force Base tallied another apparently flawless launch and reentry of the Falcon 9 rocket, which took off over the Pacific.

The rocket booster was visible from as far away as Santa Barbara as it descended, landing with a window-shaking sonic boom 11/21. The payload was the French ocean science satellite, named for Michael Freilich, NASA’s head of Earth Science who died in August. The air base, however, missed out making the shortlist of six bases to be considered as headquarters for Space Command, which was reestablished in 2018. Instead, air bases in Texas, Florida, Alabama, Colorado, New Mexico, and Nebraska are under consideration.

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anta Barbara City College is looking to formally put a stop to relationships between students and staff or teachers with a new policy that would prohibit faculty from “engag[ing] or seek[ing] to engage in a sexual relationship or sexual behavior with a student enrolled in the college,” among other restrictions.

“There is currently an instructor out on administrative leave because he did drugs and slept with a student,” SBCC Academic Senate President Raeanne Napoleon said at a senate meeting. “And I’m sorry if that is shocking for people, but that’s where this is coming from.

Unfortunately, we need to create policies to tell people very obvious things.”

The instructor Napoleon was referring to is Erin Burke O’Connor, an astronomy professor who, in a complaint filed against him in the Santa Barbara Superior Court in 2019, was charged with furnishing alcohol to a minor

Recognizing the essential nature of farmworkers’ jobs and the high rates of coronavirus they have suffered, Bank of America donated one million surgical masks to California’s Office of Emergency Services, 200,000 of which came to S.B. County.

The Mixteco Indígena Community Organizing Project (MICOP)’s successful education program on viral spread was acknowledged as the Bank of America gave another 20,000 masks to MICOP alone. Vice Chair Thong Nguyen said the bank had “a responsibility to help protect the most vulnerable members of our community in these challenging times.”

(the student), a charge to which O’Connor has pleaded no contest. The college also received a third-party complaint against O’Connor for his relationship with the student, and he was subsequently put on administrative leave.

“Last year, I had a brief relationship with an adult student who was formerly in one of my courses at the college,” O’Connor told the Independent. “… [W]hile the student confirmed during the investigation that our relationship was consensual, I nevertheless regret that decision and have accepted consequences from the district for entering into this relationship.”

The college’s Board of Trustees voted to approve a settlement between an unnamed employee and the college at its September 10 closed-session meeting. Though details of the settlement are not immediately available, college sources confirmed the settlement was with O’Connor and that he is returning to teach again in the coming year.

O’Connor’s situation was not an isolated incident for the college. According to Linda Esparza Dozer, the college’s Title IX and gender equity coordinator, there have been eight complaints filed for inappropriate studentemployee relationships in the past two years.

Four of those complaints resulted in a formal investigation. Up until the move to update the policy, the college only discouraged relationships between teachers and students.

“The policy addresses important issues, and we’re going to be a leader among community colleges with it,” said SBCC Trustee Jonathan Abboud. “We need this to protect students in uneven power dynamics. I don’t think it’s going to be an easy fight to approve it, but we can.”

The Board of Trustees gave the drafted version of the policy to the Academic Senate to review and give feedback. Ultimately, it must come back to the trustees for final approval.

—Delaney Smith

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Since the State Lands Commission started decommissioning Platform Holly in May 2017, the pressure in the wells has sent oil up the casing strings. That oil has been stored at the Ellwood Onshore Facility and the hydrogen sulfide removed, but the tanks are nearing capacity. As of 11/20, tanker trucks began removing roughly 3,000 barrels of oil and taking it to the Phillips 66 refinery in Arroyo Grande, a process that will continue until 12/11, at a rate of about two trucks per day.

ISLA VISTA Isla Vista just won a $182,000 grant to create a planning program for transportation and parking in the community, announced Spencer Brandt, president of I.V.’s Community Services District board. The program will enable the newly established governing body to identify gaps in mobility and to create a list of projects to increase access to sustainable and affordable modes of transportation. Surveys, outreach, pop-up demonstrations, and funding plans will come next, funded by the state Sustainable Transportation Equity Project grant. n

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A FIRST: Pfizer may have a COVID vaccine in distribution in mid-December.

Pfizer, Moderna Vaccines Expected Soon Drug Manufacturer Says Ready to Ship ‘Within Hours’ of Emergency Use Authorization in December

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third wave of coronavirus cases continues to crest around the world, but positive news came of working vaccines from two drug manufacturers — one of which has applied for emergency approval from the Food and Drug Administration. The first vaccines should be available in Santa Barbara County as early as the end of the year, Health Officer Dr. Henning Ansorg said on November 13.

On Friday, Pfizer announced it had submitted its BNT162b2 vaccine for emergency-use authorization (EUA) to the Food and Drug Administration, the same emergency process that has allowed virus test kits of varying efficacy to enter the market.

Pfizer stated that once the authorization was approved, it would be ready to ship the drug “within hours,” with the timeframe most likely by mid- to late December. It expects to produce 50 million doses this year, and 1.3 billion by the end of 2021, with global distribution. Pfizer’s partner in the vaccine development is BioNTech of Germany.

Moderna, the second manufacturer to announce a vaccine, stated its vaccine was 95 percent effective and that it would apply for an EUA within two weeks. Pfizer’s is said to be equally effective but must be stored at much colder sub-zero temperatures than Moderna’s.

The county’s Public Health department stated that not only are those two vaccines soon to be available, but study results were expected from vaccines being tested

by AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson.

“Right now, it appears that the Pfizer vaccine will be the first available, with the Moderna following closely behind,” members of the county’s Emergency Preparedness Program wrote in an email.

The Pfizer trial involved 38,000 people who took the second dose of the vaccine — it is a two-dose vaccination — including 100 children 12-15 years of age. Among U.S. participants, 30 percent were of varied racial and ethnic backgrounds. Moderna’s study was in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health and the FDA, and its 30,000 participants included more than 7,000 peo-

ple who were over the age of 65; 42 percent of all participants were in high-risk groups; and 11,000 were from communities of color.

The third phase of the drug trials for both companies started in July, and the people receiving the second dose are to be followed for two years. Participants were told to respect the usual COVID-19 protocols, a Pfizer representative stated, such as wearing a face mask, washing their hands frequently, and avoiding crowded places. Pfizer’s study results showed 170 people came down with COVID out of the 38,000 participants — who spanned the globe — 162 of them in the placebo group. Ten had severe cases, one of which was in the vaccinated group.

No deaths occurred, and about 2 percent of people reported side effects of fatigue or headache.

County Public Health’s Emergency Preparedness Program has been organizing a vaccine campaign. The first people to receive the shot in either late December or early January would be “high-risk healthcare workers, including hospital, skilled nursing, and assisted living workers, and first responders; and the next for individuals at highest risk for developing severe illness, such as residents of skilled nursing and assisted living facilities.”

Public Health is now counting heads to know how many people that comprises.

Some state funding has come in to help with the initial set of vaccinations, but more funding will be necessary to vaccinate everyone in the county. The phases of the vaccination at large are still being coordinated with California’s public health department.

Logistically, transporting, storing, and handling the vaccine present challenges.

The Pfizer vaccine requires an ultra-low temperature of minus-70 degrees Fahrenheit, and the Moderna vaccine requires minus-2 degrees F. Guidance on handling and administering the fragile vaccines was still being written, the preparedness group said.

The vaccine itself would be free, they added, but private doctors would be able to n charge for the cost of giving the shot.

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FORCE FILES

A Body Slam, a Broken Back, and a $950,000 Payday County Settles Lawsuit with Man Injured During Meth-Fueled Chase

by Tyler Hayden t was just after 2 a.m. on June 1, 2018, when Deputy Anthony Muneton, a first-year rookie with the Santa Barbara Sheriff ’s Office, witnessed Chandler French, a 28-year-old former restaurant manager who’d fallen on hard times and bad habits, driving erratically on Highway 101 near Summerland. French had just finished a late-night bite at Jack in the Box and was headed back to the Carpinteria Motel 6, where he was living. He was high on methamphetamine.

As Muneton followed, French jerked onto the southbound off-ramp toward Lookout Park. Muneton turned on his lights and siren, but French didn’t stop. A short but wild pursuit ensued, with French barreling through Summerland’s surface streets, launching his Toyota Tacoma off intersection speed dips before finally losing control and crashing in front of The Nugget restaurant on Lillie Avenue. The entire incident was captured by Muneton’s dash-cam.

French spills out of the driver’s seat and staggers a few feet toward the building as Muneton exits his cruiser, draws his gun, and orders French to the ground. Even as French drops to the dirt and remains there, Muneton repeats his orders: “Get on the ground! Get on the ground, now!” The adrenaline in his voice is palpable.

French then tries standing but can’t straighten his upper body. He appears injured. Muneton later said he thought French had a broken leg. French falls to his hands and knees and half-crawls, half-drags himself up The Nugget’s wheelchair ramp. Muneton shouts at him to “Stop running!”

Muneton has time to check the truck for other occupants before advancing on French and shoving him onto his stomach. A struggle begins, most of which is blocked from view by a railing. “Stop resisting!” Muneton continually yells, his voice rising. Muneton then punches him repeatedly in the head. “Let me go,” French pleads as he tries squirming away.

Muneton then grabs French in a chokehold, lifts him up, and slams him to the ground in a reverse hip throw. The scuffle stops immediately. “I’m done. Please, I won’t move,” French says. “That hurts so bad. I think my back is broken.”

Another deputy arrives at the scene. French lies to him that a person named “Billy” had been driving his truck.

French had in fact sustained a broken back. He was transported by ambulance to Cottage Hospital and underwent surgery but suffered permanent debilitating effects. A doctor later said in a sworn statement that while French likely fractured his back by violently striking the speed dips and crashing, Muneton’s body slam almost certainly exacerbated the injury. French sued Muneton and the Sheriff ’s Office for excessive force, demanding $120,000 to cover his medical expenses and unspecified damages for his past and future pain and suffering.

The department wanted to fight the case, taking it all the way to trial if necessary. They argued Muneton followed policy and did what he needed to do in a chaotic and dangerous situation. But this March, just as the COVID pandemic was putting the community on lockdown, the County Counsel’s Office offered French $950,000 to quietly go away. He took it. It was the most recent, among more than $8 million, in civil lawsuit settlements against the Sheriff ’s Office in the last decade.

The decision, approved in a split vote by the Board of

SBSO

In June, following the death of George Floyd and amid renewed scrutiny over how and when law enforcement officers use physical force against civilians, the Independent filed a California Public Records Act request with the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office for information on serious use-of-force incidents dating back to 2010. This is the latest in a series of reports on those incidents. Read the others at independent .com/forcefiles.

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Supervisors, understandably rankled and confused department brass. Why did the county roll over, they wondered?

What were the attorneys afraid of?

Why would the County Counsel be willing to pay so much to a suspect who has a long history of drug abuse, was kicked out of the Marines for drug use, has a record of minor criminal offenses, and was dangerously high on meth at the time of his arrest?

Statements by Undersheriff Sol Linver, the Number Two man in the Sheriff ’s Office, may explain why Santa Barbara’s government leaders wished to avoid the potential embarrassment of a public trial and the possibility of an even bigger payout.

According to a 354-page transcript, the deposition of the undersheriff begins cordially enough, with Linver quipping to attorneys that he couldn’t know exactly what was going through the young deputy’s head that night. Linver doesn’t read minds, he says. “My wife does, but I don’t.”

Over the next 10 hours of questioning under oath, however, the congenial atmosphere of the law office devolves into a tense exchange between Linver and French’s attorney, Brad Gage. By the end, Linver—a respected 35-year veteran of the department who’d personally cleared Muneton of wrongdoing during an internal review—seemed to cast doubt on the lawfulness of Muneton’s actions and the ability of his agency to honestly investigate its own.

Linver admits that Muneton may have been able to use less forceful means to subdue an already hobbled French, including pepper spray or a Taser. Linver can’t make clear why Muneton didn’t, or why he didn’t wait the few seconds it took backup to arrive to put French into handcuffs more easily. Linver also has difficulty explaining why Muneton, who Gage suggests was adrenalized and angered by French’s attempts to flee, ordered French to get on the ground when he was already on the ground or why he told French to stop running when he wasn’t running.

Gage also takes issue with Muneton’s repeated admonitions to French to stop resisting, as even Muneton admitted in his incident report that French was never aggressively combative. Linver says French’s attempts to stand or crawl away could be considered resisting. Gage asks if the reverse

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MID-INCIDENT: A still image from Deputy Anthony Muneton’s dashcam captures the scene moments after Chandler French crashed his truck in front of The Nugget in Summerland.

hip throw is an approved method of takedown. Linver says he’s not familiar enough with the department’s training standards to know.

Gage zeros in on what he calls the “code of silence” that exists among some law enforcement agencies to shield officers accused of misconduct. Linver denies its practice in the Sheriff ’s Office. Gage then asks Linver if he has ever lied or withheld information in his career. “I probably did tell some white lies,” Linver admits. “I might have done that to protect someone, yes.” Gage suggests to Linver that, during his internal review of the case, he shielded Muneton from discipline by whitewashing the description of the deputy’s actions and his potential violations of protocol, accusations Linver continually denies.

Gage gets Linver to acknowledge Sheriff ’s officials are trained to sometimes lie in the course of their duties to achieve a desired outcome. Deputies may tell a barricaded suspect they will release a K-9 if they don’t surrender when there’s no dog present, Linver explains, or detectives may be less than truthful to suspects to elicit a confession. But Linver strongly denies that Muneton lied to French in their confrontation.

In the case’s final settlement agreement, the county and the Sheriff ’s Office admitted no wrongdoing. “The civil litigation related to this case is now resolved,” Sheriff Bill Brown wrote in a letter to the Independent, “and there was no finding by a judge or jury that French’s injuries were caused by Deputy Muneton’s use of force. The County’s position is that the pursuit-related striking of speed dips at high speed and the vehicle accident caused French’s injuries.”

Though the Sheriff’s Office remains convinced that Muneton behaved properly, the Board of Supervisors also reasoned that the deputy’s use of force would not be as easily accepted by a jury. What exactly was it about the case that spooked supervisors? It’s an answer we’ll never know since the matter ended in a closed board meeting, out of view and out of court.

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NEWS of the WEEK CONT’D SURVEY SAYS: Working closely with Population Health Manager Monica Ray, Cottage VP of Marketing and Population Health Kathryn Bazylewicz (pictured) just released a report based on Census data, 900 detailed phone surveys, and 251 stakeholder interviews that provides a telling snapshot of unmet community needs.

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‘The Disparities Are Getting Greater’ Cottage Releases Brain Dump Showing State of Community-Wide Health

by Nick Welsh ome revelations are obvious but still startling nonetheless.

Such is the case with Cottage Health’s second Community Health Needs Assessment, conducted in 2019. Based on a survey of 900 respondents, fully 21.5 percent of adults reported being “food insecure.” This survey, it should be noted, was conducted before the COVID-19 pandemic.

The good news is that this number did not increase appreciably since a similar population-health survey was commissioned by Cottage three years previously.

The grimmer news is that 32 percent of Latino respondents reported being food insecure while 15 percent of non-Hispanic whites did. For respondents who reported making less than $35,000 a year — and those who never finished high school — the numbers were 40.9 percent and 40.7 percent, respectively.

The same disparity jumps out when looking at numbers for housing insecurity. Overall, 13.3 percent of the respondents reported feeling “housing insecure.” That’s up from 10.7 percent three years prior, a jump deemed statistically “non-significant.” But as was often the case with Cottage’s health survey results, they told a tale of two disparate realities. Twenty percent of all Hispanic respondents reported feeling housing insecure, whereas 9.5 percent of white respondents did. For those making less than $35,000 a year and those who didn’t graduate high school, the numbers are 29 and 32 percent, respectively.

“Food insecurity” is defined, at least for the purposes of this survey, as not having the money to buy more food in the past 12 months when what one had ran out. It also applied to instances the respondents ate less than they felt they should because there wasn’t enough money to buy more. “Housing insecurity” describes the psychological state of respondents worried they may not have stable housing in the next two months.

Five years ago, Cottage Health embarked on an expansive population health program, jumping in feet first, its

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board going so far as to change the hospital’s mission statement accordingly. Cottage could no longer confine itself to worrying about the health care provided within its “four walls,” the thinking went. It had to reach out more to the community at large.

