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IN at the Life and Work of Hank Pitcher
Iconic Painter Takes On The Miramar Affair in His Latest Exhibit at Sullivan Goss by Roger Durling
Hot off the tails of the Santa Barbara International
sat down and profiled his longtime friend Hank Pitcher for this week’s cover story. As an avid lover of all things art not just cinema Durling is always looking for ways to highlight his community.
How did you meet Hank Pitcher? What has kept you friends so long? I met Hank late in March 2016 when I was still doing my weekly column for the Independent called the S.B. Questionnaire. I was supposed to interview him for it, but after we met, I realized that he deserved a lengthier profile. Hank and I met for that original article for three 90-minute sessions, and a very close friendship developed based on mutual respect and our love for movies.
Why was now the time to profile Hank, and what were some of your personal highlights from the piece? As I mentioned in the article, Hank is the best artist currently working in Santa Barbara, and this show is the best he’s ever done. He’s at the top of his game, and his love for the Miramar Beach and how connected it is to the love of his life his wife, Susan Pitcher is an incredible story. How do you balance creating and supporting art and teaching it to future generations? It all goes hand in hand. One feeds the other. I’m able to understand cinema better by teaching to others what I have learned while working at SBIFF, and hearing young minds speak about it and being influenced by what I have learned is so rewarding. It’s about passing it forward, and I get so much in return as well.
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Alively energy took hold at Saturday’s 2025 Santa Barbara International Women’s Day March, organized at De la Guerra Plaza to protest the divisions ignited by the Trump administration and to bring people together instead.
“This is an issue of separation, and we can’t afford to stand against anyone. We are together,” said Michal Lynch, who has
spearheaded Santa Barbara’s Women’s March since 2017. About 6,000 people gathered and marched that year, while about 400 turned out for this one.
Lynch advocated for participants to grab and mail a “pink slip” to the White House to flood the president with their resistance on March 15. Saying that the organizers had not invited any politicians to speak this time
around, Lynch then encouraged the crowd to come up and speak.
The speeches then gave way to dancing, led by Heather Williams and the pink-adorned women of World Dance for Humanity.
“Why dance? Because dancing gives us a common language to show that we will get through this together,” Williams said.
The dancing crowd then formed into a march up the State Street Promenade. Residents came with their entire families to march, such as Luke Storey.
“We’re here as a family to support what should be the norm when it’s not,” Storey said. “But also, I want to make sure that I’m raising a son who has empathy for these issues, while supporting my wife and daughter.”
Similarly, Amalea T. was excited to participate, having attended their first-ever rally on March 3 for transgender rights, also held at De la Guerra Plaza. “I want to do my part in a peaceful way to support rights that should already be here,” said Amalea. “This is the only way some people have.”
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by Ryan P. Cruz
The Santa Barbara City Council voted 4-3
Tuesday to take the next step toward a stronger eviction ordinance, bringing back three provisions intended to prevent rental tenants from being evicted for renovations and priced out of their units.
On April 8, the council will officially decide on the amendments, which would give renters the right to return to their units after renovations with a 10 percent cap on rent increases; require property owners to provide a certified opinion from an independent contractor saying why tenants must vacate for work to be done; and institute a “cooling-off period” prohibiting property owners from renovating or demolishing within one year of buying a property with five or more units.
All three provisions were originally included in a proposal to tighten the city’s eviction ordinance a year ago following months of public hearings and unanimous approval by the Ordinance Committee though when the City Council voted in January 2024, the three provisions were left out of the adopted version.
Since then, newly elected councilmember Wendy Santamaria has tipped the scales at City Hall, flipping the makeup of the council to a slim four-vote majority in favor of stronger eviction regulations.
In February, Councilmember Santamaria teamed up with fellow Councilmember Kristen Sneddon to re-introduce the portions left out of the adopted ordinance, restarting the process to amend the ordinance to include the full slate of protections. Last week, the City Council voted 5-2 to place the item on the agenda during its March 11 meeting.
After a lengthy public comment period on Tuesday, in which dozens of city renters and housing advocates repeated testimonies of eviction and skyrocketing rents, Councilmember Santamaria made it clear that she hoped the city worked quickly to “close the loophole” without any further delay.
“We saw that the ordinance as it was passed last year did not meet the needs that our community has,” Santamaria said. “Unfortunately, it did not close the loophole that it was intending to close.”
Councilmember Sneddon was equally
exhausted with the process and eager to get the three provisions across the finish line.
“I’m especially concerned that every time we talk about it and don’t take action that we’re actually making the problem worse,” Sneddon said. “I don’t want to lose any more people from our community because of renovictions.”
She said that the cities of Carpinteria and Goleta had already passed similar protections against “renovictions” with success, and just last week the Los Angeles City Council voted 12-0 in favor of an interim ordinance blocking landlords from evicting tenants to remodel their properties.
But not everybody is happy with the city’s decision to revisit an ordinance that was already adopted a year ago.
Mayor Randy Rowse opposes the stricter protections and said that even the term “renoviction” is “provocative” and unnecessarily demonizes landlords while portraying tenants as victims. He asked that city staff provide more data regarding how many units these provisions would affect and worried that too many regulations would be “shooting ourselves in the foot.”
Jason Alan Page was released on parole after serving more than 30 years in custody for beating his wife, DeDe Page, with a baseball on 11/9/1994, and then stabbing her 20 times with an X-acto knife in front of the couple’s two children. Page, then a Santa Barbara resident, was a habitual abuser of methamphetamines at the time of the killing, and his wife was threatening to leave him because of chronic abuse. Prosecuting attorney Marguerite Charles opposed Page’s release when he first came up for a parole suitability hearing last September. The state parole board disagreed with Charles and found Page suitable for release. The Governor’s office reviewed their decision and referred it back to the full parole board, who affirmed his release last month.
In a case that could have broad implications for commercial cannabis growers, Superior Court Judge Thomas Anderle ruled on 3/5 that the neighbors within a one-mile radius of Valley Crest Farms, a cannabis greenhouse operation in the Carpinteria Valley, can collectively seek damages for the pervasive smell of pot invading their properties. The class-action lawsuit was filed in 2023 by the Santa Barbara Coalition for Responsible Cannabis, a countywide nonprofit citizens’ group; William Hahn and Danielle Dall’Armi, owners of the Rose Story Farm, a commercial rosebush operation next to Valley Crest; and Chonnie Bliss Jacobson, a neighbor who lives half a mile away.
UCSB, along with the head of its computer science program and admissions team, have been named as defendants in a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by a student and Google prodigy who was denied admission to the university. The lawsuit which includes four other UC campuses and the U.S. Department of Education as defendants alleges that the applicant, Stanley Zhong, was racially discriminated against in the application process. “The UC undergraduate admissions application collects students’ race and ethnicity for statistical purposes only,” said a UC spokesperson. “This information is not shared with application reviewers and is not used for admission.”
Sheriff’s detectives arrested a father and son accused of multiple sex crimes against four separate victims, including a child, and are encouraging those with knowledge of other potential offenses to come forward. Mark and Allen Pearse were taken into custody 3/4 at their Boone Street apartment in Santa Maria. Both are being held in the Northern Branch Jail without bail. Mark Pearse, 64, is accused of committing lewd and lascivious acts with a minor under 14 years old. Allen Pearse, 34, has been formally charged in a series of sexual assaults occurring between 2018 and 2024 against three adult victims. The Sheriff’s Office encouraged anyone with information on additional crimes associated with the Pearses to contact Det. Tomas Brownlee at (805) 681-4150 or leave an anonymous tip at sbsheriff.org/ home/anonymous-tip/ or (805) 681-4171.
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by Margaux Lovely
Two federal agencies have undertaken the task of conducting an environmental assessment of Sable Offshore’s plans to restart oil production in the Santa Barbara Channel plans set to be discussed this Thursday when the public has its first chance to ask questions to state regulatory agencies. The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) agreed to work with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) on the assessment on March 7 in the hopes of resolving a federal lawsuit filed against BSEE by the Center for Biological Diversity with the Wishtoyo Chumash Foundation last year.
Judge Michelle Williams Court is allowing the plaintiffs to amend their complaint to include the new permits in their allegations. Amended arguments were expected in the coming weeks.
Now, BSEE is hoping that conducting an environmental assessment will render the plaintiffs’ allegations moot, whether or not they are amended.
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The original June 2024 complaint alleges that BSEE along with its Pacific Regional Director Bruce Hesson and then-Secretary of the Interior Debra Haaland did not comply with several federal regulations when they authorized extensions of ExxonMobil’s 16 offshore oil and gas leases off the Gaviota Coast. The three offshore oil platforms contained in the federal leases are now owned and operated by Sable Offshore, who intervened as a defendant in October.
BSEE granted the most recent lease extensions in November 2023. They determined that doing so was “in the national interest” and “categorically excluded” from needing an environmental assessment under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) because the oil facilities have been stagnant since the 2015 Refugio Oil Spill.
Regardless, an environmental assessment is not as rigorous or comprehensive as an environmental impact report (EIR), the most recent of which was prepared and certified in the 1980s when the oil pipelines were first constructed. Under NEPA, the results of BSEE’s new environmental assessment may necessitate an EIR if the agency finds significant potential impacts to be possible. According to a declaration to the court from defendant Hesson, “the [environmental assessment] will be completed in the next few months.”
Meanwhile, BSEE has not indicated that it will rescind the lease extensions pending the environmental assessment results, according to CBD attorney Monsell. In other words, this lawsuit is not currently affecting Sable Offshore’s ability to restart oil operations in Santa Barbara.
“This agency has the authority to pause any restart while they’re doing a thorough review of the project,” Monsell added, “and it’s clear they should use that power here after we’ve already had a disastrous spill.”
BSEE’s attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, Daniel Luecke, declined to comment on the pending litigation. Sable’s spokespeople did not respond to requests for comment.
“[BSEE] based its categorical exclusion review under NEPA on operations being shut down while basing its national interest determination only on the purported benefits of restarting production and without considering any of the harms,” Kristen Monsell, an attorney for the plaintiffs, told the Independent Months after the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) first filed suit, BSEE granted Sable two additional permits to dig two new oil wells. As a result, federal
U.S. Senator Adam Schiff, Congressmember Salud Carbajal, and 21 other members of Congress weighed in on the Sable matter ahead of BSEE’s decision in a March 3 letter to Governor Gavin Newsom, voicing their concerns over bringing crude back to the Central Coast. They asked the governor to require the state Fire Marshal who has
by Callie Fausey
Last week, wildlife biologist Benjamin Vizzachero found himself face-to-face with Elon Musk, the president’s billionaire advisor to blame for his job loss at Los Padres National Forest. Musk, head honcho of the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), sat a few rows behind Vizzachero at the president’s congressional address.
The 30-year-old wildlife biologist was invited to Washington, D.C., by Rep. Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) to share his story. After losing his position, Vizzachero had immediately gone public, becoming a poster-child of the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to the U.S. Forest Service (USFS).
During the address, he capitalized on the rare opportunity to confront the man whose self-proclaimed pursuit of “efficiency” cost him his job.
“I turned around and I said, ‘Hey, Mr. Musk, am I a waste?’ ” he recounted. “And he gets this smug smirk on his face and says, ‘What exactly is it that you do here?’ ”
Vizzachero took a breath and replied that he works to protect communities like Monterey from wildfire, preserve precious places like the Big Sur Coast, and “make sure that America stays beautiful.”
“And after some noise from the mostly Republican crowd around me, he said, ‘No, I don’t think we need you here.’ … And I said, ‘I love this country. Why are you destroying it?’ ”
Vizzachero’s heart was beating in his ears. The entire experience, including Trump’s State of the Union address, was a “f***ing ordeal, man,” he sighed. “It felt like getting kicked in the gut.”
When, during his address, Trump claimed that they are firing “lazy, wasteful bureaucrats,” it struck a chord with him.
“It’s just like, hey, he’s talking about me, right?” Vizzachero said. “You know, I’m not a lazy, wasteful bureaucrat. I worked very hard.”
His job at Los Padres was what he pictured himself doing since he was 5 years old.
“People might think that a biologist just spends all their time sniffing flowers and picking up frogs,” Vizzachero told the Independent over the phone, on the way home from another interview with the L.A. Times. “But when you’re on the clock, everything you do is tied to the Forest Service’s mission … to provide the country with timber, clean water, recreation, habitat for wildlife, and forage for cattle.”
The biologist’s role in all that, he added, is to make sure that they are able to fulfill those needs, while ensuring wildlife remains protected, the Forest Service follows the law, and harm to the forest ecosystem is minimized.
However, he was torn away from that responsibility in February, after working for the park for a little more than a year. Representatives from Los Padres National Forest have said that the number of personnel fired is confidential; but according to Vizzachero, at least four others have been let go, “possibly more.”
“The Agency finds, based on your performance, that you have not demonstrated that your further employment at the Agency would be in the public interest,” Deedra Fogle, director of USFS Human Resource Management, wrote in Vizzachero’s termination letter.
In total, roughly 3,400 U.S. Forest Service workers were fired as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to slash the federal workforce. Within the National Park Service, about 1,700 jobs have been cut, targeting mostly newer employees in their probationary period.
When he was fired, Vizzachero was about to lead an effort to survey Los Padres for the critically endangered California spotted owl, highlighting fears around the loss of federal biologists who protect and monitor such vulnerable wildlife populations. For California especially, the cuts likewise raise concerns around wildfire mitigation Vizzachero was in the middle of a half-written biological assessment for a fuel break project in Monterey, which he now expects will be delayed because of his sudden termination.
“This isn’t just a fight for some jobs,” he stressed. “This is the fight for the forest itself.”
His hardworking colleagues, he said, are “going through hell right now.”
“These are the people to make sure that hikers can safely walk our trails, who show people how beautiful these lands are and how much work it takes to keep them that way,” he continued. “But Trump and Musk will never understand what makes America beautiful…. This isn’t about efficiency. This is about maximizing corporate profit.”
Vizzachero wants his termination to
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On Tuesday, the Santa Barbara City Council weighed in on the city’s five-year capital improvement plan, which lays out all major projects in the pipeline from the new police station to airport hangar overhauls to large-scale park renovations.
The capital improvement plan outlines the proposals for every department, including projected costs and details on whether funding has been identified, to allow the City Council to determine which projects should be prioritized. Altogether, the 296 projects could cost an estimated $2 billion, more than half of which has already been identified, according to interim Public Works Director Brian D’Amour. But another $800 million worth has yet to be funded.
Most of the funding will come from the city’s general fund and Measure C sales tax revenues, accounting for more than $366 million toward infrastructure and improvement projects over the next five years. Grants pay for another large chunk of the projected cost, with more than $225 million in the next
be a call to action, and encourages people to reach out to their representatives and protest DOGE’s cuts. Alongside working with Panetta and his team, he has also met with Santa Barbara Congressmember Salud Carbajal.
In a post on Instagram, Carbajal called Vizzachero’s termination “unjust,” and said “it was a privilege to meet Ben and hear firsthand how these mass layoffs and funding cuts will directly affect the protection of our public lands and communities from the ongoing threats of wildfire risks.”
In terms of next steps, Vizzachero said he is lucky to be part of a federal workers union that’s now preparing legal action. While his termination letter claimed his firing was based on his performance, his first-year evaluation deemed he was “fully successful” in meeting his performance goals.
“It was really a slap to the face,” he said. “People were sad to see me go, and sad to be losing control of our workplace, our home, and to have our team suddenly ripped apart.”
five years, while debt issuance and loans contribute an additional $241 million towards these projects.
Streets and Transportation has more than 60 projects included in the plan, costing an estimated $885 million, most of which will be coming from state and federal grants. These projects include the De la Vina Bridge replacement, annual pavement replacement, and major road improvements across the city. There are 11 Water Department projects costing a combined $342 million, including citywide water main improvements and the Vic Trace Reservoir replacement. Public safety accounts for 10 projects the biggest being the new police station costing a combined $260 million in the next five years. The airport has 37 different capital projects, costing a combined $117 million, many of which are funded through Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grants. But there is now uncertainty over the future of FAA funding, leaving some of the future projects still unfunded.
Other big-name items include longawaited Parks and Recreation projects such as the renovations to Ortega Park, Dwight Murphy Park, and Los Baños swimming pool and updates to City Hall and both the Central and Eastside Library branches.
The complete plan will not be finalized until the city budget is adopted in June.
As legal action unfolds, he is on the hunt for another job, all the while stewing over the future of the nation’s natural spaces. “This isn’t about politics,” he said. “People have to fight to protect our public lands from exploitation for corporate profits.” n
by Jean Yamamura
Awhole lot of “I told you sos” are making the rounds after the news broke on Friday that Roger Himovitz has put Dos Pueblos Ranch up for sale for $65 million. First reported by Bloomberg, the listing comes roughly three years after Himovitz purchased 219 acres on an ocean-view bluff top for more than $33 million. There he established the Dos Pueblos Institute to gain public-private partnerships to complete the coastal trail, give access to the Chumash for ceremonies, and create a retreat center.
The institute has accomplished some of its goals under the leadership of Geoff Alexander, previously a film commissioner with the County of Santa Barbara. Ceremonies take place in cooperation with Chumash tribes, and children’s programs are held on the land. But once Alexander read the Bloomberg article, he told the Independent he’d decided to submit his resignation.
“I offered to volunteer my time without compensation of any kind in order to deliver on those commitments to our partners and the children,” he said of the institute’s spring and summer programs. “I am hopeful that Roger will agree to allow me to fulfill this promise.”
Few of the people contacted for this story would speak on the record, saying in one way or another that they’d always been uncertain that Himovitz would ever get his ambitious project off the ground without some development income attached and also noting that he was known to be a progressive Democrat. Goleta historian Tom Modugno simply said that Gaviotans had always looked at him as a developer. Doug Kern, executive director of the
Gaviota Coast Conservancy, said he knew little about the listing but understood that Himovitz had instincts to be a conservationist and a developer, as well. Kern was involved in the 3,200-acre Rancho Tajiguas, which the conservancy purchased in September, and spoke with feeling about the necessity for repairs and maintenance to buildings, roads, and water systems, which Dos Pueblos Ranch had encountered as well, especially after the storms of recent years. The ranch is incorporated as Humpty Dumpty Rancho Dos Pueblos, LLC, which reflects the pieces Dos Pueblos now comprises the historic Rancho Dos Pueblos once was a holding of 15,000 acres stretching from Refugio to Fairview Avenue in Goleta that Himovitz has put together as 219 acres of parcels. Six are on the main ranch with its Casa Grande, and to the east of Dos Pueblos Creek, there are 10 to 14 more parcels, depending on who you talk to.
Gaviota’s landscape is a pastoral California coastline with the ocean gleaming in the distance and ranchlands, fencing, and a building every now and then in the rolling hills. Development is anathema in Gaviota. Himovitz is known as a genial developer from San Luis Obispo who raised his family in Montecito. He’d added luxury yurts and glamping tentcabins after buying El Capitan Ranch, before turning over its management to an RV company in 2020, a company that ran into permit issues over an expansion within eyeshot of the highway.
In a brief conversation on Tuesday, Roger Himovitz said that his preference would be for a conservation-minded individual to buy the ranch to ensure it would remain protected. As for his inability to see it through himself, “The reason I am selling is that I have serious health issues I need to deal with,” he said.
Himovitz, who is 79 years old, has been serious about conserving land, already putting 10,000 acres into conservation by the time he bought Dos Pueblos. His attorney, Rob Egenolf, explained that landowners put properties into conservation to reap federal and state tax breaks. Any such owner would have to have a large tax debt. For example, he said, the former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, whose family foundation just bought the Tea House property.
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A project to replace a water main along a section of De la Vina Street is set to break ground 3/17. The construction will take place between Constance Avenue and Micheltorena Street. Road closures will occur 7 a.m-5 p.m., Monday-Friday, until this fall. Mathew Rojas, city project engineer, mentioned that workers plan to cover one block per week, though this is tentative. According to Rojas, the construction will leave about one lane open along the parking area of the one-way street for traffic to continue to flow. This will come with parking restrictions and potential water service interruptions for the impacted areas. Notices will be sent out a day before a property will be impacted.
About 400 students came pouring out of San Marcos High School across the sidewalks of Hollister Avenue on 3/6, beating drums, chanting, and holding posters painted with slogans to protect immigrant rights. At the front of the crowd were multiple school employees, like Alex Sheldon, the assistant principal, who said he was also there to make sure students were safe throughout the demonstration. The students were protesting the Trump administration’s policies that allow agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to make arrests in public schools, which has reduced student attendance across the country and ignited fear and anxiety.
A crowdt least 300 protesters gathered on outside the Channel Islands National Park Visitor’s Center in Ventura on 5/5 the 45th anniversary of the park’s designation to protest the cuts to national parks. Despite the rain, people gathered under umbrellas, holding signs with messages like, “Only you can prevent forest firings,” “Protect our parks,” and “Keep your DOGE on a leash.” Among the speakers was Kenan Chan, one of five Channel Islands workers recently fired in the name of “increasing efficiency.” “These jobs are important for preserving and protecting these lands,” Chan said. “These are very, very special places for all Americans.”
Around 250 students, faculty, and community members gathered at UCSB on 3/7 to take part in the nationwide March for Science, voicing concerns over federal National Science Foundation and National Institute of Health grant cuts to scientific research. The demonstration was organized by the UC’s academic workers union, local members of the national group Researchers Against War, and UCSB’s Women in Science and Engineering to push back against the Trump administration’s proposed federal funding budget reductions and job cuts. These reductions directly impact funding for scientific research, including projects that support diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Last week, the Santa Barbara Unified School District celebrated the implementation of “the Culture of Care,” a culmination of several mental-health initiatives across the district. The ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on 3/7 at San Marcos High School, and highlighted the student-driven projects, including suicide prevention signs along railroads, an information campaign to promote mental wellness resources, and new wellness centers at each high school. “Santa Barbara Unified extends its sincere gratitude to the students, staff, families, and community partners who have contributed to these vital initiatives,” the district said.
Student journalists from Dos Pueblos High School traveled to Tampa Bay, Florida, for a three-day conference and award ceremony, where the talented group of teenagers took home top honors as one of the best high school news networks in the country. This year, the program won three top honors in the National Excellence Awards. The daily broadcast, DPNews, and social media show, The Flash, both earned silver medals. The Goodland Podcast took a gold medal, placing the Dos Pueblos program among the top 2 percent countrywide. DP students also fared well in the individual and on-the-spot contests, earning several honorable mentions. n
There are certain words no one wants to see used to describe them in a performance audit. “Persistent noncompliance” would be two big ones. Those words were bandied about with considerable frequency in a report the county supervisors were given about the quality of health care mental and otherwise in the two county jails.
