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GHOST TOWN: Restaurant parklets along the State Street Promenade stand vacant following Gov. Newsom’s shutdown order, which closed indoor and outdoor dining throughout Southern California.

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to the early days of the pandemic, with 20 percent occupancy of retail stores, the closure of indoor and outdoor dining, and complete cessation of personal services like haircuts.

The shutdown is based on a less than 15 percent capacity in the intensive care units at hospitals in the Southern California Region.

Public Health Director Van Do-Reynoso noted that of the 54 people in county hospitals that morning, 15 were in the ICU. That’s a 150 percent increase from the six people in an ICU on November 23, or two weeks ago. Santa Barbara County has a total of 99 ICU beds in its hospitals, or an 85 percent availability as of today, but the letter to the governor states the three counties have a 32 percent capacity.

Do-Reynoso thanked her team for their “Herculean” efforts in gathering data, all of which were showing more coronavirus in the county. In the past three weeks, the case rate was up by 97 percent—from 7.3 per 100,000 people in the county on November 18 to 14.4 today—and positive test results went up 44 percent.

COVID was causing working-age adults to become sick, she said: 32 percent of cases were people 18-29 years old, and 24 percent were 30-49 years old. The Latinx —Supervisor Peter Adam population continued to be affected in numbers would happen if the county simply defied greater than their population in the county, the order. “It’s a crime to violate a state health representing 61 percent of cases, 71 percent order,” Ghizzoni replied. Additionally, the of those in the hospital, and 56 percent of state had already told fractious counties that deaths — but being only 48 percent of the their funding—including federal CARES Act county’s population. money that was given only to states, not cities Of the 922 people hospitalized with or counties—would face consequences. “The COVID since the pandemic began, about a risks fall on the residents of the county,” Ghiz- third had diabetes, as well, 17 percent were zoni added, stating that competing health obese, and 14 percent had a serious heart conorders at the state and local levels would result dition, but 45 percent had no comorbidities. in confusion.

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piercing alert from the State of California warning of the rapid spread of COVID-19 punctuated the Board of Supervisors meeting at noon on Tuesday, a redundant reminder in a hearing that included a good hour and a half of commentary about state overreach in imposing the shutdown order.

The chair of the hearing, Supervisor Gregg Hart, asked repeatedly for the 45 speakers signed up to air their views on the shutdown to recognize that the board was going to vote on a letter to Governor Newsom requesting the removal of Santa Barbara County from the Southern California Region and instead place it with Ventura and San Luis Obispo in a new Central Coast Region.

“The sooner we can send the letter to the governor, the better,” Hart said to them.

Supervisor Joan Hartmann jumped in, asking County Counsel Mike Ghizzoni what

‘At some point, someone has to say, “Enough is enough.” And that should be us now.’

As public comment commenced, despite Hart’s plea, about 35 members of the public weighed in. Nearly all of them spoke doubtfully about the deadly qualities of coronavirus, comparing it to flu deaths, questioning COVID tests, claiming an unconstitutional attempt to abridge their rights, and in one instance arguing it was a planned pandemic to bioengineer bodies into robots and cyborgs.

One woman asked the county to stand up to California’s “egomaniacal, self-absorbed, hypocritical” governor, while another pointed to Newsom’s now-infamous lunch at the French Laundry in Napa as proof that he didn’t believe in the COVID rules either.

The last came from Terri Strickland, owner of the Hitching Post, a restaurant made famous in the 2004 film Sideways. She agreed with bouchon’s Mitchell Sjerven that the proposed letter to the governor should be stronger. Sjerven had earlier stated the shutdown orders were wreaking an economic devastation on restaurants. “We’ve served over 15,000 diners since June,” he said of his outdoor dining parklet on Victoria Street in downtown Santa Barbara’s pedestrian promenade. “None of our staff have become ill,” he said, “and outdoor dining has caused no known outbreaks.” He told the supervisors not to request a waiver but to “tell the state we will decouple from the Southern California Region.”

Mark Huston of Jane cited the restaurant owners who had bought heaters and built parklets, “all to be thrown away when we go back indoors next year.” He told the supervisors he and his wife, Margaret Huston, couldn’t sustain the restaurant much longer.

“We’ve had to lay off 80 percent of our staff, and we’re down to a dozen part-timers at two restaurants. Our to-go orders barely cover their wages,” he said, “and it doesn’t cover our overhead.”

Lammy Johnstone of Solvang noted that the Christmas season sustained many retail businesses through the entire year. “It’s horribly unfair to close down at this particular time,” she said. Jim Knell of SIMA Corporation said

NEWS BRIEFS CORONAVIRUS S.B. City Councilmember Oscar Gutierrez announced 12/8 that he and his mother have tested positive for COVID-19 and are now quarantining in place.

Gutierrez, who represents the city’s Westside on the council, lives with his girlfriend and his elderly mother in his mother’s Westside home. Gutierrez stated that he and his girlfriend had scrupulously insisted on staying home during the Thanksgiving holidays, but his mother “decided to go to a family member’s house,” where she “unknowingly came into contact with an infected person.”

In response to COVID-positive test results among 14 patients and staff at the Cottage Rehabilitation Hospital (CRH), Cottage has announced it will be shutting the rehab center to new admissions. Cottage stated it will continue to treat existing patients. The CRH fulfills a vital function within Santa Barbara’s constellation of health-care services, providing treatment for stroke survivors, accident survivors, and people who need skilled therapies for surgical recovery.

COURTS & CRIME Former Dodge City Shooters Supply operator Kyle Dodge, 36, was arrested 12/5 on felony gun and drug charges. According to the Sheriff’s Office, deputies in the Isla Vista area witnessed Dodge peel out in front of a group of pedestrians. The deputies stopped him, and a search of his car yielded 90 grams of meth and 22 firearms, 12 of which were loaded. A follow-up search of Dodge’s Goleta home turned up 70 more firearms and around 50 containers of ammo and magazines.

Dodge was booked in County Jail on multiple felony counts and a misdemeanor and is being held on $500,000 bail.

NATIONAL Rep. Salud Carbajal voted in favor of a House bill to federally decriminalize cannabis. The bill — the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act — is the first time either house has voted to decriminalize cannabis. In addition, the bill would expunge the criminal records of individuals convicted of marijuanapossession-related offenses dating back to 1971.

It would also levy a 5 percent federal excise tax on cannabis, the proceeds going to fund programs that would assist individuals adversely affected by the War on Drugs, job training, and mentoring programs. The bill passed 228-164 and now heads to the Senate.

A 335-vote majority in the House passed the National Defense Authorization Act on 12/8, carrying with it the Small Passenger Vessel Safety Act, which requires maritime safety improvements based on the Conception disaster. Though the NDAA has passed Congress for the last 59 years in a row, President Trump has threatened to veto it for provisions that retain troops in Germany and South Korea, for protections given to social media platforms for content by third parties, and other reasons. The House vote is “veto proof,”though the bill n goes next to the Senate.

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Fire agencies only recently began keeping statistics on homeless-related calls, which like most calls are often medical in nature.

Two tall fires near homeless camps along Highway 101 on Thanksgiving weekend were unmistakable, however. County Fire tallied 31 such fires in South County, which ranged from “escaped” campfires to trash fires, Fire Marshal Rob Hazard said. The City of Santa Barbara had an uptick in calls, Fire Marshal Joe Poiré estimated, and the Summerland-Carpinteria fire district had two calls along Santa Monica Creek, Fire Marshal Rob Rappaport recalled.

Pershing Park below City College was cleared out this week after hotels and motels nearby made complaints about the homeless camps there. Trash had been collecting from over a dozen car-campers parked in the lot and a half-dozen tents pitched along the driveway, and they all received notices they’d have to leave. Parks Manager Matthew Parker acknowledged the residents would likely move to another park for the duration and might return once the work is completed. The maintenance includes pruning the trees along the driveway — under which about four tents were pitched, and new parking signs will go up, Parker said.

Vehicles are limited to 72 hours parked on city streets and now in Pershing Park, and any vehicle over 24 feet long will not be allowed, said Parker. City officials said citations would be given for violations of the parking rules. A new gate in the driveway will also block access overnight starting at 10 p.m. n

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Secession Letter Cont’d from p. 7 that among the 250 merchants in his rental properties, about 20 percent pay their full rent. Eighty percent are on some level of rent relief, he said. The timing of the governor’s order was punitive and would destroy the economy for those who rely on the holiday season, he said. “They will fail to survive,” Knell predicted.

Supervisor Peter Adam gave a literally electrifying image for the shutdown order: Stanley Milgram’s 1963 shock experiment.

Milgram found that 65 percent of his test subjects would shock another subject—played by an actor—nearly to death upon the insistence of a figure of authority.

“It is engrained in us all to follow orders given by an authority figure,” summarized Adam. “At some point, someone has to say, ‘Enough is enough.’ And that should be us now,” he told his colleagues. “Let the governor make an overt threat to us in writing,” Adam challenged. “Let the governor attempt to punish us.”

Supervisor Steve Lavagnino shook his head with distress, saying he recognized some of the names during public comment as pillars of the Santa Maria community for the past 20, 30, 40 years. “It’s heartbreaking to hear business owners and restaurateurs describe how changing the goalposts is hurting them,” he said. “It’s as if we’re being punished for behaving well,” said Supervi-

sor Hartmann, finding that the public by and large had worn masks and kept a social distance.

Flipping Adam’s analogy on its head, Supervisor Das Williams observed that the pandemic had been stressful on everyone.

Some undervalued the real health impacts of COVID in focusing “on the health effects of unemployment, closed schools, closed businesses.” The supervisors’ job was to “balance all these factors and maintain empathy toward all folks suffering through this—the lost loved one, the lost job, the kids who aren’t in school.”

Hart then briskly tried to get the meeting moving toward a motion, and Williams mentioned that Ventura County’s supervisors had just voted 5-0 to send the same letter to the governor. “If we wait three weeks, that does no good,” observed Adam, as the letter states the county will abide by the shutdown edict for the mandatory three weeks. “Can we put a deadline on this thing? Time is of the essence.”

The supervisors unanimously agreed to send the letter to the governor and return next Tuesday for an update on his answer.

In the meantime, at Lavagnino’s suggestion, the CEO’s office will provide an email for public persuasion to Newsom, “a little more diplomatic” than the day’s comments, Wiln liams suggested.

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“Most landlords are just the mom and pops,” said public commenter and landlord Walter Jones. “We really can’t afford the idea of coming out of pocket 25 percent of our annual rent. … I think you should absolutely table this.”

Other landlords spoke up with similar messages, and councilmembers themselves were in disagreement about the new ordinance. Initially, it was only supposed to be two months’ worth of relocation costs—not three.

“I’m very concerned after last week’s vote,” Councilmember Alejandra Gutierrez said about the change from two months to three. “I do understand the renters and the situation, but I’m also a person that respects the process. … I think that we didn’t really acknowledge the study and went by emotions,” she said, referencing a report the city paid for ahead of the vote.

Gutierrez ultimately voted against the item along with councilmembers Mike Jordan and Eric Friedman, who both agreed the process was not up to par. The three were outvoted by the rest of the council, however.

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“I don’t have a problem with the process, and I didn’t make my vote based on emotion or lack of data,” Mayor Cathy Murillo said.

“The report said this is a uniquely difficult place to be a renter, a difficult place to find a rental, and a difficult place to earn income to pay your rent. And that’s why we bumped it up to three, and I stand by that.”

Councilmembers Meagan Harmon and Kristen Sneddon emphasized that the discussion on the topic has continued for years, not months, and that plenty of public opinion had been heard on the matter. Councilmember Oscar Gutierrez did not speak on the mandate but voted for it.

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ROOT OF THE PROBLEM: Marilyn Goldman, who has limited mobility, requested a large cedar tree in her front yard be removed because its bulbous roots made accessing her driveway and walkway difficult.

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by Tyler Hayden hocked.” “Frustrated.” “Very uncomfortable.” “Just really, really annoyed.” Those were the sentiments expressed Tuesday evening by the Santa Barbara City Council as they voted through gritted teeth to deny a Lomita Road homeowner’s petition to remove a large deodar cedar tree from her front yard.

The council’s issue wasn’t with the homeowner or her application, however. Marilyn Goldman had followed the request process to a T and made a compelling case for why the tree should go. Instead, their intense displeasure lay with an appointed member of the city’s Street Tree Advisory Committee, who lobbied and conspired behind the scenes to save the cedar and allegedly broke open-government laws in the process.

“Dishonest.” “Unfair.” “Arrogant.” That was how councilmembers described the conduct of Bob Cunningham, who has since resigned from the committee and triggered an investigation by the Fair Political Practices Commission.

Goldman, who suffers from painful spinal stenosis and limited mobility, submitted her application August 3, arguing that the 70-something-year-old tree and its bulbous roots made accessing her driveway and walkway difficult. Goldman said she hated to remove the healthy tree, as she’s lived at the house for 35 years and always given it good care, but she now worried about tripping over the uneven ground. She offered to plant another tree in its place.

The Street Tree Advisory Committee (STAC) voted 5-0 to deny Goldman’s petition, countering she could make accessibility improvements to her front yard without sacrificing one of the neighborhood’s finest specimens. The committee’s recommendation then went to the Parks and Recreation commission, which deadlocked at 3-3.

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It was then that Cunningham, a landscape architect who’d served on STAC for 14 years and still currently sits on the city’s Architectural Board of Review, took it upon himself to file an appeal of the commission’s approval in an apparent conflict of interest and violation of government ethics rules.

