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As our Best of Santa Barbara® voting rounds open this week, one of our advertising representatives, Ariana Hugo, is jumping back into the swing of things. This summer, she was able to sneak in a trip to British Columbia to see some family and explore the beautiful scenery. “There were so many highlights that it’s hard to choose just one! We went wake surfing, rafting, cliff jumping, hiking, ATVing, tubing, kneeboarding, and jet skiing in Sicamous and Kelowna. We also spent a day in Revelstoke riding the alpine coaster and alpine slide, explored downtown Kelowna, and went wine tasting. My favorite part, though, was getting to spend quality time with family and make memories together after so many years apart. It’s definitely been busy, but it’s exciting to experience my first full Best of Santa Barbara® cycle. I loved seeing how much the community gets involved and how meaningful the recognition is for local businesses,” Hugo said. Head to independent.com/about-theindy to read Ariana’s full interview and learn more about her adventures in sales and in Canada this summer.

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Rent Cap Moves Slowly Forward

Council Finalizes Details as Draft Ordinance Advances with Goal to Launch in 2027

by Ryan P. Cruz

It was another late night at City Hall as the Santa Barbara City Council worked out the specifics of the proposed rent stabilization ordinance, as the city moves closer to its goal of having the finalized ordinance ready to be put in place in 2027. Tuesday night’s meeting moved forward at a snail’s pace, as the City Council reviewed the hundreds of public comments submitted regarding the ordinance before going through a lengthy list of more than 120 individual policy considerations, giving a straw poll vote for each one.

This was just the latest in a string of highly contested hearings about rent stabilization, and while there has been consistent agreement from the council’s four-vote majority in support of the general structure of the program, it’s been a tougher task nailing down the minute details of exemptions, the petition process, and the proposed rent registry.

Barbara Andersen, senior assistant to the city administrator, made it clear early in the hearing that, although there has been significant community input and heated public discourse both in support and opposition, the city was no longer debating whether or not to institute rent stabilization. The goal now was to get councilmembers to give clear direction on how the program will work as city staff completes the written ordinance over the next few weeks.

“The community has been heard. We are not debating for or against rent stabilization,” Andersen said. “Community direction is clear; council direction is clear. This is moving forward, and now we are working to refine the ordinance to create a program that can hopefully meet expectations and objectives.”

FLOODED WITH FEEDBACK

During the official 30-day public review period, from June 10 through July 10, the city received 655 written public comments about the draft ordinance. On Tuesday night, more

than 40 members of the public gave comments to the City Council. But these were just a drop in the bucket in the entirety of public feedback over the past two years and more general public discourse about a citywide rent cap dating back even further.

The debate surrounding rent stabilization has added weight to each public hearing, with council chambers filled with passionate city residents, renters, landlords, tenants’ rights advocates, representatives from property ownership groups, and community leaders pleading for their concerns to be considered.

Throughout the process, property owners have opposed any form of increased rental regulations, with members of the Santa Barbara Rental Property Association alleging that the city’s rent stabilization program could be considered as unconstitutional taking of property. The landlord group filed a lawsuit challenging the temporary rent freeze and ordinance planning process, though the suit was dismissed by a judge two weeks ago (the group has one week to file an amended complaint).

Landlords consider the regulation too restrictive, arguing that any further limits on rent increases would not allow for a fair return on investment.

“This is not a reasonable rent regulation, in my opinion,” said property owner Michael Myers. “It transfers essential control of private property from the owner to the government.”

Tenants and housing advocates urged the City Council to approve the ordinance as quickly as possible to protect the city’s renters, suggesting a strong policy that would prevent the continued displacement of low- and middle-class workers.

Community organizer Frank Rodriguez said he’s seen the slow erasure of friends, family, and neighbors in Santa Barbara’s Westside neighborhood, where evictions and high market rents have priced out the traditionally bluecollar Latino community.

Rodriguez said city tenants have been pushing for rent stabilization for years, long before the city began earnestly planning for the ordinance in 2025. He recalls canvassing the Westside neighborhood in 2016 when residents were being evicted.

“That was over 10 years ago, and we know this conversation over rent stabilization has been going on for decades before that,” Rodriguez said. “Just a reminder that we’ve been needing these tenant protections to keep tenants housed because they’re leaving our community.”

Small-scale landlords asked for exemptions and considerations for those who offer below-market rents. Other property owners shared concerns about the proposed rent cap of 60 percent of Consumer Price Index (CPI) or 3 percent, saying that the rate would prevent them from being able to keep up with increased costs of maintenance, repairs, and insurance.

Other public commenters included city residents who have been forced to move due to untenable rate increases. One former resident, Miles Hagan, who had attended nearly every in-person hearing for the past year and a half, called in to the meeting over the phone after moving away just last week.

Hagan said he moved because “there was no viable future” as a working-class person in Santa Barbara, where he lived in multiple rentals, all with a common thread: a “deeply unbalanced relationship” between tenant and landlord.

“This is just the norm for your constituents, and that should embarrass you as elected officials,” Hagan said. “We clearly need more protections for tenants; we clearly need a lower rent cap; we clearly need a rent board that reflects the people it oversees. It’s been put off for far too long.”

TRUDGING THROUGH

The bulk of the July 28 City Council hearing was dedicated to diving deep into the “RSO Matrix,” a 41-page document with 127 specific policy considerations, staff recommendations, and proposed amendments to the rent stabilization ordinance based on the collected input from property owners and tenant groups.

Much of the big-picture items were already worked out such as the cap level and inclusion of a rent registry, rent boards, and petition process but the city’s staff and legal team were still seeking clarification on the details of each of these larger items.

This process was slow and laborious, and at times discussion devolved into disagreements over small but important details, such as the exemption of Section 8 units from the new regulations.

Councilmember Meagan Harmon who has been in support of rent stabilization throughout her term agreed with her colleagues on most of the individual considerations but suggested an additional exemption for all “deed-restricted” affordable units. Harmon said that since those units were already rent-restricted, additional regulations could lead to challenges with financing “capital ‘A’ affordable housing.”

“I don’t take this exemption lightly, but what I’m trying to balance here is the stabilization prong with the production prong,” Harmon said.

Councilmembers Wendy Santamaria, Kristen Sneddon, and Oscar Gutierrez were in favor of no exemptions beyond those included in state law. Following input from the city attorney’s office, Santamaria and Sneddon said they were willing to explicitly exempt “government-owned” property, to allow for Housing Authority units to be unconstricted by additional regulation.

City staff will work with both the Housing Authority and housing experts to ensure the language of the ordinance addresses the concerns raised over exemptions. City staff will come back with a report on Section 8 vouchers, but Councilmember Santamaria made it clear she would not support exempting private property owners who accept vouchers.

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The Santa Barbara City Council discussed the details of a proposed rent stabilization ordinance on July 28.

Masks Off in Carpinteria Weed Heists

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At about 2 a.m. on January 17, police responded to reports of a burglarized cannabis farm on the 4000 block of Foothill Road. By the time authorities arrived, all suspects had already fled the scene.

miah Exzavis Wilson, 23, and Isaiah Jovan Lee Piggue, 22, of Lancaster; Jerry Angel Meneses Lopez, 26, of Santa Monica; Justin Lawrence Smith, 26, of Gardena; Kyre Albert Amari Richard, 21, of Palmdale; London Malik Rogers, 25, of Hawthorne; and Larry Eudell Lockridge III, 34, and Norman Jay Williams, 37, of L.A. in association with the January 17 raid.

On February 4, just before 3 a.m., S.B. County Sheriff’s deputies arrived on the scene of a burglary in progress which eventually led to three fleeing vehicles, two car crashes, one tasering, and a shelter-in-place order.

SCounty Sheriff’s Detectives have released the names of 16 adult suspects along with the ages and hometowns of two minors who allegedly stole 2,000 pounds of cannabis valued at more than $500,000 from a cannabis farm on Foothill Road in Carpinteria.

Two heists in January and February, just two and half weeks apart, led to a five-month investigation to determine the identities of 19 suspects, one of whom was murdered on February 16. Santa Barbara County has issued warrants with

On February 18, Dvaryae Deshawn Bryant, 22, was arrested in his Los Angeles home as a suspect in the January heist by the Los Angeles Police Department, who were already investigating Bryant for a different crime. LAPD found a shortbarrel assault rifle at the residence and a subsequent search warrant surfaced 15 pounds of processed cannabis product, more weapons, and thousands of dollars in cash.

Following court appearances in Los Angeles, Bryant will be extradited to Santa Barbara County on a no-bail felony warrant for burglary, conspiracy, grand theft, and a gang enhancement, according to police reports.

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Zoo Mourns Loss of Red Panda Cubs

The Santa Barbara Zoo is mourning the loss of its second newborn red panda this week. Both twin cubs, born to Ruby and Raj on July 2, have now died. The first cub died on July 21, and its sibling soon followed on July 27.

Both cubs’ causes of death are still unknown, but the zoo emphasized the species is extremely delicate in its first year of life, facing a mortality rate as high as 40 percent. Still, zoo staff remained “cautiously opti-

mistic” that the cubs, being the first born at the zoo in more than 30 years, would make it. At first, the pair nursed well and appeared healthy. But that changed when staff removed one cub from Ruby’s care after observing inadequate nursing on July 19. A few days later, its sibling died in its nesting box.

The surviving cub, a male, was being handraised in a temperaturecontrolled incubator, outfitted with blankets and stuffies. He received around-the-clock care from the zoo’s veterinary and nursing staff, including regular bottle feedings, antibiotics, and continued monitoring, said the zoo’s spokesperson, Andrea Gruber.

The cub was in critical condition last week, but he showed promising signs: taking formula from the bottle, and even opening his eyes. However, on Saturday, staff observed changes in his breathing patterns, and he seemed “increasingly fatigued

Two 17-year-old males from Lynwood and South Gate along with Abraham Bustos, 21, of Lynwood were arrested after the February 4 heist when the BMW SUV they were in flipped over after fleeing the scene. Bustos was booked at the S.B. County jail on burglary, conspiracy, grand theft, felon in possession of a firearm, carrying a loaded handgun, and child endangerment charges. As of February 6, he was released from custody on $100,000 bail. The two minors have been referred to S.B. County Juvenile Court.

The Sheriff’s Office has issued warrants for the February 4 raid suspects, including Angel Alexis Rivera, 19, from Lynwood; Jathan Douglas Matthews, 18, and Katherine Chantal Lopez, 30, of Los Angeles; Justin Edward Castillo, 26, of Cudahy; Kevin Lamar Hardy, 21, of Bellflower; and Vincent Joshua Rioz, 22, of Santa Fe Springs.

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following feedings.” His condition rapidly declined over the next 24 hours.

“The cub received the highest level of veterinary and nursing care, with every effort made to give him the best possible chance of survival,” including working closely with experts from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ Red Panda Species Survival Plan, said Gruber.

The necropsy of the cub revealed a significant amount of fluid surrounding the heart and some congestion of the lungs, Gruber explained. Additional testing is underway to help determine what contributed to each cub’s death.

Losing two cubs, especially critically endangered red pandas, is “incredibly sad and disappointing,” Gruber said. “While neonatal mortality can be high in red pandas, the loss of both cubs has been heartbreaking for everyone involved in their care.”

Gruber did note some encouraging signs despite the losses. Ruby experienced a healthy pregnancy and delivery, demonstrated attentive maternal behaviors, and gained valuable experience as a first-time mother. “These are all important milestones that can contribute to future reproductive success,” she said.

PUBLIC SAFETY

A small SUV crashed into Toy Crazy, a children’s toy store at the Montecito Country Mart on Coast Village Road, on 7/27, damaging part of the interior, the exterior facade, and a structural support pillar near the entrance. Only minor injuries were reported, and no one inside the store was struck. Santa Barbara police and fire departments responded to the single-vehicle collision at approximately 11:57 a.m. Bob Kendall, captain of Santa Barbara City Fire Truck 71, said that the man driving the vehicle wasn’t hospitalized and did not appear to have any serious injuries. A temporary support post was installed until a permanent one could be built, he said. At this time, investigators don’t believe alcohol or drugs were involved, but the cause of the collision remains under investigation.

POLITICS

Indivisible Santa Barbara, 805 UndocuFund, and 805 Rapid Response Network organized a gathering 7/25 to call for justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Johan “Joan” Sebastian Guerrero, who were both killed by federal immigration agents earlier this month. Part of a national day of action, the rally of about 100 attendees was held on the sidewalk adjacent to State Street and Hitchcock Way, the site of ongoing protests against the Trump administration. Carpinteria Indivisible was simultaneously holding a vigil on the corner of Linden and Carpinteria avenues, known by many locals as the “peace corner.”

HOUSING

S.B. County homeowners can now apply to participate in a California-funded research project that offers the chance to improve their home while earning $500 if they’re selected for the study. The 3C-BEACH project is designed to understand how small home improvements can impact comfort, air quality, and energy efficiency across the Central Coast. To qualify, homeowners must own and occupy a single-family home in S.B., Ventura, or San Luis Obispo counties; have access to the previous 12 months of household utility bills; plan to remain in the home for at least two years; and have no major renovations planned. Homeowners can learn more and apply at sustain.venturacounty.gov/3cbeach/.

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Ruby herself is doing well, and has been reunited with Raj, her breeding partner, in their habitat.

The Santa Barbara Zoo's second red panda cub passed away this week, the zoo announced on Monday.

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Surveillance footage of the suspects in the January 17 burglary at a cannabis farm on Foothill Road in Carpinteria

‘Bailout for Polluters’

Rep. Carbajal Decries Defense Budget Bill Amendment Allowing Feds to Seize State Land for Sable’s Oil Operations

by Nick Welsh

In perhaps the most unprecedented measure on behalf of a single oil company ever, the House voted narrowly on Wednesday to approve this year’s $1.15 trillion National Defense Authorization Act into which an amendment was tucked giving the Department of War absolute approval authority over Sable Offshore’s bitterly contested oil pipeline rights in Santa Barbara and Kern counties.

The amendment, authored by Republican Congressmember Wesley Hunt from Houston, specifically calls out Sable by name and lists all the legally contested pressure points at which various state agencies have sought to limit, condition, or deny Sable’s applications to move forward. The bill authorizes the Secretary of the Department of War to condemn any state property that Sable needs to transport its oil from three offshore oil platforms off the coast of Santa Barbara through pipelines that have been the subject of intense controversy over corrosion control safety protections and to commercial refineries that can process that oil. The bill, as written, declares that Sable’s unfettered production and transportation rights a matter of national security.

Congressmember Carbajal, who has consistently opposed Sable Offshore, argued against the Hunt amendment in Congress.

Sable has noted that California’s refinery capacity has dropped to new lows in recent years due, in part, to loss of production throughout. Without adequate production levels in California, the Houston-based company has argued, more refineries will close and military bases along the state’s coast will experience fuel shortages, which in turn will compromise the nation’s national security.

The amendment language would make such authorization irrevocable and irreversible no matter how various state and federal courts, now deliberating over various legal controversies surrounding Sable’s production plans and jurisdictional supremacy, might rule.

This change known as the Hunt amendment in honor of its author is not final, stated Eduardo Carrizosa, Santa Barbara Congressmember Salud Carbajal’s press spokesperson. The Senate has yet to vote on the defense authorization bill, which passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 216 to 212 on Wednesday. Senate Democrats have been able to stall the bill thus far, and Republican Senators have expressed their own reservations about the funding bill, especially in light of new revelations how much the war with Iran is costing, its impact on the economy, and how much longer that war might go. The Hunt amendment, it should be noted, won by just one vote 215 to 214 in a separate vote on Tuesday night.

“We know that the military does not need this provision to ensure a stable supply. We are already the largest oil producer in the world, producing nearly 14 million barrels a day. So, let’s be clear. This is not about energy independence or national security. It’s about giving Big Oil special treatment at the expense of California,” he argued.

Carbajal noted that Congressmember Hunt represents the district in which Sable Offshore is headquartered. Carbajal likewise noted that he himself represents the district in which the 2015 oil spill occurred due to badly corroded oil pipelines.

“Let me be clear again,” he stated. “This isn’t about national security. It is a bailout for polluters.”

This may be the most dramatic intervention by the Trump administration on Sable’s behalf, but it is not the first. Late last year, the federal agency responsible for pipeline safety asserted it now wielded the jurisdictional authority needed to approve that the pipeline repairs Sable had made were up to snuff. It also ruled that the safety objections made by the Office of the State Fire Marshal were excessive and that the regulations cited by the state were no longer grounded in the new technological realities of pipeline corrosion control. The Department of Justice authorized the Trump administration to invoke the Defense Production Act, a 1950 bill that authorizes the White House to order businesses to take certain steps in the name of national security. In accordance with that finding, Trump’s Secretary of the Interior ordered Sable at Sable’s request to commence production this March, which it did. n

Congressmember Salud Carbajal, who has consistently opposed Sable Offshore, argued against the amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act in Congress.

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Cars as Homes on Rise

Number of People Living in Vehicles Has Increased by Nearly 50 Percent

by Nick Welsh

According to the County of Santa Barbara’s most recent Point-in-Time count a rough census of unhoused people the number of people now living in their vehicles has increased by 48 percent, jumping from 675 to 962 countywide over the past two years. By sharp contrast, the overall number of homeless people tabulated by the same count was up by 25 percent.

The Point-in-Time counts being notoriously imprecise, county executives responsible for managing the intractable homelessness crisis contracted with UCSB and Simtech Solutions, a private consulting firm specializing in harnessing technology to track who exactly is homeless and how they can best be reached. The focus was on people living in vehicles who had not sought out county services. Specifically excluded from this study were individuals who had reached out for such services.

Only 90 of the more than 900 people living in their vehicles identified in the most recent Point-in-Time were surveyed. The survey is identified as qualitative not quantitative in nature, meaning its findings are more illustrative than definitive.

respondents, 51 percent reported losing their job, 34 cited rent increases, non-renewal of lease, or inability to make mortgage payments. Another 23 percent reported divorce, domestic violence, a family death, or family conflict. Nearly 9 percent reported medical disabilities or experiences with the criminal justice system.

Especially striking, 34 percent said getting housed back inside and out of their vehicle was of utmost priority, while 20 percent said they were equally adamant about remaining in their vehicles, citing the autonomy, flexibility, and cost savings involved. They also cited their “dissatisfaction with existing shelter models.”

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What they found did not conform to many popular notions of who is living outside the traditional confines of four walls and a roof. For example, more than half of the 90 people interviewed 55.4 percent reported working jobs that brought in, on average, $2,358 a month. Mostly, they worked jobs in the service, retail, hospitality, and domestic service industries. Twenty percent relied on government assistance grants, on average $1,225 a month. The surveyors found that those working private-sector jobs tended to be younger and middle-aged; those relying on government grants tended to be older. Those 45 and older constituted 55 percent of the population surveyed.

Sixty-one percent lived in cars or vans, 28 percent in RVs, and 7 percent in trucks. Most were men living alone in their vehicle. Minor children were present only in 19 percent, but pets in 57 percent. The vast majority reported their vehicles were both mechanically drivable and legally registered and insured. But one-third reported feeling at peril of not being able to cover insurance costs. Of all vehicle type, RVs exhibited the lowest rate of insurance and registration 60 and 62 percent, respectively.

Even more striking to those conducting the survey was how evenly split 50-50 respondents reported in engaging with the county’s array of services available to people living outside traditional housing. Fifty percent said they did not want to be contacted by outreach workers.

“Jurisdictions must recognize that standard homeless response messaging, which framed vehicular living as an acute crisis requiring immediate shelter placement, will alienate the 27.3 percent who view their vehicle as a viable, autonomous housing choice,” the report concluded.

Instead of the traditional pitch by outreach workers, the report recommended local governments provide “safe legal parking options with basic utility hooks-ups (power, water, sanitation) for individuals who choose to remain in their vehicle longterm or who work non-traditional hours.” The report authors noted, such an approach would require significant legal, serviceprovider, and governmental cooperation “to prevent perceptions of legal residency rights.”

The report also recommended local governments draft ordinances allowing private property owners to open up ag or commercially zoned sites for RV vans villages for workers employed at local businesses.

The survey did not explore such issues as substance abuse or mental health challenges; fully two-thirds reported they had transitioned directly and abruptly from being housed either rental or home ownership to their vehicles. Two-thirds lived in Santa Barbara County before moving into their vehicles, “confirming,” according to the report, “that this unengaged population consists primarily of long-term local residents.”

On average, the respondents reported being in their vehicles 4.6 years. Of the

For vehicular residents more open to engagement, the report urged local governments to provide time-limited subsidies for first and last month’s rents plus security deposits. For seniors and medically disabled residents, the report suggested local governments bridge the gap between the $1,225 in governed funds and market rents. Lastly, the report urged local governments to fund subsidies for mechanical repairs, insurance, and registration. n

A four-wheeled home owner enjoys relief from the noonday sun under a canopy of downtown trees.

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Camp Canine Drowning Draws Protest

On the morning of July 22, approximately 50 people gathered outside Santa Barbara’s Camp Canine on East Montecito Street to demand “justice for Bruce,” the one-year-old English bulldog that was entrusted with the center for dog day care and drowned in a pool on site the week prior.

The death has prompted a police investigation, a temporary suspension of the facility’s daycare services, and community outcry, grabbing national headlines. Following Bruce’s death, Camp Canine General Manager Jayne Sigman issued a statement on social media, apologizing to the Bruce’s owners and admitting the facility had failed them. Sigman has since retained an attorney and declined requests for further comment.

Wednesday’s protest against Camp Canine was organized by Julia Di Sieno with Animal Rescue Team Inc. based in Santa Ynez. Attendees included Bruce’s owner, Ashley Merz; children holding stuffed dogs in Bruce’s honor; local dog trainers and animal advocates; and other concerned community members. Merz arrived early, dressed in black and visibly distraught as she was embraced by family members and supporters. Her mother, Alison Genet, addressed members of the media on her behalf with a prepared statement.

“Thank you to everyone for the kind

ENVIRONMENT

words and for caring about our Bruce and the care of all dogs in general,” Genet read. “Sup port is keeping eyeballs on the situation and is helping make sure this doesn’t just go away. Bruce’s story is worldwide, and that speaks volumes. People care about their pets, and they aren’t just property.

It is a well-documented phenomenon: If a forest is cut down, birds nesting in its canopies may die, or if a coral reef degrades, fish populations dwindle. Without shelter, vulnerable wildlife suffers.

On July 10, the Department of the Interior (DOI) announced it rescinded the regulatory definition of “harm” within the Endangered Species Act (ESA), which established habitat destruction or modification as a type of harm to endangered species.

Organisms rely on their habitats, and evidence supports that when habitat is harmed, it harms the species that live there, explained Maggie Hall, deputy chief counsel at the Environmental Defense Center.

Hall said many a species could be impacted by the decision, if its health is connected to its habitat. Hall pointed to steelhead trout, which can be affected by the obstruction of waterflow via the creation of dams, or California condors, which rely on the shelter of trees within local forests.

In Santa Barbara County, steelhead trout have been pushed to the edge of extinction by human-related stressors, such as dams and diversions which impede or block the migration of fish upstream to their historic spawning and rearing areas, flood control structures that degrade habitats, and agriculture and urban run-off that degrade water quality in streams and estuaries. Although steelhead have become the focus of local recovery efforts, such as the Southern California Steelhead Recovery Plan, the recent ESA reform could make it more challenging

Among those attending the protest were Natalia Baker and Mads Cantu, owners of Dog Gym, who said they came to honor Bruce and advocate for higher standards of pet care. Addressing the crowd, Baker called for systemic change rather than viewing Bruce’s death as an isolated incident.

“We’re [dogs’] guardians; we’re their voice,” Baker said. “This is part of being their voice. Bruce is one of many.”

—IngridBostrom

ESA Definition of ‘Harm’ Rescinded

to argue for their protection against human encroachment.

Environmental defense attorneys can still make those arguments, but they will need to take a novel approach, using different language and restructured arguments, without definitive language to point to within the ESA, Hall explained.

No new rule was passed, but rather, the Trump administration took an existing rule off the books. The DOI explained the decision as reversing “federal overreach.” The department described the prior definition of “harm” as “an unlawful regulatory intrusion that interfered with private property rights.”

The final rule will reduce “unnecessary permitting,” “compliance costs,” and “eliminate confusion” for landowners, energy producers, farmers, and ranchers, the DOI said in its announcement.

However, the ESA’s core protections will remain in place. “Actions that directly injure or kill listed wildlife will continue to be prohibited,” the announcement said. “Existing permits and incidental take statements remain valid and unchanged.”

The Center for Biological Diversity and a host of other conservation organizations are suing the Trump administration to fight the decision, arguing, “The move is illegal, in part because harming species through habitat destruction is prohibited by the law’s statutory language,” the center said in a press release.

“The definition repealed by the administration had been on the books for 50 years.”

—CallieFausey

FEATURING TROY FERNANDEZ & HIS HULA GIRLS

Complimentary lei for all lady passengers

Appetizers & authentic Hawaiian entertainment

No-host bar, fun dress-up encouraged!

Bruce’s owner, Ashley Merz, was among the attendees at last Wednesday’s protest in front of Camp Canine.

Two Years Before the Mastiff

I SING THE BICYCLE ELECTRIC: A few years back, a city motorcycle cop popped me with a $500 ticket for running a stop sign on my bicycle at not quite seven in the morning. In my own neighborhood, no less. Not a single other vehicle was on the road. I saved my breath. He had one of those cop faces.

Early the next morning, I came to the same intersection. It was still crickets and tumbleweeds. I ran the stop sign. Lightning couldn’t strike twice in two days. It did. The same cop pulled me over. Again. This time, he let me go with one of those baleful, reproachful looks he reserved for people too stupid for words. It wasn’t so much an act of compassion; it was contempt

I mention this to note that city cops and their comrades in the Sheriff’s office have been going after scofflaw bike riders in the past couple of weeks. The real target, I’m pretty sure, are the e-bike riders that have gotten the South Coast’s collective underpants into an intractable knot.

As a repeat recidivist myself, I say it’s about time. Long overdue.

I say this also as a loud and shameless shill for the e-bike. I celebrate the machine as nothing less than the missing link when it comes to getting people out of their cars. When I see kids riding down the Valerio Street hill, I don’t cringe in anticipation of the roadkill they are about to become; I celebrate the fearless display of joy and fun they are

having. Maybe, I think, there’s hope.

I was not surprised to be greeted with an email this Monday morning bearing the slug line, “BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS.”

