Santa Barbara Independent 4/24/25 by SB Independent

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• Wrongful Termination

Adams law focuses on advocating Employee rights in claims involving:

• Pregnancy Discrimination

• Disability Discrimination

• Misclassified “Salaried” Employees and Independent Contractors

• Working “Off the Clock”

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• Hostile Work Environment

• Racialand Age Discrimination

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Wrongful Termination isability Discrimination

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• Sexual Harassment

• COVID/Vaccine Related Termination

• Sexual Harassment Working “Off the Clock”

• Unpaid Overtime Compensation/Bonuses

• Racial and Age Discrimination

• Reimbursement forWork-Related Expenses

• Unpaid Overtime Compensation/Bonuses

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Relationships

• Pregnancy Discrimination

• Reimbursement for Work-Related Expenses

• Occupation and Career

• Denied Mealand Rest Breaks

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Grief and Loss

Relationships • Occupation and Career • Meditation

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Relationships • Occupation and Career • Meditation

Grief and Loss • Major Life Transitions • Anxiety

Relationships • Occupation and Career • Meditation

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Relationships • Occupation and Career • Meditation

Spiritual Issues • Communication • Conflict

Grief and Loss • Major Life Transitions • Anxiety

Spiritual Issues • Communication • Conflict

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Life Transitions - Grief - Loss - Dying

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Meditation - Critical Illness

Spiritual Issues • Communication • Conflict

• Conflict

Spiritual Issues • Communication • Conflict

Relationships • Occupation and Career • Meditation

Grief and Loss • Major Life Transitions • Anxiety

• Major Life Transitions • Anxiety

Michael H Kreitsek, MA

Grief and Loss • Major Life Transitions • Anxiety

Grief and Loss • Major Life Transitions • Anxiety Spiritual Issues • Communication • Conflict

Michael H Kreitsek, MA

Relationships • Occupation and Career • Meditation

Michael H Kreitsek, MA

Transpersonal Counseling Psychology

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Grief and Loss • Major Life Transitions • Anxiety

Spiritual Issues • Communication • Conflict

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Michael H Kreitsek, MA

Grief and Loss • Major Life Transitions • Anxiety

Michael H Kreitsek, MA

Spiritual Issues • Communication • Conflict

Transpersonal Counseling Psychology

Counseling From a Buddhist Perspective 805 698-0286

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Michael H Kreitsek, MA

Transpersonal Counseling Psychology

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“Larkin Poe are your next favorite performers.”

Forbes

Larkin

Poe with special guest Parker Millsap

Sun, Apr 27 / 7 PM / Arlington Theatre

With serious slide guitar chops and Southern rock swagger, Georgia-bred multi-instrumentalist sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell imbue their songs with equal parts soulful sensitivity and thrilling ferocity.

“Tessa Lark embodies joy in music making.”

– John Corigliano, composer

Tessa

Lark, violin Amy Yang, piano

Tue, May 20 / 7 PM / Hahn Hall

At once a classical violin virtuoso and a blazing bluegrass fiddler from Kentucky, Tessa Lark performs a program exploring all sides of her prolific career, from Bartók to bluegrass and beyond.

Marsalis and Cecile Licad

Sat, May 17 / 7:30 PM / Arlington Theatre

Wynton Marsalis leads an all-star 13-piece ensemble in live accompaniment to the 2010 silent film LOUIS, a vivid reimagining of the adventures of a young Louis Armstrong shot in the style of early Charlie Chaplin movies.

The film is rated “R” – Restricted (Some Sexual Content)

A Silent Film with Live M usical Per formance by Wynton

Editor in Chief Marianne Partridge Publisher Brandi Rivera

Executive Editor Nick Welsh Senior Editor Tyler Hayden Senior Writer Matt Kettmann

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News Reporters Ryan P. Cruz, Callie Fausey, Margaux Lovely Senior Arts Writer Josef Woodard Mickey Flacks Fund Fellow Christina McDermott

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Columnists Dennis Allen, Gail Arnold, Sara Caputo, Christine S. Cowles, Laura Gransberry, Betsy J. Green, Shannon Kelley, Austin Lampson, Melinda Palacio, Cheri Rae, Hugh Ranson, Amy Ramos, Jerry Roberts, Starshine Roshell

Contributors Rob Brezsny, Melinda Burns, Cynthia Carbone Ward, Ben Ciccati, Cheryl Crabtree, John Dickson, Roger Durling, Camille Garcia, Chuck Graham, Keith Hamm, Rebecca Horrigan, Gareth Kelly, Kevin McKiernan, Zoë Schiffer, David Starkey, Ethan Stewart, Brian Tanguay, Tom Tomorrow, Kevin Tran, Jatila Van der Veen, Isabelle Walker, Maggie Yates, John Zant

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Walkin’ & Rollin’

Celebrate This Earth Day on Two Legs, Two Wheels, or in EVs That Aren’t Teslas by Indy Staff

Esa-Pekka Salonen

This week, we’d like to introduce you to one of our interns here at the Indy! Meet Emma Eckert, one of the writers in this week’s Earth Day issue. She’s been able to cover courts and crime, business, and transportation for us and this week, she branches out even further to report on green energy in Santa Barbara. What was it like working on stories for this year’s Earth Day issue? I had a blast. I felt empowered diving into the initiatives our community has taken to ensure a more sustainable future. With Santa Barbara being the birthplace of Earth Day, writing these stories made me feel like I was part of the history happening here.

What got you into journalism? Have you written anywhere else before, or was this your first step into the field? I got into journalism because I’ve always loved writing and telling stories. One day, I was browsing UCSB’s website looking for a minor that would let me do both and it dawned on me that that’s exactly what journalism is. Storytelling has been around as long as humans have, and that timelessness is what drew me in. This is the first news outlet I’ve written for, but I do have experience writing historical narratives during an internship I did in Washington, D.C.

Do you see yourself in a career in journalism in the future? What do you hope to focus on? I do see myself pursuing a career in journalism. I’m especially interested in political journalism. But if all my dreams came true, I’d probably be hosting NBC’s Today show and moderating presidential debates. Are you a Santa Barbara native or did you move here? What are some of your favorite things to do in S.B.? I moved here from Bakersfield in 2021 to start my first year at UCSB, so I’ve been here for about four years now. I love everything about Santa Barbara from grabbing Bettina pizza and heading to Butterfly Beach for sunset, to seeing doggies in every store.

LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC

Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor Laureate Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano

The Los Angeles Philharmonic, under the baton of their esteemed Conductor Laureate Esa-Pekka Salonen, return for an evening of grand musical exploration with celebrated pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard. The concert marks Maestro Salonen’s sixteenth appearance conducting for CAMA over the past three decades—twelve with the LA Phil and three with London’s Philharmonia Orchestra.

DEBUSSY: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun)

BARTÓK: Piano Concerto No. 3, Sz. 119, BB 127 (1945)

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55, “Eroica” FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2025,

Principal Sponsors: Bitsy & Denny Bacon and The Becton Family Foundation • Mosher Foundation

Sponsors: Towbes Fund for the Performing Arts, a field of interest fund of the Santa Barbara Foundation

Co-Sponsors: Rosalind A. Fendon & Ronald D. Fendon • Beth Gates Warren & Bob Boghosian

Christine & Robert Emmons • Sally & George Messerlian • John & Ellen Pillsbury

Patricia & Nicolas Weber • Beth & George Wood • Nancy & Byron K. Wood

Jeff Shelton. Photo by Macduff Everton. Design by Xavier Pereyra.

County of Santa Barbara Board of Supervisors

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Isla Vista Rental Housing Inspection Pilot Program

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

County Administration Building Board Hearing Room

105 E. Anapamu Street, Fourth Floor, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

Hearing begins at 9:00 A.M

On May 6, 2025, the County Board of Supervisors will conduct a public hearing to consider a proposed amendment to Chapter 10, Building Regulations, to add Article XVIII to establish a pilot rental housing inspection program within the community of Isla Vista. The pilot program would allow the County to proactively inspect rental properties in Isla Vista for safety and code violations to ensure that all rental units meet basic health and safety standards, hold landlords accountable, and protect tenants from exploitative practices.

The proposed ordinance consists of the following:

 Enacting regulations

 Registration of rental properties

 Inspections and eligible exemptions

 Enforcement and violation measures

Grace Yia-Hei Kao

Professor of Ethics

Claremont School of Theology

Righting Wrong When “Sorry” Isn’t Enough: Constructing

Righting Wrong When “Sorry” Isn’t Enough: Constructing an Asian American Theology of Reparations

Grace Yia-Hei Kao

Professor of Ethics

Claremont School of Theology

Case No. 25ORD‐00005, an ordinance amending Chapter 10, Building Regulations of the Santa Barbara County Code.

The Board of Supervisors hearing begins at 9:00 A.M. The order of items listed on the agenda is subject to change by the Clerk of the Board. Please see the posted agenda and staff reports available on the Thursday prior to the meeting at http://santabarbara.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx under the hearing date or contact the Clerk of the Board at (805) 568‐2240 for alternative options.

For additional information, please contact the planner Corina Venegas‐Martin at cvenegas@countyofsb.org.

IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

For all current and alternative methods of public participation and comment for the meeting of May 6, 2025, please refer to page two of the posted Agenda.

The following alternative methods of participation are available to the public:

1. You may observe the live stream of the Board of Supervisors meetings in the following ways:

 Local Cable Channel 20,

 Online at: https://www.countyofsb.org/1333/CSBTV‐Livestream; or

 YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/user/CSBTV20.

2. If you wish to comment on this item, the following methods are available:

 Distribution to the Board of Supervisors ‐ Submit email comments by email prior to 5:00 p.m. on the day prior to the Board meeting. Please submit your comment to the Clerk of the Board at: sbcob@countyofsb.org. Your comment will be distributed to the Board and posted online. Whether the comment is formally part of the record depends on the agenda item it is submitted for and its length and time of submittal as set out in Board Resolution 91‐333 (Land Use).

 Attend the Meeting In‐Person ‐ Individuals are allowed to attend and provide comments at the Board meeting in‐person.

 Attend the Meeting by Zoom Webinar ‐ Individuals wishing to provide public comment during the Board meeting can do so via Zoom. The hyperlink is located on page 2 of the meeting Agenda, which is available at our online Board Meeting Calendar at https://santabarbara.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx#.

When: May 6, 2025, 9:00 A.M. Pacific Time (US and Canada) Topic: Board of Supervisors Hearing 5/6/2025

If you challenge the project in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in correspondence to the Clerk of the Board prior to the public hearing. Attendance and participation by the public is invited and encouraged. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this hearing, please contact the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors by 4:00 p.m. on Friday before the Board meeting at (805) 568‐2240.

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an Asian American Theology of Reparations

McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) UC Santa Barbara FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

How should federal governments remedy past wrongs? Should victims of group-based harms or their descendants press current generations to atone for the sins of their predecessors? Grace Kao will engage these questions by drawing upon the human rights standard for reparations, theological resources, and four case-studies of acknowledged wrongdoing against AAPI communities: Chinese Exclusion era discrimination, Japanese American forced evacuation and mass incarceration, denial of full veteran benefits to Filipinos who fought under the U.S. flag during WWII, and the Congressional apologies to Native Hawaiians for the illegal overthrow of their monarchy.

How should federal governments remedy past wrongs? Should victims of group-based harms or their descendants press current generations to atone for the sins of their predecessors?

Grace Kao will engage these questions by drawing upon the human rights standard for reparations, theological resources, and four case-studies of acknowledged wrongdoing against AAPI communities: Chinese Exclusion era discrimination, Japanese American forced evacuation and mass incarceration, denial of full veteran benefits to Filipinos who fought under the U.S. flag during WWII, and the Congressional apologies to Native Hawaiians for the illegal overthrow of their monarchy.

Grace Yia-Hei Kao Professor of Ethics Claremont School of Theology

Grace Yia-Hei Kao is Professor of Ethics and the inaugural Sano Chair in Pacific and Asian American Theology at Claremont School of Theology. She is the author or co-editor of four books.

Grace Professor inaugural Pacific Theology School the author books.

Grace Yia-Hei Kao is Professor of Ethics and the inaugural Sano Chair in Pacific and Asian American Theology at Claremont School of Theology. She is the author or co-editor of four books.

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How should federal governments wrongs? Should victims of group or their descendants press current generations to atone for the predecessors? Grace Kao will questions by drawing upon the standard for reparations, theological resources, and four case-studies acknowledged wrongdoing against communities: Chinese Exclusion discrimination, Japanese American evacuation and mass incarceration, full veteran benefits to Filipinos under the U.S. flag during WWII, Congressional apologies to Native for the illegal overthrow of their

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NEWS of the WEEK

S.B. Passes Tenant Protections

Addressing ‘Renovictions’

Provisions Include Rent Cap on Renovated Units, Stricter Contractor Requirements, ‘Cooling-Off Period’

by Ryan P. Cruz

Santa Barbara City Council voted 4-2 Tuesday to tighten the city’s eviction ordinance, adding a 10 percent cap on rent increases for tenants displaced for renovations, along with two more provisions intended to protect tenants from a process that’s come to be known as “renoviction.”

For more than two years, renters have shared firsthand experiences of “renovictions,” in which property owners evict tenants for a substantial remodel and rents are raised beyond what the original tenants could afford. In 2023, the city began pursuing changes to the city code to address the problem, with several amendments gaining unanimous approval from the Ordinance Committee in December 2023. But when the proposal came across the city council in January 2024, it was tweaked at the last minute, granting tenants the right to return if they were kicked out for renovations, but putting no limit on what property owners could charge for rent. Even back then, Councilmember Meagan Harmon warned that the ordinance left the door wide open for legal renovictions using what she called a “loophole” in the law that left residents vulnerable for displacement. The loophole, though seemingly small and highly specific, “punches way above its weight” in terms of its impact on the community, Harmon said on Tuesday.

In February this year, councilmembers Wendy Santamaria and Kristen Sneddon brought back the three previously considered provisions by way of a two-person memo, asking that City Council reconsider the amendments and close the loophole by placing a cap

on rent increases postrenovation, requiring a third-party contractor to prove tenants must be displaced for renovations, and instituting a “cooling-off period” that would prevent remodeling or demolishing properties with more than five units for at least a year after purchase.

It took several extra steps, with the council first voting to officially consider the item, then another hearing to decide when to put the matter to a council vote. It was then scheduled for a big hearing on April 8, which was canceled due to Councilmember Eric Friedman suffering a heart attack just a few days before. And as each week passed, more residents came to the city to report more evictions, with Councilmember Sneddon estimating “upwards of 100 people” affected.

“Every time we hear this, we see new faces,” Sneddon said at Tuesday’s hearing. “Because there are new units that are being impacted; there are new people affected. Every time we talk about this and don’t act, we are exacerbating the problem.”

As usual, the hearing drew a crowd of public commenters, with more than 30 people supporting the tenant protections and about a dozen property owners and real estate experts speaking out against the restrictions.

According to data from the Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County, which provides legal representation to tenants fighting eviction, there have been 161 households evicted for renovations since 2023. Of those, only 43 remain.

One of those displaced residents is Christian Nuñez, who was born and raised in Santa Barbara where he lived with his family before they were evicted for a renovation. They couldn’t afford to stay in town and moved to Ventura County, with his parents still commuting to work in Santa Barbara daily. “We didn’t just lose our housing, but we lost the connection to the place we called home,” Nuñez said. “Our story is not unique.”

Others reported being evicted for minor repairs such as bathtub replacements and forced to decide whether they should uproot their families or try their luck in Santa Bar-

bara’s notoriously competitive rental market.

On the other hand, property owners worried that the amendments were politically motivated, and that the new cap on rent increases would make it virtually impossible to undertake any renovations. Betty Jeppesen, President of the Santa Barbara Rental Property Association, said that the city requiring a third-party contractor was putting another undue burden on landlords.

“It is difficult enough to get one contractor to work,” she said. “Getting two contractors and asking that one sign a document under penalty of perjury is impossible.”

Some property owners warned that adding more restrictions would cause landlords to defer maintenance and allow properties to deteriorate, ultimately hurting tenants more in the end. Developers argued that any influence on the open market could have a chilling effect on new construction.

Councilmember Santamaria, who has been a vocal supporter of tenants even prior to her election to council, fought back against the idea that tightening the ordinance would lead to unintended consequences. She said the city included exemptions on any units built in the past 15 years, owner-occupied single-family residences, single family homes and condos not owned by corporations, duplex units where owners live in a unit, and institutional rentals like hotels, dorms, and deed-restricted low-income housing.

“These three amendments here have been through due process, have been talked about for years,” Councilmember Santamaria said. “There’s literally no reason to delay. There are people’s lives not just money at risk here.”

Councilmember Mike Jordan, who originally suggested the “cooling-off period” before having a change of heart and voting against it, said that he agreed that the problem was real, though he “disagreed with the pathway to solve the problem.” Mayor Randy Rowse, who also voted against the provisions, said he felt as though the city was pitting one side against the other and perpetuating the narrative of landlords against tenants.

“Both sides need each other,” Mayor Rowse said.

The council approved the three amendments in a 4-2 vote, directing city staff to return with an ordinance to be officially adopted during next week’s consent agenda. Council also asked that the city consider an appeals process for landlords to pursue exemptions that aren’t covered by the ordinance. n

NEWS BR IEFS

ANIMALS

The California Highway Patrol reported a bear carcass found on southbound Highway 101 near Summerland on 4/23. The bear was originally reported around 9:30 p.m. the night prior as a deer collision. The agency said it has notified Caltrans, state Fish and Wildlife, and the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians about the bear. CHP is unaware of any human injuries at this time. This bear may well have been the one seen last week around Goleta, Isla Vista, and UCSB (above); it is challenging to know for certain, as the bear was untagged. Photos of prints consistent with bear tracks were last reported on patio furniture on the Mesa in Santa Barbara, indicating the bear was traveling south.

More than 200 crucially endangered steelhead trout that survived the Palisades Fire in L.A. have spawned a new generation in their new digs in Santa Barbara County. The steelhead were relocated from Topanga Creek to Arroyo Hondo Creek, where state Fish and Wildlife biologists recently confirmed the presence of approximately 100 newly hatched young-ofthe-year trout, the Land Trust of S.B. County said in a press release. Environmental groups see the spawning event as a critical milestone in efforts to protect and restore Southern California steelhead populations.

ENVIRONMENT

Several students and teachers were honored for being “eco-champions” at Explore Ecology’s Environmental Stewardship Awards Luncheon on 4/17. Among the honorees was Goleta Family School teacher Ashley Griffin and her class of kindergarteners and 1st graders, who used a $4,000 NOAA grant to transform an empty, dead space next to their classroom into a vibrant garden of native plants. Alongside Griffin’s class, the winners included San Marcos High’s Sustainable Future Club, seven teachers, and four students. Read more at independent.com/environment.

HOUSING

The City of Santa Barbara is reviewing resubmitted plans for the eight-story building proposed at 505 E. Los Olivos St., the property between the Santa Barbara Mission and S.B. Museum of Natural History. The new plans show an expanded housing project, including 270 rental units compared to the previous 255 units. As a builder’s remedy project, the developers can bypass zoning requirements unless the project would unavoidably harm the health and safety of the public. The city has until 5/12 to determine if this application is complete.

CRUZ, CALLIE FAUSEY, JACKSON FRIEDMAN, TYLER HAYDEN, MARGAUX LOVELY, CHRISTINA McDERMOTT, NICK WELSH, and JEAN YAMAMURA

Councilmember Wendy Santamaria has been pushing for stronger protections against evictions.

Muralist, Tattooist Danny Meza Dies

Danny Meza, muralist, tattoo artist, and hometown hero whose art took him from Westside Santa Barbara across the world, died last week at the age of 35 in San Diego.

Meza’s art graces the skin of hundreds of Santa Barbarans and the walls of numerous businesses and public spaces around the city. He came up learning from some of the great artists in the city, painting murals with Manuel Unzueta and cutting his teeth at Mission Tattoo before spreading his artistic wings and moving to San Diego to open his own shop. When he heard that one of his recent works a mural with two interlocking hands painted on the wall outside Brownie’s Market on De la Vina Street was defaced, he came right back to town to retouch the mural and used the

COMMUNITY

incident as an opportunity to advocate for more public spaces for art.

Meza was born in Santa Barbara in 1990, and he often said his art was defined by his upbringing, cartoons, skateboard graphics, comic books, and graffiti. Later in his career, he used his art as a way to see the world, doing guest spots in tattoo shops and conventions and expanding his influences.

No details have been released surrounding his death, though the news spread quickly over social media, where friends, fellow artists, and Santa Barbarans shared photos and memories dedicated to his life and work.

“Rest in Power,” wrote City Councilmember Oscar Gutierrez, who represents the Westside district and attended San Marcos High School with Meza. “You were a true local and a great artist. Your work will live on.”

Meza’s family created a GoFundMe page to help pay for funeral services.

“Danny was a monumental figure in the Santa Barbara art scene, a pioneer in the mural community, and a Santa Barbara legend in every sense,” wrote Meza’s younger brother, Jon. “His art brightened our streets, and his presence brightened our lives.”

—Ryan P.Cruz

Since the April Fools’ Day announcement that the Fiesta Stock Horse Show and Rodeo was canceled, members of Old Spanish Days have nonetheless been trying to negotiate with Earl Warren Showgrounds to try to find a way to hold the century-old event. No agreement was found, and the rodeo is scrubbed for 2025, Fritz Olenberger, El Presidente this year, announced on April 21.

Josiah Jenkins, who heads the rodeo committee, had asked the Showgrounds for one last proposal. Earl Warren offered to hold a professional rodeo only, with sponsors and 10-20 volunteers from Old Spanish Days. Earl Warren would assume all the risk and responsibility for the event, but also the profit, if there was any. No local participation or events would take place.

In reply, the Showgrounds boards, through its CEO Ben Sprague, sent an email expressing surprise and deep sadness that the rodeo was canceled. “The Showgrounds was fully prepared to keep the rodeo tradition alive this year,” Sprague wrote. While a subsequent email from Sprague and 19th board president Tory Milazzo said the Showgrounds hoped to host the rodeo in the future, it added that its fees were “publicly adopted policies and are applied consistently to all users.”

Of the annual rodeo costs, “There’s quite a chasm between expenses and income,” Jenkins said on Monday. Some of the expense was the $5,000 purse to attract professional rodeo cowboys to Santa Barbara. Competing rodeos in the northwest and Midwest, where more than one rodeo would be held in a locale, could offer purses of between $15,000 to $40,000.

At the general board meeting on April 16, the members had agreed the terms were not acceptable. In a letter to the Showgrounds Foundation and the 19th District Agricultural Association, which owns Earl Warren, Old Spanish Days outlined the board’s inability to work “collaboratively toward a fair and sustainable agreement” and a number of financial issues.

They were working toward 2026 at this point, said Jenkins, and an arena in Ventura had been in touch as an alternative site, as had the equestrian center in Santa Ynez. He said they planned to put the next Fiesta rodeo on from the heart, from the positive, and “to do it right.”

—Jean Yamamura

Artist Danny Meza in front of his repaired mural at Brownie’s Market.

COURTS & CRIME

Judge Banned from Bench for Life

Michael Carrazzo Agrees to Resign over Alleged Ethical Breaches

Nick Welsh

Rather than face the withering full-court press threatened by the state’s Commission on Judicial Performance about alleged ethical breaches, Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge Michael Carrozzo agreed to step down from the bench as of June 2 and never to seek, accept, or hold any positions of judicial responsibility in California for the rest of his life.

While Carrozzo is hardly the first Santa Barbara judge to face controversy or even criticism from the Commission on Judicial Performance he is the first in living memory to leave office before his term expires as a result. Or put in legal terms, Carrozzo agreed to accept “an irrevocable resignation from office” to resolve the “imposition of a severe public censure.”

Carrozzo, a former prosecuting attorney with a prior history as a JAG officer (the military equivalent of a judge) while serving in the military, is one of two South Coast judges who brings with him a deep background in criminal law. It remains to be seen what impact his departure will have on caseload and case management hot-button issues in the context of the ongoing debate about how many jail beds the county needs.

Carrozzo was appointed to the bench in 2014 and served as presiding judge in 2020 during the height of the COVID pandemic. Some have suggested the bruised feelings he engendered among other judges during the pandemic might have helped spark the initial investigation of judicial misconduct.

According to the 40-page bill of particulars prepared by the commission, Carrozzo repeatedly violated judicial ethics by representing himself as the attorney representing his then administrative assistant and now his wife Sara Eklund. According to state judicial ethics rules, sitting judges are barred from practicing law in California. Carrozzo repeatedly did just that, crafting tough-talking legal letters on behalf of Eklund, who was frustrated by her insurance company’s failure to respond after she’d been hit in a car accident in 2018. In some communications, Carrozzo identified himself as “an attorney at law,” and instructed attorneys for the insurance company to contact him rather than Eklund.

In other instances, the judge wrote stern notes on behalf of Eklund when her landlord increased her rent. He wrote

similar letters for her in a dispute over the purchase of a new mattress and in getting their unborn child placed on a college waiting list.

According to the commission’s findings, Carrozzo was initially less than forthcoming when asked by investigators whether he falsely represented himself as an attorney licensed to practice law. More recently, however, Carrozzo acknowledged those letters clearly suggested he was a lawyer in good standing with the state, and not a judge barred from the practice of law.

By agreeing to plead guilty to these complaints, he effectively put to rest three additional complaints that were more personal in nature. The commission had concluded that the email history between Carrozzo and Eklund contained snarky comments by the judge about other judges, court staff, and attorneys “that could undermine public respect for and confidence in the integrity of the judicial system.”

The commission also suggested that Carrozzo provided numerous opportunities of a professional nature for Eklund, over whom he held a direct supervisor relationship, during the time of their courtship. This, the commission concluded, “reflected favoritism or created an appearance thereof.”

Attorney Heather Rosing, who represented Carrozzo in these deliberations, issued a statement on Carrozzo’s behalf. “Mike Carrozzo is kind, hardworking, and skilled and has served the people of California well, first as a Deputy DA and then as a judge. Sometimes the right thing to do for your family as well as your court and colleagues is to move on, which is what Mike Carrozzo agreed to do last week,” she stated. “Mike Carrozzo is grateful for the opportunities given to him by his court and thanks his wife for standing by him.”

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When Santa Barbara resident Wendy Schmidt and her husband, Eric, heard that the beloved community market Tri-County Produce was in danger of closing by the end of April, the pair jumped at the opportunity to step in as angel investors, working with the ownership group to negotiate a deal that would allow the store to continue running under the stewardship of two longtime employees, father and son Jaime Desales Sr. and Jaime Desales Jr. Wendy said she read the news of TriCounty Produce owner John Dixon’s plans to retire and close shop in a March 7 Santa Barbara Independent article, and right away she reached out to Dixon and business partners Austin Herlihy and Chris Parker to see if there was some way to keep the business going after Dixon’s departure.

“I knew we had to find a way for this beloved market to continue serving the community,” Wendy told the Independent. “With its 40 years of networked fresh produce suppliers across the region and a unique curation of other products, Tri-County Produce has become an essential part of Santa Barbara.”

PUBLIC SAFETY

Goleta resident Edgar Rojas Reveles, 19, died in a three-car collision on 4/17, which also sent an 87-year-old Goleta woman to the hospital with major injuries. The crash occurred on Modoc Road east of Via Senda at around 12:34 p.m., according to California Highway Patrol, which said Reveles’s car crossed the double solid yellow lines into the westbound lane and collided head-on with an Audi A4 before hitting the side of a Toyota Camry and overturning. The Sheriff’s Office said that drugs and alcohol do not appear to be a factor in the death at this time. The incident remains under investigation, and CHP encourages anyone with information to contact its S.B. office at (805) 770-4800.

Wendy, a former journalist and current Lotusland boardmember, and her husband, Eric, Google’s CEO from 2001 to 2011 and executive chair for four years after that, have been active philanthropists since 2006, when they started the Schmidt Foundation. Since then, the Schmidts have founded the Schmidt Ocean Institute and Schmidt Sciences. Just last month, their family foundation secured the purchase of the 350-acre Mar y Cel property, which they intend to preserve as open space.

The Schmidt family’s investment into TriCounty Produce will be part of a deal that will allow the father-son duo of Desales Sr. and his son, “Mito,” to run the business and ultimately take over as owners. Desales Sr., who has worked at the market for 26 years, said the opportunity to carry the business into its next chapter was both “humbling and exciting.”

Tri-County Produce is expected to remain open while the rest of the property undergoes redevelopment, with 53 units of residential housing proposed on the parcels directly behind the market. —Ryan P.Cruz

Raquel Zick. While there is not much information to share at this early stage of the investigation, Zick said, the death “does not appear to be criminal in nature.” The body is now with the Coroner’s Bureau, which will determine the cause and manner of death. The deceased’s identity is being withheld pending notification of next of kin.

COMMUNITY

Authorities responded to reports of a dead body found inside a vehicle on the 6800 block of Casitas Pass Road in Carpinteria on 4/16. Sheriff’s deputies and California Highway Patrol were called to the scene at 11:52 a.m., said Sheriff’s spokesperson

“For even if there ain’t no money in poetry, it still offers clarity as golden as California’s sunshine, as life attesting as UC’s motto, Fiat Lux,” said George Yatchisin in his first recitation as Santa Barbara Poet Laureate. Installed by the Santa Barbara City Council on 4/22 as Santa Barbara’s 11th Poet Laureate, Yatchisin, a longtime Independent contributor, joins what he called “an esteemed League of Laureates” that includes his most recent predecessor Melinda Palacio, as well as Emma Trelles, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Enid Osborn, Sojourner Kincaid Rolle, Chryss Yost (who is married to Yatchisin), Paul Willis, David Starkey, Perie Longo, and Barry Spacks. n

Angel investors Wendy Schmidt and her husband, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, swooped in to save Tri-County Produce from its looming closure.

Sable Saga Continues

A Busy Week for Oil Company’s Attorneys

by Margaux Lovely

After being smacked left and right with enforcement actions and violation notices from the California Coastal Commission, County of Santa Barbara, and other state agencies, oil company Sable Offshore earned itself a temporary, yet pivotal win in Santa Barbara County Superior Court on April 17, when Judge Thomas Anderle denied the Coastal Commission represented by California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office a temporary restraining order against Sable Offshore for their alleged unpermitted work on coastal oil pipelines. Later that day, the state’s Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board voted unanimously to refer their own issue with Sable Offshore alleged unpermitted waste discharge into waterways to Bonta for judicial prosecution.

The Coastal Commission requested Bonta’s help after the agency issued a second cease-and-desist order to Sable for unpermitted work in the coastal zone. Sable affirms that their work is authorized under permits issued to the pipeline’s original owner in the 1980s, and a letter from Santa Barbara County confirms this. As such, Sable sued the commission shortly after for jurisdictional overreach. Sable has continued work in the coastal zone despite being hit with a third cease-and-desist order and an $18 million penalty by the commission earlier this month.