According to a performance audit conducted by the county’s Public Health Department of 29 combined quality assurance measures reflecting the adequacy of health coverage and contract compliance, the Main Jail rated “noncompliant” in nine measures and “persistently noncompliant” in five of the nine. For the new Northern Branch Jail, there were eight measures of noncompliance, five of which, the report stated, demonstrated “persistent noncompliance.”
The measure that generated the most alarm from the county supervisors was the extent to which Wellpath, the jails’ private health contractor, met its contractual obligation to medically assess inmates placed in safety cells every four hours: only 13 percent. Likewise, mental health professionals managed to check on such inmates within 12 hours as the contract calls for only 67 percent of the time of the time. The audit found that Wellpath met its post-suicidewatch follow-up mileposts only 67 percent of the time. Based on audit guidelines, a 90 percent score was required to qualify as contractual compliance. Given recent deaths of inmates placed in safety cells because of suicidal threats, these numbers were of heightened concern.
For several years, the supervisors and
Brian Johnson spoke on behalf of the Santa Barbara Association of Realtors, and he raised concerns over the impacts the policies could have on the rental market, leading to “unintended consequences that will hurt tenants in the long run.”
county administrators have been trying to wrestle chronic medical contract compliance problems into submission with mixed results. Last year, the supervisors discovered Wellpath had short-changed them to the tune of $500,000 in terms of staffing levels the contract called for.
To help Sheriff’s Office administrators get a grip on what’s a very complicated and medically challenging task, the supervisors authorized the Public Health Department to hire two new seasoned medical professionals with considerable correctional experience to assist, advise, study, and illuminate the staffing issues leading to gaps in jailhouse care. The two professionals, Dr. Carrick Adam and Aaron Stillwell, were on hand at the supervisors meeting and walked them through the results of their first quarterly report. They took pains to highlight how sometimes their numbers seemed more dramatic than they were. Staffing shortfalls remain a serious issue, Stillwell noted. Stillwell and Adam have no direct authority over Wellpath personnel and can merely observe and advise. The work is demanding, the patients not easy, and the conditions of care less than ideal. Wellpath’s medical director, Stillwell noted, spends much of his time doing direct hands-on clinical work rather than playing the broad oversight role a typical director does.
Maureen Earls, a longtime mental health and criminal justice reform advocate with the League of Women Voters, urged the supervisors to consider giving the contract to the Public Health Department. Her remarks went unremarked upon.
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the final say over a restart to “reconsider” a waiver granted to Sable in December allowing them to operate their oil pipelines without industry-standard corrosion protection. The letter also demanded that the Fire Marshal and California State Parks each hold a public hearing and conduct environmental reviews of Sable’s project. State Parks is negotiating a new easement with Sable for a four-mile stretch of pipeline that runs through the Gaviota State Park.
While a formal public hearing has not yet surfaced, Senator Monique Limón and Assemblymember Gregg Hart will be hosting an informational public meeting at 4 p.m. on Thursday, March 13, at the La Cumbre Junior High Auditorium (2255 Modoc Rd.). Representatives of various state agencies will be present to answer questions about Sable’s restart plans, and California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot will moderate the discussion. n
Requiring an outside contractor to verify that a tenant must vacate their unit for a remodel, he said, would be an “unnecessary bureaucratic burden that will slow down much-needed repairs and upgrades.” Capping rent increases after renovations would be a “blatant disincentive to improving rental properties,” he said, and instituting a cooling-off period could be a “serious overreach that could have financial, market, and legal consequences.”
Councilmember Mike Jordan, who originally proposed the one-year coolingoff period before changing his vote last year, worried the changes to the ordinance could lead to “significant costs to the city,” and would benefit only “existing tenants and nobody in those buildings ever after that.”
City residents who spoke during the meeting shared stories of dealing with absentee corporate landlords, and of decid-
ing whether to pay double the rent or relocate their families. Housing advocates encouraged the council to take action before more working-class people were forced to leave the city they serve.
“Protecting our current residents from displacement deserves immediate attention,” said Bradley Klein, a city worker and union representative. “We face an urgent situation where established community members are being forced from their homes, not due to any wrongdoing on their part, but simply because their eviction presents an opportunity for increased profit margins.”
Councilmembers Meagan Harmon and Oscar Gutierrez joined Sneddon and Santamaria in favor of bringing the three amendments back for an official hearing on April 8, recommending to skip the Ordinance Committee and come directly to the City Council.
The City Council will work out details during the April 8 hearing, including addressing questions over exemptions (single-family homes would be excluded) and potential impacts on the city’s other housing priorities. n
The Santa Barbara County Supervisors unanimously voted to ease the advance notification restrictions required before county administrators order homeless encampments cleared out “resolved” being the term of art and reducing the length of time the county has to keep any personal belongings confiscated in such sweeps.
Under the county’s existing selfimposed rules, written warnings were issued at the targeted encampments no less than 72 hours beforehand. Now that time requirement is 48 hours. Likewise, it used to be that county crews would be responsible for storing confiscated materials for 90 days. Under the new rules, the new storage requirement is 60 days.
In a related move, the supervisors approved a brand-new parking restriction on oversized vehicles, barring them from parking along roads adjacent to row crops. As Supervisor Bob Nelson noted, the concern was the effect of human effluent discharged from such vehicles near where food is grown.
The supervisors were also told that county administrators are now giving serious thought to creating “safe sleeping zones” for people who have no place to sleep. Given the acute shortage of available shelter beds throughout Santa Barbara County and the exorbitant cost of creating new housing of any kind the idea of monitored campgrounds accompanied by showers and porta-potties has a utilitarian appeal. Other communities, such as San Diego, have already pursued that option, but to date, Santa Barbara has been loath to explore it.
The “safe sleeping” idea borrows heavily from the Safe Parking program that originated in Santa Barbara more than 20 years ago, in which owners of private parking lots have allowed small clusters of supervised car-dwellers to spend the night, provided they can be up and out early the next morning. While that program has been widely lauded for its effectiveness and compassion, the number of participating parking lots
has hardly kept pace with growing demand.
Former supervisor Das Williams, in one of his meetings, pushed to use state or federal grant money to pay parking lot owners money for the use of their lots. Safe Parking has never done that, and the supervisors heard how such payments might upset the economic underpinning of the entire program.
The supervisors also heard how county homeless administrators contacted their state and federal representatives to see if the pool of available public parking lots could be significantly expanded for the Safe Parking program. As usual, the supervisors were told such entreaties yielded no results. It was hardly the first time such requests have been made.
Gina Rodarte Quiroz with the Committee for Social Justice, herself homeless for six years, blistered the new relaxed notification and storage requirements, arguing the sweeps will only further traumatize people who have already been traumatized too much. The actions, she said, lacked compassion and would only criminalize people who have no choices or options where else to go. Any identification or other necessary documents could easily get lost and connections with key social service providers severed.
Supervisor Nelson thanked Quiroz for her comments and then explained he couldn’t disagree with her more. Letting homeless people live in the riverbed, he said, wasn’t compassionate, safe, or good public policy. And no one, he added, should confuse the Santa Maria riverbed for a home.
The starting point of Montecito’s Tea Fire in 2008, the property has 350 acres which the Schmidt foundation said they would protect as open space.
“You have to have a high income to utilize a tax deduction like that,” Egenolf said, which is why his client is in search of a billionaire to buy Rancho Dos Pueblos. Egenolf added that the property had to be priced at its “highest and best use,” which in the case of coastal land was full build out. The $65 million asking price
—Nick Welsh
reflected the costs to purchase and maintain the property about $3 million a year, Egenolf said and repair things like the pumps for the abalone farm onsite.
This is where trust would come in, as in the trust that the new owner would indeed conserve the land and not build on it.
“Roger had great dreams for the Dos Pueblos Institute,” Egenolf said. “And he hopes to find an owner to not only donate the property but to utilize it for the institute.” n
Santa Barbara Favorite Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
40th Anniversary Tour
Tue, Apr 1 / 8 PM
UCSB Campbell Hall
“The best musical entertainment in the country.”
The Independent (U.K.)
“Instrumental panache and affable singing with no smallamount of inimitably British drollery.”
The New York Times West Coast Debut Owls
Fri, Apr 11 / 7 PM / Hahn Hall
Alexi Kenney, violin
Ayane Kozasa, viola
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Paul Wiancko, cello
“With Owls, classical is alive and well.”
The New York Times
Performing a wide-ranging program of folk, Baroque and new music, Owls’ innovative approach to the quartet repertoire defies expectations.
Hiromi’s Sonicwonder
Fri, Apr 25 / 8 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall
“One of jazz piano’s most brazenly virtuosic players.” The New York Times
Steeped in both the classical and jazz traditions, Hiromi is a keyboard visionary whose influences range from Chick Corea to Frank Zappa and funk fusion. Check your expectations at the door for this night of wildly adventurous music from her eclectic electric quintet.
Tby Isabelle Walker
he Santa Barbara City Council is having a tree moment. On Tuesday, for the second time this year, councilmembers found themselves juggling community attachment to a set of mature street trees with the realities of crumbling sidewalks and pedestrian safety.
Unlike their January vote, which sided with the community by retaining the Italian stone pine as the official street tree on
East Anapamu, councilmembers this Tuesday went with their staff’s recommendation, denying an appeal of a Parks and Recreation Commission decision to remove 13 trees on Milpas Street for the sake of a safety overhaul.
The vote was 4-1 with Councilmember Oscar Gutierrez abstaining.
The appellant, Claiborne Shank, argued that the city had not considered alternatives such as expanding sidewalks on the streetside of the trees eliminating parking spaces in favor of making space for people to walk around tree wells without stepping off the curb.
Principal Traffic Engineer Derrick Bailey said that kind of sidewalk design would be difficult to communicate to visually impaired residents, as the sidewalk would essentially divide into two strips.
The Milpas corridor has become a main
artery in the city, carrying an average of 23,000 cars and trucks every day. It has also become the second most dangerous street here for pedestrian-vehicle collisions a fact the city has been trying to address for years.
In 2022, the Public Works Department received an $8 million State Active Transportation Program grant to implement a safety upgrade of intersections between Quinientos and Canon Perdido streets. The project design will include things like curb extensions, high-visibility crosswalks, accessibility improvements (for disabled residents), and Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacons.
But the improvements will also entail taking out 13 trees, including eight Indian laurel fig trees that rise, in some cases, 70 feet over the sidewalk, offering both shade and wildlife habitat. Three of these trees block the sightline of pedestrians as they approach the curb to cross the street, as well as of drivers traveling in the north and southbound lanes. The other five Indian laurels have in their growth overtaken the sidewalks to the extent that a wheelchair cannot pass, and they also present a vertical obstruction (with lowish branches) to the visually impaired.
The good news, to some minds, is that the upgrade will include the planting of 37 new saplings possibly water gum eucalyptus, Sydney red gum eucalyptus, or African fern pine, officials said. And it will leave 86 percent of the existing trees on the street alive and breathing carbon. Those two facts were especially meaningful to Mayor Rowse and Councilmember Mike Jordan.
For Councilmember Eric Friedman, it was the accessibility issue that swayed him. “ADA [Americans with Disabilities Act] issues are of extreme importance,” he said. “It’s just not accessible for people,” he said, referring the Milpas sidewalks. “It’s just not.”
“We’re going to go through this on Carrillo at some point,” said Mayor Rowse. “We’re going to be going through this on upper State with the same tree, as we blow up infrastructure and block sidewalks, so it’s something we better get used to,” he said.
Councilmember Jordan brought up the fact that Milpas Street is now an important escape route for people living in the foothills, and that any restriction of traffic flow could impede residents who need to flee in an emergency. But, he added, “This is truly a miserable choice to make.” n
OSt. Cecilia Society, which has a long and rich history of providing vital medical and dental assistance to those in need across Santa Barbara County.
ur city needs to address the lack of public restrooms downtown. Most developed countries provide public restrooms as a basic necessity, yet in a town as affluent as ours, we have none.
More and more businesses are displaying “No Public Restroom” signs, which is understandable; small businesses should not be expected to serve as the city’s public restroom solution. It is the city’s responsibility to provide accessible facilities for residents and visitors alike.
Toileting is a fundamental human need and, as a civilized society, we should recognize and accommodate that.
The roots of this organization stretch back to 1892, when fundraising efforts evolved into a crucial resource for health-care assistance. Our all-volunteer organization serves in a community where paying for health care can be a challenge, providing a crucial safety net. We encourage anyone who wishes to support this valuable organization to visit our website for information on how to donate or to join our board: ceciliafund.org. —Sallie Watling Coughlin, Nikki Rickard, Marion Schoneberger, Lashon Kelly, Gabriela Dodson, Megan Shapiro, Evie Vesper, Cecilia Fund Board
This isn’t just about installing restrooms; it’s about maintaining them properly. The city should budget for twice-daily cleaning and the replacement of necessary supplies.
Maintenance should include twice-daily needle pickup. Given the realities of opioid addiction and diabetes, providing designated needle disposal units in public restrooms is essential for public health and safety. Without them, discarded needles pose a serious risk, especially to children, as I discovered when my son found needles.
We made an error in last week’s news of Tom Parker’s death. The cofounder of the Hutton Parker Foundation was not the famous actress Betty Hutton but the Orange County entrepreneur and philanthropist Betty Hutton, whose Hutton Companies developed and managed real estate throughout California.
—Emily
Kellow, S.B.
Where can we reallocate funds or generate new funding to make this happen? Public restroom access is not a luxury; it is a necessity for a functional and inclusive city.
in the world is the Independent still encouraging people to indulge in meat eating with your Burger Week every single year?
As you should know by now, the meat industry is fraught with massive abuses to animals, its workers, and ultimately consumers with its hormone and antibiotic-laced, tortured, rotting flesh fraudulently called food.
The meat industry destroys the environment to catastrophic proportions and adds to the climate crisis with the literally billions of animals disgustingly tortured in factory farms.
The medical community has concluded, after multiple scientific studies, that meat is the leading contributor to both heart disease and cancer.
Why is your perspective so antiquated and ignorant? If anything, you should spotlight vegan and vegetarian consumption.
—Mary Marino, Carpinteria
I want to bring to the community’s attention the remarkable and enduring work of the organization now known as the Cecilia Fund, formerly the
Glen Mowrer’s letter “Darkness Ahead” on February 20 contained a quote from the Heritage Foundation, which was not marked as such. The letter, which discussed the Founding Fathers’ checks on democracy “knowing passions can overwhelm reason and destroy governments,” should have read:
This concept has been expressed for decades by conservatives who love the phrase, “We live in a republic, not a democracy.” The most conservative exponent of this “truth” is The Heritage Foundation. In their view: “America’s Founders carefully thought through the problems of direct democracy and explicitly rejected this model—and for good reason. They saw that because ancient democracies lacked any social or institutional forces that could check, refine, or moderate the will of the majority, they were prone to great instability, riven by factionalism, and subject to the passions and short-sightedness of the public. Direct democracies were thus vulnerable to tyranny.”
Their analysis is correct. And Donald Trump is the tyrant they predicted.
BY MARINA OWEN
People across California are feeling the economic pinch, from the grocery aisle to the pharmacy counter. In times like these, programs like Medicaid are more important than ever to keep individuals and families above water. Unfortunately, policymakers are considering drastic cuts to Medicaid that would put the health and economic security of our community at risk. Medicaid is a popular program because it helps people and improves everyday life in our community.
California’s Medicaid program which is called Medi-Cal serves about 40 percent of the state’s population and supports people of all walks of life. That’s more than 15 million Californians. In Santa Barbara County, the health program is administered by CenCal Health. One in every three residents is enrolled.
As the CEO of CenCal Health, our county’s notfor-profit health plan, I see firsthand how Medicaid positively impacts more than 241,000 people on the Central Coast. The program provides for some of our most vulnerable in times of great need and does so in a compassionate manner. For example, Frances Spencer, a Santa Barbara County resident, needed brain surgery at UCLA. She described how Medicaid through CenCal Health made her surgery possible: “Therefore, CenCal saved my life, and I will always be deeply thankful.”
Medicaid provides essential health coverage to families with low incomes, including many working people who do not have access to employer-sponsored health insurance.
Medicaid keeps families with children, pregnant women, and seniors from worrying about how they’ll pay for the medical care they need. Nearly two-thirds of adults enrolled in Medicaid are working, and many of those who aren’t are full-time caregivers, students, or those with a disability. By providing health coverage, Medicaid helps people and families access preventive care and manage their health issues, so they can thrive.
Cutting Medicaid will have significant negative impacts on working families, caregivers, and the broader economy.
Without Medicaid, families with children would struggle to afford necessary medical care, which could lead to worse health outcomes and increased financial stress. This not only affects well-being but also productivity, potentially leading to job loss or school absenteeism.
Medicaid also supports our communities, ensuring a healthy workforce and school-aged children for generations to come. More than 40 percent of births and almost half of U.S. children are covered by Medicaid. This coverage makes sure kids have access to essential health care and sets them up for success. In fact, children who are eligible for Medicaid for most of their childhood earn more as adults and are more likely to attend and complete college.
Medicaid is a job creator, supporting vital roles at
local hospitals and health centers.
Our health-care safety net understands that the effect of a strong Medicaid program equals more jobs, more money in the pockets of hardworking people, more opportunity for the next generation, and an overall stronger economy. In state after state, including California, we see evidence of the economic and job security that Medicaid coverage brings.
The Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics agree. Washington’s budget challenges are real and cannot be ignored, but the answer is not to balance the nation’s checkbook on the backs of families and working people. Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Ashrafian, CEO of Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics. He shared that if Medicaid is not protected, it would move the American healthcare system in the wrong direction and be devastating for our local community and his patients.
In fact, California voters supported Medicaid in record numbers 68 percent through passage of Proposition 35. The Central Coast Medical Association supports local doctors who serve the most vulnerable. Dr. Todd Engstrom, the association’s president, thinks cutting Medicaid could hinder economic growth by weakening the health system and local safety-net. It would also hurt the financial stability of doctors, too.
As a mission-driven organization, CenCal Health is deeply committed to ensuring all individuals, regardless of income, can access the medical care they need. Our longstanding focus on serving Medicaid and other underserved populations on the Central Coast makes us a key partner in promoting better health outcomes for Santa Barbara County residents. Join us in asking policymakers to protect Medicaid funding. Our families, children, and economy are counting on it.
– 03/08/2025
Sebastiano Capovilla passed away peacefully on March 8, 2025, at the age of 84, with his daughters by his side. He was born on April 25, 1940, in Crespano del Grappa, Italy, the eldest of three children to Gaetano and Franceschina (Bof) Capovilla.
Sebastiano spent his formative years in Italy, causing a lot of mischief with friends and developing a passion for soccer and hunting that lasted well into adulthood. He also spent countless hours working alongside his parents on the family farm. After completing his mandatory service with the Alpini division of the Italian army, he immigrated to Santa Barbara in January 1962, joining his parents and siblings who had moved a few months earlier.
In 1966, he returned to Italy to marry his longtime girlfriend, Gina Dal Bello. Together, they moved to Santa Barbara, where they started their new life and raised their family. Their first daughter, Luisa, was born in 1968, the same year they purchased their first home in the San Roque neighborhood. They welcomed their second daughter, Stefania, in 1970, and their son, Sebastiano Jr., in 1975, who sadly passed away at birth.
Sebastiano was a proud Italian immigrant who worked hard to build a better life for his family in the United States, while always holding on to his Italian roots. Upon his arrival in Santa Barbara, he worked various jobs, including as a busboy and bartender. He later worked at M&F Packing in Carpinteria, and eventually dedicated over 20 years of service to the Santa Barbara Housing Authority before retiring in 2011.
A lover of the outdoors and soccer, Sebastiano enjoyed tending to his roses, raising canaries, hunting, and watching games involving the Italian national soccer team (Forza Azzurri) and AC Milan. He also appreciated Italian music and often spent weekends entertaining friends with lively conversation, a few glasses of wine, and several cigarettes. In retirement, he cherished time with family and friends, watching TV, caring for his birds, and enjoying the beautiful mountain views that reminded him of his hometown in Italy.
Sebastiano was a simple, hardworking man who took pride in the accomplishments of his daughters and grandchildren. He is survived by his beloved wife of over 58 years, Gina; his daughters, Luisa Velez (Fernando) and Stefania Miller (Ken); his cherished grandchildren, Emily, Claire, Bradley, Matthew, and Andrew; his brother, Lorenzo Capovilla; his sister, Giustina Martin (Dennis); and extended family members in both the United States and Italy.
We would like to express our deepest gratitude to the staff at Cottage Hospital, as well as to the teams at Villa Alamar and Alexander Gardens, where Sebastiano spent the last four years of his life.
Sebastiano will be deeply missed and lovingly remembered. His funeral mass will be held at San Roque Church 325 Argonne Circle, Santa Barbara on Thursday, March 20th, at 10:30 a.m., followed by his inurnment at Calvary Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to:
Alpha Resource Center 4501 Cathedral Oaks Road Santa Barbara, CA 93110
Alzheimer’s Association 1528 Chapala St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Italian Scholarship Foundation
c/o MacFarlane, Faletti & Co
3737 State Street, Suite #B Santa Barbara, CA 93105
John Carter
06/08/1928 - 02/01/2025
Throughout his 96 years of life, John Carter had many roles and pulled each of them off exceptionally well. A father who loved and motivated his children to step confidently into the world. A husband who spent years building a beautiful life with his wife, Shirley. A general contractor whose good name is known all over town. A grandfather who loved unconditionally. A neighbor who paid attention and stepped up when needed. A friend who stuck around for a lifetime.
Homes and offices he built are found from downtown to Santa Barbara's oak-covered hills, as well as buildings he saved from sliding off hillsides or cliff edges. Along with the amazing pieces of himself that he quietly poured into his community, he filled up his own life. He was an artist who made pottery, a craftsman in everything he built, and a gardener who made it look easy.
A natural athlete who wrestled on his high school team, he later surfed, sailed (in the sailboat he built with a friend), hiked, and bicycled. His bike and a tandem he shared with Shirley took him, over the decades, through several states and even countries until he could no longer see the road. He also dedicated a large portion of his life to traveling the world with Shirley, where there is no doubt he left more positive impact than we can know.
John lived his life to the fullest, fulfilling the majority of his hopes and dreams.
He is an inspiration to future men, women, leaders, and learners to take what you have and create what you love.
On February 1, 2025, John left behind behind three daughters: Kathi (Mark) Allgire and their son Matt, Karin Carter (Tom Bates), and Kristin Carter and her daughter Juna. Juna did the honor of writing this loving tribute to her grandfather.
A celebration of life will take place Wednesday, March 26th, at 3:00 PM in the Cabrillo Pavilion. If you can join us, we’d appreciate an RSVP to johncartercelebration@yahoo.com.