Enclosed was a link to a study examining 62,000 bicycle and e-bike collisions across the country over the past seven years and concluding kind of the obvious: 14-yearolds are freaking idiots. It’s part of their genetic wiring.

Other media outlets are missing the point. They’re focusing instead on “the surge” in accidents involving e-bikes and the disproportionate spike in severity compared to non-electrified bike riders, who, by the way, account for fully 58,000 of these collisions

You don’t need to be Einstein to understand that speed combined with mass equals greater impact and more broken bones. And undeniably, the number of broken bones is piling up. I would point out in knee-jerk rebuttal that if you take 14-year-olds out of the equation, the findings of this study are dramatically less drastic.

Here’s the real take-away. Always wear bike helmets. Always have your kids wear them too. Yes, they look dorky, but so too does brain damage. Drooling is never sexy. Parents, don’t buy your kids crotch rockets that go 50 miles an hour. Your kid is 14; what’s your excuse?

It’s the height of stupidity to tell other people how they should feel about anything. I,

however, have never stopped trying. I figure, sooner or later, I’ll get it right.

Here goes. For the past couple of years, Santa Barbara has been held captive by a cabal of angry old coots who are addicted to being in the state of perpetual apoplexy. They call this disorder apoplexy nervosa for which, sadly, not even Jerry Lewis has found a cure. They have endlessly hijacked public meetings about the future of State Street, using these public forums as the megaphone through which to rail endlessly about the scourge and menace of e-bikes. (And yes, God will strike me dead with an e-bike.)

When there are no public hearings to hijack, they commandeer what otherwise seemed like it was going to be a perfectly pleasant dinner conversation. Perhaps if these people and they are everywhere got out and played more golf (perhaps at the Muni Golf Course before it gets converted to affordable housing), they would be more suffused in a spirit of equanimity.

If you need to be apoplectic about something, why not light your hair on fire about the “surge” in pedestrian deaths because Detroit insists on building bigger and higher trucks and SUVs and we as premeditatedly stupid accomplices in our own undoing happily and stupidly buy these trucks and SUVs.

Since 2009, we’ve seen hood heights “surge” from 30 inches to 40 to 50. This reduces drivers’ sightlines. Pedestrians go

unseen. Whammo. With the lower hood heights of yore, their knees might have taken the brunt of the blow. But today, it’s their internal organs. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, the United States averages 7,080 pedestrian deaths a year. Of those, the institute estimates 700 are due to the higher hood heights. By contrast, the Consumer Product Safety Commission reports there are 30-to-45 e-bike deaths a year

The New York Times says pedestrian fatalities have “surged” I use this word because it appears to be the verb of choice in all news articles on the subjects at hand by 75 percent since 2009. These bigger, heavier vehicular skyscrapers cost about two times the price of a “sedan.” For Detroit, these mutant trucks are where the money is. For consumers, these vehicles allow you to feel safer and more macho at the same time. Little wonder that sedan sales have tanked. In 2017, Ford sold a million of them; five years later, it was 100,000

Where are all the outrage junkies when you need them? Where is all the apoplexy about Big Auto killing granny in the crosswalk in order to make a few more bucks selling gas guzzlers that will kill all the polar bears? I’ll tell you where. Out shaking their stupid fists at 14-year-old nitwits on crotch rockets their parents should never have bought them. The blood is on my hands? Do the math yourself. Forty-five deaths or 700?

In the meantime, I’m working very, very hard to stop at signs. What do you think I am? Stupid?

—Nick Welsh

Camino Dolores Huerta

The case to rename Calle Cesar Chaves to Camino Dolores Huerta starts with recognizing one of the most consequential labor leaders in American history. As co-founder of the United Farm Workers (UFW), Dolores Huerta was a principal strategist who negotiated real gains for farmworkers across California’s agricultural backbone, including Santa Barbara.

Unfortunately, women farmworkers face sexual harassment, coercion, and economic vulnerability meeting the definition of labor exploitation and human trafficking. Dolores Huerta has publicly supported UFW women who came forward with allegations of sexual harm from Chavez, using her voice to amplify the survivors, insisting that dignity in the workplace must include safety, autonomy, and freedom from sexual violence.

Women in social movements are vastly underrepresented in the naming of streets and public spaces. Although Dolores Huerta cofounded the UFW, Chavez is the only one honored with a Santa Barbara street name.

Some suggest that if questions arise about a historical figure, the solution is to stop naming streets after people. Refusing to make public commemorations does not produce neutrality; it produces silence. And silence is itself a choice.

Logistically, renaming a street requires updates for residents and businesses, which although burdensome, are manageable burdens.

Because “Huerta” translates to “orchard” and “Dolores” means “pain,” it’d be nice to enhance Camino Dolores Huerta with an orchard of hope for all those silenced throughout the years.

—Teri Jory, S.B.

S.B. Dogs

The death of Bruce at Camp Canine is an unspeakable tragedy on every level. Everybody agrees with that. We can’t go back in time and undo what happened, but we can look to the future and accept the realities of the situation as it stands now.

The fact is that Camp Canine has been around for more than four decades serving more than 700,000 dog families. It fills a vital role in our community. To have it go away would be a hardship for many families that depend on it.

Let’s agree to move away from the hate

mongering and forward together in order to develop a solution that best serves our dog community.

—Gretchen Lieff, Montecito

Beatle Juice

If you’ve been following the “Create State” committee’s greatest hits, you know the draft Master Plan has finally dropped. Its 300 pages cost us a million dollars in “consultant” fees our very own Magical Mystery Tour through the pockets of Santa Barbara taxpayers.

The city isn’t just asking us to imagine a new downtown. They’re asking us to Carry That Weight specifically a potential $60 million price tag for a project that turns our historic “civic spine” into a one-mile-long bike path.

The city’s renderings are a classic case of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds lots of sparkles, but not grounded in reality. The solution proposed by realists like Kevin Boss and Jim Knell is so simple it’s radical: Let It Be, restore the original street layout.

By blocking State at Haley, we’ve essentially built a wall and told every visitor coming up the street to Get Back to where you once belonged, sending them on The Long and Winding (Side) Road. We’re telling tourists Hello, Goodbye before they even see a storefront.

Then there’s the engineering. The plan calls for “rolled curbs” to create a seamless flow, but those curbs are currently our storm drains. Flattening the street without a massive (and unbudgeted) subterranean drainage system means the first winter storm will turn State Street into the Octopus’s Garden. We pride ourselves on history, yet we’re designing a street too narrow for the Fiesta Horse Parade. We’re essentially telling the horses, Yesterday, all your troubles seemed so far away, but today you don’t fit on the street.

The Master Plan is just The Fool on the Hill, watching the sun go down on downtown retail and calling it “progress.” The Beatles had the right philosophy for this one. Between “Let It Be” and “The Long and Winding (Side) Road,” we’ve lost the melody.

—Mark Lomas, S.B.

SELLS OUT

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Renaming the Calle

An Alternate Candidate for Calle Cesar Chavez — Larry Itliong

BY BING ARADANAS

With all due respect to legendary activist Dolores Huerta, I would like to suggest an alternate candidate for renaming Calle Cesar Chavez after Larry Itliong, a Filipino American. For decades, Filipinos’ contribution to the creation of the famous United Farm Workers movement in Delano, CA, in 1965 has been either diminished or overlooked completely. This is ironic in light of the fact that it was the Filipino farmworkers there under the leadership of Larry Itliong who initiated and organized that historic strike that summer, later reluctantly joined by the Mexican farmworkers under the leadership of Cesar Chavez, not the other way around.

Acknowledging Itliong’s place in U.S. and California history by renaming Calle Cesar Chavez after him would be a step in the right direction in recognizing Filipinos’ long-overlooked legacy of contributions to our state and country, such as the following:

• The first Asians to create settlements in what is now the United States were Filipinos in Louisiana, as early as 1803 (possibly as early as 1763, 13 years before 1776).

• One of the 11 founding fathers in 1781 of what is now Los Angeles (the largest city in California by population and size) was a Filipino: Antonio Miranda Rodriguez, who is buried right in downtown Santa Barbara.

• The first Asians to fight in a war for the United States were Filipinos in the War of 1812 against England.

• The only non-White woman out of 11 women awarded the Silver Star for bravery by the U.S. Army was a Filipina: Magdalena Leones.

• Filipinos were among the college student organizers who shut down the campuses of San Francisco State and UC Berkeley for months in 1968-1969 in order to create a revolutionary new academic discipline: Ethnic Studies.

• The labor organizers who were responsible for the momentum that led to the all-too-forgotten Civil Rights Act of 1991 benefitting all American workers of color were Filipinos: Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes.

In terms of popular culture, here are some little-known factoids which today’s Filipino Americans especially on the younger side can take pride in: The first commercially successful American all-female hard rock band whose fans included all four Beatles was founded by Filipinas: Fanny, in 1969. The first and only Asian honored as Most Valuable Player in the NFL was a Filipino: Roman Gabriel, quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams, in 1969. And one of the most indispensable contributors to the modern civilian Internet is a Filipino: Silicon Valley billionaire Diosdado Banatao.

Historically, there are notable Filipinos connected to the County or City of Santa Barbara: Essential reading in every intro college-level course in Filipino-American history is America Is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan. He was of a cohort of Philippine natives who had American nationality imposed upon them from 1900 to 1934; children of this era were required to attend English-only schools, where they received an Americanized education including assimilation of American cultural norms. With unsparing detail, Bulosan’s book describes the harsh realities faced by the first major wave of Philippine migrants to the West Coast, 1924-1934. His biographer, PC Morantte, wrote that Bulosan was initially inspired to write his influential book after experiencing intense, violent anti-Filipino racism in 1931 in the City of Lompoc.

In a happier light, in Santa Barbara in 19281932, Philippine native Pedro Flores escaped the fate of the vast majority of his struggling compatriots. From his Granada Building business on State Street, he is credited with pioneering the yo-yo as a toy. He made it so profitable that his company was eventually bought by Duncan Toys, which in turn hired Flores to popularize the newly branded Duncan Yo-Yo throughout America.

On top of all this, it was the Philippines’ involuntary incorporation into U.S. polity via the brutal, racist, and all-too-forgotten Philippine–American War (1899-1913) that first made the United States a world-class power, on par with the all-powerful Western imperial nations of the time: England, France, and Holland.

As a student at Lompoc High School, the only mention of my Philippine ancestors in all four years was of anti-American villains; we learned of a so-called “Philippine Insurrection” in U.S. History when I was a junior in 1978. Ashamed, I didn’t want my classmates to know I am Filipino. I wouldn’t learn the truth about these brave democracy-loving patriots inspired by the ideals of the American Revolution until two decades later. That led to a passionate search to uncover other overlooked aspects of my Filipino heritage in U.S. history, such as Filipinos’ long-overlooked key role in the historic United Farm Workers movement. I hope enough Santa Barbarans will agree with me that acknowledging Larry Itliong’s place in U.S. and California history by renaming Calle Cesar Chavez after him would be an appropriate choice.

A mural in Lompoc of Filipino Americans features Larry Itliong.

Saving Sandy’s Coast

BY LORISSA RINEHART

I’ll never forget the first time I turned on the green of a wave. All summer, my step-father, Sandy Lejeune, had been pushing me into the white water of El Capitan’s beach break, cheering wildly when I managed to stand up. Having finally learned to paddle in, I prepared to battle with the rough surf again one hot August afternoon.

Then, Sandy came bounding around the point, on the other side of which lay his favorite break, a rock-reef right that spins unbroken lines of swell into El Cap’s perfectly arced cove.

“There’s swell!” he said, astounded that El Cap was breaking in the summer.

Out in the lineup, Sandy spotted a little set on the horizon.

“Go, go, go!” he exhorted as I paddled with all my might.

The wave caught me. I scrambled to my feet and leaned slightly forward. The board turned. It was the feeling of being held and propelled at the same time, of being at the mercy of and in complete synchronicity with the ocean. I can still see the clear emerald water, the kelp swaying in the curl of the wave, and the fish dart ing beneath my board. I can still smell the scent of oak and sage mingling in the offshore breeze as I finish my ride.

After that, I spent my teenage life chasing surf from Hammond’s to Hollister Ranch, searching for that initial thrill, and finding it, again and again. But while scanning the horizon for sets, I often found myself distracted by the offshore oil rigs that always seemed out of place on our coast.

Sandy, the former chair of Surfrider Santa Barbara, had no shortage of choice words for these environmentally hazardous eyesores.

It was from him that I learned that in 1969, these very rigs spewed three million gallons of crude oil into our coastal waters, damaging Santa Barbara’s unique ecosystem for decades. But it was also from Sandy that I learned that Santa Barbarans mobilized en masse against the spill, galvanizing the movement that founded Earth Day.

It was even more devastating in 2015, when a pipeline ruptured near Refugio State Beach, leaching nearly half a million gallons of crude oil into the ocean. With Santa Barbara Surfrider, Sandy did all he could to aid the cleanup efforts. But that wasn’t enough. He, and so many others, wanted to shut these offshore rigs down entirely. And they succeeded — for a time.

But, rather than demanding the upper portions of the platforms be dismantled as part of the cleanup package, California’s politicians left the door open for another corporation to profit from these oil-spewing time bombs in the future.

Patience paid off for the Sable Offshore Corporation.

On the anniversary of the Refugio oil spill, Trump perversely announced that Sable could start pumping

and piping oil off our coast once again by shoving the deal through Congress under the Defense Production Act (DPA), purportedly in consultation and coordination with Sable’s lawyers, which allowed the oil corporation to ignore the many lawsuits and cease-and-desist orders that have been filed to prevent the resumption of offshore drilling.

As with everything under the current Oval Office Usurper, it gets worse. Despite Santa Barbara Representative Salud Carbajal’s valiant opposition, Congress just last week passed the National Defense Authorization Act with a provision granting Sable unfettered production and transportation rights as a matter of national security, meaning it can pump as much oil through these corroded pipelines as possible.

If this corrupt and reckless bill passes the Senate, another disastrous oil spill is inevitable.

After a long absence from the water on account of college, career, and kids, I started surfing again this summer. And when, last Saturday, I paddled out at El Capitan’s point break peeling waist-high waves, I felt that same rush and reverence as I did back when Sandy cheered me on as I turned on the green for the first time. Now, as a mom, I can’t wait to teach my boys how to surf, and hopefully open the door to that same experience of connection with the ocean. But so too did a moment of dread creep in when my eye caught on one of the Sable rigs, just waiting to wreak deadly havoc on our precious coastline.

Sandy passed away from cancer three years ago, and I’m certain that were he still here, Sandy would be doing everything he could to protect the Santa Barbara coastline.

Even so, I know he would assure me there’s still time to protect our coastline’s marine life, kelp forests, sage, oak, and peeling waves — if we work together. In this spirit, I hope a few more of us will open the door to that same sense of awe and wonder that inspired Sandy’s fierce dedication to preserving this rich and rare place.

Hope to see you all in the lineup, Santa Barbara. n

The author surfing at El Capitan this past weekend

obituaries

Frank Guevarra 01/08/1938-07/08/2026

Frank Guevarra passed away at home in Tuscola, TX on July 8, 2026 at the age of 88.

"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day - and not only me, but also all who have longed for His appearing."

2 Timothy 4:7-8

Francis Teofelo Guevarra was born on January 8, 1938 to Albert and Eva Guevarra of Santa Barbara, the sixth of seven children. He graduated from Santa Barbara High School in 1957 and married his childhood sweetheart, Norma Louise Whitmore that year. After serving in the CA National Guard, Frank began a career at the United States Postal Service that would last 34 years. Frank and Norma had three children, Edward, Kathleen, and Mark. Music and church were a big part of the young family’s life with Frank on guitar and Norma playing the fiddle. Frank was an avid guitar player and Hank Williams fan. Despite illness, Frank made a final trip to Santa Barbara on Father’s Day for a reunion with Norma, his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.

Frank was preceded in death by his parents, brothers John, Robert, and Albert, sisters Rosie and Cecelia, granddaughter Christa, and his second wife, Gloria.

He is survived by first wife, Norma, and his third wife, Cheri, his children Eddie, Kathleen Johnson (Greg), and Mark (Melanie), grandchildren Daniel (Janey), Mark Jr., Rachel, Brad (Danica), Marty, and Christopher, great grandchildren Evan, Kaeden, and Olive, sister Barbara Cortez, niece Theresa Williford both of Phoenix, AZ, and numerous nieces and nephews. Internment took place on July 14, 2026 at the Texas State Veterans Cemetery in Abilene, officiated by Pastor David Cason.

The family requests that donations be made to the American Cancer Society.

Stephen Richard Enright

07/08/1945-07/07/2026

In Loving Memory of Stephen Richard Enright passed away peacefully on the morning of July 7, 2026, surrounded by love, just one day shy of his 81st birthday.

Steve was the kind of person who could make anyone laugh. Known for his quick wit, infectious sense of humor to his daughters and granddaughters, and easygoing personality, he had a way of making everyone feel always welcome. He spent over 40 years in the food industry with S.E. Rykoff, then US Foods, where he built lasting friendships through his dedicated work, loyalty to businesses, and genuine love of people. Throughout more than four decades in the food industry, Steve earned the respect of colleagues and customers alike through his integrity, loyalty, hard work, and the genuine friendships he cultivated along the way.

As a father to Chase and Lauren, Steve would spend season after season coaching, attending, and supporting their athletic careers. Steve was devoted to watching Lauren play soccer. After retirement, his greatest joy became spending time with his family, especially his beloved granddaughters, Kenyon and Isla. Nothing brought Steve more happiness than making them laugh, celebrating their birthdays, and simply being together.

Steve had a passion for delicious food including cooking, gardening, and sports (both watching and playing). Steve was gifted athletically. Whether he was cheering on his favorite teams, sharing a delicious meal, or making everyone around him laugh, he embraced life with enthusiasm and kindness. His greatest gift was making people feel at ease, reminding those around him not to take life too seriously. His laughter, stories, and generous heart will be deeply missed.

He is lovingly survived by his daughters, Chase Enright and Lauren Enright; his son-in-law, Ryan Throop; and his cherished granddaughters, Kenyon and Isla Throop, who brought immeasur-

able joy to his life.

Steve’s legacy lives on through the love he shared, the immeasurable laughter he created, and the countless memories he leaves with those who knew him. He will forever be remembered as a devoted father, proud grandfather, loyal friend, and a man who truly enjoyed life’s simple pleasures.

Your greatest accomplishment wasn't your career or your many achievements; it was the Enright family you loved so deeply. Thank you for every lesson, every laugh, every game you never missed, every meal you shared, and every moment you made us feel loved. We love you beyond words, Dad. Though we will miss you every day, your kindness, generosity, humor, and unconditional love will live on in all of us. We will carry your laughter, your spirit, and your love with us always.

Gayle Lofthus

1945-2026

In Loving Memory

Gayle Lofthus lived her life with energy, generosity, and joy. She wanted the people around her to be happy, and she had a remarkable gift for helping them become so. Whether through encouragement, laughter, a batch of homemade cookies, a bag of avocados from her trees, or simply her genuine interest in their stories, she made people feel seen, valued, and loved.

Born in Inglewood, California, Gayle spent her childhood and early years in Southern California as the middle child in a family of four sisters and one brother.

After graduating from Ramona High School in Riverside, she attended Riverside City College, where she earned Dean's List honors, before continuing her education at Loma Linda University. There she graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in Dental Hygiene. She stood out for both her intellect and determination, eventually earning the affectionate title of "the best student in the family"

In 1962, after marrying Bruce Lofthus, they moved to Isla Vista, and they had their first child, before later returning to Riverside, where they welcomed their second child. In 1972, they

returned to Santa Barbara, and the community became her cherished home. Gayle worked for many years as a dental hygienist in Glen Hemingway's office, where patients appreciated not only her professionalism and skill, but also her warmth and easy conversation. She first met Marilyn Fowkes in that dental chair and they became life-long family friends.

Athletics were another arena in which Gayle excelled. Family members readily acknowledged her as the finest athlete among them. She discovered her love for tennis in the 1970s and began lessons with John Kinsella at the Santa Barbara Municipal Tennis Courts. What began as a passion soon became an impressive competitive career. Partnering with Sinclair Bill, she won the Santa Barbara Open in 1985. She later won the Southern California Sectional 45s age division championship twice—once with Sinclair and once with her sister, Annalee Hanson.

One of Gayle's greatest demonstrations of courage and determination came after her breast cancer diagnosis in 1989. She refused to let cancer define her, continuing to play tennis throughout her treatment. She and her tennis friends fondly laughed about the day her hairpiece flew off and landed on the court during a match—a reflection of her remarkable ability to find humor even in difficult times.

While undergoing chemotherapy, Gayle also studied for and passed the California real estate examination. She began her real estate career with Pitts and Bachman before joining Village Properties, where she worked until her retirement around 2015.

As a mother, Gayle had a simple but powerful hope for her daughters: that they would grow into happy, independent, and confident women. She encouraged them to face life with courage, always believing in their ability to succeed.

She approached being a grandmother with equal enthusiasm and purpose. Her three grandsons and two granddaughters knew without question that Grandma Gayle loved them deeply and wanted to be an active part of their lives. She traveled to Northern California and Australia to celebrate milestones and share everyday moments with them. Family friend Jane Haberman once remarked that Gayle had created the model of what a devoted grandmother could be, inspiring many of her peers.

To her nieces, she was simply "Auntie Gayle"—an advocate, confidante, and champion.

Gayle loved movement and activity. She loved to dance, to play tennis, and to bake. She loved her avocado trees almost as much as she loved giving away their fruit. Sharing—whether cookies, avocados, or a dose of encouragement—was simply part of who she was. Gayle often turned her kitchen into a dance floor, followed by serving up her famous apple pie (a la mode!). She enjoyed people and found them endlessly interesting. Conversations with strangers often became friendships, and acquaintances often became lifelong companions. She had boundless energy, as Larry Falberg once said, "If Gayle was a ride at Disneyland, she would have been an E-Ticket."

And, because she would appreciate complete honesty, Gayle also had a few favorite indulgences: an occasional trip to the casino (with thanks to Doug Fowkes) and her beloved evening cocktail (with grateful acknowledgment to Jim Beam).

More than any title or accomplishment, Gayle will be remembered for the happiness she carried with her and the happiness she created for others. Her legacy lives on in the family she loved fiercely, the friends she cherished deeply, and the countless people whose lives are brighter because of her.

Gayle was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year and was so grateful for the care and kindness she received at RidleyTree Cancer Center, UCLA Health Santa Barbara Care, and Goleta Valley Radiology Department.

Gayle suffered the loss of her first-born, Andrea Peterson, in 2023 to ALS. She is survived by her husband of nearly 64 years, Bruce Lofthus; her daughter, Janelle Lofthus; her sons-in-law, Jim Peterson and Dean Hodgson; and her grand kids, Jack, Mitchell, and Joe Peterson, and Daley and Taylor Hodgson, who brought immeasurable joy to her life.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that memorial donations be made to the Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care (VNA), the ALS Association, or another charitable organization of choice in Gayle's memory.

Antonio Gardella

1950–2026

A Gentle, Passionate Soul Who Loved Life In

BY BLAKE BROWN

Passion, enthusiasm, excitement, joy, and glee. If you know what these feel like, then you know what Antonio Gardella was like. I’m saddened to know that Antonio passed but thankful for the decades of wonderful gifts and treasures that he bestowed upon me and many others.

I first met Antonio in the early 1980s when I was attending Santa Barbara County wine festivals and events that he was participating in. Over the next few years, I would run into him occasionally while he was in the local stores stocking wines and adding shelf talkers as a wine wholesaler representative for The Henry Wine Group. It was at one of those times at Longs drugstore on State Street (now a CVS) that I stopped and we talked for a bit and decided that maybe we should establish a wine tasting group.

So, in 1988, Antonio and I and three other people who were his friends from Devereux and professors at the UC Santa Barbara started a wine group. To learn as much as we could, we tasted everything blind. I was such a novice and Antonio was my mentor, and I learned so much. I became impassioned with the whole world of wine.

This led to me doing more wine tastings and events, traveling all over the world to wine regions, reading books, joining more tasting groups, and posting wine notes online, while continuing to participate in this first wine group, which really only lasted a year and a half in its original form. When the other three all moved on and away, Antonio and I invited others to join.

This eventually included many winery owners, winemakers, and other wine-passionate people, and we took on a name: Los Amigos del Vino. To name a few of the original and eventual members: Sid Ackert, Luis Goena, Bruce McGuire, Rick Longoria, Adam Tolmach, Chris Whitcraft, Steve Clifton, Greg Brewer, Mike Brown, Fred Brander, Mike Brooks, Art Morel, Art Lee, Ralph Sipper, Jim O’Roark, George Burtness, Craig Jaffurs, Bob Ornstein, Dave Yates, Ron Melville, Seth Kunin, David Goldmuntz, David Hardee, Dick Shaikewitz, Tom Daughters, David Ackert, Brett Escalera, Norm Grant, Bob Wesley, and many more over many more years.

This group is still going on thanks to Jim Phillippi and Greg Geyer, having been resurrected a few times with changes in leadership and attendees.

In 1985, Antonio and a few of his other friends formed one of the finest unbonded home winemaking endeavors anywhere, Companeros. By converting a small redwood horse stable outbuilding on the premises of one of the partners into a “winery,” they made some really great wines, sourced from some of the best fruit from some of the best vineyards in Santa Barbara County. Many were sold at high paddle prices at charity auctions. That winery is still going, albeit with different people who are carrying the torch. I had a recently made chardonnay, and it was amazing.

I would share my tasting notes with Antonio, and he would add his own impressions and insights. In many cases, he would remark about the winemakers and their styles from his personal experiences. In the past 20 years, my primary means of communication with Antonio was through email and texts messages. We always treasured our beginnings and the connection with all things wine.

I can remember when Antonio was turned on to Burt Williams, who was making stupendous wines in the early 1980s. Antonio joined the Williams Selyem wine list to receive allocations twice a year.

Thanks to him and Chris Whitcraft, I had tasted a few of Burt’s pinot noirs and loved them. The only way to get them was to be on the mailing list, and it had a long wait list. Antonio offered me a good portion of his allocation starting in 1987, and I jumped at the opportunity.