Cunningham privately notified the other STAC members of his intention via email, secretly strategized with city staff, and even started a collection to help him pay the $300 fee. Unrelated tree removal appeals were also discussed.

No one on the email chains, including Nathan Slack, the city’s urban forest superintendent, spoke up. As if those optics weren’t bad enough, Cunningham also waved off Goldman’s petition as “an old lady’s health issues” and suggested her request was simply a matter of “convenience.”

In her comments Tuesday, Goldman—a bereavement counselor at Hospice of Santa Barbara and clinical supervisor for the Rape Crisis Center—took Cunningham to task.

“I am disappointed that the city appoints citizen advisors who openly dismiss and deride fellow citizens by conflating accessibility, a civil right, with convenience,” she said. “This is a personal safety issue.” As to the “old lady” comment, Goldman fumed.

“That’s a lot of -isms—ageism, ableism, sexism—in one sentence.”

Goldman also blasted the process by which the appeal reached the City Council, wondering how its members could even be considering it if the road getting there was so pockmarked with impropriety. “How can homeowners be expected to follow the city’s rules and regulations when members of the committees, before which homeowners appear, don’t?” she asked, before turning her attention to Slack. “Why is city staff permitted to behave in dishonest ways with total lack of transparency?”

Cunningham attempted to defend his comments. “I understand how Ms. Goldman has been offended by what I said, but I meant no offense,” he began. “I am 75 years old. I have many old friends, many friends CONT’D ON PAGE 12 

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hirty-eight undocumented immig rants were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Santa Barbara County in 2019.

The number was reported Tuesday as part of an annual Truth Report, which is mandated by law to “provide information to the public about ICE’s access to individuals and FINDING BALANCE: “I want to thank the Sheriff’s Office for the to receive and consider pub- 300 and odd ones that they did not hold for ICE,” said Supervisor lic comment.” As it turns out, Das Williams. “But — I do think that our numbers should be 38 was a drastic drop from the lower.” year before. In 2018, there were 98 “ICE pickups” in Santa Barall speakers said they were unsatisfied with bara—a 61 percent decrease from 2019 to the report and demanded Brown go further 2018. to earn the trust of immigrants and people “I have good friends and neighbors of color by severing ties with ICE. who are genuinely afraid of law enforceFirst District Supervisor Das Williams ment,” said Landon Ranck, a lifelong resi- seemed to find a balance of his own. dent of Santa Barbara who spoke with 14 “I want to thank the Sheriff ’s Office for others at public comment. “They are afraid the 300 and odd ones that they did not of the repercussions that any sort of inter- hold for ICE, because that is progress and action with law enforcement could have shows that you are attempting to look at because of potential connections with ICE the criteria and make judgment calls based … . We’ve seen precedence for this in Los on the criteria,” Williams said. “I would Angeles. They’ve halted all transfers to not have trust in the system if the numbers ICE, and we as a county can do that.” were zero because I realize there are shot But despite a dozen or so speakers callers or folks that you think are a true demanding that the Sheriff ’s Office cut danger to society. But—I do think that our ties with ICE, it won’t be happening under numbers should be lower.”

Sheriff Bill Brown’s watch. He explained The supervisor who sided with Brown that only those with the worst felony the most was 4th District Supervisor Peter charges are normally “picked up,” and Adam, often the most outspoken conserthat undocumented immigrants who only vative on the board. commit minor offenses like petty theft, “Lewd acts with a child, terrorism, marijuana possession, or other misde- DUIs,” Adam said, citing several of the meanors are not picked up. charges against undocumented immiBrown explained that when an undoc- grants in 2019. “It’s not that those things umented immigrant is arrested, they are don’t happen here, but you have some fingerprinted just as a citizen would be. people that are not supposed to be here The fingerprints are sent as a notification who are committing those acts. If we can to ICE, where a decision is made whether get those people off the streets, or out of or not to pick up that person from the Santa the country, frankly, I think that’s just good Barbara County Jail. Brown produced a list public policy and good safety efforts by the showing the crimes immigrants have been Sheriff ’s department and ICE.” Brown said he expects that the 2020 charged with committing; some had been arrested as many as 20 times for the same report will show even fewer ICE pickups, crimes but had never been detained by ICE. considering that the County Jail popula“As you can see from this list, many of tion hit record lows and minor offenders these people are not debutants,” Brown were not arrested and held in custody to said. “They have a lengthy track record of avoid COVID-19 outbreaks.

“The notion that we are turning over offending in our community in a variety of different ways. And as I’ve pointed out people to ICE for minor violations is sima number of times before, they offend pre- ply not true because those people are not dominantly against other people of color. in our jail to begin with any longer,” Brown It is to protect them [immigrants] that we said. “The reality is that we really incarare trying to achieve the balance that we cerate—and even more so in the COVID era—people with felony charges.” believe we have achieved.”

But based on the comments by the public The supervisors requested that the next who spoke, Brown has more work to do if 2020 report be given earlier in the year. he hopes to have community buy-in. Nearly n

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Cedar Tree Cont’d from p. 10 who are old, and many friends who are old ladies. My best friend is an old lady, and we’ve been married for 34 years.” Cunningham, however, also doubled down on his insistence that Goldman was only considering her own comfort. “Essentially, Ms. Goldman’s request is based solely on convenience, disregarding the benefits the tree provides to the neighborhood and larger urban forest.”

Cunningham admitted his back-door dealings were inappropriate. “I absolutely made mistakes, and with regard to the Fair Political Practices Commission, I may end up paying a penalty, for which I will be sorry, I’m sure,” he said. “But I’m not sorry for pursuing this appeal, because I believe it has merit and I do not want to drop it.”

As he fell on his sword, he made one last comment about Goldman and her health.

“Removing the tree won’t make her pain go away,” he said.

Councilmember Michael Jordan bristled at the statement. “Maybe not,” he said, “but it would potentially allow a 66-yearold woman to extend living independently at her house.” Nevertheless, Jordan continued, he couldn’t in good conscience vote to remove the tree as he, like the majority of the other councilmembers, didn’t think Goldman had sufficiently explored other ways of making her front yard and driveway more navigable. During site visits, staff had suggested she could prune the cedar’s roots, repave her front walkway, widen the driveway, and so on.

Still, Jordan said, he resented the way

certain city representatives had conducted themselves during the appeal process. Jordan and the other councilmembers never referred to Slack or Cunningham by name, but it was clear to whom they were referring. “You have a staff member talking to people behind the scenes,” he said, referencing potential violations of the Brown Act, which prohibits public officials from discussing legislative issues in private, “and you have an appointed city member acting in a condescending and tone-deaf manner toward Ms. Goldman and her predicament. … This is really just a mess we find ourselves in.”

Councilmembers Eric Friedman, Meagan Harmon, and Kristen Sneddon and Mayor Cathy Murillo echoed Jordan, explaining they harbored “strong concerns” about how the appeal was handled but still believed Goldman should explore alternative remedies. “There are options for the resident to live there and for the tree to remain,” Murillo said. Nevertheless, she said, “Shame that has been brought on the process and the city. We’re supposed to have integrity and conduct ourselves with integrity.” Murillo promised inquiries would be made and appropriate actions taken.

Councilmembers Oscar Gutierrez and Alejandra Gutierrez (no relation) voted in Goldman’s favor and empathized with her ill feelings toward the city. “I want to apologize for this entire experience you’ve had to go through,” Oscar said. “We will address the problems that have been talked about tonight.” n

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outhern California Edison (SCE) has pleaded no contest to a criminal violation of the California Water Code and will pay $3.5 million in civil penalties after dumping massive amounts of dirt and rock into Mission Creek during an unpermitted grading project along Spyglass Ridge Road.

“While the decision to charge a corporation criminally is not one that prosecutors take lightly,” District Attorney Joyce Dudley said in a press statement on Monday, “our office will do so when the underlying conduct warrants such action. We believe the resolution in this case reflects the seriousness of SCE’s impact on our environment.”

Between December 4 and 16, 2019, court filings show, Edison carried out a major road maintenance and widening project beginning at the base of the Inspiration Point trailhead without ever securing approvals from the county or the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. To perform the work, Edison brought in large construction equipment and closed the popular hiking area.

The project generated nearly a million gallons of rock, sediment, and debris, known as “sidecast,” that Edison dumped into Mission Creek below. Officials said

the company’s actions resulted in the loss of rare plants, individual trees, and habitat for numerous animal species and altered the streambed by obstructing water flow.

According to the civil complaint in the case, “some of the environmental harm is likely permanent.”

Edison halted the project after receiving a cease-work order from Fish and Wildlife.

Since then, the company has cooperated with authorities, Dudley said, and engaged in extensive efforts to improve the safety and stability of the area. Additionally, Dudley said, Edison is working with the county and Fish and Wildlife to remediate the damage.

The $3.5 million in civil penalties the company will pay—which are in addition to any repair costs—will be divided between the county, the state’s Fish and Game Preservation Fund, and other environmental projects in the S.B. area.

As a practical matter, the criminal violation will only result in a $10,000 fine to the State Water Quality Control Board, though it could impact shareholder confidence and affect the approval of future bank loans.

Edison will also reimburse the DA’s Office for $25,000 in investigation and prosecution costs.

—Tyler Hayden

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he first deep-dive analysis of how well the network of marine protected areas (MPAs) ringing the Channel Islands guards against poaching has delivered decisively positive results. Illegal takings within the boundaries of the MPAs, established in 2003 after a series of long and bruising negotiations between fisherman, conservationists, and scientists, are essentially zero, the study spearheaded

by Oregon State University A school of blue rockfish within the study area found. It also discovered much higher rates of legal fishing at unprotected itored, our MPAs are also well-enforced,” said Caselle. sites nearby.

Researchers estimated the population Perhaps more critically, Caselle size and poaching frequency of four fish explained, Central Coast fishermen tend species—blue rockfish, kelp rockfish, Cali- to follow the rules, even if they don’t necesfornia sheephead, and kelp bass — based sarily agree with them. “Our locals respect on the numbers of larger, older fish pres- the MPAs and don’t break the law,” she ent; fewer big fish is an indication of higher said. Other jurisdictions aren’t as lucky, she harvesting rates. They utilized data collected noted. The lengthy public input process since 1999 by the Partnership for Interdis- ahead of implementation also likely played ciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans, or a part, Caselle went on. “Community buy-in PISCO, which conducts long-term visual leads to high compliance,” she said. surveys of West Coast kelp forests.

The study did make note of two areas UCSB biologist Jenn Caselle is the prin- where poaching may have taken place of cipal investigator for PISCO. She said she kelp rockfish off San Miguel Island and blue was encouraged, though not necessar- rockfish near Santa Cruz Island. But it’s very ily surprised, by the results of the Oregon possible those schools could have simply study, which were published last week in the strayed outside the protected boundaries science journal Conservation Letters. “We and been missed in some of the counts, know that in addition to being well-mon- Caselle said.

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That the property became available at all was due to a fluke of bad marketing and bad economics. After a private company took control of the property in 2014 in hopes of creating an upscale detox and substance-abuse treatment clinic, the operation lost $3 million a year for each of its first three years. In 2017, the company pulled the plug, and, in the interim, the 68,000-squarefoot facility provided space for outpatient treatment and laundry services.

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Alice Gleghorn The facility is classified a Mental Health Rehabilitation Center (MHRC), which caters to patients deemed so gravely disabled that they’ve been placed in legal conservatorship holds. Translated, that means patients are not free to come and go from the locked facility.

In a previous interview, county mentalhealth czar Alice Gleghorn stated, “For the past three years, this has been our numberone priority.” Currently, Gleghorn’s department has more than 100 patients placed on such conservatorships. Statewide, there’s a shortage of MHRC beds, and waiting lists are painfully long. Until now, county mentalhealth professionals have sent such patients to

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Opinions SHELTER FROM THE NORM: It being Monday afternoon, I felt free to ride my bike down State Street without fear of crashing

into any errant pedestrians otherwise preoccupied staring at the pale sun. The governor’s shutdown order rendering the better part of 11 Southern California counties instant ghost towns — in response to an avalanche of new COVID cases — had just gone into effect.

A blustery wind was blowing brown leaves loudly across the pavement. Strange berries were cluttering the gutters. A young couple with rolled-up yoga mats strapped to their backs walked in search of a class they would not find.

Scrawled along the streets were cheerful chalk hieroglyphics. Big, loud “Closed” signs were taped to pink romper room boxes at State and Figueroa that until Sunday functioned as street furniture for the nearby coffeeshop. Down at State and Canon Perdido, architectural renderings bravely imagined an optimistic future where “Outdoor Performance Spaces” and “New Paseos, Courtyards and Plazas” might be relevant.

Whatever drug they were smoking, I wanted some.

Earlier that morning, I’d been walking past the County Administration Building as the people who camp under its eaves got a firm but gentle wake-up call from a firm-but-gentle woman wearing khaki pants. It was time to break down their tents and load up their

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shopping carts. An older woman wearing a miner’s helmet and a cape imprinted with the words “Santa Barbara” began nudging her walker down the sidewalk.

Similar scenes were unfolding at the Lobero Theatre, at the Presidio, at the Fiesta 5 Theatre, and pretty much any place there were “Vacant” signs and an open alcove.

Across town, city employees worked to install a new gate to block homeless car campers from making Pershing Park their home. Hotel owners across the street had

objected.

Maybe we could erect a metal monolith —like the one that was planted, destroyed, and then replaced on top of Pine Mountain in Atascadero —in the middle of State Street.

It might lift our spirits a little.

The Atascadero monolith, it turns out, was destroyed by some Orange County zealots who proclaimed “Christ is King” as they did so. Being supporters of Donald Trump — the ultimate in orange—they also chanted, “America First.” Apparently, they don’t like the idea of welcoming aliens of any kind, not from outer space and certainly not from Mexico.