A key component of that new mission was to strip mine all the relevant health-care and Census data to provide a telling snapshot of unmet community needs. Likewise, this brain dump would be made available to nonprofits and community groups for their own edification and to help them write grant applications more tailor-made to the problems they sought to address.

Cottage VP of Marketing and Population Health Kathryn Bazylewicz, working closely with Population Health Manager Monica Ray, just released the second of these populationhealth brain dumps last week. In addition to the 900 detailed phone surveys, Cottage conducted 30 focus groups, interviewing 251 stakeholders — many health-care and social service providers — in order to put the data in better context. Because members of underserved communities tend to not answer their phones in disproportionately high numbers, extra efforts were made to seek input from organizations working with the Latinx community.

And what was Bazylewicz and Ray’s big takeaway?

“The disparities are getting greater.”

They were struck by this, especially when it came to housing insecurity. Their report included many remarks on the subject from stakeholders interviewed as part of Cottage’s Listening Tour.

“A lot of people are having extended family — 12, 13 people — in a one-bedroom apartment on the Eastside or the Westside,” said one nurse.

“You have families where you don’t have your own kitchen; you don’t have your own refrigerator; you have to

share all this with other people,” added one subject.

“There’s so many kids who we consider homeless,” said one North County service provider.

“We’re one of the highest counties in the state in terms of children considered homeless, or that’s overcrowded, or actually living in a car.” Another service provider noted, “There’s not a lot of us who can afford to live here, which leads to social isolation, which leads to a sense of rage.”

Overall, the report found the greatest discrepancies tracked according to ethnicity, income, age, and educational achievement.

Seventy-seven percent of the respondents reported enjoying overall good health, a slight drop from three years ago. For whites, it was 84 percent; for Latinos, 68. For those making less than $35,000, it was 63 percent, and for those who never graduated high school, it was only 51 percent.

In almost all categories, the numbers declined somewhat from the previous survey. Not surprisingly, health insurance coverage tracked pretty much the same. Overall, 87.5 percent reported having insurance; for whites, it was 96.3 percent, and for Latinos, it was 75 percent. For those who didn’t graduate high school, it was 64 percent.

There was some good news. Diabetes numbers have dropped across the board, even for those making less than $35,000 a year. Binge-drinking is dropping in most demographic categories, and the increases are less than statistically significant.

As for mental-health indicators, the picture was more mixed, but not encouraging. Overall, for the number of respondents saying they’d been told by a doctor they suffered from some sort of depression, the numbers increased from 18.3 percent to 23.9, which is less than significant.

For women, the increase was from 21.9 to 29.8 percent; for men, it was 14.6 to 17.8 percent. For Latinos, the jump was from 13.2 percent to 17.8; for whites, it was 23 to 28.3 percent. The state benchmark for depression was 15.4 percent. The national benchmark was 20.6.

‘You have families where you don’t have your own kitchen; you don’t have your own refrigerator; you have to share all this with other people.’

— Listening Tour respondent For people between the ages of 18 and 44, the increase for depression was more pronounced — from 15.4 percent to 26.2. For people making less than $35,000, the increase was even greater — from 18.1 percent three years ago to 29.8 percent in 2019.

Again, these numbers reflect the views of the respondents in 2019. They do not reflect how those views may have changed with the advent of COVID. For those interested in exploring these numbers for themselves — or checking out how Census maps correlate to health-care concerns — visit cottagehealth.org/ pophealth. n

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PASS THE GRAVY: Of all the many traits shared by humans and rats, laughter is my favorite. Scientists have discovered that rats giggle when you—or other rats, for that mat-

ter—tickle their bellies. I have not tried this myself, but I will take their word for it. But this information flies in the face of everything scientists thought they knew about laughter.

We were told that laughter evolved when our brains got really big, and when we learned to stand upright and walk on two feet. Laughter was supposedly invented 10-16 million years ago as a means to create a joyous sense of unity among people otherwise struggling to shoehorn themselves into the increasingly complex social structures upon which their very survival depends.

In other words, laughter is a necessary social lubricant that keeps us from killing one another. Or, perhaps more immediately, from getting killed.

All this is highly relevant right now with Thanksgiving around the corner.

People frequently lament all the necessary tongue-biting they have to endure for them to survive their Thanksgiving meal. At the Thanksgivings I have been lucky to attend, no one bites their tongue. No one talks so much as shouts. And after the shouting, we move onto the main course— laughter. Drooling, stupid laughter. Can’t-breathe laughter. Can’twalk-to-the-bathroom laughter.

And I have no idea what about.

Thanks to COVID, that will not be happening

this year. Our friends from New Mexico will not be coming. Neither will our friends from L.A. Nor will we see our friends from Santa Barbara.

There will be no gathering of the tribes. No stupid, drooling hooting in joyous unity.

This COVID shit’s for real.

At the first Thanksgiving back in 1621, I don’t know how much laughter there was.

According to the one eyewitness to ever write about the event, about 100 people showed up. Two-thirds were members of the Wampanoag tribe. They’d taken pity on the Pilgrim settlers, about half of whom had died since arriving in September 1620. The Wampanoag people taught them—among other things — how to plant corn. For the feast, there was venison and fish. Mashed potatoes had not been invented yet, the importation of potatoes from South America still being many years away. Pumpkin pie was still awaiting discovery.

There was much dissension among the Wampanoag people—who at that time had been around for 10,000 years —about the wisdom of their chief’s kindness and generosity. But the chief, worried about various plots to unseat him, felt the need to create alliances with the ass-bedraggled English settlers as a way of hedging his bets.

As bets would go, this might be the worst ever in the history of the world.

But here we are, indirectly, as a result.

At the time, the Wampanoag, as well as other Northeastern tribes, were in the throes

of devastating epidemics. Historians speculate that rats had jumped off the English ships and carried measles and other European diseases into their villages.

It would be many centuries before scientists would discover rats could giggle when tickled.

It would be another 242 years before that one glorious meal in 1621 would become proclaimed an American national holiday. On October 3, 1863 —a few months after signing the Emancipation Proclamation— President Abraham Lincoln did just that. At the time, the nation was violently divided in the Civil War; still, he harbored a sentimental optimism in the healing power of a shared meal.

At the risk of descending into partisan politics, it should be noted that Lincoln was a Republican, the first ever to occupy the White House.

At the risk of stating the obvious, the current occupant of the White House — also a Republican—is refusing to acknowledge he lost the election by about 5 million votes.

In this context, I’d like to call your attention to a recent ruling of United States District Judge Matthew Gann from Pennsylvania, who is not only a Republican but a member of the same Federalist Society upon which Trump has so relied in nominating appointees—about 250—to the federal bench, not to mention the three he’s now appointed to the Supreme Court.

Gann rejected a challenge filed by Rudy Giuliani on behalf of Donald Trump to freeze the certification of Pennsylvania’s election results, which Joe Biden won by 80,000

votes. Gann dismissed Trump’s case as a

“Frankenstein’s monster haphazardly stitched together.” He expressed offense that Trump and Giuliani were effectively seeking to set aside the ballots cast by 6.8 million voters.

“The Court has been unable to find any case in which a plaintiff has sought such a drastic remedy in terms of sheer volume of votes asked to be invalidated. One might expect that when seeking such a startling outcome, a plaintiff would come formidably armed with compelling legal arguments and factual proof of rampant corruption.” That, he noted, did not take place. “Instead this Court has been presented with strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations…. In the United States of America, this cannot justify the disenfranchisement of a single voter, let alone all the voters of its sixth most populous state.”

Since then, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has affirmed Gann’s opinion, and the General Services Administration has officially ascertained Biden’s victory.

I know this doesn’t settle anything. But it should. Gann’s ruling might help even the Reddest and Bluest among us to find just enough of a common ground to get through a Thanksgiving dinner.

Clearly, it didn’t work for Lincoln, so maybe it could work for us.

Excepting, of course, this year, Thanksgiving will be a more constrained affair.

In the meantime, please pass the gravy.

And all that laughing you’re hearing—it’s not just the rats.

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Corinne Gallagher

Joseph (Joe) Luis Vazquez 9/18/1945 - 11/5/2020

1/10/1933 - 10/6/2020

Born January 10,1933 in Ventura CA to parents, Hugo Richard Holst and Clara Claberg Holst, died in Santa Barbara on October 6, 2020 Corinne grew up in Ventura, where she attended public schools before entering the University of Colorado in Boulder, where she majored in math. Upon graduation, she returned to Ventura where she married Hugh Renner Gallagher. Soon afterward the couple moved to Santa Paula where they settled down to raise their children Cheryl and Keith. Tragedy struck the family in 1970 when Hugh lost his life in a boating accident.

Aside from during college, Corinne lived her entire life in Ventura County, the last thirty years in Santa Barbara Her jobs included time at Chevron and H&R Block but most of her career she worked as a self- employed tax preparer.

Always active Corinne enjoyed going for hikes in the wilderness, walks in the neighborhood, reading, crossword puzzles and perhaps most noteworthy world travel, having visited a wide range of countries.

Some of her talents included tennis, where she successfully competed in tennis tournaments; as a seamstress, and weaver, having sold her weavings at craft fairs.

Over the years ,she developed the knowledge and skills of master gardener, specializing in California Native plants, leaving no part of her garden bare.

Much of her knowledge of plants came from her work at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden where she proudly volunteered for over 25-years.

Survived by brother, Richard Holst, children, Cheryl and Keith, grandchildren, Owen, Percy and Shanti, great granddaughter, Mela, nephews, Eric (Annette) and Carl (Rachel).

Due to the pandemic, the family is postponing a celebration of Corinne’s life until next year.

If desired, a donation in memory of Corinne, can be made to the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden.

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Joe Luis Vazquez of Santa Barbara passed away peacefully in his sleep at Serenity House hospice care on Thursday November 5, 2020. He was 75.

Joe was born on September 18, 1945 in Mexico City, Mexico to Esperanza Morelos Chavez and Fidel Rodriguez Vazquez.

He migrated to the United States in 1957 and settled in Santa Barbara joining his mother, three of his four sisters and his three brothers. He married twice and fathered four sons and one daughter.

Joe attended Wilson elementary school, Santa Barbara Jr. High, and Santa Barbara High School. He was trained as a mechanic in his early years and eventually an investment caster working at Jostens in Summerland, CA. He boxed at the local gyms and enjoyed camping, fishing off the breakwater, pier and on chartered boats off Santa Cruz Island. In his early days he loved driving his convertible Austin Healey with the top down and even helped with the Coyote Fire in 1964 which he was very proud of. He loved hiking in the hills above Montecito and going to Red Rock on the weekends. He can always be found socializing on East De La Guerra Street with a cold beer and cigarette talking to everyone and anyone passing by. You can always count on him being the jokester of the group and always ready to have a good time.

Joe was preceded in death by his parents, Esperanza and Fidel; sisters, Hilda Vazquez and Laura Ponce De Leon Vazquez. He is survived by his children, Joseph Jr., Xavier, John, Jason, and Elizabeth; seven grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren; sisters, Guillermina Corral and Teresa Castillo, and brothers, Maximo Vazquez, Fernando Vazquez and Ralph Vasquez.

Joe cared tremendously for his children and always put them first. He will be truly missed by his friends and family.

His toughness in life goes without saying. God bless you Dad and rest in paradise.

A special Thank You to Serenity House Hospice care for over 8-1/2 months of fantastic care for our Dad, your kindness and service was second to none.

A private memorial and spreading of his ashes by his family will be at a date TBD.

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Jack D. Romero 11/5/2020

It's with great sadness and heavy heart to announce the passing of Jack D.Romero.

Known as "General Jack" He passed at home on November 5,2020 surrounded by his loving family, He was born and raised in Santa Barbara, Attended SBHS, And was a dedicated DON'S Fan. ONCE A DON ALWAYS A DON. Jack is survived by his wife Marie Romero of 54 Years. Daughter's Tammy Vargas(Joe Vargas) Elizabeth Romero (Jose Guerra) Grandkids Amber Verduzco(Juan Verduzco) Briana Vargas (Edgar Quirino) Daniel Vega, Adriana Vega.

Jack's Family was involved in Native Son's and Native Daughter's. Jack was a Presidio Soldier with Soldado de Los Soldados de Presidio of Santa Barbara for many years.

He was quite the jokester at Family Gatherings and loved blowing his whistle on the dance floor. He loved making people laugh.We never knew if he was joking or serious.

The King of Jokesters will be truly missed. Services will be November 30th,2020 at Calvary Catholic Cemetery@ 1pm Wear a mask and social distance.

Jan O’Dowd

7/22/1929 - 11/6/2020

Jan O’Dowd passed away peacefully on the evening of Nov. 6, 2020 holding the hand of her devoted husband, Don, and surrounded by her loving family.

Janet was born in Olympia, Washington on July 22, 1929 the only daughter of Myra (Lancaster) and Ed Fithian. She attended Fidalgo Elementary School (2 rooms) in Anacortes, Washington and graduated from Anacortes High School co-valedictorian with her brother, Bob. At the University of Washington she graduated with a B.S. in psychology in 1951 as valedictorian and President’s

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Medalist, the university’s highest undergraduate award. After graduation she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship for study in Great Britain. On the ship to England with a cohort of Fulbright scholars she met Don a fellow Fulbright awardee who she would marry 2 years later.

She was the energetic, intelligent, witty and devoted partner of Don for 67 years.

Jan was a doer. During her whole adult life she volunteered for work in non-profit and charitable organizations. After starting their married life in Cambridge, Mass. they moved to Middletown, Conn. and then on to Rochester, Mich. with 3 small children and a 4th on the way. Oakland University was in its second year. Jan contributed greatly to the growth and development of the new university first by assisting in recruiting faculty and fostering a community including faculty and their families, staff and students and for 10 years she embraced all the duties expected of a president’s wife. After living 5 years in Albany, N. Y., at the University of Alaska in the 1980s she repeated the role of president’s wife. In 1991 the O’Dowds retired to Santa Barbara. For the past 15 years she has lived a Valle Verde where she has many friends and enjoyed a good life.

Devoted to all forms of theater and dance, Jan was instrumental in establishing two professional equity theater companies, the Meadow Brook Theatre in Rochester, MI and the Capital Repertory Company in Albany, NY. Both of which are still in existence after respectively 54 and 38 years. In Santa Barbara Jan enjoyed and supported the Ensemble Theatre among many theater and dance organizations. Of particular importance was theater and dance at UCSB where she rarely missed a performance and was particularly dedicated to the Launch Pad theater program. Jan saved well over a thousand play bills from almost every theater performance she attended over the past 60 years meticulously cataloged and stored in her files.

Jan was an enthusiastic participant and tireless contributor to the VISTAS Lifelong Learning organization. She both offered and took many classes, recruited members and served at various times as curriculum chair, vice president and copresident. Among other groups she spent many hours working to support Planned Parenthood and the League of Women Voters.

Jan is survived by her husband, Don, her 4 children, Dan, Diane, Jim and John, 5 grandchildren and 2 great

grandchildren.

“May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest” In lieu of flowers donations may be sent to Planned Parenthood; UCSB Dept. of Theater and Dance; and Vistas Lifelong Learning. Arrangements entrusted to Welch-RyceHaider Funeral Chapels.

Darrell Bernard Tate 8/4/1936 - 10/19/2020

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 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.

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he life that restaurants and cafés have provided to State Street is a welcome relief to the grim desolation that was in progress pre-pandemic. Not only do they bring people to downtown, but they also provide a certain vibrancy. Commercial real estate groups are obviously the last to admit to the elephant in the room, but high rents are one of the major problems adding to State Street Blues.

I took a walk up and down the street yesterday after reading “Is State Street Becoming One Big Food Court?” What’s left of retail, with the exception of a few, is pretty uninteresting. Does anybody even think about window display anymore? Does anybody even wash their windows? What are they selling and who wants it?

I stopped at one of the few existing thrift shops that always has great windows and asked about the effect of restaurant tables outside, and they said it was great and bringing in people. I’d say apart from the high rents, mediocrity and lack of vision over the last 20 years has been the problem. Retailers always grumble about the Farmers Market and restaurants hurting their business. Envy? Maybe because they are actually selling something. —Rick Perkins, S.B.

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tate Street Promenade has become Restaurant Row. Time to work more with retail. The shopping on State Street for residents and tourists is equally important. I still want no bikes. The bikers can leave their bikes in the parking lots like the car drivers. Extreme liability for the city if a biker hits a pedestrian.

