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by Nick Welsh COVER
To celebrate our Home & Garden section in this issue, our Marketing and Promotions Administrator Richelle Boyd turns an eye to the past and revels in the fall fun of working on an apple farm in Oak Glen, California.
“Before I started working at the Indy, there were a number of jobs I held in the customer service field. My favorite was when I worked on an apple farm down in Oak Glen called Stone Soup Farm & Heritage Orchard. I started working there right after I graduated from high school and was immediately hooked by the beauty of the trees and the sweet, crisp air of the mountains. The owners, Tim and Faith Riley, focused on sustainability and a hands-on farm experience for all. I would walk the orchards each day and look for fallen apples, help families and groups make their own apple cider, start fires to roast s’mores, and even keep the kids busy with doll-making or panning for gold. Though it’s roughly a three-hour drive from Santa Barbara, I’ll never forget the day a family told me they had made the trip down just for the apples! Once you’ve had a Pink Lady, or a Gala, or even a McIntosh apple grown in Oak Glen, you can’t help but be hooked too. Stone Soup is family owned and operated, and in my time working there and visiting after, the staff still feels like a tight-knit family. I may have to make my way back there this October when the apples are ready.”
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by RYAN P. CRUZ, CALLIE
COURTS & CRIME
NEWS of the WEEK
Defendants Re-Arraigned After Murder Charges Dropped in Stabbing
Men Charged in Connection to Fatal Fiesta Stabbing Plead Not Guilty to Amended Charges
by Callie Fausey
Murder charges were quickly dropped in the State Street stabbing case from Fiesta weekend. Only a month passed between the original charges’ filing and their dismissal, as new video evidence arose in the time between, according to the Santa Barbara District Attorney’s Office.
It was a surprising development in what has proved to be a complex case. It started on State Street’s 500 block in the early hours of August 1 with a fight that left multiple victims with stab wounds and killed 30-year-old Anthony Bisquera Hartley. While rumors circulate about what prompted the fight, concrete details have not been made public.
The three men arrested and charged in connection with the incident had their charges amended last week and underwent a new arraignment this Monday in Judge Stephen Foley’s courtroom. In terms of the remaining charges, all three entered pleas of not guilty and denied all allegations. Family and friends of Bisquera Hartley and the defendants attended the hearing, which was overall quiet and slow, like any other day in court.
Originally, the DA filed charges based on the initial finding that Bisquera Hartley, who lost his life in the incident, was unarmed and fatally stabbed by Sergio Rivas, 30, and Juan Fernando Rios, 28. However, the new video allegedly shows that Bisquera Hartley was armed and assaulted Rivas and Rios, who the DA now claims acted in self-defense. As a result, murder charges against Rivas and Rios were dropped, and, despite any past ties, all gang-related allegations were dismissed.
Family of Bisquera Hartley contest the DA’s conclusion, viewing it as a mis-por-
trayal of Bisquera Hartley’s character and actions. But court records allege that Bisquera Hartley and another defendant, Luis Terrazas, 30, assaulted Rivas.
Court records allege Rivas was acting in self-defense when he fatally stabbed Bisquera Hartley in the chest, piercing his heart. They also allege that Rios acted in defense of Rivas, his friend, when he stabbed Bisquera Hartley non-fatally.
Rivas, Terrazas, and Rios underwent their arraignments separately, as their cases have been severed. It spanned almost the entire day in court, with several cases adding padding between the three hearings.
Rivas, who faces the most charges of the three, was first. A public defender shook Rivas’s hand and congratulated him when she entered the room. He is no longer facing murder charges; however, he is still charged with assault with a deadly weapon against a separate victim, J. Ramos, with the special allegation of causing great bodily injury, as well as multiple firearm-related charges.
Tate McCallister, the DA’s prosecuting attorney, asked that Rivas receive no bail based on his “threat to the community,” citing past criminal convictions and the “unprovoked” stab into victim J. Ramos that left him in a life-threatening condition. Rivas’s lawyer, Neil Levinson, contested this, claiming that the injury was not proved to be life-threatening and that any previous conviction was at least eight-anda-half years old and not fair to hold against Rivas now.
Judge Foley decided Rivas was bailable, but a “significant” bail amount was still warranted based on his alleged participation in the armed confrontation, considering that it was “on a crowded street during Fiesta.” His bail was lowered from $2.05
million to $700,000, with conditions upon his release.
Terrazas, who was joined by a small support system, seemed nervous but polite and reserved. He was dressed in regular clothing, unlike defendants Rios and Rivas, who were transported from the jail to court. Terrazas posted a bond and is out on release under certain conditions, including GPS monitoring. He was initially charged with the attempted murder of Rivas, but now, based on “new information” learned by the DA’s office, he is only facing assault charges.
Rios seemed likewise reserved, but kept his head up during the proceedings. Rios had all allegations as to his illegal involvement in Bisquera Hartley’s death completely dismissed. He now only faces charges from a previous arrest in July, in which he is charged with driving under the influence and possessing a loaded firearm.
When it came to setting Rios’s bail, McCallister argued that Rios had “priors” and was “armed with a knife at Fiesta,” making him potentially dangerous to the public. However, Rios’s stand-in attorney, public defender Lauren Gartrell, rebutted that basing his bail on charges that have since been dropped was not proper, and it should instead be based on the bail schedule amounts for the firearm charges he still faces.
Judge Foley acknowledged Rios’s “significant change of circumstances” but said he would be “remiss to ignore” the former allegation of an armed confrontation on State Street in order to “adequately protect the public.” He set Rios’s bail at $50,000 with conditions, including no weapons and being subject to random search and seizure.
A preliminary hearing setting for each defendant is set for September 22. n
INFRASTRUCTURE
One block of State Street will see a new outdoor dining concept called “pedlets,” or modular sidewalk extensions that the City of Santa Barbara began installing along the 500 block of downtown’s main drag this week. The new pilot program is intended to test out a different dining setup with outdoor seating moved from the street closer to the buildings, a change that planners hope will lead to a smoother flow for pedestrians. On 9/8, crews began removing the current outdoor dining parklets along the block between Haley and Cota streets (above). City staff expect restaurants to be ready to reopen to the public with the new pedlets on 9/11. Read more at independent.com/infrastructure.
HEALTH
Sutter Health has terminated the employees involved in a viral video showing healthcare workers at the Pesetas Urgent Care clinic in Santa Barbara posing near unknown bodily fluids in an exam room. The video, which sparked a wave of criticism after it was spread on social media over Labor Day weekend, was originally posted by a TikTok account run by a former employee identified only by her first name, Angie. Sutter Health, which announced the firings on 9/3, has not publicly identified any of the employees involved in the social media posts. Read more at independent.com/health.
HOUSING
The County Planning Commission on 9/3 unanimously approved a three-story apartment complex that will add 72 bedrooms to Isla Vista. Located off Camino Pescadero and Picasso Lane, the project includes 24 three-bedroom units across two buildings and 37 parking spaces; 26 of those spaces will be tandem spaces, meaning two cars park one behind the other. Developer Ed St. George’s team plans to widen an existing private driveway, which will connect the complex to Camino Pescadero. Three units will be for very low-income tenants and three for moderate-income tenants, qualifying the project for density bonuses and concessions. Read more at independent.com/housing.
Despite considerable sticker shock over a sudden rise in construction costs, the county supervisors voted to approve a $1.5 million loan needed to make a 49-unit affordablesupportive housing project slated for Mission Hills just outside of Lompoc possible. The county’s loan of federal housing funds over 20 years at 3 percent interest will help the County Housing Authority leverage the wide array of funding needed to make the $51.6 million construction project possible. With the exception of 4th District Supervisor Bob Nelson, all the supervisors voted in favor of the project, dubbed Brisa Encina, which in Spanish means “oak breeze.”
FAUSEY, JACKSON FRIEDMAN, TYLER HAYDEN, ELLA HEYDENFELDT, CHRISTINA McDERMOTT, NICK WELSH, and JEAN YAMAMURA
Pictured from left, defendants Sergio Rivas, Juan Fernando Rios, and Luis Terrazas appeared in Santa Barbara Superior Court for separate arraignments on Monday, September 8.
HOUSING
Clearing Way for Conversions
Santa Barbara City Council directed staff to make a few changes to the proposed Adaptive Reuse Ordinance, with the majority of councilmembers supporting the plan to lighten up restrictions for developers looking to convert underused commercial, office, or retail spaces in the downtown area. During Tuesday’s meeting, the council made a last-minute change to also direct staff to remove the inclusionary requirement in the Central Business District, which would allow developers to move forward with projects without the usual requirement of at least 10 percent of units set aside for affordable housing.
There is no specific pathway for developers to easily convert old buildings to residential units, and more than a year ago, the city began drafting a new “Adaptive Reuse Ordinance” to encourage developers to pursue reuse projects.
The new ordinance promises a streamlined path to receiving permits, offering no limits on density (units must meet the city’s minimum size requirements), fewer fees, and breaks on parking requirements. As long as residential units fit within the existing building and no exterior modifications are needed, the project can get a fast-pass through the planning process.
“We’re really trying to maximize and facilitate that creation of housing,” said City Project Planner Dana Falk.
City staff originally recommended the ordinance mirror the inclusionary requirements for most other housing projects, with Falk explaining that a citywide evaluation of its inclusionary housing policy was underway. It would be simpler, City Administrator Kelly McAdoo explained, to leave the ordinance as drafted and remove the requirement for affordable housing at a later date when the data was available.
The City Council heard from several property owners, developers, and real estate consultants, however, who worried that forcing the inclusion of affordable housing at least in the Central Business District would kill many projects before they even got off the ground.
Housing advocates also spoke during public comment, arguing that the inclusionary requirement is one of the few remaining that the city can guarantee new affordable units, and the adaptive reuse
ordinance was already too generous with its incentives for developers.
Councilmember Eric Friedman worried that making adaptive reuse too bureaucratic would defeat the purpose of creating an ordinance, and might backfire by “inadvertently driving property owners to build more hotels.”
“I think this is a very real possibility unless we get this right,” Friedman said. “The last thing we want to do is reduce the ability to get more housing built and instead get more hotels.”
Councilmember Friedman suggested removing the inclusionary requirement in the Central Business District, and instead putting a cap that would trigger mandatory affordable units for larger projects of 25 units or more.
Councilmember Meagan Harmon said she wanted to be clear that the council would not be removing requirements for inclusionary housing for any other projects except those that fell under these “hyper-specific” circumstances: only for adaptive reuse projects proposed within the Central Business District.
She said she was “deeply committed to inclusionary housing” citywide, but that the adaptive reuse program should be more fundamentally about “paving the way for the reuse in downtown in spite of the complexity that exists there.”
After deliberation, the council decided in a 5-2 vote to direct staff to return with an amended ordinance, with no inclusionary housing requirement for projects under a staff-recommended minimum number of units. Councilmember Kristen Sneddon and Wendy Santamaria voted in opposition, with Santamaria saying that she was worried about the Central Business District becoming a “high-income only” area.
“That’s not what our city is,” Councilmember Santamaria said. “Whether we like it or not, we have people who are lower-income who keep the city running and who also deserve to live in that central core.” —Ryan P.Cruz
Santa Barbara City Council voted 5-2 to direct staff to amend the proposed Adaptive Reuse Ordinance to remove requirements for affordable housing.
ICE Surge Coming?
Central Coast Leaders Speak Out Against Increase in Enforcement, ICE Funding
Cby Ryan P. Cruz
entral Coast elected officials, nonprofit organizers, and immigrant rights advocates are preparing for an incoming increase in immigration enforcement following recent developments at the federal level, including the U.S. Supreme Court decision to lift restrictions in the region, and billions of dollars that will soon be available to fund more detention centers, officers, and ICE enforcement operations.
On Monday, the Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s request to lift a temporary restraining order that restricted federal immigration enforcement from making indiscriminate arrests in Southern California. The 6-3 decision allows the government to resume aggressive sweeps and detain individuals based on a “totality of circumstances,” including skin color, language, or proximity to a targeted workplace.
State Senator Monique Limón said the Supreme Court ruling “threatens our Constitution’s promise of equal protection under the law and freedom from illegal searches and seizures.”
“This ruling will potentially open the floodgates to law-abiding citizens being detained by masked agents and amplify the tensions we are already seeing in our community,” Senator Limón said in a statement released Monday. “Speaking Spanish is not an indicator of someone’s citizenship. The color of someone’s skin is not an indicator of their citizenship. Where someone works is not an indicator of someone’s citizenship.”
Primitiva Hernandez, 805 UndocuFund executive director, works on the front lines with partner organizations in the 805 Immigrant Coalition and said the ruling is just “another reminder of the violence and injustice” that immigrant communities face on the Central Coast. Nearly half the population in California’s Central District, she noted, could now fall under this new “discriminatory standard of reasonable suspicion.”
“But we remain unshaken,” Hernandez said. “We will not be silenced. We will continue to protect our people and stand alongside displaced migrant communities. This ruling does not define us. Our unity, our dignity, and our collective care will carry us forward. We will continue to organize, to defend, and to nurture our communities, because this is what our ancestors taught us, and this is how we will endure.”
The American Civil Liberties Union, which has several cases challenging the federal government’s immigration enforcement practices, released a statement through National Legal Director Cecillia Wang, who said the decision “puts people at grave risk.”
“For anyone perceived as Latino by an
ICE agent, this means living in a fearful ‘papers please’ regime, with risks of violent ICE arrests and detention,” Wang said. “The Supreme Court’s order is outrageous because it includes no reasoning itself but puts on hold the well-reasoned opinions of the lower federal courts. We will fight on in this case and others for our fundamental right to go about our lives without being targeted by government agents based on racial profiling.”
The Supreme Court decision has raised the level of fear in the community, according to those who work with the 805 Immigrant Rapid Response Line, which keeps track of daily reports of immigration enforcement on the Central Coast.
Legal observers who work to document arrests of undocumented people are also now worried that the federal government may begin targeting U.S. citizens who are perceived to be intervening with immigration enforcement.
On September 3, a federal grand jury indicted Cal State Channel Islands University (CSUCI) professor Jonathan Caravello on felony charges for allegedly throwing a tear gas canister at federal agents during a protest that had formed outside a raid of a cannabis farm in Camarillo on July 10.
Caravello, a U.S. citizen, is being charged with “assault on a federal officer using a deadly or dangerous weapon,” with a maximum sentence of up to 20 years in federal prison. Charging documents allege that Caravello picked up a canister that was thrown at the crowd, and “threw it overhand back at Border Patrol agents.”
The felony indictment supersedes a misdemeanor charge originally filed by federal prosecutors on August 25 over the same incident. Caravello has not publicly responded to the new charge, though he said in a previous statement that anything he did at a protest was “to protect people” and he “would never intentionally harm anyone.”
The federal government will soon have access to $170 billion for border enforcement more than the annual budgets of all local and state law enforcement
Primitiva Hernandez , 805 UndocuFund Executive Director speaks during a rally in June, where she warned of an expected increase in federal immigration enforcement on the Central Coast.
Housing Project in I.V. Heads to Fifth Hearing
Longtime locals Jon and Pegeen Soutar have appealed to the County Board of Supervisors to stop a proposed housing project on Sueno Road in Isla Vista saying it will cause unsafe traffic conditions.
The project is by developer Ed St. George and Mission Isla Vista (also called Isla Vista Church), a local Christian organization, and would include a trio of three-story buildings, providing 16 units and 45 bedrooms, including four apartments marked as affordable two for very-low-income tenants and two for moderate-income tenants. This would provide housing for 90 to 135 people with 24 parking spaces.
Many streets in Isla Vista often exceeded 100 percent capacity for street parking, and cars are often seen parking in red zones and blocking driveways.
Because the project includes affordable units, the county can only reject the project if it poses an unmitigable health or safety impact on a community, and under state law, the project doesn’t need to provide any parking because it is within a half-mile radius of
ICE SURGE COMING?
a major transit stop.
During public comment, Isla Vista Church leader and current resident of the property Holly Lomelino said that the parking problems in Isla Vista existed long before this project, and that the project will help improve the neighborhood.
But other public commenters questioned how people could safely evacuate the area.
“Lack of infrastructure creates ill will. It is detrimental, both socially and physically,” one said.
