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Two San Marcos Student Body Presidents

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Historic Arnoldi’s Café Closes by John Dickson

I Madonnari Is Back by Leslie Dinaberg

Ten Years After I.V. Killings by Sierra van der Brug

SBCC Athletics Hall of Fame by Victor Bryant by GLENN HUNTER

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Spiritual Issues • Communication • Conflict

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This past week, our writer Joe Woodard made a reference to a band he was a part of in the ‘80s. His band was called the Loud Family the same name of the original reality TV Santa Barbara family he was reporting on. And this week, we asked Woodard to tell us about his local band experience:

“Of all the many bands I’ve been involved in over the years, I’ve always had a warm feeling about the strange one we called the Loud Family. In the late ‘80s, it started with my brother David who often played with his white pet rat on his shoulder along with the talented and high-coiffed Anita Visser and drummer Tom Lackner. The name came out of a family feeling in the group, because we ‘might get loud’ at gigs and because I had been obsessed with the actual Loud family of An American Family fame.

“Writing an article about the new podcast on the Louds and connecting with Grant Loud who I remembered being in a band in the series stirred up memories of our musical Loud Family. I dug up photos and an old demo tape and put up a funky web page, also getting the music on all the usual digital platforms.

“This version of the Loud Family replaced David with singer-songwriter Cara Tower and now had nimble drummer Peter Markiewicz (a k a Mars) on board. We got serious-ish, entertaining fantasies of making it whatever that means and cooked up a danceable stew with influences ranging from Prince to the Talking Heads, King Crimson, and maybe a new-wave girl group or two. I remember the fun and funk of playing at Joseppi’s quite a bit and pop-up gigs at Pepper’s and Oscar’s along with other places my memory has lost track of.

“Fame did not come knocking at our family’s door: The women headed east, and soon, another band had ‘stolen’ our name. But big fun was had, and archives refuse to die. Maybe a line from our song ‘Thirsty World’ sums up the story: ‘There’s no measure of success or fame to convey / a jumbo cup o’ happiness when you’re lost in space.’ ” See https://bit.ly/3WUDOeK.

The Loud Family band featuring, clockwise from lower right, Joe Woodard, Cara Tower, Tom Lackner, and Anita Visser.

NEWS of the WEEK

by RYAN P. CRUZ, CALLIE FAUSEY, JACKSON FRIEDMAN, TYLER HAYDEN, NICK WELSH, and JEAN YAMAMURA, with INDEPENDENT STAFF

NEWS BR IEFS

There’s a New McAdoo in Town

Subterranean Surprise Greets New City Administrator First Day on Job

COURTS & CRIME

by Nick Welsh

If Kelly McAdoo was alarmed by news that four underground storage tanks had just accidentally been unearthed by city work crews three feet underground during a routine sidewalk inspection by Chapala and Carrillo streets, she wasn’t showing it. McAdoo is Santa Barbara’s newest city administrator, and Monday was her first day on the job. Underground storage tanks are never good news.

Even under the most benign of circumstances, they’re costly and cumbersome to clean up. Rarely are the contaminants involved sufficiently inert to be allowed to remain where they are. No fewer than four regulatory agencies have to sign off on whatever happens next. And all that collective decision-making can chew up time.

And in this case, there’s not much time to spare.

The $64 million question is what effect if any this will have on long-incubating plans to relocate Santa Barbara’s intensely popular farmers’ market from its current digs at the city parking lot by Cota and Santa Barbara

Ambulance Monopoly Trial Postponed

Settlement Talks Start Between AMR and County

by Nick Welsh

The knock-down, drag-out courtroom slug fest scheduled to take place this July between American Medical Response (AMR) and the Santa Barbara County supervisors over their decision to award the county’s lucrative 10-year ambulance contract to the County Fire Department has been postponed until November. This delay is to allow settlement talks to proceed and to allow both sides to pursue discovery in preparation for trial should those talks prove fruitless.

In a case with national ramifications, AMR the private emergency medical services company that for decades has provided near-exclusive ambulance services countywide sued the county, charging the supervisors had violated their own detailed bidding processes multiple times to award the contract estimated to be worth nearly $1 billion to the firefighters.

In addition, the company alleged the supervisors violated a state law designed to safeguard against the undue monopolization of emergency medical services. The irony here is that the supervisors have insisted their action was designed to break the monopolis-

tic chokehold they contend AMR has held for the past 41 years.

Filing a brief in support of AMR was California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who expressed concern that the supervisors were promulgating a new monopoly of their own.

And in a key procedural skirmish earlier this year, Judge Donna Geck issued a withering 33-page ruling in favor of AMR’s position and set the trial on the merits of the case for July.

Both sides have launched discovery blitzkriegs against the other, demanding depositions and documents from the other side in hopes of bolstering their positions. According to legal filings, both sides have responded to such requests in good faith, but the volume sought and the time required to satisfy such requests necessitated an extension of the trial date.

Aside from the dollar amounts on paper, the contract is worth $83 million in service billings and $20 million in actual payments the stakes could not be higher. Across the country, local fire agencies have been pushing to take over emergency response contracts traditionally held by private monopolies. That the county supervisors did just that has made Santa Barbara the tip of

what appears to be a long spear.

Local firefighters have argued they can provide better, faster, cheaper service because no profits are extracted to bolster the bottom line of some out-of-state private corporation. A majority of the supervisors agreed, even if that meant ignoring the recommendation of the county’s Local Emergency Medical Services Authority and the panel created by that board to evaluate competing bid proposals. AMR’s initial bid outperformed the firefighters’ by 300 points.

The firefighters have contended that the reviewing agency has been populated by individuals who worked for AMR prior to the bidding war, after the initial bid results were made public, or in one case, both.

Should settlement talks flounder and the case eventually go to trial, it’s likely to prove long, technically tedious, and exceptionally bruising. In the meantime, AMR will continue to provide exclusive ambulance services in Santa Barbara County, the 35 ambulances purchased by the county fire department will collect more dust, and the hiring process initiated by fire brass to staff the new service will remain on ice. Should the county back down or lose, those new ambulances will be sold. n

The Wendy Foster empire dropped from six boutiques to five with the announcement on 5/14 it would close its State Street location, which had been a staple for women’s clothing simply suited to Santa Barbara climate or, as humorist David Sedaris once described, “At night it cools down, just so you can wear cashmere.” Foster’s moderately high-end fashions were found for nearly 40 years on the street corner of Canon Perdido and State before the downtown store moved to 1220 State Street a few years ago. Foster’s Facebook notice expressed the regret of leaving but gave no indication why, except to say they would be gone by the end of their lease in May.

The Santa Barbara–rooted dream of growing a worldclass coffee-farming industry in Southern California may not be over, but it’s certainly facing a financial nightmare right now. In January, Frinj Coffee which was founded by Goleta farmer Jay Ruskey in 2017 and enlisted more than 70 farms across the state to grow beans filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, claiming about $215,000 in assets while listing more than $1.8 million in liabilities. Additionally, the company’s former head roaster, Paige Gesualdo, is suing the company as well as Ruskey and two more executives for fraud, breach of contract, and various employment-related claims. Read more at independent. com/business.

HOUSING

The City of Santa Barbara is moving forward with a $5 million loan toward a 48-unit low-income housing development proposed by the city’s Housing Authority at a former medical and dental office site on La Cumbre Road. The city’s portion of the funding would come from its affordable housing reserves and represent nearly 10 percent of the total $52.7 million cost of the project. Housing and Human Services Manager Laura Dubbels detailed the proposal for the city’s Finance Committee on 5/21, saying that 47 of the proposed one-to-threebedroom units would be set aside for “lower-income families.” Read more at independent.com/housing

GOLETA

The Heritage Ridge housing development is still going through its planning paces; the National Housing Trust Fund has just granted $4.7 million to the Housing Authority of the County of Santa Barbara (HASBARCO) for the building of 60 affordable homes at the project. The nonprofit agency has the ability to access extremely competitive bonds and tax credits, which in turn enabled it to leverage the grant toward acquiring the $57.6 million needed to build the 60 units, said Bob Havlicek, executive director for HASBARCO. The grant money was part of $7.1 million in federal housing grants that are being sent to Congressmember Salud Carbajal’s district.

Kelly McAdoo, Santa Barbara’s newest city administrator, said the Cota Street farmers’ market should still be able to make its September 7 move to its new home at the intersection of State and Carrillo streets despite the recent discovery of underground storage tanks nearby.

NICK WELSH

Miramar Expansion Moves Ahead

Neighborhood Split on New Housing, Retail Project

Rby Tyler Hayden

osewood Miramar Resort owner Rick Caruso pulled the trigger this week on the planned expansion of his triple fivestar hotel, filing a formal application with the county planning department to construct 34 units of employee housing, eight luxury apartments, and a collection of boutique shops on the property’s existing parking lots.

The news comes just days after the Montecito Association heard another round of fiery opposition from a group of Miramar neighbors, along with equally passionate support from other residents.

Those against the project worry it will commercialize their small residential neighborhood and make traffic congestion, already a problem, even worse. They miss the old Miramar, which was accessible to the middle class, and criticize the new version for catering to the ultra-wealthy with beachside rooms starting at $5,495 a night.

Those in favor of the proposal say Caruso and the Miramar have proven themselves to be kind and considerate neighbors who brought the long-abandoned property back from a “rat-infested wasteland,” and who should be applauded for now building much-needed workforce housing when few other employers are willing to do so.

Among those who expressed their concerns this week was Reverend Channing Smith, rector for the All Saints-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church adjacent to the hotel. Smith told the Montecito Association the two-story structures planned for the western parking lot would all but obliterate the church’s view corridors, especially from within its new memorial chapel that looks toward the Santa Ynez Mountains. The chapel was funded by the late philanthropist Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree, who is also interned there.

The 124-year-old church, Montecito’s first Episcopalian parish, is the “defining historic feature” of the neighborhood, Smith said. When Caruso started rebuilding the Miramar in 2016, the billionaire Los Angeles developer agreed to relocate a section of rooms to save the church’s views. Smith said he still hoped Caruso would compromise again.

The rector also had a hard time believing the Miramar’s assurances that parking would not become a bigger issue for the area, he said, noting the church has accommodated overflow parking from the hotel a number of times in recent years. The hotel has stated the undergrounding of its western lot will actually add 55 spaces to its overall number.

Cliff Gherson, the unofficial leader of the opposition, described the 17,000-squarefoot retail and café expansion as a new “luxury shopping mall” that would disrupt the tranquility of their neighborhood. “Are we going to ignore our well-thought-out and carefully developed Community Plan?” he asked the board. “Or will Montecito sell its soul to an outside developer, in exchange for a convenient cup of coffee, or a stylish scarf?”

The neighbors who spoke in favor of the project frequently cited the 34 new units of employee housing planned for the Miramar’s eastern lot, 26 of which the hotel said would be designated “affordable” and target its housekeepers, cooks, and other line staff.

Richard Rockenbach said Caruso was “putting his money where his mouth is” to support his workers and thanked him for doing so without using any public financing.

Santa Barbara County is required by state law to build more housing, Rockenbach continued, and the Miramar had been identified as a suitable location in Montecito for new units. So was Manning Park up the street. Building at the hotel would remove the park from consideration, he said, and save the community even more potential heartache.

Other supportive neighbors pointed out that the Miramar is the largest contributor of bed taxes to the county and is Montecito’s biggest private employer. One called it a “gem” for the neighborhood that her children from out of town are always excited to visit, and she said she had faith Caruso would maintain his same high standards for the expansion, both visually and operationally.

The Miramar has initiated a traffic study with a third-party contractor that will be completed in the coming months, representatives said. The project application with its detailed site plan will be available for public viewing next week. n

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A rendering of the Miramar’s proposed retail and apartment additions as seen from the corner of Eucalyptus and South Jameson lanes

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ENVIRONMENT

Channel Too Noisy for Whales

Imagine two people trying to hold a conversation at the Santa Barbara Bowl.

If the venue is empty, it would be easy, even from a distance.

Now imagine they are attending a soldout rock ’n’ roll concert. Sound is resonating throughout the bowl-shaped amphitheater, drowning out the voices of people just a few seats away. Any attempts at conversation are difficult and muddled.

The Santa Barbara Channel, in a way, is like its own underwater amphitheater, full of whales and other creatures that rely on sound and echolocation to communicate and perceive the world around them. But, in terms of noise, these animals are in the middle of a perpetual rock concert.

For them, the once-quiet Channel can be noisier than a concert at the Bowl.

A recent study published in Marine Pollution Bulletin found that the Channel is about 30 times louder than it once was, pre–industrial revolution and before commercial shipping changed the soundscape.

The study compared noise levels from August 2017 to those of the same area before the introduction of cargo vessels in the 1950s. Back then, the channel’s baseline volume was around 60 to 80 decibels, which is a whisper compared to today’s levels. Now, the channel is up to 15 decibels louder.

“We’re increasingly concerned about how this affects marine life, and whales in particular, because their world is a world of sound,” explained Sean Hastings, a policy, information, and management officer with the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary.

“They use sound to communicate, to migrate, to find each other, to mate, to find food. And they certainly don’t depend on vision as much as humans, down in the deep, dark ocean. These animals have evolved a dependence on sound to survive.”

Not only is the Channel a designated Whale Heritage Area one of the most important whale migration routes in the United States, but it is also en route to the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the two busiest ports in the Western Hemisphere.

Under the surface, it is where endangered humpbacks and Pacific blue whales forage, breed, and birth their calves. But above, it is a busy shipping lane where thousands of container ships transit cargo every year, creating a cacophony of noise in the process.

“It’s a really interesting human-wildlife interaction, where critical habitats are right up next to an industrialized ocean region,” said the study’s lead author, Vanessa ZoBell, a postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. —Callie Fausey Read more at Independent.com

Twelve Mental-Health Beds Funded

Inresponse to mounting frustration over Santa Barbara’s chronically stunted mental-health infrastructure, the county supervisors have approved a spending plan to add 12 new involuntary-hold beds to the mix. Of those, eight will be in the Crisis Stabilization Unit (CSU) and reserved for individuals experiencing short-term mental health crises for which the maximum stay allowed will be 23 hours.

When the CSU was first built nine years ago near the county’s mental-health care campus off Calle Real, it was meant to provide a cooling-off spot for individuals at risk of exceeding their boiling point. The hope was that it would divert people who might otherwise need the services of the county’s chronically overwhelmed Psychiatric Health Facility (PHF) with only 16 involuntary beds reserved for those posing an immediate threat to themselves or others.

While the PHF beds are locked at least for three days the CSU beds were not;

patients could not be kept against their will. This significantly reduced its utility to those dealing with people in acute crisis. That, coupled with staffing shortages long plaguing the county’s Department of Behavioral Wellness, explains why the facility has been either unused or seriously underutilized since its grand opening. Under the new arrangement, the CSU will now be a locked facility. And it will no longer be run by Behavioral Wellness but by Crestwood, a private mental-health care contractor. The same spending plan approved by the supervisors will also cover the cost of adding four new beds to Crestwood’s 32-bed Lompoc facility for seriously mentally ill individuals now locked up in county jail.

“These are locked beds for people on conservatorships that provide intensive mental-health treatment,” explained Spencer Brandt, staff assistant to Supervisor Das Williams. “While four beds might sound small, when you consider the PHF is capped at 16, this is a significant expansion of capacity.”

The supervisors voted to authorize spending $23 million in state funds funneled through what’s called the Community Corrections Partnership (CCP) designed to keep people with serious mental-health issues out of the criminal justice system and get them into intensive treatment instead.

The newly constituted CSU beds are scheduled to open for service May 28.

Nick Welsh

BUDGET

City Trudges Through Budget Reviews

Council Hears Projections for Fiscal Year

by Ryan P. Cruz

Santa Barbara City Coun-

cil continued its review of the Fiscal Year 2025 recommended budget on Tuesday, hearing details on the overall costs and revenues for the city’s enterprise budgets including the airport, waterfront, and downtown parking fund.

The “enterprise budgets” are outside of the general fund and are intended to pay for themselves, with revenues offsetting the costs of doing business, but as the city approaches an estimated budget deficit of at least $7.1 million, city leaders are taking a close look at how to mitigate that deficit, which could grow to more than $11 million due to the recent struggles of the downtown parking fund.

he said, while instituting $30 a month or $300 annually would end up costing the city up to $700,000 in revenue. Altogether, if council passes every new suggestion, it could cost the city nearly $3 million in expected revenues.

FOOD WASTE 101!

Help reduce food waste in Santa Barbara County!

Wasted food can hurt the planet and our wallets! Here are our favorite food waste tips:

Inventory and use what you have before you buy more.

Be creative by using the edible parts of foods that you normally throw away.

Donate healthy, safe, and untouched foods to food banks.

Freeze or preserve surplus fruits and vegetables.

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Food Recovery Hierarchy

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The original Fiscal Year 2025 recommended budget considered a radical overhaul of the city’s downtown parking program, which would have shortened the free-parking periods in both lots and garages and instituted a new pay-for-parking model on city streets for the first time in the city’s history. But last week when the plan was presented to the City Council, its members made it clear that they wanted nothing to do with the proposed price hikes.

Instead, council directed staff to come back with another plan to extend the free parking period to 90 minutes in lots and garages, and maintain a 75-minute free parking period on the street. Council also recommended that the city look into employee and local passes, and to look into other funding sources to operate and maintain the hardware.

On Tuesday, Finance Director Keith DeMartini gave the council a peek at what this could mean to the parking fund: an expected $3.8 million deficit.

With the changes originally recommended by staff, the parking fund was projected to bring in $16.3 million with expenditures at $15 million. But after the council shot down that plan last week, DeMartini estimated that expected revenues could fall to $13.4 million in 2025, while costs will rise to $17.5 million.

“Now that the city is moving in a new direction,” DeMartini said, “it is important to note that there will be revenue implications because of that.”

The decision to extend the free-parking period was considered a win for the community, but DeMartini explained that it could cost the city a minimum of $1.4 million in lost revenue. Reducing employee passes from $140-$165 to around $70 a month would amount to $800,000 in revenue loss,

In the meantime, the city will look into alternative funding sources, such as Measure C funds for capital improvements up to $2.8 million, or transferring money from the general fund to pay for State Street plaza maintenance. As it is, the city may have to transfer funds to account for the depleted Downtown Parking Fund reserves, which is projected to end with a $5.6 million shortfall by the end of 2025.

DeMartini said staff will continue to evaluate parking options, and the council can make their ultimate decision during final budget deliberation on June 4 and budget adoption on June 11.

In total, the eight enterprise funds which include airport, downtown parking, golf course, waterfront, and wastewater/solid waste funds are projected to bring in a combined $280 million in revenues in 2025, while costing more than $279 million in expenses.

Across the board, the city has struggled to match the growing costs of salaries, benefits, and insurance. For the city’s self-insured properties, costs increased by 32 percent from in 2022, then by 24 percent and 23 percent in the next two years.

“Those are very, very steep increases,” DeMartini said.

The Waterfront Fund, which brings in about $22.1 million in revenues against $23.2 million in expenses, has also suffered from the insurance hikes. The deductible for Stearns Wharf has increased from a quarter-million to more than $3 million in just three years.

The City Council made no action, but will continue budget deliberations on June 4. To view the city administrator’s recommended budget in full, visit the city website (santabarbaraca.gov). n

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The City Council shot down a radical overhaul of the city’s downtown parking program, directing staff to come back with another plan that would extend free parking in lots, among other things.

EVENTS

The Earth Under Our Feet

Thursday, June 6, 5 – 8 pm

Through June 2 FINAL WEEKS! At the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara Made by Hand / Born Digital

August

1130 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA

Tuesday–Sunday 11 am–5 pm • Thursday 11 am–8 pm Get advance tickets at tickets.sbma.net.

Construction of Clay Wall Sunday, June 9, 1 – 4 pm

Interactive Public Performance Front Terrace Free

Thursday, June 6, 5:30 – 7:30 pm Family 1st Thursday Paper & Cloth Weaving Family Resource Center Free

• Wrongful Termination

Adams law focuses on advocating Employee rights in claims involving:

• Pregnancy Discrimination

• Disability Discrimination

• Racialand Age Discrimination

• Hostile Work Environment

• Misclassified “Salaried” Employees and Independent Contractors

• Working “Off the Clock”

• Sexual Harassment

• COVID/Vaccine Related Termination

• Sexual Harassment Working “Off the Clock”

• Unpaid Overtime Compensation/Bonuses

• Racial and Age Discrimination

• Reimbursement forWork-Related Expenses

• Pregnancy Discrimination Wrongful Termination isability Discrimination

• Unpaid Overtime Compensation/Bonuses

• Denied Mealand Rest Breaks

• Reimbursement for Work-Related Expenses

Hundreds Oppose Naples Project

Zoning Hearing Pushed Due to Flood of Public Comments

by Callie Fausey

Opposition should be expected when trying to build anything on the beloved Gaviota Coast the last undeveloped piece of coastal California and a beautiful, biologically significant region.

But the applicants for a new single-family residence at Naples, just west of Goleta on the Gaviota Coast, were overwhelmed by the hundreds of public comments submitted to the Santa Barbara County Zoning Administrator about their proposed project this week.

The watchdogs of the coast the Gaviota Coast Conservancy (GCC), Santa Barbara Surfrider, and Environmental Defense Center (EDC) rallied the troops against the Napoli Street development, consisting of a 6,500-square-foot estate with a 2,000-square-foot barn, guest house, driveway, and a new on-site water treatment system and wastewater facility.

This proposal is just one piece of the convoluted puzzle that is Santa Barbara Ranch the 71 lots, or “homesites,” that were approved for development in 2008 but have not cleared the complicated hurdles standing in the way of realization.

As summarized by the GCC, “Developers have eyed this picturesque area for development since 1888, but to date none have succeeded.”

Although the newest proposal called the “Seaside Residence & Habitat Restoration” project was scheduled to be heard by the Zoning Administrator on Monday, May 20, the applicant, DMF Fund, LLC, asked to

continue it until July 15 in order to review the heap of public comments, the majority of which requested that the project be denied.

These comments follow a decades-long trend of community members fighting to preserve the coast from fenced-off luxury estates, despite this newest proposal’s promise of restoration.

It would include restoring 0.49 acres of native grassland and 0.14 acres of wetland habitat to resolve illegal disking a type of plow used to cut the soil’s surface that a neighbor conducted on the DMF LLC lot without their approval in 2019, as well as an additional 0.10 acres of native grassland habitat and 0.02 acres of wetland habitat.

According to the Planning and Development (PAD) staff report, the project also includes a voluntary lot merger to reduce the development potential of the four parcels it sits on, an offer-to-dedicate easement for public access and the future development of the California Coastal Trail, and deedrestricted areas for land conservation and low-intensity agriculture use.

However, environmental groups are concerned that the estate would be the first domino to fall in the development of all 71 homesites stuck in limbo at Naples.

The EDC called Naples “the crown jewel of the Gaviota Coast,” adding that the proposed development site lies in the boundaries of the conservation-focused Gaviota Coast Plan and is “home to as many as 15 rare wildlife species, including white-tailed kites,” a small raptor that is protected by the state.

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Ten Years After the Isla Vista Killings

Gun Safety Laws Expand in California and the Nation

by Sierra van der Brug

Richard Martinez sits against a background of colorful art tissue paper squares, vibrant crayon, and blended pastels. It’s a gallery of creations by his only child, Christopher Michaels-Martinez, made when he was in elementary school.

Chris was shot and killed in Isla Vista on May 23, 2014, when he was 20 years old. He and two fellow undergraduates at UC Santa Barbara were fatally shot by Elliot Rodger, a 22-year-old former Santa Barbara City College student who stabbed three students to death, injured seven people with his car, and shot and wounded seven others before killing himself.

In the 10 years since, the Isla Vista massacre has galvanized three local lawmakers to pass gun safety laws including one of the first at the federal level. And Martinez has become a relentless advocate for gun safety in memory of his son.

California became the first state to pass red-flag laws, among them Assembly Bill 104, co-sponsored by Berkeley’s Nancy Skinner and Das Williams, Santa Barbara’s assemblymember in 2014 and now a county supervisor. The law allows relatives and law enforcement to ask a judge to remove firearms from a family member or member of the public for up to five years if the individual poses a threat to themselves or the community. And Hannah-Beth Jackson, a state senator at the time, passed a bill that required law enforcement to make a search of the state gun purchase database a part of welfare, or well-being, checks.

In Santa Barbara County, the red-flag law has been used to obtain an emergency order 21 times in 2023, according to the California Department of Justice. This was up from nine times in 2016, the first year the law was in effect. In all of California, the law was used 1,909 times in 2023, up from 85 times in 2016.

Martinez advocates as a member of the group Everytown for Gun Safety. He is supportive of the red flag laws, but updates and expansions of gun safety legislation are always needed, he said.

“Let me give you this example airplanes. When they crash, we don’t say, ‘Airplane safety measures don’t work;

throw them all out,’” Martinez said. “We find the black box, we study the crash, we figure out what went wrong, and then we improve the regulations. No single law or regulation is going to end gun violence.”

At the federal level, Congressmember Salud Carbajal’s Extreme Risk Protection Order legislation supports state efforts to enact redflag laws. Attempting a law since reaching D.C. in 2017, Carbajal succeeded in 2022. He joined forces with Senator Dianne Feinstein to get a law through Congress that enables states to create, implement, and administer red-flag laws. They now exist in 21 states and the District of Columbia, according to a White House briefing.

Martinez said. “There’s a bill pending right now in the California Legislature to do exactly that, to improve on what’s been done AB 2621.”

AB 2621 would update California’s Gun Violence Restraining Order laws to include hate-crime training for law enforcement. AB 2917 is a related piece of legislation that would allow law enforcement to look at more risk factors when issuing a gun restraining order, including whether an individual has made hate-based threats or may engage in violence for political reasons.

Kendall Pata, the group lead of Santa Barbara’s Moms Demand Action chapter, highlighted the law in relation to Isla Vista.

“Given that the Isla Vista shooting was hate-based the perpetrator was a misogynistic, woman-hating incel who had a clear mission I think it’s really important that laws like this are coming to fruition, because some of these acts are hate-based and we have to look at that,” Pata said.

Moms Demand Action focuses on education. Pata says that each time new legislation is being considered or is passed, her group wants to make sure people know about it.

memorial ceremony will be held at noon on Thursday, May 23, at the Isla Vista Love and Remembrance Garden (977 Embarcadero del Norte) to remember the six who died 10 years ago: George Chen,

“David” Wang, Chen Yuan “James” Hong, Katie Cooper, Veronika

and Christopher Ross Michaels-Martinez. For more information, see ivstrong.as.ucsb.edu

The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act of 2022 was the first piece of legislation to expand gun control on the federal level in more than 30 years.

As a result of the Safer Communities Act, California received $29 million, the most received by a single state for red-flag laws, to improve the process of Gun Violence Restraining Order (GVRO) laws. Additionally, this year, crucial updates to the GVRO laws are being considered by the California Legislature.

“I will always say, yes, it can be improved. We have to study what happens and figure out ways to improve it now,”

“The more bills there are, we have to educate the community about the GVRO and how to use it, and update law enforcement, updating parents, guardians, loved ones it’s just such an important tool,” Pata said of ensuring people are educated about options related to gun violence restraining orders.

Reporter Mark Follman with Mother Jones has investigated the killings extensively, culminating in a new book on the incident. It includes the first public conversation with the killer’s mother, Chin Rodger. She had called the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office for a welfare check on her son a month before the murders, but he succeeded in convincing deputies all was fine. Follman discussed the warning signs Chin Rodger noticed prior to the violence of May 23, 2014.

“Chin came to believe that that prevention would have been possible with different circumstances, namely, having more prevention policy in place and a behavioral threat

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assessment program in the community,” he said.

Through his reporting, conversations with Chin Rodger, and investigators involved with the case, Follman has learned that red-flag laws and threat-assessment policies are instrumental in violence prevention.

“The leader of the team there at the Sheriff’s Office, Dr. Cherylynn Lee, as well as her colleague, Lieutenant Joe Schmidt who was involved in the case 10 years ago as the lead homicide detective both told me that [red-flag laws have] become a, really, an essential tool for threat-management cases, stepping in with people where there’s significant concern of violent planning, and

removing firearms using that law that now exists in California,” Follman said.