Judge Anderle issued a tentative ruling in favor of Bonta and the Coastal Commission, foreseeing himself granting their request for a restraining order. But, after reading Sable’s opposition documents in the courtroom in real time, he changed his mind and denied the order. The matter will move forward, however, and arguments for a preliminary injunction will be heard on May 14.

Later that day in Watsonville, California, the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board asked Bonta to step in, again, on their behalf. The board’s report alleged that Sable was discharging waste into state waterways without notifying the agency or having proper permits. While after-the-fact

applications have since been submitted, the report alleges that Sable has continued to discharge waste at new locations without oversight.

Despite questions swirling over its jurisdiction and absence at key meetings, Santa Barbara County has timidly stepped up to the plate in fining Sable $2,000 for working well outside of its permitted hours of 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Santa Rosa Road. As the oil company nears a potential restart of the offshore platforms and pipelines involved in the 2015 Refugio Oil Spill, rigorous hydrostatic testing is being performed on the pipelines to ensure their viability and structural soundness. Unfortunately for Santa Ynez Valley residents, the loud testing has occurred overnight, causing multiple complaints to be filed with the county.

Santa Barbara County is also gearing up for another possible round of litigation with Sable Offshore. The supervisors voted 2-2 in February to transfer the pipeline’s owner and operator permits from former owner ExxonMobil to Sable, opponents citing uncertainty around the company’s insurance policies and financial capabilities of cleaning up a spill. The last time the supervisors voted 2-2 on a Sable matter whether to grant the permits for constructing state-required safety valves on the pipeline in 2023 Sable sued the county. Eventually, the parties settled, with the county claiming it has no jurisdiction over underground activities on the pipeline, including construction.

Now, a spokesperson for Sable has indicated that if the county does not rectify their February 2-2 vote and transfer the ownership permits from Exxon to Sable, they will pursue litigation. The Planning Commission initially voted 3-1 to approve the transfer, but an appeal put the vote into the hands of the supervisors. Sable has argued that in the event of a tie vote, the Planning Commission’s decision stands. From the county’s perspective, the 2-2 vote is legally a “nonaction,” and as such, the permits must remain in Exxon’s name. The de novo nature of the vote means that a tie does not revert it to the Planning Commission, the county claims.

Sable Offshore’s Steve Rusch with attorney DJ Moore at this month’s Coastal Commission meeting

Opinions

Beware of Dog, Ma

GLORY BE: There have been standing instructions at the Indy offices that I was to be interrupted if and when the pope ever called Only my mechanic, a miracle worker in his own right, had that exalted clearance. He called me many times. The pope, sadly, never got around to it. To be honest, I just wanted to thank him. Yes, I ditched the church in 7th grade, having experienced the precocious crisis of faith then making the rounds. But this guy Francis was something else. When Francis the first Jesuit pope, the first citizen of the “the Americas” to be pope, and the first pope ever to take the name Francis was sworn in as capo de tutti of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics 13 years ago, Pope Francis looked merely promising.

At least he wasn’t a reactionary like his predecessor

In subsequent years, Francis would emerge as a heroic, lonely, and profoundly comforting figure on the world stage. For me, he’s been a much-needed tonic to the toxic culture of contempt, cruelty, indifference, and disdain unleashed by the growing legion of wannabe despots and dictators now getting elected.

I hate to steal anything from Bob Dylan, but he nailed it when he described Francis as being “a voice of mercy in a time of noise.” Francis, he said, demonstrated that “Faith doesn’t have to shout to be heard.”

A month before Francis died, Elon Musk was explaining how empathy had been “weaponized.” Apparently, Democrats had a secret

plan to take over the U.S. government forever by legalizing all illegal immigrants they allowed over the borders and then harvesting their votes. “We’ve got civilizational suicidal empathy going on,” Musk claimed. Huh?

A month later on the day he died Pope Francis had prepared remarks he intended to make to the Easter crowd gathering at St. Mark’s Square. “How much contempt is stirred up at times toward the most vulnerable, the marginalized, and migrants?” he had written.

On other occasions, he denounced as “not Christian” leaders who wanted to build walls, not bridges. God, he stressed, lives in everyone. “He is present in the unwashed visitor, often unrecognizable, who walks through our cities, who travels on our buses, and knocks on our door.”

On another occasion, he asked, “How is it not news when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points?”

It was a rhetorical question. Except, of course, it isn’t.

At a time when the term “populist” has lost all connection with any reality, Pope Francis was the genuine article. He grew up in Argentina, the son of Italian immigrants called golindrinas blackbirds the Italians who worked as seasonal laborers. As a young man, Francis danced the tango doesn’t

everyone from Argentina and he worked briefly as a bouncer at a nightclub. When he became pope, he insisted on driving an old Fiat, eschewing the bloated splendor of his Vatican digs

No, Francis never changed church doctrine. What he did may have been more profound; he changed culture. Those who came of age in the shadow of the church experienced a tectonic shift from dogma and guilt to acceptance and love

Three months into the gig, a reporter asked Francis about gay priests. “Who am I to judge?” he famously replied. His predecessor, when asked the same question just a few years prior, said they should be uprooted from the ministry forthwith.

Soon after, Francis issued his 45,000word encyclical “Praise Be!” excoriating the mayhem we’re inflicting on Planet Earth. Climate change, he took seriously. “Because of us, thousands of species will no longer give glory to God by their existence,” he wrote. “We have no such right.” In a more understated way, he would later note, “Right now, we don’t have very good relations with creation.”

Pope Francis was all about the Good Samaritan. That parable was his mantra. What we were doing to the planet, we were also doing to the poor. Money should serve, not rule, he noted. Given how violently skewed the distribution of wealth globally had become, Francis worried a lot about what he called “the

globalization of indifference.” Given how many people starved as the top 20 percent gorged, he suggested, the meaning of “Thou shall not kill” needed to be seriously reexamined

Not to belabor the obvious, but in the United States, the top one percent controls 30 percent of the wealth. The bottom 50 percent, by contrast, controls 2.6 percent

You do the math.

I can’t.

At the risk of repeating myself, can you please explain why we insist on calling people hell-bent on eliminating funding for Head Start which in Santa Barbara County offers free daycare, free preschool preparation and training, free meals, and free medical treatment to 600 families of the working poor “populists.”

Francis went out as he came: pedal to the metal. On Easter Sunday, he exchanged pleasantries with Vice President JD Vance a very recent convert to Catholicism, with whom he recently had a very pointed disagreement about immigration and theology. Then he addressed the Easter multitudes in St. Mark’s Square, with only the strength to bemoan the festering humanitarian crisis that still is Gaza. Then he slid into the popemobile for his last Easter joyride.

Not long after, he had a stroke, went into a coma, and had a heart attack.

Along the way, Francis had much to say. “Life is a journey,” he said. “When we stop, things don’t go right.” He also said, “And here is the first word I wish to say to you: joy!” Hey, man, it’s not too late to call.

—

Nick Welsh

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Balance of Shade

Well-regarded economist Jeffrey Sachs recently spoke a warning about the tariffs instituted by President Trump. He stated that the president had no understanding of balance of trade or how tariffs worked. As he put it in simple terms, the president thinks that if someone spends money at the shoe store but does not sell an equal or greater amount of goods or services to the store, then the store is cheating and taking advantage of that person and should be penalized by an extra tariff, or tax, on shoes.

This, according to Sachs, is astounding ignorance on the part of anyone who took the first course in economics; is downright frightening when it is the President of the United States; and is resulting in the irreversible destruction of world trade that has worked for many decades.

—Stephen C. Martin, Solvang

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Ican’t understand your business model. Free print if I go get it on the street, but I haven’t been able to read it online recently. What gives?

Mike Adriansen, Buellton

Editor’s Reply: A majority of our content remains accessible online without a paid subscription by registering your email. We launched subscriptions in 2020 to supplement our print advertising revenue, which has sustained the Independent for close to 40 years. Unfortunately, as more readers have gone online, the revenue hasn’t followed. Online subscriptions support the hundreds of articles we post that never see print and gives readers a way to support the Independent directly.

Repurpose!

Regarding home deconstruction, discussed in Tyler Hayden’s “Banishing the Bulldozer” in the April 10 edition, Santa Barbara City College offers two noncredit classes twice a year that earn the student a Sustainable Building certificate. The Deconstruction & ReUse class contrasts deconstruction versus demolition with emphasis on reusing materials.

In the Repurposing & Refurbishing class, for example, we considered that a solid wood door saved during the deconstruction process of a house could be repurposed as a tabletop or cut to fit a new doorway.

The instructor, Carol Ashley, has been preaching deconstruction and reuse, for many years, to anyone who will listen! She has an architectural reuse warehouse in Goleta called Demo 2 Design.

The article also zeroed in on an extreme issue with reuse: where to store the materials you save. Habitat for Humanity had a reuse store in Goleta that closed during COVID. Carol has had a warehouse for 24 years. And now, the need for an alternative to high-lease, difficult-to-find storage and resale space has prompted her to begin developing a strategic system for marketing material without a warehouse.

The local government agencies need to be involved for deconstruction to get a true foothold in Santa Barbara County. —John Bostock, Goleta

No Oil on These Waters

Sable

Offshore Oil reportedly estimates that once the Santa Ynez Unit platforms are operating, they will produce 28,000 barrels of oil a day.

The Santa Ynez unit has three offshore platforms Hondo, Harmony, and Heritage located in federal waters a few miles off the coast. These platforms are 36 to 49 years old, and they last operated in 2015.

Why do we need the Santa Ynez Unit’s oil production? In two days, Texas produces more oil than these platforms could produce in a year. Besides, oil can be produced in Texas’s Permian basin for $31-$34 per barrel while California offshore oil costs $36-$49 per barrel.

Restarting this project has a high risk of failure and makes no economic sense for California.

—Craig B. Smith, S.B.

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read Margaux Lovely’s piece on the fine meted out to Sable Offshore by the Coastal Commission, and I was struck by one statistic: Did 2,600 Californians truly decide of their own volition to submit letters to the CCC in favor of an oil company? I am the least conspiracy-minded person on Earth, but the plausibility of 2,600 people independently deciding to voice their support for Sable seems exceedingly limited. I am seriously curious as whether Sable orchestrated such an outpouring of goodwill.

—Loren Butler, Lompoc

Editor Reply: Sable’s websites offer “Take Action” forms that supporters can fill out to send letters. According to Sable’s public relations firm, 2,600 supportive letters went to the Coastal Commission.

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obituaries

Robert Mireles

07/04/1941 – 02/27/2025

It is with great sorrow we announce the passing of Santa Barbara native Robert Mireles, affectionately known as Bob, on February 27, 2025, at the age of 83. Bob was born on July 4, 1941, in Santa Barbara, CA, to parents Juan and Louisa Mireles.

Bob was preceded in death by his beloved wife Esther in 1993, with whom he shared a life filled with love and laughter. Together they raised two sons, Robert and Eric Mireles. In 1994, Bob found love and happiness again when he met Connie Lewis. They married in August of 2013, bringing joy to one another’s lives.

Bob established Mireles Automotive in 1977 and will be remembered fondly by many car enthusiasts in the Santa Barbara area. He was a man of great integrity and will be remembered for his sense of humor and infectious smile. He loved playing golf and could be found at the Muni Golf Course with Los Paisanos when he wasn’t working. His passions extended beyond the green as he dedicated much of his time to restoring classic trucks, with his proudest achievement being a stunning 1956 Ford that he showcased at local car shows.

Bob's legacy lives on through his beloved wife, Connie; his sons, Robert (Jackie) Mireles and Eric Mireles (Debbie); and his stepsons, Chris and Jeff Lewis. He is also survived by five grandchildren: Jenn (Paul) Matsukas, Jesse (Meghan) Mireles, Nicole (Kevin) Crowell, Anthony (Alesya) Mireles, and Kyle (Kyleigh) Mireles. His family continues to flourish with the addition of seven great-grandchildren who loved him dearly. Bob is also survived by his sisters Beatrice Miles and Bertha Calderon and was predeceased by his brother Raul Mireles and stepson Garrett Lewis.

Bob will be laid to rest on Friday, May 9th, at 11:00 AM at the Goleta Cemetery.

Bob will be deeply missed but lovingly remembered by all whose lives he touched. May he rest in peace, knowing he leaves behind a legacy woven with love, laughter, and lasting memories.

Bob would have liked to acknowledge Anna Benson whom he referred to frequently as, “his right hand lady” for many years. He also referred to her as the daughter he never had.

Arrangements entrusted to McDermott-Crockett Mortuary

Phyllis Jane Gutsche 09/05/1922 – 02/09/2025

Phyllis Jane Gutsche passed away peacefully on February 9 2025, in Santa Barbara CA at 102 years old. The beloved wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother was born in 1922 in Waltham, Minnesota. She lived until the age of 12 in Hayfield, MN, before moving to St. Paul and was the third of four children born to Opal Kunze Stubstad and Lawrence Porter Stubstad.

She was strong, determined, and resilient. She survived scarlet fever as a child, the Great Depression as a teenager, a compound wrist fracture while playing tennis in her 50s, and COVID-19 at 100.

Phyllis met Lyle Gutsche in St. Paul and they were married in Columbia, Missouri in 1943, soon after Lyle enlisted in the Army Air Force. After World War II, they returned to St. Paul and began their family with the birth of Steven in 1946. The family moved to Richmond, CA, where Mark was born in 1949. A few years later the young family moved back to St. Paul where Gail arrived in 1954. After another stint in California, the Gutsches moved to the Village of Birchwood in White Bear Lake.

Phyllis was a master quilter who created dozens of vibrant, cheerful handstitched quilts for her extended family, each uniquely crafted for its recipient. An excellent cook and baker, Phyllis was serving grilled flank steak, Caesar salad, cheese souffle and Orange Chicken to friends and family back in the 70s. Dinner always ended with homebaked cookies, cakes, or pies. Her sweet rolls were legendary.

After Lyle retired in 1982, the couple bought a home in Borrego Springs, CA, where they spent winters exploring the de Anza Borrego Desert until his death in 1996. Phyllis bid Birchwood goodbye and moved to Santa Barbara permanently when she was 74. In her mid-nineties, she moved to Maravilla where she enjoyed playing Bridge and Rumikub with a rich group of friends. A formidable competitor, she didn’t like to lose and rarely did.

When asked at her 100 th birthday party what the secret to her longevity was, she replied, “Prayer and wine, in that order, every day.” Phyllis found her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ in her later years. She rests in eternal peace with Him now. The earthly world

is poorer in her passing; heaven has gained a faithful servant. Phyllis was preceded in death by her parents, Opal and Lawrence; her brothers Howard and Delbert; and her husband Lyle. She is survived by her brother Bill Stubstad of Denver; her children Steve (Marilyn) of Santa Barbara; Mark (Jean) of Sarasota, FL; Gail of Missoula MT; and six grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Contributions in her honor may be made to the Serenity House Hospice, VNA Health Foundation, 509 E. Montecito Street, Suite 200, Santa Barbara, CA 93103.

Elizabeth Laurent Montague, passed away on November 28th 2023 at the age of sixty-two in Carpinteria, Santa Barbara County with loved ones by her side. Elizabeth chose to use the End of Life Act to die with dignity after a late stage Cancer Diagnosis. Elizabeth was born in Ventura, California at Community Memorial Hospital on 02/08/1961, the fourth of four daughters of Charles Furbush Montague and Marilyn Alff Montague. She grew up in the Ventura Keys near the beach, but also traveled extensively as a young adult which inspired her appreciation of California, American, European and World art, music and history. She graduated from Ventura High School, and attended the University of California, Santa Barbara studying fine arts, design, music, video and writing, and then went to California Institute of the Arts in Valencia and graduated in 1988. Elizabeth traveled and lived in various cities in the US, including Los Angeles, New York and New Orleans. Wherever she traveled, she always lived her own way. She constantly expressed herself in her art, which was prolific and varied. From acting to digital art, music to painting, she was constantly

creating. Elizabeth began performing music in 1981 in the Santa Barbara and LA area. She collaborated with the following bands during the 1980s; A Few Circles, Victor of the Florist, Laughing Academy, and Tin Brood. She has shown art in prominent galleries in Los Angeles, and in New Orleans starting in 1986, and was a singer songwriter during the 1980s and 1990s. She played bass guitar in the last show of the Gun Club, during their Christmas Benefit in 1995. She consistently worked as a digital artist during the 1990s and 2000s, and also worked in graphic design, sound and motion design, and web development in Culver City, CA. She worked on the Visual Effects for the documentary film Pablo (2012). Her career in music, arts and film lasted forty years.

Elizabeth loved amethyst, cared about animals, and she devoted time and energy to the wellbeing of animals, including being an activist on social media and websites and she remained a vegan in support of this love for animals. She had two dogs and one cat that she loved very much. She also had a special place in her heart for plants. When her brother-in-law was in a nursing home, she brought him a stone pine tree as a gift, and when he passed, she helped plant the tree in the Ventura Botanical Garden. She made time for her niece and nephews, providing tools and teaching them about computers, arts, music and graphic design. She kindly and generously supported their dreams. She also has donated generously to the following non-profits including the Orangutan Foundation International, Rainforest Trust, Center for Biological Diversity, International Rhino Foundation, Last Chance for Animals, Wildlife Conservation Network.

She is survived by her sisters Ann of Seaside, Oregon, Victoria of Carpinteria, California, and Barbara of San Angelo, Texas; and by her niece and nephews Devon, Cameron, Darian, Kit, Rylan and Lane. A private ceremony will be held with family members spreading her ashes at Encinitas Beach, where she walked her dogs and went to spread their ashes. Anyone wishing to contact the family may email Devon for more information at inlovingmemoryofelm@gmail.com A Celebration of Life for Elizabeth will be held on Saturday, June 21st 1pm, 2025 at Ventura Center for Spiritual Living on 101 S. Laurel, Ventura, CA 93001.

You may visit Elizabeth’s website to view her gallery of artwork, music and graphic design: ElizabethMontague.com Another beautiful way to honor Elizabeth is by donating to one of her beloved charities shared above.

Kathleen

MacQuiddyGalbraith

07/08/1940 – 03/23/2025

In the early morning hours of March 23, 2025, a bright star in our orbit was extinguished, and the night sky appears less bright without her in it.

Kathleen MacQuiddy Galbraith passed away, leaving behind a legacy of love, strength and grace. She was a one-of-a-kind woman, cherished as a daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother, aunt, dear friend, and accomplished horsewoman. Her presence is missing, but she will never be forgotten.

Kathleen was born in Santa Barbara on July 8, 1940, to Dixon L. and Dorothy MacQuiddy. Her parents were descendants of California pioneer families, instilling in her a deep connection to her roots. Kathleen’s childhood was marked by an idyllic yet singular life, shaped by the values and traditions of her family.

Kathleen was preceded in death by her parents and stepson Andy Galbraith, as well as her first husband Donald Torgeson.

She leaves behind her loving husband Clinton Price “Chief” Galbraith; sister Maureen MacQuiddy Masson; son D. Mark Torgeson; daughter Lesley Torgeson Farmer (Jerry); daughters Setsuko Rose (Arnie) and Christine Grant (Bruce); grandchildren Claire and Matthew Morisoli, Andrew Torgeson and Angela Perry (Ryan), Ryan Grant, Andrew and Emily Galbraith; and great-grandchildren Chloe and Violet Nixon and Lilah Perry. Kathleen’s journey through life was remarkable in many ways. The diverse life experiences she had will ensure her legacy remains with us through the stories we share. Her legacy is one of love, resilience and indomitable spirit. Her memory will continue to shine brightly in the hearts of all who knew her. Though the night sky may seem less bright, her star will forever light our way.

A Celebration of Life in honor of Kathleen will be held on Sunday, May 4 at Manning Park. Please contact Kathleen’s daughter Lesley at LTMustangsally@gmail. com for further information.

Elizabeth Laurent Montague 02/08/1961 – 11/28/2023

Steve Hyslop

1954–2025

A True Family Man

BY RANDY ROWSE

Ifirst met Steve Hyslop at Chuck’s Steak House when he was hired as our newest dishwasher. He was tall and athletic, and other than those two traits, we had a lot in common. We both worked while going to school, weren’t clear on exactly what the future would hold, and neither had any inkling that we would end up with restaurant careers going forward.

Steve (nickname “Slop”) worked his way up through the ranks as busboy, waiter, bartender, and eventually assistant manager. His wicked sense of humor was on display frequently, inventing new cocktails with unique names, such as “Marty Feldman Eyes,” which I believe involved green cherries and blue curaçao, but not sure what else.

Slop was an amazing athlete who usually dominated whatever sport we played and was an “almost” rock star in the land of garage bands. Adulthood grabbed the reins when he met and married the love of his life, Karen. After a while, I left to open Paradise Café, and Slop became the general manager at Chuck’s, eventually becoming a partner in the Waterfront Grill/Endless Summer Bar at the harbor.

Steve was extremely quick-witted and hardworking, and he became a leader in the local hospitality industry. At the same time, he coached his daughter’s sports teams and got involved in various community business organizations.

Shorts and Hawaiian shirts made up approximately 100 percent of his public wardrobe. He was encouraged to attend the Chamber of Commerce’s annual awards banquet and, in a sea of blazers and business suits, found himself red-faced on stage while, in his usual fashion choice, he was surprised to be named Business Person of the Year.

Steve will be missed by many, including me. We shared business trajectories, bosses, and business partners, but most of all, knocking back the occasional Marty Feldman Eyes. Fair winds, Slop, old friend! n

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obituaries

Dorothy Jean Northenscold 02/27/1936 – 04/10/2025

Dorothy Jean Northenscold was guided by the angels to Heaven on April 10, 2025. She was surrounded by love and family. She is a 10th generation Californian. She was the family historian and traced our fraternal family back to the Portola and Rivera Expeditions in the late 1700's. Our family held the first land grant for San Simeon and was the first marriage held in the Presidio in Santa Barbara.

She was born in Santa Barbara to V. Earl Libbey and Marion (Howe) Libbey on February 27, 1936. She was the 3rd child born in her family, all girls! She attended Goleta Union School, La Cumbre Jr. High and Santa Barbara High School and later got her AA at Santa Barbara City College.

She was preceded in death by her loving and caring husband David Stanley Northenscold. They had a wonderful time traveling the world from Spain to Africa, Hawaii to Alaska. She leaves behind 3 sons Michael Sheldon (Mary Teresa), Gary Dean (Mary Elizabeth), Craig Earl and one daughter Cheryl Ann Rossman (Kenneth Jack). She leaves 7 amazing Grandchildren, Celine, Marie, Jared, Michelle, Jessica, Daniel and Kristen and 9 Great Grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by 2 sisters, Mildred (John) Joller and Charlotte (Julian) Brown, whom she loved and dearly missed. Dorothy always had an open door and open arms. She was quick with a hand up or a backhand which ever was necessary. Her devotion to family unmatched and the best cheerleader you could ever have. She spent her employed life between Heyer Shulte and at the Devereaux foundation as an executive secretary but always was a full-time mom.

She was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease at 40 years old and rolled with all the medical issues that arose. Later she battled Cancer and fought it with a vengeance, but it returned.

Her passion was genealogy. She diligently pursued her family history before computers. She transcribed the old Spanish records from the mission and traced her roots back to Spain. She was an avid sports fan and

was the first to sponsor all the teams of her grandchildren. She sat in the outfield, and all could still hear her encouragement as well as her opinion. When her boys played football, she was THE biggest fan and cheerleader! we apologize to the refs and umps as her devotion got in the way and she did not really mean what she said!

Celebration of life is planned for May 4th, 2025 in Stow Park Area 1 at 12:00 noon and please bring all your love!

Betty Pilkington 12/06/1926 – 03/21/2025

Betty Pilkington was born Betty Dawn Reese on December 6, 1926, in Gridley, California and passed away on March 21 in Santa Maria at the age of 98. She was raised during the depression by her parents Harry and Bertha Reese, along with 8 brothers and sisters. When World War II broke out Betty wanted to support the troops by attending USO dances in Sacramento. There she met her husband-to-be, Doyle Pilkington, who was “the best dancer ever”, according to Betty. He was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge and returned from the front lines.They competed for and were married on the popular radio show, “Bride and Groom” in 1948, the highlight of which was to receive an automatic washing machine. Dear Doyle was deceased in 1985.

During the postwar baby boom, they gave birth to their son, Douglas, and daughter Debra. By then they had moved to Santa Maria, CA to be near Doyle’s family . Being an avid sewer, Betty quickly saw a need for a fabric store in Santa Maria and she and Doyle opened Betty’s Fabrics there in 1960. The business expanded to three stores, adding San Luis Obispo and Lompoc by the late 1960s. The Lompoc store closed prior to opening the Santa Barbara store in 1973 with the help of their son Douglas, who became manager of Betty’s Fabrics for the next 30 years. Betty was a consummate buyer of textiles in her travels around the world and specialized in the finest woolens, silks, cottons and formal and bridal fabrics. She was known as a pioneer and entrepreneur within the fabrics industry from New York to California and had famous people as customers. Given the interest in home décor, especially in Santa Barbara, Betty’s also built

a strong business with designers and decorators, as well as the many home sewers and quilters.

Betty and Doyle purchased a cabin on Lake Nacimiento in 1967 which became a center of family gatherings, boating, waterskiing, horseshoe and card games and barbecue feasts for almost 50 years until destroyed by forest fire in 2016.

Betty witnessed the evolution of the home sewing business firsthand, developing personal and professional relationships across the country. Betty’s Fabrics is still a familiar name throughout the Central Coast. The last store closed in 2017, with Betty working full time until she was 91. As an indication of the times, Betty attributed the decline in home sewing to clothing “coming so cheap from China and people not learning to sew, in school or at home, there’s not much quality in clothing anymore. They buy it cheap; they wash it and it either falls apart, shrinks or does whatever it does, and they just go out and buy something else”. But her customers were her treasures. Betty loved her customers and was quoted in an article in the Santa Maria Times in 2017 to say, “They are just full of ideas and creativity, and they come in here to do something they love. They are busy people. They love what they’re doing. They are happy people”. They collaborated on fabrics and designs together. She cherished her friends and staff of many years and had remained close to them until her death.

Beyond fabrics and sewing, Betty also energetically pursued flower gardening and vegetable propagation (installing a greenhouse in 2022) and gourmet cooking, having a collection of hundreds of cookbooks and thousands of recipes that she shared with friends and family. A consummate card-player, Betty spent happy hours with her Hand- andFoot and Cribbage partners. She also valued her neighbors who lovingly watched over her in her final years.

Given the nickname “Betty Boop” and “Grandma Boop” by her grandchildren and greatgrandchildren, she thrived on visits with them and with her entire family. Betty loved and is survived by her family – son Douglas and daughter-in-law Kristine and their children Tyler (Susie), Marshall, and Wesley, and great-grandchildren Charlotte, Alice, and Lucy. Also, her daughter Debra and son-in-law Michael Hardy, their children Danica (Alex), Kyle (Valla) and Stefan (Chelsea) and great-grandchildren Becker, Corbin, Leif, Marbjorn, Othinn, and Amara. Betty is also survived by loving nieces, cousins and their families. A memorial service will be held at Dudley Hoffman Mortuary in Santa Maria at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, May 21, 2025.

Steven Patric Rogers

01/20/1943 – 04/13/2025

Longtime Santa Barbara resident Steven Patric Rogers passed away April 13 at Serenity House due to complications from pneumonia.

Steve was born in Long Beach, California on January 20,1943. He and his family moved to Redondo Beach where he grew up. Steve loved the ocean and was an avid scuba diver and surfer.

Steve also loved to travel. He applied for his learner’s permit the day he turned 15 ½ and drove many times to Mexico with his high-school friends. He loved Mexico and its people. He became fluent in Spanish. Once on a trip to Spain he was asked if he was Mexican because he spoke Spanish with a Mexican accent.

Steve attended Stanford University on a full scholarship and graduated with a degree in psychology. He also participated in the Stanford in Italy program and became fluent in Italian. This was he start of what would become a life of world travel covering Europe, SE Asia and Indonesia.

After Stanford he was drafted into the Army and sent to Saigon to lead the4th Psychological Operations Group. He was assigned the rank of Captain.

After the Army, Steve moved to Santa Barbara and completed his PhD in experimental psychology at UCSB. He was hired as a scientist at the company Human Factors Research (later to become Anacapa Sciences) in Goleta. He attained the position of Vice President at Anacapa Sciences. While at Anacapa, the Human Factors Society awarded him for his design of a digital mapping system.

Steve bought a house on the Mesa in Santa Barbara that fulfilled his two major requirements: 1. It had an ocean view and 2. It contained a small building suitable to be used as a workshop.

Steve was a skilled woodworker and built much of the furniture in his home. He traveled all over California for the hand tools and power tools he needed for his workshop. Many of these he obtained at swap-meets.

After retirement Steve and his life partner Suzanne traveled extensively throughout Mexico, Central America, Europe, and Indonesia. They were also avid skiers throughout the Western US and in Europe.

10/19/1946 – 04/04/2025

Scott was a native Californian who spent most of his life in Santa Barbara, loving animals and little children even as he battled with dementia for several years before succumbing to his illness. He was a loving father, son, brother, and uncle, and is survived by his son Jake, daughter-in-law Ariana, granddaughter Cassidy, niece Kim and her family. Scott spent many of his years playing tennis, riding his bike, and making friends in Santa Barbara and Goleta. He will be dearly missed by his community. For any questions regarding memorial services contact Jake at 858-405-9733.

04/17/1956 – 03/25/2025

Suzy was the only child of Irene and Henry Wittner. She was born in Manhattan, NY and moved to Denver at an early age. She graduated from San Diego State University with a degree in Early Childhood Development. Suzy loved life, enjoyed being around people, socializing in various settings with friends. She was a longtime member of The First Methodist Church. Suzy is survived be her husband Wayne of 30 years. Services will be held on May 3rd, 2025.

Scott Lewis

In Loving Memory

Susan Fitch

obituaries

Arden Day

02/24/1949 – 03/21/2025

I want to become a dry sycamore leaf drifting down the Sisquoc River.

Arden Day

Think where man’s glory most begins and ends and say my glory was, I had such friends.

William Butler Yeats

The dead don’t need us to remember them; they need us to live in a way that makes their deaths meaningful.

Martin Prechtel

Arden Lapham Day died on Friday, March 21st, at 7:27pm in his home, a magical yurt in Montecito beneath a canopy of oak trees. He was born in Los Angeles on February 24th, 1949.

A week ago, myself, my wife, Laurel, and a friend, Ruth, backpacked to the Sisquoc River. I carried a pickle jar of Arden’s ashes to fulfill his request to join the river. When we arrived at our river camp, I went off to do some exploring. While I was gone, a man named Jacob came walking down the trail with his daughter and a friend. They were the only people any of us saw over our 6-day trip. Ruth spoke to Jacob, and she happened to share that we were there to spread a friend’s ashes. Jacob’s response was, “Is it Arden? I didn’t know him, but my friend did, and he told me that Arden said he wanted to become a dry sycamore leaf and drift down the Sisquoc.”

That coincidence is pure Arden Day. I can’t even say it’s a coincidence. I had shared Arden’s wish with his friends at a fire circle a day after his death, and Jacob, who had never met him, carried his memory to the Sisquoc, where his words could join the river.

