Another Strong Santa Barbara Bowl Season Is Unveiled, Marking 30 Years Under Goldenvoice Promoter Moss Jacobs’s Guidance
by JOSEF WOODARD
Supes Approve Massive Makeover for Jails by Nick Welsh
Fiesta Rodeo Ends 100-Year Run by Jean Yamamura
County Abandons Ambulance Ambitions by Margaux Lovely The Ellwood Is Open, Finally by Matt Kettmann
West Coast Debut Owls
Fri, Apr 11 / 7 PM / Hahn Hall
Alexi Kenney, violin Ayane Kozasa, viola Gabriel Cabezas, cello Paul Wiancko, cello
“A dream group.”
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“With Owls, classical is alive and well.”
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Performing a wide-ranging program of folk, Baroque and new music, Owls’ innovative approach to the quartet repertoire defies expectations. Owls’ all-star lineup is comprised of world renowned soloists, as well as current and former members of yMusic, Aizuri Quartet and Kronos Quartet.
Hiromi’s Sonicwonder
Fri, Apr 25 / 8 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall
“One of jazz piano’s most brazenly virtuosic players.” The New York Times
Steeped in both the classical and jazz traditions, Hiromi is a keyboard visionary whose influences range from Chick Corea to Frank Zappa and funk fusion. Check your expectations at the door for this night of wildly adventurous music from her eclectic electric quintet.
“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.
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The Golden Touch of Maestro Moss
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NEWS of the WEEK
Supes Approve $200M Massive Makeover for Jails
Sheriff and Mental Health Advocates Disagreed on Number of Beds
‘Not an April Fools’ Joke’
Fiesta Rodeo Ends 100-Year Run, Replacement in Works
Tby Jean Yamamura
he rumors of the death of the Fiesta rodeo might be premature. A post at Facebook late Monday night stated, “Fiesta Stock Horse Show and Rodeo Concludes Historic 100-Year Run” and then doubled down on Tuesday, with a post
stating, “Unfortunately, this is not an April Fools’ joke.”
However, this year’s El Presidente, Fritz Olenberger, told the Independent more positively if cautiously, “We may have a rodeo this year.”
A press release from both Old Spanish Days, which puts on Santa Barbara’s Fiesta celebrations, and Earl Warren Showgrounds, which hosts the rodeo, stated they were “saddened to share that the Fiesta Stock Horse Show & Rodeo will not be producing a rodeo this year. The event, under this entity, is no longer viable for a variety of reasons.
“While this marks the end of an incredible chapter, we are actively working together to explore ways to ensure that a rodeo event remains part of the Fiesta celebrations at Earl Warren Showgrounds potentially as soon as 2025.”
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PUBLIC SAFETY
by Nick Welsh
For six hours, the county supervisors agonized over what might turn out to be one of the most expensive lose-lose propositions in county supervisorial history pitting a well-organized roomful of energized mental-health advocates against Sheriff Bill Brown who was as imposing at the podium as usual over a massive makeover of the county’s system of county jails.
The supervisors voted 3-2 to spend more than $200 million on a massive jail construction and remodel project that will dramatically reduce the number of jail beds at the county’s old and dysfunctional main jail off of Calle Real while dramatically expanding the number of beds up in the new North County Jail. All this will cost about $15 million a year over 30 years, which eats significantly
The riding, roping, and racing competitions at Earl Warren Showgrounds have been part of the Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association events, with both high attendance by spectators and regular protests by animal rights activists. Although, new management at the showgrounds in 2019 swept clean with larger fees and an expanded program of sporting events and practice sessions, Olenberger said that the showgrounds have partnered with Old Spanish Days for the annual Fiesta event: “We work together, and we both want a rodeo.”
Expressing a continued interest in equine events, Ben Sprague, executive director at Earl Warren, said, “We want to assure the community that this decision by the Fiesta Stock Horse Show and Rodeo is entirely independent of our ongoing planning efforts at the Showgrounds. Our longterm vision remains unchanged — we fully intend to maintain and support equestrian and rodeo events as part of Earl Warren well into the future.”
Despite the high ticket sales, Olenberger explained the expenses were outpacing the revenues of the rodeo. “There are a lot of moving parts in a rodeo, and you need a very experienced team to produce one.”
At this point, Fiesta’s executive board will try to figure out what to do at its next meeting on Wednesday. The rodeo may come back reduced in scope, Olenberger said, but, “We have not given up.” n
With the “Deltopia” weekend around the corner, local officials are tackling new ways to keep the thousands of partygoers safe and alleviate the stress on first responders. The unsanctioned street festival is held in Isla Vista on the first weekend that UCSB students return from spring break, which this year is 4/5-4/7. Initiatives include the I.V. Recovery Center, where attendees can take a break from the party; Comfort Stations offering first aid; and IVCSD’s fourth annual Spring Festival on Embarcadero del Mar. To crack down on unlawful behavior and keep things local and safe, the Sheriff’s Office will suspend its Restorative Justice program for the second year in a row and be conducting a DUI checkpoint in Goleta, and residentonly entry and parking restrictions will be in effect over the weekend.
Authorities are searching for witnesses to a fatal motorcycle crash on southbound Highway 101 that occurred 12/6/24. Ventura resident Joshua Michael Fernandez, 32, was riding his Suzuki motorcycle just north of San Ysidro Road around 9:45 p.m. when he collided with a truck-tractor, according to a CHP press release. Fernandez was pronounced dead on the scene. The weather at the time was “clear, cool, and dry with moderate traffic,” and the circumstances surrounding the crash remain unknown. CHP is still investigating this incident, and asks anyone with information to contact CHP Officer Ball at (805) 770-4800.
The body of a “John Doe” remains unidentified a week after being found near Hope Ranch along the railroad tracks at Calle de los Amigos and Modoc Road. The individual was found on 3/26 in a tent, where the severity of decomposition and lack of identification made his identity difficult to ascertain, said Sergeant Bryan Kerr, spokesperson for Santa Barbara Police. No “signs of foul play” or “suspicious circumstances” were found that were attributable to his death. The body was taken to the Sheriff-Coroner Bureau, which has not yet been able to identify the decedent, said sheriff’s spokesperson Raquel Zick.
A recently completed coroner’s report gives more details about the death of Ricardo Hernandez, the 76-year-old pedestrian fatally struck by a car on Christmas Eve in Old Town Goleta. Hernandez was walking across Hollister to the north, and the sedan was traveling west toward Fairview Avenue. Though Hernandez was wearing dark clothing, that was not a factor in the accident, Goleta police said, as the area was sufficiently lit by streetlamps. The coroner’s report gives an “other significant contributing” factor to be “polysubstance intox” with positive blood results for methamphetamine, opiate, methadone, and fentanyl.
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CRUZ, CALLIE FAUSEY, JACKSON FRIEDMAN, TYLER HAYDEN, MARGAUX LOVELY, CHRISTINA McDERMOTT, NICK WELSH, and JEAN YAMAMURA
The Fiesta rodeo held during Santa Barbara's Old Spanish Days celebration might recur in 2025, though changes are expected.
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IVCSD Spring Festival 2024
Vigil Held in Solidarity with Migrants
Acrowd of more than 100 huddled together Monday at De la Guerra Plaza, where La Casa de la Raza and other community advocacy groups held a “Vigil for Migrant Families” to stand in solidarity with those who have been impacted by immigration enforcement and to urge government officials to protect communities living in fear.
“In the wake of ongoing policies that separate families and force individuals further into the shadows, this vigil serves as a call to action a moment to mourn, reflect, and commit to justice,” said Casa de la Raza
Director Jacqueline Inda.
The vigil, which was held on both Cesar Chavez Day and International Transgender Day of Visibility, began with a traditional
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performance and blessing from Danza Izkalotl, who led the crowd through a ceremonial dance honoring the “Four Directions.” Speakers at the event included local families and youth, business owners, elected officials, and members of the LGBTQ+ community.
Karen Lopez, a social worker with La Casa de la Raza and a mother of three, says she is working with families that are “already living this nightmare” and that she herself is afraid of being targeted. She says that since the Trump Administration launched its most recent mass deportation initiative, she has seen families in Santa Barbara being torn apart because of parents being detained.
Santa Barbara High School student Ofelia Jarabo-Perez said she has noticed a shift in her Latino classmates at school. “People have this fear that they’re gonna go to school or work and their mom is not going to be home,” she said.
State Assemblymember Gregg Hart and Santa Barbara City Councilmember Wendy Santamaria both spoke at the vigil, with Hart promising to continue fighting for protections at the state level and Santamaria encouraging people to “not get distracted” and remain hopeful for a better future.
—RyanP.Cruz
County Fire’s Ambulance Ambitions Abandoned
After a somewhat controversial ambulance contract was awarded to American Medical Response (AMR) over Santa Barbara County Fire Department in February, the Board of Supervisors unanimously voted on Tuesday for County Fire to not engage in a subcontract agreement with AMR that would’ve made County Fire the main ambulance provider in Lompoc, Carpinteria, Summerland, and Montecito. The decision came at the recommendation of County Fire Chief Mark Hartwig, whose financial consultants found that the fire district would be put at a $41 million loss with no break-even point if they entered into the agreement.
The supervisors also agreed with Chief Hartwig that it’s time to sell the 35 brandnew ambulances and equipment that County Fire purchased for a total of $7.7 million in 2023. AMR’s contract was expiring at the time, and County Fire had to purchase such equipment to be eligible to bid on a new contract. County Fire was awarded the contract later that year despite scoring much lower in the bidding process.
ambulance monopoly. After Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Donna Geck and California Attorney General Rob Bonta both weighed in strongly in AMR’s favor, the county settled in February and granted a four-year contract to AMR. As part of the settlement agreement, which cost the county $830,000 in outside legal fees, AMR agreed to give County Fire the option to subcontract for ambulance services in Lompoc, Carpinteria, Summerland, and Montecito.
Calls for service originating from the proposed subcontract areas make up only 15 percent of calls countywide, according to Kelsey Buttitta, a county spokesperson. Firefighters have further argued that those areas are not profitable, and the financial consultants agreed.
“It really comes down to the call volume and the busyness of resources,” said Chief Hartwig. “We don’t provide service there, so we would need to invest in infrastructure and supervision that we don’t have in those areas.”
AMR the sole ambulance provider in Santa Barbara County for more than 40 years — sued the county soon after, claiming that the county’s alleged ignorance of the competitive process helped facilitate an
“Medicare and Medicaid accounted for the largest share of total transports” in both areas, according to the report conducted by Brandt VX. “Even under best-case revenue scenarios, operational costs outpace earnings, making financial viability unattainable.”
—Margaux Lovely
“Enough is enough. We need a real change,” said Karen Lopez, a social worker and parent who spoke at the Vigil for Migrant Families.
Court Orders Landlord to Follow Law
James Knapp Has Two Years to Abide by Ruling or Face Criminal Prosecution
Tby Christina McDermott
he Santa Barbara Superior Court ruled on misdemeanor charges brought by city of Santa Barbara against James Knapp, an owner of an apartment complex on 215 Bath Street, last week. Specifically, the court issued a diversion for a two-year period, which included more than two dozen terms and conditions that Knapp needs to follow. If he does, then Judge Raimundo J. Montes De Oca will stop legal proceedings. If Knapp violates the terms, criminal prosecution will continue.
Knapp must personally show up to court review hearings during this time because, Judge Montes De Oca said, “he needs to follow the law like everybody else.”
Knapp’s lawyer, Robert Forouzandeh, has called the diversion a victory, saying there is no fine, jail time, or community service required and that his client did nothing wrong.
“It’s an absolute and total victory because our position is that we have always complied with the law. We always indicated we would comply with the law at all times going forward. So, we don’t believe we’re giving anything up here,” Forouzandeh told the Independent. In a written statement, Alex Entrekin, the Managing Housing Attorney for the Legal Aid Foundation, which represents some of the tenants who received eviction notices signed by Knapp, said the diversion was important for his clients.
“It gave them their first chance to speak in front of their court and make clear how James Peter Knapp and his associates at the Koto Group disrupted their lives, and as Judge Montes de Oca explained, ‘fractured their community,’ ” Entrekin wrote.
The case was filed in May 2024 in the
name of the People of the State of California charging that Knapp had violated a city code regarding no-fault evictions.
The City of Santa Barbara Attorney’s office served as the prosecuting agency. Tenants of 215 Bath Street are witnesses in the case; six have testified as victims. It comes after months of conflict between tenants and the property’s owners, reported in detail by the Independent
The diversion requires that Knapp obey all laws, especially those relating to city zoning ordinances and just-cause evictions. It also states that Knapp must retain an accessible on-site manager for the tenants, must file proof of this manager within 30 days of the diversion, and must ensure issues are addressed in a timely manner. Knapp himself must be directly accessible to City of Santa Barbara employees and follow their requests to comply with city code and state law.
The diversion also includes a list of what Knapp must not do. That includes reducing or eliminating housing services required by the lease or law, such as parking or access to common amenities, failing to complete timely repairs, and threatening tenants, among other things.
Denny Wei, the City of Santa Barbara’s assistant prosecutor, said: “This was one of the diversions where the terms were negotiated by both sides the prosecution and defense and then that order was submitted to the court for the judge’s approval,” Wei said.
Wei said that diversions are common in the municipal code violations he prosecutes for the city. He also said this case is not the city’s first prosecution of a violation of the city’s just-cause ordinance. Knapp’s next court date is set for April 28.
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215 Bath Street
Grieving Sister Demands Justice for Brother’s Death in D.C. Crash
for work in his role as a senior IT specialist for Watermark Properties in Kansas.
“He was just a guy going to work, like he did all the time,” Miller-Zahn said. “I want this to remain in the public eye until there’s accountability.”
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The Miller family is now pursuing legal action against the U.S. Army and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), claiming that the tragic crash was preventable.
“Civilian and military aircraft should never come close to one another, let alone collide,” said lead attorney Robert Curtis of Santa Barbara–based law firm Foley Bezek Behle & Curtis, LLP.
Kristen Miller-Zahn had to watch her brother die “over, and over, and over again” on television following his passing.
Dustin Miller was one of the 67 passengers aboard American Airlines Flight 5342, which collided with a U.S. Army helicopter over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., on January 29. There were no survivors.
“You never want to witness your loved one die on TV,” said Miller-Zahn, a Santa Barbara resident of four years. When the crash happened, the plane was about to touch down at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, flying from Wichita, Kansas.
“My heart sank,” she said about seeing the crash on the news. She suspected her brother may have been on the plane, but still waited for confirmation from the airline. Her family later discovered that their worst fear was a reality.
Miller-Zahn described her brother as “funny, kind, and good-natured.” He claimed the last seat in first class, traveling a day early
The lawsuit will focus on alleged failures by both the army and the FAA, including breakdowns in air traffic control, operational oversight, and adherence to safety protocols.
Curtis noted that the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) discovered there were 15,000 near misses between planes and helicopters in that area between October 2021 and January 2025.
Often, the army helicopter was flying above the 200-foot vertical height limit, the NTSB found.
“The FAA had all of this data, but they did nothing to change helicopter routes and plane routes,” Curtis said.
On March 14, the FAA released a statement that it “is taking a series of steps to improve safety around Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) that follows the NTSB’s recommendations,” and it will “continue to closely support the NTSB-led investigation and take action as necessary to ensure public safety.”
For Miller-Zahn, the main thing she wants to see come of this tragedy is that it never happens again. “It’s infuriating,” she said. “I lost my brother; my mother and father are devastated. It’s a shame that he’s gone from this world.” —Callie Fausey
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into revenue the supervisors said they’d much rather spend on anything else and which depending on the condition of the economy will push county coffers into a significantly deep hole.
At issue Tuesday was how many total jail beds the supervisors needed to approve in order to be operationally safe for the anticipated number of inmates and custodial staff, while also satisfying the settlement terms of a class action lawsuit filed against the county over jail subpar conditions by Disability Rights California.
When it came to number of beds, the supervisors voted for an in-between compromise number 876 that satisfied neither Sheriff Brown nor the mental health advocates and their allies on the board. Typically, the jail population hovers at about 750, but this Tuesday it was reported to be 810, an unusually high number. Brown said
jails need a 15 percent safety buffer of additional bed space so that prisoners can be safely classified and segregated from each other to minimize violence. That would bring the total number of beds needed to more than 900.
Mental-health advocates urged the supervisors to delay action and appoint a task force to aggressively explore how to keep people out of jail in the first place by getting them into mental health or substance abuse diversion programs. Mentally ill people only get worse in jail, they argued; what they needed were treatment beds not jail beds.
Ultimately, it was new Supervisor Roy Lee who crafted the in-between compromise. He initially wanted 128 of the beds set aside for inmates with mental health issues. Ultimately, he agreed to replace the number 128 with the word “maximize.”
Dustin Miller
COURTESY
Major Rehaul Planned for Presidio Springs Senior Housing
The Housing Authority of the City of Santa Barbara introduced plans to redevelop the Presidio Springs Community an entire city block of affordable senior housing in the downtown area with a multi-phase project that would more than double the number of available units over the next decade, bringing a total of 327 units when finished.
Presidio Springs, a collection of gardenstyle apartments built in the ’70s as one of the city’s first public housing developments, is already the Housing Authority’s largest property with 122 units. But the proposed plan would bring an additional 205 units to the site, replacing the outdated buildings with new larger structures in a phased construction plan intended to minimize disruption for current residents.
The Housing Authority hosted a community meeting on March 26 to show the preliminary designs that reflected Santa
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Barbara’s Spanish Colonial style. Housing Authority Director Rob Fredericks said he had already met with the residents to reassure them that they would be taken care of during the process. He said the construction, which would be years in the future, would be organized so residents would be relocated into newer units as soon as they are built, with rents set at the same cost tenants currently pay, which is no more than 30 percent of their income.
Frederick said Presidio Springs is “beautiful but underutilized” given today’s density standards especially for the downtown area and that the project would address the increasing need for affordable senior housing. The Housing Authority already has a waiting list of more than 1,100 seniors, he said, and Santa Barbara’s senior population is expected to grow by 32 percent over the next 25 years.
—Ryan P. Cruz
COURTS & CRIME
Jackson Kyle Jue, the 20-year-old SBCC student and Isla Vista man accused of two armed robberies and shooting a young woman in I.V. on 3/19, pleaded not guilty on 3/28 to felony charges of attempted murder, armed robbery, and carrying illegal weapons, among others. Jue was arrested on 3/ 20 at a residence in Concord, California. Illegal weapons were found on his person, in his vehicle, and at his residence, according to the criminal complaint. The shooting victim was treated for non-life-threatening injuries at Cottage Hospital and has since been released, said Senior Deputy DA Tate McCallister. Jue, who is being held without bail in County Jail, is set to appear in S.B. Superior Court on 4/28.
S.B. man Jeffrey Wojcik, 37, was arrested 3/30 for allegedly stabbing another man in the neck with a ballpoint pen during a verbal altercation on the 800 block of Cacique Street. The two men knew each other and “had a recent history of verbal altercations,”
police say. The victim was taken to Cottage Hospital and treated for his non-life-threatening injury. Wojcik was booked into County Jail for assault with a deadly weapon with force likely to cause great bodily injury. According to county records, Wojcik has been released on $50,000 bail.
Buellton woman Lydia Alicia Gonzales, 40, was arrested after allegedly stabbing her boyfriend several times on 3/30. A sheriff’s deputy found the man on Highway 246 and Valley Station Drive with stab wounds and lacerations on his shoulder, hip, chest, back, and hand, according to the Sheriff’s Office. As the deputy attempted to control the victim’s bleeding, Gonzales stepped out of a nearby residence and threw cans of beer at the pair, according to authorities. Gonzales was booked in County Jail on $1 million bail for attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and domestic violence. The victim was transported to an area hospital and was reported to be in stable condition.
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Early renderings of the Presidio Springs redevelopment by the Housing Authority of the City of Santa Barbara, viewed from the corner of De la Guerra and Ortega streets
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Supes Unanimously Fund Racial Equity Programs
Even with “diversity” and “equity” programs now under relentless attack by the administration of President Donald Trump, the Santa Barbara County supervisors often evenly split along regional lines voted unanimously to approve a $233,000 funding package “to advance racial equity and justice.”
The Racial Equity Fund was started five years ago in the wake of the George Floyd murder to help promote organizations dedicated to anti-discrimination efforts. Among the eight recipients were the Martin Luther King Jr. Committee ($55,000), the NAACP ($30,000), and Gateway Education Services ($71,000), which promotes educational advocacy among the parents of Black school students. The grantmaking committee received 18 applications that totaled $1.1 million in requests.
were opposing.
Most of the recipients thanked the supervisors in advance; only the ever-outspoken Andy Caldwell, pro-business spokesperson for the organization COLAB, took issue and offense. If private individuals wanted to make “charitable donations” to these groups, Caldwell argued, they could, but the supervisors shouldn’t spend taxpayer dollars to do so. He also challenged the supervisors to call out by name “the racists of Santa Barbara County” that these groups
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The woman who crashed her car into the living room of a Santa Barbara home 3/28 was allegedly driving under the influence at the time of the incident.
The woman reportedly drove her vehicle into an unoccupied duplex at 637 West Canon Perdido St. Following the crash, Santa Barbara police officers conducted a DUI investigation, resulting in the driver’s arrest, police spokesperson Bryan Kerr said. The suspect, S.B. resident Leticia Castro, 32, was booked into County Jail for DUI on $5,000 bail and has since been released, according to court records.
Sheriff’s deputies booked a Camarillo resident Shaun Burree, 43, for an indecent exposure incident reported on 2/26 near Isla Vista’s Anisq’Oyo’ Park. Burree allegedly exposed himself to a woman waiting at the bus stop near Embarcadero Del Mar and Seville Road, according to a statement from the Sheriff’s Office.
Supervisor Steve Lavagnino, a North County conservative with a longstanding burr in his saddle where Caldwell is concerned, took Caldwell to task for getting his facts wrong. Caldwell made a stink that the organization Healing Justice was receiving $71,000 when, in fact, the grant award was only $10,000.
“I don’t look at it a charitable contribution,” Lavagnino said. “I look at it as an investment in the community.”
He said the beneficiaries were doing outstanding work, calling out Lawanda LyonsPruitt of the NAACP in particular. “No one has dome more than Lawanda LyonsPruitt,” he said. “I’ll stand next to her.”
—Nick Welsh
Burree was recognized from his vehicle by a be-onthe-lookout alert on 3/27 and subsequently arrested without incident. He was booked at the Main Jail and has since been released on $10,000 bail.
A Chinese citizen who pleaded guilty to flying a drone over the Vandenberg Space Force Base was sentenced to time served (four months), one year of supervised release, a $200 fine, and a $25 special assessment on 3/31. On 11/30/24, Yinpiao Zhou, 34, flew a drone from Lompoc’s Ocean Beach to photograph the midnight launch of a rocket carrying a national reconnaissance satellite, using software on his drone to bypass standard regulations. Zhou faced two charges but accepted a plea deal to drop the first charge and accept an airspace violation.
ENVIRONMENT
California Coastal Commission staff have recommended that Sable Offshore be ordered to pay a nearly $15 million fine and complete a restoration plan for the oil company’s alleged unpermitted construction work along the Gaviota Coast. Further, the commission issued a third cease-and-desist order against Sable, this time with an expiration date contingent on the company’s successful completion of permit applications. The matter will be put to a vote on 4/10 during the Coastal Commission’s three-day meeting in Santa Barbara. n
Supervisor Steve Lavagnino (above) took conservative watchdog Andy Caldwell to task for getting his facts wrong about the funding package.
UNDUE PROCESS: In the miasma of my megalomania, April Fools’ Day qualifies as a holy day of obligation. Naturally.
It’s on that day, after all, that I first rolled into Santa Barbara.
But I must confess, the date now much more on my mind is June 15, in the year 1215. That’s when a gaggle of English noblemen conducted a mass intervention with King John of England, putting him on notice that if he didn’t back the hell off, they’d put him in the ground one way or another. He got the point and accordingly signed a document called the Magna Carta, the precursor for our own Constitution
In it, the King agreed he could no longer seize people off the street simply because he didn’t care for the cut of their jib and make them mysteriously disappear into the ether. If, henceforth, the king were to seize people upon point of drawn sword, they had to be charged with specific crimes. And he had to prove they did what he claimed
And here’s the whopper he had to be able to produce that person in the flesh. For those who like to use Latin phrases nobody understands, this is what’s called “habeas corpus.” It’s one of the things that’s made America great in the first place and at least for the time being still does. Kind of. It’s also the basis of what we call “due process.”
I dredge this up because we elected a wannabe Vlad the Impaler who seems to think he was sworn in as king, not president. I try not to get too hysterical about such things; it’s bad for my nerves.
But then I found the video of Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old Tufts grad student from Turkey, in this country with all her proper papers, getting hijacked on a suburban Massachusetts street corner by six government agents dressed in what looked like black pajamas with their faces covered by balaclavas. It was chilling in the extreme.
Of course, that is precisely the intent. She committed no crime. The White House isn’t even pretending she did. Her offense if that were a crime, we’d all be in a jail was to have co-written an op-ed likening what Israel has done to the Palestinians to genocide. She has not been implicated in any campus violence. Or any violence at all. Or even being actively engaged in the protest movement.
I get how the G-word rubs a lot of people the wrong way. But eliminating so many Palestinians in Gaza — 50,000 killed, 113,000 wounded, and 1.9 million displaced since last October 7 — also rubs a lot of other people the wrong way, too. Free speech like habeas corpus and due process is another one of those quaint ideas that made America great. Maybe it’s time we make America great again?
But with Trump, every day is April Fools’ Day. Last I heard, he and his minions dispatched Ozturk to a prison in Louisiana as a precursor to shipping her off to the noquestions-asked-torture-pit-of-no-return in El Salvador, so favored by the Trump Administration these days.
She is hardly the first. To be fair, federal officials acknowledged they made a mistake in sending a 29-year-old Venezuelan sheetmetal worker now from Baltimore there They thought he was a Venezuelan gang member. He was not. He, in fact, had been admitted to the United States and granted a protective order meaning if he went back home, he had a reasonable expectation of being killed. But even though the mistake was admitted, the feds said they have no intention of bringing him back. The mistake, they explained, was made in “good faith.”
April Fool?
I observed April Fool’s Day this year watching the supervisors wrestle themselves into a state of near exhaustion for about six hours over how many hundreds of millions of dollars we don’t have, but will have to spend, for who knows how many additional jail beds. Theirs was a choice between the bad and worse. Good was not on the menu
Packing the house was the largest and most energized crowd of mental-health advocates I’ve ever seen. More than once, I confess, they made me weep. We’ve all been there.
Every dollar spent on the jail, the advocates objected, is a dollar not available for people behind bars for the crime of being crazy. Or drunk. If the county were to spend a similar amountw desperately and obviously needed on new treatment facilities for people suffering these afflictions, they argued, maybe the jail wouldn’t need so many beds. “Treatment beds, not jail cells” was the slogan.
All slogans over time begin to sound trite. But for the families struggling to keep a loved one from jumping off a bridge and that’s all of us there’s nothing trite about it. They’ve been making the same case now probably since the April Fools’ Day I first rolled into town. They are, of course, right
Everyone knows it. It’s just not so simple. Since the murder of George Floyd, the county supes and the county CEO have made genuine efforts to reform the criminal justice system. One of their most sustained efforts has been to keep crazy people out of jail.
But our jail system is a damned-if-youdo, damned-if-you-don’t proposition. It needs immediate and expensive attention. The supes did what they could. And when the dust settled, that’s exactly how I felt damned.
April Fools’ Day, indeed. — Nick Welsh
Keep the Pressure On
The Board of Supervisors deadlocked on approving the transfer of pipeline permits from ExxonMobil to Sable Offshore. The tie vote stalled the project but did not kill it. For those of us who care about environmental justice, public safety, and our coastal way of life, we must remain vigilant.
Las Flores Canyon pipeline, when operated by Plains All American, was shut down following the 2015 Refugio oil spill, which dumped more than 140,000 gallons of crude oil onto our beaches and into the ocean. Now, Sable Offshore a newly formed company led by the former CEO of Plains Resources is seeking to revive this same pipeline and resume offshore drilling activities.
The risks are too high, the environmental damage too fresh, and the promises of safety too familiar. Plains All American said its pipeline was safe right up until it wasn’t.
Adding to these concerns are questions about the integrity of the pipeline review process. Jim Hosler is Cal Fire’s key official with authority to certify whether the pipeline can safely restart. Serious questions of potential conflicts of interest have arisen. Prior to Cal Fire, Hosler worked for both Plains All American and Pacific Energy Partners (from October 1992 to July 2007), during which time Pacific Energy owned and operated this pipeline before being acquired by Plains All American in 2006.
While it is true that Hosler’s employment with the oil companies was a while back, it’s also true that a sense of loyalty and allegiance can endure through the decades.
It is time for the Coastal Commission and the county supervisors to ask Hosler to recuse himself and to copy Governor Newsom, who appointed Hosler, to make that request, as well.
The stakes for our community and environment could not be higher. Santa Barbara’s coastline is not just a natural treasure; it is also the foundation of our economy and our identity as a region that values environmental stewardship.