Following suit, the sheriff of Orange County just announced his department would not be enforcing the governor’s COVID orders. Maybe that’s just the reason

COVID rates have spiked so fast and the governor was compelled to issue such orders.

In the meantime, I am heartened to hear

that negotiations between the leadership of the House and Senate might bear fruit on some kind of financial COVID relief bill some time before Christmas. At risk of stating the obvious, what’s taken them so long?

I remain bitter that “might” might still be an operative verb. If people need to shelter in place, then they absolutely need a place in which to shelter. In California, no fewer than 600,000 renters are at risk of not paying their landlord. Translated into bod-

ies, that’s two million people who could be evicted through no fault of their own.

Getting back to State Street, Santa Barbara County health officials are pleading with

the governor to reclassify Santa Barbara County so that we will be grouped with Ventura and San Luis Obispo counties as a sepa-

rate region and no longer be grouped with egregious COVID hotspots San Diego, San Bernardino, and Imperial counties for purposes of COVID safety enforcement.

Compared to them, we have three times as many available ICU beds and considerably fewer sick people. Still, our number of COVID hospitalizations increased by 157 percent since November 18. Of the 922 COVID

patients sick enough to be hospitalized since March, half had no other medical conditions — obesity, for example. The supervisors’ request makes sense and might prevent an enormous amount of economic pain.

In other words, I wouldn’t hold my breath.

Even if granted, it wouldn’t take effect for

three weeks. By then, Christmas and New Year’s will be in the rearview mirror.

In the meantime, if we are to be hunkered down in our respective bunkers for the unforeseeable future, a little help from the feds is absolutely essential. Peter Rupert of UCSB’s Economic Forecast Project —perhaps more articulate in such matters—noted that every year at this time, we see a significant bump in retail employment in Santa Barbara: about 2,000 jobs. With the governor’s shutdown order, we can kiss those jobs goodbye. That’s a whole lot of kissing and with no mistletoe. Rupert added that without a federal stimulus package, there will be “a lot of suffering.”

At the Rescue Mission, the demand for shelter is up 15 percent; the demand for food up 95 percent. Erik Talkin at the Foodbank said the demand for food help is up 80 percent since the pandemic struck. Demand dropped a little in the summer, but then spiked again in the past six weeks. During the Thomas Fire, he said, it took a very lowincome family 18 months to recover after losing just two weeks of wages. COVID,

he said, is much worse. He anticipates the Foodbank will be operating at maximum overdrive for at least 24 months. Talkin said the Foodbank is now on track to distribute 20 million pounds of food this year. That’s twice what it did last year. Anyone interested in helping out, money and or volunteers are —Nick Welsh always appreciated.

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Suree Gould was born on January 7, 1948 and grew up in Pasadena, California, a self-described hot house plant. In high school, Suree found kindred spirits in the marching band and always remembered those years fondly. She came of age in the sixties, participating in the usual excesses of the time but later found courage, strength and hope in recovery. Suree moved to Santa Barbara to attend UCSB, and like many others, never left. She majored in theater and was involved in children’s theater. She was an avid fan of movies, new and old, and never missed Oscar night. She worked for many years at Cottage Hospital’s residential treatment programs where she shared her compassion and wisdom with many. She later attended Antioch University and earned her Master’s degree in psychology. Suree was extremely knowledgeable and insightful, and shared what she learned, both personally and professionally.

Always a cat lover, Suree slowly and patiently earned the trust of a feral cat she found, saving his life and he became her beloved pet. Suree crossed paths with many people in Santa Barbara over the years and she was a good and caring friend who was always there with understanding and support when needed.

Suree passed away quietly on November 4, 2020 and she will be greatly missed.

She weathered many challenges in her later years; may she now be at peace.

Born in Santa Monica, Bob was the youngest of three children. At Hamilton High, where he met his future wife, Carol, he was senior class president. He enlisted in the Navy upon graduating, and served as a coxswain in WWII. After they married in 1946, Bob and Carol moved to Santa Barbara.

He became a licensed contractor, building and remodeling homes throughout Santa Barbara. Bob was a masterof-all trades and earned a reputation for his craftsmanship.

Bob was a dedicated father to Steven, Randall (deceased), and Jan: building them a 40 foot roller coaster; and a tandem bike with a third seat for Jan. With kids in tow, he led a family bike ride from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles. Bob enjoyed helping his adult kids with their home improvement projects.

Bob and Carol were married for over 74 years.

He enjoyed world travel with Carol and working around their cabin. He was an avid follower of current events and a life-long tinkerer. Bob never retired from work, being active up to his last days. He died November 27, 2020.

He is survived by daughter, Jan LeGassick, and her husband Richard Chaikind; son, Steven LeGassick, and his wife Jenefer; their children, Alissa and her husband Kevin; Mary, Melissa, and David; and great-grandchildren, Warren and Ashley.

If you’d like to make a donation in Bob’s name, please consider Planned Parenthood, where Carol is a long-time volunteer, or VNA Health.

Dorothy Godfrey Hill, age 89, passed away peacefully in her home surrounded by her family November 25, 2020. For the last three years of her life she struggled valiantly with Parkinson’s, dancing in her wheelchair at her youngest grandchild Jamie’s wedding the summer of 2019.

Dorothy was born in Springfield, Massachusetts to Earl and Flora Godfrey, is predeceased by her husband Bruce, by her siblings Alice and June, and survived by her youngest sibling Earl who was in Santa Maria to visit her only two weeks before she passed.

She is deeply missed by her children, Desmond and Dorothy McIntosh of Santa Barbara, Judge Brian and Jeanie Hill of Santa Barbara, Holly and Larry Raedel of Olympia, Washington, Jon Reis, Tami Majewski with whom she lived in Santa Maria until her death, and also by her grandchildren Rebecca, Noel, Adam, Heidi, Scott, Michael, Brandt, Alexandra, Misti, Katlin, Jamie and her great-grandchildren, Dean, Ingrid, Beau, Harley, Laine, Brody, Reid, Mira, Colt, Hank, Sawyer, Lincoln and Otto.

Dorothy was passionate about her family. For a decade after moving to Santa Maria in 1958 the family traveled by car back to Massachusetts and Vermont where they had a lake cabin full of relatives all summer.

Dorothy and Bruce loved to entertain and always had an open door, several times sharing their home

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for extended periods with friends or family in transition. She loved dogs, babies and children, the sunshine, dancing and making and sharing good food. It would please her if donations were made in her name to the Santa Maria Valley Humane Society, or to the American Parkinson Disease Association.

To leave a condolence for the family visit www. dudleyhoffmanmortuary. com

David Edward Harbison 5/3/1954 - 10/29/2020

On Thursday, October 29, 2020, our beloved David passed away at his home on Whidbey Island, WA, at age 66, his wife Nancy by his side.

He will be missed by all his family and friends.

David was born in 1954, in Pasadena, CA, to Edward McClarty and Barbara Josephine (Turner) Harbison. He grew up in South Pasadena and attended Polytechnic School in Pasadena and later Cate School in Carpinteria graduating with the class of 1972. He was the student with succulents all over his porch and he played on the soccer team. He went to the University of Colorado at Boulder for his BA and took coursework at UCSB for his MA. He returned to Cate School as a teacher and taught there for over 30 years and was a long-time chair of the history department. He made many significant contributions to the school during his time and was honored with a special assembly and dinner

upon his retirement.

In 1980 he married the love of his life, Nancy Pope, and they resided at the school.

Their Sunday dinners were legendary. They traveled to China, Scotland, Eastern Europe, and had many adventures. When David retired in 2010 they moved to Whidbey Island, WA. David was able to enjoy his retirement before the onset of his illness and delved into some pastimes he had looked forward to. He built two wooden boats and played piano in a jazz ensemble. He was a birdwatcher and participated in the Christmas Bird Count every year no matter how cold and wet it might be. After his illness became evident he took up boxing as therapy and got a lot of joy out of that and met some special people.

David was a hardworking and gentle soul. He was very handsome. He had a commanding presence sprinkled with love and humor. He loved listening to jazz, leaving rock and roll far behind.

David was preceded in death by his father, Edward Harbison, and mother, Barbara Keller, and his wife Nancy’s parents, Girdwood and Rachel Pope. He is survived by his wife Nancy, his sisters Shelby Harbison and Kathy Cook and brother Locke Harbison, his sister-in-law Wendy Wasicek and brother-in-law Craig Pope and his wife Peggy. His nieces and nephews: Lacy Selby (Dave), Moss Shacter (Patty), Daniel Harbison, Toby Harbison, Tom, Shannon and Corinne Pope, Brian Wasicek (Jackie), Jennifer Halpin (Brad), and Jessica Masin (Dustin). And six great-nieces and nephews, Rhett and Kate Selby and Sarah and Eliana Halpin and Lily and Hannah Shacter. He also leaves behind first cousins Mary Doan (Tim Hesselgren), Terry Shelton (Peter), Howdy Doan (Colleen), and Larry Doan (Sheila).

And Mike Turner (Helen), Danny Turner (Chris), and Peter Turner (Paula), and his Aunt Barbara Turner and Aunt Dudley Doan.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the Lewy Body Dementia Association.

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pen letter to Governor Newsom, Thank you very much for revising this latest COVID plan to be based on intensivecare-unit bed capacity, instead of case numbers.

But I believe it is a wrong and detrimental decision for you to place Santa Barbara County in a region that includes Los Angeles County all the way down through San Diego County. Population density could not be more different in our county and area, versus down to the south.

As of Thursday morning, December 3, 43 percent of COVID beds were still available in our county hospitals, and only nine beds were being used for ICU COVID patients. In the whole county! And during the entire pandemic, occupancy has never exceeded 69 percent in the ICU in our county.

To lump us in with areas that will certainly trigger a shutdown is not only troublesome, but it is irrational. Hundreds of businesses and thousands of livelihoods are on the chopping block because of this decision.

To be clear, I don’t want to endanger our elderly and immune-compromised population.

COVID is terrible, and I understand the need for precautions. But this decision is just plain faulty, and I’m encouraging others to write your office in protest. —Toby Theule, Carpinteria

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And more on this topic came from Facebook readers: Bettie Wenke Don’t blame Newsom for having to issue another order. Blame the anti-maskers and COVID deniers. • Catherine Radecki We have to do this. Watching the number of ICU occupied beds going from 1-2 to 19 yesterday.

• Vinny Tovar How would we not blame the governor? He put us together with Los Angeles and Southern California — we have to pay the price what happens over 100 miles away.

Mark Jansen Yeah, I wasn’t happy either. My wife, who is a nurse, explained that if their hospitals fill, then they will move patients north to other open beds. So dividing the state in half makes sense, not that I like it. • Ken Wittwer So, we should follow the “orders” of politicians who do not heed their own advice.

Michael Hodapp Let me guess, the people that are against this are also the same people who will refuse to get a COVID vaccine when it is available to them? • Jennifer Nicole All you

people saying it’s the people not wearing masks who are to blame, everywhere I look, people are wearing them more now than previously, and yet there still a spike! People who don’t wear masks 24/7 are not to blame. I just don’t feel we should live in fear of a virus that has a 99.75 survival rate.

Alessia Guehr Where is the support for all of the small businesses that are being shut down?

Restaurants cannot survive on “to go” orders only.

Ric N Judy Langley Read thru all of the comments, and hopefully we can all be openminded enough to realize why this isn’t getting any better. Together is the answer.

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With the pandemic, I find myself even more drawn to takeout, but I must hold back, for I am not unaware of the terrible impact that this has on our environment, namely an increase in single-use plastic consumption. These plastic bags, plastic utensils, and plastic containers used for an average of one hour will spend a lifetime in our landfills or our oceans.

As the coordinator for the student activist group CALPIRG’s Plastic-Free Seas Campaign, I am working to make it our mission to try and hold large contributors of single-use plastics accountable. One of the main contributors of plastic pollution in the grocery store world is Whole Foods. We are calling on Whole Foods to change their ways by reducing the amount of single-use plastic items they produce in order to protect our environment and our future — which hopefully involves some delicious takeout delivered in the most sustainable way.

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obituaries Lucille Juanita Coke 10/12/1929 - 12/4/2020

Lucille Juanita Coke, 91, of Carpinteria, passed away on December 4, 2020.

She was born to the late Minor and Opal Deering on October 12, 1929 in Turkey, Texas.

She married the late Eugene Coke in 1945.

She had three children, Ronald, Daniel, and Karen.

The family moved to Carpinteria in 1957 which is where she raised the family.

She is survived by her son Daniel (Roxanne) Coke, daughter Karen Corral; and seven grandchildren, Shannon (Mike) Bernstein, Stacey (Robert) Leyva, Kristen (Matt) Sutton, Julia (Brandon) Lampe, Anica (Martin) Hill, Tiffani (Marcos) Ortega, and Tyler (Cassandra) Corral. She has 19 great grandchildren. She is also survived by three sisters Peggy Barfield, Dixie (Thomas) Bradsher, and Linda Scott.

Upon moving to the small beach town of Carpinteria, she instantly fell in love with the beach and we spent almost everyday there, weather permitting. That spirit and love of the beach was instilled in the family early and it still exists through several generations. She was a member of the Carpinteria Community Church, and until recently was active in lawn bowling in Santa Barbara. She also loved playing bingo with the Carpinteria seniors.

Lucille was the second oldest of the children in her large family. She was a caregiver and supported her family in any way to improve their lives. We often had her siblings and family living with us when they were going through difficult times and illnesses. She took care of family and friends and was dedicated to helping others.