Across the past 10 years and into the future, Martinez remembers Chris through his advocacy work, through sharing memories, through his artwork that hangs proudly on display, through the UCSB basketball jersey that reads “Michaels-Martinez” and is emblazoned with Chris’s high school basketball number: five.

“I don’t want to get over it,” Martinez said. “And I don’t want to forget my son. He was the most important thing in my life. But I also feel an obligation to live with my life because he can’t and to do it in a way that honors his memory. It’s a way of moving forward after you’ve been to the bottom.” n

The environmental watchdogs argue that restoration must happen first, and separately, before residential development is considered. An independent environmental review also should be conducted the county is currently relying on an Addendum to the 2008 Santa Barbara Ranch Environmental Impact Report (EIR) and the project is inconsistent with the Gaviota Coast Plan’s policies to protect environmentally sensitive areas and public access.

In addition, they claim the project’s water supply is contaminated and would worsen groundwater quality, and hazards from past oil extraction activities are not identified or accounted for.

However, the County PAD staff recom-

mended the approval of the project, finding that the “development will not result in new significant effects as compared to the 71 homes” analyzed in the Santa Barbara Ranch EIR, and any impacts will be equal to or lesser than those identified in the Ranch EIR. They also found the project to be consistent with the Coastal Zoning Ordinance, Coastal Land Use Plan, and Gaviota Coast Plan.

According to the restoration plan, “The development proposal footprint was designed to avoid impacts on native grassland and wetland resources and associated buffers that were documented on the property and detailed in the 2016 Biological Resources Assessment for the Santa Barbara Ranch Project.”

To be approved, however, the project would need to overcome the anti-development precedent set by steadfast environmentalists over a period of more than 30 years. Should it eventually win approval from the county, it would make local history as the first project to actually break ground on the bluffs at Naples. n

Richard Martinez, father of Isla Vista shooting victim Christopher Michaels-Martinez, continues to work toward improved gun safety laws.

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A Visit by Julia

Julia Child used to come to The Spot, a small burger joint in Carpinteria at Linden and Dorrance Way. She always said it was her favorite cheeseburger. I saw her there once having lunch, a very fun and outgoing person. But we heard of many other visits.

I lived on Dorrance Way for five years, quite the surf scene back then. The Spot was our local hangout for lunch, along with Ralph’s Market, and The Palms for a great steak all-you-could-eat dinner: $3.50 for all the salad, beans, and bread you wanted. (You cooked your own steak!) Both long gone now.

—Dick Saar, Vista

Honkers

Heading home from work. Stopped at red light on East Micheltorena Street.

Just as light changes, guy behind me starts honking.

Jeez, I’m thinking, chill out (or “Go back to L.A., ya kook,” as we used to say in the ’60s).

Next thing I know guy changes lanes, so he’s driving right next to me. Road rage?!

He looks through his window at me. Gestures and mouths empathically: “YOOUUR GLLAASSES AARRE ONNN YOOUUR TRUUNNK!”

Ahhh, life in Santa Barbara.

—M. D’Alfonso, S.B.

A Bad Ketamine Trip

My journey to ketamine began last June. The house I lived in was placed on the market, and I had to move, which put me in a funk. Santa Barbara was in the midst of May gray/June gloom, and I wondered if I had seasonal depression.

My funk worsened in August, so, I decided to give ketamine a try. My first session was an out-of-control, out-of-body, psychedelic experience. I felt hungover, nauseous, and low afterward and never quite processed the experience. A week later, I had my next session.

This time, I was given a higher dose, and this is where things went sideways. I had a death trip. I experienced being slowly buried alive, and I didn’t know who I was when I returned. After the trip, I felt as if I were living beyond my expiration date. I felt I was no longer meant to be alive.

I spent the next seven months afraid to go outside. I couldn’t eat, sleep, shower, listen to music, talk to friends, drive my car, go to work, or practice yoga.

My energy was so off, my puppy didn’t even want to be around me. I couldn’t feel pleasure, fun, or peace. I didn’t want to be alive anymore.

On Valentine’s Day, I was admitted to the psychiatric unit at Cottage Hospital. I was diagnosed with PTSD, depression, and anxiety, secondary to my ketamine experience. After 10 days in the hospital, I transferred to Casa Serena’s women’s trauma program. If not for my loved ones, Cottage, and Casa Serena’s support, I don’t think I would be alive right now. Ketamine can be enlightening for some. For others, it can be frightening. For me, it was a life-threatening experience.

Sigalert

I—Dani Rose, S.B.

have a concern about Goleta’s restriping project in Old Town. Reducing the lanes from two to one each direction will cause more traffic delays. It’s a poorly thought-out project.

Where is the engineering study? Its description is weak and not backed up with data.

—Bill Tracy, Goleta

Who Pays for Libraries?

We

don’t need to tax every sale in the county. A half-percent property tax on homes sold for more than $10 million would raise a lot of money. In 2023, 36 properties sold for more than that, coming to more than half a billion dollars! Asking the 36 individuals or families or corporations that purchased $529,155,309 in property to pay another 0.5 percent would yield $26,457,765.

Most UHNW (ultra-high net worth) individuals allocate a significant portion of their portfolios to equities, commercial real estate, and bonds. The majority of their wealth stems from the value of their primary and secondary homes.

In just this year’s past five months, a half-percent tax would have brought in $11 million from the 11 homes that closed more than $10 million the average sales price was $17 million. I don’t think an $850,000 bill will keep the ultra-rich from buying, but I do think that a regressive sales tax will further widen the economic imbalance that already exists. It’s an imbalance that seems to be worsening.

—Paige Kaye, S.B.

When It’s Cold Outside

Freedom Warming Centers Offer

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Roof but Need More South County Sites

BY CHUCK FLACKS

Two years of torrential rains have taken their toll on Santa Barbara County. Some of the most vulnerable victims of the downpours are people without homes. Many live in makeshift encampments or sleep in the doorways of businesses and under freeway overpasses.

Fortunately, a robust network of outreach workers, shelter providers, and housing developers works tirelessly to help people get off the streets and into permanent housing. But while they are waiting, what are homeless people to do when it rains?

One source of warmth and hope is the Freedom Warming Center Program operated countywide by Good Samaritan Shelter and directed by Brian Halterman, a jovial man with background as a pastor. His spiritual hope shines through.

“It was a good year!” he remarked when questioned about how things were going. “In South County especially, we had enough space, and we saw each center filling up each rainy night. With partners like Doctors Without Walls, and an amazing staff, we were able to make people the most comfortable they have been since COVID.”

The program relies on churches, and Halterman’s pastoral background is an asset at building trust and broader participation in sometimes wary congregations. It is funded, primarily, by the County of Santa Barbara.

“Volunteers drive the project,” Halterman said. “Having good staff is vital, and we have had a lot of good staff. But it’s the community itself that breeds a sense of belonging and welcoming. Warmth and visibility help people feel grateful. They are more comfortable and behave in a dignified way.”

This year, in the cities of Santa Barbara and Carpinteria, there were five participating churches. In Carpinteria, the city itself provided access to Veterans Memorial Hall. “This year wasn’t as wet as last year, but the storms were more unpredictable,” Halterman added. “Because of our strong partners, we were able to open with shorter notice and sometimes ahead of the storms.”

This year’s statistics include being open 30 nights in Santa Barbara and 27 in Carpinteria. More than 185 individuals found beds in Santa Barbara, as well as 43 people in Carpinteria.

People experiencing homelessness are welcomed at each center by Good Samaritan staff and church volunteers. The evening team usually prepares a hot meal, and guests are shown to mats in communal sleeping areas. Volunteers warm up the experience literally and figuratively. However, as a stand-alone operation, the Freedom Warming Centers can function without teams of volunteers; all they need is a dedicated space.

And, here’s where Brian Halterman, Good Samaritan, and those serving people experiencing homelessness hope for greater opportunities in next year’s rainy season. They are looking for churches, nonprofits, or even businesses willing to donate space on cold and rainy nights from November 15 to March 31. There is a particular need in Goleta, Isla Vista, and the unincorporated county (“Noleta” and other areas).

Typically, churches see helping people without homes as part of their ministry. But anyone with access to an open space for sleeping for a 48-hour period can help. Some churches have offered space as infrequently as once per season — but it helps! Good Samaritan provides staff, security, and all supplies. They will provide food, yet volunteers bringing food add magic and love.

“Sometimes people are concerned about safety or interference with scheduled use of the site during the day, but we are there after hours, and we are gone long before anyone comes in to use the site,” Halterman added reassuringly. “Many of our sites have childcare centers, schools, and facilities used for weddings and parties, and we don’t have any impact.”

The impact is the safety and well-being of people in often desperate living situations, if only for a night or two.

If you or someone you know can help provide a site for the Freedom Warming Center in the 2024-2025 rainy season, please contact Brian Halterman at bhalterman@goodsamaritanshelter.org.

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Warming centers provide a dry, safe place to sleep, if only for a night or two, but more are needed for the next rainy season.

obituaries

Kathleen F. Harridge

7/15/1931 - 4/1/2024

With deep sadness we announce the passing Kathleen Harridge (Baker). Kath passed in the early morning hours of April 1, 2024, with her children by her side.

Kath was a loving, caring and kind wife, mother, grandmother, and greatgrandmother. She always had a smile on her face and an infectious laugh. She loved to sing and dance, and her vivacious personality made her so much fun to be around.  Kath loved her many dogs and cats, and any animal who crossed here path.

Kath wa s born to Ernest and Rose Ella Baker in Hayes, England and grew up in Southall, England. She was the fourth child of five and the only girl (brothers; Leslie, Gordon, Fred, and Raymond all preceded her in death). Kath and her family lived in Southall during World War II and experienced war time hardships, including bombings, and having to seek refuge in air raid shelters. Although those were challenging times, Kath and her family persevered.

Kath met Bob Harridge at a party when she was 17. They married five years later and would spend the next 70+ years together until her death. Kath and Bob had a wonderful life together. They loved dancing and competed in dancing contests. Bob joined the Canadian Air Force, and they were stationed in France, then Canada, where their daughter Melody born. Not long after, they moved back to England, where their son David was born, and later their son Stephen (who died shortly after bir th). The family then immigrated to America, first to Glendale, CA and then to Santa Barbara.

Kath is survived by her loving husband, Bob; her

daughter Melody Robertson (Robert); her son David Harridge (Eydie), four grandchildren Patrick Robertson, Missy Robertson (Doug Caesar), Sabrina Harridge, Mallow Harridge; and two great-grandchildren Grayson and Kira Caesar. Kath is also survived by her sisters-in-law; Elsie Harridge and Joyce Baker; cousins; Carol Wilder and Eric Hiscock, and many nieces and nephews.

Eugenia Zettas 1/22/1933 - 5/4/2024

Eugenia Zettas passed away at the age of 91 in her Santa Barbara home on May 4, 2024, surrounded by her three daughters. Eugenia (Jenny) was born on January 22, 1933 in Tripolis, Greece to Alexandra and George Demos.

Jenny grew up in Berwyn, Illinois with her two sisters, Bertha and Helen. She graduated from Rosary College in 1953 and became a fourth-grade teacher. Jenny married the late Dr. Paul Zettas in Chicago, IL in June of 1955. They raised three children, Carol, Pamela and Christine. In 1977, Jenny and Paul moved their family to Fresno, CA. They found much joy and happiness when they moved to Santa Barbara in 1988. For the next 35 years, they enjoyed their life in Santa Barbara and the expansive views, landscapes, orchards, birds and flowers of their home. Until the last days of her life, Jenny tended to her beautiful roses.

Jenny was a devoted wife, daughter, mother and grandmother. Her greatest joy was raising her

three girls. She modeled and instilled the values of independence and strength of character. Jenny was an accomplished homemaker, tennis and bridge player, and had a flair for cooking and entertaining. Jenny was a great listener and was even better at giving sage advice. She was happiest when surrounded by family, and gathered them together as often as possible. Jenny was deeply loved and will be greatly missed.

Jenny is predec eased by Paul, her beloved husband of 65 years, and her grandson, Evan. She is survived by her loving daughters, Carol Weill (Michael) of Palatine, IL; Pamela Perlman (Eddie) of Greenwich CT; Christine Di Filippo (Jim) of Colleyville, TX; her sister Bertha Patsavas, and her sister-in-law Pat Zettas. She was the proud Nana to Scottie, Paul and Lauren. Our family would like to thank all of her dedicated caregivers, especially Violeta and Francisco. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to VNA Health Hospice Care in Santa Barbara. www.vna. health.

Judith W. McKee

3/15/1937 - 4/15/2024

Judith Wei mer McKee passed away peacefully, surrounded by her children, on April 15th, 2024, at the age of 87.

Judy was born March 15th, 1937, in Moscow, Idaho to Russell L. and Mable M. (Hudson) Weimer. At the age of 5, Judy moved from Idaho to Clay Center, Kansas. The place she called her hometown.

Judy loved reminiscing about growing up in Kansas and working in her dad’s drug store as a soda jerk; serving sweet ice cream treats during her teen years. Later Judy graduated from the University of Kansas and earned her master’s degree at Kansas State Uni -

versity. She was forever a Jayhawk (Rock Chalk!). Judy was married to Ronald D. McKee on August 12, 1961, in Clay Center. Together Ron and Judy moved to Santa Barbara in 1962 and soon settled in Goleta, where they started a family and she continued her career in education.

Judy loved to cook and gather for family meals, solve crosswords and stay abreast of current events. News programs and talk radio were often heard in the background. Judy shared a special bond with her brother Larry and granddaughter Lela, all celebrating birthdays on March 15th. As an educator for many years, Judy passed along her love for learning and the importance of education to her children and grandchildren. Judy will be remembered for her positive, independent attitude, as “Gram” to her grandchildren and as an amazing wife and mother.

She is survived by her son Jeff, daughter Barbara Kimball (Tim), her grandchildren Clayton and Lela Kimball, brother Larry Weimer and numerous nieces and nephews.

John Patrick (Jack) Chard

3/18/1938 - 5/1/2024

On May 1, 2024, after a brief illness, with family by his side, Jack drove on from his earthly journey to his heavenly home complete with endless hot rods of every imaginable kind.

Born on March 18, 1938 in Santa Barbara California. He lived a long and full life, and his kindness, strong faith, and loyalty to his friends and family will be remembered forever. His passing leaves behind cherished memories.

Jack lived in Santa Barbara for the better part of his life, growing up with his siblings, Alice, Gwen, Art and Shirley. He graduated

from Santa Barbara High School in 1956. He loved the city, raising his daughter there, working in the grocery business starting from the time he was a teenager until he retired in 2000. He was a dedicated “car guy”, with a phenomenal knowledge of both the early hot rods, fat fendered ‘30 models and the classics. His first love affair with cars was drag racing and in the ‘50’s he and his buddies built a drag race car that he drove at the Goleta race track winning many trophies. He belonged to the Dusters and the Oldies with Goodies car clubs. He was a regular at the car shows all over California and into Nevada where he showed his cars and won trophies from ‘best in show’ to ‘best back seat’. He rarely missed a car show always looking for a car he hadn’t seen yet. Jack was predeceased by his parents Arthur and Lydia Chard, his sisters, Alice Tarbush and Gwen Pellamounter, and his brother Art Chard. He is survived by his dear sister Shirley Kunze, his loving wife, Bonny, his cherished daughter, Chamaine Rietman and her husband Bill, and his three dearly loved grandchildren Haley, Makaela and Julia. Also his step daughters, Laura Dinning (Ron), Natalie Guttentag (Scott), Kelly Studer (Rick) and Leslie Rapp. His Step-Grandchildren, Gabrielle and Zachary Guttentag, Sierra Breidenstein, Taylor Jane Harlin, Christine Studer and Tessa Dinning. A funeral Mass will be celebrated to honor Jack’s life at 11:00 on May 31, at the Santa Ines Mission in Solvang. Everyone who knew him is welcome to attend.

Our spec ial thanks to our VNA nurse, Jodi, who worked tirelessly in the last days of his life, attending to him and comforting him as he went into the loving arms of our heavenly Father In lieu of flowers, please make a contribution to VNA Health at 509 E. Montecito Street, Suite 200, Santa Barbara, CA 93103 or by visiting their website at www.vna.health.

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Pete McCloskey

1927–2024

The ‘Republican JFK’

BY MARC MCGINNES

Former congressmember, presidential candidate, and environmental leader Paul N. “Pete” McCloskey Jr. passed away in early May at age 96 at his home in Northern California. I had the good fortune to have known and loved him as a mentor and a friend for more than 60 years.

While Pete never lived here, he played a vital role in Santa Barbara becoming widely and rightfully known as “the birthplace of the environmental movement” in the aftermath of the nightmarish blowout and oil spill off our coast that began on January 28, 1969. Then serving his first term in Congress from his home district on the San Francisco Peninsula, Pete immediately recognized that the catastrophe presented an opportunity to set the whole country on a new path of environmental awareness and protection.

Pete got busy helping to write and enact new federal environmental protection laws. He also became co-chair of the group working to plan and support nationwide annual Earth Day observances. The effort was inspired by what had happened in Santa Barbara, and Pete rightly figured that the Santa Barbara community’s response to it would serve as an excellent example of what other communities might do in their own particular circumstances.

Pete worked hand-in-glove (more like lots of phone calls) with me and others in the Santa Barbara community to plan and carry out an event on the first anniversary of the blowout and spill that would carry a message of determination and hope to the whole country. The resulting daylong conference, at which nationally prominent leaders discussed and endorsed the newly released “Santa Barbara Declaration of Environmental Rights,” did just that.

Pete was among several prominent speakers at the conference, and he brought with him Earth Day coordinator Denis Hayes, who received an encouraging foretaste of what Earth Day might become.

Pete helped mightily to secure the attendance of several of the other participants whose presence helped make the conference program a success. Two in particular stood out.

Stewart Udall, former Secretary of the Interior who had authorized the ill-fated drilling to commence over spirited local opposition, came to deliver a mea culpa and to explain that the new National Environmental Policy Act co-authored by Pete would prevent such hasty actions in the future.

Paul Ehrlich, Stanford professor whose then-recent book The Population Bomb was atop the best-seller lists, was like a rock star whose presence was bound to

attract interest, and Pete deftly reeled him in.

Reports out of Santa Barbara in the media told the story of a community working optimistically and effectively to demonstrate how to think globally and act locally in the face of environmental conditions and challenges.

The next time Pete came to Santa Barbara was in fall 1971 as a candidate for President of the United States. Himself a highly decorated combat veteran of the Korean War, Pete was a fierce critic of the war in Vietnam and the conduct of it under the Nixon administration.

His decision, as a Republican, to run against an incumbent Republican president, did much to earn him the label of “Maverick,” and it catapulted him to national fame. Pete spoke to an overflowing audience at UC Santa Barbara that included his son Peter, then a freshman, and me and many veterans who had served there. As I was leaving, I overheard a woman say that Pete had “the looks and charisma of a Republican JFK.”

Tobe Plough, currently a member of the board of directors of the Montecito Water District, grew up with Peter and Pete’s other children in Portola Valley, and he fondly recalls his work on Pete’s first congressional campaign while in high school and on his presidential campaign while in college.

Pete’s son Peter, by the way, went on to become a distinguished lawyer in his own right as a trial lawyer with the U.S. Justice Department and prosecuting attorney with the International Criminal Court in the Hague, handling cases against alleged perpetrators of war crimes.

The final time I was with Pete in Santa Barbara was in 2015 when he and his wife, Helen Hooper McCloskey, came to UCSB to speak on the 45th anniversary of the Environmental Studies Program. We offered to fly them down and put them up in a hotel, but they chose to drive down in their camper with their dogs. They then proceeded to stand together at the microphone and take turns speaking to us and, hilariously, to each other. Their love for and enjoyment of each other spilled over all of us. I have never experienced a talk in an academic setting that tickled me more or for so long.

The last time I got to be with Pete was in 2017 when I visited him and Helen on their farm in Yolo County and was put to work picking olives atop a ladder in the orchard within an hour of my arrival.

Pete’s departure was at the age of 96. For me and many, it was still too soon.

BOWERS, Glenda Sue (Rundle) 11/23/1942 - 5/2/2024

It is with a very heavy heart that we share the passing of our Mom, Mama, Mommy, Grammy, GMA, Great Grammy, Sister, Mother in-Law, Friend & the Best International Host Mom to Students all over the world!

After a short illness, Mom passed away peacefully, at home, with family by her side. Born in Detroit Michigan, she moved to Santa Barbara as a young girl. She attended several local Elementary Schools, La Cumbre Jr. High School, where she met the love of her life and husband of 43 years, Johnny Bowers, prior to his passing in 2004. Johnny & Glenda Graduated with the Santa Barbara High School Class of 1961. “Once a Don always a Don” and were married in August of that same year.

Mom had many hobbies that included: gardening, reading, stargazing, sewing, writing and is a published Poet with her poem “Daisy”. Mom was a Sunday School Teacher, Pioneer Girl Leader, Santa Barbara BMX Mom of the early 70’s and on the PTA and City Counsel for many years. Mom was an at home mom giving all her energy to her kids as well as the entire neighborhood, first on Calle Poniente and then Pedregosa St. since 1969. The motto at the Bowers house was “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” with a friendly sticker on the

refrigerator to remind us. Mom also worked for the Santa Barbara Medical Foundation Clinic for several years where she made many lifelong friends.

Mom was a lover of all people and in their retirement, Mom & Dad hosted well over 200 + International Students, making friends all over the world. In her later years, she loved Jeopardy, Geneology and the Curse of Oak Island. She will be the brightest star in the sky for the rest of our lives!

She is predeceased by her parents, Richard Ivey Rundle, Sr. & stepmother, Barbara. Helen Louise Denmure & stepfather, Clayton, her half Brother, Richard (Richie) Ivey Rundle, Jr., her husband, John (Johnny) N. Bowers, Jr. and her twin granddaughters, Janie Louise & Kylie Rose Carrillo.

She is survived by her Brother, Dennis Rundle (Young), Sister, Melany Studley (David), her Son, Dale Bowers (Lisa) her Daughter, Donna Carrillo (Robert), three grandchildren; Jonathan Cody Bowers, Em Carrillo, Lexi Carrillo, one great granddaughter, Leah Bowers and many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

Glenda will be interned along side Johnny at the Santa Barbara Cemetery. Please make donations to her two favorite organizations: St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital & Central Coast Home Health & Hospice. Services will be announced at a later date.

Helen and Pete McCloskey

COURTESY

U.S. Rep. Pete McCloskey in 1969

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Grenda A. Moran

5/19/1927 - 10/30/2023

BIRTHDAY REMEMBRANCE

Happy Birthday Grenda. Loved and Missed by your Husband Bob. Family and Friends.

Gerard

Frank Aaron Venzor

2/13/1943 - 5/2/2024

Frank Aaron Venzor passed away peacefully in his sleep, in the early morning of May 2nd, 2024. He is survived by his wife Judy Venzor, his two sons, Wayne and Robert Venzor, his sibling, Rose (Larsen), and his many grandchildren, including Dallas (Broge), Brandon, and Adam; and great-grandchildren, Axel and Aria. He was preceded in death by his sister, Carrie (Ortiz) and his son, Ray.

Born February 13th, 1943, Frank graduated from Santa Barbara High School in 1961, and went on to work as a Deputy Sheriff in the Los Angles Sheriff’s Department, where he was recognized for his excellence. Frank also worked in the Department of Water and Power. In 2008, Frank graduated from Bakersfield College with a Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice, finally finishing his education after many years of hard work.

Frank was a family man first and foremost, and a gold standard to those who learned from his extensive life experience and knowledge. Frank was a patriarch and someone who always had a story to tell. Whether it was teaching his grandson to swing a baseball bat, like his cousin Ted Williams, or imparting life lessons on his family by using every bit of life experience he had, you better have been prepared to learn something if you had a conversation with Frank. His presence and expertise will be missed through -

out the Ve nzor family, and throughout all those who knew him.

Service to be held on May 21, 2024 at 11am at the Carpinteria Cemetery

Herminia Weinberg 10/4/1929 - 5/8/2024

Herminia, “Mina”, or “Mimi” Weinberg

Truly an Angel, “Mina” or “Mimi” was a gift sent to us to make our lives richer. She was a devout catholic, who was a kind, considerate model figure who loved her family and friends without reservation.

Growing up mostly in Santa Barbara, she was the fourth child of six to Jesus and Maria Ambriz. She became the matriarch of her family and extended family at age 16 after her mother died of cancer. From that point on, she became mother to her five siblings, along with several cousins and friends, who depended on her for love and guidance, which she so easily provided. Mina’s life was fraught with tragedy, surviving first the death of her mother, then the premature deaths of a sister and then a brother. But even in the face of hardship, her humble, loving nature could always find beauty in the world, appreciating the birds and the flowers everyday. She was an excellent example of how to live presently and with gratitude.

She stood-in as the mother to her immediate family until 1954 when she met Benson Weinberg, originally from Philadelphia, who made her the center of his life for 66 years. She and Ben began their new family, living first in Los Angeles, then Oxnard, and finally in 1961 moving to Santa Maria where they also lived out the rest of their lives.

She was preceded in death by her husband Ben in December 2020, al ong

with her two older brothers David and Jesus (Tutuy), older sisAdamter Antonia (Tonia), and younger brother Richard (Richie). Mina is survived by her younger sister Mary and also her four children and their spouses, Lance and wife Barbara, Marc and wife Gloria, Guy and wife Kim, and Gayle and husband David along with ten Grandchildren and spouses, and wife Aubrey, Ian and wife Christine, Angela, Ashley and husband Michael, Lindsay, Jennifer and husband Peter, Melissa and husband AJ, Cameron, Megan, and Jessica and husband Richie. Mina is also survived by eleven great grandchildren, Kylie, Madi, Corban, Ellie, Kade, Hadley, Emma, Nash, Quinn, Cole, and River.

Herminia Weinberg died at 12:51 pm on Wednesday May 8, 2024 at 94 years old. She passed peacefully surrounded by her family. Services will be held on Friday, May 24, 2024 beginning with a 9:30 am mass in Santa Maria at Saint Mary of the Assumption, then interment at Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Santa Barbara at 12 pm. A Celebration of Life reception will be held in Santa Barbara at El Paseo restaurant from 1;30 pm to 5 pm.

In lieu of flowers please make a donation to your favorite charity in her honor.

Eugene Pozzebon

3/6/1924 - 5/3/2024

Eugene Pozzebon passed away in his sleep on May 3, 2024, one month before his 100th birthday. He was a long-time resident of Montecito and Santa Barbara. Born on a dairy in Bakersfield in 1924, he later moved when he was 13 years old with his parents Giovanni and Luigia Pozzebon to the Toro Canyon Dairy on the corner of East Valley and

Toro Canyon Roads. They operated the small 32-acre dairy until 1955. Like many of the other small dairies in the Santa Barbara area, it was increasingly diQicult to operate with the high costs of importing feed and competing with much larger dairy operations.

With the closure of dairy business, Eugene, or Gene as he was known by, was hired by the CarpinteriaSummerland Fire Department as a fireman. In his oQ hours while working as a fireman and later fire engineer, he converted the dairy into an avocado orchard. He also began operating an excavating and soil management business, which included supplying topsoil and manure, weed abatement, firewood procurement and delivery, and hay hauling. After seven years the 15-acre avocado orchard was flourishing as well as the operation of his business, Pozzebon Soil and Fertilizer. He left the fire department to work full time on his growing business which later became Pozzebon Backhoe Service with his son Dennis and grandson Anthony Pozzebon. Over the years he provided quality work to many of the properties and estates in the Montecito, Carpinteria, and Santa Barbara areas. He also partnered with a neighbor in a commercial tomato growing operation.

Never one to be idle, Gene, or Gino to his family, along with his wife Ida, were active gardeners and farmers. Growing and harvesting fruits, vegetables, cattle, chickens, turkeys, and others were important activities on the Pozzebon Ranch. Summers included raising sweet corn for the family vegetable stand on East Valley Road. He taught himself several skills such as carpentry, electrical and plumbing that enabled him to completely remodel one home and to build a dream home for himself and Ida that overlooks the valley and the Channel Islands. He also mastered auto mechanics, welding and was an excellent cook.