Robert Paul Galindo
06/09/1964 - 03/01/2025
In Loving Memory of Robert Paul Galindo
It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Robert Paul Galindo, who departed this world peacefully at home at the age of 60. He was a beloved son, brother, uncle and friend.
Robert will profoundly be missed; loved by many who had given him nicknames, as a young boy his mom called him "Rabbit" others Dreamer, Noonie, Windbag, Chevella, Shobee & Cha-cha. Anyone using a nickname was family or friend. He was a simple kind man with a quick wit sense of humor infectious laughter loved his family and
friends deeply. His lifelong passion was music, dance and travel with his tribal family. He was blessed and enjoyed traveling to many places with his travel companions, Diana Bow, Nancy Galindo and Soza Family "Many Thanks for your love and care"
Robert established an emotional family connection with love and deep respect for the "Aqua caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians" He may not have been a full-blooded Native, but his heart was a 100% Native
With his compassionate kind big heart, he touched many lives. You were loved from the moment you were born and forevermore. Every moment or story shared will be cherished today tomorrow and always. Your love, light and spirit will forever remain in our hearts.
Survived by love and caring parents Richard Sr & Beverly Galindo, sisters, brothers and lots of family. His pride and joy being an uncle and great uncle and God father to "Dakota Bow-Graham he cherished and loved every moment spent with them.
He is preceded in death by his brother Randy Ronald Galindo and sister-in-law Clara Galindo
A celebration of Robert's life will be held on March 20, 2025, Mass at 11:00 am at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church 1300 East Valley Road Montecito Ca 93108 followed by lunch at MacKenzie Park 3111 State Street Santa Barbara, Ca 93105.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the American Diabetes Association (ADA) a four-star rating healthcare charity https://diabetes.org Rest in peace, Robert. Your life was a blessing, and your memory a treasure. You are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure. Not goodbye but see you later!!!
TBY MICHAEL SMITH
he first time I saw Carol was in the Fiesta Parade in 1953. Her father was El Presidente that year and led the parade riding one of Dwight Murphy’s magnificent palomino stallions. Carol was in a carriage with her mother and siblings, resplendent in their Fiesta finery. My mother pointed them out.
I was 17, new to Santa Barbara, and found it all highly picturesque. My father had bought a store in the 1100 block of State Street, and we were moving out from Kansas City. We watched the parade from folding chairs on the curb in front of the store.
I started at Yale that fall, and by the time I came back for Christmas, my mother got me invited to parties with a Montecito set that included Carol. My parents’ house on San Ysidro Road was a couple of blocks from the Storkes’ house, which had a tennis court. Carol matriculated at Smith College the following fall. We saw each other a couple of times in the East. I took her to a football weekend at Princeton, but we never actually dated. That Christmas, she was a reluctant debutante at the Coral Casino, and I was another girl’s escort.
The Storkes were a leading family in Santa Barbara. Carol’s grandfather, Thomas More Storke, was the publisher of the Santa Barbara News-Press, then a thriving and respected newspaper. TM won a Pulitzer for standing up to the John Birch Society and played an active part in the creation of Cachuma Dam, which enabled the city’s postwar growth, and the establishment of UC Santa Barbara. Carol’s father, Charles, was associate publisher of the News-Press, managed the radio station, and helped get Earl Warren Showgrounds built. We saw the Storkes at the Santa Barbara National Horse Show.
After college, Carol and I both moved to New York but followed different paths and never saw each other, though we both worked at Ed Koch’s City Hall for a while. When I moved to Santa Barbara in 1992, after my father died, my mother told me that Carol was divorced and had moved back the previous year. Knowing no one else of my generation, I called her up and we met for lunch. We immediately hit it off. We were New Yorkers, for one thing, and talked the same language at the same speed. Before long, I moved into her house in Goleta with my 14-year-old son, Alfred, and we decided to spend the rest of our lives together. Carol’s father said, “Welcome to the family.”
Suddenly, I had deep roots. Carol was a ninth-generation Santa Barbaran. Her ancestry went back to José Francisco Ortega, the first commandant of the Presidio, as well as the More brothers, Scots who accumulated substantial land holdings including one or more of the Channel Islands.
In our first months together, Carol had been laid off from her job as a computer programs designer. I was waiting for my predecessor’s departure to become the arts editor of the Independent, so we had plenty of time for picnics and other outings to get to know each other. In the fall, we went back to work. As music critic of the Independent, I had free tickets for concerts, and we relished Santa Barbara’s wealth of classical music. (I later became the music critic of the News-Press, then owned and well-run by The New York Times.)
Carol’s love of horses was fostered by her maternal grandfather, Sellar Bullard, who had a hilltop avocado ranch in Goleta. He gave her a pony, then horses as she got older, taught her to ride, and she had wild adventures on horseback with her sister Barbie in the lemon groves that predated the present suburban neighborhoods. She showed in the Santa Barbara National when it was still in Pershing Park.
Carol had brought two horses with her when she moved back to Santa Barbara in 1991, boarding them at a nearby stable and riding with her horse friends on the weekend. I only gradually realized how important horses were to her as important, she insisted, as the arts were to me. I was a dude-ranch rider and eventually got a horse of my own so we could ride together on the cliffs of More Mesa and the far reaches of Rancho San Julian. For several years, Carol wrote a monthly column on horse-related topics for the Independent, which gave her a pretext for talking to people and looking into the traditions and innovations that interested her. With a cadre of fellow horse-lovers, she organized efforts to preserve Earl Warren Showgrounds, which was threatened with development. Thanks to their
ubiquitous Save Earl Warren bumper stickers, they won.
As time went on, I started doing theater, and Carol got more serious about training her horses and competing in horse shows. Where to keep her horses was an increasingly frustrating problem. She wanted her own barn, but such property was unaffordable in the area. By the early 2000s, her father and my mother had died, Alfred had grown up and was living on his own, and there was really nothing holding us in Santa Barbara.
In 2003, we moved to Oregon. The house in Goleta translated into a seven-acre farm along Silver Creek in the beautiful Willamette Valley. We renovated and expanded the house, Carol built herself a well-equipped horse barn and arena, and I made the chicken house into a spacious writing studio. It was Carol’s lifelong dream come true horses right outside the back door. She was doing everything she dreamed of: working with a trainer and winning the championship in adventure trail at the Oregon Equestrian Center in Eugene, camping and exploring the Cascades on horseback with her friends. I kept myself busy with music, poetry, a few plays, and book-publishing.
Carol, who died on January 25, was the last of the Storkes to be active in Santa Barbara, but the marks of the family remain. Charles, her father, was good friends with Henry Yang, the chancellor of UCSB, which honored his benefactions with a ceremony at the foot of Storke Tower. The carillon TM had given to the university was neglected; Carol and I agitated for a new carillonneur and lay on the grass below the tower, basking in the vibrations of the concerts she played.
Carol joined her father on the board of the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation, an essential counterweight to the Paseo Nuevo. Charles contributed vision and money to the restoration of Casa De la Guerra. I remember the unveiling of a plaque in his honor on the south facade of the building, facing his father’s News-Press building, another Santa Barbara classic, Storkes bookending the Plaza. n
Terence Charles Brennan 04/08/1957 - 02/27/2025
Terence Charles Brennan was born April 8, 1957, in Burbank, California to an Irish, Canadian family of hockey players. Terry quickly became a brother, and friend to all who had the privilege of knowing him. His impact on those around him was immeasurable, and it’s often said, but in Terry’s case, it couldn’t be truer: to know him was indeed to love him.
Terry was a master storyteller. He could effortlessly weave a tale, his voice filled with humor and heart, (he could produce an Irish brogue on command)—delivered with a mischievous smile and a playful lift of his eyebrow— would bring you to your knees.
His stories were always delivered with a warmth and authenticity that made you feel as though you were right there with him on one of his adventures. For decades, Terry canvassed the streets of Santa Barbara and Carpinteria, sharing his infectious sense of humor, generosity, and his huge heart with all who crossed his path. A visit to the local pub often meant an embrace from Terry, a radiant smile, and a sense of belonging. When Terry shone his light on you, it was as if the warmth of the sun was wrapped around you. He had the rare gift of making everyone feel special and loved. It was under the California sun, with the shimmer of the ocean in the background, that Terry discovered his love for surfing as a little boy. It’s said that he learned to ride the waves on the back of a discarded door found in his Burbank garage. Surfing became a passion, a part of his soul,
as much as the spirit of Santa Barbara itself.
Terry was a giant in every sense of the word. Tall and lanky, with strong hands that shaped stone and wood into works of art, his craftsmanship graced some of the most iconic residences in Santa Barbara including Lotusland and the Santa Barbara Courthouse. A gifted artist and painter Terry’s works of art evoke a feeling of the old California he so deeply loved.
A true surf legend, Terry was a lover of Aussie Shepherds, music, a good read, old movies, vinyl, a Tom Waits’ guitar solo, the surfboard icon Reene Yater and his trusted Rover. Father to the late Tristan Brennan, and stepsons Ronnie and Josh Brennan, it was this role in life that Terry held most dear. Terry instilled a love of hockey in his sons, bringing the sport locally to Carpinteria.
The Press Room became his second home, The Rafferty family his family, Terry's Raddon boat his ticket to Hollister Ranch and the islands, and Santa Barbara, his true love.
Terry will be profoundly missed by all who knew him. His laugh, his spirit, and his kind, open heart will live on in every story shared, every wave ridden, and in the memories of those who were lucky enough to call him a friend.
As Terry liked to say and in the words of the immortal Dr. Seuss, “Don't be sad because it’s over, smile because it happened”
Godspeed Terry
Terry is survived by his step sons, Ronnie and Josh Brennan, sisters Debbie and Nancy and countless nieces, nephews and cousins. Terry was predeceased by his parents Charles and Germaine, brother Allan, and sister Maureen.
Alanna Nicole Henderson
03/11/1986 - 01/26/2015
Lana, 10 years is a long time. It doesn't get any easier. But it's so easy for the memories of you to come to mind.
Rest in Paradise
Dad & Julian
07/08/1973 - 02/25/2025
Nathan Dudley Taft passed away suddenly at the end of February, 2025. Having pursued epic adventures near and far, Nathan filled his 51 years beyond their conceivable capacity - as an adoring father and husband, as a devoted family member and friend, and as a force in his field of work.
Nathan was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on July 8, 1973 and moved to Santa Barbara, California at the age of two. In Santa Barbara, he quickly developed an enduring love for the ocean, surfing, and natural beauty. He attended Starr King and Laguna Blanca, and graduated from Santa Barbara High School (Class of 1991). While in school, Nathan volunteered at Transition House, serving meals and socializing with families impacted by homelessness. This and other
volunteer experiences proved formative for what would become the focus of his professional life.
Nathan graduated from Yale University in 1995 with a BA in History. From 1995 to 1997, he was a Yale China Fellow at Yali Middle School in Changsha, Hunan Province after which he spent two years traveling domestically to recruit prospective students for the Yale undergraduate admissions office. Nathan then worked for Yale’s Office of New Haven and State Affairs, which sparked his interest in community development and real estate. In 2004, he earned an MBA from the Yale School of Management. That same year, Nathan joined Jonathan Rose Companies, where over the next twenty years he oversaw the acquisition and preservation of affordable and mixedincome multifamily housing. Nathan was key to the launch of JRCo’s first social impact fund in 2005 and, under his stewardship as Chief Investment Officer, the investment business has grown to preserve and develop 20,000 units of affordable housing representing over $4.5 billion of real estate. Nathan’s deep and broad legacy includes the impact he has had on countless lives, providing them access to more hospitable, healthy, and environmentally sustainable housing.
Nathan was a member of the Urban Land Institute Affordable Workforce Housing Council, the National Multi Housing Council, the Pension Real Estate Association, and the 13th class of the Aspen Institute First Movers Fellowship. Nathan served on the boards of Impact Capital Managers, an impact investing organization of fund managers, Goddard Riverside, a 130-year-old settlement house in New York City that serves low-income families and seniors, and the Yale-China Association, a nonprofit that administers education, arts, and healthcare exchanges between the United States and China.
Nathan met his wife Soogy in New York City, introduc-
ing himself after chasing her as she was leaving a restaurant. Their children, Wallis and Eli, are by far Nathan’s proudest accomplishment, and he fiercely protected and nurtured them. An involved parent, Nathan urged his children to read, to be curious and to engage in the world with empathy and kindness. He was also the fun, active parent who would take the children surfing in the ocean or in a wave pool in a New Jersey mall, skiing through the trees, mountain biking or sledding at midnight in Riverside Park. To Nathan, the world held unlimited possibility – whether for travel, achievement, food, experience or connection. There was always so much to do and so much to get done. In all areas of his life, Nathan was generous, principled, engaged, thoughtful, and caring. He lived each day with intent and purpose and exerted his influence not only on those immediately around him, but also the broader community. An avid reader, thinker, runner, surfer, cyclist, nature-lover, and skier, Nathan cherished every moment and hated saying no to anything or to anyone – a testament to his mindset as a time optimist. Nathan is survived by his wife, Soogy Lee, whom he married in May of 2007, their two children, Wallis (17) and Eli (15), and a Cavapoo named Coco. Along with his immediate family, he is survived by his mother Louise Dudley Taft, his father Thomas Prindle Taft, and his three siblings Genevieve, Seth, and Charles and their families. Nathan donated his organs, his generosity and compassion evident until the end. He is and will be missed dearly.
Donations in Nathan’s honor may be made to Goddard Riverside’s housing program at goddard.org, or to Transition House at transitionhouse.com. A celebration of Nathan’s life is being planned for mid-April in New York City. Details will follow at Riverside Memorial Chapel's website, dignitymemorial.com.
Michael Ryan Osuna 08/20/1979 - 03/05/2005
Son
You left us 20 years ago at age 25 too too soon
We don't forget you, ever. Love Dad
Clara Marie Thomann 05/24/1991 - 12/27/2024
It is with broken hearts that we announce the passing of Clara Marie Thomann, beloved teacher-friend-auntsister-daughter-spouse-soon to be mother, on December 27, 2024. Clara was born on May 24, 1991, in Corvallis, Oregon. From a young age, she was fascinated by leaves, rocks, stars, animals, and tiny details. She attended Katheryn Jones Harrison Elementary School, Franklin Middle School and Corvallis High School. Clara graduated from Macalester College in 2013 with majors in geology and astrophysics. She continued her studies at Utah State University and UC Santa Barbara, where she completed her Masters in Education.
She found her calling as a physics teacher at Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, California. Beyond sharing her love of science, Clara found ways to personally connect with her students. She took each class for a brief outdoor walk every day – a time to put phones away, quiet the mind, and connect with each other and the outdoors.
At the time of her death, Clara was pregnant with her first baby, a boy she planned to name Theodoro. Clara
is survived by her parents, Estela and Enrique Thomann; siblings, Ivan Thomann and Veronica Katz; husband, Elliott Finn; sister in law, Catharine Thomann; brothers in law, Dan Katz and Ian Finn; mother in law, Barbara Fick; niblings, Gabriel, Elan, Henry and Rosa; and countless others who were lucky to know her.
A celebration of Clara’s life will be held in Corvallis the afternoon of April 5th. A livestream will be available for those who cannot attend. Please send an email to celebratingclaraslife@gmail.com to receive additional information. In lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to the Clara Thomann Scholarship Fund (https://tinyurl. com/2z5z87d2), an award for graduates of Dos Pueblos who plan to study science. A longer tribute to Clara can be read at Caring Bridge.
Arthur Alan Ferrier Sr. 09/17/1945 – 08/21/2024
Our beloved father Arthur Ferrier passed away on Wednesday August 21st in Las Vegas, Nevada at the age of 78 years.
Born in North Charleroi, PA on September 17, 1945, Arthur was a decorated member of the Boys Scouts of America, achieving the prestigious Eagle Scout designation. He attended Belmar High School in Belle Vernon, PA in which he played both high school football and basketball, with honors in football as a running back, graduating high school in 1963. Arthur would go on to attend college at both West Virginia University and California State College. Arthur was fascinated by and excelled at science and mathematics, earning his bachelor’s degree in physics. He made the most of his early life in Pennsyl-
vania, racing his green 1963 Corvette Stingray at the raceways of western PA, enjoying time exploring the woods and eventually marrying his wife, Barbara that he met in the first grade.
In 1967 Arthur, Barbara and their toddler son Arthur Jr. moved to California, originally settling in Santa Monica when Arthur began working at Hughes Aircraft. Their second son Gregg was born after the move to California. Arthur had a deep patriotic love of his country which combined with his talent at science resulted in a lifelong career in the aerospace industry.
In the late 1960s the young family moved to Santa Barbara, where Arthur took a position with G.E. Tempo. Eventually he worked locally for aerospace firms including at Vandenberg AFB.
Arthur enjoyed many hobbies and interests while living in Santa Barbara during the 1970s and early 1980s. He was an avid skin diver and spearfisherman, spearing many delicious fish and catching lobster and abalone for his family to enjoy from diving the kelp beds and reefs near Hendry’s Beach, Gaviota and other local dive spots.
Arthur also was a photographer with his own darkroom for processing photos. He was especially fond of black and white photography with which he won photography awards including a Nikon Recognition of Excellence. He especially enjoyed photographing the Santa Ynez area, the Old Mission, waterfront and Death Valley. He successfully sold prints of his photos at the Santa Barbara Cabrillo Art Show in the 1970s. These sidewalk exhibitions became enjoyable family outings.
Arthur and Barbara were both active in local theater during the 1970s, including productions at the Lobero Theater. These plays included The Country Girl and The Fantasticks. Arthur studied drama earlier during his time in Santa Monica.
In the 1980s Arthur went to work for EG&G Special Projects in Las Vegas Nevada.
The family kept residences in both Santa Barbara and Las Vegas. Arthur retired from the aerospace industry in 2014 and remained in Las Vegas for the remainder of his life.
He will be fondly remembered for his sense of humor, self-sufficient approach to life’s obstacles, dedication to his work and love of movies and music, especially Santana and the blues as well as his favorite sports teams, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Vegas Golden Knights. Many great memories were shared by our father of his interesting life experiences.
We dearly miss you dad.
01/13/1931 - 03/03/2025
Rebecca Hughes Paulsen, lovingly known as “Grandma Becky”, passed away on March 3, 2025, in Oxnard, California. Born Rebecca Hughes Webb on January 13, 1931, in Santa Barbara, California, she lived a long and meaningful life filled with love and devotion to her family. She attended local schools and was a very proud “Don”, graduating from Santa Barbara High School in 1948.
In 1958, she and her husband, Jacque Paulsen, moved their family to Carpinteria. There they raised their 4 children: Pamela, Debra, Craig and Christopher. Rebecca was well known in the banking world, having worked at banks in Santa Barbara and Carpinteria. Even after retirement, she went back to work at a local bank so she could have contact with her friends and customers. After retiring a second time, she became a very valuable hands on Grandma and Great Grandma to her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Grandma Becky found immense joy in the company
of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, cherishing every moment spent with them. Her warmth and kindness left a lasting impression on those who knew her. A person of faith, she was a dedicated member of the Carpinteria Community Church, where she found comfort and community.
Rebecca was preceded in death by her husband of 40 years, Jacque Edward Paulsen in 1995, a sister, Fay Ann Fishkin, two brothers, Tom Webb and John Webb. She leaves behind her four children, a son in law, Richard Gesswein, a daughter in law, Carolyn Paulsen, 7 grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren along with many nieces and nephews.
A private graveside service to honor Grandma Becky’s life will be held at Carpinteria Cemetery. Grandma Becky will be truly missed by her family and so many friends whose lives she has touched. Safe travels, Mom. We love you to the moon and back.
02/13/1932 - 02/17/2025
Loyda Marquez died 2/17/2025 at Cottage Hospital. Born in San Luis Potosi, SLP, Mexico, she taught 40+ years at Harding Elementary until ’98, then taught many 3rd graders via the Docent Program at the SB Museum of Natural History until 2020. Services to be held at First Presbyterian Church 21E Constance Ave on 23 March 2025 at 3:00pm.
Since I wrote a cover story about Hank Pitcher in 2017, one of the richest experiences of my life in Santa Barbara has unfolded perhaps more satisfying than anything I’ve ever experienced during my tenure in our beloved city. I regularly show up to Hank’s studio to admire his work, but primarily to talk about art. The conversations are never small talk we often pick up where we left off, doing deep dives about art, literature, and film, and that’s why I cherish them.
Many martinis are consumed. We speak about the influences in our lives: the movies we love, the disappointments and successes. Every time I have walked into his studio, I have been taken aback by the maturity, the continuous searching, and the boundless curiosity of this artist, who is undeniably our greatest in Santa Barbara. He is a giant. And yet I have seen vulnerable sides to him times where insecurity creeps in and that makes him oh-so human and even more magnificent. He’s an artist through and through and Santa Barbara has been his muse. His other muse has been the love of his life his wife, Susan Pitcher. Susan and Santa Barbara to him are one and the same. Both represent his home and earn his everlasting devotion.
Yet nothing prepared me for what I saw when I showed up to Hank Pitcher’s studio on December 12, 2024. I had read that throughout history, painters have created their best work well into their seventies and eighties e.g., Matisse, Picasso, and Georgia O’Keeffe. I’m a big fan of Claude Monet, and I have visited his studio in Giverny where, at an advanced age, he painted his masterpieces from his garden the water lilies. These artists became more introspective and daring with age. An accumulation of life experience combined with a confidence in their craft
and an empowering way of expression led to greater insight and product.
Like those other great artists, Hank Pitcher’s new exhibition at Sullivan Goss Gallery titled The Miramar Affair is the best showcase by an artist we will witness in Santa Barbara this year. His precision, insight, technical skill, and complex ideas plus the cohesiveness of the work will be hard to match. At 75 years old, Hank Pitcher is an artistic force of nature. Rejoice.
There are several prominent works in this show. “Yellow Umbrella” is the one that beckons you from the start. A lone woman is lying on the beach with a big yellow umbrella sheltering her against a dramatic blue sky. When I first saw it, I couldn’t help but think of the Joni Mitchell tune from “Big Yellow Taxi”: “Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone.”
I brought up to Hank that to me, the umbrella symbolized him in a protecting act and Susan was the lady lying on the sand. In the composition, she’s in the lower part of the frame vulnerably. For a moment, he became emotional. “This exhibit is about Susan,” he explains. “Yes. I realize the whole reason I’ve been painting all these years at Miramar over 50 years is because of her.” What we’re witnessing in this exhibit is Hank’s act of memorializing and reclaiming a past that is fading away.