And no noisy music, bands, pop-ups, ugly art, and food trucks. Stay classy, please. And some of us like to talk to each other!

Two safety issues on my mind: Is the city sure a rogue car or truck driver cannot plow through the Promenade? It happened at a farmers’ market in Santa Monica. And are you sure a fire engine and a fire truck and large police department equipment can easily and quickly enter the entire closed-off Promenade blocks? Again, both of these could be high liability risks for the city.

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—Missy Zeitsoff, S.B.

And Facebook readers weighed in as well: Kristy McKee We stopped going downtown when it became a food court. • Gina Wilcox The res-

taurants won’t be out much longer with cold, wet weather coming.

Annie Linn Used to visit downtown several times a month, usually weekly to visit the library, Nordie’s, Forever 21, Sur La Table, Brighton’s, or Macy’s. All closed, except for the library, where a patron must stand on the sidewalk and wait to pick up a book that is preordered. Why go downtown at all? Goleta has all the shopping now. • Mary Suydam But we didn’t go to these smaller retailers. Mostly to Paseo Nuevo mall. So these smaller retailers actually might have more or a chance from foot traffic from these sidewalk restaurant-goers.

Mike Farris It’s a street. It wasn’t designed for this! But, it could be remodeled fast and cheap! The city just needs to get on the ball! • Conrad Metzenberg I personally love the new outdoor seating. I think it’s long overdue. The big question is is foot traffic up or not? More foot traffic should benefit all merchants on State Street. • Chris Morgan Pretty hard to Amazon your lunch with friends; that’s why the restaurants are doing okay.

¶ The news story on Tesla batteries last week should have said power would be stored from off-peak hours of noon-4 p.m. Also, in last week’s Lad Handelman In Memoriam, it is the JIM suit that is on display at the Maritime Museum and the Mantis that was demonstrated off Goleta Pier.

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hen David Bowie sang, “We can be heroes,” he was telling the truth.

On each Thanksgiving since our first issue was published in 1986, the Santa Barbara Independent has sought to honor the Local Heroes among us. People who go about their daily lives acting in ways that help make our community whole.

This year, in the hundreds of names our readers nominated, one theme dominated all the others, and that was the COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing crisis we are living with every day.

In that context, we decided to dedicate the 2020 Local Heroes issue to those who have been working in the trenches to keep us safe — those among us who have risen to the pandemic’s seemingly spirit-crushing challenge and, by their actions, have demonstrated that the human spirit is stronger than any virus.

In this issue, we honor our health professionals who face the deadly virus every day; our neighbors who put their skills to work for the common good; our arts community who brings beauty into our lives despite all odds;

our business owners who must pivot so that they and their staff can survive; our public officials who imagine new ways to keep our county working; our educators and counselors who give their students a chance to succeed; our community organizers who reach out to those most vulnerable; and our young people who find ways, in the middle of the shutdown, to help those in need and to speak up for social justice.

Of course, we do not know the names of all who have worked so tirelessly to help get us through this historic time. So these 2020 Local Heroes are being honored not only for the work they are continuing to do but also as symbols for the many who are doing similar things every day throughout Santa Barbara County.

It should not require an act of heroism for a grocery store employee to go to work and stock the shelves. But such are the times in which we live. All of us—in ways big and small—find ourselves conscripted into the ranks of the heroic.

This is our song of thanks to all the heroes among us. For everyone not mentioned, you have our gratitude and many thanks.

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Mari (Maria) Hernandez Vida Center Founder

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ari Hernandez’s world turned upside down on May 15, 2018, when she discovered her son, Andrew, had taken his own life. Known as the “Big Friendly Giant” by his friends, Andrew was just weeks away from graduating Santa Barbara High School.

As a social worker, Hernandez understood that oftentimes those who take their lives appear happy on the outside, but she didn’t realize her son was struggling under the surface.

Despite her pain, Hernandez was determined that Andrew’s death would not be in vain. She picked up the pieces little by little and pushed on, not just for Andrew and her three surviving children but for other Santa Barbara teens struggling with the same issue. Hernandez formed a nonprofit, the Vida Center (vidacenter.org), to help mentor local kids and teach them what she calls mental resiliency through a combination of emotional, mental, and psychological skills and tools, which have become especially critical during the pandemic.

“I am a product of nonprofits and social services; I was one of nine kids,” Hernandez said. “I got to where I am in terms of my education through social services. I have always loved the idea that you can literally change lives through a nonprofit.”

Though she’s dreamed of starting a nonprofit for over 20 years, the idea for the Vida Center was born three days after Andrew’s death. Andrew’s football coach came to Hernandez and asked her to start it after two other kids on the team confessed to the coach that they too had plans to end their lives but chose not to after witnessing the effect of Andrew’s choice.

“His coach told me that day that Andrew had already saved two lives,” Hernandez recalled through tears. “His death impacted so many young kids, and so by the end of that week, we knew we had to do the Vida Center.”

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Frann Wageneck and Susie Stone Bringing Counseling into Schools

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een suicide and depression rates have climbed amid the pandemic and uncertainties of 2020.

When a string of teen suicides hit Santa Barbara County in recent years, Santa Barbara Unified School District’s Frann Wageneck knew she had to defeat the silent beast.

Wageneck implemented the Signs of Suicide (SOS) Program, a curriculum for middle and high schoolers that focuses on suicide awareness and skills to deal with depression and recognize the signs in others. She also led the charge in the district’s mental-health partnerships with CALM for elementary students and the Family Service Agency for secondary students.

“I just wanted to lay bare the entire system and start from scratch,” Wageneck said. “Mentalhealth issues run in my family. I have 21 years sober myself, and I know firsthand how important it is to treat the behavior; don’t discipline the person.”

She said that counselors are truly on the front lines when it comes to student mental health, especially during a pandemic when teachers, staff, and students cannot be together.

Cue Susie Stone.

Stone has been a counselor in the Santa Barbara Unified School District for a decade, and she has worked in the field for more than 20 years. Now a counselor at Dos Pueblos High School, she works on those front lines every day.

Stone said that high school students are in a “different age” and need additional support to learn how to navigate their difficult emotions, which can be especially daunting when they feel they don’t have a future or career figured out.

“I didn’t have a straight path to where I am today,” Stone said about her own career path, “and that gives me the heart for what goes through a normal teenager’s mind. So much of my life experience in terms of finding my way has helped me in my role. I can tell students that I changed my mind three times and still found a career that matches my skills.”

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Cottage Intensive Care Unit COVID Medical Crew

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t’s tempting to regard Dr. Rob Wright, head of Cottage Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU),

as the equivalent of a symphony conductor. His orchestra comprises the disciplined mass of pulmonologists, respiratory therapists, resident physicians, nurses, environmental service workers, and assorted medical professionals working to help those suffering with the COVID virus.

When the pandemic descended on Santa Barbara in March, Wright and his crew didn’t know what to expect. “It was really intense at first,” he said. “There was so much hysteria. We worried we might end up like New York City.” And though the worst never happened, the numbers were daunting, and they are on their way up again as our county has reentered the dangerous purple warning stage.

“This is what we signed up for,” said Wright, who — along with his co-leaders of the Cottage COVID team, doctors Lynn Fitzgibbons and David Fisk — has been worried that a greater spike in cases might happen after Thanksgiving. “It’s premature to think we’re out of the woods,” he said, adding he and his wife haven’t seen their children — all adults — since June. He’s not sure when they can.

Wright is especially proud that not one ICU worker has gotten infected on the job. “Not one!” he exclaimed. “What does that tell you? If you mask, wash your hands, and take proper precautions, it works.”

Like many medical professionals, Wright bristles at the suggestion that doctors nationwide have exaggerated COVID’s impacts in hopes of boosting their bottom line. Even surviving patients pay a price, he said. Many patients experience several months of “prolonged lassitude.” For some, recovery takes a year. Others don’t make it. The hardest part is to release patients from the hospital, he said, “Especially when they have no family.” Nurses, he said, have it the hardest. They spend the most time with the patients.

COVID has forced everyone to make serious sacrifices, but Wright — a history aficionado — says perspective is required. “How do you think it was for 5- and 6-year-old kids during World War II? People need to read their history. We’ve had it much worse. We’re so impatient.”

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ack in March, there was such an urgency. People would say, “I heard you were making

masks. I’d like to help,’ ” said Pat Beals, who formed Carpinteria’s mask-maker group, Neighbor to Neighbor. “People wanted to stand up to COVID so that it didn’t wash over our city,” she said. “I’m so proud of them.”

The members of that group, like hundreds of people around Santa Barbara, all spontaneously began sewing masks for their neighbors in the early days of the pandemic when it was impossible to find masks anywhere.

These people, whose untiring work helped keep so many in our community safe, are all Local Heroes in our eyes. And this year, by naming just a few of the main organizers and sewing groups, we seek to honor them all.

Judi Weisbart facilitated the needs of the Sheriff ’s Office, Transition House, the Foodbank, and more. Making this possible were the volunteer sewing networks of Beals and Laurie Gross Schaefer with some United Way and Santa Barbara Foundation funding. Both Beal and Gross Schaefer had contacts which allowed them to get a critical supply of elastic ribbon when none was available locally.

Montecito’s Bucket Brigade started a mask-making challenge in April. Stella Borgioli was the first to sign up. “I had free time because all my sports had stopped,” the 9th grader said, and she whipped out 365 masks. The competition’s winner, however, was Brian Roeder, who made 437. But the Brigade’s most incredible mask maker is Shirley Watanabe, who sewed 3,356 in six months.

Anneliese Place started making masks for her daughter, a doctor at Walter Reed who, when masks were so scarce, had to reuse one N-95 mask all week. Place organized the Santa Barbara Mask Network, whose members have made 25,000 masks and are now sewing smaller masks for kids. She got laser-cutting help from Seymour Duncan, donations from Riviera Toweling, and bought most of the fabric herself. When dropping off masks to essential workers, she is often greeted with tears of gratitude.

Another unsung group, the 50-person Quilters Guild, made over 6,500 masks. Quilter Karen Pickford said they were fortunate because they already had a lot of fabric in storage. One volunteer quilter said sewing the masks made her feel “like we are making a quilt for every smile.”

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hroughout the pandemic, Ali Cortes has dedicated herself to communicating

critical messages about the COVID-19 virus to Hispanic members of the Santa Barbara community — a population that has suffered disproportionately from the pandemic.

Along with her colleagues René Garcia Hernandez and Irene Kelly, she created Bienestar Latinx (facebook.com/bienestarlatinx), a platform that has been able to reach so many Spanish-speaking people not only because it is in Spanish but, even more importantly, because it is able to translate the information in culturally specific ways that make this vital information familiar and readily understandable to its audience.

Cortes created videos, podcasts, interviews, and more. And it hasn’t just been limited to COVID-19 information. She helps Spanish-speakers navigate some of the mental-health challenges that come with the pandemic through Spanish-language meditation and relaxation videos that are designed to reflect Hispanic culture.

Born in Mexico City but raised in the U.S., Ali Cortes was all too familiar with the sense that immigrants often feel of not belonging in either country’s culture. Her parents instilled in her early on that she belongs to both countries.

“My mom and dad made sure that I spoke Spanish but that I also understood my culture and roots,” Cortes explained. “They had me read Spanish books, watch Spanish shows and the Spanish news. When I went to school and came back speaking English, they said, ‘No, we speak Spanish here.’”

“The more you deny your roots and who you are, the more it damages mental health and messes with your identity,” Cortes said. “I know how frustrating it is to get information that doesn’t reach the heart. Many of us don’t feel we fit in either place, so I want to empower people.”

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Talia Hamilton and Shakir Ahmad Protesting Injustice

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igh school students Talia Hamilton and Shakir Ahmad came off as old activist vet-

erans when they successfully co-organized and led thousands of Santa Barbarans in June, most wearing masks, to protest the killing of George Floyd.

The two teens rallied the crowd, marching from Stearns Wharf to the Santa Barbara Unified School District and then to the city’s Police Department, demanding changes to dismantle racism.

“Watching everything unfold in the U.S. and George Floyd getting murdered—seeing your people literally being slaughtered is awful. So awful,” Hamilton said. “So to not do anything about it is even more awful. Shakir and I decided to bring this protest to Santa Barbara because we want it to be the last time it ever happened again.”

Both have had leadership roles at school. Ahmad helped revive San Marcos High School’s Black Student Union after it had been dormant for nearly 15 years, and Hamilton, now a senior, is the president of that group. They began planning their protest after they met at an earlier Black Lives Matter march held in Santa Barbara a week prior.

“We went to the protest by Healing Justice S.B. and SURJ [Showing Up For Racial Justice], and that really touched all of us. One of my friends said to me, ‘What if you started a protest?’” Ahmad said. “I was nervous for sure with all the people looking up at me, but I knew I was doing the right thing. I’ve seen racism happen to friends and others all around the country, and that was my wakeup call to action.”

The young activists plan to continue their social justice work into their futures. Hamilton hopes to put pressure on the city to keep making changes, and she believes that tackling the “over-policing on the Westside” is a good place to start.

After the pandemic, Ahmad plans to continue with his organization, Keep Your Head Up, which talks to elementary school students about social injustices.

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County residents live on the edge of poverty. Food insecurity, already a countywide problem, quickly grew to even more serious proportions.

Organizing many of the groups working against this increasing hunger was Julia Blanton. She’s been diverting would-be waste food to needy people since 2018 as the food rescue program coordinator for the Community Environmental Council. An integral participant in the Community Food Collaborative, she also connects partners from Carpinteria to Lompoc, including a new initiative at UCSB. “We’re all working together as a community,” Blanton said, “to give food to the people who need it.”

The Santa Ynez Valley’s needs, often overshadowed, turn out to be great. That’s what Elizabeth Breen learned when she set up a “Blessings Box” of donated food and supplies outside Bethania Lutheran Church in Solvang. Breen, who also publicizes the church’s Foodbank campaigns on social media and spearheads much-needed diaper donations, fills the box about five to six times a day, and she’s not the only one. “I’m not actually a member of Bethania—this is not a religious thing,” said Breen. “It’s really helping spread the spotlight on the food insecurity that existed in our valley way before COVID, and it will last long after.”

Delivering food to those in need is exactly what Food from the Heart has done since 1994, when it started as a response to the AIDS crisis. Despite COVID constraints, they’ve managed to continue serving soup, proteins, salads, casseroles, and freshly baked cookies to 160 cancer patients, hospice clients, and others recovering from surgery each week. As explained by board chair Kelly Onnen, who’s volunteered for the organization for nearly 20 years, “What we’re doing is even more important right now than ever because these people should be staying home and being taken care of.”

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hen the pandemic hit, Daniel Goldberg, then a junior at San Marcos

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“I was hiding in my room—everyone was super afraid,” he recalled.

“But even through the fear, I saw my dad get up, put on his scrubs and his mask, and put himself on the front lines every day to help people who were getting sick.

That made me realize that there had to be something that I could do as well.”

With a bit of thought and research, Goldberg—whose dad works in Cottage Hospital’s emergency room and whose mom is also a doctor—realized that no service existed to get groceries to elderly or sick people who were sheltering in place. So he launched Zoomers to Boomers, which began enlisting mostly high school and college-aged volunteers to buy and deliver groceries to people in need around Santa Barbara.

For about two months, Goldberg worked from 7 a.m. to 3 a.m., spending the mornings buying and delivering groceries and the later hours developing his volunteer team while branching out to other regions.

The idea caught on like global wildfire, and there are now 38 sites across the world, with chapters from Denver, Colorado (the service’s second city), to Hyderabad, India, and Greenwich, England.

When the pandemic finally comes to an end, he hopes to transition the service into an elderly support system. “We’re still going to do deliveries for people, but maybe we can also do tech help or laundry services or something to really help these people who need it,” he said.

His parents are proud and supportive. “They raised me to always look to help others,” he said. “It’s not going to take anything out of your day to make someone else happy.”

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like it. The pandemic hit, and all of a sudden McKaig, a real estate agent for the past 20 years, found his work officially declared “nonessential.”

Pushed feet first into the gathering void, McKaig started out doing grocery deliveries for older people he knew. Given how depleted the shelves were, he’d have to hit five stores sometimes to fill one order. From there, he expanded to delivering Foodbank supplies to those unable to buy groceries. B’nai B’rith asked him to deliver clothes to a homeless woman dressed in black at the courthouse one night.