Later on, and as faith would have it, Burt bought a second home in Santa Barbara. A couple of my friends were invited to his housewarming party and with approval, added me. Once I met Burt and his wife and two daughters, I felt like I had an extended family. It developed that I would be invited to come over every time they returned to Santa Barbara. Long story short, Burt became one of my all-time best friends. We shared lots of his wines over the years from both of our cellars. It was always extra special to get all of the details of the vintage, vineyard, and the winemaking that Burt was so adept at remembering and recounting.

None of this would have happened had Antonio not added me to his Williams Selyem allocation. Antonio, I shall open up something extra special to celebrate you.

RIP, my dear friend. n

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Barbara Mae Garner 01/18/1925-06/12/2026

Barbara Mae Garner, loving mother, amazing grandmother, fun great grandmother, and bookkeeper extraordinaire born January 18, 1925 in Berkeley, California lived a wonderful life. Numbers were one of her favorites: 2 daughters, 11 grandchildren, 19 great grandchildren, 6 nieces and nephews, 13 great nieces and nephews,19 great, great nieces and nephews; 10, 900 rounds of golf played, 1st woman to serve on the board of directors at Stockdale Country Club, Bakersfield, 1,000 chocolate chip cookie care packages mailed to grandkids, 8,100 card games played of Kings in the Corner and bridge, 9,300 books read, 600th research participant in the Albert Einstein School of Medicine Centenarian Longevity Project, 32 weeks of radiation over 7 years for 2 different cancers and survived both, 10 countries visited, 70th birthday spent in the Monteverde Cloud Forest in Costa Rica, 2,000 handwritten postcards to voters reminding to vote, 1929 first camping trip to Yosemite National Park, 1936 walked across the Oakland Bay Bridge on it's opening day, 1956 saw Elvis Presley's first show in Las Vegas, 1976 visited the Holy Land, 100th birthday party spent with 175 friends and family in Bakersfield, 101st birthday celebrated in Las Vegas, June 12, 2026 passed away peacefully in Bakersfield with her 2 daughters by her side listening to Fly Me to the Moon by Frank Sinatra and Amazing Grace by Dolly Parton.

Barbara's family would like to thank Ridley Tree Cancer Center of Santa Barbara for their outstanding care. We would also like to thank Drs. Fred Kass, George Cheng, Ben Diener, Richard Hammond, Robert Kershaw, Scott Nickel, Peter Nickel, and Tom Van Meter

for their excellent care and compassion they gave our mother over the years, it took a Santa Barbara village. Many thanks to Sheila Gillette, RN, and to the Cottage Hospital Palliative Care team whose support and nice latte made a difference. Sincere appreciation goes to Susan Beechinor R.N., cousin, for the priceless nursing care and love she gave her aunt Bar, Sharon Beechinor Smith, cousin, who was always there for us too, Ruth Kyes for her valuable friendship and many Chumash Casino outings with our mom, Dr. Grace Beer, DDS, a wonderful friend who answered every phone call, Guardian Angels of Ventura and to Hoffman Hospice of Bakersfield for their remarkable care.

Surviving family include; daughters Carrie Garner (Peter Nickel) of Santa Barbara, and Patty Schuler(John) of Bakersfield, grandchildren Matt Nickel(Heidi) Remy and Maddie of Chicago, Illinois, Sara Nickel(Galen Johnson) Cal and Ashton Johnson of Santa Barbara, Hannah Woodruff (Gabe) Liberty, Elle, Lucy and Londyn of Phoenix, Arizona, Air Force Captain Nathan Schuler (Anna) Theo, Silas, Phoebe and Amos of San Antonio, Texas, Lily Sanders(Ben) Beckett, Daisy and Poppy of Clermont, Florida, Nolan Schuler(Haley) Lewis, Fredrick and Alice of Marysville, Washington, Air Force Captain Cole Schuler of Oahu, Hawaii, Brett Schuler(Krysta) and Barbara of Phoenix, Arizona, Brian Schuler of Phoenix Arizona, Grace Schuler of Phoenix, Arizona and Helen Schuler of Bakersfield. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Barbara's favorite organizations, Ridley Tree Cancer Center, Food From the Heart Santa Barbara, Hoffman Hospice of Bakersfield and the Humane Society.

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Antonio Gardella with Baccus during a Santa Barbara County wine festival in the 1980s.

Kelly Shobe O'Rourke 07/20/1965-08/03/2025

First Annual Tribute, July/ August 2026

Kelly Shobe O’Rourke was born in Pasadena, California on July 20, 1965 and died in Scottsdale, Arizona of cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer) on August 3, 2025. In the year since her death her family, friends, colleagues, and former students still think of her often and for good reason; she was a kind, caring, giving soul who positively impacted countless lives.

Over the course of her childhood, her family moved frequently, with time spent in Colorado, Michigan, and England, before eventually settling in Santa Barbara, California. She attended Baylor University as an undergraduate, and after a year of law school decided on a career in teaching. She spent well over 30 years dedicated to educating middle school students and taught a number of subjects over the years, including English and History, to mainstream, gifted and emotionally disturbed students. For the last few years of her career she served as a teaching coach as well as finding new passion as a drama teacher, where she managed the seemingly impossible task of getting middle school students to successfully perform both Shakespeare and musicals. Over the course of her career she was well-liked by her students while also demanding that they rise to her standards.

She married Brian O’Rourke in 1992 in Santa Barbara, and they lived there and in Sunnyvale, California before settling in Scottsdale, Arizona in 2000. They had a daughter Madeline in 2001 and a son Sean in 2004. Both those children are in the process of successfully launching careers, a tribute to Kelly’s unwavering emotional support and practical advice. In addition to her husband and children, she left behind her dear mother Linda Shobe and brother Jay Shobe, both of Santa Barbara, four sisters-in-law, two brothersin-law, an aunt, many cousins, nieces, and nephews.

Kelly’s cancer diagnosis in 2023 was effectively terminal, with the chances of stopping

the cancer very slim. However, she always took a realistic but unshakably positive attitude towards her treatment and refused to dwell on the negative. She loved her family dearly, showed great dedication to teaching, fought cancer bravely, and was devoted to her many friends. She continues to be greatly missed by all who were fortunate enough to know her.

Kenneth Duane Heimbaugh 08/21/1952-02/03/2024

Kenneth “Ken” Duane Heimbaugh died in February 2024 from an unlikely camping accident in Santa Barbara, California. Ken was born on August 21, 1952 in Akron, Ohio. He was a student at Akron Public Schools through junior high, then attended the Staunton Military Academy (SMA) in Staunton, Virginia, graduating in 1970. At SMA, Ken made the Honor Society, played trumpet in the band, and was a member of the varsity track, swimming, and crosscountry teams, as well as the junior varsity football team.

After high school, Ken gave college a try at the University of Akron. But formal schooling did not seem to suit him, so he headed west for big adventures. He became an avid mountain climber in Wyoming’s Rocky Mountains and learned how to be a survivalist. He later set out for California, where he could often be found surfing in the Pacific Ocean. Throughout his life, Ken had a knack for making mischief; for instance, he once climbed up the 'top rail' of the 'Golden Gate Bridge (and received a citation)! Although he lived in various parts of the state, Ken settled in Santa Barbara, where he even ran for mayor in 2001. Over the years, Ken worked various construction jobs, and was a prolific freelance writer.

Ken suffered from a serious illness for most of his adult life, but he led life to the fullest as a skilled outdoorsman and had many varied and unique experiences.

He is preceded in death by his mother Audrea Jean (Yoe) (Heimbaugh) Woodall, father Frank Ivan Heimbaugh, his stepfather William Woodall and his stepmother Marilyn Heimbaugh.

He is survived by his brother Charles “Chuck” Heimbaugh of Akron, Ohio, his stepbrothers and stepsisters, and his niece and nephews.

May he now rest in peace.

Linda Lissy 1947-2026

Linda Lissy, a gardener and landscaper for scores of Santa Barbara customers in the 1980s and 1990s, died of heart failure in her sleep last month at her cabin in the Eastern Sierra. She was 79 years old.

A devout Catholic, Linda had two missions in life: to create beauty in public and private gardens, and to look after her many elderly clients, for whom she was both a gardener and a companion.

For nearly 40 years, Linda worked for the sisters of the Monastery of Poor Clares in Santa Barbara, who observe a vow of silence. One day, she left them a note at Mass, offering them her services, and they allowed her to enter the cloister grounds at 215 E. Los Olivos St., covering nearly two-thirds of the block, as a rare public visitor. She trimmed the hedges and pruned the roses.

“Linda was very, very special, very gracious to us,” the Mother Abbess said. “She liked the silence, the solitude and prayerfulness, and being able to work in nature by herself. She loved our dogs, too, and would bring treats in her pocket.”

Linda cultivated a large following of devoted customers as well who depended on her to plant their fruit trees, prune their orchards and design their flowerbeds.

In 2003, priced out of the high rent market in Santa Barbara, Linda purchased a seasonal cabin on U.S. Forest Service land near Tom’s Place, off Owens Gorge Road. She had to re-create her gardening business from scratch. During the winter, Linda would return to Santa Barbara to live in the Poor Clares’ guest house and revisit her old customers.

In Bishop, Calif., people knew her as the “Flower Lady,” easily recognizable in her broadbrimmed straw hat and aviator glasses. She created colorful displays at the local pharmacy, Catholic church and for her pri-

vate customers, many of whom were elderly and lived alone.

Linda liked to keep to herself and rarely accepted social invitations, in part because her work, which included mowing lawns, was physically exhausting. She worked on June 28, her last day on this Earth, as she always said she would.

“She will be a real hard act to follow,” said Liz Merrill, owner of the Home Street Garden Center in Bishop, where many of her own customers closely followed what Linda was planting and when. “No one will ever replace what she did. It was such a personal commitment on her part.”

Linda was born on Feb. 1, 1947 in Los Angeles. In her youth, she was a tennis champion and collected a roomful of trophies.

A consummate athlete, she later excelled at cycling and crosscountry skiing and long-distance hiking.

In the 1970s, after graduating from UC-Santa Barbara with a degree in physical education, Linda bicycled from Los Angeles to Canada, hitchhiked across America and studied Hinduism in India. Later on, she converted to Catholicism and tried out for convents, but they weren’t a good match for her fierce sense of independence and cantankerous ways.

Linda worked stints as a tennis pro and assistant to a physical therapist before starting her own gardening business in Santa Barbara in the late 1970s.

Linda charged modest rates for her work and lived on the margins, even as she gave so much of herself to others. Some customers, in turn, helped Linda in her last years, including the Texan who allowed her to stay at his Bishop home during wintertime, the Bishop man who paid for a new engine for her truck, and the Santa Barbara woman who left her a generous bequest.

“Everybody who knew Linda had genuine affection for her because she went out of her way to do her best for people,” said Father John Gracey of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Bishop.

Masses for the repose of Linda’s soul will be offered at the Poor Clares chapel in Santa Barbara on Dec. 13, 25 and 31.

Regarding the Mass for Linda that is scheduled for Christmas Day, the Mother Abbess said: “I thought she’d like that very much, even though hopefully she’s celebrating in heaven.”

In Bishop, a group of Linda’s customers will plant a magnolia tree in her memory at Our Lady of Perpetual Help church. A funeral mass will be held for her at the church at 11 a.m. on Aug. 7.

Linda is survived by her brother, Dale, of Angelus Oaks, Calif.; two sisters, Janet McCluer of Kingman, Ariz. and Judy Kody of Lafayette, Calif.; nine nieces and nephews and 10 greatnieces and nephews. Donations in Linda’s memory may be made to the Poor Clares in Santa Barbara and Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Bishop.

Ralph Grijalva

07/08/1943-07/11/2026

Ralph Grijalva, a grandfather, father, and beloved member of the Ventura community, peacefully passed away on July 11, 2026, at the age of 83, surrounded by family. Born on July 8, 1943, Ralph led a life rich in love, hard work, and unwavering dedication to his craft.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Ralph and Henrietta Grijalva; his brothers, Robert and Richard; his devoted wife, Margo Moore; his son, Ralph; and his beloved chihuahua, Foxy. Ralph is survived by his two sisters, Rosalie Ramirez and Anna Villegas; his son, Jeffrey; and his granddaughters, Shanice, Carolyn, Sanoe, Sawyer, and Ella. A lifelong resident of California, Ralph made a significant impact in the Ventura area as a skilled framer carpenter. His contributions to numerous housing projects have helped shape the community, and his craftsmanship and commitment to quality will be fondly remembered.

Beyond his professional achievements, Ralph had a deep love for the beach and the beautiful waterfront along the Ventura coast. He found joy in life’s simple pleasures, often spending time by the water where he felt most at peace, walking Foxy by his side.

Ralph’s indomitable spirit will be profoundly missed by all who knew him.

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Betty HobsonKatherine

Warner

11/18/1925-06/05/2026

Betty Warner, born November 18, 1925 in Corning CA, passed away in Santa Barbara in the comforting presence of her Heritage House and Hospice caregivers, and her family.

Betty loved to talk about her happy childhood growing up in the small town of Corning, California with her parents, Ruth (Siler) and Paul Hobson, and sister, Paulyne White. She was surrounded by aunts, uncles, and grandparents who she adored. Throughout her life, family was always her utmost priority.

Skipping a grade in elementary school, Betty was only 17 when she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and joined the war effort, working for the Army Quartermaster Corps in Oakland.

During that time, she met the love of her life, Alfred Warner, a flight instructor in the Naval Air Corps who was stationed in Alameda at war’s end to transport soldiers and POWs back home from the Pacific islands.

Betty was a Freshman at UC Berkeley in 1946 when she set aside her college ambitions to marry Fred. Betty and Fred had been married 61 years when he died in 2007. Their love ran deep.

They raised three girls in Portland, Oregon, San Rafael, California, and St. Louis, Missouri, to name a few places where Fred’s employer moved the family. Always getting involved with politics, joining PTA, finding and enjoying part-time administrative assistant work, connecting with new bridge and golf partners, Betty found it increasingly difficult each time General Motors casually uprooted them. Still, she kept making friends, and she kept in touch with all of them through the final transfer back to the Bay Area where they retired. In 1997, Fred and Betty moved to Santa Barbara to be near two of their daughters.

Betty loved playing bridge and golf, which she did with Fred and with groups of her friends. She devoured books–from mystery novels to political tomes–and she started each day reading up to three newspapers. In retirement, Fred and Betty loved to travel,

making many trips to Alaska to visit their youngest daughter. They especially enjoyed Elderhostel, and gained new friends on every journey.

Betty is survived by her daughters Jane Warner (Howard Rothman), Sally Warner-Arnett (Bill Arnett) of Santa Barbara, and Susan Warner of Juneau AK; her sister Paulyne White and nephew Mark of Corning; her cherished grandchildren Chad, Katherine (Matt Massanari), Hannah, and Yana; and her precious first greatgrand baby, Elena.

Betty’s family wishes to express their heartfelt gratitude for the compassionate, loving care of the Heritage House and Assisted Home Health staff including Tejasvi, Natalie, Yaroslav, Yolanda, Fidel, Sophia, Beatrice, Lupe and so many more.

Aiko Barbara Saruwatari Horn 08/28/1933-05/28/2026

Born to parents Akira Saruwatari and Masako (Fukamaki) Saruwatari in Arroyo Grande until the family was evacuated to Tulare, CA a holding camp until barracks were built in Gila, AZ.

Our father received an approval from the government to leave Gila, on August 31, 1943 only if he went East. Dad left and found us housing and a job for him. He sent for us and we left Gila and moved to Chicago, IL.

As soon as the coast was cleared for Japanese to return, we came back to Santa Barbara our Mothers home town.

Aiko went graduated from SBHS 1951 and soon after moved south to Woodbury college.

She met her first husband Kaz Hamamoto and they had two children , Kimiko survives as does her husband Les Fujiwara and they have two children, Kevin (Allison) and Sandy (Cullen) and great grandson Karson.

Aiko is also survived by two sisters, Yukiko Dianne Takeu-

chi and Ann Margaret (Peggy) Hergenroether and Aiko’s husband Don Horn as well as four step-daughters.

A Celebration of life was held on July 18, 2026 in Beaumont, CA.

Carol Lee Ashamalla 10/25/1938-07/16/2026

It is with broken hearts that we announce the passing of our mother, Carol Lee Ashamalla. Carol passed away peacefully at her home in Santa Barbara on July 16, 2026, surrounded by her family, after a courageous 11-year battle with Alzheimer's Disease.

Carol was born in Lima, Ohio on October 25, 1938, the oldest of three, born to Earl and Doris Watt. Her sister, Linda Hartoon, and brother, Robert Watt, preceded her in death.

A natural beauty inside and out, Carol graduated from St. Gerard's High School in 1957 where she was crowned homecoming queen. She went on to Mt. St. Joseph's College in Cincinnati, where she earned her AA degree. In 1960, she married her first husband, Martin O'Brien, but tragically, he passed away just two years later after a short battle with cancer.

Carol found herself at a crossroads: join the Peace Corps, or go back to school. She chose school, heading to Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI, where she earned her BA in Sociology with a minor in Psychology.

It was at Marquette that she met Mounir R. Ashamalla, DDS, known to everyone as "Ash." She was in undergrad and he was in Dental school and new to this country from Cairo, Egypt. They fell in love, and married in 1965 in a small ceremony in Los Angeles, attended only by her parents and a few siblings, officiated by Carol's uncle, Fr. Joseph Watt. Our Dad liked to describe her as “5’ 2” and beautiful eyes of blue”…So began the sweet story of the “immigrant and the widow.”

Carol and Ash wasted no time, they packed up and drove from Milwaukee to San Francisco in Carol's beloved 1964 VW Bug, which she'd bought brand new for $1,200. That ruby-red bug is still in the family today. In San Francisco, Carol worked as a social worker for the county and

they welcomed their first child, Nicole in 1966. The young family lived in a small apartment while Ash finished Oral Surgery school at UCSF, and then made their way to Santa Barbara, where he opened his practice and they truly put down roots.

The next 25 years was all about raising three kids, and spending time with friends and family- Carpools, activities, travel and helping her kids find their way in the world. Along the way, Carol found time to volunteer with organizations like CALM and The Assistance League, and she served on the board of the Friendship Center for several years.

Carol and Ash loved to travel, and they had a wonderful circle of friends to explore the world with. Trips to the Middle East, Switzerland, and Australia were among her favorites, and she never missed a chance to send a postcard home. Closer to home, family trips to China Peak, Lake Tahoe, and Lake Nacimiento hold a special place in the family's hearts.

Carol also had a beautiful group of women friends she loved, she was a good friend to everyone, and she knew how lucky she was to have such wonderful friends.

A devoted and lifelong Catholic, her faith was the foundation of her life. Carol was sweet, kind and loved animals. For the past 55 years there has always been a dog or 2 in her home. Even at the end of her illness when she could no longer speak, she remained sweet and loving. With a nod and a faint smile, we always knew she loved us.

Carol was enthusiastic about her health and wellness, whether it was Jazzercise in the 80’s, Step class in the 90’s or Curves in the ‘00’s, she loved to stay active.

In her later years, Carol carried an envelope of her grandkids' photos in her purse everywhere she went. She was always eager to show friends recent photos when asked…and maybe even when not asked! In either case she lit up when speaking of her grandkids, as being a Grandma, was a source of great joy to her.

Carol is survived by her husband of 60 years, Dr. Mounir Ashamalla, and their three children: Nicole Bates (Steve), David Ashamalla (Shannon), and Greg Ashamalla (Lauren). She also leaves behind six precious grandchildren, Owen Bates; Shaelyn and Stella Ashamalla; and Lola, Julian, and Sonny Ashamalla.

The family is deeply grateful to Assisted Hospice of Santa Barbara and Carol’s devoted caregivers, whose compassionate

care allowed her to stay at home for the last 4 years of her life with dignity and grace.

A mass will be held at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, 1300 East Valley Road on Monday, August 3, 2026 at 11:30 am with a graveside blessing under a shady tree at Santa Barbara Cemetery in Montecito immediately following.

In honor of Carol, please hug your family tight and remind them how much you love them.

Linda “Borrayo” Brown 12/29/1951-07/18/2026

Linda Brown was born to Ruth and Manuel Borrayo on December 29, 1951, in California, and spent many years in Santa Barbara, where she was born, raised, and graduated from Santa Barbara High School with the Class of 1969.

In 1980, she married David Campos, and from that union came three sons: Steven, Matthew, and Kevin. Later in life, Linda married David Brown. Although they did not have children together, she lovingly embraced his children Nora, Dessa, David Jr., Adam and Erica as her own and formed a close, blended family. She was also a devoted grandmother to Anthony and Brianna.

Linda worked for the Santa Barbara school district and in retail, roles that allowed her to spread joy and encouragement in her community. In 2013, she moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, but carried the spirit of Santa Barbara with her. She loved gardening, feeding the birds, baking for family and friends, and cheering on her beloved Seattle Seahawks.

Linda passed away peacefully on July 18, 2026, surrounded by loved ones. She leaves behind her husband, children, stepchildren, grandchildren, extended family, and many friends who will forever cherish her kindness, grace, and love.

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Dreams Live State Street

SOne Couple’s Grand Passion Is a High Note for Our Town

by Nick Welsh | Photos by ingrid bostrom

ome piano players, the expression goes, tickle their ivories. With Brian Mann, it’s obvious the ivories are tickling him.

My favorite part is when he hits the tail end of a solo. That’s when Mann starts slouching to the right, getting lower, closer to the keys. He’s on the prowl for exactly the right note. You think of a brown pelican swooping in low over the water in search of prey. Mann has already played the hell out of the piece. Buckets of knuckles have been duly sacrificed. Now, he’s looking to bring it down. Which note? As he deliberates, he slouches lower still. Finally, he pounces. A single high note from the upper register.

“Boink!” There’s a hint of vinegar to it. Then

another, just a few keys up the food chain. “Ploink!” A whiff of attitude. There’s a joke getting told. But what’s the punchline? These single notes just hang and hover, like snowflakes defying gravity. Where are the spider webs that hold them aloft? Even after all these years, Mann can’t believe it. He starts to grin. From the side, you can see the outlines of his cheeks rise on his face. It’s like watching the sun wake up.

Even before I met Mann pianist and accordionista he’d saved my bacon. About 33 years ago, I held the peculiar distinction of being the town’s only accordion whisperer, enabler, and wannabe. Mann was one of about 30 people who responded to a newspaper ad I’d placed, asking, “Are you now or have you ever been an accordion player?” Then as now, I saw the accordion not as an instrument to be scorned, mocked, and derided, but a key common denominator unifying much of the great world music. Celtic, conjunto, Cajun, klezmer, and zydeco, all spring to mind.

For all my accordion enthusiasm, I did not play. So, when all 30 respondents showed up in person, I had no idea what to do next. Mann did. He took over. Not only was he an exceptional player, but he proved an accomplished teacher as well. His father, it turns out, had run an accordion academy out of Santa Ana through whose doors a combined 4,000 students flowed a year. Mann not only taught students how to play there he taught teachers how to teach.

Among the accordion players who showed up squeeze boxes in tow and bellows billowing some had been playing 30 years, others barely three weeks. Every variant and mutant of the instrument was on display. Mann was brisk and no nonsense. He exuded command. But he was also warm and welcoming. When he smiled, you felt it. Immediately, he understood who and what he was working with. Just as fast, he figured out how to blend our discordant mess of incompatible skills into a coherent musical mass.

Randy Tico jams on a recent night at The Grand

What sparked this gathering was that year’s Solstice Parade up State Street. Mann taught everyone to play “Proud Mary” and the impossible-to-pronounce “Thus Spake Zarathustra.” Some players rode the float up State Street; others walked. Mann walked and played, using his accordion as a conductor uses a baton. I pushed.

No one would be quitting their day job, but the march was a success. Enough so that several players were moved to continue the accordion march on their own for a few more years. Mann went back to making music. Lots of it. He played accordion, piano, and keyboards all over town. He composed TV commercial jingles for cars and trucks.

Now, Mann is busy trying to save State Street’s bacon, though he would never describe it in such heroically grandiose terms. Joining him in this endeavor is Jenna Berg, his wife and getshit-done co-conspirator in raising a seriously joyful ruckus downtown. At a time when city planners, urban agitators, and the usual multitude of downtown stakeholders are urgently seeking new ways to enliven State Street, the magic-word marching order has been a unanimous “Activate!” They got the memo. Just a few months ago, they opened a bona-fide jazz club and restaurant, located on the 1200 block, cheek-by-synergistic-jowl to their neighbor The Granada Theatre.

The space is not all that big. “Intimate” is the adjective that comes to mind. Berg and Mann call it “The Grand on State,” a name partially inspired by the new Steinway Grand that provides the musical hearth for the thriving jazz destination they are working to create. Initial indications are encouraging. The music is for real. The food is delicious. The vibe is lively unexpectedly romantic, even. The Grand is a great date night, first or otherwise. While the Silver Tsunami dominates so many S.B. music venues, the Grand manages to draw from a surprisingly mixed generational pool that seems to defy gravity. While the prices are reasonable, they’re not exactly cheap. It’s a $20 cover to get in the door; it’s $35 to get a reservation for a table, maybe more depending on the performer. A night out adds up. But as Berg and Mann stress, the musicians need to get paid. And, they add, concert tickets anywhere else will cost more. But anywhere else, they add, won’t be nearly as, well, intimate.

Or, as Berg likes to frame it. “The Grand is not a show. It’s an event. It’s a production. It’s a performance. It’s an experience.”

Admittedly, that sounds like some pretty hype. It also happens to be accurate.

Mann functions as creative nucleus to the club’s house band, The Grand Band. The lineup tends to shift from night to night, but typically it includes Randy Tico on bass, a forever firmament is Santa Barbara’s musical constellation. An eighth-generation Santa Barbaran, Tico is the first musician Mann met when he moved to Santa Barbara in 1992. They’ve been playing together ever since. Singer Leigh Vance has also been performing with Mann and Tico seemingly since forever, and is a key part of the mix. Vance practically grew up on stage cutting her teeth in Vegas with her two sisters and can shift stylistic gears with ease and authority. Colin Richardson, a bee whisperer and honey maker by day, plays a creamy West Coast sax and sings in a Chet Bakerish way; James Mooy provides both heat and light on the trumpet. And Dick Weller demonstrates how to swing without thrashing on the drums. “I get to play with and listen to all these great musicians I love,” Mann said. “What could be cooler than that?”

The club name also hints at a high-toned, more formal vibe they hope to encourage. It’s a place that invites guests to dress up.