Gene’s hobbies included membership in the Santa Barbara Horticulture Soci -

ety and the Italian Boot Club. He also actively supported the Carpinteria Future Farmers of America and was an avid hunter. With an extended Italian family, ranch reunion parties were often hosted. He also pursued wine making, enjoyed dancing, barbequing, and later traveling, especially to visit family in Italy. In addition, family and friends enjoyed his home-made tomato sauce, gnocchi, polenta, pickled cucumbers, cured and marinated olives, and venison jerky.

He is proceeded in death by his wife, Ida after 54 years of marriage, sisters Lucy Sanderson, Mary Villard, and Vera Marostica. He is survived by his four children: son, Lewis Pozzebon and his wife Liz; daughter, Nancy Pozzebon; son, Dennis Pozzebon; and daughter, Christine Henry and her husband, Phil; grandsons, Rian Pozzebon, Nick Pozzebon, Anthony Pozzebon, Chad Pozzebon, Tyler Henry; granddaughters, Julie Vanderzanden, Alley Henry and Analyssa Gauvin; great grandchildren, Rially Pozzebon, Dillon Pozzebon, Brody Pozzebon, Antonia Pozzebon, Trevor Vanderzanden, Kayley Vanderzanden, Mia Pozzebon, Dacota Pozzebon, Lucas Pozzebon, Louie Pozzebon, Matteo Pozzebon, Lily Pozzebon, Ella Pozzebon; numerous nephews, nieces and friends, especially Edith Michalowsky. His tremendous love and support of family and friends will be dearly missed.

A memorial service is to be held at Mount Carmel Church, 1300 East Valley Road, Montecito on Monday, June 3, 2024, at 11 am followed by a celebration of life at Carpinteria Lions Club Lodge, 6197 Casitas Pass Rd., Carpinteria, from 1pm to 5 pm. Private burial at Calvary Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions in memory of our father to the American Heart Association or the Italian American Foundation Scholarship Fund, Attn: David Peri, PO Box 22557, Santa Barbara, Ca 93121.

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Dylan WillsonCorselius

Happy Bi rthday

Dylan Corselius Willson May 27, 1986

Thank you for the joy you gave us and the joy we continue to feel in our hearts.

Mom, Dad, Maggie, Peter, Lorrie, David, Michael, Brad, Shay na and Hannah Ann Priscilla Case 1/23/1938 - 5/2/2024

Ann Case chose to go back to the stars after 2 ½ years of living with cancer. She was born Ann Priscilla Horsey on Jan. 23rd, 1938, to parents Frank Alfonso Horsey and Dora Eileen Horsey. She and her younger sister Pamela Jane Horsey and her parents lived in a small town called Street in Somerset County, England.

Mum was truly a Renaissance woman who had a life full of adventures & travels with many friends and a much loved family. She opened her own business in 1972 with her sister Pamela, a consignment and retro clothing store called Penny Wise, that flourished in the town of Yeovil, Somerset where she resided for 4 0 years. Ann was also the founder of the Well Women’s Clinic and also very active with other local charities. She was the President of the South Western Society for Autistic Adults/Children and organized fund raising events and awareness for this cause that was so close to her heart. Her only son Nigel Lofton Smith was autistic and passed in 1996 at the age of 34. Ann brought many people together through her involvement the Chess Dining Club for single people,

and her Walking Group called Ramblers. She is still remembered for matchmaking more than a few romantic pairings over the years. She had a wonderful sense of humor and was always in motion. She loved to dance, attend live music concerts, and even went on stage when invited by Chuck Berry when he was performing in Bristol.

After many visits to Santa Barbara to be with her daughter Kerrie Smith and her two grandsons Ben Kilpatrick and Sam Kilpatrick, she made the big decision to move full time to Santa Barbara at age of 76. Ann loved her days here and her cozy home that was esp ecially built for her, right next to Kerrie and the boys. It was a good life surrounded with her family, including her recent great grandson Alexander Jude, as well as her new friendships that formed when she began a British Ladies Club.

Ann made the most of life, she loved to meet her friends at Java Station for morning coffee and talk American politics, and how to right the world. Always lively, smiling, and energetic even in the early days of her cancer diagnosis, she never let it take the wind out of her sails. She really was the best role mother and friend in so many ways.

Ann move d to Sarah House Hospice in December, 2023. She had volunteered for Sarah House fundraisers, and helped her daughter Kerrie who was a board member and volunteer for 9 years. She loved it there in her buttercup yellow room with a garden view. She knew all the staff by name and so appreciated their love and care. By the middle of April, she was beginning to suffer from cancer fatigue and in her words was “ready to go back to the stars”. She elected to leave with the help of VSED and passed very peacefully on May 2nd. Ann was a humanist and had no fear about leaving. She had spent the previous two days at home, enjoying the garden, and surrounded with the love of her family and friends. She will be remembered and celebrated as a brave and courageous grandmother, mother, sister, daughter, and friend. Her final wish is that

donations be made to Sarah House in her name. www. SarahHousesb.org.

Consuelo “Connie” Perez

3/2/1928 - 5/3/2024

Consuelo “Connie” Perez was born on March 2, 1928 in Los Angeles, California to Juan Perez and Rosario Jimenez Perez who both emigrated from Mexico. Connie passed away peacefully on May 3, 2024 with her family at her side. She is predeceased by her parents and all of her siblings, including Guadalupe Romero, Esther DeLaTorre, Joseph Perez, and Carmen Fierro.

Connie attended Lincoln Grammar School, Santa Barbara Jun ior High School and Santa Barbara High School where she graduated class of 1947 as a proud Santa Barbara Don. During her high school summer months she worked at a lemon packing house in Carpinteria. Soon after graduation, Connie worked for Prudential Insurance Company and went on to pursue a lifelong career in banking. She began her banking career with Security Pacific, Bank of America, and worked for Santa Barbara Bank and Trust until her retirement.

Connie was faithful to the Catholic Church and was devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary. She prayed the Rosary daily and attended Mass regularly. She also held a very special place in her heart for her brother-in-law Raul Fierro, as well as her godchildren, Brian Pointer (Dalen Pointer), Kevin Pointer (Stewart Hoelsher) and Shannon Sadecki (Ian Sadecki). She is also survived by her treasured nieces, nephews and numerous great-nieces and greatnephews who f illed her life with delight.

Connie’s heart was bursting with compassion for her great-great nephew, Logan Sadeceki who she adored as her precious child of God, and who brought her pure and enduring joy. Connie had a heart of gold and was known to many as “Nina”, a term of endearment, meaning godmother. Our Nina was proud of her role as a beacon of inspiration to her family.

A Rosary will be held at 9:30 a.m., May 31, 2024 at Our Lady of S orrows Roman

Catholic Church, 21 East Sola Street, Santa Barbara, California. A Funeral Mass will directly follow the Rosary at 10:00 a.m. Her burial will follow thereafter at Calvary Catholic Cemetery, 199 North Hope Avenue, Santa Barbara, California.

Carol Jackson Croyle 1/31/1956 - 5/4/2024

Carol Jackson Croyle passed away on Saturday, May 4, 2024 at Cottage Hospital in Sant a Barbara, California after suffering a spontaneous Cerebellar Hematoma. She was 68 years old.

Carol was born on January 31, 1956 in Franklin, Louisiana to George and Ruth Jackson. She was the middle child of seven children.

Carol’s life was profoundly shaped by witnessing a tragic accident that took the life of her youngest brother, Patrick, at an early age.

Carol grew up in Morgan City, Louisiana where she developed an unwavering passion for helping families in underserved communities. Her dedication is encapsulated by her academic career: – Morgan City High School; class of 1974; summa cum laude – University of Southwestern Louisiana; class of 1978; B.A. in Speech, Hearing and – Language Science; summa cum laude – Penn State University; class of 1980; M.S. in Education of the Hearing Impaired; summa cum laude – Gallaudet University; class of 2010; Ed.S. (Educational Specialist) in Deaf Education; summa cum laude

Carol’s legacy lives on through the children whose lives she changed in the Deaf community. Her selfless roles included:

– Teacher in the Preschool program for the Deaf at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia

– Teacher of the Deaf in

the Special Needs Preschool at North Adams Public Schools in Massachusetts – Parent-Infant Specialist at the Hearing, Speech and Deafness Center in Seattle, Washington – Program Assistant for the Deaf Mentor Project at Utah State University – Director of Family Programs at the Utah Community Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Salt Lake City

– Instructor in the Education Department at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC. Within the Deaf community, Carol was not only a teacher, but also a family counselor and activist.

Carol is survived by her high school sweetheart and husband of nearly 43 years, Bob (Robert Torrance Croyle), daughter Kaitlin Johnson (and her husband Matt) of San Diego, California, son Thomas Croyle (and his wife Lizzie) of Lakewood, Colorado, brothers Ken and Mike, sisters Nancy and Jennifer, many nieces and nephews, and three grandchildren, Everett, Jackson, and Eleanor.

Carol’s perfect evenings were spent laughing around tables of great food and better company. She was known for cooking incredible gumbo and eating raw oysters by the dozen. She stayed up late listening to music and gazing at the stars with her cherished cavapoo, Beignet, with a cold CocaCola in hand. By day, Carol’s genuine kindness and curiosity transformed strangers into friends and her presence made the world a more welcoming place. She felt most alive on and off the shores of St. John, USVI, where she combed the beach for shells, snorkeled alongside sea turtles and wrestled with sharks.

Above all else, Carol’s greatest joy was her grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation toward advancing stroke research via the American Stroke Foundation (https://americanstroke.org ) or to the preservation of Carol’s most prized natural wonder in this world via the Friends of Virgin Islands National Park (https://friendsvinp.org ).

A MEMORIAL DAY TRIBUTE

Two San Marcos Student Body Presidents Two Casualties of the Vietnam War

by GLENN HUNTER

In San Marcos High School’s 1963 yearbook, there’s a photo of 26 young men standing ramrod straight, hair close-cropped, all neatly dressed, mostly in suits and jackets, looking like they just stepped out of the television series Mad Men. These were the “key boys,” members of a student organization called the Key Club who took on leadership roles, volunteering for all sorts of school projects, from selling football programs to repainting the parking lot.

It’s a formal photograph, one we’ll never see again and a poignant one, taken in that moment before the storm of cataclysmic change that was about to engulf the nation. In mid1963, when this photo appeared in the yearbook, President John F. Kennedy was still alive, and U.S. military involvement in Vietnam had barely registered in the nation’s consciousness.

By the end of that year, however, Kennedy had been assassinated, and by summer of 1964, the war had exploded into the Gulf of Tonkin, changing the lives of these 26 young men forever. They now were faced with dramatic decisions. How would they respond to the draft? Would they willingly enlist in the military? Would they try to get a deferment? Or would they just roll the dice and see what fate awaited them?

In the case of two Key Club members, Jerry Georges and Ray Bretches, we know their fate. Both would be killed in Vietnam within a year of each other.

The backgrounds of Raymond Dean Bretches and Jerry Harold Georges followed remarkably similar arcs. Georges and Bretches had each been president of their junior high school student body; both were standout athletes; both had been elected president of the San Marcos High School student body. And each had enlisted voluntarily in the U.S. military: one in the Army, one in the Marine Corps.

Though not close friends, they were friends, nonetheless. As Ray’s brother Garry described it, “They recognized each other in each other.”

HOME FIRES

By the time I was a San Marcos senior in 1967, editing the sports section of the school paper, both of those young men had already graduated: Bretches in 1963, and Georges in 1964. My older brother, Randy, though, had been in Jerry’s class and would serve in Vietnam as a U.S. Army journalist. Recently, he asked me if the school paper had written about Jerry’s death back in 1967. I had to admit I couldn’t remember anything about it. And I couldn’t help feeling guilty about that.

During World War II, our father had served in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific, and our mother had worked in a Santa Barbara aircraft plant. I suppose we were a patriotic family growing up, but for most of the 1960s, I don’t recall much discussion or any strong feelings expressed in our family about Vietnam.

I had been lucky enough to be classified 1-Y by the Selective Service System, which meant I would only be mustered into the military as a last, desperate measure. But Randy had enlisted in the Army. That changed things at home.

The morning in January ’67 when Randy was to report

for boot camp at a government facility in Los Angeles, the whole family, excluding a sister, was up before dawn to take him down south. Dad drove the Chevy station wagon, Mom was in the front seat, and Randy sat in back with me. He slept for much of the trip, which seemed to irritate Mom. “If we’d known you were going to sleep, we could have just put you on a bus,” she said, trying to keep up a cheerful, teasing atmosphere, but we were all worried about him.

Randy came back from the Vietnam War alive. But today, the names of Ray Bretches and Jerry Georges are among those inscribed on a memorial at San Marcos High School honoring local men who were killed in the war. In all, more than 58,000 Americans lost their lives in Vietnam, including 98 from Santa Barbara County.

So, telling the stories of Bretches and Georges during this Memorial Day holiday seemed fitting and the least I thought I could do to honor those who’d patriotically answered their country’s call and given everything they had.

A PEACEFUL WARRIOR

Ray was the oldest of six boys, born in Los Angeles County in 1945 to Alice and Bill Bretches. The family moved to Santa Barbara in 1951, and Ray attended Harding Elementary School and then La Cumbre Junior High, where he was president of its student body. At San Marcos, he joined the Key Club all three years and was elected student body president for 1962-63.

“He was one of the kindest, most considerate, most compassionate people I ever met,” his brother Garry remembered. Also a San Marcos alum, Garry had managed Ray’s campaign

for student body president and said, “People loved his sincerity. He had a sense of humor but was not a class clown. His leadership was a reflection of his values. Ray was an open book, and people could see that.”

Ray Bretches also was an outstanding athlete. Strong and compact a News-Press sports story listed him at 5"4'and 170 pounds he played fullback on the San Marcos Royals varsity football team. He also played baseball all three years and, as a senior, was teammates with Georges on the varsity baseball squad.

After graduating from high school in 1963, Ray had an athletic scholarship to attend Utah’s Brigham Young University (the Bretches family were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints). But a football injury Ray had suffered at San Marcos prevented him from competing at Brigham Young. Disappointed, he left Utah after a year, returned to Santa Barbara, and in 1965 signed up to join the Army. During World War II, the Bretches’ father had also been in the Army, experiencing combat in New Guinea.

“As an enlisted soldier, Ray went through everything: jump school, officer candidate school, Green Beret school, and Ranger training. He was driven to be the best at whatever he was doing,” Garry said, and Ray pursued his military goals for two reasons, according to his brother: “Because anything he did, he wanted to go all the way. And because he was against the war and he wanted to find out for himself what was going on, and then come back and work for peace. His goal was to come back as a Green Beret officer, and then nobody could call him a sissy, anti-war commie. He wanted to stand up there with Joan Baez and Bob Dylan and talk against the war with his Green Beret on.”

In fact, Garry added, the entire Bretches family opposed the war from the beginning.

MR. TYPICAL TEEN

Jerry too was a child of the baby boom born in Santa Barbara in 1946 to Helen and Harold Georges, the oldest of four children. A Catholic family, they attended church at Saint Rafael’s. Jerry went to Goleta Union Elementary School and then to Santa Barbara and La Colina junior high schools. At the latter, he was crowned Conquistador, named Typical Teenager, and served as president of the student body, displaying the leadership traits he would continue to have at San Marcos High.

Georges’s sister, Cindy “Itoo” Georges-Burwell, remembers her brother as always focused on helping others. “He would take everybody’s troubles on and try to help them,” she said. “He would come home and sleep for hours, like he had the world on his shoulders. He had such a charisma; people were just drawn to him.”

At San Marcos, Georges became president of his sophomore class and, in his senior year, student body president. Like Bretches, he was a member of the Key Club all three years serving during his junior year as vice president and an excellent athlete. He played “C” basketball two years,

Lieutenant Raymond Bretches

baseball all three years including on that 1962-63 varsity squad with Ray and made the 1963-64 varsity football team. That same school year, Georges also was named the class’s Best Leader, as well as Mr. Typical Teen.

April Fiur, who knew Georges in 1965, wrote about him on a memorial website in 2015. “I remember how self-assured and confident he seemed, but not in a cocky, arrogant way. He was always a gentleman, and just had a presence that made you want to listen to what he had to say.”

Following high school graduation, Georges attended Santa Barbara City College for a year, lettering in football and baseball, before enlisting in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1965.

Jerry’s father also had been in the Marine Corps, serving in the South Pacific during World War II.

“Jerry was gung-ho ‘I’m gonna save the country,’ ” his sister Cindy recalled. “Because my dad was a Marine, too, it was just an unquestioning thing. It was the right thing to do. You went, and you did it.”

DEATH NEAR THE DMZ

In May 1966, Georges was sent to South Vietnam. Ten months later, as a rifleman with Bravo Company, First Battalion, Fourth Marine Regiment, Third Marine Division, the 20-year-old corporal was assigned to a mission near Con Thien, just below the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating North and South Vietnam.

A squad leader, Georges had insisted on staying on the front lines, even though he was eligible to be rotated to a safer position in the rear, recalled his friend Tom Cherry. Cherry, a member of Georges’s eight-man squad, also was eligible to be sent to the rear, but he declined. “We were gung-ho Marines,” said Cherry, now 76. “We spent a lot of time in foxholes together. Jerry was an awesome leader.”

During Operation Beacon Hill in March 1967, Georges and his squad were involved in intense fighting against Viet Cong guerillas east of Con Thien. Such operations were especially

tough, Cherry said, because the enemy would burrow into “spider holes” in the ground, then cover the holes with grass or leaves in order to hide. “When the Marines went by, they’d pop up out of the hole and machinegun them.”

During the fighting, two Marines were killed in this kind of ambush, and one of them was Jerry Georges. Three other Marines in Jerry’s squad were wounded. Another former Marine, Bill Nimmo, who was in the same operation in another squad that day just behind Georges and Cherry, recalled how word soon spread back through the line that Jerry had been hit.

The medevac choppers were called in quickly, and Cherry carried Jerry to the chopper. “He was still alive when I put him in,” Cherry said. “We’d made a deal with each other: If he got killed, I’d take his St. Christopher to his sister. And I said, ‘If I die, give my parents a watch or something.’ ”

Georges died of his wounds at the Naval Hospital in Da Nang a couple of days later.

After returning to the States, Cherry traveled to Santa Barbara and fulfilled his promise to his friend.

Visiting Georges’s parents in their house on Venado Drive, he handed the St. Christopher medallion to Jerry’s mother, Helen Georges, an unacknowledged elder of the Chumash Nation, to give to her daughter. Today, Cindy Georges-Burwell still wears the medallion in a medicine pouch around her neck, along with Jerry’s Marine Corps dog tags.

“To keep him close,” she says.

A BOOBY-TRAP DEATH

About nine months after Jerry’s death, Bretches was on a Special Forces patrol west of Dak To in Vietnam’s Central Highlands with a platoon of Montagnards an indigenous hill people who supported the U.S. forces during the war.

Then 22 years old and a First Lieutenant with the Army’s Company B, Fifth Special Forces Group, Bretches and the men

in his unit were trying to find an enemy mortar position that for several days had been shelling the Special Forces camp at Ben Het, not far from the border with Laos and Cambodia.

“Near Hill 990, Raymond went forward to the point element to make a map and compass check and tripped a grenade booby trap,” according to an account of that day posted online in 2005 by Art Brandon, another member of Bretches’s Special Forces unit. It recorded that Bretches was killed instantly and did not suffer.

“He was a very courageous man and we were friends. I was a medic and tried CPR, but he was gone too fast. I carried him to the helicopter for evacuation,” Brandon wrote. “I think about him frequently and I’m positive that he is still missed.” Brandon passed away last August.

Bretches’s brother, Garry, said he’s convinced that both Ray and Jerry would have been significant figures in Santa Barbara perhaps the city’s mayors had they lived. “A couple of my brothers said, ‘What a waste, that Ray went over there and was killed,’ ” Garry said. “But as time passed, I understood it in a different way.

“Part of his legacy on a bigger scale was that, yeah, he didn’t get to come back and stand on stage and campaign,” Bretches continued. “But his death along with Jerry’s made such a statement in the community of Santa Barbara.

“My God, we lost these two amazing members of our community these young leaders who would have been here to help advance our community we lost them to this stinking war. And I think that helped people understand the full tragedy of that war.”

Bretches is buried at Santa Barbara Cemetery, and Georges is buried at Calvary Cemetery. Both had been awarded Purple Hearts. This year marks what would have been Georges’s 60th class reunion at San Marcos. Last year would have been Bretches’s 60th.

‘WHAT ELSE IS THERE?’

In the mid-1970s, my brother and I had a friend in Santa Barbara named Dave Beyerlein, a Marine Randy had met in Vietnam. Dave was hardworking and even-keeled, with a quick wit. He studied at Santa Barbara’s Brooks Institute of Photography and later worked as a cameraman for KEYT-TV. He had returned to the States from Vietnam, settling in Santa Barbara and bringing with him a hard-earned attitude to war and peace.

Only in researching this story about Ray and Jerry, however, did I discover to my surprise that just a few years before I met Dave, he had been one of the Marine Corps’ famous “Walking Dead” in Vietnam a combatant in a notoriously bloody battle in February 1969 in the A Shau Valley near the border with Laos.

During that horrendous firefight, a depleted company of 100 Marines, including then-Sergeant Beyerlein, fought back valiantly against an entrenched enemy force even after their Marine officers had been killed or were dying all around them. Dave, who was wounded during the battle, was awarded a Purple Heart, and a Silver Star for conspicuous gallantry in action. Back in Santa Barbara 12 months later, he and a friend found themselves on an apartment balcony in Isla Vista one night, drinking beer and watching as a group of protesters marched in the street below. This was not uncommon in I.V. during the war. In 1970, the community was the site of one of the most iconic moments of the anti-war protests, the burning of the Bank of America. But that was later. On this night, as the two men sat watching the protesters march below, Beyerlein’s buddy said with disgust, “Look at those hippies shouting ‘Peace!’ ”

Dave’s response had a different tone almost like a prayer. “Peace,” he said quietly. “What else is there?”

Student Body President Jerry Georges

The San Marcos High School Key Club. Pictured at the far left is Jerry Georges a trim, 17-year-old junior in a dark suit. Standing next to him is Ray Bretches, a stockier 18-yearold senior wearing a light-colored sport coat.

INDEPENDENT CALENDAR

THURSDAY 5/23

5/23: CWC Global Film Screening: Noorie Watch a screening of 1979’s blockbuster film Noorie, (Not Rated), a love story faced with deception, tragedy, violence, and revenge that includes hit songs and, 40 years after its release, still sparks conversations about the realities of Kashmir and political unrest across cultures. A post-screening discussion will follow. 7pm. Pollock Theater, UCSB. Free. Call (805) 893-4637. carseywolf.ucsb.edu/events/ all-events

5/23: Empower Youth: Inspiring Positive Paths Forward Learn about youth safety in our community with keynote Speaker Calli Kelsay of HOPE (Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences) with a panel discussion that will feature students from YouthWell, AHA!, and CommUnify’s Familias Seguras program with catered food provided by Freedom4Youth. 1-5pm. Goleta Valley Community Ctr., 5679 Hollister Ave., Goleta. Free. Call (805) 964-8857 or email info@CommUnifySB.org. tinyurl.com/EmpowerYouthEvent

5/23: UCSB Arts & Lectures Presents: José Andrés: Changing the World Through the Power of Food José Andrés, visionary, humanitarian, and founder of the nonprofit organization World Central Kitchen and his hospitality and food media enterprise, will appear in conversation with KLITE’s Catherine Remak. Tickets $50+ include a copy of Andrés’s cookbook. Arlington Theatre, 1317 State St. Students: $11; GA: $24.50-$54.50. Call (805) 963-4408 or email info@artsandlectures.ucsb.edu artsandlectures.ucsb.edu

FRIDAY 5/24

5/24: S.B. High School Annual Spring Dance Concert 2024 Be inspired by students who will present dances in hip-hop, musical theater jazz, contemporary, sevillana, and cumbia with a special performance by the SBHS Folklórico Club. 7pm. S.B. High School Theatre, 700 E. Anapamu St. $5-$10. (805) 966-9101 x525 or email bgoldman@sbunified.org. tinyurl.com/SBHS-DanceConcert

5/24-5/26: Lights Up! Theatre Company Presents Footloose: The Musical Choose from two amazing casts “Heaven,” which will feature seasoned performers, or “Hero,” which will showcase a talented younger cast in a show based on the movie Footloose, about a teenage outsider in a new town as he navigates oppression, young love, and high school politics through dance. Fri.: 7pm, Hero cast; Sat.: 1pm, Hero cast; 7pm, Heaven cast; Sun.: 1pm, Heaven cast. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. GA: $31-$61; VIP: $96.Call (805) 963-0761. lobero.org/events

5/24: Shay Moulder Live Folk musician from SoCal Shay Moulder will play covers and original music on the ukulele and piano. 7-10pm. Arrowsmith’s Wine Bar, 1539 Mission Dr., Solvang. Free. Call (805) 686-9126. tinyurl.com/Shay-Moulder

5/24-5/25: SBIFF After Hours Film Screening: Top Gun Watch a screening of 1986’s film Top Gun (rated PG), about a daring young pilot (Tom Cruise) who’s out to become the Navy’s best flyer at the prestigious fighter weapons school. 9pm. SBIFF’s Riviera Theatre, 2044 Alameda Padre Serra. $7-$12. Email help@sbiff.org sbiffriviera.com

5/24: Teacher & Educator Exclusive Workshop: Upcycled Vintage Teacups Calling all educators and teachers for an uplifting and exclusive workshop, where attendees will upcycle used and vintage teacups and saucers into delightful decorative additions to their space, such as bird feeders, succulent pots, cute catch-alls for your gadgets, and more. 6pm. Art from Scrap, 302 E. Cota St. $15. Call (805) 884-0459. exploreecology.org/calendar

FARMERS MARKET SCHEDULE

THURSDAY

Carpinteria: 800 block of Linden Ave., 3-6:30pm

FRIDAY

Montecito: 1100 and 1200 blocks of Coast Village Rd., 8-11:15am

SATURDAY

Downtown S.B.: Corner of Santa Barbara and Cota sts., 8am-1pm

SUNDAY

Goleta: Camino Real Marketplace, 10am-2pm

TUESDAY

Old Town S.B.: 500-600 blocks of State St., 3-7pm

WEDNESDAY

Solvang: Copenhagen Dr. and 1st St., 2:30-6:30pm

(805) 962-5354 sbfarmersmarket.org

FISHERMAN’S MARKET

SATURDAY

Rain or shine, meet local fishermen on the Harbor’s commercial pier, and buy fresh fish (filleted or whole), live crab, abalone, sea urchins, and more. 117 Harbor Wy., 6-11am. Call (805) 259-7476. cfsb.info/sat

SATURDAY 5/25

5/27: Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post-1649 Memorial Day Ceremony This open air ceremony will include presentations and performances by the UCSB ROTC Color Guard, Gold Coast Pipe & Drum Band, David Gonzales and the S.B. Choral Society, The Prime Time Band, and a flyover by The Condor Squadron with guest speakers Lt. Col. Joe Ruhl, U.S. Army Commanding Officer UCSB ROTC and BGen. Fred Lopez, USMCR (ret.). 11am. S.B. Cemetery Association, 901 Channel Dr. Free. Email media@pcvf.org pcvf.org/memorial-day-ceremony

5/25-5/27:

Children’s Creative Project (CCP) Presents 38th Annual I Madonnari Street Painting Festival View the chalk pastel street paintings that will be

Old Mission S.B., 2201 Laguna St. Free imadonnarifestival.com

wines from Jackson Wines, a family owned and run business with a strong commitment to a sustainable future. Enjoy charcuterie and cheese boards, live music, and a sunset rooftop view. 6-8pm. Rooftop, Kimpton Canary Hotel, 31 W. Carrillo St. $25.