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We want to thank Mission Terrace and Dr. Omlid, and the nurses and staff who gave such special care and attention to our mom, we really appreciate all you did for her and to help us during this time.

There will be a private family service at a date to be determined.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to your local foodbank or the Santa Barbara Rescue Mission.

Margaret Thersa Bilotta Cordero 3/8/1932 - 11/22/2020

Margaret Thersa Bilotta Cordero was born in Queens, New York on March 8th, 1932 and passed way peacefully in her sleep at her Santa Barbara home on November 22nd 2020, with her beloved husband (and high school sweetheart) Leonard and daughter Patti by her side. Margaret was a Wife, Mother, Aunt, Grandma and Great Grandma.

She came to Santa Barbara in 1940 via station wagon with her parents and 3 siblings when she was 8 years old – and she never left!

Margaret attended Hardy Elementary school, La Cumbre Jr. High and Santa Barbara High School class of 1949. She never missed a class reunion. Once a Don always a Don. While in high school she worked at Harwins Jewelry Store and did a short stint with the SB school district cafeteria before becoming a full-time mom to her 2 children, Lenny and Patti. She was a wonderful mother, but she was best known as everyone’s Aunt Margaret.

She was the best sun worshipper ever and loved going to Hendry’s Beach with the locals. She enjoyed going to concerts in the park for music and was always the first one out on the dance floor! Fiesta was one of her

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favorites in Santa Barbara were she always enjoyed the parade but, don’t break the cascarones eggs in her hair, and the best was dancing away at Jill’s Place afterwards. She was a world traveler with her husband Leonard, brother Joe and his wife Peggy along with many other friends and family. Margaret was an avid bowler, she enjoyed poker night with her family and enjoyed trips to Las Vegas and Laughlin. The one thing she did consistently was camping! The whole family would go religiously every summer to Lake Nacimiento. All the Super Bowl parties and Sunday dinners with her Italian pasta which she so enjoyed cooking for everyone will be amiss without her. She never missed a birthday, anyone’s, as sending a card was her favorite part. Oh, how she enjoyed her Andre Champagne, back in the day! She loved puttering with her potted outside plants and she had over 100 of them. She loved her fire in the fireplace, all year round!

She never missed a sporting event for her Grandchildren; she was their number one fan. And her highlight in the late 50’s was meeting and being photographed with Elvis Presley who told her “I like your hair” she never changed her hair style after that and wore her pony-tail proudly from then on.

Margaret is preceded in death by her parents Joseph Bilotta Sr., Margaret Renga Bilotta, sister Justine Pykor and brother Joseph Bilotta.

Margaret is survived by her husband of 68+ years Leonard Cordero, son Lenny Cordero (wife Christine) daughter Patti Sell, brother Bob Bilotta, grandchildren: Ashleigh (fiancé Lance), Justin, Zachary, Cody (fiancé Jessica) great-grandchildren: Cooper and Carter and granddog: Fresita. There are also numerous nieces, nephews and loads of cousins.

Until we can celebrate Margaret’s life together – feel free to pour yourself your favorite beverage, go outside in the sunshine, hoist said drink and

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DANCE! Margaret will be besides you smiling and dancing! No services are planned at this time.

Richard Golden 11/12/2020

Richard Golden of Santa Barbara died peacefully November 12, 2020.

Richard was born in Massachusetts but was a long time Santa Barbara resident.

Richard’s work was very important to him. He worked as an engineer in telemetry systems. In that capacity he traveled all over the world installing and inspecting satellite control systems for NASA and others. His favorite assignment was field support for the Japanese telemetry ground station at Christmas island (Kirabati) . Once on the island the only communication to friends and family was by ham radio.

He became a very popular ham radio contact. He has many contact letters from ham operators all over the world.

His last position was with Acroamatics in Goleta from where he retired.

He had many interest but swing dancing was his passion. He sometimes danced five times a week driving to wherever there was a dance. He met his partner Lynn swing dancing on his 50th birthday. They were together from then on.

Lynn introduced Richard to volleyball and skiing. We enjoyed both with the Santa Barbara ski and sports club.

He loved watching UCSB sports teams.

This included men’s and women’s basketball soccer and baseball. For several years he coordinated the Air Bus away games travel for fans of the women’s basketball team. Other interest include included genealogy and cooking with Lynn. All in all a life well lived.

He was preceded in death by his mother and father, his brother Robert, daughter Laurie and son Richard Jr. He is survived by his daughter-in-law Claudia, granddaughter Kelly Ann , niece Leanne, nephews Robert Jr, Billy and Brian, aunts, uncles and cousins and his partner Lynn Raber.

Many thanks to the staff at the Californian of Santa Barbara and VNA Health (visiting Nurses and hospice care) of Santa Barbara for his end of life care. If you wish a donation can be made to the VNA Health of Santa Barbara. A private ceremony will be held at a later date.

Genoveva Ramirez-Gonzales

1/3/1934 - 11/9/2020 Genoveva Ramirez (86) passed away after a brief illness in Oxnard, CA on November 9th, 2020.

Born on January 3rd, 1934 in San Nicolas de Ibarra Jalisco Mexico; was one of nine siblings born to Juan and Guadalupe Gonzales.

She was a lifelong homemaker who spent her time residing between Santa Barbara, Oxnard and Mexico. Though life was never easy, she lived a full and meaningful life; helping raise numerous grandchildren through the years. Preceded in death by her husband Manuel Ramirez, son Carlos and parents Juan and Guadalupe Gonzales; Genoveva also leaves behind sons: Jose, Angel, Gustavo, Leobardo, Enrique, Juan Manuel; daughters: Josephina Ramirez-Cuevas, Martha Pithawala; and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren.

The family would like to thank all the doctors, nurses and supporting staff at St John's Hospital in Oxnard, and the entire staff at Glenwood Care Center in Oxnard.

Funeral services were held Monday November 30th, 2020 at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church in Santa Barbara.

Arrangements were made by Garcia Mortuary.

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Alexander R. Romano 1969-2020 Mark Lawler 1955-2020 Teresita Bolisay 1956-2020 Ingrid Cypert 1968-2020 

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our time at work. Some of us spend more time with our work families than we do with our biological families. Any time a coworker passes away, the sense of loss can be significant. But when you lose four leaders of your team over a short period, the grief can be overwhelming.

This is even more applicable for the staff at Santa Barbara County’s Psychiatric Health Facility, often referred to as “the PHF.” Our dedicated staff members generally work 12-hour shifts inside a secure, 16-bed facility. They provide 24-hour/365-day inpatient care to county residents who require psychiatric hospitalization. It is the only acute psychiatric inpatient hospital that accepts involuntary patients within Santa Barbara County.

Our Behavioral Wellness family suffered profound losses during these past several months. The news of the passing of Mark Lawler from a long-term illness reached us a day before the unexpected death of Teresita “Terri” Bolisay in late August. The loss of Ingrid Cypert followed a week later on September 4, while she was on hospice at her home. And on November 9, we lost Alexander Romano.

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on the night shift and an invaluable member of the PHF family. He worked at the PHF for a total of seven years, and he’d also worked for Ventura County Mental Health for 14 years.

Alex was a down-to-earth, genuine human being, known for making personal connections with all around him. He was a favorite among patients—his kind, quietly confident manner brought reassurance to even the most distraught clients. His ability to de-escalate a situation just by his mere presence brought a sense of calm wherever he went.

Alex always looked out for others, would frequently go out of his way to help, and demonstrated how much he cared in all he did—from consoling a grieving staff member, while also grieving himself, to walking coworkers out to their cars after dark. Even with his two-hour commute to work from his home in Bakersfield, Alex would offer to pick up extra shifts if it meant supporting the PHF. Alex will always be remembered for his great smile, pos-

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itive attitude, and ability to make people laugh. His kind heart and compassion for others will be greatly missed.

Alex is survived by his wife and their three children.

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nician, team supervisor, and the designated PHF safety officer. Mark lived and breathed safety, wherever he went, and he was a strong advocate and example of preparation in all that he did.

He loved to share his knowledge—from woodworking to chickens and goats to safety planning in preparing for a disaster. He always took the time to acknowledge others, always finding the positive, embracing individuals for their humanity. Mark was a believer in the power of determination, stubborn in his true right but always exuding kindness, integrity, compassion, and generosity. He was a real family man—loyal to both his personal family and the PHF family.

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erri Bolisay was recently promoted to a Psychiatric

Nurse Senior role for the night shift at the PHF. She always took the time to greet others with the big-

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gest smile and give her unique greeting, “HELLOOO, it’s Terri!” She was kind, gracious, and giving—genuine with a balance of a feisty side when standing up for others. Terri was known for celebrating others, uniting those around her just by her presence; she was a kindhearted spirit, always bringing laughter, positive and supportive even in the midst of adversity. As a nurse, she was by nature dedicated to helping others, and she was always willing to pick up extra shifts to help the unit. Terri was a strong advocate for her peers, showing never-ending support to the team.

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cracker,” and she led a PHF day team as a Psychiatric Nurse Senior. She was strong and fierce in her convictions, and she supported her team as family—genuine, considerate, maternal. At the start of every shift, Ingrid would declare to the team, “Today will be ‘the best day ever’”—and she would do everything she could to make that happen. She was eager to share her “healthy food” as well as her “secret love” of Panda Express and Kentucky Fried Chicken. She had a strong work ethic, and her ability to multitask was legendary—Ingrid often accomplished the work of several people all at the same time! Ingrid was an amazing patient advocate with an extreme attention to detail. She would never ask someone to do something that she would not do herself. Ingrid was a true leader.

The PHF is a close-knit community of skilled professionals who encounter difficult situations every day within their work environment. While we have all been suffering in this year of pandemic and disaster, these losses have compounded the stress for the PHF staff. But they also cherish their memories of working with these inspiring colleagues.

I am confident that, while they mourn these tragic losses, the PHF team will carry on and persevere. I am confident of this because of the examples that individuals like Alex, Ingrid, Terri, and Mark set for the rest of their teams. Each of them brought a uniqueness to the PHF family and will be greatly missed but always remembered.

Our sincere sympathies also go out to the families of Mark Lawler, Terri Bolisay, Ingrid Cypert, and Alex Romano. We ask that you please keep our colleagues, their families, and their PHF coworkers in your thoughts, and n be kind and supportive of others in their memory.

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Miye Ota: Dancing with PEARL HARBOR AFTERMATH — THE WAR AT HOME

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Miye and Ken Ota would meet in an internment camp. She was about to fall into a ditch when he caught her.

he last time I met with Miye Ota, she interrupted our interview to get up and dance. I think it was

the cha-cha. At the time, her back was not treating her kindly. You would never know. She even flirted with me. “Hey, you’ve got blue eyes,” she exclaimed, in mid-sentence. Ota had just turned 100, and she was in the midst of a community celebration held at the Ota family’s dojo/dance studio in Old Town Goleta.

To say Miye Ota is a force of nature is to miss the point. It might be more accurate to say nature is a force of Miye.

Born in Guadalupe, she would move to Goleta in 1948 and become a founding member of the Goleta Chamber of Commerce. Naturally, she was the only woman on its board. She ran a beauty salon at the time.

In 1964, she and her husband — the acclaimed aikido master Ken Ota — built a martial arts dojo next door out of cinder blocks. There they instilled their students with discipline and respect, as well as teaching martial arts and ballroom dancing skills to generations of children and adults. Theirs may have been the only martial arts studio in the country with two chandeliers hanging from the ceiling.

Five years ago, Ota’s husband died at age 92. Earlier this year, she lost her son, Steve — age 72 — to cancer. Miye, however, is still alive and kicking, now working on her memoirs. The following is an edited excerpt.

Not long after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, resident Japanese and Japanese Americans living on the West Coast found themselves rounded up and incarcerated in internment camps across the country.

They were presumed guilty; no trials were necessary. Many were forced to sell their homes and farms for deeply devalued prices, while others found their property taken when they were finally released. Santa Barbara was no exception. In one such camp, Miye and Ken Ota first met.

But this is Miye Ota’s story. It’s better for her to tell it in her own words.

—Nick Welsh

Ken Ota taught aikido in Goleta since 1964; Miye Ota taught dance; they both taught discipline, strength, and grace.

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THE FIRST EVACUATION: ALIEN LAND LAWS For historical context: The Alien Land Law was passed in 1913, barring Asian immigrants from owning land.

In 1920 and 1923, California took it further and disallowed leasing of land and land ownership by Americanborn children of Asian immigrants. These laws were not repealed until 1952.

The first time I was evacuated, it must have been 1923.

I was about 5 years old when a law was passed that all Japanese people, and others of Asian descent, were no longer allowed to lease or own land in California.

The entire Japanese farming community of Oso Flaco were chased off the lands they had been leasing. Oso Flaco, near Guadalupe, is where my parents had settled shortly before I was born and where my father raised sugar beets.

When my parents arrived, it was bare nothing. Just a lake and land with natural vegetation and sagebrush.

My father worked with his friends to clear the land and make it tillable to build our main home just a few steps from Oso Flaco Lake.

My father, who comes from nobility, was raised with servants. He was brave to leave home and come to a strange country. He did not even know the language.

My father broke away from the tradition of teaching daughters to stay at home. He encouraged me, his daughter, to be free and fearless. That’s how I became strong.

When my father’s friends would come visit, my mother served refreshments and I would argue with them. Arguing with men like that. Hahahaha. My dad did his own thing. He was remarkable. My husband, Ken, reminded me of my dad a little bit, but I think I encouraged him a little bit to be like that. To put women first. My father wanted his daughter to be independent. He believed in me and let me be really strong.