It is hard to draw a circumference around Arden; he had so many friends of all ages, indeed, it seemed that everyone knew him. Even a short walk with him down State St. became a series of happy greetings with one person after another. There were friends from his UCSB days, East Camino Cielo days, Breema practice, Wilderness Youth Project, his Men’s group, Bolad’s Kitchen with Martin Prechtel, Extended Learning, backpacking, his childhood in LA, and so many other associations he forged in his lifetime.

His favorite home was at a bend on East Camino Cielo, just below a hill topped with pines, that he called The Point -- a wooden low roofed shack that overlooked the coast to Santa Cruz Island, or Limuw, as Arden would say. The Point had no electricity or running water, which meant to Arden, exactly perfect. He filled the small space with his

books of Irish folklore and poetry, Chumash narratives, like December’s Child and Eye of the Flute, and beautiful objects like handwoven baskets, bones, shells, and Huichol yarn paintings--so many lovely things that it is impossible to innumerate. Whenever you visited Arden, no matter where he lived, you were surrounded by indigenous textiles, art, natural treasures collected on his many backpacking trips, and cherished books. His spaces reflected the range and beauty of his mind and interests.

Arden volunteered with the Wilderness Youth Project for years because he valued WYP’s dedication to educating, sharing and honoring the wild with children and youth. Spending time in the wild was not a recreational thing for Arden, rather it was a path of healing, of honoring the holy, and of connecting with one’s true nature.

On the first sunset after his death, his dear community of WYP friends led a deeply moving, and loving, four-day fire circle in his honor. That was another pure Arden thing, to have his death, and his friends, show the more conventional of us, a new way to memorialize and grieve. Over those 4 days, whether at noon or at 2am, there was quiet, there was song, there was story--it was a beautiful transition ceremony. For some, the four days were to allow Arden’s spirit to travel from the Eastern Gate to the Western Gate then on to the afterlife. For me, it created community, time, and space to let the beauty of his spirit and life be honored, settle, and let go.

Arden was a dedicated backpacker. He has hiked the Sierras, the Pyrenees, and the green hills of Ireland, but he had a particular love for the unsung and less visited wilderness that stretches east from Santa Barbara over three mountain ranges to Cuyama. He loved the Carrizo Plain, and the Sespe River, but the San Rafael Wilderness, one of the first designated wilderness areas in the United States, was especially dear to his soul. From the tall pine forests on the ridges of the San Rafael range down to the narrow valley where the Sisquoc River runs free, is a land still untouched and untainted by civilization. It is an ancient place where, for thousands of years, the Chumash people lived and thrived and danced and sang.

For over 50 years, Arden would travel, solo and in company, through that wilderness, and in all seasons. He felt a kinship, and a debt, to the native people of the Santa Barbara region. He believed that the natural world was to be respected and honored. When we neglect or deny our interdependence with wild nature, we do so at our own peril, and cause suffering for ourselves and the wild.

For well over a decade, Arden was a student of Martin Prechtel, the writer, artist, and shamanic teacher from the Tz’utujil Mayan tradition. He’d travel quarterly to Bolad’s Kitchen, at Ojo Caliente near Taos, New Mexico. There he learned traditional crafts from

forging metal to leatherwork to making musical instruments to weaving on a loom, and all while studying indigenous ritual, cultures, texts and tales that, he truly believed, still have profound implications for our present way of being. He believed that healing our modern society depended on the acknowledgement and processing of our “undigested grief” that we carry as a culture. As Prechtel said, “Grief is the healing feeling that lets us know we’ve truly loved.”

His work with Prechtel’s school wasn’t confined to when he was in New Mexico, it was part of his deep study all year round. Arden wasn’t after a degree or some technical competency that could translate into a better job or more earning power. He was a dedicated, well-read scholar, with no goal other than the enrichment of his life and honoring the holy.

Arden was, at times, a particular and prickly person. He was strongly protective of his sovereignty. He had many things he did not like: he did not like plastic, he did not like cell phones, he did not like overly happy “How are yours?” or throw away containers, or processed food, or microwaves, or leaf blowers.

He liked to be specific with his words and kept a big thick oldfashioned dictionary at hand for the purpose. Yes, you could look the word up on your phone, but that was not the same. Arguments often hinged on fine shadings of meaning between similar words, but there was no continuing the conversation if you didn’t sort out the difference. He had a poetic way of speaking and would pause to find the precise word before going on. He was a good storyteller and studied to be a better one.

The last job that Arden had, and perhaps the job that most incorporated all the bright facets of his character--his playfulness, his storytelling, his love of music, movement, dancing and more-was as a teacher in memory care facilities through SBCC’s Extended Learning Program. He brought his whole being to his students, with the goal of giving, even those with severe memory impairment, a moment of spontaneous play and delight and laughter. He studied and prepared for his classes with wit and alacrity. Even if his students wouldn’t recall his previous class, they deserved new material and new discoveries. It is said that you show your true character when no one is looking. Arden showed his true love for his students by eliciting delight in those who may not remember it. For over 10 years, Arden was, in the words of one of his directors, an inspired teacher. Arden was family. He was devoted to his nieces, Rachel and Natalie, and his goddaughters, Plume and Automne. Hard to say how many children’s lives were brightened and enlivened by Arden. I do know that I thought he was my family’s Arden-- he was the one who jacked up the kids with wild stories and silly play and then left right before bedtime. But there were so many other children

who also felt he was theirs alone. And when, over the course of time, those children became parents themselves, Arden was still that childhood playmate-- and was ready to jack up their kids with wild stories and silly play right before bedtime.

Arden is survived by his younger brothers, Andy and Bobby Day, and his nieces, Rachel and Natalie Day.

There will be an “Arden” Day at Scofield Park on Saturday, May 10th, 2025. We welcome all of Arden’s friends to join us in celebrating the life of this singular and beloved man. Bring a dish or bring a story or just yourself.

For more information, contact David Hodges davidalanhodges@ gmail.com

Sofia Rusnarczyk"Rusty"Meznarich

09/27/1923 – 03/04/2025

Sofia “Rusty” Rusnarczyk Meznarich of Santa Barbara passed peacefully on March 4, 2025, at the age of 101, surrounded by family who (for once) were all in the same place at the same time.

She was predeceased by her husband, John Meznarich, the love of her life and the only man who could keep up with her. Also waiting for her on the other side are her sister and brother-in-law, Alice and Bob; her brother and sister-in-law, Gene and Carol; her brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Ed and Helen and her nephew Tod.

Rusty leaves behind her five children, who somehow all survived a childhood of station wagon road trips and questionable campfire meals: Donna Hajash (Andy) of College Station, TX; Cliff Meznarich of Paso Robles; Scott Meznarich (Renee) of Paso Robles; Jeff Meznarich (Alex) of Las Vegas; and Russ Meznarich (Chris) of Paso Robles. She was Busia (Grandmother) to 12 grandchildren (Tanya, Connor, Courtney, John, Jordan, Brett, Bryce, Kate, Jack, Drake, Elijah, and Skye) and three great-grandchildren (Kelsey, Blake, and Kinley), all of whom inherited at least a little of her stubbornness, humor, and love for a good adventure. She is also survived by many cherished nieces and nephews.

Born on September 27, 1923, in Chicago, IL, to Polish immigrant parents, Rusty was tough as nails from the start. She attended Froebel Primary School and Harrison High School, but her real education came when she enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps and was stationed in Goleta, California, from 1944 to 1946, where she had the time of her life. She loved the Santa Barbara life and dreamed of one day returning.

After the war, she returned to Chicago, reunited with John (her next-door neighbor, who clearly didn’t stand a chance against her charm), and they were married on October 5th, 1946. Together, they opened The Milk Shack, an ice cream parlor that quickly became the hottest social scene in the neighborhood—because if there’s one thing Rusty knew, it was how to bring people together over food. In 1966, the family packed up and moved to Winnetka, CA, in the San Fernando Valley, where they mastered the art of cross-country camping trips, surfand-fish adventures south of the border, and loading five kids into a car without losing one along the way.

After retiring in 1993, she and John were able to realize their long-time dream of moving to Santa Barbara to live out their golden years in their East Beach Townhome.

Rusty stayed busy with about a million community groups, including:

• American Legion Post 629 (Commander, because of course she was)

• Women Marines Association

• Polish American Cultural Network

• St. Joseph the Worker Altar Society

• Marine Corps League (Chaplain—meaning she could pray for you and boss you around at the same time) She had a way of peppering every conversation with Polish swear words and polka song lyrics, leaving people either laughing or confused—but always entertained.

Rusty was known for her nononsense attitude, quick wit, and ability to feed an army on short notice. She lived life with adventure, humor, and an impressive ability to get things done. She will be deeply missed but never forgotten—especially by anyone who ever tried to out-argue her (and lost).

A funeral mass will be held on May 2nd at 12:30 at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church in Montecito. In lieu of flowers, please consider making a donation to The Marine Corps League.

obituaries

Charles Perry Eckberg 1948 - 2025

Charles Perry Eckberg lived a purposeful and good life. He was an Earth Warrior with a kind soul. Born in San Diego on March 6, 1948, he lived most of his life in Santa Barbara. Later, he moved to Joshua Tree and ultimately settled in the Northern California town of McKinleyville.

As a student at UC Santa Barbara, Charlie studied political science during a time of unprecedented global political upheaval. By day, he attended school lectures, and by night, he participated in rallies against the Vietnam War. He witnessed the burning of the Bank of America in Isla Vista and even testified in the court case that wrongly accusing student activists for this political act of arson.

After graduation, he fought fires with the Los Padres Hotshots, where he battled the most significant fires in Santa Barbara at the time, including the Sycamore and Coyote fires.

While living in Isla Vista, Charlie experienced firsthand the inconceivable devastation of the 1969 oil blowout of Unocal’s Platform A in the Santa Barbara Channel. This disaster inspired the birth of the global environmental movement, as well as many leading Santa Barbara–based environmental organizations, several of which Charlie would become involved with, including Get Oil Out! (GOO), the Community Environmental Council (CEC), the Environmental Defense Center (EDC), and Earth Day.

Charlie served 25 years on the GOO Board of Directors and worked closely with its founders, including Bud Bottoms and Henry Feniger. He promoted renewable energy while leading the charge to stop new drilling and called for policies to protect California’s coastline with stricter regulations for the fossil fuel industry. Charlie organized protests, participated with the EDC in legal actions, and produced benefit concerts to support initiatives to give the community more rights regarding the coastline’s resources.

He served as chair of the CEC board for more than a decade, working to make the organization a driving force in establishing

Santa Barbara’s highly successful recycling industry. During this tenure, Charlie was instrumental in reinvigorating Santa Barbara’s Earth Day celebrations in 1990, which has remained a flagship event every April since. For many years, he participated on the planning committee and was master of ceremonies several times, occasionally before crowds of tens of thousands. In 1992, he helped produce a sell-out concert at the Santa Barbara Bowl to celebrate Earth Day, including local favorites Jackson Browne, David Crosby, and many others. That same year, the Santa Barbara Independent recognized him as a Local Hero for his volunteerism and dedication to the local community.

While working at Investec Real Estate and volunteering with Santa Barbara’s Green Building Alliance, Charlie helped establish green building standards for the construction industry. When UCSB established the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, Charlie was involved from the beginning, encouraging the university to construct the Bren building to LEED-certified Platinum standards. It became the first such building in the University of California system. Charlie remained an active participant of the Bren School’s Dean’s Council for many years.

Purpose, rather than profit, guided Charlie’s life. His volunteerism included work for the environment, peace, humanity, and animals. He participated in Beyond War, the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and the Santa Barbara Peace Resource Center. He promoted permaculture and regenerative agriculture while on the board of the Abundant Earth Foundation and as an editor for Permaculture magazine, North America. As a Wilderness Youth Project board member, Charlie helped immerse young people into the forest. Volunteering with Transition House, he made it easier for unhoused people to get back on their feet. To help wild mustang horses find refuge from government slaughter programs, he chaired the board for the Santa Ynez nonprofit Return to Freedom. With his family, he fostered orphaned raccoons, ducks, and other wild critters until they could be released back to nature through the Wildlife Care Network. His love ran deep for the people and the causes he cared about.

But there was only one real love of his life — for it was love at first sight when Charlie met Kelly. They were married in 1973 and spent the rest of his life together. In 1979, he moved his young family to the Hollister Ranch on the Gaviota Coast, working hard to

protect the area. He often played David against the Goliath oil companies threatening the coast. He was instrumental in allowing the Chumash to access and occupy their ancestral sacred lands, known as the Western Gate, just south of Point Conception. The land was slated to become a liquefied natural gas facility. The project was ultimately halted, and today the land remains undeveloped, providing a safe corridor for animals and spirits to pass freely.

However, there was not the same luck a few years later with the battle to stop Chevron’s deadly oil and gas pipeline and processing facility on the Gaviota Coast. During this time, he and Kelly wrote a book, Danger at the Door, to chronicle the community’s fight against the threats and injustices of oil and gas development.

Though he loved the coast, a special place was also held in Charlie’s heart for the unique desert of Joshua Tree. Charlie’s creative activism and gift of bringing people together led to inviting Santa Barbara’s art collective, the Oak Group, to capture the beauty of Joshua Tree on canvas. The paintings were displayed in the Halls of Congress as the Desert Protection Act was being voted on in 1994, ultimately making Joshua Tree a protected National Park.

Later in life, while living in Humboldt County, Charlie became deeply inspired by oldgrowth forests. He served on the board of Forests Forever and was part of the Lost Coast League. Charlie participated in efforts to save the Rainbow Ridge old-growth forest habitat of the Mattole Watershed from the chainsaws of Humboldt Redwood Company — an effort that continues today. Working closely to support Santa Barbara’s John Perlin in the release of the latest version of Perlin’s book A Forest Journey, Charlie’s editing skills were put to use in sharing the important role forests have played in human culture throughout history.

Some have called Charlie their “environmental conscience,” as his support and inspiration has impacted countless lives. He dedicated his life to fight against injustices to people and the planet and worked hard to promote positive solutions. Charlie always followed the greener path, and with a smile on his face. He had a great gift for making everyone he met feel like a friend and was loved by many. He will be greatly missed, but his legacy is carried on by all who work to defend the Earth and its inhabitants.

Charlie passed unexpectedly of natural causes on January 5, 2025, at his home, in the arms

of his wife, two months short of his 77th birthday. He is survived by his wife, Kelly; daughters, Hannah Apricot Eckberg and Heather Summer Turner; son-inlaw, Randy Turner; loving pets; and countless friends. He was wrapped in an Earth Day flag as he was cremated.

He will be honored at Santa Barbara’s Earth Day opening ceremony on April 26 at noon in Alameda Park as part of the EcoHero Award. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in his remembrance to AbundantEarthFoundation.org/donate.

David C. Tambo

05/01/1946 – 12/25/2024

David Carl Tambo passed away on Dec. 25, 2024, at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital after a very short illness. He was born in Albert Lea, MN on May 1, 1946, to Jens Christian (Chris) and Roma (Straub) Tambo. He grew up in Albert Lea and then attended St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN.

He met his first wife, Shirley Rehnelt, at Mount Rushmore, SD, in 1965 where they both had summer jobs. They married in December 1966 while Dave was finishing his degree. After graduation, seeking adventure, they signed up for the Peace Corps and went to Nigeria where they taught English.

In the Peace Corps they met other young people from England, Canada and the US. They maintained those friendships throughout their lives. At the end of their Peace Corps tour, they traveled east, visiting India, Nepal, and several countries in East Asia before returning to the States.

They moved to Madison, WI, for several years where Dave studied African History at University of Wisconsin. A Fulbright Fellowship took them back to Northern Nigeria to study the iron ore industry of the 1800s. They took along their baby daughter, Kirsten, and Dave traveled throughout the countryside taping interviews with people who had worked in the industry while Shirley taught school. While he didn’t finish the doctorate for that work, he later gave his research to the library archives at UW and UCSB.

He completed a second mas-

ter’s degree in library archives at UW and in 1980 the family moved to Muncie, IN, home of Ball State University where he became head of Special Collections at the library. Dave and Shirley moved to an historic district where they met new friends interested in renovating their old houses and they joined in the activities in that community.

In 1987 the family went to London for Dave to direct BSU’s London Center program—and they enjoyed more travel around Europe on vacations. At the end of the year abroad however, Shirley unexpectedly and suddenly died while being treated for a newly diagnosed illness.

Like many young men growing up in the Midwest in the 1960s, David had dreamed of someday moving to California. That dream came true in 1991 when he moved from Indiana with his daughter to Santa Barbara to become the Director of Special Collections at UCSB Library. The following year he married Pam Flynt, whom he had met in the Muncie neighborhood where they had all lived.

Dave and various family members traveled as much as time would allow. After retiring he and Pam made a road trip across the US. This love of travel also took him to India, Nepal, UK, Ireland, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and Scandinavia. He visited England many times for theatre, museums, parks, pubs, and especially to see friends. He also enjoyed traveling in Canada, all the states and California—especially Big Sur.

His last trip was to Russia, Poland and the Baltic states a few months before the COVID-19 pandemic began and simultaneously Dave’s health began to decline. In retirement he spent many hours cultivating the perfect drought-resistant garden.

Dave is survived by his wife, Pam Flynt Tambo; daughter, Kirsten Tambo; step-children, Jennifer and Mike Flynt (Ann Gaylin); sister Mary Roozenboom and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Shirley, in 1988.

The Tambo family thanks the dedicated staff at Cottage Hospital, the Ridley-Tree Cancer Center and the grief counseling team at VNA Health Bereavement Care for their compassionate care.

Friends and former colleagues are welcome to join our family on Friday, May 2 at 5 pm to share memories, stories and visit together. Please email friendsofDaveTambo@gmail.com for details.

Jean Wiechel Ogle

08/02/1925 – 04/02/2025

Jean W. Ogle passed away peacefully in her home on April 2, 2025, just four months shy of her 100th birthday. A beloved mother, grandmother and friend, Jean was born in Port Clinton, Ohio on August 2, 1925, the youngest of two children of Charles and Hazel Wiechel. Her childhood years during the Great Depression were spent along the shores of Lake Erie and on her grandparents’ peach orchard on Catawba Island. Always a top student in math and the sciences, Jean also revealed a talent for singing early on and was often her church choir’s soloist. She attended the University of Michigan as a voice major, developing a beautiful operatic soprano voice that her children still clearly recall rising above the din during the national anthem at school and sporting events.

Jean’s first marriage gave her two sons, Kirk and Christopher Wheaton, before she united with the love of her life, Burdette “Bud” Ogle, in 1963. Over the ensuing 44 years, they formed an exceptional, dynamic team as Jean played an integral role in Bud’s development of his independent oil and gas company. Theirs was an extraordinary and enduring love. They were never happier than when dancing in each other’s arms to the big band music they knew from their younger years.

During her free time, Jean was an avid bird watcher and a master gardener with an extensive knowledge of plant taxonomy. She loved travel, and her saved passports reveal trips to Columbia, Peru, Europe, the UK, Bermuda and, notably, Libya in 1970 shortly after Muammar Gadhafi rose to power. Surprisingly to some, she also enjoyed fly fishing and was a crack shot with her Browning “Sweet Sixteen” shotgun. Jean particularly loved her time on the tennis court, where she developed lifelong friendships and a fierce net game that earned her the nickname “Mean Jean.” She later applied that same intensity to a weekly bridge group comprised of dear friends and former tennis partners. Jean unquestionably endured moments of tragedy during her life, losing two sons many years before her own death, but her boundless energy and vibrant spirit always reemerged from sadness. Following Bud’s death in 2007, Jean poured her artistic energy into painting, diligently honing an exceptional talent developed many years before and producing a remarkable and

prolific body of work right up until her 99th year.

Jean was, above all, a passionate wife and partner to Bud, a loving mother, and a doting grandmother to her six grandchildren. Whether decorating a room with abundant color, performing a little “soft shoe” dance routine for her grandchildren, or donning a festive hat for any holiday, Jean strove to live life to its fullest and to celebrate each and every day. She was, simply put, undeniably spunky. Her buoyant personality, sparkling blue eyes and radiant smile lit up every room she entered. She will be sorely missed, but her spirit and light live on in those she loved.

Jean is survived by her daughter Scotia Ogle, her son, Flint Ogle (wife, Elisabeth), her grandchildren Linda, Kinnick, Teegan, Clare, Sebastian and Beckett, and three great-grandchildren. Contributions in her memory may be made to Sansum Diabetes Research Institute, 5425 Hollister Ave., Santa Barbara, CA 93111 (www.sansum. org), and The Cheetah Conservation Fund, P.O. Box 2496, Alexandria, VA 22301 (cheetah.org).

Kathleen Coxhead Moseley passed away on April 12, 2025 in Santa Barbara, at age 92. Kathy was born to Ralph and Kathleen Nichols Coxhead in New York City. She had two brothers, Ralph (deceased) and Peter Coxhead.

Kathy attended Spence School in New York and Goucher College in Baltimore, Md. She moved to Pasadena, Ca and raised her 4 children Peter Cameron, Daryl Cameron, Lisa Cameron and Tiffany Cameron. Both Peter and Tiffany proceeded their mother in death.

Her lovely Grandchildren are Mary Farace, Jeremy Pratt, Porsha Ratkay, Rebecca Cameron and Ashley Cameron. Great Grand children are Anthony Rubio, Quinn Ratkay and Hali'a and Manalakalani Cameron.

Kathy was an excellent athlete, enjoying golf, tennis, and swimming. She also had a keen interest in the Fine Arts and supported many local charities and was a Trustee of the Nichols Foundation

for over 40 years. Her enthusiasm, spirit, and love of life for family and friends was always about her. Whenever she came into a room, the room became brighter, because she was there. A person of remarkable beauty, class and grace, always making others feel better when next to her.

Her husband, Jack Moseley of more than 30 years died in 2018.

Her final resting place will be at Woodlawn Cemetery in New York.

Private family service will follow.

Arrangements entrusted to McDermott-Crockett Mortuary

Helen Marie Behnke

10/05/1930 – 02/11/2025

Helen Marie Behnke of Santa Barbara, 94 years and 4 months old, passed peacefully on February 11, 2025, shortly after receiving the Eucharist at her bedside. The younger of two children, she was born on October 5, 1930, to the late Hardy Leslie and Winifred Annette Brian, in Dallas, Texas. This beautiful “Yellow Rose of Texas,” with her “Paul Newman” turquoise-colored eyes and sincerely sweet, “southern charm” personality, enchanted all who met or knew her. She was deemed a Lana Turner look-alike in her North Dallas High School’s yearbook and worked part time as a model, but when Macy’s offered her a modeling contract to move to New York, Mama Winnie replied with a flat and certain “NO!” Helen’s high school years provided the foundation for a lifelong passion for reading; she also enjoyed painting and playing the cello in the school orchestra.

She graduated in 1948 and married her “older” high school sweetheart, James Weldon ”Jim” Melcher, who was attending Texas A&M, and was the top student in his class, and became an engineer and a pilot in the US Air Force. They welcomed their first two daughters (13 months apart!) while living in Texas at College Station. Life was busy and got even busier when the Air Force began dictating that the little family uproot and move to various cities every few years. A third daughter arrived two years later while living at Hamilton Air Force Base in San Francisco, and a baby brother joined his sisters three years later while the family was stationed at Wright Patterson AFB in Dayton/Fairborn, Ohio. Helen was a super mom before there was even the term super mom, constantly planning, organizing, packing and unpacking, orchestrating and commandeering her army

of little people all over the USA! Jim’s demanding occupation kept him away from home and hearth (too) much of the time, so at times the challenges were monumental for the young mom. When the family was uprooted from Ohio and transferred to California, the already-stressed marriage failed, and the young mom was left to raise four children on her own, in a new and unfamiliar city and state: Lancaster, CA.

Fast forward to 1965: Helen met Robert Behnke and he fell in love with her and tried to convince her that she would eventually fall in love with him! She did, and they married, and she always called him her “soul mate.” It was a romance like no other and wonderful role modeling for their children. He was 13 years older and treated her like the queen that she was! Bob retired from his furniture sales business in the Antelope Valley and they moved to beautiful Santa Barbara, bought a boat, an antique MG, and a house on the Mesa where they spent lots of time simply relaxing and enjoying their panoramic view of all Santa Barbara has to offer: the harbor, Montecito, the Riviera, mountains and the ocean. Their little slice of Paradise was where the entire family gathered year after year for holiday fun and family functions, such wonderful memories for all.

Helen was predeceased by her husband, Bob, in 2002, and never desired to date again. Although a beauty with intelligence to match, she turned down any dating offers because she felt fortunate that she had already enjoyed many years with the love of her life. Instead, her greatest joy was spending time with her family and being a muchloved mom, “grandmommie,” and great-grandmommie. She is survived by her three daughters, a son, a stepson, and a nephew; Kam Rehm of San Diego, CA (Dan), Maggie Donohoe of Goleta, CA (Patrick), Terry Martin of Veneta, OR (Joel), Marty Melcher of Monument, CO (Angela), stepson Mike Behnke of Oregon, and Bill Behnke of Payette, ID.

She was a loving grandmother and proud great-grandmother, always attending their recitals, plays, academic leagues, athletic games, etc., no matter how far she had to drive, and loved trying to spoil them, showering all with lovely, thoughtful gifts and surprises. However, as they got older, the caring conversations and positive affirmations she gave each child meant more to them than any material gift. Katie (Sean), Benjamin (Lisa), Joseph (children: Kayla, Naomi, Grace), Elizabeth (children: Aurora, Orion), Dylan, Camron, Jordan, and Nicholas, loved their grandmommie so very much and knew how special they were in her eyes.

Helen is also survived by her two nieces, Virginia and Susan of Texas, eight great nieces and nephews, and 15 great-great nieces and nephews. Helen was also greeted in Heaven by her brother

and sister-in-law, Bill and Bette Brian of Irving, TX and their adult children Michael and Lizabeth, as well as her brother in-law-and his wife, Hal and Eddy Behnke of Lancaster, CA. Cindy, the first wife of Helen’s son, Marty; Bob, the first husband of her daughter, Maggie; and Jeremy, the first husband of her granddaughter, Elizabeth, also passed before Helen. Her adult stepchildren, Jack and Kathy, also preceded Helen in death. Because she was a serious cat lover, Helen owned many cats throughout her life and was completely devoted to her two last kitties, Buster and Freddie, who were the bosses of the house and also gave her soooo very much love and comfort in her final years on earth.

Mom, you brought beauty and light and a calm and special peace to any setting, with your quiet demeanor and wise words. The light that glowed around you was generated from your strong faith in God, your tenacity and strength, and your love for all. You rolemodeled unconditional love and you practiced it daily. Because of you, dear mother, we know right from wrong. You showed us how to laugh and you explained why we cry. You touched so many lives and although you will be missed, your spirit and light will live on in those whom you loved, lucky us. We will love you forever.

A funeral Mass will be held on Friday, May 2, at 2:30 PM at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Montecito, which was her favorite church in the entire world (and she has visited many throughout her travels!) A reception will follow from 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM at her favorite place in the entire world: her lovely home, with its breathtaking view! Friends and family are invited to either or both memorials.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the Alzheimer’s Association at 1528 Chapala Street - Suite 204, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 (alz.org).

The family wishes to voice appreciation for the loving, watchful, professional care given by the staff of the Mariposa Memory Care Facility, as well as acknowledge Hospice’s nurturing care and assistance provided by the kind and knowledgeable staff at VNA Health of San Diego, especially the caring case manager, Karen. In addition, the compassionate members of The Neptune Society, especially their wonderful customer service representative, Christopher, helped the family through this very emotional transition.

Kathleen Moseley

Walkin’ & Rollin’

Celebrate This Earth Day on Two Legs, Two Wheels, or in EVs That Aren’t Teslas

If it hasn’t been drilled into your head already, one of the single most impactful things you can do to help the planet is drive your gas car less. Or not at all.

With that in mind, we’re devoting this Earth Day issue to modes of transportation that don’t burp emissions. Take a walk along the new State Street undercrossing. Hitch a ride on an electric trishaw. Or check out all the non-Tesla EVs you can buy right here in town.

Because the move away from oil is not someone else’s effort to make. It’s all of our problem. We were just reminded of that when Sable Offshore Corp. came knocking on our door.

At the very least, take a bus to this weekend’s festivities. All MTD rides to Alameda Park are free.

Thanks for reading, thanks for caring, and happy Earth Day.

WALKING/BIKING

—Tyler Hayden

Overjoyed About the Undercrossing

The Unofficial Gateway to Santa Barbara Is Now Safer, Brighter, and Far More Beautiful

by TYLER HAYDEN | Photos by MACDUFF EVERTON

Back in ancient times in 1991, to be exact— a traffic light stood at the intersection of State Street and Highway 101. It was the only thing between motorists and 435 miles of wide-open road from Los Angeles to San Francisco. It also divided Santa Barbara in two. Drivers trying to cross between downtown and the beach waited 10 long minutes for the light to turn green. They would sip coffee, read the sports pages, or get out and stretch. The mayor used the daily interlude to sort her mail.

But that year after nearly four decades of planning, bickering, dawdling, and building Santa Barbara’s new road and freeway system was completed and the light came down. The centerpiece of the new design was a Spanish Renaissance undercrossing at State Street to serve as the unofficial gateway to the city. A ribboncutting ceremony was held where the mayor spoke, but few could hear her above the whizz of cars flying up and down the coast.

Since then, the undercrossing has done its job, linking the hustle and bustle of downtown Santa Barbara with the breeze of its waterfront. But anyone who’s traveled the 1,000 feet of subterranean roadway particularly by foot or bike knows it wasn’t the most pleasant experience. The sidewalk was uncomfortably narrow, the four lanes invited speeding, and cyclists risked life and limb every time they made the journey. In fact, the undercrossing was the site of more serious injuries to pedestrians and cyclists than anywhere else in the city.

This week, another ribbon-cutting took place, this time to celebrate a structural and aesthetic rebirth of the gateway. The sidewalks are now nearly twice as wide, the four car lanes have been reduced to two, and the bike

Beyond the substantial safety improvements and incredibly complicated reengineering, the

ing is now a place of art sprung from the mind of Santa Barbara architect Jeff Shelton in his first public works project.

lanes increased in width from five to seven feet with a three-foot protective buffer to boot.

undercross-

Architect and artist Jeff Shelton

The State Street undercrossing, once a dim, grim, and dangerous corridor, is now a pleasant bridge between downtown Santa Barbara and the waterfront.

The first thing you notice as you head under the highway are the deep purple guardrails Shelton designed and his brother, David, fabricated. Sprinkled with cutouts shaped like toyon-flowers a favorite of Shelton’s they descend and drape in such a way that that solid iron feels soft and inviting. As you head farther in, you see the lines of columns, once beige and grimy, now wrapped in kaleidoscopes of bright tilework. Each one is unique and each could stand alone as studies in color and pattern, yet they seamlessly coalesce into a vivid visual tapestry that turns the public right-of-way into a legitimate sensory experience.

