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Speaking with Pico Fri, Apr 16 / 7 PM Pacific (Note special time) $10 / UCSB students: FREE! (UCSB student registration required) Mohsin Hamid takes on identity and mass-urbanization in his bold, inventive novels including Exit West, The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Moth Smoke.

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Tue, Apr 20 / 5 PM Pacific $10 / UCSB students: FREE! (UCSB student registration required) A New York-based b-girl with extensive training in ballet and modern dance, Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie and her company reveal and explore the complexities of street dance forms.

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An artist, musician and cultural planner, Theaster Gates draws on his training in urban planning to redeem spaces that have been left behind, upturning art values, land values and human values.

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Poems from the Pandemic

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LOOKING AHEAD Vieja Valley Elementary teacher David Nelson said that writing poems with his 6th-grade class this year was unexpectedly therapeutic amid the pandemic rules. He followed Amanda Gorman’s footsteps — calling her a “superhero, super poet, and super role model” for this generation — and used her powerful work as a guide for his class to hear, discuss, and read. Five of the poems they wrote appear on page 24.

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Was this a deep dive into poetry?

I wrote my own poem with them, and it was actually cathartic. It felt like therapy to share all the struggles we were feeling. It was so uplifting. I’m just a regular teacher, I teach about a lot of things, but this made me a better poetry teacher.

How has this school year been? The natural human tendency is to be close to people, and especially for kids who are 11 or 12; it makes them sad to be apart. I’ve taught every grade, and friends and social activities are the most important thing in the 6th grade. In the beginning of the year, we met remotely, then in an a.m./p.m. model, and soon everyone will come five days a week, all day, three feet apart. And graduate from 6th grade together!

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THREE PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY PAINTING A CONVERSATION WITH SUZANNE HUDSON, MATH BASS, AND CHRISTINA QUARLES FRIDAY | APRIL 30 | 5 PM | VIA ZOOM In her forthcoming book Contemporary Painting, Los Angeles-based art historian and critic Suzanne Hudson considers painting as a vibrant and sometimes contentious medium. Two esteemed painters, Math Bass and Christina Quarles, who are discussed in Hudson’s book, join the author in a conversation about painting. This virtual event is moderated by curators from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara.

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Cito is very excited about his new puppy! Monty gave him $100 to buy things to help take care of his dog. Help Cito make a budget (a plan for how to spend your money), by choosing from the pet store items below. Remember to think about how much you have to spend, and what is really a need (food) and what is really a want (dog toys).

Dog Carrier: $30

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adult Activity Spending journal Tracking your purchases on a daily basis can make you more aware of how you are spending your money and help identify areas for improvement. People often believe they are spending money one way, but an exercise like this can reveal that they are spending it differently.

A good rule of thumb is to target your monthly spending to align with the recommended monthly spending amounts, shown on the right. When paired with a monthly spending journal, you can track and see what categories your spending falls into and review how closely your monthly purchases align with the recommendations.

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NEWS of the WEEK AF P VIA G ETTY IM AG ES

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

CORONAVIRUS

COUNTY SUSPENDS USE OF JOHNSON & JOHNSON VACCINE

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he much-sought-after single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine was pulled on Tuesday from the State of California’s vaccine program after a federal recommendation due to “rare and severe” blood clots developed in six patients nationwide.

“We are recommending a pause in the use of this vaccine out of an abundance of caution,” read the statement from Dr. Anne Schuchat of the Centers for Disease Control and Dr. Peter Marks of the Food and Drug Administration.

Santa Barbara County will also suspend the use of Johnson & Johnson, the Public Health Department said, following the state’s lead. “Any clinics scheduled this week that originally planned to use the Johnson & Johnson vaccine will not be canceled, but instead use the Moderna vaccine,” Public Health said in a statement.

Six women between the ages of 18 and 48 had developed a certain type of blood clot

six to 13 days after they received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. This specific type of clot — a cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) — would be treated differently than other clots, the joint CDC/FDA statement warned. One woman died, and a second is hospitalized, the New York Times reported.

Johnson & Johnson issued a statement that said the company was “aware of the extremely rare disorder involving people with blood clots in combination with low platelets.” The pharmaceutical giant also stated it was reviewing the cases with health authorities in Europe.

In Santa Barbara County, 12,409 people have received the J&J vaccine. Lompoc Valley Medical Center and Marian Regional Medical Center held hundreds of doses that it hadn’t yet administered. Marian spokesperson Sara San Juan noted that blood clotting after J&J vaccine was given appeared to be either equal to or less than the incidence in the general population.

Drs. Schuchat and Marks’s statement regarded the clots as extremely rare, but more than 6.8 million people have received doses of the vaccine. Symptoms of severe headache, abdominal pain, leg pain, or shortness of breath within three weeks of the vaccine could presage the adverse reaction, and patients are advised to contact their doctor.

A federal advisory committee on immunization practices will meet on Wednesday to review the cases and determine their significance, the statement said.

Dr. Lynn Fitzgibbons, an infectiousdisease specialist with Cottage Health, took the federal intervention as a sign that health authorities were reacting appropriately as information came to light. “Everyone I’ve spoken to today is concerned to hear this news,” she said. “It’s clearly anxiety provoking for anyone who’s received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine so far, and it clearly has big implications to our ongoing vaccine efforts.”

—Jean Yamamura

HOMELESSNESS

Green Light Given to Tow Homeless Campers

Council to Spend Half a Million on Motel Space for Chronically Homeless

by Nick Welsh n a striking display of moving in opposite directions simultaneously, the Santa Barbara City Council voted to crack down on homeless people living in their vans while authorizing the expenditure of nearly half a million to provide motel rooms for up to six months for up to 25 homeless people now living on the streets.

At the request of city Parks and Recreation czar Jill Zachary, the council authorized the removal of vans and cars illegally parked in the city’s 60 parks. A

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staff report itemized in some detail the abuses park patrons, park employees, and park facilities have endured at the hands of some people who’ve been using the parking lots as their de facto four-wheeled campgrounds.

Zachary sought to assure councilmembers that the authorization would not be used to target houseless individuals down on their luck, so much as people using illegally parked vans to sell drugs or engage in prostitution. On occasion, broken-down vans have been towed into parking lots at the parks unauthorized and just left there.

The towing provision could be helpful when dealing with owners not deterred by citations or tickets.

The city resolution authorized any city officer to remove any vehicle parked in any park in violation of any ordinance wherever signs have been posted to that effect. Councilmembers Meagan Harmon and Kristen Sneddon expressed concern that the authorization language was way too broad and opposed it. Sneddon wondered where those displaced might wind up going.

Kristine Schwartz of New Beginnings, which offers shelter for 150 people living in their vehicles, suggested partnering with City Parks and Recreation Department to provide supervised parking space for vehicle dwellers. Schwarz said Parks and Rec has been lukewarm about partnering with New Beginnings, citing potential security concerns. She estimated there are 10 people currently living out of vehicles

NEWS BRIEFS CORONAVIRUS The county announced on 4/13 that it has met the state’s orange tier case rate and positivity rate for one week and could move into the orange tier as early as 4/21 if these metrics are met for one more week. The orange tier requires that the county have a case rate of six cases per every 100,000 residents and a test positivity rate is under 4.9 percent for two weeks. The county’s adjusted case rate is currently 4.6 cases per 100,000 residents, and its local test positivity is 1.9 percent.

TRANSPORTATION S.B. city buses will increase the number of passengers allowed on board on 4/15. The new capacity will be 20 people on a 40-foot bus, and 15 on a 30-footer. Masks are required onboard and while waiting. Transport has been free during the pandemic, but the free ride ends 5/10, and the Transit Center reopens 4/26 for tickets and passes. The S.B. Metropolitan Transit District website (sbmtd.gov) contains all schedules, and the SBMTD BusTracker app is a handy way to know when a bus will arrive.

CITY Three years after a trial ended in the appointment of a receiver to take over management and repair of eight Dario Pini properties in Santa Barbara, as of March, the landlord regained control over six of them. One other was sold, and the last is a hotel at 26 Chapala Street still under renovation. Repairs have cost Pini $4.1 million so far, and the court record runs to over 40,000 pages. The city has expended more than half a million dollars in attorney time alone and is asking for compensation, which Judge Colleen Sterne advised must wait until all proceedings have finished.

COURTS & CRIME After hours of negotiation, a sexual assault suspect who had barricaded himself inside an apartment surrendered himself to S.B. Police officers on 4/11.

The police were initially called to the 200 block of Ladera Street when they received a report from the victim that the suspect, Eduardo Adrian Mendoza, 29, had sexually assaulted her and brandished a handgun at her. When officers searched the area and found the suspect, he fled into an apartment with two uninvolved bystanders inside. The SWAT and Crisis Negotiation Response teams worked alongside SBPD officers to get Mendoza to come out, and he was arrested and charged with attempted rape, false imprisonment, brandishing an imitation firearm, and resisting/obstructing arrest. He is being held in County Jail on $100,000 bail.

Goleta residents Jesus Coronado, 20, and Carter Chavez, 25, were arrested 4/9 after allegedly shooting a handgun into the air from a backyard on San Milano Drive. Neither was in possession of a firearm when authorities arrived, prompting deputies to serve a search warrant on the residence. Inside they discovered a .22 caliber handgun reported stolen in Mercer County, Missouri. Both were charged with negligent discharge of a firearm, among other offenses, and are being held in jail on $35,000 bail.

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County Settles Wrongful-Death Lawsuit for $850,000

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he County of Santa Barbara reached a $850,000 settlement agreement with the family of 26-yearold Bryan Carreño, who was fatally shot by Sheriff ’s deputies in 2017. Carreño at the time was suicidal and holding a knife when a group of five deputies cornered him — and themselves — on the small back patio of a La Cumbre–area home he’d broken into. The deputies fired a total of 27 shots, 20 of which struck Carreño.

Sheriff Bill Brown Carreño’s family had filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the Sheriff ’s with no admission of guilt on the part of the Office in federal court, arguing the depu- Sheriff ’s Office or Sheriff ’s deputies, was a ties used excessive force to subdue Car- business decision made by the County and reño when less-lethal means were available, its insurance carrier. The Sheriff ’s Office including a K-9 unit at the scene. They also continues to extend its deepest sympathies presented evidence that two of the deputies to the Carreño family.” had firsthand knowledge of Carreño’s suiThe settlement was finalized in August cidal tendencies, as they’d been dispatched 2020, but only recently came to light during to his home twice in the year prior when he correspondence between the Independent was threatening to kill himself. The depart- and the attorney representing the family, ment ought to have taken Carreño’s mental- William L. Schmidt. health issues into greater consideration as The County of Santa Barbara has now they formulated their response, the lawsuit paid nearly $9 million to settle multiple misconduct lawsuits filed against the Sherargued.

According to internal county records iff ’s Office since 2010. Last March, it paid — obtained last year by the Independent as $950,000 to a man whose back was broken part of a public records request — a Sher- as he attempted to flee from deputies during iff ’s Office Shooting Board convened after a traffic stop. the incident found “supervisors did not One active-duty deputy — Jeremy Rogers implement basic emergency incident man- — has been involved in five fatal incidents, agement protocols” that night. It was also including a wrong-way collision and three “unclear if a perimeter was established prior shootings, that have so far cost taxpayto making contact with the subject,” when ers $5.5 million. The most recent of those all five deputies found themselves trapped shootings is now the subject of another with Carreño in a tight outdoor space that wrongful-death lawsuit filed against the offered little means of maneuvering. “Pro- Sheriff ’s Office by the family of 30-yearvide training emphasizing in establishment old Cameron Ely, who was shot 22 times at of inner and outer perimeter,” the board point-blank range by four deputies in 2019. recommended.

Ely had allegedly stabbed his mother Despite these apparent tactical errors, to death earlier in the evening but was Santa Barbara County District Attorney unarmed and, according to the family’s Joyce Dudley found no fault with the depu- complaint, posed no threat at the time he ties’ actions and ruled Carreño’s killing a was killed outside their Hope Ranch home. justifiable homicide. In public statements, They cite body camera audio recordings of Sheriff Bill Brown also claimed that the the incident that don’t match statements shooting was “within Sheriff ’s Office pol- given by the deputies, who told investigators icy.” Nevertheless, Brown told the paper this Ely had yelled and lunged at them before week, Carreño’s death was “a tragedy.” they opened fire. Authorities claim the “Mr. Carreño,” Brown continued, “who microphones worn by the deputies — which suffered from mental illness and co-occur- captured clear audio immediately before ring substance misuse, threatened deputies and after the shooting — failed to pick up with a large knife at the time of the shoot- that particular moment of the interaction. ing. The settlement, which was made for The case remains in its early stages, and a the benefit of Carreño’s minor daughter, and hearing is scheduled for later this spring. n

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The Cottage press release notes the MyTurn website states up top that no appointments are available, but if you scroll down further to “other locations,” the Cottage appointments for its Goleta hospital will appear.

As well, Lompoc Valley Medical Center has 250 vaccines scheduled for each day this coming week, second doses for this week and first doses after April 19, CEO Steve Popkin said. The hospital is also using the MyTurn scheduling system.

No Eek, but U.K. Variant on Rise closures. The March samples showed the U.K. variant at 33 percent — it’s 50 percent more contagious than the “wild” variety of coronavirus — 42 percent for the West Coast, which dominates Southern California and is 20 percent more contagious; and 24 percent variants of lesser concern.

One reason Arias carefully examined the new samples is the newly named “double mutant,” or the appearance of the Eek mutation on the B.1.1.7 variant. Infectious disease specialist Dr. Lynn Fitzgibbons explained that what is now called the E484Q variant was first reported a few weeks ago. “It was a pattern recognized in India,” she said, “the B.1.1.7 variant, which is concerning because of its c o nt a g i o u s ness as well as the increase in death and severity of disease, and speBRITISH INVASION: The most recent genetic sequencing of March samples show the cific mutations U.K. (gray) and West Coast (green) variants vying for dominance. seen in other variants from Like the previous set of tests results, South Africa and Brazil.” The South Africa posted on March 24, those from last Thurs- and the Brazil variants contain the Eek day show that the U.K. variant is increasing virus, and California health authorities in Santa Barbara County. Despite its pres- counted 51 cases in the state. Neighborence, no serious outbreak has occurred ing Ventura County had one case of the here, unlike the B.1.1.7-induced hospi- South African strain and five cases of the —JY talizations in the northern central and Brazilian. eastern United States and across Europe, where some countries have reimposed Read more at independent.com/coronavirus-news.

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The group has 16 members so far, the majority of whom are first-generation residents and whose families have lived the immigrant experience. The Santa Association of Raza Educators co-chairs Carlos Estrada and Raquel Barbara chapter is the smallest Frausto so far, with other chapters in Los Angeles, San Diego, and Sacramento. labor agreement if someone from SBTA were The founding leadership and membership in the room. That does not, however, mean are current and former members of the she isn’t open to working with Raza Educators Santa Barbara Teachers Association (SBTA) and learning more about their mission. executive board, Political Action Committee, “I’m here to listen and learn and lead,” and the now-defunct Equity Ad Hoc Maldonado said. “To do so, I need to hear Committee. ARE leadership have claimed directly from people, so people shouldn’t that they have been pushed out of the union. shy away from asking for a meeting…. We ARE formed in response to what it calls may not always agree, but I will certainly give the teachers union’s unwillingness to work people the time to listen to their concerns.” with them and create equitable change.

Developing anti-racist curriculum in SBTA President Karen McBride said that this district schools is a major part of ARE’s work.

Community liaison Alejandra Tashma talked statement was simply not true.

“We advocate for equitable work about a self-care program called social justice conditions, resources, and training that will healing, which ties in one of ARE’s central help make our members better prepared concepts: identity work. For example, when to meet the needs of our diverse student she teaches her 4th graders that every wave population,” McBride said. “With the of immigrants was discriminated against, she California Teachers Association, we are said she talks through it in a developmentally developing our Equity Committee and our appropriate way that allows them to learn Racial Equity Affairs Committee, and a about their own identities. new Special Education Committee to help Among the unique differences between enable members to address the needs of ARE and the union is community many underserved groups in the community involvement. The union operates in the through improved teaching and learning traditional model of bargaining for teacher conditions.” conditions, whereas ARE conditions McBride added that any certificated are contingent upon the wellness of the employee with the district may be a member community as a whole. Mark Alvarado, a of the union and no one has ever been parent who serves as community outreach “pushed out” of an elected position. “While for ARE, said the parental engagement piece our roles within the community may differ, is a night-and-day difference from SBTA. our work intersects in service to the educators “The pandemic exposed a lot of the and students we serve,” she said. inequities that students of color and their But this is not how members of the families had to endure with technology, food Association of Raza Educators see the issue. security, and what have you,” Alvarado said.

