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This week, we’d like to introduce you to one of our community members who has a passion for wordplay Jason Cathcart! For the past year, Cathcart has been collecting the crosswords from our pages and pasting them on his wall after he finishes them. When did you start the crossword wall, and what inspired you to keep the crosswords from our pages and put them up? It started last year as a collage on a different wall, with grids from any newspaper I could get my hands on. The Independent’s crosswords were consistent and looked nice together, so when I moved to a new space, I decided to plaster my room with them like wallpaper. It turned out just as I pictured it; I like how the different black square patterns look next to each other.
Have you always done the crossword, or did you start just for this project? Is there a “best part” to the process? I only got into crosswords in 2023, but it quickly became an obsession. I found myself looking forward to Thursdays, just to grab the newspaper for the crossword. I honestly feel pretty guilty, as I hardly read the rest of it. As someone who does Rubik’s cubes and escape rooms, crosswords give me that same feeling of satisfaction where everything clicks perfectly.
You also create your own crosswords; how did you get started creating your own, and what do you enjoy most about that process? My dad handmade me a crossword as a graduation gift, and it inspired me to make my own larger crosswords. Seeing Zach Sherwin’s The Crossword Show also influenced my style. I started creating them by hand, but eventually discovered Crosshare .org, which made creating and sharing puzzles digitally much easier. Wordplay is always on my mind, and crossword setting has been the perfect creative outlet for me.
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Okay,” said County Supervisor Laura Capps just before turning off the mic for the day, “that was a big one.” That might have been Santa Barbara’s political understatement of the year. Had Capps said “historic” instead, she would have been in the right zip code.
The county supervisors had just voted by a 3-1 margin with supervisor Steve Lavagnino
being absent due to family matters to begin the process of phasing out onshore oil and gas operations in Santa Barbara County. The supervisors did not exactly vote to pull the plug on an industry that dates back into the 19th century. It was more that they signed an advanced directive and put it under the care of hospice.
If all goes as the majority vote intended, no new onshore wells will be allowed in
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Santa Barbara County. (Currently, there are 2,348 wells; of those, 1,030 are still active.) The existing industry will be allowed to sputter out over a yetto-be-determined period of time and then die a quiet, controlled death.
Figuring out the details will take at least a couple of years, maybe more. Massive planning documents will have to be written and county codes changed; all of this will entail radical redirection of county planning efforts, intense lobbying, courthouse battles, and nonstop political efforts by both sides. But for now, the direction has been set.
The prevailing supervisors Joan Hartmann, Laura Capps, and Roy Lee spoke with a sense of moral urgency bordering on desperation regarding the damage wrought by climate change. The time had come, they insisted, to begin transitioning away from oil and gas and toward greener and cleaner energy sources. Besides, they argued, the sun had set on the county’s once economically robust petrochemical industry, which they noted generated only $1 million a
Sable Sues County over Blocked Transfer Permit
Does Planning Commission’s Approval Move Pipeline Closer to Restart?
by Nick Welsh
In baseball, ties famously go to the baserunner, but in county government, it’s forced a legal fight in the courts. The oil company Sable Offshore is insisting that when the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted 2-2 on whether to allow another oil company, ExxonMobil, to transfer its permits to Sable, the tie goes to Sable. Accordingly, Sable just filed a lawsuit against the Board of Supervisors in federal court to make that point. Joining Sable in this dispute is ExxonMobil, the oil giant that sold Sable its three offshore platforms, its 120mile pipeline, and its onshore oil storage and processing facilities known as the Santa Ynez Unit two years ago.
The supervisors deadlocked 2-2 two months ago when voting on whether to approve or deny the transfer of permits from Exxon which date back to 1987 to Sable. Without a simple majority, the county counsel informed the board that the permit transfer could not go forward. (Supervisor Joan Hartmann has recused herself from the deliberations because the pipeline in question runs adjacent to her Buellton property, close enough that, under state law, it constitutes a conflict of interest.)
Sable, however, is arguing that last fall, before the supervisors voted, the Planning Commission voted 3-1 to allow the transfer and that, when the supervisors had a tie vote, the Planning Commission’s vote would
trump the Board of Supervisors. That was not what the supervisors were told. They were instructed that the board’s tie vote meant that no transfer was permitted. With this lawsuit threatened almost from the day the supervisors voted Sable is asking a federal judge to uphold the Planning Commission’s approval. If all this seems too esoteric for words, it is; but the stakes are also incredible high. At issue is whether Sable will be able to get the green light needed to restart an oil operation that’s been effectively shut down for the past 10 years. The transfer permit by itself would not accomplish that, but it offers the only direct leverage over the restart that the supervisors actually hold. As such, it’s extremely
Natalie Wilkes (above), a 1st-grade teacher at Hope Elementary School District’s Monte Vista Elementary School, was named the Santa Barbara County Teacher of the Year by the County Board of Education on 5/8. Wilkes played a “key role” in reshaping her campus’s reading intervention program and advancing district-wide dyslexia awareness. With the county title under her belt, Wilkes is now eligible for the California Teacher of the Year award. Wilkes, along with the county’s other award-winning teachers, will be introduced at an Education Celebration on 5/22 and officially honored at the annual A Salute to Teachers event in October.
After two contentious years of labor negotiations, the Carpinteria Unified School District and the Carpinteria Association of United School Employees (CAUSE) have reached a settlement agreement. The agreement includes a 5 percent raise effective 7/1, a $3,000 stipend for special education teachers, and bonuses for current and recently retired employees. The district and the union reached an impasse in negotiations earlier this year that progressed to fact-finding, the last state-mandated step in an impasse before a strike can be called. Union membership must now decide whether to ratify the agreement.
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The City of Santa Barbara deemed the fourth iteration of a plan to build an eight-story building behind the Santa Barbara Mission as incomplete, but it only has few remaining problems to resolve for the project to move ahead, including net floor area details and plans for wastewater management. On 5/13, a day after the city deemed this application incomplete, attorney Richard B. Jacobs sent a letter to the city on behalf of the development team, saying the latest response letter was in bad faith and threatening litigation if the city does not rescind its incompleteness letter. The project developers, Mission LLC, have 90 days to submit another application and can appeal the city’s decision to mark the application as incomplete by 5/23.
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Girsh Park has long been a staple for Goleta’s youth sports community, but a major upgrade is on the horizon one that promises to reduce pollution, lower noise, and improve safety for thousands of local athletes. The Foundation for Girsh Park has officially launched its “Ditch the Diesel” fundraising campaign, aiming to raise $200,000 to install permanent, energy-efficient field lights by August 2025.
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Supervisor Joan Hartmann spoke with a sense of moral urgency at Tuesday’s board meeting in favor of transitioning away from climate-change-fueling oil and gas, while Supervisor Bob Nelson spoke up for the oil industry, which he charged had been egregiously “sandbagged” by county planners.
La Casa de la Raza
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Historic Community Center Closed by City Prior to Potential Sale of Property; Community Rallies to Restore Resources
by Ryan P. Cruz
Santa Barbara’s historic Eastside community center La Casa de la Raza was red-tagged May 9, just one day before the group that had been operating in the building at 601 East Montecito Street was set to host a Mother’s Day Brunch fundraiser. A big red placard was taped on the front wall, signed by city Inspections Supervisor Michael Rubin, who, following an inspection triggered by a potential sale of the property, found the building to be “unsafe to occupy” due to insufficient egress and unsafe gas and electrical.
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The sudden closure of the historic landmark is just the latest chapter in the long and complicated history of La Casa de la Raza, which for years has been mired in legal proceedings, and multiple bankruptcies, plus an often confusing ownership arrangement with the court-appointed trustee of the property, and two nonprofit organizations La Casa de la Raza and La Casa de la Raza Founders Holding Company all of which hold a stake in the future of “La Casa.” La Casa de la Raza has been a hub of Latino culture in Santa Barbara ever since the Chicano Positive Movement bought the Montecito Street property in 1970. But in recent years the aging building lost its luster, and the property became wrapped up in two separate bankruptcy cases, including an involuntary Chapter 7 bankruptcy that led to a temporary shutdown of the building in October 2021.
In the midst of this bankruptcy case, the original nonprofit organization, “La Casa de la Raza,” was legally unable to operate, and a separate nonprofit organization, “La Casa Founders Holding Company,” was created to offer community resources at the building. It was this second nonprofit, La Casa Founders Holding Company, that had revived operations recently with popular concerts, fundraising community events, and on-theground immigration resources for hundreds of families.
These immigration resources had become especially vital to Santa Barbara’s Latino community, with organizers holding “Know Your Rights” workshops and connecting families affected by immigration enforcement with legal resources.
But the lurking legal troubles which involved the trustee of the property, attorney Jeremy Faith; La Casa Founders Holding Company; and the family of the late Tomás
Castelo, whose loan to La Casa was at the center of the 2020 foreclosure erupted last month when the bankruptcy trustee filed an application to employ the Radius Group to sell the property. The building, according to court documents obtained by the Independent, is set to be listed for sale at a base price of $4.3 million, which will be used to pay off the many debtors tied to the case, including former attorneys and employees of La Casa. Because Radius Group was tasked to sell the property as an uninvolved party, the city was asked to inspect the building. According to a statement from city spokesperson Bryan Latchford, this site inspection was performed on May 7 “to determine if any building and fire code violations existed to inform potential buyers of the property at a bankruptcy auction.”
In the city’s official statement, Latchford said the inspection revealed “code violations that pose significant and immediate safety concerns for occupants of the building,” including insufficient and blocked egress; lack of proper exit signage and hardware; and unsafe, exposed, and unpermitted electrical wiring and gas piping. The combination of these violations, he said, poses a “significant risk to life in the event of a fire.”
Latchford also stated that the historic La Casa de la Raza nonprofit had not operated inside for years. “While the City is aware of several organizations and community groups currently using the facility, the full extent of entities operating within the various areas of the building remains unclear,” the statement said.
Jacqueline Inda, representative of La Casa Founders Holding Company and defacto director of recent operations inside the building, said the decision to red-tag the building where the community regularly gathered was “deeply disheartening.”
“We are devastated, but we are not defeated,” Inda wrote in a statement posted on social media page. “La Casa de la Raza is not just a building; it is a vital resource for a protected class, a sanctuary that has
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Gov. Pushes Encampment Ban
Governor Gavin Newsom once again is exhorting cities and counties to crack down on homeless encampments, this time providing the template for a one-sizefits-all ordinance that local governments could and should adopt.
Newsom, widely believed to be nursing presidential ambitions, has spent billions during his administration to address the issue of homelessness, but the results have been largely mixed. Not only have encampments persisted as an abiding reality of urban life in California home to a quarter of the nation’s homeless population but state’s inability to track where the money actually went has been a colossal embarrassment.
Newsom is suggesting, among other things, a requirement that homeless encampments be limited to no more than 72 hours in any one location, much the way cars parked on certain streets are. Newsom is not threatening to penalize local governments that decline to comply as he did several months ago when making similar entreaties but he has conspicuously mentioned that the state is about to release $3 billion in mental health funds targeting the chronically homeless. Competition for these grants is expected to be intensely competitive; the governor did not have to mention that cities who disagree with a heavier-handed law-enforcement response might find themselves at a competitive disadvantage. Newsom stressed that enforcement actions should be undertaken only when there are shelter beds available.
In the City of Santa Barbara, for example, there’s been a significant uptick in the
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number of temporary, interim, or permanent housing for the homeless in the past few years. Even so, the number of available shelter beds at any given time can be counted on the fingers of one hand.
In the past year alone, City Hall cleanup crews have eradicated 485 encampments throughout the city and another 531 along creeks, waterways, lagoons, and beaches. The city has responded to 508 complaints about encampments 259 throughout the city and 249 along creeks and waterways. Many of these encampments are reestablished and repopulated shortly after they’ve been cleared.
How many people live at these encampments at any time is unclear, but in last year’s Point-in-Time count, Santa Barbara reported 234 unsheltered individuals. This year’s count results are running late due to a hangup with the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, which requires these counts be taken in localities receiving federal homeless assistance funding.
One housing option not pursued with much vigor have been the parking lots of state office buildings strewn throughout Santa Barbara. These are vacant at night and would make ideal receptor sites for the Safe Housing Program in which people living in cars are provided safe spaces to park, replete with porta-potties and drive-by nocturnal patrols. Despite efforts by State Senator Monique Limón and Assemblymember Gregg Hart, the state has remained impervious to such requests. —Nick Welsh
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife said on 5/12 that they have received no new reports of a black bear seen wandering near Isla Vista last week. The last confirmed report of the bear came on 5/8, when people saw it wandering in the weeded area between Isla Vista Elementary School and UCSB’s West Campus Garden. Around 3 a.m. on 5/9, Fish and Wildlife received an unconfirmed video of a bear in the Ellwood area and left a trap out overnight but closed it up around 10 a.m. on 5/10 due to inactivity and no bear sightings. Last month, another black bear was struck and killed by a vehicle on Highway 101 near Summerland after what was likely the same bear was seen wandering the Goleta and I.V. area. n
A homeless encampment site before and after being cleared by city cleanup crews
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Planned Parenthood Strike Approved
Staff at Planned Parenthood clinics around the Central Coast voted overwhelmingly to approve a strike this week. The union, including medical assistants and physicians, claim that management has engaged in unfair labor practices during contract negotiations and refuse to address the “urgent short-staffing crisis.”
If the union chooses to move ahead with the strike, it would affect six Planned Parenthood California Central Coast (PPCCC) locations, including Santa Barbara and Santa Maria, which provide reproductive and sexual healthcare services on a sliding fee scale to support access to all patients, no matter their income.
Patients would struggle to access care during a strike, but workers argue that clinics are already experiencing longer wait times and other obstacles due to staffing shortages. Reproductive healthcare providers nationwide were also just cut off from Title X funding, removing $390,000 from PPCCC’s cash pool.
“We work here because we care deeply about our patients and our community. But there’s only so much we can do when we’re constantly understaffed and management refuses to bargain in good faith,” said Mike Solemar, a physician at PPCCC.
“Patients are waiting longer and sometimes not getting seen at all. We believe in
our mission to provide quality reproductive care for anyone who walks through our doors. Enough is enough. We need management to stop the unfair labor practices and listen to the frontline healthcare workers.”
Despite these claims, PPCCC management maintains that it has negotiated with the union in good faith. To date, they have participated in 14 bargaining sessions, according to PPCCC CEO Jenna Tosh.
So far, they have reached tentative agreements on 15 items, “with just a few outstanding items remaining” that they are actively working to resolve, she added. Because of this, she said they were “surprised to learn through social media” about the union’s strike authorization.
Management has not yet received an unfair labor practice charge, she said. She also claims that the union has not contacted management directly about the issue, nor have they received a formal 10-day strike notice, which is required before a health care strike can occur.
While she said PPCCC supports the right of its employees to engage in a strike. Our hope is that we can continue to work together to reach agreement on the outstanding contract provisions as we have done over the past nine months.”
nurtured, empowered, and protected thousands. And now, it is being ripped from our hands.”
The organization relocated its Mother’s Day Brunch to a downtown restaurant, and Inda said the volunteer team received an outpouring of support from community members who shared their memories of La Casa De la Raza.
At Tuesday’s council meeting, Inda and a group of supporters asked that the city provide clear guidelines on necessary changes and repairs and ensure the survival of what Inda called an “irreplaceable pillar” of the community. She asked that the city find a way to try and save the property.
“For decades, this building has had its problems, but it has also stood for so much more than just a building. It’s a place of refuge, it’s a place of finding strength, it’s a place of childhood memories, and it’s a place of creativity for the most voiceless in our community,” she said. “Given the opportunity, we can make it safe again.”
The city’s official response, issued prior to Tuesday’s council meeting, said that the city was taking “immediate action to minimize disruption to the community” and “offering support to community groups and tenants who may be affected by this closure.”
“The city understands that this facility is used as a resource center for undocumented families and acknowledges the heightened concern among our immigrant and Latino communities related to official enforcement actions,” Latchford wrote in the statement.
Workers have not yet set a date for the strike.
—Callie Fausey
The city also offered to help cover any facility fees caused by the relocation of the Mother’s Day Brunch.
Attorneys involved in the bankruptcy case were unable to respond to requests for comments in time for publication, though associates with the trustee’s office confirmed that all interested parties were working on a settlement to the years-long Chapter 7 bankruptcy case.
Sources close to the original La Casa de la Raza group which has been working with the Law Firm for Non-Profits also confirmed that the nonprofit was ruled to be in good standing by Judge Colleen Stern in February 2025. As a result, the group can now legally receive funds, and it will be working to restore services as soon as the bankruptcy and related litigation is resolved. It is uncertain how long the building will remain inaccessible to the public, or where community resources will be offered in the interim.
City councilmembers were limited in their ability to respond to general public comments Tuesday, but Councilmember Oscar Gutierrez, Councilmember Kristen Sneddon, and Eastside district representative Wendy Santamaria all shared brief comments in support of restoring community resources at La Casa de la Raza, in whatever capacity possible.
Councilmember Santamaria said, “Although this is a complicated situation, the important thing is to keep a resource alive for the community whether it’s at that location, whether it’s at another. The resource is important, and you have my commitment on helping keep a resource alive.”
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year in county property taxes and provided 200 albeit well-paying jobs.
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passed last year giving local governments authority to phase out oil operations, was unconstitutional and his organization would prove it in court.
I think this is a snow job. It’s highly inappropriate, some of the worst governance I’ve seen in my time in government.
— Supervisor Bob Nelson
By shutting down oil and gas drilling, they claimed county residents will experience a savings of $54 million to $81 million in associated mortality costs caused by exposure to airborne particulates generated by the industry. The lost jobs will be replaced by many more in the wind and solar industries, though typically they do not pay as well. Because so many of the county wells are old, they require significantly more energy to extract the underground crude, and that technology accounts for the bump in greenhouse gases — 98,868 metric tons a year in 2018 to 132,356 in 2023 — generated by county oil operators.
Given the supervisors met in Santa Maria, one might have expected a vigorous show of force by the oil industry. Not so. Of the 23 people who signed up to speak, only two represented the industry. One was a small operator with nine employees. The other man, representing landowners who leased properties to oil operators, insisted the state law,
It fell to Supervisor Bob Nelson, who represents the 4th District with 80 percent of the county’s oil wells, to speak up for an industry he charged had been egregiously “sandbagged” by county planners who kept them in the dark while meeting extensively with environmental activists hellbent on their economic destruction.
“I have not had any direct interaction with representatives of the industry,” conceded county sustainability planner Garrett Wong. Nelson struggled to contain his outrage. “I think this is a snow job,” he charged. “It’s highly inappropriate, some of the worst governance I’ve seen in my time in government.” He took exception with the statistics generated by the UCSB researchers, arguing they had not been vetted. He charged that greenhouse gases generated by the tankers needed to deliver imported oil would offset any reduction in greenhouse gases obtained by phasing out existing operators. He insisted local operators had followed the law and, if approached in a good-faith manner, would collaborate to find solutions for such problems as abandoned wells of which the county has more than 1,000 but not if the supervisors tried to run them out of business.
No one argued the county couldn’t have or shouldn’t have reached out to the industry. “I see your point,” Wong conceded. Supervisor Capps noted only that the oil industry “has more lobbyists than God.”
County Executive Mona Miyasato explained the supervisors were initially scheduled only to discuss whether oil industry greenhouse gases should be counted in the total
inventory of the county’s greenhouse gases for purposes of its Climate Action Plan currently, for reasons too procedurally complicated to explain here, they are not which was adopted just last year. The scope of discussion was expanded only after two supervisors approached her, Miyasato said, with a letter requesting that the phase-out option be explored too.
Supervisor Joan Hartmann said that “morally, as a human being,” she needed to act. She cited sea-level rise, heat waves, wildfires, catastrophes as yet experienced, and those already experienced, such as the Thomas Fire and the debris flow that followed, claiming 23 lives and costing nearly $500 million in insurance claims.
Homeowners in Buellton, where Hartmann lives, struggle now to even get home insurance, and without insurance, people can’t sell their homes. What kind of economic catastrophe would that be? She described in measured detail riding a horse on the beach by Montaña de Oro State Park and coming across the carcass of a dead sea lion every 355 feet, done in by the outbreak of domoic acid triggered by changing seawater temperatures.
Clearly animating the urgency of the vote has been the take-no-prisoners approach handed down by the Trump administrationm, which has decreed the phrases “climate change” and “climate science” be expunged from all federal documents.
Hartmann expressed outrage and astonishment that the federal agency in charge of tracking weather patterns has been ordered to cease including the cost of weather disasters in its reports. “This isn’t remotely business as usual,” she stated. The shift in county policy won’t change all that much, she acknowledged, “But I couldn’t stand by and not do the very best that I can.” n
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limited and indirect.
Ten years ago is when the pipeline sprung a major rupture by Refugio along the mountain side of Highway 101, spewing out 142,000 gallons of oil. Much of that oil managed to cross under the freeway via culvert and make its way into the ocean. Federal pipeline safety officials blamed corrosion for the rupture, and state and local prosecutors secured guilty verdicts against the pipeline operator at the time for criminal negligence. Ultimately, that company has spent hundreds of millions cleaning up the mess and settling with aggrieved victims; it is currently still in litigation against its insurance carrier over the expenses incurred.
The ghost of that pipeline spill still a bright line-in-the-sand issue among Santa Barbara’s environmental community has haunted Santa Barbara’s offshore oil operations ever since. Sable, a new start-up oil company with no other assets or operations elsewhere, is hoping to exorcise that ghost. “The law is clear. The Planning Commission approved the permit transfer, and its decision stands,” declared Steve Rusch, Sable’s vice president of environmental and governmental affairs. “Because the permits have yet to be transferred, Sable has asked a court to intervene and transfer the permits without delay.”
According to the lawsuit, Exxon has suffered because it remains legally on the hook for a facility it no longer owns. Sable, conversely, has been prevented from taking legal advantage of a property it, in fact, does own. The lawsuit faulted supervisors Laura Capps and Roy Lee, who opposed the transfer; one Lee the lawsuit noted, described the transfer as an “insane idea.” Capps, it added, described the method by which the transaction was financed as “fishy,” both being outside the scope of legal relevance for the board’s decision making.
Santa Barbara may be the only county of California’s 58 that ever enacted a law to regulate the transfer of ownership of oil facilities. It was passed in 2001 at a time
when county energy planners worried that the high volume of such transfers then occurring might pose environmental and industrial perils if under-financed and lessexperienced operators took over from those with deeper pockets and deeper benches of experienced personnel. The fear was that such an under-financed company might create a mess it could not afford to contain or clean up.
On that score, the Planning Commission voted that Sable passed the smell test. Environmental organizations intent on blocking Sable from restarting Exxon’s old facilities appealed to the Board of Supervisors. They argued that Sable has a track record of blatant defiance with the California Coastal Commission, digging up old pipelines buried deep underground to make repairs while disturbing environmentally sensitive habitats, many home to federally endangered species like the steelhead trout or tidewater goby all without having secured the necessary permits first.
Sable has argued that the permits secured by Exxon in 1987 specifically exempt them from needing permits for making such repairs. After disregarding several direct cease-and-desist orders, Sable sued the Coastal Commission.