One day in 1978, Pitcher was painting a couple posing on the corner of Sola and Anacapa streets when he met New Yorker Susan McKaba. It was his last day to work on the painting, which had taken a very long time, and he spotted her out of the corner of his eye. “I was struck, but she disappeared,” he recalls. Then she suddenly reappeared in front of him, asking, “Are you Hank Pitcher?” It turns out that McKaba was soon leaving town for a job in New York City. Smitten, Pitcher sold a catamaran and moved to
New York to convince her to marry him. After a year, they returned to Santa Barbara, but Susan was still not ready for commitment. Thinking that he would never come through, she told Hank that if he got her a place on Miramar Beach, they’d move in together. They lived at 1538 Miramar Beach and were married in 1985. “Meeting Susan was a crossroads in life,” exclaims Hank.
Consequently, in this show, the painting titled “The Proposal” is a keystone piece. “We’ve never shown a Hank Pitcher painting without color,” said Jeremy Tessmer, Sullivan Goss Gallery director. “It shows you the excellence of his shapes, the sophistication of his compositions, and his deep interest in painterly gestures. Most people love Hank’s color. This gives them a very different idea of who he is as an artist.”
The work is done using the grisaille technique a method used for hundreds of years. In 1937, Pablo Picasso used grisaille to paint one of his most celebrated works, “Guernica.” Pitcher uses a limited monochromatic palette, only shades of gray; the result is that we focus on the tonal values and the form. The painting achieves a depth and dimension that is astonishing we simultaneously take in the couple in the middle of their intimate moment, the man hiding a bouquet of flowers behind his back while also soaking in the environment surrounding them, including what’s now the Rosewood Miramar Beach in the background, as if it were a film shot with an anamorphic lens.
Susan Pitcher came into the studio while I was interviewing Hank and noticed me being fascinated by the work. “It has a real cinematic look,” she says. “It’s like a photo from the ’70s
where the color has faded.” It also recalls old movies a classic romantic comedy starring Cary Grant.
Another pivotal couple, Josiah and Emmeline Doulton, purchased a 20-acre oceanfront property in Montecito in 1876, which they named Ocean View Farm. In 1889, they built a separate cottage for visiting friends, which soon served to accommodate outside guests. A hotel was established, and a guest at the hotel suggested that the name be changed to “Miramar,” meaning “behold the sea.” Beyond the hotel area, little cottages were built as changing rooms for the Montecito estates. In time, these narrow structures were expanded to become homes.
The hotel struggled during the depression and was sold to Paul Gawzner in 1939. It then became a popular stop for William Randolph Hearst and his entourage on their way to Hearst Castle. Robert Mitchum was so smitten by the place that he moved in nearby. F. Scott Fitzgerald was known to visit with his friend and lover, the columnist Sheilah Graham. There’s a photo of Albert Einstein enjoying Miramar Beach. The hotel and the beach have long attracted celebrities, but it was never snobby. Middle-class families were known to enjoy the premises.
“When I was a kid, people went there for nature and privacy,” Hank said. “It used to be about the stars in the sky not the stars in Montecito.”
He does recall meeting Eva Marie Saint outside his cottage one morning, the first celebrity he’d ever met. The old Miramar hotel with its iconic blue roofs shut down in 2000 and changed
hands multiple times until Rick Caruso opened the Rosewood Miramar Beach in 2019.
“Every beach has its own population and relationship between the people and the place,” said Pitcher. “I think it is a combination of knowing those people and being fascinated by them. I cannot think of Miramar without thinking about the people there.”
About two years ago, he was commissioned by a resident of the beach to commemorate a birthday with a painting. Once that work started, it got something much bigger underway: A year and a half of Pitcher painting on that one-mile stretch of sand from the Coral Casino to Fernald Point in Montecito ultimately produced 44 works, from which 20 are on exhibit.
“I like to paint in the place,” Pitcher states. “The hardest thing in contemporary culture is to stay in place. If you spend a lot of time in one place and really pay attention, you develop an intimate relationship with it.”
There is a group of small paintings that are fascinating. They are “vignettes” of people interacting on the beach “snapshots.” Each one tells a story. Whereas Hank previously would spend a few hours on small paintings, this time around, he devoted weeks to each work, layering details.
“One of the things I love about being on the beach,” he confides, “is all the stories that are happening in it.”
There’s a portrait of a young woman “an influencer,” with her cell phone recalling a very classical figure a modern Venus. Another canvas depicts a man holding a beer while nearby, there’s a man with his cell phone. There’s a strong voyeuristic effect happening when taking in all the different small paintings together. It resembles Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, where James Stewart observes the apartments across from him and he (and the audience) sees the pulsating rhythms of life. Clearly, these paintings are about memories, yet they’re vivid. The past and the present are colliding in them, yet there’s no melancholia. They’re alive and urgent. “When I’m at Miramar Beach, I’m dealing with the present, but I’m also dealing with the past,” Pitcher tells me.
It is conspicuous to notice so many figures all at once in Pitcher’s creations having been accustomed to many exhibitions of his landscapes. He says, “I have always painted figures. I started painting landscapes a long time ago as studies for
backgrounds for figures, and whenever I paint a landscape, I am imagining a figure in it. The landscapes without figures are more popular in this market and therefore get shown more here in Santa Barbara. I have many figure paintings in my storage. I think this show has more figures because Miramar is so much about the people there.”
And yes, the backgrounds are rich atmospheric and the interplay with the bodies is fascinating. It’s worth noting how the characters’ faces and bodies are dramatically in half-shadows, albeit in broad daylight. In most beaches, people are enveloped either in shadows or in full light. At Miramar, light is always romantically perpendicular. And in the background, there’s the ocean, the sky, and the architecture of cottages or the Rosewood Miramar Beach. The latter, when depicted, is blurry.
“I have done many paintings of Miramar that focus on the architecture, and there are a few in this show,” says Pitcher. “ ‘Tommy’s Miramar’ that very popular image has no people in it though it is all about the person-
alities of the people who built and/ or live in the cottages. I loved the old blue roofs of the old Miramar hotel. I did not know how to deal with the change to the new hotel, until I noticed, when the light hits the Rosewood Miramar in such a way, that it became a simple shape of light. That it could be more of an archetype. I wanted to paint the feeling of the place, the feeling of that beach, the atmosphere that the people are in. That dreamy feeling of being there.”
Susan Pitcher chimes in, “There’s something about that beach that is of another time.”
I point out to Hank that most of the paintings include a railing. It was something he hadn’t noticed at first, but then it became integral. He explains that when you’re surfing, you look for the right spot. It’s called the lineup. The best place to take off. The rail became his lineup. I bring up the fact that it is a symbol, representing a sense of steadiness and support, which circles back to his relationship with Susan, and it also has this sense of connection it’s how we enter or leave the beach. It is aspirational. It’s been intriguing for Hank how much has been revealed by creating this latest work seeing what is there and what is reflecting.
“I’ve never felt old,” he shares, “and I mostly feel very young. It’s the first time that I’ve accepted that I’m older. When I was making these paintings, I got hearing aids and got cataract surgery. There’s more reflection in these series than there is generally in my work.”
His previous exhibits were entitled The Long View and Look Out, and now, in The Miramar Affair, the master painter is looking inward.
Hank Pitcher’s The Miramar Affair is on view at Sullivan Goss Gallery (11 E. Anapamu St.) through April 21. See sullivangoss.com for details. A conversation with Hank Pitcher and Roger Durling will take place at the gallery on Saturday, March 15, at 4 p.m. Admission is free, but reservations are requested at bit.ly/41IAghI.
FRIDAY MAR 14
featuring Jason Moran and Marvin Sewell
Celebrate Lloyd’s 87th birthday and historic 20th Lobero concert as he brings together an impressive trio of musical titans for the first time. The three of them share Southern roots and each brings a unique perspective and contribution to America’s indigenous art form — jazz.
SATURDAY MAR 22
Experience the power of Michael Feinstein as he delivers a stirring and heartfelt tribute to the legendary Tony Bennett. With every note, Feinstein channels the spirit of Bennett’s unforgettable songs, weaving a symphony of emotion, nostalgia, and musical brilliance.
SATURDAY APR 5
FRIDAY MAR 28
An Evening with the Bob Dylan Center
Film Screening and Conversation with Director Steven Jenkins and Special Guest Jeff Bridges
Spanning decades and musical styles, this far-ranging one-hour program of short films and videos from the Bob Dylan Archive features rare and previously unreleased clips of Dylan on stage and in the studio.
Residency Sponsored by the Bentson Foundation
Douget’s stellar band of world-renowned jazz musicians includes GRAMMY® winner Victor “Red” Atkins, Trumpet Mafia leader Ashlin Parker (GRAMMY® winner with New Orleans Jazz Orchestra), Jason Stewart (Ellis Marsalis Trio, Quartet, and Quintet), and GRAMMY® winner Adonis Rose (Artistic Director of New Orleans Jazz Orchestra).
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“A must for magic buffs of all ages.” - LA Times
SUNDAY MAR 16
Two shows! 2:30 & 6:30 PM
Expect the unexpected in this new heart-racing magic adventure! The awe-inspiring line-up includes social media sensation, Xavier Mortimer (the internationally renowned French illusionist), Ronn Lucas (named “World’s Best Ventriloquist” by The New York Times and “Entertainer of the Year” by The London Times), “The Lord of Illusions” Dan Birch (known for his high-tech magic), Eriko Trevensolli (three-time Merlin Award winner for Best Latin Illusionist), and award-winning comedian and magician Chris Blackmore.
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FRIDAY AUG 29
I Hear Thunder marks the long-awaited return of four-time GRAMMY® nominated artist Tab Benoit. Renowned for his distinctive guitar tone and Otis-Redding-esque voice, Benoit has been a captivating figure in the roots music world for over thirty years. Tab does more than play the blues; he defines its future while paying homage to its rich past. Fans will be delighted to hear the new songs and selected tracks from his vast catalog.
THURSDAY 3/13
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2/13-2/16,2/19:
Ensemble Theatre Presents Parents in Chains
Follow six L.A. parents exchanging texts as their 17-year-old daughters drive home from a weekend in San Francisco during the approach of a hurricane and how it brings out both the best and the worst in them in this comedy about texts, treks, sex, and empty nests. Visit the website for information on the three rotating casts that include Sharon Lawrence, Jane Lynch, Loni Love, and more. The play runs through March 30. Thu., Tue.: 7:30pm; Fri.: 8pm (cocktail night: 7:15pm); Sat.: 3 and 8pm; Sun.: 2pm (Tea Talk: 1:15pm); Wed.: 2 and 7:30pm. The New Vic Theatre, 33 W. Victoria St. $29-$72. Call (805) 965-5400. etcsb.org
3/13: Waves of Opportunity: Sea League Fundraiser Watch the short film Making Friends with the Ocean, participate in family-friendly craft stations, and enter a raffle ($10 per ticket) with proceeds to benefit the Sea League to provide underrepresented youth with scholarships to experience the ocean. 5pm. Rincon Brewery, 205 Santa Barbara St., Ste. 1B. Free. Call (805) 419-0717 or email info@thesealeague.org tinyurl.com/Sea-League
3/13-3/15: The Theatre Group at SBCC Presents Ken Ludwig’s Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood This fast-paced, hilarious comedy, perfect for the entire family, tells the enduring story of a hero of the people who is up for any challenge to best the rich and ridiculous, whether in tests of wit or weaponry. 7:30pm. Garvin Theatre, 721 Cliff Dr. Student: $19; General: $29. Call (805) 965-5935. theatregroupsbcc.com
3/14: Blue Water Hunter Block Party & Film Screening In celebration of Blue Water Hunter’s fifth anniversary (61 years as a dive shop), you are invited to an outdoor screening of Ghosts of the Pacific about the mysterious white sea bass and marine conservation. Proceeds will go toward future screenings of this important film. Party: 6:30pm; screening 8pm. 117 Harbor Wy., Ste. D (the alley in front of Blue Water Hunter). Suggested donation: $13. Email info@blueh20.com tinyurl.com/Ghosts-Pacific
3/14, 3/16:
¡Viva el Arte de Santa Bárbara! Las Guaracheras This female salsa sextet from Cali, Colombia, whose band name translates to “fun-loving women,” will perform their updated sound of salsa with rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic exploration that enhances the words and the stories they want to tell. Fri.: 7pm, Isla Vista Elementary, 6875 El Colegio Rd., Goleta; Sun: 6pm, The Marjorie Luke Theatre, 721 E. Cota St. Free Call (805) 893-3535. tinyurl.com/Guaracheras
FRIDAY 3/14
3/14: Charles Lloyd Delta Trio Featuring Jason Moran and Marvin Sewell Take in a blend of jazz, blues, and American roots as Charles Lloyd will be joined by pianist and McArthur genius Jason Moran and guitarist Marvin Sewell in celebration of Lloyd’s 87th birthday and 20th concert at the Lobero. 7:30pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. GA: $57-$70; premium: $107. Call (805) 963-0761. lobero.org
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 State and Carillo 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
3/14: Paco Versailles at SOhO Guitarist Vahagni and songwriter/producer Ryan Merchant, a k a Paco Versailles, will bring their blend of flamenco, pop, and electronic influences that created a genre they call “dancemenco.” 9pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $20. Ages 21+. Call (805) 962-7776. sohosb.com
3/15: Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) Collection Event S.B. residents are invited to bring antifreeze, batteries, used motor oil/filters, paint, fluorescent lightbulbs, cleaning supplies, garden chemicals, electronics/e-waste, and more. Visit the website for more information and how to transport your waste. 9am-1pm. SBCC Lot 2-C (La Playa Stadium Parking Lot). tinyurl.com/ HazardousWaste-Mar15
3/13, 3/16 : Lost Chord Guitars Thu.: An Evening Extreme with Benji Hughes and Jon Lindsay (pre-show interview/Q&A hosted by Jeff Bridges and meet & greet). Pre-show, 6pm. $75 (includes show). Show, 7:30pm. $40. Fri.: Jacob Cole: Single Release Show featuring Jacob Cole and the Contenders, Antigone Antigone, Bradberri. $10. Sat.: Tina & the Exiles with Sister Laura, The Mends. $10. Sun.: Jess Bush, 7pm. Free Wed.: Andy Markham, 8pm. Free. 1576 Copenhagen Dr., Solvang. Ages 21+. Call (805) 331-4363. lostchordguitars.com
3/14-3/15, 3/17: M.Special Brewing Co. (Goleta) Fri.: Dusty Strings, 7-9pm. Sat.: Strange Neighbor, 7-9pm. Mon.: Beau James Wilding and Friends. 6860 Cortona Dr., Ste. C, Goleta. Free. Call (805) 968-6500. mspecialbrewco.com
3/14-3/17: M.Special Brewing Co. (S.B.) Fri.: Blue Lemonade, 8-10pm. Sat.: The Groove Collective, 8-10pm. Sun.: Ben Betts Looping, 3-5pm. Mon.: The Waymarkers, 2:30-5:30 pm. 634 State St. Free. Call (805) 968-6500. mspecialbrewco.com
3/13-3/17:
SOhO Restaurant & Music Club
Thur.: Dan and Peggy Reeder with Walter Etc., 8pm. $29.50. Ages 21+. Fri.: Paco Versailles, 9pm. $20. Ages 21+. Sat.: ME Sabor presents Salsa Night, 10pm. $18-$25. Ages 21+. Sun.: Dreamland: A Tribute to the Music of Joni Mitchell featuring Kimberly Ford, 7:30pm. $15-$18. Mon.: St. Patrick’s Day Bash - Spencer and the Worried Lads, 5:30 pm. $10. Tue.: Young Singers Recital, 5:30pm. Free Wed.: The Brothers Collier, 7pm. $12. Free. 1221 State St. Call (805) 962-7776. sohosb.com
21+. Call (805) 324-4150. topatopa.beer/pages/happenings
3/15-3/16: Hook’d Bar and Grill Sat.: T-Bone Ramblers, 3-6 pm. Sun.: Nate Latta, 1-4pm. 116 Lakeview Dr., Cachuma Lake. Free. Call (805) 350-8351. hookdbarandgrill.com/music-onthe-water
3/14-3/15: Maverick Saloon Fri.: Terry & The Ripleys. Sat.: Tex Pistols. 8:30pm. 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez. Free. Ages 21+. Call (805) 686-4785. mavericksaloon.com/eventcalendar
3/15-3/16: Cold Spring Tavern Sat.: Bobby, Finn, and Dave (BFD). Sun.: Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan.1:30pm. 5995 Stagecoach Rd. Free. Call (805) 967-0066. coldspringtavern.com
3/17: The Red Piano Mon.: RJ Mischo, 7:30pm. 519 State St. Free. Call (805) 358-1439. theredpiano.com
3/14-3/15: Fox Wine & Topa Topa Brewing Co. (S.B.) Fri.: Sam Kulchin, 7-9pm. Sat.: Rhythm Industrial Complex, 3-6pm. 120 Santa Barbara St. Free. Ages
3/14: Second Fridays Art at SBTC Opening
Reception: Nip It in the Bud Take a walk in a metaphorically scented garden of floral perspectives in multiple media at this annual juried competition. The exhibit will show through April 2. 4:30-6pm. S.B. Tennis Club, 2375 Foothill Rd. Free. Call (805) 682-4722. santabarbaratennisclub.com/art
3/15: InterAct Annual Showcase: A Musical Double Bill Act One, titled Broadway or Bust, blends songs and dance in a tale of good versus evil, while Act Two, titled Shake, Shiver & Scream, blends a rock musical with horror and comedy. These original productions are tailored for area students. 2pm: red cast; 5pm: blue cast. Marjorie Luke Theatre, 721 E. Cota St. Free-$25. Call (805) 884-4087. Email info@InterActTheatreSchool. interacttheatreschool.com/shop
3/14, 3/19: Carr Winery Fri.: Barrel Room Sessions: The Reserve, 7-9pm. Wed.: Brian Kinsella & Jimmy Rankin, 6-8pm. 414 N. Salsipuedes St. Free. Ages 21+. Call (805) 965-7985 or email info@ carrwinery.com carrwinery.com
3/15: S.B. for L.A.: Benefit Concert for the Altadena Music Community Southern California singer-songwriters Glen Phillips, Watkins Family Hour, Omar Velasco, Gardens & Villa, Garrison Starr, and Clay Finch are uniting to support fellow musicians affected by the Eaton Fire with funds going toward the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund and the loss of music-related equipment and other essential living expenses. 6pm-10pm. Alcazar Theatre, 4916 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria. GA: $35; preferred: $50. Call (805) 684-6380. thealcazar.org
SATURDAY 3/15
3/15: UCSB Arts & Lectures Presents An Evening with Jason Isbell Jason Isbell will take to the stage with just a guitar and his extraordinary catalog of heartfelt songs, including “Cover Me Up,” “Dreamsicle,” and the Grammy-winning Best American Roots Song of the Year for 2023, “Cast Iron Skillet.” 7:30pm. Arlington Theatre, 1317 State St. UCSB Students: $29.50; GA: $57$132. Call (805) 893-3535. artsandlectures. ucsb.edu
Hutton Parker Foundation and the Santa Barbara Independent are pleased to continue our Media Grant program for local nonprofit agencies. This unique opportunity provides nonprofits the ability to spread their message to the greater Santa Barbara community.
The Santa Barbara Independent design team produces a custom four-page insert specific to the individual agency’s needs. The insert is published and distributed in the Santa Barbara Independent, with the cost underwritten by Hutton Parker Foundation.
3/15: The 11th Annual VADA Draw Art Lottery and Cocktail Party Enjoy an evening of food, beverages, music, and an art raffle that guarantees that every guest leaves with a piece of art donated by area and national professional artists with proceeds going toward S.B. High School’s Visual Arts and Design Academy (VADA). 7-10pm. Community Arts Workshop, 631 Garden St. $50-$55 (no ticket for art), $145 (one ticket for art). Email info@vadasbhs.org vadasbhs.org
3/16: Beach Cleanup with the Sea Center Meet at East Beach (behind Skater’s Point) near the base of Stearns Wharf to collect all types of trash. High schoolers can earn volunteer hours. Bring buckets, bags, and gloves if you can. Participants under 18 need a signed waiver, and children under 14 must be accompanied by their parent/guardian. 10am-noon. Stearns Wharf, 217 Stearns Wharf. Free. Call (805) 962-2526 x104 or email scvolunteer@sbnature2.org sbnature.org/visit/calendar
MONDAY 3/17
Find out more about this opportunity to boost your organization’s marketing efforts, promote your good works, and tell your story to a wider audience.
Visit HuttonFoundation.org for more information and the Media Grant application.