—Marcy Winograd, S.B.
Lease Less
DOGE plans to cut NOAA’s office and slip spaces at the harbor generated feedback at Instagram:
cordonofsantabarbara: Is it possible to find out how much the lease is and the cost per square foot? Maybe the lease can renegotiate the terms. I would hate to see NOAA leave. lacey.lea: That would be
the sensible thing to do, but the DOGE approach isn’t sensible.
josephevers_: Two thoughts: (1) Please don’t defund an organization whose steady research helps sustain natural resources to the entire U.S. I don’t wanna eat Norwegian salmon as much as I don’t wanna burn foreign oil. (2) Maybe this can lead to a reclassification of S.B. Harbor’s fee schedules. It seems to be the most price inhibiting I’ve seen on this coast.
santabarbaralights: I’m completely amused by folks who are complaining about wasteful spending of hardworking taxpayers’ monies on agencies which truly have no job description. golsen_26: I’d like to hear from the people who can’t afford healthy food, stable housing, educational opportunity, etc. How much do they value federally funded whale/ trout social safety nets?
mindyrainey: Can we cut DOGE please?
Property Blights
Born
and raised in Santa Barbara/Goleta, I left town in 2018 at the age of 80 but have kept up with area politics. Does anyone really think any landlord will upgrade his or her property if they cannot raise the rent enough to recoup the cost of the upgrades in a reasonable timeframe? The answer is probably not. So, you are likely to eventually end up with almost rental slums.
Further, on the coast of California, there is no housing that is truly affordable and never will be in an area like Santa Barbara and the South Coast due to the geography.
Over the years, I have watched the continued deterioration of what was once a jewel of the California coast due to stupid political decisions with some amazement, even though I expected it to happen.
It is just a shame.
—Thomas L. Williams Jr., Prescott, AZ
For the Record
¶ The Week calendar of events in the March 20 issue mistakenly made the Zentangles event “The Art of Meditative Doodling” a free one; it cost $40 to participate.
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Jobs and Energy Independence
Sable Offshore Will Replace Dirty Foreign Oil via Safe, Frequently Inspected Pipelines
BY JEREMY WILLETT
California is an isolated energy island.
More than 75 percent of our crude supply comes in oil tankers from foreign countries and Alaska. We rely on Iraq, Brazil, and Guyana to power our cars and tractors, heat our homes, and keep the lights on.
Banking on foreign imports leaves us extremely vulnerable to international disputes and price fluctuations. Look at what happened to Europe not too long ago. It’s one reason why Californians pay significantly more at the pump than anywhere else in the country. At $4.65 a gallon, we’re $1.50 more expensive than the national average. At a time when everyone is concerned about the cost of living in California, we must do more to make it possible to live here.
Forty years ago, 60 percent of the oil used by Californians was produced right here in California. Today, that number has dropped to less than 25 percent. As a state that sees itself as a leader of clean air and water, we must consider what this drastic, roughly 70 percent increase in overseas imports is doing to our environment. California produces the cleanest crude oil in the world, yet we continue to increase reliance on dirtier, higher greenhouse-gas sources of crude oil to meet our state’s energy needs. This isn’t leadership.
Here in Santa Barbara, we have an opportunity to replace one million to two million barrels of that dirty foreign oil coming into our state’s ports every month, making gasoline more affordable and creating hundreds of jobs. Why wouldn’t we jump at that opportunity?
Work is underway by Sable Offshore Corp. to restart the Santa Ynez Unit off the Gaviota Coast and Las Flores Pipeline System. Idle since 2015, this project has the potential to stabilize the supply of crude oil and provide 10-20 percent of in-state oil production, displacing that dirty foreign oil. As important, this will be a cleaner energy source that will be moved through the soon-to-be safest pipeline in California. In addition to all the safety upgrades, the pipeline system will undergo safety inspections 10 times more frequently than other pipelines in California. The project will be overseen with care by leaders and operators who have decades of experience in Santa Barbara’s oil industry. It will also be closely monitored by a host of state and local agencies to ensure it meets the highest safety and operating standards.
What does this mean practically for the Santa Barbara community?
First, the project will create new jobs. The company that owns this project is already employing 100 people and 400 mostly unionized contractors. Another 300 new jobs are expected to be created after restart.
Second, it is an economic shot in the arm. Sable Offshore expects the project will initially generate
$5 million a year in new tax revenue. At a time when neighboring communities face significant budget deficits, we should be doing all we can to shore up revenue.
Small businesses are already benefiting from the project. As Sable does repair and maintenance work to ensure the pipeline is “as new,” an estimated $12 million has flowed to hotels, restaurants, and construction businesses.
Third, it’s common sense that having a domestic oil supply will make gas at the pump cheaper. While that may not seem like a big deal to the celebrity millionaires in Santa Barbara and Montecito, it is a big deal to everyday Californians. When so many of us are worried about making enough money to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table, saving money matters both at the gas pump and throughout the supply chain.
California is making strides toward embracing new energy sources and building up its EV network (the state recently announced there are now more EV chargers than gas nozzles). But the state is also the country’s largest consumer of jet fuel and secondlargest consumer of gasoline. We use 42 million gallons a day of gas, and another 10 million gallons a day of diesel, to keep our cars and trucks on the road. As long as we continue to rely on gasoline, we need to do our part to ensure we produce and transport it here for the sake of our pocketbooks and our environment. We can no longer depend on foreign oil to keep California’s economy the fifth largest in the world moving. We have a chance to improve our self-reliance, create jobs, and stimulate the economy all while reducing our carbon footprint. Let’s control our own destiny.
Santa Barbara cannot afford to miss this opportunity.
Jeremy Willett is operations manager of Pacific Pipeline Company.
Jeremy Willett (left) meets with project workers in California.
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obituaries
Edward Joshua Welsh 11/19/1962 – 12/31/2024
Edward Joshua Welsh- or “Josh” Welsh as he was known to his family and friends- is in many ways impossible to describe, but if one were to attempt the impossible, they might say he was “the most enthusiastic connoisseur of existential doom” they have ever met. They might say he was a passionate champion of independent films, accomplished alt-country musician, self-taught kitchen magician, exuberant ham, doting dog walker, not to mention loving husband, father, brother, uncle, and friend. They would likely say he was an incredibly bright, funny, warm, thoughtful, charismatic, incredibly humble man who devoted the entirety of his immense heart and spirit to his love of pondering, people, and the arts. Josh Welsh passed away peacefully in his Glendale home on New Years Eve, 2024, in the company of his wife, Bonnie Gavel, and daughter, Isla Welsh. He was 62. Over the past five years, Josh battled cancer with the grace and discipline of a dancer. In the face of frightening uncertainty, he remained calm and optimistic. There were always new treatments, one after the next. Some were rougher than others. Welsh refused to be slowed down. His eyes always shone. He baffled his medical staff by the manner in which every finish line they drew was more in sand than concrete- he kept beating the odds, kept reaching the next landmark. Cancer fought Josh, not the other way around. He continued his work as President of Film Independent up until the day he died, never allowing his passion to falter. His humor—playfully bleak long before the cancer— was always present. Even at the end, Josh approached the uncertainty with an almost studious curiosity to the utmost form of personal devastation. He looked ahead towards the terrifying unknown with eyes wide openadopting a stance of bewilderingly brave vulnerability and authenticity. His primary concern about the afterlife, second only to whether or not it exists, was “will there be music?”
If Josh was at ease in the rambunctious noise of the creative
process, it might be because he grew up in a loud Irish Catholic family in the suburbs of Washington D.C. He was welcomed to the world on 11/19/1962 at Columbia Hospital for Women in Washington D.C., the last of 9 highly creative children (of varying temperaments and dispositions towards making trouble) born to Philip and Marylin Welsh. Welsh’s mother, Marilyn Kirby Welsh, was fierce and formidable, a combination of joy and rage. His father, Philip Flahavin Welsh—reserved and distant, but quietly just as definite—worked as an attorney for the Association of American Railroads. Among the brothers and sisters there was much mayhem, fighting and love. As the baby, Josh was offered a less complicated form of love from the family- a rare warmth he was able to stoke by being naturally hilarious, with an insatiable appetite for the limelight. He and his sister Liz staged what was known as “The Eddy and Betty Show.” He was known to delay his older brothers and their friends from their weekend plans with solo improvisational performances- not that they minded the front row seats.
When Steve Martin released his “Wild and Crazy Guy” comedy album, Josh had it memorized in no time flat. His performance, objectively speaking, was much funnier than Martin’s. “Josh had me in stitches; I could not stand,” recalled one family friend. “The loss of anyone so insanely creative is a loss to the entire world in such dire need of even a drop of more pure humor.”
Josh took up the guitar when he was a teenager and began an ongoing back and forth with his oldest brother and gifted poet, Philip, Jr., who would send Josh poems with the attached brotherly challenge of “I bet you can’t turn THIS one into a song.” Josh always did, and this ongoing battle of pen and guitar would later evolve into Meatyard, an alt-country musical powerhouse. Meatyard featured a wide variety of band members over the years, but at its core was Josh, Philip (even posthumously), and his nephew Rupert Sandes. Meatyard specialized in meandering melancholic meditations on death, longing, and itches that couldn’t be scratched. Josh could make you cry, but he could also growl, howl, and slash with genuine punk and rockabilly abandon, laughing all the while at the wonderful, ridiculous audacity of it.
Josh was spared the straitjacket of a Catholic School education of his siblings. In adult life, he would ultimately veer away from his Catholic upbringing—much to his father’s
dismay--but would retain a quasi-eucharistic enthusiasm for donuts, which the Welsh family feasted upon—en masse after Sunday mass. Despite his misgivings about Catholicism, Josh was inherently if skeptically spiritual.
In 1980, Josh enrolled at Kenyon College in Ohio, where he met his first wife, Jenny Siegenthaler. He played gigs at a place called Pirate’s Cove. It was, according to one lifelong friend, “musical mayhem”rough around the edges and full of drive. Despite his punkish inclinations, Josh was much moved by the slithery velvet of Al Green’s voice and the syncopated minimalism of his arrangements. For two years, Josh worked as the record buyer for the Kenyon Bookstore. During his regime, Rolling Stone Magazine named the bookstore the best college bookstore in the country, an honor largely credited to their record collection.
Josh’s defining characteristic of being an “avid ponderer” carried him through completing his PhD in philosophy from Johns Hopkins in 1994. Despite his love of pondering, Josh had second thoughts about the academic life almost immediately. Once he got his PhD, he liked to joke, he’d become a truck driver. Misgivings aside, Josh completed his education with a PhD and received special recognition for the defense of his dissertation. Josh accepted a temporary teaching position at Swarthmore and started taking acting classes after finishing his degree. After a year of teaching, Josh moved to Los Angeles, CA, to pursue a career in film. While driving from the East Coast to Los Angeles, he recounted, he never once thought about philosophy.
Upon moving to Los Angeles, Josh signed up for more acting classes. He hit the audition circuit, and landed a few roles in films that, for better or for worse, did not make their mark on the silver screen. In 1996, Josh signed up as a volunteer for IFC West, one of the precursors to what later became Film Independent- a non-profit that aims to make film making accessible to those with passion and talent, regardless of social barriers or nepotistic disadvantage. Josh found a very natural place within the organization- he resonated with their cause and his natural abilities served as a highly effective catalyst for their mission. He would serve as President of film independent for 12 years after 18 years in various leadership positions. As president of Film Independent, Josh functioned as incubator-in-chief for successive waves of eager new storytellers, helping to forge a path forward
for so many aspiring filmmakers who might otherwise have been left at a dead end. For Josh the story was second only to the storyteller, to the extent they were differentiable at all. It was his mission to provide emerging artists with the skills needed— in screenwriting, directing, acting, and producing--to get their stories out there.
Josh’s singular genius, however, was getting people to believe they had stories to tell, and that they were the ones to tell them. He didn’t give rah-rah speeches; he didn’t bang tables. Instead, he brought to bear a measured critical intelligence. But he also radiated an irrepressible excitement, his improbably bright blue eyes perpetually on the verge of astonishment. Artists and co-workers who worked with him over the years didn’t just feel seen; they were seen. He greeted Film Independent coworkers by first and last name, punctuated always with a hearty exclamation mark. He was hands on with every person at every level of the organization. Even when returning from cancer treatment, Josh would stop to talk to people on his way back to his office, offering an eager line of inquiry regarding their work and most recent projects. He was genuinely curious. Film Independent wasn’t “work” for Josh, although it was objectively hard work- it was his passion.
Just after the mass computer reset of Y2K, he would meet Bonnie Gavel, with whom he made a connection, extended an invitation to a Halloween party where he confessed to a crush on her, eventually exchanged wedding vows on Halloween 2004 in New Orleans, and welcomed a daughter, Isla June Welsh, into the world on July 4th 2006. They purchased their home in Glendale, CA, together where Josh would spend the rest of his life. Josh had always been a wonderful brother, son, and Uncle- with his wife and daughter that dedication was extended and multiplied. Josh was absolutely over the Moon with his daughter, Isla, and over the years photographed many Saturday adventures together. Another valuable quality that he brought to his family life was his rare ability to laugh at himself, as Bonnie Gavel recalls. She fondly remembers her husband as a warm, loving man who didn’t judge people on trivial matters and saw no one as less than himself despite his success. He was far more focused on drawing connections than splitting hairs, Bonnie remembers, citing a quote from Josh, sleep talking at the time: “I don’t care about differences between people.” He truly didn’t. Through good times
and bad, with Josh there was always love and humor- these were nonnegotiables. His efforts to make a career in film a reality for people who might not have an avenue towards that independently followed the pattern of his general radiance during his long career at Film Independent. As Bonnie put it, “he loved people, and he loved creativity.” In life he immersed himself in both of the above. He was loved by the people who shared his love of creativity and worked alongside him to broaden accessibility to the same. In the aftermath of his passing, he has been honored publicly and privately with those he worked with day to day because he was truly seen for who he was, what he was, and what both of those factors had to offer to aspiring filmmakers, and people, and creativity at large. Brenda Robinson, Film Independent’s acting president who has long worked and walked alongside Josh, summed it up: “Josh is a visionary of the type that comes along once in a lifetime. We want his work and impact to continue on because he is a great leader. He is a person of exceptional character. I speak about him very deliberately in the present tense, because he’s still here. He’s here. We will feel his spirit in the programs he created and the lives of filmmakers he impacted, always and in all ways. Josh is only absent in the body, but the spirit of who Josh is and what he means to this community—that is forever.” Within his professional role of occupying the spotlight well enough to offer it to others, and behind each door he helped to open for someone without a key of their own, he is indeed very much “still here.”
Josh Welsh is survived by his wife, Bonnie Gavel, his daughter, Isla June Welsh, brothers Nick and Joseph Welsh, his sisters Liz and Monica Welsh, his nieces and nephews including Rupert Sandes of Meatyard, Anna Rose, Isaac, Rachael, Bridgette, Thomas, Liam, Caela, Samuel, Lulu, and Jacob, and in-laws Amy Brodigan, Roger Sandes, Marie Smeriglio, Cindy Welsh and Scott Gavel, and Robert Heckman. He will be honored in a private ceremony on Saturday, March 22nd, 2025, followed by a reception on Sunday, March 23rd at Descanso Gardens, in Flintridge CA. He will be forever loved, forever “here” in the lives he changed and stories that accredit their utterance to him- and if whatever halls he has found access to did not have music before, we can be certain they do now.
Robert ‘Bob’ Ratcliffe
1936–2024
Inventor of the Rat Hat
BY LESLIE LEANEY AND JOHN KANE
When Santa Barbara diving pioneer Bob Ratcliffe was 16 years old and in the 11th grade, he snorkeled into the major turning point of his young life.
While he was hunting for abalone off La Jolla, Ratcliffe met commercial abalone diver Jerry Todd, who was working from his boat in the same area. Todd dived with standard surface-supplied helmet equipment, and stacked high on his back deck were 104 dozen abalone. To the young Ratcliffe, with his day’s catch of three dozen abalone, this was a truly amazing sight.
He was still in the water when Todd offered to buy his entire catch for $4 per dozen, which was the price Ratcliffe would get for them once he swam to shore, packed all the abalone in gunny sacks, and then sold them door-to-door. Right then and there, he decided to become a commercial abalone diver.
By that time, Ratcliffe had been diving for four years, having started snorkeling in 1948 when he was just 12 years old. After a career working underwater around the world, Bob Ratcliffe died on October 29, 2024.
Although Ratcliffe graduated high school in 1954, he skipped his graduation ceremony to dive abalone at Catalina Island, using Al Hanson’s walk-in freezer as his bunk room. His first post-school career step was to get a commercial abalone diving permit from the California Department of Fish and Game.
While looking for a commercial boat from which to dive, he met 17-year-old Lad Handelman, who was looking to lease a commercial abalone boat. This meeting and their shared interest would be the first step in a friendship that would carry the two teenagers down a path of diving adventures together for the rest of their lives. Ratcliffe and Handelman leased a boat together from San Diego–based abalone processor Eli Ready, and they were soon working the coast from San Diego north to Morro Bay.
Abalone processing company. Ratcliffe sold his catch to Wilson’s company, and they occasionally dived together.
In the same year, Ratcliffe was drafted into the U.S. Navy, serving in Japan, where he managed to dive for abalone. Discharged in 1957, he relocated to Morro Bay, living with Ed Wood, Ralph Eder, and a rotating cast of “abalone divers, alcoholics, and other misfits.” During this period, he met fellow diver Bob Kirby, who had been recently discharged from the U.S. Navy and was an associate of Jerry Todd. Kirby had built a stainless-steel mask based on Henry Henson’s original version, and Ratcliffe teamed up with him to work on the production of a mask made from sheet copper. Ratcliffe credited Kirby with teaching him to solder, but the market for a new mask was very limited, and the Kirby-Ratcliffe partnership dissolved.
By 1958, Ratcliffe and Handelman were based in Morro Bay as part of Barney Clancy’s Black Fleet but decided to move to Santa Barbara to work the Channel Islands. Ratcliffe took classes as UCSB and would study for one semester and then work the rest of the year, thus slowly “diving” himself through college. During this time, he met Dan Wilson, an abalone diver who owned the Anchor
Wilson was another of the dive pioneers mentioned so far. In 1962, he completed his first 400-foot mixed-gas dive off Santa Barbara, which launched what became known as the Santa Barbara Helium Rush. Wilson formed General Offshore Divers (GOD) to service the developing offshore oil business. Ratcliffe worked at GOD building helium demand helmets and was involved with the development and testing of the Purisima diving bell.
Although Purisima was a glimpse at the future, in 1965, Ratcliffe, Kevin Lengyel, and brothers Lad and Gene Handelman left Wilson and founded their own company, California Divers Inc., also known as Cal Dive. The four partners contributed $3,000 each to get the company launched, becoming equal 25 percent shareholders. They then went back to diving abalone while Handelman started searching for Cal Dive’s first paying contracts. Cal Dive’s first office was in the Ratcliffe house and garage at 515 Alan Road in Santa Barbara.
Around the same time, Hurricane Betsy had caused damage and destruction to oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, and cleanup and salvage operations would require diving to depths in excess of 200 feet. At that time, helium-diving techniques were not well-known in the Gulf.
In early 1966, Handelman met with Mike Hughes and Johnny Johnson of World Wide Divers Inc. of Morgan City, Louisiana, who had an abundance of Betsy-related
work. The outcome of the meeting was a joint venture arrangement, during which Cal Dive introduced helium diving techniques into the Gulf. With the joint venture in place, Cal Dive took on the inspection job that World Wide had won. It was the challenges that this job presented that pushed Ratcliffe into the helmet-manufacturing business.
According to Ratcliffe, the job required a helmet that would allow the diver to swim, had a helium demand capability, and would also provide excellent communications for recording the diver’s voice. He designed a lightweight fiberglass helmet and was able convert a military surplus U.S. Air Force high-altitude pilot’s helmet shell into a swimmable demand helium helmet with good communications. He spent about $350 building the helmet that would shortly earn Cal Dive and its partners hundreds of thousands of dollars. The helmet became known as the Rat Hat, and it led Ratcliffe to start the Ocean Development Corporation. The first Rat Hats were built for Cal Dive and other customers.
In 1968, Ratcliffe worked on plugging and removing old abandoned underwater oil wells at Summerland. By the end of 1969, Cal Dive partnered with Can Dive of Canada and World Wide, and the group became Oceaneering International. Within a few years, it became the largest and most successful commercial diving company in the world. By 1975, it had become a public company and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
With the rapid expansion, Ratcliffe became President of Underwater Technology Services (UTS), an Oceaneering International subsidiary servicing between 30 to 40 of the company’s office or job locations in more than 25 countries.
Ratcliffe retired from Oceaneering International in 1978 and went surfing to exotic locations around the world with his son Ron. Around 1980, he became interested in the abalone industry in Australia and moved to Perth, Australia, to resume his abalone diving career. After about a year and a half, he returned to California and joined Handelman in an abalone aquaculture project. They eventually sold the abalone project, and Ratcliffe went into retirement.
Ratcliffe was an Advisory Board member of Santa Barbara’s Historical Diving Society HDS U.S.A. which was founded at City College in 1992. He was inducted into the Association of Diving Contractors International’s Commercial Diving Hall of Fame in 2010 and received the HDS U.S.A. Diving Pioneer Award in 2020. Some of his contributions to diving are recorded in exhibits in the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, which include his Rat Hat. Bob Ratcliffe’s place in diving history will be permanently recognized for future generations by the towering Deepwater Diving Monument at the entrance to Santa Barbara harbor. A unique public tribute to a unique but private man, whose pioneering contributions left the commercial diving industry in much better, and safer, shape than when he joined it.
Farewell, old friend. n
LESLIE LEANEY
Bob Ratcliffe was among the pioneers of deep-water diving and the creator of the Rat Hat.
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Gerry B. Roberson
12/05/1942 – 11/07/2024
We are saddened to announce that Gerry B. Roberson passed away peacefully due to complications from Type 2 diabetes, in Santa Barbara, CA, on November 7, 2024.
He was born December 5, 1942 in West Point, NY, to a career Army officer and his wife. As an “army brat,” Gerry moved around the world to wherever his father was stationed during the postwar years. From Paris to Baden-Baden, Germany, to Kansas and Massachusetts, Gerry traversed the world before he had even reached 18. After turning down an appointment to West Point due to an ill-fated romance, he followed his family to Santa Barbara. He cherished the city and lived here for the rest of his days.
In 1969, Gerry went into business operating Mission ARCO at the corner of State and Mission - calling it his “place in the sun.” He was known for his rotating carousel of corny jokes, his unique laugh, and for the peppermint carnations he gave to his customers. He remained there as well as running a rental truck company for twenty years, converting the gas station into an am/pm in 1981. Following the sale of the store, Gerry spent time in various careers: as a real-estate agent specializing in service station sales, operating a wholesale candy distribution business, selling auto parts, and finally working as a cross-country residential mover. 1976 found him purchasing his first house where he met Judy, his soon-to-be-wife, at his housewarming. Together they created a loving home, adding on as the family grew. The roots he established there provided a refuge and temporary home for many over the years. To this day, it still provides a go-to-place for all.
In 1989 he established the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Museum and began collecting memorabilia and equipment. Unable to find a permanent
home for the museum, in 2002 he donated everything to Angel Fire National Memorial and other non-profits. Locally, he donated a Huey helicopter to the Vietnam Veterans Chapter 218, which he supported as an associate member. For many years the community was treated to the Huey in local parades.
Gerry was a loving husband and doting father to four children and seven grandchildren - although he was sometimes accused of caring more for his Golden Retrievers than his kids. He loved to quote: “There are two types of dogs in the world - Golden Retrievers, and all the rest.”
Gerry was always available to help out friends and nonprofits he cared about. He volunteered as a Big Brother, a Boy Scout commissioner and leader, donated hundreds of pints of blood, worked on political campaigns, and flew with the Red Cross to help bring aid after Hurricane Katrina.
He was a Chevy fan - in particular, fuel-injected models - and owned a number of them (as well as a number of Corvettes) over his lifetime. Gerry also adored planes and going to air shows. He also loved to scuba dive, often taking vacations with Judy to the Cayman Islands. He was also a voracious reader, a student of military history, collecting books that overflowed the shelves which were continuously being added to the house. As his niece wrote in her Facebook tribute: “He laughed loudly, lived honestly, and loved fiercely.”
Gerry is survived by Judy, wife of 47 years; his children: Tommy, Susie, Clay, and Jennie; his grandchildren; his younger brother Tom; and an array of beloved cousins, nieces, and nephews. They will fondly remember camping trips, his “over- the-top” celebrations (sky messages and full-page announcements of the arrival of his children.) Not a day would go by without him telling family members: “Have I told you how much I love you today?” They will miss his wonderful sense of humor, his soul-healing hugs, his steadfast loyalty and support …but, most of all, his generous and loving heart.
Gerry always insisted: “No service - just throw a party.” So, the family is having a Celebration of Life Wake with friends and family this spring.
Frank Brownie
12/01/1941 – 03/21/2025
Frank Brownie, 83, of Santa Barbara, CA passed away peacefully on March 21, 2025 at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto CA. Frank was surrounded by his husband of 49 years, Norm Hoffman, and close lifelong friends.
He was born in Pasadena, CA and lived there and Temple City in his early years until he enrolled at University of California Santa Barbara where he received his teaching degree in 1959.
Frank spoke of the wonderful time from 1962 to 1964 when he was a volunteer in the Peace Corps assigned to teach high school in San Jose, Costa Rica. His first teaching assignment was at La Cumbre Middle School where he taught for 35 years until his retirement in 2002. Everyone loved Mr. Brownie and he loved his students and gave them the support and encouragement they needed to succeed in school. Many, many times Frank would walk into a store or business and encountered students, now adults, who would tell him, ''I always remembered you Mr. Brownie." Frank was loved and respected by his fellow teachers, many of whom Frank had mentored during their first years. He was always a gentleman, kind and good natured willing to help students and fellow teachers.
Mr. Brownie was known for his love of travel. Frank and Norm traveled all over the world and shared a love of cruising. Frank really was a very lucky man. He had a big life and a great mind. He lived in the absolute best time to be in this country and on this earth and saw and did so many things. He had a great love that lasted almost 50 years. Very few people can claim that.
Frank is survived by his husband, Norm, his nephew Bill Brownie and wife Susan of Nashville, TN, grandnephew Will Brownie of Portland, Maine, Rob Adams and wife Cindy of North Carolina, Lee Norton and Thomas Bloom of Nashville, TN, Tom Norton of Jacksonville, FL., and Alvaro Bas and sons Diego and Eduardo, Frank's beloved family in Spain.
We are so fortunate to have known Frank and to have the privilege to call him our friend. Mr. Brownie will always be lovingly remembered by his friends, colleagues, and the thousands of students whose lives he touched. A Celebration of Life will be held at a later time.
Cecilia S. Medrano 11/22/1927 – 03/15/2025
Cecilia Medrano passed away on March 15, 2025 at the age of 97. She was born in Los Angeles on November 22, 1927 to Elena Rojas Beltran and Santiago Garcia Ornelas. From the age of 4 until her passing she called Santa Barbara home.
Cecilia (Cis) was introduced to her husband Jenaro (Naro) by his three match-making sisters-in-law with whom she forged strong bonds. Cis and Naro raised four children always promoting the importance of family. She worked throughout her life; as a seamstress at St. Francis Hospital, an aid at Monroe School and a deli worker at Brinks and Luckys. But to her, the most important job she had was taking care of her family and she did it well. She loved sunsets, gardening, the Dodgers and visiting Hawaii.
She was preceded in death by her loving husband Jenaro; her dear sisters-in-law Frances Ruano, Inez Olivares and Ruth Diaz; son-in-law Shelby Adams and close cousins Fred Beltran Jr. and Teresa Morgan. She will be missed by her daughters Irene Adams, Rachel Barajas (Roger); sons Luis Medrano (Barbara) and Mario Medrano (Ashley) as well as the many nephews, nieces and friends many who lovingly called her “Auntie Cissy”.
We would like to thank all the wonderful caregivers at Mission Villa for taking such good care of our mom and making her last months much easier for her and for our family.
Rosary and Funeral Mass to be held at Holy Cross Catholic Church, 1740 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. Rosary:
Thursday, March 27th at 7 pm; Funeral Mass: Friday, March 28th at 10 am; Interment will follow at Carpinteria Cemetery.
Barbara Jazo 03/13/1940 – 03/23/2025
In Loving Memory
With heavy hearts, we announce the passing of Barbara Jazo, who left us peacefully on March 23, 2025, at the age of 85. Born on March 13, 1940, to Tony and Esther Cuellar, Barbara’s life was one filled with love, laughter, and unwavering strength.
A beloved mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, she cherished her family above all else. Barbara is survived by her children, Rudy Jazo (Rebecca), Debra Jazo Datwyler (Stephan), and David Trevino. Her love extended to her grandchildren, Veronica Nissel (Matthew), Rudy Jazo Jr. (Carina), Dina Rios (Heraclio), Brandon Datwyler, Hannah Datwyler, Sophia and Darla Trevino. She was also a proud great-grandmother to Sean and Layla Nissel, Cruz and Diego Rios, and Lucy and Lia Jazo.