Ultimately, the Board of Supervisors elected to pursue a fifth (and legally final) hearing on the project. Second District Supervisor Laura Capps said she wanted to discuss with St. George and Mission Isla Vista whether they could grant more concessions to address the parking problem.
Third District Supervisor Joan Hartmann was more direct and said that unless the county could find a way to make projects less dense.
“There is no way in hell that I support this,” she said.
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agencies combined with a stated goal of more than a million deportations per year over the next four years. Nearly $30 billion is budgeted toward ICE operations, and another $45 billion will be used to expand detention capabilities and build new facilities.
U.S. Representative Salud Carbajal recently conducted an oversight visit at the local ICE detention facility in Santa Maria, where he assessed the conditions and passed on community concerns about ICE operations on the Central Coast.
Carbajal told the Independent that he was given a full tour of the processing facility which holds up to two dozen people though he said there wasn’t a single detainee present during his walkthrough.
“The facility was completely empty,” Carbajal said. The location is often used to hold individuals awaiting deportation proceedings or those being processed following targeted operations, typically for no longer than half a day.
Carbajal saw three holding rooms two large and a smaller third room and he
—Christina McDermott
engaged directly with ICE officials, asking about the well-being of detainees and their access to food, water, healthcare, and legal counsel. He was told no children are processed or held at the Santa Maria facility.
He described the facility as “clean,” though he noted there was a “lack of privacy around the restroom areas.” The holding areas do not have running water, and ICE officials told Rep. Carbajal that drinking water and food are provided to those being temporarily processed.
Rep. Carbajal said that there were no onsite medical or mental health professionals, though he was told detainees are taken to another site if they are in need of medical attention. Legal information, including consulate contact details, was also posted on the walls of the holding rooms.
“This visit is by no means a ‘one-anddone’ visitation,” Carbajal said. “As long as ICE continues to behave aggressively in our community, I will continue to push for transparency and accountability from ICE officials both at the local and national levels.” n
The existing structure where developer Ed St. George and Mission Isla Vista plan to build a trio of three-story buildings
CHRISTINA MCDERMOTT
County Suicide Rates Trend Down
Suicide trends for Santa Barbara County appear to be sliding downward over the past few years, in contrast to national trends moving decidedly in the other direction. In 2024, the County of Santa Barbara reported and recorded 37 deaths by suicide. The prior year, the number was 41, and in 2022, it was 50. Thus far in 2025, there have been 24 reported suicide deaths.
Last year, the largest single age cohort 48 percent was for people 65 years old and older. Those between the ages of 18 and 25 accounted for 4 percent.
Suicide rates for the country as a whole have been trending up, with last year’s behind the highest in 70 years. But in Santa Barbara and the nation as a whole males make up the vast major-
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LABOR
Research professionals across the UC system voted overwhelmingly to unionize last week adding 7,200 employees to a growing movement of higher education workers joining the United Auto Workers (UAW). The new unit, RPSP-UAW, will represent Research and Public Service Professionals (RPSPs) a category that includes grant administrators, policy analysts, data specialists, and other full-time staff whose jobs directly support UC’s research mission. The vote passed by a landslide: 3,080 to 612. There are roughly 125 RPSPs at UCSB, and the campus had the highest voter turnout percentage across the UC system. Read more at independent.com/labor.
PUBLIC SAFETY
The driver killed in the 8/29 crash on Santa Rosa Road near Buellton has been identified as Cesar SalgadoRoque, 25, of Lompoc, according to the Sheriff’s Office. The collision occurred around 5:47 p.m. when his minivan traveling westbound left the roadway and struck a tree just east of mile marker 10. Salgado-Roque was the sole occupant of the vehicle and died at the scene. The cause of the crash remains under investigation. Anyone with information is urged to contact the Buellton CHP Office at (805) 691-6160.
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ity of suicide deaths. This year, males accounted for all but one of the suicides.
This Tuesday, the county supervisors observed Suicide Prevention Month. In the next breath, they observed Recovery Month. Within treatment programs funded or managed by the county, there are roughly 1,600 individuals getting treated for addiction issues at any given time. There are 2,000 slots available countywide. Of these the majority are for outpatient treatment settings. —Nick Welsh
If you or someone you know is at risk of suicide, call the Behavioral Wellness Access Line at (888) 868-1649; call or text 988 for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline; call the U.S. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at (800) 273-8255; text TALK to 741741; or visit suicidepreventionlifeline.org.
to CHP investigators, a Tesla Model S was attempting to cross the highway when it was struck by a westbound Ford F-150. The passenger in the Tesla died at the scene.
The Tesla’s driver, Jesus Moises Martinez Chavira, 46, of North Hills, suffered major injuries and was transported by ambulance. He was later arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol, CHP confirmed. The driver of the Ford truck, a 57-year-old Lompoc man, sustained minor injuries. As of press time, CHP said it was still exploring “all appropriate criminal charges” against Chavira.
The case against Jiram Tenorio Ramon charged in the 2022 fatal shooting of Robert Dion Gutierrez at Stearns Wharf is moving forward after a jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict last month, resulting in a mistrial. Senior Deputy District Attorney Tate McCallister confirmed there is “no new information” at this time.
“The next date will be a ‘readiness and settlement conference,’ ” he said. That is scheduled for 12/18 in S.B. Superior Court. The DA has announced its intent to retry the case, but “there is not a new trial date yet,” McCallister said.
At roughly 2:12 p.m. on 9/5, managers of Ulta Beauty in Goleta’s Camino Real Marketplace reported three individuals had run off with hundreds of dollars’ worth of stolen cologne and perfume, driving in a red sedan heading south on the freeway. Sheriff’s deputies pulled the car over by the Castillo Street off-ramp, where they were hit by a powerful aroma. Arresting officers put the value of the stolen fragrances at $1,900. Two of the three arrested had priors for organized retail theft and had outstanding arrest warrants on those charges. One was from Santa Clara, the other from San
A passenger was killed and two drivers hospitalized after a two-vehicle crash 9/5 at the intersection of Highway 246 and Domingos Road, just east of Buellton. According
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Eastside ‘Blight’
Neighbors Raise Concerns About Trash, Weeds, and Cars Piling Up Near Where Children Play
by Callie Fausey
The Downtown Club, which offers afterschool activities for boys and girls on Santa Barbara’s Eastside, is battling “blight” on the streets around the building where children, on their way to and from school, walk past overflowing trash cans, overgrown weeds, and people living in vehicles.
Mark Alvarado, the Downtown Club’s executive director, worries for their young members. “I have 2nd- and 3rd-graders running around here,” he said. “When you’re here every day, it’s a little different than just hearing about it.” For Alvarado, it’s personal. It’s where he grew up, too.
Parents are concerned, he added, and even staff members feel uneasy. The area in question sits at a crossroads between Santa Barbara High School, the junior high, Providence School, and the Downtown Club.
Alvarado shared a photo appearing to show someone defecating in broad daylight on a street corner. Neighbors also reported a strong smell of urine wafting from the streets.
“It’s a public health and safety issue,” Alvarado said. He added that some of the girls who walk to the club or high school have been catcalled. “It’s not a matter of if something is gonna happen, but when.”
Residents like Alejandro Sosa, who lives on North Quarantina Street, say their families feel unsafe. Sosa’s daughters, who are 16 and 17, do not feel comfortable leaving the door open when they hang out at home. “Some guys park around the house and live there. After that, they leave trash behind,” he said.
But the situation is complex. “There’s also the issue of people living in their cars people who are struggling,” Alvarado said. “We need a humane approach. It’s not just about sending in bulldozers.”
“Over the years, we haven’t really had the safety issues that people are usually concerned about,” noted Kristine Schwarz, the executive director of New Beginnings,
a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping unhoused people in Santa Barbara. She said most vehicle dwellers are longtime Santa Barbara residents who hit hard times such as a divorce or rising rents.
“Over 40 percent of the people we work with are employed full-time,” Schwarz said. “They just can’t afford housing.” Challenges often arise, especially with oversized vehicles such as RVs, which often stay parked long-term. One, on North Quarantina, had three parking tickets on the hood. These vehicles are usually older with mechanical issues, but act as a “security blanket” keeping their owners from living on the streets. Giving up the cars even for housing can be a terrifying risk.
New Beginnings runs the Safe Parking Program, which provides 31 designated lots where people can park safely overnight. They’ve also offered some daytime parking.
Still, Schwarz said that in just one year, her organization helped 150 people move directly from the street into housing, including some living near the Downtown Club.
Last year, Alvarado and other community leaders met with city officials to voice their concerns but the problems, he said, persist.
“The safety and well-being of our youth and their families are of the utmost importance to us,” City Administrator Kelly McAdoo said. “This is also my neighborhood, so I did observe and reported to the city team the re-population of the vehicular homeless population in this neighborhood at the start of the summer.”
More effort and resources including litter removal, law enforcement response, vegetation management, and New Beginnings’ outreach are being rededicated now that school is in session, she assured. Still, the challenges are growing. The 2025 Point-in-Time Count found 381 people living in vehicles citywide an increase of 80 from the year before. Many neighborhoods are reporting similar concerns. n
Trash has been left out on the sidewalks around the area near the Junior High and Downtown Club. Many oversized vehicles stay parked on the street long-term, and some have received multiple citations, such as the RV pictured here.
Ford Replaces Bridley on Planning Commission
With all the customary kind words that typically accompany a political push, County Supervisor Laura Capps removed Laura Bridley from her post as the county’s 2nd District planning commissioner this Tuesday and replaced her with Kate Ford.
Bridley a land-use planner with 40 years of professional experience who had been appointed to the position by Capps’s board predecessor, Gregg Hart has one year left on her term. Capps thanked Bridley for her unstinting work on the commission especially in helping the county in crafting a new housing element at a time when new state laws severely restrict the ability of local governments to exert meaningful land-use control.
In explaining her departure from the Planning Commission, Bridley said the political winds blowing out of Sacramento are not to her liking. But Bridley got seriously sideways with South Coast environmentalists last October when she voted in favor of Sable Offshore’s application to transfer title and permits from Exxon-
Mobil, whose Santa Ynez Unit along the Gaviota Coast the start-up company purchased two years ago. With Bridley’s support, the Planning Commission voted 3-1 to approve that transfer, a highly charged administrative matter that remains very much unresolved.
While Kate Ford Capps’s appointee lacks Bridley’s years in the planning trenches, she did serve with Capps on the Santa Barbara school board during COVID, also a time of intense ideological warfare over issues of race and sexual orientation. She has also served as school principal and a district superintendent. Capps praised Ford for combining both the “microscopic” and the “telescopic” skillsets needed to excel in public service. Bridley, meanwhile, has landed a spot as a contract planner for the City of Santa Barbara and has been assigned the highprofile task of regulating the city’s largely underground universe of vacation rentals.
—Nick Welsh
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Jose. The third was from Santa Barbara; he was held on misdemeanor charges of providing the arresting officers false information. Ulta Beauty is located just spitting distance from a sheriff’s substation at the mall.
COMMUNITY
Jeanette Duncan (pictured right), who launched the creation of People’s Self-Help Housing back in 1970 and kept it going 40 years before retiring as its chief executive, died. Duncan was initially inspired by the passage of the federal Fair Housing Act in 1968 and the newly found availability of federal housing money to create a multi-county affordable housing juggernaut that punched considerably beyond its weight. When the outfit started, there were two staff people and a budget of $5,000. When she left 40 years later, there were 100 employees and a budget of $10 million. Since her retirement, the organization has grown considerably beyond that. n
From left, Supervisor Laura Capps appointed Kate Ford to fill the seat of outgoing county planning commissioner Laura Bridley.
The Dogs of War
RIP: Sunday evening, I had occasion to sit for a spell just outside Cottage Hospital’s main entrance. The moon rose in the evening sky and hovered above the buildings across the street. It wasn’t yet full, but plump and voluptuous none the less. Day was turning to night, summer tumbling to fall. The tensions of a recent visit were pulsating away. In that moment, I could savor the power and grace of our hospital. And how lucky a town our size was to have it.
Then I imagined mortars, rockets, missiles. Blowing shit up. Everything Israeli defense forces have thrown at hospitals in Gaza. How would Cottage hold up, I wondered. Hamas, we have been told, hides its warriors in hospitals, under hospitals. It uses hospitals as observation posts for its spies. Israel has no choice.
In that twilight moment, the name “Amalek” sprang unbidden to mind. I mention Amalek because three weeks after Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 killing 1,250 and taking another 250 hostage Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netenyahu raised the specter of Amalek in a speech. “Remember what Amalek did to you,” he warned.
In the Old Testament, Amalek and the Amalekites although direct descendants of Abraham themselves waged implacable warfare against the Israelites since they fled Egypt. The Amalekites occupied
the city we know as Jericho . The walls of this city we know mostly because of Mahalia Jackson’s rendition of the gospel song famously came tumbling down after Joshua and his trumpet-playing warriors walked around those walls seven times, pursuant to detailed instructions from the Lord.
The Lord had other instructions, as well. Jackson did not sing about them in her song, a not-so-subliminal celebration of freedom by escaped slaves. What God said was pretty simple.
Kill ’em all
In the Bible, God told Joshua to have his men circumcised a second time and then attack Jericho. Joshua was to “utterly destroy all that was in the city, both old men and women, young and old, and ox and sheep and asses with the edge of the sword.”
The Almighty had given similar instructions to Saul. “Now go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have and spare them not.” He told Saul to kill the infants and those still suckling on the breast. When Saul opted to spare the Amalekite king, Agag, God punished Saul for his defiance
What happened to Jericho is pretty much a blueprint for what’s now happening in Gaza. After Netenyahu’s “Remember the Amalek” edict, his apologists have been trying to walk it back ever since: It was taken out of context; he got the Book of Deuteronomy confused with the Book of Samuel. It was a metaphor.
He meant it figuratively.
No, it seems, he meant it literally Look what’s happening.
For the record, you won’t hear the words, “From the river to the sea” fall from my lips. I don’t wear a kafiya. And I am horrified by Hamas, whose now-deceased leader Yahya Sinwar famously ordered the brother of a Palestinian suspected of collaborating with Israeli authorities to bury his suspected brother alive using a teaspoon.
But here’s the deal: If Sinwar was the monster, Netenyahu is his Dr. Frankenstein. The two are flip sides of the same coin. And in many ways, Netenyahu is our monster
For 10 years, Netenyau knowingly and strategically allowed billions of dollars of Qatari cash delivered in cinematically bulging suitcases to be funneled into the hands of Hamas. In part, Netenyahu authorized this to buy peace. In 2017, he lobbied the U.S. to allow this arrangement. His real objective and he was upfront about it was to play Hamas off against its rival, the Palestinian Authority It was a divide-and-conquer gambit hatched with the express purpose of never having to negotiate with any Palestinians over the creation of any Palestinian State ever.
But at what price? 65,000 dead Gazans and counting, most of whom are women, children, and old people. These figures, Netenyahu says, come from Gazan health officials and are not to be believed. But Netenyahu refuses to allow independent media into Gaza. To date, anywhere from 124 to 247 reporters, mostly Palestinians, trying to cover the war have been killed. To date,
nearly 400 Gazans have starved to death because there’s no food since the ceasefire expired in March. Another 2,000 Gazans trying to get food have been shot and killed by Israeli defense forces. We don’t know how many have been wounded.
Amalek?
This Tuesday morning before the crack of dawn I spoke to Jonty Ellaby, a program manager for humanitarian assistance working for ShelterBox, an international nonprofit whose American affiliate is headquartered in Summerland. Ellaby is in charge of humanitarian distributions in Gaza, a place he’s never been. It’s too risky. Mostly, he works with groups like the Palestinian Agriculture Development Association to deliver tents. In the past months, three humanitarian outreach workers with whom Ellaby worked were killed in Gaza. All three were killed by airstrikes. One was looking for food for his family. His job was to provide ShelterBox with a complete picture of what was happening on the ground. Two lost their entire families. According to Ellaby, half the humanitarian aid workers killed in the world are killed in Gaza Amalek?