She wasn’t there, but McKaig met other “street residents” in the process. “Game on,” he declared. “I saw the need.”

Since then, McKaig and his crew of Adam’s Angels have expanded to a loose confederation of about 50 core volunteers—150 in all—picking up and delivering fresh clean clothes to people living in the parks, on the waterfront, and near freeway offramps. Once a week, they prepare and serve dinners at Pershing Park.

McKaig, a Santa Barbara native with an easygoing way, has gotten a great help from the nightclub Eos, which provided a much-needed staging area for making clothes deliveries, and Richie’s Barber Shop in Montecito, which now has hosted two clothes drives. One benefactor donated a brand-new trailer to help haul everything around.

“I don’t know where this is going to lead us,” McKay said. “But it’s not going to let me stop.” Before COVID hit, McKaig had no prior history as a guerilla philanthropist. “I wake up every morning thinking, ‘Wow! What’s going to happen today?’” he said. “It’s exciting.”

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versity of California system, UCSB attracts students who want conservatory training at a Research I university. As a result, the pressure to put them on a secure career path in a notoriously competitive profession is enormous. When the pandemic arrived in March, the department had just finished a triumphant run of Molière’s Tartuffe, exactly the kind of stylish and challenging mainstage production that cements the institution’s reputation alongside the likes of Yale, Northwestern, and Carnegie Mellon. Then, quicker than you can say “scene,” the whole live theater operation had to shut down.

Knowing that they only had one chance to salvage senior year for an entire crop of BFA students, the faculty and production staff flew into action. Production Manager Daniel Herrera, Costume Shop Manager Denise Umland, Cutter and Draper Lillian Hannahs, and Scenery and Props Manager Devin Gee started making masks and other personal protective equipment. Professor Risa Brainin then put out a call to the playwrights who participated in the school’s new play development program, Launch Pad, and soon 61 actors and 23 directors were in action on Zoom in a marathon of new works called Alone, Together. Lighting and Sound Supervisor Mark Williams, Senior Scene Technician Sandarbh Tripathi, Community Relations Specialist Una Mladenović, and Chief Administrative Officer Eric Mills hit the ground running, and within weeks, a new season, and a new medium for theater was born. Next came The Spotlight Project, a Launch Pad Summer Reading Series, and the monumental mash-up of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra known as Immortal Longings, all of them online, and all of them powered by the production team’s determination to do everything possible to support their students.

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Would they innovate or hibernate? Private donors and community partners like the Santa Barbara Foundation called to ask how they could help, and by August, there was a spectacular online announcement of an ambitious in-person season to begin in February 2021.

Just weeks later came the news that the fall would be filled with exciting virtual events known as House Calls. And that wasn’t all, because within less than another month, A&L announced Race to Justice, the country’s most exciting yearlong public celebration of America’s potential for redemption from systemic racism. As Bryan Stevenson, the attorney/author/activist who will bring the series to a finale in April says, it’s all about hope.

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likes to bake. “It’s a stress reliever for me,” she said. But 16-hour work days in the thick of a global pandemic doesn’t leave a lot of time for recipes, so to cope with the relentless demand, Santa Barbara County’s Public Health Department director steals other small moments. “I take walks with my family and make time to connect with friends and colleagues, even if it’s just for a few minutes.”

Before COVID, Do-Reynoso worked largely behind the scenes, quietly leading the department since 2017. But when the coronavirus crossed Santa Barbara’s borders, she found herself thrust into the spotlight, speaking at press conferences to a stressed and scared community.

Do-Reynoso has risen to the challenge, offering Santa Barbara the informed reassurance needed in this uncertain time.

She honors her similarly sleepless staff, who don’t get the visibility of frontline workers but deserve just as much recognition. They’re responsible for Santa Barbara’s cohesive strategies to prevent and mitigate the spread of the virus, an achievement officials even at the highest levels of our government have failed to muster.

This isn’t Do-Reynoso’s first rodeo, either. She was working in the field and learned hard lessons during the H1N1 and Ebola outbreaks, but of course nothing has come close to today’s health crisis. Still, looking ahead, she’s optimistic.

“I’m envisioning a community rebounding from the effects of the pandemic because we are resilient, and because we used data and science to guide our behaviors,” she said.

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Rob Dayton, the city’s lead transportation planner, remembers the day—May 22—when State Street was closed to car traffic. “It was surreal,” he said. “We hadn’t seen anybody on the street for a long time, then suddenly there were tons of people.” The pedestrian promenade concept had been batted around for decades, but Dayton, his team, and his three fellow Heroes made it happen.

Jason Harris began as Santa Barbara’s first economic development director in late March, just as COVID was seeping into every corner of California. Faced with the overwhelming challenge, he took the bull by the horns. “The city’s collective actions to allow businesses to operate outdoors helped save numerous businesses from failing and preserved hundreds of jobs from being lost,” he said. He credited frontline workers and business owners for keeping the economy churning.

“They are the heroes,” he said.

Nina Johnson, an assistant city administrator, has been in the State Street improvement trenches for years. “When people come to me fired up about ideas, ready to roll up their sleeves, I want to help them think big and get through obstacles,” she said. Johnson was instrumental in organizing the recent architectural design charette that generated palpable hope for the future.

Wildcat Lounge owner and Downtown Santa Barbara President Bob Stout is at once a diplomat and a fighter for his fellow State Street proprietors. He lamented what’s been temporarily lost and perfectly described what he and the others are working so hard to recover: “I miss seeing a crowded roomful of people dancing at midnight with their hands in the air and smiles on their faces,” he said. “That moment when the deejay suddenly cuts off the sound and the crowd joins in singing a popular line to the song. It may sound silly, but to me, that’s magic.”

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GIFT OF GIVING! This Giving Tuesday, the Santa Barbara Independent encourages our readers to make a donation to one of Santa Barbara’s many nonprofits doing great work in the community. Here are just a few of those organizations.

independent.com/givingtuesday

Santa Barbara Historical Museum Our mission is to inspire meaningful connections to Santa Barbara history.

PATH Santa Barbara To end homelessness for individuals, families, and communities.

sbhistorical.org

epath.org/give

Apples to Zucchini Cooking School We teach children and their families how to prepare delicious, nutritious, affordable meals made from real local food.

atozcookingschool.org

The Environmental Defense Center, a non-profit law firm, protects and enhances the local environment through education, advocacy, and legal action and works primarily within Santa Barbara, Ventura, and San Luis Obispo counties. Since 1977, EDC has empowered community-based organizations to advance environmental protection. Program areas include climate and energy, and protecting clean water, the Santa Barbara Channel, and open space and wildlife.

environmentaldefensecenter.org

Jodi House Brain Injury Support Center Jodi House empowers brain injury survivors to thrive by providing support services that encourage their continued recovery and rehabilitation. Since our founding in 1982, we have remained the only organization in Santa Barbara County that is solely dedicated to supporting brain injury survivors.

Domestic Violence Solutions for Santa Barbara County We provide safety, shelter and support for individuals and families affected by domestic violence and collaborate with community partners to raise awareness regarding the cause, prevalence and impact.

jodihouse.org

dvsolutions.org

Opera Santa Barbara Until we can return to producing world-class opera performances, Opera Santa Barbara will focus on safely producing live, small-scale events that celebrate all types of music and theater, employ and showcase local artists, and reinforce the bond between communities and artists, inspiring unity, courage and hope.

Santa Barbara Audubon Society Santa Barbara Audubon Society protects area birdlife and habitat and connects people with birds through education, conservation, and science.

pshhc.org/hhgiving

statestreetballet.com

santabarbaraaudubon.org

Santa Barbara County Trails Council Our mission is to protect public trail access, build and maintain safe and sustainable trails, and promote public engagement in land stewardship and trail use for all types of outdoor recreation.

Fund for Refugee Initiatives FRI’s mission is to support refugee initiatives and leadership through grants and resources. We fund projects designed and led by refugees to meet the needs and goals of their own community. We also support refugee leadership by funding secondary education and university scholarships in southern Chad.

Ganna Walska Lotusland We preserve and enhance the unique, historic estate of Madame Ganna Walska, care for and improve its collections, and develop its conservation and horticulture programs, so they educate us, inspire us, and advance our understanding and appreciation of the importance of plants in our lives and in the life of the planet.

operasb.org

Peoples’ Self-Help Housing To build affordable housing with site-based services which offer opportunities to change lives and strengthen communities. One of the most impactful ways we are doing this in Santa Barbara is by turning the historic Heath House into a welcoming home for formerly homeless women.

State Street Ballet State Street Ballet is a professional dance company that combines classical traditions with sophisticated styles, inspiring diverse international audiences through performances, collaborations, and unique education and outreach programs.

refugee-initiatives.org

sbtrails.org/donate

lotusland.org

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Music Academy of the West Since 1947, the Music Academy of the West has been making a unique and enduring contribution to the world of music by advancing the development of the next generation of great classically-trained musicians, and cultivating discerning, appreciative, and adventurous audiences.

musicacademy.org

New Beginnings To provide quality, affordable counseling, shelter, case management, and education that strengthens our community and provides our clients with the ability to lead healthy and productive lives.

sbnbcc.org

Santa Barbara Alliance for Community Transformation The Santa Barbara Alliance for Community Transformation (SB ACT) exists to equip the community to lovingly engage the marginalized while actively working for the betterment of their physical, spiritual, emotional, and mental needs.

sbact.org

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Community Environmental Council CEC builds on-the-ground momentum to reverse the threat of the climate crisis. We transform the systems that fuel it. We safeguard the community from its impacts. We lead, we partner, we act. And every day, we move people to create a more resilient Central Coast.

Family Service Agency Family Service Agency (FSA) of Santa Barbara County helps the community’s most vulnerable children, families, and seniors meet their basic needs while simultaneously addressing mental health needs. All services are provided free or on a sliding fee/donation scale and no one is denied assistance because of an inability to pay.

Sustainable Future Sustainable Future unifies and empowers communities to improve the health of our planet. Our dynamic technology platform and innovative campaign model drives engagement for a cleaner, safer, more vibrant tomorrow. We empower communities to affect positive change locally, which collectively ignites meaningful global change for a sustainable future.

cecsb.org

fsacares.org

sustainablefuture.org

Foundation for Santa Barbara High School We aim to do the most good for the greatest number of students at Santa Barbara High School, from rebuilding facilities, to funding the College & Career Center, to supporting families impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Help us be #SBHSStrong!

Sanctuary Centers It is our mission at Sanctuary Centers to provide our clients with comprehensive mental health care that transforms lives. Our compassionate clinical team provides each and every client with a diverse array of proven treatment services designed to ensure success and improve one life at a time.

Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara The Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara offers and supports a diverse array of programs serving both North and South Santa Barbara County. These programs provide educational opportunities for the public and involve participation and support from local architects and building professionals. AFSB seeks to promote quality in architecture, art, and design and to foster an understanding of excellence in the urban environment.

New Directions For People with Disabilities, Inc. We believe that people with intellectual disabilities deserve the same opportunities in life that others expect and enjoy. Our travel programs open new worlds of understanding for both participants and the general population. Through our unique programs, people with disabilities are increasingly appreciated and accepted as important members of our world.

foundationforsbhs.org

Sanctuarycenters.org

afsb.org

newdirectionstravel.org

Unity of Santa Barbara Unity of Santa Barbara is a New Thought spiritual community that emphasizes personal growth, living consciously and making a positive difference in the world. If you’ve given up on traditional churches but haven’t given up on your faith, God or your spiritual growth, we think you’ll feel right at home here.

Friendship Adult Day Care Center, Inc. Friendship Center provides innovative activities and programs that honor individuality, promote socialization, and foster a compassionate community for aging adults. Caregivers receive respite support and education, enabling them to achieve balance in their lives.

Explore Ecology Explore Ecology educates and empowers the next generation, inspiring them to engage with the natural world, think critically, and experience the value of environmental stewardship. Programs include the Watershed Resource Center, Environmental Education, Art From Scrap, and School Gardens.

santabarbaraunity.org/

friendshipcentersb.org

exploreecology.org

Rooted Santa Barbara Our mission is to empower every community member to take a leading role in their preventive healthcare through evidence-based, whole food plant-based nutrition education and support.

Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara advances creativity and inspires critical thinking through meaningful engagement with the art of our time.

League of Women Voters of Santa Barbara Empowering Voters. Defending Democracy. Since 1920 when the League of Women Voters was founded by leaders of the women’s suffrage movement, the League has been a non-profit, activist, grassroots organization. We envision a democracy where every person has the desire, the right, the knowledge and the confidence to participate.

rootedsantabarbara.org

mcasantabarbara.org

lwvsantabarbara.org

sbimmigrantdefense.org

Anti-Defamation League To stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure just and fair treatment to all.

Parkinson Association of Santa Barbara We offer programs that empower those with Parkinson’s and their Care Partners to be pro-active in managing their day-to-day lives, working to delay progression, and committing to living well with Parkinson’s. Our shared experiences and triumphs drive everything we do, and strengthen our resolve to spread the message, “You may have Parkinson’s, but Parkinson’s doesn’t have you.”

CLUE Santa Barbara (Clergy & Laity United for Economic Justice) We are a network of interfaith community leaders and members organized to address the root causes of local economic injustices to those marginalized in Santa Barbara County: those impacted by harm to the environment, people cycling through a broken criminal justice system, experiencing discrimination, and struggling with housing and homelessness.

Gaviota Coast Conservancy Gaviota Coast Conservancy is dedicated to protecting the rural character and environmental integrity of the Gaviota Coast for present and future generations.

mypasb.org

cluesb.org

santabarbara.adl.org

FINDING HOMES FOR THE HOMELESS

Partners in Housing Solutions Partners in Housing Solutions helps people who are experiencing homelessness to secure and retain permanent housing through our network of private landlords.

partnersinhousingsolutions.org

Santa Barbara School of Squash Helping students succeed in life through squash and education

SBSOS.org

SB County Immigrant Legal Defense Center The mission of the SB County Immigrant Legal Defense Center is to provide immigrants with equal access to justice and due process by providing no-cost legal representation for those detained or in removal proceedings and through community education to help people understand and assert their basic civil rights.

gaviotacoastconservancy.org

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PFLAG Santa Barbara We are parents, families, friend and allies united with the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender) community to move equality forward.

United Way Home For Good Santa Barbara County United Way Home For Good Santa Barbara County supports a Flexible Housing Fund – this Housing First initiative provides a rental subsidy paired with supportive services for Santa Barbara County’s most vulnerable un-housed neighbors. We believe that everyone deserves a safe place to call home for good.

pflagsantabarbara.org

homeforgoodsbc.org

Downtown Santa Barbara Organization The Downtown Organization of Santa Barbara is dedicated to the promotion and enhancement of the business, cultural, community and environmental vitality of Downtown Santa Barbara for the benefit of its members, Santa Barbara residents and visitors. We pride ourselves on providing services that benefit our members every day and we work in an innovative way to leverage our knowledge and can-do history to help shape future opportunities and overcome challenges.

downtownsb.org

Summer Solstice Celebration Each year the Summer Solstice Celebration brings the community together through the annual solstice parade and festival. This year more than ever we could use your financial contributions to keep the Solstice spirit alive for future years and support our local arts community.

solsticeparade.com

Alertar y Preparar / Aware & Prepare LISTOS LISTOS is committed to preparing communities to respond to and recover from emergencies and disasters. Our programming is tailored to meet both the cultural and linguistic needs of our diverse and vibrant populations while building sustainable relationships and partnerships with government agencies, local businesses, community leaders, and nonprofit organizations.

listos.awareandprepare.us

Ensemble Theatre Company Ensemble Theatre Company presents important new plays and innovative interpretations of classic works for a broad audience. ETC engages audiences with entertaining, compelling, and thought-provoking theatrical productions, develops the community’s knowledge and appreciation of live stage productions, and offers a range of educational programs for young people.

etcsb.org

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newsletters BUNS Bunnies Urgently Needing Shelter BUNS volunteers care for and rehome the rabbits and guinea pigs at the Santa Barbara County Animal Shelter in Goleta. BUNS spays or neuters all rabbits and provides veterinary care as needed to both rabbits and guinea pigs at the shelter. BUNS offers education and advice on rabbit and guinea pig behavior and husbandry. With the arrival of Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease in California, BUNS imported vaccine and has held affordable vaccine clinics for rabbits.

bunssb.org

Legal Aid Foundation Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County is a non-profit law firm that provides free legal assistance to Santa Barbara County residents. Our mission is to provide high-quality civil legal services to low-income and other vulnerable residents in order to ensure equal access to justice. We change lives through direct representation, legal advice and information, and community education.