County spokesperson Kelsey Buttitta declined to comment, explaining the county does not comment on litigation. Environmentalists have suggested that Sable could proceed, somehow piggybacking on Exxon’s existing permits. If Exxon were to remain on the hook for any future ruptures and spills, they argued, the county would be better protected in the case of future disasters.
In the meantime, Sable is still running the regulatory gauntlet of multiple state agencies, not the least of which remains the Coastal Commission. In addition, the company has been sanctioned by the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board for discharging waste into potentially flowing streams without having sought the necessary permits. n
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All in 100 Days
Talk about waste, fraud, and abuse a $100 million taxpayer-funded 79th birthday party military parade for a self-congratulating president elected by less than one-third of eligible U.S. voters (85 million did not vote, 77 million voted for him, and 75 million voted for the opposition) while he cruelly fires beneficial, non-wasteful federal workers; scares elected officials, university presidents, law firms, and others into submission with threats including police intervention, name calling, and extortion; breaks down democratic institutions, including ignoring the judiciary; upends the economy of not only the U.S. but every other nation in the world; and violates the U.S. Constitution: All in 100 days. This is to be celebrated? I don’t think so.
Put the $100 million into the U.S. government piggy bank for public needs.
He can use his own crypto-currency and his stock market windfalls from the Wall Street fall and rise due to his tariff chaos for his personal birthday party on his own golf course and in his own home.
Dignity, Not Disdain
The Committee for Social Justice is deeply disappointed in the way our community continues to treat our unhoused neighbors. Mean-spirited comments, public harassment, and sweeping generalizations about people experiencing homelessness are not just disheartening they are dangerous. They reflect a misunderstanding of the true roots of homelessness and contribute to a culture of blame, exclusion, and criminalization.
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—Paulina Conn, S.B.
The headline “Sheriff Under Fire for Cooperating with ICE” regarding the TRUTH Act hearing last week on immigrants released from jail but arrested by federal agents caught some notice:
vsmvndvz: “Sheriff under fire for doing his job.” jonatanperez365: This is a delicate subject ... and if you add a criminal record to that, it gets more difficult. Each country has its own immigration laws that will be enforced depending on the criteria and interests of the president in power; protesting is valid but also something without any guarantee. On the other hand, this country in the hands of the Democrats was becoming a circus and consequently the laughing stock of many, something that this president knows and is doing something about it. Not everything is bad. I hope this country becomes better and strong for benefit of its citizens.
lillian_luuccht: Due process, a fundamental right guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, ensures fairness in legal matters and protects individuals against arbitrary government decisions. It’s found in both the Fifth and 14th Amendments, applying to the federal and state governments, respectively. These clauses prohibit the government from depriving ANYONE of “life, liberty, or property” without due process of law.
The threat to close the FARO Center would remove a place where the unhoused receive vital services to change their lives around. Homelessness is not a personal failure. It is a policy failure! Decades of research affirm this. According to the National Low-Income Housing Coalition, no full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a two-bedroom apartment at fair market rent this in the wealthiest country in the world, one that has a deficit of more than seven million affordable housing units. Locally, housing costs have skyrocketed while wages remain stagnant; affordable housing remains woefully insufficient.
Many people experiencing homelessness are fleeing domestic violence, aging out of foster care, or grappling with untreated trauma and systemic racism. These are not individual shortcomings — they are societal failures, perpetuated by decades of disinvestment in public health, mental health services, housing, and economic equity.
The narrative that people choose to be homeless or are simply unwilling to work ignores the facts. Instead of blaming the individual, we need to demand policies that expand affordable housing, invest in mental health care, raise wages, and prevent homelessness before it begins. Ending homelessness is possible but only if we choose to see it as a shared responsibility.
We urge this community to lead with compassion, educate ourselves, and support evidencebased solutions. Our unhoused neighbors deserve dignity, not disdain.
The In Memoriam for Oliver Wheeler that appeared on April 10 contained a memorial celebration date that has been canceled. The remembrance scheduled for Memorial Day weekend will now be held in the summer on a date the organizers are determining.
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Bear(s) with Us
BY PETER ALAGONA
American black bears have lived in California for a million years, but they have never had a year quite like the last 12 months. The two bears that showed up on the Santa Barbara South Coast this spring are part of a bigger story. We can expect to see more of them, and we should start preparing now.
Black bears are wonderful creatures. They are extremely intelligent, but most are shy and mellow. They are superb parents, can live up to 30 years, and vary in color from jet black to bleach blonde. Black bears evolved in forests, where they developed monkey-like climbing skills. This explains their habit of seeking safety in the trees, rather than standing their ground, when confronted by a threat such as a pack of ferocious dire wolves during the Pleistocene or a crowd of chatty college students during the Anthropocene, which is what happened at UC Santa Barbara on the evening of April 17.
Black bears are omnivores that will consume almost anything that counts as food. You would, too, if you knew you weren’t going to eat between Thanksgiving and spring break. In most wildland ecosystems, however, up to 95 percent of a black bear’s diet comes from plants and insects.
The black bear is one of eight living bear species, and the only one that currently resides in California. It is not the most widespread this honor goes to the brown bear, which in most of North America we call the grizzly but it is the most numerous. By 1900, black bears in the United States had been decimated, but since 1970, they have rebounded to at least 900,000. California is home to between 50,000 and 70,000 black bears, the most of any state after Alaska.
Black bears are both old and new to Southern California. They lived here for hundreds of thousands of years, but they seem to have disappeared around 25,000 years ago, during a dry period at the height of the last ice age. In 1933, a decade after Southern California’s last grizzly bears met their end, 27 Yosemite black bears were released into the mountains north and east of Los Angeles. “Their comical, clownish appearance and actions,” wrote one state official, will be “a never ending source of amusement to youngsters and adults alike.” The black bears that live in Santa Barbara County today trace their genetic roots both to these Yosemite bears and to bears that migrated here from the southern Sierra Nevada.
Few predicted that black bears would be so successful in our wildland-urban interfaces. In the 1980s, when they first started showing up in the foothill suburbs near Los Angeles, wildlife officials confidently announced that they were flukes. These communities are now at the forefront of efforts to coexist with dozens of black bears.
California’s national parks used to be hotspots of so-called black bear conflicts. Park employees and visitors had spent decades training the bears to asso-
ciate humans with food. When the bears became aggressive, officials often responded with the death penalty. In 1999, the parks launched a coexistence program that focused on human behavior and sanitation. In Yosemite, the number of incidents plummeted by 95 percent, from around 1,600 per year in the 1990s to around 80 in the 2010s. A 2014 study found that Yosemite’s black bears had switched back to natural diets after decades eating junk food.
The parks have demonstrated the techniques that work for coexisting with black bears. Now, the question is: How can we implement these methods in communities where people live? The answer has more to do with civic culture than with science or management. Which brings us back to the past 12 months.
Things aren’t going great. Last June, California saw its first-ever human death associated with a black bear. In August, officials in Mammoth Lakes once considered a model of black bear coexistence killed and dumped the body of a beloved bear named Victor. This generated national news, local outrage, and a rebuke from the Bishop Paiute Tribe. In November, The New Yorker’s 1.3 million readers were treated to a sensationalistic feature article about California’s black bear mess.
In April of this year, California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife published its first new Black Bear Conservation and Management Plan in a quartercentury. This was a unique opportunity to place our state at the forefront of efforts to coexist with black bears. Polls have shown that this is what most Californians want. Unfortunately, the plan doesn’t propose new policies or programs of any kind. It also doesn’t mention the department’s once-promising coexistence program, which was canceled after just two years, during the 2024 state budget cuts. The plan uses the word “hunt” 225 times, “conflict” 54 times, and “coexistence” only once.
Residents of California communities with black bears are now mobilizing from the ground up. Groups like the North Bay Bear Collaborative are going beyond just filling gaps in services that the state is unwilling or unable to provide. They are beginning to articulate a new approach to participatory stewardship, which brings diverse people together like a Fire Safe Council for wildlife. These groups partner with state and federal governments whenever possible, and go beyond them whenever necessary. It is not clear whether, a decade or two from now, Santa Barbara will be a hotspot of black bear activity, like Sierra Madre or the Pine Mountain Club. What we do know is that the two bears that wandered into the urban South Coast this spring carried a message. The time to start thinking and acting, in our community, to promote safe and healthy shared habitats for people and black bears is now before the bears
in greater numbers.
obituaries
Eric Lassen 11/02/1936 – 03/26/2025
Eric Lassen, AIA Architect, Santa Barbara Bowl Architect and longstanding Summer Solstice Celebration Board member, passed away in Santa Barbara on 3/26/2025. Eric was born in Los Angeles, CA on 11/2/1936. He attended Claremont Men’s College and received his MA in architecture from University of Southern California. He practiced architecture in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara.
Eric worked for Sasaki Architects in San Francisco, one of the most highly respected and influential design firms in the world, where he designed the Delmar Fairgrounds and several buildings at UCSB, earning recognition for his expertise and leadership in large-scale architectural projects.
Eric joined the Board of the Santa Barbara Bowl in 1985. He was deeply involved in the initial community planning process to determine the Bowl's future. Would it be torn down and replaced by luxury condominiums or would it become one of the nation's premier outdoor venues nestled in the heart of Santa Barbara?
Eric's patient leadership of the 20-year rebuilding and fundraising effort to realize the community's vision was absolutely critical to the amazing amphitheater it has become. At every board meeting — and through several generations of boards — it was Eric's monthly report that mattered. You could hear a pin drop while he quietly reported on steady progress.
He brought the same craftmanship and unperturbable care to his years on the Summer Solstice Board of Direc-
tors. While his work at the Santa Barbara Bowl was building in stone, his years on the Summer Solstice Celebration Board and in the Community Arts Workshop (CAW) were building community through practicing the celebration arts. He was consistently the major annual supporter of the Jethro Davis Junior Artists in Residence at Solstice.
As an early Board member of the Bowl Foundation Board, Eric recognized that the preservation and improvement of the Bowl would meet the highest professional standards of his career, and his community building passion could be served as well. Eric helped establish the goals of the private nonprofit foundation to include support for performing arts education through funds derived from a ticket surcharge and Bowl Foundation fundraising and partnerships with the Santa Barbara County Arts Commission's "Art Making a Difference" countywide grants program.
Eric Lassen was a greatly loved member of the Santa Barbara arts community for over 40 years. Through his vison of supporting Santa Barbara's arts community by training junior artists his legacy will last for generations. His contribution to Santa Barbara's reputation as a center for the arts is set in stone.
He is survived by his wife Carol Lingham, son Christopher Lassen, daughter Susan Varga, stepsons Nathaniel Gwynne and Gabe Moore, and sister Karen Lassen. A small, private celebration of Eric’s life will be held in Santa Barbara in June. Please contact ckerfoot@ mullenlaw.com if you wish to attend, and details will be provided.
Marie Wells 01/02/1939 – 05/03/2025
Edith Marie Wells, 86, of Santa Barbara, California, passed away peacefully on Saturday, May 3, 2025, surrounded by her loving family.
Born on January 2, 1939, in Monrovia, California, Edith lived a life grounded in faith, family, and a deep love for others. She attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she met her husband and lifelong companion, Roger Wells. Their 65-year marriage was marked by devotion, partnership, and shared laughter.
Edith served for many years as a special education teacher’s aide in the Goleta Unified School District. Her patience, compassion, and commitment left a lasting impression on generations of students and colleagues. Her ability to make every child feel seen and valued reflected the warmth that defined her.
A dedicated member of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church since 1970, Edith sang in the choir and served on numerous committees. In addition, she was an active supporter of The Quire of Voyces, The Santa Barbara Women’s Club, P.E.O., and the Genealogy Society.
Edith’s home was a place of joy and celebration. She hosted many large family gatherings, including annual Easter egg hunts in the beautiful backyard oasis she and Roger created, festive Thanksgiving gatherings overflowing with food and laughter, and a neighborhoodfamous Halloween celebration that welcomed hundreds for drinks, treats, and warm hospitality.
She had an infectious spirit — her smile lit up rooms, her laughter was unmistakable, and her genuine kindness left a mark on everyone she met. She was passionate about genealogy, spending countless hours
tracing family history and preserving connections across generations.
Edith is survived by her husband Roger, and their three sons: Greg Wells (Kim), Jeff Wells, and Steve Wells (Tracy). She is also survived by five grandchildren — Tiffany, Alexa, Haylee, Sydney, and Collin — and two great-grandchildren, Leo and Theodore.
A memorial service will be held at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church (4575 Auhay Drive, Santa Barbara) on Saturday, May 24th at 2:00 PM.
We will all miss Edie, but her legacy will live on in every act of kindness, each time a stranger is welcomed, and — most importantly — every time we laugh out loud with our family and friends.
In Loving Memory of Shaminette ShalhoobKeegan With heavy hearts, we announce the passing of Shaminette Shalhoob Keegan, lovingly known as Shami, who left us peacefully on April 29, 2025.
Born on April 7, 1961, in Santa Barbara, Shami attended El Camino Elementary School. The Shalhoob family relocated to Santa Ynez in 1970, at which time Shami attended Santa Ynez Elementary and graduated from Santa Ynez High School in 1979.
Growing up, Shami was active in 4-H, where she raised sheep and showed horses, developing a lifelong love for animals. She was a fierce competitor in her youth,
participating in gymnastics, cheerleading, basketball, and softball. Many of her old teammates and friends recall her enthusiasm, energy, and dedication to whatever sport she was playing. Shami was the kind of person who inspired others to push harder, smile bigger, and give their best in every game and performance. Her smile, laughter, generosity, and tireless spirit were contagious.
Shami worked at many restaurants in the Santa Ynez Valley over the years, forming lasting friendships and fond memories. Among her favorite times were her years at Zaca Creek Restaurant and Shalhoob's Restaurant during the early to mid-1980s. She often spoke fondly of those days, filled with hard work, laughter, and a deep connection to the Santa Ynez Valley community she so loved.
After marrying Brett on January 18, 1992, they bought a home and raised their family in Atascadero. She was a proud mom, volunteering in her sons’ elementary school classrooms, baseball fields and travel baseball for many years. Shami also worked for some time at Costa Rica Connections and loved to travel with family and friends. Shami is survived by her husband of 33 years, Brett Keegan, her sons Chance (25) and Zain (21), her mother Geraldine Shalhoob, and her father Bill Shalhoob (Janet), sister Kourey Cotton (Bill ), and brothers Nick Shalhoob (Rachel) and Greg Shalhoob (Elena), nieces Evin Tayefeh (Michael), Jordan Politis (Zohn) Shannon Bailey (Nick), and Sydney Shalhoob, nephews Louie Shalhoob and Marco Shalhoob, as well as Shami's lifelong dear friends, Mary Jacobsen Place (Robert), all who will miss her dearly.
A Celebration of Shami's life will be held on Saturday, June 7, 2025, at 1:00 pm Hans Christian Andersen Park (Area A). Please RSVP to shamijune72025@gmail.com. In place of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to your local 4-H Chapter, Woods Humane Society in Atascadero or SLO County Animal Services.
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Alexis Giorgio Cottavoz-Usher
1963–2025
Trailblazing Surfer, Filmmaker
BY SABRINA OERTLE AND PATRICK MAIANI
The world has lost a true force of nature. Alexis Giorgio CottavozUsher, a native of Santa Barbara and a man who lived life with unrelenting passion and creativity, passed away on March 30, 2025, at the age of 62. A professional surfer, experimental filmmaker, visionary photographer, and self-taught sensational drummer, Alexis was a trailblazer whose vibrant energy touched every wave he rode and every frame he captured.
Alexis discovered his love for surfing at just 10 years old. By the time he graduated from Santa Barbara High School in 1982, he was already making waves both literally and figuratively. Alexis became a standout member of the famed “Santa Barbara Goofy Footer’s Club,” his unique style and talent carving a permanent place for him in the archives of surf history. Of his iconic Channel Islands square fin, he would say, “I told Al to cut the tail off to release the lip.” Al Merrick is the legendary shaper behind Channel Islands Surfboards known for his cutting-edge designs.
Alexis approached surfing as both an art form and a science. His style was unmistakable: smooth, fluid bottom turns that transitioned effortlessly into explosive vertical maneuvers.
From Rincon’s famous right-hand point breaks to the beaches of Ventura and beyond, Alexis turned challenges into opportunities, redefining what it meant to be a goofyfooter in a world dominated by regular-foot surfers. His competitive career took him to iconic surf spots around the globe Bali’s G-Land, Hawai‘i’s North Shore, Australia’s Bells Beach and left an indelible mark wherever he paddled out.
But Alexis wasn’t content to simply ride waves; he wanted to document them in ways no one had ever seen before. Armed with a VHS camcorder and an insatiable curios-
ity, he founded Stormproof Films in 1991. Over the next decade, he produced more than four dozen surf films that captured not just the sport but the culture surrounding it. His underground classic Good ’n’ Plenty became a touchstone for surf enthusiasts, blending high-performance surfing with raw authenticity.
Alexis didn’t stop there. His lens extended beyond the ocean to snow-covered peaks and urban skate parks, chronicling the rise of extreme sports with an eye for detail that was both gritty and poetic. His 2008 book Shutterspeed remains a time capsule of this era a stunning visual journey through surfing’s golden age and the birth of snowboarding culture. From Bruce Irons at Pipeline to Teahupo‘o’s monstrous barrels in Tahiti, Alexis captured moments that were as breathtaking as they were fleeting.
musicians, and dreamers for generations.
In Los Angeles during the late ’90s and early 2000s, Alexis expanded his creative horizons into commercial directing and short films like Apocalypse Knowles and Pure Funk. His ability to infuse energy and originality into every project made him a sought-after collaborator among independent filmmakers and artists.
Alexis lived life boldly and unapologetically on his own terms a fearless adventurer who embraced risk both in sport and art. Friends remember him as “a Santa Barbara ripper,” combining power and grace on every wave he surfed. He was competitive yet deeply connected to the joy of riding waves for their own sake. His storytelling whether through film or photography was imbued with an infectious energy that inspired everyone around him.
Beyond his professional achievements, Alexis was a man of boundless creativity who found beauty in every corner of life. He was also a musician whose talents extended far beyond what most knew about him. His legacy is one of innovation, passion, and an unwavering commitment to living fully a legacy that will inspire surfers, filmmakers,
Alexis’s adventurous spirit and kind heart extended far beyond his talents. He was a loyal friend who brightened every room with his infectious smile and quick wit. He had a knack for making people feel seen and valued, always offering encouragement or a listening ear when it was needed most. Alexis hung out with a close bunch of guys and gals, and the entire community of friends who made growing up in Montecito so special.
Though Alexis’s time with us was far too short, his legacy lives on in the memories he created with family and friends, the waves he conquered, and the stories he shared through his art. He taught us all to live with passion, embrace creativity, and find beauty in every moment.
Alexis is survived by his mother, Tamara; his siblings, Giselle, Marina, Kinka, Frederick, and Xochil; and nephews as well as countless friends around the world who loved him dearly. He will be deeply missed but forever remembered.
Alexis’s beautiful life will be celebrated during a memorial service at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Montecito, on Wednesday, May 28, 11 a.m., followed by a Celebration of Life at the Anchor Rose, Santa Barbara Harbor, Friday, May 30, 5-10 p.m. A Memorial Paddle-Out takes place at Leadbetter Beach, Saturday, May 31, 1 p.m. Donations can be made to the GoFundMe account set up in Alexis’s honor: gofund.me/f12a1b7a. For more information, email rsvp2025@gmail.com
Ride on forever, Alexis you’ve left tracks on waves and hearts alike that will never fade. n
obituaries
Paul Ryan Sanchez
11/15/1983 – 05/04/2025
In Loving Memory of Paul Ryan Sanchez left this world far too soon, but not without filling it with laughter, love, and a deep appreciation for life’s simple, beautiful moments. He was 41.
Born to Rudy and Lori Sanchez as their only child, Paul naturally formed deep bonds with his many friends, and cousins, who became more like siblings to him. He protected them fiercely, loved them deeply, and always showed up when it mattered.
He was a devoted dad to his son, Takoda Ryan Sanchez, who was the absolute light of his life. Paul’s love for Takoda was endless, and he poured his heart into fatherhood. He also shared his life with his partner, Thea Kanjanasatitya. Thea's love, strength, and laughter matched his own. Paul & Thea had a keen love for trying and perfecting recipes old and new.They had a mutual enjoyment for great movies.Together they went on many adventures, and truly enjoyed all the splendor of the outdoors.Their greatest achievement together was their son Takoda.
Paul had a rare gift—he could be anywhere or in any situation and lighten the mood with his humor and quick wit. He made people feel at ease, and more often than not, had them laughing until they cried. That joyful spirit was just part of who he was.
Paul felt most at home in the great outdoors. Whether he was catching a game of golf or snowboarding through fresh powder in Mammoth his Dad, wakeboarding across
the lake with his Mom keeping a watchful eye, fishing under the sun with his buddies, or restoring a classic VW in one of the bays down at the Shop; he was in his element— moving fast, soaking in the thrill, and grinning ear to ear.
To know Paul was to love him. His adventurous soul, big heart, and contagious laugh left a mark on everyone he met. He lived fully, loved fiercely, and will be missed beyond words.
A celebration of Paul’s life will be held at a later date. In the meantime, the family invites you to honor him in your own way—maybe by catching a sunrise, hitting the slopes, or just sharing a good laugh with someone you love.
Royal Augusto Agnoli
07/07/1932 – 04/27/2025
Royal Augusto Agnoli, 92, passed away peacefully on April 27, 2025, in Santa Barbara, California. Born on July 7, 1932, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Royal began a lifelong career in construction and tile at the young age of 14.
A skilled craftsman, he eventually became a general and tile contractor, and in 1962, he moved to Santa Barbara, where he founded and ran his own successful business, A &
A Royal Tile Co. He took great pride in his work and was known for his dedication and artistry. His love for his work
left a lasting legacy. You can find his tile work and craftsmanship in homes and buildings throughout Santa Barbara and Goleta, and even at the Santa Barbara Zoo.
Royal married the love of his life, Anna, in 1961, and together they built a life filled with family, including 3 children - Anna, Christian and Marie - travel, and shared passions. He had a special love for animals and raised birds - especially fancy pigeonssince boyhood. He was rarely without a dog by his side. Royal also had a passion for travel, particularly cruises, and found great joy in good food, especially Italian and BBQ, and the music and videos of Dean Martin.
One of his greatest joys was gathering the whole family together for a meal; whether it was a backyard or park barbecue, or a home-cooked feast for a holiday.
He is survived by his children Chris Agnoli (Tina) and Marie Reardon (Sean); his son-in-law Pat Pappalardo; his sister Louise Antignani (Mario- deceased); his sister-in-law Liliana Murgia (Alberto) six beloved grandchildren: Ariana, Katherine, Michael, Marina, Giada, and Chiara; one cherished greatgrandchild, Giovani, and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his beloved wife, Anna Agnoli; his daughter, Anna Pappalardo; and his sister, Eleanora Dusi (Gimo).