“What we needed was rhythm,” Shelton explained from his studio on Fig Street, just a stone’s throw from the undercrossing. “Not just 1, 2, 1, 2. We needed chords and changes in rhythm to entice you, excite you, to lead you on. And we needed light.” Inspiration for the flowering lamps that act as beacons along the stretch came from Matilija poppies, Shelton said, with the iron balls on flanking posts mimicking the bulbs that remain when the blooms fall.

Shelton was selected as architectural consultant on the project after he and Bengal Engineering a hometown crew of civic engineers who’ve led work on some of Santa Barbara’s biggest construction efforts, such as the Cabrillo Boulevard

Bridge came out on top during the city’s open-bid process. While Bengal and city planners encouraged Shelton to let his creative juices flow, they all had to work within the confines of what Caltrans, which owns the bridge above the undercrossing, would allow. That meant no modifications to its walls or ceiling.

Nevertheless, the end result turned out better than anyone could have imagined, with more flair and character than what strict El Pueblo Viejo guidelines usually allow. “We were all a little out of our comfort zone,” Shelton said. “In a good way.” It took only a few back-and-forths with design boards to secure approval, and city staff were willing and eager partners in seeing the thing through.

“It was one of the smoother processes I’ve been a part of,” said supervising city engineer Eric Goodall. “Even with the whimsy of the design.” From a public works standpoint, the city accomplished its goal of addressing the safety issues, Goodall said. “We really built what we wanted to build,” he said. “It doesn’t feel like a raceway anymore. And now it’s a corridor that people want to travel through, rather than have to.”

The $11 million project was also designed, Goodall noted, to showcase future art installations with electrical conduits installed under the sidewalks and two anchor points to accommodate sculptures. Meanwhile, the tiled columns are protected with an anti-graffiti coating that allows the paint to be wiped right off, and welders recently added reinforcements to the ironwork after it was attacked by someone with a shopping cart.

Back in his office, Shelton squirmed at the thought of receiving too much credit for what was a herculean effort among many different parties. “You’re talking to me because it’s the fun part,” he said. “But a lot of really talented people worked on this.” He named, among others, his team of Mattie Shelton, James Carson, and Ester Nova, as well as Upton Construction, California Pottery & Tile, Isaac Ornamental Metals, Filippin Civil Engineering, and lighting designer Ann Kale, who recently passed away.

It was the job of Harrison Smith with Bengal Engi-

neering to take Shelton’s drawings and digitize them into usable plans. “Seeing Jeff’s sketches, I was a little nervous at first,” said Smith, who had to contend with the site’s complex geometry, including its non-parabolic curve and rare seal slab construction. “We were essentially designing a ship in a bottle,” he said. But Smith and Shelton quickly got on the same page and it was smooth sailing from there. “Everything fit perfectly,” he said.

Born and raised in Santa Barbara, Harrison especially appreciated that so many members of the team were locals. “Everyone had a little more skin in the game,” he said. “I love this town so much, and being able to contribute something to the place I live and love is such a blessing.” n

Ally James, ornamental iron worker and welder

Juan Rios and Pedro Ramirez cleaning grouted column

David Shelton and Isaac Anguiano alongside their ornamental iron railing

Harrison Smith, engineer

Isaac Anguiano lifting ornamental iron railing panel into place

EVs for Low-Income Buyers

CEC Helping S.B. Residents Navigate New Financial Assistance Program

by CALLIE FAUSEY

You don’t need Elon Musk money to buy an electric vehicle.

The Community Environmental Council (CEC) is helping people apply for the statewide Driving Clean Assistance program, which offers upfront financial assistance to low-income individuals who are interested in the switch to electric.

“There’s been programs in the past that have come and gone,” such as a former program that provided tax rebates for EV purchases, explained Sean McArthur, the CEC’s climate projects manager. “Each one tries to learn from the previous one and improve the program.”

This rendition of EV assistance will provide up-front cash and charging cards that can be used at any charging station. The initial amount depends on whether you’re retiring a gas-powered vehicle or buying a car for the first time.

“There’s two paths you can take, and that’s the Clean Cars for All program, which is a scrap and replace, so you can scrap an old vehicle and replace it with an electric vehicle,” McArthur said. With this option, people can receive up to $12,000 for an EV and a $2,000 charging card.

“The other pathway is, if you don’t have a vehicle to scrap, you can go with the Driving Clean Assistance program,” he added. That offers up to $7,500 and a $2,000 charging card.

“They [the dealership] take the money straight off of the hood, so they take the list price and they decrease it by whatever the

amount for the grant that they received is,” McArthur said. “Other programs or rebates are really great, but a lot of times you have to wait to see that money.”

All state regions are now open to applications. So far, the CEC has only seen about 20 or so applications, McArthur said. The applications are pretty in depth, he added, but the CEC offers bilingual application clinics online and in person at their Community Hub on State Street.

“They [the state] don’t have a close date,” he said. “It’s just once they run out of the funds, essentially. So, CEC has been helping folks ever since they opened their applications.”

People have been responding well, McArthur said. The grants are stackable with other incentive programs, such as tax credits and rebates. People can learn more about other incentives through the CEC’s EVs for Everyone program, which offers one on one assistance for EV purchases.

The state has a list of EVs that are eligible, but a majority qualify for the program. Learn more at drivingcleanca.org

IN-PERSON CLINICS

• April 30, 2-6 p.m., CEC’s Environmental Hub (1219 State St.)

• May 7, 5-8 p.m., Lompoc Public Library (501 E. North Ave., Lompoc)

• May 21, 2-5 p.m., CEC’s Environmental Hub (1219 State St.)

• June 18, 5-8 p.m., CEC’s Environmental Hub (1219 State St.)

• June 25, 3:30-6:30 p.m., Santa Maria Public Library (421 S. McClelland St., Santa Maria)

• July 16, 2-5 p.m., CEC’s Environmental Hub (1219 State St.)

• July 30, 5-8 p.m., Lompoc Public Library (501 E. North Ave., Lompoc)

• August 6, 5-8 p.m., CEC’s Environmental Hub (1219 State St.)

VIRTUAL CLINICS

• June 4, 2-5 p.m., virtual session via zoom

• August 20, 5-8 p.m., virtual session via zoom

For more information and to sign up for a clinic, visit cecsb.org.

‘Something Just Happens When You Roll’ Trishaws

by NICK WELSH

and Artists Team Up

Some people are said to radiate infectious enthusiasm. With John SeigelBoettner, he’s more like a one-man epidemic. “Something just happens when we roll,” exclaimed Boettner, a retired middle school teacher now pushing 70, but still going very strong.

A born-in-the-bone bike nut who used to lead his students on long crosscountry bike adventures, Seigel-Boettner has since launched in 2018, right before COVID struck a Cycling Without Age chapter in Santa Barbara. That initiative has taken off. The organization now boasts 91 other volunteer “pilots” to ferry older adults around on one of the group’s 17 electric powered trishaws. On any given week, about 40 such rides happen.

Festival; an artist now in his eighties who once worked for Disney; and, representing a younger perspective are two artists from the Eastside, one with Chumash ancestry and the other part African American.

When Seigel-Boettner and his trishaws hit the road, their passengers share an upholstered front-seat bench. In that moment, they breathe in the sun and bathe in the wind; they are in motion, basking in the great outdoors. Passersby can’t help but stop, stare, and grin. Many of them wave.

One UCSB student was moved to lift her head out of her cell phone and wave her arm, and she then went back into the phone to Google “riding old people on bicycles.” That’s how she tracked down Cycling Without Age and has since become a pilot herself. “It’s just one of those things that’s really powerful,” said Seigel-Boettner, shaking his head in wonder. “And when was the last time someone waved at you?” he asks. “I pinch myself.”

In the past five years, Cycling Without Age has been getting a lot of pinching from other people too. The group recently became the focus of a celebratory documentary now making the rounds at regional film festivals. And next month, Seigel-Boettner who wears a cap bearing the inscription “Do Good” and a T-shirt quoting the mystical kindness of Mr. Rogers said there will be a grand unveiling of seven new roadworthy trishaws, each one painted by different Santa Barbara artists.

Among the better-known artists involved is the ubiquitous Jeff Shelton, who knows how to make art smart, fun, and immediately accessible. Also involved is Blair Looker, a longtime Santa Barbara painter who helped launch the I Madonnari Chalk

The whole art-on-wheels thing happened when Seigel-Boettner got together with Roman Baratiak, a lifelong bike rider himself and former head of UCSB’s Arts & Lectures. “There was no theme,” explained Seigel-Boettner. “We wanted to just let the artists run.”

Baratiak helped with the grant writing as well as the brainstorming; thanks to his handiwork, Santa Barbara Beautiful kicked in enough to underwrite the costs.

On the first Thursday of May, all the painted pedicabs will amass on the front pavilion recently installed outside the downtown public library. After some music courtesy of the Middle Eastern Music Ensemble, the seven new trishaws will make their maiden voyage down State Street to the beach, and then back again.

Seigel-Boettner’s ultimate fantasy is for the trishaws to take off on the city’s Eastside. As a kid, Seigel-Boettner’s father was principal of Franklin Elementary School, and as a young man out of school, he worked for the architectural firm that designed the Eastside Community Center. “I really want to see the abuelas from the Eastside in these things,” he said. “That’s what I’m hoping for.”

Wherever they roll, and however they’re painted, the trishaw rides offer an experience akin to magic. To and from, people wave. To and from, they smile. For a moment, the wind’s in their hair. For some, it may be their last ride. For others, it’s a reminder they’re still alive.

Or as Seigel-Boettner a true bicycle mystic put it again, “Something just happens when you roll.”

John Seigel-Boettner ferries a passenger along Cabrillo Boulevard.

The Best Tesla Alternatives

TYLER HAYDEN

Even before Elon Musk went full-blown MAGA alienating many of his customers and tanking Tesla’s stock in the process the tide already was turning against the electric car maker. “Part of it is political, without a doubt,” said Bill Fogg, general manager of Santa Barbara Auto Group. “But part of it is, their line is a little stale —no changes, no updates, nothing new.”

Meanwhile, other EV producers have not only caught up to Tesla’s technology, but they’re also surpassing it with cars that are more advanced, more reliable, and more exciting and with better leasing options. That’s especially true among the German makers that Fogg and his team represent, such as Audi, BMW, and Mercedes.

MODEL Y — FORD MUSTANG MACH-E

Price: from $36,495

Horsepower: 264-480

But the growing list of Tesla alternatives is hardly limited to upper-end brands. There are now plenty of enticing options for would-be buyers on middle-income budgets, particularly the EV lines of Asian producers, such as Hyundai, Honda, and Kia. And let’s not forget American-made Chevrolet, Ford, and Ram all sell electric pickups that put the big, dumb Cybertruck to shame.

The current Tesla lineup consists of two sedans, the Model 3 (~$42,000) and Model S (~$80,000); two crossovers, the Model Y (~$45,000) and Model X (~$80,000); and the Cybertruck (~$80,000).

Range: 250-320 miles

MPGe: up to 111 city / 100 highway

Car and Driver says, “If you take the punchy acceleration and sporty styling from the Mustang and combine it with EV efficiency and SUV practicality, you get the Mustang Mach-E.” The quickest models are the GT and Rally, which reach 60 mph in under 4.0 seconds. That’s faster than V-8 versions of the muscle car.

Other Picks: Kia EV6; Honda Prologue; Volvo EX30

MODEL X — AUDI Q8 E-TRON

Price: from $74,800

Horsepower: 355

Here, we list the 2025 top-rated alternatives for each Tesla model that you can buy right here in Santa Barbara County. Our picks are based on interviews with local dealers, reviews by Edmunds and Car and Driver magazine, and a copy of Consumer Reports we picked up at Gelson’s.

MODEL 3 — HYUNDAI IONIQ 5

Price: from $37,850

Horsepower: 149-320

Range: 240-342 miles

MPGe (Miles Per Gallon equivalent): up to 151 city / 120 highway

The 2025 IONIQ 5 is among the first non-Tesla vehicles equipped with the North American Charging Standard (NACS) port, allowing direct access to Tesla Superchargers without the need for an adapter. With a spacious interior, cutting-edge features, and a sleek design, it’s a fine choice for families and tech enthusiasts alike.

Other Pick: Nissan Leaf

MODEL S — BMW I4

Price: from $52,800

Horsepower: 281-536

Range: 227-318 miles

MPGe: Up to 117 city / 114 highway

Consumer Reports called the 2025 BMW i4 “the most reliable electric car” on the market, giving it a score of 82 out of 100. The Lucid Air, meanwhile, ranked the lowest with a score of 7. BMW Charging also boasts one of the largest public charging networks in North America and offers complimentary charging on Electrify America’s coast-to-coast network.

Other Picks: Mercedes EQE; Porsche Taycan

Range: 285-296 miles

MPGe: up to 84 city / 90 highway

The Q8 e-tron looks and drives more like a gaspowered SUV, with similar performance that should be less of a shock to drivers who are new to EVs. It has a quiet cabin, plenty of passenger space, and a lush interior. Last year, the e-tron underwent a significant refresh with improved range, sharper handling, and a new name.

Other Picks: BMW ix; Mercedes EQS; Lexus RZ

CYBERTRUCK — CHEVROLET SILVERADO EV

Price: from $55,000

Horsepower: 510-760

Range: 390-460 miles

MPGe: up to 70 city / 59 highway

Towing Capacity: 8,000-10,000 pounds

The Silverado EV combines daily usability with real-truck attributes as a way to bring new tech to the pickup-buying masses. Its massive battery offers amazing range and super-quick DC charging. The LT model, new to the lineup for 2025, added ventilated front seats, heated rear seats, and a seven-speaker Bose stereo.

Other Picks: Ford F-150 Lightning; Ram 1500 REV n

Ford Mustang Mach-E

Heavy-Duty EVs Hit the Road

Commuter Buses, Delivery Vans, and High-Tech Tractor

by EMMA ECKERT

In the birthplace of Earth Day, there is a clear drive toward a more sustainable future as regional partners expand the electric vehicle movement beyond the typical car.

Shifting gears to 100 percent renewable energy, the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden is now using an electric tractor to tend to its greenery. Out on the highway, the Ventura County Transit Commission (VCTC) is rolling out electric buses for its Coastal Express line. And FedEx has launched its pilot line of electric vans exclusively here in Southern California.

With the addition of the new tractor, the Botanic Garden is now most of the way toward its goal of going fully electric. All that remains of the are two diesel utility carts and a gas-powered chipper, said Keith Nevison, director of horticulture and operations.

After almost two years of conversations, the garden received the electric Monarch tractor through a state program. “Essentially, it’s a computer on wheels versus old technology that is pollutive,” said Nevison, explaining the new equipment reinforces the garden’s commitment to natural land stewardship and habitat creation.

Down the coast, the Ventura County Transit Commission (VCTC) in partnership with the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments (SBCAG) is adding five new electric buses to its Coastal Express fleet, which runs between the two counties. They will hit the road soon after an April 25 ceremony that will mark the completion of the Padaro and Summerland sections of the Highway 101 widening project.

Martin Erickson, executive director of VCTC, explained that while transit ridership declined during the pandemic, it has now stabilized, and they hope the new buses will help attract even more riders. Erickson noted that residents choosing to take public transit are already reducing carbon emissions, and these buses will only add to that effort.

Closer to home and in your neighborhood, FedEx is also getting in on the action. The company recently dispatched a number of electric delivery vans across Santa Barbara and throughout Southern California. FedEx has a global goal of utilizing an all-electric parcel pickup and delivery fleet by 2040, and has begun taking a phased approach to electrification, said spokesperson Savannah Haeger.

“Around a quarter of all FedEx-owned vehicles at our main facility serving Santa Barbara are currently electric, with additional EVs on order,” Haeger said. She explained these vehicles charge overnight and operate their routes on a single charge.

According to the U.S. Department of Energy, a 2022 study showed that medium- and heavy-duty vehicles account for more than a third of the country’s greenhouse-gas emissions. FedEx says that electrification is essential to a comfortable community life as it reduces noise pollution, makes driving safer with 360-degree cameras, and helps cut down on our reliance on fossil fuels.

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TICKETS START AT $59

THREE DOG NIGHT

FRIDAY, MAY 23

TICKETS START AT $49

ODETTE QUESADA &OGIE ALCASID

FRIDAY, JUNE 6

TICKETS START AT $49

Saturday, April 26

11:00 AM: E.1027: Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea

Sunday, April 27

11:00 AM:

1:00 PM: Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV

1:00 PM: Return to Reason: Four Films by Man Ray

3:30 PM: Anselm

5:30 PM: The House / This is Not a House FREE Double Feature (Featured Guest: Filmmaker Morgan Neville)

3:30 PM: Robert Irwin: A Desert of Pure Feeling

5:30 PM: Schindler Space Architect (Featured Guest: Filmmaker Valentina Ganeva)

Paseo Nuevo Cinemas, Theater #3

$50 festival pass

(Individual film tickets also available)

BRILLIANCE BALANCHINE,ARPINO,ANDBEYOND

Scott and Maribeth Claassen

Noel and Emily Cohen

Dustin and Sara Dodgin The Duval Family

The Roger S. Firestone Foundation Monica Eiler

Belle Hahn and Lily Hahn Shining Lord and Lady Robert Hope, McCarthy/ Riley Family, Gehret-Hartman Family, and Banks Family

Caterina and Chi Lee & Victoria and Bill Strong

INDEPENDENT CALENDAR

As always, find the complete listings online at independent.com/events. Submit virtual and in-person events at independent.com/eventsubmit

THURSDAY 4/24

4/24-4/27:

S.B. Fair & Expo Presents: ‘80s Flashback Fairgoers will be transported back to the ‘80s for two weekends of more than 30 carnival rides (including kiddie rides), carnival games, farm animals, artisan exhibits, live music, and entertainment with free offsite parking and transportation to the fair. Fast pass is an additional $10. The fair also runs May 2-4. Thu.: 4-9pm (carnival 10pm); Fri.: 4-10pm (carnival: midnight); Sat.: 11am-10pm (carnival: midnight); Sun.: 11am-9pm (carnival 10pm). Earl Warren Showgrounds, 3400 Calle Real. Early Bird; Ages 5 and under: free. GA: $7-$11.50; wristband: $32/unlimited rides. Call (805) 687-0766. earlwarren.com

4/24: Crafter’s Library Kids Craft: Sloth Family Tree Crafters ages 3-5 years old are invited to join along with their grown-ups to practice tracing, cutting, and gluing to create a family of sloths that represents their family. 10am. The Crafter’s Library, 9 E. Figueroa St. $20. Call: (805) 770-3566. thecrafterslibrary.com

4/24: Lobero LIVE Presents Bruce Cockburn Canadian musical legend Bruce Cockburn will bring his folk, jazz, rock, and world beat styles and prized songbook to S.B. 7:30pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. GA: $49-$59; premium: $107. Call: (805) 963-0761. lobero.org

4/24: Hope Awards 2025 Join to celebrate the local champions of public education and to honor the late Margie Yahyavi, former SBEF executive director, and the Children’s Creative Project with proceeds to go toward Teacher Grants and Student Grants programs. 5:30pm, S.B. Historical Museum, 136 E. De la Guerra St. $150. Email: info@santa barbaraeducation.org. sbefoundation.org/hope-awards

FRIDAY 4/25

4/25-4/26:

S.B. High School Theater Department Presents Hadestown: Teen Edition

Follow a modern twist of the intertwined classic Greek mythological tales of Orpheus and Eurydice and King Hades and Queen Persephone with concepts of love, strength, climate change, doubt, corruption with power, and resilience at the heart of the story and songs. The musical shows through May 3. Fri.: 7pm; Sat.: 1 and 7pm. S.B. High School Theatre, 700 E. Anapamu St. $20. Call (805) 966-9101 or email sbhstheatreboxoffice@ gmail.com tinyurl.com/SBHS-Hadestown

4/25-4/26: Solvang Custom Knife Show View and purchase rare, handcrafted knives and meet some of the most respected artisans in the industry showcasing their custom, museum-quality blades. Sat.: 10am-5pm; Sat.: 10am-4pm. Craft House at Corque, 420 Alisal Rd., Solvang. One-day pass: $20; two-day pass: $35. solvangcustomknifeshow.com

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., 3-6:30pm

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

4/25: Exhibit Opening: Drawn from Nature Art: The Maximus Legacy In celebration of 30 years of the John and Peggy Maximus Gallery, take a glimpse into the history of the sciences through the arts to see some engravings and lithograph prints from their collection of more than 4,000 pieces that inspired his work as an artist and illustrator. The exhibit runs through September 7. 10am5pm. S.B. Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol. Free-$19. Call (805) 682-4711. sbnature.org/calendar

4/25: San Marcos High School Annual Band FUNdraiser This family-friendly event will feature live music from the funky jazz quintet Channel Five, a performance by SMHS’s award-winning Jazz Ensemble, La Cumbre Jr. High School’s Drumline, food from Bombazo Burritos, a bake sale, and silent auctions with proceeds going to the SMHS Instrumental Music program. 5-9pm. Mosaic Locale, 1131 State St. Free. Call: (805) 259-4356. smroyalsbands.weebly.com

4/25: Embracing Grief Together: Community Grief Ritual Take the opportunity to soften, to feel, and to come home to yourself in the presence of a caring community as you journal and reflect, share, and participate in a collective grief ceremony. 6-9pm. Unitarian Society of S.B., 1535 Santa Barbara St. Free. Call (805) 964-8096. wyp.org/grief-ritual

PLEASE CONTACT THE VENUE TO CONFIRM HOURS AND EVENT CANCELLATIONS OR POSTPONEMENTS.

BY TERRY ORTEGA

Shows on Tap S Shows on Tap

4/24-4/26:Eos Lounge Thu.: Alumni Weekend with LOSTBOYJAY, 9pm. Free Fri.: Alumni Friday, 9pm. $6.18. Sat.: Alumni Bbq Dayger w/ Neil Frances and Afriqua, 2pm. $49.44. 500 Anacapa St. Ages 21+. Call (805) 564-2410. eoslounge.com

4/24-4/25, 4/27: Anchor Rose Thu.: The Mixx, Jan Ingram & Henry Garrett, 5-8pm. Fri.: Patrick, Piano, 9-11pm. Sun.: Will Stephens & Robert Gross, 3-6pm. The Traveling Hurtados, 6:30-9:30pm. Free. 113 Harbor Wy., Ste. 180. Call (805) 770-5069. theanchorrose.com/events

4/24-4/27: Maverick Saloon Thu.: The Last Thursday, 7-10:30pm Fri.: The Robert Heft Band, 8:30-11:30pm. Sat.: Flannel 101, 9pm-midnight. Sun.: Jared Nels, 3-7pm. Free. 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez. Call (805) 686-4785. mavericksaloon.com/eventcalendar

4/24-4/27, 4/29-4/30: SOhO Restaurant & Music Club Thu.: Jack Corliss & the Devereaux Quartet with Monkfish, 8pm. $12-$15. Ages 21+ Fri.: Funk It Up with Area 51! 8:30pm. $15-$18. Ages 21+. Sat.: Marty O’Reilly Solo Sessions, 7pm. $15-$18. Ages 21+. ME Sabor Presents: Orquestra Son Miron, Bachata class: 9pm; dance: 10pm. $18-$25. Ages 21+ . Sun.: UCSB Jazz Ensemble, 7pm. Student: $5; GA: $15-$18. Tue.: SOhO Songwriter Series: Nicole Sophia, Sami Siteman, Marcella, 7pm. $10. Wed.: On Wednesdays We Wear Pink with DJ Darla Bea, 7pm. $10. Ages 21+. 1221 State St. Call (805) 962-7776. sohosb.com

4/25, 4/30: Carr Winery Fri.: Koalishon, 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/event

4/25-4/27: Lost Chord Guitars Fri.: Idle Hands, 7-11pm. $11.59 Sat.: Andras Jones with James Combs & Erin Hawkins, 7-11pm. $11.59. Sun.: Jess Bush & Tod Weidner, 7-10pm. Free. 1576 Copenhagen Dr., Solvang. Ages 21+. Call (805) 331-4363. lostchordguitars.com

4/25-4/26: M.Special Brewing Co. (Goleta) Fri.: Paradise Kings. Sat.: Crying 4 Kafka, 7-9pm. 6860 Cortona Dr., Ste. C, Goleta. Free. Call (805) 968-6500. mspecialbrewco.com

4/25-4/27: M.Special Brewing Co. (S.B.) Fri.: Golf Sucks, 9-11pm. Sat.: Lizardsmouth, 8-10pm. Sun.: Animo, 5-6:30pm. Night Heron, 7-8pm. 634 State St. Free. Call (805) 308-0050 mspecialbrewco.com

4/25: Topa Topa Brewing Co. (S.B.) Ransome Note, 7-9pm. 120 Santa Barbara St. Free. Ages 21+. Call (805) 324-4150. topatopa.beer/pages/happenings

4/26-4/27: Cold Spring Tavern Sat.: The Honeysuckle Possums. Sun.: Teresa Russell, 1:30-4:30pm. 5995 Stagecoach Rd. Free. Call (805) 967-0066. coldspringtavern.com

4/26-4/27: Hook’d Bar and Grill Sat.: Tony Buck & The Cadillac Angels, 4-7 pm. Sun.: Barry McGuire, 1-4pm. 116 Lakeview Dr., Cachuma Lake. Free. Call (805) 350-8351. hookdbarandgrill.com/music-onthe-water

4/26: O Bar Bacara Jazz Piano Alyse Korn, 6-8pm. Ages 21+. Free. 8301 Hollister Ave. Call (805) 968-0100. tinyurl.com/Bacara-AlyseKorn

4/26: The Tully Do You Compute, Some Gifts, Chimes of Bayonets, 8:30pm. 1431 San Andres St. Free. Call (805) 7707724. tinyurl.com/TheTully-Apr26

4/28: The Red Piano Church on Monday: Kelly’s Lot, 7:30pm. 519 State St. $5. Call (805) 358-1439. theredpiano.com

4/26-4/27: The 28th Annual

Neal Taylor Nature Center Fish Derby Join for arts and crafts, workshops, bait-making stations, live music at Hook’d Bar & Grill, boat rentals, an on-site disc golf course, biking and hiking trails, and the chance to win awards, including a $5,000 cash prize for anglers of all ages for different types of fish. Funds raised will benefit the Neal Taylor Nature Center. Sat., 6am to Sun., noon. Cachuma Lake, 2265 Hwy. 154. Youth ages 4-15: $10; GA: $44-$45. Call (805) 693-8381 or email fishderby@clnaturecenter.org troutderby.org

4/26: Wild at Heart with Wildflowers at the Garden The Botanic Garden’s Horticultural Educator Alejandro Lemus will teach you about the horticulture of wildflowers and how fun and easy it is to grow annuals in your garden. 9:30am, S.B. Botanic Garden,1212 Mission Canyon Rd. $15-$30. Call (805) 682-4726. sbbotanicgarden.org/calendar

4/26: Santa Ynez Valley Natural History Society 25th Anniversary Celebration Participate in nature-themed walks, tours, and outdoor activities for all ages with free beverages and snacks. You can also bring a picnic. Advance registration required. 2-6pm, Sedgwick Reserve, 3566 Brinkerhoff Ave., Santa Ynez. Free Call: (805) 693-5683. syvnature.org

4/26: How to Make a Great Tamale Class Richard Lambert, founder of National Tamale Day, will teach beginners how to assemble tamales, make salsas, and select ingredients in this hands-on class. 1-3:30pm. Goodland Kitchen, 4540 Hollister Ave. $75. Call (559) 586-1734. tinyurl.com/Make-Tamales

4/26-4/27: The S.B. Symphony Presents Brahms’s Requiem Consoled by the psalms, the gospels, and the prophets, Brahms set their words to his music. Nir Kabaretti will be joined by area choruses for Brahms’s poetic settings from the Bible, A German Requiem, plus the haunting Rückert songs by Gustav Mahler. Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.: 3pm. The Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $42-$192. Call (805) 899-2222. ticketing.granadasb.org/events

4/26: Santa Ynez Valley Concert Series Presents Emmanuel Ceysson, Harp Emmanuel Ceysson, principal harpist of the L.A. Philharmonic, will perform works by Bach, Spohr, Glinka/Balakirev, Caplet, Tournier, Debussy, and Fauré along with a Q&A session. 7pm. St. St. Mark’s-in-the-Valley Episcopal Church, 2901 Nojoqui Ave., Los Olivos. Students: free; GA: $45. Email syvconcerts@smitv .org. tinyurl.com/SYV-Harp

SUNDAY 4/27

4/27: Carpinteria Festival of Books More than 25 area authors of all genres and age groups will display, sign, and sell their work as they meet and speak with readers. Noon-4pm. Carpinteria Arts Center, 865 Linden Ave., Carpinteria. Free. Call (805) 684-7789. carpinteriaartscenter.org

4/27: Sangre de Nopal Closing Celebration and Mini Concert Join and celebrate the closing of the exhibition Sangre de Nopal/Blood of the Nopal: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Contemporary Art at this reception with area vendors and a mini concert from Oaxaca-born psychedelic-pop/indie-pop band Vulgar at 6pm. 3-7pm. Museum of Contemporary Art S.B., 653 Paseo Nuevo. $24-$26. Email hello@mcasantabarbara.org tinyurl.com/Sangre-Nopal

MONDAY 4/28

4/28: S.B. Parks & Rec Older Adults Clubs: Scrabble Club Players of all levels are invited to this weekly social group designed to connect older adults through their love of Scrabble. The group is open to English and Spanish speakers. 1-4pm. Louise Lowry Davis Ctr., 111 W. Victoria St. Free tinyurl.com/Scrabble-Apr28

TUESDAY 4/29

4/29: Panic! Swoon See director and writer Tom Kalin’s 1992 movie Swoon (in 35mm, rated R) a reimagining of the infamous 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case, in which two wealthy, intelligent young men from Chicago plotted and then murdered a 14-year-old boy all to commit the “perfect crime.” A discussion with the director will follow. 7-9:30pm. Pollock Theater, UCSB. Free. Call (805) 8934637. carseywolf.ucsb.edu/events

4/29: Chaucer’s Books Poetry Celebration Join poet and artist Sharon Frances (Ash & Feather), young poets’ prize winner recognition from CalPoets in the Schools, and typewriter poetry via poet Simon Kiefer; author Diana Raab; David Starkey, S.B. Poet Laureate, 2009-2011; and newly installed S.B. Poet Laureate, George Yatchisin. 5:30-6:30pm. Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State St. Free. Call (805) 682-6787. chaucersbooks.com/events

4/29: GPSBN: Virtual Talk with Assemblymember Gregg Hart Join the Gray Panthers S.B. Network (GPSBN) and assemblymember Gregg Hart for a forum about the status of congregate facilities, how to backfill the loss of federal funds, and how to support senior housing. 4:30-5:30pm. Zoom. sbgraypanthers.org/events

4/29: Hands Off Social Security S.B. Rally Join in front of the local Social Security office to show support and demand that DOGE gets its hands off our social security! Noon. Social Security Administration, 122 W. Figueroa St. Free tinyurl.com/HandsOff-SocialSecurity

WEDNESDAY 4/30

4/30: Public Feminism Series: What’s Up with Men? Conversations on Contemporary Masculinities

The UCSB Center for Feminist Futures and La Lieff Winery present this conversation about the troubling rise of misogyny, male supremacist movements, and gender-based violence and to learn how to foster healthier masculinities. 4:306:30pm. La Lieff Winery, 210 Gray Ave. Free Email feministfutures@ ucsb.edu.