5/25-5/27,5/31:

Exhibit Opening: Butterflies Alive! Walk through 1,000 live butterflies of more than two dozen tropical butterfly species from Costa Rica as well as a visit to the emergence chamber for the chance to see an adult butterfly popping out of its chrysalis. The exhibit goes through September 2. Sat.-Mon., Wed.: 10am-5pm. Sprague Butterfly Pavilion, S.B. Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol. Free-$19. Call (805) 682-4711. sbnature.org/calendar

5/25: Carr Winery Summer Art Series Opening Reception Meet artists Ryan and Russ Dafoe, Ben Hazard, Jordan Moon, Sarah Marie Picard, and Billy Smith; mingle with friends; and enjoy a glass of wine. 6-9pm. Carr Winery, 414 N. Salsipuedes St. Free. Ages 21+. Call (805) 965-7985. carrwinery.com/events

5/25: La Purisima Mission State Historic Park: Mission Life Days Join the American Mountain Men as they share history and survival skills from 1820-40. Experience cooking, hide preparation and tanning, leatherworking, rope making, and blacksmithing techniques along with equipment from the period. 11am-2pm. La Purisima Mission, 2295 Purisima Rd., Lompoc. Free. Call (805) 733-3713. tinyurl.com/MissionLifeDays

SUNDAY 5/26

5/26: Finch & Fork Pajama Brunch

The dress code is pajamas! Enjoy a farm-to-table brunch, endless mimosas, and the perfect soundtrack provided by DJ Darla Bea. 11am-2pm. Finch & Fork, Kimpton Canary Hotel, 31 W. Carrillo St. $28. Call (805) 879-9100. finchandforkrestaurant.com/events

MONDAY 5/27

5/27: Whiskey Richards Open Mic Night Calling all performers and music lovers to experience the thrill of live performances. Perform in a spotlight moment or watch people take the stage with featured artist Matt Clark to perform a songwriter showcase! 9pm-1am. Whiskey Richards, 435 State St. Free. Ages 21+. Call (818) 451-8206 or email sarah@whiskeyrichards.com tinyurl.com/OpenMic-WhiskeyRichards

TUESDAY 5/28

5/28: S.B. Newcomers Club: New and Prospective Members Event Join this orientation to find out about this club, with more than 750 members, where you can participate in a variety of fun activities, meet great people, and learn all about your new hometown. Registration is required. 5-6pm. Benchmark Eatery, 1201 State St. Free. Email membership@sbnewcomers.org. tinyurl.com/SB-Newcomers

WEDNESDAY 5/29

5/29: Daytime Navigation Center: Open House Fundraiser Experience S.B.’s newest center for people experiencing homelessness to receive behavioral healthcare, medical healthcare, workforce development, and housing navigation. Dress in black and white (business casual) to create a sense of a collective community. 6:30-8:30pm. Daytime Navigation and Workforce Development Ctr., 621 Chapala St. $25. Email info@sbact.org tinyurl.com/Navigation-Center

5/29:

5/29: Alpha Resource Center’s Annual Circle of Life Luncheon You’ll hear amazing stories of the lives touched by the mission of Alpha Resource Center and have the opportunity to play a role in keeping the mission going by giving a financial gift. 11:30am-1pm. S.B. Elks Lodge #613,150 N. Kellogg Ave. Donations will be accepted. Call (805) 683-2145 or email jhenson@alphasb.org alphasb.org/circle-of-life

May 23-29

Shows on Tap Shows on Tap

5/23, 5/25-5/26, 5/29:

SOhO Restaurant & Music Club Thu.: Wine Lips, The Macks, 8pm. $20. Ages 21+. Sat.: Area 51, 8:30pm. $15-$18. Ages 21+. Sun.: The Moon and Broken Glass, 5:30pm. $10; Zaaang & La Tuna Present Guerra de Bandas: Jaripeo Afterparty, 9pm. $20-$30. Ages 21+. Wed.: Flamingosis, 8pm. $20. Ages 21+. 1221 State St. Call (805) 962-7776. sohosb.com

5/23, 5/25: Eos Lounge Thu.: SammyC & Friends College Thursday, 9pm. Sat.: Miramar + NZT Takeover, 9pm. Free. 500 Anacapa St. Ages 21+. Call (805) 564-2410. eoslounge.com

5/23: Satellite S.B. Brett Hunter Band, 6pm. 1117 State St. Free. Call (805) 364-3043. satellitesb.com

5/23-5/24: S.B. Bowl Thu.: Natalie Merchant, 7pm. $55-$125. Fri.: Queens of the Stone Age, Bully, 7pm. $60-$105. 1122 N. Milpas St. Call (805) 962-7411. sbbowl.com

5/24-5/25, 5/29: Lost Chord Guitars Fri.: Lois Mahalia, 6pm. $15. Sat.: Pat Kelley Trio, 8pm. $20. Wed.: Stacy Antonel, Walk the Whale, 8pm. Free 1576 Copenhagen Dr., Solvang. Ages 21+. Call (805) 331-4363. lostchordguitars.com

5/24-5/26: Maverick Saloon Fri.: Robert Heft Band, 8:30pm. Sat.: Jared Nels, noon; Pull the Trigger, 8:30pm. Sun.: The Heavy Cats Duo, 1pm. The Molly Ringwald Project, 9pm. Free 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez. Call (805) 686-4785. mavericksaloon.com/ event-calendar

5/24-5/26: M.Special Brewing Co. (Goleta) Fri.: Sticky Tables, 6pm. Sat.: Brasscals, Casual Business, 6pm. Sun.: Carly and Collin. 5pm. 6860 Cortona Dr., Ste. C, Goleta. Free. Call (805) 968-6500. mspecialbrewco.com

5/24-5/25: M.Special Brewing Co.

(S.B.) Fri.: Rent Party. Sat.: Art of Funk. 8pm. 634 State St. Free. Call (805) 9686500. mspecialbrewco.com

5/25: Arrowsmith’s Wine Bar High Tea, 1pm. $40-$50; Shay Moulder, 7pm. 1539 Mission Dr., Solvang. Free. Call (805) 686-9126 or email anna@arrowsmithwine .com. arrowsmithwine.com/events

5/25-5/27: Cold Spring Tavern Sat.: Salt Martians, 1:30-4:30pm; Stray Herd, 5-8pm. Sun.: Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan, 1:30-4:30pm. Mon.: Tina Schlieske and the Graceland Exiles, 1-4pm. 5995 Stagecoach Rd. Free. Call (805) 967-0066. coldspringtavern.com

5/25: Hook’d Bar and Grill Free Radicals, 4pm. 116 Lakeview Dr., Cachuma Lake. Free. Call (805) 350-8351. hookdbarandgrill.com/music-onthe-water

5/26: SAMsARA Winery & Tasting Room The Winehounds, 2pm. 6485 Calle Real, Ste. E., Goleta. Free. Call (805) 845-8001. samsarawine.com/events

5/27: The Red Piano Shawn Jones Trio, 7:30pm. 519 State St. Free. Call (805) 358-1439. theredpiano.com

5/29: Whiskey Richards Punk on Vinyl. 9pm. Whiskey Richards, 435 State St. Free. Ages 21+. Call (818) 451-8206. tinyurl.com/PunkOnVinyl-WR

Wine Lips

Sports

SBCC Athletics Hall of Fame 2024 Inductees LIVING

Since 2019, Santa Barbara City College Athletics has honored many of its legendary athletes and coaches of the past through induction into the SBCC Athletics Hall of Fame.

The 2024 class consists of four former athletes and three coaches who were first nominated and ultimately selected to be formally cemented in SBCC lore, including Frank Carbajal (posthumously), Jessica Domenichelli, Mike Fryer, Russ Hafferkamp, Ben Howland, Asaka Sim, and the 1989 men’s tennis team with Coach Jack Sanford.

“Having the Hall of Fame members talk about their experience at SBCC and how much it means to them now, even 50 or 60 years later, really helps us wrap our brains around how what we do every day is so important in that moment in time for student athletes,” said SBCC Athletic Director LaDeane Hansten. “The people that we induct are always so humble, and they never think it should be them.”

Every year, SBCC honors one State Championship team at its Hall of Fame Induction, and this year it will be the 1989 men’s tennis team with Coach Jack Sanford. The players on that team were Billy Miller, Lance Kronberg, Sean Angel, Dayne Gingrich, Fred Lageman, Rafael Wolfe, Shannon Peace, Pete Gerstenfeld, and Chris Gorman. They finished the season with an overall record of 24-2 and went 15-1 in the Western State Conference.

Honoring Vaqueros Who Have Had a Lasting Impact on the Culture of Excellence

by Victor Bryant

“The 1989 team was the most successful tennis team I ever coached at SBCC, and five of the six players were from local high schools,” said Sanford in a press release. “As the coach of this highly talented team, my main task was to keep all the players fit and happy, because they all wanted to be higher on the ladder.”

SBCC defeated West Valley a team that consisted of four international players and two other players from out of state in the championship match.

Ben Howland is best known for leading über-talented UCLA teams to three straight Final Four appearances as head coach, but his basketball journey began in Goleta. He attended Dos Pueblos High School before graduating from Cerritos High School in 1975. He then returned to Santa Barbara to play for head coach Ed DeLacy at SBCC. His sophomore year, he played on the 31-4 team that won the Western State Conference and finished as state runner-up.

“I graduated from Cerritos and then came back and played with all the buddies I grew up with at DP,” Howland said. “The best thing about coming to SBCC was being back home in Santa Barbara after living in L.A. for two and a half years. I’ve always loved Santa Barbara, and it was really special to be back home. Secondly, to play with my friends, the buddies I had grown up with.”

Frank Carbajal replaced DeLacy as SBCC men’s basketball coach in 1978 and enjoyed an impressive 11-year stint as head coach. He was known for imparting valuable life lessons. His teams won 21 or more games in seven out of his 11 years at

the helm, reaching two California State Final Fours, and they were State Runner-Up in 1984. The Vaqueros won four Western State Conference titles, were often ranked in California’s top 10, and produced six JC All-Americans under Carbajal, who utilized local talent to his advantage for those All-Americans.

He coached two future NBA players at SBCC: Chris McNealy and Ron Anderson.

“Many of Dad’s best years in coaching were those he spent in Santa Barbara,” said Frank’s son DeRon Carbajal, who played for him at SBCC from 1981-83. “He loved the community support and often received help from many local businesses.”

Frank Carbajal also coached basketball at De Anza and Hartnell community colleges before retiring in 2005. He amassed 662 victories in his coaching career.

Soccer player Jessica Domenichelli put together a spectacular two-year run at SBCC before transferring to Arizona State. She joined SBCC in 2010 and scored four goals in her first career game. It was a sign of things to come as she scored 25 goals during the 2010 season and broke her own program record with 27 goals in 2011.

In 2011, Domenichelli led the team to its first WSC North title in school history with a 16-3-0 regular season record, which earned her the honor of Female Athlete of the Year by the Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table. She was also named College Soccer Athlete of the Year in both 2010 and 2011.

Golfer Asaka Sim competed for the SBCC golf team in 2008 and 2009 and was Western State Conference Champion in both seasons as well as first-team All-State. She was the individual State Champion in 2008 and led the Vaqueros team to the State Championship.

“The second day of the State Championship, we were down eight strokes. I tossed and turned all night (after the first day),

thinking about what I was going to tell them the next morning. Having a chance at a State Championship does not come to athletes very often,” said former SBCC golf coach Chuck Melendez. “When our team was warming up for the second day, I went up to Asaka and told her, ‘Not only do I want a Team Championship; I want an individual State Champion, and that is you.’ All of our players met our stroke goals, and Asaka passed everyone up to win the State Individual Championship. This is my favorite team, and Asaka led the way!” Russ Hafferkamp led the SBCC water polo team in goals in both the 1972 and 1973 seasons with 92 and 53 goals, respectively.

Hafferkamp went on to an NCAA All-American career at UC Santa Barbara. He also spent time with Team U.S.A. leading up to the 1980 Olympic boycott. He enjoyed a 40-yearplus playing career internationally and at the U.S. open and masters level.

After a standout career at Santa Barbara High, Mike Fryer joined the SBCC football team for the 1970 and 1971 seasons, where he played wide receiver and free safety. The Vaqueros were Western State Conference Champions and played in the California JC Playoffs each season. The 1971 team finished 9-2 overall, which was a program record for wins at the time, and 6-0 in conference play, taking Coach Bob Dinaberg to his third consecutive playoff game.

Fryer’s 11 interceptions in 1971 were number one in the state and tied the national record. This record still stands as the SBCC single-season record, after 52 years. Fryer was named SBCC and WSC Defensive Player of the Year, First-Team AllState, and Honorable Mention JC Gridwire All-American.

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Adorable Rodents on the Highveld Beat

Animals

The beat was subtle and steady, about 10 to 20 rapid drums for up to 20 seconds. Giant kangaroo rats (GKR) Dipodomys ingens were communicating with each other by drumming their long, narrow feet on the warm, gravelly loam in the southern fringe of the San Joaquin Valley.

As I quietly listened from within my tent, their incessant drumroll carried across the Carrizo Plain National Monument, the last and best bastion for this keystone species.

One of the smallest mammals on the last of California’s semi-arid grasslands is also its most important, the eco-engineer of 250,000 acres of sweeping plain and rolling mountain ranges the Calientes and Temblors. Yet, when observing one of these endangered rodents, it is a bit of a head-scratcher how something so tiny can deliver such a heavy environmental impact everywhere, from its vast subterranean dwellings to the thermal updrafts in the blue skies above. Still, GKRs are the largest of more than 20 species of kangaroo rats and are endemic to California. They’ve been on the Endangered Species List since 1987, due to the loss of 98 percent of its habitat and the use of rodenticides.

Giant Kangaroo Rats Are the Eco-Gardeners of California’s Grasslands

Not including their long tail, GKRs are just under six inches long and weigh four ounces on average. Their lifespan is just two to four years. They possess large, almond-shaped eyes, and elongated tufted tails that are seven inches long. Their kangaroo-like feet enable them to jump nine feet to escape predators. They are simultaneously cute and slightly strange in appearance. However, looks aren’t everything. Several biologists in various fields of expertise have told me, “As the Giant Kangaroo Rat goes, so goes the Carrizo Plain.”

Providers

On the flipside, GKRs are also a much-wanted food source for some of the predators mentioned above, but also western Pacific rattlesnakes, gopher snakes, coyotes, ravens, hawks, and falcons. Their remains are often found on old ranch posts and signposts, branches, and on the floor of historic ranch buildings. It appears the one part of GKRs that predators do not desire is their long, tough, leathery tails.

Grassland Rototillers

When observing the burrows of GKRs, it’s clear these grassland gardeners work in big, broad circles, mowing down the grasses surrounding their burrows. Grasses are gathered and transported underground, used for bedding and food for the winter months ahead. All that mowing around their burrows also encourages good browsing for tule elk and pronghorn antelope on the Carrizo Plain.

One other significant physical characteristic of GKRs are their saggy cheek pouches for storing seeds. After the seeds are dried, they are transported underground and stored in their cool burrows, where they eventually swell with moisture. Giant kangaroo rats can go their whole lives without drinking a sip of water.

How do biologists monitor GKR populations across the Carrizo Plain? It’s partly on the ground. Trapping within population grids occurs during mid-summer, but a lot of data is gathered from satellite imagery. Those large circles mowed around their burrows are counted from above, giving biologists data on population densities.

Wandering across the expanse of the Carrizo Plain reveals an expanse of broad mounds, burrows, and tunnels, many of which are the work of GKRs. Their abandoned burrows become the homes of an array of other grassland fauna. American badgers, San Joaquin kit foxes, burrowing owls, long-tailed weasels, antelope ground squirrels, and blunt-nosed leopard lizards claim the old burrows as their own, modifying the underground dwellings for their new homes. Their burrows are also mere pit stops. The Carrizo Plain is one of the sunniest and hottest regions of California, so GKR burrows are convenient places for wildlife to seek refuge during the heat of the day. Their dwellings are also ideal for species escaping predators.

As drumming continued into late evening, it finally lulled me to sleep. After exiting my tent early the next morning, I found out just how busy a couple of GKRs were. Their prints were evident around the vestibule of my tent, and the grass was mowed. The eco-gardeners of the highveld never rest. n

Story and photos by Chuck Graham

This giant kangaroo rat demonstrates how their saggy cheek pouches are used for storing seed.

Business

UStreamlining Sponsorships LIVING

CSB alum Spencer Frey has always wanted to run a business. As a kid, he opened a lemonade stand. When he got older, he mowed lawns for some extra cash. Later in life, he took on jobs like tutoring and swimming lessons. While seemingly trivial, each gig brought him one step closer to his goal.

Finally, in 2022, he and his business partner purchased SponsorPitch, a sponsorship sales platform that allows seamless connections between brands and sellers. In short, the platform provides data on thousands of brands so that sellers anyone with an audience such as events, nonprofits, or sports teams can browse a list of brands and discover who they want to work with. Similarly, brands can use the platform to assess the right sellers.

Frey works out of Santa Barbara, where he has lived for 11 years. The 31-year-old is originally from New Jersey, but when I asked him if he was from Santa Barbara, he laughed and said he “wished” he was. After graduating high school on the East Coast, he packed up his bags and drove across the country for a month, “kind of for the California dreaming,” he joked. While driving along the 101 freeway after visiting a friend in San Francisco, he “almost stumbled across Santa Barbara.” He said that he immediately fell in love with the city.

He decided to stay and attended SBCC before transferring to UCSB, where he studied physics and completed the Technology Management Program (TMP), a branch of the School of Engineering that focuses on technological innovation. Entering the program was “a no-brainer for me,” he said. In the TMP program, Frey learned from teachers with “real-world experiences” who would share their esoteric knowledge with the students. Hearing stories and gaining advice from business owners and CFOs excited Frey and reminded him of his entrepreneurial goals.

didn’t. Looking into it more, he discovered that the sponsorship world is somewhat convoluted. “There’s this disconnect between brands and sellers.”

SponsorPitch eliminates the middleman in sponsorship deals and thus allows for direct communication between brands and sellers. It provides a system where sellers can view a brand’s activity and data, access contact information, and directly book meetings with brands.

“People should use SponsorPitch because it supercharges their sponsorship sales,” said Frey.

by Tiana Molony

SponsorPitch caters to large-scale events such as festivals and conferences as well as athletes, sports teams, and other creators. Some organizations that have recently used the platform on the seller side are the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and the Ventura County Music Awards.

After graduating in 2018, he knew he wanted to stay, so he started working for an aerospace company in Goleta, where he had previously interned. He admitted that the work, while interesting, wasn’t fulfilling. He wanted to interact with people and utilize his creativity. “I wasn’t getting to travel or talk to customers,” he said.

When he came across SponsorPitch while researching existing businesses online, he saw the potential that the original owners

Notably, Frey points out that SponsorPitch isn’t exclusive to large-scale events. Many nonprofits across the country use the product. “Nobody’s doing exactly what we’re doing,” he said. Recently, SponsorPitch added the Pitch Board feature to its product, so someone looking for sponsors can add information about an upcoming event, such as expected audience and type of event, and brands will get notified if the pitch matches their needs. The SponsorPitch database also allows people to find brands they may not know about and discover sponsors near them, said Frey.

See sponsorpitch.com.

Spencer Frey

UCSB Alum at the Helm of SponsorPitch

Where children

• garden

• tend chickens

• play violins

• do chemistry experiments

• learn algebra & geometry

• learn cursive

• learn to use hand tools

• sew and knit

• sing, act, and paint

• read actual books

• never use screens

Travel

Joshua Tree by Day and Night, Town and Rugged Country

We drove by night. And the darker and later, the better, we were told, when seeking stargazing unimpeded by civilization. So, up past our bedtime, we ventured outside of the township of Joshua Tree and up into the Joshua Tree National Park, a dimension all its own. As we passed the fleeting sight of ghostly antediluvian tree forms, it was more than apparent that we were not in the 805 anymore or virtually anywhere else on the planet.

An Alluring Escape, with Its Own Ancient and Modern Groove

by Josef Woodard

The planetary wonderment then turned both grounded and cosmic as we laid down in the Quail Springs parking lot and gazed at the unusually lucid night-sky canopy above. In Joshua Tree National Park by night, get thee to a parking lot.

The very uniqueness of flora, surreal rock formations, and alien-ish ambience has much to do with the magnetic pole of this legendary place, especially in the last few decades. Heading up to this special zone, a four-hour drive from Santa Barbara, isn’t just your standard desert pilgrimage, but a specific venture into off-the-radar nature.

Once in the Joshua Tree zone, roughing it is one option, as camping is available in the park. Another option is to seek shelter in intriguing hidden treasures with creature comforts and structural/historical stories to tell. We scored on that front, settling into the Mojave Sands Motel (mojavesandsatjoshuatree.com) in Joshua Tree the first night, and the restorative remote outpost of the Campbell House Inn (visitcampbellhouse.com) on the edge of Twentynine Palms on the second night.

Mojave Sands is a real find of a place, a formerly funky motel transformed into a stylish mid-century modern style yet rustic five-suite spot on 29 Palms Highway but tucked into its own meditative ambience. The revamped spot, run in a friendly, hands-on way by the sociable, witty, Texan-raised Susan Burnett, is close to things that matter here. It’s a gateway to the Joshua Tree expanse and a 20-minute trek to Pioneertown, and is a comfortable hunker-down spot, with rusted metal theme and a desert-chic decor with outdoor shower

and bathtub for hygiene under the stars in the larger suite. The interior of our suite came equipped with a Crosley turntable with a healthy selection of LPs: Sun Ra, Todd Rundgren, George Harrison, Merle Haggard the tasty stuff.

After a good night’s sleep, we headed out to one of the easy but illuminating hikes in the park, around Barker Dam. Heading back to town, a required breakfast stop led us to JT Country Kitchen (jtcountrykitchen.com) for an all-American omelet and a delectable Cambodian cuisine offering: stir-fry noodles “The Res Dakota,” a popular leftover from the previous owners’ menu.

Among the things I learned in the Joshua Tree Visitor Center is that prehistoric giant sloths ate Joshua Tree fruits and expanded the plant’s terrain by dispersing seeds. The origin of the “Joshua Tree” name (its correct botanical name is Yucca brevifolia) came courtesy of visiting 19thcentury Mormons, who thought the plants looked like the biblical prophet Joshua guiding travelers westward. Westward expansion wasn’t such a pretty thing. Indigenous peoples here became victimized by smallpox with the introduction of settlers, their population reduced by 75 percent. It’s an old American story out west, including in Santa Barbara.

Culture exerts its own special pull as well from the movie-set town of Pioneertown with the by-now mythic music spot Pappy & Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace (pappyandharriets.com) heading south to the last-gas/last-gasp town of Twentynine Palms. For culture and music-heads of different generations, it’s hard to think of the area without cross-referencing Robert Plant’s cryptic, desert-waxing hit “29 Palms”; Gram Parsons’s passion for and death in the area; U2’s Eno-fied album; and such latter-day musicians on the scene as the Josh Homme/Queens of the Stone Age bunch.

We sauntered through Pioneertown, a proudly artificial product of Hollywood as a nearby surrogate to the Wild West founded in 1946 by actor Dick Curtis and funded by Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, and others. We popped by to soak up some countryfied sounds on the porch of the Red Dog Saloon (reddogpioneertown.com), well-populated by L.A. cowboys and hipsters, and some rugged locals. We had to stop at the mythic centerpiece of Pioneertown, Pappy & Harriet’s, though we only caught a brief sound check by the alt-metal band on tap that night. We dined on burgers (cow and non-cow) and beer. Did Sir Paul also do a burger before his infamous surprise gig here in 2016, in the middle of his Desert Trip a k a “Geezerchella” gigs? Not sure about the intel on that.

But celebrity interventions aren’t always welcome here. The receipt from the Country Kitchen read, “Climb rocks, not Joshua Trees,” a reference to Miley Cyrus’s bad-taste showbiz stunt of boasting about her tree-climbing on social media. Joshua Tree remains a sacred place for many, not a playground for the rich and fatuous who often land in this area.

The Campbell House Inn, now owned by another recommendable refuge, the 29 Palms Inn (29palmsinn .com), offers a little oasis off the beaten path. Dating back to 1925, a humble homestead for desert health-seekers Elizabeth and William Campbell, turned into a large, stone-clad house with an array of cottages later added to the property. Strolling the grounds, savoring the cooling agency of laps in the all-important swimming pool, gazing at the resident family of great horned owls, and just lounging in our “Farmhouse” bungalow added up to a restorative experience within the travel experience. Trivia note for music-heads: Songwriter Wrubel owned the property for a time after the Campbell era. Among his best-known songs are “Zip-a-DeeDoo-Dah” and the standard “Gone with the Wind.” You can find the sheet music for his cheeky hit “Lady from 29 Palms” perched on the white, out-of-tune piano in the large parlor room here, where a bigger-than-continental breakfast is served.

For a ’40s throwback, consider the Andrews Sisters’ hit “The Lady from 29 Palms,” with its toothy lyric “She left 29 broken hearts / broken in 29 parts. / Now there are 29 fellas complainin’ to their moms / about the lady from 29 Palms.” (Its songwriter, Allie Wrubel, took a liking to the area and briefly owned the Campbell House compound. More on that later.)

era. from parlor

On the nature/culture divide front, as a final hurrah in the park, we wended our way at sunset to Cap Rock, passing and stopping at Skull Rock and feeling dizzily ensconced in the dream-worldly environment and unmistakable, mystic sense of place.

Cap Rock sits in its immortal glory, looking, from one angle, like a chubby-cheeked chap with a cap. Okay, yes, Cap Rock also happens to be the spot where some of Gram Parsons’s ashes were allegedly left, in the complex tale of his remains’ travels. But never mind that: In the waning, flattering light of a late April sunset, it appeared just as a chubbycheeked chap with a cap, encircled by the gangly sentinels of Yucca brevifolia, standing tall and imbued with the stuff of immortality. The Mojave Sands Motel (mojavesandsatjoshuatree.com) rooms range from $135 to $185; Campbell House Inn (visitcampbellhouse.com) rooms range from $205 to $235.

Joshua Tree National Park

Welcome to Joshua Tree.

FOOD& DRINK

Luretík Olive Oil Aims to Challenge Italy’s Finest

Elise Magistro Crafts Award-Winning Oils from Her Family’s Santa Ynez Valley Orchard

BY MATT KETTMANN

When Elise Magistro purchased a “patch of dirt” off of Alamo Pintado Road in the heart of the Santa Ynez Valley in 2012, there was just one thing on her mind. “My goal was to produce an oil that would go toe-to-toe with the best Italian ones,” said Magistro, who now sells three types one delicate, one medium-fruity, and one more robust under the name Luretík Olive Oil.

Though the timing roughly coincided with her retirement from teaching Italian at top California universities, Magistro’s quest is really the culmination of a lifelong fascination that started when she first visited Italy at age 19. “All I needed was that first trip,” said Magistro, who’s since lived there at times, visited a few times every year, and even taken olive oil growing and production classes there. “I was most interested in the whole olive oil thing.”

There’s a familial link as well. Her father’s side is Sicilian, while her mother’s heritage is French-Basque, which is where the name “Luretík” comes from, meaning, “as from this earth.” And even the last name of her husband, Joe Baumgaertner, who still works as a physical therapist down in Pomona, translates from German to “tree gardener.”

The first 50 trees that Magistro planted on her rolling hills which are just over the crest from Ballard Canyon excelled. “The olives just took off here,” she said. So, they planted more and more of nine varieties of olive, just reaching 1,000 trees on the day that I visited in early May.

The first commercial harvest of olives for oil came in 2022. To process the fruit, Magistro brings the olives north to a certified organic miller in San Ardo, right off of 101 north of Paso Robles. (The Santa Ynez milling facility that many wineries and other olive growers used for years lost its organic certification a while back and then was recently sold.)

“What you’re looking for in all of this is freshness it’s fruit juice,” said Magistro, who emphasized the need to use oils early and often to experience their maximum flavor and health benefits. “Even in ideal conditions, in two years, the oil will have lost its pop.”

Luretík’s three olive oils include the Toscana, a blend of Frantoio and Pendolino varieties that is the most mild, with grassy, citrusy, green almond flavors, ideal for finishing fish, chicken, or greens. The Sicily, a blend of Nocellara del Belice and Cerasuola, covers the middle ground, at once fruity, spicy with white pepper, and bitter in wild herb notes, good for drizzling on pasta, pizza, and fresh cheeses. And the most robust although nowhere near as aggressive as some of the super-potent oils being produced these days is the Meridione, which combines Coralina, Carolea, and Cerignola olives to amp up the bitterness and spiciness without going over the top. Magistro recommends this one on stews and beef dishes, but I’ve also been enjoying it poured over cottage cheese with flaky sea salt for breakfast.