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The Grand on State Visiting Artist Series

The Grand on State has been mostly featuring amazing local artists, with a few special guests, but a packed house on July 22 for acclaimed vocalist Roberta Gambarini signaled the start of The Grand’s Visiting Artist series. In the months ahead, jazz fans have a lot more to look forward to. Ernie Watts (Tonight Show Band, Charlie Haden) will be leading a quintet at 7 p.m. on August 8, featuring Jeff Elliott on trumpet, Randy Tico on bass, Tom Gastineau on piano, and Dick Weller on drums. On August 29, drummer Peter Erskine, a Grammy winner and Modern Drummer Hall of Fame member (jazzbos will remember his work with Weather Report and on more than 50 albums with 40 years of jazz greats) heads a trio that includes pianist Alan Pasqua and bassist Darek Olés. On September 9, an incredible treat: Trumpet master Terell Stafford arrives from New York City to perform a tribute to Miles Davis. McCoy Tyner calls Stafford “one of the great trumpet players of our time.” Pianist Tamir Hendelman leads a trio performing the music of the great Bill Evans on October 16. More performances are coming in November and December. Watch the Visiting Artists section on The Grand’s website for more information. The Grand is currently open Thursday-Saturday evenings, see thegrandonstate.com. —Jim Buckley

Jim Buckley greets guests at The Grand.

Brian Mann on the piano

Jamming at The Grand

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big names in the jazz universe.

“If you create an environment and an ambience where audiences really listen, then musicians will want to come,” said Tico. “And our audiences come to really listen.”

It’s a real jazz club.

That means unscripted things happen there. Like the time some hotshot saxophone gunslinger just happened to be hanging by the front door in the middle of a set and brought his horn along. Jim Buckley, the club’s volunteer maître d’ and jack of all trades, pounced, grabbed the guy, brought him onstage, and he proceeded to burn the house down. Or when, after a night of Mahler at the Granada, some Santa Barbara Symphony musicians showed up, their trumpets in tow, and jammed. Or some genius 17-yearold violin prodigy from the Music Academy let everyone know he was also a top-flight jazz piano player.

Women do. On summer nights, there’s no shortage of summer dresses, long and flowing or tight and clingy. Men, well, they dress how men dress. When playing, Mann wears a bow tie and tuxedo jacket with black sneakers and black Levis that bunch out like accordion bellows around the ankles; he moves a little like Charlie Chaplin. Also sporting the more formal attire is Grand Band bassist Tico.

Theirs is not the tinkle-tinkle sound common to some piano bars. There’s too much meat on the bone. The Grand Band offers classic, straight-ahead American Songbook jazz from the late 1950s and 1960s when mad improvisers ruled the roost, but melody lines and precise arrangements were not forsaken. It’s the sort of jazz that alternates from lush and breathy to wet and growly, where drummers swing with brushes and trumpet players blow with mutes. It’s a tight, intimate space. You can almost hear the piano sigh. It’s about the tender suspense of notes not played. It’s way too small and tight for soul-searching, hair-on-fire, free-form, ecstatic, screech-honk horn blowing.

But make no mistake, the Grand Band can kick.

There’s more to the Grand than the house band. It also offers a restaurant presided over by a quietly ass-kicking French master chef, Marguerite Cerredo. They gave her the freedom to create her own menu. “I like the music. I like the vibe. I can tell they’re good people,” Cerredo said. “They’re trying to create memories. That’s what the food is for. To have an experience.” Cerredo grew up in a family that sang all the time. “That’s how we expressed our emotions. We didn’t talk about them.” Every once in a while about 10 times now Cerredo gets to come out of the kitchen, step up to the mic and belt out “La Vie en Rose” with much of the same sultry gravel as Édith Piaf.

The Grand is also all about snagging as many hotchopped touring musicians on their way from Los Angeles to San Francisco. Or even some of the ones living closer to home, such as high-octane sax player Tom Scott better known for his work with Joni Mitchell who happens to live in Santa Paula. Coming soon are drummers Peter Erskine and Ernie Watts,

Surprise is always a possibility.

Buckley in real life a writer and longtime voice of the Santa Barbara Foresters put it, “There’s a club like this everywhere in the country. For 30 years, we haven’t had one. Now we do.”

The only thing missing, really, is a liquor license. What? Jazz without martinis? The liquor license is reportedly in the works. In the meantime, beer, wine, and champagne will have to suffice.

Other clubs have offered safe haven to jazz performers over the years and still do: SOhO, Roy, the alltoo-intermittent Piano Kitchen, the seemingly always open Red Piano, the Lion’s Tale in the Montecito Inn, to name a few. But these are not exclusively jazz spots. Back in the 1960s, Santa Barbara boasted a full-on jazz club called the Spigot on upper De la Vina, frequented by the luminous likes of Louis Armstrong, then as close to international jazz royalty as existed. For the glorious blink of an eye, Santa Barbara had a downtown club called Jazz Hall, by Victoria and Anacapa, but it was too much a labor of love to survive the sharkinfested waters of downtown commerce.

For years, Mann and Tico, along with vocalist Vance, enjoyed a steady perch playing regular gigs at El Encanto. But when El Encanto sold a few years back, the new owners decided to move in a different direction that did not include them.

And that’s how this whole thing started.

Enter Jenna Berg.

Berg is a human whirlwind who wears red lipstick and favors cowboy boots. At a recent show, Mann introduced Berg who prowls the room all night long likening her energy output to that of a nuclear power plant. This being Santa Barbara, someone objected she should be solar-powered instead. Mann demurred. “That would require 50,000 square miles of solar panels.” It was only a slight exaggeration.

A native of Minnesota, the daughter of an IBM executive, Berg earned a philosophy PhD in electrical engineering from Duke and secured a fellowship from the Kellogg Foundation, which pushed her to dream bigger than she imagined and allowed her to spend several years hunkered down in the same Mexican village from which the Zapatistas were waging armed resistance against the Mexican government. A social justice advocate affiliated with Witness for Peace, Berg was right where she wanted to be. Among her many roles was to teach women of the village the rhythm

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Jenna Berg and Brian Mann

method as a form of family planning. Ironically, that’s when she got pregnant with the first of three children, all now thriving adults. She spent time in Nicaragua back when dictator Daniel Ortega was still admired by the progressive left and it was the time of “Small Is Beautiful and Appropriate Technology,” and Berg emerged as a tech geek working for an 80-acre farm in North Carolina, doing pioneering research on water efficiency techniques.

Entrepreneurial, adventurous, and headstrong, Berg has never been one to paint within the lines. She has been in pursuit, she said, “of a life that sings.” That doesn’t necessarily make it an easy life. Just a lived one.

In the early ’90s, Berg packed her kids in the family car and drove from North Carolina on a meandering cross-country trek in search of the future. She would find it in Santa Barbara when her car happened to get stuck by Alice Keck Park Memorial Garden. She laughs telling this who didn’t move here only after their car broke down?

After arriving, Berg managed to land a high-level government job with the County of Santa Barbara. A quick study with a techno turn of mind, she applied her ingenuity and acumen to concocting a job application platform that allowed government agencies to post job openings, collect applications, partially vet the applicants, and allow applicants to track where they were in the process. This was in the early days of the internet. Harnessing the world wide web to process massive dumps of critical personnel data was not really on anyone’s radar it got on Berg’s. The sailing was not always smooth, but she figured it out. Berg would eventually start a brand-new business of her own JobAps. That was in 1998. With government perhaps the single biggest employment sector in the nation at last count 23 million people work public sector jobs the demand for such services would seem to be perpetually unquenchable. Financially, it’s been a grand slam.

Enter Brian Mann.

It’s as if nature and nurture ganged up on Brian Mann to make sure he’d turn into a great musician. He had no other choice. At age 4, Mann began taking accordion lessons from his father, Milton Mann, himself a former child accordion prodigy. Mann’s father, a child of the Depression and of Jewish immigrant parents from Eastern Europe, had his own radio show by age 15, The Jewish Hour. Later, this Jewish child of immigrants would cut records and play with some of the most popular cowboy swing bands in the country. Hollywood heartthrob Errol Flynn would hire Mann’s father to play his private parties. During World War II, he was stationed at El Toro military base in Orange County, where he found himself teaching other servicemen how to play music. When the war was over, Milton Mann stopped playing and took up teaching. Big time. He opened what would become one of the biggest accordion schools in the country. With 21 studios, the school taught as many as 4,000 students a year. The money was in the lessons. The bigger money was in accordion sales. Milton Mann did it all, working six days a week, maybe seven.

At age 3, Mann remembers his father prodding him repeatedly to properly pronounce the word “harmonica” an instrument which Mann was then playing with happy abandon. Mann struggled to say it right. “I got impatient. He got impatient,” Mann recalled. “I finally said, ‘I can’t say it, but I can play it,’ ” Mann said. “That became my life motto.” By 5, Mann was taking piano lessons. By age 12, he was made part of the family business. “I’d go door to door, knocking to see if anyone was home and asking if there were any schoolchildren I could talk to.” Mostly, he’d be greeted with blank stares. If interest was expressed, Mann would make a pitch highlighting the benefits of a music education. “I was canvassing for prospects,” he said. It was thankless work. By 15, he was playing parties and gigging; in high school; he had a couple of bands. By 16, he was playing in a Latin jazz band and performing in bars. By 17, Mann was teaching accordion students at his father’s school. Not long after, he was teaching the teachers. “My dad gave me these jobs. It was good,” he said. “I loved watching him work, how hard he worked lifting all those accordions.”

It was around this time that Mann first got bit by the jazz bug in the form of famed piano virtuoso Oscar Peterson.

Mann attended USC for a year, then jumped to Cal State Fullerton. He studied music. His big break came playing in teen mega heartthrob Bobby Sherman’s band. Girls went berserk at his concerts, nearly dragging Sherman and his band members offstage. For Mann, it was nutty and fun.

He moved on to play with Kenny Loggins. That was in 1977. For four years, he exploited the sonic possibilities offered by no fewer than seven

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keyboards on behalf of Loggins, now a Santa Barbara mainstay. For a while, the Loggins band fronted for Fleetwood Mac, so Mann got to hang out and chew the fat with Stevie Nicks. It was a heady existence. Later, it would be Michael McDonald. Then David Lee Roth, and for six years, he toured with jazz-fusion-infused Larry Carlton.

All that touring took a toll on the family. In 1986, Mann pulled the plug on the road work. He did studio work instead. He started the Jingle Company, composing and producing ad music and songs for kids’ shows such as Jay Jay the Jet Plane. “I had to stop thinking and acting like an instrumentalist and start thinking like a composer and writer,” he said. He found himself writing a lot of car commercials. That may not have been his thing, but it kept him off the road and home with his two kids.

In 1992, he moved to Santa Barbara, where he met Leslie Boyd. They were married for 34 years, until her death from cancer.

Berg and Mann met courtesy of happenstance and synchronicity. Jenna was one of the founding members of the Lights Up! teen theater company. One of her kids happened to be involved with a theatrical production that Kenny Loggins also happened to be involved with. She was told her son might benefit from some piano lessons. Kenny Loggins happened to know a great pianist and teacher Brian Mann.

The rest, as they say, is history. The two are now approaching their third wedding anniversary.

The lightbulb moment for what became the Grand started for Berg not long after El Encanto pulled the plug on Tico, Mann, and Vance. Yes, they found other gigs to play. But there was no grand piano. “Brian had to schlep hundreds of pounds of equipment in and out and up and down,” she lamented. “And he’s playing an electric keyboard. That’s fine, but it’s electric. It’s not a real piano.”

Loose talk began to bubble up about finding a place of their own. Talk turned into dreams. Dreams turned into action. Buckley told them all they were crazy. “Fortunately, they didn’t listen to me,” he said.

If Berg was on board, she said she insisted on three-year commitments from each of the other founding five Berg, Mann, Tico, Vance, and Richardson. All had experience in fomenting a more expansive sense of Santa Barbara arts community. All saw the Grand in such terms. “I see this as a cultural survival center,” said Tico, almost as much a community arts ambassador as he is a musician. All five said they were committed. As far as we know there, was no cutting of hands and exchanging of blood. But all five declared they were all in.

Then they had to find a property. One next door to the Arlington Theatre looked enticing, but it turns out the bathroom wasn’t ADA-compliant. They stumbled onto the current site happily shoehorned in between the Granada and a new art gallery. Yes, five restaurants have come and gone in recent years: Namaste, Bedda Mia, Tupelo Junction, Mollie’s, and Marcello Ristorante. Alarmingly, by Santa Barbara standards, that’s not all that alarming. It’s a tough business.

“We know we knew nothing going into this,” said Mann. “It’s going to take money and time to do the learning. But Jenna is a great learner. She really knows how to learn.” She’s also got serious business chops, and resources, and ideas.

Already there’s talk about selling sustaining memberships. Many people have already come forward wanting to help. The club has about 15 volunteers, Buckley being the most obvious. There’s talk of opening up for brunch. Or hosting private events. Maybe one day, Berg ruminated, there might be philanthropic support for keeping cultural venues, such as a jazz club, open on State Street.

On paper, it seems like a heavy lift, especially late in life. Why not just go to Europe and cruise down the road with your elbows out the window? Jenna Berg’s answer? That isn’t “a life that sings.” The club is. She’d rather try her hand at magic, she said. “Do you know what the definition of magic is? It’s working your ass off and making it look easy.”

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THURSDAY 7/30

7/30-8/2: Ojai Playwrights Conference (OPC): New Works Festival This four-day celebration of new plays for the American theater will include five performances of brand-new work by eight playwrights who will be joined by professional actors and production teams who will help bring their vision to life. Visit the website for the schedule. Thu.-Fri.: 7:30-9:30pm; Sat.: 1:30-9:30pm; Sun.: 11am-5pm. Milligan Center for the Performing Arts, The Thacher School, 5025 Thacher Rd., Ojai. Various prices. Email tova@ojaiplays.org. ojaiplays.org/new-works

7/30: Cottage Center for Women’s Health Virtual Event: Redefining Women’s Health The New Cottage Center for Women’s Health invites the community to a free virtual conversation about brain health, menopause, OB/GYN, rheumatology, and urology with Dr. Jane Varner, medical director of the new center, and a panel of women’s health experts with a live physician Q&A, offering participants the opportunity to ask questions in a confidential setting. 4-5pm. Zoom online. Call (833) 678-0968. tinyurl.com/Health-Women

FRIDAY 7/31

7/31-8/2: S.B. Rodeo The weekend will feature three PRCA (Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association) rodeo performances, bull riding, barrel racing, roping, and more as well as cheering on the next generation of cowboys and cowgirls during Mutton Bustin’. Enjoy shopping at the marketplace, food and drink for purchase, and fun. Fri.- Sat.: 7-9pm; Sun.: 1-3pm. Earl Warren Showgrounds, 3400 Calle Real. $40-$80. Call (805) 6885093. earlwarren.com/events/sb-rodeo

7/31: Low Brow: A Dance Party from the Underground Event producer and electronic music aficionado DJ Blasé invites the uninhibited to a dance party for fans of newer electronic music such as glitch, nu-jerk, hyperpop, and the Indie Sleaze Revival. 10pm-1:30am. The Little Bar, Eos Lounge, 500 Anacapa St. Free. Ages 21+. Call (805) 564-2410. tinyurl.com/Low-Brow

7/31: Jimmy Della Valle Italian Comedy Night Laugh the night away with Jimmy Della Valle, the fast-talking Italian comedian from N.Y.C. known for his unique, rapid-fire delivery that mixes hilarious stories with his famous one-liners and inspired improvisation. 7-9pm. Speakeasy Comedy Bar, 409 State St. $20. Ages 21+. Call (805) 931-6676. sbcomedyclub.com

events at independent.com/eventsubmit

FARMERS MARKET SCHEDULE

THURSDAY

Carpinteria: 800 block of Linden Ave., 2:30-6:30pm

FRIDAY

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

SATURDAY

Downtown S.B.: Corner of State and Carillo sts., 8am-1pm

SUNDAY

Goleta: Camino Real Marketplace, 10am-2pm

TUESDAY

Old Town S.B.: 500-600 blocks of State St., 3-6:30pm

WEDNESDAY

Solvang: Copenhagen Dr. and 1st St., 2:30-6:00pm

FISHERMAN’S MARKET

SATURDAY

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

7/31-8/2: PVAC & SOPA Present: Once Upon a One More Time Performing and Visual Arts Camp (PVAC) and the S.B. School of Performing Arts (SOPA) invite you to see this musical that turns your favorite fairytales upside down by weaving in 23 Britney Spears hit songs such as “Oops! I Did it Again,”“Toxic,” and more. Fri.: 7pm; Sat.: 2 and 7pm; Sun.: 2pm. Jo Anne Cains Theatre, La Cumbre Junior High School, 2255 Modoc Rd. $10-$35. Call (805) 708-8897. daurikennedy.com/ pvac-sopa

7/31: The Lobero Theatre Presents: Dessert with Mozart: A Music Dialogue and Chamber Music Performance

Acclaimed Music Conductor Heiichiro Ohyama (viola) and the musicians will prepare the evening’s musical performance with an engaging, interactive Q&A followed by complimentary desserts during intermission and ending with a full performance of all three movements of Mozart’s Piano Quartet No. 1. 7pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. GA: $45; premium: $75. Call (805) 963-0761. lobero.org

7/31: Rick Springfield at Chumash Casino and Resort Australian-American singer, songwriter, and actor Rick Springfield will bring his hits such as “Jessie’s Girl,”“Don’t Talk to Strangers,”“I’ve Done Everything for You,” and more to the Valley. 8pm. The Samala Showroom, Chumash Casino Resort, 3400 E. Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez. $65-$80. Ages 21+. Call (805) 686-3805. chumashcasino.com/ entertainment

7/30-8/4: SOhO Restaurant & Music Club Thu.: Velvet Binx, Jeremiah Mountain, 8:30pm. $12-$20. Ages 21+. Fri.: Tina Schlieske & The Graceland Exiles, 8pm. $18-$25. Ages 21+. Sat.: Heads All Happy Birthday Jerry!, No Simple Highway, The People’s Dead, 8:30pm. $15-$20. Ages 21+. Sun.: Flamenco S.B. Presents Tablao SOhO, 8pm. $40-$50. Mon: An Evening with Henry Kapono, 7:15pm. $20-$25. Tue: Carpinteria Dead Family Presents LadyFinger & Mason’s Children, 7pm. $15-$20. Ages 21+. 1221 State St. Call (805) 962-7776. sohosb.com

7/31: Carr Winery Barrel Room Sessions: Jason Campbell & The Drive. 414 N. Salsipuedes St., Santa Barbara. 7-9pm. Free. Call (805) 965-7985. Ages 21+. carrwinery.com/events

7/31-8/1: Eos Lounge Fri.: Low Brow with DJ Blasé (The Little Bar), 10pm. Free Sat.: DJ Sneak, Underground Souls, DJ Sparx, 9pm. $8.66. 500 Anacapa St. Ages 21+. Call (805) 564-2410. eoslounge.com

7/30-8/1: The Grand on State Thu.: Matt Perko Quartet, 7-9:30pm. $35. Fri.: Leigh Vance and the All-Stars, 7:30-10pm. $35. Sat.: Early Show: Brian Mann Trio, 6-7:30pm. $25; Late Show: Colin Richardson & The Grand Band, 8-10:30pm. $35. 1218 State St. Email thegrandonstate@gmail.com thegrandonstate.com/events

7/31: M.Special Brewing Co. (Goleta) Cliffhangers, 7-9pm. 6860 Cortona Dr., Ste. C, Goleta. Free. Call (805) 968-6500. mspecialbrewco.com

8/1-8/2:

7/31-8/1: Maverick Saloon Fri.: TD Lind and the Aviators. Sat.: CRV. 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez. 8:30-11:30pm. Free. Ages 21+. Call (805) 686-4785. mavericksaloon.com/event-calendar

7/31-8/1: Rooftop Bistro & Bar Fri.: Dom & Miles. Sat.: Do No Harm. 6878 Hollister Ave., Goleta. 4-8pm. Free. Call (805) 562-5996. rooftopgoleta.com/ upcoming-events

8/1-8/2: Cold Spring Tavern Sat.: The Winetones. Sun.: Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan. 5995 Stagecoach Rd. 1:30-4:30pm. Free. Call (805) 967-0066. coldspringtavern.com

8/1: Hook’d Bar and Grill Cowboy Diplomacy, 4-7pm. 116 Lakeview Dr., Cachuma Lake. Free. Call (805) 350-8351. hookdbarandgrill.com/ music-on-the-water

8/1: M.Special Brewing Co. (S.B.) Joyride. 634 State St. 8-10pm. Free. Call (805) 308-0050. mspecialbrewco.com

8/2: Solvang Festival Theater Salty Strings, 3-5pm. 420 2nd Street, Solvang $35. Call (805) 962-5339. solvangtheaterfest.org/show-listing

8/3: The Red Piano Church on Monday: The Nick Hame Band, 7:30pm. 519 State St. $5. Call (805) 358-1439. theredpiano.com

8/5: Susan Williams Music in the Park The Ripley’s, 5-8pm. Solvang Park, 1630 Mission Dr., Solvang. Free. Call (805) 688-0701. solvangcc.com/ music-in-the-park

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Sunday, September 20, 2026

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SATURDAY 8/1

8/1: Desmadre Media Presents: The Backyard Boogie! Fifth Annual Car Show and Night Market Esta velada cultural, dirigida a todas las edades, ofrecerá una noche dedicada íntegramente a los discos de vinilo, con puestos de comerciantes locales, una exposición de coches, arte, comida y bebida, y mucho más, con el fin de recaudar fondos para que S.B. CAW pueda seguir fomentando todas las formas de arte en la comunidad de S.B. Los beneficios se destinarán a SBCAW. This night of culture and event for all ages will offer all vinyl, all night; area vendors; a car show; art; food and drink; and more to raise funds for S.B. CAW to continue to grow all forms of the arts in the S.B. community. Proceeds go toward the CAW. 4-10pm. S.B. Community Arts Workshop, 631 Garden St. GA: free-$30; VIP: $50. Email info@desmadremundial.com sbcaw.org/upcoming

8/4: Music Academy Summer Festival 2026: Dreams of America Mosher Guest Artist Stephanie Blythe performs with select fellows in an all-American program of 1930s selections from the Great American Songbook and Tin Pan Alley, paired with Alan Louis Smith’s Vignettes: Ellis Island. 7:30pm. Hahn Hall, Music Academy, 1070 Fairway Rd. $10-$80. Call (805) 969-8787. musicacademy.org/calendar

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8/1: Music Academy of the West Presents: The Only Way Is Through See the Christopher Cerrone West Coast Premiere of this immersive, outdoor musical performance, and free community event about his experience as a new parent and Robert Frost’s poem “A Servant to Servants” performed by percussion fellows and members of the Music Academy’s Sing! Youth Choir. 2-3pm. Michael Towbes Upper Plaza, S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free. Email libraryadmin@ santabarbaraca.gov tinyurl.com/MAW-Library

SUNDAY 8/2

8/2: Music Academy of the West Presents Free Community Concert: Brass @ the Bandshell: All-American Fanfare Join for family activities such as an instrument exploration station, games, and food trucks at noon followed by a concert from the brass fellows who will perform an array of works by American composers. Noon: family activities; 1pm: performance. Plaza del Mar Band Shell, 23 Castillo St. Free Call (805) 969-8787. tinyurl.com/Brass-BandShell

8/2: Dance Masterclass with Gianna Burright Whether you’re stepping into a dance class for the first time or have years of movement experience, you are invited to this contemporary master class led by internationally acclaimed choreographer Gianna Burright. Donation proceeds go toward development and future performances. 4:30-6pm. Ojai Art Center, 113 S. Montgomery St., Ojai. Donation-based: $45-$175. Email giannaburright@gmail.com giannaburright.com/events

MONDAY 8/3

8/3: Sutter Health Kitchen Virtual Class: Confidence in the Kitchen: Planning, Shopping & Cooking for Success Learn how to plan meals for yourself and your family, understand nutrition labels and health claims, food shopping strategies, and cooking tips to get the most out of what you eat. Call to register. 5:30-7pm. Zoom. Call (805) 681-7522. tinyurl.com/Kitchen-Confidence

TUESDAY 8/4

8/4: Community Conversation: Degrowth and Climate Justice: A Community Q&A Join for an engaging community conversation and Q&A that will explore the connections between degrowth, postgrowth, and climate justice. Examine how the current economic systems contribute to climate change, then discuss alternative approaches that support ecological balance and community well-being. 6:30-8pm. CEC Environmental Hub, 1219 State St. Free. Email kking@ cecmail.org cecsb.org/events

8/3-8/5: Gallery 113 August Exhibit: SAD (survival amongst distress) See works from artist Jerry Martin that focus on societal issues such as homelessness, Ukraine, separation/deportation, and ICE with the aim to inspire thoughtful consideration for improvement. The exhibit shows through August 30. Thu.-Sat., Mon.-Wed.: 11am-5pm; Sun.: 11am-2pm. Gallery 113, 1114 State St., La Arcada Court. Free. Call (805) 965-6611. tinyurl.com/Jerry-Martin

8/5: S.B. Library Pet Loss and Grief Support Group Join the Library and dog behavior professional Joan Hunter Mayer for a compassionate and nonjudgmental space (peer support, not therapy) where participants can process anticipatory grief, navigating a sudden loss, processing a euthanasia decision, or healing from a traumatic loss. Children under age 18 can attend with an adult. Held every Wednesday through December 2. Registration is required. 5:30-6:30pm. S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free. Call (805) 962-7653. tinyurl.com/Support-Grief

8/5: Bingo for Baddies! If you are a newbie or seasoned bingo pro, join for a night of laughs, fun, and fierce (familyfriendly) bingo action! Prizes range from merch to gift cards and more! Receive a bonus board If you are an educator! 6:30-8:30pm. Lama Dog Uptown, 3435 State St. Free. Email bearcavecomedy@gmail.com tinyurl.com/Baddies-Bingo

“Carnage” by Jerry Martin

¡VIVA LA FIESTA!