4/30: The Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Presents Grace Yia-Hei Kao Professor of Ethics and the inaugural Sano Chair in Pacific and Asian American Theology at Claremont School of Theology and author Grace Yia-Hei Kao will talk about how the federal governments should attempt to right, or remedy the past wrongs in the talk, Righting Wrong When ‘Sorry’ Isn’t Enough: Constructing an Asian American Theology of Reparations. 5-6:30pm. McCune Conference Rm. (HSSB 6020), UCSB. Free Email info@cappscenter.ucsb.edu tinyurl.com/RightingWrong

Earth Day Earth Day

4/24: Climate Justice Film Series Teens and adults are invited to a screening of the 2019 documentary Sustainable, then engage in critical discussions about climate impacts on marginalized communities and the steps that can be taken toward a sustainable, fair future. 4-6pm. Faulkner Gallery, S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Call (805) 962-7653. tinyurl.com/ClimateJustice-Film

4/26-27: S.B. Earth Day Festival 2025 Celebrate the 55th Earth Day with a plantforward food court and beer garden, eco-friendly vendors, live music and performances, and the largest green car show on the West Coast! Visit the website for the full schedule. Sat.: 11am-8pm; Sun.: 11am-7pm. Alameda Park, 1400 Santa Barbara St. Free. Email info@ sbearthday.org sbearthday.org

4/26:

Crafternoon: Craft for the Earth All skill levels are invited to transform everyday recycled materials to treasure and create paper bead bracelets, eARTh collages, and recycled litter bugs. 11:30am1pm. EE Makerspace, Art from Scrap, 302 E. Cota St. $8. Ages 5+. Call (805) 8840459. exploreecology.org/calendar

4/29: Nature Walk Children and families can enjoy the outdoors with a nature-themed storytime and a flower walk to follow! Children can create their own bud vase out of cardboard and fill it with flowers, leaves, and more. 4-5pm. Michael Towbes Library Plaza, S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free. Ages 0-5 and grades K-2 and 3-6. Call (805) 9627653. tinyurl.com/Nature-WalkApr29

4/30: Driving Clean Assistance Program (DCAP) Application Assistance / Programa de Asistencia para la Conducción Limpia (DCAP) Asistencia para la solicitud Learn about the application process to purchase or lease a new or used battery electric, plug-in hybrid electric, or fuel cell vehicle as well the incentives offered through the California DCAP. Infórmese sobre el proceso de solicitud para comprar o alquilar un vehículo nuevo o usado eléctrico de batería, eléctrico híbrido enchufable o de pila de combustible, así como sobre los incentivos ofrecidos a través del DCAP de California. 2-6pm. CEC’s Environmental Hub, 1219 State St. Free. Email reserve@envirohubsb.org. tinyurl.com/Drive-Clean

All Gaucho Reunion Time

Visit the website for the full schedule. Call (805) 893-2957 or email alumni@alumni.ucsb.edu.

4/24: All Gaucho Reunion Block Party Join emcee DJ Darla Bea (‘03), local alumni, and friends in the heart of downtown S.B. for live music from the Brasscals, Swish Like a Gaucho free-throw contest, exciting giveaways, and special guests. Register online. 5-8pm. 500 block of State St. Free

4/25: Prof Slam This fast-paced event challenges UC Santa Barbara faculty to present their cutting-edge research in just three minutes. Expect fascinating insights and engaging storytelling as complex ideas are made simple and entertaining. Register online. 4:30-6pm. CEC Environmental Hub, 1219 State St., Ste. A. $10. Email programs@ alumni.ucsb.edu.

4/26: Pride & Play: A Celebration for LGBTQIA+ Alumni Join owner of the Crafter’s Library Andrew Rawls (’12), LGBTQIA+ alumni, and allies for festive games, music, drink, and creative activities. Register online. 5:30-7pm. Crafter’s Library, 9 E. Figueroa St. Free

Saturday, May 17, 2025 4–7:30pm

FEATURING… a judged competition of chocolate creations by

chefs, delicious chocolates & wines, and heavy hors d’oeuvres for your enjoyment!

MORE THAN JUST FOR ART’S SAKE, WESTMONT STUDENT ARTISTS UNVEILED

TWELVEFOLD REVEALS A DOZEN ART STUDENT SENIORS’ VARIED WORK AT WESTMONT MUSEUM OF ART

By a comforting routine of calendar clockwork, the tail end of the Westmont College’s academic year brings with it various traditions, including a group show at the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art. It is the chance for senior art department students to publicly show their work in this respectable museum space, and generally, the exhibitions celebrate the vive la difference factor of each artist tending their own creative fires, unbound by common themes or materials.

With this year’s student art harvest, Twelvefold, the scale expands beyond the smaller number of artists in the past, along with the breadth of diverse vantage points and artistic means. As varied as the art is in this dozen-strong show, one notable commonality relates to a tendency of these young artists to explore sometimes frank, honest, and personal themes and issues through their art.

One may be tempted to read this openness with the sociopsychological influence of the pandemic on these inwardlooking young twentysomethings who spent formative years in the thick of the virally turbulent period. Whatever the underlying forces, Twelvefold impresses with freshness of expression and the mirror-eye view of the examined self very much in progress.

Such inward perspectives are encountered at the outset, in the museum’s long entryway gallery. Creed Bauman’s “A Tension, Please” consists of seven pieces of varied shape, organized in a symmetrical array around a key centerpiece, “Tension,” a large arch-shaped image of a semi-self-portrait of the artist engaged in a wrestling tangle with Jacob and the Angel a story out of Genesis with white wings dramatically protruding from the Angel’s back. Bauman describes the overall work as dealing with his “dueling identities as a Queer and a Christian.”

Across the room, Tucker Howard’s “Visual Reverb” consumes the long wall with its 18 square panels, abstract imagery ordered in rows identified as “INPUT” and “OUTPUT,” and linked to the artist’s being identified as ADHD. A synesthetic sound component, including electronica pieces created via

the 18th-century technique of the Chladni plate, contributes to the complex yet neatly ordered conception and realization of his piece.

Installation art concepts comprise one running theme in the overall show, in distinctly different ways.

In one gallery corner, a domestic setting replete with a love seat and throw rug, Rebekah Steele shows her self-portrait oil paintings some faceless, implying a sense of morphing identity. In another corner, Mia Brooke’s friendly series called A Real Page-Turner finds a set of art books in another cozy reading nook within the main gallery. Opening the “books,” we find three-dimensional vignettes adorned by short quotations, the stuff of mermaids and Dorothy and Toto, too, with the ever-relevant homily “There’s no place like home.”

Home is a more complicated place and concept in Juliana Moore’s “Sanctuary,” taking the altered form of a giant Kern’s Guava Nectar juice box in the gallery juice box as selfreflective shrine. Closer inspection of the box’s text reveals interwoven testimonials of internal questioning, as the artist grapples with issues of sexual orientation and existential grounding, the expected thought processes in the transitional stage in the life of a college student (and beyond).

Sentimental and memory-encoded visions of home can also be found in Ryan Speight’s colorful, compact, and digitalgraphics-tinged “Personal Pixels,” detailing locations around Santa Barbara. For Laurea Wanner, home means a small town in the Sierra Nevada mountains, in the Eastern Sierras, and

with her series of screen prints called Highway 395, she commemorates her childhood with odes to such humble landmarks as the Portal Motel and disused mining machinery in the ghost town of Bodie.

On the museum’s back walls, art of a more abstracted nature comes into focus. For Jaycee Felkins, her Typical series gamely blends imagery of the cosmos with manifestations of fear and uncertainty such as we experience in the immensity of the universe. Elsewhere, Amèlie Barrero’s “The Water We Swim In” contends with the pervasive natural element of water, emblemized as subtle, faint blur forms with meditative, mandala-like shapes.

In the unorthodox materials zone, Erika Harrison wins points for cheek and insight with her series Lackluster and the Wrecked, paintings of mythic, superhero, and vehicular iconography on auto parts. We’re naturally reminded of the Los Angeles–based “finish fetish” artist Billy Al Bengston (1934-2022), who used auto paint and parts in his work, but Harrison brings her own 21st-century spin to the ever-relevant theme of machine-driven life.

The spotlight turns more inherently inward with self-portrait series in the show, from Gray Mohon’s willfully diverse takes on the subject distorted or oblique views, a vertebrae “portrait” and an ant’s-eye view to Julia Jachetta’s set of large charcoal nude studies set amid the claustrophobic context of a checkerboard dreamscape. Jachetta writes about her use of this art to help channel lingering memories of a near-death experience as a child.

All things and themes considered, Twelvefold lives up to its exhibition title, with its dozen disparate viewpoints and artistic personalities on view. Through the show, we are invited into the interior worlds of young, still-forming artists, with unusually open and insider views. In short, there is more than just “art for art’s sake” at stake here. —Josef Woodard

Twelvefold: Westmont College Graduate Exhibition 2025 is on view at Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art (955 La Paz Rd.) through May 3. See westmont.edu/twelvefold for more information.

Creed Bauman’s “A Tension, Please”

Juliana Moore’s “Sanctuary 1” and “Sanctuary 2”

A Life Among Elephants

Monday, May 5, 2025 / 7 PM / Lobero

ILLUMINATE FILM FESTIVAL, CINEMA SEEKING HIGHER GROUND

TFilm screening and Conversation with “Save the Elephants”

CEO Frank Pope, Saba Douglas-Hamilton and David Daballen

This award-winning documentary chronicles the remarkable journey of Dr. Iain Douglas-Hamilton, the world’s foremost elephant scientist, whose groundbreaking research and conservation efforts have shaped our understanding of these magnificent creatures for over six decades.

Tickets $20. Premium seats with a reception hosted by John Kay (from Steppenwolf) for $50. Students with ID FREE.

he upcoming four-day Illuminate Film Festival commences in grand, multimedia style at The Granada Theatre on Thursday, May 1. At the heart of the evening is no less a globally radiant figure than the Dalai Lama, the subject of Wisdom of Happiness, in its Santa Barbara premiere. This new doc, directed by Philip Delaquis, Barbara Miller, and Manuel Bauer, may be the last film appearance for the Dalai Lama, now 89, and arrives with the imprimatur and support of Richard Gere’s executive producer credit.

Opening night also spotlights a keynote address by author Lynne Twist, who worked with the Desmond Tutu Foundation and the Jane Goodall Institute and was featured on Oprah Winfrey’s Super Soul Sunday podcast.

national Film Festival, Illuminate focuses on a much more narrowcast film forum. Its website states, “Our mission is to elevate human consciousness and inspire lasting personal, social, and planetary transformation through film and media.”

“Illuminate isn’t just a festival,” Interim Executive Director Kia Kiso explains. “It’s a movement for positive transformation. At its highest potential, media doesn’t just entertain. It awakens, connects, and reminds us of who we truly are. This year’s lineup invites us to look through the lens of love at ourselves, at each other, and at what’s possible when we choose to lead with compassion.”

In further describing the festival’s mission and agenda, Artistic Director Téana David adds, “In today’s fractured world, these films illuminate our shared humanity by doing what films do best, inviting us to see the world through others’ eyes. Each selection creates space for awe, wonder, and curiosity so we can collectively dream a new way forward together.”

Among the film screening highlights are Between the Mountain and the Sky (Sat., May 3, 6:30 p.m.), sustainable food systems doc Feeding Tomorrow (Sun., May 4, 4 p.m.), and The Journey (Sun., May 4, 7:30 p.m.), a doc on the brotherly music entity of the Ojai-based Isaac and Thorald Koren. Pop star Sia is in the project’s executive producer branch.

THURSDAY MAY 15

BILL FRISELL – GOOD DOG

featuring Greg Leisz, Tony Scherr, and Kenny Wollesen

RollingStone says revered guitarist, composer, and GRAMMY® winner Bill Frisell “is a genuine guitar hero and a major influence on generations of six-stringers that you worship.” After more than 2 decades, Frisell reunites with a few of his closest musical brothers to perform some of the magical pieces from GOOD DOG, HAPPY MAN.

Adding to the full sensory spectrum of this opening night is the very real-time presence of singer Donna De Lory, along with cellist Brianna Tam and a dance component by the LUME Apex troupe from Los Angeles. De Lory’s career has included highprofile work as a backup singer for the likes of Madonna, Leonard Cohen, Carly Simon, and Bette Midler and as vocalist in films and elsewhere. But her personal musical mission has spanned the genres of pop, world music, electronica, and devotional mantras.

The festival unfolds over the next four days in Downtown Santa Barbara, mostly at the New Vic, with a roster of films rooted in the realms of spiritual, social justice, personal development, and environmentalism discussions and workshops of both the inward and industry-related kind.

This will be the second year the festival has been based in Santa Barbara, after its previous homebase of Sedona, Arizona, for a decade. In 2024, the festival was a hybrid live and online incarnation. Founded by “transformational media” entrepreneur Danette Wolpert Holman, the festival represents a cinematic subculture that has been dubbed “conscious cinema.”

As compared to a more general-purpose film festival, such as the Santa Barbara Inter-

Also on opening day, May 1, the IFF headquarters (28 W. Victoria St.) will be the site of a special industry-oriented “Hive Day,” a fullday with keynote speakers Chaz Ebert from rogerebert.com and HeartMath Healthcare co-founder Sheva Carr. The panel discussions go by the titles “Heart Meets Market: Meeting the Moment with Stories that Matter” and “Inner Transformation for Outer Activation: Leveraging Your Distribution and Impact Campaign.”

There will be a special free community screening of the films Finding Happy and Circle of Grace about the famed Santa Barbaran artist activist Grace Fisher, who paints with a mouth stick at the New Vic on Sunday at 10:30 a.m. After the screenings, a “Reel Integration Session” will take place with intuitive animal communicator Jamie Wozny.

In keeping with the live event followed by online presence, the 2025 festival’s live Santa Barbara run goes virtual May 5-11.

See illuminatefilmfestival.com

—Josef Woodard

The Dalai Lama’s Gift

Celebrating its 20th anniversary, UCSB’s Launch Pad program presents readings of four new dynamic plays by professional playwrights Matthew Paul Olmos, Leo Cabranes-Grant, A. Rey Pamatmat, and Megan Tabaque.

A dynamic process of rehearsals, the collaboration of more than 70 artists and staff, and creative envisioning will culminate in two days of public readings at UCSB Studio Theater on April 25 and April 26.

“This is our fourth Amplify Festival since 2020, and we cannot wait for these superb writers to collaborate with our students at UCSB. There is a special alchemy that occurs when veterans and emerging artists work together,” said Launch Pad Artistic Director Risa Brainin.

Written by Matthew Paul Olmos and directed by Rose Portillo, that drive thru monterey follows the story of a Mexican American woman in 1971 Los Angeles who falls in love amid mysterious premonitions for what lies ahead. The reading will take place at 4 p.m. on April 25.

The Crossing Party, written by Leo Cabranes-Grant and directed by Sara Rademacher, narrates the story of one Anglo and one Mexican family as they intersect their histories and lives in Los Angeles through a timely narrative about friendship and harmony in an unwelcoming political climate. The reading will take place at 8 p.m. on April 25.

Masters of Fine Arts, written by A. Rey Pamatmat and directed by Katherine Chou, illustrates a discourse between five MFA candidates about whether or not plays always have stories, by telling each other stories. The reading will take place at 1 p.m. on April 26.

The Rink at the End of the World, written by Megan Tabaque and directed by Risa Brainin, follows a diverse assortment of figure skaters as they train and rebuild each other on a quest to achieve the impossible. The reading will take place at 5 p.m. on April 26.

“This week provides a unique opportunity for students to engage with working playwrights, directors, and dramaturgs. It’s a thrill to be in these rooms with playwrights making revisions and actors absorbing new material every day,” said festival co-director Annie Torsiglieri.

“I’m not here to tell people how great I am. I’m here to share my story, to say, you’re no different than I am. I was able to do it, this is how I did it.”

– José Hernández

José Hernández

Reaching for the Stars: The Inspiring Story of a Migrant Farm Worker Turned Astronaut

Tue, Apr 29 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall

Born into a family of migrant farmworkers, José Hernández didn’t speak English until he was 12. Through determination, he defied the odds – becoming an engineer, an astronaut and the first Mexican-American to travel to space.

Dr. Laurie Santos

Thriving Through Crisis: How to Foster Happiness When the World Feels Overwhelming

Wed, May 7 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall

A psychologist and an expert on human cognition, Yale professor Dr. Laurie Santos discusses the tools that science provides for managing stress and building a life of happiness, even when crisis looms large.

Ross Gay

The Book of Delights

Thu, May 8 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall

FREE (registration recommended)

The Book of Delights by Ross Gay is a New York Times

bestselling collection of essays that celebrates small, ordinary wonders and reveals how staking out a space for joy brings us closer together.

Co-presented with UCSB Library as part of UCSB Reads 2025

Jason De León

Uncovering the Stories at the U.S.-Mexico Border

Thu, May 15 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall

An internationally recognized anthropologist and the National Book Award-winning author of Soldiers and Kings, Jason De León examines the human cost and potential solutions to the crisis of global border enforcement.

AFTER 40 YEARS OF WRITING BOOKS, SHE’S LEARNED TO LISTEN TO HER GUT

CHILDREN’S BOOK AUTHOR LEE WARDLAW RELEASES NEW BOOK, MY BOOK OF FIRSTS

Children’s book author Lee Wardlaw prefers to do things her way after 40 years of writing children’s books, she’s learned to listen to her gut. This proved especially true with her 2011 book Won Ton, a story about a shelter cat that gets adopted. Publishers liked the story but weren’t fond of the haiku format they wanted her “to just write it straight.” Wardlaw said no.

“I really felt that if a cat was gonna speak in human, he was gonna speak in haiku,” she says sitting opposite me at Dune Coffee Roasters on State Street. “Because cats and haiku have a lot in common,” she continues, “You know, they will say a lot with very few words.” She stuck with her gut and it was her most successful book to date, winning almost 50 awards, including poetry ones like the 2012 Lee Bennett Hopkins Award for Poetry, Myra Cohn Livingston Award for Poetry in 2012, and the 2013 Beehive Poetry Book Award.

That same creative conviction carried her through the long journey of publishing her latest book, My Book of Firsts, a first-person account of a baby’s milestones told through a poem format, written by Wardlaw and illustrated by Bruno Brogna. On April 27, she’s hosting a book launch and signing at her house where 30 percent of all proceeds from book sales will be donated to Postpartum Education for Parents (PEP).

She says My Book of Firsts took 25 years to publish. Why it took her so long was a classic tale of “It’s just not the right time,” or “We already have something like this in the works.” Nonetheless, despite this initial response from editors, she remained persistent.

She dreamed up the concept a few years after she gave birth to her son Patterson (PJ), in 1996. She was searching for a children’s book that detailed the first moments of a baby’s life. Coming up empty-handed, she decided to write her own. She titled it First Steps, a story about a baby learn-

ing to walk for the first time. “So much occurs in that first year,” she ponders, “I mean, you figure they’re just this lump that just lays there, and then by a year, they’re walking; they’re talking; they’re exploring; they’re doing all sorts of fun things.”

She decided that instead of writing a series of separate books, she would combine each “first” into one book hence, My Book of Firsts. When the time was right, she sent it off, finally receiving a yes, making this her 31st book.

Wardlaw has lived in Santa Barbara since 1960 but is originally from Kansas. She attended Santa Barbara High and went on to Cal Poly, where she studied teaching. She thought about becoming a journalist because of her love of writing, but knew that she wanted to write for kids. “I thought, well, maybe I should go into the field,” she says, “You know, working with kids so that I really get to know my audience.” After earning her degree, she taught elementary and preschool for around five years. She’s been an author ever since.

When the film adaptation of Peter Pan had just come out, she was “enamored” by the story and unable to decide if she wanted to be Peter Pan or Tinker Bell. Naturally, she combined the two and wrote a story about a character named Tina Bell, who runs away from home and goes on a series of adventures.

Growing up, she continued to write stories, jotting down the worlds that existed in her mind. While she started writing at 7, she didn’t formally declare her career as a children’s book writer until 6th grade. That childlike daydreaming never really left her, nor did her dreams of wanting to write for children. “I think adults tend to get grumpy and jaded; they’re just no fun,” she admits. “Kids are like kittens; they’re just so curious, and the world is so new and exciting.”

Wardlaw writes for all ages and genres from board books for babies and toddlers up to novels for teenagers. Although, she says, her past teenage novels “would probably be considered more for middle-schoolers now, because the genres have changed over the years.”

Her first published book was Corey’s Fire, a 1990 young adult novel about a 14-year-old girl who loses her home to a fire. The story is based on her family’s experience when their home burned down in the 1977 Sycamore Fire. Wardlaw focused the book on Corey and her family’s effort to rebuild their lives after the catastrophic event. “She starts out being kind of a baby, kind of whiny,” says Wardlaw. “And she ends up being a lot more self-assured, self-confident, more independent. It was kind of my way of dealing with the traumatic experience.”

Her writing career can be traced back to when she was just 7 years old. She remembers quite clearly her first piece.

I asked her, what’s next? She’s working on a Civil War book for middle-schoolers. The inspiration? Her great-grandfathers all four of them fought in the war, two for the Union and two for the Confederacy. She’s deep into research and doesn’t take the responsibility lightly. To fully immerse herself in the era, she even started making Hardtack the famously unperishable cracker soldiers ate during the war. “I think it’s going to be my best book ever,” she says smiling. “But it’s taking some time to get it done.” —Tiana Molony

Lee Wardlaw’s book signing for My Book of Firsts, with a portion of the proceeds going to PEF, takes place on Sunday, April 27, from 2-5 p.m. at a private residence. Please RSVP to author@leewardlaw.com or (805) 452-9924 for location.

Lee Wardlaw holds up a copy of her latest book, My Book of Firsts.

Lee Wardlaw as a baby

LIVING

Environment

All Hands on Deck for the Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival

Celebrate Our Planet April 26-27 at Alameda Park

by Leslie Dinaberg | Photos by Maxx Hennard

Our planet needs our support now more than ever, and now in its 55th year in the birthplace of the environmental movement, the Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival comes to Alameda Park April 26-27.

The two-day festival which is, as always, free to attend anticipates all of the fun of past years. Highlights of this year’s event include the green car show featuring free “Ride & Drive’’ experiences, more than 200 eco-friendly exhibitors, a beer and wine garden, kids’ zone, two full days of live music, a plant-forward food court, and so much more, including a booth for the Santa Barbara Independent, where we hope you’ll stop by and say hi.

Among the music and entertainment highlights on the mainstage is the Saturday homegrown band trifecta of Spencer the Gardener at 4 p.m., False Puppet at 5:20 p.m., and the Doublewide Kings at 6:40 p.m. Headliners on Sunday include The Caverns at 2 p.m. and No Simple Highway at 5:50 p.m., among many others. There’s also a second climate action stage with entertainment and informative activism panels all weekend long.

In addition, there is a full lineup of kids’ activities and entertainment both days, as well as a kids’ corner with family-friendly exhibitors, including Santa Barbara Face Painting and activities from MOXI, the Sea Center, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

“As we prepare for the 2025 Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival, we are reminded of Santa Barbara’s deep-rooted legacy as a pioneer in the environmental movement,” stated Kathi King, Community Environmental Council’s director of climate education and leadership. “This is not only a point of pride for our community but a constant reminder of the responsibility we carry in leading environmental stewardship and advocacy. The Community Environmental Council (CEC) is honored to continue this tradition, engaging with our community and beyond to foster a deeper connection with our environment and drive meaningful action towards a sustainable future.”

With a theme of “Our Power, Our Planet” in alignment with the Earth Day Network’s global theme for this all-handson-deck year this year’s festival, presented by the nonprofit CEC in partnership with

CarpEvents, honors environmental heroes Dr. Leah Stokes and the late Charlie Eckberg. Stokes will receive the 2025 Santa Barbara Earth Day Environmental Hero Award. She is a professor at UCSB focused on energy, climate, and environmental politics. An author of several books, Stokes was named an advocate on TIME100 Next, and as one of Business Insider’s top 30 global leaders working toward climate solutions. She is also an author of the Inflation Reduction Act, widely recognized as the most influential piece of climate legislation ever enacted.

This year also marks the inaugural Earth Day Environmental Hero Pioneer Award recipient being presented to Eckberg, who helped bring the Earth Day Festival back to Santa Barbara in the early ’90s and was an influential environmentalist throughout his life.

The Environmental Hero Awards ceremony will take place on Saturday, April 26, at noon on the Main Stage in Alameda Park, and Stokes will be on stage to accept the award, along with members of Eckberg’s family. KEYT anchor Tracy Lehr will serve as emcee.

Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival takes place at Alameda Park, 1400 Santa Barbara Street, April 26-27. Saturday hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday’s festival is from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. For more information and a complete schedule, see sbearthday.org or see the 20-page program guide in the center of this issue

Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival 2024

There’s free live music all day Saturday and Sunday at the Festival.

More than 200 eco-friendly exhibitors are expected.

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Aichas Wholesomes Boutique Because of

Bill Hat Enterprise

Blue Planet Eco-Eyewear Bluskysoul

Brighten Solar Co.

California Solar Electric

Channel Islands Restoration

Elevating Our Earth

Fleks Footwear and Blumaka Golden Tribe Boutique

Indigenous World

Indigo Trading Post

Kind Cup

LeafFilter Gutter ProtectIon

Lobos Del Mar

Matilija Pure Water

Mooskn

2025 FESTIVAL EXHIBITORS

Citizens

MarBorg Industries

MERITO Foundation

Moorea Coral Reef / Santa Barbara Coastal Long-term Ecological Research sites

Pachamama Alliance

Pacifica Graduate Institute

Planet Protectors

Planned Parenthood CA Central Coast

Santa Barbara Audubon Society

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden

Santa Barbara Channelkeeper

Santa Barbara County Fire Safe Council

Santa Barbara Family YMCA

Santa Barbara Foundation

PAGO Companies

Santa

Santa Barbara Independent

PLANT-FORWARD FOOD

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Santa Barbara League of Women Voters

Santa Barbara Middle School (Sun Only)

Santa Barbara Urban Creeks Council

Sea League (Sat Only)

Share International USA ShelterBox

Sierra Club

Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance

Surfrider Foundation Santa Barbara Chapter

The Colleges of Law

UC Master Gardeners

UNA-USA/Santa Barbara Peace Corps

World

World Dance for Humanity

Bigstraw Boba

Lassens Natural Foods and Vitamins

Considered Coffee

Natural Haven

Elubia's Kitchen

Permaculture

Natural Haven Permaculture

Central Coast Clean Cities Coalition - C5

Hawaiian Honey Cones

Hi-Fi Pizza Pi

House of Bao

Momo Souls

Santa Barbara Hives

The Tamale Fiesta Wandering Eats

HOMEGROWN ROOTS

Beekeeper's

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Beekeeper's Guild of Santa Barbara

Dave's Killer Bread

Dave's Killer Bread Farm Fresh To You

Get Hooked Seafood

Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Get Hooked Seafood

Isla Vista Food CO-OP Jovial Goods

Rayluca Chocolate

Relaxation Tea

Santa Barbara Hives

Savage BEE-Ches

Students for Eco-Education & Agriculture (SEEAG)

Sunkissed Pantry

KIDS CORNER

Ice in Paradise Kids in Nutrition

Montessori Center School

Santa Barbara Face Painting

MOXI, The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and Sea Center South Coast Karate

Santa Barbara Face Painting

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and Sea Center

South Coast Karate

Central Coast Community Energy3CE

Central Coast Green Building

Council Build SMART Trailer

Central Coast Green Building Council Build SMART Trailer

Chevy

Clean Air Express (SBCAG)

Community Environmental Council

Crown Dodge E Bike Warehouse

e-bikery

Gold Coast Toyota Dealers

GreenStart Electrify

MOVE SB

RAD Power Bikes

Santa Barbara MTD

Gold Coast Toyota Dealers GreenStart Electrify MOVE SB RAD Power Bikes

SBCAG

Santa Barbara MTD

SBCAG

Solaris Trailer

Vinfast Ventura

Solaris Trailer

VOLVO Equipment

Vinfast Ventura VOLVO Equipment

Santa Barbara Street

•Onsite Juris Doctor program Santa Barbara (part time, evenings)

•Onsite Juris Doctor program Ventura (part time, evenings)

•Online/Onsite (70/30%) Hybrid JD Program (residentials in Pasadena, CA)

•Online Masters Degree (100%) (18 month program)

RIDE & DRIVE + BIKE VALET

On Santa Barbara and Micheltorena Streets

Explore the c lean vehicles in the Green Car Show from several companies including GM, Chevy, Toyota, and Dodge . Learn the latest in electric bicycle technology from E-Bikery and RAD Power Bikes. Stop by the Owner’s Circle where electric vehicle drivers will share why they love their clean fuel cars.

Incentives, rebates, and grants are available that make NEW and USED electric vehicles a smart, affordable option. Come learn more!

Test drive electric cars and bikes from Chevrolet, Toyota, Dodge, and the e-Bikery to see what it feels like to own one! Don’t miss the drawing for a $200 gift card for anyone that test drives a car on site.

Saturday 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Sunday 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Corner of Micheltorena and Santa Barbara Streets

Ride your bike down to the festival and park it at our Bike Valet for free.

Ride & Drive

Bike Valet Green Car Show

MICHELTORENA ST.

SANTA BARBARA ST.

Mobile Washers

A & A Window Cleaning (805) 699-5656

All Natural Carpet Cleaning (805) 245-6030

B&R Carpet Cleaning (805) 966-3208

Big Green Cleaning Company (805) 692-1000

The Carpet Guy (805) 962-2020

Chely’s Queen Car Wash (805) 280-3527

Coastal Bin Cleaning (833) BIN-GUYS

Coleman Carpet Cleaners, Inc. (805) 683-2305

Evershade (805) 962-9700

Francisco’s Mobile Detailing (805) 729-6367

Infinity Mobile Car Wash (805) 280-3506

Jan-Eco Cleaning Company (805) 453-1708

JC’s Auto Detailing (805) 452-8361

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Join the City of Santa Barbara in thanking the for taking important steps to protect our

Just Klean It (805) 618-8378

Munoz Auto Detailing (818) 300-9989

Nova Mobile Detail (805) 708-3517

Pacific Coast Powerwash (805) 455-1537

Perfection Detail (805) 617-5608

Quality Wash and Detail (805) 570-1076

Royal Carpet Cleaning (805) 284-3929

S. B. Pacific Carpet and Window Cleaning (805) 895-9576

Santa Barbara Steam Cleaning (805) 962-2723

SB Pressure Washing (805) 896-5433

Southern Coast Janitorial Services (805) 964-4993

Surface Management Inc. (805) 884-0215

Treat the Leak (805) 896-1864

Unique Maintenance Inc. (805) 962-4053

Vico’s Auto Detailing (805) 252-5703

Restaurants & Caterers

Ah Juice

432 E. Haley St

Arigato Sushi 1225 State St

Arnoldi’s Café 600 Olive St

Backyard Bowls

331 Motor Way 3849 State St

Barbareño 205 W Canon Perdido St.