The family extends their heartfelt gratitude to the wonderful community of support that surrounded Royal over the years, especially the team at Vista del Monte, Dr. Robert Byers, Dr. David Gillon—who saved his life three times—and the compassionate caregivers from The Assisted team. Your care and kindness meant the world to him and to all who loved him.
A Funeral Mass will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May
27, 2025, at San Roque Church in Santa Barbara to honor and celebrate Royal’s life. Reception to follow.
Royal’s legacy lives on in the love he gave, the work he cherished, and the family and friends he inspired.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Santa Barbara Humane in honor of Royal’s lifelong love for animals.
Kathleen Mary McNeil-Pickens
10/14/1952 – 04/16/2025
Kathleen Mary McNeilPickens, beloved mother to 3 children and their spouses, Christopher (and Michelle), Raffianne (and Shane) and Kathryn (and Adam), grandmother to Josh, Haley, Mason, Charlotte, Jack, Marlee, Morgan, Maggie, and Maddox and wife of Jerry Lee Pickens, peacefully transitioned to heaven in her home in Buellton, Ca. on 16 April, 2025.
Kathleen or “Kak” known by her closest family and friends was born in San Diego, Ca in 1952 to Harold “Pete” McNeil and Mary Kathryn McNeil, as the first of eight children Kathy was a loving and wonderful big sister to Michael, Molly, Patrick, Casey, Christina, Sheila and Mary McNeil. From early childhood she was always taking care of others. Always ahead of her time, she graduated at the age of 16 from Granite Hills High School in El Cajon, Ca. She had the most engaging and wonderful smile and the best sense of humor and she made everyone she encountered feel special and like they were part of the family. Her life could be characterized by her love and care for everyone she encountered. Kathy had an
amazing love of life, she was an artist and a consummate foodie. She became an amazing self-taught chef “probably from years of cooking for such a large family” and shared this love of cooking and feeding people not only with her family but the junior high children and teachers of Santa’s Barbara as the head chef and Kitchen Manager for La Colina Junior High School for over 30 years. She was an innovator in healthy school lunches, always cooking meals from fresh ingredients, partnering with organic farms and teaching her students to cook healthy meals themselves. She led her team in the kitchen the way that she did everything else in life “by example” as a servant leader. Throughout her life, she spent all of her time, talents and treasure for her children and family and everyone around her to make sure everyone was fed physically and spiritually. She loved like no other, could laugh like no other, and was always up for an adventure. She truly did try to make everyday special, beautiful and meaningful for her family and friends. Kathy was preceded in death by her parents, Pete and Mary, her brother Casey and is survived by her loving husband of 36 years, Jerry, children, Christopher (Michelle), Raffianne (Shane), Kathryn (Adam), grandchildren Josh, Haley, Mason, Charlotte, Jack, Marlee, Morgan, Maggie and Maddox, siblings, Michael, Molly, Patrick, Christina, Sheila, and Mary and many nieces and nephews who will never forget the love she brought to their lives.
A celebration of life will be held July 19th at 12:00 at Santa Inés Mission. Flowers can be sent to the mission Santa Inés 1760 Mission Dr Solvang, CA 93463 on 19 July for the celebration of life. A reception will follow.
WITH ACCESS FOR ALL
end of this season, after 25 fruitful years. “I can’t imagine A&L without Celesta,” Haller effused.
The history of Viva dates back to a plan hatched by a consortium of arts administrators in town, including influential Arts Commission head Patrick Davis. Billeci remembers Davis taking her to experience the humble north county town of Guadalupe, a site in need of cultural activities. Billeci teamed up with Davis and the Luke Theatre’s Rod Lathim, and others, to germinate an inventive new concept and project, rooted in the current three-site areas of Isla Vista, Guadalupe, and Santa Barbara’s Eastside.
Enter ¡Viva el Arte de Santa Bárbara!
Billeci recalls, “We came up with this idea of ‘Let’s create this program called “Viva” that would serve these sites.’ This is not a UCSB Arts & Lectures program, but a very equal partner program with the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, the Isla Vista PTA, Marjorie Luke Theatre, and then Arts & Lectures. Four sites work together to collaborate, curate, put this together. I mean, we are the big organization out of the four. We have more resources, and we do a lot of the work in terms of logistics, but the communities themselves are so beautiful, the people that we serve in these communities. We take the artists into the community. We don’t expect the communities to come to the artists.
“I really do think we live up to the mantra of ‘access for all,’ and I’m really proud of that. Viva goes above and beyond. You can ask any single person on our staff, ‘What does Celesta think the best thing is about Arts & Lectures?’ They will tell you, without hesitation, ‘She’s most proud of Viva.’ It’s about making sure that everybody gets to come to the table. Everybody gets to participate; everybody gets to see and be a part of world-class artists.”
For most of the Viva story thus far, the managing director for the series was A&L’s Cathy Oliverson, whom
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
Everyone should have access to world-class art and music. Viva el Arte is awesome. It provides world-class musicians and artists whose work is accessible to the community at no charge. Many of the schools and the students and communities that Viva el Arte serves are underserved. This program brings world-class performances and artists to them directly. Art is part of what gives our lives vibrancy and purpose, so it’s imperative that this program continue.
—Salud Carbajal, U.S. Representative for California’s 24th District
We started out and recorded our first demo, and we started painting each CD cover and asking help from friends. Doing things like that turned into painting parties. We would also have them at bars and coffee shops, wherever we’d play, but would also do those at cultural centers.
That was a great experience, to share the creative space with people and also share stories with the youth about how we found ourselves and how we found our instruments and how we came along. It shows an example of what you can do with music. For us, it’s important that we can share that with the youth, that there is a way to be creative and to celebrate, to know where you come from with your roots and also that we’re all living out here, inspired by everything.
—La Marisoul, La Santa Cecilia
If we are touring, there has to be, at some point, some venues where I can do workshops, whether with kids or high school or university students, or adults. I try to do some kind of workshop, where I can really speak about the music, and its history. If it is kids, I put more emphasis on the playing part, because of the age.
It’s a very important part of our mission. When I created this group, 20 years ago now, one of the things I realized was that there are many Puerto Ricans who have become very well-known in the States and in the world musicians, sports figures, film figures, singers, and in other fields. But people don’t really know much about our music.
—Gary Nuñez, from the Puerto Rican band Plena Libre
I was first exposed to Viva el Arte years ago, when I was still with Mariachi Los Camperos, years ago. That was the first time I had ever done a school assembly with mariachi. The director came up with a good basis of how to have an interesting assembly. From there, we began to do a lot more assemblies, here in L.A. and other places.
I really enjoyed spreading the joy of mariachi to kids. It’s a very fun genre. Doing the assemblies, I enjoyed see-
ing the kids and the community. You see everybody’s face lit up. You hear little kids singing a song you played right when you started, a half hour ago, and they still remember it, or hearing the kids saying, “Bye-bye, mariachi!” It’s a nice little feeling.
It’s the same thing with the community concerts. That’s what I was really impressed with Viva el Arte, having these free concerts for the community. Santa Barbara is one of those large small communities. If something does come to town for instance, at the Bowl some people can’t afford to get in or get over there. These concerts get people out of the house, and it’s free.
—Jaime Cuéllar, Mariachi Garibaldi de Jaime Cuéllar
It is a blessing and important to be able to share our knowledge and beautiful musical experiences with others. We do enjoy doing these types of programs because it gives us a chance to interact more with the public, reach other audiences, and become part of a mutual, memorable experience.
Also, as young professional female musicians, it is important to inspire other women, especially younger generations, to do music regardless of all the barriers and struggles to make it in a male-dominated world and show them that you can be successful and do what you most love.
—Mireya I. Ramos, Flor de Toloache, all-female group from N.Y.C.
I wasn’t familiar with it until I received a proposal to go up and do these gigs. I’m very excited. I think it’s a wonderful thing that they’re doing. I know that I am going to be doing performances throughout the community and the county. I know that I’m going to be playing for kindergarten kids, 3rd-graders, high schools, and we’re even going to a juvenile hall. It’s going to be something that, for me, I know will be quite enriching.
As an immigrant, it’s also important for me to relay that message to all the people who are here in this country who are also working hard, honest people who are just trying to make a living, who left their homes behind to follow their American dream. There are a lot of us out here. I’m one of them too. I’m here by myself, while my family is in Guatemala.
It’s a blessing to be able to have music to communicate this kind of message to people. It’s a message of hope, a message of unity, telling everybody I’m with them and I’m part of them. We can all move forward together.
—Gaby Moreno n
La Santa Cecilia performs at the Santa Barbara Club.
The Viva El Arte team with Las Guaracheras
GEM FAIRE
“having places where families can experience joy, respect, pride, and belonging is vital. Viva has the potential to broaden and deepen its impact as it creates pride and hope among some of our most vulnerable neighbors, which is so needed in the current climate.”
With the various changes in direction and personnel in the Viva machinery, one of the “old guard” administrators is now Ruvalcaba, who began her work as Santa Barbara coordinator in 2010 and who serves the critical role as liaison to the Spanish-speaking community and engaging onstage emcee. She first connected with the program as a reporter and producer for Univision television and was soon invited to play an active role.
able to become a little channel to connect those and be able to, to be a part of it.”
At times, Ruvalcaba has had a direct hand in booking special shows in the series, tapping into her roots in Guadalajara. She brought up the fascinating jazz-rock band Troker in 2013 and singer Valente Pastor, both from Guadalajara. In one of many peripheral stories linked to Viva visitors, Pastor was invited to sing in the Our Lady of Guadalupe by the priest, who had heard him perform in a classroom session in Carpinteria and asked for his musical service in church on Sunday morning. Pastor’s potent cameo performance of “Ave Maria” in church that morning inspired a full house at the Luke that night.
At that time, she said, “For me, it was a whole life change. It was not only the transition from my station to this new job. I was also pregnant with my first son. So, Viva kind of became my baby before my actual baby came alive.”
Ruvalcaba says, “When I’m on stage or when I’m communicating with the audience or with the artist, it’s just trying to transfer the same feeling that I felt when I was being welcomed into Viva. It was just a sense of belonging. We are one community and we are in this adventure together. At shows, there are the grandmas and little kids, all different ranges of ages. And the experiences are completely different.
In another tale, a young woman, Ely García, was so inspired by a mariachi concert at the Luke that she pursued music and, 12 years later, ended up singing in the all-female Mariachi Reyna de Los Ángeles, coming full-circle back to the Luke.
“Some kids are there for the first time in a show. They see these big lights on the stage and the theater, and some other people, they show up there because the music reminds them of their old town in Mexico, or from the little town in Colombia. They hear their sounds and they are transported to their own towns and their own experiences. It’s like blending the community with the experience with the culture together and doing that through the music. It’s been a huge blessing to be
Despite struggles for support and solid grounding in the past, Viva’s future is looking potentially bright. Billeci’s advocacy and passion for creating an endowment this year stems from her desire to “stake my legacy” on the project. “I wanted to secure an endowment,” she notes. “The community and my donors knew that this is really important and that nothing can happen to this program. It needs to be protected for the future. We need to endow it so that it’s always there, that these communities are always served no matter who the [A&L] director is.
“Whatever happens in politics or whatever else happens, these communities deserve to be served.”
One dance floor and classroom at a time.
See artsandlectures.ucsb.edu/learn/viva-el-artede-santa-barbara.
Las Guaracheras
CELESTA BILLECI RETIRES: LAST DANCE FOR AN A&L ERA
As Celesta Billeci retires from her post as executive director of Arts & Lectures (A&L) technically, the Miller McCune Executive Director, a position endowed by Sara Miller McCune she achieves the milestone as the longest-running program director of this type in the UC system’s history. Billeci, who had previously been involved in the administration of the UCLA live arts program, took over the UCSB role upon the departure of previous director Jan Oetinger, who Billeci says “left it in very good shape, so I could just build on what she had done.”
After retiring, “my intention is to stay in the field. It is kind of the norm, when people step down in roles like this, that they will continue to sort of consult in the arts field, and that’s what I intend to do,” said Billeci. “It’s just that this is a 24/7 job, and I’m looking forward to not working 24/7 anymore. When I got here 25 years ago, this was a very different program. I love the field. I love arts presenting, strategic planning, presenting, and fundraising, and these are things that I intend to still do after I retire.”
Although Billeci has been widely praised, both in the area with multiple awards just this year and in the general arts and lectures field, as a significant force, she deflects direct accolades and tends to praise her team. Among those parties is her “partner in crime” Roman Baratiak, who was in place when Billeci arrived and only left after retiring in 2020. Meghan Bush, currently assistant director, has also been a vital mainstay in the program for many years.
Billeci relates that “we all worked together really hard in that little barrack
(the humble headquarters of A&L in days of old) to transform the program, to make a really solid program.
“The star is the program, not me. It’s not the executive director. That is really important. The star here is what we put on stage and what people don’t see. All the arts education we do behind the scenes, whether it’s at the K-through-12 schools or at the university, or the free classes in the community, or all the books we give away, that’s the star.”
For all the built-in variety of an A&L season, between classical, jazz, roots, and other music, high-end lectures and other events, one clear strong point is the organization’s commitment to supporting dance.
Billeci has a deep interest in the form, having studied and danced professionally in her early years, and has worked diligently to bring important dance troupes and artists to Santa Barbara. She insists, “We have to stay committed to presenting dance. It’s such an important art form. It’s theatrical. It involves music.
“You can’t be a major arts presenter in this country and not present dance. I’ve made that commitment, and we have a reputation of being one of the most important dance presenters in the United States, if not internationally.”
Part of what makes A&L fly is the presence of patrons in the affluent and cultured city it lives in. Billeci attributes much of her success to “the generosity of our donors. I always say this is a community-supported program. The generosity of the donors in Santa Barbara have made this program what it is. I may have shown them a vision that they bought into, but they’ve made it a reality and help sustain it every year. And they make it available to everybody else.” n
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SATURDAY 5/17
5/17: The 15th Annual Chocolate de Vine Sample appetizers, desserts, and California wines; take in a judged competition of chocolate creations; and join a live auction with proceeds to benefit STESA’s services, which support survivors of sexual assault. 4pm. St. Barbara Greek Orthodox Church, 1205 San Antonio Creek Rd. $125-$150. Call (805) 963-6832. chocolatedevine.org/event-info
5/17: Ellwood Mesa 20th Anniversary Celebrate Ellwood Mesa with a non-competitive 5K run, a family-friendly bike ride, and a tribute to Ellwood, followed by a guided bird walk, nature journaling, classical music in the grove, kite flying, a scavenger hunt, bubbles, and food for purchase from Mo’s To-Go. 11am-4pm. Ellwood Elementary, 7686 Hollister Ave., and Goleta and Ellwood Mesa Sperling Preserve, 7729 Hollister Ave., Goleta. Free. Email melissa@legacyworksgroup.com. ellwoodfriends.org/anniversary
5/17: Peace of Mind 2025: 10,000 Steps in the Right Direction Fundraising Walk S.B.’s Mental Wellness Center and One Mind invite you to walk 10,000 steps (4.5 miles) to raise funds for community services, research, and treatment for anxiety and depression. 9am. Alma Rosa Winery Estate, 7250 Santa Rosa Rd., Buellton. $60. Call (805) 691-9395 or email walk@almarosawinery.com almarosawinery.com/peace-of-mind
5/17: Starr King’s Epic Annual Rummage Sale! Shop from a selection of high-quality items such as kids’ and adult clothing, housewares, toys, furnishings, unique finds, and items priced by the pound with proceeds going toward Starr King Parent-Child Workshop. 9am-3pm. SBCC Wake Campus Auditorium, 300 N. Turnpike Rd. Free. Call (805) 966-1325. starrking-pcw.org
5/17: UCSB Arts & Lectures Presents LOUIS, a Silent Film with Live Musical Performance by Wynton Marsalis and Cecile Licad This unique event will feature a screening of the 2010 movie LOUIS (rated R), directed by Dan Pritzker, that is a modern reimagining of silent films and based loosely on the childhood of Louis Armstrong with a live score composed and performed by the renowned jazz musician Wynton Marsalis as well as Cecile Licad and an 11-piece all-star jazz ensemble. 7:30pm. Arlington Theatre, 1317 State St. UCSB students: $16; GA: $52-$107. Call (805) 893-3535. artsandlectures.ucsb.edu
Identifying Plant Families in the Garden Learn about or refine your plant identification of California native plants in your yard, nurseries, and the Botanic Garden from Christina Varnava, Living Collections Curator, S.B. Botanic Garden. 9am, S.B. Botanic Garden, 1212 Mission Canyon Rd. Members/students: $15:
Get Hooked Harbor Tour Join to learn how to recognize the different types of fishing boats, hear stories about life at sea as a small-boat fisher, and sample fresh from a seafood expert and veteran fisher. 10am, S.B. Maritime Museum (front stairs), 113 sbce.events/event/get-hooked-harbor-tour
5/17: Storytime on Coast Village: Mike Bender Kids, parents, teachers, and book lovers are invited to enjoy snacks and a special reading of New York Times best-selling author Mike Bender’s Bored Panda, a heartwarming and hilarious story about putting down the devices and embracing boredom! 2-3pm. C&H Real Estate Group Office, 1255 Coast Village Rd., Ste. 102B. Free. Email lisa@homesinsantabarbara.com. tinyurl.com/BoredPanda-May17
5/17: S.B. Culinary Experience: The Grand Tasting Partake in wine tasting from more than 40 S.B. County wineries, food sampling, panel discussions moderated by the S.B. Independent’s Matt Kettmann, and live music from the Salty Strings. 2-5pm. El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park, 123 E. Canon Perdido St. $95-$115. sbce.events/grand-wine-tasting
SUNDAY 5/18
5/17: The 14th Annual S.B. Harbor Nautical Swap Meet Enjoy complimentary coffee and refreshments as you shop from dozens of vendors with nautical items for sale such as boat rigging, surfboards, fishing gear, inflatable boats, pumps, winches, motors, and more. 8am-noon. Main Harbor Parking Lot. Free. Call (805) 564-5531. tinyurl.com/SBNauticalSwapMeet 5/18: The
5/18: Chaucer’s Book Talk and Signing: Jin Young Lim Author and PhD student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at UCSB Jin Young Lim will talk about and sign copies of his book, The Dao of Flow: A Journey to Discover the Ancient Wisdom of Water, an invitation to discover the wisdom of water to provide a spiritual map to deeper harmony with oneself and the world. 3pm. Chaucer’s Book, 3321 State St. Free. Call (805) 682-6787. chaucersbooks.com/events
5/18: Kenny Lee Lewis Presents: A Tribute to the Fillmore This show will honor the bands such as Cream, Pink Floyd, the Grateful Dead, Etta James, and more, featured at the historic Fillmore East in New York City’s East Village and Fillmore West in San Francisco during the Golden Era of Classic Rock featuring the Frenz Band, Keith England (Allman Brothers Band), and blues artist Deb Ryder. 7:30pm, SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $25-$30. Call (805) 962-7776. sohosb.com
MONDAY 5/19
5/19: S.B. Premiere: The Golden Hours Walk the red carpet and see a screening of this powerful film of loss, love, and hope that was produced and shot in S.B., then mingle with the cast and crew afterward. 7pm. Metropolitan Paseo Nuevo 4 Cinemas, 8 W. De la Guerra St. $13. Call (323) 819-9919. tinyurl.com/The-GoldenHours
TUESDAY 5/20
5/20: UCSB Arts & Lectures Presents Tessa Lark Violinist Tessa Lark will make her S.B. debut and perform a program that will explore all sides of her prolific career, from Bartók to bluegrass and beyond with Amy Yang on piano. 7pm. Hahn Hall, Music Academy of the West, 1070 Fairway Rd. UCSB students: $10; GA: $47.50. Call (805) 893-3535. artsandlectures.ucsb.edu
5/20: Panic!: Social Studies See the first two episodes of FX’s 2024 limited series Social Studies, filmed in L.A. during one school year that delves into the lives of the first generation raised on social media who deal with bullying, beauty standards, racism, sexuality, and other challenges followed by discussion with director Lauren Greenfield and documentary participant Jonathan Gelfond. 7-9:45pm. Pollock Theater, UCSB. Free. (805) 893-4637. carseywolf.ucsb.edu
WEDNESDAY
5/21
5/21: AWC S.B. 17th Annual Women of Achievement Awards Luncheon The Association for Women in Communications (AWC) S.B. will honor five creatives in the arts: Adriana Arriaga, visual artist and activist; Teresa Kuskey, Founder/Artistic Director of La Boheme Dance; Frances Moore, Cofounder/Artistic Director, S.B. Ringshout Project; Melinda Palacio, S.B. Poet Laureate; and Joanne Wasserman, Artistic Director and Conduc tor, S.B. Choral Society. 11:30am-1:30pm, Cabrillo Arts Pavillion, 1118 E. Cabrillo Blvd. $110$125. Email news@awcsb.org awcsb.org
5/21: Anacapa School’s Arts on Parade dent artists, scientists, engineers, and the school’s rock band in a celebration of Anacapa’s vibrant arts community. Call or email to RSVP. 5:30pm. Anacapa School, 814 Santa Barbara St. Free. Call (805) 965-0228 or email anacapaschool.org
5/21: CAMA’S Masterseries Presents Garrick Ohlsson can piano masters, Garrick Ohlsson, will perform an all-Chopin program for the first time since his virtuosic all-Brahms recital at the Lobero in March 2019. 7:30pm, Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. $58-$68. Call (805) 963-0761.
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TUESDAY MAY 20 5 PM
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Genre-defying, unconventional, acclaimed author Jonathan Lethem returns to SBMA to read and discuss his latest book.Book signing and reception with the artists to follow, with a special one-night-only “pop up” exhibition of Richard Brown Lethem’s paintings in the Art Learning Lab.