He said ShelterBox has 86,000 heavyduty tents in warehouses in Jordan and Egypt they could ship to Gazans. To date, only 1,174 have been delivered. This week, Netenyahu has put more than a million Gazans on notice: If they don’t move to the other side of the country and now they’ll be obliterated
Who is the real Amalek? — Nick Welsh
Break the Cycle
We were on the harbor breakwater when my toddler was six inches from being run over by a group of boys on e-bikes. I was standing in the right place at the right time, but it could so easily have gone another way.
Please, if you are the parent of a child who rides an e-bike talk to them. The kids likely don’t fully grasp the potentially catastrophic impact of their actions. I have so much faith that these boys would never wish harm to anyone. But they don’t understand that small children move in quick, unpredictable ways. Going as fast as they were, they never would have been able to stop or swerve in time.
To our lawmakers, regulations regarding e-bikes need to be congruous with the severity of what can happen when something goes wrong. There seems to be a mismatch between the capabilities of e-bikes and the rules that govern their use. Sadly, riders suffer the consequences as trauma units see an alarming increase in e-bike related injuries. All of our kids deserve to be wrapped in the protection of laws that put their safety and well-being first.
E-bikes are fun, adventurous, independent all the things preteens and teenagers crave. But they’re also very nearly a motorcycle, in the hands of a child. Please help your children understand the power they hold in their young hands and how to wield it safely. We all just want our babies to be okay.
—Aliana Johnson Cahoon, S.B.
In My Book…
Such a nice cover for September 4 three nice ladies with books two of my favorite joys of life. But how sad that they also represent the curse of prenatal infanticide beauty clothing ugliness.
Yes, I know you don’t think so: “Think of all the women who are being freed from the tyranny of pregnancy, when they deserve to be free of it!” Let’s be clear and let’s be honest prenatal infanticide is taking a human life. That is not being free; it’s the bondage of self-centeredness for the sake of a momentary pleasure. This doesn’t shock you because your culture considers sexual activity to be just another kind of pleasure.
Of course there are cases in which the mother’s life must be rescued at the expense of the nascent child. But nearly all destructions of unborn children are infanticides of convenience.
I hope those three ladies, and many others, will rethink the foolish and false way they have been misled to follow, and that they will become leaders of true freedom the freedom to share, to give, and to bring life into the world. —Art Tyree, Goleta
Conception Compassion
Ido not believe last week’s article regarding the Conception was handled well. I grew up across from the Conception in the harbor, and I worked on the boat for many years. Jerry Boylan was an amazing captain who handled his duties very seriously.
Forget not that he too lost a crew member and the wake of the disaster spread far and wide. It struck a huge chord for many of us divers, crew, and captains alike.
Yes, Truth Aquatics needed to hold more responsibility for keeping updated systems in an older vessel. But another aspect to consider is that most older vessels are not equipped for the chargers, electronics, phones, tablets, GoPros, etc. that people require these days. That is a massive amount of electricity being drawn in a small (and wet) environment, and, of course, a major fire hazard.
Coast Guard and others should also make sure that older vessels be equipped properly or have updated escape hatches, fire alarms, state-of-theart outlets, and charging stations.
The article made Boylan sound like a horrible person, when he was a phenomenal captain, with a huge heart, who also must suffer the loss and guilt to his own grave. Please have more compassion. I don’t think he should serve time at all.
—Cindy Scheall, S.B.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the City of Santa Barbara will hold a needs assessment Public Hearing in preparation for development of its 2026-2027 Annual Action Plan. During the hearing the City will also review its performance of program year 2024-2025 as part of the development of the City’s Consolidated Annual Performance Evaluation Report (CAPER). The public and interested stakeholders are invited to attend.
In order for the City to receive annual Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), an Annual Action Plan (AAP) must be submitted. The AAP specifies the activities that will be undertaken to meet the City’s 5-year Consolidated Plan goals to address housing and community development needs using CDBG and HOME funds. The purpose of the hearing is to obtain public input on housing and community development needs.
The hearing will be held before the City’s Community Development and Human Services Committee (CDHSC) Tuesday, September 23, 2025, at 6 p.m. in the David Gebhard Meeting Room, 630 Garden St. Meeting agendas can be located on the City of Santa Barbara’s Board and Commission page at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov, or through the City’s Human Services/CDBG program website at www.santabarbaraca.gov/humanservices
The draft AAP will be prepared in early 2026, will be available for public review and comment, and submitted to HUD, which administers the CDBG and HOME programs, by no later than May 15, 2026 unless HUD issues an extension to submission requirements.
For more information, contact the Housing and Human Services Division, at (805) 564-5461 or e-mail to: HHS@SantaBarbaraCA.gov
Ad Negate
I am stunned and disappointed the Indy allowed Sable to have an ad on page 35 of last week’s paper! Especially, after the local outrage and lawsuit!
—Carell Jantzen, S.B.
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LOCAL
1941–2025 Composer In Memoriam
Daniel Lentz
BY PETER WESTWICK
Daniel Lentz, a noted composer with a global audience and reputation, died in Santa Barbara on July 25 of heart failure.
Daniel was labeled a minimalist (or postminimalist) composer, but as the Independent’s Joe Woodard has noted he rejected comparisons and defied categorization. He was known for his innovations in electronic music, but he also wrote pieces for wine glasses (with performers drinking wine to vary the pitch). His pieces incorporated Catholic liturgy, such as his several masses; Seneca ritual dances; modern physics, in works that evoked the Big Bang and string theory; and food, in pieces inspired by French meals.
He kept listeners off-balance; the Los Angeles Reader described his style as “tossing knuckleballs into extant musical traditions, but doing so with disarming grace.” Paul McCartney said that On the Leopard Altar was “a crazy record … should’ve been a hit.”
Above all, Daniel was a romantic, always in pursuit of beauty. The Village Voice in 2001 declared, “Lentz writes pretty, pretty music, but of so many kinds that you find you never realize how many shades of pretty there are.”
piece that accompanied the artwork. He had recently started work, at age 84, on a new piece for a concert in Japan.
Daniel was born and raised near Latrobe, Pennsylvania, and developed an early love of music, playing trumpet in a jazz band in high school. He attended St. Vincent College in Latrobe, majoring in music, and discovered the music of Stockhausen, Cage, Boulez, and other modern composers. He obtained an MFA in music theory/composition at Ohio University in 1965 and pursued further graduate study at Brandeis, where he began working in electronic music.
In 1963, he married his high school sweetheart, Marlene Wasco, and two years later, they had a daughter, Medeighnia. After a fellowship at Tanglewood and a Fulbright fellowship in Sweden, in 1968, he moved with his family to Santa Barbara for a faculty position in UCSB’s College of Creative Studies, where his courses included a hugely popular history of jazz and where he tested the tolerance of university administrators for avant-garde art. In 1972, he was the first American to be awarded first prize in the Stichting Gaudeamus, an international composer’s competition.
He then left UCSB to pursue an independent life of composition. He founded a series of ensembles the California Time Machine, San Andreas Fault, and Daniel Lentz Group that toured the U.S., Canada, and Europe. The Daniel Lentz Group, formed after he moved to Los Angeles in 1982, pioneered the real-time use of multi-track recording in live performances and performed with the L.A. Philharmonic, the Philip Glass Ensemble, and other symphonies. In 1991, he accepted a position at Arizona State University, where he taught for 10 years.
Daniel gathered no moss, at various times living in L.A., West Berlin, Paris, San Francisco, and Albuquerque. But he lived for the longest in Santa Barbara, more than a third of his life, and he considered it home. He returned here for good in 2007 and continued to compose and record new music. He also began combining music with visual art in his Illuminated Manuscripts, three-dimensional acrylic renderings of the score of a recorded musical
He recognized, after the fact, that where he lived had influenced his music, starting with bluegrass and polka in the hill country of western Pennsylvania and Gregorian chant from the monks at his college. Santa Barbara’s well-lit days and slowish pace resulted in music reflecting an environment of sunshine and ease. In L.A., his music became more energetic, dissonant, and international, reflected in his piece An American in L.A. for the L.A. Philharmonic. He was both criticized and praised for his California sound by the music media, from L.A. and New York to Europe and Asia. In 1987, the Los Angeles Reader declared, “Which composer best represents Los Angeles? Could it be, oh, I don’t know Daniel Lentz?” When he moved to the Arizona desert his music grew darker, evident in his Apologetica to indigenous peoples.
His extensive discography included “Missa Umbrarum,” a marriage of contemporary and gothic; “Point Conception,” in which nine overdubbed pianos (recorded by area pianist Arlene Dunlap) go in and out of synch; “wolfMASS,” a liturgical mass that intertwined 14th-century music by Guillaume de Machaut with “Yankee Doodle” and “When Johnny Comes Marching Home”; and “crack in the bell,” a musing on a poem by e.e. cummings.
Daniel loved good food and wine, cigars, dogs, wordplay, and interesting, smart, creative people. His sense of humor was so subtle that you sometimes didn’t know if he was joking. He was competitive, whether at arm wrestling or Ping-Pong. He was an outstanding cook, and in Santa Barbara, he lived European-style, walking to the market each day for provisions, even if the market was Trader Joe’s, a mile away. Daniel was endlessly creative and he refused to compromise his artistic vision for commercial success.
He is survived by his daughter, Medeighnia (Peter) Westwick; grandsons Dane and Caden Westwick; brother George (Barbara) Lentz of Ligonier, PA; and sister Julie (Bob) Filippone of Pittsburgh, PA. n
Shameful, Misogynist Videos
BY SHARON BYRNE
It wasn’t already bad enough for women in the U.S. to have the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world while our rights are being taken away at breathtaking pace. Doctors are only recently admitting that women need pain medication for IUD (intrauterine device) and IVF (in vitro fertilization) insertions, after ignoring women’s pain for decades. Texas just passed a bill to turn its citizens into bounty hunters with the right to sue any abortion pill provider in any state if they mail a pill to anyone in Texas.
We are experiencing a tidal-wave resurgence of misogyny in our country. It’s fashionable. TikTok hosts multiple forums daily where men discuss repealing women’s right to vote.
You could call me overly sensitive. Guilty as charged. Working for women’s rights and witnessing them being eroded globally will make a woman hyper-alert to any further encroaches on our boundaries.
The Sansum health-worker video is a screaming example of that rampant misogyny.
Some of the video shots look just as if a woman has gotten up from a pap smear, while others could be from other care situations, male or female. The after-pap-smear images unleashed angry screams from women across the internet.
Women dread this procedure, meant to detect cervical cancer, a deadly disease. You lie naked from the waist down on a thinly padded table with crinkly tissue stretched across it, slide your butt to the edge, and place your feet in stirrups. The doctor inserts a metal speculum into you with KY jelly on it to lessen discomfort. It’s cold, invasive, and uncomfortable. The KY jelly dribbles out. The workers in the video seem to think women are supposed to pick up the evidence from the table afterward and skulk away with it.
We trust health-care professionals, imbuing them with godlike status. We hope they can find out what’s wrong with us, and fix it. Women pay thousands of dollars for IVF treatments and surgeries to get rid of fibroids, breast cancer, endometriosis, and problems that arise from being female.
Some women learn the worst news of their lives on that paper, on those tables. The longed-for baby that isn’t. The cancer that is. The fibroids that must be surgically removed. The mysterious bleeding that won’t stop. For women in a red state, being turned away from the hospital while bleeding, because you’re pregnant.
The reaction online to the video is universal: shock and anger.
While I appreciate the Sansum administration’s CYA statement that strict policies safeguard patient privacy and dignity, those policies were an abject failure. The workers were fired, but this will put women off about getting care for their intimate health-care needs, wondering, the next time she puts her feet in those stirrups, is some part
of this going to end up on social media? Women will quietly dread the already dreaded pelvic exam even more.
The vast majority of those howling online about the workers’ video do not live in Santa Barbara, a city that embraced multiple female mayors and elected officials, from school boards to Congress, including the first Latina and mother as the next president of the California Senate. This is a city with a strong history of solid feminist organizations, always ready to stand up for women. How could this happen here?
It’s easy to condemn. It’s easy to be angry. Forgiveness is the greater path and leads to understanding. I’d like to call in those ex-workers in the videos, rather than call them out. I want to ask: Why did you mock the most embarrassing, private, intimate exam that women endure? What led you to believe it was okay to do this?
I invite those in this video to reach out to me and have a real conversation about what happened. We need to heal, and resolve that we are going jerk this high-speed train of misogyny off its tracks, because women are humans who deserve equal human rights, dignity, and privacy.
John Clinton “Fire” Cochrane 03/12/1950-03/04/2025
John Clinton Cochrane, affectionately known as “Johnny Fire” or just “Fire” to many, was called home to heaven on March 4, 2025. John is survived by his beloved wife, Mary, together for 48 years and their children: Justin (Lynn) Cochrane, Sarah (Ryan) Ethington, Leah (Christopher) Dull, and Mariah (Lautaro) Fesembeck. He was always a fun and very proud “Papa” to Logan, Lake, Noah, Olivia, Harper, Luka, Rhodes and Maverick. His ninth grandchild, Jackson, was born in June 2025. He leaves behind his brothers Patrick and Michael Cochrane, including many extended family members, a loyal Australian Shepherd, Bodie, and their favorite horse, Louisa. John was dearly loved by his big family and many friends where his warmth, energy, positivity, love and faith left a lasting impact on all who knew him. John was born on March 12, 1950, in San Bernardino, California, to Jackson and Dorothy Cochrane. John was the youngest of three boys. He grew up exploring and loving the local mountains near him while spending time in Running Springs at their family cabin; skiing at Snow Summit and lifeguarding at Lake Gregory. He was part of the Snow Summit Ski Patrol as well. In 1968 John moved to Santa Barbara after graduating from Pacific High School in San Bernardino. In 1970 he became a young father and began to pursue a career in commercial real estate, working at Sunset Company under Reno Chackel, McElhenny & Levy, and eventually Prudential while forming lifelong friendships. In 1990 he founded Cochrane Property Management and with Mary they built a family business which continues to build on the legacy he began. John’s entrepreneurial spirit extended into music and in the mid 70’s he partnered with Fiesta Productions to help to manage the Santa Barbara Bowl. Teaming up with Pacific Presentations they showcased many of those memorable 70’s bands that many of us remember! At a young age John picked up the guitar and would play at small gigs around Santa Barbara. He never lost his lifelong passion of playing guitar
and writing original songs, including one called “The Trail of Tears” to honor his Cherokee/Scottish Heritage from his Oklahoma Grandfather. In the summer of 1977, while he was honing his skills and playing competitive racquetball, John met the love of his life, Mary, at the Santa Barbara YMCA. Always the athlete and striving to excel, he went on to be the racquetball pro at the new SB Racquetball Club organizing tournaments and advocating for the sport. At this time, he was sponsored by Converse and Omega Sports and enjoyed a shared history where he was part of the same organization where Magic Johnson first got his start!
In 1982 John and Mary were married and centered their life on faith, love and shared adventures raising their family. His greatest joy was his family and then came the grandchildren! There was always family gathering to play music and celebrate life’s precious moments. He loved encouraging his kids and grandkids to play guitar, sing, fish, and ride horses! John was in his element in nature. Whether he was taking pack horses 25 miles into the Idaho mountains, fishing at Lake Cachuma in his small boat, fondly called “The Fireball”, or embracing the Western lifestyle with helping friends gather cattle, brand, ride the trail, watch John Wayne movies, or pick up a Louis Lamar book to read. This strong passion led him to become a member of The Ranchero Visitadores for 25 years. He also enjoyed membership in the Santa Barbara Trail Riders and The Valley Penning Association. Here he made many meaningful and bonding friendships. He loved team penning, sorting, and roping. He also loved the Santa Barbara Fiesta Parade and Rodeo, riding in it for 40 years, creating a beloved annual tradition with family and friends who rode with him. He never turned down an adventure… and he would always say, “If you don’t have adventures, you don’t have stories”.