ARE co-chair Raquel Frausto said, “But a lot of times, how that message was “[T]he goal is getting us into that executive getting out varied from campus to campus. board position, making the changes, being There wasn’t really an umbrella strategy.” able to work with bargaining, fighting for the ARE’s main objectives include fighting for a democratic education that allows parents things that we know we need to.”

Her co-chair, Carlos Estrada, added that and community members the same rights as SBTA “doesn’t want to advocate in a deliberate teachers, counselors, and administrators in way for working-class folks and marginalized the education of their children; promoting people.” ARE can accomplish this, he said, community activism among teachers and by “organizing and mobilizing teachers, developing student activists; reclaiming developing critical, anti-racist liberation spaces in schools for developing politically curriculum, and working with community active teachers; and promoting critical organizations to ignite change.” pedagogy, a teaching philosophy, as the For the school district, ARE will not be principal means of teaching students. viewed as a teachers’ union like SBTA. “How long can arguing continue to be Superintendent Hilda Maldonado made centered on a white, middle-class kind it clear that only one union represented of perspective?” asked co-chair Estrada. n teachers, and she could only discuss their “Enough is enough.”

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Reengineering Santa Barbara’s Criminal Justice Machine Can Savings from Jail Be Used to Fund Prevention Programs Instead?

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by Nick Welsh he supposed to square the 11 percent s of April 9, there were only 635 the supervisors had been told earinmates in the Santa Barbara lier in the hearing with the 55 perCounty Jail. From February cent they were told later in the day?

2020 to February 2021, the Supervisor Hart’s frustration was average daily count was lower still more palpable. “There’s no informa— just 611 inmates. For the three tion I can look at in advance. There’s county supervisors most intent on no way I can verify these numbers,” dramatically reengineering Santa he complained. Everyone testified they support diversion and agreed Barbara County’s sprawling $400 they could do more, he said. “So million criminal justice machine, why aren’t we doing more?” he these numbers are bursting with staggering possibility. demanded.

DUELING NUMBERS: Public Defender Tracy Macuga (right) and her staff reported that only 11 percent of all cases are set aside for one That’s because in a typical non- of the county’s eight jail-diversion programs. DA Joyce Dudley (left) and her staff countered that 55 percent of all criminal defendants For years, the criminal jusCOVID year, the County Jail — until either entered a diversion program or had their charges dismissed or reduced to infractions. tice system has been the statistical recently the focus of protracted jail equivalent of a big black box. Law overcrowding litigation — was home to about 1,000 inmates. Miyasato — always careful to remain above the political enforcement agencies have complained of being hampered Even as the COVID curtain lifts, supervisors Gregg Hart, fray — has convened an ongoing Criminal Justice Working by antiquated data management systems that rendered any Das Williams, and Joan Hartmann are pushing hard to keep Group and appointed a retired judge to head it to examine efforts to share meaningful breakdowns on who’s behind bars and for what prohibitively labor-intensive. In the wake the jail population down. Their plan is to spend the savings just such issues. of COVID, old-school record keeping became not just techderived from cuts to the jail’s budget to fund a host of pronically archaic but medically threatening. grams — prevention, mental health, and rehabilitation — to New ways were forced upon all members of the criminal help keep people out of jail entirely.

At an all-day public hearing on this upcoming year’s bud- If the supervisors found themselves to be confused as to justice partnership. In the wake of George Floyd, uncomfortget held Monday, April 12, Supervisor Williams threatened basic facts at the end of Monday’s nine-hour meeting, they able questions relating to systemic racism within the crimito vote against any budget plan that did not make substan- are to be excused. Statistics flew fast and furious from every nal justice system became much harder to ignore. tial cuts to operations at the county’s main jail. With the vantage point.

In Yolo County, Macuga told the supervisors, a very connew North County Jail about to open up, he said Sheriff Public Defender Tracy Macuga — who described the servative DA led the charge to create a statistical dashboard Bill Brown could make significant cuts to the main jail, spe- current system as the judicial equivalent of “a conveyor that could show at any given time how many people were cifically to two of the wings where expensive repairs are belt” — used one set of numbers, while DA Dudley stressed in county jail and on what charges, their races, and their required. For far too long, Williams charged, the supervisors that her deputies pursue diversionary opportunities “when- opportunities for diversion. Such a tool, Macuga argued, have been “shoveling millions and millions into keeping ever and wherever appropriate.” Defendants charged with would lay to rest impressionistic and anecdotal perceptions people incarcerated.” “I want a plan,” he repeatedly stated misdemeanor-level drunk driving and domestic abuse, for about Santa Barbara’s criminal justice system. For example, to Brown. Earlier in the day, he and District Attorney Joyce example, are not eligible for diversion. if criminal defendants in North County actually do get hit Williams pushed Dudley, arguing that a larger num- with tougher charges and longer sentences for the same Dudley traded exchanges on much the same theme.

While none of the other supervisors were so nakedly con- ber of misdemeanor charges involved people facing minor crimes and have fewer available diversionary services — as frontational in their approach, Hart and Hartmann made it drug charges, driving with suspended licenses, and pub- Macuga contends is the case — such a dashboard would lay clear the status quo wouldn’t suffice when it came to incar- lic intoxication. Dudley pushed back, stating that the lack out the facts.

Such a dashboard won’t be enough to satisfy the activceration and diversion rates. Clearly, the specters of George of consideration afforded crime victims during Monday’s Floyd and, now, Daunte Wright hovered over the day’s delib- deliberations “hurts my heart.” She said deputy DAs evalu- ists who urged the supervisors to slash the Sheriff ’s budget erations, adding a new sense of urgency to questions that have ate candidates based on a totality of factors, including other by $26 million, but it was clearly the crucially needed first long simmered about Santa Barbara’s criminal justice system. crimes in which they’ve been involved. “I will never make a step. As basic as it sounds, it will prove to be more challengSo too, obviously, was the threat of COVID, without which decision based on the numbers,” she stated. ing than it seems. While all the criminal justice partners the reductions to the County Jail populations — “dramatic Macuga and her public defenders reported that only 11 — Macuga, Brown, Dudley, and Probation Chief Tanja Heitand drastic” in Brown’s words — would never have occurred. percent of all cases are set aside for one of the county’s eight man — expressed support for such a data-sharing endeavor Neither Brown nor Dudley was about to roll over; both diversion programs. Macuga also noted that 85 percent of all in concept, that support was far from unequivocal.

Dudley expressed concern about the accuracy of some insisted they already were actively engaged in diversionary the cases filed by the DA’s Office were misdemeanor cases, a efforts. Dudley claimed it was she who brought diversion number, she said in a gathering of mental-health advocates of the data in the system; if the supervisors set public policy to the county nine years ago, while Brown insisted, “This last week, that “should shock the conscience.” based upon erroneous information, she warned, public is not some flash in the pan,” after he had outlined various Her deputies talked of spending 10-12 hours per brief safety could suffer. Brown, likewise, expressed some conjail-based education and rehab programs. Brown warned the on legal filings submitted on behalf of clients whose infrac- cerns about data accuracy. Heitman, by contrast, suggested supervisors that the jail’s population is now artificially low, tions stemmed largely from mental-health or substance- her department’s database could provide a valid starting abuse issues. They complained of having to wage legal battle point. and that the crime rate is already on the rise.

Brown also sought to dispel the impression that the county with their counterparts in the DA’s Office to get clients into In the 60 days before the supervisors meet again to disjail was bursting with low-level offenders. Of the 635 there on treatment programs rather than jail. In the meantime, they cuss diversion and the county jail, this is one nail they hope April 9, he said 68 were charged with murder or attempted charged, it would take four months to get a schizophrenic to have nailed down. murder; 592 were accused of felony-level crimes. Only 41, he client who hears voices an appointment to see a psychiatrist.

While North County supervisors Steve Lavagnino and Ann Bramsen, an experienced criminal prosecutor, Bob Nelson expressed concern about the spike in violent said, were facing misdemeanor charges.

Both Brown and Dudley, it should be understood, are inde- painted an entirely different picture. Of 87 case filings she crimes Brown warned about, both expressed interest in pendently elected by the voters and do not answer to the super- handled over a three-week timespan early this year, she said, making fundamental changes to what they described as visors on how they run their departments. The supervisors do, 52 of the defendants had their charges dropped, reduced “the status quo.”

Nelson, new to the board and as the sole Republican the however, wield the power of the purse. This week’s weeklong to infractions, or placed in a jail-diversion program. Chief budget preview qualifies as a dress rehearsal for the down-and- Deputy DA John Savrnoch stated 55 percent of all cases most obviously conservative, expressed pride the board was referred for criminal prosecution were removed from the tackling such big issues. “We’re swinging for the fences with dirty deliberations that will take place later this summer. this one,” he said, adding, “We’re the 800-pound gorilla; we For the first time ever, the county’s executive officers, led traditional criminal justice system in 2020.

Supervisor Williams commented on the “incongruity” have the purse strings. Maybe we have the political will to

by Mona Miyasato, scheduled a special hearing to brief the n supervisors exclusively on jail diversion programs. In fact, of the information the supervisors were given — how was tie it all up with a bow.”

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New Front in the Pot Wars Cannabis Gains a Foothold in the Parched Cuyama Valley

by Melinda Burns he county’s most depleted water basin, the Cuyama Valley, is fast becoming the latest battleground in the fight over how — and whether — to address the negative impacts of the cannabis industry on farming and residential communities.

The giant groundwater basin underlying this sparsely populated, heavily farmed valley is one of California’s 21 most critically over-drafted basins. For 75 years, the Cuyama Valley has been a mecca for water-intensive farming on an industrial scale — first, alfalfa, and now, carrots.

To comply with state law, studies show, pumping in the Cuyama Valley may have to be reduced by as much as two-thirds by 2040. That’s because, most years, twice as much water is pumped out of the basin as is replenished by rain — a formula for a Dust Bowl.

The cannabis industry, the newcomer on the block, will drop new straws into the over-drafted basin. More than 740 acres of outdoor cultivation has been proposed for the Cuyama Valley and is under review for zoning permits.

Over-drafted groundwater in the Cuyama Valley is only one of the battles being waged over cannabis in Santa Barbara County. On the South Coast, Carpinterians want stronger regulation of the cannabis greenhouses that are stinking up their neighborhoods. In the Sta. Rita Hills wine region between Buellton and Lompoc, vintners are demanding curbs on outdoor “grows.”

Farms in Cuyama Valley that are for sale are being advertised as “cannabis-zoned land.” But the waterguzzling carrot fields run by two major corporations are seemingly not for sale or lease. Most of the cannabis “grows” are being proposed for foothill grazing land or unplowed land that is not presently being irrigated. And that worries conservationists, who fear that cannabis will further deplete the water supply and undermine smaller-scale farms.

“There seems to be little respect for the Cuyama Valley and for dealing with the really severe water issues and the fact that there are people living there,” said Roberta Jaffe, who grows wine grapes and olives on five acres in Cottonwood Canyon. “We’d like to see projects on irrigated JOAN NA K AU FM A N

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land that would actually reduce the amount of water use on that land.”

Jaffe serves on an advisory committee that was convened two months ago by county supervisors Das Williams and Steve Lavagnino to draw up a list of voluntary water-use guidelines for the industry — most notably, how to set up water offsets, or transfers. These could include paying farmers to fallow land or replace their sprinklers with drip lines. Zoning permits for cannabis in the valley would not otherwise require such conservation measures.

The growers view cannabis as a net benefit for the Cuyama Valley; they say it will reduce the overall water use and generate jobs — a scenario that some conservationists agree may be possible, depending on the size and location of the offsets.

The growers say cannabis may use half as much water as alfalfa or carrots.

‘MOE & MOE’

On March 31, the water question came to a head when the county Planning Commission unanimously approved a proposal for 35 acres of cannabis in hoop-houses on grazing land at 2225 Foothill Road. That’s within a stone’s throw of the carrot fields in the valley flatlands, where the water levels in irrigation wells are dropping as much as eight feet per year.

The applicants, Moe Essa and Moe Jawad, a k a “Moe and Moe,” are partners in real-estate development in the Central Valley and residents of Fresno and Merced, respectively.

They plan to process their Cuyama Valley cannabis at an industrial park they hope to build in Woodlake, California.

Doing business as “Cuyama Farms,” Essa and Jawad have submitted applications for 133 acres of cannabis in the Cuyama Valley, and they share a seat on the county’s advisory committee.

Essa and Jawad estimate that their 35-acre project on Foothill will need 104 acre-feet of water per year. For context, that’s enough water to supply three-quarters of the town of New Cuyama, population 700.

At the same time, though, the two growers are proposing to voluntarily offset their projected new water use on a one-to-one ratio. They have entered into a contract to pay a farmer in Ventucopa, more than five miles away, to fallow 28 acres of alfalfa, thus cutting his water use by at least 104 acre-feet per year.

“If you grow up in the Central Valley, you have empathy for the water situation,” Essa said. “This is a strong commitment from us.”

HOMEGROWN OPPOSITION

WATER SWAP: Moe Essa, left, and Moe Jawad, Central Valley real estate developers, have won county Planning Commission approval to grow 35 acres of cannabis on unirrigated grazing land on Foothill Road in the Cuyama Valley. They plan to offset their water use by paying a farmer in Ventucopa to fallow his alfalfa field.

WATER DRAINED: Jean Gaillard, a Cuyama Valley vegetable farmer, fears the cannabis industry could further deplete the critically over-drafted groundwater basin in this high-desert region. He has appealed Essa and Jawad’s project to the county Board of Supervisors.

Still, some Cuyama Valley farmers are dreading the coming influx of cannabis; they view the water offset for Essa and Jawad as bad precedent, and they wonder whether the advisory committee is a waste of time.

On Monday, Jean Gaillard, the owner of Cuyama Homegrown, a one-acre vegetable farm at 1381 Foothill, 1.5 miles west of Essa and Jawad’s proposed “grow,” filed an appeal, asking the county Board of Supervisors to deny the project.

Gaillard noted that Essa and Jawad plan to drill a new well 1,200 feet deep, while his own well is only 500 feet deep. The offset with the Ventucopa farmer, he said, is undemocratic and shortcuts local efforts to reduce pumping.

“If you want to come here, you have to play fair with everybody,” Gaillard said. “My water well level is already

dropping two feet per year, and there’s no cannabis. In terms of us little growers, we already know we’re going to struggle in the future because we might be subject to water pumping restrictions.”

At the very least, Gaillard said, the commission should have delayed a decision on the permit for a couple of months, until the advisory committee could agree on some guidelines.

On March 31, the commissioners said that water regulation in the valley was best left to the local groundwater agency that will oversee future pumping reductions. They noted that Essa and Jawad had the right to grow alfalfa or carrots without permits.

“Things are changing in Cuyama,” said commission Chair Larry Ferini, a Santa Maria strawberry farmer. “None of us really like change. A water exchange of one-to-one is just amazing. I hold the applicants in high regard for just doing that, without being asked.”

KNOCKING ON DOORS

Paying for offsets, conservationists say, would work best if the cannabis crop and the crop to be fallowed were in the same part of the Cuyama basin — not miles away from a new cannabis well, as Essa and Jawad are proposing.

The two growers said their agents knocked on a lot of doors, trying to find a closer partner for water offsets. But they didn’t find any takers.

“That doesn’t mean we’re giving up,” Essa said.

Essa added that he did not “at all” view his critics as his opponents.

“The opposition usually wants us to leave town,” he said, adding that, in the Cuyama Valley, “We’re kind of working with each other.”

But conservationists remain adamant that the water transfers should be larger, given the enormity of the overdraft.

“How can a one-to-one offset for a new operation make any progress?” asked Brenton Kelly, chair of the Cuyama Valley Community Association and watershed advocacy director for an educational farm near Ventucopa.

“It should be one-to-one-and-a-half, not just bringing in a new use and playing with ‘paper’ water,” Kelly said. “When can we get beyond the ‘Department of Do No Worse’? We n know we may have to be cutting back by 67 percent.”

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HUNTING HOUSING: On the way home

the other night, I ran into a neighbor jogging down Valerio Street. Naturally, we had to do the COVID catchup. You vaccinated? he asked.

You doing okay? I asked him back. All the usual. He and his wife, it turns out, had been hoping to break into the housing market, which, it turns out, is like trying to windsurf a tornado. They recently put in a bid for an attractive fixer-upper on the Westside —no, not the Alta Baja Mesa or any of those other gloppy real estate euphemisms—in need of some serious infrastructure work. The list price was $960,000.

They also had to sell themselves to the seller, who wanted to make sure the new buyer would be a good fit for the neighborhood. When my neighbor — a conscientious soul — showed up to the beauty pageant, there were about 30 others on hand to do the good-neighbor booty shake as well.