FREE for students with ID and SBMA Museum Circles Members $10 all other SBMA Members / $15 Non-Members
Let’s Go to the Theater
5/15-5/17: San Marcos High School Theatre Presents Urinetown See this satirical musical that balances sharp humor with social commentary, set in a drought-ravaged future where a corrupt government controls access to public restrooms with plot twists and songs. 7pm. Marquis Performing Arts Center, San Marcos High School, 4750 Hollister Ave. GA: $10-$15; VIP: $25 (includes snacks and gift bag). Email ssaleh@sbunified.org. tinyurl.com/SMHS-Urinetown
5/15-5/18: Rubicon Theatre Presents Bonnie & Clyde Follow Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow on an exhilarating tale of love, crime, and passion in this Tony-nominated musical that blends rockabilly, blues, and gospel music in this new and dynamic adaptation. Thu.-Fri.: 7pm; Sat.-Sun.: 2 and 7pm. Rubicon Theatre, 1006 E. Main St., Ventura. $20-$89.50. Call (805) 667-2900. rubicontheatre.org
5/15-5/17: Dos Pueblos Theatre Company Presents Mamma Mia! This jukebox musical, featuring the songs of ABBA, follows a newly engaged Sophie, who after reading her mother’s diary is determined to find out the identity of her father. Rated PG-13 for mild adult themes and suggestive humor. 7pm. Elings Performing Arts Center, Dos Pueblos High School, 7266 Alameda Ave., Goleta. GA: $8-$15; VIP: $25. Call (805) 968-2541. dphstheatrecompany.org
5/15-5/17: La Cumbre Performing Arts Presents Alice in Wonderland Jr. Step into the magical world of Alice in Wonderland Jr. to follow Alice down the rabbit hole for a whimsical adventure filled with curious characters, catchy songs, and plenty of fun for the entire family. Thu.-Fri.: 7pm; Sun.: 2 and 7pm. La Cumbre Jr. High School, 2255 Modoc Rd. GA: $8-$12; VIP: $25. Call (805) 687-0761 x3521. cur8.com/26378/project/129417
5/15, 5/17, 5/20:
Theatre Eclectic Presents As You Like It SBCC’s School of Extended Learning invites you to see a 75-minute version of Shakespeare’s comedy As You Like It, which follows the heroine Rosalind as she flees persecution in her uncle’s court, accompanied by her cousin Celia to find safety and, eventually, love. Thu.: 7pm. Schott Campus Auditorium, 310 W. Padre St.; Sat.: 2pm. Friendship Manor Retirement Community, 6647 El Colegio Rd., Isla Vista; Tue.: 7pm. Wake Campus Auditorium, 300 N. Turnpike Rd. Free. Email theatreeclectic3@gmail.com. tinyurl. com/Theatre-Eclectic
May 21 11:30am - 1:30pm
Naomi Jane Voigt and cast of Urinetown
Frances Moore
Adriana Arriaga
Teresa Kuskey
Melinda Palacio
Joanne Wasserman
LOMPOC THEATRE PROJECT BREAKS GROUND ON SECOND PHASE OF $18.8 MILLION RENOVATION
HISTORIC VENUE TARGETS 2027 REOPENING IN CONJUNCTION WITH ITS CENTENNIAL
On a foggy Friday morning, public officials, community leaders, and supporters gathered beside the historic Lompoc Theatre to celebrate the groundbreaking of Phase Two of the long-anticipated, $18.8 million renovation effort. The milestone marks a major step toward reviving an iconic cultural landmark that has served as an anchor of Old Town Lompoc since 1927.
“This theater will open its doors to the next generation,” said Santa Barbara County Supervisor Joan Hartmann during the May 2 ceremony. “Our young people will not just sit in the audience. They’ll stand on stage, take classes, gain confidence, and see themselves as creators of culture, not just consumers of it.”
The project’s goal is to fully reopen the theater in 2027, aligning with its centennial anniversary. In its prime, the Lompoc Theatre hosted vaudeville acts, movie screenings, and live performances by icons such as Liberace, Van Cliburn, and The Coasters. In the 1930s, it was even an official Mickey Mouse Club venue. But by 1975, facing economic challenges and shifting media consumption trends, the curtains closed. The final film screening took place in 1991.
While the building sat largely dormant for decades, preservation efforts never ceased. The Calvert family, longtime owners, protected the structure from demolition before eventually selling it to a local nonprofit. In 2012, the Lompoc Theatre Project formed with the mission of transforming the aging venue into a vibrant community arts and education center.
The nonprofit acquired the keys in 2016 and by the end of 2017, they had paid the back taxes, gutted the interior, and restored the iconic marquee. The group’s vision extended beyond restoration it imagined a hub for creativity, accessible to all.
A decade of fundraising has attracted major donors, including actors Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Brad Hall, who now serve as honorary project chairs. Despite impressive progress, the project still needs to raise $9.8 million to meet its final goal. Supervisor Hartmann helped bring in crucial state-level support. Thanks to her advocacy, State Senator Monique
Limón and Assemblymember Gregg Hart were able to secure $2.2 million in California state funding in 2023. Many regional partners have also stepped in, including the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians, the Hutton Parker Foundation, and the Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation.
“The leadership team on this is just extraordinary,” said Scott Reed, former president and CEO of the Music Academy of the West. Reed cofounded Lane 4 Fundraising, which is advising the Lompoc Theatre Project.
The team combines deep local roots with global expertise. Santa Barbara–based architectural firm 19six, whose portfolio includes renovations of the Granada, Arlington, and New Vic theaters, is leading design. TheatreDNA, a Los Angeles–based firm known internationally for performance venue consulting, is also on board.
Benton Delinger, TheatreDNA’s cofounder, brings both professional experience and personal connection. He grew up in Lompoc and more recently returned with his wife as a full-time resident. “I started working on this back in 2012 in the early phases of developing the concepts of what it could be,” Delinger said.
Executive Director Mark Herrier’s connection to the theater runs even deeper. A Lompoc native turned Hollywood actor and director, Herrier attributes his career to a transformative viewing of The Music Man at the Lompoc Theatre when he was 10. “There’s something about being in a space like this, laughing and crying together. It’s maybe the most democratic thing we have left, and it’s fundamental to human experience,” he said. “As a 10-year-old, I was able to have my life transformed because of that, and there are 10-year-olds in this town that don’t have that opportunity, and that’s the main reason I’m doing this.”
One of the most symbolic elements of the restoration is the historic Land Office, the oldest wooden commercial building in Santa Barbara County, dating back to 1874. Once used as the theater’s dressing room, it will be relocated and repurposed into a “cinema boutique and smart room” for smaller screenings,
gaming, and events.
Construction work is already underway. In the next year, crews will complete a seismic retrofit and reroof the main building, which includes upper-level office space. Phase Two also includes a full overhaul of the main stage. One planned configuration for a “Backstage Theater” draws inspiration from Austin’s famed Continental Club. It will host intimate concerts for up to 85 attendees and weekly live music events in a black box type of setting where the audience and performers are on the same level.
Larger productions will take place in the fully restored 450-seat auditorium. The vision is ambitious: first-run films, concerts, plays, ballets, and more all bringing new life and economic activity to downtown Lompoc. As Hartmann noted, this revival has the potential to change life in the city. “Too many of our residents wake up early to commute long hours out of town, and then on weekends, they often leave again, chasing art, music, entertainment, and opportunity elsewhere,” she explained. “That spending and spirit flows out of the town, but the reopening of this theater will change that.”
The theater will also be made available at no cost to local arts groups, giving them a home stage and platform. Santa Barbara–based State Street Ballet has already expressed interest. Executive Director Cecily MacDougall shared plans to bring productions like The Nutcracker to Lompoc, offering both professional performances and youth opportunities. “Our mission is to make ballet accessible to the widest audience,” she said. “This theater makes that possible.”
Lompoc Theatre Group is now raising funds to complete the third and final phase, which will cover extensive interior and exterior renovations. A variety of naming rights are up for grabs along with programming sponsorships. Individual donations can also be made via the website: lompoctheatre.org
As the groundbreaking remarks wrapped up, Herrier summed it up simply: “It takes a village to build a theater. And it takes time. But we’re over halfway there and that’s worth celebrating.” Shannon Brooks
From left: Joan Hartmann, Mark Herrier, Monique Limón, and Gregg Hart at the groundbreaking for the Lompoc Theatre
Rendering of the Lompoc Theatre stage
KICK UP YOUR HEELS WITH A NEW SEASON OF BROADWAY IN SANTA BARBARA SHOWS
THE 2025-26 SLATE INCLUDES THE BOOK OF MORMON, HADESTOWN, KINKY BOOTS , AND PILOBOLUS’S OTHER WORLDS
An exciting new season of Broadway musicals will hit the stage at the Granada once again. On the precipice of the 2025-26 season announcement, I spoke with Craig Aikman, Senior Director of Booking & Operations for The American Theatre Guild, about the just-announced Broadway in Santa Barbara season slate that includes: The Book of Mormon, Hadestown, Kinky Boots, and Pilobolus’s Other Worlds Collection
“I refer to it as a big 1,500-piece puzzle,” laughed Aikman, when I asked about how he went about putting this schedule together. The American Theatre Guild is the largest nonprofit touring Broadway presenter in the nation and covers 14 markets from Long Beach and Lubbock, to Wichita and even Peoria. They send out surveys to subscribers and pay close attention, which is why The Book of Mormon, for example, is returning February 24-25, 2026, after a sold-out Santa Barbara run in 2023.
“It’s irreverent, it’s funny. It makes you think, it makes you feel, even though you don’t think that you’re going to feel anything except laughter, but it’s a show that’s got heart,” said Aikman of The Book of Mormon, adding that it was one of the most requested that the audiences in Santa Barbara wanted to have come back.
“Kinky Boots [playing December 9-10, 2025] is a revival,” he explained. “It’s played in Santa Barbara once before, and it’s so relevant right now, it just makes sense that it’s coming back out on tour.” The show,
featuring music by Cyndi Lauper and a book by Harvey Fierstein, was inspired by a true story about a man who inherited a shoe factory from his father and formed an unlikely partnership with a cabaret performer and drag queen to produce a line of high-heeled boots and save the business. In the process, Charlie and Lola discover that they are not so different after all.
“Hadestown [playing April 28-29, 2026] is, I really refer to it as the closest thing to just pure art on stage. Several people that had seen it in New York said to me, ‘You know, it’s going to change you. It will change your life,’ ” said Aikman. Adding, “And I’m like, sure. I mean, how many times do you hear that and you just don’t necessarily believe it. And five minutes into seeing it, it does. It quite literally does, and it makes you think in ways that you never thought you would before. It’s a story about love and loss and finding your way and finding your own path,” he said.
“I think that’s kind of the common theme with all of the shows this season, even Pilobolus [a contemporary dance production coming March 18-19, 2026] is that storytelling in a different way and, and it’s about discovering your authentic self in some way, shape, and form. I think that’s the commonality between all four shows this season,” said Aikman.
— Leslie Dinaberg
All shows take place at The Granada Theatre (1214 State St.). Season tickets are now on sale at american theatreguild.com/santabarbara.
Megan Colton (Eurydice), Jaylon C. Crump (Hermes), Jose Contreras (Orpheus), and Hadestown North American Touring Company, 2025
SHAHAM IN THE SYMPHONIC HOUSE, TIMES TWO
SANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY SEASON FINALE FEATURES CELEBRATED VIOLINIST GIL SHAHAM IN TWO SEPARATE PROGRAMS AT THE GRANADA THEATRE
The Santa Barbara Symphony closes out a healthily diversified and intriguing season in high style, blessed by the presence of the most celebrated soloist of its season at The Granada Theatre and in doubleheader fashion. Renowned violinist Gil Shaham will be the spotlighted guest with maestro Nir Kabaretti’s orchestra for two separate programs, showcasing the Grammy-winning and lavishly accoladed violinist’s multitalented mastery.
On Saturday, May 17, the program focuses on two major and crowd-pleasing works, Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8. Dvořák returns on Sunday afternoon (May 18), as the tentpole symphonic finale of the concert and season but follows music featuring both Shaham and his violinist wife, Adele Anthony. Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins in D minor serves the foundational role in the first half, followed by the West Coast premiere of another doubled-up violin piece, Israeli composer Avner Dorman’s Double Concerto. Shaham, born to Israeli parents in Illinois in 1971, has performed internationally and with most major orchestras, and lives in New York City with his family, teaching at Bard College when not touring the globe or heading west to Santa Barbara. He has stopped here on numerous occasions, including appearances hosted by UCSB Arts & Lectures (A&L), CAMA, and a rare classical event at the Santa Barbara Bowl, performing John Williams’s surprisingly complex Violin Concerto with the Music Academy of the West orchestra.
Looking ahead to the S.B. Symphony’s 2025-26 season, which is the 20th anniversary of Kabaretti’s tenure, a seven-program roster again heeds the orchestra’s mandate for variety, classical tradition, and a few left turns along the way.
For its season-opener (Oct. 18 and 19), the symphony teams up with another local performing arts group State Street Ballet to perform scenes from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet on a Russian menu also featuring music of Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake suite. Mozart’s Requiem takes center stage on November 15 and 16 on a program also leaning into music of living
composers, being famed composer Aaron Jay Kernis and Andrea Tarrodi’s new Double Trombone Concerto, co-commissioned by the S.B. Symphony.
Come 2026, all five Beethoven piano concertos will grace the Granada stage on January 17 and 18, while the going gets cinematic with the Valentine’s weekend Romantic Hollywood film music feast, with Richard Kaufman subbing for Kabaretti at the podium. The program dubbed Bella Italia focuses on Italian fare by Vivaldi, Puccini, and Respighi, along with the contemporary Red Ferrari accordion concerto, performed by the dazzling Hanzhi Wang, who gave a memorable recital with mandolinist Avi Avital in a CAMA-hosted show at the Lobero in 2023.
Violinist Alexi Kenney, another performer who made a strong impression locally, is featured in An American in Paris. Kenney bedazzled audiences at the Ojai Music Festival last year and then again at Hahn Hall recently with the A&L-sponsored concert by the adventurous Owls quartet. With the S.B. Symphony, Kenney will perform on Barber’s Violin Concerto. Other Americans in the mix Charles Ives, with Three Places in New England; Gershwin’s An American in Paris; and living, thriving composer Jennifer Higdon’s Blue Cathedral
The 2025-26 season closes in epic form, with Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony
In anticipation of season number 20 with the Santa Barbara Symphony, Kabaretti commented, “Celebrating this milestone anniversary is an incredible privilege, and I’m honored to serve the community that has embraced my family and me with eight months of concerts designed especially for Santa Barbara.” —Josef Woodard
See thesymphony.org.
Maestro Nir Kabaretti with the Santa Barbara Symphony at The Granada Theatre
MICKEY FLACKS JOURNALISM FUND FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
In 2025, the Mickey Flacks Journalism Fund will support the in-depth coverage of the regional housing crisis by Christina McDermott and the ongoing reporting of the oil industry.
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ARTISTIC SUB-TEXTS
SULLIVAN GOSS EXHIBITION EXPLORES THE SPACE WHERE WORDS MEET AND MESH WITH ART
Words, and fragments thereof, have been sneaking onto local gallery walls of late. Earlier this year, a large and “wordy” exhibition at UCSB’s AD&A Museum filled walls and floors with Public Texts: A Californian Visual Language. One of the pieces in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s In the Making: Contemporary Art at SBMA was a Jenny Holzer, for whom texts have been a primary art material. Now, over at Sullivan Goss, here comes another plunge into the phenom of art involving texts, reconfigured meanings, letter-philia, with an aptly tangled, layered, and witty show title, TL;DR: TEXT / ART (Too Long; Didn’t Read / Too Long; Don’t Read). The show deviates from the traditionally more, well, traditional fare proffered by this major gallery, culling together a loose survey of artworks in which words matter. And so does the very shape and objective appearance of said words and letters.
Text and deconstructions of the same have worked their way into art, especially in the modern era, as a natural source of thought and semantics beyond the abstracting tendencies of the visual arts. There have been salient examples of word-, letter-, or number-based art, including the everyday tapping world of cubism and assemblage, in Charles Demuth’s iconic 1928 painting “I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold,” and any number of works by wordsmithprankster Ed Ruscha.
This show rightfully lends wall space to both the prominent artists Holzer and Ruscha. Holzer’s set of sly aphorisms on peaceful wood-textured postcards, in the series called Truism Postcards, includes one used on the show’s announcement card, “WORDS TEND TO BE INADEQUATE.” Other pithy pearls of loaded Holzer-esque wisdom: “YOU ARE GUILELESS IN YOUR DREAMS” and “ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE.”
Ruscha’s entry in the show whispers like a wallflower amid the generally louder neighboring art. His lithograph “Some Los Angeles Apartments” is a lightly drawn image of a floating book bearing that title, a celebrated Ruscha book now transformed into a flotation device in the composition.
Francis Criss’s 1930-vintage “Still Life” taps into the zone between cubist recontextualizing of space
and facets, with a word tucked into the mix, while Thomas Akawie reminds us of Demuth’s “five” obsession with “8 Ball TV Landscape,” a patternized semi-abstraction all about the number eight, gone tipsy and echoic. Other witty and playfully deconstructionist tactics enter the expressive fold in the case of Tracey Harris’s “Ignorant Bliss,” a painting of a bookshelf winkingly imprinted with such titles as Batshit Passionate and Victimized by My Martyr Complex. Amos Kennedy’s set of quotation-bearing posters includes a Paul Robeson quote about the nature of art itself: “Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.” Another poster makes a punchier point: “BE NICE OR LEAVE,” words of wisdom emphasized in all caps. One illuminating upshot of the TL;DR show is its showcasing of artists with local connections, for whom the word world has been integral to their aesthetics. Former Santa Barbaran Nancy Gifford has channeled her interest in poetry and bibliophilia into conceptual art, represented by “Fall, Falling, Felt,” a triptych framing those three words in almost visual onomatopoeic form, and At a Loss for Words (Hieroglyphic Series), a series of tiny chalkboards with shapes and fragmented forms subbing for linguistic markers as we know them.
Bookish artist Linda Ekstrom, who had a fascinating exhibit at the Westmont Museum of Art last year, shows “Mystic: Simone de Beauvais.” This is a prime example of the artist’s artistic vision involving meticulous cut-up lines of text and a certain mystical mash-up atmosphere.
Patricia Chidlaw, long one of Santa Barbara’s favorite painters and a post-Hopper-esque poetic realist, expertly toys with art about vintage urban kitsch in “The End.” Here, a crisply lit painting of a corner liquor store is layered with shadows of the title on the façade, like an omen from above (or below).
The kitsch parade continues with Dave Lefner’s boisterous yet minimalist painting “Holiday Motel,” its garish neon signage packed into a diptych form that appears to be in-your-face in a friendly way. In this intriguing show, as with other word-art sightings around town, our art appreciation and discernment faculties are forced to consider the work from more than just a visual or art-worldly angle. There is a vocabulary lesson in progress, having to do with the endlessly varied interpretations of adventures in the space where art and words meet and learn to get along.
—Josef Woodard
TL;DR: TEXT / ART is on view at Sullivan Goss Gallery (11 E. Anapamu St.) through June 23. See sullivangoss.com.
“The End” by Patricia Chidlaw
PAYING FILMIC RESPECTS TO A JAZZ TRAILBLAZER, ON SCREEN AND STAGE
JAZZ LEGEND WYNTON MARSALIS HEADS TO THE ARLINGTON TO GIVE THE WEST COAST
PREMIERE OF THE MODERN SILENT FILM LOUIS
Fortunately for fans of jazz and important music of any classification, Santa Barbara has long been a regular stopping place for influential trumpeter/ bandleader Wynton Marsalis, usually through the inspired aegis of UCSB Arts & Lectures (A&L). The Santa Barbara relationship goes deep, to the formative period before his Lincoln Center and big band venture, when his small groups played in such venues as the old Oscar’s and even a show at Bebop Burgers. We knew him when, and we’ll know yet another side and sight-sound context when he returns to the Arlington on Saturday, May 17.
The evening will offer the West Coast premiere of 2010 project LOUIS: A Silent Film with live musical performance, with Marsalis leading a 13-piece ensemble, featuring pianist Cecile Licad, in live accompaniment to a richly fashioned modern-day silent biopic about Louis Armstrong by director Daniel Pritzker. The A&L-presented live stage and screen package ties in handily with Marsalis’s long-professed love and respect for Armstrong’s central role in the formation and crystallization of early jazz. Marsalis’s score is a composite of original music and aptly vintage music of Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton and LM Gottschalk. Post-screening, Marsalis’s ensemble will serve up a purely musical set.
Director Pritzker, whose love of vintage jazz was funneled into his rare jazz-related feature Bolden about seminal New Orleans trumpeter Buddy Bolden was drawn into the concept of creating a silent film through the inspiration of a Charlie Chaplin encounter. Catching a perfor-
mance/screening of Chaplin’s City Lights, with the acclaimed Chicago Symphony providing a live score set his creative wheels in motion. “It was fantastic,” Pritzker remembers, “took my breath away. I’d never seen anything like it. I decided I would write a silent film about a little boy named Louis who wanted to learn to play the trumpet. I like challenges so thought since I was already going to direct Bolden, why not try to direct two companion piece films. While there are links between the two stories, they are freestanding, independent films.”
As Marsalis points out about the project, “Of course, calling it a silent film is a misnomer there will be plenty of music, and jazz is like a conversation between the players, so there’ll be no shortage of dialogue.”
Marsalis’s musical plate is full, as usual. His recent large-scale projects included The Democracy! Suite, which was performed in virtual form as part of A&L’s House Calls series during the COVID lockdown, and his tribute to Chinese culture, The Shanghai Suite
Marsalis remains dedicated to the importance of education, of emerging jazz musicians and also of audiences. He advocates for jazz as a music with broad, demographic-crossing appeal, an idea also supported with the entertaining LOUIS project.
“I don’t see this art form as something that is elitist. It is of a very high quality, but I feel there are elements in the music that are very listenable, mainly swinging, the groove something that always attracts people changes in colors and dynamics, having a melodic base and some type of form that people can follow if they want to stick with it,” said Marsalis.
“I also believe in the blues. When you can get those cries and moans and shouts in your music, it attracts people to it. I keep playing the slow songs or songs with some romantic import.” —Josef Woodard
LOUIS: A Silent Film with live musical performance by Wynton Marsalis and Cecile Licad takes place at the Arlington Theatre (1317 State St.) Saturday, May 17, 7:30 p.m. See bit.ly/4mcDFha.
FINDING JOY IN COLOR
INVISIBLE STRING AUTHOR PATRICE KARST’S LATEST BOOK, HOW JACKSON FOUND HIS JOY AGAIN , HELPS KIDS RECLAIM THEIR JOY
When Patrice Karst’s son Elijah was in kindergarten, he struggled with severe separation anxiety. School drop-offs were hard Elijah would cry, begging his mom not to leave, often bringing her to tears as well.
Amid the heartbreak of daily goodbyes, Karst searched for a way to ease her son’s pain. To help him cope, she told Elijah that their love was connected by an “invisible string.” If he missed her during the day, he could tug on the string, and she would feel it and tug back.
addresses another overlooked childhood emotion: sadness. The book, written by Karst and illustrated by Kristina Jones, tells the story of a boy named Jackson who loses his sense of joy but rediscovers it with the help of a school counselor. Karst, now a Santa Barbara resident, is hosting a story time event for the book on Saturday, May 17, at Godmothers in Summerland.
Thereafter, she said, his separation anxiety stopped. “Something about that image of an invisible string kept him safe … made him feel safe.” When Elijah’s classmates heard about the “invisible string,” they approached Karst, asking if it was real and if they had one that connected them to their loved ones. From this, Karst realized she’d struck gold.
Just four years later, in 2000, she published her first children’s book, The Invisible String, inspired by the concept she had shared with her son to help him overcome his separation anxiety. It catapulted her career as a children’s book writer, selling two million copies and translating into 21 languages to date. It’s not just a book for children people of all ages and backgrounds turn to it for its powerful message, from those in the prison system and the military to foster and adoption groups and beyond.
It’s even evolved into a series, including books like The Invisible Leash, a guide for children after losing a pet, and The Invisible Web, a story reminding us that we’re all universally connected. “It has turned into something bigger than I could have ever imagined,” she reflected.