Only sister to Rudy Cuellar, Andrew Cuellar, Ernie Cuellar and preceded by Tony Cuellar Jr and Steven Cuellar. Barbara’s presence was unmistakable—her wit, sass, and kindness filled every room she entered. She was known for her warmth, her infectious sense of humor, and the love she showered upon her family. Whether through a clever quip or a thoughtful gesture, Barbara had a way of making those around her feel special and loved.
Her family takes comfort in the many cherished memories they hold close and the legacy of love she leaves behind. Barbara’s spirit will forever live on in the hearts of her loved ones, and she will be deeply missed. No service will be held.
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Myrtle Elizabeth Pipersburg Harris
1937 - 2025
Myrtle Elizabeth Pipersburg Harris was born in Belize City, Belize, on November 4, 1937, to Osborn Wilferd Pipersburg and Rosalyn Dogma Taylor. Myrtle was the second oldest of two siblings: Valerie Harvey and Sonia Pollard.
Myrtle moved to Santa Barbara, California, in 1968 to establish permanent residency in the United States. She soon began attending St. Paul AME Church with her mother, Rose Stone, and often helped raise money to support church programs. Myrtle remained a devoted member of St. Paul AME Church throughout her lifetime. A couple of years after arriving in Santa Barbara, Myrtle married Ambrose Harris and gave birth to Ambrose E. Harris.
Determined to pursue her passion for caregiving, Myrtle enrolled in Santa Barbara City College to obtain her Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) license. Due to health challenges, she was unable to complete her LVN coursework. However, she used her training to begin her career as a caregiver. Myrtle was employed at Samarkand Assisted Living and worked as a private home care provider. She also worked at Hughes Aerospace and Santa Barbara Research as an electronic circuit board technician, where she was selected to work on circuit boards for NASA. As a foster parent in Santa Barbara County, she cared for and nurtured many babies and children awaiting placement in the foster care system.
After fighting a courageous battle with heart disease and diabetes, Myrtle Elizabeth Harris peacefully passed away on March 12, 2025, in the loving care and home of her daughter, Phillippa, and son-in-law, Zachary Marsh, in Corona, California. Myrtle was preceded in death by her husband Ambrose Harris, sister Sonia Pollard McNair, daughter Carol Ijewere, and son Phillip Pipersburg. Myrtle was a phenomenal mother who leaves to cherish
her memory: her sister, Valerie Harvey; children: Phillippa Marsh, Edwin Pipersburg, Evelyn Pipersburg Webb, Jamesett Orosco, Wayne Orosco, and Ambrose Harris; plus ninety-two grandchildren, other relatives, and many acquaintances. A matriarch, with roots and branches that run far and wide like the mangrove trees of her birthplace, Belize, she will remain in our hearts forever.
The viewing will be held on April 10, 2025, 5:00pm – 6:30pm at Welch-Ryce-Haider Funeral Chapels at 15 East Sola Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101.
The memorial service will be on April 11, 2025, 1:00pm at Southcoast Church at 5814 Cathedral Oaks Road Goleta, California 93117.
Peter Harry Hellriegel 1954 - 2025
Pete was born in Bay Shore, New York, where along with his older brothers and sister; Phil, Paul and Sue grew up enjoying summers on the waters of the Great South Bay and the beaches of Fire Island.
Pete’s early years showed he was destined to be in the public eye, one of his first jobs while finishing school was working with his father and stepmother in the family restaurant, Wildwycke Village in Esopus, New York. He then joined his brothers in their trucking business hauling steel that took him all over the eastern US.
After getting married in 1981 Cindy and Pete moved to Manhattan and welcomed their first daughter while he spent time as a stockbroker.
The restaurant business soon called again, and the family made the easy decision to move to Santa Barbara where Pete helped turn the John Dory into Brophy Brothers.
Once there he found his calling and during his 30 years at Brophy’s, regulars along with customers from near and far came hoping to find “Petey”. It was often said by anyone who knew him that Pete made the world a better place by his true love of people, his generous heart and his ready smile. He
was blessed with a quick wit and a satirical sense of humor which was evident to anyone within earshot.
Pete will be greatly missed by his wife of 43 years Cindy; daughters Clare and Nora, granddaughters Bailey and Harper and his loving sister, Sue Bennett along with his many nieces and nephews (and Elsie).
Christopher Connor
Christopher Connor, 79, passed away peacefully on February 25, 2025, surrounded by his loving family. A dedicated dentist, he began his career serving in the Navy before opening his own solo practice, where he took immense pride in his work, his staff, and the patients he cared for over the years.
Chris had a remarkable sense of humor-never taking himself or anyone too seriously. He was always ready with a one-liner or a witty retort, bringing laughter to those around him. His warmth and affable nature made him a joy to be around, and he embraced life with enthusiasm and love for adventure.
An avid outdoorsman, Chris found happiness in skiing, waterskiing, sailing, biking, hiking, and long walks on the beach. Some of his most cherished moments were spent snow skiing with family and friends, sharing his love for the mountains and the thrill of the slopes. He was generous in both spirit and action, frequently donating to food banks and helping those in need with a quiet kindness. Open and engaging, he never met a stranger-he spoke to everyone with a genuine warmth that made them feel valued.
Above all, Chris loved his family deeply. He is survived by his devoted wife, Barbara Donnelly; his children, Caitlin Connor Neville (Geoffrey), MacKenna Connor, Kiersten Connor Hoey (David), Megan Connor (David Grossman); his son Colin Connor (Jenna); and his beloved nephew, David Connor (Diana). He was also a proud grandfather to seven children.
Arrangements entrusted to McDermott-Crockett Mortuary
Barry Lee Osborne 10/19/1935 – 01/03/2025
Barry Lee Osborne died on January 3, 2025. He was 89.
Barry Osborne was perhaps the archetypal Renaissance man, teaching himself numerous abilities, languages, and skills over the course of his lifetime. Although most widely known as a foreign-language teacher at San Marcos High for 30-odd years, “Mr. Osborne” could also be found leading Balkan dancing classes, or simply joining in one of the several Balkan dancing events around town.
Others knew Barry as the Palm Tree Guy. He was possibly the most knowledgeable person in the county when it came to tropical plants of any kind, and palm trees in particular. He lent his expertise to several local landmarks, including the Santa Barbara Zoo, Ganna Walska’s Lotusland, the Botanical Gardens, and many more. Barry also donated palm trees to all of these places and more, and these beautiful trees will continue to grace our city for many years to come.
Barry traveled extensively, and he used those travels to expand his collection of plants from around the world. At one point during a drought period in the ’90s, Barry was able to document several hundred endangered species living in his back yard, gaining an exemption for water use to keep them alive. And although subsequent droughts forced a cutback in the number of plants, his collection of tropicals is still one of the most extensive in Southern California.
Barry had many other interests and activities. He was known at the Unitarian Church for his rich baritone, and for the unique flower arrangements he provided. He practiced calligraphy, taught himself to paint, built decorative walk-through bird cages and raised budgies and lovebirds and cockatiels, and loved to repurpose items: a wicker birdcage became a lamp; a ship’s porthole became an accent in an arched door.
But Barry was far more than the things he did, or the talents he shared. He was a warm and generous friend, a kind and loving husband, a dedicated father, a caring teacher, a gentle and
giving soul who loved to laugh, to play, and to learn. Barry Osborne lived a rich and varied life. He will be sorely missed.
Madelyn Ratcliffe
04/15/1942 – 03/15/2025
Madelyn Ratcliffe, a resident of Santa Barbara, passed away peacefully at 9:57 pm on March 15, 2025 surrounded by family. Born Madelyn Anne Bruske in Detroit, Michigan on April 15, 1942, she came to Santa Barbara in the early sixties and then moved on to Lompoc in 1981 where she worked at La Purisima school. She enjoyed many years there before returning to Santa Barbara. She is survived by her children, Bill (Heidi), Robert, Michael (Theresa), Catherine (Keith), Kevin (Amanda) and Mary (Cullen), cherished grandchildren: Patrick, Ashley, Katie, Chris, Zachary, Gavin, Elijah, Matthew, Kian and Finn and numerous nieces and nephews. Madelyn was predeceased in her death by her son Brian, siblings Thomas, Shirley, Dan, Mary Jane, Robert and Betty as well as her late husband, Silas Ratcliffe (“Sweetie Pie Si”).
Madelyn will be remembered for her love of music, sense of humor, appreciation for beauty in nature, wonderment of the world, and her love and devotion to her lord. Madelyn enjoyed taking care of her family, finding ways to make them smile, held the title for world champion thumb wrestler and never spoke unkindly of others. Enjoyed at her table were cabbage rolls, potato pancakes, “glop”, her famous lemon cake and oatmeal cookies.
Madelyn volunteered with pride, enthusiasm and a big smile. Many remember and appreciate her for time and effort given to St. Vincent De Paul Society, Catholic Charities, Prison Ministry, Showers of Blessing and the Santa Barbara Symphony Music Van.
Family would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to friends and neighbors who came by with support and love in her final years and a special thank you to Evelyn Brownfield who brought communion each week and more.
Services will be held at San Roque church on April 15 at 10:30 am. Continued
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Ryan Thomas Gardner 11/07/1988 – 03/31/2024
On March 31, 2025 you have been gone for one year.
The absence of your presence on earth is still very raw and painful. All of your family, loved ones and friends miss you so much. I think of you daily and treasure the memories of your life growing up in Goleta and your later life living in beautiful Santa Cruz and Scotts Valley. I feel your presence as I walk on the beach’s bluffs, drive by the baseball fields, pass by streams and rivers, and hear guitars on the radio. Your zest for living was infectious and you had so many incredible talents.
I miss your flecked hazel eyes and your rich brown hair streaked golden in the summers from the surf and sun.
I miss your smile Ryan, I miss your voice, I miss saying good morning to everyday when you and I were both driving to work, I miss you sending me pictures of the steelhead you caught and released,
I miss you sending me pictures of the houses you worked on doing you incredible finishing with specialty woods,
I miss you playing the Metallica on the guitar.
We all miss your presence, Ryan.
You were the kindest person, Ryan!
After your death, I heard from so many old friends of yours, many from SBCC baseball. They shared things about you I was not surprised to hear. I heard that you were the first and only player on the team to welcome new guys with a warm hand shake and hello. You took new guys under your wing and showed them what hard work was, especially when it came to training. This they remember and they wrote to me paragraphs about you, and their grief for your loss. You made huge impacts on many players life. This speaks volumes about your character. They said the smile
on your face made them understand that you genuinely loved what you were doing. Your death broke so many hearts Ryan. I even heard from a girl I didn’t know from your elementary school. She wrote to me about the impression you left on her. She said you were a like a light. You made people around you feel welcome and accepted. You were always smiling and so outgoing. She said in sixth grade she wished she could be more like you; everyone was your friend and you were so confident. The impression you left on the world was warm accepting and loving.
Some days the pain feels unbearable, and I long to be where you are. Ryan, I know you are safe and at peace now, Ryan... surfing, fishing, playing ball and strumming your guitar somewhere beyond this world. Until we meet again.
I love and miss you, my son!
Barbara Louise Raney
01/02/1923 – 03/17/2025
Barbara Louise Raney, born January 2, 1923 in Grass Valley, CA, passed away March 17, 2025 at Samarkand in Santa Barbara, CA. She was 102 years old.
Barbara’s parents and two brothers emigrated to the U.S. from Cornwall, England around 1920, making her the first and only member of her family born in America. After graduating from high school, Barbara attended community college in Auburn, CA for one year.
While filling in as pianist for a Methodist church in nearby Nevada City, CA, Barbara met Donald Raney, a new high school teacher in town, and in due time the two were engaged
to be married. But not until her soon-to-be husband had proposed three times. “I just couldn’t believe Don really wanted to marry me,” she said. “But on the third try, he said that he wasn’t going to ask me anymore, so I said yes!”
Just 19 years old, Barbara traveled solo by train from Grass Valley to New York City in 1942, where Don was teaching at the U.S. Navy’s Midshipmen School. After a civil service marriage in the Bronx and two-and-a-half years in NYC—and a new baby daughter—Barbara returned to California, eventually settling in Redwood City (Bay Area) with Don and their (by then) three children.
While she cared for the children and Don taught chemistry and physical sciences at San Mateo and Cañada Community Colleges, the Raney family joined Grace Bible Church, a non-denominational Christian church in Redwood City. Barbara’s faith deepened and broadened. Her walk with Jesus Christ became the most important thing in her life, and she will be remembered for consistently trusting Him and living as His disciple.
When her two oldest children entered college, Barbara worked in the Recorder’s Office at Stanford University for four years, a job she loved and which supplied many interesting and often humorous anecdotes she shared frequently with family and friends.
With retirement in 1975, Barbara and Don moved to Santa Ynez, CA. They volunteered in the library and chemistry lab at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, CA for two years. Then the couple fulfilled a long-time goal by volunteering with Wycliffe Bible translators, moving to Ukarumpa, Papua New Guinea in 1977.
Upon their return in 1979, Barbara and Don settled in Ventura, CA. For several years they continued their volunteer commitment at Westmont and were active in church and making friends in their neighborhood. Her beloved Don passed away in October, 2013, concluding a faithful marriage that lasted 71 years. Barbara continued to love him deeply; even with him gone, she was still his loving wife. Barbara served throughout her adult life in church as dea-
coness, teacher, friend and mentor. For years she participated in Bible Study Fellowship. Her love of music and reading passed seamlessly to her children. She dearly loved her family, friends, fellow believers, and those with whom she shared her life of faith.
Preceded in death by Don and her daughter Linda, Barbara is survived by her daughter, Cynthia (and Norm) Kramer, and her son, David (and Pamela) Raney, as well as five grandchildren and seven great grandchildren, all of whom experienced her love, humor, and faith as a gift from God.
Knud Jacobsen 02/19/1932 -03/23/2025
Knud Jacobsen—a devoted father, grandfather, greatgrandfather, and proud American who never lost his Danish accent—passed away peacefully on March 23, 2025, at age 93. He lived a long, well-lived life filled with love, humor, hard work, and a deep commitment to family and community.
Born one of five children, with three older brothers and a twin sister, Knud grew up on the family farm in Denmark during the Nazi occupation. Though their remote island shielded him from the war’s worst devastation, those years shaped his view of the world.
In 1952, he immigrated to California to work on his uncle’s dairy farm in Solvang, arriving with no English but a strong-willed determination. He was part of a wave of Danes who settled in Solvang as travel reopened after World War II. Just a week after his arrival, he met his future wife, Elisabeth Simonsen.
Drafted into the U.S. Army in 1953, Knud learned English while preparing for deployment to Korea. Just two days before shipping out, his orders changed, and he was sent instead to war-ravaged Berlin. There, he regularly passed through the Brandenburg Gate to guard Nazi war criminals at Spandau Prison.
Between shifts, he studied for his U.S. citizenship, proudly earning it in 1954 while still stationed in Germany.
After his service, Knud returned to Solvang, married Elisabeth, and built a life centered on family and community. Together, they raised three children—Esther, Glen, and Mary—while Knud established a successful career in construction, eventually founding KJ Concrete Construction. He liked to brag about his perfect driving record and enjoyed pointing out the buildings, patios, and structures he had helped construct.
Known for his strong handshake, sharp wit, and ever-present humor, Knud embraced both his Danish heritage and American citizenship with pride. For over 65 years, he was member of Dania, the Danish Brotherhood, the American Legion, and Bethania Lutheran Church. He also gave his time to the Elverhøj Museum, Rebild National Park Society, and the Solvang Volunteer Fire Department. In 2008, he and Elisabeth were honored as Grand Marshals of the Danish Days Parade in recognition of their contributions to the annual festival.
A loyal friend, a master of the oak pit BBQ, and always ready to lend a hand, Knud left a lasting mark on his community.
Above all, Knud’s greatest joy was his family. A fun-loving Bedstefar (grandfather) to seven and great-grandfather to seven more, he filled their lives with stories, laughter, and Danish traditions. Whether tending his garden, hosting family barbecues, sharing coffee and pastry with a side of humor, his presence brought warmth and laughter.
Knud was predeceased by his beloved wife, Elisabeth, and their son, Glen. He is survived by his daughters, Esther Jacobsen Bates (Mark) and Mary Place (Robert), along with his extended family and many friends.
A celebration of his life will be held on April 11 at 11 AM at Bethania Lutheran Church in Solvang. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in his honor to Atterdag Village of Solvang, Bethania Lutheran Church, Viking Charities, or a charity of your choice—continuing Knud’s legacy of generosity and community spirit.
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Roselyn Ogden 09/17/1942 – 03/20/2025
Roselyn Ruth Ogden passed away peacefully in her home in Santa Barbara, at the age of 82, on March 20, 2025.
Born in Akron Ohio to Ruth Elnora Richard (Watkin) and Donald Erwin Richard. Rose was raised in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio along with 2 brothers and one sister. She was predeceased by her parents, her older brother, Mike Richard, and the father of her children, Edward Ogden. She is survived by her four children, Jennifer Ruth Ogden, Daniel Scott Ogden, Craig Richard Ogden and Mark Edward Ogden, grand daughter Jacara Ogden (Jennifer), stepdaughter Melanie Woolsey, brother Roy Richard, sister Mary Cosman and sister in law Cozy Richard.
Rose moved to Santa Barbara at the age of 23, and worked as a secretary at UCSB when she met her husband, Ed, and they raised their 4 children in Santa Barbara (Goleta). She loved beach days with the family and a home always full of kids. She enjoyed art, was an avid reader and enjoyed a long career as a real estate agent.
She spent her retirement years living at Friendship Manor in Isla Vista and hospice at Serenity House. Her family would like to express their deepest gratitude for the beautiful surroundings and loving care she received from her nurses and staff.
Rose received a private blessing with her children in attendance, and a celebration of life and picnic for family and friends will be held at Goleta Beach Park. The family asks that donations be made to the Susan G. Komen Foundation https://www.komen.org/ in lieu of flowers.
Alwyn Noe Hartnett Jr. 01/24/1934 – 03/24/2025
In Loving Memory
With heavy hearts, the family of Alwyn Noe Hartnett Jr. announces his peaceful passing on March 24, 2025, at the age of 91. Alwyn will be deeply missed and lovingly remembered by all who knew him.
Born to Alwin Noe Hartnett and Ida Marie Peterson, Alwyn was a proud fifth-generation Santa Barbarian with deep familial roots. He was a direct descendant of LTC Gumercindo Jose Hilario Flores, the last comandante of the Santa Barbara Presidio, and Cipriana Justina Llanos Flores, whose courageous act of hiding the Spanish flag during Commodore Stockton’s invasion became a treasured story passed down through generations.
Alwyn carried a deep appreciation for local history and heritage throughout his life. He rode in the Fiesta Parades as a descendant of early Santa Barbara settlers and generously gave his time to the Rancheros Visitadores. He was also a longstanding member of both the Native Sons of the Golden West and the Elks Lodge of Santa Barbara #613.
He served honorably in the U.S. Navy Seabees (CM3, NMCB 11) from 1955 to 1957. He dedicated 34 years and 6 months to the U.S. Postal Service, followed by 11 years and 8 months with the UCSB Postal Service after retirement—a testament to his enduring work ethic and commitment to community.
Alwyn was a man of many passions. He cherished his years as a devoted member of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, and held a lifelong fascination with trains, airplanes, and World War II history—interests that reflected his curiosity and deep respect for the past.
In 1981, Alwyn married Dolores L. Kammeyer, lovingly welcoming six stepsons into his life: David, Dwayne, Dar-
ryl, Derek, Dale, and Drew. He is also survived by his identical twin daughters from his first marriage to Dona M. Warkentin: Diane Venzor (husband Derrick) and Dorene Garcia (husband Mark), Dorene’s children Kari, Kristina, and Diane’s children Jocelyn, and Zachary. He leaves behind his brother John P. Hartnett (wife Katherine Riemer), and John’s children Sharon (husband Guillermo) and Mark (wife Demi), along with John’s grandchildren Isabella, Luke, and Lynn.
He was cremated and will receive a military burial at Santa Barbara Cemetery on April 25, 2025, at 1 p.m. Family and friends are warmly invited to attend the service. Flowers may be delivered directly to the gravesite.
Alwyn’s legacy of service, devotion, and rich family heritage will continue to live on in the hearts of those he touched. The family extends heartfelt thanks to all who made a lasting impact on Alwyn’s life—your kindness, friendship, and presence meant the world to him.
Ruediger (Rudy)
Siegfried Schroeer
12/11/1942 – 10/16/2024
Ruediger (Rudy) Siegfried Schroeer, 81, of Goleta, California, passed away peacefully on October 16, 2024. He was born on December 11, 1942, in Berlin, Germany, the youngest of five children of Elisabeth (Goldmeier) and Rudi Schroeer. In February 1945 near the end of WWII, when the Eastern Front came uncomfortably close, the family fled to SW Germany. There the family lived in the small farming village of Bernstadt near the city of Ulm on
the Danube, where they experienced the end of the war without any fighting. In 1951 Rudy’s father accepted an offer from the US Air Force as an engineer at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio. The family lived there until 1953 when they were able to buy a house in nearby Enon. All members of his family eventually became citizens.
Rudy started his formal education in the village school in Germany, and eventually graduated from Greenon (Ohio) High School in 1961. He received his Bachelors and Masters degrees from The Ohio State University and his PhD in Psychology in 1974 from the City University of the City of NY. He worked as a psychologist and market researcher in a variety of settings. In 1967 he married Susan Grossman with whom he had two children, Nicole and Lisa Schroeer, and settled in Westchester, NY. After their divorce, he remarried Carol Chirman, and together they moved to Goleta, CA where they lived within blocks of his step-daughter, Julie Bolton(Chirman),husband Keith and children Tess and Millie..
Rudy led an active life. As a young man he was a member of his high school diving team, was a lifeguard, and captain of the Ohio State gymnastics team. Around the house he found satisfaction in completing various home improvement projects and helping his wife in the garden. Rudy was preceded in death by his parents, his sister Almut and brother Dietrich. He is survived by his wife Carol Schroeer, daughters Nicole (Sarah Ellis) Schroeer and Lisa (Michael Gilbert) Schroeer, both of Charlottesville, VA, his brother Juergen (Meredith) Schroeer of Normal, IL, his sister Brigitte Altwicker of New York City, stepdaughter Julie Bolton(Keith) of Goleta, step son Guy Chirman (Laronda), other stepchildren(Mat Chirman, Anne Johnstone, Amy Chirman) and a joyful abundance of grandchildren, cousins, nieces, and nephews. His ease and skill as a father and grandfather was remarkable and memorable; he will fondly be remembered as a loving and fun grandparent.
His daughters say, “He was a great dad - one of the rare adults who genuinely loved to play
and was always up for any sort of game. He was an adult that children flocked to because he was curious and interested in the types of things we forget to be interested in as grown ups. Until the very end, he was the kind of man who would play “chicken” in the pool, lead pretend expeditions in the woods, or look at a kid's found rock and think it was “neat”. He also loved animals, and was friends with all the dogs on his paper route as a child.
Donations may be given to the American Cancer Society. A celebration of life will be held on March 30th, 2025, at a private residence.
Rodney Harvey Chow died peacefully on March 11, 2025 at the age of 95.
He was a celebrity at the Santa Barbara Farmer’s Market, known for his fuji apples and other produce, for long friendly conversations at his booth, and for authoring his books “American as Apple Pie” and “Stories of the Good Old Days.” He was preceded in death by his late wife Joy Ruth and is survived by his children Bruce, Keithen, and Carolyn; grandchildren Chloe, Christina, and Christopher; great grandchild Olive.
He had two brothers Stan and Ted, and three sisters Prudy (deceased), Pat, and Pam. Additional biographical information can be found at www.fukuimortuary.com. A memorial service is anticipated to be held in July.
A memorial booth will be set up at the Santa Barbara Farmer’s Market on Saturday, March 29,2025.
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Another Strong Santa Barbara Bowl Season Is Unveiled, Marking 30 Years Under Goldenvoice Promoter Moss Jacobs’s Guidance
by JOSEF WOODARD
It was 50 years ago, give or take, that this scribe and music addict discovered the great joys of live concert action to be found in the al fresco Santa Barbara County Bowl. Created with WPA funding in 1936, as a site for Old Spanish Days regalia, by the time of my concertgoing coming-of-age as a young teen in the 1970s, it felt like a kind of local sacred ground of musical inspiration and solidarity.
Among more famed acts who showed up in the storied hillside amphitheater at the corner of Anapamu and Milpas, including Jackson Browne in his major hit-making era, the personal epiphanies heard from my perch on the Bowl’s lawn (an actual lawn, then) included Little Feat (Lowell George era), BB King in one of his primes, and legendary jazz-plus band Weather Report. Even more memorable was 1979’s stellar Joni Mitchell show, in an all-star band featuring Jaco Pastorius, Pat Metheny, Michael Brecker, and others, resulting in the Bowl’s most famous recording/ film events, Shadows and Light. (I wasn’t lucky enough to have caught the other famous live document from the Bowl, a concert video release of Bob Marley’s 1979 show.)
Those early Bowl days became the start of a lifelong love affair with the venue and a concertgoing lifestyle, even before the Bowl achieved further greatness and vastly improved comfort and big-league concert logistics. The Bowl’s impact on the concert calendar is in the news again, embodied in a strong and wildly diverse 2025 season of shows, kicking off on April 11 with The Avett Brothers, on a list including James Taylor, Jack White, My Morning Jacket, Alison Krauss, The Flaming Lips, Father John Misty, Lake Street Dive, and many others (see “Good Times on Milpas Street:
The 2025 Bowl Season”). Be on the lookout for TBA announcements as the season unfolds. It was 30 years ago, give or take, that promoter Moss Jacobs, having already established himself as a reckoning force with local concert and club promotion, was handed the keys to exclusively booking the Bowl shows. Working in that capacity first with the major concert and festival presenters Nederlander Organization and, for several years now, with the prominent Goldenvoice, with Coachella and Stagecoach festivals on their broad roster.
Although Jacobs moved to Los Angeles for a time upon entering the big leagues of concert promotion at the Bowl, and venues like L.A.’s Greek Theatre he settled back into Santa Barbaran roots, moving back here 22 years ago and easing into life with his wife, Kat, and three children.
Deservedly, Jacobs was one of the chosen community leaders and philanthropists in the Independent’s Local Heroes list last fall. Accepting his award from Editor-in-Chief Marianne Partridge at the Heroes lunch at SOhO, Jacobs deflected credit and paid respects to the team around him. But his personal leadership is, and has been, clear and present, and a force for good in Santa Barbara’s concert life.
The pathway to the Bowl’s legacy is a long and morphing story. Since 2009, with the retirement of general manager Sam Scranton, the already Bowl-entrenched administrator Rick Boller has solidly and unpretentiously filled the shoes as a solid GM and ground-level Bowl representative. Some now know Scranton’s name from the panoramic-view-enhanced Scranton Overlook, a popular intermission and pre-show hangout atop the Bowl property.
In a 2003 interview, fairly early in the current Bowl
Moss Jacobs
Father John Misty returns to the Bowl July 24.
history phase, Scranton recounted a major shift in Bowl operations, from a business model involving the Bowl Foundation and a critical first step of improving the stage and property amendments on a property with “public safety issues with the water, the sewer, and the power dating back to 1936, and that wasn’t enough anymore. But you couldn’t just give the acts more power if you didn’t give them a roof to hang 20 tons of equipment, too. They both had to be there.”
A deal was struck with major concert roofing company, Brown United who worked for Pink Floyd, the Eagles, the Stones, and big stadium tours to create a “Frankenstein roof” from used parts. With that first step, in a long-range improvement plan adding up to more than a $45 million investment so far, the Bowl graduated to the adult table of viable amphitheaters, bringing the venue up to speed and competitive with famed venues in larger cities.
Scranton recalls, “We made that improvement and had Moss focusing [on booking], and went from 11 shows in ’95 to 25 shows in ’96, and we’ve never looked back.”
Still, Scranton set straight the idea that major artists accustomed to playing venues much larger than the Bowl’s 4,500-seat capacity a list including Sting, the Eagles, Radiohead, and James Taylor (here again May 13 and 14) come here out of sheer love of place and city. “The cult of Santa Barbara likes to think that they come because we’re so groovy,” Scranton said, “but it’s a business and it’s all about the money. The fact that Santa Barbara’s a nice place and the Bowl’s got character that 90 percent of the places you play don’t have is all icing on the cake. The cake is about the business deal and what they’re going to make in this building versus some other building within a day’s
drive. That’s what we’re competing against.
“You don’t have time to play everywhere. As a manager, I know that if you’re going to play 75 dates, you want 150 or more offers, so you can pick through them. You consider the money, the routing, ‘Am I going to sell more CDs? Did they treat us well last time?’ Production people are taking careful notes, grading you every time they come through, so they can refer back the next time around.”
Regarding the fact of the Bowl’s tight integration into Santa Barbara’s civic identity, Scranton said, “We like to think of ourselves as the Lambeau Field of rock and roll,” referring to the community-beloved and bolstered major NFL stadium in Green Bay, Wisconsin. “That’s exactly right. What other football venue has that level of community support? What other venue in the United States has this kind of level, where people feel genuinely warm and fuzzy about the Bowl? We’ve striven to create this. It was already there, because of how great it was.”