John became a follower of Jesus Christ in his mid 20’s and from then made it a priority to live his life anchored in his beliefs. John, served on the Regional Board of Young Life for close to 20 years and supporting Young Life outreach programs. John’s faith has guided him through life’s triumphs and trials — including a serious accident in 2019, then a few years later his courageous battle with cancer. Even in pain, he smiled and made everyone feel at ease. He was always the ultimate optimist! He gave us all a masterclass in grace, patience, strength, and joy. His positive attitude, per-
severance, ever-present smile and infectious laughter were a visual testament to his unshakable spirit. John’s warmth drew people in. His integrity made them stay. He was the real thing…. Genuine. He left his imprint on all of us which we will never forget. We know family and friends will carry his vibrant spirit in every memory and story they have of him. The life lessons he learned he shared with us by his actions. We will miss him forever!
John’s Celebration of Life was held on April 30, 2025 at the S.B. Carriage and Western Museum, a special place he loved. We had an amazing turn out of family and friends to honor his Life and Legacy. We are grateful to all those who came to honor his life with your presence, love and support. If you knew John and would like to see a copy of the video of the celebration, please email your request to jfirememories@gmail.com.
Joy Doner Mazzeo 1935-2025
Joy Doner Mazzeo passed away peacefully on August 14, 2025, at her home at Vista del Monte in Santa Barbara, California. She was just shy of her 90th birthday. She was born in Akron, Ohio and lived much of her life in Chillicothe, Ohio and Waverly, Ohio, where she built a business at Lake White with her first husband, Samuel J. Wilkins, Jr.
Joy was the first woman to get a Master of Science Degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Ohio University. She went on to become a computer programmer at Goodyear Atomic Corporation near Waverly, Ohio at a time when familiarity with computers was a cutting-edge technology. When she retired from Goodyear, she and her first husband moved to Lake Worth, Florida. After her first husband passed away, Joy married Giacomo (Jack) Mazzeo. She also returned to the workplace, first at UPS and later at Florida Power & Light. After her second husband passed away, Joy moved to Santa Barbara to be near her brother, David W. Doner Jr. (now deceased) and experienced some of the happiest years of her life at Vista del Monte. She was active with the many retirement center activities at Vista (playing bridge, singing
and welcoming new residents) as well as singing in the choir at Unity Church of Santa Barbara.
Joy was a loving figure for over 70 years in the lives of her stepchildren, S. John Wilkins III (Shari) and Leslee Rose Wilkins Miraldi (David), in the lives of her grandchildren, Virginia Miraldi Utz, Emily Rae Miraldi, Daniel Paul Miraldi, Samuel J. Wilkins IV and Nicole Rose Wilkins, and four great-grandchildren, Brendan, Thomas, Rose and Ray.
Joy is also survived by a nephew, David Austin Doner, two nieces, Ivy Elizabeth Doner and Aria Doner-Tudanger, and a grandnephew, Ember. Joy always had a special relationship with the former wife of her brother David, Lilli Ayers Doner. Lilli was a kind and loving central figure in Joy’s Santa Barbara years.
Joy was preceded in death by her much-loved younger sister Gaye Doner Tudanger. Graveside services in Grandview Cemetery, Chillicothe, Ohio, will be private. Funeral arrangements were made through WelchRyce-Haider Funeral Chapels. Donations may be made in Joy’s memory at the Vista Fund of the Front Porch Communities Foundation, 800 N. Brand Blvd., 19th Floor, Glendale, CA 91203.
Dr. Arthur Morel 1929-2025
Dr. Arthur Morel was surrounded by his loved ones when he passed away early this August at his home in Santa Barbara, California. Born in rural Louisiana to Felix and Theresa Morel of New Roads, Art excelled in school, explored electronics by building radios, and was even reputed to be of a bit of a prankster in the community, setting off stink bombs in the local theater, and putting exploding snaps in the playgrounds.
He served as a petty officer in the US Navy as an airborne radar repair technician, updating WWII carriers with modern radar. After discharge, he attended Louisiana State University, finishing his undergraduate studies in three years. He saved his GI bill to secure his medical degree and specialized in radiology. It was here that he met Charice, who became his lifelong love. Together they were blessed with five children, Marsie, Melissa, Charles, Marion (Dodie) and
Arthur Jr., their respective spouses, 10 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren. He was predeceased by Melissa.
Fortune took them to Santa Barbara where Art practiced radiology for over 30 years at Cottage Hospital. He relished his work, enjoyed mentoring the department staff, and helped establish the City College Radiological Technician Program. But he mostly loved caring for his patients. Once while hospitalized in his 90’s, he was asked by the attending nurses what kind of doctor he was. His response was all Art Morel, “I was a good doctor.” Respect and empathy were his specialty.
Art was a man of energy and action. He found adventure by traveling the back roads or hiking the Sierras, by scuba diving in the Santa Barbara Channel or dirt bike riding in the desert. He found lifelong friends, both young and old, in boating, tennis, skiing and travel. Ever since college, Art nurtured the hobby of photography, maintaining a dark room for decades, and taking thousands of photos documenting those he loved, the places he saw, and the marching of time. One of his biggest passions was wine and its craft. He found his place in a cadre of like-minded home wine makers, known as ‘Compañeros.’ Their wines were, and continue to be, legendary in the Santa Barbara wine community. It was a perfect mix of fraternity, alchemy, and friends - the Good Life. Some advice we fondly remember from our father includes:
Never go to bed angry (at your spouse!)
Watch your step. (From Great Grampy)
Tomorrow is another day. Take the path less traveled. Be flexible.
Art Morel was a gentleman to all, always open to new friends and experiences, and generous with his time, praise and support. He will be remembered for the blessings he brought to everyone he encountered. But in the end, it is his role as husband and father that we will cherish most.
So raise your glass to a true selfmade “Man for All Seasons!” Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler! A private Celebration of Life will be held at a later date
James Lynn Strait 1940-2025
Lynn Strait passed away September 5, 2025 due to complications from Alzheimer’s Disease. Lynn was a native of Ohio and though he lived most of his life in California, he always identified with everything related to Ohio. It was his greatest pride and joy to have had the opportunity to be recruited to OSU to play football under the coaching of Woody Hayes. Near the end of his second year, he suffered a knee injury that kept him from being able to continue playing. Before signing with OSU, Lynn had decided he wanted to be a physician. At risk of losing his scholarship, Woody Hayes was good on his promise and made it possible for Lynn to realize his dream of medical school.
Lynn had a successful medical practice as an orthopedic surgeon for eight years with the US Army, serving for one year in Saigon, Viet Nam; and then for decades in private practice in Santa Barbara, California. His gentle demeanor made his patients feel calm and secure in knowing that he would take good care of them.
Lynn acquired his instrumentrated pilot’s license and enjoyed flying across the country to visit his family in Ohio and to ski in Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and Idaho.
He was a natural and gifted athlete who enjoyed tennis, rock climbing, skiing, and running until the physical toll on his knees sidelined him. Fortunately, golf became his sport of choice. He was a former member of La Cumbre Country Club in Santa Barbara, and later The Valley Club of Montecito. In Carmel, he enjoyed playing golf at Quail Lodge and Golf Club. He was a past president of the international MacKenzie Society. Golf took him all over the world enjoying the many courses and the many friendships that revolve around the game. While playing at Lahinch in Ireland, Lynn had his eighth hole in one on the eighth hole, hitting with his eight iron! While his family is proud of all his amazing accomplishments, they are the proudest of the husband, father, and grandfather he was. Lynn is survived by his wife, Cheryl Carter; his two daughters, Julie Ann Strait and Jennie Eliza-
beth Strait both of Santa Barbara; stepchildren, Kacey Meredith, Chris Barron, and John Barron (Brittany) and seven grandchildren, Charlotte Meredith, Camille Meredith, Arabella Barron, Indy Barron, Sunday Barron, River Barron, and Marigold Barron. He was preceded in death by his son, James Lynn Strait, II.
The family would like to thank Ivy Park at Salinas and Hospice of Santa Cruz County for their excellent care and compassion. In lieu of flowers, the family would appreciate memorial donations to the charity of the donor’s choice.
Lynn was a quiet, strong, and elegant gentleman who walked softly on this planet. As per his wishes, no services are planned.
Joan Rosemary Churchill 12/28/1927-08/27/2025
Joan Rosemary Churchill, 97, of Santa Barbara, passed away peacefully on August 27, 2025. She was born on December 28, 1927, in Santa Barbara, California, to George and Ida Mary Horspool Churchill, who had come from England. Joan grew up on Campbell Ranch in the Goleta Valley, where she developed her lifelong love of animals and the California coast.
Joan was preceded in death by her beloved daughter Diane and her sister Ida. She is survived by her son David and his wife Linda; her granddaughters Summer and her husband Rick, and Julia and her husband Jess; and her greatgrandchildren Jonny, Alice, James, and Phoebe.
Joan studied interior design at Woodbury College in Los Angeles, where she met her husband of 20 years (1949–1969). She went on to build a career in public service, starting as a clerical worker and eventually retiring as Northern District Manager in Sacramento for the Office of Contract Compliance. She lived and worked in Los Angeles, Orange County, and Sacramento, and later returned to Santa Barbara, which was always closest to her heart.
A breast cancer survivor, Joan will be remembered for her fiercely independent spirit, her devotion to animals, especially her cockatiel, Skipper, and her joy in gardening. She will be laid to rest at the Santa Barbara Cemetery in a private service.
Marjorie (Maggie) Price
Kellogg 02/27/1929 – 08/23/2025
Passed away peacefully at Vista del Monte Assisted Living on August 23, 2025, Marjorie Ruth Price was born on February 27, 1929, in Whittier, California to Arthur J. and Mabel Knox Price. As the middle child among three daughters, she grew up on Balboa Island in Newport Beach. At Vista del Monte, Maggie was affectionately known as the lady from Balboa, frequently sharing stories of her idyllic childhood spent swimming in the bay and body surfing at Corona del Mar Beach. Maggie attended UCSB (Riviera Campus), graduating in 1951. Her first home in Santa Barbara was on the Riviera, where she earned room and board as a nanny for the resident children. A lifelong member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, Maggie volunteered for many years as an alumna and served on the local chapter advisory board. In 2024, she received her 75-year anniversary pin from Kappa Alpha Theta. It was during her time at UCSB that Maggie met her future husband, Kenneth Kellogg of Pasadena, California. After college, Ken and Maggie moved to Pasadena, but soon returned to Santa Barbara, making it their permanent home. As a devoted homemaker, Maggie raised four children in another idyllic neighborhood on the Mesa, surrounded by open lots and hillsides perfect for exploration. Maggie is fondly remembered by students of Washington Elementary School as the yard-duty lady, a role she held while her own children attended and for several years afterward. She is survived by her children Kerry (Debbie Eckles), Casey, Toby (Darlena Banning), and Molly (Russell Gusman); her grandchildren Carly Jones (Travis), William, Matthew, Julia, Amanda, and Natalie; and greatgrandchildren Audrey, Miles, and Rhys Jones. Maggie was preceded in death by her husband Ken in 2011, her sisters Virginia Price and Donna Price, and daughter-in-law Jocelyn (Casey). The Kellogg family extends their gratitude to the staff at Vista del Monte for their compassionate care during Maggie’s 5½-year residence, as well as to VNA Hospice Care and 1Heart
Caregiver Services. No services are planned. Remembrances may be made by donations to the VNA.
Lorraine Taylor 1942-2025
Lorraine Taylor passed away peacefully on the morning of August 16, 2025. A lifelong resident of the central coast, she was a proud descendant of Californian Pioneer Benjamin Foxen and loved to share her family’s local history.
Lorraine’s elementary years were spent at Cachuma Lake, where her father served as the first Park Ranger. She loved to recount her adventurous upbringing at Cachuma Lake—learning to drive stick shift at just nine years old and having a pet deer were some of her many childhood memories. In 1956, her family moved to Ojai, where her father was hired as the Resort Supervisor at Wheeler’s Hot Springs. While attending Nordhoff High School, Lorraine met her future husband, Jimmy Taylor. As the story goes, Lorraine and some friends were in an orange grove when she spotted Jimmy and another boy in the distance. She grabbed an orange and threw it, hitting Jimmy on the head, from then on, they only had eyes for each other. In her senior year, she was proud to receive the Gracie Hay’s Award for Best Female Athlete.
After Lorraine and Jimmy graduated in 1960, Jimmy joined the U.S. Army. While stationed in Georgia, he called Lorraine’s father to ask for her hand in marriage. They were married in October 1961, and after honeymooning in Santa Barbara, they relocated to Germany, where Jimmy was stationed for two years returning to the U.S. in 1963, They ended up in Santa Barbara in 1964 when Jimmy was hired by the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Department. Their family grew quickly, and by 1966, they had welcomed four sons and one daughter in just three and a half years, with the youngest being twin boys. Life was full and busy with five young children and while Jimmy worked the graveyard shift. Lorraine was especially grateful for the love and support of their neighbors, the Ciluagas, who became family. Once the twins started kindergarten, Lorraine began working for The Bus Company as a driver— proudly referring to herself as a
“double-clutching momma.” She drove for nine years before retiring due to a back injury. Throughout her life, Lorraine was active in her community and formed deep bonds through various organizations she held dear. To name a few: the St. Raphael’s Women’s Auxiliary (1970s), the Goleta Beach Spew Crew, along with the BAGS, Ladies of Charity at St. Vincent’s, and Ladies of the Blue Van. These women celebrated life with love, laughter and vigor.
Becoming a grandmother brought Lorraine her greatest joy. The Goleta Beach Spew Crew lovingly gave her the nickname “Grandma LALA,” which suited her perfectly and all grandkids referred to her as this. She played an active role in her grandchildren’s lives, always ready to babysit, drive carpool, chaperone field trips, and cheer at every event. She especially loved planning family outings with her grandchildren, whether it was a sunny beach day or a snowy weekend in Big Bear.
Lorraine loved being out and about in town, visiting friends and bringing along her famous peanut clusters to lift their spirits with a sweet treat. When she saw her friends while running errands, she would always let them know they were “number one.” All who knew Lorraine looked forward to Christmas—not for the presents, but to see what creative idea she had come up with for her legendary Christmas card.
Lorraine is survived by her husband of 64 years, Jimmy Taylor; her sister, Jolene Ledwith; her children, John (Muriel), Mark, Jennifer (Santos), Tim, and Tom (Christine); ten grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren, with a seventh expected in October. Plus, many cousins, nephews and nieces that she loved dearly. She was preceded in death by her parents, Carlos and Cecilia Getman, and her brother, Howard Getman.
The family would like to express their sincere gratitude to Villa Alamar for the comfort and care provided in Lorraine’s final months, along with VNA Health and physicians Dr. Richard Ponce, Dr. Daniel Berger, and Dr. Michael Bordofsky.
In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to VNA Health Santa Barbara or Ladies of Charity at St. Vincent’s Santa Barbara.
Rosary: Wednesday Sept. 24 at 7:00 p.m. San Roque Catholic Church
Funeral Mass: Thursday Sept. 25 at 10:30 a.m. San Roque Catholic Church 325 Argonne Cir., Santa Barbara, CA 93105
Reception to follow (location will be announced at the service)
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George Whiteman 10/10/1952-08/25/2025
George Lyman Whiteman, 72, of Santa Barbara, California passed away August 25, 2025 following a valiant fight with multiple medical issues.