Karst just released her new book, How Jackson Found His Joy Again, which
Like The Invisible String, Karst uses simple yet powerful metaphors to reach children where they are emotionally. In How Jackson Found His Joy Again, she employs colors as a metaphor for emotions. The main character, Jackson, feels sad (gray). He gradually rediscovers his colors (joy) by noticing beauty in the world around him the bright sunflowers, the healing green trees, and the enduring hope of an orange sunset. Karst hopes the book will help children and parents recognize and process sadness, and understand that joy is their “birthright” and will return, even after difficult times.
At the heart of all her work is a singular belief: in the enduring, invisible force of love. Her core message is that love is always present, even when we can’t see or feel it immediately. “Love transcends time and space,” she reflected, “which is why it can always reach heaven or wherever our loved ones go, and nothing can destroy love.
“Life will find ways of trying to whisk our colors away,” she mused. “We need to just remember that they’re there. They’re waiting for us. We just need to go look for them again.” —Tiana Molony
For more information about the Godmothers event, see godmothers.com/events.
Patrice Karst
Wynton Marsalis
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REBECCA ANDERSON’S JOURNEY FROM SBCC TO LOTUSLAND
BY TIANA MOLONY
When Rebecca Anderson, now Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Ganna Walska Lotusland, began her studies at Santa Barbara City College in 1994, she had a clear idea of what she wanted to do with her life. “I early on became pretty passionate about giving back and volunteerism and community service,” she recalled from the conference room at Lotusland, which overlooks the blooming rose garden.
At just 16, she began volunteering at a rape crisis center one of her first community service experiences. That formative commitment sparked something deeper: a curiosity about the world beyond Santa Barbara. She realized that to learn about the world, she had to see the world. So, she decided to enroll in SBCC’s study abroad program. “It was like the world was my oyster,” she joked. “I mean, that’s a little cliche, but I think it made me a global citizen at a really young age.”
Living and studying in places as varied as Cambridge, England, and Florence, Italy, sparked her fascination with sociology. “And I think they very much informed this part of my career,” she said. “Which is about cultural heritage and environmental protection.”
Anderson grew up in Santa Barbara, where her father, Ron Adler, taught in the communications department at SBCC for 27 years. She remembers visiting the campus often: “So, he had his own relationship with City College,” she mused. “But it
was in many ways the backdrop to my childhood.”
At SBCC, Anderson encountered teachers who made the work of learning feel exciting. One such teacher, Marshall Hattori, taught English using song lyrics from modern music. “He was a great, different kind of teacher,” she recalled. “I felt the class opened up a different type of learning experience… .”
She also fondly recalled her film studies professor, Mace Perona, who created the SBCC course “Literature and Film.” He was known for his deep, insightful interpretations of films, “a kind of the master class of film,” Anderson recalled. Perona’s class sparked her curiosity through his passionate approach to film analysis.
After two years at SBCC, Anderson transferred to UC Santa Cruz, where she graduated in 1998 with a degree in sociology. She took on her first nonprofit role at Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara, where she ran a mentoring program connecting teen mothers with experienced mothers in the community. After this, she worked at CALM (Child Abuse Listening Mediation), in development. There she discovered a passion for nonprofit fundraising and institutional advancement, and earned a Masters Degree in Organizational Management..
She was initially drawn to Lotusland for its striking beauty. Her grandfather was a wellknown architect, and her grandmother was a designer. “And so I grew up appreciating aesthetic beauty,” she shared. But it was more than that. She saw the garden’s cultural and environmental value and the challenge of preserving it as a new kind of calling.
She’s held various roles at Lotusland. When she became CEO in 2024, she asked herself an important question: Where can I make an impact? She saw an opportunity to work with the community and the Lotusland board to “save, restore, and sustain not only the living collections, but the architecture, artifacts, and art” at Lotusland. “And so, that gave me a sense of purpose and motivation,” she recalled. “To really safeguard this place for the next 100 years.”
That mission is closely tied to SBCC where Lotusland maintains a unique partnership, particularly through its docent program a training initiative for volunteer tour guides led by Matt Kay, a research biologist and adjunct biology professor at SBCC. The collaboration also extends to SBCC’s Environmental Horticulture Department, where students visit the garden and complete internships that often serve as a pathway to staff positions.
Anderson is grateful that Lotusland and other organizations in Santa Barbara can offer such programs. “Part of what makes Santa Barbara so special,” she said, “is the incredible depth of these institutions and making them accessible.”
Looking back on her journey, she says the supportive environment at Santa Barbara City College helped her find her footing. The mix of dedicated faculty and encouragement gave her the confidence to explore her interests and shape a meaningful career in nonprofit management.
“I think it was about the quality faculty and the community that allowed me to really sample and explore different interests that informed my undergraduate and graduate degrees and ultimately my career.”
Animals LIVING
Four and 20 Tricolors
In 1836, British naturalist Thomas Nuttall hiked down from Monterey into Santa Barbara County, picking up botanical samples and birds as he went. One was a tricolored blackbird (Agelaius tricolor), which he shot and brought back to Boston to show his friend John J. Audubon. It was the first tricolor blackbird known to science, and Audubon named it Icterus tricolor incorrectly placing it in the genus of orioles.
Santa
Barbara County Tricolor Blackbird Count Shows Slight Increase
by Isabelle Walker
People confuse them with red-winged blackbirds, because of their similarly red epaulets, but tricolors have a white stripe beneath the red not yellow and are intensely colonial. Everything they do, they do in groups, including bathing, said avian biologist Robert Meese, PhD, who’s spent the last 30 years studying them. Nest building, copulation, incubating, and brooding is all done in synchronicity. They are the most intensely colonial landbird in North America, 99 percent endemic to California, and slipping away. The last census found their population had dropped from 394,000 to 218,000 between 2008 and 2022, a 45 percent decline.
Conservationists are doing what they can to shore the bird up, even as supplies of foraging land and wetlands dwindle. The bird was listed as threatened on the California Endangered Species List in 2018, making deliberate takings and disruptions of active colonies illegal. And every three years, a massive statewide survey is launched to track its population. The most recent was held last month, April 18-20. More than a hundred volunteers fanned out to roughly 850 sites between Baja and Siskiyou County, at the Oregon border. From Friday to Sunday, armed with binoculars, sun hats, and pens, this army of biologists and birders inspected every wetland, every cattail and tule pond, and every clump of stinging nettle, Himalayan blackberry, and mustard on private and public property where tricolors have been spotted in recent decades.
Peter Schneekloth coordinated the survey in Santa Barbara County. Each of the 12 volunteer biologist-birders who
signed on to help him got a map with red dots marking historical sites they needed to visit. But they went to more that were required, Schneekloth said, because they’re birders, and, well, who knows where those flighty trikes (as they’re nicknamed) might find themselves?
Schneekloth, who’s been a serious birder since his college years, had Lake Los Carneros, Goleta slough, and three spots in New Cuyama on his list. So, at 8 a.m. Friday morning, under a crystal-blue sky, he was scanning the tule beds around the banks of Lake Los Carneros. Minutes passed. A common yellowthroat sang from an oak branch. A western flycatcher made himself known. A raft of coots floated on the water. But no tricolors. Goleta slough was the same. Nothing. Schneekloth had not expected to find any at either site; tricolors have been scarce in Goleta since the 1980s. Still, survey protocol required he check anyway.
Barbara and Carpinteria. A colony of 3,000 was spotted nesting in Los Alamos in 1936. And 5,000 were tallied in the Santa Maria Valley in the winter of 1981. Vandenberg Space Force Base had 1,500 birds breeding in their MOD pond in 1991. And in 2006, a New Cuyama dairy hosted a 6,000-bird colony in one of its fields.
Today, the largest colonies that tricolors can convene are in the range of 10,000 to 30,000, and these are almost always in the Central Valley where fields of triticale planted by dairy farmers for feed have turned out to be adequate substitutes for emergent grasses. But for farmers, a colony of 10,000 blackbirds nesting in a feed crop isn’t something to be celebrated. For years, generations of tricolors were lost to the harvesting of such fields in April and May, when females are incubating and brooding nestlings. According to Birds of the World, between 2005 and 2009, nests of roughly 88,000 tricolors were lost each year in silage harvesting. Fortunately, the Natural Resources Conservation Service is now paying farmers to delay harvesting when a colony is present though DOGE cuts may put an end to this.
They’ve been a part of California’s landscape, and Santa Barbara’s landscape, for thousands of years, probably hundreds of thousands, though there’s no way to document it.
In 1933, a colony of 250,000 adult birds was observed by a researcher for the rice industry near Sacramento. Yet he admitted that the estimate was probably “ridiculously low.”
One can only imagine the multitudes that once inhabited the estimated four million acres of wetlands that comprised the Central Valley before Europeans arrived, when it was known as an inland sea. Here in Santa Barbara County, according to Paul Lehman’s The Birds of Santa Barbara County, California, in 1914, 1,000 tricolors were counted between Santa
But big groups of tricolors are rare in Santa Barbara these days, just as they are rare in Southern California counties such as Los Angeles, San Diego, and Riverside. (The total Southern California population is about 6,200 tricolors.) A combination of commercial and housing development, prolonged drought, and conversion of croplands to vineyards and nut orchards is making the area less and less hospitable to tricolored blackbirds. A mere 75 were found here in 2022. Although in 2017, a cattail pond on UCSB’s Sedgwick Reserve drew the only known colony in our area, a lively settlement of 760.
This year’s survey will show a modest bump in Santa Barbara, according to Schneekloth.
“There’s a little bit of a spot [in the Cuyama Valley] called the Caliente wetlands, where we stumbled onto a colony we guesstimated [was] about 350 birds,” he said. And another site had 40 birds just foraging.
Sedgwick’s cattail pond drew 125 birds this year, but volunteers elsewhere came up empty. “I had a couple of guys covering spots in Santa Maria,” Schneekloth said. “They didn’t find anything. One guy rented a boat, cruised as much of the perimeter of Lake Cachuma as he could, thinking maybe there could be some [birds] hiding out. He didn’t have any luck either.”
Though not fully tallied, the 515 total so far found here could be a harbinger of a comeback or a blip as the species makes its exit from the area. They will tell us which is true, either with cacophonous squawking while they settle into a patch of tall grass or the empty silence of their absence. n
The only other North American colonial landbird one can compared with the tricolor is the passenger pigeon — which was hunted into oblivion in the 19th century and extinct by 1914 — because of the historically large colony sizes, and how they were known to block the sun when lifting from a nesting site.
A tricolored blackbird in flight
Tricolored blackbirds in cattails
Drift Hotel Hosts Monthly Good Vibrations Sound Bath
Find Transformative Healing and Relaxation Through Sound
by Ella Bailey
Soul searching for healing vibrations? Every month according to the moon cycle, the Drift Hotel in Downtown Santa Barbara hosts a transformative Good Vibrations Sound Bath. The most recent event honoring the Pink Moon was a grand introductory experience for this writer. The leader, Katy Koo, a yoga instructor for Sol Seek and spiritual enthusiast, expertly created an unforgettable experience for not only me, but also my mom, who joined me. Both my mom and I were unfamiliar with sound baths before attending, but our perspectives were forever changed after hearing the healing frequencies. Each sound bath is timed for the new full moon, and as our guide informed us, ours was the Pink Moon for spring, which represents new growth.
There were a few other people there, lending towards an intimate small group experience. As guided, we all lay down on yoga mats and cushions, relaxed, and closed our eyes and were introduced to a variety of sounds created with specialized instruments for chakra realignment to create a harmony of body and mind.
“Our sound bath is all about slowing down and tuning in,” said Jaqueline
REACH Welcomes Largest-Ever Cohort of S.B. County Students
Nonprofit Organization Offers Supportive Programming to Low-Income and First-Generation Students
by Callie Fausey
Santa Barbara County high school students are learning how to cook on a $40 budget, alongside finding the cheapest way to grocery shop.
schools I’ve never heard of before,” she said. “One thing I like is that they take away your phones. You get to see things you don’t see every day and appreciate those things.”
Westbrook, General Manager at Drift Santa Barbara. “It’s a unique chance to reset right here at Drift with the energy of the space, the sounds, and the community around you.”
It definitely is a collective experience, since the guide works their way around the room and circles everyone individually and as a group with each new sound. Some of the instruments included were bowls, a gong, drums, chimes, and more. All of these instruments work together to send you on a journey of reflection, association, and/ or relaxation. Both my mom and I were reminded of special times we shared together. I would recommend this as a shared experience with friends and family or even on your own. Either would be a calming and exploratory time. The sounds can resonate through select parts of your body, focusing on relieving those areas or simply feeling what’s happening to your body in reaction to the frequencies. All experiences of this event are unique and that is what makes it so special.
It’s one of the practical skills these students will need to actually survive college. And it’s what REACH, an organization that supports low-income and first-generation students, is teaching its largest cohort of students ever this year.
“These students represent the future of our region; 87 percent are first-generation college-bound, and all are participating in our intensive academic, leadership, and outdoor programming completely free of charge,” said REACH executive director Raúl Aguilera.
REACH guides its fellows through a two-and-a-half-year journey of college and career preparation, outdoor experiences including camping and trips overseas and personal, social-emotional development.
This year’s cohort is composed of 60 students, marking an expansion from the 45 students in the first cohort in the Fall of 2023 — all supported by just four staff members, Aguilera said.
The students are from across the county, with 31 in North County and 29 from South County. They are students like Katie Garcia, a 17-year-old student at Santa Barbara High School. Garcia said she joined REACH to put herself out there, and because it seemed like a unique opportunity that was unlike other college-readiness programs that are out there.
“I’m meeting other students from
The program supports new fellows annually, with 86 percent identifying as first-generation students. They are able to offer the program at no cost, thanks to funding from the Audacious Foundation.
Kassandra Chacon, a 17-year-old student from Dos Pueblos High School, said she joined for the sense of community and the support the program gives to firstgeneration students.
“They’re teaching us how to adapt to different situations, and adapt to college life,” she said.
She said she’s looking forward to an upcoming camping trip and a workshop on time management. In college, she wants to study political science, potentially at UC Irvine.
“I’m, like, getting a behind-the-scenes of college life,” she added. “I know I want to go straight to a four-year college. REACH has given me a broader idea of what I want to do, though. I’ve been thinking more critically about what my studies will do for me. It’s opening up my options.”
“Our Fellows are exceptional young leaders, and their achievements remind us why this work is so important,” said Aguilera. “This expansion shows the growing demand for our program and the need for continued support from our community.”
If you want to learn more, get involved, or donate, visit REACH’s website at reachfellowship.org
Good Vibrations Sound Baths take place monthly at Drift Hotel.
This year’s REACH fellows after their ropes-course-based orientation
Alexandra Sinderbrand Has the ROI on Rummage
Alexandra Sinderbrand is no stranger to challenge. A self-proclaimed thrift addict, the former New Yorker earned a cult-like following from her secondhand shopping blog that saw her profiled in top women’s fashion publications and cast in a thrifting reality television pilot. After co-owning a vintage and thrift store in the East Village, Sinderbrand pivoted to e-comm tech, where she learned everything about managing a portfolio of products on Amazon. “I was figuring out how to turn stuff into money,” she said.
says. “But this is a very unique community.”
That skill will likely come in handy for her newest and perhaps most unique challenge yet, as chair of the Starr King Rummage Sale. For her first, and only, year at Starr King Parent-Child Workshop the environmentally conscious institution beloved by locals for 75 years Sinderbrand took on a position very few have willingly stepped into. And yet, she dove headfirst into the volunteer role.
In a town of thrifters, Sinderbrand took a new approach to the 76th sale held for the first time on Santa Barbara City College’s Wake Campus on May 17. “How do we optimize for [a] community that has a much higher standard for what is worth paying for secondhand?” she asked herself.
Sinderbrand is a fan of the bin experience bulk shopping by the bag, for those uninitiated but wasn’t sure it would appeal to her new hometown. So, she did a “little recon,” as she called it, and visited other rummage sales throughout the year. With the luxury of time on her hands, Sinderbrand who went from “championing” sustainable shopping to working with big manufacturing teams in China uncovered something that surprised her.
“When I started this process, I had a lot of assumptions about what people will or will not buy [at the rummage sale] just based on my experience running a thrift store and shopping thrift stores,” Sinderbrand
What she might once have redistributed to be donated, or even thrown out, she’s keeping. Even a box of used tools, she laughs, is being saved. For the past four months, Sinderbrand along with a team of volunteers (both current and former Starr King parents) have pre-sorted goods collected during donation drop-offs hosted at SBCC. The 15 required hours for parents makes a huge difference in presorting goods, but also in lived experience. If it has value, the community told her, somebody will buy it.
And that’s where Sinderbrand’s new bins experience comes in. This year, the frenzy that often comes toward the tail end of any rummage sale experience will happen throughout the entire sale; bins offering children’s and adult’s clothing for $5-$10 a bag will be available in the parking lot right when the sale starts. Inside, expect a more “traditional rummage, based on how we’ve always done it,” she says, which will include individually priced items and higher-end goods.
The Starr King Parent-Child Workshop is both a co-op parent education and early childhood program. In addition to donating at least one morning a week of their time, parents attend a weekly education class.
“I can’t say enough about this community it’s blown my mind. This is the kind of community that’s priceless. The parent engagement and support it’s not just making me a better mom but a better human being,” said Sinderbrand.
As the largest fundraiser, proceeds from the rummage sale go toward keeping costs down with a tuition assistance program. The hope is to also raise funds for staff healthcare, in addition to school materials and supplies. “It’s a nonprofit,” Sinderbrand says. “The funds are needed to keep the school going.
“It’s really not just a fundraiser. It’s a shared experience that connects the parents of the present with the parents of the past. You’re not just doing this for the alumni because it brings them together every year you’re doing it for future you. Because someday, you’re going to miss this.”
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Starr King students
Families help paint signs for the return of the annual Starr King Rummage Sale on May 17.
by Meaghan Clark Tiernan
FOOD& DRINK
Sipping Sustainably in Santa Barbara County
Just like the myriad decisions we face when choosing to eat responsibly, there are plenty of environmental considerations that play into which wines we choose to drink.
These Four Estates Are Making Wine the Right Way
BY MATT KETTMANN
Santa Barbara County’s wine community elevated sustainability long ago Ampelos Vineyard, for instance, was the first in the country to be certified as organic, biodynamic, and sustainable and our region remains a leader in pushing the entire world of wine to earnestly embrace ecominded ways. Whether a winery is aiming to be organic, biodynamic, or regenerative (and some spots are all three!), the underlying ethos for these efforts is to eschew herbicides, pesticides, and synthetic applications.
Here are four estates doing it right.
ÂMEVIVE WINE
When Alice Anderson took over management of the IbarraYoung Vineyard almost six years ago, she embraced the Santa Ynez Valley property’s three-decade-long adherence to organic farming. But then she turned up the Earth-conscious dial, reinvigorating the soils and breathing life into the vines by employing holistic and regenerative techniques.
“We love to be outside, we love nature and feeling wild,” says Alice, whose Âmevive Wines are bright, fresh, and even electric on the palate. “We have seen what over-farming
does to the landscape, and we want our vineyards to be the antithesis of perfectly tame, bare-floored vineyards.”
Alice and her partner, Topher De Felice, are in the vineyards daily, both working the vines and watching how their farming affects the environment around them. “It feels good to be surrounded by blooming flowers and our friendly livestock, have a nice green understory, hear birds chirping in every direction, and occasionally see the good snakes slithering.” The effects border on spiritual for Alice, who explains, “I’m sure that all of this conscious effort and energy translates to the finished wines.”
BECKMEN VINEYARDS
Back in the mid-1990s, Steve Beckmen was the first vintner in Santa Barbara County to tune deeply into biodynamic farming. He spread the practice to both his family’s Los Olivos District estate where visitors can taste his wines while overlooking 25 acres of vines that include cabernet sauvignon and Rhône varieties and at Purisima Mountain Vineyard in Ballard Canyon, where they grow even more epic syrah, grenache, and more on 125 acres. The lessons never stop.
“We continue to grow within the system with the inclusion of more farm animals and a move toward our eventual goal of a fully enclosed farm ecosystem,” says Steve, who’s not sure he’ll ever get there, but never loses sight of that goal. “Besides the benefit for the earth, our farm, our workers, and our customers, biodynamic farming is making our fruit quality better and increasing the quality and consistency of our wines, which is the most important thing for us.”
Though customers may at first be intrigued by these practices because of their Earth-friendly aspects, many affirm them even more vociferously because the resulting wines are so much better, offering an energy not seen in conventionally farmed vineyards.
“The farming practices we do are about quality first,” Steve explains, but not far behind, he says, is “our desire to foster the connection between all living things.”
DONNACHADH VINEYARD
Located on the steep slopes of the pinot noir and chardonnay hot spot known as the Sta. Rita Hills, Donnachadh Vineyard founders Drew and Laurie Duncan opted to go organic when they planted their 40 acres in 2013. “It just seemed like the best way to take care of our vineyard workers, our land, our customers, and everything downstream of us,” Drew says.
Since then, they’ve integrated regenerative techniques, including the addition of a permanent cover crop and a focus on working toward no-till farming. “On the regenerative side, it’s all connected,” Drew says. “We work on building healthy soils to grow healthier vines; healthier vines produce better fruit; better fruit makes better wines.”
The Earthy upside? These practices allow the soils to sequester more carbon, thereby reducing the vineyard’s eco-footprint. And they do so quietly, not trying to send a major message to the world. “Hopefully, it resonates with some consumers,” says Drew, who also produces some stellar syrah and gamay noir alongside the pinot and chard. “But we’re mostly trying to be good stewards of the land and good neighbors while making the best wine we can.”
Assistant winemakers Axel Kleemeier (left) and Cooper Allebrand stomping chardonnay
Steve Beckmen started practicing biodynamic farming at his family’s vineyards in the 1990s.
Alice Anderson and Topher De Felice with ducks at Âmevive vineyard
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WEEK OF MAY 15
ARIES
(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): What may appear to be slow or static is actually moving. The developing changes are imperceptible from day to day, but incrementally substantial. So please maintain your faith in the diligent, determined approach. Give yourself pep talks that renew your deeply felt motivation. Ignore the judgments and criticism of people who have no inkling of how hard you have been working. In the long run, you will prove that gradual progress can be the most enduring.
TAURUS
(Apr. 20-May 20): The most successful people aren’t those who merely follow their passion, but those who follow their curiosity. Honoring the guidance of our passions motivates us, but it can also narrow our focus. Heeding the call of our curiosity emboldens our adaptability, exploration, and maximum openness to new possibilities. In that spirit, Taurus, I invite you to celebrate your yearning to know and discover. Instead of aching for total clarity about your life’s mission, investigate the subtle threads of what piques your curiosity. Experiment with being an intrigued adventurer.
GEMINI
(May 21-June 20): Gemini author Huston Smith was a religious scholar who wrote 13 books. But he was dedicated to experiencing religions from the inside rather than simply studying them academically. Smith danced with Whirling Dervishes, practiced Zen meditation with a master, and ingested peyote with Native Americans, embodying his view that real understanding requires participation, not just observation. In the spirit of his disciplined devotion, I invite you to seek out opportunities to learn through experience as much as theory. Leave your safety zone, if necessary, to engage with unfamiliar experiences that expand your soul. Be inspired by how Smith immersed himself in wisdom that couldn’t come from books alone.