Ultimately, all was for naught. The house sold for $1.3 million, nearly $400,000 above the asking price. The top two bidders included provisions indicating they’d pay a few thou over whatever the top bid was. After exchanging fist bumps and elbow taps, we went our ways, both humming, strangely enough, Elvis Costello’s “All This Useless Beauty.”

Dirt, as we all know, never sleeps. The

ground under your feet is always working. And it makes much more money than you ever will.

That’s Santa Barbara. What goes up never

comes down. Or if so, only temporarily. And never for long.

That’s why the governmental entity known as the County of Santa Barbara is doing so well that its reserves—weighing in at $38 million —are practically spilling over, while the governmental entity known as the City of Santa Barbara is looking for widows and orphans to throw overboard. Why the dramatic discrepancy? The county is funded to a much larger extent by property taxes —which are derived from real estate—not to mention a helpful infusion from cannabis, while the city relies more on bed and sales taxes.

My curiosity piqued, I called a real estate guy I know. How many single-family homes are on the market, I wondered, for a million bucks or less? Between Carpinteria and Gaviota he said, there were three. And six condos. That

was a week ago. Things could have changed.

But not likely. Between a million and $1.5 million, he said there were 12. And eight condos.

Yikes, I said. How’s a person supposed to get a toehold? “It helps if you have a million in the bank,” he said.

No wonder Santa Barbara seems to have more Teslas per square inch than any place on the planet.

Between January and last week, there were 1,200 properties listed. Of those, more than 800 sold. More than half got more than their list price. Most went in less than two weeks. According to my real estate friend, they could have gone even faster, but agents wanted to slow it down.

This Tuesday, the City Council went eyeball to eyeball with how many new housing units

the state government says we have to make theoretical room for if we want to be eligible

for all kinds of state funding. Every city and county in the State of California goes through this every eight years.

Countywide, we need to have the zoning in place to allow 24,856 new units to be built.

That’s twice as many as the previous eight-year cycle. For the city of Santa Barbara, it’s 8,001 new units. That’s also about twice as many as last time.

Councilmember Kristen Sneddon wondered if the fact that there was no available land within city limits entered into this equation.

No, she was told, it did not. What about building near high-fire zones where housing should not be built? No, she was told, it was not.

The new numbers — technically known as the Regional Housing Needs Allocation or RHNA, for short — are so much bigger because this time they reflect the overcrowding and cost burden that exists in each jurisdiction’s housing market, not to mention the socioeconomic problem of the jobs-housing imbalance.

Guess what? We’re in the purple zone. High rents, overcrowding, and long commutes.

By law, the council must adopt new RHNA numbers. But in many ways, the council was told, it’s an academic exercise, akin to a skinny guy buying an oversized belt in the off chance he experiences a sudden weight gain.

The new numbers, more than anything, reflect existing realities, not something looming. “These numbers are already here,” said Councilmember Meagan Harmon, and paying too much to live in housing that’s fundamentally unsafe. Councilmember Michael Jordan was, as usual, his confoundingly contradictory self. “This is certainly not the time to do nothing,” he said. He then added, “To do nothing is to do something.”

It’s worth noting that the city of Santa Barbara has already done a lot. We changed our zoning in many places to allow three times as many units with only half the parking spaces.

We embraced the invasion of the granny flats — albeit belatedly and reluctantly. But all that got us was 1,328 new units since 2015, a far cry from the paper goal of 4,100.

And now, we are poised to make more changes that will sacrifice the downtown skyline in hopes of enticing developers to defy gravity and build affordable rental housing on the world’s most expensive land. What any of this really means I don’t pretend to know.

It turns out with our existing zoning, we can already accommodate the theoretical new goal of 8,001.

In the meantime, my house-hunting neighbor and his wife splurged on a top-of-the-line tandem bike. It was a consolation prize. Last time I saw them, they were zooming down the Valerio Street Speedway, grinning like fools in love. So much for useless beauty.

—Nick Welsh

The book people are discussing when talking about the weather In Drought & Flood – The History of Water in Santa Barbara and Montecito, Michael F. Hoover – a water engineer in Santa Barbara for over 40 years – brings to life the story of water in the county.

Of special interest are his explanations of the mechanisms and factors leading to local fires, floods, and even debris flows.

The charts, maps and fascinating historic photos make this book a great reference for locals.

For this reporter, who has covered water in Santa Barbara for 35 years, Drought & Flood deftly pulls together local water history, science and data from multiple sources into one handy reference book.

Melinda Burns Santa Barbara Independent Michael F. Hoover’s Drought & Flood is a book you as a homeowner should not only read but should add to your library.......an easy and enjoyable read.

Jim Buckley Montecito Journal

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obituaries Dorothy McKenzie 1/21/1943 - 4/1/2021

Dorothy McKenzie passed away peacefully in her sleep on 04/01/2021. She leaves behind her daughter Sheelah Smith and Sheelah’s husband Doug Smith, her son Doug McKenzie, his wife Marian McKenzie, and their son, Dorothy’s cherished grandson Ian McKenzie.

Dorothy was the only child of William Houston Millar and Ruth Millar (Ellis), and was born in Glasgow, Scotland on 01/21/1934. She met her beloved husband James in the British Royal Air Force. They were married on Dorothy’s 21st Birthday, and celebrated their 60th Wedding Anniversary just days before Jim’s passing in 2015.

Dorothy is most known for her career as a prolific “Plein air” landscape artist. Mostly self-taught, she studied at the Regional College of Art in Manchester, England, and the Vancouver Art School in British Columbia, Canada.

She exhibited paintings in the Paisley Art Museum and Glasgow Gallery of Fine Arts in Scotland, and has work in the British National Collection. She has pieces in private collections all over the world, and had many shows locally over the years, including Soho and the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum.

She was one of the four artists who started the Santa Barbara beach art show, and was known there by her iconic straw hat. She joined other local artists in environmental efforts to preserve open spaces, notably the Oak Group. She gave art classes at her studio, and some of her students continue in her footsteps, showing their work at the beach art show.

Dorothy was a “fey” Scottish lass with untold skills and talents, not least of which was always knowing who was on the phone before it rang. She became a Chiropodist (Podiatrist in this country), and fixed 16

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To submit obituaries for publication, please call (805) 965-5205 or email obits@independent.com the corns of an Archbishop shortly before he helped crown Queen Elizabeth II. When she joined the RAF, a special session of Parliament opened a new trade group because of her. As the first, she was given her choice of transferring to any RAF station in the world, but remained at the training base where she had just met Jim. She became a rifle sharpshooter there.

She loved birds, and rescued many. Her children remember finding grubs and earwigs to feed the nestlings, teaching a mockingbird to fly, and seeing Mum visiting with a friend, a baby pigeon tucked in one arm, chewing up birdseed to poke down its throat in between sips of tea. She spent days (in the rain) at the Child’s Estate Foundation Zoo helping save the lives of seabirds after the horrific 1969 oil slick, and was surprised to find pictures of herself washing birds in the Los Angeles Times.

Dorothy was unique, creative, and completely inimitable. She gave great parties, where she had everyone up dancing, leading the way with her purple dress, tiara, parasol and “floozy feathers.” She loved Dixieland Jazz and Johnny Cash. Her imagination was always bringing something new, from the Millenium obelisk her neighbors so enjoyed, to a Mad Hatter’s tea party for friends inside the new shed Jim had built. She loved “bling,” fairies, chocolate— oh,yes, chocolate–and above all, people. Truly a people person, she became best friends with everyone she met, learning their story and that of all their family within minutes.

Dorothy of the brilliant blue eyes, our own sparkling, vibrant fairy, our beloved Mum and Grandma, we will miss your most-special light in our lives more than we can ever say. We love you dearly, Mummy, and send you on your way to re-join your darling Jim, where the first thing we know you will do (because you told us yourself) is give a “bop on the nose” to any Angels foolish enough to flirt with him…

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Margie Brown

3/12/1930 - 3/20/2021

The angels danced – and perhaps Margie did too – as Margie’s Lord and Savior ushered her into her eternal home in heaven on March 20, 2021. Margie had a long and beloved life on earth, and will be greatly missed; we will rejoice together when we see her again!

Margie was born Margot Diemer on March 12, 1930, in Karlsruhe, Germany, the eldest of four children born to Karl Philip and Maria Diemer.

From her earliest years, she helped take care of others; her siblings, her cousins, her mom. She grew up in the midst of WWII: her father was killed early in the war; her home was bombed (more than once!), her mother was seriously ill and hospitalized; and she and her siblings were sent to the countryside for safety, separated from mom and each other. Margie helped her mom gather the family together again, and the family continued to face bombings and separations, trying to stay together as much as they could during the war. After the war, Margie started working as an administrative assistant in a local company and helped take care of her siblings.

Then in 1950, Margie was a bridesmaid at the wedding of a friend, and there she met Earl Brown, a young US soldier who changed her life direction.

In April 1952, she sailed alone from Germany to Canada, to wait for Earl to return from active duty in Germany. When she arrived, she knew no one, had a total of $15, and got a job as a nanny. Earl returned to the US in July 1952, headed to Canada, and they were married in August in Toronto.

Earl’s younger brother Fred lived with Margie while Earl returned to the US to find work; Margie and Fred joined Earl in the US in early 1953.

Margie proudly became a US citizen. They lived in Blythe,

CA, then later in Beaumont, where their two children, Karl and Inge, were born, and then in Oceanside. In 1970 the family moved to Santa Barbara.

Margie and Earl were involved for many years at Calvary Baptist Church; Margie began working in the children’s department from the day they started attending and stayed for almost 30 years. She was involved in many other church ministries, including Helping Hand, and could usually be found helping in the church kitchen. Later, she joined Emanuel Lutheran Church, where she helped with ministries for the blind.

Once the children started school, Margie worked in food service at a private dorm for students at UCSB. A few years later, she started her own business as an independent sales representative for promotional items; she managed her business for 34 years, finally retiring at the age of 88! Margie and Earl also hosted foreign exchange students in their home.

Margie and Earl traveled to Europe every few years to visit with Margie’s family, to see Inge after she moved to Germany, and to travel in Europe.

After Earl’s death in 2006, Margie continued to visit family there.

Margie always had time to help others; visiting the homebound; chauffeuring others to appointments; calling and caring for those in need; and she enjoyed many afternoons of board games with her friends! Margie was active and involved in service until shortly before her death.

Margie was a strong lady, strong in her faith, her ambition, her integrity, her generosity, and her love and service to others. Margie leaves her beloved children, Karl and Inge (Dirk), her adored grandchildren, Tim, Andy and Lucy, and her many, many friends.

Memorial contributions may be made to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation or Serenity House, part of VNA Health in Santa Barbara, in memory and appreciation of their excellent care for Margie in her last days. A memorial gathering may be held in the summer.

Richard Dale Canley 5/29/1954 - 3/21/2021

Ricky Canley passed away at his home in Ventura, CA after battling cancer.

Ricky was the 4th of 8 children born to LV and Louise Canley in Santa Barbara, CA. Ricky was shy but always had a smile on his face. He attended local schools and graduated from SBHS in 1973. He also attended SBCC. In 1977 Ricky married his childhood sweetheart, Jasmine Young and together they had 4 daughters. Although the union ended after 26 years, they remained very close friends.

He worked for Santa Barbara County, 7-Up and Pepsi where he was well liked by his coworkers.

Sadly, due to Covid-19, Ricky’s family and friends could only speak to Ricky by phone. While in the hospital, he spoke daily with every family member and friends ending every call with “I love you”.

He is survived by his 4 beautiful daughters, Andrea Dantzler (DeAngelo) of Sturgis, MS, Adara Philpot (Romell) of Gwynn Oak, MD, Aliyaha Canley (William) of Newport News, VA and Ariana Canley (Anthony) of Oxnard, CA, their mother Jasmine and 15 grandchildren.

Ricky was preceded in death by his father LV and oldest brother LaVell. He is survived by his mother Louise Canley, siblings Lee (Juanita) of Ventura, CA, Donald (Peggy) of Santa Barbara, CA, Linda Thompson of Santa Barbara, CA, Doyle Canley (Magdalena) of San Diego, CA, Teresa Courtney of Lompoc, CA and Debbie Stephens (Zeb) of Oxnard, CA, wife Juanita Hayes, and a host of cousins, nieces and nephews. The Canley family will plan a celebration of Ricky’s life at a later date.

obituaries Emma McFanwy Goodman

1/13/1965 - 3/13/2021

On Saturday, March 13th, 2021, Emma Myfanwy Goodman, devoted mother of two, and adoring grandmother passed away suddenly from anaphylactic shock, at age 56.

Emma was born January 13th, 1965, in Kent, England to Sandy & Anne Goodman, the second born of five children.

From a young age, she had an adventurous spirit, moving to Paris in her late teens. She moved to Santa Barbara with her two small children, Hannah and Rufus in 1996.

She will be greatly missed by her daughter Hannah, granddaughter Harper, her father Sandy, three sisters, brother, a loving clan of nieces and nephews, cousins and her dog, Poppy.

A true visionary, Emma created Alchemy Wellness Spa, a healing sanctuary that provided transformational treatments, bioactive foods and medicinal elixirs to support a dynamic lifestyle. The cafe & spa offerings were ahead of their time. Emma was a master healer, specializing in craniosacral therapy and energy medicine. She had a profound and positive impact in Santa Barbara, inspiring a vibrant community of healers locally.

She was a magnet for inspirational leaders from around the world.

Emma was elegant and stylish, strong-minded and charismatic. She was a dear friend to many, and made friends wherever she went. Among many things, she had a natural gift for creating extraordinarily beautiful interiors and gardens. She spent many days at her favorite beach, Butterfly, where she loved to swim along the buoys.

She will be remembered especially for her thoughtful, generous nature and vivacious personality. Emma was a beautiful being and her light will be with us forever. Her essence will live long in our hearts.

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James Gordon Folks 3/12/1944 - 3/29/2021

James Gordon Folks was born on March 12, 1944 in Starke, Florida and died on March 29, 2021 of several health issues. His parents were Gordon Folks and Hazel Anderson Folks. Within a year of his birth, Jim and his mother traveled to her home in Long Beach, Ca, where they waited for his father to return from fighting in Europe. In 1951, his father built a home in Palos Verdes where Jim grew up. He was a member of the first graduating class of Palos Verdes High School.

He continued his education at UCSB where he met his wife, Gretchen Clark, in a social dancing class. After graduation, Jim went to Hastings Law School in San Francisco. He passed the Bar and got married in 1969.

Jim and Gretchen moved to Santa Barbara in 1970. They had 2 children, Victoria and Kyle. He practiced law until 1995 and then maintained a wine store until he retired in 2006.

Jim had many interests which he pursed with a passion. First and foremost was his family. He loved golf and was part of a wonderful group of friends at Sandpiper during the 90s until Rancho San Marcos opened. He played golf there until he had to give up the game. He had a prolific vegetable garden. In 2008, Kyle suggested that his father make wine in the basement. That became the all consuming passion. Some of the wines were totally fantastic.

Jim and Gretchen enjoyed travel. His favorite destination was Scotland where they played famous and not so famous golf courses. His second favorite destination was the south of France.

Jim’s wit and intellect will

be missed. In addition to his wife and two children, he is survived by son-in-law Brian Wyatt, grand daughter Iris Wyatt and step grand children, Cassidy and Chaia CherquesWyatt. Any donations in Jim’s name should be made to Foothillsforever.org or the Sierra Club. A celebration of life may be held in the summer.

Roberta George 4/3/2021

Roberta George, 94, a resident of Santa Barbara, Calif., died peacefully at Cottage Hospital on April 3. She moved last month to Alexander House after five years with her friends at Wood Glen Hall.

Born on a family farm in North Star, Ohio, to Norbert F. and Irene (Goubeaux) Henry, Roberta was the third of nine children and the oldest girl. Her surviving siblings are Marlene A. Litten, Joan C. (Neil) Shearer, Robert L. Henry, LaJeanne M. (Darryl) Burk, and Rebecca C. (Melvin) Swiger. Preceding her in death were her brothers John, Richard, and Donald.

Roberta graduated from Greenville (Ohio) High School in 1946. On Jan. 15, 1949, in Greenville, she married Richard M. (Dick) George of North Star, Ohio. They soon moved to South Bend, Ind., where they began to raise a family while Dick worked on the Studebaker assembly line.

They moved to Santa Barbara in 1961, for his work as a technical writer and editor for General Motors Defense Systems Division (later Defense Research Laboratories).

Roberta resumed her working life in the mid-1960s at Regal Cleaners, and then managed a dry cleaning agency on upper State Street. In 1970, she debuted a women’s consignment shop, Roberta’s, on De la Vina Street. She made it one of the premier consignment

shops in the city, due both to her friendly but businesslike manner and to her fairness to consigners and customers alike. Roberta sold her store in 1990. It has since operated as Jessica’s. She was a member and proud board member of the local chapter of Business and Professional Women.