Blenders in the Grass

1046 Coast Village Rd 315-J Meigs Rd 3973 State St 720 State St

Boathouse at Hendry’s Beach 2981 Cliff Dr

The Brewhouse 229 W. Montecito St

Buena Onda 724 E Haley St

Ca’Dario Pizzeria Veloce

38 W. Victoria St

Ca’Dario Restaurant

37 E. Victoria St

Cajé Coffee Roasters

1316 State St

416 E. Haley St 811A State St

California Pizza Kitchen 719 Paseo Nuevo

Chad’s Café 216 W. Cabrillo Blvd

Chuck’s of Hawaii 3888 State St

Considered Coffee 102 E. Yanonali St.

The Cruisery

501 State St

Dune Coffee Roasters 1101 State St 528 Anacapa St

Duo Catering & Events 614 E. Haley St

El Paseo Restaurant 813 Anacapa St

Eureka! 601 Paseo Nuevo

Finney’s Crafthouse & Kitchen 35 State St Suite A

Giovanni’s Pizza 3020 State St

The Good Lion 1212 State St

Hana Kitchen 503 State St

Handlebar

Coffee Roasters

128 E. Canon Perdido St 2720 De La Vina St

The Harbor Restaurant

210 Stearns Wharf

Helena Avenue Bakery

131 Anacapa St Suite C

Institution Ale 516 State St

Jack’s Bistro & Famous Bagels 53 S. Milpas St

Jill’s Place

Shalhoob’s Restaurant

632 Santa Barbara St

Joe’s Café 536 State St

Juice Ranch 33 Parker Way

Kanaloa Seafood Kitchen & Market 715 Chapala St

The Lark Santa Barbara 131 Anacapa St

Lighthouse Coffee 401 E. Haley St

Lilac Pâtisserie 1017 State St

Los Agaves 2911 De La Vina St

600 N. Milpas St

Los Arroyos

1280 Coast Village Rd 14 W. Figueroa St

Louie’s California Bistro 1404 De La Vina St

The Lovin’ Spoonful 2028 Cliff Dr

Lucky Penny 127 Anacapa St

Clean Creeks Businesses!

McConnell’s Fine Ice Creams

728 State St

McDonald’s

1906 Cliff Dr

29 N. Milpas St

Mesa Burger 315 Meigs Rd

Meun Fan Thai Café 1819 Cliff Drive

Milk & Honey

30 W. Anapamu St

Mission Street

Ice Cream & Yogurt 201 W. Mission St

Mony’s Mexican Food 217 Anacapa St

Mother Stearns Candy Co.

219 Stearns Wharf

Mulligan’s Café and Bar 3500 McCaw Ave

Natural Café

361 Hitchcock Way Nook

116 Santa Barbara St

Oat Bakery

5 W. Haley St

Pacific Pickle Works

718 Union Ave

The Palace Grill

8 E. Cota St

Panino

1014 Coast Village Rd

834 Santa Barbara St

The Patio Café 3007 De La Vina St

Peet’s Coffee & Tea 3905 State St

Pressed Juicery 1024 Coast Village Rd

Pure Joy Catering PureJoyCatering.com

Rincon Brewery 205 Santa Barbara St

Roy 7 W. Carillo St

Rusty’s Pizza Parlor 111 State St 232 W. Carrillo St 3731 State St 414 N. Milpas St

Santa Barbara Wine Collective 131 Anacapa St Suite C

Satellite SB 1117 State St

The Shop Kitchen 730 N. Milpas St

Shoreline Beach Café 801 Shoreline Dr

South Coast Deli 10 E. Carrillo St

Stanton’s

Gourmet Catering (805) 698-3478

Starbucks Coffee 1046 Coast Village Rd 1235 State St 1990 Cliff Dr 208 W. Carrillo St 3815 State St 3957 State St 539 State St

Super Cucas 626 W Micheltorena St

Taffy’s Pizza 2026 De La Vina St

Test Pilot 211 Helena Ave

Three Pickles 126 E. Canon Perdido

Toma Restaurant & Bar

324 W. Cabrillo Blvd

Validation Ale 102 E Yanonali St

Via Maestra 42 3343 State St

Whole Foods Market 3761 State St

Yellow Belly Tap 2611 De La Vina St

International Autohaus (805) 965-8012

Lang Motors (805) 965-5671

Lara's Auto Repairs (805) 963-1096

Muller & Goss Automotive Repair (805) 962-1613

Munoz’s Auto Repair (805) 963-1121

Powell Garage (805) 962-6163

Santa Barbara Autowerks (805) 804-9104

Schneider Autohaus (805) 617-0606

Smog-It (805) 564-4948

Matthew G Sicheri Construction (805) 451-0857

Santa Barbara Koi (805) 882-2256

Santa Barbara Painting, Inc. (805) 685-3548

SB Progressive Painting, Inc. (805) 570-8520

Stone & Masonry (805) 692-6810

Value Added Building, Inc. (805) 722-5771

Vernon Construction (805) 963-1244

Automotive Businesses

Yogurtland 621 State St Bowman’s Auto Repair (805) 965-5051

Cory Motors (805) 965-4581

The Engine Company Auto Repair (805) 965-6789

Haik’s German Autohaus (805) 965-0975

Higgins Muffler & Brake (805) 564-1033

Superior Brake & Alignment (805) 962-1417

Swedemasters (805) 324-7668

Westside Auto Repair (805) 963-5053

Contractors

Armstrong Associates (805) 569-6170

Consolidated Overhead

Door & Gate (805) 965-0539

Eduardo Vicente Painting (805) 886-3938

Finley Construction (805) 722-2181

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SATURDAY

WE WON’T STOP

and niether should you

The daily barrage of bad news punctuated by heartbreaking environmental crises is enough to make anyone want to shut down. But we’re not stopping – and neither should you.

CEC’s To-Do List

n Host the annual Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival on April 26-27

n Advocate for an oil and gas phaseout in Santa Barbara County

n Start work on an extreme heat action plan in Ventura County

n Mobilize 18 community-led projects in Cuyama, Lompoc, and Guadalupe

n Develop 10 wildfire resilience projects in high-risk neighborhoods

n Reach 550+ drivers with info about electric vehicle incentives

n Train the next cohort of climate activists

Your To-Do List

n Gather with others*

n Don’t give up hope

n Support CEC’s work

*Spend time with hopeful humans at the Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival (visit us at booth 332) and one of CEC’s upcoming events: cecsb.org/events.

Main Stage Beer & Wine Garden

Come hang out with friends in the festival’s beer and wine garden right near the Main Stage. Listen to your favorite live local bands while enjoying cold beers from Firestone 805, hard kombucha from June Shine, or a refreshing glass of wine from Brander Vineyards.

Zero waste libations made possible with cups from the r.Cup system.

Must be 21 years+ to enter the beer garden

MAIN STAGE LINE UP

Traveling Hurtados

11:00 - 12:00pm

CEC Environmental Hero Awards

12:00 - 1:00pm

TD Lind and the Aviators

1:15 - 2:00pm

Adrian Floy and THC

Spencer the Gardener

4:00 - 5:00pm

2:30 - 3:30pm False Puppet

5:20 - 6:20pm

Doublewide Kings

6:40 - 7:55pm SATURDAY

No Simple Highway 5:50 - 6:50pm SUNDAY

Strings & Arrows 1:00 - 1:40pm Flannel 101 3:10 - 4:10pm Cornerstone 4:30 - 5:30pm The Caverns 2:00 - 2:50pm

MICKEY FLACKS JOURNALISM FUND

FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE

To read articles supported by the Flacks Fund go to independent.com/mickeyflacks y y In 2025, the Mickey Flacks Journalism Fund supports the in-depth coverage of the regional housing crisis by Christina McDermott and the ongoing reporting of the oil industry.

This fund directly supports The Santa Barbara Independent’s coverage of social justice, housing, and environmental issues, all of which were important to Mickey Flacks during her lifetime of fierce and tireless advocacy.

To make a contribution visit sbcan.org/journalism_fund

Celebrating Three Million Passengers Aboard the Santa Barbara Airbus

From travels stretching from Goleta down to the Los Angeles International Airport and everything in between, the Santa Barbara Airbus has been chartering people up and down the Central Coast. This April, they are preparing to celebrate their 42nd anniversary, which just so happens to coincide around the time of Airbus’s three millionth passenger trip.

LAX Shuttles, Special Dodgers Day Trips, Private Chartering, and More All on the Bus

by Tia Trinh

“It’s just amazing to think that there have been three million people that have ridden on a bus branded by Santa Barbara Airbus over 42 years,” said Airbus CEO Samantha Onnen. “It is just mind-blowing.”

Established in 1983 by founders Eric and Kelly Onnen and their friend Mark Klopstein, the Santa Barbara Airbus originally started because Kelly was working as a flight attendant and needed to travel to LAX regularly. What started as one van making roundtrips from Goleta to LAX has now grown to its current size of about 20 vehicles in their fleet.

Today, the Onnens’ daughters Samantha and Emily have taken the reins of the family business and are preparing for the upcoming milestones. Samantha has been in the business for about 10 years now and is transitioning to take over as CEO of the company. Emily joined as the Chief Strategy Officer a couple of years ago.

“It’s really been a labor of love that has been really committed to [our] vision, which is to make the community better through passenger transportation,” Samantha said. “We want to make sure that we make a positive impact where we are.”

To celebrate over four decades of service and this passenger milestone, the Onnens want to recognize the staff that has been working with them over the years. They pointed out that many staff members have been with the Santa Barbara Airbus for double digit years and continue to return to travel with new and familiar faces. At the same time, recognizing the feat of chartering three million passengers back and forth along the Central Coast calls for celebration as well.

“We have a team that we really owe a significant amount of appreciation to for their commitment to us as an organization,” Emily said.

The expansion of the Airbus fleet is a reflection of how the family business has grown. They offer different services for various occasions, with the LAX shuttle running nearly everyday of the year (with exceptions on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day) with eight roundtrips a day. There are pickup/drop-off spots in Goleta, Santa Barbara, Carpinteria, and Camarillo, making travel much easier for those flying in and out of LAX.

“We get to be just a little part of people’s experience,” Samantha said. “One of the best compliments that I’ve heard is when people get to the airport after a long travel day and they see the bus pull up and go, ‘I’m home, I’m done.’ ”

Part of the Onnens’ work is to ensure that they are staying on top of federal guidelines but also anticipating upcoming changes so that passengers won’t have to worry about the bus travel logistics. This has included a continued look for sustainable bus options and encouraging people to take the bus to avoid having more cars on the road to L.A., especially in traffic and construction heavy areas.

Although there was a temporary pause in travel during COVID, the Airbus has been working to expand its scope of trips based on passenger interest, which is where the special day trips and reservations come into play.

The most popular is the Dodgers Day Trip, where passengers can reserve a bus ticket and game ticket in one. All

things transportation are organized by the Santa Barbara Airbus. The same goes for other special day trips, which have included trips to the Getty Museum and the Pantages Theatre. Coming up is a trip to the Reagan Library to see the Dead Sea Scrolls.

“It’s nice to have variety within the fleet too. So depending on what the customers’ needs are, we aren’t just one size for everything,” Emily explained. This also applies to their private charter buses, which are available for reservation. They’ve chartered for events including high school proms, birthdays, school trips, and much more. Doing so has meant getting the opportunity to meet many people in the community and watch as people return for more trips with the Airbus.

The growth in busses and bus sizes is partly due to outreach and community involvement that the Airbus staff are involved with. All staff members are involved in some way or another, something that the Onnens take great pride in. Their Community Outreach Program also works with community groups to determine how the Airbus can support their needs.

“You have adventures every single day, no day is the same,” Samantha said. She recalled stories of working with high schools to organize college visits, but also partnering with local nonprofits.

As the Airbus reaches another milestone, Samantha and Emily voiced their enthusiasm to keep looking toward new goals in expanding their outreach to the community but also to new places to travel and potentially create new regular trips

“Santa Barbara Airbus will show up. We will show up, and we will do a good job,” Emily emphasized. The community support and enthusiasm from staff is a testament to the environment they have created and the continued growth for the business.

Tim Onnen and Samantha Onnen hold up the numbers four and two, to celebrate their company’s milestone

‘Pickleball in the Danger Zone’ with Kenny Loggins and Crew

Pickleball has officially broken through as the fastest-growing sport in the country, with more people picking up the paddles and flocking to newly painted courts in their communities. Here in Santa Barbara, the sport has exploded in popularity ever since the pandemic, with clubs starting up and competitive tournaments attracting even more new players to the game.

Salzberg helped the Santa Barbara and Montecito YMCAs install courts to start pickleball programs, both for youth and for senior players. One of the main draws, he said, is the fact that the game is easy to understand and play, no matter what age.

Three-Day Event Features StarStudded Celebrity Tournament Benefit for Unity Shoppe on May 3

by Ryan P. Cruz

On May 2-4, Santa Barbara Pickleball will be hosting its largest event yet, drawing more than 400 players including elite circuit players and celebrities for Kenny Loggins’s “Pickleball in the Danger Zone” Tournament at Santa Barbara Municipal Courts.

Loggins, and his wife, Lisa, picked up the paddles for the first time more than six years ago. “A couple friends taught me down in Mexico around 2018,” Loggins said, warming up in preparation for his upcoming tournament. “Then I just kept going.”

The couple became involved with the local pickleball scene, showing up to play in tournaments like last year’s American Riviera Children’s Charities fundraiser which raised more than $20,000 and drew nearly 300 players.

Richard “Bam” Salzberg, Santa Barbara’s pickleball ambassador, has been among the insiders helping foster the growth of the sport ever since he started playing over a decade ago. He remembers when there was only a “small group of local players” on the scene.

“Now, there are thousands,” he said. “It’s amazing to see how the sport has evolved and brought together people from all walks of life truck drivers, doctors, lawyers, and even celebrities.”

Salzberg said it’s precisely that inclusivity that really makes pickleball a special sport.

Salzberg, Loggins, and a crew of organizers worked to revamp the annual pickleball fundraiser for this year, renaming it the Pickleball in the Danger Zone tournament and drawing more than 400 registered players from across the world for what Salzberg says may be the “the largest amateur athletic event” in recent memory. Money raised in this year’s tournament will go toward the Unity Shoppe and victims of wildfires in the Los Angeles area.

The tournament will bring men’s, women’s, and mixed doubles divisions, with some elite pickleball players competing for a good cause. The main event, however, will be the Celebrity and Pro Exhibition matches starting at 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 3, where spectators can watch Loggins, Professional Pickleball Association player Wes Burrows, and more celebrities play each other for an entertaining, competitive round of matches.

Among the celebrities playing with Loggins will be Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore, Entourage creator Doug Ellin, James Valentine of Maroon 5, and actor Duane Henry of NCIS. The exhibition matches are part of a fundraiser, with players donating $500 to play alongside and against the celebrities and rock stars (there are some spots still available). The players will be miked up for these matches, allowing for the crowd to hear some fun back-and-forth trash talk between volleys.

Tickets to the May 3 exhibition matches are $50, and includes entry to the celebrity round-robin tournament and a social hour with refreshments and hors d’oeuvres from Tre Lune and Renaud’s Bakery. There will be no public parking at the site, so organizers recommend rideshares, drop-offs, or parking elsewhere.

For tickets and information, see bit.ly/4jfHz6K.

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From left: Duane Henry, Martin Gore, Coach Mariano Bertucci, Richard Salzberg, and Lisa and Kenny Loggins

FOOD& DRINK

A Caffeine-Fueled Crown

Kay Cheon of Santa Barbara’s Dune Coffee Roasters Brews Up Victory at United States Barista Championship

BY CLARISSA RIOS

Santa Barbara barista Kay Cheon brewed up a first place victory at this year’s United States Barista Championship (USBC) in Raleigh, North Carolina, marking a significant milestone for both his career and the local coffee community. The competition, held March 6-9 this year, is renowned in the coffee industry, attracting baristas from across the nation to showcase their skills in drink preparation and presentation.

For Cheon, head of wholesale and education at Dune Coffee Roasters, this was his sixth year competing at the USBC, and his fourth time advancing to the finals. “It’s still all sinking in,” he said about taking home the win this year. During the competition, competitors craft a series of drinks including espresso, milk, and signature drinks. They then deliver a presentation while serving four sensory judges who taste those drinks and assess them on a score sheet.

As part of the competition, baristas get to come up with themes for their presentations. This year, Cheon chose the theme “building blocks” after taking inspiration from his childhood years spent playing with Lego blocks. “The theme is something that I really enjoy coming up with,” Cheon said. “Using the concept of building blocks, but also Lego, as a visual metaphor for the way I was assembling the drinks on stage.”

For this year’s competition, Cheon selected two coffees, each with its own distinct and vibrant flavor profile. For his milk and signature courses, he chose the Ombligon coffee sourced from Colombia, which brought a dynamic mix of complex fruit flavors, including cherry and watermelon. The term ombligon, meaning “belly button” in Spanish, refers directly to the shape of the coffee seed, which resembles a belly button. For his espresso course, Cheon opted for a Gesha variety, which originates from Panama and provides a more floral taste.

His journey to first place was anything but easy. The process was six years in the making and the result of hard work and perseverance. “Every year that I compete is another year of preparation for the following year,” Cheon said. His preparation for the 2025 USBC involved many late nights and constant experimentation with roast profiles. After settling into a comfortable preparation and practice routine in past years, Cheon decided to shake things up this time around. “I really wanted to push myself, and ourselves, out of that comfort zone,” he said. The team’s choice to change their overall approach to competition preparation helped them secure the winning result.

Since bringing home that first-place title, and the accompanying trophy, Cheon has taken time to reflect on his previous experiences at the competition. In 2018, he competed in the USBC for the first time ever, going into it without any expectations. “I really just wanted to get as much out of the competition as I could,” he said.

In 2020, he fell just short of the championship title, securing second place in the finals. After the competition, he was approached by an individual who wanted to express they were sorry for him. He recalls that it took him a second to understand what that encounter meant that they were expecting him to be upset that he came in second place. “I was completely elated. I was

so proud of the work we had done,” said Cheon. “And to get second was a huge honor for myself. I guess people would expect you to not feel as good or to be disappointed because you didn’t come first.”

For Cheon, participating in competition does not merely boil down to taking the first-place spot; instead, it’s about enjoying the process, being involved in the coffee community, and pushing himself to learn more. “Results are going to be what they are,” he said.

Securing the USBC title has now catapulted Cheon onto the global stage. In October, he will travel to Milan, Italy, to compete at the World Barista Championship (WBC). “It’s such an incredible honor to get to represent the United States at the world barista championship,” Cheon said. In the past, he has attended the WBC as a supporter in the audience. Now, attending as a competitor, Cheon said his preparation has already started despite the event being months away. The WBC presents both an opportunity and a challenge to competitors due to its international scope. Cheon points out the subjectivity of coffee taste and how the competition exposes not only him, but all competitors, to a diverse range of palates, with judges attending from all around the world. In some cases, competitors may choose to incorporate flavors that are more familiar to certain regions but less accessible in others, which could be a challenge.

In the meantime, Cheon and his team at Dune are savoring the moment and national title, and they want the Santa Barbara community to celebrate it all with them. A tasting and competition Q&A are in the works, as Cheon hopes to share more about the USBC competition and the significance it carries for the local community.

“It would feel really meaningful to get to bring the community of Santa Barbara in a little bit to share what the journey looks like,” he said.

According to Cheon, before Dune opened in 2009, there was a lack of specialty coffee in Santa Barbara. But over the years, there has been an increasing presence. “I think that’s something that I feel really fortunate to be a part of. Not just in our community of Santa Barbara, but now having nationwide and international influence and reach,” said Cheon. “And that feels really special because in a lot of ways, it just began here.” n

Kay Cheon, 2025 United States Barista Champion, outside of Dune Coffee Roasters on Anacapa Street

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County of Santa Barbara BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Tri-County Produce to Remain Open

Tri-County Produce, a cherished landmark in the Santa Barbara community that was scheduled to close in May, will continue its legacy of fresh, locally sourced goods thanks to the dedication of longtime employees and the support of current ownership. After nearly 40 years of service to the market and the community, John Dixon will retire this May. In a move that reflects both history and heart, longtime employee Jaime Desales Sr., along with his son Jaime Desales Jr., will step in to lead the beloved produce market into its next chapter.

Desales Sr., who has been with Tri-County Produce for 26 years, brings not only deep industry knowledge but also a passion for the market that has defined his career. “This market has been like a second home to me,” he shared. “To now have the opportunity to lead it with my son by my side is both humbling and exciting.”

John Dixon expressed his confidence and enthusiasm for the new ownership:

“Seeing Jaime Sr. and Jr. take over the reins is one of the most rewarding moments of my career. Jaime has been an integral part of this business for over two decades he knows it inside and out. Watching him and his son carry Tri County forward gives me great peace of mind and a lot of pride. I know the market is in excellent hands, I’m truly grateful that the store will remail open, continuing to serve the community that means so much to me.”

Tri County Produce will remain at its iconic location continuing to serve the Santa Barbara community with the same dedication and quality that has made it a staple for decades.

DRIPPIN’ CHICKEN COMING TO TOWN: Readers Harley, Steve C., IMiss RexOfSB, and Annie tell me that Drippin’ Chicken is coming in May to the complex at 418 State Street next to the Shaker Mill. The Nashvillestyle eatery gave away numerous free chicken sandwiches during the recent Deltopia event in Isla Vista to build local brand awareness and spread some goodwill. Visit on instagram @drippinchicken_.

PASCUCCI RELOCATION UPDATE: Pascucci, which is relocating to 1230-A State Street, has extended its opening date from early May to the middle of May. “As you can imagine, moving a restaurant is quite a feat, and costly,” says owner Laura Knight. “We’ve run into timeline delays for permits and modifications. The good news is now we will remain open at our current location until May 12. Please come by and see us for our delicious food at the current location at 509 State Street. It will help us fund the improvements ahead at the new location.”

LEASE UNPLUGGED: The Cookie Plug dessert destination, which opened in February 2024 at 918 State Street, has been told by the City of Santa Barbara that their long-term lease is no longer valid and that they must leave the building within 30 days. The city leased the space to Metropolitan Theatre Corp. (MTC), which entered bankruptcy, and Cookie Plug has a sublease with MTC with six years remaining. Cookie Plug has been operating under a signed temporary license agreement with the city to occupy the space.

Art Tours and Home Occupations Ordinance Amendments

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Board of Supervisors Hearing Room 105 E. Anapamu St. 4th Floor

Santa Barbara, CA 93101

Hearing begins at 9:00 A.M.

On Tuesday, May 6, 2025, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors (Board) will conduct a public hearing to consider the Art Tours and Home Occupations Ordinance Amendments. The Board will consider the following recommendations from the Planning Commission:

 Adopt Case No. 24ORD‐00031, an ordinance amending the County Land Use and Development Code (LUDC) of Chapter 35, Zoning, of the Santa Barbara County Code, in compliance with Chapter 35.104, to add art, garden, and architectural tours as a new allowable temporary use and revise permit requirements and development standards for home occupations in the Inland Area outside of Montecito.

 Determine that the Board’s action is not subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to State CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3).

The LUDC amendments would update Section 35.42.260, Temporary Uses and Trailers, and Section 35.42.190, Home Occupations, of the LUDC to remove unnecessary barriers to conducting various forms of art (and other similar home occupations) out of one’s home and facilitate the ability for these businesses to participate in periodic community‐wide events.

The Board of Supervisors hearing begins at 9:00 A.M. The order of items listed on the agenda is subject to change by the Clerk of the Board. Please see the posted agenda and staff report available on the Thursday prior to the meeting at https://santabarbara.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx# under the hearing date. For further information about the project, please contact the planner, Eva Marrero, at marreroe@countyofsb.org.

IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

For all current and alternative methods of public participation and comment for the meeting of May 6, 2025, please refer to page two of the posted Agenda.

The following alternative methods of participation are available to the public:

1. You may observe the live stream of the Board of Supervisors meetings in the following ways:

 Local Cable Channel 20,

 Online at: https://www.countyofsb.org/1333/CSBTV‐Livestream; or

 YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/user/CSBTV20.

2. If you wish to comment on this item, the following methods are available:

 Distribution to the Board of Supervisors – Submit email comments by email prior to 5:00 p.m. on the day prior to the Board meeting. Please submit your comment to the Clerk of the Board at: sbcob@countyofsb.org. Your comment will be distributed to the Board and posted online. Whether the comment is formally part of the record depends on the agenda item it is submitted for and its length and time of submittal as set out in Board Resolution 91‐333 (Land Use).

 Attend the Meeting In‐Person – Individuals are allowed to attend and provide comments and the Board of Supervisors hearing in‐person.

 Attend the Meeting by Zoom Webinar – Individuals wishing to provide public comment during the Board meeting can do so via Zoom. The hyperlink is located on page 2 of the meeting Agenda, which is available at our online Board Meeting Calendar at https://santabarbara.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx

When: May 6, 2025, 09:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Topic: Board of Supervisors Hearing 5/6/2025

Attendance and participation by the public is invited and encouraged. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, American Sign Language interpreters, sound enhancement equipment, and/or another request for disability accommodation may be arranged by contacting the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors by 4:00 p.m. on the Friday before the Board meeting. For information about these services please contact the Clerk of the Board at (805) 568‐2240 or at sbcob@countyofsb.org.

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

REPRIEVE: Tri-County Produce will no longer close in May because a longtime employee has taken over the business.

JOHN DICKSON

ARIES

(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): Aries filmmaker Akira Kurosawa devoted meticulous attention to weather conditions. He would postpone shooting a particular scene for days, waiting for the influx of the exact right blend of wind, clouds, or precipitation to create the ideal ambiance. I recommend you adopt his patient sense of timing in the coming weeks, Aries. While you typically prefer direct action, now is a favorable phase to coordinate your desire to get what you need with life’s changing conditions. What advantages might you gain by waiting for the ripest moments to arrive?

TAURUS

(Apr. 20-May 20): You can’t see or hold the wind, though you can feel its force and observe its effects. It scatters some seeds far and wide, dispersing them to grow in unexpected places. When harnessed by turbines, the wind is a renewable energy source. It can be utilized to pump water and fuel telecommunications equipment. Winds influence daily weather by transporting water and heat. I have summarized the wind’s qualities because I see this upcoming phase of your cycle as being wind-like, Taurus. You won’t necessarily have to be obvious to spread your influence. You will be able to work behind the scenes in potent ways. Who knows where your seeds will land and germinate? There will be surprises.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20): The Earth’s first big ecological crisis happened 2.5 billion years ago. Ancient bacteria became a successful life form. They proliferated. The only problem was, they produced an abundance of oxygen, which was toxic to all the other existing life forms at that time. And yet that bump in evolution was ultimately essential in the rise of complex organisms that thrive on oxygen, like us. We wouldn’t be here today without bacteria’s initially problematic intervention. Nothing as monumentally major or epic will occur for you in the coming weeks, Gemini. But I do suspect that what may initially seem disruptive could ultimately generate positive outcomes. I hope you prime yourself to transform challenging situations into opportunities for growth. For best results, set aside your fixed beliefs about what’s necessary for maximum progress.

CANCER

(June 21-July 22): From the 17th through the 19th centuries, Paris was famous for its salons. There, artists, writers, and big thinkers assembled to exchange ideas and inspire each other. The salons were often orchestrated by illustrious, educated women in their private homes. They were hotbeds of networking and cultural innovation. Listening and learning were key elements. Now would be an excellent time for you to organize, host, or encourage similar gatherings, Cancerian. You have extra power to facilitate the stellar socializing that generates zesty connections and spreads invigorating influences.

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22): Harriet Tubman (1822-1913) was one of the bravest Americans who ever lived. After escaping enslavement, she heroically returned to other southern plantations many times to help free enslaved people. To accomplish her miraculous rescues, she relied in part on her dreams and visions what she called divine guidance to navigate through challenging situations. I suspect you will soon have access to similar assets: extraordinary courage and help from unusual or even supernatural sources. Use these gifts wisely, Leo!

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The nations of planet Earth launched 263 space flights in 2024 and are on track for more than 300 in 2025. Most of the satellites and spacecraft are devoted to scientific research. A relatively small proportion is dedicated to communication, navigation, and military uses. I would love for you to have an equally high level of exploratory and experimental energy in the coming weeks, Virgo. You will align yourself with cosmic rhythms if you spend more time than usual investigating the frontiers. It’s time to expand and extend yourself!

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): What’s the oldest living organism on Earth? It’s a bristlecone pine tree nicknamed “Methuselah.” More than 4,800 years old, it resides somewhere in California’s White Mountains, though its precise location is kept secret to protect it. In the spirit of shielding and nurturing valuable things, I urge you to consider maintaining similar safeguards in the coming weeks. Like Methuselah, your precious processes and creations might thrive best when allowed to grow free from undue attention. You may benefit from maintaining privacy and silence about certain matters as they develop.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I love to gaze out my office window at Gallinas Creek during high tide. At certain interludes, the water is perfectly still. It almost perfectly reflects the sky in every detail, with all its clouds, birds, and hues of blue. My conscious mind knows the difference between the real sky and reflected sky, but my eyes can’t discern. That’s a helpful metaphor for all of us all the time, and especially for you in the coming weeks. It will be crucial for you to maintain an acute awareness of what’s genuine and what’s illusory.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901-1978) revolutionized her field. She didn’t study other cultures from a distance with a detached perspective. Instead, she learned their languages and immersed herself in their daily lives. So, she earned the intimate understanding to conclude, “What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.” This is a crucial principle for you right now. You must directly observe people’s actions rather than simply believing what they say about themselves or what others say about them. You must look beyond surface declarations to understand the deeper rhythms and patterns. For best results, be a devoted participant, not an uninvolved judge.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn mystic Alan Watts wrote The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are. He proposed that each of us is far more glorious than our separate, isolated egos. It’s difficult to come to this understanding, however, since our culture conspires to hide it from us. That’s the bad news. The good news, Capricorn, is that you will have an unprecedented chance to partly shatter this taboo in the coming weeks. I have high hopes that you will discover deep truths about yourself that have previously been unavailable.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Beginning in 1946, Bedouins exploring caves near the Dead Sea discovered an immense trove of ancient documents written on parchment. These manuscripts provided many new revelations into early Christianity, Biblical texts, and the history and culture of Judaism. I suspect that in the coming weeks, you may experience a metaphorical equivalent of this breakthrough and unveiling. To prepare, meditate on these questions: (1) What mysterious parts of your life story would you like to have illuminated? (2) About which aspects of your past would you like to receive new truths? (3) Is there anything missing in your understanding of who you really are?