2/17: PFLAG S.B. March Virtual Support Meeting Join for sharing, support, and talk about “Gender-Affirming Health Care: Highlights and Misconceptions Updates on Where We Are Now” with special guest speaker Dr. Michael Solemar, staff physician at Planned Parenthood. 7-8:30pm. Online. Registration is required. Free. Call (805) 560-8621 or email pflagsantabarbara@gmail.com pflagsantabarbara.org/support-meetings
TUESDAY
3/18: Imagine That!: STEAM Hour Children in grades K-2 and grades 3-6 can turn their imaginations into reality at this hands-on workshop. 4-5pm. Island Room, S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free. Call (805) 962-7653. tinyurl.com/Steam-Hour
3/16: Jim Henson’s Labyrinth in Concert Watch the 1986 film Labyrinth (rated PG), which follows 16-year old Sarah as she has 13 hours to rescue her brother from the Goblin King. A live band will perform David Bowie and Trevor Jones’s score. 7-11pm. The Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $39.50-$116.50. Call (805) 899-2222. ticketing.granadasb.org/events
3/16: Buellton’s Wine & Chili Festival Sample from more than 30 wineries, craft breweries, and seltzer, cider, and spirit companies; savor chili and salsa; and enjoy a variety of merchants and food trucks (with food for purchase) and live music from Jared Nels and Sound Investment and DJ FIU. Proceeds will sponsor programs on behalf of the Buellton Chamber of Commerce. Noon-4:30pm. Flying Flags RV Resort,180 Ave. of Flags, Buellton. Free-$65. buelltonwineandchilifestival.com
3/16: SoCal Museums Annual Free-for-All In celebration of the region’s vibrant cultural landscape, the S.B. Museum of Art and S.B. Museum of Natural History will offer free admission for this annual event. Reservations are recommended (if reservations are sold out, you can still stop by). 11am-5pm, S.B. Museum of Art, 1130 State St.; 10am-5pm, S.B. Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol. Free tinyurl.com/Free-Museums2025
WEDNESDAY 3/19
3/16: Lobero LIVE Presents It’s Magic! This show will feature French magician Xavier Mortimer; headliner Ronn Lucas; David Zirbel, the world’s tallest illusionist, and Company; comedian/magician Chris Blackmore, and more in this Las Vegas–type show suitable for the entire family. 2:30 and 6:30pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. GA: $26-$50; premium: $107. Call (805) 963-0761. lobero.org
3/19: Chaucer’s Book Talk and Signing: Alison Brysk Chair and Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Global Studies at UCSB Alison Brysk will talk about and sign copies of her 2025 book, Abortion Rights Backlash: The Struggle for Democracy in Europe and the Americas about how abortion rights backlash transforms our understanding of human rights, the future of democracy, and the struggle for gender justice worldwide. A portion of all sales will go towards Planned Parenthood California Central Coast. 6-7pm. Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State St. Free. Call (805) 682-6787. chaucersbooks.com/ events/calendar
Mar. 13-19
3/13: Kerry Irish Productions Presents St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland Be transported to Ireland during this evening of singers, dancers, and multi-instrumentalists from the world of traditional Ireland then sing-along to great Irish songs such as “The Wild Rover,”“Ireland’s Call,” and more. 33 E. Canon Perdido St. 7:30pm. $19-$60. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. Call (805) 963-0761. lobero.org
3/13: Chaucer’s Conversation and Book Signing: Joe Coohill UCSB Administrator and historian Joe Coohill will talk about and sign copies of his newly revised book, Ireland: A Short History, which combines factual information with a critical approach to events including the Great Famine, Home Rule, the Good Friday Agreement, and Brexit. 6-7pm. Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State St. Free. Call (805) 682-6787. chaucersbooks. com/events/calendar
3/14-3/15: Folk Orchestra of Santa Barbara Celtic Concerts From Irish reels and ballads to a pan-Celtic anthem from Brittany, with accordion, harp, penny-whistle, bagpipes, and a beautiful array of strings, this concert will put you in the Irish spirit. Fri.: 7pm. Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 820 N. Fairview Ave., Goleta. $35; Sat.: 7pm. El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park Chapel, 123 E. Canon Perdido St. $45. Call (805) 260-3223. folkorchestrasb.com
3/15: St. Patrick’s Day Public Session 2025 Wear your greenest and best St. Paddy’s Day outfit and join the fun public skate session for all ages. 7pm. Ice in Paradise, 6985 Santa Felicia Dr., Goleta. Admission: $15; skate rental: $5. Call (805) 879-1550. iceinparadise.org/upcoming-events
3/15: Best Bites & Big Futures! Dress to impress in cocktail attire and embrace the spirit of the evening with shades of green and gold for a festive twist on St. Patrick’s Day with bites and live music all to raise funds for the Carpinteria Boys & Girls Club. Carpinteria Boys & Girls Club, 4849 Foothill Rd., Carpinteria. $90. Call (805) 681-1315. tinyurl.com/Best-Bites
3/15-3/16: St. Patrick’s Day Paddy Hard Weekend Bar Crawl Get free cover from hidden gems and iconic establishments at this self-guided bar crawl and exploration of the city’s pub culture. You will receive a detailed email on the morning of the crawl. 4-10pm. Various locations. $10-$15. Ages 21+. tinyurl.com/PaddyHard-PubCrawl
3/15: Wasted Potential Comedy: St. Paddy’s Day Weekend Show! Grab a pint (or a latte) and get ready to shamrock and roll with a night of high-energy laughs from Marcus Evans, Riley Mahoney, Ernest Romero, Patrick Riley, and headliner Nicole Tran. 7:30-9pm. Java Station, 4447 Hollister Ave. $15. tinyurl.com/Waster-Potential
3/15, 3/17: The Foggy Dew Enjoy food and drink as you take in the music and the craic (fun) provided by The Foggy Dew. 6-8:30pm. Dargan’s Irish Pub & Restaurant, 18 E. Ortega St. Free. Call (805) 568-0702.
3/15: S.B. St. Paddy’s Day Block Party & Pub Crawl Wear your green and visit more than 10 bars with access that includes free welcome shots at select venues, drink and food discounts, and free cover. Check in: 1-4pm. Backstage Comedy Club, 409 State St. $14-$29. Ages 21+. tinyurl.com/BlockParty-PubCrawl
3/16:
S.B. Revels 17th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Pub Sing! Celebrate the patron saint of Ireland and the upcoming vernal equinox as you revel with song leader Dauri Kennedy and keyboard favorite Andrew Manos, who will lead a rousing selection of Irish tunes, folk songs, novelty ditties, sing-alongs, and more! Tickets include a song book and a beverage. 4-6pm. Lower Patio, Creekside Restaurant and Bar, 4444 Hollister Ave. $15-$20. Call (805) 364-4630. santabarbararevels.org
3/16: The Choral Society Presents the ShamRock Gala This merry evening will offer a pub-style dinner, music from The Decent Folk, a dance performance, a pub sing-along, Will Breman and his band to dance to, games, raffles, and more with proceeds to go toward The Choral Society. 5:30pm. S.B. Woman’s Club “ShamRockWood,” 670 Mission Canyon. $160. Call (805) 965-6577. sbchoral.org/shamrockwood
3/17: St. Patrick’s Day Bash: Spencer & the Worried Lads Join the Lads, who will entertain, carry forth, and hold court at their annual show. Corned beef and cabbage and green beer will be available for purchase. 5:30-9pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $10. Call (805) 962-7776. sohosb.com/events
All three hail from the American Southwest. They are natural builders, authors and acclaimed artists, each one devoted to the beauty of the land, with a commitment to building with care of the earth as a priority.
Recognizing how we build affects future generations, they share skill & knowledge on how to build sustainably, affordably & in our fire ecology, resistant to wildfires. Come & be inspired! Reception follows in the Lobero Courtyard. SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 2025 • 6:30-9:00PM LOBERO
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At a moment when Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) is largely powered by art drawn from the museum’s expansive (and expanding) permanent collection, with a particular leaning into contemporary and modernist art, a more sweeping permanent collection party has launched in the large Ridley-Tree gallery. Modern Life: A Global Artworld 1850-1950 is essentially a multi-chaptered and organized survey and backstory of art living in SBMA vaults, which boast more than 25,000 artworks. The sum effect of the new show is a vast and varied art salon packed into the space, with a curatorial agenda attached.
Consuming one wall in the generous gallery space, tucked in the back of the museum’s gallery complex, is a series of panels, photos, a few artworks, and historical background, under the rubric of the heading “Building a Collection for Santa Barbara.” Naturally, the health and continuing growth of the collection is directly tied to the affluent and cultured members of the local citizenry, which also reflects in a strong endowment.
In a show this diverse, subjective responses will draw certain viewers toward some sectors over others. For my money, the primary magnetic draw in the room falls under the broad and ever-morphing category of “Abstraction.” Among the early abstract works on view are Josef Albers's 1940 “Mirage,” with a selective range of colors organized in a geometric maze, hinting at the Minimalist aesthetic to come, but with loose, ragged edges.
Abstraction pioneer Wassily Kandinsky is represented by the characteristic 1927 piece “Line-Spot,” a fine example of the artist’s acknowledged debt to the influence of music on his work seen here in terms of music notation, literally, and implied aspects of harmony and rhythm, translated into Kandinsky’s distinctive visual language.
Varied angles and shape-shifting on the theme of abstraction take assorted forms elsewhere in this corner of the gallery. Underrated Mexican painter Gunther Gerzso (who had a fondly remembered exhibition at the museum in 2003) spins off of allusions to irregular fabric shapes, its deeper intentions embedded in the painting’s title, “Time Eats Life to the Core.” Gerzso’s formal touch leads us back naturally to the undertow of abstraction seen in the neighboring painting on the wall, Henri Matisse’s 1901 “Pont Saint-Michel.” We don’t think of Matisse as an abstractionist, per se, but the undertow was always there in his work, as in the analytical balance of forms, lines, and hues in this bridge painting. Concrete reality and its hidden life force also with a bridge
as subject is also apparent in the 1937 “Garden with Small Bridge” by Pierre Bonnard, the individualistic post-impressionist with his own claim staked in the backyard garden of abstractionism.
A similar leap from representation to its non-representational mode is evident in Theophilus Brown’s “Football Painting #2,” in which the established Bay Area Figuration artist jumps into the fray of blurring and capturing the anarchic mesh of football players’ anatomies in a messy, formal pile.
In this exhibition scheme, some works speak across the show to others in unexpected ways. The familiar sight of Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Dead Cottonwood Tree, Abiquiu, New Mexico,” finds its arid landscape iconography echoed in the pale, spindly forms in Kay Sage’s sleekly surreal “Second Song.”
Photography has its own corner, in a small sub-show of small black-and-white images called “Photography from the Machine Age,” including the architectural insights of Julius Shulman. Figurative sculpture assumes its rightful place on the gallery floor, including a bevvy of pieces by August Rodin.
While the show’s organization suggests a fresh perspective afoot in the space, there are plenty of evergreen favorites often seen in this gallery space, and always worth another look like checking in on an old trusty friend. From the American urban fabric, George Wesley Bellows’s 1905 “Steaming Streets” depicts early 20th-century New York City as a bustling and also chaotic place, in sharp contrast to the unpeopled meditative stillness of Edward Hopper’s “November, Washington Square,” which the great American painter started in 1932 and finished in 1959.
Salvador Dalí’s nude from outer and inner space, “Honey Is Sweeter than Blood,” always begs for our attention. A newer entry from the Surrealist camp is the eye-snatching Dorr Bothwell painting “Family Por-
trait,” a bifurcated, double-identity portrait of a child.
From SBMA’s impressionist canvas treasury, it’s always a pleasure to recast a gaze at Monet’s fogged-over and gauzily painted bridge studies and the more lucid leisurely idylls of Berthe Morisot’s “View of Paris from the Trocadero” and Mary Cassatt’s “Summertime,” with its mother and child drifting idly in a boat on a pond, the watery ripples glistening in delicate brushwork.
In other Monet news, the much-admired and even somewhat locally co-opted painting “Villas in Bordighera” (1884), a warming vision painted on the Italian Riviera, is easily reimagined as a scene from Santa Barbara’s own “American Riviera” identity and atmosphere. Having grown up seeing this painting at the museum, and as a bestselling card in the gift shop, and as a general SBMA icon, we’re entitled to our collective delusions. And we don’t imagine that Claude would mind. —Josef Woodard
When poetic punk-folk legend Patti Smith played at the Lobero Theatre in 2023, the engaging veteran artist was bringing songs and reminding the SRO crowd that “People Have the Power,” all in the name of a few good causes. The evening was a fundraiser for the Lobero itself, CADA (Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse), the Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation, and a worthy and then newly opened enterprise, the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Smith is part of the vast legions of Dylan fans, in and outside of the songwriter field, proper. The backstory of the Bob Dylan Center, celebrating the great American and now Nobel Laureate songwriter and home to Dylan’s own archives, goes back to his selling the archives in 2016. When asked about the decision to make Tulsa the designated site, Dylan explained, “There’s more vibrations on the coasts, for sure. But I’m from Minnesota, and I like the casual hum of the heartland.” There is also the fact of proximity to the Tulsa-based Woody Guthrie Center, Guthrie being a central source of inspiration for Dylan (as we know from his familiar origin story and from the popular biopic A Complete Unknown).
The Lobero is again a landing spot for Bob Dylan Center focus, on Friday, March 28, in an evening dubbed Fifty Years in Sixty Minutes: An Evening with the Bob Dylan Center. Steven Jenkins, director of the Dylan Center and a self-described “Dylan-ologist,” will screen his hour-long program of short films and videos from the archives, including previously unreleased clips in the studio and onstage.
As an added bonus, a post-screening Q&A with Jenkins also includes celebrated Montecitan actor/musician Jeff Bridges, who also joins Smith and countless others in unabashed worshipful appreciation of Dylan’s gifts and mythos. Bridges also worked with Dylan, in actor mode, on the quirky Larry Charles–directed 2003 film Masked and Anonymous, which Dylan co-wrote with Charles.
The half-century-spanning presentation arrives in a propitious moment, as a fuller career picture of the formative Dylan days gone public in A Complete Unknown At present, Dylan is less unknown than ever, yet still ever the mystery man.
—JW
Fifty Years in Sixty Minutes: An Evening with the Bob Dylan Center takes place at the Lobero Theatre (33
Thur 3/13 8:00 pm
DAN AND PEGGY REEDER WITH WALTER ETC. AMERICANA, ACOUSTIC
Fri 3/14 9:00 pm PACO VERSAILLES WITH ANTONIO BARRET DANCE, FLAMENCO, FUNK
Sat 3/15 8:30 pm ME SABOR PRESENTS: SALSA NIGHT
Sun 3/16 7:30 pm DREAMLAND:
TRIBUTE TO THE MUSIC OF JONI MITCHELL FEAT. KIMBERLY FORD
Mon 3/17 5:00 pm ST. PATRICK'S DAY BASH WITH SPENCER & THE WORRIED LADS
Tues 3/18 5:30 pm YOUNG SINGERS RECITAL
Wed 3/19 7:00 pm THE BROTHERS COLLIER ACOUSTIC SINGER SONGWRITER
Thur 3/20 8:00 pm DEAD SET 805 WITH KOALISHON GRATEFUL DEAD, FUNK
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By a strange coincidence and convergence of events, Ethan Turpin’s first museum exhibition opened at the Westmont Museum of Art in January, just as the Los Angeles wildfires were raging. WILDLAND: Ethan Turpin’s Collaborations on Fire and Water, fueled by Turpin’s background as both a conceptual artist and freelance photographer and filmmaker for the Santa Barbara Fire Department for the past decade, found himself in a timely yet uncomfortable synchronicity.
Art and tragic realities met, however accidentally. But the larger story behind the coincidental timing relates to the ever-present and increasing threat of fire, especially as climate change dislodges the natural order. That very theme is part and parcel of the exhibition, through which Turpin has explored “interdisciplinary thinking where artists, scientists, and media technologists collaborate.”
WILDLAND, the fullest expression yet of artistic ideas Turpin has shown in smaller doses and in group shows for years, is at once a wonder-filled ode to nature and a wake-up call to its fragility. Destruction and regeneration can come through the natural process of fire and the unnatural intrusion of humancaused climate change.
Although the main body of work is the installation in the museum’s large gallery space, smaller Turpin works appear in the narrow entryway space. Turpin shows some of his retro-modernist stereoscope imagery, as seen in his earlier Gilded Garden series and the piece called “Clouds and Smoke,” in which a gathering of well-dressed late 19th-century picnickers sit to gaze with apparent admiration at the toxic plumes spewing from factories across the river. The piece denotes the blind innocence and faith in progress of the early period of industrialization.
To enter the large main gallery, dim-lit and radiated with ambient music sources, is to fall into an oddly meditative sight-sound dimension. The peace is disrupted by the sudden appearance of a wildfire and the sobering sound of crackling fire from the time lapse video work “Walk into Wildfire,” in which Turpin seamlessly stitches imagery of new plant growth and the surprise appearance of fire, an indifferent and voracious force sweeping everything in its path. But the video, assembled from clips gathered starting in 2015, also addresses the cyclical nature of nature.
The epic-scaled panoramic piece “Time Space Fire,” made in collaboration with Udo Gyene and Tai Rodrig, involves a vast horizontal screen, stretched
across nearly an entire long museum wall. Some of the same footage of peaceful nature and raging fire have been subjected to data-alteration to create a rippling abstract impression, stripped of specificity but basking in impressionistic suggestion.
A different mode of juxtaposition of burning versus as-yet un-torched earth, with an extremely localized color, appears in the digital photo collage “Tea Fire: Westmont.” Using photos by Ray Ford and Brad Elliott from the devastating 2008 Tea Fire, which partially burned Westmont College, Turpin created a visual narrative of contrasting states of landscape on campus. In another corner, the mood and color scheme turn cooler and bluish, with the slow-mo time lapse installation “Tree Water.” Here, water’s progress and process in nature seize the attentions of Turpin and collaborators (including Zach Gill’s hypnotic drone/ambient musical score). A lower-tech art component in the same gallery zone finds Turpin working in watercolor and ink on rag board, with “Tree Water: How Water Moves Through Soil, Plant, and Air,” with captions by the artist and Naomi Tague.
As impressively shown in the parts and whole that is WILDLAND, Turpin manages to move fluidly between interests in art and science, a merging tendency becoming ever more relevant in the art world at large. The timing is in the air: Even more than political and social exigencies, the state of nature is cause for concern and awe. Artists can’t help but take note and inform and inflame our awareness.
Turpin’s project logically ventured outside the gallery home into Westmont’s lush vegetation for Ember Trees: An Outdoor Projected Installation, in which videos (by Turpin and Jonathan PJ Smith) of burning embers were projected onto trees actually affected by the Tea Fire. The event also included the evocative commissioned string quartet piece “Agua Quemado,” by Westmont music professor Daniel Gee, poetry by professor emeritus Paul Willis, and commentary from Montecito Fire Marshals Alex Broumand and Aaron Briner.
At the event, just after nightfall in a small grove of pine trees on campus, Turpin explained, “The reason we do this is to gain a healthy respect for a natural process. By making art associations, it presents with both the beauty and risk of fire. I think it’s safe to say that fire is beautiful.” —Josef Woodard
WILDLAND: Ethan Turpin's Collaborations on Fire and Water is on view through March 22. See westmont.edu/wildland for details.
TODD RUNDGREN, WENDY MOTEN,
“What the world needs now” is quite a sentence starter for our day and age. Lucky for Majestic Ventura Theater concertgoers on March 22, Todd Rundgren, Wendy Moten, and a nine-piece multi-instrumentalist ensemble playing the music of Burt Bacharach are cooking up an answer.
“These are great songs with meaningful lyrics that are elevated about love and the human condition and heartbreak with amazing musicians all playing live,” Rob Shirakbari, musical director for What the World Needs Now: The Bacharach Songbook Live, explained. Having served as music director and arranger for both Bacharach and Dionne Warwick since his late teens, Shirakbari is in a prime position to bring these songs to life for the present day.
Bacharach’s incredible career includes 73 U.S. and 52 U.K. Top 40 hits (six of which were number-one hits), six Grammy Awards, three Academy Awards, and an Emmy. But for those who need a refresher, “The Look of Love,” “What the World Needs Now,” “Walk On By,” “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head,” and “Do You Know the Way to San Jose” are just a few of the numbers that have become enmeshed with our cultural experience.
“I’ve been living through these songs through his eyes and his filter,” Shirakbari said. He’d been thinking of doing a show like this for years. After Bacharach passed away, he didn’t want to plan anything, out of respect. When people continued to ask him about plans for the show, he reached out to his friend and show producer Angelo Bundini, who was the creator and producer of the global Celebrating David Bowie concerts, which toured in 17 countries.
“He knows this catalog really well, and that’s actually how we met,” Shirakbari said. “He’s just been the perfect producer to help put this together and get this show on the road.”
Todd Rundgren did a few tours with the Celebrating David Bowie Show, and the show’s puzzle pieces started to fit together.
“Todd’s a perfect fit for this first run because he’s a great songwriter himself, and he’s also a fan of great songwriting,” said Shirakbari.
The nine-piece all-star ensemble backing Rundgren and Moten, who is widely known for her time on The Voice, have worked with an array of iconic artists. Multi-instrumentalist Probyn Gregory played alongside Brian Wilson from 1990 to 2022, and Kasim Sulton is Todd Rundgren’s bass player. This group of heavy hitters has worked with everyone from Stevie Wonder to Aretha Franklin, Elvis Costello, and Burt Bacharach himself.
“Pretty much everybody sings backgrounds,” Shirakbari said. “We’re going to make a big sound with nine people.”
The Ventura show will kick off the first night of their 22-show American run, and no matter who is playing, the songs will likely mean different things to everyone. Shirakbari is relieved to see that all involved in the show are checking their egos at the door and letting a passion for the music guide their way.
“The stars of this show are Burt’s songs,” Shirakbari said. In addition to being an integral part of Bacharach’s career, Shirakbari was also a friend of the legendary musician, so the show feels personal for him on many levels.
“I feel very fortunate for whatever turn of events and circumstances planted me in this position,” Shirakbari said. “Burt would be very, very happy to know that his music is still living on.”
Different levels of ticket options, including VIP “meet and greet” experiences, are available for purchase. No matter where you’re sitting, with exceptional musicians playing time-honored hits, this show is sure to give you what you need.
—Rebecca Horrigan
What the World Needs Now: The Bacharach Songbook Live takes place on Saturday, March 22, at 8 p.m. at the Majestic Ventura Theater (26 S. Chestnut St., Ventura). See bit.ly/4byn9D1 for tickets and details.
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An odd and crackling frisson charged the air as I headed downtown to meet some girlfriends for what promised to be an electric night out; the bars and restaurants were packed with groups Schools? Murders? of moms, friends of a certain age, and parents knocking out date night with a gleam in their eye. This was not Valentine’s Day. The Film Festival had wrapped the prior week, and nary a rock star was in town.
No, the source of this palpable buzz was the appearance of Jonathan Haidt, social psychologist and author of The Anxious Generation, at the Arlington, as part of UCSB’s Arts & Lectures series.
While it may seem odd that an academic could inspire such a vibe, Haidt’s ideas have lent him a kind of rock star cache, at least among those of us who would rather sleep than hit a show. His ideas about what overprotection in the real world and underprotection in the digital one has done to our children are not particularly cheery, but then again, there is perhaps a certain joy to be found when presented with the empirical evidence that shows that your worst fears, your sinking suspicions, are in fact completely correct. (Perhaps there is a German word for this very sensation?)
Alarmingly, he began his talk with slides documenting an increasingly common pinkie deformity caused by the contortion required to palm an iPhone, and medical research suggesting the shape of our eyeballs has begun to shift to reflect atrophy in distance vision and overuse of near sight. The even scarier hypothesis? Brains, which as opposed to fingers and eyeballs, are designed to be plastic and all the more so the younger we are, are even more susceptible to phone-habit-inspired changes.
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The damage caused by the ubiquitous, addictive technology of the day, he argues, piled onto kids who are overprotected in the real world, allowed little autonomy, unplanned hours or boredom, or even drops of interstitial time not immediately hijacked by their phones, no trust of themselves or “strangers” (danger!), has left them floundering in a toxic stew, saying they believe their lives to be “meaningless” at a historically unheard-of rate. Of course they are suffering.
weirder garbage as a result?
Can you imagine where a kid might wind up with just a couple errant clicks?
It’s horrifying, depressing, and can feel as though parenting with the hopes of raising a well-adjusted human in the age of the iPhone is nothing short of delusional.
But, as I mentioned, the vibe in the Arlington was absolutely electric, and surely that means something? Something other than that parents need to get out more, I mean.
I’d like to think it’s because Haidt has solutions, and they are very, very doable.