CANCER
(June 21-July 22): More than 2,000 years ago, people living in what’s now the Peruvian desert began etching huge designs of animals and plants in the earth. The makers moved a lot of dirt! Here’s the mystery: Some of the gigantic images of birds, spiders, and other creatures are still visible today, but can only be deciphered from high above. And there were, of course, no airplanes in ancient times to aid in depicting the figures. Let’s use this as a metaphor for one of your upcoming tasks, Cancerian. I invite you to initiate or intensify work on a labor of love that will motivate you to survey your life from the vantage point of a bird or plane or mountaintop.
LEO
(July 23-Aug. 22): You now have extra power to detect previously veiled patterns and hidden agendas. That’s why I urge you to be alert for zesty revelations that may seem to arrive out of nowhere. They could even arise from situations you have assumed were thoroughly explored and understood. These are blessings, in my opinion. You should expect and welcome the full emergence of truths that have been ripening below the surface of your awareness. Even if they are initially surprising or daunting, you will ultimately be glad they have finally appeared.
VIRGO
(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Renowned Virgo author Nassim Nicholas Taleb has called for the discontinuation of the Nobel Prize in Economics. He says it rewards economists who express bad ideas that cause great damage. He also delivers ringing critiques of other economists widely regarded as top luminaries. Taleb has a lot of credibility. His book The Black Swan was named one of the most influential books since World War II. I propose we make him your inspirational role model for now, Virgo. May he incite you to question authority to the max. May he rouse you to bypass so-called experts, alleged mavens, and supposed wizards. Be your own masterful authority.
LIBRA
(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I predict that your usual mental agility
will be even more robust than usual in the coming weeks. Although this could possibly lead you to overthink everything, I don’t believe that’s what will happen. Instead, I suspect your extra cognitive flexibility will be highly practical and useful. It will enable you to approach problems from multiple angles simultaneously and come up with hybrid solutions that are quite ingenious. A possibility that initially seems improbable may become feasible when you reconfigure its elements. PS: Your natural curiosity will serve you best when directed toward making connections between seemingly unrelated people and fields.
SCORPIO
(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You’re ready to go to the next evolutionary stage of a close alliance. Although you may not feel entirely prepared for the challenge, I believe you will be guided by your deeper wisdom to do what’s necessary. One way I can help is to provide exhilarating words that boost your daring spirit. With that in mind, I offer you a passage from poet William Blake. Say them to your special friend if that feels right, or find other words appropriate to your style. Blake wrote, “You are the fierce angel that carves my soul into brightness, the eternal fire that burns away my dross. You are the golden thread spun by the hand of heaven, weaving me into the fabric of infinite delight. Your love is a furnace of stars, a vision that consumes my mortal sight, leaving me radiant and undone. In your embrace, I find the gates of paradise thrown wide.”
SAGITTARIUS
(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In ancient Egypt, mirrors were composed of polished copper. To remain properly reflective, they required continual maintenance. Let’s take that as a metaphor for one of your key tasks in the coming weeks. It’s high time to do creative upkeep on your relationships with influences that provide you with feedback on how you’re doing. Are your intended effects pretty close to your actual effects? Does your self-image match the way you are perceived by others? Are you getting the right kind of input to help you stay on course?
CAPRICORN
(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Chances to initiate creative transformations will come from unexpected sources in the coming days. I guarantee it. But will you be sufficiently receptive to take maximum advantage? The purpose of this horoscope is to nudge you to shed your expectations so you will be tenderly, curiously open to surprising help and inspiration. What sweet interruptions and graceful detours will flow your way if you are willing to depart from your usual script? I predict that your leadership qualities will generate the greatest good for all concerned if you are willing to relinquish full control and be flexibly eager to entertain intuitive breakthroughs.
AQUARIUS
(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): For many Indigenous people of California, acorns were part of every meal. Nuts from oak trees were used to create bread, soups, dumplings, pancakes, gravy, and porridge. But making them edible required strenuous work. In their natural state, they taste bitter and require multiple soakings to leach out the astringent ingredient. Is there a metaphorical equivalent for you, Aquarius? An element that can be important, but needs a lot of work, refinement, and preparation? If so, now is a good time to develop new approaches to making it fully available.
PISCES
(Feb. 19-Mar. 20): When Pisces-born Jane Hirshfield was a young poet, she stopped writing poetry for eight years. During that time, she was a full-time student of Zen Buddhism and lived for three years at a monastery. When she resumed her craft, it was infused with what she had learned. Her meditative practice had honed her observational skills, her appreciation of the rich details of daily life, and her understanding that silence could be a form of communication. In the spirit of the wealth she gathered from stillness, calm, and discipline, I invite you to enjoy your own spiritual sabbatical, dear Pisces. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to relax into the most intriguing mysteries.
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and financial systems, as well as related policy, accounting and regulatory compliance requirements. Strong interpersonal skills, service orientation, ability to multi‑task effectively in a varied, high volume environment, judgment and decision‑making, reasoning, ability to develop original ideas to solve problems, and effective verbal and written communication skills. Thorough knowledge and understanding of internal control practices and their impact on protecting University resources. Ability to manage changing priorities, and manage staff time and efforts accordingly. Thorough knowledge of financial processes, policies and procedures. Thorough knowledge of financial data management and reporting systems. Strong proficiency in the use of spreadsheet and database software. Leadership skills to provide guidance, coaching and mentoring to professional and support staff. Notes: Satisfactory criminal history background check. Budgeted Pay Rate/Range: $85,400 to $120,000/year. Full Pay Range: $85,400 to $156,800/year. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #78226
PROFESSIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE
ANALYST
CAMPUS DINING
Manages and reports on income and expenses for Campus Dining’s Retail Operations. Reviews and verifies reconciliation of expense ledgers and ensures that expenses are properly identified, classified, and balanced to the monthly P&L statement. Reports on operational statistics and creates projections on historical data, current demographics, and planned capital expenditures. Provides liaison leadership to departmental units as well as to UCen Accounting and ARIT departments with recommendations and analysis in the areas of labor, accounting, purchasing, and technical equipment. Works closely with Campus Dining’s Retail managers/asst. directors (9) to assist in budget development, recommends cost cutting strategies, provides data on sales history per day or month, assists managers with measuring labor vs. sales per hour to attain or exceed budgeted goals. Researches technical equipment (hardware/software, printers, POS) and makes decisions on selection and purchasing. Oversees 30 computerized and 4 non‑computerized registers and administers 4 different operating platforms. Knowledgeable on each system’s hardware and software and is able to troubleshoot when problems occur. Works with a high level of proficiency in Excel, CBORD menu, inventory; and all other software utilized by Campus Dining Retail Operations. Trains employees in the use of all software and hardware.
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL PLANNING, AUXILIARY SERVICES
HOUSING DINING & AUXILIARY ENTERPRISES
Responsible for the specialized financial management of the Housing, Dining & Auxiliary Enterprises (HDAE) Auxiliary Services team through the guidance and coordinated achievements of direct and non‑direct reports. Establishes objectives and work plans and delegation of assignments including managing budgets, reconciliations, financial statements, forecasting, and annual reports. In consultation with the HDAE CFO and the Sr Executive Director of Auxiliary Services, establishes department goals and objectives while managing the accountability and stewardship of human, financial, and physical resources in compliance with departmental, UC and governmental goals and objectives. Ensures subordinate staff members adhere to defined internal controls. This key position reports directly to the Sr Executive Director, Auxiliary Services. Works on issues of diverse scope where information analysis requires evaluating multiple factors, including understanding current business trends. Follows processes and policies in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions. Proactively assesses risk to establish systems and procedures to protect organizational assets. Provides direct input for short‑ and long‑term strategic planning. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree in related area and/ or equivalent experience/training. 4‑6 years experience developing budgets and financial forecasts. 4‑6 years experience with accounting and financial procedures. 1‑3 years Supervisory experience. Advanced knowledge of financial transactions
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR FOR STUDENT PROGRAMS, EVENTS AND SERVICES
ASSOCIATED STUDENTS
The Associate Director for Student Programs, Events and Services is responsible for the direction, organization, and implementation of several main program areas within Associated Students including supervision of staff and programming resources. Advises and mentors students and staff in programmatic areas including Program Board and Committees and Commissions in Associated Students needing mentoring in the production of events Assesses training needs and develops curriculum and training modules to ensure that students engaged in the co‑curricular activities as either student employees or leaders are provided with learning opportunities that enhance their education experience at UCSB. Primary advising responsibility with Program Board for the Associated Students Department involves overseeing the development, operation, presentation, and/or supervision of all AS Program Board student related multi‑function programs and events including full programmatic responsibility for complex campus‑wide activities. Secondary and tertiary advising responsibility for entities as needed particularly AS funded groups on event planning and execution of campus wide events. Determines long‑range planning, purchasing, expenditure control and equipment security within programming areas. Responsibilities include but are not limited to advising AS funded groups on event planning, budget control, policy development, long‑range program development, planning, promotion and implementation of programs and
events, and interpreting University and AS policies and procedures. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training; 1‑3 yrs Experience in campus activities; 1‑3 yrs Experience in professional event management; Advanced ability to develop original ideas to solve problems; Advanced abilities in project management, problem identification and reasoning skills; Advanced skills in all aspects of event planning and production including working with contracted Artists and Agents; Experience and/or education in developing and fulfilling legally responsible agreements/contracts and/or MOUs; Excellent organizational, analytical and problem solving skills to independently coordinate all details of a musical and university events/projects ensuring that all deadlines are met. Notes: Satisfactory conviction history background check. The position requires the utilization of advanced advising, communication and problem‑solving skills in fulfilling the assigned tasks. Must be willing to accommodate an irregular work schedule‑‑evening and weekend hours required. Must tolerate loud noise levels and working with the public in crowd control situations. Often operates under time pressures and in a stressful environment. Excellent verbal and written skills as well as the ability to interpret and analyze technical (entertainment) contracts required. This position requires patience, the ability to plan, organize and direct students and staff, a high energy level, and the mental capacity to focus on multiple issues and programs. Master’s Degree in Student Personnel administration or a related field preferred. Experience working with the Entertainment industry preferred; UCSB Campus Security Authority under Clery Act. The budgeted salary range is $83,000‑$87,320/yr. The full salary range is $69,500‑$123,500/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law. Application Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb. edu Job #77989
DIRECTOR OF DISTRIBUTION AND LOGISTICAL SERVICES
RESIDENTIAL OPERATIONS
provides leadership and management for Furniture Services, Surplus Sales, Mail Services, Central Receiving, and Materiel & Logistics for the Residential Operations department that is responsible for physical plant administration of the HDAE portfolio encompassing 4.4 million gross square feet of facilities and a residential program that houses over 10,000 students. The Director of DLS serves as an administrative operations and senior professional that completes job duties in a manner that demonstrates a high degree of autonomy, commitment, and leadership that is focused on developing an efficient and effective cross functional team. The Director is the campus administrator responsible for core state funded essential services— Furniture Services, Surplus Sales, Mail Services— as well as
materiel management, receiving, and logistics functions for the physical plant administration of auxiliary funded buildings and grounds across HDAE. For Furniture Services and Surplus Sales, this includes setting priorities and establishing workflows for managers, leads, and represented front‑line staff to provide recharge services to all campus divisions and departments for the disposition of excess materiel, surplus or sale of property and inventorial equipment, as well as the execution of furniture installations, moving services, and setup/takedown logistics for University events. This unit is provides essential services for a variety of campus‑wide constituents and events including Move‑In, Convocation, Parents & Family Weekend, Open House, Staff Appreciation, Commencement, Summer Conferences, and various other luncheons, receptions, and departmental events to achieve program objectives and to promote ongoing relationship building between students, staff, faculty, alumni and donors. For Mail Services, the Director oversees multiple locations responsible for both incoming and outgoing mail for the entire campus, ensuring that assigned employees accurately collect, sort, and distribute campus mail and package materials in accordance with U.S. Postal Service regulations and procedures. Ensures that managers, leads, and represented staff are trained and held accountable to follow postage metering operation procedures, including fiscal oversight of the postage recharge process for campus departments. For the Materiel & Logistics support of Residential Operations, the Director provides leadership on streamlining procurement procedures, centralizing receiving, warehousing, and inventory, as well as supporting all logistics needs for HDAE physical plant operations including serving as the Mission Continuity Lead for the department and representing the department in monthly Emergency Operations Center planning exercises. Reqs:
Bachelor’s Degree and/or equivalent training and progressively responsible experience. 8+ years leadership/ professional management experience, preferably in a college or university setting with frontline staff responsible for purchasing, shipping, receiving, storeroom equipment management, event planning, logistics, physical plant operation or similar hands‑on work. Advanced verbal and written communication skills, including active listening, critical thinking, and an ability to influence and motivate all levels of staff. Demonstrated management and conflict resolution skills to effectively lead an organization. Proven skills to quickly evaluate complex issues, identify multiple options for resolution, and direct work functions to remedy in an efficient and effective manner.
Broad knowledge of the organization’s processes, protocols and procedures with a focus on financial management, strategic planning, and personnel management under labor contract(s) and personnel policy. Proven ability to work independently, initiating innovative new programs, unit growth, development and change, and to deal with high pressure and emergency situations. Excellent decision‑making and cost‑benefit analysis skills; ability to develop original ideas to solve problems, perform operational assessments, and establish metrics for the department and employee goals. Strong skills in customer service; ability to build and maintain relationships with stakeholders and partners. Demonstrated interpersonal and cultural competence skills to effectively communicate with and support a wide variety of people of diverse backgrounds, including understanding and respect for cultural, ethnic and individual differences across the campus community. 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. Budgeted/
RESIDENTIAL
Provides leadership and management for the Projects & Maintenance unit that is responsible for the physical plant operations, repair, and maintenance for the Housing, Dining & Auxiliary (HDAE) portfolio encompassing 4.3 million gross square feet of auxiliary facilities and a residential program that houses over 10,000 residents. The Director of Projects & Maintenance serves as an administrative operations professional that directs a diverse and technical staff responsible for maintaining and improving physical assets that include residence halls, dining facilities, family student housing complexes, graduate and undergraduate apartment complexes, staff housing, and various University owned buildings inclusive of the University Center, Events Center, parking facilities, retail operations, conference centers, administrative offices, and hospitality facilities such as The Club & Guest House, West Cottages, and the Physics Residence. The Director of Projects & Maintenance develops and implements the 10‑Year Capital Plan for HDAE, prioritizing capital and deferred
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41. Walk with pride
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47. “Yeah, I bet”
48. Straight or flush indicating one way to go to hell?
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55. Journalist Cornish of CNN
56. 1/12 of a foot
57. Turkey meat preference
58. Pretzel shapes
59. Gospel singer Winans
60. “___ Boot” (1981 film)
61. Part of a skate blade
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EMPLOYMENT (CONT.)
maintenance needs based on risk to life safety, code compliance, as well as data driven work order records from WebTMA as the campus wide computerized maintenance management software. The Director works directly with the Campus Architect, Campus Building Official, and Campus Planning & Design on serving as the primary point of contact for the planning, programming, design development, construction and commissioning of all capital projects for HDAE. The Director provides leadership and supervision of 8 direct reports, and provides leadership through subordinate managers to a talented maintenance team of over 42 skilled trade professionals responsible for repairs of infrastructure, building systems, equipment and fixtures across 197+ buildings. The Director establishes a strategic vision for operational management, long‑range planning, organization and prioritization, coordination, oversight, and quality sustainable execution of multiple facilities’ project and maintenance activities. The Director oversees the establishment of work plans, delegates projects, and manages engineering studies that proactively assess deferred maintenance risks and identify strategies to repair or renovate to preserve the operational integrity of HDAE physical plant assets. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institution and/or equivalent training in higher education physical plant administration, facility management, architecture, engineering, construction management or a related field. 8+ years experience in progressively challenging functional leadership roles, preferably in a college or university setting, managing a team of architecture, engineering, or construction project management professionals and/or maintenance and physical plant administrators with varied backgrounds and capabilities working toward measurable success.
Notes: UCSB Campus Security Authority under Clery Act. 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: $156,520 to $180,000/year. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #78014
PROFESSIONAL AND CONTINUING
EDUCATION Processes all financial transactions for Professional and Continuing Education including accounts receivable, and serves as a backup for accounts payable transactions. Generates invoices, track and record payments, make deposits, performs monthly reviews and reconciliation of ledgers, and ensures compliance with University, Federal, and State accounting policies and procedures on all transactions. Reqs: High school diploma or GED. 1‑3 years of administrative work experience. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check The budgeted hourly range is $28.44 ‑ $29.07/hr. The full hourly range is $28.44 ‑ $40.76/hr.
The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 77992.
MEDIA CENTER SPECIALIST
ASSOCIATED STUDENTS
Under the direction of the Associate Director of Technology and Strategic Communication, the Media Center Specialist is responsible for developing and coordinating student services provided by the A.S. Media Center. The Media Center Specialist is responsible for collecting, compiling, and writing information for various workshops, social media, and other various forms of written communication, as well as providing oversight and facilities management of the Annex space and acting as the backup for the Pardall Center space. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training; 1‑3 yrs Experience with MS Office Suite, Google Suite or equivalent; 1‑3 yrs Experience with attention to detail, responsiveness, and decision‑making. Notes: Satisfactory conviction history background check. The budgeted salary range is $30.22/ hr. ‑ $31.65/hr. The full salary range is $25.77‑$43.58/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #77980
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 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. Work hours may include Thursday evenings from 10am‑7pm. Hiring/Budgeted Hourly Range: $25.43/hr ‑ $30.39/hr. Full Hourly Range: $25.43/hr ‑ $31.60/hr.
The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal lawOpen until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #70317
PARKING SYSTEMS
ANALYST
TRANSPORTATION AND PARKING
SERVICES
Manages parking software and equipment, including parking meters and on‑street and off‑street parking systems. Applies acquired job skills, policies, and procedures to complete substantive assignments / projects / tasks of moderate scope and complexity; exercises judgment within defined guidelines and practices to determine appropriate action in support of programming, the configuration and the hardware for the parking systems. Plans and implements hardware and software upgrades. Works directly with system vendors and manufacturer representatives on warranties and parts exchanges. Maintains departmental security access and key issuance. Works with HDAE Residential Operations and Facilities Management Small Projects units, Communications Services & the Network Operations Center as well as outside vendors in completing various parking related projects. Ensures security and inventory of tools and equipment. Applies professional business/technical support concepts to resolve hardware and software issues as they relate to the automated parking systems where analysis of the situation or data requires a review of a variety of factors. Within defined procedures and practices recommends an appropriate action. Reqs: 4‑6 years of hardware and software systems experience, as well as secure data and revenue systems or equivalent education. Ability to perform technical tasks associated with installation, maintenance and repair of field based hardware (and related software packages) permit dispensers, EMV credit card readers and communication systems both wired and wireless including an informational/ emergency AM radio station. Experience in maintaining private and public networks functionality and security.
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: $29.50 to $39.22/hour. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #78029
Assists with the development and maintenance of a work environment which is conducive to meeting the mission of the organization and supports the EEP. Responsible for completing job duties that demonstrate support for the Operations Team. Reqs: Working knowledge and experience utilizing the following equipment: vacuums, conventional and high‑speed buffers, extractors, and related custodial equipment desired. Will train on all equipment and chemicals used. Demonstrated ability to work effectively with others as a team. Must have effective communication skills. Ability to interact as a team member with sensitivity towards a multi‑cultural work environment. Notes: May be required to work schedules other than the assigned schedule to meet the operational needs of the unit. May be required to perform other duties as assigned to meet the operational needs of the department. 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: $22.66 ‑ $24.51/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job
STUDENT AFFAIRS COORDINATOR
CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT
Provides academic and instructional support for all undergraduate, graduate and doctoral emphasis program services within the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. Provides administrative support, including, but not limited to: planning department events, graduate recruitment, and other outreach activities; quarterly course coordination, course evaluation coordinating and processing, process BARC course fees; manages department articulation process, and ordering program and instructor supplies. Assists the undergraduate and graduate advisers with advising enrolled and prospective students on all aspects of their academic experience. Solely responsible for the administration of the departmental Disabled Students Program, which requires substantive knowledge of University, College, and departmental policies and procedures and the ability to interpret from various academic and administrative offices. Assists with preparation of digital and print materials, uses social media platforms to connect with students, alumni and community members to promote the department and its programs, and department website maintenance. Works collaboratively and in coordination with the Undergraduate and Graduate Advisers, Student Affairs Manager, Department Chair and Business Officer in a team environment to complete administrative tasks related to graduate and undergraduate matters in the department. Reqs: Familiarity with Academic Advising or Peer Mentoring. Bachelor’s Degree in related area or equivalent experience and/or training. Notes: Some evening and or weekend hours will be required for special annual events. Satisfactory conviction history background check
SR. CUSTODIAN
RESIDENTIAL OPERATIONS
Performs duties in accordance with established standards and instruction, for university owned Residence Halls, Apartments, Dining Facilities, & Auxiliary units. May be required to work schedules other than Monday through Friday, 7:30 am to 4:30 pm to meet the operational needs of the unit. May be required to perform other duties as assigned to meet the operational needs of the department. The Sr. Custodian promotes a customer service environment to residents and clients.
The budgeted hourly range is $27.65 to $31.00/hr. The full hourly range is $25.77 to $43.58/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, or other protected status under state or federal law. Application review date Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb. edu Job # 78058
LEGALS
ADMINISTER OF ESTATE
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: JOHN JOSEPH MIOZZI No.: 25PR00174
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: JOHN JOSEPH MIOZZI
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: RYAN MCINTYRE in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.
THE PETITION requests that (name): be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 05/29/2025 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: SB 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street PO Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93101. SANTA BARBARA‑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 4/8/2025 by Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Miles T. Goldrick, Esq.; Law Office of Miles T. Goldrick, 125 East Victoria Street, Suite F, Santa
Barbara, CA 93101; 805‑963‑7400
Published: May 8, 15, 22 2025.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: PETER C. STEARNS No.: 25PR00224
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: PETER C. STEARNS; PETER CUDAHY STEARNS
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: CORDELIA P. STEARNS in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.
THE PETITION requests that (name): CORDELIA P. STEARNS and City National Bank, N.A be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 07/03/2025 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street PO Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93101. ANACAPA DIVISION.
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk. Darrel E. Parker,
NOW HIRING
Executive Officer 4/30/2025 by Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Brett W. Piersma, Esq.; Mullen & Henzell, L.L.P.; 112 E. Victoria Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; 805‑966‑1501
Published: May 8, 15, 22 2025. NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF JERRY HERBERT ADAMS Case No. 25PR00207
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of JERRY HERBERT ADAMS A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Holly Adams in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA BARBARA.
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LEGALS (CONT.)
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Holly Adams be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act.
(This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held on June 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM in Dept. No.
SB 5 located at 1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101.
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to
you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for petitioner:
B JOLENE LEWIS ESQ
SBN 239100
BOTTI & MORISON ESTATE PLANNING
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VENTURA CA 93001
CN116509 ADAMS May 8,15,22, 2025
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: MARGARET AMY CHMIELNIK
CASE No.: 25PR00081
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of:
MARGARET AMY CHMIELNIK
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: LYNN DINKA AND JON CHMIELNIK in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.