7/31: Fiesta Paper Flowers Workshop Learn to create beautiful paper flowers perfect for wearing in your hair, decorating your home, or pinning to your favorite Fiesta outfit. No experience necessary materials will be provided. EE Makerspace, Art from Scrap, 302 E. Cota St. $25$30. Ages 13+. Call (805) 884-0459. exploreecology.org/calendar

7/30: Fiesta in Montecito This inaugural celebration will feature flamenco and folklorico dance, music, mariachis, and more! 4:30-6:30pm. 1187 Coast Village Rd., Montecito. Free. Call (805) 962-8101 or email info@sbfiesta.org. sbfiesta.org/fiesta-events-calendar

7/31: SAFE S.B. County’s Fiesta de Fuego! Fiesta for Good! Dress in your Fiesta or Western best and enjoy a Mexican dinner, drinks, whiskey tasting, a cigar roller, mariachi music, craft your own Fiesta floral headpiece, a best costume contest, and more. Ticket sales will benefit the SAFE SBC’s efforts to eradicate human trafficking and exploitation. 5-10pm. Location given after ticket purchase. $300. Ages 21+. Email admin@safesbc.org tinyurl.com/Fiesta-Fuego

8/5: S.B. County Courthouse Fiesta Tours Meet in the Mural Room for a one-hour docent-guided tour of this beautiful Spanish-Moorish Historic Landmark. Tours take place every hour between 10:30am and 3:30pm. Fiesta Tours go through Sunday, August 9. S.B. County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa St. Free. Call (805) 962-6464. sbfiesta.org/events-calendar

8/5: El Mercado de la Guerra Stroll through a colorful Mexican market (across from City Hall) to enjoy the tastes of Spanish and Mexican American foods, shop for crafts and souvenirs, and live entertainment through Sunday, August 9. 11am-10pm. De la Guerra Plaza, 8 E. De la Guerra St. Free. Call (805) 962-8101 or email info@sbfiesta.org sbfiesta.org/events-calendar

8/5: La Fiesta Pequeña/Little Fiesta Be a part of the official opening of Old Spanish Days Fiesta at the “Queen of the Missions” with a program of traditional songs and dances from Californios Spirit. Bring blankets and low chairs for Rose Garden seating. 8-10pm. Old Mission Santa Barbara, 2201 Laguna St. Free. Call (805) 962-8101 or email info@sbfiesta.org sbfiesta.org/ events-calendar

HANDS-ON | MINDS-ON | HEARTS-ON Fall & Winter Camp Registration Open Now!

Ages 4 –12 | September–February sbnature.org/natureadventures

Los Baños del Mar

Recreation swim hours: Mon.-Fri.: 2:15-3:45pm. 401 Shoreline Dr.

Oak Park Wading Pool

Children ages 7 and younger. Open daily, noon-5pm. 502 W. Alamar Ave.

Ortega Park Swimming Pool

Children ages 13 and younger and their caregivers. Recreational swim: Mon-Fri.: 12:30-2:30pm and Sat.: noon-5pm. 604 E. Ortega St. tinyurl.com/Summer-Pools

Various levels, dates, and times through Aug. 14. Low-cost group swim lessons ($60-$65) will be offered at Los Baños del Mar and Ortega Park Pool throughout the summer for children ages six months–12 years. Register online. tinyurl.com/Swim-Lessons-2026

Clases de natación en Los Baños del Mar y el Parque Ortega Diferentes niveles, fechas y horarios hasta el 14 de agosto. Durante todo el verano se impartirán clases de natación en grupo a precios reducidos (entre 60 y 65 dólares) en Los Baños del Mar y en la piscina del Parque Ortega para niños de entre seis meses y 12 años. Inscríbete en línea. tinyurl.com/Swim-Lessons-2026

Ciudad

Los Baños del Mar: Horario de natación recreativa, de lunes a viernes: 2:15-3:45pm.

The Oak Park Wading Pool: Niños menores de siete años. Abierta todos los días, de 12-5pm. 502 W. Alamar Ave.

Ortega Park Swimming Pool: Natación recreativa: de lunes a viernes: de 12:30-2:30pm y los sábados: de 12-5pm. 604 E. Ortega St. tinyurl.com/Summer-Pools

Summer Meals 2026

LUNCH AT THE LIBRARY 2026

Children and teens ages 0-18 can eat a free, nutritious meal (first-come, first-served) Monday through Friday, June 15-August 14, noon-1pm and stay for special events. Faulkner Gallery, S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Call (805) 962-7653 or email info@sbplibrary.libanswers.com. tinyurl.com/Library-Meals-2026

ALMUERZO EN LA BIBLIOTECA

Los niños y adolescentes de 0 a 18 años pueden comer una comida nutritiva gratis (por orden de llegada) de lunes a viernes, del 15 de junio al 14 de agosto, del mediodía a la 1 p.m. y quedarse para eventos especiales. Faulkner Gallery, Biblioteca Central de S.B., 40 E Anapamu St. Llame al (805) 962-7653 o envíe un correo electrónico a info@sbplibrary. libanswers.com tinyurl.com/Library-Meals-2026

BUELLTON, GOLETA, CARPINTERIA, AND LOMPOC 2026 SUMMER MEAL SITES

Visit the website for locations. Visita la página web para ver las ubicaciones. No application is necessary, and all children and teenagers under 18 can enjoy one free breakfast and lunch per day. Meals must be eaten on-site. Text “Food” or “Comida” to 304-304. No es necesario presentar ninguna solicitud, y todos los niños y adolescentes menores de 18 años pueden disfrutar de un desayuno y un almuerzo gratis al día. Las comidas deben consumirse en el local. Envía un mensaje de texto con la palabra “Food” o “Comida” al 304-304. tinyurl.com/2026-Summer-Meal-Sites

S.B. UNIFIED SUMMER MEALS 2026

We will be serving free meals to kids 18 years and younger. Meals must be eaten on site. Call Matt Dittman at (805) 963-4338 x6387

Serviremos comidas gratuitas a niños y jóvenes de hasta 18 años. Las comidas deben consumirse en el local. Llame a Matt Dittman al (805) 963-4338, ext. 6387.

Cleveland Elementary (June 22-July 31) 123 Alameda Padre Serra.

Breakfast: 8-9am; lunch: noon-1pm.

Franklin Elementary (June15Aug. 7) 1111 E. Mason St. Breakfast: 8-9am: lunch: 11:30-1:30pm.

Harding Elementary (June 22-July 31) 1625 Robbins St. Breakfast: 8-9am: lunch: 11:30am12:30pm.

Monroe Elementary (June 22-July 31) 431 Flora Vista Dr. Breakfast: 8-8:30am: lunch: noon-1pm.

La Cuesta Continuation High School (LCHS) (June 15-July 2) 710 Santa Barbara St. Breakfast: 8:15-8:30am; lunch: 11:30am-noon.

La Cumbre Jr. High (June 22-July 17) 2255 Modoc Rd. Breakfast: 8-8:30am; lunch: 12:30-1pm.

San Marcos High School (June 15-July 17) 4750 Hollister Ave. Breakfast: 8-8:30am; lunch: 11:30am12:30pm.

S.B. High School (June 15-July 2)

700 E. Anapamu St. Breakfast: 8-8:30am; lunch: 11:30am12:30pm.

Oak Park (June 15-Aug. 7) 638 W. Junipero St. Lunch: 11:30am-1:30pm.

Ortega Park (June 15-Aug. 7) 604 E. Ortega St. Lunch: 1-2pm.

UNITED BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF S.B. COUNTY (SFSP)

Free meals will be available to all children ages 18 and younger without eligibility documentation at participating throughout the summer. Breakfast is served from 8:30 am-9:30 am and lunch will be served from 12:30 pm-1:30 pm. Call (805) 681-1315. Durante todo el verano, se ofrecerán comidas gratuitas a todos los niños menores de 18 años sin necesidad de presentar documentación que acredite su derecho a ellas en los centros participantes. El desayuno se sirve de 8:30 a 9:30 de la mañana y el almuerzo, de 12:30 a 1:30 de la tarde. Llame al (805) 681-1315.

Buellton Club (July 13-31) 595 2nd St., Buellton, CA., 93427

Lompoc Boys & Girls Club (June 8-July 31) 1025 W. Ocean Ave., Lompoc, CA. 93436

Westside Boys & Girls Club (June 15-Aug. 7) 602 W. Anapamu, Santa Barbara, CA. 93101

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the CALIFORNIA COASTAL COMMISSION will hold a virtual public hearing starting at 9:00 am, Thursday, August 13, 2026

The Coastal Commission meeting will be a hybrid meeting occurring both inperson and virtually through video and teleconference. Please see the Coastal Commission’s Virtual Hearing Procedures posted on the Coastal Commission’s webpage at www.coastal.ca.gov/mtgcurr.html for details on the procedures of this hearing. If you would like to receive a paper copy of the Coastal Commission’s Virtual Hearing Procedures, please call 415-9045202. The in-person hearing will be held at Scotts Valley Hilton, located at 6001 La Madrona Drive, Santa Cruz, CA 95060.

The public hearing will act on the following items of local interest:

Item Th11a: County of Santa Barbara Local Coastal Program Amendment No. LCP-4-STB-25-0015-1-Part B (ADU Ordinance) Concurrence with the Executive Director’s determination that the request by County of Santa Barbara to amend the Implementation Plan/Coastal Zoning Ordinance (LIP/CZO) portions of its certified LCP to modify existing provisions and development standards relating to ADUs to conform to new state housing law, is de minimis.

Item Th11b: County of Santa Barbara LCP Amendment No. LCP-4-STB25-0052-2 (Mobile Home Overlay/Emergency Shelters) Concurrence with the Executive Director’s determination that the request by the County of Santa Barbara to amend the Implementation Plan/Coastal Zoning Ordinance (IP/CZO) portion of its certified Local Coastal Program to: (1) add a Senior Mobile Home Park Overlay and a Mobile Home Park Overlay with associated development standards; and (2) amend the definitions of “emergency shelter” and “low barrier navigation center” and add objective development standards for emergency shelters, is de minimis.

Check the Coastal Commission’s website for the staff report and more meeting information at www.coastal.ca.gov/mtgcurr.html

Goleta Boys & Girls Club (June 8-Aug. 7) 5701 Hollister Ave., Santa Barbara, CA. 93117

Carpinteria Boys & Girls Club (June 15-Aug. 7) 4849 Foothill Rd., Carpinteria, CA. 93013

Let's go to the Movies! let's go to the Movies!

7/31: The 17th Annual Asian American Film Series (AAFS): The Mochi Movie See the documentary film directed by Sky Bergman that explores the Japanese New Year tradition of mochitsuki (pounding cooked rice into mochi) followed by a Q&A with the director and an outdoor reception. 6pm. The Alhecama Theatre, 215A Canon Perdido St. $5 suggested donation. Call (805) 965-0093. sbthp.org/aafs

7/30: Goleta Valley Library Film Club: A Minecraft Movie See this 2025 adventure (rated PG) that follows four misfits that are pulled through a mysterious portal to a bizarre cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. 1pm. Solvang Library, 1745 Mission Dr., Solvang. Free. Call (805) 688-4214. tinyurl.com/Movie-Minecraft

7/31: UCSB Arts & Lectures Presents: Misfits & Mixtapes: Rushmore See this 1999 comedy (rated R) directed by Wes Anderson that follows a teenager at Rushmore Academy named Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman in his film debut), his friendship with rich industrialist Herman Blume (Bill Murray), and their shared affection for an elementary school teacher, set to a soundtrack of classic British Invasion tunes. Bring breathable blankets, low chairs, a picnic, and friends! 8:30pm. Sunken Gardens, S.B. County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa St. Free. Call (805) 893-3535. artsandlectures.ucsb.edu/events-tickets

8/5: Metro Summer Kids' Movies at Camino Real Cinemas: Sonic the Hedgehog 3 See this 2024 movie (rated PG) that follows Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails as they reunite against a powerful new adversary, Shadow, a mysterious villain with powers unlike anything they have faced before. 10am. Camino Real Cinemas, 7040 Marketplace Dr., Goleta. $2. Call (805) 968-4140. metrotheatres.com/metro-summer-kids-movies

8/1: Arlington Theatre Presents Spidey Bash Celebrate the open ing of Spider-Man: Brand New Day with a kids’ station with activi ties, trivia, photo op backdrops, a goody bag, a voucher for a Spider-Man kids’ size collector’s bucket and cup combo with popcorn and a soft drink, and cocktails/ mocktails (movie ticket not included). 4-6pm. The Arlington Courtyard Patio, 1317 State St. Free-$20. Call (805) 963-9580. tinyurl.com/Spidey-Bash

GALLERY JOSEPHINE OPENS IN FORMER VICTOR THE FLORIST FLOWER SHOP

JOSEPHINE TOURNIER INGRAM REPURPOSES SPACE FOR HER ART AND COMMUNITY

by Anya McCue

On the corner of Anapamu and Santa Barbara streets, across from the courthouse, a beautiful pink building with scalloped awnings was home to Victor the Florist from the 1930s until it closed in 2020. Instead of allowing the pink paint to fade, artist Josephine Tournier Ingram has opened her dream gallery venue and studio, both preserving the building’s iconic facade and spearheading her own community space called Gallery Josephine. In July, Gallery Josephine participated in its first Santa Barbara 1st Thursday Art Walk and was featured on the cover of the official Art Walk Passport map.

“I feel really fortunate. I didn’t think I’d ever be able to have my own gallery. It was all kind of a pipe dream. My husband’s been really supportive. He’s like, ‘Even if you don’t sell anything, at least you’ve created your dream, and that’s worth it,’ ” said Ingram. She is excited at the prospect of hosting events with other people and organizations. Though Ingram plans to continue using the space as a private studio and a place to show her art, she said, “I can see it being a part of the community and thinking of it as more like a shared space…. I hope to be here as long as Victor the Florist. I love being part of this community here.”

Originally from Colorado, Ingram moved to Santa Barbara to attend Westmont, where she began her art career and graduated as their first graphic design focused art major. From there, Ingram pursued her interest in graphic design at Powell-Peralta Skateboards, where she worked on skateboard graphics and logos and designed their first female-led line featuring athletes such as Bethany Hamilton. Later, Ingram also founded the clothing

brand Ecozuzu and served as an adjunct professor of graphic design and art.

About 12 years ago, Ingram began focusing her entire attention on fine art, especially using acrylic paints. “I love that acrylic dries quickly, and a lot of my art is built over a long period of time, sometimes years,” she said. In fact, her interest in acrylics began with a revisitation of a painting called “La Vie En Rose” that she had painted in 2000. “It was terrible…. Honestly, painting was the one subject as an art major that I didn’t feel like I was good at, which is wild. I could not get my style…. I thought you just do a painting and you quickly do it it’s done. Now looking back, I’m like, ‘Oh, those are the base layers,’ you know?”

Ingram quickly found herself drawn to stylistic layering and texture in her abstract art.

“That style, I don’t know how it came to me. I think somehow also I had my second kid, and he’s super artistic, too…. Somehow, that coincided with almost like a renaissance for me of being able to pour out art.”

Though Ingram started creating this art just for herself, she posted on Instagram and began to receive commissions from

her friends. The word spread, and Ingram has been working on commission ever since. “It’s tricky because sometimes I’ll work on like five at a time. I don’t like wasting paint, so if I have extra paints, it’s almost like a compulsion. Like, okay, well, what am I going to paint? As far as commissions go, I’ve been able to time it out,” said Ingram.

From private Montecito homes to the annual Calm at Heart nonprofit auction, Ingram has been busy creating. Most of her paintings are inspired by nature from Colorado, Santa Barbara, or her extensive travels. She also loves to support local businesses by buying her materials from Art Essentials and frames from Distinctive Framing N Art.

After managing a melanoma skin cancer diagnosis and her grandfather’s passing at the start of the pandemic, Ingram decided to prioritize travel and art. “Life is so short; you never know how much time you have. Entering my forties, I’ve lost a couple friends. Just follow your dream if things align and you’re given the opportunity. If it works out, great. If it doesn’t, that’s okay too, because failure is not failure; it’s learning opportunities and experience…. Those are awesome textural experiences.”

Gallery Josephine, 133 E. Anapamu St.; @galleryjosephine

final summer show under the stars,

, will be groovin’ at the Solvang Festival Theater August 7-23. Created by Larry Gallagher, and on stage at the Marian Theatre in Santa Maria through August 2, this jukebox musical brings the soundtrack of the 1960s to the stage in a celebration of some of the era’s most influential female recording artists.

The six women in the cast play a handful of roles, including performing in the styles of vocalists such as Tina Turner, Mama Cass, and Janis Joplin. “We all have one main character,” says Sydni Abenido, “but some of us also turn into famous female singers.” Abenido describes the focus of this musical as aligning with one of the era’s most prominent cultural movements: female empowerment. “Women artists were on the rise and striving for equality,” she says. “I feel like that’s where this show hits the hardest highlighting where these women made an impact on the music industry.”

Africa Turner, who performs as Diana Ross and Aretha Franklin, echoes this idea by pointing out that many of these women were shaping their own destinies by taking more control in their careers than ever before. They became an inspiration to the women listening to them and following them in the media.

Beehive brings the sound and personality of the ‘60s, but also the look and energy of the era in this highvoltage dance extravaganza. The show is directed and choreographed by Keenon Hooks, a two-time veteran of the show. The lineup of songs, including hits such as Lesley Gore’s “It’s My Party,” Dusty Springfield’s “Son of a Preacher Man,” and Tina Turner’s “Proud Mary,” spans the variety of styles and genres of the decade into the early 1970s.

This is your last chance for theater under the stars until next June, so zip up your go-go boots, tease your hair, and enjoy Beehive in Solvang August 7-23.

See bit.ly/4hptPs2.

Artist Josephine Tournier Ingram

‘Beehive’

COURTESY PHOTOS

by Maggie Yates

PCPA’s

Beehive

The view of the courthouse from Gallery Josephine

MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST BRINGS TEENAGE STUDENTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD TO S.B.

BRAND-NEW HIGH SCHOOL INTENSIVE JOINS ACADEMY’S ANNUAL SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL & SCHOOL

by Callie Fausey

Even if kids have to be coerced to pick up an instrument, they might end up loving it.

At least, that was the case for two students in the Music Academy of the West’s brand new summer program, the High School Intensive (HSI).

Emmanuel Malpica, 17, a recent graduate of Santa Barbara High School, started playing violin around 4th grade. Back then, he said, he was really into sports.

“But my mom was like, ‘You should try this violin thing.’ And I tried it. And I wanted to quit,” he said. His mom’s condition: He had to break the news to his violin teacher himself. He was too shy to do it, so he just kept playing.

“I ended up having a passion for the violin,” he said, joking that he now thanks his mom for “forcing him” to play. The teacher who he couldn’t tell he wanted to quit, Kristine Pacheco-Bernt, was the one who encouraged him to apply for the High School Intensive.

It was a similar story for River Hicks, 18, who just graduated from Moorpark High School in Ventura County. Noting his lack of extracurriculars, his friends pushed him to join band in junior high. He picked a random instrument, the French horn, not knowing it is a notoriously difficult instrument to learn.

“For a long time, I hated it,” he said, “but over time, I fell in love with it. It inspired me to do better in school and apply myself in other parts of life.”

Both students who each belong to a youth orchestra had the chance to hone their craft over the course of the two-week, tuition-based High School Intensive. It brought together accomplished young musicians, ages 14 to 18, from all over the world to Santa Barbara to learn and play.

The program is the newborn sibling of the Music Academy’s 79-year-old Fellowship Institute for pre-professional musicians, together making up the academy’s 2026 Summer Music Festival & School.

The intensive ran from June 14-25, but will be an annual summer program going forward. It includes private lessons; chamber music coaching and performances; college readiness workshops; and studio classes, taught by experienced teaching artists. Woven in, too, are social experiences for the students to explore Santa Barbara.

“The festival’s High School Intensive expands the academy’s renowned training to students at a pivotal point in their artistic growth those beginning to shape their future paths,” said Shauna Quill, president and CEO of the Music Academy of the West.

“Our phenomenal teaching artists will work closely with these young artists to help guide their next steps,” Quill said. “It will also stand apart as one of the most distinctive high-level programs for high school musicians in the United States.”

According to the academy, the intensive fills a “vital gap” in West Coast classical music education, for musicians at a formative age to experience the “artistry, discipline, and inspiration that define the Music Academy.”

So what was a day in the program like? Besides breakfast and lunch, their schedules had vari-

ety students were exposed to different instruction modes and activities every day.

Malpica, a commuter student, said his most important lessons were in scales and double stops, as well as techniques to improve sounds with his bow.

He met young musicians from all over the world. He made a friend named Arlan, a student from Russia, who was “very into soccer” and kept his peers up to date on the World Cup. Other students he met were from Texas and China. “It was cool to see what it’s like to learn violin in a different part of the world,” he said.

One day, they had a ping-pong tournament. That really brought out the students’ competitiveness, he laughed.

The musical world right now is a competitive one itself, teachers explained to the students with full honesty. “They told us, ‘If you want to be a professional musician, you have to work really hard,’ ” Malpica recalled.

That didn’t deter him. “I definitely want to pursue violin and play in a professional orchestra,” he said. He said he left the intensive as a more confident musician.

“I definitely improved and learned a lot of new things that I would not have learned on my own even learning from my peers around me,” he said.

Hicks’s experience was slightly different, since he was a resident during the program and stayed at Westmont with the other out-of-town students. Scholarships helped make that happen, he said.

“Each day was exciting,” he recounted. “We’d do everything music for the first part of the day.”

But after the final rehearsal at the end of the day, the resident students would let loose, through beach days, concerts with professional musicians, master classes, and even a cruise.

“It was really great to be surrounded by like-minded people. I was able to make a lot of friends and bond with a lot of people,” Hicks said.

He will be going to UC Los Angeles to study music in the fall.

“HSI reaffirmed everything I was thinking about how music is amazing and its what I want to pursue,” he said.

Besides the cruise, Hicks’s favorite moment of the intensive was the Orchestra Finale, led by Maestro Miguel Harth-Bedoya. Students got a taste of what it is like to play in a fullblown, professional orchestra. This was Malpica’s favorite moment, too.

“I just kept thinking about how I am probably never going to play with the exact same group of people ever again,” Malpica said. “It felt like I was in a professional orchestra. Everyone knew what they were doing, and no one felt lost at all. I felt really privileged to play with them.” n

Maestro Miguel Harth-Bedoya conducts young musicians in the Music Academy of the West’s High School Intensive, including Santa Barbara High graduate Emmanuel Malpica (sitting right in front of maestro).

Students in the Music Academy’s High School Intensive got to explore Santa Barbara and go on fun excursions after the final rehearsal of the day.

GRAND, ADVENTURE-SEEKING PIANIST TAKES THE SPOTLIGHT

CONOR HANICK, VETERAN MAW FACULTY MEMBER, TAKES CENTER STAGE IN SAMUEL ADAMS’S PIANO CONCERTO

by Josef Woodard

Quietly yet steadily, without the usual bluster of music world hype, pianist Conor Hanick has been finding his place in ever brighter spotlights of late. He has been a summering presence in town for years, on the faculty of the Music Academy of the West (MAW) since 2012 and now with a deepening role with the titles of Piano Department Chair and “Creative and Artistic Advisor.”

His stock in the realm of world class pianists with a special cache in contemporary music has also found him in some lofty places. One was at the globally prestigious Ojai Music Festival (OMF) this June, where he premiered and performed solo piano music by two of our greatest living composers, John Adams and Esa-Pekka Salonen, this year’s music director at the OMF. Hanick has been a repeat performer in Ojai in recent years, as a featured player in 2023, when the Boston-based contemporary music consortium AMOC “ran amok” as music directors at the festival.

And even closer to the heart of the 805, Hanick will play the starring role in the Music Academy’s orchestral concert at The Granada Theatre on Saturday, August 1, when he will take the soloist hot seat to perform Samuel Adams’s Piano Concerto No Such Spring, written for Hanick and premiered with the San Francisco Symphony in 2023.

We checked in with the pianist for an update on his world, and musical worldview.

One of the concert events of great interest this summer is your performance of Samuel Adams’s new Piano Concerto, No Such Spring. What can you tell us about this piece, and about your experience giving that piece’s premiere? Sam’s piece is remarkable, a watershed in his output, I think. He started the piece during the pandemic and although it doesn’t have a strict program, No Such Spring is clearly channeling that period’s deep sense of crisis, anxiety, violence, and uncertainty.

There’s also a delicate, fragile intimacy and tenderness to the piece that for me is the core around which all other elements swirl. I’ve been the fortunate recipient of a lot of incredible music over the years, and Sam’s piece with its pristine craft, tailor-made pianism, and expressive honesty is among the great gifts of my musical life.

At your master class a few weeks ago, I was impressed at how you diplomatically and philosophically worked with the piano fellows. Of course, these musicians are already at a very high level. Do you see your work as a matter of refining and helping them to

define their approach to material that they can already play technically well? Teaching a group of students for six weeks at a summer festival is a very different thing than teaching someone for the duration of a music degree. All of them need slightly different types of input, and you of course cater to those needs.

But I try to avoid being a sort of musical car mechanic for six weeks, where I’m just tinkering under the hood trying to fix this or that problem. I think it’s more meaningful to pan out, widen the aperture of their considerations, and be in a space where “why” questions come before “how” questions.

You have been with the Music Academy faculty since 2012 and are now taking on an increasing presence in terms of planning and programming. This is an exciting time of growth, with the Muse project in the works. Do you have any general plans for what you’d like to achieve in your role? It’s a tremendously exciting time for the Academy, with our 80th anniversary approaching and the planning of a new downtown building. These milestones have given us an opportunity to reflect on our founding values and rich legacy but also ask how we build on those values and shepherd the Academy into a new future.

For me, it begins with teaching and creating opportunities for our vast community of fellows, alumni, faculty, and listeners to engage meaningfully with the creative act of music-making. From there, artistic planning doesn’t become easy, per se, but the decision-making benefits from the guidance of a bright North Star.

See Conor Hanick perform with the Academy Festival Orchestra on Saturday, August 1, 7:30 p.m., at The Granada Theatre (1214 State St.). See musicacademy.org. For a fuller version of the interview, see Independent.com.