Cut to now, and the Bowl’s history is both wellsettled into a perennial groove and gradually making new inroads as one of a seductive tour stop in the nation and the world, in an era that has grown evermore complex in the age of touring consolidation and corporate entanglements. Despite the increased presence of destination concertgoers from Los Angeles and beyond, the Bowl still very much feels like home in its host city.
So does Joe’s, the historic Santa Barbara eatery on State Street. That’s where Jacobs and I met for a rambling lunch interview, in the intense prep period of the year when he’s assembling the building blocks
GOOD TIMES ON MILPAS STREET: THE 2025 BOWL SEASON
Crafting a Santa Barbara Bowl season can be a tricky endeavor, as Jacobs knows and has been attentive to for three decades. Parameters include making the numbers work, financially, for all involved, and the all-important curatorial task of appealing to a broad diversity of tastes and ages in the course of a season. From the starting-gate vantage, the 2025 Bowl roster is well-stocked and carefully, and inclusively, balanced.
As of this printing, new shows are still being added to the overall list of what will ultimately be roughly 30 shows in the spring-to-fall season, a list that kicks off with The Avett Brothers on April 11 and ends (so far) with Gregory Alan Isakov on September 12. Last week, the latest updates included a welcome return of The Flaming Lips with Modest Mouse on September 5 and fast ascendant folk-rock band Caamp (Jul. 18) a band with 2.2 billion streams. Another welcome addition to the list is a return of the witty and literate raconteur Father John Misty (Jul. 24), who has called Santa Barbara home at times, linked to it being the hometown of his wife, photographer Emma Elizabeth Garr.
A double-header of consistent S.B. fave James Taylor lands at the Bowl on May 13 and 14, followed the next night by an artist of a different nature, the cagey blues-punk-rock-mystery-man Jack White (May 15), on his “No Name” tour. Bowl veterans tend to pass through on a repeat basis, as happens, again, with My Morning Jacket (Aug. 20) and Goo Goo Dolls (Sept. 6).
In keeping with a trend in recent years, country music has a solid stake in the Bowl roster, with Ryan Bingham (Jun. 14), Alison Krauss and Union Station (Jul. 15), and Dwight Yoakam (Jul. 11) on the books so far. In the realm of critically acclaimed R&B-flavored bands with charismatic lead singers at the helm, the Bowl stage plays host, with one June week, to Lake Street Dive (Jun. 28) and St. Paul and the Broken Bones (Jun. 21).
Also on the list, to date, covering multiple genre angles and audience appeal factors, are Khruangbin (May 21-22), Justice (May 23), Trampled by Turtles and Shakey Graves (Aug. 22), Japanese Breakfast (Aug. 23), Mt. Joy (Aug. 24), and Darius Rucker (Sept. 7).
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Neil Rabin and Nancy Grinstein enjoy the show.
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and dealing with the delicate balancing act of creating. Having reached the ripe age of 30 in his Bowlplanning career, it seemed an auspicious moment to check in with the man behind the curtain, whom I’ve known since he roamed Santa Barbara’s not-somean streets as the kingpin of Moss Jacobs Presents.
Not that I’m asking you to tell your life story, but just to put the pieces and the chronology together, you came from the East Coast, correct? I came to college here from Florida, to escape the humidity. It was a goal of mine since I was 14, and I realized there was a non-humid part of the planet. And when I realized that that was California, I needed to be here. I went to UCSB, and then to law school.
When I moved back to Santa Barbara after law school while waiting for the bar results, a friend of mine, a badass photographer friend of mine, Leslie Holtzman, said, “Moss, there’s this band you gotta meet. They need some advice; they need some direction; they need some leadership.” I went and heard the band. I loved them. They were called Giant Eden. One of their problems locally was, they weren’t getting a good place to play. With the help of a couple of friends, who remained friends for a long time, we started putting on shows for that band. I was their manager. We ended up at La Casa de la Raza. I started the business of putting on shows, which was really appealing to me. I liked the hours. I liked the activity. I liked that no day or night was the same. There was lots of activity going on, it was fun, and I was around musicians which I had a natural connection to.
The Bowl is a phenomenal group of people to work with. There’s no place I’ve ever done shows where I like the people more and I enjoy the people who work there. The people have a love for the facility. It doesn’t happen everywhere.
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You were a drummer. Were you playing at that time? I wasn’t playing anymore, but I played from my entire teenage years.
Putting on shows just clicked. Avalon Attractions, the company who was what I call the “alpha dog” of promoters in L.A. at the time, had an exclusive booking the Santa Barbara Bowl at the time. So, they hired me to be their local marketing guy. This was in the mid-’80s. I was doing their street marketing for them, and I was putting on my own shows.
And then Oscar’s opens, at 1129 [State Street]. I got the exclusive there. I was doing a couple shows over there, which was super fun. It was a place that, unlike La Casa, had a stage, and you could have a sound system and you could quickly bring fans in, make it work. For any Arlington shows, they wouldn’t call me; they would call Avalon. I was getting club shows, but they would call Avalon, the agencies, if there were any bigger bands.
But one day I got a call for an avail at the Arlington to do the Kinks. Avalon didn’t get the call. Being what I think of now as being strategic, I called my friends at Avalon and said, “Hey, why don’t we partner on this Kinks show?” They were pleasantly surprised that I got the call and happy that I called them. But they were thinking, “Oh, this guy’s now become a threat to our business in the market.” So, they hired me.
I started being at every Bowl show, continuing to be their local marketer, but now starting to work on shows in L.A. and San Diego, along with Santa Barbara. That was in the mid- to late ’80s. My small club stuff kind of ended in the late ’80s when I was just involved in bigger shows and, and being more involved in Bowl shows at that point.
I’m trying to remember the evolution of Bowl shows, as someone who has been going since the ’70s. You and the organizations around you really upped the game of what was happening there. Is that fair to say? It was classic rock in the ’80s. And then in the ’90s, the exclusive promotions contract with the Bowl expired. A company based in L.A. that was running the Universal Amphitheatre concerts, MCA, made a pitch to the Bowl and they got the deal. Avalon had been doing 30 to 40 shows a year. During the first year with MCA, they did 12 shows, and the second year with MCA, they did 11.
Sam Scranton [the Bowl’s General Manager at the time] was like, “Guys, this isn’t working. MCA is not working for us.” It became obvious to the Bowl leadership that people in L.A. don’t really give a shit about the Bowl. It’s completely understandable, but it really was gonna require someone with a love of Santa Barbara and a local connection, and someone who believes and puts the Santa Barbara Bowl first in the conversations about who’s playing on the West Coast. So, the Bowl called me and Nederlander and Goldenvoice at this point. The Bowl calls and says, “Do you guys want to be the promoter?” “Yes, we do.” We started with very little notice back in ’95. So, it’ll be our thirtieth my thirtieth year. We got very busy and the tone changed because at that time we didn’t have that year to go get James Taylor. It required us to get younger bands real fast, the bands that we had connectivity to. We didn’t have as much advance time. In ’95 is when a somewhat big shift happened and just who was playing. It worked because there were fresh eyes on who can play here. And it just took off from there.
And the structural improvements at the Bowl came later, right? Yes. And starting in the ’90s. A few years later, those big improvements happened because the Foundation was established. It was no longer just a county facility. Now there was the Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation. That was a brilliant move, to create this. It changed the whole dynamic. This partnership between this nonprofit foundation and the for-profit entity has worked very well.
The Bowl is a phenomenal group of people to work with. There’s no place I’ve ever done shows where I like the people more and I enjoy the people who work there. The people have a love for the facility. It doesn’t happen everywhere.
There is such a strong community feeling about the Bowl, from the audience to the infrastructure and workers involved. I don’t use the word “team” a lot, but there’s nothing like that team anywhere that I’ve seen a show or part of a show. The closest to that would be the Coachellas and the Stagecoaches, but those are festival teams. It’s the same thing people who really like what they’re doing. The Bowl staff likes being there. There’s very little turnover there. Everyone enjoys and cherishes their work here, and they’re the best people in the world to work with me. A large part of the success of the facility is that team’s love of the facility. And it shows the bands feel it; the public feels it. It’s always there. You can’t teach people that. They’re getting it from the inside.
It’s an amazing group of people to work with. Maybe, I mean, maybe I’m projecting, but maybe in L.A., there’s a lot more turnover because people are, you know, aspiring actors or whatever. People don’t feel that personal.
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You lived in L.A. for some years when rising in the promoter ranks, but you’ve been back for how long? Twenty-two years. It was that whole family part of your life. I showed the people I was working for in L.A. at the time that while I could do well and work the place well while living in L.A., we could do a better job if I was here. I could be more of a participant in the non-showday activities. That all adds up to what we do over there. It isn’t just show day.
They obviously have a commitment to keeping the Bowl process going. Would you say it’s a self-sustaining microcosm that you created here, which is different from other things Goldenvoice is involved in? The exclusive arrangement that the Foundation has with Goldenvoice is an arrangement in which both parties have shown the other that it works really well. It’s a great relationship. We’ve got each other’s back, and we’re very integrated in how we approach the business of putting shows on. One of the things that I really like about doing shows there is that across the board, the people that work there have an understanding of what I do and the little components of what we do to make our end successful.
of the Bowl season goes public, rather than each show being a scattershot part of the puzzle. Is there an awareness of that cultural element in planning a season? I like the idea of it’s part of our fabric as a community in terms of people look at as, “Here’s what I’m gonna be doing next year. If I’m a citizen here, if I’m a resident, part of my lifestyle that I enjoy about being there is having that facility. It’s part of what I do and what I like to do, or part of my activities as a human. How I’m existing on this planet includes fun and stimulating activities. It’s part of the summertime world that we have.”
Locals look forward to what the new Bowl season promises, as a whole and in terms of which shows appeal to particular demographics or age groups although some shows span age and cultural definitions. Willie Nelson, for instance. Speaking of Willie, I always remember this moment in the Bowl bathroom where to one side of me they were talking about surfing, and on the other side, they were talking about Smith & Wesson. It was like a comedy. That’s good. That’s perfect.
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Conversely, I have an understanding of what they have to do. It isn’t compartmentalized in terms of that much of what people are doing; there’s a bigger picture that’s always, that we’re all aware of. That’s why I think the bands love it so much and that the public likes it so much because it’s the collection of people that are working here understand the bigger picture of what everyone does, and therefore the whole thing works.
I know who the people in the merch booth selling the T-shirts are, and they know who I am. That dynamic creates a better atmosphere there just because we’re all part of each other’s world. The same goes for the stagehands, the catering people…. We all understand the goals and how, as a group, we try to achieve them. It’s very unique.
Part of the challenge for you, I’m assuming, is creating a package that appeals to different demographics, isn’t it? If one were to look back at the composition of the seasons a long time ago, it looks a lot like classic rock, but at the time, those were more diverse shows than were recognized. Part of the fun now for me is and it’s hard to put into words is not having too much of any one thing. That doesn’t do us any good.
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Looking at the larger picture of the concert music calendar in this town, like elsewhere, the classical music season and series presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures and sometimes the Lobero, runs roughly from September to May. There is a similar buzz when the bulk
I always loved seeing band names coming to the Bowl that I’ve never heard of. You must be constantly listening and maybe being influenced by kids and your kids. Well, not so much my biological kids, but to a certain degree. But I learn stuff every day from my Goldenvoice family. I’m in constant communication with those at Goldenvoice who are the movers and shakers of talent acquisition there. There’s a lot of stuff I’m not aware of or hip to yet, and I try to educate myself quickly and efficiently. [Laughs.] And then I have to balance that out into a season.
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Since the pandemic, the need to book further out has increased. It’s also because the building has become more in demand with the touring industry. More and more people want to play here. And with the show cap that we have, we have a total number of shows that we can’t exceed per season. The more savvy agents know they have to act quickly to get a date. You can’t wait around and think you’re gonna get an available date if you wait too long.
The word is out there that the Bowl has become a more in-demand place in the industry, particularly in Nashville.
You have been delving more into country bookings in recent seasons. It works well here. We’ve done well with it, and there are a lot of country artists who consider us a must-play if you’re on the West Coast.
Speaking of major country artists, it’s a big deal that Brad Paisley has played here partly because of his occasional local residency. For that matter, we always assume artists the caliber and drawing power of Sting, Radiohead, James Taylor, or David Bowie played the “modestly scaled” Bowl because they liked the venue. Or are there other factors? Sting came back because he liked the venue. Radiohead comes back because they like the venue, and Radiohead also likes the vibe. I don’t mean just the oceanview vibe, but the whole nature of the place hits a bullseye for Radiohead, in terms of how they wanna be perceived.
And their appearances become a badge of honor for the Bowl. Yeah, and it’s not like we put a menu out that they just happened to like the food selection. They got there and felt, “This is how we like shows to be run. We like the fact there’s no commerciality to the facility.” They’re not seeing AT&T or whatever on the sides of the stage. They appreciate that.
That’s Thom Yorke’s attitude at work. And the beauty of having this foundation is that they managed to make things work financially without having to sell ourselves
out. Many other venues have little choice but to take a big sponsorship. The foundation can raise money as a nonprofit, and it allows the public, the promoter, and the bands not to have to pay for improvements.
And that must be a rare situation in the concert venue world, isn’t it? Yes, and that’s part of that team, that blending of nonprofit and for-profit that works so well. There has to be a good understanding so that there’s a balance.
Looking beyond the Bowl, you did a show at your old stomping grounds of Casa de la Raza, with Marlon Funaki, in 2024. Is there a sense of a full-circle situation for you now, coming back to smaller venues like Casa where you started out so many years ago, in addition to the Bowl workload? It’s a similar thing where it’s a community asset. The Casa is a community asset. The Bowl is a community asset. It enhances a whole bunch of lives. So many.
When we went into Casa for the show and I was there for two days and seeing all the stuff they’re doing, I felt that this place is rich in its contributions to the community. That’s part of what I like. What I do here is to figure out how we can contribute to the fabric of this community. It’s awesome. People can find happiness and joy and have their lives and their trajectories perhaps altered slightly by who they meet, what they see. They can sing along.
Actually, it reminds me of when we came back to doing shows in 2021, after the pandemic. We were dark for a couple years, one and a half seasons. And that fall, coming back in 2021 was just so good. Jackson Browne was the first musician, but we had some comedy to start that season, ’cause we can turn that around quickly.
During the first couple of shows that played, there were audible moans and groans of pleasure from the audience by just being outdoors and hearing live music again. It wasn’t like cheering for the song, per se. It was a real kind of guttural sound, at a different frequency than normal cheering or yelling. n
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4/3: Aeolus Quartet String Quartet Chamber Music Concert This all-American quartet, formed at the Cleveland School of Music in 2008, will perform works from Haydn and Dvořák. 7-8:30pm. Mary Craig Auditorium, S.B. Museum of Art, 1130 State St. $20-$25. Call (805) 963-4364. sbma.net/events
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4/4-4/6: Out of the Box Theatre Company Presents Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 Follow the story of Natasha Rostova as she falls for an aristocrat while awaiting the return of her fiancé from the front lines in this 2017 Tony Award–winning musical that highlights Moscow’s high society and is inspired by a scandalous slice of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. The musical shows through April 13. Fri.-Sat.: 8pm; Sun.: 2pm. Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo. GA: free-$40; VIP: $75. Call (805) 963-0408. centerstagetheater.org
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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
4/4: Kellam De Forest Speaker Series: Historic Preservation in the 21st Century: Why Do Old Places Matter? Dennis Whelan, boardmember of the Pearl Chase Society, architect, and vice-chair of the City of S.B. Architectural Board of Review, will discuss the role that historic places such as the S.B. County Courthouse, Old Mission S.B., the Lobero Theatre, and more play in everyday life in S.B. 6-7:30 p.m. Alhecama Theatre, 215A E. Canon Perdido St. Free-donations accepted. (805) 961-3938. pearlchasesociety.org/ events
4/4: The Andersen’s Danish Bakery & Restaurant Movie Premiere Night Join to celebrate more than 50 years in S.B. with a 10-minute film about founders Mr. Alfred Andersen and Mrs. Birte Andersen and the history of this beloved S.B. restaurant as you enjoy wine, appetizers, and desserts. RSVP required. 5-8pm. The Andersen’s, 1106 State St. Free. Call (805) 962-5085. tinyurl.com/The-Andersens
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SOhO Restaurant & Music Club Thu.: Sunbeam Sound Machine with Strange Hotels, 9pm. $17-$20. Ages 21+. Fri.: The Moon and Broken Glass, 5:45pm. $10 (cash). Dance Romance Presents Lady Gaga Dance Night with DJ Darla Bea, 8pm. $24.53-$29.82. Ages 21+.
Sat.: Reverend Baron with Duff Thompson and Evan Blix, 9pm. $18-$23. Ages 21+. Sun.: Dr. Wu : The Music of Steely Dan, 7:30pm. $28-$32. Mon.: SBCC Monday Madness Jazz Orchestra, 7pm. $15. Wed.: Third World with Kumar Fyah and Rastan, 8pm. $25-$30. Ages 21+. 1221 State St. Call (805) 962-7776. sohosb.com
4/3-4/4: Lost Chord Guitars Thu.: Jen Howard, 7pm. Free Fri.: Kathleen Sieck & The Paradise Rd., 7pm. $16.70. 1576 Copenhagen Dr., Solvang. Ages 21+. Call (805) 331-4363. lostchordguitars.com
4/4: The Brewhouse Wake of the Flood (Grateful Dead cover band), 6:309pm. Free. 229 W. Montecito St. Call (805) 884-4664. tinyurl.com/Wake-FloodApr4
4/4: Carr Winery Hot Club of S.B., 7-9pm. 414 N. Salsipuedes St. Free. Ages 21+. Call (805) 965-7985. carrwinery.com
4/4-4/5: M.Special Brewing Co.
(Goleta) Fri.: The New Vibe. Sat.: Matthew Clark Trio. 7-9pm. 6860 Cortona Dr., Ste. C, Goleta. Free. Call (805) 968-6500. mspecialbrewco.com
4/4-4/6: M.Special Brewing Co.
(S.B.) Fri.: The Brasscals, 8-10pm. Sat.: Decibel, 8-10pm. Sun.: La Mision, 3pm. Free. 634 State St. Call (805) 308-0050 mspecialbrewco.com
4/4-4/6: Maverick Saloon Fri.: Richiman & Groove Nice, 8:30-11:30pm. Sat.: Carmen & The Renegade Vigilantes, 8:30pm-midnight. Sun.: Jared Nels, 3-7pm. 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez.
4/4: Ojai Underground Exchange Natalie Gelman and Kray Van Kirk in Concert, 7-10pm. Broadcast: $10; in-person: $15-$20. 616 Pearl St., Ojai. Email cassidy@ ojaiartsexchange.com tinyurl.com/Kray-Natalie
4/4: Validation Ale Fri: Rhythm Industrial Complex, 6:30 pm. Free. 102 E. Yanonali St. Ages 21+. Call (805) 500-3111. validationale.com
4/5: Eos Lounge SubSessions Presents: SpringSessions, 9pm. Free. 500 Anacapa St. Ages 21+. Call (805) 564-2410. eoslounge.com
4/5-4/6: Hook’d Bar and Grill Sat.: Out of the Blue, 3-6 pm. Sun.: Traveling Hurtados, 1-4pm. 116 Lakeview Dr., Cachuma Lake. Free. Call (805) 350-8351. hookdbarandgrill.com/music-onthe-water
4/7: The Red Piano Church on Monday: Richiman & Groove Nice, 7:30pm. $5. 519 State St. Call (805) 358-1439. theredpiano.com
“Tea Papers No. 9” by Mick Victor
SATURDAY 4/5
4/5: Celebrating Latino Poetry Poets Blas Falconer and Emma Trelles will share their poems, discuss their latest works, and offer insights into their creative process and the rich tradition of Latino poetry. 3-4:30pm. Faulkner Gallery, S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free. Call (805) 962-7653. tinyurl.com/Latin-Poetry
Thurs 4/3 4:30 pm CAMA LECTURE, CLASSICAL 9:00 pm SUNBEAM SOUND MACHINE WITH STRANGE HOTELS PSYCH ROCK, INDIE Fri 4/4 5:45 pm THE MOON AND BROKEN GLASS PROG ROCK 8:00 pm WHAT THE DANCE PRESENTS DANCE ROMANCE: A LADY GAGA DANCE NIGHT WITH DJ DARLA BEA! Sat 4/5 9:00 pm REVEREND BARON WITH DUFF THOMPSON AND EVAN BLIX AMERICANA, INDIE
Sun 4/6 7:30 pm DR. WU THE MUSIC OF STEELY DAN
Mon 4/7 7:00 pm SBCC MONDAY MADNESS JAZZ ORCHESTRA
Wed 4/9 8:00 pm THIRD WORLD WITH KUMAR FYAH & RASTAN REGGAE
Thur 4/10 8:00 pm LOC DAWGS AND DISLOCATED WITH SPARSE ALT-ROCK
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4/5:
Solvang Brick & Builds 2025 Immerse yourself in the world of brick-building as you meet and greet with LEGO Master Builders, see probuilder competitions and breathtaking displays, visit the “Kids Brick Build” area, listen to live music, connect with other brick enthusiasts, and more. 10am-5pm. Various Solvang locations, including the Solvang Veterans Memorial Hall, 1745 Mission Dr., Solvang. Free-$25. Call (805) 465-7298. solvangusa.com/solvang-brick-builds-2025
SUNDAY 4/6
4/6: Fairview Gardens Farm Open House Join for woodfired pizza and good company in support of Fairview’s new vision. RSVP required as space is limited. 3-6pm. Fairview Gardens, 598 N. Fairview Ave., Goleta. Free. Email carrie@fairviewgardens .org fairviewgardens.org
4/5: The S.B. Blues Society (SBBS) Presents Sugaray Rayford Take in the classic soul melodies, funk R&B, and blues grooves from Sugaray Rayford. 7:15pm. Carrillo Recreation Center, 100 E. Carrillo St. $10-$45. Call (805) 668-6884. sbblues.org
4/5: The S.B. Blues Society (SBBS) Presents Sugaray Rayford Take in the classic soul melodies, funk R&B, and blues grooves from Sugaray Rayford. 7:15pm. Carrillo Recreation Center, 100 E. Carrillo St. $10-$45. Call (805) 668-6884. sbblues.org
4/5: Ozomatli L.A.’s Grammy Award–winning Latin band Ozomatli will bring their blend of salsa, cumbia, merengue, hiphop, funk, and rock sound to the valley. 7pm. Solvang Festival Theater, 420 Second St., Solvang. $55-$95. Call (805) 686-1789. solvangtheaterfest.org
4/5: Black Women’s Health Equity Day 2025 The NAACP S.B. and Santa Maria/Lompoc invite you to this conference to support, elevate, and address the needs of all women in the community regarding beauty, caregiving, and self-care. Lunch included. Pre-registration is required. 8:45am-3pm. Direct Relief International, 6100 Wallace Becknell Rd. Free tinyurl.com/BlackWomensConference
4/5: Mesa Harmony Garden Spring Plant Sale
Purchase plants from a selection of succulents, trees, vegetables, herbs, plants, flowers, and more. 9-noon. Mesa Harmony Garden, 500 Dolores Dr. Free-donations welcome. Call (805) 884-2000. mesaharmonygarden.org
4/5: Unveiling the Deepwater Diving Monument: Honoring the Birthplace of Deepwater Diving In a special ceremony, the S.B. Maritime Museum (SBMM) will unveil the Deepwater Diving Monument, a tribute to S.B.’s rich heritage as the birthplace of deepwater diving. 4:30pm. The S.B. Harbor and S.B. Maritime Museum, 113 Harbor Wy. Free. Call (805) 962-8404. sbmm.org/santa-barbara-events
4/6: Prime Time Band Spring Concert Dr. Paul Mori will conduct this vibrant group of more than 75 amateur musicians, ages 40-90+, who will perform band classics from Gustav Holst and Sousa, to the swing of Dave Brubeck as well as music from the film Top Gun. 2pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. Free. Call (805) 963-0761. lobero.org
4/6: VC Defensa Presents: Know Your Rights/VC Defensa Presenta: Conozca sus derechos Community members are invited to learn about their constitutional rights related to immigration regardless of immigration status, constitutional rights, and community rapid response networks. VC Defensa is a coalition of local organizations dedicated to protecting the immigrant and refugee populations of S.B. and Ventura Counties. Los miembros de la comunidad están invitados a aprender acerca de sus derechos constitucionales relacionados con la inmigración, independientemente de su estatus migratorio, los derechos constitucionales, y las redes de respuesta rápida de la comunidad.VC Defensa es una coalición de organizaciones locales dedicadas a la protección de las poblaciones de inmigrantes y refugiados de S.B. y los condados de Ventura. 2-3:30pm, S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free Call 805-962-7653 or email info@sbplibrary.libanswers.com tinyurl.com/VC-Defensa
Sugaray Rayford
4/6:
Chaucer’s Storytime and Book Signing: Robin Yardi
Join area author Robin Yardi for a reading and signing of her book I Know the Whale, a social-emotional picture book for kids, with illustrations by Matt Schu, about a little girl who discovers a beached blue whale and learns about the wonder at the scientific and spiritual unknown and the beauty of death and loss. See actual whale specimens, ask the docent from the S.B. Museum of Natural History a question, and create a whale bookmark. 2-3pm. Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State St. Free. Call (805) 682-6787. chaucersbooks .com/events/calendar
MONDAY 4/7
4/7: Yoga Soup: Every Body Flow with Jessica Chazen Enjoy movement outdoors at this gentle and slow-paced, beginner to intermediate vinyasa class that will focus on breath with moments to strengthen and soothe. 10-11am. La Mesa Park, 295 Meigs Rd. $25. Call (805) 965-8811 or email support@yogasoup.com tinyurl.com/Every-BodyFlow
TUESDAY
4/8
4/8: Goleta Community State of the City /Comunidad de Goleta Estado de la ciudad Arrive at 5pm to check out the city information tables; mingle with the City Council, staff, and stakeholders; and then listen to the State of the City Address from Mayor Perotte followed by a Q&A session. Llegue a las 5pm para visitar las mesas informativas de la ciudad, relacionarse con el Ayuntamiento, el personal y las partes interesadas y, a continuación, escuchar el discurso sobre el estado de la ciudad del alcalde Perotte, seguido de una sesión de preguntas y respuestas. 5-7pm. Goleta Community Center, 5679 Hollister Ave. Free. Call (805) 961-7500. tinyurl.com/StateOfGoleta
4/8: IHC Key Passages Talk: The Making of Ghost Village Learn about the process of creating a new, experimental opera based on a historical ghost story from Pu Songling’s 17th-century Chinese masterpiece, Liaozhao’s Strange Tales (Liaozhai zhiyi), titled Ghost Village, a creative collaboration between librettist Judith Zeitlin and Chinabased composer Yao Chen. 4-6pm. McCune Conference Rm., 6020 HSSB, UCSB. Free Email admin@ihc.ucsb.edu ihc.ucsb.edu/events
WEDNESDAY 4/9
4/9: CAMA’s Masterseries Presents Yefim Bronfman, Piano Celebrated Grammy Award–winning pianist pianist Yefin Bronfman, renowned for his technical brilliance and profound musicality, will perform pieces from Mozart, Debussy, and Tchaikovsky. 7:30pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. $58-$68. Call (805) 963-0761. lobero.org
4/9: Reel Rock 19 Film Tour This film tour will showcase three world-premiere climbing films spanning disciplines, characters, and continents with prize giveaways, contests, and more. 7pm. I.V. Theater, 960 Embarcadero del Norte, Isla Vista. $12-$18. Call (805) 893-4466. Email mbouchet@ucsb.edu. tinyurl.com/Reel-Rock19
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EXHIBITING HOPE AND BEAUTY IN THE VALLEY
Santa Ynez Valley artist Max Gleason launched his Art Medicine workshops last year, buoyed by the feeling that the series could lead to something more. And where it led is to the opening of a new exhibit space, Indah Gallery, planted among the vines of his family’s Roblar Winery and Vineyards.
Gleason debuted the Santa Ynez Valley art hub with a group show opening reception on the vernal equinox March 20, 2025 a date purposefully chosen for its connotation of rebirth, but also the balance of light and dark, when day and night are of nearly equal length.
In a newly whitewashed barn space with an open, roll-up door framing views of cabernet franc and cabernet sauvignon vines, Gleason is housing works of 15 very local artists in the aptly named Spring Equinox Art Show. Two of the artists are from Santa Barbara; all others from the Santa Ynez Valley. Some are established; some are just beginning to succumb to the vulnerability of showing their pieces in a public forum.
“I lived in New York and Los Angeles over the course of 13 years, where there was ample opportunity and venues for artists to show their work, and to gather with each other for inspiration and a sense of community,” Gleason said.
A schooled fine artist, Gleason moved to the Santa Ynez Valley in 2016, where he’s been gauging and observing the growing, local art scene. He wanted to build a space for togetherness, as opposed to divide, where the region’s skilled denizens could collectively exhibit to showcase the local wealth of artistic ability.