Be me.

My father became quite prosperous and successful with his farming endeavors. He bought a big Caterpillar tractor to haul the beets to the train station. I remember how farmers would catch wild horses to

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work on the farm. One time, a horse walked into the lake and got sucked in the quicksand, and a man tied a rope around the horse’s belly and pulled him out with that tractor.

But in 1923, ultimately, we were all chased off and forced to leave the land. Everybody left.

The United States government did not pay them to leave. The Japanese left paying their own way, not knowing where to go. The people left to anywhere.

stepping, they disappeared into the deep ditches. Every once in a while, you would see someone fall in there.

Barbed wire fences surrounded the entire camp to make sure no one escaped out to the barren, hot desert — as if we were going to run away in the desert? And for extra precaution, there was The bombs were dropped on Pearl Harbor on Decem- a watchtower overber 7, 1941. I was 23 years old. We lived in an old farm- looking these quiet, house near Santa Maria. At the time, I had graduated law-abiding, loyal high school, finished beauty school, and was working as Japanese, known a hairdresser in Guadalupe. to be honest and I was the oldest of seven children. The others were still hardworking. in school. We heard about the bombings on the radio. The Each family was kids did not pay much attention to it. They thought it was housed in a room or just another radio program. They were running around two rooms for larger going Bang Bang Bang, pretending it was like a cowboy families like mine.

Miye Ota — shown during her 100th birthday celebration — was taught by her father to be free and fearless. and Indian movie.

Dad was still in BisHe would die in the camp.

We had no idea what it was all about. We didn’t even marck, but we were know enough to be afraid. Then someone shot a gun at seven kids and my mother. There were about 50 barracks. own two feet. I had to take on the role of a parent. But also our old farmhouse and left a bullet in the door jam. A Each had a mess hall where everyone in that section went to keep my head up and enjoy life. It didn’t beat me down. few days later, some police and authorities came with a to have breakfast, lunch, and dinner. There was a laundry What life deals, you just have to deal with it. Amazing young Japanese boy who was pointing out where all the room where people could wash their clothes, and a ladies' what we can think of to survive. Put on our thinking cap.

Japanese families lived, and we were told about the ter- shower with the shower heads lined up against the walls, Then act on a good idea. Or a good deed.

I did all kinds of things for people. Cut their hair. I no privacy, like barracks for soldiers. The walls were just rible things that were happening.

Then some men came and took my father and the thin boards, so we could hear the neighbors, and they started a girl scout group and taught them how to make other farmers away to be interned. Not just the farmers, could hear us too. little notebooks to write in like a diary, to make them think The toilets were in a big room and also lined up, as and be happy. I taught ballroom dance classes from what but business owners, and all Japanese adult men in the area, except for the very old. The bewildered men were I recall. No partitions, no anything. Some enterpris- I had learned in high school, which was kind of sketchy. rounded up and taken on ing ladies' put up sheets The waltz and the jitterbug swing was about it. I had not trains to Bismarck, North in between some of the yet studied professionally. Later on, the government gave Dakota. toilets. But I completely those of us who were doing things like teaching $16 a We were left alone, blacked out about using month. I don’t remember getting the money. the women and children, the lavatory.

In the daytime, I let my mother go ahead and talk to without the men in our My mom and I were herself nonstop. She would talk about how disappointing it lives. But not for long not what you would call was to be in that situation. But at night, I didn’t sleep much. close, because, well, how I would try to tell her: “Mom, be quiet. We don’t want to because we were soon told to pack up. Just one close can you get when disturb the neighbors.” I have no way of truly knowing how you have seven kids and she felt. We never talked about it later. Because we were so suitcase per person, just what we could carry.

I was away at beauty busy and she was in her own world. school? My mom’s name is Other authorities came At the mess hall, they served food we were not used to and arranged for us all to Hatsuki, and she was born like hominy and Vienna sausages out of cans. No fresh go somewhere. We did into a family that didn’t meat or vegetables. We saw that meat was coming to the not know where we were prepare her for hardship. camp, but the delivery people would steal it.

She went to a “finishgoing.

Eventually, we started to get some decent food because ing” school that her aunt the older Japanese farmers were permitted to go outside First we were taken to Santa Anita race track, owned, where she learned the fence into the desert and raise some vegetables. I don’t where each family was how to be a lady. She was know how they got the water, but they did it. After a while, housed in a horse stall in taught fancy cooking and we began to adjust to life at the camp, and a community embroidery and things started to develop. the stables. I chose not to remember the discom-like that. I still have the It was then that I met Kenji Ota. Even though the elecfort and the smell. We Picture Bride photo she tricity had not yet been installed, the young people were stayed calm because Jap-sent my father. She wore a able to hold a dance using battery-powered radios. Aftertraditional bridal hairdo ward, when I was walking back home in the pitch dark, anese people were taught to just accept things as and a beautiful kimono.

I stepped into one of the ditches. But I didn’t even hit My mother had a ner- bottom because Ken caught me with both hands under they come, to be stoic.

Ken Ota, shown busting a move, was persistent in his pursuit of Miye. vous breakdown at the my arms and swooped me up. He was a weightlifter and a Then we were carted Her reaction? “Him again? Hahaha.” away to trains to be taken camp. She started talking bodybuilder. He took me back to my barrack room, where into the middle of the desert in Gila, Arizona. to herself day and night. She was all right otherwise. She my family stayed.

I can’t remember the ride to Gila River, Arizona. knew what was going on. She knew and recognized each We were at the camp for a couple of years, and Kenji When we got to our desert camp, it was still under con- of us kids. She was just disappointed with life. My sweet kept showing up at my front door. My sister, Hama, would struction. It was to be a training camp for soldiers. There mother was so upset at the world, but she loved us, and say, “Kenji is here.” I’d answer, “Him again?!” Hahahaha. were barracks but no electricity and no plumbing. Deep we loved her.

He was five years younger than me, and I would tell him, ditches were dug to hold large pipelines for a sewer, I am My mom wasn’t able to take care of the family, so I had “Go away. You are too young for me.” I was 24 and he was guessing. If people were not mindful of where they were to step up. A blessing in disguise. It made me stand on my 19 years old. He wasn’t old enough to get married without

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marck. He was very weak.

He became ill and died in the camp hospital soon after he arrived. So after he was separated from us, we did not have quality time with him ever again. It was so sad.

I dreamed of him talking to me. Even after marrying Ken and having our son, Steve, I still dreamt of my father. I saw him encouraging me to be independent and be myself.

We can’t hide the fact that in the Arizona desert, spores his parents’ consent. But he was persistent. Poor carried a deadly virus called guy. “Never give up,” you know, was the motto he coccidioidomycosis: valley fever. taught everybody.

Many Japanese internees died of Sometimes we went to my mess hall, and some- valley fever. My dad got that, too. times we went to his mess hall. And one time at But even the young athletes sucthe mess hall, he went over to the next table to help cumbed to this reaper of death. cut an older lady’s food because he could see her Why would anyone voluntarily struggling with it. His thoughtfulness and kindness want to live in this desert? won me over, and I accepted him as my boyfriend.

In the summertime, when the He was observant, and he noticed if somebody sun came up, the skies were blue needed help. and gorgeous, but it got COLD Some men wanted to date me, but they were at night. And there were sandtold, “She is taken.” That was Kenji. He was persis- storms. You could not see where tent. Maybe it was because of his experience as a you were going. We had to fight quarterback on his football team at Lompoc High our way to the mess hall, and School. He was always calling the plays. He also there was sand in the food. played basketball, baseball, and shotput, and he was Japanese like to keep busy. outstanding in all of them. It taught him to focus Young people started organizing classes. And classes started for and go for his goals relentlessly.

He worked hard lifting weights and developed the children. We organized basean impressive physique. All the guys wanted to ball games for the guys, and for look like him. So he started teaching weight lift- entertainment, people with talent ing. And all this after the doctor had told him would sing and dance. They built in his youth that he wouldn’t be able to exercise a stage down at the foot of a hill. anymore after his bout with rheumatic fever. It We’d sit on the side of the hill among the rocks and left him with a heart murmur. things and watch the performances and movies in At the desert camp, it was hot in the day and this outdoor theater. The little lizards they called cold at night. Some barracks, like ours, faced Gila monsters ran around us. toward the middle of the camp where the farmers A woman who later became a famous dancer and performed in New York, Yuriko Amemiya, started had planted a lawn and some trees and shrubs.

But the last barrack had doors that opened teaching dance, and I joined the classes. She taught toward the street, so it was very private. The fam- modern dance, like Martha Graham. One time I ily there dug a really deep ditch under their room was practicing flying leaps, but the floorboard didn’t to keep cool. It was big enough so they could sit hold and my foot went through the floor. Ken was there, so he dug me out. under there and escape the unbearable heat.

Kenji learned to dance at Lompoc High School, My father was finally brought to us from Bisand I learned during gym period at Santa Maria High. They had dances at both schools.

Kenji found out that football players were a bunch of wallflowers at dances, so he went to a school teacher and asked him to teach the football players how to dance.

In camp we were all Japanese, but high school was mixed with many different ethnic groups — Latinos, Portuguese, everybody. While at school, Kenji used The Otas taught martial arts and ballroom dancing skills to generations of children and adults. to go to Portuguese

Ken Ota learned to dance in high school because football players were such “wallflowers.” Miye, never much of a wallflower, didn’t need any such excuses to learn to dance.

BBQs. At my school, there was not such a large mix of people.

Mostly white people, one black girl, and me. We got along real well.

We used to wear uniforms in high school.

There was a big Japanese community in Lompoc. The people got money together for a Buddhist church. They had weight lifting and all kinds of things for their children, but they welcomed everyone.

Japanese kept their kids busy and safe, teaching them to be lawabiding, honest, and polite. A Japanese school there taught some of the customs. From when they were little, children learned not to do anything to disgrace their family. If you do something bad, it reflects on the whole family. That is a heavy load to put on a kid.

At first I did not spend a lot of time with Kenji, but eventually we started going to dances together. I did kiss him in the camp.

He was holding my hand. I said, “Give me a kiss.” He said, “I don’t know how.” I said, “I don’t know either.” We were both virgins, kind of rare these days. Hahahaha.

Japanese people, we learn how to be calm and take whatever happens beyond our control. When they had that tsunami flood and earthquake in Japan — it was such a huge thing — one TV commentator said if something so unfortunate had to happen to anyone, it was a good thing it was the Japanese. They don’t get hysterical and run all over. They are calm. They learn how to use their chi.

I forgot to mention the Fourth of July parade that happened at the camp. The internees marched with American flags to patriotic music. And the wonderful Caucasian teachers and employees were there with tears in their eyes. They could see how the Japanese internees were loyal Americans. The internees felt love for their country despite being prisoners, which is why the Caucasians had tears in their eyes. No demonstration, just quiet, loyal respect. We were born and raised here. Many young men volunteered to fight for America to prove their love for the only n country they knew.

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How to Help Others In Difficult Times Dear friends and fellow community members, My name is Kathy Hughes and I am a long time local Realtor working with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties. I have been a humble supporter of Unity Shoppe for about 35 years. I met and was impressed with Barbara Tellefson who at that time was Executive Director of Unity Shoppe. This compassionate, loving woman was living proof that if someone sets their mind to a worthy cause, nothing can stop them. She proved it, and quickly became one of my heroes. Thank you Barbara, for teaching me how to be passionate and determined, and how to give with an open, happy heart, expecting nothing in return.

Inspired by Barbara, I have been donating money, food and toys to Unity Shoppe for many years. Recently, when I saw that one of our local drug stores was selling toys at up to 50% off, I was inspired to buy some. While at the store, I inquired to find out where to find the toys that were on sale. The very nice manager offered to help me find them. As we walked and talked, I mentioned that the toys were for Unity Shoppe.

While I was paying for the toys, all smiles over my great kid gifts, the manager told me of his personal story. He said, “Unity Shoppe is a really wonderful organization. A few months ago, due to COVID, my wife and I were both laid off. We were in a bad way when we were referred to Unity Shoppe. We went there and those folks came to our rescue. I mean it; they really did. I don’t know what we would have done without them. I am happy to say we both have new jobs now and are back on our feet. When I see someone in a bad way asking for money, I tell them about Unity Shoppe. They are a lasting solution, not just another dollar.”

The story of his experience and his sincere gratitude is an example of this amazing life changing organization. There is no judgment at Unity Shoppe, just open hands and hearts.

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For several years, I have helped with fundraising within the local Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices real estate offices. This year we have come together to raise nearly $20,000 to help the hard working people in our community who need a little help to keep their families fed and healthy.

I am very proud and honored to be a part of the generous Berkshire Hathaway family. I am also extremely happy and proud to help Unity Shoppe in any way I can. Many of my friends and clients have also donated to this great organization. I want to take this opportunity to thank all of you from the bottom of my heart!

Don’t miss your chance to be a part of this heart-warming effort to help.

Please consider making a donation to help our community get through this devastating time.

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Zach Gill’s 2020 Virtual Holiday Benefit: The Search for Inspirado S.B.-based singer/song-

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Tides Project is asking the public to safely photograph the highest high tides of the year. Documenting the impact of these tides on beaches, wetlands, roads, harbors, and homes will help California plan for future sea-level rise. Visit the website for times, locations, and safety instructions. Free. Email kingtides@coastal. ca.gov. coastal.ca.gov/kingtides

12/10: Virtual Holiday Cocktail Class The Good Lion and the Santa Barbara Independent invite you to learn how to craft a coconut nog from the comfort of home, and then join Indy Senior Editor Matt Kettmann for a fireside chat with Good Lion’s Brandon Ristaino. The cocktail kit includes ingredients for two cocktails.