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Typhoon Vongfong, Philippines, 2020

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LIFE-SAVING SHELTER DURING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC

SHELTERBOXUSA.ORG Alejandro receiving ShelterBox Aid, Typhoon Vongfong, Philippines, 2020

Umm with newborn twins and children after receiving ShelterBox Aid, Syria, Conflict, 2020

SHELTER IS THE MOST PROFOUND DIFFERENCE YOU CAN MAKE IN SOMEONE’S LIFE

Right now, there are more than 104 million people displaced in our world due to conflict or disaster. ShelterBox is working to change this. We envision a world where no family is left without shelter after disaster.

ShelterBox assists in the immediate response and early recovery phase by hand-delivering essential shelter and supplies to communities devastated by disaster and conflict. Temporary shelter is the first and most crucial step of recovery and enables the families we serve to rebuild their lives.

Now more than ever, our mission has never been clearer. Without a shelter to socially

104

MILLION PEOPLE

around the world are displaced because of natural disaster or conflict, more than any other time in recorded history. 75% of those displaced are women and children.

ShelterBox provides the tools that enable people to rebuild homes and transform their lives.

distance, displaced families are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19. We are committed to reaching these families, providing emergency shelter and resources to help them recover and keep them safe from the virus. With support from individuals like you, ShelterBox has adapted and scaled our efforts during the pandemic to help the most vulnerable, by adding

THE MISSION

soap, hygiene items, and personal protective equipment to our aid package. While this work doesn’t often make the headlines, it is lifesaving.

During disasters and conflicts, ShelterBox coordinates with the UN Shelter Cluster, and partners with the International Federation of the Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity, and Rotary International to reach families more rapidly.

to provide families with life-saving shelter and essential tools and supplies that will enable them to rebuild their homes and transform their lives after disaster.

EXPLORE THE AID

PROVIDING SHELTER, SUPPORTING RECOVERY

We tailor support to help rebuild communities.

We deliver the aid people need to begin rebuilding their lives in the aftermath of a disaster.

WHAT’S IN A SHELTERKIT?

WHAT’S IN A SHELTERBOX?

The ShelterKits contain vital hardware including heavy-duty tarps,

The ShelterBox contains a family-sized relief tent and essential supplies to start the process of creating a home.

hand tools, ropes, and fasteners that can be used to build a shelter, repair damaged buildings and begin to rebuild a home.

SHELTERKIT INCLUDES: shovel, hoe, wire cutters, wire, hammer, nails, rope, tarpaulins, bag, and saw.

SHELTERBOX INCLUDES: tent, kitchen set, blankets, ground mats, hats, gloves, and scarves, mosquito net, water filtration system, water carriers, solar light, box, ShelterBox tool kit with: hammer, saw, wire cutters, rope, and children’s school kit.

FANNE’S STORY

Fanne is a 30-year-old mother. When violent extremist group Boko Haram destroyed her home in Nigeria, she was forced to flee with her children, leaving her disabled husband behind. Her family arrived at Minawao Refugee Camp in Cameroon, then were taken to a crowded collective center, where they lived for three months, at risk of contracting COVID-19.

In June 2020, Fanne received a ShelterBox tent, solar lights, blankets, and water carriers. She now has a private shelter where she can socially distance, protect her family from COVID-19, and begin to rebuild her life. With her family safely sheltered, Fanne can now focus on their future: “I wish to start a business that might help me send my children to school.”

“I had lost everything. This is an indescribable feeling; you can’t imagine unless it happens to you.”

FANNE, MINAWAO REFUGEE CAMP, 2020

WE REACH THE MOST REMOTE COMMUNITIES DELIVERING AID ANY WAY WE CAN

EACH DISASTER IS DIFFERENT AND SO IS EVERY COMMUNITY ShelterBox hand-delivers aid to disaster zones, going to the most remote parts of the world to reach people often forgotten. ShelterBox aid has been delivered by helicopters, trucks, donkeys, boats, camels, and even on the backs of volunteers.

In 2019 alone, we provided shelter to tens of thousands of families, and a variety of aid including:

Lights

Mosquito Nets

Water Filters

Blankets

Cooking Sets

2019 RESPONSE: BY THE NUMBERS

145,000

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1,000

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TO MAKE A DONATION, VISIT ShelterBoxUSA.org/Donate

1.7 MILLION PEOPLE

SHELTERED SINCE 2000

HOW YOU CAN GIVE BACK

Every volunteer is instrumental in providing shelter to families after disaster, wherever they are in the world.

Whatever skills, knowledge or spare time you have, you can play a vital part in this process. All we need is your passion.

BECOME AN AMBASSADOR

BE A CHANGEMAKER

BE AN ADVOCATE

BECOME A CLUB CHAMPION

Engage and activate across every level: fundraising, awareness and action.

Raise funds to support our mission; from marathons to school events, have fun and make a difference.

Use your voice to amplify the message.

Share the mission with your Rotary Club.

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ShelterBoxUSA.org/Volunteer

A CORNERSTONE PARTNERSHIP ShelterBox is Rotary International’s only project partner in disaster relief. This partnership can be a powerhouse during emergency response efforts. Rotary provides deep, local knowledge and community connections that enable ShelterBox to move faster and more safely to identify the most vulnerable and in-need families.

Rotarians across the world support ShelterBox in many ways, from raising funds to assisting on the ground. ShelterBox has received support from several clubs across Santa Barbara County, enabling the delivery of life-saving aid in times of crisis.

ShelterBox is a registered charity independent of Rotary International and the Rotary Foundation.

LEAVE A LEGACY A legacy gift will help ShelterBox build toward a future where no family is left without shelter. Your thoughtful and generous support enables us to build up supplies and prepare for catastrophes, whatever the scale.

Leaving a planned gift can help you give more to the ongoing work of ShelterBox than you may have thought possible—providing continued support long after your lifetime.

For information on becoming a member of ShelterBox’s Legacy program, visit ShelterBoxUSA.org/legacy

COOKING THROUGH CORONA

Pick Me Up Pie INGREDIENTS Crust: • 2 1/2 cups flour • 1 tsp salt • 1 tsp sugar • 1 cup very cold butter chopped into small bits • Cup ice water on hand

Filling: • Roughly 6 apples, • 2 Tablespoons fresh lemon juice (can also use lime or orange) • 1/2 cup brown sugar • 3 Tablespoons flour • Dash of salt • Butter chopped up into thin slices.

INSTRUCTIONS Crust: Cut the butter into the flour, salt, sugar mix, use fingers to make sure butter becomes tiny pea-sized bits. Drizzle a small amount of ice water until blended. The mix should form a ball. Put in refrigerator for 30 minutes. On a silicon pad or clean dry surface sprinkle lots of flour, add flour to rolling pin and roll out dough. I often don’t bother with a top crust. If you do, pinch top and bottom together once it’s filled with apples, then cut 2-3 slits in top.

Filling: Slice the fruit into thin slices. Sprinkle with the lemon juice, add sugar, flour, cinnamon and salt. Mix well with pats of butter. Fill up pie pan. Bake at 425 for 25 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 and cook at least another half hour.

Family & Friends Fried Rice INGREDIENTS • 1/4 cup oil (mild oil like canola, vegetable or avocado) • 8 cups white or brown rice (leftover rice works best)

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At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, ShelterBox USA President Kerri Murray was preparing her team to respond to this global crisis. “I felt the global pandemic could impact every person on the planet, but I also realized that for the most vulnerable people, a pandemic would be catastrophic. As a humanitarian organization that brings emergency shelter and essential household items to families displaced by disaster or conflict, it was apparent that families sheltering in overcrowded evacuation centers would not be able to social distance. Throughout 2020, we have scaled our relief efforts, even adapting our aid package to include hygiene supplies. We are working to find ways to access the hardest to reach places in our world that need ShelterBox more than ever before.”

During this time we also created Cooking Through Corona. The connection between ShelterBox and cooking is simple. In addition to providing emergency shelter, ShelterBox provides household items, including a stainless-steel cook set. Following disaster, families need a way to prepare the food and water supplied by other organizations. The cooking equipment we provide cuts through the chaos of disaster and restores a sense of normalcy by enabling families to share a hot meal. Of all the aid items that ShelterBox provides, our cook sets are a favorite of displaced families. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it is critical that people have separate cooking equipment to prevent sharing and the spread of the disease.

Understanding how meals could unite families after disaster, we created Cooking Through Corona to unite our volunteers, supporters, and staff from around the world, during this difficult time. We come together safely online to share deployment briefings and to restore a sense of connection and caring.

Since starting this project, people from across the world have come together to share recipes and build community. It has attracted the participation of humanitarians who love to cook and bake. One contributor to the site is Leslie Zemeckis (renowned actress, author, and mom) who frequently shares her fun and easy cooking recipes, like Pick-Me-Up Pie (left). “When I joined the community as a regular contributor to Cooking Through Corona I thought, what better way to share my love of baking in this time when we are at home with family. I believe baking should be fun. I am a messy, imprecise baker who occasionally dresses up, as Marie Antoinette or even Joan Crawford, not only to poke fun at baking, but since we are at home and we have time, why not?

Eating, baking, and cooking bring us together as a community sharing nutrition and fun, but also hope, gratitude and caring,” says Leslie Zemeckis.

One popular recipe was submitted by the family of a physician, Yvonne Spencer, on the front lines of the pandemic, who shared “Friends and Family Fried Rice,” a dish that she made to bring comfort to her healthcare worker friends when they were tired, hungry and struggling to battle the virus.

To contribute or subscribe, visit www.CookingThroughCorona.com

2 cups chopped chicken, beef, pork, shrimp, edamame or tofu 2 cups frozen peas 3 scrambled eggs 1/2 cooked onion, chopped 1-2 Tbsp. soy sauce Salt to taste

INSTRUCTIONS Pour half of the oil into the heated stir fry pan. Fry the rice until golden brown throughout. Pour the remaining oil onto rice and fry. When rice begins to separate, add soy sauce and salt to taste.

Stir the rice until it becomes a uniform color. Add the remaining ingredients: cooked egg, peas, chopped meat, fried onion. Serve and enjoy. Serves 6-8.

Harmata cooking a meal for children with her ShelterBox cook set, Cameroon, 2019

SHELTERBOX’S GLOBAL IMPACT AT A GLANCE

Since our founding in 2000, ShelterBox has responded to more than 300 disasters and humanitarian crises in 100 countries.

SYRIA BANGLADESH

NIGERIA

CAMEROON

2019 Deployments

PHILIPPINES

SOMALIA / SOMALILAND ETHIOPIA MALAWI

PARAGUAY

2000-2018 Deployments

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ON G OI N G C ON F L I C T S

MARCH / MALAWI, CYCLONE IDAI Cyclone Idai tears through southern Africa causing severe flooding, destroying homes and livelihoods.

OCT / PHILIPPINES, EARTHQUAKE Three powerful earthquakes shake Mindanao Island, destroying homes and whole buildings.

CAMEROON, CONFLICT Thousands of families have fled conflict and Boko Haram attacks and are now living in Minawo Camp.

APRIL / PARAGUAY, FLOODING Heavy rains cause widespread flooding in the capital, causing severe damage and displacing thousands.

DEC / PHILIPPINES, TYPHOON Typhoon Kammuri hit land four times and severely affected communities across Northern Samar.

NIGERIA, CONFLICT Boko Haram violence and the military offensive countering Boko Haram have caused displacement of more than 2.4 million families.

JULY / BANGLADESH, FLOODING Heavy monsoon rains trigger severe flooding, leaving a third of the country underwater.

ONGOING / SOMALILAND, SEVERE DROUGHT Severe drought has forced thousands of families to flee their homes and killed up to 80% of the region's livestock.

SYRIA, CONFLICT As this complex and violent crisis enters its 10th year, millions of people remain displaced, unable to return home.

RECOGNITION: NOBEL PEACE PRIZE NOMINATION ShelterBox is honored to have been nominated for the 2018 and 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, in recognition of our humanitarian efforts to help families caught in some of the world’s most extreme conflict zones, including the Syrian crisis, the Lake Chad Basin, and in some of the world’s largest refugee camps like Cox’s Bazaar in Bangladesh. Our work keeps families together during a time of unprecedented displacement.

These nominations would not have been possible without the dedication and generosity of our supporters, volunteers and partners at home and throughout the world.

SUPPORTER SPOTLIGHT: CLIMBING FOR A CAUSE University of Denver student, Brittney “Bert” Woodrum, has a lot to celebrate. On September 26th she summited the final peak of her summer project, hiking all 58 of Colorado’s Fourteeners with an iconic ShelterBox on her back. Her incredible trek raised over $85,000 to help families displaced by disaster and vulnerable to COVID-19.

Her plan to hike all 58 of Colorado’s Fourteeners came about after being quarantined at home for months at the onset of the outbreak.

“There has never been a more pivotal moment for this project than now. Shelter plays a huge role in the health and safety of individuals. If you do not have shelter, it’s impossible to shelter in place, and pandemics like these impact vulnerable populations the most.”

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As always, find the complete listings online at independent.com/events. And if you have virtual events coming up, submit them at independent.com/eventsubmit.

Dear Community,

Thank you, stay safe, and Happy Thanksgiving!

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Be aware that the state has returned our county to the most restrictive Tier 1 (Purple/ Widespread). Please contact venues directly to confirm events haven’t been changed or canceled. Please visit publichealthsbc.org/purple-tier-faq for more information.

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11/25:

Virtual Concert: Pianos at the

Luke In partnership with Pia-

nos on State Street, S.B. piano artists will play a diverse selection of improvisational, original works, jazz, classical, and more onstage at the Marjorie Luke Theatre. Stream this concert through December 13. Free.

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strength, and focus through a sequence of linked poses. 9:30am-10:30am. $17.

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SUNDAY 11/29 11/29: Virtual Class: Playing Your Edge This intermediate to advanced yoga

11/26:

class is open to any student who wishes to deepen their practice by focusing on the body, the flow of attention, and breath accompanied by harp, voice, singing bowls, and koshi bells. 9-10:15am. $12. Call (805) 965-8811 or email soup@yogasoup.com.

aged to get out of the house today and come to the zoo for a smashin’ good time to watch as the zoo’s animals play and interact with pumpkins. 10am-3:30pm. S.B. Zoo, 500 Niños Dr. Free-$19.95; parking: $11.

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11/26: Groove with Gratitude: A Thanksgiving Community Class with Sierra Noland All levels are invited to join and connect with community at

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SATURDAY 11/28

11/25: Teton Gravity Research Double Feature and Fundraiser The At Ease S.B. Chap-

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You have until December 30 to bid on 30 unique and once-in-a-lifetime experiential auction items in support of Sing!, a free year-round choral program for young peo people from 28 schools in the community and Alumni Enterprise Awards and Innovation Residential for Academy Summer Festival alumni. musicacademy.org/auction

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11/26: Bond Fitness Virtual Turkey Trot to Stuff The Foodbank Run, walk, or jog your 5K wherever you are spending your Thanksgiving for this donation-based race to raise funds for the Foodbank of S.B. County. Share your photos and videos on social media and tag @bondfitnesssb and use the hashtag #BondTurkeyTrot for a chance to win a prize.

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UPC Work Inc. Gift Drive to Support Adults with Disabilities Bring holiday cheer to 400+

people with disabilities served in the tri counties though December 3. United Cerebral Palsy Work Inc. will accept gifts of art supplies, beading kits, knitting yarn, rainbow looms, adult coloring books, and Amazon Fire tablets. Visit the website for drop-off addresses in Carpinteria, S.B., and Santa Maria. For a contactless way to contribute, visit tinyurl.com/WorkIncAmazonWishlist. Tue. 10am-Wed. 2pm. tinyurl.com/UCPGiftDrive

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Here’s your chance to catch this unforgettable evening with Kenny Loggins again or for the first time. Listen to some great hits as Kenny reflects on his career. 8pm. $15/four-day rental.