Protecting our kids from digital harm when their brains are still forming is the name of the game, and the norms Haidt proposes to do this are simple: No smartphones before age 14. No social media before 16. Phone-free schools, more childhood independence and free play.
Schools need to do their part, he argues, as does the American Pediatric Association (he grew charmingly livid on this point). And parents need to band together; too many of us give in, he says, when we believe our child is the only one who doesn’t have a phone.
The cheers in the theater were encouraging, if likely fueled by the happy hour drinks that preceded them. But the next morning, I woke up to a flurry of texts that didn’t stop.
We were fired up but clear-eyed. Just because the solutions are simple doesn’t mean they’ll be easy.
It’s hard to say no when your kid is whining, crying, yelling, insisting that everyone else has something you’re saying no to. It’s hard to surrender the tranquility the digital pacifier promises. It’s hard to make a choice, rather than abdicating and just letting things happen.
But I have faith. So much about parenting is so hard, and yet we do it anyway. Every day, little miracles. And, as Haidt said, just because something is hard doesn’t mean it’s impossible.
He should know: He got 2,000 parents out on a school night. n
Haidt, who also holds a professorship at NYU’s Stern School of Business, does more than propose a theory. Through reams of data plotted on chart after chart, he makes the case that the advent of the smartphone the ones with attention-demanding push notifications and selfie-enabling cameras is tied not correlationally, but causally, with a precipitous decline in the mental health of our children.
The effects on girls are crushing: spiking increases in depression, anxiety, self-harm the internalizing disorders. The effects on boys are equally so: already alienated from a culture that devalues their need for physical expression from the time they can say “recess,” they seek their dopamine online, becoming more withdrawn and inept every time they turn away from the real world and instead toward the empty “connection” of online porn and video games.
And, as anyone with a phone can admit, the stupid things are undeniably addictive. Who hasn’t lost an hour to a mindless scroll? Who hasn’t accidentally clicked on some weird reel on Instagram and immediately been served up even
For the UC Santa Barbara men’s basketball team, the entire season has been building toward peaking this week and winning the Big West Conference Tournament.
The trick is that the conference is stronger than it has been in more than a decade, which sets the stage for a thrilling tournament beginning March 12 in Henderson, Nevada.
“At the end of the day … our team has to come together and commit to the defensive end,” said UC Santa Barbara coach Joe Pasternack. “We can score with anybody, but if we don’t defend, we’re going to be out of this tournament really fast.”
In order to capture the Big West Men’s Basketball Championship, the Gauchos will have to win four games in four days against much fresher competition.
“North Carolina State last year won five in a row and went to the final four. Long Beach State last year won three in a row and went to the NCAA tournament. This team is deep; you play for the conference tournament. That’s all that matters. You control what you can control,” Pasternack said. “The only thing we are worried about is going 1-0 versus Bakersfield there’s nothing else that matters.”
The Gauchos defeated Cal State Bakersfield in both of their matchups this season, including a 78-66 victory in the Thunderdome on January 9 and an 81-75 victory in Bakersfield on February 6.
UC Santa Barbara is 11-1 all-time against Cal State Bakersfield and played one of their best offensive games of the season in their most recent victory over the Roadrunners, shooting a season-high 70 percent from the field and 65 percent from three-point range.
For the first time since Utah State in 2005, a Big West team is in position to secure an at-large bid into the NCAA tournament, as UC San Diego’s meteoric rise from Division 2 to Big West regular-season champion has captivated the conference.
The Tritons are 28-4 overall and have a net rating of 35 and an RPI of 40 going into the Big West tournament. UC San Diego is within range of receiving one of the 37 at-large berths into the 69-team tournament.
The Gauchos are the last of the current Big West teams to receive an at-large bid in the NCAA tournament, which came in 1990. That’s not an option this time around, as UC Santa Barbara has a net rating of 143 out of 364 Division 1 programs. They will have to win four consecutive games to take part in the NCAA tournament.
With a record of 19-12 overall and 11-9 in conference play, UC Santa Barbara received the fifth seed in the conference tournament and begins its journey on March 12 against Cal State Bakersfield, which comes in as the eighth seed after compiling an 8-12 conference record.
The Gauchos’ path, should they defeat Cal State Bakersfield, includes a matchup with Cal State Northridge (the team that eliminated UC Santa Barbara last season) on Thursday and UC San Diego on Friday.
The top two seeds, UC San Diego and UC Irvine, received a double bye in the tournament, automatically advancing to the semifinals. Third-seed UC Riverside and fourth-seed Cal State Northridge received first-round byes.
“We can beat anybody on our schedule, but you have to commit to the defensive end for 40 minutes,” said Pasternack of his team’s strategy.
On the women’s side, UC Santa Barbara finished tied for fifth in the Big West Conference regular season. The Gauchos will receive the fifth seed in the conference tournament by virtue of tiebreakers over Long Beach State and UC Riverside.
The Gauchos finished the regular season with an 18-12 overall record and a 12-8 conference record under first-year head coach Renee Jimenez.
The best-kept secret lunch spot in Goleta is located at the Teledyne FLIR Headquarters, and you don’t have to be an electronics manufacturer to enjoy it. White Caps Beach Club, which opened in Summerland last spring and then in the Funk Zone, is spreading its white umbrella over the humble tech center off Hollister.
When word got to the White Caps team that Teledyne FLIR, a leader in the design, manufacture, and marketing of thermal imaging infrared cameras, was looking for a new tenant to take over their café, the owner of White Caps, Michael Haber, jumped at the opportunity. Haber, an awardwinning photographer and advertising mastermind, is no stranger to creating magic out of seemingly nowhere. With White Caps’ latest location, he’s managed to take an industrial cafeteria-style space and infuse it with the easy, breezy, comfortable yet upscale vibes of a Sicilian seaside bistro.
“I love making a house into a home,” Haber said of his desire to create an appetizing space in which to enjoy a good meal, connect with others, and relax.
“The music, the ambiance, the ease, the delicious food, the smiles behind the service.” Haber cites all of these as intentional facets that set White Caps apart from other lunch
spots. I certainly noticed this attention to detail upon my first visit. As I pulled into the parking lot, the White Caps sign aglow with little twinkly lights assured me that I wasn’t about to enter any old austere employee café. This place oozes comfort and joy and is an excellent option for the general public, not to mention a fantastic deal. With items like a large and flavorful avocado toast sprinkled with fresh arugula, cherry tomatoes, and balsamic vinegar, priced at $8.95, or a steak plate special at $14.95, and easy online ordering, there’s no reason not to become a White Caps regular.
“We’re trying to make it as approachable, kind, fun, and economical as we can,” Haber said.
Kettle Chips line the counter, and a bodega-like space boasts balsamic vinegar from Modena, gourmet olive oil, and other high-end snacks adding an appealing shop, sip, and snack atmosphere. Those who have been to a Tommy Bahama know this engaging aesthetic, which Haber created, taking the retail and dining brand from ground zero to a multibillion-dollar company with his playful yet meticulous touch.
For the new White Caps locale, “I brought all my white tables and chairs and made a little living room in the middle with a sofa and books,” Haber said. “Come join us and play some backgammon and relax.” The space is a conduit for easy conversation, and I enjoyed chatting up local professionals who work at FLIR on the communal couch area while waiting for my food.
Haber’s visionary experience building brands paired with his partner Chef Enrique Hernandez’s skillful hand in the kitchen makes for quite a perfect dining experience. Although both the Summerland and Funk Zone locations are closed for now due to weather and renovations, their kitchen’s fare of fan-favorite Maine lobster rolls, local fish tacos and ceviche, crisp Caesar salads, and a New England–worthy clam chowder hit a chord with the clientele. The Funk Zone truck plans to reopen in April, and Summerland should be back in action this summer.
Chef Hernandez has been in the food industry for many
years, opening three highly successful restaurants and working with a five-star hotel in upper management. The team has expanded into catering as well at various wineries and events, including serving more than 3,000 people at a One805 fundraiser for first responders. Their newest gig is popping up at La Lieff Winery on Saturdays and Sundays offering their famous lobster rolls, chowder, and more.
“It’s about listening to the customer,” Haber explained. With their ear to the ground, they are keeping the hits coming. Their Breakfast Burrito blew me away with its excellent house potatoes and a killer avocado tomatillo house-made sala.
“The White Caps Burger, the brisket sandwich, and the salmon are high in demand,” Haber said. “Keep an eye on the White Caps Specials, because people go crazy.”
It’s truly worth popping in just to see what Chef Hernandez is cooking up on special each day, like their incredible Taco Tuesdays, Lobster Roll Fridays, and rainy-day pozole. Classic items like the turkey sandwich are wholesome yet elevated with a jalapeño jam, melted Jack cheese, lettuce, and tomato on fresh Rockenwagner brioche. The breakfast yogurt bowl with juicy berries, coconut shavings, Greek yogurt, and granola is also a wholesome and healthy can’tmiss item.
“We do everything from Harbor Seafood to local markets,” Haber said of their ingredient sourcing. “We want to get the best-quality food. We do organics.”
Every dish is infused with Hernandez’s undeniable warmth and passion for what he does. Hospitality comes easily to Haber and Hernandez, who both exude genuine kindness, which then trickles down to their employees and therein the clientele.
“We have a very happy staff,” Haber said. “The goal is for everyone to enjoy this incredible entity here and share it with friends and family.”
White Caps Beach Club, 6769 Hollister Ave., Goleta; open Mon.-Fri., 8 a.m.-2 p.m.; whitecapsbeachclub.com.
The building at 335 South Milpas Street, where Tri-County Produce is located, was built in the 1950s for Harry Bowman, who distributed wholesale produce to the tri-counties, delivering to restaurants, schools, and stores. In the 1970s, Bowman sold the business to Virgil and Marie Eliot, who decided to open Tri-County Produce to the public. They then sold it to Jim Dixon and his son, John, in 1985, and the Dixons owned and operated the business for four decades, an incredible run that ends next month.
“After 40 years of dedication, passion, and community service, I am announcing my decision to retire,” says owner John Dixon. “Our beloved local grocery store, a fixture in Santa Barbara since 1966, will close its doors at the end of April 2025. Tri-County Produce has been my life’s work, and I have enjoyed every moment of it from stocking shelves to serving customers. Throughout my tenure, I have worked with exceptional vendors and I have built lasting relationships with my loyal employees. I also took great pride in providing employment opportunities to the youth of Santa Barbara, helping many grow into successful adults.”
BENEFIT BRUNCH AT BLACK SHEEP: On Sunday, March 16, Black Sheep at 18 East Cota Street will host a special brunch and silent auction in support of Peace in a Pod Elementary, a local, independent Montessori school nestled in the heart of the Presidio neighborhood. The school is dedicated to small class sizes, handson learning, and a screen-free education. Enjoy a three-course, family-style, prix-fixe menu paired with bottomless mimosas, all while giving back to a great cause, as 100 percent of proceeds go directly to the school. This is a donation-based event with a suggested donation of $76 per person. Your contribution may be tax-deductible support local education while enjoying a great meal. To make reservations, call (805) 965-1113 or visit tinyurl .com/blacksheepbrunch
BAR LOU INTRODUCES WEEKEND BRUNCH: Bar Lou, which recently opened at 1198 Coast Village Road, the former home of Oliver’s and Peabody’s, has updated their weekend menu. The Frenchinspired restaurant in Montecito helmed by restaurateurs Brandon Boudet and Warner Ebbink, the duo behind Little Dom’s Seafood in Carpinteria, is now officially open for weekend brunch service. Bar Lou offers a Mediterranean-inspired weekend brunch menu from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Looking forward, guests can also expect a special Friday lunch special coming soon. Brunch highlights include: Spanish French toast with saffron whipped crème fraîche; Merguez lamb burger with Comté cheese and piperade; steak and eggs au poivre with frites; French omelet with chive Boursin (optional caviar add-on); and smoked black cod Smørrebrød with dill pollen crème fraîche, potato, and pickled fennel. Call (805) 845-5489 or visit barloumontecito.com
PETRA CAFÉ LUNCH SPECIALS: Petra Café at 14 East Cota Street, offering Jordanian cuisine, is doing a lunch special from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for $10 after tax. Offerings include shawarma wrap, kofta wrap, and falafel wrap. Also available are the $5 for homemade hummus with warm Lebanese pita, $5 off for hookah, and $3 Arabic coffee in the sand. Visit foxtailsb.com.
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(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): What can you do to show how much you care about everyone and everything that deserves your love? Now is a fantastic time to unleash a flood of gratitude and appreciation that takes very practical forms. In other words, don’t just beam warm and fuzzy feelings toward your favorite people and animals. Offer tangible blessings that will actually enhance their lives. Find your own personally meaningful ways to nourish all that nourishes you.
(Apr. 20-May 20): Ancient Egyptians loved the color blue. The mineral azurite and the semiprecious stones turquoise and lapis lazuli satisfied their fascination to some degree, but they were rare and difficult to work with. So, the Egyptians decided to fabricate their own pigment. After extensive experimentation, using copper, silica, and lime, they succeeded. The hue they made is known as Egyptian blue. I heartily endorse a comparable process for you in the coming weeks, Taurus. Identify the experience, substance, or feeling you really, really want more of, and then resolve to get as much of it as you really, really want.
(May 21-June 20): Dandelions germinate quickly and grow fast. Because of their deep taproots, they are hardy. Once they establish their presence in a place, they persist. Dandelions are adaptable, too, able to grow anywhere their seeds land, even from cracks in concrete. Their efficient dispersal is legendary. They produce large quantities of lightweight seeds that are easily carried by the wind. Bees love dandelions in the spring when there are few other flowers yet to provide them with nectar. I propose we make the dandelion your symbol of power in the coming weeks, Gemini. Be like them! (PS: They are also beautiful in an unostentatious way.)
purposeful pauses in a speech that make words stand out; the quiet time we all need to make our busy lives meaningful; the silence between the notes that make the music.” According to my analysis, Libra, you will be wise to make ma a central theme in the coming weeks. I invite you to research the power of pauses. Rather than filling up every gap, allow space for pregnant blankness. Trust that in being open to vacancy, you will make room for unexpected riches.
(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The literal meaning of the Japanese word yohen is “kiln mutation.” It refers to a type of glaze that undergoes unpredictable variations in color when baked in a kiln. The finished pottery that emerges displays patterns and hues that are blends of the artist’s intention and accidental effects created by the heat. I would love to see you carry out metaphorical versions of yohen in the coming weeks, Scorpio. Suggested meditations: (1) Collaborate to create beauty with energies that aren’t entirely manageable. (2) Undertake projects that require both careful preparation and a willingness to adapt to shifting conditions. (3) Engage with opportunities that will have the best outcomes if you relinquish some control.
(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A big party is underway in your astrological House of Self-Understanding and Self-Definition. The near future will be a favorable time to discover yourself in greater depth and bring your identity into clearer focus. I see this mostly as a task for you to carry out in intimate conversation with yourself. It’s also fine to solicit the feedback of allies who have insight into your nature, but I urge you to rely heavily on your private investigations. How can you deepen your knowledge of the reasons you are here on earth? Can you learn more about your dormant potentials? Who are you, exactly?
(June 21-July 22): About 36,000 years ago, humans created remarkable drawings and paintings in the Cave of Altamira, located in what we now call Spain. When an early discoverer of the art published his findings in 1880, he was met with derision. Experts accused him of forgery, saying such beautiful and technically proficient works could not have been made by ancient people, who just weren’t that smart. Eventually, though, the art was proved to be genuine. I propose we meditate on this as a metaphor for your life. It’s possible that your abilities may be underestimated, even by you. Hidden potentials and unexpressed capacities may be close to ripening, but they will need your full confidence and boldness. Don’t let skepticism, either from your inner critic or others, hold you back.
(July 23-Aug. 22): In 1977, NASA launched two Voyager probes to study our solar system’s outer planets. Their original mission was designed to last a few years. But in 2025, they still continue to send back useful information from the great beyond, far past Uranus and Neptune, and into interstellar space. I suspect that now is also a good time for you Leos to seek valuable information from adventures you began years ago. Even if those past experiences have not yielded relevant revelations recently, they may soon do so. Be alert for ways to harvest new riches from old memories.
(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): About 3,775 years ago, a Babylonian man named Nanni wrote a crabby letter to Ea-nasir, a merchant who had sold him substandard copper ingots. Nanni was also upset that his servant was treated rudely. It is the oldest customer complaint in history. With this as our touchstone, I remind you that maintaining high standards is always crucial for your long-term success. Others may be tempted to cut corners, but your natural integrity is one of your superpowers. Please redouble your commitment to providing highest value, Virgo. And ask for it from others, too.
(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Blogger Yukiko Kisaki writes about the Japanese concept of ma. She says it’s “the emptiness full of possibilities, like a promise yet to be fulfilled. It’s the
(Dec. 22-Jan.19): Ethiopian marathon runner Abebe Bikila was selected by his country to compete in the 1960 Rome Olympics. But the honor was offered shortly before the games began, and he had to scramble to get there in time. When he arrived for the main event, he couldn’t find any running shoes in local stores that fit comfortably. So, he decided to go barefoot for the 26.2-mile race. Success! He won, setting a new world-record time. I propose we make him your role model, Capricorn. May he inspire you to respond to an apparent scarcity or deficiency by calling on earthy alternatives. May you adjust to a problem by deepening your reliance on your natural self.
(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): After being part of two journeys to Antarctica, Aquarian explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) assembled a team to try what no one had ever done: crossing the entire continent on foot with pack dogs and motorized sledges. But the proposed 1,800-mile expedition failed soon after it began. That’s when Shackleton did what he is most famous for. His leadership during the harrowing struggle to survive became legendary. I don’t think you will face anything remotely resembling his challenges in the coming weeks. But I suspect that your response to tests and trials will define your success. As you encounter obstacles, you will treat them as opportunities to showcase your resourcefulness and adaptability. You will inspire others to summon resiliency, and you will bring out their best as together you engage in creative problem-solving. Trials will become triumphs.
(Feb. 19-Mar. 20): I’m not exactly sure where you are going, Pisces, but I’m certain you are headed in the right direction. Your instincts for self-love are at a peak. Your ability to see your best possible future is lucid and strong. Your commitment to gracefully serving all that gracefully serves you is passionate and rigorous. I will congratulate you in advance for locating the exact, robust resources you need, not mediocre resources that are only half-interesting.