Of course, each vintage may deliver different expressions for these oils based on how the olives perform over the season. “It’s just like wine,” said Magistro. “It’s not predictable.”

The bottles cost about $25 for 250 mL or $48 for 500 mL, and that latter quantity should last about a month even with ample daily usage, which Magistro reminds me is far longer than a bottle of similarly priced wine. And these hand-grown, handharvested, handmade oils are packed with nutritious polyphenols sometimes potent enough to make you cough a bit as you sample them.

“It’s the best possible thing

for you it’s great for you; it’s great for your kids,” she said. “We use olive oil for everything.”

Aside from Global Gardens and vineyards that also grow olives, Magistro isn’t aware of any other estategrown commercial olive oil producers in Santa Barbara County. But she did say that Paso Robles is gaining steam as one of the state’s prime oil regions, and other wine regions like Temecula and Napa are also relative hotbeds for the product.

That shouldn’t matter much for Santa Barbarans seeking a delicious, artisanal source of olive oil, for Magistro is already going toe-to-toe with Italy’s best. In the 2024 Los Angeles International Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Competition, considered one of the top four such shows in the world, all three of Luretík’s oils took gold medals, and the Sicily won both “best in class” and “best in show” against nearly 500 oils from 15 different countries. More recently, the brand won a gold medal at the New York International Olive Oil Competition, a gold and double gold in Athens, and are awaiting results from Japan’s contest, rounding out the big four contests.

After I spent an hour speaking to Magistro in her kitchen, sampling the oils atop the neutral base of boiled potato pieces (and realizing that her son-in-law is my cousin’s close friend), she emailed me to finish her thoughts.

“I suppose I could have simplified the whole question of ‘What makes a quality extra-virgin’ by simply responding: ‘Knowledgeable farmer, healthy olives, clean mill, and master miller,’ because those are the essentials,” wrote Magistro. “But what makes an oil really special is everything in between, with the moment of harvest being perhaps the most critical.”

See luretik.com.

Elise Magistro harvesting olives

JEREMY BALL

The Luretík Olive Oil olive grove in Santa Ynez Valley

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FOOD & DRINK

What Somms Are Saying About Santa Barbara Wine Country

The Second Annual CMS Women’s Symposium in Santa Ynez

BY VANESSA VIN

Hear that? It’s the sound of whispering through the grapevines of Santa Barbara wine country making its way to the tables of foodie-centric restaurants in New York, Aspen, and Montreal. Sleepy towns along the Santa Ynez wine trail are waking up to an influx of visitors as wine pros from all over the world are paying attention to what we’re doing.

Small yet mighty, Santa Barbara wine country is definitely having a moment among sommeliers, thanks in part to the Court of Master Sommeliers Americas (CMS-A) for hosting its Annual Women’s Sommelier Symposium in our very own backyard this spring. The symposium, which took place around various locally owned wineries and restaurants in the Santa Ynez Valley, was rich with spirited conversation among the sommeliers. “I really think we needed to come to Santa Barbara and have boots on the ground to understand the region and better share the story with my guests,” said Jessica L. Forster, partner and wine director at Waxlight Bar à Vin in Buffalo, New York. Despite bringing in $1.7 billion in annual revenue (according to Santa Barbara County Vintners Association), and providing more than 9,000 full-time jobs, many Santa Barbarans have yet to discover the region for themselves, let alone describe it or discern as to how Santa Barbara wine style may differ from places like Napa or Bordeaux.

“In Toronto, the market for wine is quite open and progressive,” says Wine and Beverage Director Brie Dema Markovic of Pearce Hospitality. “People are looking for something new and interesting, and in our market in Ontario, Santa Barbara is still very much considered a ‘new’ place. It’s easier to sell Santa Barbara wines over some traditional Europe labels because they are often easier to digest.” She continues, “I am seeing success at my restaurants with Santa Barbara wines from Âmevive, Camins 2 Dreams, and Scar of the Sea.” But, she notes, “These wines are still very much a ‘hand sell’ for us, meaning I will only place them on a wine list where I know I will have a sommelier on the floor.”

In New York, it seems the average diner is still getting used to what we do here. “People understand California

as a whole, they understand Napa and Sonoma, and I have people asking for Paso cabernet versus Napa, but I find I am still needing to personally recommend Santa Barbara pinot, which I am doing more and more,” explains Julia Borkowski, wine director at the Inn on Broadway. “The problem is that they don’t understand the difference from Sonoma pinot to Santa Barbara. They will trust my recommendation, but sometimes they are expecting something bolder like the pinots coming from the Russian River. They just don’t understand Santa Barbara style yet.”

One reason some might find it difficult to describe Santa Barbara–style wine has to do with the fact that our region really is quite “young” and inaccessible in comparison to places like Champagne or Rioja that have been producing their wines for hundreds of years. The culture of wine is not necessarily embedded into our daily lifestyle. While many wine aficionados still consider Santa Barbara wine to be in its youth, young sommeliers from around the world are beginning to carve out a place for Santa Barbara on their wine lists, making it a conversation worth having.

Proof that the kids are ahead of the trend are global wine brands like Constellation and Jackson Family Wines, who have quietly been buying up vineyard land over the last several years and bringing in a diverse network of wine professionals from all parts of the globe to work on branding and marketing the region with aims to increase consumer awareness worldwide. In fact, Jackson Family Wines, who have had a stake in Santa Barbara Wine Country for years, was strategically a primary sponsor of this year’s Women’s Sommelier Symposium, hosting the group at two of their wineries Cambria and Brewer-Clifton for a behindthe-scenes look into their winemaking and viticultural practices.

“People are starting to realize that Santa Barbara is the place to be for wine. The beauty is we can trust the winemakers to continue what they’ve already been doing for years; making smaller volumes of really high-quality wine without having to intervene,” says Lydia Richards, founder of the nonprofit Hispanics in Wine, who recently moved to

Santa Barbara from New York to manage public relations for Jackson Family Wines.

Santa Barbara Wine Country may still lack the iconic status of regions like Burgundy or Barolo, but word of mouth is reaching destination travel spots, thanks in large part to the unique demographics of the area that arguably boast the highest percentage of women winemakers in the country. This important statistic is something this group of sommeliers immediately noticed and feel is worth sharing in their communities.

One such sommelier is María Cárdenas of the French Alpine Bistro in Aspen, Colorado, who makes a point to feature women producers on her list. “The wines reflect who I am and what I believe in the industry,” she says, noting the abundance of biodynamic, small-production wines made here by women.

Perhaps another important factor influencing Santa Barbara wine production is climatic changes affecting the landscape of wine itself, making harvests in places like Napa and Sonoma more challenging and expensive to maintain as shifts occur. And while it’s safe to say that Santa Barbara, best known for its pinot noir producers nestled within cool, protected microclimates among the Sta. Rita Hills, new young winemakers have been steadily planting roots due to the fact that our terroir can support an impressive array of grape varieties, making cultivation of pretty much any variety a possibility.

“Santa Barbara is just so scrappy,” which, according to Master Sommelier Emily Wines, founder of the CMS Women’s Symposium, made it the ideal place to host the event. “The amount of women in the wine business here is really high; there’s this incredible spirit here. It doesn’t have the feel of regions that have been in the spotlight for much longer. And it’s not just with the wine; it’s the food, and even the farming.” Overall, these wine pros are predicting a boost in Santa Barbara wines reaching the global market, and the “glow up” is inevitable, especially as more mega-companies have started to invest in the region. Yet, despite the considerable corporate claim to the area, Santa Barbara seems to be one of those places that will never lose its charm. n

From left: Oriana Cartaya, Lydia Richards, and Janice Williams at the annual CMS Women’s Symposium in Santa Ynez

Katja Scharnagl tasting at Stolpman Vineyard, with Peter Stolpman in the background

One of the oldest restaurants in Santa Barbara, Arnoldi’s Café, which was founded by Giuseppe and Ilda Arnold in 1937, at 421 East Cota Street, has closed after the death of co-owner David Peri. In 1940, Giuseppe (Joe) quarried local stone and built the present restaurant at 600 Olive Street. Since then, Arnoldi’s, with the bocce ball courts in the garden, has been entertaining Santa Barbarans and visitors from all over the world. Arnoldi’s has hosted orchestras and dancers since the 1940s. The mural depicts Lago di Como. Bucky, the tule elk overlooking the bar, joined Arnoldi’s following Joe’s 1958 hunting trip to Colorado. The owners of Arnoldi’s Café, Jim and Dede Nonn, Dave and Kitty Peri, and Carol Smagala, were able to preserve the valued traditions of Arnoldi’s Café until the very end.

The official message from Arnoldi’s reads: “It is with great sadness that we announce the temporary closure of Arnoldi’s Café as we have known it the last 22 years. The current business owners will be stepping away from the business and have so much gratitude for being a part of the historical and legendary institution that has brought so many people memories since the 1940s. Being a part of the history and the tradition of the café, including countless plates of pasta coming out of the kitchen, the chatter of teams on the bocce court, and special moments rehearsal dinners, graduations, weddings, birthdays, or just a Friday night dinner has meant so much to us. We want to thank our incredible staff, our valued customers, and the community of Santa Barbara. We are confident the tradition will continue forward, but for the time being while we transition to new beginnings, the café will be closed.”

TRATTORIA VITTORIA CLOSES: Reader Jennifer M. let me know that Trattoria Vittoria, which opened at 30 East Victoria Street 18 years ago, has closed, and owner Vittoria Comin has published an announcement for the community: “It is with a heavy heart that I announce that Trattoria Vittoria is now closed. The business is being sold, and will not remain open for operations in the meantime. The location 30 East Victoria Street may reopen in the future,

Arnoldi’s Café Closes After 87 Years

and we wish the best of luck to the future owners. We would like to extend our deepest gratitude to our customers for these last 18 years of business and beyond. My Nonno (grandfather) Giovanni ‘Lucky’ Comin put his heart and soul into this location for much of his life from his first days bartending at the then-Pascual’s, to buying in to be a partner, to opening his dream Italian bar and restaurant, Trattoria Vittoria, in 2006.”

JAMBA JUICE CLOSES: Reader Brendan tells me that that Jamba Juice on the UCSB campus next to the bookstore closed a few months ago.

SOCIAL EATS CLOSES IN ISLA VISTA: Even though their grand opening was just last August, I received news from reader Brendan that things didn’t go well at Social Eats: “I noticed Social Eats at 6521 Pardall Road in Isla Vista seemed to be closed every time I passed by recently. Apparently, it closed some time ago after just a few months in business.”

STICA COMING TO SANTA YNEZ: STICA, the newest Santa Ynez Valley dining concept from the team behind S.Y. Kitchen and Nella Kitchen & Bar, and part of Toscana Restaurant Group, is slated to open in the town of Santa Ynez, California, summer of 2024.

Located at 3563 Numancia Street, just steps from sibling, S.Y. Kitchen, STICA will serve as a grab-and-go, counter-service eatery and market meant as a laid-back, casual meal option or for stocking up on wine country snacks. The space will offer freshly prepared salads to-go, as well as pre-made sandwiches, fresh pastas and sauces, and other assorted market goods. STICA will also feature Roman pinsas, which will be offered by the slice or as a create-your-own pinsa board, available warmed at the shop, or prepared to be heated at home. STICA will also stock boutique wines from Italy, the U.S., and around the globe, with a focus on hard-to-find labels and everyday wines with lower price points.

STICA joins the Toscana Restaurant Group family, which now includes S.Y. Kitchen, Nella Kitchen and Bar, Nerano in Beverly Hills, Bar Toscana, and Toscana in Brentwood, the latter of which celebrated its 35th anniversary in April 2024.

ARRIVEDERCI: With the passing of co-owner David Peri, Santa Barbara icon Arnoldi’s Café has closed after nearly nine decades.

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Photo by Gary Robinson

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BRINGING ON THE SERIOUS MUSICAL SUMMER

THE 77TH ANNUAL MUSIC ACADEMY FESTIVAL KICKS OFF ANOTHER RICH SLATE OF CLASSICAL

SUMMERING

Geothermally speaking, Santa Barbara is famous/infamous for having a fickle flow of seasons. Clear delineations between annual seasonal times are rarely apparent, with degrees of heat, chill, overcast skies in summer, and blue skies in winter confusing our sense of what happens when.

In our classical music season calendar, however, we can count on comforting regularity and an uncommonly rich tapestry of concert-going options, almost year-round. Case in point: Just as the traditional fall-to-spring classical concert season has all but wrapped up, the Ojai Music Festival brings its international and contemporary-geared gleam in early June, and then the spotlight all but belongs to the world-renowned Music Academy.

For eight weeks, the Academy (née the Music Academy of the West for its first 74 years), keeps an innately talented roster of fellows more than busy with studies and performances, ushers some of the top classical musicians into the 805, and, for the serious music-hungry public, an embarrassment of concert riches to keep summer ennui at bay.

For all of the predictable bounty of programming, this 77th annual edition brings with it a change of the administrational and conceptual guard. Former Academy head Scott Reed has passed the leadership baton over to Shauna Quill, whose résumé includes time leading the Grammy-winning New York Youth Symphony. Nate Bachhuber with experience as administrator with the respected likes of the L.A. Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony, and St. Louis Symphony takes the reins as Chief Artistic Officer.

The first official event of the 2024 season is the fundraising gala dinner and performance at the Academy’s picturesque Montecito home base of Miraflores on June 1, a high-priced occasion for a cause. Food and drink in gala-ville are always top-notch, as is the talent on hand this year, famed cellist and Music Academy alum Joshua Roman.

But the Academy’s dense schedule of performances often with intentionally affordable ticket options begins in earnest with the return of the Takács Quartet, at Hahn Hall on June 14 and closes on August 3 at The Granada Theatre, with the Academy Festival Orchestra performing Mahler’s Symphony No. 6, Tragic, conducted by Finnish maestro Hannu Lintu.

Apart from such regular weekly concert series as the “x2” Thursday encounters with professional artists and fellows, and the “Fellows Friday” programs designed and performed by an all-fellow cast, there are many other special calendarmarking events this season. High on that list is the “Fauré Project” with violinist Joshua Bell, pianist Jeremy Denk and cellist Steven Isserlis on July 5 at Hahn Hall. Denk and Bell also perform a twofer recital at the Granada on July 2.

Faculty member (and badass pianist/thinker) Denk gives a performance-lecture on Charles Ives’s epochal Concord Sonata (June 19 at Lehmann Hall) while two other famed pianists, Timo Andres and Connor Hannick aided by select fellows offer up a special showcase performance of the complete Philip Glass Piano Études (July 13 at Hahn Hall).

Each summer features a fully staged opera, along with other performances showcasing the superlative voice depart-

ment. Among the world-class singers ennobling this department’s pedagogy have been Lotte Lehmann and Martial Singher early in the Academy’s history, and a long stint led by the dynamic (and generous-spirited) diva Marilyn Horne (after whom the main house at Miraflores was named). We get our second Carmen of the year (July 12 and 14, at The Granada Theatre), after last fall’s Opera Santa Barbara (OSB) production. But if the OSB version heeded traditional values, the Music Academy production is something else again, in what promises to be an elaborately reimagined and rethought treatment by director Ken Cazan and flamenco choreographer Manuel Gutierrez, conducted by famed repeat visitor to the Academy, Daniela Candillari.

Among the many on-the-town traditions, the list of Saturday-night orchestra concerts at the Granada, by the always strong fellow-filled Academy Festival Orchestra (AFO), ranks among the most satisfying symphonic evenings in town all year. This year’s overall AFO program is unusually broad and adventurous, including a rare performance of Stravinsky’s proto-modernist masterpiece Rite of Spring (June 29), on a program with music of L.A.-based composer Joan Huang and the late, revitalized African-American composer Florence Price, conducted by Anthony Parnther.

AFO circa 2024 is also stretching out on a notably inclusive roster of orchestral works, as well as repertoire pillars worth hearing, as with the Wagner, Sibelius, and Mahler triple-play menu of the opening orchestra concert, led by Osmo Vänskä on June 22.

Another keen point of orchestral interest is the night when John Adams’s moving post-modern Violin Concerto lands in the AFO’s hands at the Granada on July 27, under the baton of great American composer David Robertson. The concert also features eminent violinist Leila Josefowicz who made the debut recording and recently performed a Hahn Hall recital hosted by UCSB Arts & Lectures.

For those wanting to dive deeper, the aforementioned highlights are extensively expanded upon by a bevy of masterclasses and other performances.

At a festival preview event in March, the self-described “newbie” Quill emphasized that, at the Music Academy, “the strength of the program is why we received over 1,800 applicants for fellows. It’s quite something. We have a great program, and having it here in Santa Barbara is a huge part of what makes it special.” Soon enough, Santa Barbara music lovers will be invited to join in the feast of a fest.

—Josef Woodard

See musicacademy.org for the entire summer festival schedule and program.

Pianist Jeremy Denk and violinist Joshua Bell

Campus Fellows

Conductor Hannu Lintu

Violinist Leila Josefowicz

TOM ZIMBEROFF

SANTA BARBARA’S MOST PICTURESQUE FESTIVAL IS BACK

Arainbow of chalk-fueled goodwill descends on Mission Santa Barbara once again this weekend, with the return of the 38th annual I Madonnari Street Painting Festival May 25-27.

From From Tots to Teens

The beloved Memorial Day Weekend event is a fundraiser for the Children’s Creative Project (CCP), a nonprofit arts education program of the Santa Barbara County Education Office. The festival raises muchneeded funds for K-12 arts education across Santa Barbara County. Over the years, Festival proceeds have been used to sponsor fine arts programs conducted by professional artists during school hours for more than 50,000 children in county public schools. In addition, some of the proceeds go toward resident artists who provide visual and performing arts workshops for more than 38,000 children.

This year’s featured artist is Emily Lostaunau, who has been street painting since 1998, when she started out assisting her sister with a featured painting at the Italian Street Painting Festival in San Rafael. She has participated in our Santa Barbara I Madonnari many times since then. Her featured 2024 painting, which gets the coveted centerpiece space at the bottom of the Old Mission steps, is titled “The Sunday Grays,” an ode to the three gray stallions that she rides and cares for every Sunday.

The 2024 I Madonnari is dedicated to education and arts advocate Margie Yahyavi, the former executive director of the Santa Barbara Education Foundation. “As a dear friend of Children’s Creative Project, we were deeply saddened by her passing and the loss of such a beacon of hope and inspiration,” said Kai Tepper-Jahnke, executive director of Children’s Creative Project. “It is an honor to celebrate her legacy and to continue inspiring the next generation of creative thinkers and makers.”

Children’s Creative Project Founder Kathy Koury, who stepped down from that role in 2022, was originally inspired to create the I Madonnari fundraiser by the International Street Painting Competition in Grazie di Curtatone, Italy. CCP produced the first Santa Barbara Festival in 1987 to elevate the arts in the Santa Barbara community while raising much-needed funding for arts education in K-12 schools. It is now widely acknowledged as the first festival of its kind in North America.

The 2024 edition will have more than 140 chalk pastel street paintings drawn live in front of the Old Mission. The event also features live music from the Brasscals, Mezcal Martini, Mark and the Logistics, and exceptional youth performances from several local junior high and high school jazz bands and choirs. There is also a food market featuring local vendors such as Dave’s Dogs, Elubia’s, and Nimita’s Cuisine, and more.

Throughout the three-day event, more than 600 Kids’ Squares, which include a box of chalk, can be purchased for a donation of just $15. In addition to parking at the Mission, this year, the free Festival will be also accessible via a new Santa Barbara Trolley Route, with pickup points at the Visitor Center on Cabrillo Boulevard and the Santa Barbara Public Library downtown on Anacapa Street. —Leslie Dinaberg

The festival hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., May 2527, with a final ceremony at noon on Monday, May 27, on the Mission steps.

The beautiful Santa Barbara Mission overlooks the I Madonnari Festival.

SAN MARCOS JAZZ BAND GETS AN ENCORE AT THE LOBERO

AWARD-WINNING ENSEMBLE REPRISES CHICAGO

HERITAGE FESTIVAL PERFORMANCE IN FUNDRAISER

Taking the stage for a special one-night-only local performance of their recent award-winning show from Chicago’s Heritage Festival in April, the San Marcos High School (SMHS) Jazz Ensemble presents a special fundraiser at the Lobero Theatre on Wednesday, May 29, at 7 p.m.

The event will help to cover outstanding costs of the trip for the ensemble, which is composed of 26 students in grades 9-12, many of whom only started playing their instruments or were first exposed to the genre at San Marcos. The group, led by SMHS Instrumental Music Director Michael Kiyoi, started planning for the 2020 trip back in 2017. Then, when the pandemic hit, the performances were all canceled, and it has taken this long to get these plans back in place.

“With COVID, it broke my heart to cancel the Chicago trip, and the dream seemed dead and lost,” stated Kiyoi. That dream was revived this year. “We travel a lot with the band, but only in Southern California and haven’t been out of the state since 2012. And it just so happens that we have one of the best jazz bands we’ve ever had in San Marcos history.”

San Marcos won the Dos Pueblos High School Jazz Festival for the first time in more than 10 years. They then traveled to Chicago, where the SMHS Jazz Ensemble received a GOLD rating and took first place. They also brought home several prestigious prizes, including the Spirit Award (the group that best represents the values of the company) and the Adjudicator Award, where the group must score above 92 (only SMHS and one other school won).

Several students also received individual awards: Senior Joshlin Santos (trumpet) received the Ovation Award, which honors one senior musician (every school nominates a student, but only one wins); and Soloist Awards were given to seniors Eliel Pozos (saxophone) and Lucas Carrara (trombone) (three soloists were awarded in total at the competition and San Marcos received two of the awards). In addition, the San Marcos Jazz Ensemble scored an average of more than 97, including a perfect 100 from one judge, which is exceedingly rare.

“Our students crushed it they absolutely crushed it!” said Kiyoi. “Their performance was incredible, and it brought tears to my eyes. I am so glad that we were able to partner with the Lobero so that our local community can experience this remarkable performance.”

—Leslie Dinaberg

The San Marcos High School Jazz Ensemble performs at the Lobero Theatre (33 E. Canon Perdido St.) on Wednesday, May 29, at 7 p.m. Tickets are $20, with $16 of each ticket purchase (after expenses) to benefit San Marcos High School Instrumental Music Program, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. Tickets are available at lobero.org/events/ smhs-jazz-band, at the Lobero box office, or by calling (805) 963-0761.

The award-winning San Marcos Jazz Ensemble at the Chicago Heritage Festival

EMBRACING THE HIGHS AND THE LOWS

ALEXANDRA RIORDEN’S NEW ALBUM INVITES YOU TO SIT BACK AND RELAX

Musical artist Alexandra Riorden interlaced salt water between her fingers as she lay on her back, drifting in the Pacific Ocean. Underneath her relaxed facade, she wondered what unknown creatures lurked beneath her. “There’s a whole other world down there,” she said. “... I was just praying in my head that I don’t get snapped up by a shark.” Riorden, dressed in a men’s suit, felt scared but dedicated to achieving the perfect shot for the music video of her song “Ocean,” directed by Paige Strabala, with cinematography by Jenny Baumert.

This song is one of many on her forthcoming album New Heaven, a collection of tracks steeped in Santa Barbara imagery and themes of self-discovery. While her entire album centers on “inner peace,” she hopes to illuminate the “duality of life,” by singing about both the highs and lows.

Partially influenced by the beloved Christmas movie It’s a Wonderful Life, the title track “Ocean” explores life’s complexities highlighting universal experiences that define our lives but often defy easy explanations. She shared that the song transitions from a darker tone to “mentioning all the things in life that are beautiful, like phosphorescence in the ocean and shooting stars and being in love.”

She laughs as she recites the chorus to “Ocean,” worried that without music, it might sound “so Hallmark.” It goes, “It isn’t always easy, but it’s beautiful / everyone could use a bit of help. / It gets a little crazy, but it’s magical / you have to understand it for yourself.” After our phone call, I pulled up the track, wanting to hear the lyrics in their intended form. Riorden’s voice, ethereal and haunting, entranced me I ended up listening to the track multiple times while writing this piece.

The 30-year-old grew up in San Francisco. Music fell onto her radar when her mother enrolled her in a musical theater program when she was around 6. She did choir and a cappella in high school and dedicated herself to becoming a triple threat: actor, singer, and dancer. One student-run production of Music Through the Decades, where students celebrated and

sang music from different ages, gave her a sense of belonging. “I felt something on stage that I didn’t feel before when I had lines to say,” she shared. For her, singing evoked the emotions that acting lacked. “I feel like that was foreshadowing for the rest of my life.”

Without knowing much about the town, she traded the city for the sea and moved to Santa Barbara to attend UCSB in 2012. Riorden studied Film and Media in college but recognized early on that the conventional career path didn’t excite her. Music did.

She remembers riding her bike in Isla Vista with a friend who asked her a question that most twentysomethings I know dread, but one she didn’t mind answering: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” “I really want to be a musician,” Riorden responded. “I declared who I was and what I wanted.”

After graduating in 2016, she embarked on an eight-month journey across Asia. She fondly recalled performing at a night market in Cambodia and the overwhelming contentment she felt singing. “I remember I wrote my first song, and really started singing consistently,” she said. Traveling connected her to music, allowing her to express herself in the way that felt most natural.

After her travels, she moved to Los Angeles and recorded, wrote, and produced music. In 2019, she released her first EP, Weirdflower, produced by Avi Durchfort and Dalton Ricks. Though she didn’t stay in L.A. long, she felt an irresistible pull to return to Santa Barbara. “I just missed it,” she confided. “The environment here is so relaxing and magical.” In 2019, she heeded the call. “It’s as if I started to unwind; my nervous system relaxed, and I felt more centered,” she said of her return.

“Santa Barbara feels like home to me,” said Riorden. The theme of “feeling at home” resurfaced throughout our discussion, illustrating how this sentiment weaves through various aspects of our lives the connections we form with

people, the places we inhabit, and the things we hold dear each elicit a sense of home. We both agreed that this is a feeling of unwavering comfort, a theme she channeled while writing the songs on her new album.

When asked what genre of music she listens to, Riorden sighed for a moment and then laughed, admitting that her taste is all over the map. She particularly loves rock ‘n’ roll, but any good musical storytelling grabs her attention. She used Patti Smith as an example. “She’s more about raw expression,” said Riorden. “I just love her so much. I love her writing and just everything she represents.” She also mentioned South African singer Alice Phoebe Lou and American singer Kurt Vile.

As an experimental artist, Riorden struggles to assign herself to one genre especially with her onstage persona. Her performances teeter from rock ’n’ roll to “lullaby-esque.” She mentions American singer Debbie Harry and Chrissie Hynde from The Pretenders as influences and shared that when she’s on stage, she “feels a kinship” with those women rockers.

“I want to put out music that actually comforts people,” she shared. One of her friends even likened her music to an “RX pill,” a notion she embraces. She said her last album, Angel City Radio, co-produced with Max Collier, had a “heaviness to it. I used to think I wanted to shock people and create something very experimental,” she reflected. But she doesn’t feel that way anymore. At least, not right now. Her new album feels like “a breath of fresh air.” Omar Velasco helped her produce it, with Justin Flint on drums and Gabe Noel on strings. She hopes to release the whole album this year and plans to release tracks all recorded in Santa Barbara intermittently.

Riorden often performs multiple times a week at various venues in Santa Barbara while working a day job. Yet, the musician finds moments between the chaos to enjoy Santa Barbara’s beauty. “I’ll go to the beach. I’ll jump in the ocean to rinse off the day sometimes when I feel overwhelmed or stressed,” she said. “It’s amazing.”

—Tiana Molony

For more information on Alexandra Riorden’s upcoming shows and to listen to her music, visit linktr.ee/alexandra.riorden.

Alexandra Riorden

Alexandra Riorden and her band perform.