11/30-12/2: Music Academy of the West Online Auction

Pokémon No experience is necessary to start your Pokémon journey. All ages are invited to learn to build decks, play the game, and more! 2-3pm. Metro Entertainment, 6 W. Anapamu St. Free. Call (805) 963-2168.

ter presents TGR’s new ski and snowboard films Make Believe (not rated) at 6:30pm and Blank Canvas (not rated) at 8:30pm, to raise funds for the men and women of the S.B. Police Departments and other first responders in the tri-county area.

Enter the raffle to win prizes from Sierra Nevada, The North Face, and more, plus trips to Jackson Hole Mountain Resort or Whistler. Gates open: 5pm. Goleta West Wind Drive-In, 907 S. Kellogg Ave., #3833, Goleta. $50/carload (included one raffle ticket); $150/VIP (includes three raffle tickets and swag bag).

11/26-11/29: Live from the Lobero Presents Holiday ReRelease with Kenny Loggins

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this dance-inspired yoga flow, then unwind into a gratitude practice with yin yoga (deep stretches held for long periods of time). 10-11:15am. Casa de la Guerra, 15 E. De La Guerra St. $10 minimum donation. Call (805) 897-3354.

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Thanksgiving Day at the Zoo! Animal lovers are encour-

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In the Center: World AIDS Day Join virtually to explore and honor the experiences of LGBTQ+ folks that lived through the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Panelists will answer questions (submit questions in advance to jackie@pacificpridefoundation.org.)

Register in advance. Free. pacificpridefoundation.org/in-the-center

FRIDAY 11/27 11/27: Virtual Flow with Natalie Dawn Sampila All levels are invited to this virtual breath-to-movement practice that will build heat, endurance, flexibility,

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11/25: The Lark Presents a Holiday Feast for Thanksgiving 5pm-close. The Lark, 131 Anacapa St. $65/person. Call (805) 284-0370 or email info@thelarksb.com.

tinyurl.com/LarkThanksgiving 11/26: Thanksgiving at Harry’s Plaza Café 11am-9pm.

Price varies. Call (805) 687-2800.

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11/26: Thanksgiving at Louie’s California Bistro Seatings: 2:30pm, 5pm, and 7:30pm. Upham Hotel, 1404 De la Vina St. $60/per person. Call (805) 963-7003.

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11/26: Thanksgiving at Black Sheep Restaurant 5-9pm. Black Sheep Restaurant, 26 E. Ortega St. $75/per person.

Call (805) 965-1113. blacksheepsb.com

11/26: Feast in the Forest at Cold Spring Tavern 11:30-7:30pm. Cold Spring Tavern, 5995 Stagecoach Rd. $75/adult; $35/children ages 10 and under. Call (805) 967-0066.

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11/26: Thanksgiving at Scarlett Begonia 9am-1pm and 3:30pm-8pm. Scarlett Begonia, 21 W. Victoria St. Brunch cost varies; $90/dinner per person. Call (805) 770-2143 or email info@ scarlettbegonia.net.

scarlettbegonia.net/menu/thanksgiving.pdf 11/26: Thanksgiving Dinner at Coast & Olive 4-7pm.

Montecito Inn, 1295 Coast Village Rd., Montecito. $95/person; $50/person three-glass wine pairing. Call (805) 690-3920.

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11/26: Thanksgiving at Angel Oak Seatings: 11am, 1:30pm, 4pm, and 6:30pm. The Ritz-Carlton Bacara, 8301 Hollister Ave. $125/person; $60/per person wine pairing. Call (805) 5714220. tinyurl.com/AngelOakThanksgiving 11/26: Thanksgiving at Belmond El Encanto Noon7:30pm. Belmond El Encanto S.B., 800 Alvarado Pl. $125/person; $60/children ages 12 and under. Call (805) 845-5800 or email ele.restaurant@belmond.com.

tinyurl.com/ElBelmondThanksgiving 11/26: Thanksgiving at Rosewood Miramar Beach Malibu Farm: 11:30am-8:30pm. $165/person; $65/children ages 4-12; free/under age 4. Caruso’s: 3-9:30pm. $195/adult; $85/children ages 4-12. Rosewood Miramar Beach, 1759 S. Jameson Ln., Montecito. Call (805) 900-8388.

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TUESDAY 12/1

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12/1: Artificial Intelligence and Art: The Case of Harold Cohen — A Conversation with Justin Underhill This virtual talk by Justin Underhill, PhD,

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WEDNESDAY 12/2 12/2: A&L at the Drive-in Double Feature: Whale Rider and Yesterday UCSB Arts & Lectures invites you to arrive early for food trucks, concessions, and entertainment before watching 2002’s Whale Rider (PG-13) at 5:30pm, about a young Maori girl who fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.

Stay for 2019’s Yesterday (PG-13) at 8pm, which follows a struggling musician who realizes that he is the only person on Earth who can remember the Beatles after waking up in an alternate timeline.

Masks and social distancing required. Distanced parking includes room to put chairs in front of your car. Gates open: 4pm. Goleta West Wind Drive-In, 907 S. Kellogg Ave., #3833, Goleta. Free.

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Locals’ Collective Shop small and

local through January 3, 2021, at this unique pop-up that will feature Anna Janelle Jewelry, (In)Larkin, Jilli Vanilli, La Calle Studios, Menchaca Chocolates, RoHo, artist Rod Lathim, and more. Private appointments and shipping will be available. 11am8pm. 931 State St. Free. Email localscollectivesb@gmail.com.

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11/25-11/30: Virtual Christmas at the Casa: From Our Casa to Yours This annual tradition will offer the chance to bid on meals, trips, vintage jewelry, antiques, one-of-a-kind experiences, and more, with funds raised to go toward Casa del Herrero. Visit the website to view the auction catalog and place a bid. Free. casachristmas.com

11/26-11/29, 12/1: S.B. Outdoor Christmas Market Shop safely for your holiday gifts, such as jewelry, clothing, candles, artwork, books, chocolate, skin care, and more, from area artisans and small businesses through December 24. Thu.-Fri.: 3-8pm; Sat.:-Sun.: 11am-7pm; Tue.: 3-6pm. Paseo Nuevo at De la Guerra Place, 651 Paseo Nuevo. Free. tinyurl.com/XmasOutdoorMarket 11/27-12/2: Anthony’s Christmas Trees Get just the right Christmas tree through December 24. Thu., Mon.-Wed.: 9am-8pm; Fri.-Sat.: 9am-9pm; Sun: 10am-7pm. Earl Warren Showgrounds, 3400 Calle Real. Free. Call (805) 966-6668 or email elves@anthonyschristmastrees.com. anthonyschristmastrees.com 11/27-12/2: Big Wave Dave’s Christmas Trees Trees will be available daily through December 23. 10am-9pm. 3865 State St. (La Cumbre Plaza, Macy’s parking lot). Free. Call (805) 218-0282.

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11/27-11/29, 12/2: Christmas in the Country Visitors will embark on a drive-through magical holiday light experience with displays presented by area businesses and families (health and safety protocols permitting). Choose any day, Wednesday-Sunday, after December 3 through January 3, 2021. 6-9pm. Elks Event Center, 4040 Hwy 101, Santa Maria. $40/car. Call (805) 925-4125.

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11/27-11/28: Selfies with Santa Bring family, friends, and pets for a selfie with Santa in front of the huge Christmas tree. Tag your photos at @ShopPaseoNuevo #SelfiesWithSanta to be entered to win weekly prizes. Masks are mandatory. No appointments required. Noon-6pm. Free.

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“Fantastic healing evening.

Just what we need right now.” - Anne T.

The fans have spoken! This evening was a delight, encompassing the warmth of Kenny Loggins’ unforgettable hits while reflecting on a career with stellar collaborators during his musical journey into the hearts of the world.

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nightly snow, which is actually made from vegetables and is gluten-free, nontoxic, and non-damaging. Visit through December 31 (closed December 25). Snow-cial distancing and face masks will be required. 5:30, 6:30, and 7pm. Center Court, Paseo Nuevo, 651 Paseo Nuevo. Free. paseonuevoshopping.com/events/snowfall

11/27-11/28, 12/1: 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 Thursday-morning senior shopping opportunities.10am-8pm.

La Cumbre Plaza (across from Chico’s), 121 S. Hope Ave. Free. Call (805) 570-1987.

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11/28-12/2: Carpinteria Boy Scouts Christmas Tree Lot Pick out a beautiful, top-quality tree through December 19 and support the Boy Scouts, Carpinteria Troop 50. Sat.: 1-6:30pm; Sun.: 8:30am-6:30pm; Mon,-Wed.: 3-8:30pm. 1532 Linden Ave., Carpinteria. Free. Call (805) 698-4372.

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hile MOXI thinks all of its supporters and members are absolute rock stars for standing by them during the museum’s extended closure, there’s one bona fide star who has just stepped up to show her support for STEAM education in a big way.

Homegrown pop sensation and new mom Katy Perry has donated a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for one lucky family to privately party with her as the grand prize in MOXI’s Rock Star Raffle.

MOXI hopes this exclusive prize and chance to meet the chart-topping Perry oneon-one via Zoom will help replace funds typically raised by its gala fundraiser traditionally held in October. The funds are even more crucial this year, as MOXI has been closed for more than six months, including the busy spring break and summer months.

This has meant the loss of all revenue from paid admissions, program and camp registrations, and facility rentals, which collectively make up nearly 60 percent of MOXI’s annual budget.

“Access to unique and engaging ways to learn about science and the arts are so important, especially for kids,” said Perry.

“Education is power, and MOXI provides that along with tons of fun. I can’t wait to bring my daughter to MOXI, and I want more than anything for this incredible museum to weather the pandemic and be here for generations to come.”

Raffle tickets are $100 each and can be purchased by calling (805) 770-5021 or visiting moxi. org/katy to fill out an interest form. Tickets must

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be purchased by 11:59 p.m. on Monday, December 7. Everyone who purchases a ticket will be invited to join a family-friendly, virtual dance party celebration of all things MOXI, creativity and fun on Thursday, December 10, during which the winner of the Katy Perry virtual party will be announced.

—Martha Swanson, for MOXI

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abitat for Humanity of Southern Santa Barbara County, a k a Habitat Santa Barbara, is helping older residents stay safely in place during the pandemic by making critical repairs to their homes.

For Carpinteria senior Lori Ann Graham, the work done to her manufactured home — including the repair of a large hole in her bathroom floor and the addition of new fencing — has had a major impact on her life. “I walk outside early every morning with my first cup of coffee, and to this day, I still can’t believe this happened,” she said in a thank-you note to the organization. “You have given me so much more than you know — you’ve replaced worry with peace.”

Jessica Wishan, CEO of Habitat Santa Barbara, said the work helps maintain the limited stock of affordable housing in the county, where the cost of living is nearly double the national average. “Behind the façade of prosperity, many struggle to afford basic needs,” she said. —Indy Staff

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orona’s Year of Fear has taken its psychic toll on us all, but for medical professionals, the lurking presence of coronavirus in the workplace takes a special toll. One nurse on Cottage hospital’s COVID floor said, “You pray you’re not bringing it to your own daughter or husband or whoever’s at home.” After a 12-hour shift, said Bernadette McDermott-Lewis, most of them strip in the garage before going indoors, and they put their clothing in the washing machine before heading for the shower. “We have to be terribly, terribly vigilant,” she said.

McDermott-Lewis went on to explain that it’s not just doctors and nurses but the nurse assistants, housekeepers, transporters, and dietary staff who endure the same risks. As a member of the Santa Barbara Craftivists for Change, she talked with her friends about the worries she and her colleagues had, and the Craftivists listened with an empathetic ear as they gathered during Zoom calls to sew masks, which substituted for the weekly knitting meetings they’d enjoyed at the Public Market.

“We couldn’t fix things for them,” said Teresa Bothman, “but we could let them know that they’re on our minds — that as they care for us, we care for them.” From that impulse came the Gratitude Bag, organized by Bothman, Rose Santellano-Milem, and Laurie Gross Schaefer — a reusable bag containing practical things like a snack, a hat, a mask, a note — but they’re special, each handmade with blessings for the mind and spirit to remind all the health-care professionals that their work is deeply appreciated.

Two hundred of these bags were delivered to staff members at Cottage hospital’s COVID and intensive-care floors and to Cottage Rehab. At the rehabilitation center, it’s the therapists who get COVID patients back on their feet after the ventilator with respiratory therapy and strength training, McDermott-Lewis explained. The Gratitude Bag project gained participation by members of the Knitwits, Montecito Library’s Knit and Needle group, and the Fiber Arts Guild and received support from Sylvia Molony and Dos Pueblos Ranch and the Community Shul of Montecito and Santa Barbara.

Santa Barbara has the Craftivists to thank for the plethora of pink pussy hats that appeared at protests and rallies held after the 2016 election, and their work has spread into blankets and hats for immigrants and refugees. Since COVID landed, the facemasks they sewed have gone beyond Santa Barbara to the Navajo Nation and the Tarahumara people in Mexico. Extra hats from the gratitude project went to Warm the Line, a group in the Midwest to support people standing in line to vote in the election earlier this month.

“It’s just amazing how you can start something from nothing and do so much,” Bothman marveled. “It’s truly rewarding.”

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or all its historic charm and neon nostalgia, the Paradise

Café—which closed in September after 37 years in business—was not the first restaurant to loom over the bustling corner of Anacapa and Ortega streets in downtown Santa Barbara, nor was it the establishment with the longest tenure there. That distinction goes to La Paloma Café, which Jennie Luera founded as a traditional Mexican restaurant in 1940 and ran with her daughters and grandchildren until 1983.

This week, after rejuvenating the restaurant’s structures, style, and spirit, Acme Hospitality returns La Paloma to its perch as a neighborhood café. Instead of classic Mexican food, La Paloma is now serving oak-grilled meats, sea-

Acme Hospitality Turns Back Paradise Café’s Clocks to Honor Location’s Original Restaurant

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sonal produce, and Mexican/Spanish/Chumash-influenced dishes under the banner of “Californio” and “ranchero” cuisine. Said Acme’s founder and owner Sherry Villanueva, “We wanted to go back to the roots of what was here on the corner that was beloved by the community.”

The group behind such popular Funk Zone restaurants as The Lark and Loquita, Acme purchased the Paradise at the end of 2019. The plan was to continue operating the beloved café under that name while modernizing the menu and dealing with years of deferred maintenance. But those goals quickly ran into complaints from all sides, and then came a pandemic, forcing reconsideration of the entire concept.

“We learned a valuable lesson: All things have their lives, their relevance,” said Villanueva. “We tried to take the Paradise and make it better by creating dishes that were scratch-made, by cleaning up the space. In so doing, we

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made everybody unhappy. The people who loved the Paradise just as it was were unhappy that we changed anything.

The people who love us thought it was subpar to what we normally do. We found ourselves in the middle of not really making anyone happy, including ourselves more than anything. This isn’t us,” she said of her group’s first time taking over and running an existing restaurant, which she vowed to never try again. “This isn’t what we do.”

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p.40 FACES NEW AND ORIGINAL: La Paloma Café property owner Josie Reynoso, whose family opened the original restaurant in 1940, is pictured with Chef Jeremy Tummel, a third-generation Santa Barbara resident of partial Chumash descent.

Reynoso—who worked as a teacher’s aide for her career and has three grown children of her own — became landlord when her mother died in 2014. She’s been attending the recent staff trainings to relay these stories to the next generation Villanueva is proud to share this almost forgotten legacy of Santa Barbara history, especially because it surrounds three generations of strong female ownership. “It’s been really fun to bring her family story back to life and really celebrate it,” she said.

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La Paloma will be the eighth establishment in Santa Barbara created by Villanueva, a former marketing consultant for Target who is also in the midst of refurbishing and opening two historic hotels in Grass Valley and Nevada City. To ensure a smooth transition to La Paloma, Villanueva brought in expertise from other restaurants in the Acme universe, which is managed day-to-day by her two “right-hand men,” Skyler Gamble and Treg Finney. “It’s been really fun to see everybody gather around the newest little sister,” said Villanueva of the team effort.

Unlike The Lark and Loquita, which attract those seeking a dining experience-as-event, La Paloma will be much more casual. “We want to maintain that level of accessibility and approachability that I think people loved about Paradise,” said Villanueva. “It’s just an easygoing neighborhood café.”

That’s perhaps best evidenced in the “straight-shooting” cocktails. “Nothing fancy,” said Villanueva. “Nobody is lighting rinds on fire.” Think margaritas and, of course, the paloma as a signature drink.