Instructions and a Zoom link will be emailed to ticket holders. Ugly sweaters are encouraged! 6-7pm. $45. Ages 21+.

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TUESDAY 12/15 12/15: Milpas Holiday Lights Caravan! Dress festive, decorate your car, and bring a warm beverage to enjoy the holiday lights on Milpas Street from the safety of your car. The caravan will begin at the S.B. Bowl parking lot (1122 N. Milpas St.) and end at the Milpas roundabout. 7pm. Free.

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back in time to the Mesozoic, Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods at this new outdoor exhibit. Get a new perspective as you tower over a landscape of tiny dinosaurs and cross millions of years in a single step. The exhibit shows through March 2021. Reservations and masks are required. 10am-5pm. Sprague Butterfly Pavilion, S.B. Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol. Free-$7.50.

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ceremony (registration is required) to remember and honor the many that are missed this holiday season. Registration is required. To learn more about the event or to dedicate a digital star on their virtual Tree of Remembrance, please visit the website. 6-7pm. Free.

Laverty, author of North America’s Galapagos: The Historic Channel Islands Biological Survey, as she shares excerpts recounting the adventures and ambitions of a group of researchers, naturalists, and explorers who came together in the late 1930s to embark upon a series of unprecedented expeditions. 6:30-8pm. Free. tinyurl.

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Mr. Michael Kiyoi 9 -12th Grades Concert Band (Wind Ensemble) San Marcos High School San Marcos High School’s Concert Band (Wind Ensemble) taught by Mr. Michael Kiyoi, helps keep students engaged, by having Music Monday, Theory Tuesday, Way Back Wednesday (music history), Theory Thursday and Fun Fact Friday/Composer of the Week. in order to have more individualized feedback, the class rehearses by breaking into smaller groups and practicing specific sections of songs. In these smaller groups, Mr. Kiyoi (with the help of a few additional staff members) helps give each student individual feedback.

The $500 prize they win for being November’s Top Class will go toward helping provide instruments, repairs, music, supplies, and continuing Music Education for the students.

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I used to be undocumented. Visiting from the United Kingdom in my early twenties, I had no intention of living permanently in the U.S. but was offered a job and accepted it.

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BY GARETH KELLY The first few years went relatively smoothly. I was living in San Luis Obispo, and the company I worked for began the process of sponsoring a Green Card, also known as a Permanent Resident Card, which is a key to a pathway to citizenship. Then things got complicated. The owners of the business divorced, closed the company, and moved out of state.

Assuming it would be simple to transfer my Green Card sponsorship to another small business I had recently purchased with a U.S. bank loan, I called my attorney. “I’m afraid it doesn’t work like that, Gareth,” he said. I had two choices. Immediately leave the U.S. and my new life, or stay, illegally, and become undocumented.

I decided to stay.

This decision meant I, too, was trapped inside the United States, unable to leave and visit my family as I would likely not be allowed back in.

The years ticked by. At first, I was constantly on edge, always fearful of being found out. Encounters with law enforcement such as for a speeding ticket are stressful enough, but even more so when you are undocumented. I lived in constant fear about what I would do if something happened to one of my parents.

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gration reform bill that would have provided me and millions of others a pathway to legal residency.

Republicans refused to consider it. As time passed, I found myself less worried about being caught and more empowered to speak up about the immigration system and, more importantly, to bring attention to its many flaws.

In 2015, I was approached by journalist Jose Antonio Vargas (himself an undocumented immigrant) and his advocacy group, Define American, to see whether I was interested in outing myself as an undocumented immigrant.

Undocumented immigrants are quite diverse in terms of nationality. Many are white from European countries. Roughly two-thirds arrive by plane, not across the southern border.

On July 19, 2015, I outed myself as an undocumented immigrant live on television. I was the lead story on KSBY’s 6 p.m. news, wrote an op-ed in the local newspaper, spoke on KVEC talk radio, and shared my story through the S.L.O. Chamber of Commerce.

Friends and neighbors were shocked to learn I was undocumented. My privilege as an educated white guy from England had shielded me in a way other undocumented people do not enjoy.

As all this was happening, I met my wife. Our marriage gave me a pathway back to legality, and we moved to Goleta. Seventeen years after first arriving in the U.S., I am now finally eligible to apply for U.S. citizenship, and I look forward to doing so.

Unfortunately, millions of undocumented people are not as lucky or privileged as me and are forced to live in the shadows. I continue to speak out on this issue for those who have built lives here, own businesses, own houses, pay taxes, often have U.S.-born children, and still have no way of becoming legal in the country they love and consider home.

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“Throughout this site, the ground is so hot one cannot approach it,” he wrote. “It burns continuously in more than 30 places, like geysers that exude dense smoke. From its stench it appears to be from sulfur.”

Santa Barbara historian Michael Redmond recalled Fages’s letter in a 2011 column for the Independent.

It wasn’t actually a volcano that Fages observed, but a solfatara, or “fire well”—naturally occurring fissures that give off sulfurous gases and steam. Another was discovered in 1835 at Rincon, which by the 1880s was sending out flames 10 feet high and flinging rocks into the air before going dormant.

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While the site currently produces only smoke and a few modest flames when the heat ignites nearby brush, it wasn’t long ago that the solfatara had a much more dramatic presence. In the 1920s, it regularly produced hot coals that glowed orange at night. A few nearby residents, annoyed by the smell and a steady flow of curiosity seekers, and fearful of fire danger, even ran a water pipe to the fissure in an attempt to extinguish it.

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Earlier in her career as a Jewish educator, Samantha Silverman was known to dress up like a bee and dance on top of her desk to show why the sweet nectar of honey was an appropriate treat for Rosh Hashanah. But today, the Santa Barbara teacher and entrepreneur is working a bit more inside the box, at least literally, through her company Edjudaica, which prepares educational and entertaining packages to teach about Judaism in engaging ways.

“Edjudaica reimagines Jewish education,” she explained. “We create project-based curriculum kits designed to inspire creative thinking, nourish emotional intelligence, and deepen family engagement with Jewish traditions in the place it matters most, the home.

Although COVID-19 provided the inspiration for this company, I have spent many years of my career thinking about ways to bring Jewish learning to life outside of the classroom.”

Though born in Santa Cruz and raised on the West Coast, Silverman’s educational path led her through Israel after high school and a graduate degree in Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism while “freezing my tuchus off” at Yale after getting her undergrad degree in Jewish studies from UCLA. She first came to Santa Barbara in 2008, when her mom, Cyndi Silverman, took a job as the regional director of ADL; Cyndi is now the executive director of the Jewish Federation here.

The younger Silverman has worked as a Hebrew schoolteacher at Congregation B’nai B’rith and Community Shul, and as director of Camp Haverim. That’s where she was when COVID-19 hit, forcing the summer

camp to go remote via boxes that Silverman packed full of educational and fun activities. “I received such glowing and moving feedback from parents and campers that I knew I couldn’t stop there,” she said.

The kit includes eight activities for each night, including scrap-made keepsake menorahs, origami paper flames, blessing jars, marshmallow dreidels, solar ovens, and scavenger hunts. “My hope is that the activities, crafts, and baking projects in this box will fill the home with laughter and joy (not to mention the delicious scent of fried dough!) and enrich families’ connection to their Jewish heritage during an unusual time,” said Silverman. “I also hope these kits will provide a bit of relief to tired parents and entertainment to stir-crazy kids!”

The foodiest activity is the making of sufganiyot, or jelly doughnuts. “Hanukkah celebrates the rededication of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem after the Maccabees fought for and won back their right to freely observe their religious beliefs,” explained Silverman as to the significance of doughnuts and in the holiday.

“There was only enough oil to relight the eternal light for one day, yet somehow, miraculously, the oil lasted for eight nights! In honor of this miracle of oil, we eat fried foods!” That explains latkes as well.

For Silverman, there’s more to the process as well. “I love working with yeast recipes—there is something transformational and magical about proofing,” she said.

“It can also be temperamental and frustrating if the conditions aren’t just right. A bit like life!”

She’s already garnering lots of interest as far away as New York for Passover kits and is launching two subscription boxes for 2021. One is called the “Shabbox,” which is focused on recipes, crafts, and teachings for the weekly sabbath. The other is the “Aleph Bet Beginners’ Box,” a 10-month series introducing students to two Hebrew letters per month through games, art, baking — “basically,” said Silverman, “whatever gets your hands dirty.”

Order your Be the Light: A Chanukah Celebration Kit at edjudaica.com.

LATKES @ LUCKY’S: Montecito’s famed steakhouse

is serving potato latkes with sour cream and apple sauce for $15 during Hanukkah, and it’s always a great place for their $16 bowl of matzo ball soup. “For 20 years, it has been a privilege to provide these treats to our beloved community,” said Leonard Schwartz, the restaurant’s longtime GM and executive chef. 1279 Coast Village Rd., Montecito;

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bara’s “Latke King” Doug Weinstein went virtual in 2020, taking his kitchen skills — which he typically used to make latkes, brisket, and much more for Hanukkah celebrations across the region — into your home with on-screen cooking classes. Held the first and third Thursdays of each month, “Get Baked with Doug” has featured sweet kugel, knish, challah, and chocolate babka recipes, among many others, all of which are posted online. He’ll be teaching his infamous latke recipe on December 17 and sending out ingredient kits in advance. See the calendar at n Jewish SantaBarbara.com.

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A PINK MARTINI CABARET UCSB ARTS & LECTURES PRESENTS CHINA FORBES AND THOMAS LAUDERDALE

FROM MARTINIS TO LEMONADE: The latest song from Pink Martini’s Thomas Lauderdale and China Forbes calls for all of us to take the lemons of corona and make some holiday lemonade.

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Hotel Café legend Jim Bianco, and released on YouTube in August, it’s the unofficial anthem of the pandemic experience, whittling the old saw about what to do when you get lemons down to its essence, then stringing it with a delightful succession of “You’re the Top”–style couplets.

When I spoke with Forbes from her home in Portland, Oregon, last week, she was busy with supervising some work on her house, yet not too distracted to share a good laugh and some thoughtful words about this unparalleled year. “Portland has been scorched,” she told me; “there are portions of the city that are unrecognizable.” She said that at times she finds herself wondering, “Is this really my town?” Yet she can also see beauty in the way the city has begun to come back and cites “trust” as the factor that will allow the things that have been ripped apart to heal. She said she misses playing

the Arlington for her friends at UCSB Arts & Lectures, and that she has always liked seeing the great Pink Martini fans of Santa Barbara, both in the theater and at what she remembers as “a great afterparty.”

In addition to writing “The Lemonade Song” with Lauderdale and Bianco, Forbes has been active on social media this year, developing a singularly satisfying and lowkey presence on Instagram @china forbes. She calls the intimate performances she posts there “a way to inspire myself,” and says that it was not something she was doing before the pandemic. For those who know and love this woman’s inimitable voice and style, these diary-like entries have made the last few months easier to bear.

For information and tickets to the cabaret performance on Thursday, December 10, at 5 p.m. visit artsandlectures.ucsb.edu.

— Charles Donelan

HUNTER HAWKINS’S DRIVEWAY HOLIDAY CONCERTS

“It’s really jazz, but it’s jazz in a form that people immediately know and love.” So says 19-year-old Santa Barbara native Hunter Hawkins of great holiday songs like Nat King Cole’s “The Christmas Song.” This startlingly talented vocalist has been featured in dozens of events around town, including the 2017 edition of Teen Star. After an exploratory gap year in Los Angeles apprenticing as a showrunner on a comedy series, Hawkins is back, recording an EP called Phase with local pop psychedelic maestros the Toy Poets, teaching singing lessons, and performing socially distanced, personalized driveway concerts for interested music lovers. For bookings, visit hunternhawkins .com or DM @hunternhawkins on Instagram.

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ue to the unnerving persistence of the coronavirus, holiday parties have taken a hit this season, but thanks to UCSB Arts & Lectures, one of Santa Barbara’s very best winter solstice traditions will continue, albeit in a virtual format. Lots of great December memories have been formed over the years around Pink Martini’s annual appearances at the Arlington. There’s always a special feeling on these occasions — people dress up, there are decorations on the State Street tree, and friends come out to eat, drink, and enjoy one another’s company on the way to the show. Although that can’t happen this year, Arts & Lectures has seen to it that we can have the next best thing.

On Thursday, December 10, at 5 p.m., Pink Martini founding members China Forbes and Thomas Lauderdale will dish up a cabaret version of their show online, replete with songs in multiple languages, acknowledgements of the end of an unforgettable year, and plenty of their trademark musical wit and glamour.

If you’re already a fan of Pink Martini, then you know that these two performers are the band’s heart and soul. Lauderdale’s comprehensive knowledge of musical genres complements Forbes’s steely focus on the precision of a lyric, and the results can stand comparison with the work of their idols.