GETTING READY TO SIP AND ROCK MY WAY THROUGH BOTTLEROCK

NAPA VALLEY 2024

A MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND MUSICAL FESTIVAL GETAWAY

This festival truly does bring together some of my favorite things, all of which happen to handily fall in my entertainment and lifestyle coverage area great music, delicious wine, fabulous food, easy travel, and the kickoff to summer all coalescing with three days of live performances, foodie fun, and festivities on three music stages, plus a culinary stage. I can’t wait to share it all with our readers.

The list of headliners is pretty dynamite: Stevie Nicks, Megan Thee Stallion, Pearl Jam, Maná, Ed Sheeran, and Queens of the Stone Age (who also happen to be stopping at the Santa Barbara Bowl on May 24 before heading to Napa for their May 26 show). But the list goes on and on, including St. Vincent, Miike Snow, Bebe Rexha, Pete Yorn, Say She She, Santa Barbara’s own Chris Shiflett (whose day job is lead guitarist with the Foo Fighters), Oliver Tree, Cold War Kids, Kali Uchis, My Morning Jacket, The Kid Laroi, Tower of Power, The Aquadolls, Dominic Fike, Norah Jones, The Offspring, and Stephen Sanchez (who is coming to the Bowl September 14), to name just a few of the more than 75 bands playing over the long weekend.

The wine, food, and beverage offerings are every bit as high level as the artists. And there are plenty of wine cabanas, beverage bars, and food tents located throughout the festival grounds (rather than all in only one area).

One of my favorite special touches at last year’s BottleRock was the highly entertaining Williams

Sonoma culinary stage, which mashed up celebrities from the world of music, film, and TV with top chefs and culinary rock stars. While the 2024 culinary stage details will be announced at a later date, last year featured chef celebs José Andrés, Giada De Laurentiis, Aarón Sánchez, and the Voltaggio Brothers alongside musicians Lil Nas X, John Taylor and Roger Taylor of Duran Duran, Wu-Tang Clan, Sammy Hagar, Dancer Derek Hough (who took off his shirt and leapt in an ice bath onstage), and Keanu Reeves in the kitchen, among others.

One of the other nice things about BottleRock is how close the different stages are to each other. Last year there were a few artists playing at the same time where I was truly torn about which one to go to, so I split my time. Granted, you can’t get up super close to the stage by doing that, but that’s not usually my preference at these things with big crowds anyway.

And then there’s the wine. This is Napa Valley after all. “Each year BottleRock raises the bar in offering an unparalleled blend of world-class music, the finest Napa Valley wines, and incredible culinary delights,” shared John Anthony Truchard, Founder and CEO of JaM Cellars, the presenting sponsor for the eighth year. “As part of this extraordinary three-day festival we’re inspired every year to bring something new to the festival experience. This year we’re delighted to debut new wines Butter Sauvignon Blanc and Butter Pinot Noir alongside classics Butter Chardonnay and Butter Cab at the JaMPad stage and lounge.”

Additional wineries pouring include Caymus Vineyards, The Duckhorn Portfolio, Miner Family Winery, Cardinale, Shafer Vineyards, Schramsberg Vineyards, Blackbird Vineyards, Silverado Vineyards, Emmolo Wines, Frias Family Vineyard, Sinegal Estate, Mumm Napa, Robledo Family Winery, Lang & Reed, Vintner’s Diary, Mathiasson Wines, and Art House Wines. —Leslie Dinaberg

Stay tuned for my own adventures at BottleRock 2024. See bottlerocknapavalley.com for more information.

More than 75 artists will perform onstage at BottleRock 2024.

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WEEK OF MAY 23

ARIES

(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): In the coming weeks, you will experience uncomfortable weirdness if you do the following: (1) Meander without focus or purpose; (2) give yourself permission to postpone, procrastinate, and engage in avoidance behavior; (3) ignore the interesting though challenging truths that are right in front of you; (4) hang out with people with mediocre ambitions. But you will experience healthy, uplifting oddness if you do the following: (1) Trust your instincts and intuitions; (2) authorize your spontaneity to invigorate and guide you; (3) take the straightforward path that gets you to the destination most efficiently; (4) be crisp and nimble.

TAURUS

(Apr. 20-May 20): Mysterious energies will soon begin healing at least some of the wounds in your financial genius. As a result, I predict new powers of attraction will awaken in you, making it likely you will add to your wealth in the coming months. To synergize these happy developments, I recommend you give yourself permission to have joyous fun as you lust for more cash. More good news: I will supplement your good fortune by casting a benevolent spell to boost the flow of riches into your bank account.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20): When I first got my job writing a horoscope column, I wasn’t looking for it. It found me. My bike had been stolen, and I was looking for a new one in the classified ads of the Good Times, the local Santa Cruz newspaper. There, I serendipitously spied a “Help Wanted” ad. The publisher of the Good Times was hiring a new astrology writer to replace Robert Cole, who had just quit. I quickly applied for the gig and got it. Ever since, Robert Cole has been a symbol for me of an accidental and unexpected opportunity appearing out of nowhere. I mention this, Gemini, because when I meditate on you lately, I see the face of Robert Cole.

CANCER

(June 21-July 22): In myths and legends, the consummate spiritual goal has various names: the Holy Grail, philosopher’s stone, pearl of great price, nirvana, alchemical gold, key of life, and many others. I appreciate this profusion of sacred symbols. It encourages us to not be too literal about identifying the highest reward. The old fables are equally equivocal about where the prize can be found. Is it in an empty desert or dark forest? In the deepest abyss, on a mountaintop, or in the backyard? I bring these thoughts to your attention, Cancerian, because the coming months will be an excellent time to conduct a quest for the marvelous treasure. What do you need most right now? What’s the best way to begin your search?

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22): I have good news for any Leos who are devoted to pragmatism and rational analysis. Just this once, my horoscope will offer no lyrical teasers or mystical riddles. Your pressing need for no-nonsense grit has moved me to offer straightforward, unembellished counsel. Here it is, dear: Cultivate connections that will serve your passionate ambitions. Make vigorous use of your network and community to gather information that will serve your passionate ambitions. Meditate on what course corrections might be necessary to serve your passionate ambitions.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): For many of you Virgos, your health seems chronically unsettled. You may be constantly hypervigilant about the next glitch that could possibly affect your well-being. There’s a problem with that approach: It may intensify your fear of frailty, which in turn saps your vigor. But I’m happy to report that in the coming months, you will have an enhanced power to break out of this pattern. To get started, try this: Every morning for four minutes, picture yourself overflowing with vitality. Visualize every part of your body working with joyful heartiness. Send streams of love and gratitude to all your organs. Do this for the next 21 days.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Many people regard the word “faith” as referring to delusional hope or wishful thinking. But I ask you to rethink its meaning and consider the possibility that it could be an empowering force in the coming months. How? Imagine a faith that’s earthy and robust. You actually feel it vibrating in your heart and gut. It literally alters your brain chemistry, fortifying your natural talents and attracting needed resources. It liberates you to feel pragmatically excited as you pursue your goal of fulfilling your soul’s code.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When I was born, my parents gave me the name “Robert.” It’s derived from an Old North French word meaning “shining” and “bright with glory.” In Middle English, though, “robert” was a designation for “a wastrel, a marauder, a good-for-nothing.” I use this dichotomy as a reminder that my own nature is a mix of brightness and darkness. A lot of me is shining and inspirational, but there’s also a part that’s ignorant and confused. And what’s true about me is true about everyone else, including you: We are blends of the best and the not-so-best. Now is a good time to draw strength and wisdom from meditating on this reality. Your shadowy aspects have important and interesting truths to reveal to your brilliant aspects and vice versa.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Here are some meditations on emotions. They are as key to our intelligence as our thoughts! But it’s crucial that we distinguish between emotions generated by delusions and emotions that are responses to true perceptions. Let’s say I get angry because I imagine a friend stole money from my room while visiting, but then later I put on my vest and find the supposedly stolen cash in the vest pocket. That is a delusional emotion. But if I am sad because my friend’s beloved dog is sick, that is emotion based on an accurate perception. I bring this to your attention, Sagittarius, because I believe it is essential that in the coming weeks you discern between the two types.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): As an adjunct to the 10 Commandments, I have formulated the 10 Suggestions. Here’s Suggestion Number One: Wash your own brain at least three times a year. I’m speaking metaphorically, of course. What I mean is that like me and everyone else, you are always accumulating junky thoughts and useless feelings. Some are generated by our old, conditioned responses, and some pour into us from the media and entertainment industries. And it’s best to be proactive about the toxic buildup not allow it to become monumental. In my astrological opinion, now is an excellent time for a regular mind cleanse.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): So many writers have said terrible things about our existence on planet Earth. “Life is a disease,” wrote George Bernard Shaw. “Life is a bad dream,” declared Eugene O’Neill. Life is “a vast cold junkpile,” according to Stephen King. There are thousands more of these unnuanced disparagements. Why? Here are the facts, as I see them: As tough as it can be to navigate through problems and pain, being alive in our miraculous bodies with our dazzling awareness is a sublime gift. We are all blessed with a mysterious and fascinating destiny. In accordance with the astrological omens, Aquarius, I invite you to celebrate being alive with extra gratitude and ebullience. Begin the jubilee by feeling amazement and awe for your mysterious and fascinating destiny. Second step: Identify five sublime gifts in your life.

PISCES

(Feb. 19-Mar. 20): In the coming weeks, I ask you to refrain from indulging in extreme nostalgia. On the other hand, I encourage you to explore the past and sift through memories with the intention of clarifying what really happened back then. Pluck new lessons from the old days that will help you forge smart decisions in the near future. Use your history as a resource while you redefine the meanings of pivotal events. For extra credit, create a new title for the book you may someday write about your life story.

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ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL SCIENCES

DEVELOPMENT

The Associate Director of Development, Social Sciences, reports to the Interim Assistant Dean of Development for the Division of Social Sciences and works to identify and cultivate relationships to optimize philanthropic support to benefit UC Santa Barbara and the Division of Social Sciences. Primary emphasis is on the identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of individual prospects (alumni, parents and friends) and when appropriate, foundations and corporations. Focus will be on organizing donor outreach, including frequent travel for face‑to‑face meetings, to secure new and renew annual gifts ($1,000+), with an added emphasis on building and maintaining an active pipeline of $1,000 ‑ $24,999 gifts. Tasks include managing the annual giving program, creating donor appeals, developing online and social media giving strategies, as well as helping to identify, cultivate and lay the groundwork for major gift conversations of $25,000 and above. With regard to major gift prospects, the Associate Director, in coordination with and guidance from the Interim Assistant Dean of Development and other members of the Social Sciences development team, develops and executes individual prospect strategies to maximize philanthropic support. Focuses eighty percent (80%) of his/her time on direct fundraising, volunteer management, and fundraising outreach activities. Twenty percent (20%) is focused on administrative duties, such as planning, coordinating and follow up; partnering with departments on their alumni outreach strategies; and collaborating on strategic development events for donor cultivation and stewardship purposes. Builds and maintains an active prospect pipeline moving from an unqualified lead to donor. This development officer is a resource for

the entire Division of Social Sciences, but may also have responsibility for particular initiatives and projects at the direction of the Interim Assistant Dean of Development. Travels as necessary to build the pipeline, raising annual and major gifts. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/ training; 1‑3 yrs Direct development experience or other relevant professional experience in higher education; 1‑3 yrs Proven success in fundraising, sales, or related business field; demonstrated track record of managing professional relationships in business, preferably in a development environment; persuasive verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to relate to and communicate with a wide array of constituents.

Notes: This is an annually renewable contract position with no limit on total duration; flexibility and willingness to travel frequently; may be called upon to work occasional evenings and weekends at various Development Office, Institutional Advancement or campus‑wide events. Budgeted salary range: $82,300 ‑ $87,000/yr. Full salary range is $82,300 ‑ $151,700/ yr. Salary offers are determined based on final candidate qualifications and experience; the budget for the position; and the application of fair, equitable, and consistent pay practices at the University. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4010393/ PPSM‑20. For the University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/ doc/1001004/Anti‑Discrimination. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #68713

AUDIOVISUAL PRESERVATION PROFESSIONAL LIBRARY

The Library of the University of California, Santa Barbara, seeks an innovative, forward‑looking, service‑oriented, and collaborative professional for an exciting opportunity to serve as the Audiovisual Preservation Specialist at the UCSB Library’s Henri Temianka Audiovisual Preservation Lab. Serves as the Library’s expert in audiovisual preservation and digitization for materials handled by the Temianka Lab. Performs highly complex specialized procedures addressing audiovisual preservation needs. AV activities in the Temianka Lab include: Selecting and preparing AV formats for digitization in the Lab, including audio, video, and film; producing professional‑quality digitized archival sound and moving image recordings and performing format migration on audio and video materials for access and preservation purposes. Performs and supervises the digitization of media according to established procedures; creates digital images of disc labels; manages file naming and technical metadata generation and creation of digital surrogates for online and patron

access. Manages the operation of the Henri Temianka Audiovisual Preservation Lab; supervises and trains students; performs basic equipment maintenance; identifies equipment needs; develops and implements workflows for digitization of obsolete formats; and monitors current best practices in AV preservation. Coordinates with the staff in the Division of Digital Strategies the development of scripts and software tools used in the Temianka Lab to manage, validate, QC, make derivatives, and post‑process digital objects. Contributes to Library‑wide planning in digital repository best practices for audiovisual materials and assists in planning for long‑term preservation of digitized audiovisual content. Manages special projects and adapts workflows, staffing, hardware, and software/scripts used in the Temianka Lab as necessary while also setting goals; providing training and production oversight; evaluating staff and system performance; and generating reports, statistics, and documentation. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent training and/ or experience. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check

The full salary range is $67,399.72 ‑ $108,394.30/yr. The budgeted salary range is $67,399.72 ‑ $83,801.92/ yr. UC Santa Barbara is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For more information: University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy; University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy Application review begins 5/22/24; open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 68752

CLINICAL LABORATORY

SCIENTIST

UCSB, STUDENT HEALTH

Assist in the overall operation of the clinical laboratory of the Student Health Service by performing the duties of testing personnel (as specified by CLIA 88) in the specialties of hematology, urinalysis, clinical microscopy, diagnostic immunology, chemistry, microbiology, and virology/ molecular diagnostics. Other duties include specimen processing, phlebotomy, data entry and instrument preventative maintenance and troubleshooting. Must possess a high degree of accuracy and precision. Must be capable of working independently while maintaining compliance with existing laws, regulations and policies. Must have the ability to communicate effectively with clinicians, patients, health service staff and visitors. Is capable of fast, accurate laboratory work while doing multiple procedures. Training and experience must comply with Federal CLIA 88 requirements for personnel of high complexity testing. Is familiar with common laboratory analyzers, equipment and Laboratory Information Systems. Maintains the equipment and the entire work area in a clean, presentable fashion to preclude injury to self and others. Adheres to safety and infection control policies and procedures. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree. Graduation from college with Bachelor of Science

degree in major of appropriate scientific field. Current California Clinical Laboratory Scientists license at all times during employment. 3 – 5 years of training and experience sufficient to comply with Federal CLI 88 requirements for personnel of high complexity testing. Familiar with all laboratory equipment, including Hematology, Microbiology, Urinalysis, Molecular and Chemistry analyzers and other standard laboratory equipment. Notes: Mandated reporting requirements of Child Abuse. Must successfully complete and pass the background check and credentialing process before employment and date of hire. To comply with Santa Barbara County Public Health Department Health Officer Order, this position must provide evidence of annual influenza vaccination, or wear a surgical mask while working in patient care areas during the influenza season. Any HIPAA or FERPA violation is subject to disciplinary action. Student Health is closed between the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays. Budgeted Hourly Range: $39.32 ‑ $49.88/hr. Full Salary Range: $39.32‑ $57.33/ hr. UC Santa Barbara is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy, please visit: https:// policy. ucop.edu/doc/4010393/ PPSM‑20. For the University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/ doc/1001004/Anti‑Discrimination Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 58194

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT, MATH, LIFE AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES DEVELOPMENT

Serves as the Director of Development for the Sciences (Math, Life and Physical Sciences in the College of Letters and Science) and other collaborative fund‑raising initiatives. Works to optimize philanthropic support for key fund‑raising initiatives, in response to academic priorities established by the Dean of the Sciences and select affiliated program directors. As a member of the Development Office staff, fund‑raising efforts are devoted primarily to engineering and science initiatives (90%), with the remaining time (10%) to other University initiatives, as appropriate. Focuses approximately seventy percent time on fund‑raising activities to identify, cultivate and close gifts in the $25,000 ‑ $1M+ range with a major focus on identifying new prospects for identified funding priorities. Focuses thirty percent on other activities related to fund raising and administrative duties such as coordinating and executing aspects of the Sciences development program. Coordinates and executes planned strategies for the identification, cultivation, solicitation, closing and stewardship of gifts from individuals (alumni parents and friends), corporations and foundations primarily located throughout California. Works personally with donor prospects

and supports the Deans, faculty and volunteers in prospect relationships when appropriate, in order to maximize philanthropic support for the Sciences and UC Santa Barbara, raising gifts to meet identified fundraising priorities. Director works to ensure that all aspects of his/her development program are internally consistent, thematically related, and compatible with the policies and priorities of the relevant Academic units, Development Office and University. Travels to key regions such as the Bay Area and Southern California at a minimum of 25 days per year. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in related area and/or equivalent experience / training; 4‑6 yrs of major gift experience, raising five‑, six‑ and seven‑figure gifts; ability to articulate the case for higher education, and UCSB’s sciences programs; effective verbal communication skills to make persuasive oral presentations to colleagues, internal and external constituencies, and to plan and conduct participatory meetings, to gain acceptance of decisions, and to advise and collaborate with others; demonstrated skill at gift negotiation and gift solicitation to engage complex and sophisticated individual, corporate, and foundation donors toward significant philanthropic outcomes. Notes: Satisfactory criminal history background check; must maintain a valid CA DL, a clean DMV record and enrollment in DMV Pull‑Notice Program; this is an annually renewable contract position with no limit on total duration; flexibility and willingness to travel frequently; ability to work some weekends and evenings. The budgeted salary range is $101,100 ‑ $117,000/yr. UC Santa Barbara is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age

or protected veteran status. For more information: University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy; University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy. Application Review begins 5/24/24. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 68848

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ADMINISTRATOR ASSOCIATED STUDENTS

Under the Direction of the Associate Director of Technology & Strategic Communications, the Information Technology Administrator is responsible for the development, installation, configuration, maintenance and system integrity of the Associated Students’ servers and hosted services. Recommends technical solutions for specialized technical and communication projects in a complex and eclectic environment. Provides second tier troubleshooting and maintenance of primarily MacOS based desktop systems. May assist in software/hardware training for students and staff. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/training; 1‑3 yrs Experience with Linux based servers and their administration; 1‑3 yrs Familiarity with content management systems including WordPress; 1‑3 yrs Knowledge and experience troubleshooting MacOS, and commonly used software packages; 1‑3 yrs Demonstrated ability to install software and troubleshoot and repair moderately complex problems with computing devices, peripherals and software; 1‑3 yrs Excellent communication skills, teamwork and customer service; 4‑6 yrs Experience installing, configuring,

and documenting new applications. Notes: UCSB Campus Security Authority under Clery Act, satisfactory conviction history background check. The full hourly range is $32.18/hr ‑ $57.28/hr. The budgeted hourly range n is $35.11‑$36.88/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4010393/ PPSM‑20.For the University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/ doc/1001004/Anti‑Discrimination. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 67859

IRRIGATION SPECIALIST

RESIDENTIAL OPERATIONS

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$28.35/hr. UC Santa Barbara is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For more information: University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy; University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 68684

MACHINE SHOP

SUPERINTENDENT

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, DEAN’S OFFICE

Plans, organizes and directs the operation of the COE Machine Shop. Supervises all users of the Machine Shop, including senior staff machinist, part‑time machinist, part‑time student employees and students. Schedules work, assigns job duties and provides instruction for safe work practice for all Shop tools as needed. Ensures standard shop safety practices are followed. Maintains personnel records and initiates personnel actions in accordance with UC policies and procedures. Estimates job labor and materials costs for recharges. Purchases stock, tooling and capital equipment. Set up and fabricate precision parts and assemblies in common and exotic materials, including metal, plastic, wood, glass, ceramics, intermetallic composites, and parts with mathematically defined surfaces. Designs parts, laboratory equipment, and research apparatus using CAD/CAM software. Program and operate CNC milling machines, lathes and EDM machines. Consults and advises faculty, staff and students regarding engineering and fabrication considerations. Exhibits a high level of interpersonal communications skills required to facilitate the operation of the Machine Shop in a team‑work environment. Provides excellent customer service to researchers, students and staff while maintaining the flexibility to support the changing needs of the Mechanical Engineering Program and College of Engineering. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent experience/ training. 7‑9 years of fabrication and design experience; overall technical competence. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check The full salary range is $74,300 ‑ $134,500/yr. The budgeted salary range is $74,300 ‑ $99,480/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information, please visit: https://policy. ucop.edu/doc/4010393/PPSM‑20. and https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/1001004/ Anti‑Discrimination. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #68191

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GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT

Provides administrative and analytical support for all aspects of employment and payroll in the Geography department on a wide range of funding sources (including state, gift, and federal sponsored research awards) and appointment types. Independently manages, administers, and analyzes complex personnel activities for a wide range of funding sources and appointment types including undergraduate students, hourly graduate students, GSRs, career staff, limited or contract staff, postdoctoral scholars, specialist, project scientist, and researchers. Demonstrates a strong understanding of knowledge of UC Policies and Procedures, collective bargaining agreements, fund accounting, and campus financial systems. Analyzes, interprets and implements new and frequently changing campus and federal policies and procedures. Oversees processing of all personnel, timekeeping, and payroll actions via UCPath, Kronos, and ServiceNow. Provides high‑level advice to faculty and PIs on employment classification, policy, processes personnel budgeting and payroll forecasting. Responsible for hiring processes via UCPath, Job Builder, TAM, and UC Recruit. Onboards employees, serves as I‑9 US Work Authorization administrator, and maintains personnel files. Assists with Job Description updates and equity and reclassifications requests as appropriate. Facilitates Postdoctoral Scholars visas. Independently responsible for inputting, tracking, and monitoring salary and benefits projections of GSRs, student assistants, research scholars and career and limited appointment staff on approximately 81 funding sources, including several highly complex and diversified extramural awards with multiple PI’s both within and outside the Geography department. Independently manages faculty summer salary. Serves as a liaison with academic personnel, graduate division, human resources, payroll accounting, UCPath center, office of equal opportunity, and office of international students and scholars. Req: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent training and/or experience. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check The full hourly range is $28.83 ‑ $47.23/hr. The budgeted hourly range is $28.83 ‑ $30.29/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https:// jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 68950

SENIOR INTERNATIONAL AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

PROFESSIONAL AND CONTINUING EDUCATION

Applies independent thought and problem‑solving skills to shape new programs and new collaboration formats between UCSB Extension and a variety of academic and non‑academic partners. Independently implements and manages collaboration and partnership agreements with: Third party curriculum providers, UCSB Departments and service providers, International universities, and recruitment agencies, Other Higher Ed organizations, including other UC Extensions. Oversees a Senior Program Manager for International Programs ensuring continual

success of all programs directed to Extension’s international audience. Collaborates with the Senior Program Managers and Continuing Educators to expand academic opportunities for international students, custom programs and other initiatives. Is responsible for budgeting of all programs under their jurisdiction, working with Finance, Marketing and Customer Success and Outreach to evaluate the support impact of all and new and existing initiatives. Works with the Customer Success and Outreach Supervisor in establishing policies practices in customer relationship management, with a focus on international students, agencies, and third party partnerships. Supervises the UCSB extension Principal Designated School Official. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training. Continuing education in related field. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check

The full salary range is $74,300 to $134,500/yr. The budgeted salary range is $74,300 to $78,900/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information, please visit: https://policy. ucop.edu/doc/4010393/PPSM‑20. https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/1001004/ Anti‑Discrimination. Application review begins 6/3/24\. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu, Job # 69092

SKILLED TRADES

MECHANIC FACILITIES MANAGEMENT

Performs a variety of skilled tasks in the maintenance, alteration and repair of buildings and related facilities and equipment utilizing one or more of the building trades.

Job duties may typically include the range, complexity and frequency of application of journey level skills in the painting, carpentry and locksmithing trades, and demonstrated skills in the electrical, plumbing or HVAC trades. Works independently or as part of a maintenance crew and performs other related duties as required. Proactive in providing a positive customer service environment. Reqs: High School Diploma or GED. 4‑6 years Building maintenance experience in any one trade. Four years of hands‑on experience in a variety of skills including but not limited to carpentry, plumbing, painting, tiling, electrical, plastering, sheetrock repair, locksmith, heating and ventilation. Must be able to work on and with ladders. Demonstrated experience clearing drains, traps, and waste lines for sinks, tubs, toilets, utilizing proper sized electric or hand driven plumbing snakes. Ability to work independently or in support of other trades. Ability to read, write, and perform basic arithmetic calculations.

Notes: Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employer Pull‑Notice Program. Satisfactory conviction history background check. Must be able to take night and weekend call‑backs. Pay rate/range: $41.30/hr. UC Santa Barbara is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For more information: University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy; University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 68793

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DONOR RELATIONS & STEWARDSHIP COORDINATOR DEVELOPMENT

The Social Sciences Donor Relations & Stewardship Coordinator ensures that donors experience high‑quality interactions, reporting, and acknowledgment from the university that fosters long‑term engagement, investment and donor retention. They are responsible for consistent, accurate, and appropriate information sharing mechanisms for stewarding prospects and donors. They are responsible for coordinating all donor‑related events and volunteer board meetings, within the Division of Social Sciences, for the purposes of identifying, cultivating and stewarding Social Sciences prospects and donors. The Donor Relations & Stewardship Coordinator designs, implements, customizes and manages the stewardship program for donors, including significant annual and major gift donors, to optimize philanthropic support for the Deans’ priorities for the College of Letters & Science Division of Social Sciences. They assist the Development Officers in establishing and coordinating individualized stewardship plans for their donors. They create and produce strategic financial and fund performance reports, scholarship and fellowship impact reports, thank you letters, multi‑media and gratitude video acknowledgements, and ensure all donors are thanked in a timely manner. They manage and track all funds of the Division that require stewardship including endowments, scholarships, fellowships, programs, and capital projects. The Social Sciences Donor Relations & Stewardship Coordinator coordinates, executes and directs development‑related events for the Division of Social Sciences, both in‑person and virtual, that aim to promote the advancement goals of UC Santa Barbara including special events (symposiums, speaking engagements, alumni‑student engagement gatherings), development events (donor campus visits, scholarship luncheons, receptions, and dinners), volunteer Board meetings, and off‑campus events (donor engagement events and salons in the various regions). They provide content, design, and formatting input for event materials, while simultaneously coordinating the identification and procurement of goods and services for each event. They interface with donors and campus leadership at events as needed. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in related area and / or equivalent experience/training; 1‑3 yrs of experience in the use of databases, expertise in the use of Word, Excel, Google Suite, and other software and/ or web‑based systems; organizational skills including skill to meet prescribed deadlines; event planning skills and ability to work under tight and shifting deadlines; strong written, verbal and interpersonal skills, including tact and political acumen to effectively represent the institution; analytical and critical thinking skills and the ability to maintain strict confidentiality in all aspects of work. Notes: Satisfactory completion of a criminal history background check; may be called upon to work occasional evenings and weekends at various Development Office, Institutional Advancement or campus‑wide events. Hiring/Budgeted Hourly Range: $31.13 ‑ $35.92/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy, please visit: https://policy. ucop.edu/doc/4010393/PPSM‑20.