In retirement, she became a 13-year member of the volunteer corps at St. Francis Hospital downtown and at Unity Shoppe.

Dick died in 1993. In 1997, Roberta married Denver Besecker of Arcanum, Ohio.

Mutual friends helped the widow and widower become reacquainted. They married in Our Lady of Sorrows, and Denver moved to Santa Barbara. Being retired, they traveled often and well, visiting Israel, Hawaii, and locations in Europe where Denver served the army in World War II. They also enjoyed annual car trips back to Ohio to see their relatives and friends.

Together, they were volunteers at Arlington Theater and Goleta Valley Hospital, and they never lacked a home improvement project hatched

by Roberta or one of her kids.

Denver died in 2007 of a heart attack while working on a local Habitat for Humanity home.

Roberta is survived by her six children and two granddaughters: Katherine L. George (John Duclos); Deborah S. George (Chris Pikus) and daughter, Rachel; Michael T. George, Terrance W. George; Constance R. (Steven) Bellamy; and Mary E. Koenig and daughter, Mallory.

This summer, a Mass of the Resurrection will be celebrated at San Roque Church. The inurnment will be private. Donations to Unity Shoppe in Roberta’s memory are welcomed by the family.

Arrangements are entrusted to Welch-Ryce-Haider Funeral Chapels. Anyone desiring to send condolences may direct them to: The George Family, c/o Connie and Steve Bellamy, P.O. Box 656, Summerland, CA 93067.

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Peter D. Richards 9/19/1957 - 3/25/2021

Peter D. Richards, born on Sept. 19, 1957 in Lafayette, California passed away on March 25, 2021 at his home in Carpinteria, where he was cared for by his loving family.

Pete was diagnosed in October 2019 with squamous-cell carcinoma, and throughout his courageous battle with an aggressive cancer, he remained true to himself- unwaveringly optimistic and unbelievably stoic.

Pete’s life story reaches far and wide – his light and love have touched so many, the ripple effect of his embrace for every human he encountered shifting the world for the better. Music, typically as loud as was socially acceptable, existed in every corner of his life. The ocean was and is his spirit’s home. And his family – we were it. We were his everything, his purpose, and he made sure we felt it every day. There was nothing he loved more than sharing stories, making others laugh, and turning every occasion possible into a celebration.

“You only live once,” he would say, and he made his one shot count, big time.

Peter was a beloved husband, father, brother and grandfather. He is survived by his wife, Laurie, his daughter, Rio, his son, Tanner, and his granddaughter, Opal, as well as his four older brothers, Mike, Chris, Joe and Gyani.

His incredible humor, love and playfulness will be deeply missed by so many.

A local memorial and celebration of his life will be planned for 4/25/21 at 11AM. More information about his memorial can be found at peterdrichards.com.

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his challenges, never believing that they meant he could not live a meaningful and important life – and that he most certainly did. He will be dearly missed.

A memorial service at Jodi House will be announced when large gatherings can safely resume. Online tributes to Alan can be shared at www. alanturley.remembered.com.

9/2/1957 - 4/5/2021

Robert Alan Turley, known to most as Alan, died on Monday, April 5, 2021 in Santa Barbara.

He was born on September 2, 1957 to Betty Lou and Hobart Turley in Los Angeles County. He lived much of his life in the Santa Barbara community where he spent many of his working years. Whether it was assisting with home improvement projects, caring for a ranch in Santa Ynez, or cooking for a local shelter, he loved to work and spoke of these experiences fondly.

In 2002, Alan sustained a traumatic brain injury after being hit by a drunk driver.

He lost the ability to work due to the cognitive and physical impacts of his injury; he ultimately became homeless. In 2012, Alan found Jodi House, a local nonprofit program for brain injury survivors. He began attending the program every day and took every class offered. He was the first one to arrive each morning and would carefully tend to the ailing garden box while he waited for the doors to open.

On any given day at Jodi House, you could hear his booming laugh no matter where you were in the house — and he laughed often! Every holiday, he would bring Reese’s candies to share and always made sure to bring dog treats for the faithful companions of staff and members. He worked hard towards achieving many of his recovery goals – just this past year, he had even secured stable housing after years of homelessness.

Alan was open about his experiences, often expressing how outside of Jodi House living with a disability and being homeless made him feel invisible to the rest of the world.

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Barbara Anne Davis Wells 3/15/2021

Barbara Anne Davis Wells passed peacefully on March 15, 2021, at the age of 89 years.

She is survived by her three children, Hilary, Linda and Michael Wells, her son-inlaw, K.C. Williamson and daughter-in-law Kendra Wells, and her three grand children, Michael Joseph Wells, Madison Wells and Lauren Williamson.

Barbara was the only child of Grace and Donald Davis and was raised in Oakland and Los Angeles, California. She attended UCSB for one year, then attended UCLA for the remainder of her undergraduate years. She met her husband, Harry Wells, who was a Naval Officer, in Hawaii. Soon after they married she became a teacher and taught elementary school, first in Hawaii and later in Long Beach, California, for over 40 years.

In 2013, Barbara moved from her townhome in Southern California to an independent living apartment at Vista Del Monte Retirement Community. She lived there for seven years, where she enjoyed a full and active lifestyle participating in campus activities and spending time with her neighbors, friends and family.

In May of 2020, after living in Vista Del Monte’s assisted living program for a year, she moved to Oak Cottage Memory Care in Santa Barbara.

Barbara was very independent, picking up skiing at age 50, and traveling to multiple countries. She enjoyed close, life-long friendships and spent lots of time with her family, including her twin daughters who lived nearby. We want to thank and are very grateful for the wonderful Vista Del Monte and Oak Cottage communities and care providers, who have been so supportive and caring of her over these many years.

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Leonard Richard Woods 11/28/1951 - 4/1/2021

Born in Erding Germany, Leonard was naturalized and served in the United States Navy for 6 years as a medic technician. He graduated from St Johns University with a BA, although a student all the days of his life. Leonard was a caregiver for many years. He was well known throughout the Santa Barbara community as a guardian and was loved by his Lucidity Festival family and The Guardian Team / SITREP that he worked with.

He passed peacefully in his sleep. He is survived by sisters Helene Woods of Santa Maria and Christine Hagel of Orcutt as well as all of those who loved him. He will be missed and never forgotten.

Clarence E. Willis

5/30/1967 - 3/23/2021

Clarence Willis was born in the city of Jackson, MS. and the oldest son of Verlean Willis.

Clarence was a graduate of Wingfield High School, where he played drums in the marching band all four years.

He immediately entered the US Navy after graduation, and served as a Machinist Mate and Military Police Officer.

He left the U.S. Navy in 1992 and worked as a supervisor in various government and aviation jobs in Lompoc, Santa Maria and Santa Barbara. He

finally found a home with the Metropolitan Transit District of Santa Barbara, where he worked in total of 17 years.

The community fondly nicknamed him, “The Singing Bus Driver”.

Clarence is survived by his wife of 20 years, Elizabeth Willis, sons: Joshua and Nathaniel Willis, and Daughter: Nayada Ponce (Daniel) and three grandchildren: Isaiah, Elijah and Leonardo. His mother Verlean and brother James Willis.

Clarence was a believer in Christ Jesus and shared his beliefs to everyone he came across.

He will truly be missed.

Services will be held at: McDermott-Crockett & Associates Mortuary 2020 Chapala St Santa Barbara, CA 93105 On Saturday April 17, 2021 at 11 am Live stream of the services will also be available.

Joe R. Gonzalez

3/13/1924 - 3/26/2021

Joe R. Gonzalez, 97, of Santa Barbara passed away peacefully on Friday, March 26, 2021, at 9:50 p.m. He was a devoted husband, father, brother, and uncle. Joe was also a generous and loving grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-great-grandfather to 27 grandchildren.

Above all else he was a positive inspiration to his family and friends, and a warm, caring person to all who knew him and called him their friend. When Joe met people out in the community at retail stores, restaurants or people walking by, he would bless them and tell them he saw God looking back at him through their eyes. This would bring smiles and nods of agreement even from complete strangers.

Joe was born in Quinlan, Woodward, Oklahoma on March 13, 1924. He was the second son of Jose and Magdalena Godinez-Sanchez. His mother passed away when he was 10 years old, and at that

point he went to live with his Aunt Guadalupe and her husband Joe Gonzalez. He lived with them and their 3 children, Manual, Rose, and Lloyd until he enlisted in the Army during World War II. After an honorable discharge from the Army, Joe moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he took courses in electricity and metal plating. He met his loving wife, Lois, who resided in the same boarding house as he did. After dating for about a year, Joe knew this was the woman of his dreams.

They tied the knot in a simple ceremony at the Cook County courthouse in 1946. Joe and Lois lived in Chicago until 1951, when they decided to move to the west coast and settle in the beautiful city of Santa Barbara, California. Joe and Lois had four children, Raymond, Linda, Steven, and Janette. A very resourceful husband and father, Joe supported his family working in the metal plating business, and as a retail clerk with the Santa Cruz Markets. Joe started his own metal plating business, Joe’s Plating, prior to retiring from the retail clerk’s union. In 2000 he sold Joe’s Plating to his son, Raymond, and wife, Alison. In December of 2017, after 57 years of serving the Santa Barbara community, Joe’s Plating finally closed its doors.

Joe is preceded in death by his mother and father, Jose and Magdalena Godinez-Sanchez, and brothers Raymond, Manual and sister Rose. His loving wife Lois, and children Raymond, Linda and Steven Gonzalez are also awaiting him in the heavens and are delighted to be reunited.

Joe leaves behind daughter, Janette Johnson, his brother, Lloyd, and many nieces, nephews, grandchildren, greatgrandchildren, and great-great grandchildren.

The family will have a celebration of Joe’s life at the Santa Barbara Mission. Internment will be at Calvary Cemetery.

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C O V E R S T O R Y WORK HARD, PLAY HARD: When they were starting out, it wasn’t unusual for Alessio Signorini (left) and Luca Foschini to work 16-hour days with a couple-hour break in the middle to play some beach volleyball.

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BY TYLER HAYDEN • PHOTOS BY MAX ABRAMS magine an app that pays you to exercise. That can detect

the hidden beginnings of Alzheimer’s disease or the early warning signs of a stroke long before it strikes. That allows researchers to conduct large-scale clinical studies much faster and cheaper and gives pharmaceutical companies the knowledge they need to make better drugs.

Imagine an app that harnesses the power of mass data and machine learning, not to optimize Facebook ads for a quick buck but to build a superhighway of information that flows between individuals, doctors, and scientists so the world becomes a healthier place.

Evidation Health — a Santa Barbara start-up born nine years ago around a kitchen table on Voluntario Street — and its accompanying app, called Achievement, is the means by which those dreams will be realized. At least that’s what some of the country’s biggest and most respected institutions and philanthropists believe.

Late last month, Evidation announced it raised $153 million in venture capital from Kaiser Permanente and a private equity firm. That’s on top of a previous infusion of $106 million and existing working partnerships with Johnson & Johnson, the American College of Cardiology, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and others.

Today, Evidation is the largest digital health network in the United States, with more than 4.5 million people using Achievement to track and share their steps, heart rhythms, sleeping patterns, and other health indicators via wearable devices like Fitbits and Apple Watches. Participants receive reward points that they can convert into cash or donations to charities of their choosing. They can also opt into anonymous studies or answer questionnaires for even more rewards.

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morphosed Evidation into a “unicorn” — that rare breed of private company valued at $1 billion or more. It got a write-up in Bloomberg. European wire services picked up the news.

People far and wide took notice. Especially locally. Only a handful of South Coast businesses — Procore, AppFolio, Apeel, and a few others — have achieved such coveted status.

To learn more about this rising tech giant in our midst, we spoke with its creators, a pair of computer prodigies from Europe who could have lived and worked anywhere in the world but chose to make Santa Barbara their home. In fact, they say, the city has been critical to their success. They employ 50 people out of their recently renovated office on Figueroa Street, and with the new capital, they are looking to hire 50 more.

CODING BEFORE IT WAS COOL Luca Foschini and Alessio Signorini were born just a few days apart in 1982 but on opposite sides of Italy.

Foschini grew up on a farm outside Bologna, where Bolognese sauce gets its name. (“They just call it sauce,” he said.) The farm produced apples and pears and was one of the first in the region to plant kiwis. Foschini’s father was an innovator. “He was always tinkering,” Foschini said. He even built a produce-moving machine that caught the eye of engineers with Lamborghini, which also makes farming equipment.

One day, Foschini’s dad brought home one of the earliest computers to come on the market. His son was hooked. But he wasn’t satisfied with just playing the one game the tiny hard drive held, Gorillas, where two big apes took turns flinging bananas at each other. Foschini wanted to do some tin-

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kering of his own. So he figured out how to modify the game’s source code, which allowed him to manipulate its design and physics and opened a world of infinite possibilities.

Foschini never lost that fascination with the power and potential of programming. “To me, the computer is like a painter’s canvas,” he said. “My passion is not typing on the keyboard. It’s thinking of something in my mind and figuring out how to make the computer do it.”

Gorillas, it turns out, is also what opened the digital gates for 8-year-old Signorini. Except he didn’t own the computer he’d eventually master. It belonged to the elderly couple in the apartment below his, who ran an IKEA-like store and used the loud and bulky machine to track inventory. The deal was that Signorini could use the computer during the store’s offhours, and “as long as I didn’t break it,” he explained.

Signorini remembers the painstaking process of translating the English user’s manual into Italian. “I couldn’t pronounce anything, but little by little I figured out what every word meant,” he said. “That’s how I learned.” Gorillas was fun, but what really captured his imagination was creating.

He’d change a number here, add a line of code there, and marvel as his keystrokes came alive on the screen.

Like Foschini, Signorini has never stopped making things.

Even today, in his limited free time, he’s building a network of climate-control sensors for his home. At Evidation’s original office on Mission Street, Foschini put together a small outdoor hydroponics system, where Signorini would find him munching on vegetables.

It was their formal education in “informatics” — the European term for what we call computer science — that brought the pair together when they were 18-year-old high school students. By this point, they’d both gotten so good at

programming they were selected to represent their country at the annual International Mathematical Olympiad.

They trained together for a month for the competition, during which teams are presented with three unsolvable “problems” and given a certain amount of time and disc space “to write the best possible program that approximates as best possible the solution,” Foschini explained. The preparation was intense, but the friendships they formed with likeminded teenage coders — way before coding was hip — was life-changing.

Eventually, Foschini and Signorini started seeing the world in terms of “problems” and “solutions.” They’d walk around their Olympiad host cities in China and Finland and talk about how to improve stoplights or “anything else we saw that we thought we could make better,” Signorini remembered.

Little did they know, America’s bloated and broken health-care system would eventually become the biggest problem they would try to solve.

ASSEMBLING THE DREAM TEAM

At first, before they gained any kind of financial momentum, they paid the cash for redeemed user points straight out of their personal bank accounts. They heard a lot of “no”s from investors. Then the positive reviews started rolling in. Users said they were exercising for the first time in years. More than a few said they’d used the cash to buy new running shoes.

“It was wonderful to see,” said Foschini, “because we really believed in what we were doing.”

DO NO HARM, AND DON’T BREAK THINGS While Evidation’s potential applications are vast, the basic philosophy behind its platform is relatively simple and builds on the longstanding technological concept of the “quantified self,” or “lifelogging” your body’s signals with wearable devices.

Foschini palmed a grip-strength tester as he explained this.

What if that concept could be used as a preventative health tool to catch undiagnosed medical conditions before they became dire, the four wondered? Wouldn’t that save people a lot of pain, doctors a lot of work, insurance companies a lot of money, and on down the line?

“My worst fear is that one day I don’t feel great and the doctor tells me I have a tumor the size of a tennis ball in my abdomen that took a year and a half to grow,” Signorini said by way of example. “Could we have detected it when it was the size of a marble? My car has a sensor that tells me when the left front tire is low. Can’t we have something like that for our bodies?”

After the Olympiads, the Italian team parted ways but stayed in touch with some of the Internet’s very first email addresses.

Yet Foschini and Signorini’s paths continued to crisscross, first at the University of Pisa, then at an early search-engine company, Ask Jeeves.

Signorini went on to get his PhD in artificial intelligence from the University of Iowa and worked for a software company that customized digital billboards based on who was looking at them and for how long. He also partnered with Kimbal Musk, Elon’s brother, to create a search engine specifically for social media sites.

Meanwhile, after stints at Google and CERN, Foschini was lured to UC Santa Barbara by the opportunity to work with fellow Italian Giovanni Vigna, a rock star of the cybersecurity world, who also taught him to surf.

The two old friends always knew they wanted to partner on a project together. With their credentials, they could have had nearly any Big Tech job they wanted (and with a handsome salary), but what they really craved was to create something of their own. They just needed the right idea.