George was born on October 10, 1952 in Bakersfield California, the son of William Whiteman and Bernice (Tech) Whiteman. He was born at Miss Freise’s Maternity Hospital, because Kern County General Hospital had been damaged in the 1952 earthquake and condemned. George and his family moved to Santa Barbara in 1965. He graduated from Santa Barbara High School in 1970. George attended Santa Barbara City College, majoring in Chemistry. Through shear perseverance, he landed a job at Santa Barbara Research Center, where he worked on infrared detector research and development. SBRC financed his continuing education at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, while working full-time. At SBRC, which later became Raytheon, George specialized in liquid phase epitaxy, a method used to produce semiconductor materials and their alloys. One well-known product of this work, was the Multispectral Scanner instrument onboard the Landsat 1 to 5 satellites, which allowed the first high resolution pictures of the Earth’s surface. George retired from Raytheon after 35 years. When he wasn’t doing science, George enjoyed playing guitar and harmonica. He and his buddy, John Bibby did an excellent rendition of Neil Young’s “Heart of Gold”. Other interests included, wine tasting, travel, trains, and attending concerts. One highlight of his life was attending Railfair 1999 at the California State Railroad Museum; the last Railfair featuring large steam locomotives. For many years George drove his beloved Datsun 240Z; perhaps because of its low profile, it gained a reputation as being the most hit car in Santa Barbara. The local body shop kept his paint on hand. George also became a ham radio operator (back in the time when you needed to know Morse code to get your license), and enjoyed
making his own antennas. Always a handy guy, George could fix or build almost anything around the house. His expertise will be sorely missed. In his later years, George enjoyed reconnecting with family. In the autumn of 2024 he visited his cousins in Indiana. In February of 2025, he reconnected with the Whiteman side of his family at a reunion in Fort Meyers Florida. George also loved attending concerts (particularly at the handicapped-accessible Lobero Theater, where they knew him by name). In fact, while he was in the hospital, he got tickets to the November 16th Judy Collins and Tom Rush concert; we know he will be attending in spirit. George loved aviation history. Always looking to add items to his “bucket list”, one of George’s last trips was to Dayton Ohio to see the National Museum of the US Air Force. George retained his quirky sense of humor right up until the end. The nurses and doctors would regularly ask him where he was, and he would invariably reply, “The planet of the apes.” He had quite the reputation as a kidder at Cottage Hospital. George is survived by his wife, Eileen Hamilton, daughter, Teal Hamilton, and sister, Chris Barros.
A Celebration of Life will be held on Saturday, September 13th at 4:30 PM at the Flamingo Mobile Home Park (1210 Cacique). We will gather in the pool area to remember and celebrate George’s unique personality, interests, and achievements.
John Altamirano 07/18/1929 – 08/16/2025
John Altamirano, 96, of Santa Barbara, passed away peacefully on August 16th. He was born on July 18, 1929. He married Mary Jessie Escobar and went on to have three children, Jennie, Mark and Eddie.
He was a force of nature, determined to provide for his family and give them the life he felt they deserved. He worked hard, loved music, loved to dance, loved his wife, children, and grandchildren, Stephen, Kelly, and Daniel Martinez.
He was passionate about his home and garden and many people commented about his beautiful yard. A leaf was never out of place. In fact, he won the Santa
Barbara Beautiful award. Donations may be sent to Hospice VNA.
Gary Adler 1934-2025
Gary Adler passed away peacefully on July 8, 2025 at his home in Santa Barbara, CA. He was 91 years old. Gary was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1934, graduated from Cornell University and served 2 years as a U.S.A.F. pilot in Minot, North Dakota prior to starting his career in broadcasting at KPIX-TV in San Francisco. An avid runner, he completed the Boston Marathon in 1972, and was an active member of a BMW motorcycle club that took trips throughout the United States. He was preceded in death by his parents, Harry and Matilda, and his sister, Fern. Gary is survived by his son Gregory, his daughterin-law Huaping, his son Keith and Keith’s 2 sons, Bjorn and Cayo, his daughter Lisa, and his former wife, Nancy. A private service will be held in Lake Tahoe, CA.
Peter David Anslow Lawson 1962 - 2025
“That’s how we roll!” Peter would say, raising his hand in the air with a smile. And, roll he did. With friends, he’d be off on a challenging outdoor adventure, most often on a bike. Strong, handsome, happy, and with a quick dry wit, adventures were always better with Peter.
During the early hours of his 63rd birthday, Peter David Anslow Lawson peacefully passed away with his loving wife Lisa by his side. Peter lived with ALS for a remarkable 20 years keeping the disease mostly at bay for 17 years with optimism, grace and a determination to maintain his active lifestyle.
Born in San Francisco to Robert C. Lawson, DVM and Wendy S. Lawson, his first seven years were on ranches in Petaluma and Santa Ynez before settling into the Montecito area. Nestled among the oaks, their beautiful home was filled with antiques from Ireland. Thanks to his father, horses, dogs and cats were everywhere providing a bit of chaos that amused Peter and started a connection to animals that would last a lifetime. His doting parents and Irish
nanny Molly gave him a proper upbringing, dressing his adorable young self in blazers and short pants, teaching him good manners, taking him to family events in Ireland and beyond.
Peter graduated from Laguna Blanca School in 1980. He attended Menlo College, earned his AA at SBCC, and completed a BS in Geography from San Diego State University. A member of Lambda Chi Alpha, he made dear friends at school and developed an interest in urban planning. His first career job was with Ventura County APCD enforcing air pollution regulations in the field. That didn’t deter him from public service and in 1998 he began work with Santa Barbara County Planning becoming fast friends with colleagues who remember him as not only dedicated, conscientious, and professional but also as the guy who would help anybody with anything. He mentored a number of young planners who gained from his insights and wisdom. His dry sense of humor left a legacy of funny stories. In 2006 he became Associate Planner with the City of Santa Barbara where he found a supervisor who shared his sense of humor while working on some of the most complex development projects in town. His work and coworkers meant a great deal to him and he was proud of his contributions to Santa Barbara. Outside of work, friends bonded over outdoor adventures. Skiing, hiking, mountain biking, cycling was where it began. He was most proud of summiting Mt. Whitney, completing the Bicycle Tour of Colorado (475 mi and 1000s of feet climbing), finishing the Vineman Half-Ironman and Santa Barbara Triathlon. Impressive as these feats are, they were just the highlights. Every spare moment for many years was filled with cycling adventures, running events and triathlons. Life was good and it was how he rolled. Peter cared for his mother and Molly when they had health issues in the late 1990s. In a short period of time, both passed and Peter moved back to his childhood home in Romero Canyon hoping to find a way for he and his brother Chip to live on the property long term.
In 2005 he began cycling with Lisa who shared his wider group of athletic friends. The bike rides around town led to dinners and concerts despite family and professional obligations. After competing in the SB Triathlon as a relay team that year, they began an enduring and loving partnership that would thrive for 20 years. Peter was wonderful at finding 100K organized rides in cool
places and they enjoyed innumerable weekends away. Bike shops, brew pubs, coffee shops were always on the agenda. Eventually, the dog joined the party adding to the fun. Events expanded to ½ marathons for Lisa and challenging bike climbs for Peter, often including friends and family. In 2011, the Romero property was sold and while sad, Peter was content with the respectful renovation completed by the new owners. Chip found a home nearby and Peter joined Lisa at her home in Santa Barbara. Medical appointments dotted their calendar throughout these years but they continued on enjoying an active life together. 2019 and 2020 were years of joy and loss, respectively, when they married and Chip passed away. The pandemic and retirement coincided and the last years were quiet ones. Home became a sanctuary with time spent walking in the garden, watching all things cycling and raising a boxer puppy. It would be remiss not to mention the great love Peter had for the pets in his life. His first Boxer dog, Simon, outdid his sense of humor ten times over and led to Bruce, then Maddie, who survives him. Harley, his black cat, who would greet him by jumping off the roof onto the hood of his car, held a special place in his heart. Siena, the calico cat he chose for Lisa also lives on.
Peter is survived by his wife Lisa Hall, brother-in-law Jeff Hall (Lori), stepmother-in-law Linda Hall, extended family in Colorado and cousins across the globe. Memorial services are not planned at this time. A dear cousin has arranged for a Catholic Mass to be said in his honor at Saints Peter and Paul Parish in Vancouver, B.C. Loved ones are grateful for the care provided by the UCSF ALS Center and VNA Hospice.
To honor Peter, consider donating to an organization that makes life better for dogs or cats. Peter lived a full and amazing life. Wherever he went in town, he’d hear someone say “Hey, Pete” and he would respond with a nod and that sweet smile. This kind and gentle man carried a twinkle in his beautiful blue eyes, revealing a hope that this lovely life would go on forever. He will be greatly missed.
Roberta Studebaker Eby 10/16/1921 – 09/03/2025
ROBERTA ELIZABETH STUDEBAKER EBY 10-16-1921 passed from this world peacefully on 9-3-25 at Heritage House a month before her 104 th birthday. She was born and raised by her German Brethren parents Guy and Ella Funderburg Studebaker on a potato farm in New Carlisle Ohio. She was her high school class valedictorian; went to Manchester College and then graduated from Purdue University in 1942. She and her husband Walter Dale Eby were happily married for x57 years until his passing in 2001. They had x3 children: son Michael Eby and his wife Raye; daughter Mary Ann Walker and her husband Tom: and son Tom Eby and his wife Gater; x7 grandchildren, 14 great grandchildren and a number of great- great grandchildren. During WWII she worked in a Goodyear aircraft factory in Akron Ohio helping build B-26 Marauder planes for the war effort. Her then new husband Walt joined the Navy after graduating Purdue in mechanical engineering; and they lived in San Francisco where he serviced Pacific fleet submarines at Hunter Point.
After the war they lived in Dayton Ohio, and then Indianapolis Indiana, where Bertie enjoyed her work in the admissions department at Butler University. She was an active member of Goleta Presbyterian Church since 1980 when she and Walt retired to Goleta. She was a church deacon there, and a pianist/organist/ secretary for several churches over many decades.
She worked as a volunteer for many service agencies over the years; including the Red Cross headquarters in San Francisco during WWII; and many Santa Barbara agencies; including homeless shelters and soup kitchens. Her lifelong interests included playing bridge, cooking, antiques, music, beach combing and women’s basketball, especially Santa Barbara Gauchos and Seattle Storm. She and Walt enjoyed traveling extensively after retirement, including trips to Europe, England, Alaska and New Zealand. She was loved and respected by many people during her lifetime, and will be sorely missed, but in our hearts forever. May heaven
banish all grief. Special thanks to Heritage House for providing her superb care for the last year of her life, and Goleta Presbyterian Church. In lieu of flowers please consider a donation in her memory to Goleta Presbyterian Church.
Norman L. Cota 11/04/1935 – 08/23/2025
Born in Santa Barbara, California, to Rena and John Cota. Norman was preceded in death by his parents and siblings: John Sonny Cota, Tom Cota, Charlene Hovey, and his beloved daughter, Candace Irene Buchanan.
A proud graduate of Santa Barbara High School, Class of 1957, Norman enlisted in the U.S. Naval Air Force that same year, serving honorably until 1964 aboard the U.S.S. Yorktown.
In 1959, Norman married the love of his life, Mary DeAlba Cota. Together they raised four children: Candace Cota Buchanan, Julie Cota Stuber, David Cota, and Victoria Cota Pence.
Norman’s legacy continues through his seven grandchildren: Ronnie Buchanan, Brittnie Buchanan Johnson, Courtney Toth, Hannah Stuber, Mia Pence, Mason Cota, and Cole Cota; and his seven great-grandchildren: Abigayle Toth, Elijah Buchanan, Remington Toth, Dominic Johnson, Kalem Buchanan, Tylin Buchanan, and Brenee Buchanan. “Your Grandpa/ Grampy is so very proud of each and everyone of you.”
Norman had a long and respected career as an engineer, working for the Montecito Water District, Summerland Water District, and Carpinteria Water District. After retiring in 1999, he continued his passion as an independent consultant.
A devoted member of several men’s golf clubs in Santa Barbara, Norman found joy and camaraderie on the golf course. He deeply loved the sport and the friendships it brought him.
We will miss you deeply- beloved husband, Father, Grandpa, and Grampy. Your memory lives on in every life you touched.
Funeral services will be held at St. Joseph’s Church Carpinteria Ca September 13, 2025 at 11:30am, with interment following at the Carpinteria Cemetery. Please join us for a reception celebrating Norman’s life at the Carpinteria Lions Park.
Kenji John Webb 08/31/1958-05/29/2025
Pro Surfer, Sculptor, Painter, Adventurer.
Kenji peacefully passed away after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. He lived a life full of adventure, riding waves with grace and embodying a deep respect and love for both the sea and land. In his final days, he dreamt of sitting beneath a majestic redwood tree, soaking in the peace and beauty of the forest.
A dedicated pro longboard surfer, Kenji’s love for the ocean began in sixth grade when his father took him surfing. His passion quickly grew, earning him a place among the greats, and he was known for his unique style and fluidity on the waves. Even to the end, Kenji worked on his flexibility, imagining himself riding the perfect wave.
Kenji was a guide for the Santa Barbara Adventure Company, sharing his love for the ocean and inspiring people of all ages. His passion for exploration extended beyond the ocean. With his wife Anne Marie, he embarked on long journeys into the wilderness—fishing for trout, camping, and discovering hidden treasures in Hawaii, New Zealand, and the Channel Islands.
A talented sculptor and painter, Kenji expressed his deep love for the ocean and land through his art. His creative spirit and nurturing nature cultivated lifelong friendships, and he was a generous soul, always curious about those he cared for. Kenji loved discussing his surfing memories, and future adventures, enriching the lives of everyone around him.
Kenji is survived by his wife, Anne Marie Soltysik-Webb; brothers-in-law Fred (Carol) Soltysik, Steve (Linda) Soltysik, Jerry Terhune, sisters-in-law Sue Soltysik-Freeman (Rob), Michelle Soltysik-Leiphardt (Jeff), and Myriam Soltysik-Holland (Andy). He is also survived by 14 nephews and nieces. And, extended family members. Kenji was preceded in death by his parents, John (Jack), and Chieko Webb, and sister Mieko Webb-Terhune.
We extend our heartfelt love and gratitude to family members, friends Skip Saenger, and Terry Simms, his colleagues, and many
other friends who offered their love and support throughout his life. Our deep appreciation and love also go to the compassionate nurses and doctors at Community Memorial Hospital Ventura and Ojai. Their care was a true blessing.
A paddle-out celebration will be held at Rincon Beach on October 3rd at 3:00 pm until sunset.
Kenji’s spirit will forever ripple through the waves, the land, and the hearts he touched.
Robert J. Emmons 1932-2025
Robert John “Bob” Emmons, Ph.D., a civic leader, businessman, professor, author, and philanthropist, died peacefully at his home in Montecito, California, on July 23, 2025.
He was 92. Born in Trenton, New Jersey, to Ruth and Charles Glunk, Bob grew up in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, later moving to Detroit. He earned degrees in economics from Wayne State University, a law degree from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in economics from Santa Clara University. At age 29 he became vice president and general manager of BaskinRobbins, where his leadership was quickly recognized.
He later served as CEO of Master Host International and United Rentals and subsequently led LTI Corporation and Smart & Final, Inc. He also founded the Institute for Management and Marketing Studies, consulting in 25 countries. From 1970 to 1981, Bob taught international marketing at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. After retiring from corporate life, he pursued philanthropy where he shared his knowledge with many non-profits in the community. He was Chairman of the Board of the Santa Barbara Foundation, Lotusland, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Marymount School, and the Florence Academy of Art. He was honored to serve on many other local boards including the Mosher Foundation, CAMA, and Laguna Blanca School. Bob was named Man of the Year in 2010 for his impact on the community and he and his wife, Christine Emmons, were recipients of the Westmont medal and the Life Chronicles’ Father Virgil Remarkable Life Award in 2016.
A prolific author of eight books and several volumes of poetry, he also studied sculpture at the Florence Academy of Art. Bob is survived by Christine; four children, Brad, Cathy, Christopher, and Ryan; eight grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
A funeral service will be held September 11 at All Saints By-the-Sea Episcopal Church, Montecito.
Wednesday evening, 10:30 September 3, Barry’s soul departed. What a powerful, positive energy has been released into the cosmos. It was a cardiac arrest.
The last 43 years with my amazing husband has been a magical mystery tour. Our love grew stronger year by year. We were a partnership .
After we graduated from the Marion Frostig center for educational therapy in Los Angeles in 1973 with our masters degrees , we set off on a road trip through Mexico. This led to living in Mexico City for two years. We opened a department at the Universidad Ibero Americana and gave teachers and psychologists the framework and tools needed to work with children with learning disabilities. Through serendipity , we next landed in Paradise, Santa Barbara. In 1979, we opened the Dubin learning center. Barry touched the lives of many young people. For 39 years , students and their families benefited from his teachings and kindness and wisdom and the life lessons he imparted. Be a friend to yourself, don’t beat yourself up, he often told them. We closed the doors of our center in 2019 and began the next chapter of our lives. On Tuesday, September 16, there will be a service at congregation B’nai Brith, 1000 San Antonio Creek Road at 1 PM.
It is open to the community. Following the service, Friends and family are invited to our home.