For the University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/1001004/ Anti‑Discrimination. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #68697

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ASSOCIATED STUDENTS

Support various AS units in the area of Student Financial Assistance Program Administration as an Advisor. Provides assistance to the Associate Director of Finance & Budget in AS’ responsibility to properly inform and train A.S. student leadership, organizations and student groups with regard to AS’ Financial Policies & Procedures. Conducts workshops for A.S. staff, A.S. Boards and Committees and student organizations, as needed, to communicate information on all A.S. Financial Policies and University Policies and Procedures. Trains new staff and supports procedures and activities for the Community Financial Fund and Community Financial Fund Committee, as needed. Provides general AS Financial Administration support in AS’ ongoing budget and financial activities. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/training; 1‑3 yrs experience in a higher education administrative, student services, or academic role; 1‑3 yrs experience working in budget and/or financial analysis; 1‑3 yrs experience working in accounting, finance, or related field; basic knowledge of advising and counseling techniques. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check; UCSB Campus Security Authority under Clery Act. The budgeted salary range is $24.95/hr. – $26.31/hr. The full salary range is $24.95/hr. – $42.10/ hr. UC Santa Barbara is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For more information: University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy; University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 68755

SR. BUILDING MAINTENANCE WORKER

RESIDENTIAL OPERATIONS

Performs senior building maintenance tasks on a regular and continuing basis and performs custodial work for University owned Residence Halls, Apartments and Dining Commons. May be asked to perform other duties as assigned to meet the operational needs of the department. Reqs: 1‑3 years combination of related education, experience, and training. Training in the basics of plumbing repairs, patch and painting, simple beginning carpentry repairs, and simple (non‑licensed) electrical repairs. Experience making apprentice level repairs in plumbing, patch and paint, carpentry, and electrical. Basic knowledge of the safe use of maintenance equipment such as drills, saws, cordless screwdrivers, and some drain snakes. Experience as an exceptional customer service representative with the ability to communicate effectively and professionally with diverse student and family clientele. Demonstrated ability to work effectively with others as a team. Notes: Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employer Pull‑Notice Program. Satisfactory conviction history background check.

Hiring/Budgeted Hourly Range:

$23.41 ‑ $28.53/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4010393/ PPSM‑20. For the University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/ doc/1001004/Anti‑Discrimination. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #68225

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RESIDENTIAL OPERATIONS

Under the general supervision of the Residence Hall Manager or Custodial Supervisor, performs senior building maintenance tasks on a regular and continuing basis and performs custodial work for University owned Residence Halls, Apartments and Dining Commons. May be asked to perform other duties as assigned to meet the operational needs of the department. Reqs: 1‑3 years a combination of related education, experience, and training. Training in the basics of plumbing repairs, patch and painting, simple beginning carpentry repairs, and simple (non‑licensed) electrical repairs. Experience making apprentice level repairs in plumbing, patch and paint, carpentry, and electrical. Basic knowledge of the safe use of maintenance equipment such as drills, saws, cordless screwdrivers, and some drain snakes. Experience as an exceptional customer service representative with the ability to communicate effectively and professionally with diverse student and family clientele. Demonstrated ability to work effectively with others as a team. Notes: Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employer Pull‑Notice Program. Satisfactory conviction history background check. Hiring/Budgeted Hourly Range: $23.41/hr. ‑ $28.53/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4010393/ PPSM‑20. For the University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/ doc/1001004/Anti‑Discrimination. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #68325

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Specializes in assisting students with a broad range of psychological conditions. Ensure that students with a broad range of permanent and temporary disabilities, including but not limited to: psychological disabilities, ADHD, learning disabilities, and medical conditions are afforded equal access to education, university sponsored programs while fostering a campus culture of inclusivity. Interpret neurological, psychological, educational assessments, and medical documentation to determine reasonable and appropriate accommodations for students with a broad range of disabilities. Counsel and advise students regarding disability management, including

responding to students in a crisis state. Provide referrals to appropriate campus and community resources. Consult with University Deans, ADA Compliance Coordinator, and other staff members regarding academic adjustments for students with a broad range of disabilities. Develop and assist with the coordination of DSP programs to support students. Educate the campus community on disability‑related issues. Reqs: Masters Degree: Advanced degree in Counseling/Clinical Psychology, Special Education or Disability Studies; 1‑3 yrs Work Experience in higher education setting providing academic accommodations. Notes: Satisfactory conviction history background check. The full salary range for the position is $67,200 ‑ $119,600/yr. The budgeted salary range is $75,000 ‑ $80,000/ yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information: University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy; University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy. Application review begins 05/30/24. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 69082

WRI ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR

GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT

Serves as the primary contact for the Wildfire Resilience Imitative (WRI) in the Department of Geography. The Wildfire Resilience Initiative at UC Santa Barbara develops and applies the latest technology, resilience research, satellite data and meteorological information for the understanding, prevention and mitigation of extreme wildfire events as well as the resulting damage from such events. Manages and oversees programming, scheduling, accounting, and organizing related events. Works closely with WRI leadership to plan, coordinate, and manage all WRI outreach activities. Organizes and manages large Zoom events for the WRI. Responsible for management of website and social media content and updates for the WRI. Identifies, tracks, and engages donors and alumni as well as businesses/industry partners. Provides support for grant proposal development and researches funding opportunities. Creates graphic designs for program materials and marketing posters. Writes press releases on research activities. Builds relationships between academic and industry partners. Manages and tracks deadlines and deliverables and assists with report completion. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent training and/or experience. 1‑3 years of experience in an administrative, clerical, or operations role. Notes: Satisfactory conviction history background check Contract position; funding secured through 6/30/26, with the possibility of renewal. The full hourly range is $28.83 to $47.23/ hr. The budgeted hourly range is $28.83 to $32.62/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4010393/ PPSM‑20 and https://policy.ucop.edu/ doc/1001004/Anti‑Discrimination. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 68953

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: IVANO PAOLO VIT Case No.: 24PR00137

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: IVANO PAOLO VIT

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: KENNETH L. SCHWARTZ in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.

THE PETITION for probate requests that: KENNETH L. SCHARTZ be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 07/25/2024 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Anacapa Division.

of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

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

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 06/6/2024 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Anacapa Division.

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

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk. Darrel E. Parker, Executive Office. 03/15/2024 by Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Ronald Berman,16633 Ventura Blvd., Ste 940, Encino, CA 91436, (818) 593‑5050. Published: May 9, 16, 23 2024.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: FRANK E. DENISON Case No.: SB122195

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: FRANK E. DENISON A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: VIRGINIA COIL KELLY GOUGH in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.

THE PETITION for probate requests that: JOHN KELLY III, KEVIN KELLY, BRIAN KELLY be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

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

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk. Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer 05/8/2024 by Nicolette Barnard, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Andrew Miller, 1505 E. Valley Road, Ste B, Santa Barbara CA 93108, (805) 969‑4451

Published: May 16, 23, 30 2024.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

CYNTHIA JUDITH O’BRIEN Case No.: 24PR00271

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: CYNTHIA JUDITH O’BRIEN

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: DANIEL O’BRIEN in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.

THE PETITION requests that (name): DANIEL O’BRIEN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 06/13/2024 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: SB

5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Anacapa Division.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk. Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer 05/7/2024 by Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Julianna M. Malis, Santa Barbara Estate Planning 14 W. Valerio Street, Suite A, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, (805) 946‑1550 Published: May 16, 23, 30 2024. NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: GLENN RAY HARVEY Case No.: 24PR00270

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: GLENN RAY HARVEY A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: JACQUELINE HARVEY in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara. THE PETITION requests that (name): JACQUELINE HARVEY be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests the decendent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 06/20/2024 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Anacapa Division.

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

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person

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interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk. Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer 05/7/2024 by Nicolette Barnard, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: John R. Rydell II, Griffith & Thornburgh LLP 8 E. Figueroa St., Suite 300, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, (805) 965‑5131

Published: May 16, 23, 30 2024.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: DAVID

M. CONNER CASE NO.: 24PR00288

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of DAVID M. CONNER

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: SHARADI NOBBE in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara

THE PETITION for probate requests that: SHARADI NOBBE be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows:

06/13/2024 AT 9:00 A.M. IN DEPT: 5 of the SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, ANACAPA DIVISION, 1100 Anacapa Street, P.O. Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107.

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

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk. Darrell E. Parker, Executive Officer Date: 5/9/2024

By: Monica Buenrostro. Attorney for Petitioner: Rebecca S. Koch, for Allen & Kimbell, LLP 317 East Carrillo Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 963‑8611

Published. May 16, 23, 30 2024.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: MARY

T. JARCHOW Case No.: 24PR00256

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: MARY

T. JARCHOW A PETITION FOR PROBATE has

been filed by: NANCY JARCHOW BECKSTROM and BRIAN ANDREW JARCHOW in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.

THE PETITION requests that (name): NANCY JARCHOW BECKSTROM and BRIAN ANDREW JARCHOW be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decendent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

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

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows:

06/13/2024 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Anacapa Division.

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

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk. Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer 05/13/2024 by Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Howard M. Simon 25 East Anapamu Street, Second Floor, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, (805) 963‑9500

Published: May 23, 30. June 6 2024. NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: PERRY ALICE ORGAN CARROLL Case No.: 24PR00293

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: PERRY ALICE ORGAN CARROLL a/k/a PERRY ORGAN CARROLL a/k/a PERRY ORGAN a/k/a PERRY O. CARROLL a/k/a PERRY CARROLL A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: BRENDAN C. CARROLL and CELIA P. LENNON in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.

THE PETITION for probate requests that: BRENDAN C. CARROLL and CELIA P. LENNON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the

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

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 07/25/2024 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: SB5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Anacapa Division.

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

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

Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer

05/10/2024 by Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Jeff Daugherty, 924 Anacapa Street, Suite 1‑T, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, (805) 963‑4567 Published: May 23, 30. Jun 6 2024.

FBN ABANDONMENT

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT

OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS

NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: THE CAT AND BIRD CLINIC 101 W. Mission St Santa Barbara, CA 93101 The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 07/01/92 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original File no. FBN 2020‑0002213. The persons or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Christine E Sellers‑Stalie 432 Arundel Rd Goleta, CA 93117 The business was conducted by an Trust. SIGNED BY:

CHRISTINE E. SELLERS‑STALIE/ OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 05/06/24, FBN 2024‑0001122, E40. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). Published: May 16, 23, 30. Jun 6 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SENSATIONAL PETS 3433 State Street, Unit G Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Matthew J Hopper (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Filed by: MATTHEW

JAMES HOPPER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 23, 2024. 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 E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0001024. Published: May 02, 9, 16, 23 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. FBN 2024‑0000887

The following person(s) is doing business as:

VALLARTA SUPERMARKETS #31 1875 N BROADWAY SANTA MARIA, CA 93454, County of SANTA BARBARA.

JALOS FOOD ENTERPRISES, INC., 10147 SAN FERNANDO RD PACOIMA, CA 91331; CALIFORNIA

This business is conducted by A CORPORATION.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on JAN 01, 2024 /s/ ANGELINA GONZALEZ, CFO

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 04/05/2024. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 5/2, 5/9, 5/16, 5/23/24

CNS‑3805252#

SANTA BARBARA

INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person

(s) is/are doing business as: JOHN VILLANTI AND ASSOCIATES PRIVATE INVESTIGATIONS

1616 San Andres Santa barbara, CA 93101; John D Villanti (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Filed by: JOHN VILLANTI/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 15, 2024. 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 E63. FBN Number: 2024‑0000945. Published: May 02, 9, 16, 23 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LESSONS WITH LEANA 5924 Daley Street, Goleta, CA 93117; Leana Movillion (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Filed by: LEANA MOVILLION with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 27, 2024. 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 E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0000789. Published: May 02, 9, 16, 23 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: DRD ASSOCIATES 14 W. Valerio St., #B

Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Daniel K. and Julie B. Michealsen Family Trust (same address) This business is conducted by a General Partnership Filed by: RUSSELL MICHEALSEN/ TRUSTEE, MICHEALSEN 2023

CHARITABLE REMAINDER

UNITRUST with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 18, 2024. 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 E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0000992. Published: May 02, 9, 16, 23 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: TORRES CONCRETE 1324 Cacique St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Cesar I Torres (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Filed by: CESAR TORRES/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 25, 2024. 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 E63. FBN Number: 2024‑0001039. Published: May 02, 9, 16, 23 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: CASSY ANNE, CASSY ANNE BY ERIKA MONTESANO 1157 Coast Village

Road, Suite A Montecito, CA 93108; Cassy Anne, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Filed by: ERIKA MONTESANO/MANAGER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 25, 2024. 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 E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0001043. Published: May 02, 9, 16, 23 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: COASTAL WELL WOMAN 2320 Bath Street, Suite 317 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Laura M Abrignani 2821 Miradero Drive F Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a Individual Filed by: LAURA ABRIGNANI/ OWNER/NURSE PRACTITIONER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 22, 2024. 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 E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0001013. Published: May 02, 9, 16, 23 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: IGLESIA ZION, ZION CHURCH 1230 Cacique St Santa Barbara, 93103; Zion

NOTICE OF CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC HEARING Hybrid Public Meeting – Held in Person and via Zoom June 4, 2024 at 5:30 P.M.

General Plan Amendments Initiation – Safety Element, Open Space Element, and Either the Addition of an Environmental Justice Element, or Related Goals, Policies, and Objectives Integrated in Other Elements, as Needed, to Satisfy State Planning Law (Case No. 24-0003-GPA)

ATTENTION: The meeting will be held in person and via the Zoom platform. The public may also view the meeting on Goleta Channel 19 and/or online at https://www.cityofgoleta.org/meetings-agendas

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Goleta City Council will conduct a hybrid public hearing to consider initiating General Plan Amendments to update the Safety Element, Open Space Element, and either the addition of an Environmental Justice Element, or the addition of related goals, policies, and objectives integrated in other elements, as needed, to satisfy State Planning Law (Case No. 24-0003-GPA). The date, time, and location of the City Council public hearing are set forth below. The agenda for the hearing will also be posted on the City website (www.cityofgoleta.org).

HEARING DATE/TIME: Tuesday, June 4, 2024 at 5:30 PM

LOCATION: Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Goleta, CA, 93117 and Teleconference Meeting; this meeting will be held in person and via Zoom (with detailed instructions for participation included on the posted agenda)

PROJECT LOCATION: The initiation of General Plan Amendments would apply citywide, including all areas of the City within the Coastal Zone.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The City of Goleta adopted the Goleta General Plan/Coastal Land Use Plan (General Plan) on October 2, 2006. The proposed initiation of these General Plan Amendments would allow staff to begin processing required edits to the Safety Element, Open Space Element, and either add an Environmental Justice Element, or add related goals, policies, and objectives to other elements. The amendments are required to satisfy State Planning Law pursuant to California Government Code Sections 65302(g)(2)-(5); 65302(h)(1)-(2); and 65565.5.

Environmental Review: The initiation of General Plan Amendments is not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act because the initiation merely instructs staff to further consider the amendments and does not obligate the City to any further action or result in any direct physical change in the environment or any reasonably foreseeable change in the environment.

PUBLIC COMMENT: Interested persons are encouraged to provide public comments during the public hearing in person or virtually through the Zoom webinar, by following the instructions listed on the City Council meeting agenda. All letters/comments should be sent to cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org. Letters must be received on or before the date of the hearing or can be submitted at the hearing prior to the conclusion of the public comment portion of the Public Hearing.

FOR PROJECT INFORMATION: For further information on the project, contact Cam Audras, Assistant Planner, at (805) 961-7548 or caudras@cityofgoleta.org. For inquiries in Spanish, please contact Marcos Martinez at (805) 562-5500 or mmartinez@cityofgoleta.org. Staff reports and documents will be posted approximately 72 hours before the hearing on the City’s website at www.cityofgoleta.org

SIMULTANEOUS INTERPRETATION: If you require interpretation services for the hearing, please contact the City Clerk’s office at (805) 961-7505 or via email to cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org at least 48 hours prior to the hearing. Please specify the language for which you require interpretation. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting helps to ensure that reasonable arrangements can be made to provide accessibility to the hearing.

Note: If you challenge the nature of the above action in court, you may be limited to only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice or in written correspondence delivered to the City on or before the date of the hearing (Government Code Section 65009(b)(2)).

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

Publish Date: Santa Barbara Independent May 23, 2024

LEGALS (CONT.)

Church Santa Barbara, Inc (santa Barbara) This business is conducted by a Corporation Filed by: KENNY

NAVARRO/PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 24, 2024. 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 E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0001037. Published: May 02, 9, 16, 23 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person­

(s) is/are doing business as: NAOMI

JANE 4698 Granada Way Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Michele A Voigt (santa Barbara) This business is conducted by a Individual Filed by:

MICHELE VOIGT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 27, 2024. 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 E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0000778. Published: May 02, 9, 16, 23 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SALT SALON SB 3609 State Street, A Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Tenaya J Bishop (santa Barbara) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Partnership Filed by: TENAYA

BISHOP/GENERAL PARTNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 15, 2024. 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 E40. FBN Number: 2024‑0000947. Published: May 02, 9, 16, 23 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: VIOLETTE BAKESHOP 419 Donze Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Samantha M Eve (santa Barbara) This business is conducted by a Individual Filed by: SAMANTHA EVE/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 22, 2024. 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 E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0001011. Published: May 02, 9, 16, 23 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EDUCATED

TECHNOLOGY CONSUTANTS 7316 Freeman Place Goleta, CA 93117; Ryckman Diversified LLC (santa Barbara) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Filed by: TODD RYCKMAN/MANAGER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 26, 2024. 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 E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0001063. Published: May 02, 9, 16, 23 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA SHREDDING,LIVE SCAN SANTA BARBARA, COMPLETE PROCESS SERVING 411 E Canon Perdido St, Ste 15 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Lawcopy, Inc. (santa Barbara) This business is conducted by a Corporation Filed by: CHARLES J RAO JR/PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 25, 2024. 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 E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0001047. Published: May 02, 9, 16, 23 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OFF REGISTER, OFF REGISTER: SANTA BARBARA ART BOOK & PRINT FAIR 3040 State Street, Suite K Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Tzu Ting Tseng (santa Barbara) Garrett Gerstenberger (same address) This business is conducted by a Unincorporated Assoc. Other Than Partnership Filed by: TZU TING TSENG/PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 16, 2024. 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 E49. FBN Number: 2024‑0000959. Published: May 02, 9, 16, 23 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GAMEDAY MEN’S HEALTH SANTA BARBARA 13374 Mahogany Cove San Diego, CA 92131; GD Medical Clinic, Inc. (santa Barbara) This business is conducted by a Corporation Filed by: KEELY WATSON/SECRETARY with the County Clerk of Santa

Barbara County on Apr 12, 2024. 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 E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0000944. Published: May 02, 9, 16, 23 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TUBULAR GEORGE PREFABRICATED INSTALLATION SERVICES 3588 La Entrada Santa Barbara, CA 93105; GKM Home Services Inc. (santa Barbara) This business is conducted by a Corporation Filed by: KATRINA MURDOCH/SECRETARY AND TREASURER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 25, 2024. 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 E57. FBN Number: 2024‑0001045. Published: May 02, 9, 16, 23 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RED ATHENA, RED ATHENA STUDIOS, RED ATHENA GAMES 7127

Hollister Ave., Suite 25A­250 Goleta, CA 93117­2857; Red Athena LLC (santa Barbara) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Filed by: PRADEEP SEN/ MEMBER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 2, 2024. 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 E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0000845. Published: May 02, 9, 16, 23 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GOODLAND GLUTEN FREE 33

North San Marcos Road, Unit B Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Juliann C Lynch (santa Barbara) This business is conducted by a Individual Filed by: JULIANN LYNCH/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 29, 2024. 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 E49. FBN Number: 2024‑0001071. Published: May 9, 16, 23, 30 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OLIVA FLORA 265 Nogal Drive Santa

COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA BOARD OF SUPERVISORS STATE OF CALIFORINIA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Tuesday, June 4, 2024 Board Hearing Room

The meeting starts at 9:00 a.m.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Barbara, State of California on Tuesday, June 4, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter, in the Board of Supervisors Hearing Rooms, 105 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, and 511 East Lakeside Parkway, Santa Maria, CA, on proposed tipping fees charged at county solid waste facilities, and collection rates and parcel fees for the collection of municipal solid waste in the unincorporated area.

Copies of the proposed rates will be posted at the County of Santa Barbara website at http://santabarbara.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx for the June 4, 2024 Board Hearing by May 30, 2024. Hard copies of the rates will be available by May 30, 2024 at the clerk of the board’s office at 105 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, California. Hard copies of the rates will also be available at the office of the Resource Recovery & Waste Management division located at 130 E. Victoria Street, Suite 100, Santa Barbara, California. Questions can be directed during business hours to (805) 882-3600.

For current methods of public participation for the meeting of June 4, 2024, please see page two (2) of the posted Agenda. The posted agenda will be available on Thursday prior to the above referenced meeting for a more specific time for this item. However, the order of the agenda may be rearranged or the item may be continued.

Staff reports and the posted agenda is available on the Thursday prior to the meeting at http://santabarbara.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx under the hearing date or contact the Clerk of the Board at (805) 568-2240 for alternative options.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this meeting, please contact the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors by 4:00 PM on Friday before the Board meeting. For information about these services please contact the Clerk of the Board at (805) 568-2240.

If you challenge this project in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence to the Board of Supervisors prior to the public hearing.

G.C. Section 65009, 6066, and 6062a.

Mona Miyasato CLERK OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

By: Sheila de la Guerra, Deputy Clerk

Barbara, CA 93110 ; Bellavita Botanics LLC (santa Barbara) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Filed by: KAREN CHELINI/FOUNDER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 1, 2024. 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 E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0001094. Published: May 9, 16, 23, 30 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TERRASCOPE CONSULTING 5315 Plunkett Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Rubi Rajbanshi (santa Barbara) This business is conducted by a Individual Filed by: RUBI RAJBANSHI/OWNER/PRINCIPAL with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 17, 2024. 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 E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0000977. Published: May 9, 16, 23, 30 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT

File No. FBN 2024‑0001008

The following person(s) is doing business as:

VIRTUAL HOA MANAGEMENT

2020 ALAMEDA PADRE SERRA SUITE 220 SANTA BARBARA, CA 93103, County of SANTA BARBARA.

BLUE HORIZON MANAGEMENT COMPANY, 2020 ALAMEDA PADRE SERRA SUITE 220 SANTA BARBARA, CA 93103; CALIFORNIA

This business is conducted by A CORPORATION.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on JAN 02, 2024 /s/ KEVIN LEHMAN, PRESIDENT

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 04/22/2024. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 5/9, 5/16, 5/23, 5/30/24

CNS‑3809874# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

File No. FBN 2024‑0001007

The following person(s) is doing business as:

RED DOOR SAFETY, 525 S K ST LOMPOC, CA 93436, County of SANTA BARBARA.

RED DOOR SAFETY LLC, 525 SOUTH K STREET LOMPOC, CA 93436; CA

This business is conducted by A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.

The registrant commenced to

transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on JAN 01, 2019 /s/ RICHARD BRUCE COGGIN, MANAGING MEMBER

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 04/22/2024. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 5/9, 5/16, 5/23, 5/30/24

CNS‑3809775# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CRESWOOD SANTA BARBARA CRISIS STABILIZATION SERVICES 305 Camino Del Remedio Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Crestwood Behavioral Health, Inc. 520 Capital Mall Suite 800 Sacramento, CA 98514­4716

This business is conducted by a Corporation Filed by: GEORGE C. LYTAL/CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 2, 2024. 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 E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0001098. Published: May 9, 16, 23, 30 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ATMOSPHEREH2O 510 High Grove Ave Goleta, CA 93117; JSH Capital Corporation (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Filed by: BJORN D SIMUNDSON/PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 18, 2024. 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 E49. FBN Number: 2024‑0000985. Published: May 9, 16, 23, 30 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OUT OF THE BOX THEATRE COMPANY, INC 5910 Berkeley Road Goleta, CA 93117; Out Of The Box Theatre Company (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Filed by: SALLI EVE/ TREASURER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 1, 2024. 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 E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0001089. Published: May 9, 16, 23, 30 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: VW PROPERTIES 27 W. Anapamu St., 286 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Joann Van Wyk (same address) Gregory D Van Wyk (same address)

Ordinance 5212

An Ordinance of The Board of Supervisors County of Santa Barbara Re-Adopting Ordinance No. 5157 to Approve and Amend the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office Military Equipment Use Policy.

Passed, approved and adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Barbara, State of California, on this 14th day of May 2024, by the following vote:

Ayes: Supervisors Williams, Capps, Hartmann, Nelson and Lavagnino

Noes: None

Absent: None

Abstain: None

MONA MIYASATO

CLERK OF THE BOARD

By: Sheila de la Guerra – Deputy Clerk

NOTE: A complete copy of Ordinance No.5212 is on file with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors and is available for public inspection and copying in that office in accordance with the California Public Records Act, Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1.

This business is conducted by a Copartners Filed by: JOANN VAN WYK/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 1, 2024. 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 E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0001091. Published: May 9, 16, 23, 30 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ANI ESTATE GROUP, VILLAGE PROPERTIES COMMERCIAL

GROUP 1250 Coast Village Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Village Properties, Inc. 1436 State St Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Corporation Filed by: RENEE GRUBB/PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 16, 2024. 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 E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0000995. Published: May 9, 16, 23, 30 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BRYCE’S DEVICES 7456 San Bergamo Drive Goleta, CA 93117; Bryce W.A. Marshall (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Filed by: BRYCE MARSHALL with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 2, 2024. 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 E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0001100. Published: May 9, 16, 23, 30 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SCREEN ENVY, INC. 347 Daytona Dr. Goleta, CA 93117; Screen Envy, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Filed by: JEANINE BYERS/CEO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 24, 2024. 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 E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0001036. Published: May 9, 16, 23, 30 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RISING RESILIENCE 621 Ricardo Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Tosh D Montee (santa Barbara) This business is conducted by a Individual Filed by: TOSH D. MONTEE/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 23, 2024. 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 E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0000845. Published: May 9, 16, 23, 30 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FRIENDLY VENDING SERVICE 2200 White Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Dawna D Davis (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Filed by: DAWNA DEAN DAVIS/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 29, 2024. 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 E62. FBN Number: 2024‑0001078. Published: May 9, 16, 23, 30 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OAKSIDE LANE TOWNHOUSES 1113 West Hwy 246 Buellton, CA 93427; 655 Central Ave., LLC 1153 W. Hwy 246 Buellton, CA 93427 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Filed by: NORMAN WILLIAMS/MANAGER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 16, 2024. 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 E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0000960. Published: May 16, 23, 30. Jun 6 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAGRADO CUSTOM HOMES 583 Amber Way Solvang, 93463; David C Jonsen (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Filed by: DAVID C. JONSEN/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 8, 2024. 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 E63. FBN Number: 2024‑0001140. Published: May 16, 23, 30. Jun 6 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: STONE AND IVORY 1932 Viborg Rd. Solvang, CA 93463; Tanya J Gold PO Box 574 Solvang, CA 93463 This business is conducted by a Individual Filed by: TANYA GOLD with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 6, 2024. 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 E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0001125. Published: May 16, 23, 30. Jun 6 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ALISAL OAKS APARTMENTS 1113 West Hwy 246 Buellton, CA 93427; N&G Investments, LLC 834 22nd Street Santa Monica, CA 90403 This business is conducted by a Limited Partnership Filed by: NORMAN WILLIAMS/MANAGER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 3, 2024. 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 E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0000854. Published: May 16, 23, 30. Jun 6 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PANG ZI NOODLE SHOP 4427 Hollister Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Pang Zi, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Filed by: ISAIAH OREGON/MANAGER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 26, 2024. 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 E49. FBN Number: 2024‑0001057. Published: May 16, 23, 30. Jun 6 2024. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. FBN2024‑0001118 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: OCEAN AIR CLEANING SERVICES, 1482 EAST VALLEY ROAD #801, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93108 County of SANTA BARBARA J&J PARTNERS OF ILLINOIS, LLC, 1482 EAST VALLEY ROAD #801, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93108

This business is conducted by a limited liability company The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. J&J PARTNERS OF ILLINOIS, LLC S/ JENNIFER KINSELLA, MEMBER This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 05/06/2024. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 5/16, 5/23, 5/30, 6/6/24 CNS‑3811584# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE CAT AND BIRD CLINIC 101 W. Mission Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Kelsey Grunewald Meza (same address) Jonathan Meza Serrano (same address) This business is conducted by a Married Couple Filed

LEGALS (CONT.)