“Sympathique (Je ne veux pas travailler)” for example, their first international hit, sounds as familiar on first hearing as anything by Edith Piaf, and the self-aware syncopation of “Hey Eugene!” from their third album is as irresistible as Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi.” Yet Lauderdale and Forbes are no mere imitators; for proof that they are on a par with the architects of the great American songbook, look no further than their most recent composition, an unassuming little number called “The Lemonade Song.” Written by Forbes and Lauderdale along with

JACKSON GILLIES IN CONCERT

In an era that’s shown little hesitation about embracing talented performers well before they are old enough to drive, never mind vote, Santa Barbara native Jackson Gillies knows the thrills and tribulations of life as a child prodigy better than most. His initial appearances on local stages marked him for success when he was just 15. After winning Santa Barbara’s Teen Star competition in 2016, he performed at the Kick Ash Bash benefit for Montecito, and from there, with a little help from a couple of other Santa Barbara folks — no less than Kenny Loggins and Katy Perry — Gillies wound up making it to network television as a contestant on American Idol when he was still in his teens. His Idol audition earned him a place not only in the program’s archives but also in the hearts of viewers who heard Lionel Richie ask Gillies about the two chronic conditions he has lived with for most of his life, type 1 diabetes, which he was diagnosed with at age 3, and hidradenitis suppurativa, the debilitating skin condition he came down with as a teen. Tough enough to withstand this double threat to his health, Gillies nevertheless found the pressure of American Idol overwhelming, and by the time he was eliminated, he was ready for a new approach to having a music career.

The road Gillies has traveled to the upcoming Marjorie Luke virtual show, which premieres on Friday, December 18, gets an admirably in-depth treatment in an interview with Rod Lathim on the theater’s website. In that conversation, Gillies reveals what has driven his recent reinvention of himself and his persona, saying that “it was hard to have a personality when I was sick. Music was painting me in a light that wasn’t really me.”

After a year spent studying musical performance in London, Gillies came back to Santa Barbara to shelter during the pandemic and to write many of the songs he will be playing in this concert. For access to the show, visit luketheatre.org.

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ROCK SHOP: The Shopkeepers in the Funk Zone has exclusive access to the personal poster collection of Goldenvoice SVP Moss Jacobs, and all sales benefit the Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation.

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isitors to The Shopkeepers, the eclectic clothing and design store adjacent to the Lark complex on Anacapa Street in the Funk Zone, will notice something new on the walls this month as the store has become the exclusive venue for a collection of rare rock posters. The art, which focuses primarily on designs created for shows at the Santa Barbara Bowl and the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, comes from the private collection of Moss Jacobs, the Goldenvoice senior vice president responsible for booking hundreds of major concerts throughout Southern California over the past several decades.

Jacobs made the decision to release these images in order to contribute a percentage of the profits from their sale to the Santa Barbara Bowl’s 2020 shortfall fund.

The Bowl is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to building and maintaining the world’s best outdoor music venue. Since the entire 2020 season had to be canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Bowl is experiencing a shortfall in funding for basic operations. They

by Charles Donelan hope to make up for this gap in revenue by soliciting donations from the community, and the poster sale at The Shopkeepers is an example of how people who care about live music are stepping up to that challenge.

Jacobs has been collecting signage for many different kinds of music events since the 1970s, and the posters on display now at The Shopkeepers represent some of the most desirable items in his archive. Many of them come from special print runs that were not available through the merch booth at the time of the shows, and they can be obtained either framed or unframed. As individual images are sold, others will be rotated through the exhibition. As of Saturday, December 5, there were great posters still available for shows like Radiohead, Wilco, Beck, the n Black Keys, and the Beastie Boys.

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Hansen, “Western philosophers have endlessly analyzed and dissected a cluster of terms thought to be central to our thinking,” such as truth, beauty, reason, knowledge, belief, mind, and goodness. But he reports that they’ve never turned their attention to a central concept of Chinese philosophy: the Tao, which might be defined as the natural, unpredictable flow of life’s ever-changing rhythms. I think that you Aries people, more than any other sign of the zodiac, have the greatest potential to cultivate an intuitive sense of how to align yourselves vigorously with the Tao. And you’re in prime time to do just that.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): What’s the cause of the rumbling at

the core of your soul? How do we explain the smoke and steam that are rising from the lower depths? From what I can discern, the fire down below and the water down below are interacting to produce an almost supernatural state of volatile yet numinous grace. This is a good thing! You may soon begin having visions of eerie loveliness and earth-shaking peace. The clarity that will eventually emerge may at first seem dark, but if you maintain your poise, it will bloom like a thousand moons.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Author and student Raquel Isabelle

de Alderete writes wittily about her paradoxical desires and contradictory qualities. In accordance with current astrological omens, I encourage you to ruminate about your own. For inspiration, read her testimony: “I want to be untouchably beautiful but I also don’t want to care about how I look. I want to be at the top of my class but I also just want to do as best as I can without driving myself to the edge. I want to be a mystery that’s open to everybody. A romantic that never falls in love. Both the bird and the cat.”

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(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When author Ernest Hemingway was

just a bit more courage so as to change what needs to be changed? How could you summon the extra excitement and willpower necessary to finally make progress on a dilemma that has stumped you? I’m happy to inform you that cosmic rhythms will soon be shifting in such a way as to make these breakthroughs more possible. For best results, shed any tendencies you might have to feel sorry for yourself or to believe you’re powerless.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Novelist Tom Robbins says you have

the power to change how you perceive the world. You can change reality — and how reality responds to you — by the way you look at it and interpret it. This counsel is especially useful for you right now, Leo. You have an unparalleled opportunity to reconfigure the way you apprehend things, and thereby transform the world you live in. So I suggest you set your intention. Vow that for the next two weeks, every experience will bring you a fresh invitation to find out something you didn’t know before.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): India’s Prime Minister Narendra

Modi was reelected in 2019. During his campaign, the Virgo-born politician arranged to be photographed while wearing the saffron robes of a Hindu priest and meditating in an austere Himalayan cave. Why did he do it? To appeal to religious voters. But later it was revealed that the “cave” was in a cozy retreat center that provides regular meals, electricity, phone service, and attentive attendants. It will be crucial for you to shun this type of fakery in 2021, Virgo. Your success will depend on you being as authentic, genuine, and honest as you can possibly be. Now is an excellent time to set your intention and start getting yourself in that pure frame of mind.

working on the manuscript for his novel A Farewell to Arms, he asked his colleague F. Scott Fitzgerald to offer critique. Fitzgerald obliged with a 10-page analysis that advised a different ending, among other suggestions.

Hemingway wasn’t pleased. “Kiss my ass,” he wrote back to Fitzgerald. I suggest a different approach for you, Libra.

In my view, now is a good time to solicit feedback and mirroring from trusted allies. What do they think and how do they feel about the current state of your life and work? If they do respond, take at least some of it to heart.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Mistletoe is a parasite that grows on

trees, weakening them. On the other hand, it has been a sacred plant in European tradition. People once thought it conferred magical protection. It was called “all-heal” and regarded as a medicine that could cure numerous illnesses. Even today, it’s used in Europe as a remedy for colon cancer. And of course mistletoe is also an icon meant to encourage kissing. After studying your astrological potentials, I’m proposing that mistletoe serve as one of your symbolic power objects in the coming months. Why? Because I suspect that you will regularly deal with potencies and energies that could potentially be either problematic or regenerative. You’ll have to be alert to ensure that they express primarily as healing agents.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I’m envisioning a scene in which

you’re sitting on a chair at a kitchen table. At the center of the table is a white vase holding 18 long-stemmed red roses. The rest of the table’s surface is filled with piles of money, which you have just unloaded from five mysterious suitcases you found at your front door.

All of that cash is yours, having been given to you nostrings-attached by an anonymous donor. You’re in joyful shock as you contemplate the implications of this miraculous gift. Your imagination floods with fantasies about how different your life can become. Now, Sagittarius, I invite you to dream up at least three further

wonderfully positive fantasies involving good financial luck. That’s the medicine you need right now.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Boisterous Capricorn novelist Patri-

cia Highsmith (1921-1995) once made the following New Year’s Eve toast: “To all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle—may they never give me peace.” Right now, I suspect you may be tempted to make a similar toast.

As crazy-making as your current challenges are, they are entertaining and growth-inducing. You may even have become a bit addicted to them. But in the interests of your long-term sanity, I will ask you to cut back on your “enjoyment” of all this uproar. Please consider a retreat into an intense self-nurturing phase.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In the French city of Strasbourg, there’s a wine cellar built in the year 1395. Among its treasures is a barrel filled with 450 liters of wine that was originally produced in 1472. According to legend, this ancient beverage has been tasted on just three occasions. The last time was to celebrate the French army’s liberation of Strasbourg from German occupation in 1944. If I had the power, I would propose serving it to you Aquarians in honor of your tribe’s heroic efforts to survive — and even thrive — during the ordeals of 2020. I’m predicting that life in 2021 will have more grace and progress because of how you have dealt with this year’s challenges.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): There are too many authorities,

experts, know-it-alls, and arrogant ideologues trying to tell us all what to do and how to do it. Fortunately, the cosmic rhythms are now aligned in such a way as to help you free yourself from those despots and bullies. Here’s more good news: Cosmic rhythms are also aligned to free you from the nagging voice in your own head that harass you with fearful fantasies and threaten you with punishment if you aren’t perfect.

HOMEWORK: What’s the one thing you don’t have that would help you make the biggest improvement in your life? FreeWillAstrology.com Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.

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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.

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IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

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by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002740. Published: Nov 19, 25. Dec 3, 10 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T The following person(s) R I V I E R A P R I VAT E W E A LT H 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)

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

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002724. Published: Nov 19, 25. Dec 3, 10 2020.

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.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MODERATELY ADVENTUROUS at 1613 Chapala Street Apt E Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Moderately Adventurous (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. FBN Number: 2020‑0002734. Published: Nov 19, 25. Dec 3, 10 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) i s / a re doing business as: STATION HOUSE ENTERPRISES at 2100 Red Rose Way, 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.

FBN Number: 2020‑0002694.

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

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by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002722. Published: Nov 19, 25. Dec 3, 10 2020.

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 Signed: Jamie Watson Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 10, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck.

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FBN Number: 2020‑0002653.

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: IDYLL MERCANTILE at 1841 Loma St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Idyll LLC (same address) This business is conducted by an Limited Liability Company Signed: Hannah Bangs Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 4, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002732. Published: Nov 19, 25. Dec 3, 10 2020.

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

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002766. Published: Nov 19, 25. Dec 3, 10 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GOUVION CLOTHING at 1320 East Gutierrez St Apt B Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Andres M Rivera (same address) This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Andres Rivera Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 26, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002648. Published: Nov 19, 25. Dec 3, 10 2020.

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Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002764. Published: Nov 25.

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

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002830. Published: Nov 25.

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

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002801. Published: Dec 3, 10, 17, 24 2020.

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Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002736. Published: Dec 3, 10, 17, 24 2020.

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

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002808. Published: Dec 3, 10, 17, 24 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g p e r s o n ( s ) i s / a re d o i n g b u s i n e s s a s : PA C I F I C R I M R E S E A R C H a t 6 6 0 Ta b o r L a n e S a n t a B a r b a r a , CA 93108; Joseph Brian Dewitt ( s a m e a d d re s s ) T h i s b u s i n e s s is conducted by an Individual Signed: Joseph Brian Dewitt Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 25, 2020. This statement e x p i re s f i v e y e a r s f ro m t h e d a t e i t w a s f i l e d i n t h e O ff i c e of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002880.

Published: Dec 10, 17, 24, 31 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AIZIA at 726 Chelham Way Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Jamie B Watson (same address) This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Jamie Watson Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 23, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002864. Published: Dec 3, 10, 17, 24 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g p e r s o n ( s ) i s / a re d o i n g b u s i n e s s as: BANK OF YOUTH at 632 Meigs Road Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Emilie Khalil Elzein ( s a m e a d d re s s ) T h i s b u s i n e s s is conducted by an Individual Signed: Emilie Elzein Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 1, 2020. This statement e x p i re s f i v e y e a r s f ro m t h e d a t e i t w a s f i l e d i n t h e O ff i c e of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002905.

Published: Dec 10, 17, 24, 31 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CARIBOU PRESS at 322 Ocean Walk Lane Goleta, CA 93117; Paul Parsons (same address) This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Paul Parsons Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 25, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002885. Published: Dec 3, 10, 17, 24 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SYMMETRY EQUINE SPORTS MASSAGE THERAPY, STEP AWAY FROM THE CLASSROOM, LETTER PERFECT LEGAL TRANSCRIPT PROOFREADING at 4556 Auhay Dr Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Lindsay A. Woodard (same address) This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Lindsay A. Woodard 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: 2020‑0002826. Published: Dec 10, 17, 24, 31 2020 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ROOMS & GARDENS at 924 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Jami Voulgaris (same address) This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Jami Voulgaris Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 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: 2020‑0002894.

Published: Dec 10, 17, 24, 31 2020 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: COTTAGE VIRTUAL CARE at 400 West Pueblo Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital (same address) This business is conducted by an Corporation Signed: Kristin Tufvesson Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 1, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck.

FBN Number: 2020‑0002903.

Published: Dec 10, 17, 24, 31 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g p e r s o n ( s ) i s / a re d o i n g b u s i n e s s as: REED INTERIORS at 590 E G u t i e r re z S t re e t S u i t e B S a n t a Barbara, CA 93103; Reed Floors Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by an Corporation Signed: Myriam Doussineau Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 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 d a t e i t w a s f i l e d i n t h e O ff i c e of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0002931.

Published: Dec 10, 17, 24, 31 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 N ATA L I E 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 S u p e r i o r c o u r t p ro p o s i n g a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: N ATA L I E KAREN YESCAS T O : N ATA L I E K A R E N G O T O THE COURT ORDERS that a l l p e r s o n s i n t e re s t e d i n t h i s m a t t e r s h a l l a p p e a r b e f o re t h i s court at the hearing indicated b e l o w t o s h o w c a u s e , i f a n y, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection t h a t i n c l u d e s t h e re a s o n s f o r the objection at least two c o u r t d a y s b e f o re t h e m a t t e r i s s c h e d u l e d t o b e h e a rd a n d must aooear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed , the court may grant the petition withouta hearing.