When not working in his studio, Gleason is the director of creative and marketing for his family’s Gleason Family Vineyards portfolio of hospitality brands. Between the artist connections he has fortuitously made through friends and colleagues, and students from his own series of workshops, he has amassed an artistic arsenal of talents.
The 55 pieces in this first show display a masterful mix of mediums. At the space’s center are Roy Vessil’s organic mini-worlds,
whimsical, “bricolage-style” sculptures comprising found, recycled objects. Lining the gallery walls, fantasy doodles by the artist known as “El Dood” (a k a Jeffrey Chernov); oil paintings by Bobby Williams, timely depictions of Central Coast agricultural workers; Elysse Castillo’s precise pieces in charcoal and graphite; Reena Howmiller’s mesmerizing bursts of vivid swirls; natureinspired moments in acrylics by Julia Newmann; Aubrey Ashburn’s boldly colorful, contemporary, and contemplative oilpainted wildlife; and Danvy Pham’s modern meld of charcoal, oil pastels, sometimes pencil and watercolor, bringing to light the dynamic and shifting “human experience.”
Also on display are two Central Coast Art League talents, Nicole Burnett and Michelle Juliet Feldman, both showing vibrant, updated takes on classic still life paintings using oil on panels or paper, as well as pieces by newcomer Sara Camilleri, David Friesen, Stephanie Patterson, and sunny and cool-hued paintings by Morgan Peyton, reflecting this coastal slice of California.
Gleason’s own ethereal and often deeply personal works are also there, including a painted trio of his heaven-bound family watching from above, joining in the celebration of his new effort.
Gleason visits Bali with his wife, Jasmine Hanson, as often as possible. “Indah means ‘beautiful’ in Indonesian. And this space is meant for just that: a place to exhibit hope and beauty.” —Anna Ferguson-Sparks
The Spring Equinox Art Show runs through April 20. Indah Gallery (2190 N. Refugio Rd., Santa Ynez; look for the Roblar Winery service entrance) is open Friday-Sunday, noon-5 p.m. See maxgleason.com/ indah-gallery.
L I F E
Writer, actor, and pianist Hershey Felder has several selfpenned solo musical plays in his impressive body of work. His newest production, Rachmaninoff and the Tsar, is on its world premiere tour this spring with stops along the west coast including at the New Vic in Ensemble Theatre Company’s 2024-2025 season. Notably, after more than 6,000 solo performances, Felder (playing Rachmaninoff) will be joined in this play by another actor Jonathan Silvestri, playing the Tsar.
This look at Rachmaninoff’s life was born from an anecdotal moment from the composer’s final days, high on morphine, dying of cancer. “He was hallucinating, imagining he was playing the piano playing things in the air and mumbling about history and the tsar,” says Felder, who found the scene to be the perfect inroad to investigate Rachmaninoff’s history, his homeland, and his life under Tsar Nicholas II.
The play takes place in a time of vicious upheaval in Russian culture. Tsar Nicholas II was the last of Russian royalty, murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1917. Rachmaninoff, also of noble birth, escaped Russia, but remained haunted by the loss of his homeland despite complicated feelings on its political turmoil. “He believed in classic Russia and its structure, which he belonged to, but he knew it couldn’t go forward,” says Felder. “He was torn. Then the whole political environment changed. His life was threatened. The Bolsheviks would make you disappear …. The home he believed in being pulled out from beneath his feet was torture for him.”
The intensity of the show is further heightened by Rachmaninoff’s music, which Felder plays throughout the show to support the story’s emotional crescendos. “I’ve always felt this play is about searching for home, and what home means,” says Felder. “How ultimately we find it in our art and our expression.” —Maggie Yates
See Rachmaninoff and the Tsar at the New Vic (33 W. Victoria St.) April 5-20, with previews April 3-4. See etcsb .org/production/rachmaninoff.
Hershey Felder and Jonathan Silvestri star in Rachmaninoff and the Tsar.
Guests enjoy the opening of the Spring Equinox Art Show
The new gallery space at Roblar Winery and Vineyards
MESSIAH EL MESÍAS
A NEW MIX OF MUSIC ON THE HORIZON
“Sci-fi pop.” That’s how Santa Barbara–based artist Joveth describes his music. It’s a blend of a little bit of everything, from hip-hop, rock, R&B, and more. He was born in the Philippines but raised in Sweden before coming to America to professionally produce music. Now, he’s preparing to release his first EP, Lonely Boy, on April 4.
In shorthand, Joveth describes his upcoming EP as “inner child, healing, and love.” The songs reflect a myriad of experiences from childhood up until now, everything from challenges growing up to relationships and finding himself as an artist. He’s spent the past couple years creating music for this EP. Joveth’s music journey started when he was 12 and making music in his bedroom. His love for music stemmed from the rich culture of karaoke in the Philippines and watching musical performances. From there, he taught himself the elements of music creation, from songwriting to production. Deeply inspired by James Blunt and other artists including The Weeknd, John Legend, and James Bellion, Joveth’s music has changed and adapted to the new sounds he continues to come across.
“I read all the magazines about recordings and engineering. Creating was a part of my routine during the day,” he said. “Anything that had to do with music, I was basically obsessed about and that continued until today.” Making music became an important part of his life during his time in school in Sweden and quickly became a way for him to process his emotions and manage challenges. Later, he came across a post from a high school friend of his at the Santa Barbara Sound Design music studio and made the bold decision to move to Santa Barbara when he was 20. He also enrolled in classes at SBCC.
“Since that day, I made a promise to myself that I was going to move here and I wanted to intern at that recording studio,” he said. His music creation process seeks to capture what he calls the “essence and spirituality” of his pieces. What might start as a recording of a voice memo or trying something out on the piano can evolve into a complete song of its own, but maintaining the originality of that piece is important to him.
His music combines his experiences with new cultures and people, from his time in the Philippines, Sweden, and the United States. Lonely Boy in particular is an exploration and honest take on how he’s processed many of the emotions tied with significant parts of his life.
He signed under Voracious Records in 2023 and has already released singles, including “Say My Name,” “Money Can’t Buy Happiness,” and, most recently, “Bubblegum.”
“Music has been an outlet for me to pour down all my emotions and understand them, but also heal and be self-aware,” Joveth explained. Although many of the songs on this upcoming EP touch on difficult experiences in his life, he still wanted to focus on the positive effects that come from using music as a method of processing and healing. His hope is that listeners, new and old, will find something that resonates with them.
As he’s preparing for Lonely Boy to be released, Joveth is already working on his next EP. He has upcoming performances at Pacific Pride in August.
—Tia Trinh
THE SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY IS BOOKED UP FOR NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK
JOIN THE SBPL FOR A WEEK OF EVENTS AND CELEBRATIONS OF THE HEART OF THE COMMUNITY
Libraries are the hearts of communities across the nation, standing as a symbol of education, community, and gathering. National Library Week is an annual celebration highlighting the crucial role that libraries, librarians, and library workers play in transforming lives and remaining the backbone of our communities.
A brief overview of the history of this tribute reveals the American Library Association’s authentic dedication to encourage people to read for leisure to improve quality of life and develop strong communities. National Library Week was first celebrated in 1958 with the theme “Wake Up and Read!” and has been celebrated annually since. It has become a beloved holiday and opportunity to recognize the vital role that libraries play in our communities.
This year, the holiday will be celebrated from April 6 to 12. Since the library truly has a place for everyone, there are many different ways to get involved. Whether you are a young family stopping in for play time, students drafting their next creative project in a makerspace, or anyone just looking for their next good read, there are many ways to celebrate this honorary week. Make your mark and get involved with the library by volunteering or spreading the word.
On a local level, the Santa Barbara Public Library (SBPL), with the help of the Santa Barbara Public Library Foundation and Friends of the Santa Barbara Public Library, will be holding several events to celebrate.
“As we approach National Library Week this year, I reflect on the vital role libraries play in bringing communities together,” said Foundation Director Lauren Trujillo. She continued, “Libraries are where we meet our neighbors, discover shared interests, and approach the world with curiosity.”
In celebrating the value of third spaces and centers for community gathering, The SBPL invites the community to celebrate the library with their event Drawn to the Library!
To usher in the week of celebration, there will be a library proclamation on Tuesday, April 8, at 9 a.m. at the County Board of Supervisors Meeting. This is an opportunity to be a voice for the SBPL and County Library partners to proclaim the enduring importance of the Public Library during National Library Week.
To toast to National Library Week with delicious food and drink, community members are invited to celebrate with the Library on the Go at Shalhoob’s Funk Zone Patio.
The evening will include a Santa Barbara–inspired Lotería, books for all ages, and information about upcoming library events. It will take place on Thursday, April 10, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
For an evening of fun and facts, the SBPL invites the community to Literary Trivia Night, hosted by Friends of the Library at Central Library on April 11 from 6 to 8 p.m.
To close out the week of celebrations, the library is presenting former president and two-time Campaign Co-Chair Jim Jackson with the 2025 Library Champion Award, in recognition of his unwavering commitment to the SBPL. He will be presented with this honor at this year’s National Library Week Library Champion Award event.
Between the Children’s Library and the Michael Towbes Library Plaza, and even formulating the Library Foundation’s guiding slogan, “We Open Doors,” Jim Jackson’s dedications and effort to the Santa Barbara Public Library have been far-reaching. The community is invited to celebrate this honor with a special brunch in the library on Sunday, April 13, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the S.B. Central Library.
Take the opportunity to step inside local libraries, engage with the community, and uncover something new during the week of April 6-12. Visit library.santabarbaraca.gov for more information on the events and to RSVP. —Madeline Slogoff
The Library Van on the Go
Hershey Felder Jonathan Silverstri
LIVING
Cardio Confidential
Here Comes the Sun
Justin Maddox has been strength training since early adolescence and still works out every day at home he knows gyms can be intimidating. Inspired by stories like the friend who joined a chain gym but complained that she doesn’t know what to do when the machine she wants is in use, and feels like everyone is looking at her, as well as his own dispiriting experience in the gig economy (he’s a mechanical engineer) that made him suspect the fitness ecosystem wasn’t always fulfilling for the staff either, Maddox cofounded Rare Sol Fitness last August with Owen Troy, his friend and workout partner since 6th grade.
Rare Sol’s team of personal trainers will come to the home or other preferred location of a client and customize a workout to their needs and fitness goals. It’s a model that provides convenience, accountability, and privacy, says Maddox, who notes that their clients tend to skew older and may have mobility issues or concerns about getting sick from working out in a crowded gym. But there’s also the 35-year-old client who just likes to work out at East Beach.
For my initiation into the Rare Sol workout model, I pedaled to La Mesa Park to meet Stevi Crocker, a former geriatric nurse who transitioned into personal training after she took up boxing and her sparring partners encouraged her to become a coach and trainer. For our session, Crocker laid out yoga mats, sets of five- and 10-pound weights, resistance bands, and yoga blocks in the picnic area, which was vacant on a brisk, sunny weekday morning after a storm had blown through. After a warm-up of inchworm shoulder touches and standing knee crunches, Crocker led me through two circuits consisting of renegade rows, chest presses, side planks with weights, hip lifts, tricep dips, sumo squats with
arm raises, and more. When I mentioned that so many abdominal exercises make me feel strain in my hip flexors, she quickly added a couple of sets of exercises hip bridge and tabletop variations with a yoga block to help me focus on contracting my abs without the exercise going into my hip flexors.
Maddox told me he and Troy look for trainers with friendly personalities who can design a good workout on the fly, and that was certainly my experience with Crocker. There was no awkwardness about meeting a stranger in a public park, and we were quickly chatting about her fitness journey, our respective Valentine’s Day traditions (our session was on February 14), and how women can maintain strength and fitness through all the stages of life.
Rare Sol offers a free first session, which you can sign up for at raresolfit.com. You can choose a trainer and a time slot, or enter your contact information but leave the time slot blank and a trainer will reach out to you. Sessions may be held at clients’ homes, local parks or beaches, and other locations. After the first session, individual classes or packages of four or 10 classes can be purchased. Up to three clients per session for the same flat fee. Sessions are scheduled using a mobile app or by texting a trainer.
tina, Comelli warmed us up and then had us take turns folding ourselves like origami into the leg press machine, doing squats with the Smith machine, and grasping the rope attachment for tricep pushdowns. But don’t think working out in pairs means you get a lot of downtime Comelli gave us exercises to do while our partner was using a machine. Cynthia and I were both impressed with Comelli’s ability to design, in real time, a challenging workout for two people with differing strength levels whom she’d never met, in a place she’d never been before. She loaded us up with heavier weight than we would have chosen left to our own devices, but she also respected our limits, like declining a second set on the Smith machine, and helped us out if we struggled with the last few reps. When Cynthia wanted to know how the Nautilus Gravitron worked, Comelli immediately demon-
Martha Donelan, a Rare Sol client and former competitive swimmer who usually works out at Goleta Beach with Crocker, told me she respects Crocker because she “knows her stuff” and helps with her goals of increasing core strength, balance, and muscle mass.
Rare Sol charges a flat fee for up to three people per session, so for my other Rare Sol workout, I paired up with my friend Cynthia, who suggested we work out at the awesome little on-site gym she has at her workplace. Rare Sol dispatched Maria Comelli to meet us there and put us through our paces. A recent transplant to Santa Barbara from Argen-
strated how to use it and explained that it helps the user do a pull-up (Nautilus calls it a supported chin dip). Naturally, Cynthia and I both had to climb on in turn and try it out. It may be supported, but it wasn’t easy. Nevertheless, we laughed a lot throughout our session, more than I’m used to during a workout.
Donelan seconded that. “We have a good time together,” she said of her sessions with Crocker. Donelan also appreciates that she can sometimes include her 21-year-old daughter in her workout sessions. “What I love about it the best,” she told me, “is that it’s customized to me.” n
Rare Sol Trainer Maria Comelli puts writer Amy Ramos through the paces.
Rare Sol offers personalized fitness in a variety of locations. Here Ramos does a Rare Sol workout at an on-site office gym.
A Newbie’s Sailing Experience in the Santa Barbara Channel
Before I sailed for the first time, I associated sailing in Santa Barbara with a very specific personal memory: the kid who sat next to me in my sophomore English class.
His nickname was “Sailor Boy.” At first, I thought it was because he smelled bad. As it turned out, the guy (I can’t remember what his real name was) was actually a sailor.
Sailor Boy would sail some mornings before our first-period class, coming to school smelling like seawater and, sometimes unfortunately for me fish. He was heavier-set, blonde, and a bit of a class clown. (He also sold weed.)
But, damn, was he kind.
The morning my grandfather died, it was this 16-year-old boy who managed to make me feel better.
few weekends ago, and I can’t describe how grateful I am that I did.
I needed that saltwater and ocean spray more than I knew.
MY WONDERFUL SAILING EXPERIENCE!
I almost vomited on the first day. As I stood on the dock next to the Sailing Center, I started feeling nauseated. My sailing instructor was explaining how to tie a cleat hitch, the knots that tether sailboats to the dock. It was a beautiful, sunny morning and the dock was swaying gently in the water just enough to trigger my motion sickness. My instructor was going around, and then over, and then you take one end and put it through the other … and oh my god, I was flipping out. I was getting seasick just watching him tie the freaking knot.
But I held it down. I successfully tied a cleat hitch (after some good ol’ college tries), and practiced boarding the boat and getting it ready for a day of sailing without incident.
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Callie Fausey Takes Sailing Lessons with Santa Barbara Sailing Center
BY CALLIE FAUSEY
I went to school because I was terrified of mourning at home alone. I tried to hide it, but my grief was obvious in my perpetually watery eyes and tear-stained cheeks.
Sailor Boy comforted me, a random girl in his class, as if it were the most natural thing in the world. He even made me laugh. I can’t remember what he said, but I remember sitting at that uncomfortable old desk, looking at him. And I remember the feeling of a smile breaking through the sore, suffocating heat that hours of crying produces.
Looking back, he was just like that: happy, down to earth, and sincere.
Now that I’m a certified sailor, I think I understand why. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s some study out there linking sailing with emotional intelligence and mindfulness.
Maybe seawater is cleansing for the soul.
Anyway…. This unnecessarily deep story is all to say that my beginner sailing lessons, which were graciously offered to me by the Santa Barbara Sailing Center, were eye-opening. I had the opportunity to take their American Sailing Asso-
How’d I do it? Sheer fricking willpower (and some very well-disguised dry heaves).
The lunch break could not have come soon enough. Before taking the boat out, my fellow sailors-intraining and our instructor, Dan, took 45 minutes to grab a bite.
I took 45 minutes to desperately choke down some Dramamine and lie down on a bench with my hat over my eyes.
But, wow, the initial nausea was so worth it. It completely dissipated by the time we set sail into the Santa Barbara Channel. While we sailed on a close haul, which is the fastest way to make a journey upwind, the boat was heeling, the breeze was in our hair, and the water was sparkling in the sunlight. It was a nautical daydream.
My crewmates wore jackets, but I opted not to, for as long as I could. The feeling of the air on my skin was revitalizing.
“How, HOW, have I lived in Santa Barbara for so long and never sailed in the channel?” I asked myself. “This is what postcards are made of.”
It was a perfect day with perfect weather. My crewmates and I chatted and chuckled as we took turns rotating between different roles on the boat. At one point, I was the helmsman steering the boat and shouting commands. At other times, I was in co-control of the jib, one of the sails. And at other times, I was staring helplessly at my instructor while he used the sailing lingo I failed to study beforehand. Thankfully, it didn’t take me long to catch up, and Dan was
Day two was not as perfect in terms of weather, but my fellow sailors and I had a bit of experience and some budding teamwork to fall back on. We first met in the classroom, reviewed some Sailing Made Easy textbook material, and got our sea legs ready.
This time, I took Dramamine before stepping onto the dock.
I also did my homework and brushed up on the lingo. That morning, I had the honor of navigating us out of the harbor, successfully tacking (switching direction) back and forth to make it upwind.
Dan only had to panic and take control of the tiller once, after I nearly ran us straight into the loading dock.
The rest of the day went smoothly and we left with far more confidence than we started with.
By the third day, I was well-read. I knew the lingo. I could tell you what a jib and a boom was. I could bring a sailboat in and out of the harbor. I could rescue a man overboard. I could shout commands without feeling super awkward about it.
On the third day, you take the certification test and do a solo sail with your classmates, without the instructor.
But I’ll be transparent I got very sick that first weekend. My crewmates did the real third day’s solo sail without me. So my “third day” was actually about two weeks later.
Dan who graciously made time for me did the “solo sail” with me on a calm and beautiful day. I studied plenty the night before, and aced my written test (not to brag). Dan helped me review anything I may have forgotten.
Today, I am officially ASA certified, as it says on my shiny certification seal in my nifty little ASA logbook. I hope Sailor Boy would be proud.
Looking ahead, I have 12 free practice hours out on the water to burn through. I’ll be following this piece of advice from our Senior Writer Matt Kettmann, who took these lessons for a story more than 20 years ago: “Don’t do what I did, which was take the classes, pass the written and sailing tests, then never take out my own boat ever again.” n
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To learn more about the Sailing Center’s course offerings and boat rentals, visit sbsail.com. For just the ASA 101 class, it’ll run you about $600. For the package, with free practice hours and other benefits, it’s $945. You learn all the ins and outs of sailing and will, by the end, be able to operate a sailboat. If you’re going to do it anywhere, the Sailing Center is the place. They’ve been teaching people since 1967. There are many available weekend courses running all the way from April to December this year, and many other course offerings, too. Ready your sea legs.
Many boats can be seen sailing in the channel over the weekend.
After a three-day course with the Sailing Center, Callie is now a certified sailor.
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ocean view
THE ELLWOOD IS OPEN, FINALLY
The Ellwood at Goleta Beach is finally open. As a restaurant lover who lives about four minutes away, very few sentences have made me happier to type. I’m fairly certain that I’ve written more about the coming of this establishment than for any other topic in my career. It started in October 2021, when Omar Khashen won the bid for taking over this County of Santa Barbara–owned facility, which occupies the prime spot on Goleta Beach at the foot of the wharf.
Long-Awaited Restaurant Shaping the Future of Goleta Beach Now Serving All Sorts of Food
BY MATT KETTMANN
The ensuing three-plus years have been littered with delays of the unfortunately normal but also exceedingly extraordinary sorts, as Khashen worked with the county to redo everything from the crumbling structure to ancient sewage lines. The entire landscape of Goleta Beach the most popular park in the county, based on annual usage has been revamped in the meantime, and continues, as Khashen’s plans to open a casual seaside eatery and event venue adjacent to the new restaurant. I’ve written at least eight stories about these travails, along the way befriending Khashen and his director of operations Chris Jow over lunches at China King, wine tastings in my driveway, and even, with Jow, golf tourney fundraisers.
“It’s always been a passion project,” confirmed Khashen, who never wavered from his original goal. “It was not the easiest thing to do, but we had really strong partners and investors that helped us through the process. The vision has always been the same: an elevated experience for the building. It would be underwhelming otherwise. We wanted to knock it out of the park with the food and drink to exceed people’s expectations. There’s a lot more coming, too.”
Bringing the cuisine into focus was the role of Craig Riker, himself a longtime Goletan and chef who’s worked most recently at Finch & Fork, the Alisal Ranch, and, for six months last year, at the American Club in Singapore, where he oversaw five restaurants and ate out in the cuisine capital like crazy. The time he spent chaperoning his teenage son on a soccer trip through Europe last summer didn’t hurt either.
“I want to do delicious food for the people, especially the people of Goleta, where I live and my kids were born and raised,” said Riker, whose menu features Italian, Asian, and Californian dishes. “It’s a magical location. It has good energy. I just want to make good food and serve it to good people.”
You’d be correct to observe that his array of cuisines is divergent, from char siu pork chop, hamachi crudo, salmon poke, and pad Thai to calamari parmesan, fusilli alla vodka, short rib pappardelle, and lemon herb broccolini. But I’ve been two Sundays in a row and found many of these diverse dishes to be outright fantastic, and most of the rest to be satisfyingly solid.
On the fantastic front, for differing reasons, would be the salmon poke, char siu, and calamari. The poke slams together flavors that don’t, on paper, make much sense: butter-soft salmon, county-grown strawberries, marinated tomatoes from Pisa, and miso-chickpea tahini a fresh yet savory party on the palate. The rocket-red pork, served with zesty sesame-sauced cucumber slices, is addictive when slathered in the droplets of marinade (more of that, please!). The pounded calamari itself a detailed research project to refine the malleted thinness without squid obliteration is homey in the right ways, recalling Sunday nights at Petrini’s yet with the sea breeze blowing through. Oh, and creative cocktails are a must-start while the browned butter cake is a decadently deserved finale.
“We want to do food that you would expect at the beach but to do it with our own little twists,” said Riker. “We’re just trying to elevate that beachfront cuisine by using great ingredients. I’m utilizing my world travels.
The whole team which includes general manager Antonio Gerli, who’s run his own and other people’s restaurants here (Sorriso Italiano, Due Lune, Lilac Pâtisserie, the Bacara) for more than a decade is honest and aware that everything is a work in progress.
“We’re just getting started, and this is a good starting point,” said Riker. “We’ll evolve as we go.”
The lingering tide that The Ellwood faces is that it’s replacing The Beachside, the beloved institution that decided to shut doors in 2021 after 36 years of service. It was a go-to for generations of Goletans, UCSB employees and students (and their paying parents), and anyone needing decent, relatively affordable seaside sustenance in a coastal region rather lacking in sand-front eateries. The Ellwood dinner menu, by comparison, is not cheap, but you do get what you pay for.
“The quality of the product dictates that,” said Khashen. “I could serve you a worse steak and charge you less, but the rate of our markup is the same. Is that what you want? Or do you want a better piece of fish?”
He’s beyond cognizant of the role that his establishment must play in the community, and just launched a more affordable lunch menu with brunch, bar, and happy hour menus forthcoming. Don’t forget about the second chapter either: The Coop, a walk-up eatery with straightforward beach fare to eat on picnic benches, and The Break, an adjacent event venue, both of which are being constructed right now across the wharf alley in a former storage yard.
“Once we roll out the other parts of the project, those price points will be a little more reachable for everyone,” said Khashen. “If we could do it over again, I would have done that side first.”
I feel a tangible sense of relief from Khashen now, who’s finally able to serve what he’s been thinking about for a significant portion of our lives. “It feels good,” he told me of overcoming so much. “All that makes any challenge we’re facing now feel light.”
I’m happy that he’s finally poised to achieve what he seeks. “Hopefully, we’re the first place that people think of when they’re going out for a celebration or a date night,” said Khashen. “There are some institutions in town where people love to go, like Lucky’s or Harry’s. I want to be in that conversation.”
I’ll find an incredible ingredient, jot it down, and take it with me.”
The Ellwood team, from left: Michael Montone, bar lead; Chris Jow, director of operations; Omar Khashen, owner; Lauren Plumley, assistant general manager; Antonio Gerli, general manager, wine specialist, and events coordinator; and Craig Riker, chef
The patio at The Ellwood now takes advantage of those killer views.
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Amada Cellars Builds a Home
Ramon and Sandra Guerrero Finally Return Their Family to Santa Barbara County
BY MATT KETTMANN
Now is probably a good time to dust off that original notion of the American dream, in which education, determination, and hard work leads to success even, if not especially, for immigrants. Add to that a love of family, a thriving next generation, and intense passion for an avocation in this case, wine and you’ve got the outline for the story of Amada Cellars, the vineyard and winery owned by Ramon and Sandra Guerrero.
More than two decades after buying their own slice of land and planting a vineyard near the Santa Ynez River, the Guerreros just opened their first tasting room on a prominent corner in Los Alamos. They’ll be celebrating with a party on April 19.
“Everything we do is crafted with love,” Ramon explained to me in an email introducing himself and convincing me to visit. “Amada means ‘beloved’ in Spanish. Our logo represents a dahlia. The dahlia is the national flower of Mexico, and this symbol connects us to our Mexican heritage. At the core of the dahlia is a heart. The heart represents the love, warmth, and compassion that defines our culture.”
Both Ramon and Sandra were born in Mexico he in Guadalajara, she in Juarez but arrived in the Santa Barbara area by junior high, he graduating from Santa Barbara High, she from Dos Pueblos two years later. He decided to become a doctor after a teacher convinced him to participate in a science fair, where he decided to study asthma because he’d dealt with that since childhood. In what would never be allowed today, Guerrero pricked his fellow students’ fingers, tested their blood, and found that those who had asthma all had high levels of a certain white blood cell. His exhibit won the tri-county competition.
“I was pretty much a big geek in high school,” he admitted. But at a multi-school function during his senior year, Ramon asked a sophomore girl named Sandra to dance. “We’ve been together ever since,” he said. “It’s been over 45 years.”
He was soon off on a scholarship to Carleton College in Minnesota, figuring his relationship with Sandra would just be a casualty of his career aspirations. But her grandmother, whose name was Amada, thought Ramon was
a keeper, and ensured Sandra knew as much. “I went to college and Sandra and Amada made sure I didn’t forget about Sandra,” said Ramon, who was showered with baked goods through the mail that warmed up his time in frigid Minnesota.
They moved to Northern California together in the late 1980s so Ramon could attend medical school at UC Davis, which is where they first went wine tasting. When initially invited, they thought it would be expensive, and declined. But then their friend said, “It’s free! Just bring a picnic.”
“We loved it,” said Ramon, who recalls being at Sequoia Grove when he leaned into Sandra, asking, “Wouldn’t it be great to someday do something like this?” She demurred, “Just concentrate on your career right now.” He understood, explaining, “I do get sidetracked quite a bit.”
He originally wanted to be in general surgery, but realized that job was nonstop during a two-year residency at a hospital in Oakland. One weekend, despite all of his attempts not to, he missed his young son’s birthday. On Monday, he told his boss he wanted to change jobs, and did some anesthesiology rotations. “They were talking about what they were doing on the weekend and for vacation,” he recalled. “That never happened in surgery.”
His anesthesiology residency took the couple to Galveston, Texas, and then he joined a large group in Plano outside of Dallas, where they lived from 1993 to 2019, raising two sons and a daughter along the way. They always longed to come back to Santa Barbara, so in 2002, they bought an empty 17-acre lot on flat land near the Santa Ynez River. Ramon quickly said to Sandra, “Why don’t we plant a vineyard?” To which she replied, “You’re loco!”
Crazy or not, Guerrero approached Sunstone Winery’s vineyard manager Salvador Bernal to help, and Bernal offered services for free, planting four acres of syrah that same year. Those grapes would form the foundation for Meadowlark Vineyards, the Guerreros’ original brand, most of which was sold in Texas.
Over time, they grafted some of the syrah over to grenache, cabernet sauvignon, and just enough sauvignon blanc to make a barrel each year. They recently launched Amada to better represent their heritage, and signed a lease on the new tasting room two years ago. Fast-forward
Amada Cellars is now open at 490 Bell Street, Suite 104, in Los Alamos. They’re throwing a grand opening celebration with wine and food on April 19. See amadacellars.com or call (805) 245-4768.
through the usual rounds of frustrating permit issues, and they’re finally open, pouring both the Amada and Meadowlark wines.