May 9, 2024. 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 E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0001156. Published: May 16, 23, 30. Jun 6 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DOS

PUEBLOS AQUATIC BOOSTERS

115 S La Cumbre Ln Suite 100 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; South Coast Community Aquatic Center (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Filed by: ARJUN

MCAVOY/TREASURER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 3, 2024. 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 E47. FBN Number: 2024‑0001112. Published: May 16, 23, 30. Jun 6 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

File No. FBN 2024‑0000970

The following person(s) is doing business as:

LEO SANTOS IT NETWORK SERVICES, 591 GAZELLE WAY ORCUTT, CA 93455, County of SANTA BARBARA.

LEO SANTOS, 591 GAZELLE WAY ORCUTT, CA 93455

This business is conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on NOT APPLICABLE

/s/ LEO SANTOS, OWNER

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 04/17/2024.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 5/16, 5/23, 5/30, 6/6/24

CNS‑3809917# SANTA BARBARA

INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

File No. FBN 2024‑0000971

The following person(s) is doing business as:

DESIGN HOUSE, 2971 GRAND AVENUE LOS OLIVOS, CA 93441, County of SANTA BARBARA.

HEATHER SAARLOOS, 2971 GRAND AVENUE LOS OLIVOS, CA 93441

This business is conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on JAN 01, 2014

/s/ HEATHER SAARLOOS, OWNER

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 04/17/2024.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 5/16, 5/23, 5/30, 6/6/24

CNS‑3809976# SANTA BARBARA

INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT

File No. FBN 2024‑0000979

The following person(s) is doing business as:

TND APPAREL, 3986 MESA CIRCLE DR #211 LOMPOC, CA 93436, County of SANTA BARBARA.

KEITH CRUZ, 3986 MESA CIRCLE DR #211 LOMPOC, CA 93436

This business is conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on NOT APPLICABLE

/s/ KEITH CRUZ, OWNER

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 04/18/2024.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 5/16, 5/23, 5/30, 6/6/24

CNS‑3809984#

SANTA BARBARA

INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE CAT HOUSE HOTEL 1922 De La Vina Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Cat House SB, LLC 17 Hurricane St 1

Marina Del Rey, CA 90292. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Filed by: OLIVER

FRIES/MANAGING MEMBER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 10, 2024. 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 E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0001160. Published: May 23, 30. Jun 6, 13 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE HOUSE OF HALCYON DAYS 785 Carosam Road Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Naomi Broomberg (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Filed by: NAOMI BROOMBERG/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 8, 2024. 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 E47. FBN Number: 2024‑0001142. Published: May 23, 30. Jun 6, 13 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

File No. FBN 2024‑0001069

The following person(s) is doing business as: Periwinkles Mercantile, 2933 Grand Ave #C Los Olivos, CA 93441, County of SANTA BARBARA.

CYNTHIA BURDITT, 2933 GRAND AVE #C LOS OLIVOS, CA 93441

This business is conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 10/01/2017 /s/ CYNTHIA BURDITT, OWNER

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 04/26/2024. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 5/23, 5/30, 6/6, 6/13/24 CNS‑3813280# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PACIFIC BLAST SUPPLY, PAC BLAST SUPPLY, PACIFIC BLAST, PAC BLAST 5945 Daley St Goleta, CA 9317; Pacific Vibe, Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Filed by: DANIEL OCHOA/OWNER/PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 16, 2024. 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 E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0001212. Published: May 23, 30. Jun 6, 13 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA LIFESTYLE MEDICINE 1532 State Street, 2nd Floor Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Amanda L. Scott, M.D. Inc. 4580 Atascadero Dr. Santa Barbara, CA 93110 This business is conducted by a Corporation Filed by: AMANDA L. SCOTT/PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 25, 2024. 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 E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0001046. Published: May 23, 30. Jun 6, 13 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: J.FLORES DESIGN 1619 Calzada Ave Santa Ynez, CA 93460; Jessica N Flores P.O. Box 755 Santa Ynez, CA 93460. This business is conducted by a Individual Filed by: JESSICA FLORES/CEO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 8, 2024. 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 E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0001148. Published: May 23, 30. Jun 6, 13 2024.

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS INVITING SEALED BIDS FOR THE 2024 MISCELLANEOUS CONCRETE REPAIR PROJECT

City Project Number: N/A

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Goleta (“CITY”), invites sealed bids for the above stated project and will receive such bids via electronic transmission on the City of Goleta Planet Bids portal site until June 24, 2024, at 3:00 P.M. Late proposals will be rejected. No exceptions.

The Proposals will be publicly opened at City of Goleta, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, CA 93117 and posted promptly thereafter.

Copies of the Contract Documents and the Proposal Forms for bidding the project, may be obtained from the PlanetBids Website: https:// pbsystem.planetbids.com. Proposals which do not acknowledge addendums to the project documents will be rejected. All communications relative to this project shall be conducted through PlanetBids. Questions about alleged patent ambiguity of the plans, specifications, or estimate must be asked before bid opening. After bid opening, the CITY does not consider these questions as bid protests.

A pre-bid meeting will be held at N/A.

It is required that the Bidders have fully inspected the Project site in all particulars and become thoroughly familiar with the terms and conditions of the Bid Plans and Special Provisions and local conditions affecting the performance and costs of the Work prior to bidding and it is recommended that this be done prior to attending this meeting.

Pursuant to California Labor Code Section 1773, the City has ascertained the General Prevailing Rate of Wages in the County in which the work is to be done to be as determined by the Director of Industrial Relations of the State of California. Contractor is hereby made aware that information regarding prevailing wage rates may be obtained from the State Department of Industrial Relations and/or the following website address: https://www.dir.ca.gov/OPRL/2022-2/PWD/Southern.html The Contractor is required to post a copy of the applicable wage rates at the job site. Attention is directed to Section 5 LEGAL RELATIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES of the Greenbook Standard Specifications.

The California Air Resources Board (“CARB”) implemented amendments to the In-Use Off-Road Diesel-Fueled Fleets Regulations (“Regulation”) which are effective on January 1, 2024 and apply broadly to all self-propelled off road diesel vehicles 25 horsepower or greater and other forms of equipment used in California. A copy of the Regulation is available at https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/ files/barcu/regact/2022/off-roaddiesel/appa-1.pdf. Bidders are required to comply with all CARB and Regulation requirements, including, without limitation, all applicable sections of the Regulation, as codified in Title 13 of the California Code of Regulations section 2449 et seq. throughout the term of the Project. Bidders must provide, with their Bid, copies of Bidder’s and all listed subcontractors the most recent, valid Certificate of Reported Compliance (“CRC”) issued by CARB. Failure to provide valid CRCs as required herein may render the Bid nonresponsive.

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

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

Note: All bids must be accompanied by a scanned copy of the bid security uploaded to PlanetBids. The original security of the three (3) lowest bidders must be mailed or submitted to the office of the City Clerk at 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California 93117, in a sealed envelope and be received or postmarked within three (3) City working days after the bid due date and time for the bid to be considered. The sealed envelope should be plainly marked on the outside, “SEALED BID SECURITY FOR 2024 MISCELLANEOUS CONCRETE REPAIR PROJECT.”

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

In accordance with the California Public Contract Code 20103.5 when federal funds are involved in local agency contracts, no bid shall be invalidated by the failure of the bidder to be licensed in California at the time of bid opening. However, at the time of award, the selected contractor shall be properly licensed in accordance with the laws of the State and the City of Goleta. Contractor shall possess a valid Class A - General Engineering Contractor license prior to award of Contract. Said license shall be maintained during the contract period. It is the Bidder’s and Contractor’s responsibility to obtain the correct Contractor’s licenses. Bidders shall be skilled and regularly engage in the general class or type of work called for under this contract.

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

Pursuant to Labor Code sections 1725.5 and 1771.1, all contractors and subcontractors that wish to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, or enter into a contract to perform public work must be registered with the DIR. No Bid will be accepted, nor any contract entered into without proof of the contractor’s and subcontractors’ current registration with the DIR to perform public work. If awarded a contract, the Bidder and its subcontractors, of any tier, shall maintain active registration with the DIR for the duration of the Project. Failure to provide proof of the contractor’s current registration pursuant to Labor Code Section 1725.5 may result in rejection of the bid as non-responsive.

The Contractor Company, including the Responsible Managing Officer (RMO) for the Contractor Company, shall demonstrate a minimum of five (5) years’ experience successfully performing projects of substantially similar type, magnitude, and character of the work bid. The CITY reserves the right to reject all bids, reject any bid that is not responsive to the invitation, or to waive any minor irregularity and to take all bids under advisement for a period of up to ninety (90) working days. Failure to provide proof of the Contractor’s current registration pursuant to Section 1725.5 of the Labor Code may result in rejection of the bid as non-responsive. Failure to comply with enforcement provisions pursuant to Section 1771.4 of the Labor Code may result in a determination that the Bidder is not responsible.

Bids shall remain open and valid for a period of one hundred twenty (120) calendar days after the Bid Deadline.

Pursuant to Public Contract Code section 22300, the successful bidder may substitute certain securities for funds withheld by CITY to ensure performance under the Contract or, in the alternative, request the CITY to make payment of retention to an escrow agent.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) provides a toll-free “hotline” service to report bid rigging activities. Bid rigging activities can be reported Mondays through Fridays, between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., Eastern Time, Telephone No. 1-800-424-9071. Anyone with knowledge of possible bid rigging, bidder collusion, or other fraudulent activities should use the “hotline” to report these activities. The “hotline” is part of the DOT’s continuing effort to identify and investigate highway construction contract fraud and abuse and is operated under the direction of the DOT Inspector General. All information will be treated confidentially, and caller anonymity will be respected. Any protest to an intended award of this contract shall be made in writing addressed to the City Clerk prior to the award. Any protest may be considered and acted on by the City Council at the time noticed for award of the contract. To request a copy of the notice of agenda for award, please contact the City Clerk cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org or register on the CITY’s website (www.cityofgoleta.org).

CITY OF GOLETA

Deborah S. Lopez, City Clerk

Published:Santa Barbara Independent: May 23, 2024 and June 6, 2024

Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93111, (805) 284‑9002 Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 176 ‑ Lopez, Andrew; 226 ‑ Sousa, Steve; 232 ‑ Badone Assili, Genevieve; 321 ‑ Arroyo, Magda; 324 ‑ Berg, Eloise PUBLIC STORAGE # 75078, 7246 Hollister Ave, Goleta, CA 93117, (805) 961‑8198 Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 039 ‑

Guevara, Elmer; 094 ‑ Angeles, Gabriel; 112 ‑ STAGGS‑ PIPERSBURG, DEVAN; 171 ‑ Diaz, Rodrigo; 172 ‑ Pollock, Ashley; 302 ‑ Shinelov.com MaeHuhn, Alicia; 317 ‑ Blitz, Linda Lee; 505 ‑ Souza, Jacqueline

PUBLIC STORAGE # 25714, 7246 Hollister Ave, Goleta, CA 93117, (805) 324‑6770 Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 2408 ‑ Carlton, Brita Ann; 4104 ‑ Vargas, Joe; 5328 ‑ Delaney, John; 6322 ‑ Vandervoort, Thomas; A080 ‑ Lopez, Daniel; A431 ‑ Connolly, Michael

Public sale terms, rules, and regulations will be made available prior to the sale. All sales are subject to cancellation. We reserve the right to refuse any bid. Payment must be in cash or credit card‑no checks. Buyers must secure the units with their own personal locks. To claim tax‑ exempt status, original RESALE certificates for each space purchased is required. By PS Retail Sales, LLC, 701 Western Avenue, Glendale, CA 91201. (818) 244‑8080. 5/23/24

CNS‑3814210# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

NAME CHANGE

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: OLIVIA GRACE SEVERSON CASE NUMBER: 24CV01548

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:

A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court for decree changining name (s) as follows:

PRESENT NAME: OLIVIA GRACE

SEVERSON

PROPOSED NAME: OLIVAI GRACE

MCPHERSON

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 appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING MAY 24, 2024, 10:00 AM, DEPT 4, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Anacapa Division. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once

each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. DATED MARCH 20, 2024, JUDGE DONNA D. GECK OF THE SUPERIOR COURT. Published May 2, 9, 16, 23 2024.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: NANCY MCLEOD

CASE NUMBER: 24CV01738

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:

A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court for decree changining name (s) as follows:

PRESENT NAME: NANCY MCLEOD

PROPOSED NAME: FROG SMITH

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 appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING

JUNE 3, 2024, 10:00 AM, DEPT 5, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Anacapa Division. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. DATED APRIL 9, 2024, JUDGE COLLEEN K. STERNE, OF THE SUPERIOR COURT. Published May 2, 9, 16, 23 2024.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: ISAIAH

MAURICE HICKS

CASE NUMBER: 24CV02009

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:

A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court for decree changining name (s) as follows: PRESENT NAME: ISAIAH MAURICE HICKS

PROPOSED NAME: MAURICE

LOPEZ HICKS

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

NOTICE OF HEARING JUNE 12, 2024, 10:00 AM, DEPT 3, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE

1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Anacapa Division. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition.

DATED APRIL 21, 2024, JUDGE

THOMAS P. ANDERLE, OF THE SUPERIOR COURT. Published May 2, 9, 16, 23 2024.

PUBLIC NOTICES

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY

Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Sections 21700 through 21716 of the Business & Professions Code, Patterson Plus Self‑Storage, will sell at public sale, the following delinquent occupant’s(s’) stored contents, by competitive bidding ending on June 6, 2024 at 11 am.

Property has been stored by the occupant(s) and is located at Patterson Plus Self‑Storage, 5325 Calle Real, Santa Barbara, California 93111. Competitive bid auction available online only at www.storagetreasures.com The property being sold is described as:

Unit # MTN309‑ Paul Arria Furniture, helmet, toys, clothing, personal effects, bins/boxes contents unknown

Purchases must be picked up at the above location and paid for at the time of purchase with cash or credit card only. All purchased goods are sold as is, where is, and must be removed at the time of sale. The sale is subject to prior cancellation in the event of settlement between

Owner and Occupant(s). Dated this 23 day of May, 2024 and this 30 day of May, 2024. PATTERSON PLUS SELF‑ STORAGE (805) 964‑4097 For bidding technical questions ‑ Storage Treasures (480) 397‑6503

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY

Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Sections 21700 through 21716 of the Business & Professions Code, Patterson/101 Allstore Self‑Storage, will sell at public sale, the following delinquent occupant’s(s’) stored contents, by competitive bidding ending on

DADS & GRADS

LEGALS (CONT.)

PABLO MANZANAREZ‑GALLARDO NOTICES

1) A lawsuit, the attached Application for Adjudication of Claim, has been filed with the Workers Compensation Appeals Board against you as the named defendant by the above‑named applicant(s).

You may seek the advice of an attorney in any matter connected with this lawsuit and such attorney should be consulted promptly so that your response may be filed and entered in a timely fashion.

If you do not know an attorney, you may call an attorney reference service or a legal aid office (see telephone directory).

Yu may also request assistance/ information from an Information and Assistance Officer of the Division of Workers’ Compensation (see telephone directory)

2) An Answer to the Application must be filed and served within six days of the service of the Application pursuant to Appeals Board rules; therefore, your written response must be filed with the Appeals Board promptly; a letter or phone call will not protect your interests.

3) You will be served with a Notice(s) of Hearing and must appear at all hearings or conferences. After such hearing, even absent your appearance, a decision may be made and an award of compensation benefits may issue against you. The award could result in the garnishment of your wages, taking of your money or property or other relief.

If the Appeals Board makes an award against you, your house or other dwelling or other property may be taken to satisfy that award in a non‑judicial sale, with no exemptions from execution.

A lien may also be imposed upon your property without further hearing and before the issuance of an award.

4) You must notify the Appeals Board of the proper address for the service of official notices and papers and notify the Appeals Board of any changes in that address.

TAKE ACTION NOW TO PROTECT YOUR INTERESTS! Issued by: WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD Name and address of Appeals Board: Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board 130 East Ortega Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Name and address of Applicant’s Attorney: Ghitterman, Ghitterman & Feld 418 E. Canon Perdido St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 965‑4540 Published: May 9, 16, 23, 30 2024.

NOTICE OF SEIZURE pursuant to Health and Safety Code sections 11471/11488 and Notice of Intended Forfeiture pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 11488.4 On June 21, 2023 and June 24, 2023, Ventura County Sheriff's Office officers seized property for forfeiture pursuant to Health and Safety Code section 11470 et seq. in connection with controlled a substance violation that is listed in section 11470(f) of the Health and Safety Code. The estimated/appraised value of the property is $23,087.01. The seized property is described as follows: Property Location $16,377.01

U.S. Currency (frozen per seizure/ status quo order) Wells Fargo Bank checking account with last four digits 4489 in the name of ABEL LOPEZ as of June 24, 2023, restrained as of that same date.

$6,710.00 U.S. Currency Seized at both a traffic stop of ABEL LOPEZ at or near the 400 block of Hope Street in Santa Barbara, California and from the master bedroom of the residence of ABEL LOPEZ located at 326 Rancheria Street, Apartment B in Santa Barbara on June 21, 2023. Pursuant to section 11488.4 of the Health and Safety Code, procedures to forfeit this property in The Superior Court of California, County of Ventura are underway.

If someone has stating interest in this property, you must, within 30

days of the first publication of this Notice of Seizure, file a verified Claim Opposing Forfeiture MC‑200 in the Superior Court Clerk’s Office, room 210, located at 800 S. Victoria Avenue, Ventura, California. Case No.2023CUAF014337 has been assigned to this case. You must also provide a verified copy of the Claim Opposing Forfeiture (MC‑ 200) to the District Attorney’s Office, 5720 Ralston Street, Suite 300, Ventura, California 93003, to the attention of the Asset Forfeiture Unit.

The failure to timely file a verified claim stating an interest in the property will result in the property being ordered forfeited to the State of California and distributed pursuant to the provisions of Health and Safety Code section 11489 without further notice or hearing. 5/16, 5/23, 5/30/24

CNS‑3809927# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

To satisfy the owner’s storage lien, PS Retail Sales, LLC will sell at public lien sale on May 10, 2024,the personal property in the below‑listed units. The public sale of these items will begin at 09:30 AM and continue until all units are sold. The lien sale is to be held at the online auction website, www.storagetreasures.com, where indicated. For online lien sales, bids will be accepted until 2 hours after the time of the sale specified. PUBLIC STORAGE # 75079, 5425 Overpass Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93111, (805) 284‑9002 Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com.

248 ‑ Sousa, Steve; 319 ‑ Burian, Susan Public sale terms, rules, and regulations will be made available prior to the sale. All sales are subject to cancellation. We reserve the right to refuse any bid.

Payment must be in cash or credit card‑no checks. Buyers must secure the units with their own personal locks. To claim tax‑ exempt status, original RESALE certificates for each space purchased is required. By PS Retail Sales, LLC, 701 Western Avenue, Glendale, CA 91201. (818) 244‑8080. 5/23/24 CNS‑3805411# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC NOTICE

The Housing Authority of the City of Santa Barbara (HACSB) is accepting applications for its Section 8 Project‑Based Voucher (PBV) Program. Applications will be accepted for new construction projects for properties that have regulatory agreements dictating an affordability period of no less than 40‑years and for properties serving seniors and/or special needs households. Rental subsidies for units assisted under the PBV program can be provided for a term of up to 20 years, subject to the availability of appropriations and future availability of funding under HACSB’s Annual Contributions Contract with the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). HACSB anticipates that approximately 75 Project‑Based vouchers will be awarded under the proposal, for units located within the Santa Barbara City limits which HACSB determines to be most appropriate for this type of assistance.

You may log on to www.hacsb. org for more information, ranking criteria, selection procedures, owner application, and requirements. Applications must be received by 10:00 AM on July 1, 2024. Please contact Perla Vega, Housing Programs Analyst at (805) 897‑1024 with any questions regarding the PBV Program or owner application submission requirements.

IN ACCORDANCE with Sec. 106 of the Programmatic Agreement, AT&T plans to PROPOSED SCREEN WALL

ON EXISTING ROOFTOP at 29 CALLE LAURELES SANTA BARBARA, CA 93105. Please direct comments to Gavin L. at 818‑391‑0449 regarding site CSL04367. 5/23, 5/30/24 CNS‑3801767# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT SUMMONS

PUBLISHED CITATION WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE SECTIONS 294 & 366.26 SITTING AS THE JUVENILE COURT SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO

In the Matter of: BRISTOL EASTON WOLF

Minor born: 8/31/2023

Case No(s): 242644 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA TO: JENNIFER NICOLE WOLF OR ANYONE CLAIMING TO BE THE MOTHER OF THE ABOVENAMED CHILD BORN ON 8/31/2023.

PUBLISHED NOTICE OF HEARING AND NOTICE TO PARENT OF RIGHTS AND PROCEDURES PURSUANT TO WELFARE AND INSTITUTION CODES

SECTIONS 294 and 366.26

1. YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED

THAT on July 11, 2024, at 8:30 a.m. in Department 133 of the Sacramento County Juvenile Court, Superior Court of California, located at 3341 Power Inn Road, Sacramento, CA 95826, a hearing will take place pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code, Section 366.26, to either terminate your parental rights or to establish a guardianship for your child or to place your child in long‑term foster care. 2. Effective Monday, January 3, 2022, Juvenile Dependency Division will be open to parties for in‑person hearing at the Family Relations Courthouse. Parties may also appear

remotely if they choose. We strongly encourage you to contact the current carrying case Social Worker, Ricky Vang at (916) 876‑7547 prior to the court hearing date to verify whether the hearing will be held in person or through teleconference. The zoom hearing (videoconference) link is https://saccourt‑ca‑ gov.zoomgov. com/my/sscdept133 if you opt to call in (teleconference), the telephone number is: (833) 568‑8864 Meeting ID: 161 1961 8560. 3. You are further notified that the Sacramento County Department of Family, Child and Adult Services, Petitioner, will recommend the following action: termination of parental rights permanently and a court order that the above‑named minor be placed for adoption.

4. You have the right to personally appear in court and be heard in this matter.

5. On the above date the Court will determine the best permanent plan for your child. Evidence will be presented. After hearing the evidence presented by the parties, the Court will make one of the following orders: a. Terminate your parental rights permanently and order that the child be placed for adoption. b. Without permanently terminating your parental rights, identify adoption as the permanent placement goal and order that efforts be made to locate an appropriate adoptive family for your child for a period not to exceed 60 days.

c. Without permanently terminating your parental rights appoint a legal guardian for your child and issue letters of guardianship; or, d. Order that your child be placed in long‑term foster care, subject to the regular review of the Juvenile Court.

6. You may have the right to have an attorney represent you at the hearing. If you cannot afford an attorney, the Court will appoint an attorney for you, unless you knowingly and willingly waive your right to representation by an

attorney. You have the right to present evidence at the hearing.

7. You have the right to request a trial on the issue of what permanent plan is best for your child. You have the right to present evidence. You have the right to use the Court’s power to compel the attendance of witnesses to testify on your behalf. You have the right to confront and cross‑examine any adverse witnesses. You have the right to confront and cross‑examine the preparers of any reports submitted to the Court by the Sacramento County Department of Family, Child and Adult Services, Petitioner. You have the right to assert the privilege against selfincrimination. 8. Any Order of the Court permanently terminating your parental rights shall be final and you shall have no legal rights to the care, control or custody of the child. 9. The Sacramento County Department of Family, Child and Adult Services, Petitioner will prepare and file an assessment report containing its recommendation in this matter at least ten (10) calendar days before the hearing. You have the right to be provided with and obtain a copy of the report. You should immediately contact the social worker assigned to your child dependency case or your attorney if you have any questions or if you would like to read and obtain a copy of the report. 10. If you fail to appear at the hearing, the Court will proceed in your absence to adopt one of the above‑mentioned permanent plans. Such proceedings may include the termination of your parental rights so that your child may be placed up for adoption.

If you have any questions regarding this procedure, please contact the specified below or an attorney.

DATE: May 2, 2024

Michelle Callejas, Director /s/ By, DCFAS Paralegal, D. Rivas Department of Family, Child, and Adult Services Phone: (916) 541‑8027 5/9, 5/16, 5/23, 5/30/24

CNS‑38106

CNS‑3810604# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

CITATION FOR PUBLICATION UNDER WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE SECTION 294

CASE NUMBER: 21JV00261

1. To (names of persons to be notified, If known, including names on birth certificate): Ana Christina Sevilla and anyone claiming to be a parent of (child’s name): Jayden J. Lemmons born on (date): 02/24/2009 at (name of hospital or other place of birth and city and state): Cottage Hospital ‑ Santa Barbara, California

2. A hearing will be held on (date): 07/11/2024 at (time): 01:30 PM

In Dept.: SMJ 1 Room: located at court address above SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 4285‑B CALIFORNIA BLVD, SANTA MARIA, CALIFORNIA 93455 SANTA MARIA JUVENILE DIVISION

3. At the hearing the court will consider the recommendations of the social worker or probation officer.

4. The social worker or probation officer will recommend that your child be freed from your legal custody so that the child may be adopted. If the court follows the recommendation, all your parental rights to the child will be terminated.

5. You have the right to be present at the hearing, to present evidence, and you have the right to be represented by an attorney. If you do not have an attorney and cannot afford to hire one, the court will appoint an attorney for you.

6. If the court terminates your parental rights, the order may be final.

7. The court will proceed with this hearing whether or not you are present. Date: 04/03/2024 Clerk, by DAISY SOTELO

Published: May 9, 16, 23, 30 2024.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CITY COUNCIL

Hybrid Public Hearing – In Person and via Zoom June 4, 2024, at 5:30 P.M.

ATTENTION: The meeting will be held in person and via the Zoom platform. The public may also view the meeting on Goleta Channel 19 and/or online at https://cityofgoleta.org/goletameetings.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council will conduct a public hearing to consider a request to initiate the processing of an applicant proposed General Plan Amendment (GPA) to Change the Land Use Designation of 30 South La Patera Lane (APN 073-080-001) from Business Park (I-BP) to General Industrial (I-G). The date, time, and location of the City Council public hearing are set forth below. The agenda for the hearing will also be posted on the City website (www.cityofgoleta.org).

HEARING DATE/TIME: June 4, 2024, at 5:30 P.M.

LOCATION: Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Goleta, CA, 93117 and Teleconference Meeting; this meeting will be held in person and via Zoom (with detailed instructions for participation included on the posted agenda)

PROJECT LOCATION

The property is located at 30 South La Patera Lane (APN 073-080-001) and is located in the Inland zone of the City. The land use designation of the property is Business Park (I-BP). On November 2, 2023, Shelby Messner Janke of Suzanne Elledge Planning and Permitting Services (Agent) submitted a request for the initiation of a GPA on behalf of Kip Bradley of La Patera Investors, LP (property owner).

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

The GPA initiation request is to study changing the Land Use Designation for the parcel on Land Use Element Figure 2-1 Land Use Plan Map from I-BP to I-G. Descriptions of the I-BP and I-G Land Use Designations can be found in Land Use Element Policy LU 4.2 and LU 4.5 respectively. Allowed uses for I-BP and I-G can be found in Land Use Element Table 2-3 Allowable Uses and Standards for Office and Industrial Use Categories. If initiated, City staff would be authorized to further study the proposed Land Use Designation change to Figure 2-1. The City Council decision on the GPA initiation request has no effect on how the City Council may ultimately act on the GPA in the future.

PUBLIC COMMENT: Interested people are encouraged to provide public comments during the public hearing in person or virtually through the Zoom webinar, by following the instructions listed on the City Council meeting agenda. Written comments may be submitted prior to the hearing by e-mailing the City Clerk at CityClerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org. Written comments will be distributed to Council and published on the City’s Meeting and Agenda page.

FOR PROJECT INFORMATION: For further information on the project, contact Brian Hiefield, Associate Planner, at (805) 961-7559 or bhiefield@cityofgoleta.org. For inquiries in Spanish, please contact Marcos Martinez at (805) 562-5500 or mmartinez@cityofgoleta.org. Staff reports and documents will be posted approximately 72 hours before the hearing on the City’s website at www.cityofgoleta.org.

Note: If you challenge the nature of the above action in court, you may be limited to only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice or in written correspondence delivered to the City on or before the date of the hearing (Government Code Section 65009(b)(2)).

Note: In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need assistance to participate in the hearing, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (805) 961-7505 or cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org

Notification at least 48 hours prior to the hearing will enable City staff to make reasonable arrangements.

Publish Date: Santa Barbara Independent, May 23, 2024