Barry Martin Dubin 1946-2025
Run Over by ‘BIG CAR’
DAVID OBST STILL WANTS TO BE PART OF THE SOLUTION
by NICK WELSH
Photos by INGRID BOSTROM
David Obst remembers exactly where he was and what he was doing when the lightbulb went on in his brain. Obst a writer, literary agent, inveterate yarn spinner, and agitatorwithout-a-portfolio was driving his granddaughter Sunny 60 years his junior from his home in Santa Barbara to Los Angeles. Somewhere outside of Ventura, Obst recalled, he and Sunny hit gridlock. Or more precisely, gridlock hit them. Suddenly, Obst found himself utterly devoid of his customary Zen aplomb. “I hate traffic jams,” he erupted. “I hate traffic.”
His granddaughter having perhaps heard some of this before turned his way. “Papa,” she said, putting him on notice, “you are the traffic.”
That shut him up. At least for a moment.
“How did that happen?” Obst wondered. “How did I become part of the problem?”
That was four years ago.
During those years, David Obst a card-carrying Baby Boomer accustomed to being part of the solution has dedicated his sprawling curiosity to exploring that very question.
Three of those years he spent researching and writing the book Saving Ourselves from Big Car, a 300-page jeremiad on the environmental and political evils of what he terms “Big Car.”
Today, in year four, Obst now 80 has finished cranking out all the documentation his publishers at Columbia University Press required to demonstrate he knew what he was talking about. “Nothing in there is made up,” Obst said in a recent interview at Via Maestra 42. “Everything is backed up with sources. Nothing is just my opinion.”
His answer to the big question “What happened?” is simple. Nothing “just happened.” In Obst’s cosmology, corporate greed, self-interest, and duplicity play a primary role in shaping human affairs as manifested in Big Car.
The undeniable convenience, freedom, and opportunity that cars offer is literally killing us, he writes: “Over 1.3 million humans are killed a year because of Big Car. The total number of people killed by cars in the 20th Century in excess of 60 million is equal to the total number of people killed during World War II. Efforts to make driving safer take the laws requiring seat belts were bitterly
fought by Big Car, as were softer dash boards and collapsible steering columns that might otherwise impale a driver upon impact.”
But Obst also acknowledged that the car-buying public has often been its own worst enemy. They too fought mandatory seat belt rules. The one and only company Nash that voluntarily added seat belts confronted a powerful backlash from customers who wanted them gone.
As a writer, Obst is easy, breezy, and brazenly conversational. In person, he radiates wonder and delight, even when warning about the impending environmental Armageddon. Obst is one of those genuinely rare creatures, an apocalyptic optimist. In person, the weight of his enthusiasm tilts far more to how we’re going to get out of this mess than to how we got into it.
The thrust of his written narrative, however, goes in the other direction.
Above all, Obst is a storyteller; his eyes light up while recounting one outrage after the next. It’s like he can’t decide whether he’s horrified or having fun. When in storytelling mode, Obst cannot be budged off point. Ever. If successfully interrupted, however, Obst politely waits it out. Then he starts up precisely where he left off. Never will you hear David Obst say, “Now, where was I?”
The expression “Big Car” refers to a “ghoulash” of special interests made up of car manufacturers, tire makers, the insurance industry, the steel industry, Big Oil (of course), the advertising industry, lobbyists, and machine tool manufacturers. In 2020, Obst says, these groups combined spent $400 million on political campaign donations, outpacing the environmental opposition by a margin of 13-1.
Then there are the legions of traffic engineers high priests of the grid whose mantra, Obst says, has been “more, wider, and faster” when it comes to building roads than resolving any congestion issues. Such solutions, he says, prove short-lived and more expensive. Typically, they just make things worse.
And of course, he points out, it was President Dwight D. Eisenhower who powered through the legislation needed to create the federal highway system back in the 1950s that enabled America’s postwar real estate boom to really explode. Eisenhower sold the bill on the pretext of national security. As a result, all freeway underpasses still must be built high enough to accommodate flatbed trucks hauling
a regulation-size ICBM missile.
True fact. It’s just one of many Obst has at his fingertips.
Another one Obst especially likes is that in 1904, New York City had 130,000 horses, then used for transportation purposes. Each one of those horses, Obst will tell you, deposited 24 pounds of manure and released 12 gallons of urine each day. The cumulative stench and debris thus generated, he explained, provided the impetus for the invention of the car. The first wave of cars was electric, he noted; next came steam. The internal combustion rolled in last but has never gone away.
Saving Ourselves from Big Car is permeated with stuff that’s just plain cool to know. But at certain saturation levels,
David Obst
it can get overwhelming. Did you know, for example, that in 1903, a woman inventor patented the windshield wiper? But because no car makers were interested, her patent expired before she could make a dime. And are you aware that by 1950, the United States was making 75 percent of all cars manufactured on the planet?
But where the book’s heart really beats or breaks, more aptly put is in telling how a consortium of auto makers, oil companies, and chemical manufacturers conspired to add lead to car gasoline, even though they knew that lead exposure inflicted irreversible brain damage, induced hallucinations, triggered heart attacks, sparked convulsions, and resulted in premature death.
The automotive virtue of leaded gasoline was hardly insignificant, however: It provided much more power, better mileage, and dramatically smoother rides no pinging or hiccupping to mar the industrialized magic of the internal combustion process. But the price paid by those breathing all this lead-infused air “looney dust,” as it was termed in the tabloid press of the 1920s still defies calculation or moral reckoning.
According to the World Health Organization stats Obst cited, 1.3 million people a year die from lead poisoning, much of it airborne. “Lead killed more people than the Nazis ever did during World War II,” Obst said. “No one has ever been held accountable, and no one was ever charged with a crime.”
Even so, an executive with the Ethyl Corporation would complain in the 1970s, the harassment and persecution of his company by environmental critics and health professionals was “the worst example of fanaticism since the New England witch-hunts.”
For the record, there had been high-profile hearings in the 1920s and later in 1960s both sparked by alarms raised by genuinely heroic scientists but they went nowhere. Scientific “experts” working for the corporate entity creating the lead additives assured the powers-that-be that the lead posed no greater health threat than water and attacked the crusading skeptics as anti-business hysterics.
Most damagingly, all relevant data on exposure levels and health risks were kept from the public under the lock and key of corporate confidentiality.
It’s the same playbook Exxon would later use to cynical perfection when spending millions to rebut the existence of climate change after having perfected the science that actually proved its reality.
The long and sordid saga of leaded gasoline came sputtering to its much-delayed end in the mid-1970s. As in all major world affairs, events in Santa Barbara played a small but essential role. It was the Santa Barbara oil spill of 1969 that triggered the creation of the Environmental Protection Act and the passage of the Clean Air Act. These led to a regulation mandating that all new cars be equipped with catalytic converters.
As gas station operators would learn the hard way, catalytic converters and leaded gas didn’t mix. In fact, the combination was death on engines. Cars had to be towed from gas station lots. That’s when oil companies making gasoline knew it was
COVER STORY
time to get the lead out. Lead-infused gas was and is still sold. But the gas pump nozzle delivering leaded gas has been sized to be too big for cars requiring lead-free gas.
Obst is not just another arm-chair environmentalist desperately tossing out Hail Mary passes to save the planet. He boasts a résumé anyone could brag on. The oldest of three kids in a Jewish household, Obst grew up in Culver City. His mother was the daughter of Ukrainian immigrants by way of Minneapolis, and his father was the son of German Jews by way of the Bronx. They met in Los Angeles during World War II, where Obst’s father, a soldier, was a stationed. His mother, a real-life Rosie the Riveter, had moved to L.A. to work in a factory that made airplanes for the war effort. The two met
at a USO dance. Right away, they clicked.
After the war, Obst’s father, who worked in advertising, made a point of driving a new Cadillac. It was good for business. The family was solidly middle class. But despite his southern California upbringing, Obst never got sucked into the automotive delirium of car culture. As a kid, he happily rode a bike. He recalls it being a 10-speed. With a derailleur, no less. He went everywhere. Venice Beach. But he doesn’t remember what make it was. Or what color either.
He’s similarly oblivious about the cars in his life.
He does, however, remember the ’60s. And everything about them. He remembers getting manhandled by Chicago cops during the Democratic Convention of 1968. Soon after, he went to Taiwan, where he interviewed American mis-
sionaries on a grant he mysteriously received from Stanford, a university he did not attend. On the strength of this field work, Obst was admitted to grad school at UC Berkeley without ever having graduated any four-year college. Over the years, Obst lived in New York and Washington, cities in which cars are either a hindrance or strictly optional.
In the early 1970s, he set up shop in the nation’s capital, starting a fledgling news service with a distinctly counterculture bent. One of his neighbors was a reporter named Seymour Hersh who would become famous for exposing that U.S. troops killed 504 civilians women, children, and old men in the Vietnamese village of My Lai.
At first, no major news organizations would touch the story. It was too outrageous to be believed. Hersh enlisted Obst to help him reach out to every editor and publisher in a directory of American publishers and editors. Obst imbued with an improvisational swagger then yet to be justified by either experience or accomplishment went to work. He began cold-calling newspapers across the country, parlaying the interest of the Hartford Courant’s editor into what Obst interpreted as a done deal and convinced 40 other papers across the country to print the story on the same day.After that, about 30 major news publications and TV outlets picked it up. And then, it blew up. Hersh quickly became a journalism icon of shoe-leather determination. My Lai became an icon for everything that was wrong about the war.
Obst’s role didn’t go unnoticed. When Daniel Ellsberg, a Rand Corporation analyst, started leaking copies of the now infamous Pentagon Papers in 1970 3,000 pages of confidential federal documents that exposed just how much various administrations had lied to the American people about the true reasons for the war, how the war was being waged, and whether it was even winnable Obst played a small, supporting role helping to get a few copies into the hands of reporters. When Ellsberg was indicted. Obst was informed he would be given “use immunity,” meaning he would have to testify against Ellsberg or face criminal sanction.
Rather than be a rat, Obst fled the country, spending three weeks in Iraq, Kuwait, and several other Middle East countries before his parents notified him it was safe to come home. A federal judge dismissed the charges against Ellsberg when it came out that President Richard Nixon had approved the break-in of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist office without a warrant.
A few years later, as the Watergate scandal was erupting, Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward went shopping for someone to publish what would later become their best-selling book and subsequent movie All the President’s Men. Given Obst’s track record, it’s not surprising they asked him to represent them as their agent.
How he pulled it off is one of those swirling cocktails of a story. As Obst tells it, he and the project were widely rejected. Eventually, he was at a meeting with his last hope for a publisher. When he got turned down, Obst collapsed in front of the poor man. “I did something I’ve never done,” he said. “I cried. And not just a little. Loud, wailing nonstop tears. I mean, I really cried.”
Apparently, tears work.
After that, Obst was made.
Not all his work was so edgy and politically confrontational. In 1984, he went to New Orleans with a Hollywood executive on a trip he described as “debauched.” To justify the trip, the executive asked Obst to conjure some movie ideas. “I blurted out Revenge of the Nerds,” he said. Then he and a couple of writer friends came up with the tagline, “Time for the odd to get even.” While the film never cracked anyone’s Best 100 Films lists, it did plenty well enough, spawning three sequels.
Little wonder that for all he knows, David Obst the literary agent, the activist, the writer still remains an optimist. When it comes to climate change, he recognizes the human species has one foot on a banana peel and the other planted firmly in midair. Even so, Obst maintains hope. Not the preachy kind, but the roll-up-your-sleeves kind.
The last chapter of his book details 10 cities around the globe clawing back their collective spaces from the primacy of the automobile. Yes, there are the obvious ones, such as Copenhagen and Portland, Oregon. But there are less obvious ones too, such as Dubai and Taipei. And, even less obvious still, a large chunk of downtown in Salt Lake City. And a large private development in Tempe, Arizona.
Where Obst really found religion, however, is with a model out of Helsinki, Finland, known as MaaS, short for Mobility as a Service. Launched 15 years ago by a consortium of private entrepreneurs, the plan was to create an app-powered, multi-modal transportation system that would allow customers to plot their course from Point A to B via a fully integrated network of independently owned buses, vans, trains, e-bikes, regular bikes, scooters, taxis what have you without having to rely on a car. With one ticket, users could use any of the above services. Obst was so inspired by the published results, he got on a plane something he rarely does and flew to Helsinki.
At his stage in life, Obst might be inclined to stick his elbow out his car window and breathe in the ocean views. “My next plan is to make Santa Barbara a car-free city,” he said. He said he intends to enlist UCSB, the Metropolitan Transit District, and Santa Barbara City Hall in the effort. Sounds far-fetched? You bet.
But with Obst involved, you can’t rule anything out.
Now that his book is in the stores four long years in the making what does his now 20-year-old granddaughter think? Sunny, after all, was the one who goaded him into action. “She doesn’t give a damn,” Obst laughed. “She doesn’t even have a driver’s license.” n
An Edited Excerpt from David Obst’s New Book, Saving Ourselves fromBigCar
Let’s take a quick look at why lead is such a pernicious substance. Lead poisoning, also called plumbism, is a form of metal poisoning by lead entering the human body. It can have severe effects on the brain, as lead mimics calcium and disrupts critical processes necessary for brain function. Over time, as lead accumulates in the body, it triggers irritability and memory problems; if exposure continues, it can lead to anemia, seizures, comas, and even death. Lead is a cumulative toxicant that poses significant risks, particularly for young children. Lead doesn’t just target the brain it also accumulates in teeth and bones. No safe threshold of lead exposure has been identified.
But humans are resilient…. Sometimes one or two individuals can change everything for the better. That’s what happened with lead….
One of the true scientific superheroes of the twentieth century was … Clair Patterson. An accomplished professor at Cal Tech, Patterson … was one of the scientists responsible for discovering how to accurately determine the exact age of our planet by radiocarbon dating of organic material.
His experiments also introduced him to lead. He realized that all his samples had way too much lead in them. Where was it coming from?
In 1965, he went to Antarctica and began taking ice-core samples. Amazingly, ice samples from 100 BCE were now fully contaminated by lead….
He was finally able to publish a paper called “Contaminated and Natural Lead Environments of Man.” Despite being published in an international journal, it got virtually no attention except from the notorious Robert Kehoe. [A scientist for the Ethyl Corp who had hidden all his research on lead additives,] Kehoe unleashed the power of Ethyl Corporation against him. …But Patterson refused to back down….
In no time, things got very dicey for him. His contracts with almost every research organization in his field were abruptly ended …. Unfortunately for Patterson, one of the big shots
at Cal Tech was also a board member of Ethyl Corporation. He had reminded Patterson’s boss that Ethyl Corporation had been extremely generous to the University, and he’d hate to see the relationship end.
Patterson was a tenured professor, so his boss couldn’t really fire him. But without any means to fund his research and with the University not assisting him, he was, in academic parlance, screwed….
Patterson packed up his equipment and went into exile up in Lake Tahoe. This was one of the most fortunate occurrences of the last century. One should never underestimate the power of the revenge of the nerds. Rather than feeling sorry for himself, Clair Patterson redoubled his efforts.
He continued his research in one of the most remote places in California…. He took innumerable soil samples and carefully examined them to see if they contained lead contamination. They all did!
Clair Patterson had found his smoking gun. If the lead from car exhausts had drifted over 300 miles to this remote mountaintop, how bad must it be in big cities? What was it doing to the people who lived there?
Again, Big Car tried to silence him. No reputable journal would publish his work. Kehoe called his research nothing more than a “lead herring.”
In 1962, however, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring successfully showed the world that another contaminant, DDT, was a dangerous carcinogen. Congress had held hearings; America, the media, and even our elected officials suddenly became interested in the subject. Around the same time, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall (under two presidents, Kennedy and Johnson), an early pioneer in the environmental movement, published The Quiet Crisis: A History of Environmental Conservation in the U.S.A
Enter [Senator] Edmund Muskie … the
grandfather of modern environmental legislation. As a senator, he sponsored both the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act. These two bills fundamentally established the federal government as a player in helping preserve and protect America’s environment ….