They’re also selling something totally unique: Amada Wine Pearls, which are beautifully crafted, golf-ball-sized cake pops made with wine (or not, for the non-alcoholic versions). They were developed with the help of family friend Monica Robles. “We call her the Mexican Mary Poppins,” laughed Ramon. Having studied pastry in Mexico, she brought cake pops to their granddaughter’s baptism, which inspired the development and trademarking of Amada Wine Pearls.
These sweet treats are just the literal icing on the Guerrero family’s cake. Their granddaughter, Serena, and daughter, Dahlia, (who is also a radiologist, focused on breast cancer) now live on their property, and their middle son, Esteban, who is very interested in cooking and winemaking, is also a physician, moving back to town soon to become the associate medical director of the Chumash Tribal Clinic. Their youngest, Daniel, is not a doctor, instead flying the F-35 stealth fighter for the Air Force, and will be stationed in Alaska for the next couple of years.
Though now moving quite quickly into the future, this generational saga does ultimately emerge from the past. When Ramon was a child, growing up in the old trailer park at the freeway end of Salinas Street, his father was a gardener for exclusive estates in Montecito, even being named the wealthy town’s top landscaper one year.
“I loved helping him,” recalls the doctor-turned-vintner. “I loved the plants.” n
Amada Cellars’ sauvignon blanc
Ramon and Sandra Guerrero of Amada Cellars
Haas’s Fine Ice Cream Opens at Five Points
Reader Cyndie let me know that Haas’s Fine Ice Cream, which serves McConnell’s Fine Ice Cream, has opened at 3987 State Street (Five Points Shopping Center) in the space that use to house the cash register for Fresco Café, which closed in 2023 after a brief move downtown. This dessert destination is immediately next door to Little Alex’s which took over the rest of the former-Fresco space last May. Haas’s offers cones, cups, sandwiches, sundaes, floats, and milkshakes. The dessert destination was founded in this exact space in 1982. Welcome home!
RUSTY’S PIZZA OPENS IN ISLA VISTA: Reader Brendan reports that Rusty’s Pizza has opened in Isla Vista at 6583 Pardall Road, the former home of Rockfire Grill, Rincon Brewery, and Giovanni’s Pizza. In 1969, Roger and Carol Duncan launched the first Rusty’s Pizza just one block away, where Dublin’s Sports Grill is now.
renovating the building. There is no estimated time of completion, but they hope to be done by Memorial Day weekend, if not sooner.
LUCKY’S ADDING TWO NEW LOCATIONS: Lucky’s Steakhouse at 1279 Coast Village Road in Montecito will have a total of five locations by the end of the year. In addition to the flagship eatery on the South Coast, Lucky’s has outlets in Malibu, and the SoHo district in New York City. Plans are now underway to open a location in the Hamptons. The Hamptons, part of the East End of Long Island, consists of the towns of Southampton and East Hampton, which together compose the South Fork of Long Island, in Suffolk County, New York.
YETZ’S DELI OPENS IN ISLA VISTA: While checking out the new Rusty’s Pizza in Isla Vista, I noticed that Yetz’s Deli has replaced PokeCeviche at 901 Embarcadero del Mar where it meets Pardall Road. PokeCeviche had opened in October 2017. Yetz’s Deli shares its name and founder with the business next door, Yetz’s Bagels, the bagel shop that took over the restaurant Dank Bowl Kitchen in March 2024. Yetz’s Deli primarily sells sandwiches and salads, according to UCSB alum and owner Daniel Dunietz. A second Yetz’s Bagels will be opening nearby in the Target Center next to Lucky Coin Laundry. Visit yetzsbagels.com.
RENOVATION OF THE CHASE BEGINS: A fire started on the morning of Sunday, October 13, 2024, in a storage room at the Chase Restaurant, 1012 State Street, and firefighters were able to put out the blaze within a half-hour. Smoke and water damage caused the restaurant to close until it could be fixed. Reader Primetime tells me that workers unlocked the door and have started
A Lucky’s location is also coming to the famed Mateo Street, which is downtown Los Angeles’s revitalized Arts District. Lucky’s Steakhouse will be anchoring a Funk Zone–like project at 718-726 Mateo Street, which is a vintage industrial building constructed in 1923 and upgraded in 2021 into a spacious retail and restaurant-ready space with a private outdoor patio. Thanks to reader Primetime for the tip!
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HAPPY MONTH AT PASCUCCI DURING APRIL: As a special thank-you to their customers, April is Happy Month at Pascucci, 509 State Street. They always have a great happy hour Monday through Friday, 3-6 p.m., but during Happy Month, Pascucci will be offering happy hour drink prices seven days a week, opening to closing, including house wine for $5 per glass, well cocktails for $5, house margarita (100 percent agave tequila) for $6, and bottle beer for $4.
“Please continue supporting us as we need your help because we have a lot of remodeling to do,” says owner Laura Knight about their new location opening in May at 1230-A State Street, the former home of Saigon. “We are very excited about our new location in the Arts District, where we’ll be nestled between the Arlington and Granada theaters.”
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ARIES
(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): Have you ever been part of an innovation team? Its goal is not simply to develop as many new ideas and approaches as possible, but rather to generate good, truly useful new ideas and approaches. The most effective teams don’t necessarily move with frantic speed. In fact, there’s value in “productive pausing” strategic interludes of reflection that allow deeper revelations to arise. It’s crucial to know when to slow down and let hunches and insights ripen. This is excellent advice for you. You’re in a phase when innovation is needed and likely. For best results, infuse your productivity with periodic stillness.
TAURUS
(Apr. 20-May 20): Barnacles are crustaceans that form vast colonies on rocks, pilings, whales, and boats. They may grow so heavy on a ship that they increase its heft and require as much as a 40-percent increase in fuel consumption. Some sailors refer to them as “crusty foulers.” All of us have our own metaphorical equivalent of crusty foulers: encumbrances and deadweights that drag us down and inhibit our rate of progress. In my astrological opinion, the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to shed as much of yours as possible. (I’ll be shedding mine in June.)
GEMINI
(May 21-June 20): In 1088, the Chinese polymath and statesman Shen Kuo published his book Dream Torrent Essays, also translated as Dream Pool Essays. In this masterwork, he wrote about everything that intrigued and fascinated him, including the effects of lightning strikes, the nature of eclipses, how to make swords, building tall pagodas resistant to wind damage, and a pearl-like UFO he saw regularly. I think the coming weeks would be an excellent time for you to begin your own version of Dream Torrent Essays, Gemini. You could generate maximum fun and self-knowledge by compiling all the reasons you love being alive on this mysterious planet.
CANCER
(June 21-July 22): The mimosa is known as the “sensitive plant.” The moment its leaves are touched, they fold inward, exposing the sharp spines of its stems. Why do they do that? Botanists say it’s meant to deter herbivore predators from nibbling it. Although you Cancerians sometimes display equally extreme hair-trigger defense mechanisms, I’m happy to say that you will be unlikely to do so in the coming weeks. You are primed to be extra bold and super-responsive. Here’s one reason why: You are finely tuning your protective instincts so they work with effective grace neither too strong nor too weak. That’s an excellent formula to make fun new connections and avoid mediocre new connections.
LEO
(July 23-Aug. 22): While sleeping on a recent night, I dreamed of an old friend I had lost touch with for 20 years. It was wonderful. We were remembering mystic breakthroughs we had while younger. When I awoke the next day, I was delighted to find an email from this friend, hoping for us to be back in touch. Hyper-rationalists might call this coincidence, but I know it was magical synchronicity evidence that we humans are connected via the psychic airways. I’m predicting at least three such events for you in the coming weeks, Leo. Treat them with the reverence they deserve. Take them seriously as signs of things you should pay closer attention to.
VIRGO
(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A star that astronomers call EBLM J0555-57Ab is 670 light years away. Its diameter is the smallest of any known star, just a bit larger than Saturn in our solar system. But its mass is 250 times greater than Saturn’s. It’s concentrated and potent. I’ll be inclined to compare you to EBLM J0555-57Ab in the coming weeks, Virgo. Like this modest-sized powerhouse, you will be stronger and more impactful than you may appear. The quality you offer will be more effective than others’ quantity. Your focused, dynamic efficiency could make you extra influential.
LIBRA
(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk was an influential musician in part because he didn’t conform to conventions. According to music writer Tarik Moody, Monk’s music features “dissonances and angular melodic twists, and are consistent with his unorthodox approach to the piano, which combined a highly percussive attack with abrupt, dramatic use of switched key releases, silences, and hesitations.” Many of Monk’s most innovative improvisations grew out of apparent mistakes. He explored and developed wrong notes to make them into intentional aspects of his compositions. “His genius,” said another critic, “lay in his ability to transform accidents into opportunities.” I’d love to see you capitalize on that approach, Libra. You now have the power to ensure that seeming gaffes and glitches will yield positive and useful results.
SCORPIO
(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Author Richard Wright said that people “can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.” That’s rarely a problem for Scorpios, since you are among the zodiac’s best sleuths when exploring your inner depths. Does any other sign naturally gather more self-realization than you? No! But having said that, I want to alert you to the fact that you are entering a phase when you will benefit from even deeper dives into your mysterious depths. It’s an excellent time to wander into the frontiers of your self-knowledge.
SAGITTARIUS
(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Andean condors hunt for prey while flying through the sky with their 10-foot wingspan. They’ve got a good strategy for conserving their energy: riding on thermal currents with little effort, often soaring for vast distances. I recommend that you channel the Andean condor in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. Always be angling to work smarter rather than harder. Look for tricks and workarounds that will enable you to be as efficient and stress-free as possible. Trust that as you align yourself with natural flows, you will cover a lot of ground with minimal strain. Celebrate the freedom that comes from embracing ease.
CAPRICORN
(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): While hiking in nature, people often rely on their phones to navigate. And what if their battery dies or there’s poor cell service out in the middle of nowhere? They might use an old-fashioned compass. It won’t reveal which direction to go, but will keep the hiker apprised of where true north lies. In that spirit, Capricorn, I invite you to make April the month you get in closer communication with your own inner compass. It’s a favorable and necessary time to become even more highly attuned to your ultimate guide and champion: the voice of the teacher within you.
AQUARIUS
(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “It is advisable to look from the tide pool to the stars and then back to the tide pool.” Aquarian author John Steinbeck wrote that. I think it’s useful counsel for you in the coming weeks. What does it imply? Here are a few meditations. (1) Be tuned in to both the small personal world right in front of you and the big picture of the wider world. Balance and coordinate your understandings of them. (2) If you shift your perspective back and forth between the macrocosmic and microcosmic perspectives, you’re far more likely to understand how life really works. (3) You may flourish best by blending the evaluative powers of your objective, rational analysis and your intuitive, nonrational feelings.
PISCES
(Feb. 19-Mar. 20): The earliest humans used bones and pebbles to assist in arithmetic calculations. Later, they got help from abacuses and crude mechanical devices. Electronic calculators didn’t arrive until the 1960s. All were efforts to bypass tedious reckonings. All were ingenious attempts to manage necessary details that weren’t much fun. In that spirit, I encourage you to seek time-saving, boredom-preventing innovations in the coming weeks. Now is an excellent time to maximize your spacious ability to do things you love to do.
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SERVICES
Manages the administrative aspects of various internal inspectors, contracted inspection teams, special inspectors as well as plans examiners by coordinating their activity and technical work. Serves as an expert on building code issues and advises the following areas on both routine and complex code compliance related issues: Project Management staff, Building Official, Fire Marshal, Director of Design & Construction Services, Director of Facilities Management and the Director of Housing, Dining and Auxiliary Services. Position is considered a subject matter expert on all code compliance and must possess the highest level of technical expertise in addition to familiarizing and obtaining a detailed working knowledge of specific systems at the UCSB campus location. In conjunction with the Associate Director/Certified Building Official, the Deputy Certified Building Official is responsible for the administration of plan review and construction inspection on campus projects, enforcement and interpretation of building codes for federal, state, and local legislation, and any regulations that affect UC Santa Barbara projects. May perform plan review and construction inspection on various campus projects in the UCSB portfolio. Provides direct oversight of other campus inspectors and coordinates all record‑keeping requirements for inspections. Participates in pre‑bid functions, constructability reviews, and construction review meetings. Ensures that Design and Construction projects comply with applicable model building code requirements and other state regulations, such as fire and life safety, energy conservation, and universal access. Reqs: Required Bachelor’s degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training. 10+ years Experience as an architect, engineer, inspector, contractor or superintendent of construction, or any combination of these. 5+ years demonstrated experience as a Plans Examiner for a jurisdiction. 10+ years Experience as a construction inspector. Demonstrated knowledge / skill in construction inspection, code compliance and plan‑check. Demonstrated knowledge of campus / medical center construction environment including infrastructure and applicable rules, regulations, laws, policies and practices. Proven personnel management knowledge / skills. Demonstrated financial management knowledge / skills. Proven written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, including effective negotiation skills and well‑developed political acumen. Creative problem solving skill and ability. Demonstrated organizational
and analytical skills. Ability to ensure compliance with codes and contract documents, while meeting project schedules and mandates. Notes: Required to hold a valid driver’s license, have a driving record that is in accordance with local policies and procedures, and/or enroll in the California Employer Pull Notice Program. Form 700 Filers (statement of economic interest). Applies to employees who make or influence governmental decisions and ensures no conflict of interest for designated officials. Satisfactory criminal history background check. Master key access to University‑owned residence and/ or other facilities. Responsibility for operating commercial vehicles, machinery or toxic systems that could cause accidental death, injury or health problems. A requirement for a professional license, certification or degree, the absence of which would expose the University to legal liability and/or adverse public reaction. Direct access to, and/or responsibility for, protected, personal, or other sensitive data. Hiring/Budgeted Salary Range: $135,000 to $155,000/year. Full Salary Range: $104,900 to $198,900/ year. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Please visit: https:// policy.ucop. edu/doc/4010393/ PPSM‑20; https://policy.ucop.edu/ doc/1001004/Anti‑Discrimination. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #77044
HOUSING DISABILITY ACCOMMODATIONS
COORDINATOR
RESIDENTIAL AND COMMUNITY LIVING
Is responsible for assessing, coordinating, and implementing disability‑related accommodations in campus housing and associated services, ensuring that campus residents with disabilities receive equitable access to campus housing and associated services in compliance with University, State, and Federal disability guidelines. Reqs: Advanced degree in Special Education, Education, Counseling or combination of an advanced degree and related experience and/or equivalent training or experience. Professional experience in post‑secondary settings with students who have disabilities. Working knowledge of support services and accommodation methods, preferably in the area of housing or other auxiliary services. Skill in analyzing problems to formulate logical and objective conclusions. Skill in developing recommendations which lead to major changes in policy, procedures and practices. Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with other administrative personnel to accomplish desired outcome. Skill in establishing rapport and gaining the trust of others. Skill in working with support staff. Ability to organize and teach workshops and support groups to assist students with disabilities to develop personal understanding about disability‑related issues. Skill in negotiating, mediation and conflict resolution; exchanging ideas and opinions with others to
formulate policies and programs and arrive jointly at conclusions and resolutions. Demonstrated knowledge of policies and procedures on‑campus, especially those governing student housing, transportation and access for people with disabilities. Skill in communicating effectively orally and in writing to obtain and convey information. Interpersonal skills to interact sensitively with students (with various disabilities and from diverse backgrounds) and with campus colleagues, governmental officials and community representatives. Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with other staff members, subordinates and management. Ability to assist in general office functions when needed. Working knowledge of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Assembly Bill 746, the federal Fair Housing Act, and California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act. Working knowledge of UC Guidelines and Practices, and University Policy as they pertain to students with disabilities. Notes: Mandated reporting requirements of Child Abuse Mandated reporting requirement of Dependent Adult Abuse. UCSB Campus Security Authority under Clery Act. Satisfactory criminal history background check. Budgeted Pay Rate/Range: $69,500 to $96,500/year. Full Pay Range: $69,500 to $123,500/year. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Please visit: https://policy. ucop. edu/doc/4010393/PPSM‑20; https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/1001004/ Anti‑Discrimination. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #77057
HVAC MECHANIC
RESIDENTIAL OPERATIONS
Under supervision of a supervisor or lead personnel, HVAC Mechanic performs a variety of skilled tasks in connection with the installation, maintenance, and repair of HVAC systems and related equipment for the University owned Residence Halls, Apartments, Dining Commons and related buildings to accomplish the operational needs of the department. In compliance with HDAE goals and objectives, affirms, and implements the department’s Educational Equity Plan comprising short and long‑term objectives that reflect a systematic approach to preparing students and staff for success in a multicultural society. Works in an environment, which is ethnically diverse and culturally pluralistic. Works effectively in a team environment. Reqs: 4+ years of journeyman experience as a trades craftsman in the area of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), boiler systems, or equivalent combination of education and experience. Experience with HVAC systems, or equivalent work experience. HVAC Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Certification. Skills to use and maintain tools and equipment in a safe and secure manner. Works effectively in a team environment. Excellent interpersonal and customer
service skills. Notes: Required to hold a valid driver’s license, have a driving record that is in accordance with local policies and procedures, and/or enroll in the California Employer Pull Notice Program. Satisfactory criminal history background check. Pay Rate/ Range: $45.65/hour. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4010393/ PPSM‑20. For the University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/ doc/1001004/Anti‑Discrimination. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu
Job #77115
INFORMATION SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT
Responsible for strategic planning, security, operation, and acquisition of information technology as it supports the research, education and administrative functions of the Department of Mathematics. Responsible for maintaining a complex departmental computing infrastructure. Responsible for the installation, configuration, and maintenance of operating systems, services, and user applications for Windows, Linux and Mac OS environments. Responsible for administration of network services, departmental backup systems, financial back up systems, a variety of computational applications, productivity tools running on departmental servers, faculty and visitor workstations. Directly responsible for the implementation and reliability of the department technical environment, based upon goals and available resources. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent training and/or experience. Notes: Satisfactory conviction history background check. Occasional evening or weekend work. The budgeted salary range is $85,400 to $115,000/year. The full salary range is $85,400 to $156,800/ year. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.https://policy. ucop. edu/doc/4010393/PPSM‑20. https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/1001004/ Anti‑Discrimination. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job#76607
MEDICAL ASSISTANT‑ EMT/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
NOW HIRING
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 annually thereafter, completed by UCSB Environmental Health & Safety.
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
The Santa Barbara Independent is seeking an in-house graphic designer to join its team. Candidates must have knowledge and experience with Adobe Creative Cloud on a Mac platform. Experience with layout design, print publishing, and file handling, preferred. The candidate will possess strong and professional communication skills, and be able to work well under pressure. This position works alongside multiple departments and under strict deadlines. Starting hourly rate: $18 per hour. EOE F/M/D/V. No phone calls, please.
EMPLOYMENT (CONT.)
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. UC Santa Barbara is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy, please visit: https:// policy.ucop. edu/doc/4010393/ PPSM‑20. For the University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/ doc/1001004/Anti‑Discrimination Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu Job #70317
PHYSICAL THERAPY SUPERVISOR
STUDENT HEALTH
Under the general direction of the Student Health Medical Director, the Physical Therapy Supervisor is responsible for the operation of the Student Health Physical Therapy department which has a staff of 2 physical therapists, a physical therapist specializing in orthotics (independent contractor), 1 physical therapy assistant, a physical therapy aide and an office manager. Duties include but are not limited to: designing the master schedule, managing equipment, ensuring patient satisfaction, managing staff issues and providing direct outpatient care to UCSB students. Reqs: Must have a California Physical Therapist license with specialization in outpatient orthopedic therapy. Bachelor’s Degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/training. Master’s Degree or Doctorate from an accredited postgraduate program. Experience in orthopedic physical therapy rehabilitation. Experience in pelvic floor and postural restoration. 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 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. Hiring/ Budgeted Salary Range: $101,100/ year ‑ $146,700/year. Full Salary Range: $101,100/year ‑ $192,300/ year. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy, please visit: https://policy. ucop. edu/doc/4010393/PPSM‑20. For the University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/1001004/
Anti‑Discrimination. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu
Job #69547
RECEIVABLES AND BANKING SERVICES MANAGER
CONTROLLER/BUSINESS & FINANCIAL
SERVICES
Provides leadership and strategic planning support for the Business and Financial Services (BFS) Receivables and Banking Services Unit, working collaboratively and effectively with the Controller, Associate Controller, Managers, and staff to meet the mission and strategic goals of the unit. The Units responsibilities include student billing, sundry receivables, debt recovery support, and campus‑wide cash handling operations. Key areas of responsibility include overseeing student billing and collections, campus credit card merchant processing, cash handling controls, petty cash programs, departmental bank deposit processing, electronic payment processing, and payment processing for students and other miscellaneous transactions. The Manager is responsible for oversight of campus Cash Handling and Credit Card Coordinators making final decisions in areas where errors can have a serious impact on the overall success of the unit or the campus as a whole. The Manager is the functional owner of systems for student receivables, cashiering, and non‑student receivables ensuring their effective operation. Responsible for the campus PCI credit card security compliance program and for the coordination of campus financial internal controls to ensure compliance with federal, state, and system‑wide policy and regulations in areas of oversight. The Manager represents the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in system‑wide and campus‑wide meetings and discussions and is recognized as an influential leader. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training. 4‑6 years Demonstrated experience in developing and monitoring service standards and performance metrics to ensure a high level of customer and employee satisfaction. 4‑6 years Proven experience in cash handling, billing, and collections operations, demonstrating meticulous management of complex financial transactions. 4‑6 years Supervisory experience in a business finance role. Notes: Satisfactory criminal history background check. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship. Salary or Hourly Range: $116,000 to $137,640/ yr. Full Salary Range: $116,000 to $224,200/ yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. https://policy. ucop. edu/doc/4010393/PPSM‑20. https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/1001004/ Anti‑Discrimination.Open until filled Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu, Job # 76539
SR. AUTO EQUIPMENT OPERATOR
RESIDENTIAL OPERATIONS
Performs a variety of operational duties in shipping, receiving, distribution, and record keeping and performs manual duties in the loading and unloading of material shipped to and from the campus. Delivers freight shipments, and other types of shipments to campus departments. Operates a variety of vehicles and material handling equipment on a daily basis. Assists in the receipt of goods.
LEGALS
Uses computerized databases and internet. Fills orders, including large janitorial supply orders and delivers them to Janitorial and Housing closets around campus. Assists the Physical Resource Coordinator with receiving and stocking merchandise, moves furniture and merchandise to maximize warehouse space, helps with physical inventory count at yearend and oversees the warehouse function in the Supervisor’s absence. Prepares outgoing shipments by using various shipping methods and vendor services in accordance with UC policies and procedures and processes outgoing shipments using vendor supplied computerized shipping applications and assists with department record keeping and data management tasks. Reqs: 1‑3 years Experience in warehouse, shipping and receiving.
1‑3 years Experience in a delivery or related role. Minimum one year work experience driving large delivery vehicles/box trucks. Must have a valid class C CDL, and pass a background check. Work experience demonstrating forklift certification is required. Must be able to lift/move 50 lbs safely. Ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing and work with a diverse clientele and work group. Able to speak English fluently. Excellent customer service and organizational skills. Ability to work effectively both in a group and individually in a service oriented environment subject to frequently changing priorities. Ability to understand and apply University and Department policies and procedures to specific situations. Utilizes modes of office communication such as Google Mail, Docs, Sheets, and Calendar to effectively collaborate with coworkers. Actively aware of their environment, and demonstrates safety conscientiousness and attention to detail at all times. Notes: Able to frequently lift / move up to 50 pounds. Required to hold a valid driver’s license, have a driving record that is in accordance with local policies and procedures, and/or enroll in the California Employer Pull Notice Program. Satisfactory criminal history background check. Pay Rate/Range: $23.50/hr to $28.07hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Please visit: https://policy. ucop. edu/doc/4010393/PPSM‑20; https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/1001004/ Anti‑Discrimination. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 76837
ADMINISTER OF ESTATE
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ALBERTA WILLIAMS No.: 25PR00135
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: ALBERTA WILLIAMS A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: TERRY WILLIAMS in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.
THE PETITION requests that (name): TERRY WILLIAMS 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: 05/15/2025 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: SB5 Room: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street PO Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93101. ANACAPA DIVISION.
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk. Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer 3/19/2025 by Monica Buenrostro ,Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: George E. Robinson, Esq.; 2900 W. Horizon Ridge Parkway, Suite 200, Henderson, NY 89052; 702‑451‑2055
Published: Mar 27. Apr 3, 10 2025.
PETITION FOR PROBATE
ESTATE OF: CAROLE J MENNIE
CASE NUMBER: 25PR00071
DECEDENT Probate of Lost Will and for Letters Testamentary Probate of Lost Will and for Letters of Administration with Wilt Annexed Letters of Administration Letters of Special Authorization to Administer Under the independent Administration of Estates Act
1. Publication will be in (Santa Barbara Independent):
a. Publication to be arranged.
2. Petitioner (name each): Raissa Patton requests that a. decedents will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. b. (name): Raissa Patton at (1) executor (2) administrator with will be annexed (3) ED administrator (4) ED special administrator J with general powers and Letters issue upon qualification. HEARING DATE AND TIME: April 15, 2025; 9:00am; Dept 5 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara 1100 Anacapa St Santa Barbara, CA 93101;
PROBATE
c. full limited authority be granted to the administrator under the independent Administration of Estates Act. 4. (1) bond not be required for the reasons stated in item 3e. (2) C:1 $ bond be fixed. The bond will be furnished by an admitted surety insurer or as otherwise provided by law. (Specify reasons in Attachment
2 if the amount is different from the maximum required by Prob. Code,
§ 8482.) (3) =1 $ in deposits in a blocked account be allowed. Receipts will be filed. (Specify institution and location): 3. a. Decedent died on (data): 10/30/2024 at Cottage Hospital Santa Barbara, (1) a resident of the county named above. (2) a nonresident of California and left an estate In the county named above located at (specify location permitting publication in the newspaper named In Item 1): b. Decedent was a citizen of a country other than the United States (specify country): c. Street address, city, and county of decedent’s residence at time of death (specify): 321 W Mission St. Santa Barbara, CA Published: April 3, 10 2025
BULK SALE
NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE AND OF INTENTION TO TRANSFER ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE(S) (U.C.C. 6105 et seq. and B & P 24073 et seq.) Escrow No. 25‑111918
Notice is hereby given that a bulk sale of assets and a transfer of alcoholic beverage license(s) is about to be made. The name(s) and business address(es) of the Seller(s)/Licensee(s) are: KEI & EDY, LLC SHINTORI SUSHI, 3001 STATE STREET, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93105
Doing Business as: SHINTORI SUSHI
All other business name(s) and address(es) used by the Seller(s)/Licensee(s) within the past three years, as stated by the Seller(s)/Licensee(s), is/are: None
The name(s) and address(es) of the Buyer(s)/Applicant(s) are: CHIN CHAN CHEN 1114 STATE STREET, SUITE 313 SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101
The assets being sold are generally described as: ALL STOCK, TRADE, INVENTORY, TANGIBLES AND INTANGIBLES, CHATTELS, FURNITURE, FIXTURES AND EQUIPMENT and is/are located at: SHINTORI SUSHI, 3001 STATE STREET, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93105
The type of license(s) and license no(s) to be transferred is/are: ABC LICENSE NO. 41 545228 and are now issued for the premises located at: SAME AS PROPERTY
The bulk sale and transfer of alcoholic beverage license(s) is/are intended to be consummated at the office of WFG NATIONAL TITLE COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA, 25240 HANCOCK AVENUE, SUITE 405 MURRIETA, CA 92562 and the anticipated date of sale/transfer is APRIL 21, 2025.
The purchase price or consideration in connection with the sale of the business and transfer of the license, is the sum of $85,000.00, including inventory, estimated at $0.00, which consists of the following:
DESCRIPTION: AMOUNT: GOODWILL AND/OR TRADE NAME $45,000.00
FURNITURE, FIXTURES AND EQUIPMENT
$15,000.00
LEASEHOLD IMPROVEMENTS
$20,000.00
ABC LICENSE $5,000.00
It has been agreed between the Seller(s)/Licensee(s) and the intended Buyer/Applicant(s), as required by Sec. 24073 of the Business and Professions Code, that the consideration for the transfer of the business and license is to be paid only after the transfer has been approved by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.
To satisfy the owner’s storage lien, PS Retail Sales, LLC will sell at public lien sale on April 14, 2025, the personal property in the below‑
listed units. The public sale of these items will begin at 08:25 AM and continue until all units are sold. The lien sale is to be held at the online auction website, www.storagetreasures.com, where indicated. For online lien sales, bids will be accepted until 2 hours after the time of the sale specified.
PUBLIC STORAGE # 25714, 7246 Hollister Ave, Goleta, CA 93117, (805) 324‑6770 Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 3214 ‑ PEELER, ALISON; 4104 ‑ Vargas, Joe; A257 ‑ Cantone, Anthony Sylvester; A379 ‑ Adams, Laurel; A436 ‑ Mcbrayer, Alicia; A467 ‑ URZUA, DAVID
PUBLIC STORAGE # 75078, 7246 Hollister Ave, Goleta, CA 93117, (805) 961‑8198 Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 376 ‑ Lovett, Justin M; 448 ‑ Bent, Quinnshaawna
PUBLIC STORAGE # 75079, 5425 Overpass Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93111, (805) 284‑9002 Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com.