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

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

I N T H E M AT T E R O F T H E A P P L I C AT I O N O F B E R T H A 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 S u p e r i o r c o u r t p ro p o s i n g a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): F R O M : B E RT H A P E R E Z S O L I S T O : B E RT H A P E R E Z P E N A THE COURT ORDERS that a l l p e r s o n s i n t e re s t e d i n t h i s m a t t e r s h a l l a p p e a r b e f o re t h i s court at the hearing indicated b e l o w t o s h o w c a u s e , i f a n y, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection t h a t i n c l u d e s t h e re a s o n s f o r the objection at least two c o u r t d a y s b e f o re t h e m a t t e r i s s c h e d u l e d t o b e h e a rd a n d must 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 12, 2021 10:00 am, Dept 3, C o u r t h o u s e , S A N TA B A R B A R A SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this o rd e r t o S h o w C a u s e s h a l l b e published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed i n t h i s c o u n t y, a t l e a s t o n c e each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Nov 18, 2020. by Thomas P. A n d e r l e . o f t h e S u p e r i o r Court. Published. Nov 25. Dec 3, 10, 17 2020.

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S U P E R I O R C O U RT O F T H E S TAT E OF CALIFORNIA C O U N T Y O F S A N TA B A R B A R A Case No. 20PR00447 I n re t h e m a t t e r o f : D o u g l a s A . B r y s o n S u r v i v o r ’s Tr u s t under the Bryson Family Tr u s t d a t e d M a y 2 4 , 2 0 0 1 , a s a m e n d e d a n d re s t a t e d o n August 23, 2013 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to t h e c re d i t o r s a n d c o n t i n g e n t c re d i t o r s o f t h e a b o v e ‑ n a m e d decedent, that all persons having claims against the d e c e d e n t a re re q u i re d t o f i l e them with the Santa Barbara County Superior Court, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, and whose mailing a d d re s s i s P. O B o x 2 1 1 0 7 , Santa Barbara, California 93121‑1107, and deliver pursuant to Section 1215 of t h e C a l i f o r n i a P ro b a t e C o d e a c o p y t o C a ro l y n J . S t re e t a / k / a C a ro l y n S t re e t ‑ Va d n a i s , as successor trustee of the trust dated May 24, 2001, a s a m e n d e d a n d re s t a t e d o n A u g u s t 2 3 , 2 0 1 3 , w h e re i n t h e d e c e d e n t w a s t h e s e t t l o r, c / o J e ff D a u g h e r t y, E s q . , L a b o rd e & D a u g h e r t y, 9 2 4 A n a c a p a S t r e e t , S u i t e 1 ‑ T, S a n t a Barbara, California 93101, within the later of four months after December 10, 2020 (the date of the first publication o f n o t i c e t o c re d i t o r s ) o r, i f notice is mailed or personally d e l i v e re d t o y o u , 6 0 d a y s a f t e r the date this notice is mailed o r p e r s o n n a l l y d e l i v e re d t o you. A claim form may be o b t a i n e d f ro m t h e c o u r t c l e r k .

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PUBLIC NOTICES E X T R A S PA C E S T O R A G E w i l l hold a public auction to sell p e r s o n a l p ro p e r t y d e s c r i b e d below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 6640 Discovery Drive, Goleta CA. 93117. December 29, 2020 at 3:30 PM M a r i a J o s e f i n a R a m i re z D re s s e r, B e d s e t , B a g s , B o x e s , C l o t h e s , To y s , D e s k Cynthia Bollinger Ta b l e , E l e c t ro n i c s , B o x e s , B e d s e t , C h a i r, P e r s o n a l Roberto Catalan C o u c h , B a g s , B o x e s , To t e s ,

Power tools, Shelves, Sporting Equip.

Gary Beynon A r m o i r, C h a i r, B e d , Ta b l e , Books, Sports Equip., Shelves, Personal christine barrios Bags, Boxes, Clothes, Shoes, K i t c h e n A p p l i a n c e , Ta b l e , B e d S e t , D re s s e r, P e r s o n a l The auction will be listed a n d a d v e r t i s e d o n w w w. storagetreasures.com.

P u rc h a s e s m u s t b e made with cash only and p a i d a t t h e a b o v e re f e re n c e d f a c i l i t y i n o rd e r t o c o m p l e t e the transaction.

Extra Space S t o r a g e m a y re f u s e a n y b i d a n d m a y re s c i n d a n y p u rc h a s e up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal p ro p e r t y.

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Upon the Petition of CALCIN E. BUSCH P e t i t i o n e r, and Concerning HELEN ROSE BUSCH Respondent.

Yo u m u s t s e r v e a m o t i o n o r answer witin 20 days after service of this original notice upon you and, within a r e a s o n a b l e t i m e t h e r e a f t e r, file your motion or answer with the Clerk of Court for B e n t o n C o u n t y, a t t h e c o u n t y courthouse in Vinton, Iowa.

If you do not, judgment by default may be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the petition.

CASE NO. CDDM004330 ORIGINAL NOTICE TO THE ABOVE R E S P O N D E N T:

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Yo u a re n o t i f i e d t h a t a p e t i t i o n h a s b e e n f i l e d i n t h e o ff i c e o f the clerk of this court naming you as the Respondent in this action. A copy of the petition (and any docuuments filed w i t h i t ) a re a t t c h e d t o t h i s notice. The attorney for the Petitioner is John Mossman, w h o s e a d d re s s i s 1 2 2 E . 4 t h S t re e t , V i n t o n , I o w a 5 2 3 4 9 .

T h a t a t t o r n e y ’s t e l e p h o n e number is (319) 472‑2396

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ORDINANCE NO. 20-11 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 conducted the second reading and adopted an ordinance that will amend, codify, and subsequently repeal the existing “stand-alone” Ordinance No. 16-04, Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance (WELO).

The City Council of the City of Goleta passed and adopted Ordinance No. 20-11 at a regular meeting held on the 1st day of December 2020, by the following roll call vote: AYES: MAYOR PEROTTE, MAYOR PRO TEMPORE RICHARDS, COUNCILMEMBERS ACEVES, KASDIN AND KYRIACO NOES: NONE

NOTICE INVITING SEALED BIDS FOR THE LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE SERVICES FOR GOLETA CITY HALL AND GOLETA LIBRARY 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, City of Goleta, CA

ABSENT: NONE ABSTENTIONS: NONE

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Goleta (“CITY”), invites sealed bids for the above stated project and will receive such bids via electronic transmission on the City of Goleta PlanetBids portal site until 3:00 P.M., January 14, 2021, and will be publicly opened and posted promptly thereafter.

Copies of the Contract Documents and Specifications are available on the CITY website at http://www. cityofgoleta.org/i-want-to/view/city-bid-opportunities.

The work includes but is not limited to mowing, tree maintenance, irrigation management, irrigation system maintenance and repair, shrub and ground cover maintenance, trimming, pruning, fertilization, aeration, weed control, cultivation, pest control, deep root watering, plant replacements, trash and debris removal, renovation and cleanup of drainage facilities using landscape maintenance procedures, and all labor, supervision, material and equipment necessary to provide LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE SERVICES FOR GOLETA CITY HALL AND GOLETA LIBRARY. The services shall be performed in accordance with the Contract Documents, which includes provisions that the work shall be performed without the use of pesticides or commercial fertilizers.

The term of the contract shall be thru June 30, 2024, however it will be subject to annual approval of the budget on July 1st of each year within the contract term.

A non-mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting is scheduled on January 5, 2021, at 10 A.M at 130 Cremona Dr. Suite B, Goleta, CA 93117 for this project. Meet outside of Suite B. No relief will be granted to contractors for any conditions or restrictions that would have been discovered if they had attended the pre-bid meeting. Please RSVP via PlanetBids no later than close-of-business the day prior to the scheduled bid walk.

Bidders must be registered on the City of Goleta’s PlanetBids portal in order to receive addendum notifications and to submit a bid. Go to PlanetBids for bid results and awards. It is the responsibility of the bidder to submit the bid with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. Allow time for technical difficulties, uploading, and unexpected delays. Late or incomplete bids will not be accepted.

The bid must be accompanied by a bid security in the form of a money order, a certified cashier’s check, or bidder’s bond executed by an admitted surety, made payable to CITY. The bid security shall be an amount equal to ten percent (10%) of the total annual bid amount included with their proposals as required by California law.

Note: All bids must be accompanied by a scanned copy of the bid security uploaded to PlanetBids. The original security of the three (3) lowest bidders must be mailed to the office of the City Clerk at 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California 93117, in a sealed envelope and be received within three (3) City business days of the bid due date and time for the bid to be considered. The sealed envelope should be plainly marked on the outside, “SEALED BID SECURITY FOR LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE SERVICES FOR GOLETA CITY HALL AND GOLETA LIBRARY.”

The Ordinance will be effective 31 days from the date of adoption.

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

Deborah Lopez City Clerk Publish:

Santa Barbara Independent December 10, 2020

ORDINANCE NO. 20-__ AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL, OF THE CITY OF GOLETA, CALIFORNIA, ADDING CHAPTER 2.15 TO THE GOLETA MUNICIPAL CODE TO PROVIDE FOR MAYORAL APPOINTMENTS TO CITY AND REGIONAL BOARDS, COMMISSIONS, AND COMMITTEES, AND AMENDING CHAPTERS 2.08, 2.09, 2.11, 2.12, 2.13, AND 2.14 FOR CONSISTENCY On December 15, 2020, at the Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California, the City Council of the City of Goleta (“City”) will consider the second reading and possible adoption of a proposed ordinance that would codify the interim process for mayoral appointments of members of the public to City and regional boards, commissions and committees established shortly after the 2018 municipal election.

If adopted, the Ordinance will be effective 31 days from the date of adoption.

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

Deborah Lopez City Clerk

Publish: The Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) per California Labor Code Section 1771.4, including prevailing wage rates and apprenticeship employment The Project is subject to compliance monitoring and on enforcement by the of Industrial standards. Affirmative action to ensure against discrimination in employment practices the basis ofDepartment race, Relations (DIR) per California Labor Code Section 1771.4, including prevailing wage rates and color, national origin, ancestry, sex, or religion will also be required. The CITY hereby affirmatively ensures that apprenticeship employment standards. Affirmative action to ensure against discrimination in all business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in basis response this notice and will not employment practices on the of race,to color, national origin, ancestry, sex,be or religion will also be required.

The CITY hereby affirmatively ensures that all business enterprises will be afforded discriminated against on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, or religion in any consideration full opportunity to submit bids in response to this notice and will not be discriminated against on the leading to the award of contract. basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, or religion in any consideration leading to the

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A contract may only be awarded to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder that holds a valid Class ”C-27 contract may onlywith be awarded to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder that holds a valid – Landscaping Contractor” Contractor’s license inAaccordance the provisions of the California Business Class ”C-27 – Landscaping Contractor” Contractor’s license in accordance with the provisions of and Professions Code. the California Business and Professions Code.

The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a Performance Bond and a Payment Bond each in an amount The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a Performance Bond and a Payment Bond each equal to 100% of the Contract Price. Each bond shall in the forms set forth herein, be secured a set forth herein, in an be amount equal to 100% of the Contract Price.shall Each bond shall be in from the forms shall be secured from a suretyas company thatin meets all State of California bonding requirements, surety company that meets all State of California bonding requirements, defined Code of Civil Procedure as defined in Code of Civil Procedure Section 995.120, and that is a California admitted surety Section 995.120, and that is a California admitted surety insurer. insurer.

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Pursuant to Labor Code sections 1725.5 and 1771.1,Pursuant all contractors and subcontractors that to bid be to Labor Code sections 1725.5 and 1771.1, all wish contractors andon, subcontractors that wish listed in a bid proposal, or enter into a contract to perform must be registered the to DIR. No public Bid work must be to bid on, public be listedwork in a bid proposal, or enter into with a contract perform registered with the DIR. No Bid will be accepted, nor any contract entered into, without proof of the will be accepted, nor any contract entered into, without proof of the contractor’s and subcontractors’ current contractor’s and subcontractors’ current registration with the DIR to perform public work. If awarded registration with the DIR to perform public work. If awarded a contract, the Bidder and its subcontractors, of a contract, the Bidder and its subcontractors, of any tier, shall maintain active registration with the any tier, shall maintain active registration with the DIR DIRforfor duration of theFailure Project.

Failure proof thethe duration of the Project. to provide proofto of provide the contractor’s current registration Labor Code Section1725.5 1725.5 may result in rejection of the bid as of the contractor’s current registration pursuant topursuant LabortoCode Section may result in rejection ofnon-responsive. the bid as non-responsive.

Any protest to an intended award of this contract shall be made in writing addressed to the City

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Clerk prior to the award. Any protest may be considered and acted on by the City Council at the

Any protest to an intended award of this contract shall be made in writing addressed toa the tofor award, please time noticed for award of the contract.

To request copy City of the Clerk notice ofprior agenda contact Clerk (805) 961-7505at or the register on the CITY’s website (www.cityofgoleta.org). the award. Any protest may be considered and acted onthebyCity the City Council time noticed for award of the contract. To request a copy of the notice of agenda for award, please contact the City Clerk (805) 961For information relating to the details of this Project and bidding requirements contact J. Paul Medel 7505 or register on the CITY’s website (www.cityofgoleta.org). in writing at pmedel@cityofgoleta.org.

For information relating to the details of this Project and bidding requirements contact Paul Medel in writing CITY OFJ. GOLETA at pmedel@cityofgoleta.org.

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_____________________________ Deborah S. Lopez, City Clerk

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