Wednesday 08/05/26

4:15-4:45pm Natalie & Anthony

5:00-5:30pm JUAN D. MENDOZA

6:00-7:00pm Carmen & The Renegade Vigilantes

7:30-8:30pm SOUL KOOL

9:00-10:00pm HEART and SOUL

Thursday 08/06/26

4:15-4:45pm ALBERTO ACUÑA

5:00-5:30pm GRUPO RELAJO

6:00-7:00pm HALCONES del BAJIO

7:30-8:30pm BANDA TIERRA NUEVA De SANTA MARIA, CALIFORNIA

9:00-10:00pm BANDA LA VENENOSA

Friday 08/07/26

4:15-4:45pm TRIXICO

5:00-5:30pm That Girl & The Laid Backs

6:00-7:00pm GRUPO RADIANTE De Fausto Cruz

7:30-8:30pm MEZCAL MARTINI

9:00-10:00pm FALSE PUPPET

Saturday 08/08/26

4:15-4:45pm LOS DE LA EMPRESA

5:00-5:30pm GRUPO LA X-ELENCIA

6:00-7:00pm LOS BITACHES

7:30-8:30pm EL JONA y su BANDA LA CODICIADA

9:00-10:00pm SPENCER THE GARDENER

*As of Monday, July 27, 2026. Schedule is subject to change. Visit www.sbﬁesta.org for updates.

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How to Live Fully, Love Deeply, and Say Goodbye

Owen Bailey met Laurie in December 1989 when she was 22 years old and was beginning the MFA theater program at the University of Connecticut. Owen was a senior. Together, they left after a year to work at a small regional theater near Portsmouth, New Hampshire, producing a play each month. It was a bohemian, romantic life filled with creativity, ambition, friendship, and just enough macaroni and cheese to sustain two young actors chasing their dreams. Their shared passion for storytelling eventually took them to New York City, London, and finally Los Angeles, where Owen discovered his true calling as an environmental advocate. Laurie moved behind the camera and built a career in photography. Together, they raised two children while balancing careers, family, and a shared desire to make a positive impact on the world.

families facing serious illness, death, and grief.

Their first meetings focused on practical and emotional needs they had never imagined confronting, including advance care planning and how to talk with their children about a terminal diagnosis. The organization helped them prepare for the difficult conversations while offering counseling and resources for the entire family.

Nationally, one in five children will experience the death of someone close to them by age 18, and one in 20 will experience the death of one or both parents before reaching adulthood. While illness, death, and grief are universal parts of life, they can become overwhelming and even paralyzing without professional support. For children and teens, unresolved grief is strongly linked to depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, and other emotional and behavioral challenges.

A Family Finds Solace and Support Through Hospice of Santa Barbara’s Children and Family Services

by Christopher Davis

In 2013, Owen accepted the role of executive director of the Environmental Defense Center in Santa Barbara. The family embraced life on the Central Coast, spending weekends exploring Ellwood Mesa, hiking local trails, and enjoying the beaches Owen loved. It was a busy, joyful, and deeply fulfilling chapter of their lives.

Everything changed in January 2017, when a lump in Owen’s neck led to a cancer diagnosis. Specialists at UCLA assured them the disease was treatable, a “bump in the road.” Owen endured a difficult surgery followed by intensive radiation treatments. He lost nearly 30 pounds and struggled to eat or swallow for weeks, but he persevered. By December 2017, he was declared cancer-free.

Then, in May 2019, a routine scan revealed metastatic cancer in his lungs.

The diagnosis shattered the future Owen and Laurie had spent decades building together. Their children were only 9 and 1 years old. Overnight, every assumption was replaced by uncertainty. The prognosis was sobering: Metastatic head and neck cancer was considered incurable, and average survival rates were often measured in months rather than years.

Two things ultimately helped the family navigate that terrifying period: finding Dr. Ezra Cohen at Moores Cancer Center in San Diego and connecting with Hospice of Santa Barbara (HSB).

Like many people, Owen and Laurie had associated hospice solely with end-of-life care. In reality, they discovered that HSB’s Children and Family Services program provides free professional support, counseling, education, and coping tools for children, teens, and

HSB also helped Owen and Laurie reframe their experience. Rather than allowing cancer to define every aspect of their lives, they learned how to continue creating meaningful moments and positive memories together. They discovered that acknowledging the reality of a terminal diagnosis did not mean surrendering hope, joy, or purpose hope simply took on a different form. Then, as the COVID-19 pandemic began, those fears were compounded by a global crisis. Owen’s lungs were already compromised, and the family suddenly found themselves isolated while facing both a public health emergency and a terminal illness.

When in-person support became impossible, HSB continued meeting with the family virtually. During this time, Owen and Laurie were paired with counselor Marilyn Goldman. The weekly sessions became a lifeline. Some were filled with fear and tears, others with laughter and honest conversation about life, illness, and parenting through uncertainty. Marilyn helped them stay grounded in the present, offering tools to resist being consumed by “what if” thinking and to remain connected to one another as a family.

When Owen required 10 days of radiation treatment in San Diego during lockdown, the family rented a modest Airbnb and called it their “Radiation Vacation.” Between treatments and online school, they explored beaches, shared meals, and created lasting memories. Their children still associate San Diego not with illness, but with time spent together as a family.

Through the Children and Family Services program, their daughter participated in approximately six months of individual counseling, gaining a safe and confidential space to express fear, sadness, anger, and confusion without judgment. At a time when many children struggle to name or process such emotions, she was given tools to understand and navigate her experience.

She also received support through HSB’s schoolbased program during her junior year of high school, helping her remain supported through both academic and emotional challenges. The impact of that care continues today: Their son now volunteers with the

Kesem program at UCSB, a student-led nonprofit that supports children affected by a parent with cancer. By spring 2022, the focus shifted toward ensuring Owen’s final wishes were honored. He did not want to die in a hospital. Laurie wanted to remain by his side. With guidance, the family navigated these deeply difficult conversations and decisions together.

Owen died at home, surrounded by Laurie, his children, his parents, and the life he had built. His final days unfolded in the place he loved, next to his garden, peach trees, butterflies, birds, and the people who mattered most to him. Though heartbreaking, those final days were also marked by love, connection, and a sense of peace.

HSB helped the family understand that a meaningful death, like a meaningful life, deserves intention, care, and support. Laurie feared how they would survive the loss, but through counseling and support, she learned that grief cannot be rushed or avoided it must be lived through, with patience and compassion. Marilyn helped the family understand that each person grieves differently, and that there is no single right way to mourn. They created space for sadness, healing, and resilience without judgment or expectation.

Nearly four years after Owen’s passing, their son is preparing to graduate from college and their daughter from high school. Both are thriving while continuing to carry their father’s love and influence with them. They miss him every day, but they also carry forward the memories of a life deeply lived together.

For Laurie, grief still arrives in waves. Some days and months remain difficult. But she no longer fears those moments. Instead, she recognizes them as evidence of enduring love and a life shared for 33 years.

When she reflects on those final years, Laurie does not think only of illness. Instead, she remembers presence beach walks, family trips, conversations in parking lots, laughter in hard moments, and the memories they chose to keep creating together. Because of HSB, the story of those years is not defined solely by loss, but by connection, resilience, and love.

For that, Laurie remains profoundly and eternally grateful. n

Owen and Laurie Bailey

BEN BAILEY

Gator Boy Rides Again

Gator Boy is back at Cajun Kitchen.

The popular brunch spot just reopened its original Goleta location (6831 Hollister Avenue) with a revamped look, including a new set of murals by a familiar artist, Curt Crawshawa k a “Hello Coyote,” who brought back a long-lost character from Cajun Kitchen’s past.

Gator Boy’s story goes back to 201, when Cajun Kitchen’s co-owners Juan and Richard Jimenez commissioned Crawshaw to come up with a public piece of art to help them spruce up the identity for the family business that their father, Richard, Sr., had operated since the mid-’80s. Together, they decided on the iconic Gator Boy, a serious-faced young man sipping a steaming drink atop a scaly alligator.

The mural took up an entire outside wall of Cajun Kitchen’s downtown Santa Barbara location, and quickly became a hit with customers and passersby alike. But within a few months, the city caught wind of the technically unpermitted piece of art and asked the Jimenez family to take it down. After a long public battle and a community effort to save the mural, the city ordered Gator Boy removed in 2015.

When the Jimenez family began pursuing a renovation of their Goleta restaurant with a brand-new interior, they reached back out to Crawshaw’s design company, Foundation Press, to create an updated set of paintings.

Given the freedom to fill up the walls, Crawshaw and Foundation Press Manager Alex Ramirez dreamed up a design that would serve as a “visual love letter” to the history of Goleta, Isla Vista, and Cajun Kitchen itself.

The set of paintings in the redesigned entrance is full of fun characters, local references, and nods to the Central Coast, from two sunglass-wearing “over-easy eggs” in a set of beach chairs to a view of Campus Point and the Channel Islands to the centerpiece: a grown-up version of Gator Boy.

In this updated version, which Crawshaw calls “Gator Boy 2.0,” the once-serious-faced boy is at least a decade older, smiling wide, and holding a cowboy hat high over his head. He’s clearly been doing a lot of riding in the years he’s been gone.

“Gator Boy is alive and well in the Goodland; and he’s all grown up,” Crawshaw said.

The Foundation Press team spent long hours installing the new pieces, which keeps close to Crawshaw’s signature style, taking cues from California beach and skate culture, tattoo flash, and street art. The design team also hopes the murals can help bring renewed attention to Cajun Kitchen’s first Goleta location, which was closed for more than a year to allow for the remodeling work.

“A tremendous amount of love and care went into the artwork with the hope that both locals and visitors alike will find joy, nostalgia, and a deeper connection to the Goleta community,” Ramirez said.

Cajun Kitchen’s Goleta location (6831 Hollister Ave.) is open daily from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. See cajunkitchencafe.com.

Cajun Kitchen Reopens Hollister Location with Familiar Mural

by Ryan P. Cruz

of the mural at Cajun Kitchen’s Hollister location, Gator Boy is now a little older.

Artist Curtis Crawshaw a k a Hello Coyote

FOOD& DRINK

Eating Her Way Through Santa Barbara

With @andieatssb, Andi Schloss Shines a Spotlight on Santa Barbara Restaurants, the People Behind Them, and the Community They Nourish

by Tiana Molony

When Andi Schloss and her family lost their Santa Barbara home to a fire in September 2024, friends and family rallied around them in the most practical way they knew how: with food.

More specifically, they sent DoorDash gift cards.

“Just so much money in DoorDash gift cards,” joked Schloss. “It was insane.”

Schloss and her family quickly put the gift cards to use, eating out for most meals and exploring restaurants they otherwise might never have visited. Because, “when you have free money,” Schloss said, “it’s a lot easier to try new things.”

Before the gift cards, Schloss and her family stuck to a steady rotation of favorite restaurants. They would “get in a rut,” going to the same places “over and over again.” But as they ventured beyond their usual spots, they uncovered Santa Barbara eateries they hadn’t known about. Schloss began wondering why such great restaurants had slipped under the radar.

The experience sparked an unexpected mission: to share those discoveries and shine a light on restaurants she felt deserved more attention.

After talking with friends, Schloss dreamed up the concept of a casual, funny food page. About six months after the fire, in March 2025, and after the gift cards had finally run out, she officially launched her Instagram page, Andi Eats S.B., with the slogan: “Helping you find good grub in Santa Barbara.”

At the time, she was a stay-at-home mom who “never imagined becoming a food influencer.” She simply wanted to share what she had discovered. But before long, the account began gaining traction, with followers messaging her to say how much they appreciated her recommendations.

As her audience grew, so did the community around the page. She began meeting restaurant owners and connecting with fellow food lovers, sometimes even asking strangers out to lunch.

“I will never ever pass up an opportunity to meet different people,” she reflected.

For Schloss, food is merely the entry point; what she’s really collecting, she said, are stories, friendships, and community ties. She talks about “behind-the-scenes chefs” and exhausted restaurant owners with obvious affection, calling it “a beautiful experience to get to know these kinds of people.”

Schloss prefers to think of herself as a food reviewer rather than a seasoned critic. When evaluating a res-

taurant, she doesn’t rely on stars, scores, or criticstyle breakdowns. Instead, she pays attention to the details that shape the overall experience.

What makes a restaurant stand out to her is how staff treat their guests. She points to Pang Zi Noodle Shop, which has been a longtime favorite of hers and her family’s. She recalled a time when employees surprised her children with birthday presents. She also appreciates a thought ful menu. Often, she looks for a clear “hero” item: a dish the res taurant is genuinely known for and executes exceptionally well.

At Little King Coffee, for example, she’s a fan of the small but intentional menu, with the Valley Breakfast Sandwich and the blackberry toast standing out as two favorites.

Because many of her followers are families, she’s always considering whether a restaurant is kid-friendly or better suited for a kid-free date night. Altogether, she defines a good restaurant as one that is welcoming, consistent, and clear about what it does best while fitting realistically into the lives and budgets of “regular” people.

“I think the average family in Santa Barbara in my demographic of followers are going out to eat with their kids once or twice a week, so I want to provide an experience to do that,” she said.

While she’s not one to shy away from a swanky night out with her husband, Schloss generally doesn’t review “super fancy” restaurants.

“I’ll dabble in Montecito,” she said. “I just don’t think I can speak to the Michelin star restaurants in the way other food bloggers can.”

That philosophy also shapes how she approaches criticism. Rather than posting negative reviews, if she can’t be positive or highlight at least one good dish, she simply doesn’t post about the restaurant.

As she says, “Any press is not always good press for restaurants.”

For Schloss, the account has never been about turning

a hobby into a business. While the venture now occupies a significant amount of her time, it isn’t a paying job.

“My husband and I are very adamant about not getting paid to do this,” she shared. “Only because it would rob me of the joy of doing it.”

She’s still learning how to navigate the often-murky waters of social media, embracing the mistakes that come with it.

One lesson came a few months ago, after she posted a parody video with Juan Pedro Muñoz of Seoulmate Kitchen & Café. In the skit, Schloss happily films inside the restaurant before Muñoz appears to confront her, telling her she can’t record and implying she’ll be kicked out.

Many viewers never watched to the end to realize it was a joke and assumed the interaction was real. Some even called for people to boycott the restaurant.

The reel spread so widely amassing more than one million views that Schloss and Muñoz had to post follow-up videos explaining that it had been scripted.

Schloss wanted to use the opportunity to set the record straight:

“Once and for all. This was a joke. Don’t boycott Seoulmate.”

See @andieatssb on Instagram.

Andi Schloss of @andieats at The Neighborhood Grill

Sweetaly Gelato Grand Opening

Last June, reader Primetime first shared with our community that Sweetaly Gelato will be opening downtown in the former home of Tondi Gelato and Wetzel’s Pretzels. The dessert destination will celebrate the grand opening of its first California location with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Saturday, August 1, at noon at 401 Paseo Nuevo.

Founded in Salt Lake City in 2014, Sweetaly is a family-owned business dedicated to bringing authentic Italian gelato and the traditions of Italy to the United States. The company prepares fresh gelato daily using carefully selected ingredients and has built its reputation on quality craftsmanship and genuine Italian hospitality. The Santa Barbara shop is Sweetaly’s third location and marks a major milestone for the family-owned company.

“Opening Sweetaly in Santa Barbara is a dream many years in the making,” owner Francesco Amendola said in a statement. “Since opening our first shop in Utah over a decade ago, our goal has always been simple: serve authentic Italian gelato made with the finest ingredients and make every guest feel at home.”

His daughter, Sophie Amendola, said opening in Santa Barbara represents the family’s next chapter. “I’ve grown up watching our family’s passion turn into something people truly love,” she said. “I’m excited to welcome Santa Barbara with fresh gelato, warm hospitality, and a place where friends and families can create happy memories together.” Visit sweetaly.com

CUSO’S CREAMERY RELOCATES: Speaking of ice-cold desserts, reader Primetime also let me know that Cuso’s Creamery, which opened at 620 State Street in October 2024, has moved across the street to 609 State Street, to share space with Cuso’s Bikes, which is run by the same family. “Cuso’s Bikes has added his creamery operation and sandwiches under one roof at 609 State St. in downtown Santa Barbara,” says Primetime. “Dylan Mancuso says he’s enjoying the heat waves and the late evening nightlife customers that come in. He is keeping his other address across the street too. Stay tuned for more details.”

GOLETA CRUSHCAKES TRANSITIONS TO BAKERY: Crushcakes & Café is making a major change at its Goleta location at 5392 Hollister Avenue. Beginning July 27, the café will shift from a full-service restaurant to primarily a bakery, serving coffee, pastries, cupcakes, and grab-and-go items such as breakfast burritos, wraps, and granola parfaits. Owner Shannon Gaston says the change will allow the business to expand its wedding cakes, custom cakes, and catering operation, while also offering formal cake tastings at the Goleta store. The full breakfast and lunch menu will continue to be served daily at Crushcakes’ Santa Barbara location at 1315 Anacapa Street.

SILVERGREENS TEMPORARY CLOSURE: Reader Steve H. says that the new Silvergreens that recently opened at 1001 State Street is temporarily closed. The eatery posted a sign on the window that the reason was equipment failure and that you can still order food online for delivery. Visit silvergreens.com

TACO BELL TEMPORARY CLOSURE: Taco Bell at 821 North Milpas Street has also temporarily closed. I am told that they eatery is undergoing major renovations and that the downtime will be three to four months.

DOWNTOWN DEBUT: Sweetaly Gelato will celebrate the grand opening of its first California location on Saturday at 401 Paseo Nuevo. The family-owned business, founded in Salt Lake City in 2014, specializes in authentic Italian gelato made fresh daily and marks its third retail location overall.

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WEEK OF JULY 30

ARIES

(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): Aries artist Vincent van Gogh lived in Arles, France, for 15 months in 1888 and 1889. It was the most prolific time of his career. His buoyant genius overflowed, pouring out more than 200 paintings, including the lavish Sunflowers series. I suspect you will enjoy your own surge of splashy productivity in the coming months. It may not be as manically generative as van Gogh, though. I think your creativity will be rather relaxed and deeply healing. Start planning now for how you want to channel all this imaginative exuberance.

TAURUS

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In 1848, a Libra-born carpenter named James Marshall discovered a few glittering flakes of gold floating on the American River in California. His find ignited the Gold Rush, drawing hundreds of thousands of people westward. Alas, Marshall himself never became rich from the discovery, though many other people did. I’m hoping and predicting a different outcome when you locate treasure in the coming weeks, Libra. In this instance, you will share in the spoils.

SCORPIO

Mickey Flacks was a dogged advocate for affordable housing, among other progressive causes, so the Santa Barbara Independent launched the Mickey Flacks Journalism Fund soon after she died in 2020 to keep her work alive.

Thanks to her fellowship, our reporter Christina McDermott spends many of her waking hours trying to unravel Santa Barbara’s forbiddingly complex and expensive housing landscape. Christina McDermott

McDermott’s quest is only possible due to the generosity of our readers who have supported the Mickey Flacks Journalism Fund. Christina is on the job. We want to keep it that way. Please give generously.

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(Apr. 20-May 20): I invite you to clear out every fixed idea your mind carries about where you are “supposed” to be. Once you have made that inner space wide and uncluttered, begin a fresh inquiry into the nature of your real home. Use questions like these to navigate: (1) What’s the first place you think of when you come across the word “sanctuary”? (2) Which environments reliably bring out your brightest, truest qualities? (3) Do you have what you would call power spots? If so, how do they make you feel in your body and psyche? (4) Which locations on Earth fascinate you, even if you have never visited them? (5) Could there be a future dwelling that offers a more peaklevel experience of home than the familiar place where tradition now soothes you?

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20): The brain doesn’t literally multitask. It rapidly shifts attention between tasks, creating the illusion of simultaneity. For many people, each interchange costs mental energy and reduces efficiency. But some brains can switch faster with a lower energy cost, making them better at sustained task-switching. I’m sure you can guess the identity of the zodiac’s number-one task-switcher: you, of course! And the good news is that in the coming weeks, you will be even more adept than usual in wielding your superpower. One implication is that you will know when not to overdo it and when not to use it trivially. You will be a master of seamless, effective, and meaningful transitions.

CANCER

(June 21-July 22): Astronomers know that many stars don’t travel alone. Binary stars orbit each other for eons, their mutual gravity shaping each partner’s destiny. I propose we make this your featured metaphor in the coming months. It will be a favorable time to de-emphasize the notion that strength and creative power require complete autonomy. I suspect that flexible, spirited interdependence will generate far better results than lonely self-sufficiency. Which alliances and relationships will expand your orbit rather than shrink it? Invest in them.

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22): Neurologists say that when you vividly imagine performing an action such as shooting a basketball or playing piano, your brain activates many of the same networks it uses in real practice. In other words, mental rehearsal can measurably improve your actual performance. Many athletes use this trick. But here’s an interesting twist: Such visualizations work for emotional and social skills too. We can enhance our resilience and better regulate our moods if we practice doing so in the privacy of our imaginations. I bring this to your attention, Leo, because you’re in a period when your fantasy life has extra-robust practical power. I invite you to rehearse being who you want to be in the theater of your mind.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your assignment: Compose a vigorous prayer in which you ask life for something you fear you don’t deserve or are not supposed to want. What is the blessing, healing, or freedom that feels “too much,” “too selfish,” “too late,” or “too impossible” for you to yearn for? Name this prize and how you imagine it might allow you to give more, love more, or live more honestly. You could begin your appeal with these words: “Dear Great Mystery, I’m nervous about asking for this, but I will ask anyway,” and then let your heart speak without editing. Do this at least once every day for 10 days.

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The lyrebird can imitate almost any sound, including chainsaws, car alarms, camera shutters, and other birds’ songs. But they don’t just mimic sounds randomly. They compose elaborate performances, weaving a variety of imitations into complex acoustic tapestries. In a sense, they are remix artists. During the coming weeks, Scorpio, I hope you give yourself permission to resemble a lyrebird. Sample freely from everything you’ve absorbed. Weave your influences into new configurations. Express your imaginative concoctions of repurposed ideas and enchantments. The voice isn’t less yours because it borrows from other voices. Originality is in part about arrangement, not just source material.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Astronauts who have orbited Earth describe the “overview effect.” Viewing the entire globe from high above triggers rich epiphanies and cognitive shifts, providing a visceral sense of the planet’s fragility and unity. Borders dissolve. Conflicts seem absurd. I surmise you are ripe for a similar blessing, Sagittarius. You’ll be able to see your current dramas from expansive vantage points that make their true scale and significance obvious. Armed with these perspectives, you will naturally clarify your priorities and allow petty concerns to fade away.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You are the result of an ancestral crowd: two parents, four grandparents, and eight great-grandparents. Without these 14 lives weaving together in the precise ways they did, your unique destiny would never have taken shape. Their choices and challenges helped sculpt your gifts and your rough edges, your cravings and your turn-offs. The coming weeks will be a ripe astrological moment to get more intimate with this lineage. As you delve into your family’s stories, you may uncover vital clues for refreshing your views on dilemmas that have dragged on for a while. Are you daring enough to let your sense of “where I come from” evolve and, with it, your sense of what kind of future you want to create?

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): According to my investigations, there’s a place you need to go, but fear or timidity is holding you back. Where is it? Is it a physical location, a creative risk, a complicated conversation, or a spiritual threshold? Visualize it. Who would you be if you appeared there in your full glory? What do you worry might happen if you do? What interesting future might never bloom if you don’t? I hope you formulate a feisty plan. To begin, write these words: “If I decide to go there anyway, acknowledging my fear but not being controlled by it, what first step will I take and what help will I seek?”

PISCES

(Feb. 19-Mar. 20): Professional athletes sometimes talk about “winning ugly.” That’s when they achieve a victory even though they haven’t played their very best. I foresee you using that phrase for yourself soon, after you notch a less-than-pretty but undeniably real success. There’s another expression you might also exemplify, too: “ugly ripe.” Officially, it’s the name of luscious heirloom tomatoes whose lumpy, offbeat forms contrast with the smooth, bland specimens stacked in most supermarket bins. In the coming weeks, it will describe the nonstandard yet succulent flavor of your life.

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MANAGER, SOFTWARE Lifecycle sought by Karl Storz Imaging, Inc. in Goleta, CA. Lead, manage & hire for sw lifecycle functions. MS+3. Hybrid work schedule. $204,027‑$205,789.46/ yr. Apply to: taoperations@karlstorz. com (Reference Job Code: TC0803).

Manager, Software Lifecycle sought by Karl Storz Imaging, Inc. in Goleta, CA. Lead, manage & hire for sw lifecycle functions. MS+3. Hybrid work schedule. $204,027‑$205,789.46/yr. Apply to: taoperations@karlstorz.com (Reference Job Code: TC0803).

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ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR

CAMPUS DINING

Under the general supervision of the Administrative Payroll Manager, the Administrative Coordinator provides Retail Dining administrative support and coordination, along with project‑based support and coordination for the entire Campus Dining department. Projects range from administrative and analytical‑level work. Serves as a lead in the Retail Administrative unit, offering day‑to‑day support related to hiring, payroll, and personnel actions for over 400 student employees, and approximately 25 career employees. This role assists with the processing of time sensitive and complex payroll cases, working closely with campus partners as needed to meet deadlines. Utilizes independent judgment to prioritize tasks by planning, organizing and evaluating situations. Makes decisions, adjusts priorities, and responds with flexibility to requests. Analyzes and applies organizational and university policies and procedures to oversee a variety of ongoing administrative projects and initiatives. Reqs: High School Diploma or Equivalent combination of education and experience; 1‑3 yrs of experience in the following: Experience working in an office environment and demonstrated strong ability to use standard computer systems including email, Google Suite, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, etc); Demonstrated strong writing skills that reflect accuracy and effective written communication; Ability to analyze and provide recommendations; Demonstrated strong ability to multitask and prioritize effectively; Exhibits great attention to detail; Demonstrates initiative by proactively identifying opportunities to improve processes; Experience with effective communication and strong interpersonal skills to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing; Equivalent combination of education and experience. Notes: Satisfactory criminal history background check; Visa sponsorship is not available for this position; Hours may vary. Hiring/ Budgeted Hourly Range: $29.35/hr ‑ $34.46/hr. Full Salary Range: $29.35/hr ‑ $36.02/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open Until Filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu, Job # 87717.