Public sale terms, rules, and regulations will be made available prior to the sale. All sales are subject to cancellation. We reserve the right to refuse any bid. Payment must be in cash or credit card‑no checks. Buyers must secure the units with their own personal locks. To claim tax‑ exempt status, original RESALE certificates for each space purchased is required. By PS Retail Sales, LLC, 701 Western Avenue, Glendale, CA 91201. (818) 244‑8080. 4/3/25
CNS‑3911863# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE
(SECS. 6104, 6105 U.C.C. & B & P 24073 et seq.)
Notice is hereby given to creditors of the within named seller that a sale that may constitute a bulk sale has been or will be made. The individuals, partnership, or corporate names and the business addresses of the seller are: Magnolia Liquors, Inc. 5110 Hollister Ave., Goleta, CA 93111 The individuals, partnership, or corporate names and the business addresses of the buyer are: Jobes Group, Inc. 5110 Hollister Ave., Goleta, CA 93111 As listed by the seller, all other business names and addresses used by the seller within three years before the date such list was sent or delivered to the buyer are: NONE KNOWN The assets sold or to be sold are described in general as: ALL FURNITURE, FIXTURES, EQUIPMENT, TRADENAME, GOODWILL, LEASE, LEASEHOLD IMPROVEMENTS, COVENANT NOT TO COMPETE, ABC LICENSE & ALL OTHER ASSETS OF THE BUSINESS KNOWN AS: Magnolia Liquor AND ARE LOCATED AT: 5110 Hollister Ave., Goleta, CA 93111.
The place, and date on or after which, the Bulk Sale is to be consummated: Business & Escrow Service Center, Inc. 3031 Tisch Way, Suite 310 San Jose, CA 95128 on or before April 21, 2025.
The last date to file claims is April 18, 2025, unless there is a liquor license transferring in which case claims may be filed until the date the license transfers.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE AND OF INTENTION TO TRANSFER ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE(S) (UCC Sec. 6101 et seq. and B & P Sec. 24074 et seq.) Escrow No. 120‑33662‑CM
Notice is hereby given that a bulk sale
of assets and a transfer of alcoholic beverage license is about to be made. The names, and address of the Seller/ Licensee are: BEACHROK, INC., 801 SHORELINE DRIVE, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93109
The business is known as: SHORELINE BEACH CAFE
The names, and addresses of the Buyer/Transferee are: PALACINKA LLC, 519 EAST SOLA STREET, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93103
As listed by the Seller/Licensee, all other business names and addresses used by the Seller/Licensee within three years before the date such list was sent or delivered to Buyer/ Transferee are: The assets to be sold are described in general as: CERTAIN FURNITURE, FIXTURES, EQUIPMENT, GOODWILL, INVENTORY AND OTHER ASSETS OF A CERTAIN BUSINESS KNOWN AS SHORELINE BEACH CAFE and are located at: 801 SHORELINE DRIVE, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93109
The kind of license to be transferred is: 316088 ‑ 47 ON‑SALE GENERAL FOR BONA FIDE PUBLIC EATING PLACE now issued for the premises located at: 801 SHORELINE DRIVE, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93109
The anticipated date of the sale/ transfer is APRIL 21, 2025 at the office of: GLEN OAKS ESCROW, 24018 LYONS AVE. SANTA CLARITA, CA 91321. The amount of the purchase price or consideration in connection with the transfer of the license and business, including the estimated inventory, is the sum of $2,500,000.00 which consists of the following: TOTAL AMOUNT $2,500,000.00 It has been agreed between the Seller/Licensee and the intended Buyer/Transferee, as required by Sec. 24073 of the Business and Professions code, that the consideration for transfer of the business and license is to be paid only after the transfer has been approved by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. Dated: FEBRUARY 14, 2025 BEACHROK, INC., A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION PALACINKA LLC, A CALIFORNIA LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY 3547279‑PP SB INDEPENDENT 4/3/25 FBN ABANDONMENT
STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: CATERING CONNECTION: 512 Laguna St. A Santa Barbara, CA 93101 The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 10/01/2024 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original File no. FBN 2024‑0002293. The persons or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Catering Connection 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 Mar 18, 2025 Signed by: URSULA O NEILL/ OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 3/18/25, FBN 2025‑0000733, E72. 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: Mar 27. Apr 3, 10, 17 2025.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TRACI LYNN’S CONSIGNMENT & BOUTIQUE: 240 E Hwy 246 103B Buellton, CA 93427; Traci L Filippin 16 (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: TRACI LYNN FILIPPIN/OWNER/ OPERATOR with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 27, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0000546. Published: Mar 13, 20, 27. Apr
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s)
is/are doing business as: RITE AID
#5835: 345 Town Center West Santa Maria, CA 93458; Thrifty Payless, Inc. 200 Newberry Commons Etters, PA 17319 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:
BYRON PURCELL/CHIEF EXECUTIVE
OFFICER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 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 E66. FBN Number: 2025‑0000508. Published: Mar 13, 20, 27. Apr 3 2025.
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STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ZAPP: 460 Camino Del Remedio, Unit A Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Beluck Corporation (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: SITTIPORN
THANANAKEN/PRESIDENT 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 E63. FBN Number: 2025‑0000581. Published: Mar 13, 20, 27. Apr 3 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SB PRO‑FIX: 3112 Mission Drive Santa Ynez, CA 93460; Chrstian Masbanji (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: CHRISTIAN MASBANJI/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 11, 2025.
This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E72. FBN Number: 2025‑0000387. Published: Mar 13, 20, 27. Apr 3 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JP AND METAL WORK: 3112 Mission Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93460; Christian Masbanji (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 11, 2025. Filed by: CHRISTIAN MASBANJI/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 11, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E72. FBN Number: 2025‑0000388. Published: Mar 13, 20, 27. Apr 3 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RITE AID #6185: 618 Alamo Pintado Road Solvang, CA 93460; Thrifty Payless, Inc. 200 Newberry Commons Etters, PA 17319 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:
BYRON PURCELL/CHIEF EXECUTIVE
OFFICER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 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 E66. FBN Number: 2025‑0000504. Published: Mar 13, 20, 27. Apr 3 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RITE AID #5836: 2405 South Broadway Santa Maria, CA 93454; Thrifty Payless, Inc. 200 Newberry Commons Etters, PA 17319 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:
BYRON PURCELL/CHIEF EXECUTIVE
OFFICER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 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 E66. FBN Number: 2025‑0000506. Published: Mar 13, 20, 27. Apr 3 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RITE AID #5791: 199 North Fairview Avenue Goleta, CA 93117; Thrifty Payless, Inc. 200 Newberry Commons Etters, PA 17319 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:
BYRON PURCELL/CHIEF EXECUTIVE
OFFICER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 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 E66. FBN Number: 2025‑0000509. Published: Mar 13, 20, 27. Apr 3 2025.
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STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SOUTHERN
COAST JANITORIAL: 133 E De La Guerra #221 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Thomas Daniel 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 Jan 1, 1986.
Filed by: THOMAS RAMIREZ/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 28, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0000566. Published: Mar 13, 20, 27. Apr 3 2025.
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Public Notice
The Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District (District) will hold a virtual public workshop and two public hearings on the proposed budget for fiscal year 2025-26. A copy of the proposed budget is available for review at www.ourair.org
Air Pollution Control District VIRTUAL Budget Workshop Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 10:00 a.m.
To participate in the Zoom virtual workshop: https://tinyurl.com/2025APCDBudgetWorkshop Zoom Webinar ID: 831 5445 4071
The following methods of participation are available to the public:
By email: If you wish to make a comment at the public workshop on the proposed budget for FY 2025-26, please submit your comment via email by Monday, April 14, 2025 at 5:00 p.m., prior to the Public Workshop, to the Clerk of the Board at las@sbcapcd.org
By Zoom: Members of the public participating via Zoom and wishing to be called on for public comment should click on the “Raise Hand” button on Zoom when public comment is requested. All attendees will remain in listen-only mode unless unmuted by APCD staff to provide public comment. Members of the public will not be able to share their video or computer screen.
By telephone: Individuals wishing to give public comment via phone are asked to call the number below at least 10 minutes prior to the start of the meeting at 9:50 a.m.
Dial-In: +1 (669) 900-6833
Webinar ID: 831 5445 4071
To express your desire to speak using the “Raise Your Hand” feature on the phone, dial *9 when public comment is requested. All attendees will remain in listen-only mode unless unmuted by APCD staff to provide public comment.
Air Pollution Control District Board Budget Hearings Information and Comments Budget Adoption
Thursday, May 15, 2025, 1:00 p.m. Thursday, June 26, 2025, 1:00 p.m. Board of Supervisors Hearing Rm. Board of Supervisors Hearing Rm. 105 E. Anapamu Street 511 East Lakeside Parkway Santa Barbara, CA 93101 Santa Maria, CA 93455
Please note that the times for the Board hearings are approximate. Call the District Board Clerk at (805) 979-8282 for exact agenda placement. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, individuals needing special accommodations to participate in the meeting should contact the District at least three working days prior to the scheduled meeting.
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RITE AID
#5788: 35 South Milpas Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Thrifty Payless, Inc. 200 Newberry Commons Etters, PA 17319 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:
BYRON PURCELL/CHIEF EXECUTIVE
OFFICER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 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 E66. FBN Number: 2025‑0000518. Published: Mar 13, 20, 27. Apr 3 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RITE AID #5790: 1976 Cliff Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Thrifty Payless, Inc. 200 Newberry Commons Etters, PA 17319 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:
BYRON PURCELL/CHIEF EXECUTIVE
OFFICER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 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 E66. FBN Number: 2025‑0000516. Published: Mar 13, 20, 27. Apr 3 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MY MANAGEMENT COMPANY: 2729 Puesta Del Sol Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Santa Barbara Glow (same address) This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jan 1, 2025. Filed by: SEANA SEARS/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 18, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E66. FBN Number: 2025‑0000446. Published: Mar 13, 20, 27. Apr 3 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KIRO AUTOMOTIVE LLC: 410 Anacapa St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Kiro Automotive LLC (same address) This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Feb 19, 2025. Filed by: KIRIL ILIEV/PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 28, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E72. FBN Number: 2025‑0000567. Published: Mar 13, 20, 27. Apr 3 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SANFORD WINERY: 5010 Santa Rosa Lompoc, CA 93436; SWC Management, LLC 900 Armour Drive Lake Bluff, IL 60044 This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Partnership. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Dec 18, 2007. Filed by: THE PHYSICAL LOCATION WHERE THEY AND THE/MANAGER OF SWC MANAGEMENT, GENERAL PARTNER OF SANFORD 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: 2025‑0000529. Published: Mar 13, 20, 27. Apr 3 2025.
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STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SEA TO SILVER: 53 Touran Lane Goleta, CA 93117; Nicole C Bullemer (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business
under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Feb 8, 2025. Filed by: NICOLE BULLEMER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 5, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0000593. Published: Mar 13, 20, 27. Apr 3 2025.
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STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA FAMILY WELLNESS: 55 Hitchcock Way Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Jetta M Harris 1628 State Street #3 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Mar 6, 2025. Filed by: JETTA HARRIS/ OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 6, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E28. FBN Number: 2025‑0000601. Published: Mar 13, 20, 27. Apr 3 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PURIFIED ENVIRONMENTS: 5511 Ekwill St, Suite D Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Master Clean USA, INC PO Box 8032 Goleta, CA 93118 This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jun 23, 2003. Filed by: LUPITA SOLIS/OPERATIONS MANAGER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 3, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0000622. Published: Mar 13, 20, 27. Apr 3 2025.
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STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CONEJO SERVICES: 2639 Lavery Court #7 Newbury Park, CA 93120; Conejo Valley Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jan 1, 2024. Filed by: LESLIE HODGES/ CFO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 10, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0000632. Published: Mar 13, 20, 27. Apr 3 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RACQUETLAB, RACQUETLABSB: 1530 Hillcrest Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93103; David Malina (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Feb 1, 2025. Filed by: DAVID MALINA/ OWNER of Santa Barbara County on Mar 3, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0000579. Published: Mar 13, 20, 27. Apr 3 2025.
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STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ANNA KREATIVE STUDIO: 1620 Laguna St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Anna Clarke PO Box 90209 Santa Barbara, CA 93190 This business is conducted by A Individual. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 6, 2021. Filed by: ANNA CLARKE with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 3, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E66. FBN Number: 2025‑0000577. Published: Mar 13, 20, 27. Apr 3 2025.
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STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: VIVA PARTY
DELIGHTS 1210 Cacique St, Unit 30 Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Yaritza Lopez Francisco PO Box 30972 Santa Barbara, CA 93130 This business is conducted by An Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on NA. Filed by: YARITZA LOPEZ FRANCISCO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 07, 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 E57. FBN Number: 2025‑0000356. Published: Mar 20, 27. Apr 3, 10, 2025.
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STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CLARITY COLONICS SANTA BARBARA 1205 De la Vina Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Samara Jade (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 NA. Filed by: HALEY PARKER/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 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: 2025‑0000487. Published: Mar 20, 27. Apr 3, 10, 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SKIP AHEAD CONSULTING INC.: 5511 Ek11 St. Suite D Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Skip Ahead Consulting 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 19, 2025. Filed by: LUPITA SOLIS/OPERATIONS 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 E30. FBN Number: 20245‑0000691. Published: Mar 20, 27. Apr 3, 10 2025.
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STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SOUL CITY SURVIVORS: 2043 Mountain Avenue Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Winfield Shiras (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Sep 18, 2014. Filed by: WINFIELD SHIRAS/ SOLE PROPRIETOR with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 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: 2024‑0000494. Published: Mar 20, 27. Apr 3, 10 2025.
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STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DIGI‑FLEX SOLUTIONS: 5320 Carpinteria Ave Unit B Carpinteria, CA 93013; Marcos A Chavez 5320 Carpinteria Ave Unit 54 Carpinteria, CA 93013 This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Feb 1, 2025. Filed by: MARCOS CHAVEZ/ OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 10, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0000631. Published: Mar 20, 27. Apr 3, 10 2025.
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STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SOLE NUTRITION: 30 Tinker Way Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Gina D Moor (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 28, 2025. Filed by: GINA MOORE/REGISTERED DIETITIAN NUTRITONIST with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County
on Mar 12, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E72. FBN Number: 2024‑0000658. Published: Mar 20, 27. Apr 3, 10 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FRESH SPACE SOLUTIONS SB INC: 1629 Fresh Space Solutions SB Inc. PO Box 91809 Santa Barbara, CA 93190 This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Feb 12, 2025. Filed by: NANCY D’AMATO/PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 18, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E66. FBN Number: 2024‑0000445. Published: Mar 20, 27. Apr 3, 10 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: IGEEKSOLDTOWN: 5760 Hollister Ave Goleta, CA 93117; Adrian I Juarez Huerta (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 10, 2025. Filed by: ADRIAN I JUAREZ HUERTA/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 11, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E63. FBN Number: 2024‑0000645. Published: Mar 20, 27. Apr 3, 10 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE LEGACY LOUNGE: 1117 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Jack K Azar PO Box 241 Summerland, CA 93067 This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jan 2, 2025. Filed by: JACK AZAR/ FOUNDING MEMBER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 11, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0000654. Published: Mar 20, 27. Apr 3, 10 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. FBN 2025‑0000571 The following person(s) is doing business as: KING TIDE STUDIOS, 1513 KOWALSKI AVE SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101, County of SANTA BARBARA. MALACHI ISAACS, 1513 KOWALSKI AVE SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101 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/ MALACHI ISAACS, OWNER This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 03/03/2025. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 3/20, 3/27, 4/3, 4/10/25 CNS‑3905768# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
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LEGALS (CONT.)
2024‑0000560. Published: Mar 20, 27. Apr 3, 10 2025.
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STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SENSO ROOTS CHILDCARE: 7210 Del Norte Dr Goleta, CA 93117; Leniam V Roldan (same address) Cinthia C Roldan (same address) This business is conducted by A Married Couple Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Mar 16, 2025. Filed by: LENIAM VITELIO
ROLDAN 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 E49. FBN Number: 2024‑0000641. Published: Mar 20, 27. Apr 3, 10, 2025.
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STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GROCERY OUTLET OF ORCUTT at 1620 E Clark Avenue, Suite 102 Orcutt, CA 93455; A‑Z Family Market 5607 Verner Oak Ct Sacramento, CA 95841. This business is conducted by A Corporation. Signed by: BRYAN LEE LUTZ/PRESIDENT
Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 04, 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). FBN Number: 2025‑0000582. E30. Published: Mar 20, 27, Apr 3, 10, 2025
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STATEMENT
File No. FBN2025‑0000602
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as:
MINCITAR ELECTRICAL SERVICES, 6480 BROWN ROAD, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93434 County of SANTA BARBARA ARMANDO MINCITAR, PO BOX 639, GUADALUPE, CA 93434
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/ ARMANDO MINCITAR, OWNER
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 03/06/2025. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 3/27, 4/3, 4/10, 4/17/25
CNS‑3899896#
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INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SHORELINE CAFE: 801 Shoreline Dr Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Palacinka LLC 519 E Sola St Santa Barbara, CA 93103 This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on NA. Filed by: OLIVER PIHLAR/OWNER 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 E67. FBN Number: 2025‑0000699. Published: Mar 27. Apr 3, 10, 17 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BLACKTHORN: 958 Cheltenham Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Julianne Cox (same address) Alexandra S Grant (same address) This business is conducted by A General Partnership Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jan 1, 2020. Filed by: JULIANNE COX/ OWNER 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 E72. FBN Number: 2025‑0000700. Published: Mar 27. Apr 3, 10, 17 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are
Lompoc, CA 93436; Jazmin Martinez Dirzo (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 10, 2025. Filed by: JAZMIN MARTINEZ DIRZO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 12, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E66. FBN Number: 2025‑0000655. Published: Mar 27. Apr 3, 10, 17 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SCOTTIE AND SONS: 335 Matthew Way Unit 105 Buellton, CA 93427; Ross R Beardsley (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: ROSS R BEARDSLEY/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: 2025‑0000655. Published: Mar 27. Apr 3, 10, 17 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RIVIERA PLUMBING LLC: 55 S Kellogg Ave Goleta, CA 93117; Riviera Plumbing LLC 166 Geary St Ste 1500 San Francisco, CA 94108 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 2, 2025. Filed by: CUYLER
KITTLE/OWNER/CEO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 11, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0000646. Published: Mar 27. Apr 3, 10, 17 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA SEAFOOD COMPANY: 1807 Santa Barbara St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Augustine M Brace (same address) Reyn Clayton 3894C Via Real Carpinteria, CA 93103; Dylan Root (same address) This business is conducted by A General Partnership Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: AUGUSTINE BRACE with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 12, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0000667. Published: Mar 27. Apr 3, 10, 17 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MADCAP CREATIVE: 423 W. Gutierrez St #9 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Kathryn D Esnard (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 23, 2019. Filed by: KATHRYN DREW ESNARD/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 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 E63. FBN Number: 2025‑0000499. Published: Mar 27. Apr 3, 10, 17 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CENTRAL COAST MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: 5380 Overpass Rd. 836 Goleta, CA 93117; Santa Barbara County Medical Society 5142 Hollister Ave PMB 143 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 Jul 1, 2023. Filed by: DANA GOBA/CEO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 3, 2025. This statement
expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0000580. Published: Mar 27. Apr 3, 10, 17 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MD4 CONVENTION 2026: 129 Los Aguajes Avenue Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Multiple District Four California Lions Club International PO Box 157 French Camp, CA 95231 This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Mar 4, 1955. Filed by: SHURENE REHMKE/ BOOKKEEPER 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 E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0000698. Published: Mar 27. Apr 3, 10, 17 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TRACI LYNN’S CONSIGNMENT & BOUTIQUE: 240 E. Hwy 246, Suite 103B Buellton, CA 93427; Traci Lynn Filippin 1672 Eucalyptus Drive Drive B Solvang, CA 93463‑2110 This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Mar 18, 2025. Filed by: TRACI LYNN FILIPPN/ OWNER/OPERATOR with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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: 2025‑0000770. Published: Mar 27. Apr 3, 10, 17 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HIP BRAZIL: 381 Mesa Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Hip Enterprises, LLC PO Box 90645 Santa Barbara, CA 93190 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 8, 2005. Filed by: VANESSA A. ISAAC/ DIRECTOR/MANAGER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 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 E66. FBN Number: 2025‑0000488. Published: Mar 27. Apr 3, 10, 17 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LAH CONSULTING: 1163 Ginger Place Santa Barbara, CA 93455; Lisa A Hoston (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: LISA A HOSTON with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 11, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0000653. Published: Mar 27. Apr 3, 10, 17 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as:
COLLABORATION CAFE: 528 W Los Olivos Apt 16 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Dan V Kimbal (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 4, 2025. Filed by: DAN VANCE
KIMBAL/OWNER 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: 2025‑0000583. Published: Mar 27. Apr 3, 10, 17 2025.
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: 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
INDEPENDENT
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: 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: SCOTT GODFREY/ MEMBER 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: 2025‑0000787. 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: 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: 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: 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 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.
AMENDED IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: NEIL NARANG, SAMANTHA NARANG CASE NUMBER: 25CV00133 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: PETITIONER: NEIL NARANG, SAMANTHA NARANG A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court for decree changing name (s) as follows:
PRESENT NAME: DEV NARANG
PROPOSED NAME: DEVEN NARANG THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Notice of Hearing April 21, 2025, 10:00 am, DEPT: 5, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 1100 Anacapa Street., P.O BOX 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107, ANACAPA DIVISION A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated MARCH 7, 2025, JUDGE Colleen k. Sterne of the Superior Court. Published Mar 13, 20, 27. Apr 3 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. NAME CHANGE
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CITY COUNCIL
(Hybrid Public Hearing – In Person and via Zoom) April 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Annual Adjustments for User Fees and Charges for FY 2025/26
ATTENTION: The meeting will be held in person and via the Zoom platform. The public may also view the meeting on Goleta Channel 19 and/or online at https://cityofgoleta.org/goletameetings
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Goleta City Council will conduct a hybrid public hearing to consider the adoption of a resolution modifying the City of Goleta User Fees and Charges Schedules. The User Fees schedules include but are not limited to all City service, permitting and user fees with the exception of Developer Impact Fees. As of April 10th, 2025, a list of proposed fees will be available for public viewing during normal business hours at the City of Goleta Office, at 130 Cremona Drive, Goleta, CA. The date, time, and location of the City Council public hearing are set forth below. The agenda for the hearing will also be posted on the City website (www.cityofgoleta.org).
HEARING DATE/TIME: Tuesday, April 15, 2025, at 5:30 PM
LOCATION: Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Goleta, CA, 93117 and Teleconference Meeting; this meeting will be held in person and via Zoom (with detailed instructions for participation included on the posted agenda)
PUBLIC COMMENT: Interested persons are encouraged to provide public comments during the public hearing in person or virtually through the Zoom webinar, by following the instructions listed on the City Council meeting agenda. Written comments may be submitted prior to the hearing by emailing the City Clerk at CityClerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org. Written comments will be distributed to the Council and published on the City’s Meeting and Agenda page.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Please see the posted agenda, available on Thursday, April 10, 2025, on the City of Goleta’s website www.cityofgoleta.org For inquiries in Spanish, please contact Marcos Martinez at (805) 562-5500 or mmartinez@cityofgoleta.org
Note: In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this hearing, please contact the City Clerk at (805) 961-7505 or email cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the hearing is required to enable City staff to make reasonable arrangements.
Publish Dates: April 03, 2025, and April 10, 2025
LEGALS (CONT.)
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION
TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: MOLLY MARIE CARLISLE
CASE NUMBER: 25CV01286
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
PETITIONER: MOLLY MARIE
CARLISLE 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: MOLLY MARIE
CARLISLE
PROPOSED NAME: MOLLY MARIE
MILLER
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
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PLANNING COMMISSION
Hybrid Public Hearing – In Person and via Zoom April 14, 2025, at 6:00 P.M.
ATTENTION: The meeting will be held in person and via the Zoom platform. The public may also view the meeting on Goleta Channel 19 and/or online at https://cityofgoleta.org/goletameetings
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing to consider appeals to the December 10, 2024 Design Review Board (DRB) Preliminary and Final approval to replace seven (7) existing and un-permitted parking lot light poles. The information regarding the date, time, and location of the Planning Commission public hearing is set forth below. The agenda for the hearing will also be posted on the City website (www.cityofgoleta.org).
HEARING DATE/TIME: April 14, 2025, at 6:00 P.M.
LOCATION: Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Goleta, CA, 93117 and Teleconference Meeting; this meeting will be held in person and via Zoom (with detailed instructions for participation included on the posted agenda)
PROJECT LOCATION
The property is located at 478 Cambridge Drive (APN 069-560-031) and is located in the Inland area of the City. The General Plan land use designation and zoning of the property is currently Single-Family (R-SF).
PROJECT DESCRIPTION/APPEAL:
The proposed project is for Preliminary and Final Approval to replace seven (7) existing and un-permitted parking lot light poles with new LED heads that meet California Title 24 Building Energy Efficiency Standards with new LED heads to have photo cells, motion sensors, shrouds, a timer, and a switch to be able to override the power to them as well as operating from dusk to dawn only. The proposal includes changing the existing seven (7) light poles from the existing 20’ height to 14’ in height. On August 6, 2024, Breana Rodriguez of Excel Construction Services, Inc. (Agent), submitted a request for DRB review on behalf of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (property owner).
The DRB approved the project with conditions at their December 10, 2024 meeting. Two appeals were filed by Kalia Rork and Geoff Jones on December 18, 2024 challenging the DRB’s approval with conditions on the project.
In cases where the DRB’s decision is appealed, the Planning Commission becomes the Review Authority per Goleta Municipal Code Section 17.58.040. The Planning Commission will review the proposal and consider the DRB’s action to determine whether to deny or uphold the two appeals. The Planning Commission’s decision may be appealed to the City Council within 10 days from the Planning Commission’s decision date.
CORTESE LIST: Further, the site is not listed on any hazardous waste facilities or disposal sites as enumerated under Section 65962.5 of the California Government Code (the “Cortese list”)
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW FINDINGS: Pursuant to the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) (Public Resources Code, §§ 21000 et seq.), the regulations promulgated thereunder (14 Cal. Code of Regulations, §§ 15000, et seq.), and the City’s Environmental Review Guidelines, the project has been found to be exempt from CEQA and a Notice of Exemption is proposed. The City of Goleta is acting as the Lead Agency for this project.
The proposed project has been found to be categorically exempt pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (Public Resources Code §§ 21000, et seq.; “CEQA”) and CEQA Guidelines (14 Cal. Code Regs. §§ 15000, et seq.). Specifically, the project is categorically exempt from environmental review pursuant to CEQA Guidelines §15301(a) Existing Facilities.
PUBLIC COMMENT: Interested people are encouraged to provide public comments during the public hearing in person or virtually through the Zoom webinar, by following the instructions listed on the Planning Commission meeting agenda. Written comments may be submitted prior to the hearing by emailing the Planning and Environmental Review Department at PERmeetings@ cityofgoleta.org. Written comments will be distributed to Planning Commission and published on the City’s Meeting and Agenda page.
FOR PROJECT INFORMATION: For further information on the project, contact Christina McGuire, Associate Planner, at (805) 961-7566 or cmcguire@cityofgoleta.org. For inquiries in Spanish, please contact Marcos Martinez at (805) 562-5500 or mmartinez@cityofgoleta.org. Staff reports and documents will be posted approximately 72 hours before the hearing on the City’s website at www.cityofgoleta.org
Note: If you challenge the nature of the above action in court, you may be limited to only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice or in written correspondence delivered to the City on or before the date of the hearing (Government Code Section 65009(b)(2)).
Note: In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need assistance to participate in the hearing, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (805) 961-7505 or cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the hearing will enable City staff to make reasonable arrangements.
Publish Date: Santa Barbara Independent, April 3, 2025
two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Notice of Hearing April 30, 2025, 8:30 am, DEPT: SM1 SUPERIOR COURT COUNTY OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 312 East Cook Street, Building E. Santa Maria, CA 93454, COOK DIVISION A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated MARCH 6, 2025, JUDGE Patricia L. Kelly of the Superior Court. Published Mar 20, 27. Apr 3, 10 2025.
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME:ELISABETH ANN BECKER CASE NUMBER: 25CV01490 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
PETITIONER: ELISABETH ANN
BECKER 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: ELISABETH ANN BECKER
PROPOSED NAME: ELIZABETH ANN BECKER
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: 3, 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 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 NC, JUDGE Colleen K. Sterene of the Superior Court. Published Mar 27. Apr 3, 10, 17 2025.