PISCES

(Feb. 19-Mar. 20): White light enters a glass prism and is translated on the other side into a rainbow of colors. That’s because each color rides its own wavelength, even while seamlessly blended in the white light, and then gets bent differently by the prism. The magic of the prism is that it reveals the hidden spectrum within, the latent diversity contained within the apparently monolithic beam of white light. In the coming weeks, Pisces, I predict that you will be like a prism, bringing out vibrancy in situations or relationships that may seem nondescript or mundane at first glance. Your ability to discern and appreciate multiple perspectives will enable you to create an intriguing kind of harmony. You will have the power to notice and reveal beauty that has been veiled or unnoticed.

SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

CLASSIFIEDS

EMPLOYMENT

CONSTRUCTION

DESIGN PROFESSIONALS II Santa Barbara, CA area. Work with project manager for reviewing methods, materials & equipment used in projects and perform methods in all phases of Construction such as Predesign (PD), Schematic Design (SD), Design development (DD), Construction documents (CD), Construction Administration (CA). Operate computer‑aided drafting (CAD) & Revit to produce designs. Salary: $71,000 ‑ $90,000 per year. Send res to: 19SIX Architects, afreitas@19six.com.

ENGINEERING

FIRMWARE ENGINEER ‑ design, develop,& test firmware that powers Metrix diagnostics platform. Design & develop firmware for electrochemical based point‑of‑care microfluidic medical devices. Req: BS in Computer Eng, Electrical Eng, Biomedical Eng, or related. 2 yrs exp as embedded software eng, software eng, computer eng, computer systems analyst, or related. $108451/yr. Job in Goleta, CA for Aptitude Medical Systems Inc. Send cover letter, CV, salary reqs & refs to Aptitude Medical Systems, Attn: HR‑1, 125 Cremona Dr, Suite 100, Goleta, CA 93117

PROFESSIONAL

RESEARCH SCIENTIST ‑ Develop novel molecular diagnostic products for Metrix platform. Design & translate proof‑of‑concept assays into functional prototypes. Reqs: MS in molecular biology, chemistry, biochem, bioeng, chemical eng, pharmacology, or related. 1 yr exp as Research Scientist, Associate Researcher, Scientist or related. $93,080/yr. Job in Goleta, CA for Aptitude Medical Systems, Inc. Send cover letter, CV, salary reqs & references to Aptitude Medical Systems, Attn: HR‑1, 125 Cremona Dr, Ste 100, Goleta, CA 93117

ADMISSION AND IMMIGRATION

SPECIALIST

PROFESSIONAL AND CONTINUING EDUCATION

Responsible for assisting the PES4 in planning activities, admissions and immigration, and advising for international student programs. Is responsible for the admission and immigration process, including supporting students and off‑campus partners. Works on organizing international student events, including orientation and extra‑curricular activities. Provides general support to international students. Is primarily responsible for following all international student inquiries from application to immigration, including processing visas, working with agents, and maintaining accurate records of international student rosters and their status. Maintains documentation and trains Customer Service representatives on troubleshooting common issues. Works closely with the PES4 to manage the day‑to‑day operations associated with existing programs and courses, assists as needed with custom and special programs, interfaces with international students’ administrative staff and its support units to prevent and resolve problems related to course offerings, and oversees the

general administration of assigned programs. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in a related area and / or equivalent experience / training. 1‑3 years of experience in working with students, including planning activities, visa processing, admission, advising, and immigration in educational programs. Notes: Must be a citizen or a lawful permanent resident of the United States. Satisfactory conviction history background check The budgeted hourly range is $28.00 to $32.48/ hour. The full hourly range is $25.77 to $43.58/hour. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 77752.

ALUMNI MARKETING MANAGER

OFFICE OF ALUMNI AFFAIRS

The Alumni Marketing Manager will lead the development, coordination, and execution of strategic online alumni engagement and marketing for UC Santa Barbara Alumni. This leadership position will create a dynamic online presence that enhances alumni’s brand, fosters engagement, inspires philanthropy, and supports the University’s mission through innovative communication strategies and programming. The Manager reports to the Associate Director and supervises student interns. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in marketing, data‑driven decision‑making, and the ability to work collaboratively across teams. This role requires creativity, strategic thinking, and a passion for building long‑term relationships with alumni to help strengthen the university’s alumni network. Reqs: 1‑3 yrs of progressive experience with digital content creation, social media management, managing email marketing platforms similar to Emma and making basic CMS webpage updates; 1‑3 yrs of experience in Marketing and Communications; Social media expertise. Notes: Satisfactory criminal history background check; must be able to work occasional evenings and weekends. Hiring/Budgeted Salary Range: $28.74 ‑ $35.44/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #77540 CONTRACTS

AND GRANTS ANALYST

Responsible for developing and submitting research proposals, awards and/or transactions related to contract and grant management and maintains contract and grant records

in compliance with institutional and research sponsor policies. Responsible for the post‑award administration, financial management, and analysis of the Contracts and Grants for the Computer Science Department. Duties include setting up new awards and analyzing award terms and conditions, advising faculty, staff, and students of proper University and agency policies regarding extramural funding policies and procedures.

Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training. 1‑3 years of experience with financial accounting. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check

The budgeted hourly range is $34.62 to $38.49/hr. The full hourly range is $34.62 to $50.79/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 77748

DEPUTY FIRE MARSHAL/ PLANS EXAMINER AND INSPECTION

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH & SAFETY

Is responsible for fire and life safety compliance for new and existing facilities (Title 24 and Title 19). Reports directly to the Campus Fire Marshal. Represents the Fire Prevention Division (FPD) as the Designated Campus Fire Marshal (DCFM) per the State Fire Marshal’s (SFM) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). Represents the Campus Fire Marshal in the absence of the DCFM. Reqs: BA/BS and/or equivalent combination of education and previous work experience in the area of fire prevention, fire inspecting and/or fire/life safety Bachelor’s Degree. A minimum of five (5) years of recent full‑time experience in performing a combination of fire prevention inspections, plan review with an emphasis on life safety systems and construction inspection for an agency responsible for fire and life safety code and regulation enforcement. Thorough knowledge and skill in applying and interpreting California Title 19 and Title 24 regulations, standards, and guidelines. Thorough knowledge and skill in applying and interpreting the California State Fire Code requirements. Strong written and oral communication skills. Strong analytical abilities, organizational skills, and knowledge/ experience in program development, communication, & customer service. Ability to work independently under general guidance. Proficient in MS Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. Notes: Completion of State Fire Marshal accredited Fire Inspector and Plans Examiner Level 1 series classes within 1 year of employment. Must be willing to work and respond to various emergencies. Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs. Must be willing to work and respond to emergencies involving potentially hazardous chemicals and radioactive substances. Able to work nights and weekends. 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. Hiring/Budgeted Salary: $115,000.00 to $125,000.00/ year. Full Salary Range: $94,400.00 to $176,800.00/year. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #77161

FOOD BANK COORDINATOR

STUDENTS

ASSOCIATED

Provides leadership, oversight, and direct service to the students of UCSB through the daily operations of the A.S. Food Bank. Guides the campus in all of these efforts through Associated Students in relation to meeting the collecting and food distribution on behalf of Associated Students. Establishes avenues of support to the campus – through faculty, staff, and student engagement. Sets procedures for student employees and advises the student Food Bank committee personally. Establishes relationships with local non‑profit entities to provide students with long‑term relationships to advance food justice. Develops partnerships and stakeholders reflected in a resource guide for students that helps students, staff, and faculty establish other food bank related projects, as needed. Collects and analyses data on the demographics of students using the services–writes and distributes a quarterly newsletter. Assesses and evaluates service and provides students with suggestions and recommendations for further improvements as needed. Researches new initiatives and provides information gathered to the Food Bank committee members.

Reqs: 1‑3 yrs Demonstrated experience or interest in food insecurity, human services, or community engagement; 1‑3 yrs Experience working for or volunteering at a non‑profit setting that provides food (i.e., food bank or pantry); 1‑3 yrs Student supervision experience; 1‑3 yrs Experience with culturally and academically diverse populations of students with the ability to work in a highly collaborative environment and problem solve; 1‑3 yrs Experience advising students and student organizations; Knowledge of food insecurity and food systems; Understanding of issues of diversity, social justice and challenges faced by underserved populations.

Notes: Satisfactory criminal history background check; UCSB Campus Security Authority under Clery Act; Must possess valid driver’s license, a satisfactory driving record, and the ability to become/remain certified to drive University Vehicles. Hiring/ Budgeted Salary Range: $30.22 ‑

$31.65/hr. Full Salary Range: $25.77 ‑

$43.58/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law. For the University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/1001004/ Anti‑Discrimination. Open until filled.

Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu

Job #77305

MEDICAL ASSISTANTEMT/CNA STUDENT HEALTH

The medical assistant provides medical and administrative support to the physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, clinical nurses, and licensed vocational nurses. Will assist, perform or provide limited support for the following: exams, procedures, taking vitals, perform point‑of‑care lab testing, checking in/out patients, filling out necessary paperwork, taking phone/electronic messages and

following directives from the clinicians. The medical assistant will also act as a medical chaperone. Will perform autoclave and laundry duties, and run errands as needed. Reqs: High School diploma or equivalent. Current CPR certification/Basic Life Support (BLS) certification. Licenses/Certifications: Certification with one of the following agencies: Master’s American Association of Medical Assistants (AMA) American Medical Technologists (AMT) California Certifying Board of Medical Assistants (CCBMA) Local Emergency Medical Services Agency (LEMSA) Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA) Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA). Note: Applicants without a proper certification will not be considered. Notes: Mandated reporting requirements of Child Abuse and Adult Dependent Abuse. Student Health requires that clinical staff must successfully complete and pass the background check and credentialing process before the start date. To comply with Santa Barbara County Public Health Department Health Officer Order, this position must provide evidence of annual influenza vaccination, or wear a surgical mask while working in patient care areas during the influenza season. Per California Code of Regulations Title 8, Section 5199 Aerosol Transmissible Disease Standard requires; upon hire and annually thereafter Tuberculosis (TB) screening for all employees. The method of testing is determined by past medical history and any current symptoms. Per Cal/OSHA regulations and UCSB Campus Policy, all UCSB personnel who use respiratory protection equipment shall be included in the UCSB Respiratory Protection Program and required to complete respirator fit testing upon hire and

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Please no phone calls. Email reason for interest and resume to hr@independent.com. EOE F/M/D/V.

EMPLOYMENT (CONT.)

annually thereafter, completed by UCSB Environmental Health & Safety. Any HIPAA or FERPA violation is subject to disciplinary action. Student Health is closed between the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays. Work hours may include Thursday evenings from 10am‑7pm. Hiring/Budgeted Hourly Range: $25.43/hr ‑ $30.39/hr. Full Hourly Range: $25.43/hr ‑ $31.60/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu Job #70317

SENIOR ENGINEER

PHYSICS DEPARTMENT

Serves as senior engineer to the High Energy Physics (HEP) research group consisting of eight faculty and associated researchers engaged in complex, high stakes, multi‑million dollar national and international collaborative research projects. Holds major responsibilities associated with the execution of research objectives of the HEP group. Prepares engineering specifications for specialized tooling and components for particle detectors used at national and international accelerator labs such as Fermilab, SLAC and CERN. Responsible for the development, design, setup and testing of precision tooling for the construction of particle detector systems, using computer aided design and finite element analysis. Participates in the coordination of these design and construction efforts with researchers and engineering staff of the international collaborations and with independent contractors and suppliers to establish and maintain complex budgets and schedules. Develops standard operating procedures and quality assurance protocols for the detector assembly. Supervises technical support personnel engaged in the construction and installation of particle detectors. Presents the status of projects at national and international collaboration meetings and funding agency reviews. National and international travel for meetings, site visits and detector installation. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or Physics, or equivalent experience / training. Notes: National and international travel required. Satisfactory conviction history background check The budgeted salary range is $100,000 to $135,000/ yr. The full salary range is $85,400 to $156,800/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law.Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 77712

SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER, TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS

PROFESSIONAL AND CONTINUING EDUCATION

Leads the development of new technology programs by conducting research to assess market demand and financial viability. Analyzes industry trends, advises leadership on growth opportunities, and establishes partnerships with technology companies to enhance program offerings. Duties include managing Advisory Board members

LEGALS

for curriculum input, designing course content and learning outcomes, and collaborating with instructional designers to develop course materials. Oversees program budgets, sets fees, and ensures compliance with academic and industry standards. Coordinates with organizations for co‑sponsorships, work with marketing teams to promote programs, and liaise with UCSB departments to resolve logistical and student service issues. Engages in outreach with professional associations and monitors competitor programs to identify market trends and opportunities. Manages existing professional programs in the PaCE Technology domain, ensuring their quality, financial viability, and alignment with PaCE institutional goals. Monitors annual budgets and enrollment trends, recruits and hires instructors as needed, and manages instructor contracts in compliance with university policies. Oversees course logistics, including scheduling, classroom assignments, and instructional technology needs. Maintains expertise in the PaCE Student Information System to track enrollments, manages instructor accounts, and generates reports. Works closely with the Program Support Coordinator to ensure smooth program operations, evaluates instructor performance, and coordinates training as needed. Collaborates with Marketing to promote programs, enhance student retention, and maintain an up‑to‑date web presence. Provides leadership with enrollment and budget projections, reassessing program performance and annual return on investment. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training. Continuing education in a related field.

Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check The budgeted salary is $58,600 to $85,000/yr. The full salary range is $58,600 to $100,800/yr.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu Job # 77737

ADMINISTER OF ESTATE

NOTICE OF AMENDED PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: MARY ANN JENKINS No.: CASE:25PR00013

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

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

THE PETITION for probate requests that (name): SCOTT SANDER be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION 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: 5/8/2025 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: SB‑5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101. ANACAPA DIVISION.

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

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court

NOW HIRING

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 4/2/2025 by Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Julianna M. Malis; Santa Barbara Estate Planning 14 W. Valerio Street, Suite A Santa Barbara, CA 93101; 805‑946‑1550

Published: April 10, 17, 24 2025.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER

ESTATE OF: JUDITH L. BENNETT No.: 25PR00148

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: JUDITH L. BENNETT, JUDITH LEE BENNETT

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: STEPHEN C. SCHWEITZER in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.

THE PETITION for probate requests that (name): STEPHEN C. SCHWEITZER 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.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 05/29/2025 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: Five (5) SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street PO BOX 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107. Anacapa Division.

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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 10/11/2024 by Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Margaret V. Barnes, Barnes & Barnes 1900 State Street, Suite M Santa Barbara, CA 93101; 805‑687‑6660 Published: April 10, 17, 24 2025.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: JASON DEREK LEGGITT No.: CASE:25PR00161 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of :JASON DEREK LEGGITT

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

THE PETITION for probate requests that (name): KEVIN LEGGITT be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 5/22/2025 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: SB5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101. SANTA BARBARA.

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 4/3/2025 by Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Dorothea Decker Bradford; 1415 Chapala Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; 805‑963‑8906

Published: April 17, 24. May 1 2025.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER

ESTATE OF: TODD LANDON BLACK No.: CASE:25PR00163

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

BLACK

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: CORINNE BLACK in the

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.

THE PETITION for probate requests that (name): CORINNE BLACK be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

ANACAPA DIVISION.

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 4/11/2025 by Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Shannon M. Bio; 1212 Marsh Street, Suite 3 San Luis Obispo, CA 93401; 805‑781‑3645 Published: April 17, 24. May 1 2025.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF DOROTHY VIRGINIA DAVIS

CASE NO. 25PR00150

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

A Petition for Probate has been filed by ALISHA RENEE WARD AKA ALISHA DAVIS WARD in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA BARBARA.

The Petition for Probate requests that ALISHA RENEE WARD AKA ALISHA DAVIS WARD 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 on MAY 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM in Dept. 5 Room located at 1100 ANACAPA STREET, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101, 93121 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. Attorney for Petitioner: SAMANTHA R. SALES, ESQ. WEINER LAW, 12626 HIGH BLUFF DRIVE, SUITE 440, SAN DIEGO, CA 92130, Telephone: 858.356.9070

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: BARBARA GAIL WRIGHT No.: CASE:25PR00412

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

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 for probate 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 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: 5/15/2025 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: SB 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA

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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 3/25/2025 by Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Michael A. Munoz, Senior Deputy County Counsel; 105 E. Anapamu Street #201, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; 805‑568‑2950

Published: April 17, 24. May 1 2025. NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: LAURENCE K. BROWN No.: 25PR00149

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

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

THE PETITION requests that (name): GREGORY L. BROWN 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

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A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 05/15/2025 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: SB 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street PO Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93101. ANACAPA DIVISION.

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 3/27/2025 by Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Stephen N. Yungling, Esq.; Mullen & Henzell, L.L.P.; 112 E. Victoria Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; 805‑966‑1501

Published: Apr 24. May 1, 8 2025.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER

ESTATE OF: SUSAN KURTZ No.: 25PR00172

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors,

contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: SUSAN KURTZ

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: STEVEN K. RIDGEWAY in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.

THE PETITION requests that (name):

STEVEN K. RIDGEWAY 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.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 5/29/2025 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: SB 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, P.O. Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93121. ANACAPA DIVISION

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 04/16/2025 by Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Scott G. Soulages & Braden R. Leck of Rogers, Sheffield & Campbell, LLP, 427 E. Carrillo St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; 805‑963‑9721

Published: Apr 24. May 1, 8 2025.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER

ESTATE OF:

ALBERT DACOSTA

SOCHIN AKA ALBERT D. SOCHIN CASE NO. 24PR00702 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of ALBERT DACOSTA SOCHIN AKA ALBERT D. SOCHIN.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by ERIK SOCHIN AND JEREMY SOCHIN in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA BARBARA.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that ERIK SOCHIN 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

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1. Sioux Falls st.

5. Buddy

8. Sailboat pole

12. Winery city in California’s Inland Empire

14. Scottish inlets

16. *”Yeah, that makes sense”

17. Cat or goat breed

18. “Children of the Albatross” author AnaÔs

19. *Officially kick off, like a host country’s leader at the Olympics

21. Lump of goo

23. The E of QED

24. ___ XING (road sign)

25. In a grave manner, on sheet music

29. False pretense

31. 2024 character that got Ariana Grande her first Oscar nomination

33. “By gosh!”

34. *”2001” subtitle

38. Queue before V

39. “Oh, come on!”

40. Actor Ricci of “28 Days Later” and “Vendetta”

43. Flaky Viennese pastry

47. Ram’s mate

48. Bird’s bill

50. On the level

51. *Portable storage devices

56. “___ Poetica”

57. How neglected things go

58. *1983 Matthew Broderick movie with the quote “The only winning move is not to play”

60. Covered with ice and rain

61. Netflix competition series hosted by Mikey Day

62. “Benevolent” fraternal order

63. Perceive

64. Ivan or Nicholas, e.g.

Down

1. Wasp wounds

2. Corrupt

3. “F¸r Elise” key signature

4. Beer barrel

5. Not watered-down

6. Actor Guinness

7. Big spoon

8. Former Secretary of Transportation Norman

9. 2012 Ben Affleck film

10. Obstruction

11. Like some weekends

13. Bovine mouthful

14. Somali-born Olympic gold medalist track athlete Mo

15. Made smooth, in a way

20. Places to play pinball

Play-___ (modeling clay)

Comprehensively 35. Crumbly topping 36. “You ain’t seen nothin’ ___”

Kazakhstan, once 38. “Gone With the Wind” character Butler and “Good Mythical Morning” cohost McLaughlin, for two 41. Former Brooklyn field 42. Rough Riders nickname 44. Some Tony nominees 45. “I did it!”

Second-rate

Fuzzy fruits

Subservient

Bud holder

New York canal

“___ Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”

“Hamlet” division

22. Rapper whose posthumous final album was 2000’s “Yeeeah Baby” 26. Suffix after Motor or pay 27. [Not my mistake] 28. Low film rating 30. Close once more

LEGALS (CONT.)

will be held in this court as follows: 05/29/25 at 9:00AM in Dept. SB 5 located at 1100 ANACAPA STREET, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93121

Attorney for Petitioner

JENNIFER N. SAWDAY ‑ SBN 228320, BRIAN J. RAMSEY ‑ SBN 265684, TREDWAY, LUMSDAINE & DOYLE, LLP 3900 KILROY AIRPORT

WAY, SUITE 240

LONG BEACH CA 90806

Telephone (562) 923‑0971

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SANTA BARBARA

INDEPENDENT

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER

ESTATE OF: CAROLE J. MENNIE No.: 25PR00071

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: CAROLE MENNIE, CAROLE PATTON MENNIE, CAROLE JOAN WALLING, CAROLE PATTON

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

THE PETITION requests that (name): RAISSA PATTON 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.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 05/22/2025 AT 9:00 a.m. pst Dept: PROBATE Room: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street PO Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93101. PROBATE IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the

COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA BOARD OF SUPERVISORS STATE OF CALIFORINIA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

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 4/15/2025 by Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Raissa Patton;1526 Curran Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026; 323‑791‑2929 Published: Apr 24. May 1, 8 2025.

FBN ABANDONMENT

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: S.B. WINERY, SANTA BARBARA WINERY TASTING ROOM, SANTA BARBARA WINERY SANTA ROSA RD., SANTA BARBARA WINERY CITY TASTING ROOM: 114

E. Haley St. #M Santa Barbara, CA 93101 The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 1/27/2025 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original File no. FBN 2025‑0000239. The persons or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: S.B. Winery (same address)

In the Board of Supervisors’ Hearing Room 511 East Lakeside Parkway, Santa Maria, CA

The meeting starts at 9:00 a.m.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Barbara in the County Hearing Rooms located at 511 East Lakeside Parkway in Santa Maria and 105 East Anapamu Street in Santa Barbara on May 13, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter. Please see www.countyofsb.org for web streaming of the meeting, agenda, supplemental materials, and minutes, as well as page two of the agenda for a description of public participation options available to provide testimony on actions regarding the adoption of the proposed charges for sewer service in County Service Area 12 (Mission Canyon Sewer District) for fiscal year 2025-2026, adoption of the resolution regarding the collection of said charges on the tax rolls, and approving the proposed California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) exemption per CEQA Guidelines (CCR Section 15273(a)(1)-(4)). A copy of a report with the proposed charges can be viewed with the materials docketed for this item in the agenda. This information may also be obtained by calling the County Department of Public Works at (805) 803-8750 during business hours. Comments, objections or protests to the adoption of the proposed charges may be presented at the hearing or filed with the Clerk of the Board before the public hearing, whose address is 105 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, California, 93101.

For current methods of public participation for the meeting of May 13, 2025, please see page two (2) of the posted Agenda. The posted agenda will be available on Thursday prior to the above referenced meeting for a more specific time for this item. However, the order of the agenda may be rearranged, or the item may be continued.

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

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

If you challenge this project in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence to the Board of Supervisors prior to the public hearing. G.C. Section 65009, 6066, and 6062a.

Mona Miyasato CLERK OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISOR

By: Sheila de la Guerra, Deputy Clerk

The business was conducted by an A Corporation. Registrant commenced to tranact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jan 1, 1962 Signed by: SARA DEINHARD/EXECUTIVE VICE

PRESIDENT Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 4/17/25, FBN 2025‑0001009 E49. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). Published: Apr 24. May 1, 8, 15 2025.

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: ASTONISHING TILE AND STONE CARE: 21 West Micheltorena Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 8/10/2022 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original File no. FBN 2022‑0001988. The persons or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Alexander Home Services, Inc. (same address) The business was conducted by an A Corporation. Registrant commenced to tranact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 9, 2022 Signed by: GREGORY

ALEXANDER/PRESIDENT Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 4/02/25, FBN 2025‑0000861, E30. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). Published: Apr 24. May 1, 8, 15 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SALT BOUTIQUE: 1 West Cannon Perdido St, A Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Grace J Pauletto (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Apr 6, 2025. Filed by: GRACE PAULETTO/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 9, 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 E24. FBN Number: 2025‑0000942. Published: Apr 24. May 1, 8, 15 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

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

TESORO: 1501 San Andres St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Jorge Ordonez Ayala 518 W Figueroa St 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 N/A. Filed by: JORGE ORDONEZ

AYALA with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 19, 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 E24. FBN Number: 2025‑0000744. Published: Apr 3, 10, 17, 24 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

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

CONNECTION: 512 Laguna Street, Suite A Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Fino SB 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 Mar 12, 2025. Filed by: CHARLIE

SCHAFFER/MEMBER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 E73. FBN Number: 2025‑0000842. Published: Apr 3, 10, 17, 24 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ESTRELLA FITNESS AND TRAINING: 400 Storke Rd, 8062 Goleta, CA 93118; Estrella Wellness Group LLC PO Box 8062 Goleta, CA 93118 This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious

INDEPENDENT

business name or names listed above on Mar 6, 2025. Filed by: ANTHONY ESTRELLA/CEO 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 E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0000611. Published: Apr 3, 10, 17, 24 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SFM VISTA DEL MAR PROPERT MANAGEMENT: 6549 Pardall Rd., Suite #C Goleta, CA 93117; Valerie L Sweatt (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 Mar 1, 1988. Filed by: VALERIE L SWEATT/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 20, 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: 2025‑0000759. Published: Apr 3, 10, 17, 24 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: YETZ’S DELI: 901 Embarcadero Del Mar, Ste 102 Goleta, CA 93117; Dank Bowl Kitchen 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 21, 2025. Filed by: DANIEL DUNIETZ/OWNER 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: 2025‑0000552. Published: Apr 3, 10, 17, 24 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: CALI FAB: 7360 Hollister Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93117; Daniel Barba (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Mar 31, 2025. Filed by: DANIEL BARBA/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 E63. FBN Number: 2025‑0000836. Published: Apr 3, 10, 17, 24 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WINDOW SANTA BARBARA: 701 Chapala Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Win Santa Barbara LLC 1901 Lincoln Ave Venice, CA 90291 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 28, 2024. Filed by: ARTHUR MADIKIANS/SENIOR ACCOUNTING MANAGER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 17, 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: 2025‑0000721. Published: Apr 3, 10, 17, 24 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

File No. FBN 2025‑0000737

The following person(s) is doing business as:

1. HUBBLE, 2. HUBBLEHQ, 430 S FAIRVIEW, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93117, County of SANTA BARBARA. YARDI SYSTEMS, INC.,430 S FAIRVIEW, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93117;State of Inc./Org./Reg. CALIFORNIA

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 16, 1984 /s/ ARNOLD BRIER, SECRETARY, DIRECTOR

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 03/18/2025. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 4/3, 4/10, 4/17, 4/24/25 CNS‑3907788# SANTA BARBARA

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: OAK AND OLIVE TREE CARE LLC,OAK AND OLIVE: 2912 Las Positas Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Oak And Olive Tree Care 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: EDWARD VALDEZ/MANAGER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 E72. FBN Number: 2025‑0000815. Published: Apr 3, 10, 17, 24 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: POULIN SOLUTIONS, MATTHEWAVIATION, POULIN SAFETY: 2939 Lomita Road Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Matthew P Poulin PO Box 30041 Santa Barbara, CA 93130 This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Mar 31, 2025. Filed by: MATTHEW P POULIN/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 E72. FBN Number: 2025‑0000832. Published: Apr 3, 10, 17, 24 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JACOBS CONSULTING: 1021 San Diego Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Todd A Jacobs (same address) Kathryn P Jacobs (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 Apr 03, 2025. Filed by: TODD JACOBS with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 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 E73. FBN Number: 2025‑0000885. Published: Apr 10, 17, 24. May 1 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CAMINS 2 DREAMS: 313 North St Santa Barbara, CA 93436; Kalawashaq Wine Cellars, Inc PO Box 461, Lompoc, CA 93438 This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on May 30, 2018. Filed by: MIREIA TARIBO TENA/CFO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 24, 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: 2025‑0000792. Published: Apr 10, 17, 24. May 1 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT

File No. FBN2025‑0000817

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SYV WEALTH ADVISORS, 1050 Edison St., Suite A, Santa Ynez, CA 93460 County of SANTA BARBARA SANTA YNEZ VALLEY WEALTH ADVISORS LLC, 1050 EDISON ST, SANTA YNEZ, CA 93460

This business is conducted by a limited liability company

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. SANTA YNEZ VALLEY WEALTH ADVISORS LLC S/ BRADLEY SICOFF, MANAGING MEMBER

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on N/A.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 4/10, 4/17, 4/24, 5/1/25 CNS‑3904174# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

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

TECHNOLOGIES, MIMESIS MEDIA: 5410 Hanna Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Dean I Nevins (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 20, 2021. Filed by: DEAN NEVINS/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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: 2025‑0000839. Published: Apr 10, 17, 24. May 1 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EVERBRITE RELIABLE CLEANING COMPANY: 432 Old Coast Hwy Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Ashley M Lazaro Mejia (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Apr 01, 2025. Filed by: ASHLEY LAZARO/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 1, 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: 2025‑0000846. Published: Apr 10, 17, 24. May 1 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT

File No. FBN 2025‑0000714 The following person(s) is doing business as: DESKPASS 430 S FAIRVIEW, GOLETA, CA 93117, County of SANTA BARBARA. YARDI SYSTEMS, INC., 430 S FAIRVIEW, GOLETA, CA 93117 This business is conducted by A Corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Dec 19, 2024 /s/ ARNOLD BRIER, SECRETARY, DIRECTOR This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 03/14/2025. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 4/10, 4/17, 4/24, 5/1/25

CNS‑3910551# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

File No. FBN 2025‑0000727

The following person(s) is doing business as:

GRAPHITIC ENERGY, 600 WARD DRIVE, SUITE A, GOLETA, CA 93111 , County of SANTA BARBARA. CZERO, INC., 600 WARD DRIVE, SUITE A, GOLETA, CA 93111;State of Inc./Org./Reg.: DELAWARE

This business is conducted by A Corporation.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Dec 15, 2024 /s/ STEVEN SWOOGER, VICE PRESIDENT

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 03/17/2025. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 4/10, 4/17, 4/24, 5/1/25 CNS‑3910238# SANTA BARBARA

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

File No. FBN2025‑0000738

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Merit Pharmaceutical, 2. Merit Pharmaceuticals, 3. US Wholesale Drug Distributors, 2611 N San Fernando Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90065 County of LOS ANGELES Merit Healthcare International, Inc., 2611 N San Fernando Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90065 This business is conducted by a Corporation

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 11/13/1978. Merit Healthcare International, Inc. S/ Evone Farha, Vice President, This statement was filed with the County Clerk of

LEGALS (CONT.)

CNS‑3909808# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: 805 CONCRETE

LLC: 206 La Pita Pl Buellton, CA 93427; 805 Concrete, 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 Jan 01, 2020. Filed by: KYLE LEWIS/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 4, 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 E71. FBN Number: 2025‑0000888. Published: Apr 10, 17, 24. May 1 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT

File No. FBN 2025‑0000822

The following person(s) is doing business as: PROPERTY PAYMENT‑RENT, 430 S FAIRVIEW SANTA BARBARA, CA 93117, County of SANTA BARBARA.