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Independently organizes, plans, coordinates and manages the department’s Academic Personnel activities such as faculty and academic recruitment, academic employee HR, UCPath payroll, and the academic merit and promotion review process. Performs other related duties as assigned. Reqs: High school diploma or GED. Working knowledge and familiarity with computers and the ability to learn and utilize new systems, software, and programs. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check The budgeted hourly range is $28.44 to $29.78/ hr. The full hourly range is $28.44 to $40.76/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. https://policy. ucop. edu/doc/4010393/PPSM‑20. https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/1001004/ Anti‑Discrimination. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 76581
DIRECTOR, RESIDENTIAL DINING, BUSINESS & FINANCE
CAMPUS DINING
Responsible for all aspects of the business and financial management for the Residential Dining department. Member of the Senior Management Team in Residential Dining, sharing responsibility for an annual operating budget of 18 million representing
production and service of 2.7 million meals in all Residential food service facilities and operations. Scope includes four primary Residence Dining Commons, kitchens and bakeries, Campus Catering, Campus Concessions and Summer Conference Dining, and Retail Stores, serving a community of over 8,500 student, faculty and family residents. Reqs: Required Bachelor’s degree in related area or required equivalent experience / training. Minimum 4‑6 years of progressively responsible experience in financial analysis, budgeting, and reporting required; or equivalent combination of education and experience required. Notes: Satisfactory criminal history background check. Hiring/ Budgeted Salary or Hourly Range: $77,000‑$90,000/yr. Posting Salary Range: $77,000‑$108,100/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. Please visit: https:// policy.ucop. edu/doc/4010393/ PPSM‑20; https://policy.ucop.edu/ doc/1001004/Anti‑Discrimination. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 76662
RESIDENTIAL AND COMMUNITY LIVING
Responsible for assisting the Resident Director (RD) with the implementation of the student development program in campus housing at UC Santa Barbara. Under the supervision of the RD, the ARD utilizes a curricular approach and equity mindset as cornerstones of their daily work in facilitating student wellness, development, and belonging in a residential community. The contract term is 12 months (August ‑ July) with the opportunity for a renewal of one additional term. The ARD may be assigned to a community that does not have students residing in the summer, at which time, the ARD will perform necessary duties to assist the department with preparing for fall opening and the upcoming academic year. Reqs: 1‑3 years Demonstrated experience and ability to
constructively engage and lead others in complex issues related to social justice, access, inclusion and equity within a campus community. 1‑3 years Experience in planning and delivering programs or activities that foster student engagement and community development. 1‑3 years Experience in a student leadership role on a college or university campus. 1‑3 years Experience in basic student/peer advising and counseling. Ability to constructively engage others in complex social justice, access, inclusion, and equity issues on campus. Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues across a large, multifunctional department. Comprehensive knowledge of UCSB campus resources and support services. Knowledge of the day‑to‑day operations of a student housing community. Knowledge of and/or experience working within a residential curriculum campus. Notes: The Assistant Resident Director (ARD) is a full‑time live‑in position with on‑call responsibilities. The contract term is 12 months with the opportunity for a renewal of one additional term. This position may require night and weekend hours as needed, with flexible time off to offset these hours. UCSB Campus Security Authority under Clery Act. Satisfactory criminal history background check. Pay Rate/Range: $28.11/hr, with housing and meal plan included. 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. Please visit: https:// policy.ucop. edu/doc/4010393/ PPSM‑20; https://policy.ucop.edu/ doc/1001004/Anti‑Discrimination. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 76756
CONTROLLER/BUSINESS & FINANCIAL
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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. https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4010393/ PPSM‑20. https://policy.ucop.edu/ doc/1001004/Anti‑Discrimination. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu, Job # 76538
CAMPUS DINING
Performs culinary duties such as preparing soups and casseroles, grilling, roasting or barbecuing foods, working a sauté station, and preparing and assembling made‑to‑order entrees serving up to 1,500 meals per shift. Ensures that assigned responsibilities are accomplished and that high standards of food quality, service, sanitation and safety are met at all times. Assists with student training, food production and sanitation. Reqs: High School Diploma. 1‑3 years Culinary experience in a high‑volume culinary environment. 1‑3 years Knowledge of and experience with culinary techniques, including but not inclusive of sautéing, grilling, frying, steaming, preparing sauces and stocks. Or equivalent combination of education and experience. Notes: Ability to lift up to 50 pounds and work standing for up to 8 hours per day. Satisfactory criminal history background check. Work hours/days may vary. Hiring/ Budgeted Hourly Range: $ 20.12 ‑ $ 22.21/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
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Reporting to the Associate Controller of Business and Financial Services, the Manager provides leadership and strategic planning support for the Travel, Entertainment, and Miscellaneous Reimbursements team as well as the Tax Services team within Business and Financial Services (BFS). The Manager works collaboratively and effectively with the Controller, Associate Controller, managers, and staff to advance the mission and achieve the strategic goals of the unit. The Units responsibilities include travel and entertainment reimbursement, moving and relocation reimbursement, accounts payable processing, and tax services and compliance. The Manager is responsible for oversight of campus areas where errors can have a serious impact on the overall success of the unit or the campus as a whole. The Manager is the functional owner of systems for travel, reimbursement, and tax treaty verification. Responsible for controls to ensure compliance with federal, state, and system‑wide policy and regulations in areas of oversight. The Manager represents the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in system‑wide
Hourly
Range: $116,000 to $137,640/ yr. Full Salary Range: $116,000 to $224,200/ 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. https://policy. ucop. edu/doc/4010393/PPSM‑20. https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/1001004/
Anti‑Discrimination. Open until filled Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu, Job # 76541
OFFICE OF BUDGET AND PLANNING
UCSB Institutional Research, Planning and Assessment is hiring an analyst responsible for the broad categories of conducting policy analysis, conducting ad hoc analytical studies, developing and preparing campus reports, constructing or maintaining Tableau dashboards. Duties involve the creation and/or modification of SAS programs to compile statistical data from the IRPA data warehouse, coordinating with various campus offices to obtain statistical reports, and verifying the accuracy of any data displays or reports produced. Specific job functions include analysis and reporting related to faculty and departmental Instructional Workload, Graduate Student and Grant Support, Personnel Analysis, and ad hoc analytical, planning, and assessment studies. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience. 1‑3 years experience in Institutional Research, Business Intelligence, Data Analytics, or related field Required. 1‑3 years experience in Institutional Research, Business Intelligence, Data Analytics, or related field. General knowledge in data collection and analysis techniques; statistics or social science research techniques; knowledge of common organization‑specific computer application programs; knowledge of organizational principles and procedures involved in handling sensitive data (for example, Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA). Thorough active listening, critical thinking, good interpersonal skills and ability to multi‑task. Strong
ability to present information in a clear concise manner verbally and in writing. Understanding of organizational rules and regulations. Able to provide good judgment, decision‑making, and problem solving. Notes: UCSB Campus Security Authority under Clery Act. Satisfactory criminal history background check. Salary or Hourly Range: $77,000 to $92,550/yr. The full hourly range is $77,000 ‑ $139,200/ 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. https://policy. ucop. edu/doc/4010393/PPSM‑20. https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/1001004/ Anti‑Discrimination.Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu, Job #76760
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Delivers end user services to all users in the Administrative Services Division. Provides technical leadership in Windows system administration and support, information system implementation and support, systems analysis, network management, programming, report creation and generation, and troubleshooting. Scope of support includes all areas of the Administrative Services Division. Duties include request management, resolution, and escalation of customer requests through completion including installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of local network connections, desktop computers, thin client devices, printers, desktop
software and line of business systems. Provides strategic input to management in the areas of end user support technologies. Works collaboratively with department, division and campus colleagues and serves as backup for other members of the Information Technology Services support team. Maintains an advanced technical understanding of current Windows operating system, office productivity software, and standardized workstation to provide tier two support to Information Technology Services technical staff. Maintains regular end user communication with strong ability to maintain effective client and colleague rapport. Provides support for standardized desktops, administrative information systems, database systems, and software applications utilized by Administrative Services, with a focus on aligning IT services with the needs of business based upon an understanding of ITIL practices. Reqs: BS/BA Degree or equivalent experience and/or training. 4‑6 years of experience providing technical leadership in windows system administration and support, information system implementation and support, systems analysis, network management, patch management, and troubleshooting. Notes: Required to hold a valid driver’s license, have a driving record that is in accordance with local policies and procedures, and/or enroll in the California Employer Pull Notice Program. Satisfactory conviction history background check The budgeted salary range is $84,792.65 ‑ $97,759.27/yr. The full salary range is $77,118.47 ‑ $129,944.37/ 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. https://policy. ucop. edu/doc/4010393/PPSM‑20 https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/1001004/
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Reporting to the Associate Controller of Business and Financial Services (BFS), the Manager provides leadership and strategic planning support for the Campus Payroll Unit. This Unit is responsible for the accounting operations relating to payment of salary, wages and benefits of over $875 million (FY ending June 2023), representing 63% of campus funds expended. The Manager is responsible for oversight of campus areas where errors can have a serious impact on the overall success of the unit or the campus as a whole. The Manager works collaboratively and effectively with the Controller, Associate Controller, managers, and staff to advance the mission and achieve the strategic goals of the unit. The Manager is the functional owner of systems for campus service requests (ServiceNow) and I‑9 processing (Tracker). Responsible for controls to ensure compliance with federal, state, and system‑wide policy and regulations in areas of oversight. The Manager represents the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in system‑wide and campus‑wide meetings and discussions and is recognized as an influential leader. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training. 7‑9 years Proven experience in a large payroll operation, demonstrating meticulous management of complex financial transactions. 7‑9 years Demonstrated experience in developing and monitoring service standards and performance metrics to ensure a high level of customer and employee satisfaction. 7‑9 years Working knowledge of federal, state, and international payroll tax laws. Ability to research and interpret tax regulations. 7‑9 years’ experience as an accountant or closely related analytical role within the payroll services industry. 7‑9 years Supervisory experience in business finance roles. Notes: Satisfactory criminal history background check. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship. Salary or Hourly Range: $104,900 to $133,100/ yr. Full Salary Range: $104,900 to $198,900/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. https://policy. ucop. edu/doc/4010393/PPSM‑20. https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/1001004/ Anti‑Discrimination. Open until filled Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu, Job # 76860
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The University of California Education Abroad Program (UCEAP) is a UC, systemwide, academic program. UCEAP provides international education opportunities in over 40 countries to more than 5,000 UC students outbound and 1,500 Reciprocal exchange students each year. This position completes routine assignments working toward mastery of tasks of moderate scope and complexity, with guidance from the supervisor. May exercise judgment within defined procedures and policies to determine appropriate action.
Provides advising and administrative support in operational aspects of the work performed by the Reciprocity staff. Communicates on a daily basis with UC Study Center staff and partner university liaisons abroad, students, and campus colleagues in a broad range of UC offices. Communication with students takes place remotely rather than in person. Supports the student’s program from pre‑application through return to the home university. Provides backup support for staff as requested. Completes administrative tasks for the unit, and attends team meetings and other office‑wide meetings. Works cooperatively with other team members and UCEAP units as necessary; understands and applies broad administrative rules, policies, and precedents; consults with senior‑level staff and receives direction for more complex assignments, projects, tasks, and policy interpretations. Provides consistent application of UC policy in all aspects of unit work. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience and/or training. Two or more years of office/ clerical experience. Notes: Satisfactory conviction history background check The UCEAP Systemwide Office is located in Goleta, CA (near the UCSB campus). Type of work arrangement eligibility: Hybrid. On‑site presence will be required for leadership and staff meetings, delegation visits, training sessions, etc. The University is unable to pay or reimburse expenses prohibited by University policy, including travel expenses associated with commuting to the designated office. The budgeted hourly range n is $ 28.44 to $29.07/hour. The full hourly rang is $28.44 to $40.76/ hour. 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. https://policy. ucop. edu/doc/4010393/PPSM‑20. https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/1001004/ Anti‑Discrimination. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 76783
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Able to speak English fluently. Excellent customer service and organizational skills. Ability to work effectively both in a group and individually in a service oriented environment subject to frequently changing priorities. Ability to understand and apply University and Department policies and procedures to specific situations. Utilizes modes of office communication such as Google Mail, Docs, Sheets, and Calendar to effectively collaborate with coworkers. Actively aware of their environment, and demonstrates safety conscientiousness and attention to detail at all times. Notes: Able to frequently lift / move up to 50 pounds. Required to hold a valid driver’s license, have a driving record that is in accordance with local policies and procedures, and/or enroll in the California Employer Pull Notice Program. Satisfactory criminal history background check. Pay Rate/Range: $23.50/hr to $28.07hr. 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. Please visit: https://policy. ucop. edu/doc/4010393/PPSM‑20; https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/1001004/ Anti‑Discrimination. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 76837
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“Reverse Routes” if you switched them...
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6. Helpers, briefly
11. Relay section
14. Dangly throat thing
15. Antique photo tone
16. “___ just figured it out”
17. Portable brain?
19. Outburst
20. Bigger than big
21. 1967 spelled-out #1 hit
23. Jackie’s second married name
25. Microscopic
26. Arouse, as curiosity
29. Little kid
30. Progressive character
31. Color in the AtlÈtico Madrid logo
32. Haunted house noise
33. Spock’s home planet
36. “Annabel Lee” poet
37. Keep up
39. Raw mineral
40. Certain ticket buyers
42. 1,000-plus-year realm, for short
43. “Hook” sidekick
44. ___ de parfum
45. Feeder user
46. “People tell me ...”
47. H.S. exams
49. Glow
51. Wedding cake specification
53. Bagel varieties
57. Live mascot of the Bulldogs
58. Dub some DJ turntablism over a Pixar movie?
60. “I finally made it through ___ school” (“Like a Surgeon” opener)
61. Actress Watts
62. Catherine who played Moira Rose
63. “___ XING”
64. Eye-related
65. “Grand” mountain
1. G.H. ___ (name on champagne bottles)
2. Converse competitor
3. “Sister Act” group
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5. Nicole Kidman’s role in “Moulin Rouge!”
6. Hazardous fireproofing material
7. Sun. lecture
8. Budget airline that filed for bankruptcy in late 2024
9. Fork points 10. Sinks under pressure 11. Your future?
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13. California art museum, with “the”
18. Eggs in a lab
22. Dispensary unit
24. Placated
26. Largest of the Three Bears
27. Polo shirt producer
28. Line up for first dibs using the plus sign?
30. A good time (hopefully had by all)
32. City transit 33. “La ___ en rose” 34. Measure of coverage
___-do-well 37. “Rugrats” father
Skilled at sculpture, perhaps
“The ___ of Us”
Encase, as a sword
Bird in a Monty Python sketch
Summer complaint
Baffle
“Shucks, stop it!”
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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER
ESTATE OF: RENEE LALONDE OXTON
aka RENEE L. MALLOY and RENEE
L. MALLOY‑OXTON CASE No.:
25PR00068
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: RENEE LALONDE OXTON aka RENEE L. MALLOY and RENEE L. MALLOY‑OXTON
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: ADRIENNE OXTON in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.
THE PETITION requests that (name):
ADRIENNE OXTON 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: 04/3/2025 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: SB5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street PO Box 21107 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 2/6/2025 by Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Randall Fox/Paola Delgadillo; Reetz, Fox, & Bartlett LLP; 116 E. Sola Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; 805‑965‑0523
Published: Feb 27. Mar 6, 13 2025.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER
ESTATE OF: MARGARET AMY
CHMIELNIK
CASE No.: 25PR00081
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: MARGARET AMY
CHMIELNIK
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: LYNN DINKA AND JON CHMIELNIK in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.
THE PETITION requests that (name): LYNN DINKA AND JON CHMIELNIK 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: 04/3/2025 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street PO Box 21107 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 2/18/2025 by Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Jerry Howard; Thyne Taylor Fox Howard, LLP; 205 East Carrillo Street Suite 100, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; 805‑963‑9958 Published: Feb 27. Mar 6, 13 2025.
AMENDED NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: DIANE DAVIS CASE No.: 24PR00700
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: DIANE DAVIS DAVIS
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: COURTNEY DESOTO in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.
THE PETITION requests that (name): COURTNEY 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: 04/3/2025 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street PO Box 21107 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 2/20/2025 by Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Cristi Michelon Vasquez, .; 132 East Figueora Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; 805‑882‑2226
Published: Feb 27. Mar 6, 13 2025.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: GREGORY W. SMITH CASE No.: 25PR00087
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: GREGORY W. SMITH
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: ERIC J. SMITH in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.
THE PETITION requests that (name): ERIC J. SMITH 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: 03/27/2025 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street PO Box 21107 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 2/19/2025 by Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: James F Cote, Esq.; 222 East Carrillo Street, Suite 207, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; 805‑966‑1204
Published: Feb 27. Mar 6, 13 2025.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER
ESTATE OF: FRANCES NOBUKO ARAI
No.: 25PR00056
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors,
contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: FRANCES NOBUKO ARAI
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: HARRY E. HAGEN, SANTA BARBARA COUNTY PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara. THE PETITION requests that (name): HARRY E. HAGEN, SANTA BARBARA COUNTY PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR 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: 3/27/2025 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 2/13/2025 by Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Mike Munoz, Senior Deputy (Bar#218870) 105 E. Anapamu Street, #201, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; 805‑568‑2950 Published: Mar 6, 13, 20 2025.
NOTICE OF AMENDED PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: CURTIS A. PAULSEN No.: 24PR00697
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: MARK J. PAULSEN, MARK PAULSEN
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: CURTIS A. PAULSEN in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.
THE PETITION requests that (name): CURTIS A. PAULSEN 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: 4/10/2025 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 2/26/2025 by Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: James P. Griffith, Howell Moore & Gough LLP, 1020 State Street, Suite 108, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; 805‑303‑8539
Published: Mar 6, 13, 20 2025.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER
ESTATE OF: DONALD W. WARREN No.: 25PR00089
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: DONALD W. WARREN
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: RICHARD L. WARREN in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.
THE PETITION requests that (name): RICHARD L. WARREN 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: 04/10/2025 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 Room: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street PO Box 21107 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 2/20/2025 by Monica Buenrostro ,Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Stephen T. Frank; 1114 State St 271 Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; 805‑962‑0101
Published: Mar 13, 20, 27 2025.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER
ESTATE OF: CHARLES MICHAEL DUGAN, III No.: 25PR00115
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: CHARLES
MICHAEL DUGAN, III
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: JAMES DUGAN in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.
THE PETITION requests that (name): JAMES DUGAN 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: 5/1/2025 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 3/7/2025 by Nicole Barnard, 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: Mar 13, 20, 27 2025.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER
ESTATE OF: TRACY Z. PINNELLA No.: 25PR00116
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: TRACY Z. PINNELLA, TRACY ZWEIG A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: BRIAN D. PINNELLA in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.
THE PETITION requests that (name):
BRIAN D. PINNELLA 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: 04/24/2025 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 Room: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street PO Box 21107 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 3/7/2025 by Nicole Barnard, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Lori A. Lewis, Esq.; Mullen & Henzell, L.L.P.; 112 E. Victoria Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; 805‑966‑1501 Published: Mar 13, 20, 27 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: STUDIO MALO: 5693 W Camino Cielo Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Camila Uriegas (Same Address)This business is conducted by An Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Not Applicable. Filed by: Camila Uriegas of Santa Barbara County on Feb 12, 2025. 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: 2025‑0000417. Published: Feb 27. Mar 6, 13, 20 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. FBN 2025‑0000335 The following person(s) is doing business as: WORLDMARK BY WYNDHAM TRAVEL, 6277 SEA HARBOR DRIVE, ORLANDO, FL 32821 , County of ORANGE. WYNDHAM RESORT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, 6277 SEA HARBOR DRIVE, ORLANDO, FL 32821; State of Inc./Org./Reg.: OR This business is conducted by A Corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Dec 02, 2024
/s/ JOSEPH M. HOLLIGSHEAD, TREASURER
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 02/06/2025.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk
2/20, 2/27, 3/6, 3/13/25
CNS‑3894933#
SANTA BARBARA
INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2025‑0000288
The following person(s) is doing business as:
SANTA BARBARA BOILER
SERVICE, 161 LA VENTA DR SANTA BARBARA, CA 93110, County of SANTA BARBARA.
CALDIUM , PC, 161 LA VENTA DR SANTA BARBARA, CA 93110; CALIFORNIA
This business is conducted by A CORPORATION.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on OCT 16, 2024
/s/ JIMMY TURNER, PRESIDENT
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 01/31/2025.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk
2/20, 2/27, 3/6, 3/13/25
CNS‑3895878# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. FBN2025‑0000193
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as:
Tankless RX, 613 N Bonita Street, Santa Maria, CA 93454 County of SANTA BARBARA
George K Walker III, 613 N Bonita Street, Santa Maria, CA 93454
Grant Walker, 613 N Bonita Street, Santa Maria, CA 93454
Lucas Walker, 613 N Bonita Street, Santa Maria, CA 93454
This business is conducted by a General Partnership
The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A.
S/ George K Walker III,
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 01/22/2025.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk
2/20, 2/27, 3/6, 3/13/25
CNS‑3893577#
SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2025‑0000334
The following person(s) is doing business as: EMBER EDUCATION, 3828 W. CALDWELL AVE. VISALIA, CA 93277, County of TULARE.
SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY
COLLEGE INC., 3828 W. CALDWELL AVE. VISALIA, CA 93277; CA
This business is conducted by A CORPORATION.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on JUL 23, 2018 /s/ MICHAEL S. ABRIL, SECRETARY
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 02/06/2025. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 2/20, 2/27, 3/6, 3/13/25
CNS‑3890322#
SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2025‑0000337
The following person(s) is doing business as:
SJVC, 3828 W. CALDWELL AVE. VISALIA, CA 93277, County of TULARE.
SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY
COLLEGE, INC., 3828 W. CALDWELL AVE. VISALIA, CA 93277, CA
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, 2001 /s/ MICHAEL S. ABRIL ,
SECRETARY
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 02/06/2025. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk
2/20, 2/27, 3/6, 3/13/25
CNS‑3890315#
SANTA BARBARA
INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2025‑0000336
The following person(s) is doing business as:
SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY
COLLEGE, 3828 W. CALDWELL AVE VISALIA, CA 93277, County of TULARE.
SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY
COLLEGE INC., 3828 W. CALDWELL AVE. VISALIA, CA 93277; CA
This business is conducted by A CORPORATION.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on APR 14, 1977 /s/ MICHAEL S. ABRIL, SECRETARY
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 02/06/2025. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 2/20, 2/27, 3/6, 3/13/25
CNS‑3890326# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: SWEET STREET
DESSERTS SB: 918 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Cookiesb, Inc. 233 Hill View Drive Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by A Corporation
Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Feb 3, 2025. Filed by: ANNETTE RODRIGUEZ/ CEO of Santa Barbara County on Feb 10, 2025. 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: 2025‑0000376. Published: Feb 20, 27. Mar 6, 13 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2025‑0000325
The following person(s) is doing business as: CRATE & KIDS, 1014 COAST VILLAGE ROAD, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93108, County of SANTA BARBARA. EUROMARKET DESIGNS, INC., 1250 TECHNY ROAD, NORTHBROOK, IL 60062;State of Inc./Org./Reg.:IL 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, 2025 /s/ PETER KROHN, CFO This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 02/05/2025. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 2/20, 2/27, 3/6, 3/13/25 CNS‑3894597# SANTA BARBARA
INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GOODLAND FISHING AND SEAFOOD: 5527 Pembroke Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Robert G Cathcart (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Feb 3, 2025. Filed by: ROBERT CATHCART/OWNER of Santa Barbara County on Feb 13, 2025. 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: 2025‑0000433. Published: Feb 20, 27. Mar 6, 13 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PELICAN PROPERTIES: 880 Cambridge Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Kalley R Liehr (same address) Jason T Liehr (same address) This business is conducted by A Married Couple Registrant
commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: KALLEY RIDGWAY LIEHR/WIFE of Santa Barbara County on Feb 10, 2025. 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 E66. FBN Number: 2025‑0000368. Published: Feb 20, 27. Mar 6, 13 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No. FBN2025‑0000324
The following person(s) is doing business as: CB2, 1014 COAST VILLAGE ROAD SANTA BARBARA, CA 93108, County of SANTA BARBARA.
EUROMARKET DESIGNS, INC., 1250 TECHNY ROAD NORTHBROOK, IL 60062;State of Inc./Org./Reg.: IL
This business is conducted by A Corporation.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on JUN 01, 2025 /s/ PETER KROHN, CFO
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 02/05/2025. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 2/20, 2/27, 3/6, 3/13/25
CNS‑3894596# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2025‑0000323
The following person(s) is doing business as: CRATE & BARREL 1014 COAST VILLAGE ROAD SANTA BARBARA, CA 93108, County of SANTA BARBARA.
EUROMARKET DESIGNS, INC., 1250 TECHNY ROAD NORTHBROOK, IL 60062; IL
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, 2025 /s/ PETER KROHN, CFO
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 02/05/2025. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 2/20, 2/27, 3/6, 3/13/25
CNS‑3894595# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: KAIROS ENERGY: 1635 Castillo St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Karpouzi Enterprises LLC (same address) This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jun 1, 2024. Filed by: RYAN SMITH/MANAGER of Santa Barbara County on Jan 31, 2025.
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: 2025‑0000292. Published: Feb 20, 27. Mar 6, 13 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ZAMORA MOTORS INC: 1001 W Main St Santa Maria, CA 93458; Zamora Motors Inc (same address) This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jun 28, 2025. Filed by: SANDRA GUILLEN/DIRECTOR of Santa Barbara County on Feb 11, 2025. 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: 2025‑0000395. Published: Feb 20, 27. Mar 6, 13 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ZEITGEIST
SANTA BARBARA: 400 West Figueroa Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Wichmann Zeitgeist Sonoma Inc. 723 Humboldt Santa Rosa, CA 95404 This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names
listed above on N/A. Filed by: EFRAIM WICHMANN/CEO of Santa Barbara County on Feb 10, 2025. 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: 2025‑0000383. Published: Feb 20, 27. Mar 6, 13 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: COAST VILLAGE FUEL DEPOT, COAST VILLAGE FUEL DEPOT AND THE POINT MARKET, COAST VILLAGE FUEL DEPOT CAR WASH, COAST VILLAGE CAR WASH, COAST VILLAGE DETAIL CENTER: 1085 Coast Village Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Coast Village Inc. PO Box 61106 Santa Barbara, CA 93110 This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Oct
1, 2002. Filed by: ROBERT UELLNER/ PRESIDENT of Santa Barbara County on Feb 11, 2025. 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: 2025‑0000397. Published: Feb 20, 27. Mar 6, 13 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: GRECIANMUSE: 206 East Victoria Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Evangelia Tsiapali (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: EVANGELIA TSIAPALI of Santa Barbara County on Jan 18, 2025. 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 E66. FBN
Number: 2025‑0000444. Published: Feb 27. Mar 6, 13, 20 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SCENERY: 2905 Puesta Del Sol Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Eddet Bath LLC (same address) This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: ROSE THEODORA MINOGUE/PRESIDENT of Santa Barbara County on Feb 7, 2025. 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: 2025‑0000352. Published: Feb 27. Mar 6, 13, 20 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FIRST
IMPRESSIONS, DEI MARIE DESIGNS:
222 W Mission St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Miranda L Iacono (same address) Darren J Iacono (same address) This business is conducted by A Married Couple Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Sep 28, 2024. Filed by: MIRANDA IACONO/OWNER of Santa Barbara County on Feb 6, 2025. 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: 2025‑0000347. Published: Feb 27. Mar 6, 13, 20 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: IN‑SHAPE FITNESS: 1318 S Broadway Santa Maria, CA 93454; In‑Shape Solutions, LLC 8680 Greenback Lane Suite 108 Orangevale, CA 95662 This business
Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received for a bid opening by the Santa Barbara Unified School District at the Administration Office, 720 Santa Barbara Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101 not later than:
Bid opening will be held on April 4, 2025, at 1:00 p.m. for the Santa Barbara Junior High School Dust Collector Replacement (“Project”).