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: EMILY ELYSE CANFIELD CASE NUMBER: 25CV01409 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
PETITIONER: EMILY ELYSE CANFIELD
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: EMILY ELYSE CANFIELD PROPOSED NAME: EMILY ELYSE CHANDLER
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 7, 2025, 10:00 am, DEPT: 3, 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 Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated MARCH 17, 2025, JUDGE Thomas P. Anderle of the Superior Court. Published Mar 27. Apr 3, 10, 17 2025.
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: JOHN ALAN BROWN CASE NUMBER: 25CV01517 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
PETITIONER: JOHN ALAN BROWN 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: JOHN ALAN BROWN
PROPOSED NAME: GLEN ALAN
CASEBEER
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 9, 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 Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated MARCH 18, 2025, JUDGE Donna D. Geck of the Superior Court. Published Mar 27. Apr 3, 10, 17 2025. IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: STEPHANIE ANN ROBERSON CASE NUMBER: 25CV01361 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: PETITIONER: STEPHANIE ANN ROBERSON 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: STEPHANIE ANN ROBERSON PROPOSED NAME: STEPHANIE ANN BOSHERS
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 9, 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 Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated MARCH 17, 2025, JUDGE Donna D. Geck of the Superior Court. Published Mar 27. Apr 3, 10, 17 2025. 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 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.
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.
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: MEGHAN POSCH CASE NUMBER: 25CV01628 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: PETITIONER: MEGHAN POSCH 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: SCARLETT CLAIRE POVEY
PROPOSED NAME: SCARLETT CLAIRE POSCH
PRESENT NAME: ELEANOR ANN POVEY
PROPOSED NAME: ELEANOR ANN POSCH
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 7, 2025, 10:00 am, DEPT: 3, 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 Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated MARCH 19, 2025, JUDGE Thomas P. Anderle of the Superior Court. Published Mar 27. Apr 3, 10, 17 2025.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
NOTICE OF HEARING—DECEDENT’S ESTATE OR TRUST CASE NUMBER: 25PR00044 This notice is required by law. You are not required to appear in court, but you may attend the hearing and object or respond if you wish. If you do not respond to or attend the hearing, the court may act on the filing without you.
1. NOTICE is given that (name): Catherine Graae (fiduciary or representative capacity, if any): Administrator of the Estate of Sara W. Dougherty has filed a petition, application, report, or account (specify complete title and briefly describe): * Petition for Probate and Issuance of Letters of Administration The filing is a report of the status of a decedent’s estate administration made under Probate Code section 12200. See the NOTICE below. Please refer to the filed documents for more information about the case. (Some documents filed with the court are confidential.)
2. A HEARING on the matter described in 1 will be held as follows: Date: April 3, 2025 Time: 9:00 am Dept: 5 Filed Superior Court County of Santa Barbara, Darel E. Parker, Executive officer; 1/27/2025; By: Monica Buebrostro, Deputy Law Offices of Robert B. Locke STREET ADDRESS: 5290 Overpass Road, Suite 204 CITY: Santa Barbara STATE: CA ZIP CODE: 93111: Telephone No.: 805‑683‑1459
Published: March 6, 13, 20 2025. NOTICE OF HEARING ‑ PETITIONER: TRISHA JEAN WEBB RESPONDENT: RYAN PLANT OTHER PARENT/PARTY: RYAN DOUGLAS PLANT CASE NUMBER: 15FL00809 TO: RYAN PLANT, Respondent A COURT HEARING WILL BE HELD AS FOLLOWS: 05/07/2025 1:30PM DEPT 3 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 1100 ANACAPA ST. SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101 ANACAPA DIVISION WARNING to the person served with the Request for Order: The court may make the requested orders without you if you do not file a Responsive Declaration to Request for Order (form FL‑320), serve a copy on the other parties at least nine court days before the hearing (unless the court has ordered a shorter period of time), and appear at the hearing. (See for FL‑320‑INFO for more information.) Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer 01/24/2025 by Laura Wenny, Deputy. Published: Mar 27. Apr 3, 10, 17 2025.
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COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING & REVIEW DRAFT CITIZEN PARTICIPATION PLAN, CONSOLIDATED PLAN, ACTION PLAN, & REGIONAL ANALYSIS OF IMPEDIMENTS TO FAIR HOUSING CHOICE AND NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING & REVIEW OF THE COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA’S PROHOUSING DESIGNATION APPLICATION PROGRAM DESCRIPTION CITIZEN PARTICIPATION PLAN, CONSOLIDATED PLAN, ACTION PLAN, & REGIONAL ANALYSIS OF IMPEDIMENTS TO FAIR HOUSING CHOICE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the County of Santa Barbara (County) has prepared the draft Citizen Participation Plan (CPP), 2025-2029 Consolidated Plan, 2025-2026 Action Plan, and 2025-2029 Regional Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice (AI) to guide the investment of federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME) program funds. As required by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the CPP outlines the policies and procedures for community involvement in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of its HUD programs.
The County is the lead agency for the CDBG Urban County Partnership and HOME Consortium. The CDBG Urban County Partnership includes the County and the cities of Buellton, Carpinteria, and Solvang. The HOME Consortium encompasses all members of the Urban County Partnership, along with the cities of Goleta, Lompoc, and Santa Maria.
The Consolidated Plan provides a comprehensive assessment of local housing and community development needs and establishes funding priorities for the allocation of CDBG and HOME funds. The primary objective of these programs is to benefit low- and moderateincome residents by providing decent housing, fostering suitable living environments, and expanding economic opportunities. The proposed priorities and goals included in the draft 2025-2029 Consolidated Plan include: (1) Affordable Housing, (2) Homeless Services, (3) Public Services, (4) Public Facilities and Infrastructure Improvements.
The Action Plan identifies the specific projects and activities that will be implemented during the upcoming program year with CDBG and HOME funds to address the priority needs and goals established in the Consolidated Plan. For the 2025-2026 program year, the County anticipates receiving $1,183,009 of CDBG funds and $1,079,860.37 of HOME funds. These funding estimates are based on anticipated federal allocations and are subject to change based on congressional appropriations and HUD formula adjustments. The draft Action Plan includes a contingency provision detailing how the County will adjust its proposed award amounts if the actual allocation is higher or lower than anticipated.
The AI analyzes the extent that individuals of similar income levels in the same housing market have like ranges of choice available to them regardless of race, color, ancestry, national origin, age, religion, sex, disability, marital status, familial status, source of income, sexual orientation, or any other protected class status or arbitrary factor.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA PROHOUSING DESIGNATION
The State of California’s 2019-2020 Budget Act provided for the establishment of the Prohousing Designation Program. Local governments with Prohousing Designation are eligible to apply for, and can also receive priority processing or funding points when applying for, several competitive grant programs. Moreover, some grant funding may be limited to agencies with a Prohousing designation. On May 13, 2025, the county staff
CONDADO DE SANTA BARBARA AVISO DE AUDIENCIA PÚBLICA Y REVISIÓN
BORRADOR DEL PLAN DE PARTICIPACIÓN CIUDADANA, PLAN CONSOLIDADO, PLAN DE ACCIÓN & EVALUACIÓN REGIONAL DE LOS IMPEDIMENTOS A LA ELECCIÓN DE VIVIENDA JUSTA Y AVISO DE AUDIENCIA PÚBLICA Y REVISIÓN DE LA SOLICITUD PARA LA DESIGNACIÓN DE PROHOUSING DEL CONDADO DE SANTA BARBARA
DESCRIPCIÓN DEL PROGRAMA
PLAN DE PARTICIPACIÓN CIUDADANA, PLAN CONSOLIDADO, PLAN DE ACCIÓN Y EVALUACIÓN REGIONAL DE LOS IMPEDIMENTOS A LA ELECCIÓN DE VIVIENDA JUSTA
POR MEDIO LA PRESENTE SE NOTIFICA que el Condado de Santa Barbara (Condado) ha preparado el borrador del Plan de Participación Ciudadana (CPP, por sus siglas en inglés), el Plan Consolidado de 2025-2029, el Plan de Acción de 2025-2026, y la Evaluación Regional de los Impedimentos a la Elección de Vivienda Justa de 2025-2029 (AI, por sus siglas en inglés) para guiar la inversión de los fondos federales de los programas de Subvención en Bloque para el Desarrollo Comunitario (CDBG, por sus siglas en inglés) y Asociaciones de Inversión en Vivienda (HOME, por sus siglas en inglés). Conforme a los requisitos del Departamento de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano de los Estados Unidos (HUD, por sus siglas en inglés), el CPP describe las políticas y procedimientos para la participación de la comunidad en la planificación, implementación y evaluación de sus programas de HUD. El Condado es la agencia principal de la Asociación del Condado Urbano de CDBG y del Consorcio de HOME. La Asociación del Condado Urbano de CDBG incluye el condado y las ciudades de Buellton, Carpinteria, y Solvang. El Consorcio de HOME abarca a todos los miembros de la Asociación del Condado Urbano, junto con las ciudades de Goleta, Lompoc, y Santa Maria.
El Plan Consolidado proporciona una evaluación exhaustiva de las necesidades locales en materia de vivienda y desarrollo comunitario y establece las prioridades de financiación para la asignación de fondos de CDBG y HOME. El objetivo principal de estos programas es beneficiar a los residentes de ingresos bajos y moderados proporcionándoles una vivienda decente, fomentando entornos apropiados, y ampliando las oportunidades económicas. Las prioridades y metas propuestas incluidas en el borrador del Plan Consolidado de 20252029 incluyen: (1) Vivienda Asequibles, (2) Servicios para Personas sin Hogar, (3) Servicios Públicos, y (4) Instalaciones Públicas y Mejoras de Infraestructura
El Plan de Acción identifica los proyectos y actividades específicos que se implementarán durante el próximo año del programa con fondos de CDBG y HOME para abordar las necesidades prioritarias y los objetivos establecidos en el Plan Consolidado. Para el año del programa 2025-2026, el Condado anticipa recibir $1,183,009 en fondos de CDBG y $1,079,860.37 en fondos de HOME. Estas estimaciones de financiación se basan en las asignaciones federales previstas y están sujetas a cambios en función de las asignaciones del Congreso y los ajustes de la fórmula de HUD. El borrador del Plan de Acción incluye una disposición de contingencia que detalla cómo el Condado ajustará sus cantidades de adjudicación propuestas si la asignación real es mayor o menor de lo previsto. El AI analiza la medida en que las personas con niveles de ingresos similares en el mismo mercado inmobiliario tienen a su disposición rangos de elección similares, independientemente de su raza, color, ascendencia, origen nacional, edad, religión, sexo, discapacidad, estado civil, situación familiar, fuente de ingresos, orientación sexual, o cualquier otra condición de clase protegida o factor arbitrario.
will request the Board of Supervisors adopt a resolution authorizing the application and participation in the State of California Prohousing Designation Program.
30-DAY PUBLIC REVIEW & COMMENT PERIOD
Copies of the draft CPP, 2025-2029 Consolidated Plan, 2025-2026 Action Plan, 2025-2029 AI, and Prohousing Designation Application will be available for public review and comment from April 11, 2025, to May 13, 2025. During this period, the draft plans will be available at the following locations:
Online: https://www.countyofsb.org/494/Housing-Community-Development County Office: 123 E. Anapamu St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101 511 E. Lakeside Parkway, Santa Maria, CA 93455
The County welcomes and encourages residents, community organizations, and stakeholders to provide written comments on the draft plans. Written comments must be received by 5:00 pm on May 12, 2025, and may be submitted via:
Email: HCD@countyofsb.org
Mail: Community Services Department, 123 E. Anapamu St., Suite 202, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
PUBLIC HEARING
NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors will conduct a public hearing to provide an opportunity for residents to present oral comments or questions related to the citizen participation process, priority housing and community development needs, goals outlined in the draft Consolidated Plan, activities identified in the draft Action Plan, proposed strategies in the AI for affirmatively furthering fair housing, and the Prohousing Designation Application.
When: May 13, 2025 at 9:00 am
Where: Betteravia Government Administration Building, Board Hearing Room 511 East Lakeside Parkway, Santa Maria, CA 93455
ADA COMPLIANCE
It is the intention of the County to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in all respects. If, as a participant and observer at this meeting, you need special assistance beyond what is normally provided, the County will attempt to accommodate you in every reasonable manner. Residents in need of accommodation should contact the County at (805) 568-3520. Notification 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the County to make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility to this meeting.
LANGUAGE ACCESS PLAN (LAP) COMPLIANCE
Si necesita más información sobre este aviso o la traducción de documentos en español, comuníquese con el Condado al (805) 568-3520.
如果您需要有关本通知的更多信息或这些文件的中文翻译, 请致电 (805) 568-3520 联系县办公室. Kung kailangan mo ng karagdagang impormasyon tungkol sa notice na ito o sa pagsasalin ng mga dokumento sa Tagalog, mangyaring makipag-ugnayan kay sa County sa (805) 5683520.
DESIGNACIÓN DE PROHOUSING DEL ESTADO DE CALIFORNIA
La Ley de Presupuestos de 2019-2020 del Estado de California estableció el Programa de Designación de Prohogar (Prohousing, por sus siglas en inglés). Los gobiernos locales con Designación de Prohousing pueden solicitar, y también pueden recibir tramitación prioritaria o puntos de financiación al solicitar varios programas de subvenciones competitivas. Además, algunas subvenciones pueden estar limitadas a las agencias con designación de Prohousing. El 13 de mayo de 2025, el personal del condado solicitará a la Junta de Supervisores que adopte una resolución autorizando la solicitud y participación en el Programa de Designación de Prohousing del Estado de California.
PERIODO DE REVISIÓN Y COMENTARIOS PÚBLICOS DE 30 DÍAS
Copias del borrador del CPP, Plan Consolidado de 2025-2029, Plan de Acción de 20252026, AI de 2025-2029, y la Solicitud para la Designación de Prohousing estarán disponibles para la revisión y comentarios del público desde el 11 de abril de 2025 hasta el 13 de mayo de 2025. Durante este período, los borradores de los planes estarán disponibles en los siguientes lugares:
En línea: https://www.countyofsb.org/494/Housing-Community-Development Oficina del Condado: 123 E. Anapamu St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101 511 E. Lakeside Parkway, Santa Maria, CA 93455
El Condado agradece y anima a los residentes, las organizaciones comunitarias y las partes interesadas a proporcionar comentarios por escrito sobre los borradores de los planes. Los comentarios por escrito deben recibirse antes de las 5:00 pm del 12 de mayo de 2025 y pueden enviarse a través de:
Correo electrónico: HCD@countyofsb.org
Correo: Departamento de Servicios Comunitarios, 123 E. Anapamu St., Suite 202, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
AUDIENCIA PÚBLICA
POR MEDIO DE LA PRESENTE SE NOTIFICA ADEMÁS que la Junta de Supervisores del Condado de Santa Barbara llevará a cabo una audiencia pública para brindar a los residentes la oportunidad de presentar sus comentarios orales o preguntas relacionadas con el proceso de participación ciudadana, las necesidades prioritarias de vivienda y desarrollo comunitario, los objetivos descritos en el borrador del Plan Consolidado, las actividades identificadas en el borrador del Plan de Acción, las estrategias propuestas en el AI para promover afirmativamente la vivienda justa, y la solicitud para la designación de Prohousing.
Cuándo: 13 de mayo de 2025 a las 9:00 am
Dónde: Edificio Administrativo del Gobierno, Sala de Audiencias de la Junta 511 East Lakeside Parkway, Santa Maria, CA 93455
CUMPLIMIENTO CON LA ADA
Es la intención del Condado cumplir con la Ley de Estadounidenses con Discapacidades (ADA) en todos los aspectos. Si, como participante y observador en esta reunión, necesita asistencia especial más allá de lo que normalmente se proporciona, el Condado intentará acomodarlo de todas las maneras razonables. Los residentes que necesiten adaptaciones deberán ponerse en contacto con el Condado llamando al (805) 568-3520. La notificación 48 horas antes de la reunión permitirá al Condado hacer los arreglos razonables para asegurar la accesibilidad a esta reunión.
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you being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.
You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff.
A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center(www.courtinfo.ca. gov/ selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money and property may be
taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Website (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. !Aviso! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 días,
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la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su versión. Lea la información a continuación.
Tiene 30 DÍAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefónica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en el formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y más información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www. sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede más cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING & REVIEW
DRAFT CITIZEN PARTICIPATION PLAN, CONSOLIDATED PLAN, & ACTION PLAN
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Goleta (City) has prepared the draft Citizen Participation Plan (CPP), 2025-2029 Consolidated Plan, and 2025-2026 Action Plan to guide the investment of federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program funds. As required by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the CPP outlines the policies and procedures for community involvement in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of its HUD programs.
The Consolidated Plan provides a comprehensive assessment of local housing and community development needs and establishes funding priorities for the allocation of CDBG funds. The primary objective of these programs is to benefit low- and moderate-income residents by providing decent housing, fostering suitable living environments, and expanding economic opportunities. The proposed priorities and goals included in the draft 2025-2029 Consolidated Plan include: (1) Public Services, (2) Public Facilities and Infrastructure Improvements, and (3) Planning and Administration.
The Action Plan identifies the specific projects and activities that will be implemented during the upcoming program year with CDBG funds to address the priority needs and goals established in the Consolidated Plan. For the 20252026 program year, the City anticipates receiving $292,918 of CDBG funds. These funding estimates are based on anticipated federal allocations and are subject to change based on congressional appropriations and HUD formula adjustments. The draft Action Plan includes a contingency provision detailing how the City will adjust its proposed award amounts if the actual allocation is higher or lower than anticipated.
30-DAY PUBLIC REVIEW & COMMENT PERIOD
Copies of the draft CPP, 2025-2029 Consolidated Plan, and 2025-2026 Action Plan will be available for public review and comment from April 4, 2025 to May 6, 2025. During this period, the draft plans will be available at the following locations:
City Hall: 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, CA 93117 (upon request) Community Center: 5679 Hollister Avenue, Goleta, CA 93117 (upon request)
The City welcomes and encourages residents, community organizations, and stakeholders to provide written comments on the draft plans. Comments must be received by 5:00 pm on May 6, 2025, and may be submitted via:
NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN the City Council will conduct a public hearing to provide an opportunity for residents to present oral comments or questions related to the citizen participation process, priority housing and community development needs, goals outlined in the draft Consolidated Plan, activities identified in the draft Action Plan, and proposed strategies for affirmatively furthering fair housing.
When: May 6, 2025 at 5:30 pm
Where: City Hall – Council Chambers, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, CA 93117
ADA COMPLIANCE
It is the intention of the City to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in all respects. If, as a participant and observer at this meeting, you need special assistance beyond what is normally provided, the City will attempt to accommodate you in every reasonable manner. Residents in need of accommodation should contact the City Clerk’s Office at (805) 9617505. Notification 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility to this meeting.
LAP COMPLIANCE
Si necesita más información sobre este aviso o la traducción de documentos en español, comuníquese con Leonel Mendoza-Diaz al (805) 951-7558 o por correo electrónico lmendoza-diaz@cityofgoleta.org
CITY CONTACT
For more information, please contact the Neighborhood Services Department at (805) 690-5126 or via email at CityGrants@cityofgoleta.org
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April 3, 2025 (Santa Barbara Independent)
formulario de exención de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin más advertencia. Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www. lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio
de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación de $10,000 o más de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso. The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): Santa Barbara County Superior Court, 115 Civic Center Plaza, Lompoc, California 93436.
CASE NO: (Número del Caso): 22CV01075
The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la dirección, y el número de teléfono del abogado del demandante que no tiene abogado es): KAREL ROCHA (212413), PRENOVOST,
NORMANDIN, DAWE & ROCHA, 2122 N BROADWAY SUITE 200, SANTA ANA, CA 92706 Tel (714) 547‑2444
DATE (Fecha): 07/15/2022. Clerk, by (Secretario) /s/ Dolores Buendia, Deputy (Adjunto)
Published Mar 13, 20, 27. Apr 3 2025.
SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL)
NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): GINA M. AUSTIN, an individual; AUSTIN LEGAL GROUP, a professional corporation, LARRY GERACI, an individual, REBECCA BERRY, an individual; JESSICA MCELFRESH, an individual; YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): AMY SHERLOCK, an individual and on behalf of her minor children, T.S. and S.S., ANDREW FLORES, 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,
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your wages, money and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Website (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. !ADVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su versión. Lea la información a continuación. Tiene 30 DÍAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefónica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en el formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y más información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte. ca. gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede más cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exención de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin más advertencia. Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www. lawhelpcalifornia. org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www. sucorte.ca.gov) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación de $10,000 o más de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.
The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): San Diego County Hall of Justice 330 W. Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 CASE NO: (Número del Caso): 37‑2021‑0050889‑CU‑AT‑CTL
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): Andrew Flores; 945 4th Ave, Suite 412, San Diego, CA 92101. Tel (619) 356‑1556 DATE (Fecha): 12/29/2021. Clerk, by (Secretario) /s/ Elizabeth Reyes, Deputy (Adjunto) Published: Mar 20, 27. Apr 3, 10 2025.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS INVITING SEALED BIDS FOR THE SAN JOSE CREEK MULTIPURPOSE PATH PROJECT
City Project Number: 9006 Federal Project Number: BRLS-5481(022)
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Goleta (“CITY”), invites sealed bids for the above stated project and will receive such bids via electronic transmission on the City of Goleta Planet Bids portal site until Monday, May 12, 2025, at 3:00 P.M. PST Late proposals will be rejected. No exceptions.
Copies of the Contract Documents and the Proposal Forms for bidding the project, may be obtained from the PlanetBids Website: https://pbsystem.planetbids.com Proposals which do not acknowledge addendums to the project documents will be rejected.
All communications relative to this project shall be conducted through PlanetBids. Questions about alleged patent ambiguity of the plans, specifications, or estimate must be asked before bid opening. After bid opening, the CITY does not consider these questions as bid protests.
No pre-bid meeting will be held.
Bidders are advised that, as required by federal law, the City of Goleta is implementing Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) requirements. Section 2 BIDDING under subsection title DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES and Section 5 CONTROL OF WORK under subsection titled SUBCONTRACTING of the Special Provisions cover the DBE requirements.
The DBE contract goal for this project is: 16%
For the Federal training program, the number of trainees or apprentices is: 19
THIS PROJECT IS SUBJECT TO THE “BUY AMERICA” PROVISIONS OF THE SURFACE TRANSPORTATION ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1982 AS AMENDED BY THE INTERMODAL SURFACE TRANSPORTATION EFFICIENCY ACT OF 1991 AS AMENDED BY TITLE IX oF THE Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 (“Build America, Buy America Act”).
Pursuant to California Labor Code Section 1773, the City has ascertained the General Prevailing Rate of Wages in the County in which the work is to be done to be as determined by the Director of Industrial Relations of the State of California. Contractor is hereby made aware that information regarding prevailing wage rates may be obtained from the State Department of Industrial Relations and/or the following website address: https://www.dir.ca.gov/OPRL/2025-1/PWD/Southern.html. The Contractor is required to post a copy of the applicable wage rates at the job site. Attention is directed to Section 7 LEGAL RELATIONS AND RESPONSIBILITY TO THE PUBLIC of the State Standard Specifications.
The Federal minimum wage rates for this project as predetermined by the United States Secretary of Labor are set forth in the Contract Documents and in copies of this book that may be examined at the offices described above where project plans, special provisions, and proposal forms may be seen. Addenda to modify the Federal minimum wage rates, if necessary, will be issued to holders of the Contract Documents. Future effective general prevailing wage rates, which have been predetermined and are on file with the California Department of Industrial Relations, are referenced but not printed in the general prevailing wage rates.
Attention is directed to the Federal minimum wage rate requirements in the Contract Documents. If there is a difference between the minimum wage rates predetermined by the Secretary of Labor and the general prevailing wage rates determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations for similar classifications of labor, the Contractor and subcontractors shall pay not less that the higher wage rate. The City of Goleta will not accept lower State wage rates not specifically included in the Federal minimum wage determinations. This includes “helper” (or other classifications based on hours of experience) or any other classification not appearing in the Federal wage determinations. Where Federal wage determinations do not contain the State wage rate determination otherwise available for use by the Contractor and subcontractors, the Contractor and subcontractors shall pay not less than the Federal minimum wage rate, which most closely approximates the duties of the employees in question.
The California Air Resources Board (“CARB”) implemented amendments to the In-Use Off-Road Diesel-Fueled Fleets Regulations (“Regulation”) which are effective on January 1, 2024 and apply broadly to all self-propelled off road diesel vehicles 25 horsepower or greater and other forms of equipment used in California. A copy of the Regulation is available at https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/barcu/regact/2022/off-roaddiesel/appa-1.pdf. Bidders are required to comply with all CARB and Regulation requirements, including, without limitation, all applicable sections of the Regulation, as codified in Title 13 of the California Code of Regulations section 2449 et seq. throughout the term of the Project. Bidders must provide, with their Bid, copies of Bidder’s and all listed subcontractors the most recent, valid Certificate of Reported Compliance (“CRC”) issued by CARB. Failure to provide valid CRCs as required herein may render the Bid non-responsive.
Bidders must be registered on the City of Goleta’s PlanetBids portal in order to receive addendum notifications and to submit a bid. Go to PlanetBids for bid results and awards. It is the responsibility of the bidder to submit the bid with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. Allow time for technical difficulties, uploading, and unexpected delays. Late or incomplete bids will not be accepted.
Bid must be accompanied by a bid security in the form of a money order, a certified cashier’s check, or bidder’s bond executed by an admitted surety, made payable to CITY. The bid security shall be an amount equal to ten percent (10%) of the total annual bid amount included with their proposals as required by California law.
Note: All bids must be accompanied by a scanned copy of the bid security uploaded to PlanetBids. The original security of the three (3) lowest bidders must be mailed or submitted to the office of the City Clerk at 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California 93117, in a sealed envelope and be received or postmarked within three (3) City working days after the bid due date and time for the bid to be considered. The sealed envelope should be plainly marked on the outside, “SEALED BID SECURITY FOR SAN JOSE CREEK MULTIPURPOSE PATH PROJECT.”
The Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) per California Labor Code Section 1771.4, including prevailing wage rates and apprenticeship employment standards. Affirmative action to ensure against discrimination in employment practices on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, or religion will also be required. The CITY hereby affirmatively ensures that all business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this notice and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, or religion in any consideration leading to the award of contract.
In accordance with the California Public Contract Code 20103.5 when federal funds are involved in local agency contracts, no bid shall be invalidated by the failure of the bidder to be licensed in California at the time of bid opening. However, at the time of award, the selected contractor shall be properly licensed in accordance with the laws of the State and the City of Goleta. Contractor shall possess a valid Class A - General Engineering Contractor license prior to award of Contract. Said license shall be maintained during the contract period. It is the Bidder’s and Contractor’s responsibility to obtain the correct Contractor’s licenses. Bidders shall be skilled and regularly engage in the general class or type of work called for under this contract.
The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a Performance Bond and a Payment Bond each in an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Price. Each bond shall be in the forms set forth herein, shall be secured from a surety company that meets all State of California bonding requirements, as defined in Code of Civil Procedure Section 995.120, and that is a California admitted surety insurer.
Pursuant to Labor Code sections 1725.5 and 1771.1, all contractors and subcontractors that wish to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, or enter into a contract to perform public work must be registered with the DIR. No Bid will be accepted, nor any contract entered into without proof of the contractor’s and subcontractors’ current registration with the DIR to perform public work. If awarded a contract, the Bidder and its subcontractors, of any tier, shall maintain active registration with the DIR for the duration of the Project. Failure to provide proof of the contractor’s current registration pursuant to Labor Code Section 1725.5 may result in rejection of the bid as non-responsive.
The CITY reserves the right to reject all bids, reject any bid that is not responsive to the invitation, or to waive any minor irregularity and to take all bids under advisement for a period of up to ninety (90) working days. Failure to provide proof of the Contractor’s current registration pursuant to Section 1725.5 of the Labor Code may result in rejection of the bid as non-responsive. Failure to comply with enforcement provisions pursuant to Section 1771.4 of the Labor Code may result in a determination that the Bidder is not responsible.
Bids shall remain open and valid for a period of one hundred twenty (120) calendar days after the Bid Deadline.
Pursuant to Public Contract Code section 22300, the successful bidder may substitute certain securities for funds withheld by CITY to ensure performance under the Contract or, in the alternative, request the CITY to make payment of retention to an escrow agent.
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) provides a toll-free “hotline” service to report bid rigging activities. Bid rigging activities can be reported Mondays through Fridays, between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., Eastern Time, Telephone No. 1-800-424-9071. Anyone with knowledge of possible bid rigging, bidder collusion, or other fraudulent activities should use the “hotline” to report these activities. The “hotline” is part of the DOT’s continuing effort to identify and investigate highway construction contract fraud and abuse and is operated under the direction of the DOT Inspector General. All information will be treated confidentially, and caller anonymity will be respected.
Any protest to an intended award of this contract shall be made in writing addressed to the City Clerk prior to the award. Any protest may be considered and acted on by the City Council at the time noticed for award of the contract. To request a copy of the notice of agenda for award, please contact the City Clerk cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org or register on the CITY’s website (www.cityofgoleta.org).
Published: Santa Barbara Independent: March 27, 2025, and April 3, 2025