It was Signorini who first planted the seed of Evidation while he was in New York. He also brought on board the company’s financialand health-care-minded cofounders: Christine Lemke and Mikki Nasch, who remain with the business as its co-chief executive officer and president, and vice president of business development, respectively. But it was Foschini who convinced the three of them to grow the concept with him in Santa Barbara. The 72-degree February days helped his argument.

In 2012, the four rented a house on VolunSWISS ARMY APP: The applications for the Achievement platform are varied and tario Street and got to it. They originally considvast, from helping people lose weight to conducting large-scale clinical studies. ered building their own device before deciding on software. “The first year was a lot of heads down, just working,” said Signorini. “You don’t Evidation’s goal is to establish a baseline for users and create talk to anybody. You just work all the time.” There were distractions. Former colleagues, for instance, were retiring at 30 a “longitudinal context of health,” explained Foschini. That after striking it rich with algorithmic stock trading. There were offers a much more complete picture of a person’s physiology moments of panic, too. What if they failed? “But we just pushed compared to the brief snapshots one gets by sporadic trips harder,” he said. to the doctor and blood tests every few months or years. For The home wasn’t the kind of grungy tech incubator you see instance, it can be especially useful for sleep apnea studies, in episodes of Silicon Valley, but it fostered the same kind of as wearing a device at home is likely to yield more accurate creative energy and camaraderie that gives rise to true inno- results than a fitful night at some clinic. vation. Most of the meetings and coding sessions took place In one of its biggest undertakings, Evidation recently partin the living room or around the kitchen table, oftentimes nered with Johnson & Johnson and Apple for the Heartline between bites of food.

Study to determine if Apple Watches can accurately detect atrial fibrillation (AFib), a leading cause of strokes in the United States. It will also reveal if the app — with its incentive system that awards points for participation and delivers gently worded nudges and reminders at optimal times of the day — is able to effectively encourage people to take their medications.

“Heartline is a study that has the potential to fundamentally change our understanding of how digital health tools could lead to earlier detection of AFib, helping patients understand and directly engage in their heart health, prompting potentially life-saving conversations with their doctors,” said Harvard Medical School’s Dr. C. Michael Gibson in a statement.

Just a few months ago, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) tapped Evidation for a similar quest to better understand heart failure by continuously tracking patients’ activity levels, sleep patterns, and blood pressure. One of ACC’s leaders, Dr. John S. Rumsfeld, said the combination of Evidation’s platform and ACC’s clinical and scientific expertise offered “groundbreaking opportunities.”

Earlier studies have already yielded important and eyeopening results. In one, the incentive system and its messaging — referred to as “digital intervention” — successfully motivated a cohort of people with diabetes to get their yearly flu shot. It showed how the same behavioral psychology tools and snappy user interfaces that companies like Netflix and Spotify use to attract ad-clicks can actually get people to engage with their health.

In yet another trial, Evidation and Lyft Healthcare proved how difficult it can be for poor and elderly individuals to secure transportation to and from their doctor’s offices. The companies are now exploring ways to improve ride availability among Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries.

Regular brain exercises on the app may reveal the onset of Alzheimer’s or dementia. High blood pressure could be caught before it wreaks havoc.

Migraines might be better managed. The possibilities seem endless. Athletes are also using Achievement to optimize their performance on the field, while citizen scientists enjoy contributing to a growing body of knowledge.

At the outset of any study, Achievement’s participants agree to share their data, and they are asked again for their consent when researchers decide they want to use it. Anonymity is guaranteed.

But the company isn’t reinventing the wheel when it comes to cybersecurity, Foschini stressed. It’s only recently that privacy has become a commodity. Evidation just abides by the same safeguards and procedures that clinical research has followed for the past 50 years, he said.

Successfully navigating the checks and balances of the health-care industry has been no easy task, Signorini and Foschini readily acknowledge. There were major liability hurdles to overcome, and the company is still constantly being audited by potential partners and investors to ensure its software is properly encrypted and can accurately handle the gobs of data it collects, synthesizes, and distributes.

As a technology company, gaining the trust of the people within the medical establishment has also been a challenge. “It’s really a clash of two cultures,” Foschini explained. “In medicine, you have ‘Do no harm.’ But in tech, you have ‘Move fast and break things.’ Those two concepts don’t really play well together.”

Right now, Foschini went on, America is experiencing the fallout of Big Tech moving way too fast and breaking far too many things, with data breaches and plagues of misinformation troubling regulators and alienating users.

Meanwhile, the country’s health-care system remains a structural mess, with its IT infrastructure in desperate need of upgrades. “Health care is generally behind other things,” said Foschini. “It has a lot to do with the regulations, which

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STARTING YOUNG: By the time he was 8, Signorini (left) was learning how to code. Foschini started a little later because his family needed his help around the farm.

are obviously important but also very cumbersome. Even transferring small amounts of data between two hospitals, especially when you’re still using CDs, can be difficult.”

The two worlds need to find a way to meet in the middle, Foschini declared. “Technology needs to become more responsible in order to be appealing to the health-care industry, and health care needs to finally listen and embrace the technologies that can truly save and improve lives.”

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Evidation may have a serious jump on most of its competitors, but it’s not the only game around. In fact, Bloomberg recently reported that equity investments in digital health companies reached $26.5 billion globally in 2020, a 45 percent jump from the year before. And just this week, Microsoft announced it’s buying a company called Nuance Communications, which uses hand-free Siri technology to record doctor-patient conversations, for a whopping $19.6 billion.

But what Evidation has that many other companies lack is the continued die-hard dedication of its original founders, nine full years after they first got together. That’s nearly unheard of in the tech start-up universe and is a testament to how driven they are by their mission, Signorini said.

He and Foschini are also particularly proud that half of their leadership team is female, another anomaly in their line of work.

“We sponsor local initiatives like Womxn/Hacks,” UCSB’s all womxn-identifying and nonbinary hackathon, Foschini explained, “and really care about making tech a more welcoming place for women and people with diverse backgrounds. …

We’ve seen enough tech bros.”

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In their early days, the pair had considered headquartering Evidation up in the Bay Area, where they now have a second office. But Santa Barbara, with its beaches and a steady stream of computer science hotshots coming out of UCSB, was too good to pass up. Signorini swears the company simply wouldn’t have survived if they didn’t have their choice of sunny days to get outside and blow off steam when they needed to. “With all the hours of grinding and all rejections, we absolutely would have burned out,” he said.

So what does it really mean for Signorini and Foschini to have a billion-dollar feather in their caps? Did they go out and buy Montecito villas and a couple of flashy Ferraris? “No, definitely not,” laughed Foschini, noting that both men still live within a block of each other on the Westside. “Our lives haven’t changed much. I still drive a 2005 Pontiac Sunbird with dents on every side. But it’s the best car for surfing.”

For his part, Signorini is content on his Vespa. “The money is for the company and will help us build what we want to build,” he said. “It’s not for us.” But it may help convince his grandma that he’s on the right track. “Until pretty recently, she used to ask me: ‘Alessio, when will you stop playing with computers? Come home and find a real job.’ ” The duo have no plans to sell Evidation, either. At least, not anytime soon. That’s not what it’s about, they explained. “I like what I do,” Foschini said. “I know it sounds cheesy, but I care more about optimizing the journey. I don’t obsess about the destination.”

They do, however, want to get back to working shoulder to shoulder with their colleagues in their Figueroa Street space, and they’re counting the days until COVID finally blows over.

“One advantage of starting your own company is that you get to decide how it takes shape,” Signorini said. “We tended to hire people that we wanted to work with.

Of course they’re smart and have skills, but fundamentally, they’re people we wanted to work with. I miss being with them.”

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Inspired by Amanda Gorman’s reading of her poem “The Hill We Climb” at President Biden’s inauguration, David Nelson’s 6th-grade class at Vieja Valley Elementary School in Santa Barbara began to write their own poems. They first analyzed Gorman’s poems for the many poetry elements she used and then brainstormed ideas, talking about their struggles and sadness over being separated from their friends during the Year of COVID. In so doing, said Nelson, it became a shared experience: “Poetry is a powerful tool that brought us all together,” he said. “We hope these poems give you reason to hope and smile.”

Miss Corona

by Phoebe Caldwell I wake up one morning getting ready for school. and I hear my mom saying there’s a new virus called Corona Virus I blow it off but little did I know that the Corona Virus would change 2020.

School gets canceled for two weeks, two weeks turn into months, we start something called Zoom.

The next few months I am stuck inside, nothing to do and extreme boredom.

When I go on walks I hear six feet please.

I think why does this have to be me.

When I go to stores I have to wear masks.

I can’t see my friends.

Now having to make sure we have a mask before we leave the house.

I ask myself why this virus? Will it ever end?

But then I thought there’s hope.

I think about times with my sisters.

Them being home from college, spending time with family.

Learning new dances.

Learning how to curl my hair.

Getting into makeup.

Texting my friends.

Playing with my dog Lucy.

Finding new songs to listen to.

I go on a lot of walks with my family.

My mom and I go to the grocery store.

Now I think without the pandemic none of this would have happened.

So now I’m kinda thankful for the pandemic.

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The Golden Morning

The Soccer Player

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Seeing friends makes me smile.

The way they smile with their eyes through the masks.

The bright and warm sunlight on my face, It feels as if nothing bad has ever happened.

The dirt on my hands feels great, It seems as if I have gone to another world, Where nothing bad happens, And everyone just has a good time.

I miss playing soccer with my friends And going to the beach and watching the sunset Tired of waiting to have fun getting bored staying in my house Sad that I can’t see my friends It makes me smile when I Think of being with friends Again.

The animation I dream of, A big scary monster coming, Slowly creeping up on me then….

Covid comes, It makes me feel like everything is so far away.

Stores are closed, People are forced to stay inside, People that lost their jobs have to beg for food and starve.

We have to wear masks all day long, No one can do anything.

But on that golden morning, Everything will be gone, no more hunger, no more fright no more anything.

Everything will go on to being normal.

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Hope is breath in the cold Although there is only a sliver of it It’s there; and that’s enough And it’s born within us

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by Cameron DePaco We are committed to a life of happiness Not a life of division A life that brings purpose to our country, our people, and our world A life that will never be broken by those who do not stand with us This beast has torn us apart Only for us to find that we’ve never been so close together To find that through this hardship is hope for a more peaceful world As we reach into the sunlight And take flight, as we ignite So we can fight for this love that will never be lost What we want is so simple Yet so, so complicated Unity, self-love, feeling safe, hope If only we had the courage to fight for it To stand for it To live for it It would always be in our grasp

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Everything feels gray Like there’s no point anymore But we are surrounded by color Color that will save us all If we only look for it and share it with one another This wall that encloses us Has us calling for help Falling for freedom Crawling for courage We must fix what we broke Repair what we shattered We are not perfect But life does not have to be perfect for it to be wonderful So while we once wondered: How can this disease be shattering our society?

Now we wonder: How can our society be shattering this disease?

We are strong people Who are fighting for a strong country A country that will keep us tethered A country that will never let us break We are committed to a life of happiness Not a life of division A life that brings purpose to our country, our people, and our world A life that will never be broken by those who do not stand with us

Internet and COVID-19

by David Duarte

When the internet glitches, that is a flaw in the system.

Having harsh conditions having rain the damp water making its way throughout your receiving end of antenna wirelessly connecting to the box of internet.

Giving joy, sadness, despair, aggression, embarrassment bringing down the internet The flaws of the internet are like a human.

Many make mistakes no one’s perfect, glitches the world calls them. They may happen every so often. But I call them learning steps.

It might be the trigger that sets you off and gets you in a bad mood. But in the tech world With every flaw there’s an update, new model of a device.

So as it is in life make a mistake and learn from it. We will overcome this desperate time of covid 19.

Fixing the mistakes that have been made will bring others but in doing so bringing new learning steps will help the world to be a better place.

Learn from them but in the end it all passes soon enough and in time this pandemic will pass as well.

This pandemic may leave a few scars but it never lasts forever.

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Odeon Join UCSB Arts & Lectures as they present these Urban Dance Innovators. Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie (formerly of Dorrance Dance) and her dance company will perform new work for seven dancers and four musicians that will bring together and remix street and club dances set to a mix of early-20th-century romantic music and popular Afro-Brazilian rhythms. A moderated Q&A will follow. 5pm. UCSB students: free; GA: $10. Call (805) 893-3535. tinyurl.com/EphratAsherieDance

SATURDAY 4/17 4/17: S.B. Symphony Livestream: Fanfare for the Common Man Live from The

THURSDAY 4/15 4/15: Race to Justice Virtual Event: Ranky Tanky Listen to Gullah Music of the Carolina Coast from this Grammy Award–winning quintet that will introduce you to the language, rhythm, and music of the region with a distinctly American sound that incorporates jazz, blues, gospel, and R&B. A Q&A moderated by Santa Barbara Independent Executive Arts Editor Charles Donelan will follow.

5pm. UCSB students: free; GA: $10. Call (805) 893-3535. Read more on p. 34.

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FRIDAY 4/16 4/16: Big Joe’s Tacos at Draughtsmen Aleworks Happy hour will get happier with fresh food for purchase from Big Joe’s made on-site.

4-5pm. Draughtsmen Aleworks, 53 Santa Felicia Dr., Goleta. Free. tinyurl.com/BigJoesTacos

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Granada Theatre will be Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man, an American standard, and its updated response, Joan Tower’s Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, which will spotlight the talented symphony brass section. The symphony will also perform Copland’s setting of Old American Songs, a new work by composer George Gianopoulos, and works by Robin Frost, Samuel Barber, and Charles Ives. 7pm. $65. Call (805) 898-9386. Read more on p. 34. tinyurl.com/SymphonyFanfare

Downtown Santa Ynez Painted Horse

Round-Up Area artists have created and dispersed a collection of painted wooden horses throughout downtown. See them all and qualify for a prize drawing. Meet the artists on the corner of Meadowvale Road and Highway 246 and visit artisan booths and enjoy activities at participating shops. Don’t miss trainer Ramon Becerra with his miniature horse performance. 10am-2pm. Free.

Email linda@santaynezchamber.org. tinyurl.com/SYPaintedHorses

4/17: Donation Yoga Class: Save the San Marcos Foothills Join this yoga class hosted by Divinitree to reconnect with your body, reconnect with the earth beneath your feet, and help raise money for S.B.’s last remaining native grasslands and Chumash ancestral land. All proceeds will go toward the Foothills Forever campaign. 11am-noon. Leadbetter Beach, Shoreline Dr. $15.

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SUNDAY 4/18 4/18: Party Proper Production Join the Sunday “funday” vibe as you listen to the perfect soundtrack to accompany a great brunch. 11am-2pm.

S.B. Wine Collective, 131 Anacapa St., Ste. C. Free.

Horse by Laurie Owens

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4/19: Beachside Sculpt This dynamic (nonheadphone) class is for all levels and will combine vinyasa flow, challenging core-work, and bursts of cardio and strength training exercises, culminating with a relaxing Savasana (gradually relaxing one body part at a time). Bring a mat, water, a towel, and weights 3-10 lbs (optional). 5-6pm. East Beach Cabrillo Pavilion Bathhouse Rooftop, 1118 E. Cabrillo Blvd. $15.

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4/20: Virtual Author Discussion with Local Authors Josef Woodard and D.J. Palladino Longtime entertainment journalist Josef Woodard will talk about his new novel, Ladies Who Lunch, a satirical taste of L.A., with D.J. Palladino (Nothing That Is Ours). 7pm. Free. Call (805) 682-6787 or email info@chaucersbooks.com. tinyurl.com/

JosefWoodard 4/20, 4/21: Maker Challenge: Create Your Own Book/Desafío de la Creatividad Crea Tu Propio Libro Create your own book using the Maker Challenge kit in celebration of Día de los Niños! Kits will be available for pickup during Grab ’n’ Go services at the Central, Eastside, Carpinteria, and Montecito libraries, while supplies last. Visit the website for library addresses. ¡Crea tu propio libro usando el kit Desafío de la Creatividad para celebrar el Día de los Niños! Los Kits estarán disponibles para recoger durante nuestros servicios Grab ’n’ Go en las bibliotecas Central, Eastside, Carpintería y Montecito, hasta agotar existencias. Visite el sitio web para las direcciones de las bibliotecas. Pick up hours/ Horario de recojo: Tue.: 2-5pm; Montecito Library. Wed.: 10am-4pm; Central Library. 2-5pm; Carpinteria Library. 2:30-5:30pm; Eastside Library. Free/gratis. Ages 6-12.