Patterson traveled to Washington. He went to see Senator Muskie, thenchairman of the Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution and showed him the evidence he’d found that even small levels of lead would harm children. He told him about Ethyl Corporation and that Dr. Kehoe’s threshold for safe levels of lead in the human body was a lie….
It worked. Muskie was willing to hold hearings…. Ethyl Corporation, of course, was invited to the hearing held in Washington on June 15, 1966. Patterson’s testimony emphasized that most officials accepted bad science because they were too lazy to do real research or because they were making too much money from Big Car to want to disrupt things…. The incorrect data given to them was based on tests done on humans who had lived before the start of the Industrial Revolution. He also explained that lead was now everywhere. … Finally, he pointed out that it was absurd to allow the very industry that was putting lead poison in the air to oversee determining if lead poisoning in the air was a danger to the public.
It made no difference. Ethyl Corporation quickly presented to Muskie’s committee a “who’s who” of the scientific and medical establishment to reject Patterson’s assertions. Using Kehoe’s inaccurate data, they confidently pronounced the ethyl additive to be as safe as regular gasoline even more so in that it caused engines to perform better and get more mileage, hence producing less exhaust.
In the end, the committee found nothing wrong with the product, and there was no further adverse publicity. Patterson was completely ignored, and lead contamination dramatically increase ….
The problem with recognizing the harmful effects of lead is that the contamination occurred so gradually. The millions of tons of lead released into the air were indeed making people sick, but the process was so slow that it went largely unnoticed until it was too late.
Then, on January 28, 1969, workers were pulling pipe out of a freshly drilled oil well off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, when a torrent of gassy, gray mud shot out with a deafening roar, showering the men
with slime. Unable to plug the hole, they activated a device that crushed the pipe and sealed off the well. The blowout seemed over—until bubbles of gas started roiling the water nearby. Pressurized oil and gas tapped by the drilling were now flowing across the ocean floor and rising to the ocean’s surface.
Oil leaked out at an estimated rate of 210,000 gallons a day, creating a heavy slick across much of the ocean channel. A few days later, horrified Santa Barbara residents woke to find their beaches befouled with tar and dotted with dead and dying oildrenched birds.
Then-President Richard Nixon was not, by nature, an environmentalist, except when it came to winning votes…. He showed up [in Santa Barbara] with a large media crowd and boldly proclaimed, “I don’t think we’ve paid enough attention to this…. We’re going to do a better job than we have done in the past….”
Out of the public eye, however, when told that his domestic policy successes on the environment were something he’d be remembered for, he replied, “For God’s sake, I hope that’s not true….”
Nixon and his people quickly wrapped themselves up in the environmental movement. In 1970, in his State of the Union address to Congress, he made it a centerpiece of his speech, saying, “Restoring nature to its natural state is a cause beyond party and beyond factions. It has become a common cause of all the people of this country.” He received a standing ovation.
At this very same moment, his administration was fighting to keep DDT on crops and earmarking federal funds to build the Alaskan pipeline.
Adlai Stevenson, who twice ran against Nixon, described him in a campaign speech as “the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump to give a speech about conservation.”
Nevertheless, Nixon … rapidly proposed new regulations for auto emissions and pledged to spend billions of dollars of federal money to solve the problem.
A freeze-frame of America’s neglect of the environment at this time would have shown that we were belching over two hundred million tons of pollution into the atmosphere every year.
The centerpiece of Nixon’s new strategy was to create the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Suddenly, there was a new sheriff in town. Ethyl Corporation and Big Car would have to answer to the EP …. n
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GARDENS, AND
THE PEOPLE
WHO BRING THEM TO LIFE
As a child, I was captivated by The Secret Garden. The idea of discovering a hidden gate, overgrown with ivy, that led to a place where nurturing plants could awaken something in you felt irresistible.
That longing doesn’t fade with age. Even as adults, we seek out restorative spaces that feel secluded and transformative. For Jefferson Woeste, the owner of J. Woeste in Los Olivos, cultivating such a refuge has been a lifelong pursuit. His garden shop is so immersive that visitors often lose track of time and occasionally even get locked inside.
Places like these offer more than escape; they remind us why sanctuaries, both indoors and out, are worth protecting.
That’s the thread running through this Home & Garden special section. You’ll read about bringing greenery indoors, the role of native plants in our yards, and how a simple lawn can be reimagined as a rain garden. Inside the home, too, we’ll explore how order and intention can turn rooms into havens of calm proof that whether outside or in, the right environment can spark a little everyday magic.
—Tiana Molony
Peripheral neuropathy often causing weakness, pain, numbness, tingling, and the most debilitating bal- ance problems. This damage is commonly caused by a lack of blood flow to the nerves in the to begin to slowly degenerate due to lack of nutrient flow.
As you can see in Figure 1, as the blood vessels that surround the nerves become diseased they shrivel up which causes the nerves to not receive the nutrients to continue to survive. When these nerves begin to “die” they cause you to have bal ance problems, pain, numb- ness, tingling, burning, and many additional symptoms.
Figure 1: Notice the very small blood vessels surrounding each nerve.
JThe Magic of J. Woeste
efferson Woeste, the owner of J. Woeste in Los Olivos, was practically born with a garden shovel in hand. By the time he was 9, he had planted his first pepper tree an early act of devotion to the soil that would shape his life in ways only a thirdgeneration Californian could understand.
His avó (Portuguese for grandmother), who seemed always to smell faintly of lemon verbena (she kept the leaves tucked in her apron pockets, as if they were a secret charm), was the one who first taught him to see gardening not as labor but as a kind of inheritance.
Growing up, he would watch her tend to her “fabulous” flower garden, and he would eventually do planting of his own. “I used to plant the flower beds at the house,” he recalls, “and dabbled in the backyard with different types of plants I’ve always enjoyed it.”
Not only did she grow beautiful flowers, but both his avó and avô (Portuguese for grandfather) were homesteaders. “So, all the food that was on the dinner table came from their garden and their cattle.”
The love of growing and nurturing that his grandparents instilled in him naturally led Woeste to pursue hands-on work with plants. During college at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), he worked at a nursery, mowing lawns and doing, as he says, “whatever it took to keep my bosses happy.”
In the late ’80s, Woeste and his husband, Bruce Cleveland, would end up purchasing half of that very nursery business, owning it for a decade before deciding to turn a new leaf.
Just before the turn of the century, they arrived in the Santa Ynez Valley with plans to open a new business. A visit to a real estate office in nearby Santa Ynez turned up nothing promising until the agent slid them a flyer for a 114-year-old farmhouse for sale.
Jefferson Woeste Welcomes Locals and Visitors Alike to His Los Olivos Garden Shop, Where Every Corner Holds a Story
by Tiana Molony
Photos by Ingrid Bostrom
They drove straight there. Cleveland hopped out of the car to peep over the fence, leaving Woeste in the front seat. “I just saw it and [knew] it’s the right one,” Cleveland remembers. He turned around and told Woeste to “call the Realtor.”
They called but quickly realized they didn’t have the funds. On a whim, they asked the then-owner, Ralph Quackenbush, if he’d “carry paper” or provide seller financing. Quackenbush agreed, and the property was theirs. “It was because of Ralph that we were able to acquire that property,” Woeste recalls. Naturally, he and Cleveland celebrated the success over ice cream sundaes.
That was in 1998. Over the past 27 years, Woeste has served multiple generations of loyal customers. “I have watched children grow, get married, have babies, and they’re bringing those babies to the store,” he reflects. “So, we’ve been through a lot of generations.”
J. Woeste has since evolved from a run-of-the-mill garden store into a destination for eccentric home and garden pieces, specializing in succulents and a carefully curated mix of unique items from pots with animated faces to miniature houses fit for fairies.
As Woeste jokes, “We were doing it before Martha ever was.”
It’s a treasure trove of the kind where you can roam around for hours and never get bored. One can’t simply pass by items, but instead must crouch down and inspect them with a magnifying glass, like Sherlock Holmes.
To acquire their unique selection, Woeste spends a lot of time on the road, traveling extensively to trade shows and markets in cities such as Atlanta, Dallas, New York, and Las Vegas.
When Cleveland isn’t working at their other business, Trends, a hair salon in Santa Maria, he’s on the road with Woeste. “I feel privileged that I can actually take off because of my business,” says Cleveland. “I can set my hours, and we can travel together to find all these treasures.”
Woeste feels a sense of pride in traveling far and wide to source for the store. “When you think about everything that’s in that store, I purchased because I like it,” he notes, “it’s kind of like your house, where everything is in your home because you selected it.”
With a seemingly never-ending selection of treasures, it’s easy to get lost in all the magic so much so that you might forget to leave. That was precisely the case for two women who got locked in the store’s yard one night. They had to crawl through the gate to get out, Woeste tells me.
The next day, the women returned, laughing about the experience, and it became their favorite story to tell at gatherings. Woeste thinks they were enjoying the shop so much that they simply didn’t hear the music turn off or the fountain
cease flowing, indicating closing time. “It speaks to the point,” he notes, “that people love J. Woeste.”
Over time, the shop has become a beloved fixture in Los Olivos, located at the corner of Alamo Pintado and Nojoqui avenues. It’s hard to miss these days, as a comically large red chair outside has become a popular photo opportunity. There are always people around.
“I love to drive by at night,” Woeste says, “after dinner, and people will just be there.”
Woeste,
Woeste and Cleveland travel far and wide to curate items for the shop.
At J. Woeste, you’ll find a variety of eccentric home and garden pieces. Jefferson Woeste, owner of J. Woeste in Los Olivos
From Lawns to Landscapes: Santa Barbara Bets on Rain Gardens
New Incentives Encourage Residents to Save Water, Recharge Groundwater, and Rethink Their Yards by Ella Heydenfeldt
We like to call ourselves the American Riviera. A landscape characterized by mountains covered in tan rocks and shrubs, leading down to sandy cliffs that overlook a blue ocean.
Neon-green lawns are not a natural part of that vision.
As the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden puts it, traditional lawns “are an outsized drain on our resources.” They offer little environmental benefit, require fertilizers and pesticides, and consume enormous amounts of water. And water, here, is never in abundance.
According to the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, “landscape irrigation is estimated to account for about 50 percent of annual residential water consumption statewide.” In other words, half of California’s water use is tied up in plants that do not naturally occur here.
Santa Barbara has a solution.
Since 2009, the city’s Sustainable Lawn Replacement Rebate has encouraged residents to swap grass for drought-tolerant landscaping. More than 1,600 customers have participated. This spring, the city expanded the program to include a new incentive: rain gardens.
Rain gardens are shallow depressions designed to capture stormwater from roofs, driveways, and other hard surfaces. Instead of running off into streets and storm drains, rainwater filters through soil, replenishing groundwater and reducing pollution.
“They allow water to slow down, spread out, and soak into the soil,” said Erin Markey, manager of the city’s Creeks Division. “It’s good for flooding, good for water quality, and it re-creates how the landscape functioned before development.”
The city estimates that a typical home could see water savings of 12 to 20 percent with a rain garden. One commercial site the Santa Barbara Association of Realtors
building cut its water use by 79 percent after replacing grass with drought-tolerant landscaping and redirecting downspouts into a rain garden.
“The project is an excellent example of what we are trying to incentivize through the new rebate program,” said Madeline Wood, the city’s Water Conservation Analyst.
HOW THE REBATE WORKS
Homeowners receive $2 per square foot for removing a living lawn, plus an additional $3 per square foot for creating a rain garden retention area, totaling up to a maximum of $5 per square foot. The rebate is capped at $5,000 for residential properties and $15,000 for commercial ones.
To qualify, lawns must be living (not bare dirt or weeds), irrigation must be converted to drip or eliminated, and the space must be replanted with water-wise plants (a minimum of three per 100 square feet). Mulch is required, and hardscape features, such as decks or patios, are not eligible.
The program helps offset costs that typically average around $7 per square foot when hiring contractors, Wood said. Today, it’s backed by federal funds and local Measure B revenues, which the city hopes will continue.
“One of the key things is to call us before any work is done, because the rebate’s not retroactive,” Wood emphasized.
By reimagining front yards as part of a larger watershed, the city hopes to chip away at one of the region’s biggest drains on water. The message: Turn off the sprinklers, dig a little deeper, and let the rain do the work.
For more information, residents can visit santabarbaraca.gov/waterwise.
They reduced their water use for the whole property by 79 percent, only irrigating during peak summer months.
“Before” photo of the Santa Barbara Association of Realtors building
PLANTS
KWalking Around Grandfolia’s World of Plants
elly McDonald was practically raised in a greenhouse. “I’ve been going to work since I was like 3 years old,” the 26-year-old recalls.
“Some of my earliest memories are being in greenhouses.”
taining plants for homes and commercial spaces, offering services such as plant rentals, installations, and personalized plant care.
From Orchids to Palms, Grandfolia Has Spent Nearly 30 Years Making Sure Plants Thrive
by Tiana Molony
In 1996, his parents, Richard and Brenda McDonald, started their plant service, Grandfolia, in their Santa Barbara backyard. At that time, they only served a few accounts; now, almost 30 years later, they’re a multi-greenhouse operation serving more than 150 clients across Santa Barbara and Ventura counties.
On a recent hot July morning, Kelly gave me a tour of Grandfolia’s facilities. He tells me he recently took over the day-to-day operations, gearing up to one day take over the business. For him, the work wasn’t a foregone conclusion but something he grew into.
“It was kind of something where they never really forced me into it,” he says as we walk past 10-foot-tall fiddle-leaf figs. “But it was something that I started doing and fell in love with.”
That love and care for plants is certainly evident at Grandfolia. Here, you’ll find multiple humid greenhouses with a variety of tropical and exotic plants, including snake plants, fiddle-leaf figs, palms, orchids, and pothos plants, among others.
Grandfolia focuses on bringing the outdoors in. While they do offer exterior potted plants, their primary focus is on interiors. They also specialize in providing and main-
When taking on a client, they consider their preferences but prioritize choosing plants that will thrive in the specific lighting conditions of the space, ensuring the plants are healthy and long-lasting. Sometimes, “it may not be exactly what the client wants,” says McDonald. “But what we aim for is something that’ll live and thrive for years.”
When it comes to indoor plants, McDonald says that there are a few common mistakes people often make both of which Grandfolia’s services can address.
One mistake is over-fertilization. People often overestimate the amount of fertilizer indoor plants need. “Plants are a lot like humans,” he says. “They get a lot of the nutrients that they need from the soil.”
Another common mistake is over-watering. The best way to tell if your plants need it, he says, is to stick your hand in the soil if it’s wet, they probably don’t.
I admit that almost every orchid I’ve ever owned has died. That happens to a lot of people, he assures me. “They’re alpines. They’re native to Costa Rica, and they grow in the rainforest at about 4,000 feet. And all their water comes in from the mist layer. So, it’s all just a natural mist.”
In other words, orchids require very little water. “What I always recommend, and what a lot of people recommend, is just an ice cube.”
Like so many of Grandfolia’s plants, orchids aren’t just decoration; they’re a reminder of patience and giving living things exactly what they need to thrive. For McDonald, that’s the heart of the business: not simply keeping plants alive, but helping them and the people who live with them flourish.
While Grandfolia isn’t usually open to the public, they are having a plant sale on Saturday, September 27. For updates regarding the sale, visit them on Instagram (@grandfolia) and Facebook (facebook.com/grandfolia).
Grandfolia specializes in tropical and exotic plants, orchids, bromeliads, and succulents.
IENVIRONMENT
Rooted in Santa Barbara
f you’ve spent time on one of Santa Barbara’s hiking trails or wandered through the botanic garden, then you’ve more than likely encountered our region’s native plants ones that have evolved over thousands of years in a specific area, making them uniquely adapted to the local climate, soil, and ecosystem.
Native Plants Are Key to Conserving Resources, Supporting Wildlife, and Creating Resilient Gardens
by Tiana Molony
“What was native in what’s now California, 13 million years ago, looked very different from what is currently native in California,” shared Scot Pipkin, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden’s Director of Education and Engagement.
Just as we make our homes here in Santa Barbara, so too do the plants and wildlife, many of which have been here long
before us. As Botanic Garden Horticulture Educator Alejandro Lemus puts it, “The plants are quite literally at home.” All the more reason to protect them.