For the food, Villanueva took inspiration from the mural on the exterior of the building, which depicts a Californian cowboy that many believe to be Leo Carrillo. “When that guy goes home for dinner, what’s on the table?” wondered Villanueva, who then went down a rabbit hole of research into traditional Californio cuisine.

Helping to answer that question is Chef Jeremy Tummel, a third-generation Santa Barbara resident of partial Chumash descent. “That’s exactly the type of food I would love to do,” said Tummel. “To me and a lot of people from the Santa Barbara area, whether they know it or not, this food is in our DNA. This is what people would have eaten here 100 years ago.” cont’d on p. 43

Instead, Villanueva dove into the history of the property, which is still owned by Josephine “Josie” Reynoso, the granddaughter of Jennie Luera. “My grandparents came from Silver City, New Mexico, where my grandfather worked in the silver mines,” said Reynoso. Upon making it to Santa Barbara, her grandmother worked in a laundry on State Street as her grandpa worked construction jobs. “They were working to save money to have a Mexican restaurant,” she said. “That was their goal.”

For $7,000, they purchased the property — then home to an Italian bakery—in 1938 and started serving enchiladas, tamales, menudo, rellenos, chile verde, and a complete menu of classic Mexican cuisine two years later. The family first lived in the house next door—now the dining room—and in rooms above the kitchen before moving into the home behind (and connected to) the restaurant in the early 1950s.

Reynoso’s mom, aunts, and cousins all worked there, but she mostly remembers running under the tables and being shooed away by the staff. “I was always in the way,” recalled Reynoso, an only child who was born in 1940.

Luera, whose husband died in 1956, ran the restaurant until 1983, when she sold it to Randy Rowse and Kevin Boss, who created the Paradise Café. “That was BAR REBORN: The bar area and Aztec mural at La Paloma Café have been refurbished, her life right there, the restaurant,” said including with cowhide on the bar stools.

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story on page 40, La Paloma Café opened Tuesday at 702 Anacapa Street, the former home of the Paradise Café. The original La Paloma Café was a traditional Mexican restaurant that was operated by the property owners from 1940 to 1983, when it was leased to the Paradise Café, which carried the torch for the next 37 years. Now owned by Acme Hospitality, the restaurant serves Ranchero California Barbecue cuisine, cooking meals over a live oak grill as an homage to the region’s vaquero culture.

The restaurant initially offers a dinner menu including Santa Barbara Mission Chicken ($20), Santa Maria–Style Angus Tri-tip ($21), Oak Grilled Flat Iron Steak ($22), All-Natural Pork Shoulder ($19), Oak-Grilled Coastal Salmon ($27), and California Fields Vegetable “Al Pastor.” Call (805) 966-7029 or visit TAQUERIA DREAM: Eva Umejido and her dad, Lalo Umejido, opened lapalomacafesb.com.

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have opened in the last year: • November 2020: Café Lido at Mar Monte Hotel, 1111 E. Cabrillo Blvd.; Cajé Coffee Roasters, 1316 State St.; Costa Kitchen & Bar at Mar Monte Hotel, 1111 E. Cabrillo Blvd.; Hustle & Grind Coffee Company, 11 W. De la Guerra St.; La Paloma Café, 702 Anacapa St.; Yona Redz Queso Tacos, 532 State St. • October 2020: Cheese Shop Santa Barbara, 827 Santa Barbara St.; Chomp on the Rocks, 113 Harbor Wy., Ste. 180; Kyle’s Kitchen, 900 Embarcadero del Mar, Isla Vista; Olio Bottega, 11 W. Victoria St. • September 2020: Salty at the Beach, 113 Harbor Wy., Ste. 180; Sprouts Farmers Market, 29 S. Milpas St.

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436 State St or locate on Instagram; Oakberry Açai Bowls, 819-B State St. (in Paseo Nuevo); Coast & Olive at Montecito Inn, 1295 Coast Village Rd., Montecito; Noemi Pizza Romana, 3534 State St. May 2020: Rusty’s Pizza, 2315 Lillie Ave., Summerland April 2020: Taqueria Santa Barbara, 1213 State St. Ste. A; Ca’Dario Montecito, 1187 Coast Village Rd., Montecito March 2020: Wingman Rodeo, evenings at 730 N. Milpas St. February 2020: Santa Barbara Wood-Fired Pizza, 3 De la Vina St.; Kaiju, 901 Embarcadero Del Mar, Isla Vista; Poke Theory, 6530 Seville Rd., Goleta.

January 2020: Lokum, 1019 State St.

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nature, including renovations to the murals, which Luera commissioned 80 years ago.

(They’re hoping for a grant to work on the exterior one.) The design team reupholstered the original barstools—which Luera bought from a catalog in 1938—with cowhides, and highlighted the vintage tiles in the bar, which include cockfighting scenes, rumored to have occurred out back. Beneath the prominent mural, which depicts the Aztec fallen romance legend of Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl, the walls are now adorned with contemporary art

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In line with the attention to detail that’s made The Lark and Loquita two of the hottest seats in Santa Barbara for years now, Villanueva’s team resurrected La Paloma into a heartfelt ode to history and an exploration of what eating was like in the region’s earlier days. For now, due to the constraints of COVID, La Paloma will only be open for dinner from Thursday to Monday — not counting this week, when it debuts to the public on Tuesday and Wednesday, November 24 and 25. There is also a robust takeout meal program, and the plan is to evolve into a seven-day establishment serving lunch and brunch, as well, when the pandemic permits.

Once the café is fully operational, Villanueva hopes it will again be a place where friends gather for casual midweek meals, city councilmembers meet for power lunches, and downtown residents stop for a quick drink and bite. As to the haters who are likely to come out of the woodwork to chastise the end of the Paradise on Yelp and social media?

“The reality is that sales at the Paradise Café have been declining year over year for many years,” said Villanueva. “The local love and support that used to be there was dwindling.

The Paradise needed to change. It was dying.

That’s what I think people don’t understand.”

Most elated at the return of La Paloma is Josie Reynoso, who gets to see her family’s legacy in all its glory. “We’re all happy,” said Reynoso, who lives near San Marcos High today. “It will be nice to see families bring their kids in to show them where they liked to eat.

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After teaching at SBCC for three years, Tummel helped open the Bacara resort and then worked at Epiphany, briefly as a private chef, and at the Wine Cask. He moved to Los Angeles to work for the Border Grill group in 2008, where he learned a lot about operations, and was then lured to the Stillwater Bar & Grill at Pebble Beach, where he stayed for seven years. In 2015, he got married, was certified as a sommelier, and nearly won the American Culinary Federation’s annual cooking competition in Orlando.

While living in Monterey, he met John Cox from Big Sur’s Post Ranch Inn. Cox was being hired by the Fess Parker family to open The Bear and Star in Los Olivos, and he lured Tummel to follow him south. Though he enjoyed living in Solvang, Tummel yearned to return to the ocean side of the mountains.

“I’d been gone for over 10 years, and I was ready to come back home,” said Tummel, so he took a job at the reopened Miramar Hotel in October 2018, staying for a year.

He’d been “flirting with Acme” for a while when Villanueva tapped him to help run the new Paradise. His first shift was March 15, 2020, the start of the pandemic. “That was the day Acme announced they are closing all the restaurants,” he said. “It was just bizarre.”

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As we head into what promises to be a socially distant winter season, it’s good to remember the things that keep us healthy, centered, and sane. Dancers in particular want you to know that being safe at home is no barrier to stepping up to the barre. What was once at the Dance Hub on Victoria St. is now dancehubsb.org, where there are loads of great online classes to choose from. In recent weeks, to inspire both committed dancers and newcomers to the fold, the organization has been spotlighting their faculty and students with an online collage of statements and photos and a social media feed, #WhyImStillDancing on Instagram, that lets people like Molissa Fenley, Susan Alexander, and TDH Artistic Director Carrie Diamond express their feelings about what dance continues to do for them and for the world.

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n recent years, the arrival of various talents and musical impulses. “I have a range of the holidays in Santa Barbara personality and expression,” has brought with it an array of traditions, one of which has she says. “The trombone is such been the regular appearance an expressive instrument that of S.B.-raised and increasingly can go from growling to sing-acclaimed N.Y.C.-based jazz ing — as can I — so I wanted to trombonist Mariel Bildsten on explore all areas of the horn and the SOhO calendar between myself.”

Christmas and New Year’s Eve. The daughter of an astroOf course, that tradition is one physicist and an architect, Bildof many that will take a holiday sten remembers growing up in in this COVID-afflicted year, a a household teeming with the period without live music. sounds of Neil Young, R.E.M., But the gifted Bildsten is and Brian Eno. But it was her arriving in a different fashion discovery of trombonist legend JJ Johnson, courtesy of this year, having just released 6th-grade trombone teacher her debut album, Backbone, on the Outside in Music label. The Bryce Craig, that became her trombonist-bandleader grew epiphany and the inspiration for her choice of instrument up locally, studied at Manhattan School of Music, and has and life path. “I listened to that CD every day for the next few played with such artists as the Arturo O’Farrill Afro-Jazz years,” she recalls. “It became Orchestra (in which she is the our family’s soundtrack, and I lead trombonist), and in the listened to it constantly.” rock group Brass Against. She She cites many Santa Barbara has performed in an impressive teachers for helping steer her array of high-profile N.Y.C. musical growth, including Jeff venues like Jazz at Lincoln CenPeterson and John Douglas at BANDLEADER: Mariel Bildsten’s quintet plays the top venues in jazz. ter’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Goleta Valley Junior High, Les Carnegie Hall, and the Apollo Theater. sensual swing thing “Ecaroh” to open, and Rose at Dos Pueblos, and Eric Heidner, Gigging prospects, whether Dizzy’s or it closes with a Latin-Jazz-fired version of Doc Woods, and Jim Mooy at SBCC. By SOhO, have of course taken a huge nose- “The Lamp Is Low,” replete with an amped- this point, however, the Santa Barbaran dive since March. “Unfortunately, live per- up Ravel reference. The set list also touches deserves to be known as a full-fledged formances and touring have really slowed on both familiar turf (“Mood Indigo,” “The New Yorker. “I moved to New York at 18 down,” she said in a recent interview. “The Man That Got Away”) and lesser-known years old,” she says, “so my entire adult life upside is that all of us have become excel- gems (“Rosita,” from an Ernst Lubitsch has been here. New York has taught me so much musically: how to be tough and real, lent at-home recording studio musicians.” film, and “Monaco”).

Recorded in one night in January 2019 All told, Backbone is an impressive have a backbone, be humble, keep learning, following a weeklong stint at Dizzy’s, Back- statement of arrival for a musician who find joy in the little moments, respect your bone showcases Bildsten’s sundry talents has been honing her craft and vision for elders, serve the music (not the other way beautifully as a tasteful player, arranger, and a decade-plus. It also arrives at a moment around), and play music that makes people musician with a respect for historical tradi- when women are finally gaining more of a move and dance and laugh and cry. I can’t tion, reenvisioned and freshly arranged. foothold and due respect in the jazz world. say enough about it.”

—Josef Woodard The album is framed by Horace Silver’s Backbone is also a calling card for Bildsten’s

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ARE YOU HEARING ME? Diane Mackenzie comes from documentary film royalty, yet she has arrived at the helm of her first feature the hardest way imaginable. Her father, Kent Mackenzie, made The Exiles in 1961, a haunting docudrama that chronicles one night in the life of a group of young Native Americans living in the Bunker Hill neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles.

It ranks with Lionel Rogosin’s 1956 On the Bowery as one of the greatest examples of urban neorealism in American cinema, and growing up with it shaped Diane Mackenzie’s vision, which she has since pursued as a film archivist at UCSB. It was not, however, the impetus for Are You Hearing Me?, the important new project that she is working on today. That story begins with an incident much darker than anything portrayed in The Exiles.

Are You Hearing Me? will celebrate the work of female artists who have experienced sexual and physical trauma. After being raped and beaten here in Santa Barbara in 2010, Mackenzie traveled a long and difficult road to recovery, both physical and emotional, and art was an important part of that healing process. By reaching out to other artists who have made similar journeys of healing through their work, Mackenzie intends to start conversations that will lead society to a better understanding of sexual violence, and to a more loving acceptance of women’s stories of damage and abuse. There’s already a team in place, including the activist/artist Barbara Parmet, and a beautiful website (areyouhearingmefilm.com) featuring rotating profiles of the women who will be the subjects of the film, which is now in progress.

“I’m looking to take my story and move toward something more universal,” Mackenzie told me in a recent conversation. “I started shooting in March, and I’ve kept going even though much of what has been done since then has taken place on Zoom.”

With the help of a crowdfunding campaign that can be accessed through the aforementioned website, Mackenzie hopes to complete principal photography

by May. Interested parties are invited to get involved in any number of ways by contacting her. There’s always room for more when the work is about taking back one’s life through the healing power of art.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY by Rob Breszny ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19): “A little too much is just enough for

me,” joked poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. I suspect that when he said that, he was in a phase similar to the one you’re in now. I bet he was experiencing a flood of creative ideas, pleasurable self-expressions, and loving breakthroughs. He was probably right to risk going a bit too far, because he was learning so much from surpassing his previous limitations and exploring the frontiers outside his comfort zone. Now here’s your homework, Aries: Identify two actions you could take that fit the profile I’ve described here.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): Biologists believe that no tree can

grow more than 436 feet tall. As much as an individual redwood or spruce or mountain ash might like to sprout so high that it doesn’t have to compete with other trees for sunlight, gravity is simply too strong for it to pump enough water up from the ground to its highest branches. Keep that in mind as a useful metaphor during the next 10 months, Taurus. Your assignment is to grow bigger and taller and stronger than you ever have before — and know when you have reached a healthy level of being bigger and stronger and taller.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I haven’t felt the savory jolt of bacon in

my mouth since I was 15, when I forever stopped eating pigs. I still remember that flavor with great fondness, however. I’ve always said I’d love to find a loophole that would allow me to enjoy it again. And then today I found out about a kind of seaweed that researchers at Oregon State University say tastes like bacon and is healthier than kale. It’s a new strain of a red marine algae called dulse. If I can track it down online, I’ll have it for breakfast soon. I bring this to your attention, Gemini, because I suspect that you, too, are primed to discover a fine new substitute — something to replace a pleasure or resource that is gone or taboo or impossible. What could it be?

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LIBRA

(June 21-July 22): By age 49, Cancerian author Nor-

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Those who build walls are their own

man Cousins had been struck with two debilitating diseases. His physicians gave him a one in 500 chance of recovery. He embarked on a series of unconventional attempts to cure himself, including “laugh therapy” and positive self-talk, among others. They worked. He lived lustily for another 26 years, and he wrote several books about health and healing. So perhaps we should pay attention to his belief that “each patient carries his own doctor inside him” — that at least some of our power to cure ourselves resides in inner sources that are not understood or accredited by traditional medicine. This would be a valuable hypothesis for you to consider and test in the coming weeks, Cancerian. (Caveat: But don’t stop drawing on traditional medicine that has been helping you.)

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In accordance with astrological

rhythms, I’m giving you permission to be extra regal and majestic in the coming weeks. You have a poetic license to be a supremely royal version of yourself, even to the point of wearing a jeweled crown and purple silk robe. Would you prefer a gold scepter with pearls or a silver scepter with rubies? Please keep in mind, though, that all of us non-Leos are hoping you will be a noble and benevolent sovereign who provides enlightened leadership and bestows generous blessings. That kind of behavior will earn you the right to enjoy more of these lofty interludes in the future.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the coming weeks, I will refer to

you as The Rememberer. Your task will be to deepen and refine your relationship with the old days and old ways — both your own past and the pasts of people you care about most. I hope you will take advantage of the cosmic rhythms to reinvigorate your love for the important stories that have defined you and yours.