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WEDNESDAY 4/21 4/21: Dine and Donate for Friendship Center The S.B. Association of Realtors invites you to

order a Los Agaves family meal (choose from enchiladas, taco bar, or chicken fajitas) with all the fixings and margaritas for two. Proceeds will go to support Friendship Center S.B. 4:30-6:30pm. Los Agaves, 2911 De la Vina St. $75. tinyurl.com/DineLosAgaves

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and then you will listen to her playlist and respond by creating your own individual art piece. Bring you sketch pad, blank canvas, paint implements, or any media you prefer. No experience necessary. Register to receive a Zoom link. 11:30-12:30pm. Free/donations to JBR Visual accepted. tinyurl.com/PulseArtClub

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production of Dashiell Hammett’s mystery based on his 1934 novel features society couple Nick and Nora Charles and their dog, Asta, who are drawn into the underbelly of crime as amateur sleuths in 1930s San Francisco. This production will be performed as a live radio drama with sound effects and commercials. Directed by Katie Laris. Stream through May 8. $5-$15. Call (805) 965-5935 (10am-3pm, weekdays).

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Where Plants Meet Their People Idyll Mercantile Sprouts on Chapala Street

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hen you find something you love, you share it with someone else,” says Hannah Bangs, the name and face behind Santa Barbara’s newest plant and crafted goods shop, Idyll Mercantile.

Bangs’s introduction to selling house plants was an accidental yet fateful occurrence. One day, as she was in the process of moving, she suddenly found herself needing to find a new home for her many, many plants. (If she had to guess, there were somewhere between 30 and 60.)

What she didn’t know at the time was that this dilemma would one day lead to having her own storefront. The first-time small business owner has now taken root on the 700 block of Chapala Street, where she recently celebrated two months of business and bliss.

When coming up with a name to best suit her store, Bangs knew she wanted to circle back to the word “idyll,” meaning an extremely happy scene or a short poem descriptive of rural life. “It’s kind of an ode to old crafts and homemade goods,” she said. “Idyll felt like it encapsulated the happiness and joy but also the timelessness of handmade things. I want it to be a happy place.”

Having cultivated a space for plants and the work of local craftspeople to shine, Bangs has a very infectious joy when sharing the art she carries and the makers behind them — the majority of which are women and smallbusiness owners themselves.

Idyll Mercantile’s assortment of goods includes works by several area ceramicists, such as Sarah Klapp of Klapp Ceramics, Erica Ales of Ale Ceramics, and Lyndsie Harris of Ceramic Saguaro, all Hannah Bangs of whom have their own distinct and earthy style.

Printmaker Amy Berenbeim captures scenic beauty through her linocuts and has been featured in publications such as National Parks magazine and High Country News. Idyll Mercantile also carries jewelry

by Deer Trails Studios and Indigo Garden. Bangs even sells her own artwork.

Like countless others, the self-proclaimed extrovert was hit hard by the pandemic, and she hopes Idyll Mercantile will be a way to help foster connection again through art and helping “plants meet their people.”

Something Bangs finds interesting about the houseplant boom of the past several years and our isolation during the pandemic is that “when you care for a plant, your brain releases oxytocin, which is the chemical responsible for relationships and bonding. So I think people’s obsession with houseplants can be somewhat explained by our deeper desire to form meaningful connections.”

Find your plant at 703 Chapala Street, and follow @Idyll.Mercantile on Instagram.

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ON THE PROWL: OR-93, born in Oregon two years ago and fitted with a radio collar, is looking for love and greener pastures.

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FIRST WOLF IN 100 YEARS OR-93 Is Currently in S.L.O. County and Appears Headed for S.B.

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young male gray wolf who broke from his Oregon pack in search of new territory and a mate has made his way to California’s Central Coast, marking the first time in more than a century that the species has been detected here.

In an epic journey that took less than two months, the wolf — known as OR-93 and fitted with a radio collar — traveled 600 miles and crossed multiple highways to reach San Luis Obispo County on April 6.

Experts say if OR-93 continues his southeast trajectory through the Los Padres National Forest, he could enter Santa Barbara County in a matter of days or weeks.

“It’s really exciting,” said Jeff Kuyper, director of Los Padres ForestWatch, a wilderness protection organization. “We certainly hope he stays safe out there.”

California’s gray wolf population was wiped out in the early 1900s during a nationwide eradication effort led by the livestock industry. In the 2000s, a handful made their way from Canada back into Washington and Oregon, and in 2011, OR-7 was the first to cross California’s border. OR-93 is the 17th wolf known to have entered the state since then.

According to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, fewer than a dozen wolves currently live in California. That includes the Lassen pack, which consists of five wolves; a new pair spotted late last year in Siskiyou County; and now OR-93. The Shasta pack and its seven members disappeared within months of its discovery in 2015. Scientists feared poaching.

OR-93 was born two years ago southeast of Mt. Hood as part of the White River Pack, according to research done by Los Padres ForestWatch. He was fitted with a tracking collar by federal biologists and the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. Like many young wolves, he eventually split from the group to stake his own claim.

The Los Padres would provide a good permanent range and plenty of food sources for OR-93, Kuyper said. In 2016, Fish & Wildlife scientists identified it as one of the California regions that would be a suit-

able habitat for the species. “But the big question is, is he going to stick around and keep foraging?” Kuyper asked, “or is he going to return from whence he came?”

The other big question is the matter of a mate. With no evidence of any female wolves in the area, “He may be looking for love in all the wrong places,” Kuyper said.

But it’s not impossible that a northern wolf could pick up OR-93’s scent and follow him south, he explained.

Wolves, Kuyper stressed, pose very little safety risk to humans, and he pointed to several steps landowners can take to reduce the risk of livestock loss, including fladry, range riders, night penning, and foxlights. For safety and research purposes, Fish & Wildlife asks anyone who spots a wolf to report it at wildlife.ca.gov.

Evidence suggests gray wolves were once endemic to Santa Barbara County. A forest ranger reported seeing one in 1910 in the Upper Santa Ynez watershed, according to ForestWatch, and another was later spotted at a large lemon ranch in Montecito. The Chumash have their own word for wolf (miy), which is distinct from their terms for coyote (xoxau) and dog (tsun).

While biologists have believed for some time that wolves would eventually repopulate California, no one expected to see one this far south this soon. “If you had asked a scientist if they thought there would be a wolf in Central California in 2021, they would have scoffed,” Kuyper said. Around the state, the slow but steady reintroduction of elk — a favorite prey item — could entice lasting residency for future packs, Kuyper said.

Gray wolves are formally protected as endangered under state law, making it illegal to harass, harm, shoot, capture, or kill them, Kuyper went on. Violations are thoroughly investigated, and the penalties can be severe.

“If you see something that looks like a really big coyote with a purple collar on,” Kuyper said, “don’t shoot at it, or there will be consequences.”

Track OR-93’s progress at wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/ Mammals/Gray-Wolf/Updates and report any wolf sightings at wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Mammals/Gray-Wolf/ Sighting-Report.

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t was January 6, and I stood watching my television screen with both hands over my mouth. My gut was roiling. My body shivered with random surges of fight-or-flight adrenaline as a flag-waving mob tried to lay siege to our center of government.

How can this be happening? I kept saying. Is this … real?? The answer, of course, was yes. And more importantly: no.

But by day’s end, I had come to a realization even more frightening than the makeshift gallows erected on the Capitol lawn: This could just as well have been us.

My political party won this time, as confirmed by every relevant authority at every level of government. But if it had gone differently? If we’d genuinely believed that something nefarious had undermined our votes and stolen the election from us? You’d better believe I’d be storming our Capitol with flak vest, bullhorn, and battle cry. I don’t do face paint and horns, but the point is this: I disagree ideologically with the people who rioted that day — but I understand their reaction as citizens.

They were not idiots. They were not maniacs. They were impassioned citizens who were lied to and lied to effectively. Consistently. Masterfully.

And they won’t be the last.

Truth is hard to come by these days.

Polls show 10 percent of Americans believe QAnon’s whackadoodle conspiracies about cannibalistic, satanic pedophiles. Intelligence reports show Russian and even Iranian bots have fiddled with our elections.

And anyone with a smartphone can now make a deepfake video; a Philadelphia mom recently harassed members of her daughter’s cheerleading team by producing a clip that supposedly showed them nude, drinkemail: starshine@roshell.com ing, and smoking.

Part of the problem is we’ve made socialmedia giants our information gatekeepers. The job used to fall to journalists whose livelihoods demand strict standards of accuracy, transparency, fairness, independence, and accountability. But Facebook? Twitter?

They’re built to prioritize content engagement—regardless of that content’s integrity.

“Our ability to vet information matters every time a mother asks Google whether her child should be vaccinated and every time a kid encounters a Holocaust denial on Twitter,” Time magazine wrote of our growing inability to parse reality from fiction online. News Literacy Project founder Alan Miller told the magazine, “It’s the equivalent of a public-health crisis.”

So while Congress continues trying to blame everything on the Internet, let’s look at how the rest of us can take some responsibility for the information we consume and share.

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(1) First, check your emotions. If you find yourself angry or shocked in reaction to something you read online, it may be designed to inflame rather than inform you. Agendas matter.

(2) Adopt a slow news strategy. It’s like slow food, but you’re consuming carefully crafted media instead. Pause before believing — and, dear god, before sharing! — news that is still developing.

(3) Use lateral reading to research an unfamiliar website. Rather than poking around on the site itself to assess it, Google that thang to see what others have to say about it. Who’s behind it? What’s their deal?

(4) Correct false information publicly. When a friend posts something untrue, resist the urge to tell them privately. Commenting publicly (and kindly) not only informs others who may see it, which prevents it from spreading further, it also reminds us all to think twice about what we share.

These issues aren’t going away, but neither are they new. Political theorist Hannah Arendt, a German-born Jew who was imprisoned by the Gestapo, wrote this in 1974—and her words make me shiver all over again: “What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed… If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer.… And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge.

“And with such a people you can then do what you please.”

Starshine Roshell is the author of Lather, Rage, Repeat: Frank Talk on Night Sweats, Day Drinking & Twitler.

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ead-on collisions have a way of putting life into

focus. When Austin Corrigan’s 2018 car crash at the intersection of State and Alamar streets totally shattered the Santa Barbara native’s right leg, his journey through a full year of recovery wound up rerouting his career from itinerant chef to maker of mead, the fermented honey wine that many believe to be humankind’s first alcoholic beverage. Today, he’s selling four all-organic flavors of his carbonated High Seas Mead to a growing number of stores and restaurants around Santa Barbara, recently launched a mead club, and is already eyeing HONEY WINE TIME: Austin Corrigan produces four flavors of carbonated, organic, fruit-infused High Seas Mead at a facility in expansion.

“I never thought I would be doing this,” said the Old Town Goleta.

27-year-old, who brewed his first commercial batch A few years ago, I wrote last October in an Old Town Goleta facility. “I was so all over car when someone driving a big truck tried to take that the place just a few years ago. It’s so fun watching this thing tricky left on Alamar but instead smashed into Corrigan. an article about American BY MATT KET TMANN mead for Wine Enthusiast, blossom and grow. Driving on the Mesa and seeing people “You can imagine who won that fight,” he said.

His right patella and femur were dusted. “At the time, tasting 24 meads from 10 differat Corner Tap with my can in their hand? It makes me smile it was so terrible,” he recalled. “I was not in a good place. ent producers across the country, which maybe from ear to ear. It’s so cool.”

Admittedly a troublemaker in his youth, Corrigan gradu- Being a very athletic individual, it just wiped all that off the made me, for a very brief period, the country’s leading ated from Santa Barbara High in 2011 and by 21 was attend- table for a while.” expert on mead. I’m happy to report that High Seas is beting the Culinary Institute of America in Napa, where he While Corrigan regained strength, a friend and trainer of ter than every single one of those that I tasted back then. worked for restaurants, caterers, and winerhis suggested they make some mead, which, at its most All four flavors — Cosmic Bandito (pineapple/blackberry), ies. A six-month gig in Jackson Hole, simple iteration, is honey fermented with yeast in Cheap Thrills (coconut/raspberry), Mystic Vibrations Wyoming, led to a full-time job, water. The drink’s human history stretches back (watermelon/lemon), and Meadacolada (pineapple/cocowhich he’d just started when he to East Africa, where early humans likely nut) — are refreshingly light with just enough fruit flavor to returned to Santa Barbara to found rain-soaked hives full of a sweet, keep them interesting. see his parents for Thanksgivslightly funky liquid that made them feel The honey impact, which imparts a generic sameness to ing. He was on his way back funny. many other meads on the market, is happily quite muted. from Whole Foods in a Corrigan only knew mead as a sweet, Finding regionally harvested honey to be prohibitively small higher-alcohol beverage, but his friend expensive, Corrigan sources Brazilian wildflower honey said it could be made dry and lighter, so from a family-owned company called Bee Seasonal Honey. they gave it a try in a makeshift garage For fruit, he buys some from Whole Foods and Sprouts lab. This first batch was “awful,” but the but also takes the culled berries from Driscoll’s that would second wasn’t so bad. They considered otherwise go to waste. For yeast, he’s opting for a gluten-free starting a business together but parted ways cider yeast, which is quicker and crisper than the champagne or white wine yeasts typically used in mead. due to differing visions.

Corrigan kept trying new recipes for more He’s looking into buying a facility down near the Funk than a year. “I saw the hard kombucha market and Zone, where he could increase production by 30 barrels. hard cider market really exploding,” he explained of the “That would allow us to grow outside of this 50-mile range potential for mead, but he needed a fresh angle. “How can that we are focused on right now,” explained Corrigan, who I make mead modern? How can I make it approachable is also going through the organic certification process to get for younger individuals, people who are seeking these into the farmers’ market. “I’m committed to this, and I’m gonna keep going for as long and as big as I can.” alternative, more health-minded alcohols?”

He found the Goleta warehouse in August — He’s confident that the mead market will grow in the right around the time he was also working as a fire- same sharp trajectory that cider and kombucha recently fighter for the Los Padres National Forest — and experienced. “I believe it’s gonna be the next big product,” used money that he got from his car-crash settlement said Corrigan. “It’s ultimately the world’s oldest fermented “to make this dream and this vision happen.” Corri- beverage. Let’s bring it back. Let’s keep it around. Let’s not gan named the new brand High Seas to acknowledge let it get lost as we evolve. We can’t lose that.” his “love affair” with the ocean, which was strained due to his injuries. “I’ve missed being out there so much,” he See highseasmead.com or follow on Instagram said. “It was fitting.” @highseasmead.

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Bar was finally becoming a regular stop for Santa Barbarans interested in raw Italian dishes of “finesse and quality,” explains coowner Alberto Morello, a veteran of downtown’s restaurant scene. After years of cooking around Southern California, the Sicilian chef first broke into Santa Barbara with his wife, UCSB alum Elaine Morello, by opening the still-thriving white-tablecloth restaurant Olio e Limone in 1999. They doubled down with Olio Pizzeria next door a decade later, and then creatively remodeled the slim, adjacent storefront on West Victoria Street into Crudo in 2014.

Then came COVID in March 2020, and the Crudo Bar’s intimate indoor setting felt doomed.

“This will be the last place to be reopened,” Morello thought to himself. “Who’s gonna want to sit next to each other so close?”

Instead, Morello decided to embrace his dream of running a simple panini shop, like the many sprinkled across his homeland, from Milan to Palermo, enhanced with various imported, hard-to-find ingredients. They cracked open the doors to Olio Bottega in September.

“The focus is the sandwich,” confirmed Morello over a long lunch last week, and those are primarily based on the high-quality cured meats that he’s either buying or, in the case of the porchetta, making himself. “Finally, after 30 years in this country, we finally get some good salumi!”

There’s pillow-soft mortadella and firm bresaola, spicy coppa and salty prosciutto, all finding their way onto focaccia baked in-house, usually paired with just a few enhancements each. “In Italy, we like just two things together,” said Morello, but he’s adapted to American tastes by adding a couple more.

Young pecorino winds up on a few of them, as do spreads, such as the artichoke paste served on the fennel-flavored finocchiona salami, so flavorful yet delicate in razor-thin slices. The porchetta, which Morello makes with pork belly and shoulder, is the star, also cut thin and served with sweet onions, crispy peppers, and a zesty lemon Dijon. Vegan and vegetarian panini also exist.

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Sweets come into play through traditional pastries, from classic sheep’s-milk-filled canolo to sfogliatella, a crunchy, clamshell-shaped treat filled with orange rind and cinnamon crema. “We’ve been making pastry since day one,” he explained of starting the Olio empire way back in 1999 as we ate through three of them, including the ravioli-like cassatelle trapanese, all made today by Claudia Garcia.

“We don’t buy pastry.”

Meanwhile, the shelves, windowsills, and, well, all available flat areas are stocked with a wide array of goods from across Italy that Morello selected himself: pastas, olive oils, pastes, mushrooms, wines, liquors, and much more. “These are not just things you find in a normal market—it’s like Macy’s versus a boutique,” said Morello, who works with eight different importers.