THE PETITION requests that (name): LYNN DINKA AND JON CHMIELNIK be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 07/17/2025 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street PO Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Anacapa Division
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory
Santa Barbara County Flood Control and Water Conservation District
130 E. Victoria Street, Suite 200, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Public Works Director Deputy Director – Flood Control
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FLOOD CONTROL DISTRICT 2025/2026 ANNUAL ROUTINE MAINTENANCE PLAN
May 2, 2025
The Santa Barbara County Flood Control District proposes to conduct maintenance on 29 creeks/drainages as part of the 2025/2026 Annual Routine Maintenance Plan.
The Annual Plan Summary will be available on May 13, 2025 at the following address: https://www.countyofsb.org/2384/Environmental-Group. This summary is an advanced draft of the final Plan and may not yet contain all sections. The Final Annual Routine Maintenance Plan will be placed in the same location on June 10, 2025.
An addendum to the Program EIR is being written for each creek. Each addendum will include the location, setting, engineering analysis, project description, impacts and associated mitigation measures, maps, and photographs. The final Annual Routine Maintenance Plan will follow the same format as previous Annual Routine Maintenance Plans.
The District will hold an online public workshop to receive comments from the public on the proposed projects. To receive an invitation to the online public workshop, you must contact the District in advance.
Please notify Seth Shank sshank@countyofsb.org (805-568-3443) by 5pm on May 17, 2025 to be added to the invitation list for the online meeting.
The online workshop will be held at the following time: May 20, 2025, 5:30 p.m.
If you receive this letter after the public workshop date or are unable to attend and have any questions, please contact Seth Shank (805-568-3443). Please submit any written comments by June 3, 2025 via email to sshank@countyofsb org.
The final Annual Routine Maintenance Plan will be completed by June 10, 2025 and will go before the Santa Barbara County Flood Control Board of Directors on July 9, 2025.
District staff will continue to prepare the Plan prior to the workshops. Additional information (e.g. maps, surveys, engineering analyses, impact/mitigation analysis, etc.) will be provided to the public upon request as completed.
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 5/12/2025 by Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Jerry Howard; Thyne Taylor Fox Howard, LLP; 205 East Carrillo Street Suite 100, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; 805‑963‑9958
Published: May 15, 22. Jun 5 2025.
FBN ABANDONMENT
STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: S.B. WINERY, SANTA BARBARA WINERY TASTING ROOM, SANTA BARBARA WINERY SANTA ROSA RD., SANTA BARBARA WINERY CITY TASTING ROOM: 114 E. Haley St. #M Santa Barbara, CA 93101 The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 1/27/2025 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original File no. FBN 2025‑0000239. The persons or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: S.B. Winery (same address) The business was conducted by an A Corporation. Registrant commenced to tranact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jan 1, 1962 Signed by: SARA DEINHARD/ EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 4/17/25, FBN 2025‑0001009 E49. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). Published: Apr 24. May 1, 8, 15 2025.
STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: ASTONISHING TILE AND STONE
CARE: 21 West Micheltorena Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 8/10/2022 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original File no. FBN 2022‑0001988. The persons or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Alexander Home Services, Inc. (same address) The business was conducted by an A Corporation. Registrant commenced to tranact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 9, 2022 Signed by: GREGORY ALEXANDER/ PRESIDENT Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 4/02/25, FBN 2025‑0000861, E30. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). Published: Apr 24. May 1, 8, 15 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SALT BOUTIQUE: 1 West Cannon Perdido St, A Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Grace J Pauletto (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Apr 6, 2025. Filed by: GRACE PAULETTO/ OWNER with the County Clerk of
Bids open at 2:00 PM on Thursday, June 12, 2025 for:
Santa Barbara County on Apr 9, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E24. FBN Number: 2025‑0000942. Published: Apr 24. May 1, 8, 15 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SHIFT YOUR REALITY: 1062 Miramonte Dr 9 Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Julia Freedman (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Apr 8, 2025. Filed by: JULIA FREEDMAN/ INDIVIDUAL with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 9, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E24. FBN Number: 2025‑0000941. Published: Apr 24. May 1, 8, 15 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OBSIDIAN FARMS‑BY BOB’S WELL BREAD: 2449 Baseline Ave. Ste 1 Solvang, CA 93463; Bob’s Well Bread LLC (same address) This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Apr 11, 2025. Filed by: ROBERT OSWAKS/ PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 14, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E24. FBN Number: 2025‑0000970. Published: Apr 24. May 1, 8, 15 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: INDIE BEAUTY COLLECTIVE: 11 W. De La Guerra Street Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Tracy L Hanson (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Mar 27, 2025. Filed by: TRACY HANSON/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 3, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0000879. Published: Apr 24. May 1, 8, 15 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: COMMUNITY SYSTEMS CONSULTING: 209 Calle Palo Colorado Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Maria Chesley (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Apr 16, 2025. Filed by: MARIA CHESLEY/MANAGING CONSULTANT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 17, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0001017. Published: Apr 24. May 1, 8, 15 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: STARRY SKY COFFEE COMPANY: 800 S. College
Mitigation and Monitoring for Foothill Road Low Water Crossing Bridge Replacement Over the Cuyama River in the 1st Supervisorial District COUNTY PROJECT No. 862438, FEDERAL AID PROJECT No. BRLO-5951(184)
Professional landscape contractor and environmental services required to implement the Habitat Mitigation Monitoring Plan for the Foothill Road Bridge Replacement Project.
The Plans, Specifications, and Bid Book are available at https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal. cfm?CompanyID=43874
The Contractor must have either a Class A license or any combination of the following Class C licenses which constitutes a majority of the work: C-27 Landscaping Contractor
The DBE Contract Goal is 16%.
For the Federal Training Program, the number of trainees or apprentices is 0.
Submit sealed bids to the web address below. Bids will be opened and available at the web address below immediately following the submittal deadline.
Complete the project work excluding plant establishment work within 20 working days
Complete the project including plant establishment work within 1,245 working days
The estimated cost of the project is $ 408,000.00.
This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR).
A contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, subject to the requirements of PCC Section 4104, or engage in the performance of any contract for public work, as defined in this chapter, unless currently registered and qualified to perform public work pursuant to Labor Code (LAB) Section 1725.5. It is not a violation of this section for an unregistered contractor to submit a bid that is authorized by Business and Professions Code (BPC) Section 7029.1 or by PCC Section 10164 or 20103.5 provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to LAB Section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.
Prevailing wages are required on this Contract. The Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations determines the general prevailing wage rates. Obtain the wage rates at the DIR website https:// www.dir.ca.gov/
The federal minimum wage rates for this Contract as determined by the United States Secretary of Labor are available at https://www.wdol.gov/. Copies are also available at the office of the Department of Public Works – Engineering Division, 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.
If the minimum wage rates as determined by the United States Secretary of Labor differs from 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 must not pay less than the higher wage rate. The Department does 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 must not pay less than the federal minimum wage rate that most closely approximates the duties of the employees in question.
Inquiries or questions based on alleged patent ambiguity of the plans, specifications, or estimate must be submitted as a bidder inquiry by 2:00 PM on June 5, 2025. Submittals after this date will not be addressed. Questions pertaining to this Project prior to Award of the Contract must be submitted via PlanetBids Q&A tab. Bidders (Plan Holders of Record) will be notified by electronic mail if addendums are issued. The addendums, if issued, will only be available on the County’s PlanetBids website, https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=43874
By order of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Barbara this project was authorized to be advertised on 12/13/2016.
Chris Sneddon Director of Public Works
LEGALS (CONT.)
Barbara County on Apr 03, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E71. FBN Number: 2025‑0000882. Published: May 1, 8, 15, 22 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GRANDE
MANAGEMENT: 237 Barrington Place Lompoc, CA 93436; Grande Management (same address)
This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Apr 26, 2025. Filed by: ALFREDO LOPEZ/CEO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 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: 2025‑0001088. Published: May 1, 8, 15, 22 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SB ROOT
PROTECTOR: 816 N Milpas Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Iban Rosas Silva (same address) Lorena Flores Hernandez (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:
LORENA FLORES HERNANDEZ/ GENERAL PARTNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 25, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E49. FBN Number: 2025‑0001071. Published: May 1, 8, 15, 22 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BURNING STONE TILE & SUPPLIES, BURNING STONE TILE INC: 816 N Milpas Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Burning Stone Construction, 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 N/A. Filed by: LORENA FLORES HERNANDEZ/ SECRETARY with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 25, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E49. FBN Number: 2025‑0001070. Published: May 1, 8, 15, 22 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TOPA STUDIO: 524 Casitas Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93103; David C Dressler (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on May 02, 2025. Filed by: DAVID DRESSLER/ FOUNDER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 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: 2025‑0001139. Published: May 8, 15, 22, 29 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ISLE OF FILM PHOTOGRAPHY: 1821 Cleveland Avenue Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Jack Krull (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: JACK KRULL with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 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: 2025‑0001082. Published: May 8, 15, 22, 29 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MISSION READY MIX: 710 South Fairview Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93117; Lynch Ready Mix Concrete Co. 11011 Azahar St Suite
4 Ventura, CA 93004 This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jun 09, 1982. Filed by: ASHLEY GREEN/ CONTROLLER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 29, 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: 2025‑0001100. Published: May 8, 15, 22, 29 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HERITAGE HOSPICE: 5123 W Sunset Blvd, Suite 206 Los Angeles, CA 90027; E2 Hospice, 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 01, 2025. Filed by: JASON BLISS/ PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 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 E66. FBN Number: 2025‑0001092. Published: May 8, 15, 22, 29 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. FBN 2025‑0001024
The following person(s) is doing business as: THE GOLD TOUCH, 4764
CARPINTERIA AVE
CARPINTERIA, CA 93013, County of SANTA BARBARA.
ANNAMARIE GONZALES, 4764
CARPINTERIA AVE
CARPINTERIA, CA 93013
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/ ANNAMARIE GONZALES, OWNER
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 04/21/2025. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 5/8, 5/15, 5/22, 5/29/25 CNS‑3916422# SANTA BARBARA
INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TRUE ELECTRIC INC: 705 Central Avenue, Unit 16 Buellton, CA 93427; True Electric 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 N/A. Filed by: ANTHONY CALLES IV/CEO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 30, 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: 2025‑0001103. Published: May 8, 15, 22, 29 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE UPS STORE 0023: 27 W Anapamu Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Alankaar 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 15, 2024. Filed by: JAGJIT DHALIWAL/ PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 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 E28. FBN Number: 2025‑0000902. Published: May 8, 15, 22, 29 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2025‑0000899
The following person(s) is doing business as:
LIA STORES, 7628 CARMEL BEACH CIR GOLETA, CA 93117, County of SANTA BARBARA. KELLY JEAN LEMAR, 7628
CARMEL BEACH CIR GOLETA, CA 93117
This business is conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to
transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on MAR 01, 2025 /s/ KELLY JEAN LEMAR, OWNER
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 04/04/2025. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 5/8, 5/15, 5/22, 5/29/25
CNS‑3922560#
SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MONTECITO
ESTATE SERVICES: 1482 East Valley Road, Suite 42/842 Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Philippe G Sautot (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on May 09, 2025. Filed by: PHILIPPE SAUTOT/ OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 9, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E72. FBN Number: 2025‑0001173. Published: May 15, 22, 29. Jun 5 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. FBN2025‑0000976
The following person(s) is (are)
doing business as:
1. DentaQuest, 2. DentaQuest of California, 23291 Mill Creek Dr., Laguna Hills, CA 92653 County of ORANGE
Mailing Address: 96 Worcester Street, Wellesley HIlls, MA 02481
California Dental Network, Inc., 96 Worcester Street, Wellesley Hills, MA 02481
This business is conducted by a Corporation
The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. California Dental Network, Inc.
S/ Colleen Kallas, Secretary
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 04/14/2025.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 5/15, 5/22, 5/29, 6/5/25
CNS‑3922867#
SANTA BARBARA
INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2025‑0001022
The following person(s) is doing business as:
COGENT BOOKKEEPING, 3744
GREGGORY WAY UNIT 3 SANTA BARBARA, CA 93105, County of SANTA BARBARA.
COGENT SOFTWARE INC., 3744
GREGGORY WAY UNIT 3 SANTA BARBARA, CA 93105; CALIFORNIA
This business is conducted by A CORPORATION.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on NOT APPLICABLE /s/ EDWARD WIELAGE, PRESIDENT
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 04/18/2025.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 5/15, 5/22, 5/29, 6/5/25
CNS‑3923172#
SANTA BARBARA
INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2025‑0001020
The following person(s) is doing business as:
WGA TV CAREER LAUNCH SCRIPTFEST, 525 SAN YSIDRO ROAD SUITE 107 SANTA BARBARA, CA 93108, County of SANTA BARBARA.
MYGLOBALCLASSROOM, INC., 525 SAN YSIDRO ROAD SUITE 107 SANTA BARBARA, CA 93108; CALIFORNIA
This business is conducted by A CORPORATION.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the
fictitious business name or names listed above on NOT APPLICABLE /s/ STEVEN KUNES, CEO
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 04/18/2025.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 5/15, 5/22, 5/29, 6/5/25 CNS‑3923167# SANTA BARBARA
INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SALTY DOG INTERIORS: 558 San Ysidro Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Julia Freedman (same address) This business is
Ordinance 5248
conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on May 05, 2025. Filed by: JULIA FREEDMAN with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 7, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0001161. Published: May 15, 22, 29. Jun 5 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HAIR BY MACY: 3835 State St, Suite 104
An Ordinance Amending Section 35-1, the County Land Use and Development Code (LUDC), of Chapter 35, Zoning, of The Santa Barbara County Code, by Amending Article 35.4, Standards for Specific Land Uses to Revise Allowable Temporary Uses to Enable Community Tours and Update Permit Requirements and Development Standards for Home Occupations. 24ORD-00031
Passed, approved and adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Barbara, State of California, on this 6th day of May 2025, by the following vote:
Ayes: Supervisors Lee, Capps, Hartmann, Nelson and Lavagnino Noes: None
Absent: None
Abstain: None
MONA MIYASATO
CLERK OF THE BOARD
By: Sheila de la Guerra – Deputy Clerk
NOTE: A complete copy of Ordinance Nos. 5248 is on file with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors and is available for public inspection and copying in that office in accordance with the California Public Records Act, Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1.
NOTICE OF PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING Hybrid Public Meeting – Held in Person and via Zoom June 9, 2025 at 6:00 P.M.
General Plan and Zoning Amendments to Satisfy State Law Requirements (Case Nos. 24-0003-GPA and 25-0001-ORD)
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 www.cityofgoleta.org/meetings-agendas
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Goleta Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing to consider recommending to City Council adoption of amendments to the General Plan / Coastal Land Use Plan (General Plan) and Title 17 (Zoning) of the Goleta Municipal Code (GMC) to implement various requirements of State Law. The date, time, and location of the Planning Commission 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: Monday, June 9, 2025 at 6:00 P.M.
PLACE: 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 amendments would apply citywide, including all areas of the City within the Coastal Zone.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Amendments to the General Plan are proposed pursuant to requirements of Government Code Sections 65302(g) (2)–(5), 65302(h), 65302.15, and 65565.5. These requirements focus on the Safety Element, Open Space Element, and environmental justice (EJ). New Safety Element requirements include consideration of new information and policies related to (1) flood, (2) fire, (3) climate change hazards, and (4) emergency preparedness including evacuation routes. New Open Space Element requirements include policies that address (1) access to open space for all residents in a manner that considers social, economic, and racial equity, (2) climate resilience and other co-benefits of open space, and (3) rewilding opportunities. EJ goals, policies, and objectives are also proposed, integrated throughout the General Plan to (1) reduce the unique or compounded health risks in disadvantaged communities by means that include, but are not limited to, the reduction of pollution exposure, including the improvement of air quality, and the promotion of public facilities, food access, safe and sanitary homes, and physical activity; (2) promote civic engagement in the public decision-making process; and (3) prioritize improvements and programs that address the needs of disadvantaged communities.
Companion amendments are also proposed to Title 17 of the GMC to implement the proposed General Plan amendments.
Environmental Review: The amendments are exempt from review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) (California Public Resources Code Sections 21000 et seq.) pursuant to Section 15060(c)(3) of the CEQA Guidelines (Title 14, Chapter 3 of the California Code of Regulations) because the activity is not a project as defined in Section 15378(a) but it is an organizational or administrative activity by government that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment pursuant to Section 15378(b)(5). The amendments are also exempt from CEQA pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) of the CEQA Guidelines because the activity is covered by the general rule which exempts activities that can be seen with certainty to have no possibility for causing a significant effect on the environment.
PUBLIC COMMENT: Interested persons are encouraged to provide public comments during the public hearing in person or virtually through the Zoom webinar, by following the instructions listed on the Planning Commission meeting agenda. All letters/comments should be sent to PERmeetings@cityofgoleta.org. Letters must be received on or before the date of the hearing or can be submitted at the hearing prior to the conclusion of the public comment portion of the Public Hearing.
FOR PROJECT INFORMATION: For further information on the project, contact Andy Newkirk, Supervising Planner, at (805) 961-7544 or anewkirk@cityofgoleta.org. For inquiries in Spanish, please contact Marcos Martinez at (805) 562-5500 or mmartinez@cityofgoleta.org. Staff reports and documents will be posted approximately 72 hours before the hearing on the City’s website at www.cityofgoleta.org
SIMULTANEOUS INTERPRETATION: Live Spanish interpretation will be available. No advanced request for Spanish interpretation services is required.
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 at or before the public hearing (Government Code Section 65009(b)(2)).
Note: In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need assistance to participate in the hearing, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (805) 961-7505. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the hearing will enable City staff to make reasonable arrangements.
Publish Date: Santa Barbara Independent, May 15, 2025
LEGALS (CONT.)
Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Macy M MacFarlane 1016 Cliff Drive Apt
310 Santa Barbara, CA 93109
This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on May 05, 2025. Filed by: MACY MACFARLANE with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 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 E66. FBN Number: 2025‑0001141. Published: May 15, 22, 29. Jun 5 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CONTRACTOR STORAGE: 224 S Milpas Santa Barbara, CA 93013; 224 Milpas Street, LLC PO Box 576 Santa Barbara,
CA 93102
This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company
Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Apr 17, 2020. Filed by: ERICK CROCKER/ MANAGING MEMEBR with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 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 E72. FBN Number: 2025‑0001143. Published: May 15, 22, 29. Jun 5 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NEW OUTLOOK LIFE AND CAREER COACHING: 5455 8th St., 54 Carpinteria, CA 93013; Caryn M Chavez (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual
Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on May 05, 2025. Filed by: CARYN CHAVEZ/ OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 7, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0001166. Published: May 15, 22, 29. Jun 5 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ATLAS INSPIRE: 6590 Camino Carreta Santa Barbara, CA 93013; Tempest House LLC 1401 21st St Ste R Sacramento, CA 95811 This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on May 01,
2025. Filed by: WILLIAM FERRER/ CEO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 9, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E66. FBN Number: 2025‑0001176. Published: May 15, 22, 29. Jun 5 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AQUATIC
PRO‑CISION DIVE SERVICE: 1996 N Refugio Rd, Suite A Santa Barbara, CA 93460; Vito J Romano PO Box 6203 Santa Barbara, CA 93160 This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on May 07, 2025. Filed by: VITO J ROMANO/ OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 7, 2025.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Design Review Board
Hybrid Public Hearing – In Person and via Zoom Goleta City Hall – Council Chambers 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B Goleta, CA 93117 Tuesday, May 27, 2025, at 3:00 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://www.cityofgoleta.org/goletameetings
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Design Review Board (DRB) of the City of Goleta will conduct a public hearing for the projects listed below, with the date, time, and location of the DRB public hearing set forth above. The agenda for the hearing, including how to participate virtually in the hearing via a Zoom link, will also be posted on the City website at least 72 hours before the hearing (www.cityofgoleta.org).
For Conceptual Review:
New Commercial Storage Building on a Vacant Parcel 109 Aero Camino (APN 073-060-053) Case No. 25-0008-DRB
For Conceptual/Preliminary/Final Review:
Residential Additions & California Environmental Quality Act 7299 Alameda (APN 077-381-001) Case No. 25-0025-DRB/25-0007-LUP
Modification of OSP at 5383 Hollister Ave 5383 Hollister Avenue (APN 071-140-074) Case No. 25-0017-DRB/25-0001-OSP
For Final Review
Girsh Park Lighting Plan 7000 Phelps (APN 073-440-020) Case No. 25-0013-DRB/15-0003-SCD
Bermant Lot B Landscaping and Parking Lot Improvements 5385 Hollister Avenue (APN 071-140-075) Case No. 22-0001-DPAM/20-0017-DRB
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 Design Review Board 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 the Design Review Board and published on the City’s Meeting and Agenda page.
FOR PROJECT INFORMATION: For further information on the project, contact Mary Chang, at (805) 961-7567 or mchang@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
In accordance with Gov. Code Section 65103.5, only non-copyrighted plans or plans that the designer has given permission have been published on the City’s website. The full set of plans is available for review at the Planning Counter during counter hours or by contacting the staff member listed for the item 805-961-7543.
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: Santa Barbara Independent 5/15/25
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: 2025‑0001154. Published: May 15, 22, 29. Jun 5 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EMMY
JEAN ICE CREAM: 110 W Constance Ave, #5 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Diane C Jeffers (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Apr 02, 2025. Filed by: DIANE JEFFERS/ OWNER/OPERATOR with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 7, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0000906. Published: May 15, 22, 29. Jun 5 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RIVIERA MUSIC: 4141 State Street, Suite B‑13 Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Emile J Millar 2750 Williams Way Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Mar 15, 2025. Filed by: EMILE MILLAR/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 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 E66. FBN Number: 2025‑0001130. Published: May 15, 22, 29. Jun 5 2025.
INVITATION FOR BIDS
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS CALLING FOR BIDS
Notice is hereby given that bids will be received by RSH Construction, Inc. via email (merinda@ rshconstructioninc.com or kenton@ rshconstructioninc.com) or via fax (805‑466‑6294) no later than:
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 10:00 am for the SBUSD Food Services Freezer & Kitchen MODs Project (“Project”).
A non‑mandatory job walk will be conducted on Friday, May 9, 2025 beginning at 9:00 am. The job walk will visit 3 school sites and is expected to take approximately 2 hours. The first site will be Dos Pueblos High School. Meet at the front of the school by the flagpole, 7266 Alameda
Ave, Goleta, CA 93117
Plans and Specs may be requested via email from merinda@ rshconstructioninc.com
The project description is as follows: New freezers, coolers and kitchen modernization at 3 campuses.
As a condition of bidding as a first‑tier mechanical, electrical and plumbing subcontractor on this project, and in accordance with the provisions of Public Contract Code section 20111.5 and 20111.6 and Education Code Section 17406, all MEP subcontractors must be prequalified with Santa Barbara Unified School District.