ADMISSION AND IMMIGRATION SPECIALIST PROFESSIONAL AND CONTINUING EDUCATION

Under the general supervision of the Senior International and Business Development Manager (Public Education Specialist 4, PES4), the Admission and Immigration Specialist is responsible for assisting the PES4 in planning activities, admissions and immigration, and advising for international student programs. Is responsible for the admission and immigration process, including supporting students and off‑campus partners. Works on organizing international student events, including orientation and extra‑curricular activities. Provides general support to international students. Is primarily responsible for following all international student inquiries from application to immigration, including processing visas, working with agents, and maintaining accurate records of international student rosters and their status. Maintains documentation and trains Customer Service representatives on troubleshooting common issues. Works closely with the PES4 to manage the day‑to‑day operations associated with existing programs and courses, assists as needed with custom and special programs, interfaces with international students’ administrative staff and its support units to prevent and resolve problems related to course offerings, and oversees the general administration of assigned programs. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in a related area and / or equivalent experience / training; 1‑3 yrs Experience in working with students, including planning activities, visa processing, admission, advising, and immigration in educational programs; Demonstrated familiarity with student immigration and visa processes pertaining to international students and scholars; Experience with academic advising and student admission; Demonstrated multicultural competencies; ability to work with diverse populations; Demonstrated experience with MS Office Suite, Google Suite or equivalent; Demonstrated excellent interpersonal and writing skills for collegial and professional exchanges with diverse audiences including students, parents of students, professional organizations, faculty, and staff; Possess the capacity to work effectively and serve as the principal point of contact with campus departments, faculty, staff, and students concerning the Program; Experience with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software and/or ticketing systems; Demonstrated ability to develop budgets. Notes: Satisfactory criminal history background check; Must be a citizen or a lawful permanent resident of the United States. Pay Rate/ Range: The budgeted salary range that the University reasonably expects to pay for this position is $28.00 to $34.10/ hour. Salary offers are determined based on final candidate qualifications and experience; the budget for the position; and the application of fair, equitable, and consistent pay practices at the University. The full salary range for this position is $27.06 to $45.76/ hour. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex,

sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 8/7/26. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu, Job # 87715.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, TRANSPORTATION SERVICES

TRAN (TRANSPORTATION SERVICES)

Under the general direction of TPS Director, manages all business functions of Transportation Services. The department has nine FTE, an operating budget of approximately $2.5M, a campus fleet of approximately 400 vehicles, a fleet service garage and fleet fueling operations. Responsibilities include personnel supervision, financial and budget administration, vehicle accident claims, facilities and materiel management. Under the general direction of the TPS Director, provides system and database analysis and support to Transportation and Parking Services. Includes involvement in planning, design and implementation of databases and applications paying particular attention to how they relate to complex desktop and online legacy applications and databases.

Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/ training; 4‑6 yrs Management and supervision in fleet and auto tech shop management. Financial reporting and analysis skills; Progressively responsible supervisory experience; ability to effectively supervise assigned professional, technical and supervisory personnel; Solid interpersonal skills, service orientation, ability to multitask effectively in varied, high volume environments, judgement and decision‑making, reasoning, ability to develop original ideas to solve problems, and effective verbal and written communication skills; Knowledge of university policies and procedures; Demonstrated ability to develop and control operational budgets for multi‑functional programs. Demonstrated ability to analyze requirements for staffing, vehicles, and equipment, etc.; 4‑6 yrs of management and supervision in fleet and auto tech shop management. Financial reporting and analysis skills. Notes: Required to hold a valid driver’s license, have a driving record that is in accordance with local policies and procedures, and/or enroll in the California Employer Pull Notice Program; Satisfactory criminal history background check. Hiring/Budgeted Salary or Hourly Range: $90,000 to $125,000/year. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open Until Filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu, Job # 86769

ASSISTANT MANAGER, PERSONNEL AND PAYROLL

OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE VICE

The Assistant Manager, Personnel & Payroll serves as the subject matter expert for payroll, personnel, and timekeeping processes for student, staff, and academic employees for units supported by the Business Operations Team in the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost. Supervises UCPath transactors, approving position and job data requests, and advising on process, policy, and best practices. Supervises Timekeepers, supporting timecard sign off, and reviewing corrections. The Assistant Manager is responsible for managing payroll reconciliation and providing critical reporting on payroll‑related expenses. Oversees recruitment efforts, job description updates, and compliance with staffing and FTE policies. In addition, handles onboarding and offboarding processes, ensuring the completion of necessary documentation, system access, and equipment management. Supervising payroll and personnel staff, developing training programs, and participating in cross‑training for departmental flexibility are also key aspects of this role. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/ training; 3+ years of experience in higher education administration; 3+ years of demonstrated experience interpreting, applying, and accurately communicating policy and procedures; 3+ years of proven track record of solid communication and interpersonal skills to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing with diverse groups including staff, students, and senior level administrators; Demonstrated leadership ability to provide guidance, coaching and mentoring to professional and support staff; Experience with Google Workspace, MS Office Suite, and Zoom; Proven ability to adapt to changing priorities; Evidence of attention to detail, organizational skills, and ability to multitask in a high volume environment. Notes: Satisfactory criminal history background check.

Pay Rate/Range: The budgeted salary range that the University reasonably expects to pay for this position is $79,540 to $86,500/year. Full Salary Range: $73,800 to $131,200/yr. Salary offers are determined based on final candidate qualifications and experience; the budget for the position; and the application of fair, equitable, and consistent pay practices at the University. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 8/7/26. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu, Job # 87718.

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ASSISTANT PRODUCTION MANAGER

CAMPUS DINING

The Assistant Production Manager is responsible for the organization and placing of general food, meat, poultry and fish orders, menu organization and distribution. Shares responsibility to maintain quality food production, product freshness, sanitation, safety, equipment maintenance, customer service, and supervising production staff. Maintains vendor relations as well as receiving, distribution and storage of supplies. Assists in the planning and organization for production of numerous catering and special events and also conducts independent research for a variety of projects. Has responsibility for the morning custodial staff. Directs work and assigns job duties as required. Coordinates custodial duties with pm custodial staff. Supervises 2 staff members and, and supervises the facility in the absence of other managers. Serves as a key member of the Residential Dining Services Management team in Housing and Residential Services, sharing responsibilities for the overall dining program management. Goals are established in accordance with Dining Services’ vision and include the development and maintenance of a work environment for staff that is conducive to meeting the mission of the Dining Services Unit and the Department of Housing and Residential Services. Reqs: High School Diploma or Equivalent combination of education and experience. 1‑3 yrs Culinary experience in a high‑volume cooking environment/kitchen. Notes: Satisfactory criminal history background check; Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. Hiring/Budgeted Hourly Range: The budgeted salary range that the University reasonably expects to pay for this position is $27.55‑$33.66/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open Until Filled. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu, Job # 87684.

BEHAVIORAL HEALTH COUNSELOR

HUMAN RESOURCES, UC SANTA BARBARA

The Academic and Staff Assistance Program (ASAP) and its psychologists and other mental health providers provide the UCSB campus community with mental health and support services for faculty, staff and adult family members who are covered by UC insurance in the form of brief counseling and referral assistance, as well as psychological well‑being and workplace wellness programming. They also provide counseling that is delivered in a short‑term model with referrals to campus and community resources being an important component of therapeutic interventions and develop and deliver wellness programming in conjunction with supervisor. Licensed psychologists provide direct supervision to a part‑time practicum trainee. Reqs: PhD/PsyD/LMFT/ LCSW/LPCC in clinical or counseling psychology or social work; Must have a

California PhD, PsyD, LMFT, LCSW, or LPCC license at all times during employment in order to practice and function in this clinical role; 4‑6 years Experience in conducting evidence‑based assessment, crisis intervention, and short‑term counseling with adults; 4‑6 years Experience developing and delivering psychoeducational workshops; 4‑6 years Experience providing therapy and workshops in Spanish (Strongly preferred).

Notes: Maintains confidentiality and upholds the highest ethical and legal standards in all relevant aspects of ASAP work and related program activities. In the event of an emergency, the employee in this position may be required to report to duty in support of the campus’ emergency operations plan and/or the department’s emergency response and/ or recovery plans. During or immediately following a designated emergency, the employee will be notified to assist in the emergency response efforts, and mobilize other staff members if needed; Credential verification for clinical practitioner; Mandated reporting requirements of Child Abuse and Dependent Adult Abuse; Satisfactory criminal history background check. Hiring/Budgeted Salary or Hourly Range: $98,506.73 to $115,412.76/year. Full Salary or Hourly Range: $92,871.38 to $ $129,993.10/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 status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 8/10/26. Apply online at https:// jobs.ucsb.edu, Job #87701

DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT, ENGINEERING & SCIENCES

UCSB DEVELOPMENT

The Development Assistant serves as the primary initial contact for six Directors of Development in the Engineering and the Sciences Development Office and provides essential administrative and financial support that is critical to the successful operation of a complex fundraising program. This position would be assigned to at least three Directors but up to six. Assists the Directors with all aspects of analysis, planning and implementation strategies for the College of Engineering and the Division of Science, to support the research mission by securing support from private donors. This responsibility requires strong analytical skills as well as the ability to act professionally, independently, and exercise discretion and sound judgment. Also provides administrative support, which includes handling confidential, high profile, and time sensitive matters involving senior UC Santa Barbara administrators, faculty, staff, collaborating institutions and the donor community. Reqs: HS Diploma or equivalent combination of education and experience; excellent computer skills including proficiency in Word, Excel, Google Suite and demonstrated ability to quickly learn various software programs; excellent customer service skills are required, as is the ability to maintain confidentiality and act with discretion; exceptional verbal and interpersonal skills that foster positive relationships with diverse populations; strong organizational skills and unfailing attention to detail and accuracy combined with the ability to work under tight and shifting

deadlines. Notes: Satisfactory criminal history background check; may be called upon to work occasional evenings and weekends at various campus‑wide events. Hiring/Budgeted Salary Range: $29.35/hr to $30.73/hr. Salary offers are determined based on final candidate qualifications and experience; the budget for the position; and the application of fair, equitable, and consistent pay practices at the University. The full salary range for this position is $29.35 to $42.06/hour. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb. edu, Job # 87124.

DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONAL ALIGNMENT

FARM (FINANCE & RESOURCE MANAGEMENT)

The Director of Operational Alignment serves as a strategic leader advancing campus‑wide organizational transformation, operational modernization, and administrative effectiveness in support of the university’s academic, research, and public service mission. The Director leads initiatives related to financial sustainability, process simplification, operational alignment, and institutional scalability through integrated administrative models and standardized practices. The position’s initial focus will be supporting operational alignment and process streamlining associated with the university’s Financial Management Modernization (FMM) initiative. Responsibilities include assessing and redesigning administrative and business processes affected by FMM; coordinating cross‑functional alignment efforts; supporting organizational readiness and adoption; identifying opportunities for standardization and simplification; and establishing sustainable structures that maximize the project’s long‑term value. Working across academic and administrative units, the Director evaluates organizational structures, business operations, and service delivery models to improve efficiency, coordination, and institutional effectiveness. The position also leads efforts to reduce administrative complexity, strengthen resource stewardship, optimize workforce alignment, and enhance institutional resilience. The Director partners with university leadership, faculty governance, finance, human resources, research administration, information technology, and operational units to design and implement sustainable future‑state operating models. Using data analytics, financial modeling, process improvement methods, organizational assessment tools, and emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence and automation, the Director develops recommendations that advance modernization while preserving service quality and mission alignment. The Director also helps establish governance frameworks to monitor operational effectiveness, evaluate outcomes, address emerging institutional needs, and support continuous improvement across administrative and operational functions. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in business administration, public administration, Continued on p. 46

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higher education administration, organizational leadership, finance, or a related field. 7‑9 yrs experience in Progressively responsible professional experience in organizational effectiveness, operational strategy, administration, business operations, finance, institutional planning, or related leadership functions. Note: Satisfactory criminal history background check. The budgeted salary range that the University reasonably expects to pay for this position is $168,000 to $190,000/year. Salary offers are determined based on final candidate qualifications and experience, the budget for the position, and the application of fair, equitable, and consistent pay practices at the University. The full salary range for this position is $132,600 to $259,800/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu, Job # 87463

FINANCIAL ASSISTANT

DBFP (DFSS BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL PLANNING)

Under the general supervision of the Assistant Director of Financial Services, independently responsible for the processing, payment, and reconciliation of all accounts payable, accounts receivable, FlexCard, and deposit transactions for DFSS departments (Facilities Management, Design & Construction Services, Environmental Health & Safety, Associate Vice Chancellor, and Business & Financial Planning). Reqs: Strong oral and written communication skills; Strong organizational skills; Strong interpersonal skills for interacting with accountants and vendors; Proven ability to work effectively in a team environment; Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills; Ability to multi‑task in a high‑volume environment; Solid knowledge of University financial policies and procedures, including but not limited to travel, entertainment, misc. reimbursement, and purchasing; Must have good attention to detail; Knowledge of basic accounting principles; Proficient in MS Office programs. (High proficiency). Notes: Direct access to, or responsibility for, cash and cash equivalents or University property disbursements or receipts; Direct access to, or responsibility for, controlled substances or hazardous materials; Direct access to, and/or responsibility for, protected, personal, or other sensitive data; CANRA (U13): Mandated Child Abuse Reporter; Satisfactory criminal history background check. Hiring/Budgeted Hourly Range: $32.91 to $35.26/hour. The budgeted salary range that the University reasonably expects to pay for this position is $32.91 to $35.26/hour. Full Salary Range: $29.35 to $42.06/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open Until Filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu, Job # 87654.

GROUNDSKEEPER GROUNDS MAINTENANCE

Under the general supervision of the Grounds Superintendent or Sr. Lead Groundskeeper, the GROUNDSKEEPER maintains grounds and landscape duties around eight residence halls, four dining commons, and five residential apartment complexes. May be assigned other duties (including those in other areas) to accomplish the operational needs of the department. May be required to work schedules other than Monday through Friday, 7am to 4pm, to meet the operational needs of the department. May be required to perform other duties

as assigned to meet the operational needs of the department. Complies with department safety and illness programs as implemented by supervisor and/or co‑workers. Interacts as a team member with sensitivity towards a multi‑cultural work environment. Professional Expectation/Attitude Standard/Customer Service Promotes customer service programs in the Grounds unit to residents/ clients. Assists with the development and maintenance of a work environment that is conducive to meeting the mission of the organization. Completes job duties in a manner that demonstrates support for Housing and Residential Services. Initiates communication directly with co‑workers and/or supervisors to improve and clarify working relationships, identify problems and concerns, and seek resolution to work‑related conflicts. Participates in staff training and development workshops, retreats, and meetings as determined by supervisor. Reqs: 1‑3 yrs Grounds/ Maintenance experience. 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; UCSB is a tobacco free environment. Hiring/Budgeted Range: $26.46 hourly. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open Until Filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu, Job # 86930.

PROJECT ANALYST

DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION SERVICES

Under the general guidance of the Director of Design & Construction Services, is responsible for the administration of capital improvement projects of various sizes and complexity up to $35,000. Develops the scope of work narrative and associated work diagrams, conducts site visits, initiates appropriate contracts, and monitors the work. Supports and assists Project Managers on Major Capital Improvement Projects above $750,000. Responsible for the oversight and administration of capital improvement projects of various sizes and complexity up to $35,000. Verifies contract and cost controls compliance. Responsible for the implementation, coordination, and management of all project document exchanges, and administers and implements program management system software. Interfaces and coordinates with other UC Departments and outside Agencies. Schedules and provides information on upcoming construction activities, disturbances, impacts, and potential closures. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree required in related area and/or equivalent experience/training; Five (5) years of demonstrated experience providing analytical and administrative support for complex organizations, projects and/ or processes; Good written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, including effective negotiation skills; Good organizational and analytical skills; Detail oriented to accurately proof contracts and other documents; Knowledge of building and construction, design, construction contract administration and California Building Codes; Computer proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, Microsoft Project (or other scheduling program). Notes: Hours and days may vary 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. Hiring/ Budgeted Salary or Hourly Range: $35.34 to $42.64/hr. Full Salary Range: $35.34 to $62.84/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open Until Filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu, Job # 87504.

RECEIVABLES OPERATIONS SUPERVISOR

BUSINESS & FINANCIAL SERVICES

Provides direct supervision and operational oversight for student and non‑student (sundry) billing and receivables functions within Business & Financial Services. The position ensures accurate and timely billing, receivable processing, collections support, and customer service in Oracle Financials

Cloud. The Supervisor monitors compliance with university policy, internal control standards, and regulatory requirements while safeguarding campus revenue and supporting efficient service delivery. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience. 1‑3 years

Experience in accounts receivable, billing operations, or financial services. 1‑3 years

Supervisory or lead experience. 1‑3 years

Knowledge of internal control practices and financial compliance requirements.

1‑3 years Strong analytical, organizational, and customer service skills. Notes: Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employee sponsorship.

Satisfactory criminal history background check. Budgeted Salary or Hourly Range:

$73,800 to $80,000/ yr. Full Salary Range:

$73,800 to $131,200/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu, Job # 84792.

SERVICE DESK LEAD

CTLR – Business & Financial Services

Under the general direction of the Associate Controller, the Help Desk Lead provides operational leadership and day‑to‑day support for the Business and Financial Services (BFS) and Finance and Resource Management (FARM) service delivery model. The position serves as the primary coordinator for ServiceNow ticket intake, triage, customer support, knowledge management, and service improvement initiatives. The Service Desk Lead is responsible for ensuring timely, accurate, and customer‑focused responses to service requests while supporting the development of consistent business processes, service standards, and self‑service resources. Working closely with BFS and FARM subject matter experts, the position coordinates ticket assignments, monitors service levels, develops knowledge base content, and identifies opportunities to improve operational efficiency and the customer experience. The position serves as a key resource for the implementation and ongoing enhancement of the BFS ServiceNow portal, helping establish a unified service delivery model across BFS and FARM. The Service Desk Lead develops templates, standard responses, knowledge articles, training materials, and reporting tools that improve service quality, increase self‑service adoption, and reduce resolution times. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training; 1‑3 yrs Demonstrated experience in ticket management, triage, and workflow administration within the ServiceNow platform; 1‑3 yrs Strong background in customer support, with a proven ability to manage escalations and maintain high service standards; 1‑3 yrs Proven experience creating, maintaining, and publishing knowledge base articles, user guides, and standard operating procedures; 1‑3 yrs Ability to analyze ticket data, service metrics, and aging reports to generate operational dashboards and identify trends; 1‑3 yrs Demonstrated track record of identifying operational inefficiencies and recommending process

improvements to enhance the customer experience; 1‑3 yrs Strong collaborative skills to work effectively with subject matter experts and cross‑functional teams to coordinate ticket resolutions.Notes: This position is a career appointment, ending after 18 months of employment; Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employee sponsorship; Satisfactory criminal history background check. Hiring/Budgeted Range: $71,600 to $85,545/yr. The full salary range for this position is $71,600 to $127,400/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 7/31/26 Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu, Job # 87594.

UNDERGRADUATE ADVISOR COMPUTER SCIENCE

Under the supervision of the Student Affairs Manager (SAM), and as part of the Undergraduate Advising team, supports all aspects of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) undergraduate program. Serves as one of the initial sources of information and advises major students, prospective major students, and non‑major students regarding general Major and department requirements. Monitors every aspect of progress towards degree and counsels students as appropriate. Initiates, maintains, and evaluates students’ academic records, processes petitions, checks prerequisites, and performs other administrative tasks. Ensures grades are reported for undergraduate students and updates the General Engineering Academic Requirements (GEAR) and other publications. Requires knowledge of policy and procedures for the College of Engineering (CoE), College of Letters and Science (L&S), and the College of Creative Studies (CCS). Serves as one of the departmental liaisons with the Office of the Registrar on matters of departmental courses, grades, and undergraduate records. Works within a team environment within the Student Affairs area and department, and assists with the ongoing workload. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree required in related area and/or equivalent experience/training; 1‑3 years experience working in diverse college‑level academic advising setting; Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, including active listening and the ability to professionally interact with students, staff, and faculty; Ability to multi‑task and prioritize tasks in conjunction with multiple deadlines and frequent interruptions; Ability to work with a diverse group of students, faculty and staff and other campus offices on a variety of tasks; Strong problem‑solving skills; Ability to be accurate and thorough with careful attention to details; Ability to use various programs (Excel, Word, Google) to complete required tasks. Notes: Satisfactory criminal history background check. Hiring/Budgeted Salary Range: $27.06 to $31.74/hr. Salary offers are determined based on final candidate qualifications and experience; the budget for the position; and the application of fair, equitable, and consistent pay practices at the University. The full salary range for this position is $27.06 to $45.76/hour. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application Review begins 8/3/26. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu, Job # 87600.

USER PROVISIONING ANALYST

CTLR – BUSINESS & FINANCIAL SERVICES

Reporting to the BFS Administrative Manager (Manager), the User Provisioning Analyst provides operational and administrative support for user access management, provisioning coordination, and system access compliance activities related to the Oracle Financial Cloud (OFC) environment. The position is responsible for coordinating day‑to‑day access provisioning processes, supporting access‑related troubleshooting, and ensuring compliance with role‑based training and established security protocols. The Analyst serves as a primary point of contact for access‑related inquiries and Tier 1 support, managing ServiceNow ticket workflows and coordinating timely resolution of user requests. The role supports risk mitigation and compliance efforts through maintenance of access documentation, RSA access lists, and transaction models used to monitor system activity and user access patterns. The position works collaboratively with BFS leadership, Business Systems Analysts, and compliance teams to support operational continuity, maintain accurate provisioning records, and contribute to the effectiveness and integrity of financial system access controls. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training; 1‑3 yrs Proven track record serving as a primary point of contact for support, resolving routine inquiries, and managing escalations; 1‑3 yrs Demonstrated experience managing the end‑to‑end lifecycle of user access requests, including triage, assignment, and resolution using ServiceNow or a similar ticketing system; 1‑3 yrs Background participating in team process reviews to identify inefficiencies and implement changes that enhance processes; 1‑3 yrs Experience drafting, maintaining, and updating formal documentation for workflows, support procedures, and internal control standards; 1‑3 yrs Exceptional customer support skills with a track record of successfully resolving Tier 1 system access issues and guiding users through procedures. Notes: This position is a career appointment, ending after 18 months of employment; Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employee sponsorship; Satisfactory criminal history background check. Hiring/Budgeted Salary or Hourly Range: $37.93 to $40.97/ hr. Full Salary Range: $37.93 to $68.68/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 8/7/26. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu, Job # 87676.

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LEGALS (CONT.)

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

SCOTT REID

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

THE PETITION requests that (name): JACQUELINE REID 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: 08/27/2026 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.

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

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Share Your Thoughts at a Public Participation Hearing

Regarding Order Instituting Rulemaking to Consider New Approaches to Disconnections and Reconnections to Improve Energy Access and Contain Costs (R.18-07-005)

August 6, 2026 – 2 p.m. & 6 p.m. (remote only)

Webcast: adminmonitor.com/ca/gov

Phone Number: 1-800- 857-1917

Passcode: 1673482#

Please note: If you wish to make a public comment, you must participate by phone using the information above. Once you’ve entered the passcode press *1 and record your name when promoted A quorum of commissioners may attend but no decisions will be made at this hearing.

What is This About?

The purpose of Rulemaking (R.18-07-005) is to find ways to reduce the disconnection rates of electric and gas services for California customers. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is exploring additional ways to reduce disconnections and seeking public input on programs, policies, or other approaches that could further lower disconnection rates and reduce impacts on customers.

Why Attend?

These hearings are your opportunity to share your thoughts on customer assistance programs, ways to help customers understand and timely pay their bills, and any experiences you may have had with disconnections for nonpayment with an administrative law judge overseeing the proceeding. Your comments could help the CPUC produce a more robust decision and shape future customer programs.

Additional Information

You can read more about the rulemaking and make public comments by visiting apps.cpuc.ca.gov/c/ R1807005 To read and download a fact sheet about this rulemaking visit cpuc.ca.gov/pph.

If you need language interpretation or other reasonable accommodations, please contact the Public Advisor’s Office at least five days in ad vance of the hearing. For questions about participating in CPUC matters, you can contact the Public Advisor’s Office at Public.Advisor@cpuc.ca.gov, 1-866-849-8390, or 505 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco, CA 94102.

Please reference R.18-07-005 in any communication with the CPUC.

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from the court clerk. Angela Braun, Executive Officer 7/17/2026 by Kim Gallegos, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Jana Johnston; 112 E. Victoria Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; 805‑966‑1501

Published: July 30. Aug 6, 13 2026.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: SCOTT REID : 26PR00198

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

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

THE PETITION requests that (name): MARK WATSON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 08/27/2026 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. Angela Braun, Executive Officer 7/17/2026 by

Kim Gallegos, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Jana Johnston; 112 E. Victoria Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; 805‑966‑1501

Published: July 30. Aug 6, 13 2026.

FBN ABANDONMENT

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS

NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: ASH AND EMBER REMEDIES: 5464 Hanna Dr. Santa Barbara, CA 93111

The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 01/20/2026 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original File no. FBN 2026‑0000133. The persons or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Mackenzie L Herrick (same address) The business was conducted by an A Individual. Registrant commenced to tranact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A Signed by: MACKENZIE HERRICK/OWNER/ CEO Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 07/10/26, FBN 2026‑0001762 E73. 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: July 16, 23, 30. Aug 6 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HOUSE OF SOMERBELLA, YACUBELLI, BUSHVELD BRANDY, BUSHVELD: 1661 Mission Dr Solvang, CA 93463; Yacubelli LLC 606 Alamo Pintado Rd Ste 3163 Solvang, CA 93463 This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jun 25, 2026. Filed by: JACO VIENINGS/ MANAGER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 29, 2026. 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 30. FBN Number: 2026‑0001689.

Published: July 9, 16, 23, 30 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OUR DREAMGIRL: 3455 State Street, 3 Floor Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Alyssa Lorrayne Dominguez (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: ALYSSA DOMINGUEZ/ INDIVIDUAL with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 22, 2026. 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 30. FBN Number: 2026‑0001621. Published: July 9, 16, 23, 30 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CEIBA SIGNATURE LANDSCAPING: 7 W. Figueroa Street 3rd Floor Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Juan C Cisneros (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: JUAN C CISNEROS with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 16, 2026. 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 30. FBN Number: 2026‑0001586.

Published: July 9, 16, 23, 30 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CALIFORNIA WROUGHT IRON & WELDING: 809 Jennings Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Roberto R Diosdado (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: ROBERTO R. DIOSDADO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 26, 2026. 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 61. FBN Number: 2026‑0001676. Published: July 9, 16, 23, 30 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FLYING FLAGS RV RESORT & CAMPGROUND: 180 Avenue of the Flags Buellton, CA 93427; FPA Flying Flags RV Resort & Campground 2082 Michelson Drive, 4th Fl. Irvine, CA 92612 This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jun 24, 2004. Filed by: JD CARBONE/VICE PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on JuL 02, 2026. 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 73. FBN Number: 2026‑0001713.