“I love to find and sell this stuff,” he said. “To me, it’s like a collection. It gives me satisfaction, and I can share it with customers.”

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Fatte’s Pizza Opening on De la Vina Barbara Wood Fired Pizza, 2840 De la Vina Street, appeared to be closed, reader Steve H. reported that the eatery next to Grocery Outlet will be replaced by Fatte’s Pizza.

They hope to be open by May 1. Steve H. adds that the wood-burning oven is gone. In February 2011, the business changed from long-time occupant Pizza Hut to Nicky D’s Wood-Fired Pizza. In June 2018, it was rechristened as Lilsey’s Wood-Fired Pizza before becoming Santa Barbara Wood Fired Pizza in February 2020.

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In March 2020, a Wingman Rodeo location started serving food during evenings at 730 North Milpas Street, which, to the best of my knowledge, is the home of The Shop Kitchen during the day.

lar South Coast Deli opened April 12 at 3534 State Street, near Ontare, the former home of Noemi Pizza Romana, Pizza Guru, and Little Alex’s. In addition to the new San Roque location, other locations include 10 East Carrillo Street, 1436 Chapala Street, and 185 South Patterson Avenue in Goleta.

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WHAT WE DO Habitat for Humanity is working locally to: • Build new, affordable homes • Repair homes • Maintain existing affordable housing • Provide education, community classes and mentoring on affordable homeownership • Advocate for the importance of affordable housing • Mobilize volunteers • Partner with area nonprofits.

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HOME REPAIR PROFILE The Lee Family Last winter as the rain was coming down, a friend of Janice and James Lee reached out to Habitat Santa Barbara to learn about what assistance might be available as a hole in their roof was causing considerable damage to the inside of their modular home. The roof was leaking to the point that the flooring was disintegrating, the walls were being damaged and rain was dripping on their bed. At the time James was receiving cancer treatment at UCLA’s hospital, and Janice was struggling with her own chronic illness.

In the fall of 2020, Habitat Santa Barbara worked with a small team of volunteers to repair the Lees' home. Volunteers safely replaced the flooring and subflooring (using donated materials!) throughout the home, and a professional roofing company replaced the roof. The Lees are now able to safely remain in their home, assured that their home is no longer an unsafe place to live. The Covid-19 Pandemic has highlighted the importance of home as a place for health care and safety.

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t a moment when authenticfeeling for phrasing and ity has become a flashpoint in tempo. He argues convinc-discussions of cultural identity, ingly for Gullah’s centrality, the Gullah community of America’s saying, “People know it well; southeastern Lowcountry provides a they just don’t know that it’s useful entry point for those wishing Gullah.” As examples, he cites such songs as “Kum to understand the African roots of African-American experience. Coastal Bah Yah” and “Michael Row Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, and the Boat Ashore,” along with the Sea Islands have for centuries been the entire Ranky Tanky rephome to the continent’s most undiluted ertoire, which does sound familiar at the same time fount of African cultural retention.

Named for the Creole language spothat it feels fresh. The track ken throughout the region, the Gullah “Stand by Me” on Good community arose when, for reasons Time is not a cover — it’s an both economic and environmental, original — yet it stakes as white slave owners withdrew from the strong a claim to that three rice fields along the Atlantic seaboard, word phrase as Ben E. King’s leaving thousands of recently enslaved classic does; no mean feat.

Africans to develop a creole culture in For listeners new to Ranky which elements of African life were Tanky’s music, perhaps its most noticeable quality is preserved to a high degree. the propulsive swing that On Thursday, April 15, at 5 p.m., animates every song. Fast UCSB Arts & Lectures will combine the musical excellence of the House or slow, these players never Calls series with the high-minded neglect to groove. In the official video for the Good Time mission of its yearlong Race to Justice GULLAH AMBASSADORS: The members of Ranky Tanky are, from album’s title track, family and project by presenting Ranky Tanky, left, Kevin Hamilton, Charlton Singleton, Quiana Parler, Clay Ross, and the Grammy-winning Gullah group friends gather at a Charleston Quentin Baxter. from Charleston, South Carolina. juke joint for a night of dancLayering infectious jazz and funk-based immediately appealing as a heavenly duet ing that arrives just in time to save the prorhythms on a foundation of traditional between Miles Davis and Aretha Frank- prietor from eviction for unpaid rent. Not Gullah songs and chants, Ranky Tanky lin. The rhythm section of Quentin Baxter only does the landlord accept a fistful of crafts music for dancing that leaves a and Kevin Hamilton enjoys a syncopated wrinkly, sweat-stained cash as payment, he distinct impression of spiritual renewal chemistry with guitarist/vocalist Clay winds up on the dance floor with everyone in its wake. Good Time, the group’s 2019 Ross that allows them to modulate from else. While it may not yet be possible for album that was named the Best Regional deep blues to drumline sizzle in the space us to get down in person, there’s no reason Roots Recording by the 2020 Grammy of a single track. why audiences for Thursday’s virtual rent Awards, bobs and weaves along pathways As an ambassador not only for the party can’t turn it up and bust a move at forged by groups like Chic and the JBs. band, but for Gullah culture more gen- home. We could all use some of what these Trumpeter Charlton Singleton’s musical erally, Singleton speaks in cascading folks have got, and this show will bring it.

For tickets and to tune in, visit artsand dialogue with lead singer Quiana Parler paragraphs packed with local knowledge lectures.ucsb.edu. is simply delicious — as universally and and buoyed by a musician’s instinctive —Charles Donelan COURTESY

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At just 9 years old, Taylor C’Mone recorded her first song — a cover of Mariah Carey’s “H.A.T.E.U.” — and was accepted into the American Musical Dramatic Academy’s Performing Arts College in Hollywood at age 18. Last October, the 21-yearold R&B/neo-soul singer released her first single “Reckless” off of her debut album, Womxn, which came out on January 5.

Though raised in Camarillo, C’Mone boasts numerous Santa Barbara connections, working with filmmaker Roberde Madhere on the music for his first short film and performing during virtual shows hosted by The805Live Project in Lompoc. And she’ll be performing live on State

Street on April 16, 5-8 p.m., at Music Alley, 423 State St., in a concert aimed at supporting bars and restaurants.

As an artist who released her first album during the pandemic, she’s found it to be a creative time. “There is a lot of really great music right now, especially from the indie artist and underground world,” said C’Mone. “The lockdown forced me to be focused, and the process was very inspiring to work with a great team of producers, co-writer, and recording studio. Live performances have been affected heavily, which has forced us artists to do a lot, social media wise, which is dope.”

Follow her on Instagram at @taycmonesings and find her album at smarturl.it/listenwomxn.

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UNCOMMON MAN: Bass-baritone Cedric Berry is the featured soloist in the Santa Barbara Symphony’s April 17 program.

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NEW CENTURY Through a remarkable team effort involving the orchestra, its leaders, The Granada Theatre, and digital patrons all over the world, the Santa Barbara Symphony has continued to record live onstage and stream brilliant programming despite the constraints imposed by COVID. This month’s installment highlights the talented members of the orchestra’s brass section with one of the most popular and transcendent compositions in the history of American music, Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man.” This brassladen masterwork has earned its reputation as the country’s alternative instrumental national anthem, and, in a spirit of 21st-century openness, maestro Nir Kabaretti has constructed a program around it that reflects the diversity of America as it is today and as it aspires to be in the future.

The symphony will be joined by the awardwinning African-American bass-baritone Cedric Berry, a young singer whose career has taken off since his graduation from the USC Thornton School of Music with multiple appearances with the Los Angeles and Long Beach operas. As Yusef Salaam, one of the main characters in Anthony Davis’s opera The Central Park Five, Berry shared in the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Music, and on Saturday, April 17, Santa Barbara Symphony’s online audience will get to hear him sing another groundbreaking new work, this one a setting of poetry by Harlem Renaissance figure Claude McKay that was composed by George N. Gianopoulos. Joan Tower, long a favorite of the S.B. Symphony, will be represented by her answer to Copland, “Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No. 1.” A wind quintet by Samuel Barber, some “Old American Songs” as arranged by Copland, and pieces for strings by George Walker and Robin Frost lend balance to the evening, while “The Unanswered Question” by Charles Ives fittingly gives the program’s last musical word to the solo trumpet, which asks, against a cosmic musical background, nothing less than the eternal question of existence.

To tune in to the symphony’s “Fanfare” celebration at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 17, go to thesymphony.org.

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HELPING VENUES THROUGH PANDEMIC

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oncert venues across the country have shuttered operations due to the coronavirus pandemic, and Santa Barbara’s arts scene has not been excluded from the tough economic hit. The Shuttered Venue Operators Grant, launched last week, is a national aid program meant to help carry venues through the COVID-19 pandemic until concerts and other events can be held again.

The grant provides a total of $16.5 billion through the U.S. Small Business Administration to aid live venue operators and promoters, theatrical producers, museum operators, movie theater operators, and more. These operators can receive up to 45 percent of lost earned revenue

by Katherine Swartz from the past year, up to $10 million.

Congressmember Salud Carbajal spoke in a press conference last Thursday afternoon from the Scranton Overlook of the Santa Barbara Bowl to discuss how the grant would benefit Santa Barbara–area venue operators such as the Bowl.

“This facility is symbolic of so many other venues that day in and day out enrich our culture and our communities with arts and entertainment,” Carbajal said. “I’m glad to serve as a federal partner to ensure that cultural institutions in our region not only survive, but thrive.”

The Shuttered Venues Operators (SVO) Grant is one part of greater COVID-19 relief passed in December 2020 meant to help business owners, such as the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). Unlike with previous grants, venue operators are able to receive both PPP and SVO funding.

For the first time since opening in 1936, the Santa Barbara Bowl has been closed for an extended period of time, due to local, state, and national guidelines prohibiting concerts and other large gatherings. The Bowl employs 14 year-round staff members, who have all kept their jobs over the past year, but funding those salaries meant the Bowl was forced to dip into its reserve funds.

As Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation Executive Director Rick Boller explained in the press conference, the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant will help the Bowl replenish expenses incurred over the past year, along with funding operational costs to prepare for opening back up to the public.

Boller said they hope to open the Bowl back up by this fall, with the goal of full capacity, but that setting an opening date entirely depends on guidance from local and state officials. If COVID-19 hospitalization rates continue to drop and vaccination rates continue to rise, venues across the county can open up sooner.

“The best thing we can do as a community, if we want to help venues and businesses get back on their feet, is to get vaccinated as soon as possible, because that will allow us to go back to a sense of normalcy that will allow venues like the Bowl and other businesses thrive and prosper,” Carbajal said.

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ARIES

CANCER

LIBRA

(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): “Today I feel the whole world is a

(June 21-July 22): Cancerian poet Denis Johnson

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Kublai Khan, ruler of the Mongol

door,” wrote poet Dennis Silk. In a similar spirit, 13thcentury Zen master Wumen Huikai observed, “The whole world is a door of liberation, but people are unwilling to enter it.” Now I’m here to tell you, Aries, that there will be times in the coming weeks when the whole world will feel like a door to you. And if you open it, you’ll be led to potential opportunities for interesting changes that offer you liberation. This is a rare blessing.

Please be sufficiently loose and alert and brave to take advantage.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): Taurus philosopher Ludwig Witt-

genstein was called a genius by Nobel Prize–winning author Bertrand Russell. His Philosophical Investigations was once voted the 20th century’s most important philosophy book. Yet one of Wittgenstein’s famous quotes was “How hard it is to see what is right in front of my eyes!” Luckily for all of us, I suspect that won’t be problem for you in the coming weeks, Taurus. In fact, I’m guessing you will see a whole range of things that were previously hidden, even though some of them had been right in front of your eyes. Congrats! Everyone whose life you touch will benefit because of this breakthrough.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Why don’t rivers flow straight? Well,

sometimes they do, but only for a relatively short stretch. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, no river moves in a linear trajectory for a distance of more than 10 times its width. There are numerous reasons why this is so, including the friction caused by banks and the fact that river water streams faster at the center.

The place where a river changes direction is called a “meander.” I’d like to borrow this phenomenon to serve as a metaphor for your life in the coming weeks. I suspect your regular flow is due for a course change — a meander. Any intuitive ideas about which way to go? In which direction will the scenery be best?

eventually became a celebrated writer who won numerous prizes, including the prestigious National Book Award. But life was rough when he was in his twenties. Because of his addictions to drugs and alcohol, he neglected his writing. Later, in one of his mature poems, he expressed appreciation to people who supported him earlier on. “You saw me when I was invisible,” he wrote, “you spoke to me when I was deaf, you thanked me when I was a secret.”

Are there helpers like that in your own story? Now would be a perfect time to honor them and repay the favors.

Empire and China in the second half of the 13th century, kept a retinue of 5,000 astrologers on retainer.

Some were stationed on the roof of his palace, tasked with using sorcery to banish approaching storm clouds. If you asked me to perform a similar assignment, I would not do so. We need storms! They bring refreshing rain, and keep the earth in electrical balance.

Lightning from storms creates ozone, a vital part of our atmosphere, and it converts nitrogen in the air into nitrogen in the ground, making the soil more fertile.

Metaphorical storms often generate a host of necessary and welcome transformations, as well — as I suspect they will for you during the coming weeks.

LEO

SCORPIO

(July 23-Aug. 22): What do you believe in, exactly,

VIRGO

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Sometimes when a disheartening

SAGITTARIUS

PISCES

Aptowicz wrote a poem titled “Not Doing Something Wrong Isn’t the Same as Doing Something Right.” I propose that we make that thought one of your guiding themes during the next two weeks. If you choose to accept the assignment, you will make a list of three possible actions that fit the description “not doing something wrong,” and three actions that consist of “doing something right.” Then you will avoid doing the three wrong things named in the first list and give your generous energy to carrying out the three right things KEEPING in the second list.

fies, “I write poems to untie myself, to do penance and disappear through the upper right-hand corner of things, to say grace.” What about you, Virgo?

What do you do in order to untie yourself and do penance and invoke grace? The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to use all the tricks at your disposal to accomplish such useful transformations. And if you currently have a low supply of the necessary tricks, make it your healthy obsession to get more.

been treating yourself like a royal child. I hope you’ve been showering yourself with extra-special nurturing and therapeutic treatments. I hope you’ve been telling yourself out loud how soulful and intelligent and resilient you are, and I hope you’ve delighted yourself by engaging with a series of educational inspirations. If for some inexplicable reason you have not been attending to these important matters with luxurious intensity, please make up for lost time in the coming days. Your success during the rest of 2021 depends on your devout devotion to self-care right now.

die,” declared trailblazing psychologist Sigmund Freud.

“They are buried alive and they will come forth, later, in uglier ways.” I agree, which is why I advise you not to bury your emotions — especially now, when they urgently need to be aired. Okay? Please don’t allow a scenario in which they will emerge later in ugly ways.

Instead, find the courage to express them soon — in the most loving ways possible, hopefully, and with respect for people who may not be entirely receptive to them.

Communicate with compassionate clarity.

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian author Cristin O’Keefe

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo poet Charles Wright testi-

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the past few weeks, I hope you’ve

kind of darkness encroaches, we’re right to be afraid.

In fact, it’s often wise to be afraid, because doing so may motivate us to ward off or transmute the darkness. But on other occasions, the disheartening darkness that seems to be encroaching isn’t real, or else is actually less threatening than we imagine. Novelist John Steinbeck described the latter when he wrote, “I know beyond all doubt that the dark things crowding in on me either did not exist or were not dangerous to me, and still I was afraid.” My suspicion is that this is the nature of the darkness you’re currently worried about. Can you therefore find a way to banish or at least diminish your fear?

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Unexpressed emotions will never

Leo? The coming weeks will be a fine time to take an inventory of your beliefs — and then divest yourself of any that no longer serve you, no longer excite you, and no longer fit your changing understanding of how life works. For extra credit, I invite you to dream up some fun new beliefs that lighten your heart and stimulate your playfulness. For example, you could borrow poet Charles Wright’s approach: “I believe what the thunder and lightning have to say.” Or you could try my idea: “I believe in wonders and marvels that inspire me to fulfill my most interesting dreams.”

CAPRICORN

Santa Barbara Beautiful

(Feb. 19-Mar. 20): “Some people, if they didn’t make it

hard for themselves, might fall asleep,” wrote novelist Saul Bellow. In other words, some of us act as if it’s entertaining, even exciting, to attract difficulties and cause problems for ourselves. If that describes you even a tiny bit, Pisces, I urge you to tone down that bad habit in the coming weeks — maybe even see if you can at least partially eliminate it. The cosmic rhythms will be on your side whenever you take measures to drown out the little voices in your head that try to undermine and sabotage you. At least for now, say “NO!” to making it hard for yourself. Say “YES!” to making it graceful for yourself.