I trust you will devote treasured time to reviewing in detail the various historical threads that give such rich meaning to your web of life.

prisoners,” wrote Libran author Ursula K. Le Guin. She continued, “I’m going to fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I’m going to unbuild walls.” I hope that sounds appealing to you, Libra. Unbuilding walls is my first choice for your prime assignment in the coming weeks. I’d love to see you create extra spaciousness and forge fertile connections. I’ll be ecstatic if you foster a rich interplay of diverse influences. If you’re feeling super-plucky, you might even help unbuild walls that your allies have used to half-trap themselves.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “If you can’t help me grow, there’s no

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Sensible Capricorn author E. M. For-

ster (1879–1970) said, “Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity.” That’s the opposite of what many poets and novelists have asserted down through the ages, which is that passion isn’t truly passion unless it renders you half-crazy, driven by obsession, and subject to delusion and irrationality. But in offering you counsel in this horoscope, I’m aligning myself with Forster’s view. For you in the coming weeks, Capricorn, passion will help you see clearly and keep you mentally healthy.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Alpine swifts are small birds that

point with you being in my life.” Singer and actress Jill Scott said that. In my view, Scorpios may be the only sign of the zodiac that can assert such a sentiment with total sincerity and authority. For many of the other tribes, it might seem harsh or unenforceable, but for you it’s exactly right — a robust and courageous truth.

In addition to its general rightness, it’s also an especially apt principle for you to wield right now. The coming weeks will be a potent time to catalyze deep learning and interesting transformations in concert with your hearty allies.

breed in Europe during the summer and then migrate long distance to Africa for the winter. Ornithologists were shocked when they discovered that at least some of these creatures fly for more than 200 days without ever once landing on the ground. They’re not always flapping their wings — sometimes they glide — but they manage to do all their eating and drinking and sleeping and mating in midair. Metaphorically speaking, I think it’s important for you to not act like the alpine swifts in the coming months, dear Aquarius.

Please plan to come all the way down to earth on a regular basis.

SAGITTARIUS

PISCES

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “You live best as an appreciator of

horizons, whether you reach them or not.” Those words from poet David Whyte would be a perfect motto for you to write out on a piece of paper and tape to your bathroom mirror or your nightstand for the next 30 years. Of all the tribes in the zodiac, you Sagittarians are most likely to thrive by regularly focusing on the big picture. Your ability to achieve small day-by-day successes depends on how well you keep the long-range view in mind. How have you been doing lately with that assignment? In the coming weeks, I suspect you could benefit from hiking to the top of a mountain — or the metaphorical equivalent — so you can enjoy seeing as far as you can see.

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

Before taking certain very important actions, h o w e v e r, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant t h e a u t h o r i t y.

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IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Yo u r appearance may be in person or by your a t t o r n e y. I F Y O U A R E A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a c r e d i t o r. Yo u m a y w a n t to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in C a l i f o r n i a l a w.

Y O U M AY E X A M I N E t h e f i l e kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: J a c o b P. A i n c i a r t P O B o x 1261 Santa Barbara, CA 93102; (805) 635‑8555.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e 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 at 6485 Calle 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 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.

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LEGALS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) VERCIEL at 6711 Sabado Ta r d e R d S a n t a B a r b a r a , 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 N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) ARTSTUDIO 4 KIDS at 815 Puente Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Geraldine B Otte (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Geraldine Otte 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: 2020‑0002647.

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) 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.

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S 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. H o l l a n d , C o u n t y Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2 0 2 0 ‑ 0 0 0 2 6 3 7 .

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

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S N A M E STATEMENT T h e f o l l o w i n g p e r s o n ( s ) COASTAL, COASTAL D I S P E N S A RY a t 9 0 1 E m b a rc a d e ro Del Mar, Suite 104 Goleta, CA 93117; Coastal Retail I V, LLC 819 Reddick S t re e t S u i t e 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: 2 0 2 0 ‑ 0 0 0 2 7 0 6 .

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 NAME S TAT E M E N T The 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 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) 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.

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 AY, 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.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 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: 2020‑0002777. Published: Nov 19, 25. Dec 3, 10 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g person(s) is/are doing business as: 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 e x p i re s f i v e y e a r s f ro m t h e date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002724.

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

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The 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: 2020‑0002763. Published: Nov 19, 25. Dec 3, 10 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The 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. FBN Number: 2020‑0002731. Published: Nov 19, 25. Dec 3, 10 2020.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD PROPOSED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (CDBG) PROGRAM 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 Program Year Action Plan Amendments NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Goleta is conducting a five-day public review period for the following CDBG Action Plan Amendments: On October 22, 2020, the City of Goleta was informed that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) had made an error in its formula calculations for the CDBG program, resulting in a net decrease in the City’s 2020-2021 allocation by $34, from $225,537 to $225,503. The City proposes to reduce the amount of funding used for Planning & Administration of the CDBG program by $34 to accommodate the decrease. Previously awarded sub-recipient grants and capital improvement funding is unaffected.

On March 27, 2020, the Federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) was approved.

The CARES Act makes available $5 billion in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) coronavirus response (CDBG–CV) funds to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus. On September 11, 2020, HUD notified the City that it would be receiving an additional CDBG-CV CARES Act allocation of $268,947.

These funds must be allocated towards programs and services to address the public health emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Proposed funding allocations include a rental housing assistance program, a healthy senior lunch program, an emergency shelter and transitional housing program, a safe parking program for the vehicular homeless, COVID-19 financial assistance for low-income people, and the Learning and Enrichment Center Collaborative. This funding must be authorized through an Amendment to the 2019-2020 CDBG Action Plan.

PUBLIC COMMENT: The City is conducting a 5-day public review period on the proposed Action Plan Amendments (starting 11/26/2020). Comments must be received by the City no later than 5:00 p.m. on November 30, 2020. Submit comments to Claudia Dato, Senior Project Manager at cdato@cityofgoleta.org (email preferred) or by mail to 130 Cremona Dr, Ste. B, Goleta, CA 93117. Information is also available on the City’s website: www.tinyurl.com/GoletaCDBG Publish: The Independent Wednesday, November 25, 2020

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Design Review Board Goleta City Hall – Council Chambers (Electronically and Telephonically) 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B Goleta, CA 93117 Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 3:00 P.M. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Design Review Board (DRB) of the City of Goleta will conduct an Electronic public hearing on the date set forth above to consider the following new project: Conceptual Review Sandpiper Golf Course Clubhouse 7925 Hollister Avenue (APN 079-210-059) Case No. 20-0012-DRB Conceptual/Preliminary/Final Review Newendorp Single Family Residential Addition 309 Princeton Avenue (APN 069-151-010) Case No. 20-0012-LUP ATTENTION: Pursuant to of the Governor’s Executive Order N-29-20 dated March 17, 2020 authorizing local jurisdictions subject to the Brown Act to hold public meetings telephonically and electronically in order to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, the regular meeting of the Design Review Board for December 8, 2020 will be conducted telephonically and electronically. It will be broadcast live on the City’s website and on Cable Goleta Channel 19. The Council Chambers will not be open to the public during the meeting. Design Review Board Members will be participating telephonically and will not be physically present in the Council Chambers.

IN LIGHT OF THE CITY’S NEED TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETINGS ELECTRONICALLY AND TELEPHONICALLY DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, written comments may also be submitted as instructed above or via email to the DRB Secretary, Mary Chang at mchang@cityofgoleta.org or by electronic means during the Public Hearing (date and time noted above), provided they are received prior to the conclusion of the public comment portion of the Public Hearing. Instructions on how to submit written comments during the hearing will be available on the City’s website: https://www.cityofgoleta.org/i-want-to/news-and-updates/governmentmeeting-agendas-and-videos.

PUBLIC COMMENT: This hearing is for design review only. All interested persons are encouraged to participate in the public hearing electronically (by phone) as described above. You may also request your written comments to be read into the record during the hearing.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: The items in this notice are new items. The DRB agenda may also include items continued from prior meetings. All persons wanting to review any project applications may do so by contacting City of Goleta, Planning and Environmental Review at (805) 961-7543. The Agenda, staff reports and project plans will be available approximately one week before the hearing on the City’s website at www. cityofgoleta.org.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) is/are doing business as: M O D E R AT E LY ADVENTURES at 1613 Chapala Street Apt E Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Moderately Adventures (same address) This business is conducted by an Limited Liability Company Signed: Hanna Ashcraft 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 N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e 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.

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

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

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The 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 S i g n e d : J a m i e 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.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) is/are doing business as: STATION HOUSE ENTERPRISES at 2100 Red Rose Wa y, Apt 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.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SYCAMORE FARM at 801 Highway 246 Solvang, CA 93463; Ballard Ranch LLC 8460 San Fernando Rd Sun Va l l e y, CA 91352 This 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.

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

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SPENCER BRANDT C O N S U LT I N G a t 6 6 3 6 S a b a d o Ta r d e R d A p t A Goleta, CA 93117; Spencer J Brandt (same address) This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Spencer J Brandt Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 18, 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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ORDINANCE NO. 20-__ AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLETA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING VARIOUS SECTIONS OF ORDINANCE NO. 16-04, WATER EFFICIENT LANDSCAPING ORDINANCE, CODIFYING THE AMENDED ORDINANCE AS TITLE 15, CHAPTER 21 OF THE GOLETA MUNICIPAL CODE, AND REPEALING THE STAND-ALONE ORDINANCE NO. 16-04 On December 1, 2020 at Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California, the City Council of the City of Goleta will conduct the second reading and possible adoption of a proposed ordinance that would amend, codify, and subsequently repeal the existing “stand-alone” Ordinance No. 16-04, Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance (WELO).

Any interested person may obtain a copy of the proposed ordinance by emailing the City Clerk’s Office at cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org or by calling City Hall at (805) 961-7505.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N A M E S TAT E M E N T T h e following person(s) is/ are doing business as: S I M P LY R E M E M B E R E D a t 36 W Calle Laureles Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Wiefels & S o n I I , I n c . 6 9 0 Ve l l a R d Palm Springs, CA 92264 This business is conducted by an Corporation Signed: Margaret McMillan Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 18, 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: 2020‑0002828.

Published: Nov 25. Dec 3, 10, 17 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: B A L L A R D E S TAT E W I N E R Y at 801 Highway 246 Solvang, CA 93463; Ballard Ranch LLC 8460 San F e r n a n d o R d S u n V a l l e y, CA 91352 This 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: 2020‑0002764. Published: Nov 25. Dec 3, 10, 17 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 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 to s h o w c a u s e , i f a n y, w h y t h e 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, Courthouse, 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, p r i n t e d i n t h i s c o u n t y, a t least 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. Anderle. of the Superior Court. Published. Nov 12, 19, 25. Dec 3 2020.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF NATALIE KAREN YESCAS 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): FROM: NATALIE KAREN YESCAS TO: NATALIE KAREN GOTO THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if 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, Courthouse, SANTA 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.

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IN THE MATTER OF T H E A P P L I C AT I O N O F BERTHA PEREZ SOLIS ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 20CV03720 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: BERTHA PEREZ SOLIS TO: BERTHA PEREZ PENA THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if 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

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

Notice of Hearing Jan 12, 2021 10:00 am, Dept 3, Courthouse, SANTA 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 18, 2020. by T h o m a s P. A n d e r l e . o f the Superior Court.

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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 MATHEW FELCH, Defendants.

COMPLAINT FOR VIOLATION OF THE UNIFORM C O M M E R C I A L CODE AND UNFAIR PRACTICES A C T, B R E A C H O F C O N T R A C T, BREACH OF THE COVENANT OF GOOD FAITH AND FAIR DEALING, N E G L I G E N C E , 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 A l l i s o n L L P, w h o y o u can contact at 141 E. Palace Avenue, 2d 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 t o p l a i n t i ff s ’ 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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AVISO DE PERÍODO DE COMMENTARIO PÚBLICO Programa de Subvenciones en Bloque para el Desarrollo Comunitario (CDBG por sus siglas en inglés) Enmiendas a Planes de Acción de Año de Programas 2019-2020 y 2020-2021 SE NOTIFICA que el Concejo Municipal de la Ciudad de Goleta están llevando a cabo un periodo de revisión pública de cinco días para las siguientes enmiendas a Planes de Acción de CDBG: El 22 de octubre de 2020, la Ciudad de Goleta fue informada de que el Departamento de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano de los Estados Unidos (HUD) había cometido un error en sus cálculos de fórmula para el programa CDBG, resultando en una disminución neta en la asignación de la Ciudad 2020-2021 por $34, de $225,537 a $225,503. La Ciudad propone reducir la cantidad de fondos utilizados para la planificación y administración del programa CDBG por $34 para acomodar la disminución. Las subvenciones a los subreceptores y la financiación de mejoras de capital concedidas anteriormente no se ven afectadas.

El 27 de marzo de 2020, se aprobó la Ley Federal de Ayuda, Alivio y Seguridad Económica para el Coronavirus (Ley CARES). La Ley CARES pone a disposición $ 5 mil millones en fondos de respuesta al coronavirus (CDBG – CV) de Subvenciones en Bloque para el Desarrollo Comunitario (CDBG, por sus siglas en inglés) para prevenir, prepararse y responder al coronavirus. El 11 de septiembre de 2020, HUD notificó a la Ciudad que recibiría una asignación adicional de la Ley CARES CDBG-CV de $268,947. Estos fondos tienen que asignarse a programas y servicios para abordar la emergencia de salud pública causada por la pandemia COVID-19. Los usos propuestos incluyen un programa de asistencia de vivienda de alquiler, un programa de almuerzos saludables para personas mayores, un refugio de emergencia y un programa de vivienda de transición, un programa de estacionamiento seguro para personas sin hogar en vehículos, asistencia financiera COVID-19 para personas de bajos ingresos, y el Centro de Aprendizaje y Enriquecimiento Colaborativo. Este financiamiento debe ser autorizado por un Enmienda del CDBG Plan de Acción del Año del Programa 2019-2020.

COMENTARIO PÚBLICO: La Ciudad está llevando a cabo un período de revisión pública de 5 días sobre las enmiendas propuestas de Plan de Acción (a partir del 11/26/2020). Los comentarios deben ser recibidos por la Ciudad a más tardar a las 5:00 p.m. del 30 de noviembre de 2020. Envíe sus comentarios a Claudia Dato, Gerente Senior de Proyectos en cdato@cityofgoleta.org (preferiblemente correo electrónico) o por correo postal a 130 Cremona Dr, Ste. B, Goleta, CA 93117. La información también está disponible en el sitio web de la ciudad: www.tinyurl.com/GoletaCDBG Publicar: The Independent Miércoles, 25 de Noviembre de 2020

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING (Electronically and Telephonically) ATTENTION: Pursuant to of the Governor’s Executive Order N-29-20 dated March 17, 2020 authorizing local jurisdictions subject to the Brown Act to hold public meetings telephonically and electronically in order to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, the regular meeting of the City Council for December 15, 2020 will be conducted telephonically and electronically. It will be broadcast live on the City’s website and on Cable Goleta Channel 19. The Council Chambers will not be open to the public during the meeting. Councilmembers will be participating telephonically and will not be physically present in the Council Chambers.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Goleta will conduct a public hearing on Tuesday, December 15, 2020 to consider the following: The City Council will consider entering into either a solar energy service contract (third-party power purchase agreement), or facility financing contract (direct purchase contract), for the implementation of certain energy related improvements, including but not limited to the installation of a solar photovoltaic microgrid, to City Hall facilities located at 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, APN 073-330-102 pursuant to the provisions of the California Government Code Section 4217.10, et seq.

HEARING DATE AND TIME:

Tuesday, December 15, 2020 5:30 PM

PLACE:

City Hall (Electronically and Telephonically) 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B Goleta, California 93117

PUBLIC COMMENT: All interested persons are encouraged view the meeting and to provide written and/ or oral comments. All letters/comments should be addressed to City Clerk cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org.

Letters must be received by City Clerk on or before the date of the hearing or can be submitted at the hearing.

IN LIGHT OF THE CITY’S NEED TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETINGS ELECTRONICALLY AND TELEPHONICALLY DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, written comments may also be submitted as instructed above vial email to cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org or by other electronic means during the Public Hearing (date and time noted above), provided they are received prior to the conclusion of the public comment portion of the Public Hearing. Instructions on how to submit a comment or to call in during the hearing will be available on the City’s website: https://www.cityofgoleta.org/i-want-to/news-and-updates/government-meeting-agendasand-videos NOTE: If you challenge the nature of the above action in court, you may be limited to only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice or in written correspondence delivered to the City on or before the date of the hearing (Government Code Section 69009[b][2]).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Additional information is on file at the City Clerk’s office, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, CA 93117 or can be obtained by calling Deborah S. Lopez, City Clerk (805) 961-7505.

Note: In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need assistance to participate in this hearing, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (805) 961-7505. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the hearing will enable City staff to make reasonable arrangements.

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