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 1773 and 1773.2 of the Labor Code of the State of California, the District has obtained from the Director of Industrial Relations, the general prevailing rate of per diem wages and the general prevailing rate for holiday and overtime work in the locality in which the work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of workman needed to execute the contract. It shall be mandatory upon the contractor to whom the contract is awarded, to pay not less than the said specified rates to all workmen employed by them in the execution of the contract, and to comply with the prevailing wage requirements set forth in the Labor Code.
Pursuant to the provisions in Section 1771.1 of the Labor Code of the State of California, a contractor shall not be qualified to bid or engage in the performance of any contract for this project unless; (1) currently registered and qualified to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5; or (2) expressly is authorized to submit a bid by Section 1771.1 and provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.
Pursuant to provisions to Education Code 17407.5 and Public Contract Code 2600‑2602, this project is subject to Skilled and Trained Workforce compliance.
This project is subject to the compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.
Published: May 8, 15 2025.
NAME CHANGE
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME:ARNULFO DIAZ CASE NUMBER: 25CV02131
PUBLIC NOTICE
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
Fee study for street lighting, storm water, and solid waste programs
Published to PlanetBids: May 15, 2025
The City of Goleta Public Works Department invites you to submit a proposal to become eligible for production of the Fee Study for Street Lighting, Storm Water, and Solid Waste Programs.
Proposals must meet the requirements and descriptions outlined in the RFP, available through the City of Goleta’s PlanetBids Vendor Portal. Proposal requests were posted May 15, 2025 on PlanetBids. Proposals must be received electronically no later than 3:00 p.m., June 12, 2025. Late or incomplete RFPs will not be accepted.
Firms interested in submitting a proposal may do so through the City of Goleta’s PlanetBids Vendor Portal. https://pbsystem.planetbids.com/portal/45299/ bo/bo-search
Please submit any questions regarding this Request for Proposals through the City of Goleta’s PlanetBids Vendor Portal Online Q&A no later than 3:00 p.m. on June 5, 2025.
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: PETITIONER: ARNULFO DIAZ 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: ARNULFO DIAZ
PROPOSED NAME: ARNULFO PULIDO DIAZ THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Notice of Hearing June 13, 2025, 10:00 am, DEPT: 4, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 1100 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, CIVIL BRANCH A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated 04/18/2025, JUDGE Donna D. Geck of the Superior Court. Published May 1, 8, 15, 22 2025. AMENDED IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: FRANCES MARIE PRESTON CASE NUMBER: 25CV01961 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: PETITIONER: FRANCES MARIE PRESTON 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: FRANCES MARIE PRESTON PROPOSED NAME: FRANCESCA MARIE PRESTON 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 28, 2025, 8:30 am, DEPT: SM 1, 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 APRIL 26, 2025, JUDGE Patricia L. Kelly of the Superior Court. Published May 1, 8, 15, 22 2025. IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: MACHET CASE NUMBER: 25CV02485 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: PETITIONER: MACHET 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: MACHET PROPOSED NAME: SUZANNE MACHET KLING 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
LEGALS (CONT.)
petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Notice of Hearing June 30, 2025, 10:00 am, DEPT: 5, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 1100 State 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 Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated 04/28/2025, JUDGE Colleen K. Sterne of the Superior Court. Published May 8, 15, 22, 29 2025.
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION
TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: ANTONIA HARDEN CASE NUMBER: 25CV02399
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
PETITIONER: ANTONIA HARDEN 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: ANTONIA HARDEN
AKA ANTONIA M. REYES
PROPOSED NAME: ANTONIA
MONIQUE REYES
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at
the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Notice of Hearing June 23, 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 04/28/2025, JUDGE Colleen K. Sterne of the Superior Court. Published May 8, 15, 22, 29 2025.
PUBLIC NOTICES
LEGAL NOTICE
SANTA YNEZ VALLEY UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET
The proposed 2025‑2026 budget for the Santa Ynez Valley Union High School District will be available for public inspection on the School District’s website at www.syvuhsd. org/budget/, on May 30, 2025 during regular working hours. The public hearing on said budget will be held on June 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM at 2975 Mission Dr., Solvang, CA 93463 in the Board room of the Santa Ynez Valley Union High School District. The budget adoption meeting will be held on June 17, 2025 at the same time and location as the public hearing listed above.
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. 010907‑SH Notice is hereby given that a bulk sale of assets and a transfer of alcoholic beverage license is about to be made.
The names, Social Security or Federal Tax Numbers, and address of the Seller/Licensee are: IV ENTERPRISE, INC., 6580 PARDALL ROAD, SUITE A, GOLETA, CA 93117
The business is known as: SIX‑PAK SHOP The names, Social Security or Federal Tax Numbers, and addresses of the Buyer/Transferee are: NAGRA INVESTMENTS, INC., 2217 CARRIZO, LOMPOC, CA 93436 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 the Buyer/Transferee are: NONE The assets to be sold are described in general as: LEASEHOLD INTEREST AND IMPROVEMENTS, FURNITURE, FIXTURES, AND EQUIPMENT, TRADE NAME, GOODWILL, COVENANT NOT TO COMPETE, AND ABC LICENSE and are located at: 6580 PARDALL ROAD, SUITE A, GOLETA, CA 93117 The kind of license to be transferred is: OFF‑SALE GENERAL
Now issued for the premises located at: 6580 PARDALL ROAD, SUITE A, GOLETA, CA 93117 The anticipated date of the sale/transfer is JUNE 16, 2025 at the office of: SUPREME ESCROW, INC., 3701 WILSHIRE BLVD., #535 LOS ANGELES, CA 90010
The amount of the purchase price or consideration in connection with the transfer of the license and business, is the sum of $ 299,000.00 plus estimated inventory of $ 40,000.00 , which consists of the following: Description/
Amount CASH $339,000.00 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 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.
Dated: APRIL 9, 2025 IV ENTERPRISE, INC., A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION NAGRA INVESTMENTS, INC., A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION
3734805‑PP SB INDEPENDENT
5/15/25
NOTICE OF SEIZURE pursuant to Health and Safety Code sections 11471/11488 and Notice of Intended Forfeiture pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 11488.4
On or about July 17, 2024, through July 19, 2024, Ventura County Sheriff’s Office officers seized property for forfeiture pursuant to Health and Safety Code section 11470 et seq. in connection with controlled a substance violation that is listed in section 11470(f) of the Health and Safety Code. The estimated/appraised value of the property is $69,337.12. The seized property is described as follows:
Property Location $701.00 U.S.
Currency Located in the left front pocket (person) of ERIK AGUILERA
$8,100.00 U.S. Currency
Located in a safe in the bedroom of ERIK AGUILERA at 102 La Vista Grande, Santa Barbara CA 93103
[“La Vista Grande Property”]
$51.00 U.S. Currency
Located on a shelf in the bedroom closet of ERIK AGUILERA at the La Vista Grande Property.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PLANNING COMMISSION
June 9, 2025, at 6:00 P.M.
Hybrid Public Hearing – In Person and via Zoom
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 a request for a General Plan Amendment (GPA) and Rezone (ORD) to change the Land Use Designation and Zoning of 6483, 6485, 6487, 6489 Calle Real known as APN 077-160-055 from Office and Institutional (I-OI) to Business Park (I-BP). The information regarding the date, time, and location of the public hearings are set forth below. The agendas for the hearings will be posted on the City website (www.cityofgoleta.org).
HEARING DATE/TIME: June 9, 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 6483, 6485, 6487, 6489 Calle Real (APN 077-160-055) and is located in the Inland area of the City. The General Plan land use designation and zoning of the property is currently Office and Institutional (I-OI). On October 30, 2024, Steve Fort of Suzanne Elledge Planning and Permitting Services (Agent), submitted a request for a GPA and Rezone on behalf of Los Carneros Investments, LP (property owner)
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The project is to change the subject property’s General Plan land use and zoning designations. The applicant requests a General Plan Amendment to change the General Plan/Coastal Land Use Plan (GP/CLUP) Land Use Element Figure 21, the Land Use Plan Map, from Office and Institutional (I-OI) to Business Park (I-BP). Also requested is an Ordinance Amendment to change the zoning designation from OI to BP, consistent with the proposed General Plan Amendment. No physical development is proposed and no modifications to the existing building is requested. The request is also to adopt a Notice of Exemption pursuant to 14 California Code of Regulations § 15090 as stated under the Environmental Review Finding heading. The Planning Commission’s action is advisory to the City Council and the City Council will be the City’s decision maker for the project.
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: The proposed project is 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 § 15061(b)(3) (No possibility of a significant effect) and 15060(c)(2) (No direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment).
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 the decision makers 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. Staff reports and documents will be posted approximately 72 hours before the hearings on the City’s website at www.cityofgoleta.org. Para consultas en espanol, comuniquese con Marco Martinez al (805) 9562-5500 or mmartinez@cityofgoleta.org
Note: If you challenge the nature of the above action in court, you may be limited to only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice or in written correspondence delivered to the City on or before the date of the hearing (Government Code Section 65009(b)(2)).
Note: In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need assistance to participate in the hearing, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (805) 961-7505 or cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the hearing will enable City staff to make reasonable arrangements. Publish Date: Santa Barbara Independent, May 15, 2025
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Zoning Administrator
Hybrid Public Hearing – In Person and via Zoom May 28, 2025, at 2:00 P.M. TIME EXTENSION AT 5877 HOLLISTER AVE (APN 071-112-003) WITH CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT NOTICE OF EXEMPTION; CASE NUMBER 25-0001-TEX
ATTENTION: The meeting will be held in person and via the Zoom platform. The public may also view the meeting online at https://cityofgoleta.org/goletameetings.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Zoning Administrator of the City of Goleta will conduct a public hearing on the merits to the Time Extension described in this notice. The agenda for the hearing will be posted on the Zoning Administrator page of the City website https://www.cityofgoleta.org/your-city/planning-and environmental-review/ zoning-administrator-hearings at least 72 hours before the hearing.
The date, time, and location of the Zoning Administrator hearing is: HEARING DATE/TIME: Wednesday, May 28, 2025, at 2:00 P.M.
LOCATION: Goleta City Hall – Council Chambers (in person and via Zoom)
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 DESCRIPTION and LOCATION:
The parcel is located in the Inland area of the City and has a C-OT, Old Town Commercial General Plan/Coastal Land Use Plan and Zoning designation.
The applicant requests a Time Extension (TEX) to an approved Modification known as Case No. 24-0001-MOD. The Modification was approved on August 27, 2024 by the Zoning Administrator and memorialized the existing development on-site including the existing site development modifications. The Modification approved a waiver for 4.5 parking spaces for Old Town Coffee.
The project was filed by agent, Patrick Housh of Paul Poirier + Associates Architects, on behalf of owner, Ali Mazloom.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW (NOE):
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.: State CEQA Guidelines), and the City’s Environmental Review Guidelines, the project has been found to be exempt from CEQA under Sections 15061(b)(3) of the CEQA Guidelines and a Notice of Exemption is proposed.
The City of Goleta is acting as the lead agency for this project. Section 15061(b) (3) is applicable as the time extension does not create any new impacts or change to the impacts previously identified in the CEQA Exemption when the Project was approved. Further, no significant physical changes have occurred on or around the project site during the past 6 months that would alter the original findings or change the effectiveness of the original CEQA exemption and/or conditions of approval.
CORTESE LIST: The Project site is not listed on the EnviroStor online database of hazardous site records maintained by the California Department of Toxic Substances Control TSC in coordination with the California State Water Resources Control Board consistent with Government Code § 65962.5 (the “Cortese list”).
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 Design Review Board 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 the DRB and published on the City’s Meeting and Agenda page.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION/ DOCUMENT AVAILABILITY: Additional information including the application and project file can be viewed by contacting Travis Lee, Associate Planner at 805-562-5528 or tlee@cityofgoleta.org. Para consultas en español, comuníquese con Marcos Martinez al (805) 562-5500 o 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.
REVIEW PROCESS: This project is subject to review by the City of Goleta Zoning Administrator with a ten-day appeal period following its decision. If no appeal of the Zoning Administrator’s decision is filed, the next steps issuance of the zoning clearance following condition compliance, and obtaining building permits after completion of building plan check of the plans.
APPEALS
The Zoning Administrator’s decision may be appealed by an applicant or an aggrieved party, pursuant to Goleta Municipal Code Section 17.52.120. Appeals must be filed, and associated fees must be paid, within 10 calendar days of the appealable decision.
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) 9617505 or cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the hearing will enable City staff to make reasonable arrangements.
Published in the Santa Barbara Independent on 5/15/25
LEGALS (CONT.)
OF ACTION DECLARATORY RELIEF
AGAINST ALL DEFENDANTS
50. Genesis hereby re‑alleges the allegations contained in the paragraphs above as though fully set forth herein. 51. An actual controversy exists between Genesis and Defendants relating to their legal rights and duties arising out of the Rental Agreement. A declaration of rights and duties as to the responsibilities of Genesis and Defendants is appropriate at this time to permit the Parties to ascertain their rights and duties with respect to the incident described above. No adequate remedy exists at law, by which the respective rights and responsibilities of Genesis and Defendants can be ascertained.
52. Accordingly, under to California Code of Civil Procedure § 1060, Genesis requests that the Court issue a judicial declaration as follows:
(a) Bigler is liable for the damage the Subject Vehicle incurred while in their possession; (b) Bigler and Farmers, as Bigler’s insurance carrier, are responsible for the actual costs to repair the damage the Subject Vehicle incurred while in Bigler’s possession; and (c) Bigler and Farmers, as Bigler’s insurance carrier, are liable to Genesis for its loss of use of the Subject Vehicle for the duration of time that Bigler and/or Farmers refused to pay for the actual costs to repair the Subject Vehicle. WHEREFORE, Genesis prays for Judgment against Defendants as follows:
1. For compensatory damages of at least $9,743.27, with the exact amount to be proven at trial;
2. For compensatory damages for Genesis’s loss of use of the Subject Vehicle of at least $14,212.00, with the exact amount to be proven at trial;
3. For a judicial declaration that Bigler is liable for the damage the Subject Vehicle incurred while in their possession under the Rental Agreement; 4. Bigler and Farmers, as Bigler’s insurance carrier, are responsible for the actual costs to repair the damage the Subject Vehicle incurred while in Bigler’s possession;
5. For a judicial declaration that Bigler and Farmers, as Bigler’s insurance carrier, are liable to Genesis for its loss of use of the Subject Vehicle for the duration of time that Bigler and/or Farmers refused to pay for the actual costs to repair the Subject Vehicle;
6. For general damages, according to proof;
7. For incidental and consequential damages, according to proof;
8. For reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs of suit, under Civil Code section 1717; 9. For pre‑judgement interest at the contractual or legal rate, whichever is greater, according to proof; and 10. For such other and further relief as the Court may deem just and proper.
DATED: January 3, 2025 KOLAR & ASSOCIATES, A LAW CORPORATION
By:
ELIZABETH L. KOLAR, ESQ.
TAMI S. CROSBY, ESQ.
Attorneys for Plaintiff, WESTLAKE COACH COMPANY, LLC dba GENESIS OF WESTLAKE
Published: May 15, 22, 29. June 5 2025.
SUMMONS
SUMMONS ‑ (FAMILY LAW) NOTICE TO RESPONDENT: GERARDO FLORES AVISO AL DEMANDANDO: PETITIONER’S NAME IS: LONNA PAGE FLORES NOMBRE DEL DEMANDANTE: CASE NUMBER: (NUMERO DEL CASO) 19FL00291
You have 30 calendar days after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL‑120) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter, phone call will not protect you. If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. For legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. Get help finding a lawyer at the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courts.ca.gov/ selfhelp), at the California Legal Services website (www.lawhelpca. org), or by contacting your local
county bar association.
NOTICE‑RESTRAINING ORDERS ARE ON PAGE 2: These restraining orders are effective against both spouses or domestic partners until the petition is dismissed, a judgment is entered, or the court makes further orders. These orders are enforceable anywhere in California by any law enforcement officer who has received or seen a copy of them.
FEE WAIVER: If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. The court may order you to pay back all or part of the fees and costs that the court waived for you or the other party. Tiene 30 dias calendario despues de haber recibido la entrega legal de esta Citación y Petición para presentar una Respuesta (formulario FL‑120) ante la corte y efectuar la entrega legal de una copia al demandante. Una carta o llamada telefónica o una audiencia de la corte no basta para protegerlo. Si no presenta su Respuesta a tiempo, la corte puede dar órdenes que afecten su matrimonio o pareja de hecho, sus bienes y la custodia de sus hijos. La corte también le puede ordenar que pague manutención, honorarios y costos legales. Para asesoramiento legal, póngase en contacto de inmediato con un abogado. Puede obtener información para encontrar un abogado en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en el sitio web de los Servicios Legales de California (www.lawhelpca.org) o poniéndose en contacto con el colegio de abogados de su condado. AVISO‑LAS ÓRDENES DE RESTRICCIÓN SE ENCUENTRAN EN LA PÁGINA 2: valen para ambos cónyuges o pareja de hecho hasta que se despida la petición, se emita un fallo o la corte de otras órdenes. Cualquier autoridad de la ley que haya recibido o visto una copia de estas órdenes puede hacerlas acabar en cualquier lugar de California. EXENCIÓN DE CUOTAS: Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario un formulario de exención de cuotas. La corte puede ordenar que usted pague, ya sea en parte o por completo, las cuotas y costos de la corte previamente exentos a petición de usted o de la otra parte.
1.The name and address of the court are (El nombre y direccion de la corte son): SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA Courthouse 1100 Anacapa Street , Santa Barbara, CA 93101. The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: Lonna Page Flores 3732 Brent Street santa Barbara, CA 93105; (805‑698‑3823) (El nombre, dirección y número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante si no tiene abogado, son): Dated February 11, 2019. Clerk, by (Secretario, por) Johnny Aviles, Deputy Clerk (Asistente) Published May 1, 8, 15, 22 2025.
SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): STEPHEN BIGLER, FARMERS INSURANCE, and DOES 1 through 25, inclusive YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): WESTLAKE COACH COMPANY, LLC dba GENESIS OF WESTLAKE NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.
You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff.
A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center(www.courtinfo.ca. gov/ selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do
not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Website (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. !ADVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su versión. Lea la información a continuación.
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): Stanley Mosk‑Los Angeles 111 N. Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
CASE NO: (Número del Caso): 25STCV00171
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): Tami S. Crosby, Esq. (SBN 129021); Kolar & Associates, 12241 Newport Ave., Santa Ana, CA, 92705; (714)544‑0041; DATE (Fecha): 01/03/2025. Clerk, by (Secretario) /s/ Y. Ayala, Deputy (Adjunto) Published: May 15, 22, 29. Jun 5 2025.
Calle Real Shopping Center Development Plan Amendment
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Planning and Environmental Review Director intends to consider the merits of the proposed Development Plan Amendment (DPAM) and take action.
DECISION DATE AND TIME: Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 5:00pm
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The applicant requests a Development Plan Amendment for various site and façade improvements to the existing buildings of the Calle Real Shopping Center. While the Shopping Center is spread over eight separate parcels, the owner has developed a comprehensive proposal which encompasses the entire area. Where changes are occurring adjacent to specific buildings, those changes are noted below. The changes that are happening across all the parcels do not reference a specific parcel/building. The project proposal includes the following elements:
1.Updates to building facades, architectural features, and roofs.
2. Adding a pedestrian connection to adjacent residential area to the north of the buildings located on the north side of Calle Real.
3. Removal of 22 parking spaces in order to add pedestrian oriented “green” space for socializing, dining, and passive recreation. These new green space areas will include trellises, seating, shade trees, etc. Further these green space areas include:
a. Construction of an approximately 1,000 square foot roofed, open sided structure for public gathering with an enclosed restroom area between Building A and B.
b. Demolition of 1,740 square feet in the southwestern corner of Building D (the former FedEx space to the east of Trader Joe’s) to create more parking spaces.
c. Addition of approximately 4,754 square feet of open sided trellised seating areas throughout the properties (near Buildings A, B, and D.
4. Changes to paving and sidewalk materials throughout the entire site.
5. Updates to landscaping throughout the entire site including the removal of 115 trees to be replaced with 109 trees such as olive, sycamore, and lemon species.
6. Plant selection is a mix of California native plants and Mediterranean and Australian plants adapted to the dry conditions of southern California which will minimize maintenance and water requirements.
7. All proposed exterior lighting is dark-sky compliant by being fully shielded/hooded and directing all light downward.
8. Addition of 8 parking spaces with the demolition of a portion of Building D.
9. Improvements to stormwater and drainage facilities throughout the entire site.
10. Adding agrarian themed murals on Buildings A, B, & C.
11. Adding bicycle parking, electric vehicle, and electric bicycle charging stations throughout the entire site.
LOCATION: The subject properties of 5660, 5701, 5690, 5767, 5820, 5748, 5652, 5697, 5677, 5687 Calle Real (APNs: 069-110-058, -059, -067, -070, -084, -085, -090, -093, -094, -095) consists of ten parcels. The parcel is zoned Community Commercial (CC) and the land use designation is Community Commercial (C-C).
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.: State CEQA Guidelines), and the City’s Environmental Review Guidelines, the project has been found to be exempt from CEQA under Section 15301 of the CEQA Guidelines and a Notice of Exemption is proposed.
The City of Goleta is acting as the Lead Agency for this project. The project has been found to be exempt from CEQA Guidelines per Sections 15301 (a) (Exterior Alterations) and because the project proposes to make exterior alterations on a developed site. There are no additional primary buildings proposed and the new structures are ancillary in nature (trellises, public restrooms, shade structure). Further, the other improvements are enhancements to the landscaping, pedestrian connectivity and stormwater facilities all of which are consistent with repair, maintenance or minor alterations with no change in the nature and use of the shopping center as identified in Section 15301(a).
NEXT STEPS: If the Director grants the applicant’s request, the next steps include: (1) a 10-day appeal period; (2) approval of an effectuating Zoning Clearance following (if no appeal if submitted); and (3) Building Permits as needed.
CORTESE LIST: The Project site is not listed on any hazardous waste facilities or disposal sites identified by Government Code § 65962.5 (the “Cortese list”).
DOCUMENT AVAILABILITY: The project plans are currently available at Goleta City Hall at 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, CA 93117. The staff report and related materials for the Director Decision will be available at least 72 hours prior to the action date of May 28, 2025.
PUBLIC COMMENT: A public hearing will not be held. Anyone interested in this matter is invited to submit written comments regarding the proposed Development Plan Amendment. All letters should be addressed to Planning and Environmental Review, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, CA 93117, attention: Travis Lee or email tlee@cityofgoleta.org. Letters must be received by the City Planning and Environmental Review Department at least 24 hours prior to 5:00 PM on the action date of May 27, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Additional information is on file at the Planning and Environmental Review Department, Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, CA 93117. For more information, contact Travis Lee, Associate Planner at 805-562-5528 or tlee@cityofgoleta.org
Note: If you challenge the City’s final action on this Project in court, you may be limited to only those issues you or someone else raised in written or oral testimony and/or evidence provided to the City on or before the date of the public hearing (Government Code Section 65009(b) [2]).