YARDI SYSTEMS, INC., 430 S FAIRVIEW SANTA BARBARA, CA 93117; CALIFORNIA

This business is conducted by A CORPORATION.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on NOV 01, 2009 /s/ ARNOLD BRIER, SECRETARY

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 03/27/2025. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 4/10, 4/17, 4/24, 5/1/25

CNS‑3911799# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

File No. FBN 2025‑0000818

The following person(s) is doing business as: NOVA BRIAR, 2443 RUBEL WAY APT J SANTA MARIA, CA 93455, County of SANTA BARBARA. JESSICA DAWN BARRINGTON, 2443 RUBEL WAY APT J SANTA MARIA, CA 93455

This business is conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on NOT APPLICABLE /s/ JESSICA DAWN BARRINGTON, OWNER

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 03/27/2025. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 4/10, 4/17, 4/24, 5/1/25

CNS‑3908014# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: IVY & ELDER: 634 San Marino Dr Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Ivy And Elder 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 Mar 12, 2025. Filed by: VANESSA MEDINA/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 14, 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: 2025‑0000707. Published: Apr 10, 17, 24. May 1 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

File No. FBN2025‑0000816

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Mama Thrive, 3131 Calkins Road #403, Los Olivos, CA 93441 County of SANTA BARBARA Rebecca Christine Burditt, 3131 Calkins Road #403, Los Olivos, CA 93441

This business is conducted by an Individual The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 10/04/2024. S/ Rebecca Christine Burditt

This statement was filed with the

County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 03/27/2025. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 4/10, 4/17, 4/24, 5/1/25 CNS‑3866296# SANTA BARBARA

INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CRIMSON ARMS: 1425 Robbins Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; MJR Arms And Supplies 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 Mar 20, 2025. Filed by: MICHAEL J RODRIGUEZ/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 24, 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: 2025‑0000780. Published: Apr 10, 17, 24. May 1 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE WELL: 2350 Lillie Avenue Summerland, CA 93067; Big Daddy’s Antiques PO Box 1238 Summerland, CA 93067 This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Mar 26, 2020. Filed by: STEVEN SHANE BROWN/OWNER & FOUNDER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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: 2025‑0000843. Published: Apr 10, 17, 24. May 1 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WINE CASK, THE WINE CASK, INTERMEZZO BY WINE CASK, INTERMEZZO: 813 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; SB Wine Cask 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 Aug 05, 2009. Filed by: JOHN O’NEIL/MANAGER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 4, 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: 2025‑0000586. Published: Apr 10, 17, 24. May 1 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GILMORE GOLF LLC: 410 W Canon Perdido St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Gilmore Golf 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 10, 2025. Filed by: BRIAN LANGLO/SOLE MEMBER/MANAGER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 26, 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: 2025‑0000534. Published: Apr 10, 17, 24. May 1 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RGA, RMTE: 112 El Paseo Santa Barbara, CA 93101; RMTE 432 Los Verdes Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93111 This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jan 01, 2025. Filed by: RYAN MILLS/PRESIDENT/CEO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 25, 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: 2025‑0000800. Published: Apr 10, 17, 24. May 1 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GUINTO’S AUTOMOTIVE: 5940 Matthews St Goleta, CA 93117; Emmanuel Guinto

1134 E. Haley St Santa Barbara, CA 93103 This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Mar 23, 2025. Filed by:

EMMAUNUEL GUINTO/BUSINESS OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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: 2025‑0000820. Published: Apr 10, 17, 24. May 1 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HUCKABEE & ASSOCIATES: 8640 National Blvd Culver City, CA 90232; Rachlin Partners, Inc. 801 Cherry St Suite 500 Fort Worth, TX 76102 This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Mar 01, 2025. Filed by: NICOLE MANGINO/CHIEF LEGAL OFFICER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 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 E71. FBN Number: 2025‑0000871. Published: Apr 10, 17, 24. May 1 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ALL ABOUT SENIORS GROUP: 3868 State St Santa Barbara, CA 93105; All About Seniors Real Estate (same address) This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Feb 03, 2020. Filed by: TERESA DIMOND/ PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 17, 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: 2025‑0000719. Published: Apr 10, 17, 24. May 1 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: PMG EXECUTIVE GROUP, PMG SERVICE GROUP, PPI ASSOCIATES, PIVOTAL EXECUTIVE GROUP, PIVOTAL MARKETING GROUP: 3201 Airpark Dr Ste 201 Santa Maria, CA 93455; Pivotal Perspectives 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 Apr 9, 2025. Filed by: BEIJAH FOISIA/PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 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 E24. FBN Number: 2025‑0000952. Published: Apr 17, 24. May 1, 8 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MARAMI VINEYARDS: 1251 W Laurel Ave, Unit 32‑37 Lompoc, CA 93436; Marami Vineyards LLC 1187 Coast Village Rd Ste 809 Santa Barbara, CA 93108

This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Oct 16, 2024. Filed by: AMIE GODFREY/MEMBER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 9, 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 E71. FBN Number: 2025‑0000787. Published: Apr 17, 24. May 1, 8 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: REDEEMER

BIBLE CHURCH OF SANTA BARBARA: 736 W. Islay Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Calvary Baptist Church of Santa Barbara (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 21, 1955. Filed by: ARVINE DUVAL/ CHAIRMAN with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 8, 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 E24. FBN Number: 2025‑0000918. Published: Apr 17, 24. May 1, 8 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: THERAPY DOGS OF AMERICA: 4844 El Carro Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93013; Therapy Dogs of America PO Box 3534 Santa Barbara, CA 93130 This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jan 01, 1997. Filed by: CAREY BRADSHAW/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 8, 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 E24. FBN Number: 2025‑0000929. Published: Apr 17, 24. May 1, 8 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GENERATION FARADAY: 118 East Ortega Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Merakai 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 Jul 01, 2024. Filed by: RYAN JUDY/PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 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: 2025‑0000877. Published: Apr 17, 24. May 1, 8 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA SOUNDPROOFING: 106 Santa Falicia Dr. Goleta, CA 93117; Property Solutions Etc. 4080 Royal Ave. Eugene, OR 97402 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: PHIL ALLEN/PRESIDENT 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: 2025‑0000599. Published: Apr 17, 24. May 1, 8 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ROTARY ENGINEERING: 6522 Camino Venturoso Goleta, CA 93117; Brandon H Droese (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on May 6, 2020. Filed by: BRANDON DROESE/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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: 2025‑0000821. Published: Apr 17, 24. May 1, 8 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BLAKEMORE BOOKKEEPING: 1515 Alta Vista Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Jason L. Blakemore (same address) Anita H Blakemore (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 Apr 4, 2025. Filed by: JASON L BLAKEMORE/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 8, 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 E71. FBN Number: 2025‑0000927. Published: Apr 17, 24. May 1, 8 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JRIOS AUTOMOTIVE: 5940 Matthews St Goleta, CA 93117; Justin Rios (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: JUSTIN RIOS with the

County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 E71. FBN Number: 2025‑0000692. Published: Apr 17, 24. May 1, 8 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

File No. FBN 2025‑0000829

The following person(s) is doing business as: 5213 PRINTS, 1405 SALINAS PL SANTA BARBARA, CA 93103, County of SANTA BARBARA. VARGAS5213 LLC, 1405

SALINAS PL SANTA BARBARA, CA 93103; CA This business is conducted by A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on MAR 13, 2025 /s/ JULIO VARGAS, MANAGING MEMBER

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 03/27/2025. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8/25 CNS‑3914714# SANTA BARBARA

INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SB COUNTY VOAD: 1111 Chapala, Ste 200 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Santa Barbara Foundation (same address) 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: JAQUELINE CARRERA/ PRESIDENT & CEO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 9, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph

HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

The Housing Authority of the County of Santa Barbara (HASBARCO) will receive sealed proposals for Construction of Heritage Ridge Affordable Family and Senior Housing Projects at 6610, 6620, 6630, 6635 Camino Vista, Goleta, CA, until 2:30 p.m. on May 15, 2025, at 817 West Ocean Avenue, Lompoc, CA, or emailed to shereeaulman@hasbarco.org. Proposals will be held in confidence and not released in any manner until after contract award.

A Pre-Proposal Conference will be conducted on April 28, 2025, at 10:30 a.m., via Zoom (Dial-in Number: 1-669-900-6833 – Meeting ID: 899 8185 3235; Passcode: 021809.

Proposed forms of contract documents, including specifications, are available on the HASBARCO website www.hasbarco.org

Please contact Sheree Aulman, Construction Contract Coordinator, at shereeaulman@hasbarco.org if you have any questions.

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR SANDPIPER APARTMENTS WAITING LIST - GOLETA

Accepting applications on May 5, 2025 for the Sandpiper Apartments located in Goleta CA. 0 and 1 bedroom units available. This is a Tax Credit Affordable development. Housing Choice Vouchers will also be accepted. Local preferences will apply. Applicants must meet Gross Annual Income eligibility requirements shown below. Apply online at www.hasbarco.org. For information call (805)736-3423.

The Housing Authority will accept applications for this program regardless of race, color, creed, sex, familial status, national origin, age, handicap or other protected groups under State, Federal or local equal opportunity laws.

AHORA SE ACCEPTAN SOLICITUDES PARA LA LISTA DE ESPERA DE SANDPIPER APARTMENTS - GOLETA

Se aceptaran solicitudes el 5 de Mayo del 2025 para los apartamentos de Sandpiper Apartments ubicados en Goleta CA. Unidades de 0 y 1 recamara disponibles. Este es un Desarrollo de credito fiscal. También se aceptarán Vales de Elección de Vivienda. Se aplicaran las preferencias locales. Los solicitantes deben cuplir con los requisitos de elegibilidad de ingresos brutos anuales que se muestran a continuacion. Solicite en linea en www.hasbarco.org. Para informacion llame al (805)736-3423.

La Autoridad de Vivienda aceptará solicitudes para este programa independientemente de su raza, color, credo, sexo, estado familiar, origen nacional, edad, discapacidad u otros grupos protegidos según las leyes de igualdad de oportunidades estatales, federales o locales.

LEGALS (CONT.)

E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E71. FBN Number: 2025‑0000934.

Published: Apr 17, 24. May 1, 8 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OPHORA WATER TECHNOLOGIES: 1030 Cindy Lane Carpinteria, CA 93013; Perfect Water Worldwide LLC 1482 East Valley Rd Suite 653 Santa Barbara, CA 93108

This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 1, 2010. Filed by: KEN GUOIN/MANAGER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 E71. FBN Number: 2025‑0000670. Published: Apr 17, 24. May 1, 8 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SANGER, HANLEY, SANGER & AVILA, LLP: 222 East Carrillo Street, Suite 300 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Sanger Law Firm, P.C. (same address) 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: ROBERT M. SANGER/PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 E66. FBN Number: 2025‑0000826. Published: Apr 17, 24. May 1, 8 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WILD HEARTS RANCH: 1301 McMurray Rd Buellton, CA 93427; Christina M Ciaccio (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Mar 1, 2025. Filed by: CHRISTINA MARIE CIACCIO/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 25, 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 E55. FBN Number: 2025‑0000795. Published: Apr 17, 24. May 1, 8 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COLLECTIVE: 1130 Arbolado Road Santa Barbara, CA 93103; James B Sterne (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Mar 11, 2025. Filed by: JAMES B STERNE/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 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 E24. FBN Number: 2025‑0000956. Published: Apr 17, 24. May 1, 8 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE SANGER FAMILY OF WINES, MARIANELLO, CONSILIENCE, CONSILIENCE WINE, CONSILIENCE WINERY, CONSILIENCE WINES, MARIANELLO WINE, MARIANELLO WIERY, MARIANELLOW WINES, SANGER VINEYARD, SANGER VINEYARDS, SANGER OLIVE FARM, SANGER OLIVE FARM & VINEYARDS, SANGER FAMILY, SANGER FAMILY WINERY, SANGER FAMILY WINES, TRE ANELLI, TRE ANELLI WINE, TRE ANELLI WINERY: 1584 Mission Drive Solvang, CA 93463; SFW 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 Oct 18, 2018. Filed by: BRETT ESCALERA/MEMBER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 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 E71. FBN Number: 2025‑0000947. Published: Apr 17, 24. May 1, 8 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MAT & MO WINE CO, M&M WINE CO: 90 Easy Buellton, CA 93427; M&M Beer & Wine Distribution & Fulfillment, 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 Feb 25, 2025. Filed by: MATHEW CURTO/PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 25, 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: 2025‑0000804. Published: Apr 17, 24. May 1, 8 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WINE TASTING DD: 719 s. Lincoln St, Apt D Santa Barbara, CA 93458; Christopher M Simon (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Apr 17, 2025. Filed by: CHRISTOPHER SIMON with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 21, 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: 2025‑0001038. Published: Apr 24. May 1, 8, 15 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION, UFFIZI ORDER, SB ACT, ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION, ACT: 621 Chapala St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Advancing Collective Transformation PO Box 217 Santa Barbara, CA 93102 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: RICH SANDER/EXECUTIVE

DIRECTOR with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 15, 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: 2025‑0000986. Published: Apr 24. May 1, 8, 15 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RIVIERA BRAND MEDIA: 3043 Paseo Del Descanso Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Riviera Brand Imaging, 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 Apr 30, 2024. Filed by: BRIAN WINCKLER/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 14, 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 E49. FBN Number: 2025‑0000974. Published: Apr 24. May 1, 8, 15 2025.

COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA BOARD OF SUPERVISORS STATE OF CALIFORINIA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Tuesday, May 6, 2025 In the Board of Supervisors’ Hearing Room 105 East Anapamu St. 4th Floor, Santa Barbara, CA The meeting starts at 9:00 a.m.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on, May 6, 2025, at 9:00 a.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing in the Board of Supervisors Hearing Room at the County Administration Building Hearing Room at 105 East Anapamu St. 4th Floor, Santa Barbara, California, to consider and approve the introduction of an ordinance to re-adopt and amend the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office Military Equipment Use Policy, pursuant to Assembly Bill 481.

For current methods of public participation for the meeting of May 6, 2025, please see page two (2) of the posted Agenda. The posted agenda will be available on Thursday prior to the above referenced meeting for a more specific time for this item. However, the order of the agenda may be rearranged, or the item may be continued.

Mona Miyasato CLERK OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

By: Sheila de la Guerra, Deputy Clerk

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EXECUTIVE TREE SERVICE: 4573 Carpinteria Avenue, Apt. 15 Carpinteria, CA 93013; Gabino Nova Ramirez (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: GABINO NOVA RAMIREZ with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 8, 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 E24. FBN Number: 2025‑0000919. Published: Apr 24. May 1, 8, 15 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EL PAYASITO PARTY SUPPLIES: 306 E Haley St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Oscar Ardian (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: OSCAR ARDIAN/ OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 16, 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: 2025‑0000995. Published: Apr 24. May 1, 8, 15 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

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

FARMS‑BY BOB’S WELL BREAD: 2449

Baseline Ave. Ste 1 Solvang, CA 93463; Bob’s Well Bread 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 Apr 11, 2025. Filed by: ROBERT OSWAKS/PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 14, 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 E24. FBN Number: 2025‑0000970. Published: Apr 24. May 1, 8, 15 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

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

COLLECTIVE: 11 W. De La Guerra Street Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Tracy L Hanson (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Mar 27, 2025. Filed by: TRACY HANSON/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 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: 2025‑0000879. Published: Apr 24. May 1, 8, 15 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: INEZ OLIVE OIL: 2030 Edison Santa Ynez, CA 93460; Erah of Inez LLC 16509 Saticoy, Van Nuys, CA 91406 This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jul 1, 2024. Filed by: STEPHEN ZIMMERMAN/MANAGER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 15, 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: 2025‑0000981. Published: Apr 24. May 1, 8, 15 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SHERWOOD INTERNATIONAL CONSULTING GROUP: 5667 Cielo Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93117; Morris Sherwood (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Mar 29, 2010. Filed by: MORRIS SHERWOOD/CONSULTANT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 16, 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: 2025‑0001005. Published: Apr 24. May 1, 8, 15 2025. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT

File No. FBN 2025‑0000830

The following person(s) is doing business as: MONTECITO HOME FINANCE, 661 CIRCLE DR SANTA BARBARA, CA 93108, County of SANTA BARBARA. JEFFREY BOCHISLER, 661 CIRCLE DR SANTA BARBARA, CA 93108

This business is conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on NOT APPLICABLE /s/ JEFFREY BOCHSLER, OWNER

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 03/27/2025.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15/25

CNS‑3913539# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT

File No. FBN2025‑0000896

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Existential Studio, 107 Willowbrook Ct, Vandenberg, CA 93437 County of SANTA BARBARA Jo‑An Rivera Galaang Fralick, 107 Willowbrook Ct, Vandenberg, CA 93437

This business is conducted by an Individual

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. S/ Jo‑An Rivera Galaang Fralick

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 04/04/2025. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15/25 CNS‑3907469#

SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: FORESEEABLES: 816 Veronica Springs Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Garrett C Cuffel PO Box 30531 Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Mar 15, 2025. Filed by: GARRETT CUFFEL with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 14, 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 E71. FBN Number: 2025‑0000966. Published: Apr 24. May 1, 8, 15 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: STARRY SKY COFFEE COMPANY: 800 S. College Drive, Building G Santa Maria, CA 93454; Steven P Funkhouser PO Box 6793 Santa Maria, CA 93456 This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jan 14, 2009. Filed by: STEVEN FUNKHOUSER/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 24, 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: 2025‑0000784. Published: Apr 24. May 1, 8, 15 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: COMMUNITY SYSTEMS CONSULTING: 209 Calle Palo Colorado Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Maria Chesley (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Apr 16, 2025. Filed by: MARIA CHESLEY/ MANAGING CONSULTANT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 17, 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: 2025‑0001017. Published: Apr 24. May 1, 8, 15 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

a hearing. Notice of Hearing May 19, 2025, 10:00 am, DEPT: 5, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 1100 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Anacapa Division A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated 03/24/2025, JUDGE Colleen K. Sterene of the Superior Court. Published Apr 3, 10, 17, 24 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HERMOSA VISTA LANDSCAPING: 4280 Calle Real Spc 17 Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Noe Cervantes Mendoza (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Apr 10, 2025. Filed by: NOE CERVANTES MENDOZA/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 14, 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 E24. FBN Number: 2025‑0000975. Published: Apr 24. May 1, 8, 15 2025.

LIEN SALE

EXTRA SPACE STORAGE, on behalf of itself or its affiliates, Life Storage or Storage Express, will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 10 S. Kellogg, Goleta, CA 93117. May 6, 2025, at 3:30pm.

Robert Cooper

The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures. com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction.

Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

EXTRA SPACE STORAGE, on behalf of itself or its affiliates, Life Storage or Storage Express, will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 6640 Discovery Drive, Goleta, CA 93117. 05/06/2025 at 3:30 PM

Debra Arnold

The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures. com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

NAME CHANGE

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME:JADE ARMENTA ROWE CASE NUMBER: 25CV01641 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: PETITIONER: JADE ARMENTA ROWE 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: JADE ARMENTA ROWE PROPOSED NAME: AMELIA JADE ROWE 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

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SHIFT YOUR REALITY: 1062 Miramonte Dr 9 Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Julia Freedman (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Apr 8, 2025. Filed by: JULIA FREEDMAN/INDIVIDUAL with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 9, 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 E24. FBN Number: 2025‑0000941. Published: Apr 24. May 1, 8, 15 2025.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME:JEFFREY MARROQUIN CASE NUMBER: 25CV01425 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: PETITIONER: JEFFREY MARROQUIN

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: JEFFREY MARROQUIN

PROPOSED NAME: JEFEREY MARO THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Notice of Hearing May 12, 2025, 10:00 am, DEPT: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 1100 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, CIVIL A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated 03/18/2025, JUDGE Colleen K. Sterene of the Superior Court. Published Apr 3, 10, 17, 24 2025.

AMENDED IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: SAMANTHA JOY LANDIS CASE NUMBER: 25CV00675 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: PETITIONER: SAMANTHA JOY LANDIS 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: SAMANTHA JOY LANDIS PROPOSED NAME: JUNE JOY LANDIS THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Notice of Hearing May 19, 2025, 10:00 am, DEPT: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 1100 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, CIVIL A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated 03/24/2025, JUDGE Colleen K. Sterene of the Superior Court. Published Apr 10, 17, 24. May 1 2025. 1ST AMENDED IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME:SVETLANA DOLEV CASE NUMBER: 25CV01800 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: PETITIONER: SVETLANA DOLEV A petition has been filed by the

LEGALS (CONT.)

MURZINA PROPOSED NAME: YARA DOLEV

THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Notice of Hearing May 19, 2025, 10:00 am, DEPT: SB‑5, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 1100 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Anacapa Division A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated 04/01/2025, JUDGE Colleen K. Sterene of the Superior Court. Published Apr 10, 17, 24. May 1 2025.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME:PERLA GUADALUPE ESTRADA CHAVARRIA CASE NUMBER: 25CV01641

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:

PETITIONER: PERLA GUADALUPE

ESTRADA CHAVARRIA 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: PERLA GUADALUPE ESTRADA CHAVARRIA

PROPOSED NAME: PERLA

GUADALUPE RIVERA ESTRADA

THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Notice of Hearing June 6, 2025, 10:00 am, DEPT: 4, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 1100 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Anacapa Division A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated 04/10/2025, JUDGE Donna D. Geck of the Superior Court. Published Apr 17, 24. May 1, 8 2025.

PUBLIC NOTICES

CELLCO PARTNERSHIP and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to build a 45‑ foot‑tall monopole telecommunications tower at the approx. vicinity of 650 East Hwy 246, Buellton, Santa Barbara County, CA 93427. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Trileaf Corp, Samantha Neary, s.neary@trileaf.com, 2121 W. Chandler Blvd., Ste. 108, Chandler, AZ 85224, 480‑850‑0575. 4/24/25

CNS‑3911692#

SANTA BARBARA

INDEPENDENT

NOTICE OF DISPOSITION OF COLLATERAL To: Ronald D. Bellman and Susan C. Bellman 340 Old Mill Road Space 3 Santa Barbara, CA 93110

WT Capital Lender Services File #

25‑14315‑165 Account# 2512110101

From: WT Capital Lender Services, a California corporation 7522 North Colonial Avenue, Suite 111

Fresno, California 93711 Phone: 559‑228‑8393 Beneficiary: Community West Bank 445 Pine Avenue Goleta, Ca 93117 This communication is made in an attempt to collect upon a debt or judgment and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Community West Bank, hereinafter referred to as ("Community") will sell your mobile home, truck camper or floating home which registered with the Department of Housing and Community Development under the Registration/Serial numbers 02720170AN and 02720170BN and Label/Insignia numbers 156889 and 156890 and Decal No. AAN9013 located at 340 Old Mill Road Space 3, Santa Barbara, Ca 93110 to the highest qualified bidder in public as follows: Date of Sale: 5/21/2025 Time: 1:00 PM Place: The north door of the main entrance to the County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, Ca 93110 The sale is based on the mobile home's Certificate of title and is for the mobile home only. The sale is not for the leasehold estate upon which the mobile home is presently located. Qualified bidders with an interest in the leasehold estate can contact the mobile home park/ community in advance of the sale. Qualified bidders, other than Community West Bank, bid at the sale with notice that they are purchasing the mobile home only and may be subject to eviction by the mobile home park/community. Such sale is being made by reason of your default on 12/1/2024 under that certain Security Agreement, dated 12/11/2024, between you, as debtor, and Community West Bank, N.A., as secured party, and pursuant to the rights of the undersigned under said Security Agreement and Section 9610 et seq. of the California Commercial Code The sale will be made without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, encumbrances, possession, quiet enjoyment, or the like. At any time before the sale, you may redeem the collateral in accordance with Section 9623 of the California Uniform Commercial Code anytime before we sell it by paying the full amount you owe (not just the past due payments), including our expenses and fees incurred. Please be advised that if you notify my office within 30 days that all or a part of your obligation to Community West Bank is disputed, then I will mail to you written verification of the obligation and the amounts owed to Community West Bank. In addition, upon your request within 30 days of receipt of this letter, I will provide you with the name and address of the original creditor, if different from the current creditor. You may request an accounting by calling WT Capital Lender Services at (559) 228‑8393. If I do not hear from you within 30 days, I will assume that your debt to Community West Bank is valid. The state Rosenthal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act require that, except under unusual circumstances, collectors may not contact you before 8 a.m. or after 9 p.m. They may not harass you by using threats of violence or arrest or by using obscene language. Collectors may not use false or misleading statements or call you at work if they know or have reason to know that you may not receive personal calls at work. For the most part, collectors may not tell another person, other than your attorney or spouse, about your debt. Collectors may contact another person to confirm your location or enforce a judgment. For more information about debt collection activities, you may contact the Federal Trade Commission at 1‑877‑ FTC‑HELP or www.ftc.gov . The account is due and owing the sum of $120,895.53 plus interest at the contract rate from 4/24/2025, plus any amounts necessary to reimburse WT Capital Lender Services for reasonable foreclosure fees and costs as well as any other sums to which Community West Bank, may be entitled to under the terms of your agreement.

To learn the exact amount you must pay, call us at WT Capital

Lender Services at (559) 228‑8393. If you want us to explain to you in writing how we have figured the amount that you owe us, you may call us at (559) 228‑8393. Dated: April 15, 2025 W.T. Capital Lender Services

Nate Kucera, Chief Executive Officer, on behalf of Secured Creditor, Community West Bank (IFS# 38900 04/24/25, 05/01/25)

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

NOTICE OF INTENT TO ACCEPT THE GRANT DEED TO 2615 CASPIA LANE

Notice is hereby given that, on May 6, 2025 at 9:00 a.m. or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard, in the Board of Supervisors’ Hearing Room in County Administration Building located at 105 E. Anapamu St., 4 th Floor, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors intends to accept the grant deed to consummate purchase of the property located in an Unincorporated Area of Santa Barbara County, Assessor Parcel Number 005‑700‑008, for a total purchase price of $160,800 from the Gwendolyn Maxine Hall Living Trust.

Publication Date 4/17/25, 4/24/25, 5/1/25

SUMMONS

SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL)

NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): KEN VENTURA, also known as KENNETH MARK VENTURA, an individual; and, DOES, 1 through 10 YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): THOMAS ELSNER, an individual NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your 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. !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.

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 1100 Anacapa St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101

CASE NO: (Número del Caso): 24CV07130

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): Christina Vanarelli, CHRISTINA VANARELLI, INC., APLC, 674 County Square Dr., Ste, 304, Ventura, CA 93003. Tel (805) 507‑0664

DATE (Fecha): 12/18/2024. Clerk, by (Secretario) /s/ Narzralli Baksh, Deputy (Adjunto)

Published: Apr 10, 17, 24. May 1 2025.

AMENDED SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL)

NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): JAMIE ELIASON, an individual, FRUITION ENDEAVORS, GP, an unincorporated company,; and DOES 1‑25, inclusive YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): TERRY STAIN, an individual NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your 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.

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, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101.

CASE NO: (Número del Caso): 24CV06630

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): David Phillips; 2648 International Blvd, Ste. 115, Oakland, CA 94601; Tel (415) 272‑2240 DATE (Fecha): 2/13/2025.

Clerk, by (Secretario) /s/ Preston Frye, Deputy (Adjunto)

Published Apr 10, 17, 24. May 1 2025.

PLAINTIFF’S CLAIM AND ORDER TO GO TO SMALL CLAIMS COURT

Notice to the person being sued: You are the defendant if your name is listed on page 2 of this form. The person suing you is the plaintiff, listed in 1 on page 2. You and the plaintiff must go to court on the trial date listed below.

If you do not go to court, you may lose the case. If you lose, the court can order that your wages, money, or property be taken to pay this claim. Bring witnesses, receipts, and any evidence you need to prove your case. Read this form and all pages attached to understand the claim against you and to protect your rights.

AVISO AL DEMANDADO: Usted es el Demandado si su nombre figura en 2 de la pagina 2 de este formulario. La persona que lo demanda es el Demandante, la que figura en 1 de pagina 2. Usted y el Demandante tienen que presentarse en la corte en la fecha del juicio indicada a continuacion. Si no se presenta, puede perder el caso. Si pierde el caso la corte podria ordenar que le quiten de su sucldo, dinero u otros bienes para pagar este reclamo. Lleve testigos, recibos y cualquier otra prucba que nccesite para probar sucaso. Lea este formulario y todas las paginas adjuntas para entender la demanda en su contra y para proteger sus derechos.

ORDER TO GO TO COURT: May 5, 2025; 9:00 am Dept 3 Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer 2/6/2025 by Preston Frye, Deputy. Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara 1100 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; ANACAPA DIVISION

COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA BOARD OF SUPERVISORS STATE OF CALIFORINIA

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

CASE NO:25CV00854

1: Plaintiff: Kim Berendtsen 1221 San Andres Street #A Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 705‑2009

2: Defendant: Guadalupe Velazquez 626 W. Carrillo Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101;

3: The Plaintiff claims the Defendant owes $9,960.00 (Explain Below): a) Why does the Defendant owe the Plaintiff money? Back rent is owed from former tenancy. If no specific date, give the time period: Date started: 12/01/2023

Through: January 20, 2025. How did you calculate the money owed to you? (Do not include court costs or fees for service.) Amounts loaned for legal fees regarding court matters and/or remaining attorney fees unpaid.

4: You must ask the Defendant (in person, in writing, or by phone) to pay you before you sue.

Have you done this? Yes

5: Why are you filing your claim at this courthouse? This courthouse covers the area (check the one that applies): a. (1) Where the Defendant lives or does business.

6: List the zip code of the place checked in #5 above (if you know): 93101; 7: Is your claim about an attorney‑client fee dispute? No

8: Are you suing a public entity? No

9: Have you filed more than 12 other small claims within the last 12 months in California? No

10: Is your claim for mor than $2,500? Yes

11: I understand that by filing a claim in small claims court, I have no right to appeal this claim.

I declare, under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the information above and on any attachments to this form is true and correct.

Date: 02/05/25 Kim Behrendtsen Published: April 17, 24. May 1, 8 2025.

In the Board of Supervisors’ Hearing Room 511 East Lakeside Parkway, Santa Maria, CA

The meeting starts at 9:00 a.m.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Barbara in the County Hearing Rooms located at 511 East Lakeside Parkway in Santa Maria and 105 East Anapamu Street in Santa Barbara on May 13, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter. Please see www.countyofsb.org for web streaming of the meeting, agenda, supplemental materials, and minutes, as well as page two of the agenda for a description of public participation options available to provide testimony on actions regarding the adoption of the proposed benefit assessment charges for County Service Area 3, County Service Area 31, and the Santa Barbara North County Lighting District for fiscal year 2025-2026, adoption of the resolutions regarding the collection of said charges on the tax rolls, and approving the proposed California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) exemption per CEQA Guidelines (CCR Section 15273(a)(1)-(4)). A copy of the reports with the proposed charges can be viewed with the materials docketed for this item in the agenda. This information may also be obtained by calling the County Department of Public Works at (805) 803-8750 during business hours. Comments, objections or protests to the adoption of the proposed benefit assessment charges may be presented at the hearing or filed with the Clerk of the Board before the public hearing, whose address is 105 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, California, 93101.

Mona Miyasato CLERK OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISOR

By: Sheila de la Guerra, Deputy Clerk