A mandatory job walk and pre-bid conference will be conducted on March 18, 2025, beginning at 10:00 a.m. Meet at Santa Barbara Junior High School, 721 East Cota Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, in front of the main building. Bids will not be accepted from contractors not attending the mandatory job walk and pre-bid conference. Prospective Bidders arriving after the above-designated starting time for a mandatory job walk and pre-bid conference shall be disqualified from submitting a bid for this project.
Plans and specifications will be on file and available to view and purchase on or as soon as possible after the mandatory job walk and pre-bid conference through Cybercopy at https://www.cybercopyusa.com/
The deadline for pre-bid questions or clarification requests is March 27, 2025. All questions are to be in writing and directed to the Project Architect/Engineer, Joe Wilcox, KBZ Architects at Joew@kbzarch.com
CLEARLY MARK BID RESPONSE ENVELOPE WITH TIME/DATE OF BID OPENING AND PROJECT NAME. Bids so received shall be opened and publicly read aloud at the Santa Barbara Unified School District Administration Office, 720 Santa Barbara Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101. All bids shall be made on the forms provided in the specifications and each bid must conform to the Contract Documents. Each bid shall be accompanied by the bid security specified in the Instructions to Bidders.
The Project description: Remove the existing dust collection system and replace it with a new dust collection system to include multiple collection points around the wood shoop.
Contractor License required: B
Prequalification of Bidders and E/M/P subcontractors: As a condition of bidding on this Project, and in accordance with the provisions of Public Contract Code section 20111.5 and 20111.6 all Bidders and all electrical, mechanical and plumbing subcontractors listed in the Bidder’s proposal must either be prequalified for at least five business days before the date of the opening of the bids or must submit a completed prequalification package by the deadline stated below. Bids not conforming to this requirement will not be accepted.
Prequalification packages are available through Cybercopy at http://www.cybercopyplanroom.com Pre-qualification questions must be directed to L.M. Sweaney at Lindasweaney@gmail.com leave a voice message or text at (805) 705-0034.
Prequalification packages must be submitted to L.M. Sweaney & Associates, P.O. Box 3187, Santa Barbara, CA 93103 (U.S. MAIL ONLY) no later than March 27, 2025. [Note: Per PCC 2011.6 – must have submitted package at least 10 business days before bid opening, can specify earlier date]. FAXED PRE-QUALIFICATION APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 1773 and 1773.2 of the Labor Code of the State of California, the District has obtained from the Director of Industrial Relations, the general prevailing rate of per diem wages and the general prevailing rate for holiday and overtime work in the locality in which the work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of workman needed to execute the contract which is available for review at http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlsr/statistics_research.html. During the Work, the Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) will monitor compliance with prevailing wage rate requirements and enforce the Contractor’s prevailing wage rate obligations, with a copy of the same being on file with the clerk of the District’s governing board. It shall be mandatory upon the contractor to whom the contract is awarded, and upon any subcontractor under him, to pay not less than the said specified rates to all workmen employed by them in the execution of the contract, and to comply with all prevailing wage requirements set forth in the Labor Code.
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 1771.1 of the Labor Code of the State of California, a contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid or engage in the performance of any contract for this project unless; (1) currently registered and qualified to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5; or (2) expressly authorized to submit a bid by Section 1771.1 and provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.
This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. The successful Bidder will be required to post all job-site notices required by DIR regulations and other applicable law.
The successful bidder and its subcontractors will be required to follow the nondiscrimination requirements set forth in the General Conditions.
The District will be participating in the Disabled Veteran Business Enterprises (DVBE) Participation Goal Program pursuant to Education Code section 17076.11 and Public Contract Code section 10115.
No Bidder may withdraw his bid for a period of sixty (60) days after the date set for the bid opening. The District reserves the right to reject any and all bids or to waive irregularities in any bid.
BY THE ORDER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF
By: Marina Verdian, Director of Facilities and Modernization
L Filippin 16 (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: TRACI LYNN FILIPPIN/ OWNER/OPERATOR with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 27, 2025. 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: 2025‑0000546. Published: Mar 13, 20, 27. Apr 3 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MY MANAGEMENT COMPANY: 2729 Puesta Del Sol Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Santa Barbara Glow (same address) This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jan 1, 2025. Filed by: SEANA SEARS/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 18, 2025. 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 E66. FBN Number: 2025‑0000446. Published: Mar 13, 20, 27. Apr 3 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KIRO AUTOMOTIVE LLC: 410 Anacapa St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Kiro Automotive LLC (same address) This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Feb 19, 2025. Filed by: KIRIL ILIEV/PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 28, 2025. 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 E72. FBN Number: 2025‑0000567. Published: Mar 13, 20, 27. Apr 3 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: SEA TO SILVER: 53 Touran Lane Goleta, CA 93117; Nicole C Bullemer (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Feb 8, 2025. Filed by: NICOLE BULLEMER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 5, 2025. 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: 2025‑0000593. Published: Mar 13, 20, 27. Apr 3 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CONEJO SERVICES: 2639 Lavery Court #7 Newbury Park, CA 93120; Conejo Valley Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jan 1, 2024. Filed by: LESLIE HODGES/CFO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 10, 2025. 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: 2024‑0000632. Published: Mar 13, 20, 27. Apr 3 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA FAMILY WELLNESS: 55 Hitchcock Way Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Jetta M Harris 1628 State Street #3 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Mar 6, 2025. Filed by: JETTA HARRIS/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 6, 2025. 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 E28. FBN Number: 2025‑0000601. Published: Mar 13, 20, 27. Apr 3
PRESENT NAME: ORA WYLDE
of Hearing April 11, 2025, 10:00 am,
2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PURIFIED ENVIRONMENTS: 5511 Ekwill St, Suite D Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Master Clean USA, INC PO Box 8032 Goleta, CA 93118 This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jun 23, 2003. Filed by: LUPITA SOLIS/OPERATIONS MANAGER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 3, 2025. 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: 2024‑0000622. Published: Mar 13, 20, 27. Apr 3 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FIVE SENSES CHILDCARE: 7210 Del Norte Dr Goleta, CA 93117; Leniam V Roldan (same address) Cinthia C Roldan (same address) This business is conducted by A Married Couple Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Mar 10, 2025. Filed by: LENIAM VITELIO ROLDAN with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 11, 2025. 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 E66. FBN Number: 2024‑0000641. Published: Mar 13, 20, 27. Apr 3 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: RACQUETLAB, RACQUETLABSB: 1530 Hillcrest Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93103; David Malina (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Feb 1, 2025. Filed by: DAVID MALINA/OWNER of Santa Barbara County on Mar 3, 2025. 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: 2025‑0000579. Published: Mar 13, 20, 27. Apr 3 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: MORQUECHO’S DETAIL PLASTERING: 1520 Eucalyptus Hill Rd 8 Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Jose Morquecho (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Oct 21, 2014. Filed by: JOSE MORQUECHO/ OWNER of Santa Barbara County on Jan 27, 2025. 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: 2025‑0000228. Published: Feb 20, 27. Mar 6, 13 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as:CRYSTAL CHIROPRACTIC: 310 Pine Avenue, Suite B Goleta, CA 93117; Crystal A Galvan (Same Address) This business is conducted by An Individual. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jan 01, 2007 Filed by:CRYSTAL A GALVAN/OWNER INDIVIDUAL of Santa Barbara County on Jan 27, 2025. 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: 2025‑0000231. Published: Feb 27. Mar 6, 13, 20 2025.
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: MARIE CLAIRE LAMB and ALEXANDER STEVEN LEASURE CASE NUMBER: 25CV00518 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: PETITIONER: MARIE CLAIRE LAMB and ALEXANDER STEVEN LEASURE A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court for decree changing name (s) as follows:
LEASURE
PROPOSED NAME: AURORA WYLDE
LAMB‑LEASURE
PRESENT NAME: ISLA ROSE LEASURE
PROPOSED NAME: ISLA ROSE
LAMB‑LEASURE
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 April 7, 2025, 10:00 am, DEPT: 5, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR
COURT COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA
1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107, SANTA BARBARA COUNTY
SUPERIOR COURT A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the 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 JANUARY 31, 2025, JUDGE Colleen K. Sterne of the Superior Court. Published Feb 20, 27. Mar 6, 13 2025.
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION
TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: ROBERTO CARLOS ROMERO and EVELYN TORRES
CASE NUMBER: 25CV00079 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
PETITIONER: ROBERTO CARLOS
ROMERO AND EVELYN TORRES A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court for decree changing name (s) as follows:
PRESENT NAME: NOAH ETHAN
ROMERO PROPOSED NAME: NOAH TORRES
ROMERO
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 April 2, 2025, 10:00 am, DEPT: 3, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107, ANACAPA A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the 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 FEBRUARY 13, 2025, JUDGE Thomas P. Anderle of the Superior Court. Published Feb 27. Mar 6, 13, 20 2025.
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: KAYLA WILLIAMS
CASE NUMBER: 25CV00691 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: PETITIONER: KAYLA WILLIAMS A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court for decree changing name (s) as follows:
PRESENT NAME: KAYLA WILLIAMS
PROPOSED NAME: KAYLA WILDER
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
DEPT: 4, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA
1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107, ANACAPA DIVISION A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the SB 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 FEBRUARY 13, 2025, JUDGE Donna D Geck of the Superior Court. Published Feb 27. Mar 6, 13, 20 2025.
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: NATASSIA WATSON CASE NUMBER: 25CV00693 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
PETITIONER: NATASSIA WATSON A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court for decree changing name (s) as follows:
PRESENT NAME: NATASSIA WATSON
PROPOSED NAME: NATASSIA WILDER
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 April 07, 2025, 10:00 am, DEPT: 5, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107, ANACAPA DIVISION A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the SB 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 FEBRUARY 18, 2025, JUDGE Colleen K Sterne of the Superior Court. Published Feb 27. Mar 6, 13, 20 2025.
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: BROOKE SHANE FACUNDUS AND DANIEL WADE FACUNDUS CASE NUMBER: 25CV00774 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: PETITIONER: BROOKE SHANE
FACUNDUS AND DANIEL WADE
FACUNDUS A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court for decree changing name (s) as follows:
PRESENT NAME: EMMA KAY
FACUNDUS
PROPOSED NAME: EMMA KAY
LEBLANC
PRESENT NAME: BROOKE SHANE
FACUNDUS
PROPOSED NAME: BROOKE SHANE
LEBLANC
PRESENT NAME: DANIEL WADE
FACUNDUS
PROPOSED NAME: DANIEL WADE
LEBLANC
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 April 11, 2025, 10:00 am, DEPT: 4, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107, ANACAPA DIVISION A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the 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 FEBRUARY 21, 2025, JUDGE Donna D. Geck of the Superior Court. Published Feb 27. Mar 6, 13, 20 2025.
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: NELL DEMIR
CASE NUMBER: 25CV00730 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
PETITIONER: NELL DEMIR A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court for decree changing name (s) as follows:
PRESENT NAME: NELL DEMIR
PROPOSED NAME: NILUFER DEMIR
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 April 9, 2025, 10:00 am, DEPT: 3, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107, SANTA BARBARA A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the 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 FEBRUARY 12, 2025, JUDGE Thomas P. Anderle of the Superior Court. Published Feb 27. Mar 6, 13, 20 2025.
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: JEREMY DANIEL MARSHMAN
CASE NUMBER: 25CV00500
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
PETITIONER: JEREMY DANIEL
MARSHMAN A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court for decree changing name (s) as follows:
PRESENT NAME: JEREMY DANIEL
MARSHMAN
PROPOSED NAME: JEREMIAH DANIEL
MARSHMAN
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 April 2, 2025, 10:00 am, DEPT: 3, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 1100 Anacapa Street., P.O BOX 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107, ANACAPA DIVISION A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the 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 JANUARY 31, 2025, JUDGE Thomas P. Anderle of the Superior Court. Published Mar 6, 13, 20, 27 2025. AMENDED IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: NEIL NARANG, SAMANTHA NARANG CASE NUMBER: 25CV00133 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: PETITIONER: NEIL NARANG, SAMANTHA NARANG A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court for decree changing name (s) as follows: PRESENT NAME: DEV NARANG PROPOSED NAME: DEVEN NARANG THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if
The City of Goleta Community Relations Division invites you to submit a Proposal to become eligible for a short list of well-qualified firms to provide on-call Video Production Services for various City of Goleta projects and programs. Resulting from this RFQ, the City will enter into one or more non-exclusive agreements with the selected firm(s) that meet the needs defined in this RFQ. Projects and programs can come up at any time where the City requests the services of the selected firms. Work will be awarded to one or more vendors that provide the most qualified and responsive Statement of Qualifications.
Proposals shall meet the requirements and descriptions outlined in the Request for Qualifications for On-Call Video Production Services available on the City of Goleta’s website at https://www.cityofgoleta.org/work/city-bid-opportunities
Proposals must be received no later than April 3, 2025, at 5:00 p.m.
Please email an electronic PDF copy OR mail three (3) bound copies of your proposal at your earliest convenience, but no later than April 3, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. PST. Proposals shall be clearly marked “VIDEO PRODUCTION SERVICES PROPOSAL” and enclosed in a sealed envelope. Proposals may be hand delivered or mailed to:
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Published: Santa Barbara Independent March 13, 2025
Ordinance 5242
An Ordinance of the County of Santa Barbara Repealing Chapter 5, Ambulances, of the Santa Barbara County Code, as Adopted in Ordinance 5182, that Established a Non-Exclusive System to Regulate, Set Rates for, Issue Permits for, and Contract with Ambulance Services.
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Barbara ordains as follows:
SECTION 1:
Chapter 5, Ambulances, of the Santa Barbara County Code, as adopted by Ordinance 5182, is repealed in its entirety.
SECTION 2:
This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force 30 days from the date of its passage. Before the expiration of 15 days after its passage a summary of it shall be published once together with the names of the members of the Board of Supervisors voting for and against the same in a newspaper of general circulation published in the County of Santa Barbara.
Passed, approved and adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Barbara, State of California, on this 4th day of March 2025, by the following vote:
Ayes: Supervisors Capps, Hartmann and Lavagnino
Noes: Supervisors Lee and Nelson
Absent: None
Abstain: None
MIYASATO
MONA
CLERK OF THE BOARD
By: Sheila de la Guerra – Deputy Clerk
NOTE: A complete copy of Ordinance No. 5242 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.
Center(www.courtinfo.ca. gov/ selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Website (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. !ADVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su versión. Lea la información a continuación.
Tiene 30 DÍAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefónica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en el formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y más información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede más cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exención de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin más advertencia. Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www. lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación de $10,000 o más de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso. The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): Santa Barbara Superior Court of California, Santa Barbara 312‑C East Cook Street, Bldg. E, Santa Maria, California 93454. CASE NO: (Número del Caso): 24CV06813
The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la dirección, y el número de teléfono del abogado del demandante que no tiene abogado es): Marcus J. Kocmuer, Nada N. Mutz; Fauve Large Archbald & Spraym LLP; 820 State St., 4th Floor, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Tel (805) 966‑7000 DATE (Fecha): 12/6/2024. Clerk, by (Secretario) /s/ Naylea Calderon, Deputy (Adjunto) Published Feb 27. Mar 6, 13, 20 2025. SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO
an Individual; NATALIE
SUSAN LEYVA aka NATALIE LEYVA aka N. SUSAN LEYVA aka NATALIE LEYVA, an Individual; and DOES 1 through 20, inclusive, YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE) WESCOM CENTRAL CREDIT UNION, a California Corporation
NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without you being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.
You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff.
A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center(www.courtinfo.ca. gov/ selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money and property may be taken without further warning from the court.
There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away.
If you do not know an attorney, you may call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Website (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. !Aviso! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su versión. Lea la información a continuación.
Tiene 30 DÍAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefónica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en el formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y más información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede más cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exención de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin más advertencia. Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación de $10,000 o más de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.
The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): Santa Barbara County Superior Court, 115 Civic Center Plaza, Lompoc, California 93436. CASE NO: (Número del Caso): 22CV01075
The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la dirección, y el número de teléfono del abogado del demandante que no tiene abogado es): KAREL ROCHA (212413), PRENOVOST, NORMANDIN, DAWE & ROCHA, 2122 N BROADWAY SUITE 200, SANTA ANA, CA 92706 Tel (714) 547‑2444
DATE (Fecha): 07/15/2022.
Clerk, by (Secretario) /s/ Dolores Buendia, Deputy (Adjunto)
Published Mar 13, 20, 27. Apr 3 2025.
T.S. No.: 24‑11727 Loan No.: ******7193 APN: 017‑313‑017 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 8/27/2022.
UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER.
A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described below.
The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale.
Trustor: Tracie Noel Sanchez‑Murillo, A Married Woman As Her Sole And Separate Property
Duly Appointed Trustee: Prestige Default Services, LLC Recorded 8/31/2022 as Instrument No. 2022‑0038226 in book ‑‑, page ‑‑ of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Santa Barbara County, California, Date of Sale: 4/2/2025 at 1:00 PM Place of Sale: At the Main Entrance to the County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $1,121,760.26 Street Address or other common designation of real property:
906 CALLE PUERTO VALLARTA SANTA BARBARA CALIFORNIA 93103
A.P.N.: 017‑313‑017
The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown above. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS:
If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest
bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. All checks payable to Prestige Default Services, LLC. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (949) 776‑4697 or visit this Internet Website https://prestigepostandpub.com, using the file number assigned to this case 24‑11727. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. NOTICE TO TENANT: You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are an “eligible tenant buyer,” you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an “eligible bidder,” you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase. First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call (949) 776‑4697, or visit this internet website https://prestigepostandpub.com, using the file number assigned to this case 24‑11727 to find the date on which the trustee’s sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee’s sale.
Third, you must submit a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee’s sale. If you think you may qualify as an “eligible tenant buyer” or “eligible bidder,” you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase.
Date: 2/19/2025
Prestige Default Services, LLC 1920 Old Tustin Ave. Santa Ana, California 92705
Questions: 949‑427‑2010
Sale Line: (949) 776‑4697
Tina Suihkonen Vice President of Operations
PPP#25‑001217
Published: Mar 6, 13, 20, 2025
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE
TSG No.: 240543983 TS No.: 24‑ 034435 APN: 021‑050‑28 Property Address: 2108 GIBRALTAR ROAD, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93105 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 05/06/2005. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On 04/02/2025 at 01:00 P.M., America West Lender Services, LLC, as duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust recorded 05/17/2005, as Instrument No. 2005‑0045584, in book , page , , of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of SANTA BARBARA County, State of
California. Executed by: STEPHEN RICHARD SYSON AND NANCI ELLEN SYSON AS TRUSTEES OF THE STEPHEN RICHARD SYSON AND NANCI ELLEN SYSON TRUST, DATED APRIL 4, 1998, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER’S CHECK/CASH EQUIVALENT or other form of payment authorized by 2924h(b), (Payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States) At the main entrance to the County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 All right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and State described as: AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN THE ABOVE MENTIONED DEED OF TRUST APN# 021‑050‑28 The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 2108 GIBRALTAR ROAD, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93105 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, under the terms of said Deed of Trust, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is $682,633.14. The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust has deposited all documents evidencing the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust and has declared all sums secured thereby immediately due and payable, and has caused a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be executed. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the County where the real property is located. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you
are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. All bids are subject to California Civil Code 2924h and are sold “AS‑IS” NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 844‑693‑4761 or visit this internet website www.awest.us, using the file number assigned to this case 24‑034435 Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Website. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale.
NOTICE TO TENANT: You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction if conducted after January 1, 2021, pursuant to Section 2924m of the
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
California Civil Code. If you are an “eligible tenant buyer,”you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an “eligible bidder” you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase. First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call 844‑693‑4761, or visit this internet website www.awest.us, using the file number assigned to this case 24‑034435 to find the date on which the trustee’s sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee’s sale. Third, you must submit a bid, by remitting the funds and affidavit described in Section 2924m(c) of the Civil Code, so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee’s sale. If you think you may qualify as an “eligible tenant buyer” or “eligible bidder,” you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. Date: America West Lender Services, LLC P.O. Box 23028 Tampa, FL 33623 America West Lender Services, LLC MAY BE ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED MAY BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE FOR TRUSTEES SALE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 844‑693‑4761 NPP0471680 To: SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT 03/13/2025, 03/20/2025, 03/27/2025
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Governing Board of the Cachuma Operation & Maintenance Board (COMB) will hold its regular meeting at 1:00 p.m. on March 31, 2025 via teleconference and in person. Information on how to attend can be found on the meeting agenda which will be posted on the COMB website.
As part of said meeting, the Board will hold a public hearing, prior to the adoption of an ordinance pursuant to Water Code Sections 20200 through 20207, to establish the compensation of Board members in accordance with the provisions of said Water Code Sections.
This Notice is given and published under the provisions of Water Code Section 20203 and Government Code Section 6066.
Dated: 3/13/2025
Cachuma Operation & Maintenance Board
By: Janet Gingras, Secretary and General Manager
Ordinance 5241
An Ordinance Amending Ordinance 5176, Setting Compensation and Benefits for Members of the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors.
Passed, approved and adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Barbara, State of California, on this 4th day of March 2025, by the following vote:
Ayes: Supervisors Capps, Hartmann and Lavagnino
Noes: Supervisor Nelson
Absent: None
Abstain: Supervisor Lee
MONA MIYASATO
CLERK OF THE BOARD
By: Sheila de la Guerra – Deputy Clerk
NOTE: A complete copy of Ordinance No. 5241 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.