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Mar 25. Apr 1, 8, 15 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DON CAMELON TAQUERIA LLC at 302 E. Haley Street #B Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Don Camelon Taqueria LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 5, 2021. 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: 2021‑0000610. Mar 25. Apr 1, 8, 15 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DRW GLOBAL at 218 Sherwood Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Douglas R. Weinstein (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 3, 2021. 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: 2021‑0000579. Mar 25. Apr 1, 8, 15 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SG ASSOCIATES at 1117 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; SG Associates, Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 16, 2021. 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: 2021‑0000747. Mar 25. Apr 1, 8, 15 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CAPITAL PACIFIC DEVELOPMENT GROUP, CAPITAL PACIFIC HOMES at 209 W. Alamar Ave., Ste A Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Center Point Development Group, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 4, 2021. 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: 2021‑0000592. Mar 25. Apr 1, 8, 15 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RVP CATTLE CO. at 3229 Calle Rosales Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Lone Oak Cattle Company LLC 265 Meadowlark Rd Santa Ynez, CA 93460 This business is conducted by a General Partnership County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 12, 2021. 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: 2021‑0000704. Mar 25. Apr 1, 8, 15 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HUSTLE MEDIA at 5511 Ekwill Street Suite D Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Master Clean USA Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 18, 2021.

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: 2021‑0000786. Mar 25. Apr 1, 8, 15 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ARRAY CREATIVE DESIGN at 414 De La Vina Street Unit A Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Erika Bellitt (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 10, 2021. 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: 2021‑0000660. Mar 25. Apr 1, 8, 15 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JANE OF ALL TRADES at 1217 East Rice Ranch Road Santa Maria, CA 93455; Nina L. Russaw (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 18, 2021. 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: 2021‑0000791. Mar 25. Apr 1, 8, 15 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: EQUIPPED FITNESS SOLUTIONS at 518 E. Sola Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Equippedfs LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 19, 2021. 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: 2021‑0000818.

Mar 25. Apr 1, 8, 15 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as:BOARD AND BRUSH at 31 E. Canon Perdido Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Francie Rose, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 22, 2021. 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: 2021‑0000828. Apr 1, 8, 15, 22 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as:ALPHA COATINGD CLEANING at 924 W Apricot Avenue, Unit 102 Lompoc, CA 93436; Jadus Legacy, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 04, 2021. 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: 2021‑0000598.

Apr 1, 8, 15, 22 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: THYME PLUS BOTANICALS at 14 Oak Street Suite A Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Restorative Organics, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Serena Berry County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 16, 2021.

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: 2021‑0000737.

Apr 1, 8, 15, 22 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: PAYJUNCTION at 1903 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Messiahic Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corportion Serena Berry County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 25, 2021. 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: 2021‑0000848. Apr 1, 8, 15, 22 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHUCK WAGON WINES, CIRCA 55 CELLARS, HERITAGE RANCH CELLARS, MIMICRY WINES, PARA EL ALMA WINES, SADDLE RANCH CELLARS at 35 Industrial Way Buellton, CA 93427; Terravant Wine Company, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 15, 2021. 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: 2021‑0000718. Apr 8, 15, 22, 29 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OA CONSULTING at 4551 Brighton Place Santa Maria, CA 93455; Susan E Gibbons (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 26, 2021. 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: 2021‑0000867. Apr 8, 15, 22, 29 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MR. DEW DAB at 948 W. Chestnut Ave Apt D Santa Barbara, CA 93436; Meesha Rose (same address) Lafa Jones (same address) This business is conducted by a General Partnership County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 2, 2021. 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: 2021‑0000951.

Apr 8, 15, 22, 29 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JERROCA at 588 Mills Way Goleta, CA 93117; Charuwan M Pichardo (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 30, 2021. 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: 2021‑0000903.

Apr 8, 15, 22, 29 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EFS at 518 E Sola Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Equippedfs LLC (same address) This business is conducted by aLimited Liability Company County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 26, 2021. 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: 2021‑0000884.

Apr 1, 8, 15, 22 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CREATE ORDER TILE at 228 North Street Lompoc, CA 93436; Karis E. Clinton (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 26, 2021. 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: 2021‑0000860. Apr 8, 15, 22, 29 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AK AUTO REPAIR at 814 E Cota St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Arsen Kagramanov (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 12, 2021. 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: 2021‑0000683. Mar 25. Apr 1, 8, 15 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: OLD COWDOGS at 2273 Alamo Pintado Rd. Solvang, CA 93463; Alamar Media, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 17, 2021. 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: 2021‑0000772. Apr 8, 15, 22, 25 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SLO CURIO at 1117 1/2 Olive St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Jeeyon Roslie (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 29, 2021. 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: 2021‑0000888.

Apr 8, 15, 22, 29 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE EDGE APARTMENTS at 6509 Pardall St Goleta, CA 93117; Ladera Townhomes LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 17, 2021. 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: 2021‑0000769. Apr 1, 8, 15, 22 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: ORG‑GARDEN LANDSCAPE at 5832 Mandarin Dr Apt C Goleta, CA 93117; Benedicto Cuevas (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 12, 2021. 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: 2021‑0000681. Apr 8, 15, 22, 29 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as:ALPHA SURFACEPRO at 924 W. Apricot Ave. Unit 102 Santa Barbara, CA 93436; Jadus Legacy LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 22, 2021. 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: 2021‑0000824. Apr 1, 8, 15, 22 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GRASSLAND GROWERS at 4045 Foothill Road Carpinteria, CA 93013; Robert Abe 1020 ‘D’ Bailard Ave. Carpinteria, CA 93013 This business is conducted by a Individual County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 17, 2021. 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: 2021‑0000763. Apr 1, 8, 15, 22 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: METROPOLITAN GANSTER at 27 West Anapamu St, #265 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Jonathan P Holmes (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 29, 2021. 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: 2021‑0000893.

Apr 8, 15, 22, 29 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CALIFORNIA VINS at 4390 Calle Real #A Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Lorraine Cole 843 Portesuello Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by Lori Cole a Individual County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 16, 2021. 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: 2021‑0000700. Apr 8, 15, 22, 29 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NOTOWN TAVERN at 5114 Hollister Avenue Santa Barbara. CA 93111; Liquid Essentials LLC 2785 Painted Cave Road Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Jill Tucker, Managing Member County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 16, 2021.

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: 2021‑0000748. Apr 8, 15, 22, 29 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LUQUE TRANSPORT at 4413 Hacienda Dr Guadalupe, CA 93434; Martin Jr. Luque (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 22, 2021. 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: 2021‑0000827. April 8, 15, 22, 29 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ADOBE PET HOSPITAL at 3230 State Street Suite A Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Mission City Veterinary Hospital, Inc (Same Address) This business is conducted by An Corporation Signed:Evelyn Brand County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 26, 2021. 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. E35.

FBN Number: 2021‑0000880. Apr 15, 22, 29, May 06 2021.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SOLEIL RESIDENTIAL at 5387 Paseo Cameo Santa Barbara. CA 93111; Tracey Messner (Same Address) This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Tracey Messner, Owner County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 25, 2021. 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.

E953. FBN Number: 2021‑0000851. Apr 15, 22, 29, May 06 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: STEPPING STONES CONSULTANTS at 758 Via Miguel Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Michiel A De Bruin (Same Address) This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Michiel A De Bruin County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 06, 2021.

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.

E35. FBN Number: 2021‑0000978. Apr 15, 22, 29, May 06 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AMPLIFY WINES at 2320 Thompson Way, Ste F Santa Maria, CA 93455; Cameron Michael Porter (Same Address) and Marlen Sosa Porter (Same Address) This business is conducted by A Married Couple Signed: Marlen Porter, Co‑Owner County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 25, 2021. 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.

E24. FBN Number: 2021‑0000847. Apr 15, 22, 29, May 06 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LITTLE LADY BUTTERFLY at 1436 Santa Fe Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Valerie A Selvaggio (Same Address) This business is conducted by An Individual Signed: Valerie Selvaggio County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 08, 2021. 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. E35. FBN Number: 2021‑0001010. Apr 15, 22, 29, May 06 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THOUGHTBOX PHOTO BOOTH at 4545 Atascadero Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Jacob Pighetti (Same Address) This business is conducted by An Individual Signed: Jacob Pighetti County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 02, 2021. 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. E953. FBN Number: 2021‑0001007. Apr 15, 22, 29, May 06 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ARCADIAN WINERY at 300 Central Avenue #6 Lompoc, CA 93427; Joseph Davis (Same Address) This business is conducted by An Individual Signed:Joseph Davis County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 12, 2021. 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. E35. FBN Number: 2021‑0001007. Apr 15, 22, 29, May 06 2021.

NAME CHANGE IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF LEO RICARD VALENCIA AKA RICHAD R. VALENCIA ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 21CV00730 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: LEO RICHARD VALENCIA AKA RICHARD R. VALENCIA TO: RICK RICHARD VALENCIA THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must aooear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed , the court may grant the petition withouta hearing. Notice of Hearing Apr 19, 2021 10:00 am, Dept 5, Courthouse, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent,

a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Mar 01, 2021.

by Colleen K. Sterne. of the Superior Court.

Published. Mar 25. Apr 1, 8, 15 2021.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF VICTOR PLASCENCIA PLASCENCIA TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER:21CV00848 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: VICTOR PLASCENCIA PLASCENCIA TO: VICTOR PLASENCIA THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must aooear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed , the court may grant the petition withouta hearing. Notice of Hearing May 10, 2021 10:00 am, Dept 5, Courthouse, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Mar 19, 2021.

by Colleen K. Superior. of the Superior Court.

Published. Apr 1, 8, 15, 22 2021.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF TERRY ANN TABACCHI TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER:21CV01034

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: TERRY ANN TABACCHI TO: TERRY ANN THOMPSON THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must aooear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed , the court may grant the petition withouta hearing.

Notice of Hearing May 11, 2021 10:00 am, Dept 3, Courthouse, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Mar 22, 2021. by tHOMAS p. aNDERLE. Superior. of the Superior Court. Published. Apr 8, 15, 22, 29 2021.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF MILES WILLIAM ASHLOCK TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER:21CV00830 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: MILES WILLIAM ASHLOCK TO: MILES WILLIAM ASHLOCK BURKE THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before

this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must aooear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed , the court may grant the petition withouta hearing. Notice of Hearing May 10, 2021 10:00 am, Dept 5, Courthouse, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Mar 19, 2021. by Colleen K. Superior. of the Superior Court.

Published. Apr 8, 15, 22, 29 2021.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF PATRICIA ELLEN COTTRELL TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER:21CV00809 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: PATRICIA ELLEN COTTRELL TO: PATRICIA ELLEN COTTRELL‑MARKS THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must aooear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Design Review Board Goleta City Hall – Council Chambers (Electronically and Telephonically) 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B Goleta, CA 93117 Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 3:00 P.M. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Design Review Board (DRB) of the City of Goleta will conduct an Electronic public hearing on the date set forth above to consider the following new project: Conceptual/Preliminary Final One Plant Signage 290 Storke Road (APN 073-100-030) Case No. 21-0006-DRB Wingman Rodeo Signage 5892 Hollister Avenue (APN 071-052-014) Case No. 21-0007-DRB Parking Lot Shade Canopies and Equipment Pad Screening 1 S. Los Carneros Road (073-330-074) Case No. 21-0005-DRB Advisory Review Goleta Train Depot Project 27 South La Patera (APN 073-050-033) ATTENTION: Pursuant to of the Governor’s Executive Order N-29-20 dated March 17, 2020 authorizing local jurisdictions subject to the Brown Act to hold public meetings telephonically and electronically in order to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, the regular meeting of the Design Review Board for April 27, 2021 will be conducted telephonically and electronically. It will be broadcast live on the City’s website and on Cable Goleta Channel 19. The Council Chambers will not be open to the public during the meeting. Design Review Board Members will be participating telephonically and will not be physically present in the Council Chambers.

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

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

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

Publish: Santa Barbara Independent, April 15, 2021

objection is timely filed , the court may grant the petition withouta hearing. Notice of Hearing May 21, 2021 10:00 am, Dept 4, Courthouse, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Mar 25, 2021. by Colleen K. Superior. of the Superior Court.

Published. Apr 8, 15, 22, 29 2021.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA In the matter of: MCDONALD FAMILY TRUST dated March 30, 2001, as amended Case No. 21PR00149 NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF PAULA D. McDONALD, Deceased [PROB C §§19003, 19040(b), 19052] Notice is hereby given to the creditors and contingent creditors of Paula D. McDonald (Decedent) that all persons having claims against the Decedent are required to file them with the Superior Court, at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107, and deliver pursuant to Section 1215 of the California Probate Code a copy to Catherine M. Brunner, as Trustee of the McDonald Family Trust dated March 30, 2001, as amended, wherein the decedent was the surviving Settlor, at 1000 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1500, Los Angeles, California 90017‑1730, within the latter of four months after April 08, 2021 (the date of the first publication of notice to creditors) or, if notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, 60 days after the date this notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, or you must petition to file a late claim as provided in Probate Code §19103. A claim form may

be obtained from the court clerk. For your protection, you are encouraged to file your claim by certified mail, with return receipt requested. DATED: March 31, 2021.

Parisa F. Weiss, Esq., Attorney for Trustee Published Apr 8, 15, 22, 29 2021.

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ANACAPA DIVISION In re Shirley J. Otto Revocable Trust Case No. 21PR00146 NOTICE TO CREDITORS [PROB C §§19040(b), 19052] Notice is hereby given to the creditors and contingent creditors of Shirley J. Otto (Decedent) that all persons having claims against the Decedent are required to file them with the Superior Court, at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, California, and deliver a copy to Joe Bourdeau, as trustee of the Shirley J. Otto Revocable Trust dated June 12, 2015, of which Decendent was the settlor, c/o the Law Offices of James F. Cote, P.O. Box 20146, Santa Barbara, CA 93120‑0146, as provided to Section 1215 within the latter of four months after April 15, 2021 (the date of the first publication of notice to creditors) or, if notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, 60 days after the date this notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, or you must petition to file a late claim as provided in Probate Code §19103. A claim form may be obtained from the court clerk. For your protection, you are encouraged to file your claim by certified mail, with return receipt requested.

DATED: March 30, 2021.

Law Offices of James F. Cote Published Apr 15, 22, 29 2021.

PUBLIC NOTICES EXTRA SPACE STORAGE will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 6640 Discovery

Drive, Goleta CA. 93117. February 25, 2021 at 3:30 PM Cynthia Bollinger furniture, art, piano, household goods, boxes Kaci Prati Household, Tools, Personal, Sporting Santa Barbra Technology X Containers, Bins, Mechanical parts The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

EXTRA SPACE Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 6640 Discovery Drive, Goleta CA. 93117. April 29, 2021 at 3:30 PM Donald Young Boxes Home goods Julian Hayes Personal, clothes, shoes, bed, sports equip.

Jonas Meisenheimer Surf boards, bed, personal Christine Barrios Bags, boxes, tv, couches, furniture, clothes, shoes, personal The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

Published April 15, 2021

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING City Council Meeting 5:30 p.m. April 20, 2021 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Goleta will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, April 20, 2021 at 5:30 p.m., at the City of Goleta, City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite. B, Goleta, CA to: Consider adoption of resolutions modifying the City of Goleta User Fees and Charges Schedules. The User Fees schedules include but are not limited to all City service, permitting and use fees with the exception of Developer Impact Fees. A list of proposed fees is available for public viewing during normal business hours at the City of Goleta Offices, at 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, CA. PUBLIC COMMENT: All interested persons are encouraged to attend the public hearing and to present written and/or oral comments. Written submittals concerning agenda items may be sent to the City Clerk Group e-mail: cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org; or mail: Attn: City Council and City Clerk at 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B Goleta, California 93117. In order to be disseminated to the City Council for consideration during the Council meeting, written information must be submitted to the City Clerk no later than Monday at noon prior to the City Council meeting. Material received after this time may not be reviewed by the City Council prior to the meeting.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Please see the posted agenda, available on Thursday, April 15, 2021 on City of Goleta’s website www.cityofgoleta.org.

Note: In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this hearing, please contact the City Clerk at (805) 9617505 or email cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org. Notification at least 72 hours prior to the hearing is required to enable City staff to make reasonable arrangements.

ATTENTION: Pursuant to of the Governor’s Executive Order N-29-20 dated March 17, 2020 authorizing local jurisdictions subject to the Brown Act to hold public meetings telephonically and electronically in order to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, the regular meeting of the City Council for April 20, 2021 will be conducted telephonically and electronically. It will be broadcast live on the City’s website and on Cable Goleta Channel 19. The Council Chambers will not be open to the public during the meeting. City Council will be participating telephonically and will not be physically present in the Council Chambers.

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

Deborah Lopez City Clerk Publish: April 8, 2021 Publish: April 15, 2021 INDEPENDENT.COM INDEPENDENT.COM

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