Published: July 9, 16, 23, 30 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FEATHER & FIRE: 180 Avenue of the Flags Buellton, CA 93427; GF Buellton Group, LLC 2082 Michelson Drive, 4th Fl. Irvine, CA 92612 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 16, 2026. Filed by: JD CARBONE/VICE PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on JuL 02, 2026. 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 73. FBN Number: 2026‑0001714.

Published: July 9, 16, 23, 30 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SB COAST DIGITAL: 1207 E Gutierrez St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Dennis J Guajardo (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jul 02, 2026. Filed by: DENNIS J GUAJARDO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on JuL 02, 2026. 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 73. FBN Number: 2026‑0001712. Published: July 9, 16, 23, 30 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT File No. FBN 2026‑0001511

The following person(s) is doing business as: OBUILT, 100 EASY ST BUELLTON, CA 93427, County of SANTA BARBARA. JOSEF OFSTEAD, 100 EASY ST BUELLTON, CA 93427 This business is conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on FEB 05, 2026 /s/ JOSEF OFSTEAD, OWNER

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 06/10/2026. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 7/9, 7/16, 7/23, 7/30/26

CNS‑4057426# SANTA BARBARA

INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CASA SAN RICARDO: 631 San Richard Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Casa St. James Inc. 7386 Calle Real 36 Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on May 27,

2026. Filed by: ASEL TELMAN/ PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 10, 2026. 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 30. FBN Number: 2026‑0001515. Published: July 9, 16, 23, 30 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CAL COAST HARDSCAPE, CAL COAST HARDSCAPE PRODUCTS: 30S La Patera Lane Unit 10 Goleta, CA 93117; Aqua‑Flo Supply, Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Apr 23, 2026. Filed by: CURTIS STEVENS/ CFO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 30, 2026. 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 30. FBN Number: 2026‑0001700. Published: July 9, 16, 23, 30 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JASPER HARLEY VINTAGE: 2875 Exeter Place Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Susan M Basham (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: SUSAN M BASHAM with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on JuL 01, 2026. 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 73. FBN Number: 2026‑0001704. Published: July 9, 16, 23, 30 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HG PC TECHS: 1207 E Gutierrez St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Dennis J Guajardo (same address) Hans G Tigranny (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: DENNIS J GUAJARDO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 30, 2026. 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 30. FBN Number: 2026‑0001699. Published: July 9, 16, 23, 30 2026. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SB MICROSOLDER: 16 West Calle Laureles Suite B Santa Barbara, CA 93105; David Arias (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jun 1, 2026. Filed by: DAVID ARIAS with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on JuL 01, 2026. 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 73. FBN Number: 2026‑0001703. Published: July 9, 16, 23, 30 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHANNEL ISLANDS MARINE: 2513 Bath St Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Tedd M White (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jun 01, 2026. Filed by: TEDD WHITE/ OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 5, 2026. This statement expires five years from the date it was

LEGALS (CONT.)

is/are doing business as: ELITE MARKETING SOLUTIONS, FLIP THE SWITCH MARKETING, FLIP THE SWITCH MARKETING & CONSULTING SERVICES, THE HONEST VACATION COMPANY, THE HONEST VACATION COMPANY MARKETING SERVICES, DJL CONSULTING SERVICES: 421 N. Alisos #A Santa Barbara, CA 93103; David J Lemmons (same address)

This business is conducted by A

Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Feb 24, 2026. Filed by: DAVID J. LEMMONS/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 09, 2026.

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 73. FBN Number: 2026‑0001752. Published: July 16, 23, 30. Aug 6 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT

File No. FBN 2026‑0001662

The following person(s) is doing business as:

VERONICA BEARD 1269 COAST VILLAGE., MONTECITO, CA 93108, County of SANTA BARBARA. PIPES & SHAW, LLC

26 WEST 17TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10011; NY

This business is conducted by A LIMITED LIABILTY COMPANY.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on JUNE 1, 2026 PIPES & SHAW, LLC

/s/ PETE FRAZZITTA, VICE PRESIDENT

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 06/25/2026.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 7/16, 7/23, 7/30, 8/6/26

CNS‑4056843# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

File No. FBN 2026‑0001701

The following person(s) is doing business as:

WESTERN GROWERS

INSURANCE SERVICES., 40 EAST ALAMAR AVENUE. SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA 93105, County of SANTA BARBARA. HUB INTERNATIONAL

INSURANCE SERVICES INC., 3801 UNIVERSITY AVENUE 400. RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA 92501; CALIFORNIA

This business is conducted by A CORPORATION.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on JUN 8, 2026

HUB INTERNATIONAL

INSURANCE SERVICES INC.

/s/ JOHN M. ALBRIGHT, VICE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 07/01/2026. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 7/16, 7/23, 7/30, 8/6/26

CNS‑4059038# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: COBUILDPROS: 2107 Monterey St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Cobuildpros Technologies LLC (same address) This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jul 1, 2026. Filed by: BRANDON BOWIE/MANAGING MEMBER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 09, 2026. 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 73. FBN Number: 2026‑0001746. Published: July 16, 23, 30. Aug 6 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GG MOBILE

CAR WASH AND DETAIL, SBD MOBILE CAR WASH AND DETAIL: 1620 Chino St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; David R Silva (same address) Bryan David T Silva (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: DAVID SILVA/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on JuL 07, 2026. 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 73. FBN Number: 2026‑0001733. Published: July 16, 23, 30. Aug 6 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KELLER WILLIAMS LUXURY CENTRAL COAST, KW LUXURY CENTRAL COAST, KW CENTRAL COAST, KELLER WILLIAMS LUXURY CENTRAL COAST, KELLER WILLIAMS CENTRAL COAST LUXURY, KW CENTRAL COAST LUXURY: 1511 Chapala Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; SB Wealth Inc. (same address)This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jun 11, 2026. Filed by: NICHOLAS RESENDEZ/SECRETARY OF THE CORPORATION with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 12, 2026. 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: 2026‑0001536. Published: Jul 16, 23, 30. Aug 6 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BESSER GARAGE DOORS, HAMON OVERHEAD GARAGE DOOR: 2301 Skyway Drive Santa Maria, CA 93455; Safe N Secure Garage Door Specialists LLC 301 E Stevens Ave Santa Ana, CA 92707 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 1, 2026. Filed

by: BYRON BURLAND/CEO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 09, 2026. 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 63. FBN Number: 2026‑0001746. Published: July 16, 23, 30. Aug 6 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: STEAM LAB: 2451 Las Canoas Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Andrew J Holland (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 1, 2026. Filed by: ANDREW HOLLAND/ OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on JuL 06, 2026. 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 81. FBN Number: 2026‑0001727. Published: July 16, 23, 30. Aug 6 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SLATE CATERING, SLATE CATERING CO.: 4845 Glenn Rd. Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Alexandria D Chandler (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 9, 2026. Filed by: ALEXANDRA CHANDLER/ OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 16, 2026. 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 81. FBN Number: 2026‑0001580. Published: July 16, 23, 30. Aug 6 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SERENE SCIENCE TUTORING: 606 Alamo Pintado Road, Suite 3‑116 Solvang, CA 93463; Lindsey B Wilson (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name

or names listed above on Jun 30, 2026. Filed by: LINDSEY WILSON with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 2, 2026. 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 73. FBN Number: 2026‑0001715. Published: July 16, 23, 30. Aug 6 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GET DOLLED UP: 281 S. Magnolia St Suite 208 Goleta, CA 93117; Griselda E Garcia‑Medina (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jul 06, 2026. Filed by: GRISELDA E. GARCIA‑MEDINA with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 06, 2026. 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 81. FBN Number: 2026‑0001724.

Published: July 16, 23, 30 , Aug 6 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ARCHISCAPE MANAGEMENT: 5205 Calle Morelia Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Craig D Richter (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 1, 2026. Filed by: CRAIG RICHTER/ OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on JuL 07, 2026. 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 78. FBN Number: 2026‑0001731. Published: July 16, 23, 30. Aug 6 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AQUA DOC POOL SERVICE, INC: 5060 San Julio Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Aqua Doc Pool Service, Inc. PO Box 6597 Santa Barbara, CA 93160 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: GLORIA FOUNTAIN/SECRETARY with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 24, 2026. 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 4. FBN Number: 2026‑0001654. Published: July 16, 23, 30. Aug 6 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OSITO PAINTING: 620 Del Monte Ave, #B Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Victor Jimenez Clemente (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: VICTOR JIMENEZ CLEMENTE with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 11, 2026. 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 49. FBN Number: 2026‑0001535. Published: July 16, 23, 30. Aug 6 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EVER LATCH: 2600 De La Vina St. Suite A/B Santa Barbara, CA 93105; The Nail Nook Santa Barbara LLC 205 San Napoli Dr. Goleta, CA 93117 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 08, 2026. Filed by: MIRAYA RAMIREZ/ OWNER/MANAGER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 01, 2026. 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 30. FBN Number: 2026‑0001429. Published: July 16, 23, 30. Aug 6 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PEASANTS DELI: 487 Atterdag Solvang, CA 93440; Cherney Hospitality Inc. PO Box 1053 Los Alamos, CA 93440 This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jun 17, 2021. Filed by: SARAH CHERNEY/CFO/GENERAL MANAGER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 23, 2026. 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 30. FBN Number: 2026‑0001637. Published: July 23, 30. Aug 6, 13 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SMART RACK: 2234 De La Vina St Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Baker Haddad (same address) This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jul 01, 2026. Filed by: BAKER HADDAD/PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 14, 2026. 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 28. FBN Number: 2026‑0001789. Published: July 23, 30. Aug 6, 13 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SIMPLEJOY STUDIO: 5038 Birchwood Road Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Zankhana Bhatt (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed

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, August 11, 2026, 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/Preliminary/Final Review: Cottage Medical Clinics Signage and California Environmental Quality Act 444 S Patterson Avenue (APN 065-090-041)

Case Nos. 26-0029-ZC/26-0023-DRB

For Conceptual/Preliminary Review: AT&T Wireless Faux Water Tower 290 Ellwood Canyon (APN 079-121-014) Case Nos. 26-0001-CUP/26-0006-DRB

Sancino Oil Carwash 6895 Hollister Avenue (APN 073-100-024) Case Nos. 24-0012-DP24-0041-DRB

For Preliminary Review: Goleta Self Storage Project 7780 Hollister Avenue (APN 079-210-056) Case Nos.24-0002-DP/24-0011-DRB/24-0001-CUP

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.gov. 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.gov. Para consultas en español, comuníquese con Marcos Martinez al (805) 562-5500 o mmartinez@ cityofgoleta.gov. Staff reports and documents will be posted approximately 72 hours before the hearing on the City’s website at www.cityofgoleta.gov

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 805961-7543.

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.gov. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the hearing will enable City staff to make reasonable arrangements.

LEGALS (CONT.)

above on N/A. Filed by: ZANKHANA

BHATT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 10, 2026. 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 81. FBN Number: 2026‑0001766. Published: July 23, 30. Aug 6, 13 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT

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

PARKFORD COUNSELING GROUP:

26 West Mission Suitte 6 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Anne A Parkford (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jul 08, 2026. Filed by: BAKER HADDAD/ PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 10, 2026. 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 73. FBN Number: 2026‑0001758. Published: July 23, 30. Aug 6, 13 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as:

BLUEPOLARISMEDIA: 180 Holly Ave Apt 9 Carpinteria, CA 93013; Gill E Fredriksson Lainer (same address) This business is conducted by A

Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jul 04, 2026. Filed by: GILL E. FREDRIKSSON LAINER/ OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 14, 2026. 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 24. FBN Number: 2026‑0001788. Published: July 23, 30. Aug 6, 13 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SWEETALY GELATO: 401 Paseo Nuevo Santa Barbara, CA 93011; Oceano 805 LLC 651 Paseo Nuevo 401 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: FRANCESCO AMENDOLA/MANAGER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 13, 2026. 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 73. FBN Number: 2026‑0001776. Published: July 23, 30. Aug 6, 13 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s)

is/are doing business as: ANTOJITOS MI REGION COSTENA: 1516 San Andreas Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Arely Perez Lopez 107 S Juanita Ave Oxnard, CA 93030 This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jul 14, 2026. Filed by: ARELY PEREZ LOPEZ with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 14, 2026. 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 81. FBN Number: 2026‑0001787. Published: July 23, 30. Aug 6, 13 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: INSPIRE TUTORING: 357 Mathilda Dr, Apt 7 Santa Barbara, CA 93117; Laura Brower (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: LAURA BROWER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 06, 2026. 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 81. FBN Number: 2026‑0001721. Published: July 23, 30. Aug 6,

13 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ANNA KREATIVE STUDIO: 1620 Laguna St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Anna Clarke (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 06, 2021. Filed by: ANNA CLARKE with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 14, 2026. 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 71. FBN Number: 2026‑0001791. Published: July 23, 30. Aug 6, 13 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT

File No. FBN 2026‑0001742

The following person(s) is doing business as:

KEYLINE WORKS, 3199 LANCASTER DR SANTA MARIA, CA 93455, County of SANTA BARBARA.

BRANCE SHARP, 3199 LANCASTER DR SANTA MARIA, CA 93455

This business is conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL.

County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 07/09/2026. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 7/23, 7/30, 8/6, 8/13/26

CNS‑4062456# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MUJERES MAKERS MARKET LLC: 1217 Laguna St Unit B Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Mujers Makers Market (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 18, 2021. Filed by: LEAH ORTEGA/MANAGING MEMBER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 16, 2026. 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 30. FBN Number: 2026‑0001822. Published: July 23, 30. Aug 6, 13 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TANO WOODWORKS: 130 N Calle Cesar Chavez #4 Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Tano Wood Studio 1322 E Yanonali St Santa Barbara, CA 93103 This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jul 16, 2026. Filed by: GONZALO DI MARCO/CEO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 17, 2026. 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 63. FBN Number: 2026‑0001856. Published: July 23, 30. Aug 6, 13 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NO LIMITS, INC: 1480 Camino Rio Verde Santa Barbara, CA 93111; No Limits Inc. (same address)

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on JUN 12, 2026 /s/ BRANCE SHARP, OWNER

FOR GENERAL SERVICES FOR MUNICIPAL STREET SWEEPING PROJECT

The City of Goleta Public Works Department invites you to submit a proposal to become eligible for General Services for the Municipal Street Sweeping Project

Proposals shall meet the requirements and descriptions outlined in the RFP available through the City of Goleta’s PlanetBids Vendor Portal. Proposals must be received no later than 3:00 p.m., August 20, 2026, through the City of Goleta’s PlanetBids Vendor Portal.

Firms interested in submitting a Proposal should go to https://www.cityofgoleta.org/work/city-bid-opportunities and click on “Request for Proposals for General Services for the Municipal Street Sweeping Project”

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 August 11, 2026.

Published: Santa Barbara Independent July 23, 2026 & July 30, 2026

All Booked

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 07/09/2026. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 7/23, 7/30, 8/6, 8/13/26

CNS‑4062201# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HAMMERHEAD CONSTRUCTION: 6070 Ashley Place Goleta, CA 93117; Brandon Montano 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 Apr 26, 2022. Filed by: BRANDON MONTANO/OWNER, CEO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 14, 2026. 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 71. FBN Number: 2026‑0001794. Published: July 23, 30. Aug 6, 13 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: C,J HANDYMAN SERVICES: 1924 Robbins St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Cesar Hosue Ramirez Valdez (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jun 20, 2026. Filed by: CESAR JOSUE RAMIREZ

VALDEZ/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 24, 2026. 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 73. FBN Number: 2026‑0001648. Published: July 23, 30. Aug 6, 13 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT

File No. FBN2026‑0001745

The following person(s) is doing business as:

FAITHFULLY FRAMED

PHOTOGRAPHY, 508 N PALISADE DR SANTA MARIA, CA 93454, County of SANTA BARBARA.

ALYSSA KELSCH, 508 N PALISADE DR SANTA MARIA, CA 93454

This business is conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on JAN 07, 2026 /s/ ALYSSA KELSCH

This statement was filed with the

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PEASANTS FEAST: 487 Atterdag Solvang, CA 93440; Cherney Hospitality Inc. PO Box 1053 Los Alamos, CA 93440 This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Oct 19, 2019. Filed by: SARAH CHERNEY/CFO/GENERAL MANAGER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 23, 2026. 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 30. FBN Number: 2026‑0001636. Published: July 23, 30. Aug 6, 13 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHILDREN OF THE DIRT APPAREL: 3085 Country Road Santa Ynez, CA 93460; Savana A Guglielmo (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jun 16, 2026. Filed by: SAVANA GUGLIELMO/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 17, 2026. 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 30. FBN Number: 2026‑0001853. Published: July 23, 30. Aug 6, 13 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WINDWARD: 1825 State Street, 102 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Windward (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: KEN DICKSON/ PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 17, 2026. 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 30. FBN Number: 2026‑0001852. Published: July 23, 30. Aug 6, 13 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WINDWARD BUILDING DESIGN: 1825 State Street, 102 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Windward Building Design (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: KEN DICKSON/PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 17, 2026. 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 30. FBN Number: 2026‑0001851. Published: July 23, 30. Aug 6, 13 2026.

This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jan 23, 2022. Filed by: TANYA M. PAYE/SECRETARY with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 16, 2026. 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 4. FBN Number: 2026‑0001811.

Published: July 30. Aug 6, 13, 20 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GV OPTICAL, GOLETA VALLEY OPTICAL, SANTA BARBARA OPTICAL: 4850 Hollister Ste 102 Santa Barbara, CA 93111; GV Optical (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 01, 2017. Filed by: DANIEL KNAUSS/CEO/ PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 17, 2026. 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 30. FBN Number: 2026‑0001845. Published: July 30. Aug 6, 13, 20 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LIPPMAN ENTERTAINMENT: 4815 Baseline Ave Santa Ynez, CA 93460; Michael B Lippman, 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 Nov 20, 1975. Filed by: NANCY LIPPMAN/PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 22, 2026. 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 71. FBN Number: 2026‑0001887. Published: July 30. Aug 6, 13, 20 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TORO CONSTRUCTION: 7 W Figueroa St, 300 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Ascensa Alliance Group, Inc. PO Box 91554 Santa Barbara, CA 93190

This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jun 29, 2026. Filed by: ALEJANDRO ARRAIGA/CEO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 29, 2026. 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 81. FBN Number: 2026‑0001685. Published: July 30. Aug 6, 13, 20 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jul 9, 2026. Filed by: GABRIELLA BALCHEN/ OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 15, 2026. 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 71. FBN Number: 2026‑0001808. Published: July 30. Aug 6, 13, 20 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: INSIGHT HOMEOPATHY & WELLNESS: 3905 State Street, Ste 7‑216 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Linda Nurra, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jun 26, 2025. Filed by: LINDA NURRA/PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 20, 2026. 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 30. FBN Number: 2026‑0001867. Published: July 30. Aug 6, 13, 20 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FLOWER ESSENCE ACADEMY: 3905 State Street, Ste 7‑216 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Linda Nurra, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jul 2, 2026. Filed by: LINDA NURRA/PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 20, 2026. 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 30. FBN Number: 2026‑0001866. Published: July 30. Aug 6, 13, 20 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HOLEHOUSE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY: 35 W. Micheltorna St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Becca‑Shane Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jan 1, 1992. Filed by: SHANE HOLEHOUSE/VICE PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 22, 2026. 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 30. FBN Number: 2026‑0001897. Published: July 30. Aug 6, 13, 20 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FIRST STEP IMMIGRATION: 133 South Salinas Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Lucero Milla (same address) This business is conducted by A Indivdual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/C. Filed by: LUCERO MILLA/OWNER with

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GRAZE CRAZE OF SANTA BARBARA: 126 E Haley, A1 Santa Barbara, CA 93023; Callisto Kitchen LLC (same address)

by: ROBERT GEORGES/ OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 20, 2026. 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 30. FBN Number: 2026‑0001864. Published: July 30. Aug 6, 13, 20 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

File No. FBN 2026‑0001799

The following person(s) is doing business as: SLODOCO, 290 STORKE RD, STE A GOLETA, CA 93117 County of SANTA BARBARA. SUPER GOOD DONUTS INC., 290 STORKE RD, STE A GOLETA, CA 93117

This business is conducted by A CORPORATION .

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on NOT APPLICABLE /s/ GABINO VENEGAS, PRESIDENT

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 07/15/2026. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 7/30, 8/6, 8/13, 8/20/26 CNS‑4063791# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: COASTAL COWGIRL GRAPHICS: 200 W Mason St 18 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; McKenna A Thomas (same address)

This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names

listed above on Jun 15, 2026. Filed by: MCKENNA THOMAS with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 24, 2026.

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 30. FBN Number: 2026‑0001921. Published: July 30. Aug 6, 13, 20 2026.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SOLA COLLECTIVE, THE SOLA COLLECTIVE: 237 Oliver Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Rachael Ann Bissig (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jul 21, 2026. Filed by: RACHAEL BISSIG/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 21, 2026. 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 28. FBN Number: 2026‑0001876.

Published: July 30. Aug 6, 13, 20 2026.

NAME CHANGE

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CHRISTOPHER J KEEBLER CASE NUMBER: 26CV01471 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: PETITIONER: CHRISTOPHER J KEEBLER 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: JOSIAH JOSEPH MORENO LOZANO

PROPOSED NAME: JAY MATTHEW KEEBLER

Anacapa Street. Santa Barbara, CA 93101, CIVIL 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 July 07, 2026, JUDGE Thomas P. Anderle of the Superior Court. Published Jul 16, 23, 30. Aug 6 2026.

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

LORRAINE STEEN CASE NUMBER: 26CV04183

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:

PETITIONER: 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: JENNIFER

LORRAINE STEEN

PROPOSED NAME: JENNIFER

LORRAINE ZAINE

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 September 14, 2026, 10:00 am, DEPT: 5 , SUPERIOR COURT COUNTY OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 1100 Anacapa Street. Santa Barbara, CA 93101, CIVIL 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 July 13, 2026, JUDGE Colleen K. Sterne of the Superior Court. Published Jul 23, 30. Aug 6, 13 2026. IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: ALONSO ADONAY PARTIDA RANGEL CASE NUMBER: 26CV04114

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:

PETITIONER: ALONSO ADONAY

PARTIDA RANGEL 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: ALONSO ADONAY

PARTIDA RANGEL

PROPOSED NAME: ALONSO

ADONAY ARRIAGE RANGEL

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 September 02, 2026, 10:00 am, DEPT: 3 , SUPERIOR COURT COUNTY OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 1100 Anacapa Street. Santa Barbara, CA 93101, ANACAPA DIVISION A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated July 10, 2026, JUDGE Thomas P. Anderle of the Superior Court. Published Jul 23, 30. Aug 6, 13 2026.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: KATHLEEN MARIE WILLIAMS CASE NUMBER:

26CV04425 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:

PETITIONER: KATHLEEN MARIE

WILLIAMS A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court for decree changing name (s) as follows: PRESENT NAME: KATHLEEN MARIE

WILLIAMS PROPOSED NAME: KATE FOX

WILLIAMS

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 September 18, 2026, 10:00 am, DEPT: 4 , SUPERIOR COURT COUNTY OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 1100 Anacapa Street. Santa Barbara, CA 93101, 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 July 24, 2026, JUDGE Thomas P. Anderle of the Superior Court. Published Jul 30. Aug 6, 13, 20 2026.

PUBLIC NOTICES

SANTA BARBARA MTD INVITATION FOR BIDS FOR GENERATOR TRANS FER SWITCH INSTALL

The Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District (MTD), a public transit operator, is accepting bids from qualified contractors and electricians for the installation of a generator transfer switch at its Terminal 1 Bus Maintenance Facility at 550 Olive Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Invitation for Bids (IFB) packages will be available to interested parties starting Monday, July 27, 2026. Prospective bidders may obtain the IFB package by contacting purchasing@sbmtd. gov or by visiting MTD’s website at https://sbmtd. gov/about/ doing‑business/. A mandatory pre‑bid meeting and job walk will be held on August 19, 2026, at 9:00 AM starting at the Terminal 1 Administrative Office (550 Olive Street, Santa Barbara). Sealed bids must be received there at MTD Terminal 1 Administrative Office, 550 Olive Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, no later than August 26, 2026, at 9:00 AM, at which time bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. Any bid received after that time will be rejected and returned unopened to the bidder. All contract terms and conditions are contained or referenced in the IFB package.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned intends to sell the personal property described below to enforce a lien imposed on said property pursuant to Sections 21700‑ 21716 of the Business and Professions Code, Section 2328 of the CC, Section 535 of the Penal Code and provisions of the Civil Code.

The undersigned will sell at public sale by competitive bidding on the 7th day of August 2026, at 2:30 p.m., on the premises where said property has been stored and which are located at Self Storage of Santa Maria, at 1701 N. Carlotti Drive, Santa Maria, in the county of Santa Barbara, State of California , the following:

All property is sold “AS IS AND WITH ALL FAULTS” and without warranty either expressed or implied. ALL SALES ARE PAYABLE EITHER BY CASH OR MONEY ORDER ONLY, payable after the sale in full. All property purchased must be removed prior to the close of business the day of the sale. All units purchased will be given a clear bill of sale. This sale is being held pursuant to the

RFP can be found at https: //www.countyofsb.org/1937/ Bid‑Opportunities.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP)

Project Title: Santa Ynez River Valley Groundwater Basin Well Point Installa tion Project — In stallation and Development of Moni toring Wells and Piezometers, so licited under Cali fornia Public Con tract Code § 22000 et seq.

Site Location: Santa Ynez River Valley Groundwater Basin, Santa Barbara County, CA How to Submit Bids / Due Date: Submit bids by email to Tyler. Tomblin@geosyntec.com, Geosyntec Consultants, Inc. (on behalf of the GSAs). Bids are due 5:00 p.m. PT on August 14, 2026. Owner’s Address: Santa Ynez River Valley GSAs (c/o SYRWCD), P.O. Box 719, Santa Ynez, CA 93460 Engineer’s Address / Phone / Email: Geosyntec Consultants, Inc., 118 E. Carillo Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, 805.897.3800, Tyler. Tomblin@geosyntec.com

Brief Description of Work: A C‑57 licensed contractor shall install and develop multiple monitoring wells and piezometers at various locations within 90 calendar days of Notice to Proceed, subject to prevailing wage and DIR registration. Where to Download the Bid Documents: Bid documents are available electronically at no cost (no deposit) at the Santa Ynez River Valley Groundwater Basin website (https: //www.santaynezwater.org/