WHY YOU SHOULD INCORPORATE NATIVE PLANTS
As it turns out, one of the most effective ways to protect the natural order of our ecosystem is to plant native species. “If you really want to do something, do that in your yard,” says Pipkin, who shared that private yards and community spaces are now a key frontier for ecological conservation, making your planting choices especially impactful.
According to Pipkin and Lemus, our natives play a vital role in Santa Barbara because they are adapted to the local environment, require less water and maintenance, and help conserve resources. They also support local wildlife and pollinators, promote biodiversity, and maintain healthy ecosystems by providing food and habitat for native insects, birds, and other animals.
By planting natives in your yard, they say, you contribute to the health of the broader ecosystem, help connect natural habitats, and support species that rely on native plants for food and shelter.
Salvia ‘Dara’s Choice,’ a shrubby, low-growing sage
GETTING STARTED
GRANDFOLIA
If you want to start planting natives, Pipkin and Lemus suggest that you begin by visiting local gardens, natural parks, or trails to observe native plants in their natural habitats and gather inspiration.
Taking classes or workshops such as those offered by the botanic garden can provide valuable guidance on plant selection, installation, irrigation, pruning, and maintenance, whether you’re a beginner or a professional.
It’s also essential to evaluate your own yard’s conditions, including sun exposure, shade, and soil type, so that you can select the most suitable native plants for your specific site. Finally, local nurseries are excellent resources for finding a variety of native plants and getting expert advice tailored to your needs.
STAY AWAY FROM INVASIVE SPECIES
While those blooming mustard flowers you see each spring are beautiful, they’re actually an invasive species, which means they’re harmful to our ecosystem.
Pipkin and Lemus emphasize the importance of avoiding invasive species when
planting in your yard. “They reduce biodiversity over time because they just form a monoculture,” says Lemus. “So, it’s only one species that’s invading the wildlands, and oftentimes, we’re finding that invasive plants compete heavily with native plants for resources.”
Additionally, Lemus says that many invasive species, such as black mustard and pampas grass, dry out during the summer and become highly flammable, increasing the risk and severity of wildfires. By avoiding invasive species, you help protect native ecosystems, support local wildlife, and reduce fire hazards in your community.
SOME SPECIES TO PLANT
There is a wide variety of native species to plant, including, but not limited to, the coast live oak, a native oak well-suited to the region, as well as the hollyleaf cherry and the Catalina cherry, which are excellent choices, according to Pipkin. Buckwheat is also beneficial for pollinators due to its summer blooms and support for native insects.
“There is a native plant for every condition,” notes Pipkin, “but the key is that you understand your condition and choose your plant for the right place.”
To view upcoming workshops and classes offered by the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, see sbbotanicgarden.org/ calendar.
Canyon Velvet iris
Canyon Snow iris
Canyon Sunshine iris
When Less Is More
When Kat Pettey was 10 years old, she attended a sleepover at a friend’s house. Instead of the usual activities building forts, watching movies, or playing dress-up she opted to organize her friend’s pantry.
It’s a fitting prelude to Pettey’s role today as owner of Neat Method Santa Barbara & Ventura County, a franchise cofounded in 2011 by Ashley Murphy, Molly Graves, and Marissa Hagmeyer, dedicated to bringing order to cluttered spaces at home.
by Tiana Molony
Pettey’s journey to Neat Method began eight years ago when she stumbled across an Instagram post from actress Kate Hudson, praising the company for organizing her closet. At the time, Pettey hadn’t planned on going back to work for a few more years.
“I knew I didn’t want to be a stay-at-home mom forever,” she confided, “but I wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to do.”
That uncertainty shifted after discovering the Neat Method. She realized she could actually make money doing
something she enjoyed: organizing. And when she realized the company didn’t yet have a market presence in Santa Barbara, it felt like fate. “I knew I had to jump on it.”
Shortly thereafter, Neat Method Santa Barbara was born. Pettey now has an entire team behind her, ready to tackle any space: closets, kitchens, garages, pantries you name it.
While every project is different, Pettey and her team approach each with the same method. First, they conduct a consultation to understand the client’s needs and lifestyle. On project day, they “take everything out,” she said. “We really like to work with a blank canvas.” Then they sort all items, map out a plan for organization, and determine if anything needs to be reworked.
They’ll also bring in organizational products, such as baskets, trays, and bins. In doing this, they ensure that they choose products that fit both the space and the home’s aesthetic sometimes pre-ordering and sometimes shopping during the project. Pettey emphasizes that the process is highly customized to each client and space.
They also implement different organizational systems to fit the specific needs and lifestyle of the family. She emphasized that “it’s not a one-size-fits-all approach.” In other words, she wouldn’t organize the home of a five-person family the same way she would organize that of an elderly couple.
Pricing for a project varies widely depending on the size and complexity of the job. Their hourly rate is $100 per hour per organizer, not including the cost of organizational products. The total cost depends on factors such as the number of organizers required and the duration of the project.
They also do refreshes, which is when she and her team return to a client’s home to help tidy up, reorganize, or rework the organizational systems they’ve previously set up. “If we’ve created a really good, sustainable system, our clients shouldn’t have to have refreshes that often,” she noted.
For Pettey, a clean home means a clear mind. Those junk drawers and overflowing closets may seem harmless, but they often have a deeper impact than we realize, which is why, as much as you want to avoid it, it might be time to tackle those spaces.
If you don’t know where to start, Pettey recommends creating systems that are easy to maintain, so you’re more likely to keep up with organization. “We’re really big believers of giving everything a home,” said Pettey, which is why they use labels to indicate the proper place for items making
it easier to keep things tidy.
For those looking to declutter, she advises starting small such as with a closet and using the rule that if you haven’t used or worn something in a year, it’s probably time to let it go.
Once you tackle the first space, it’s hard to stop. “Walking into your closet and seeing that everything that’s in there is something that you love and that you’ll wear you become addicted to that feeling.”
Pettey’s house is, as you can imagine, very organized. She’s a big believer in living minimally, which she notes helps control unnecessary clutter. If there’s one thing she always tells her clients, it’s to try to live as minimally as possible.
As she says, “There’s being really organized, and then there’s living really minimally, and those two go hand in hand.”
Labels help maintain organization.
Kat Pettey, owner of Neat Method Santa Barbara and Ventura County
A minimal lifestyle can help you maintain a clean home.
COURTESY
Walls with Personality
When I began decorating my current home, the first thing I searched for was art. Instead of waiting until the house was finished to add pieces, I decided to build the space around the art I found. Even more importantly, I made it my mission to thrift every piece.
solely from an image.
Some of my favorite vintage stores around town, which have singlehandedly decorated the walls of my living space, are The Vintage Fox (thevintagefoxsb .com) and Summerland Antique Collective (summer landantiquecollective.com). There’s also Urban Flea Market (sburbanfleamarket.com), if you’re looking for a midcentury-modern vibe.
Saturday 10am - 5pm & Sunday 10am - 4pm
Bird is Saturday from 9am-10am
How Thrifting and a Little Creativity Can Turn Any Blank Wall into a Statement
by Tiana Molony
Incorporating vintage art really made the whole space come to life. And it turns out I’m not alone. A 2023 survey from Slickdeals found that nearly half of homeowners believe that simply hanging art on the walls is one of the most effective minor home improvements for enhancing a home’s appearance even better if the art is secondhand.
Not only is thrifting vintage art sustainable, but it’s also cost-effective. Usually, you can find some pretty high-quality pieces of art that don’t pale in comparison to some of the more expensive commercial sellers.
THE AESTHETIC
When thrifting art or any vintage home decor, you want to have a good sense of the style of the space are you going for a cottagecore look? Maybe you want to achieve the Nancy Meyers aesthetic. If you’re unsure, one of my favorite things to do is browse Pinterest and save photos for inspiration. That way, when I’m pursuing the vintage stores with extensive stock, I’ll already know what I’m looking for.
THE HUNT
There are many places to find vintage art, including thrift stores, estate sales, flea markets, consignment shops, and online resale sites such as Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist. However, keep in mind that it’s sometimes hard to know the quality of a piece
While I prefer to shop local, I’m also a sucker for a good flea market. My favorite is the Rose Bowl Flea, which takes place in Pasadena at the Rose Bowl stadium on the second Sunday of every month. Here you’ll find no shortage of vintage art, photographs, and everything in between. At large markets like this, make sure you know what you’re looking for before going into it.
THE PLACEMENT
There are a few ways you can style vintage artwork in your home. One of my favorites is creating a gallery wall on one blank wall in the house. To do this, collect a variety of art pieces in different frame sizes and shapes. Determine the number of pieces you’ll need, based on the size of the wall where you’ll be hanging them.
Another great way to display your art is by adding a statement piece. If you come across a larger work of art but think it’s too big for a gallery wall, consider choosing a large blank wall in the house and centering the piece.
If you find two works of art sold together, buy both and hang them on opposite sides of a wall, which is usually referred to as symmetrical hanging (when the pieces mirror each other across the wall) or balanced hanging (when they’re on opposite sides but not perfectly mirrored). I came across two small horse prints at an estate sale and hung them above my dressers on either side of the bed, so the horses faced each other. If you want to add art to your space but refuse to use a hammer and a level, you don’t have to. Just lean any work of art against a wall to elevate your space. Maybe there’s a bare dresser in your home lean a piece of art against it and the wall.
The best part about incorporating art into your home is that it’s entirely up to you. n
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Columnist, CNN Host and Author
Takes Thu, Oct 16 / 7:30 PM Arlington Theatre
“Fareed Zakaria has been consistently brilliant in his analysis of world affairs but also something far more rare; he has turned out to be right.” – Walter Isaacson
Tue, Oct 14 / 7:30 PM UCSB Campbell Hall
the Way to the River Sat, Oct 11 / 7:30 PM Arlington Theatre New Yorker Staff Writer and PEN Award Winner An Evening with
“Okeowo... sheds light on the divided face of our nation and lovingly charts the push and pull of the places we call home.” – Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, author of My Monticello
Political Commentator and New York Times Columnist
Tue, Nov 4 / 7:30 PM
Arlington Theatre
I NDEPENDENT C ALENDAR
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THURSDAY 9/11
9/11-9/16: The 51st Mary Jane McCord Planned Parenthood Annual Book Sale The 51st annual book sale will feature an opening night first look, a Friday night After-Hours with crafts, a deejay, a mocktail, and shopping access of more than 120,000 books, CDs and DVDs, vinyl, puzzles, games, and more in benefit of Planned Parenthood California Central Coast. The sale runs through September 21. Thu. (opening night): 4-7pm. $30; Fri. (after-hours event): 4-7pm. $25; book sale: Fri.-Sun.:10am-7pm; Mon.: noon-7pm; Tue.-Wed.: noon-6pm. Free. Earl Warren Showgrounds, 3400 Calle Real. Email sbbook saleinfo@gmail.com. booksale.ppcentralcoast.org
9/11-9/12, 9/14: Naked Shakes and Elings Park Presents The Tempest A magical storm, betrayal, a powerful magician, and revenge are in the air, but so are enchantment, love, and even redemption in this new production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest Thu.-Fri.: 5pm; Sun: 3pm. Godric Grove, Elings Park, 1298 Las Positas Rd. Free$17. Call (805) 569-5611. elingspark.org/events-tickets
9/11: Boxtales Theatre Company Presents Wisdom of the Elders: Life Lessons from Around the World This show will feature myths, folktales, and music from different cultures that include “The Hunterman and the Crocodile” from Africa, “Sealskin Soulskin” from Inuit/Pacific Northwest, and more. 6-7:30pm, Plaza del Mar Band Shell, 100 Castillo St. Free. Call (805) 897-1926. tinyurl.com/Boxtales-BandShell
FRIDAY 9/12
9/12: Environmental Defense Center’s (EDC) TGIF! Join in the courtyard for live music, beverages including wine and beer, food trucks (drink and food for purchase), and a chance to talk with environmental organizations and elected officials at this happiest of hours. Two drink tickets and six raffle tickets included. 7:30pm. Environmental Defense Center, 906 Garden St. Ages 10 and under: Kids: Free: GA: $20. Call 805-963-1622 x104. environmentaldefensecenter.org/tgif
9/12-9/14: World Premiere: Mark J Heller’s Social Insecurity This humorously groovy play follows what happens when management imposes new rules for residents at a retro-themed retirement community and indignation rises, igniting their desire to protest and leading to an arrest and a return to the counterculture movement they missed the first time around. Performances also on September 19-21. Fri.-Sat.: 7-9pm; Sun.: 3-5pm. Alcazar Theatre, 4916 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria. $12-$15. Call (805) 684-6380 or email alcazarensemble@gmail.com thealcazar.org
9/12: I.V. Rec & Park District (IVRP) and I.V. Arts Presents Movies in the Park: Ghostbusters See 1984’s Ghostbusters about three parapsychologists forced out of their university set up shop as a unique ghost removal service in New York City (rated PG). Light snacks will be provided. Bring blankets. Movies show every Friday through October 3. 8pm. Anisq’Oyo Park Amphitheater, 950 Embarcadero Del Mar, Isla Vista. Free. Call (805) 699-1915 or email oramirez@ivparks.org tinyurl.com/IV-ParkMovies
CONTACT THE VENUE TO CONFIRM HOURS AND EVENT
THURSDAY
Carpinteria: 800 block of Linden Ave., 3-6:30pm
FRIDAY
Montecito: 1100 and 1200 blocks of Coast Village Rd., 8-11:15am
SATURDAY
Downtown S.B.: Corner of State and Carillo sts., 8am-1pm
SUNDAY
Goleta: Camino Real Marketplace, 10am-2pm
TUESDAY
Old Town S.B.: 500-600 blocks of State St., 3-6:30pm
WEDNESDAY
Solvang: Copenhagen Dr. and 1st St., 2:30-6:30pm
(805) 962-5354 sbfarmersmarket.org
FISHERMAN’S MARKET
SATURDAY
Rain or shine, meet local fishermen on the Harbor’s commercial pier, and buy fresh fish (filleted or whole), live crab, abalone, sea urchins, and more. 117 Harbor Wy., 6-11am. Call (805) 259-7476. cfsb.info/sat
SATURDAY 9/13
9/13-9/14:
S.B. Sea Glass and Ocean Arts Festival This two-day curated marketplace with artisans on hand will feature jewelry, artwork, and workshops celebrating the magic of sea glass and the ocean. Bring your sea glass for a treasure contest. Sat.: early bird: 9am; GA: 10am. Elks Lodge #613, 150 N. Kellogg Ave. Early-bird admission: $15; GA: Free-$7; two days: $12. Email info@santabar baraseaglassandoceanartsfestival .com. santabarbaraseaglassand oceanartsfestival.com
9/12: Lobero Theatre Ronstadt Revival: A Tribute to Linda Ronstadt, 7:30pm. 33 E. Canon Perdido St. $62-$82. Call (805) 963-0761. lobero.org
9/11-9/14: Lost Chord Guitars Thu.: Sputnik the Band. $10. Fri.: The George and Michael Band. $20. Sat: Ruby Jane. $10. Sun.: Teresa Russell. $10. 7pm. 1576 Copenhagen Dr., Solvang. Ages 21+. Call (805) 331-4363. lostchordguitars.com
9/11-9/16: SOhO Restaurant & Music Club Thu.: Ray and Paul, Evan Blix, Rose Parade, 8pm. $15-$20. Ages 18+. Fri.: Uncle Uncle, Kip Nelson, ValMar Records, 8:30pm. $17-$20. Ages 21+. Sat.: An Evening with Andrew Duhon, 6pm. $25-$30. Ages 21+. Vintage Vespa Days Presents: The Upbeat, The Inciters, 9:30pm. $15-$18. Ages 21+. Sun.: Dreamland: A Tribute to the Music of Joni Mitchell featuring Kimberly Ford, 7:30pm. $20-$25. Mon.: MOB Jazz Quintet, 7pm. $15. Tue.: Shawn Thies and friends, 7pm. $20-$25. 1221 State St. Call (805) 9627776. sohosb.com
9/12: Carhartt Family Wines Live Music 5-8pm. 2939 Grand Ave., Los Olivos. Free. Call (805) 693-5100. carharttfamilywines.com/eventscalendar
9/12-9/13: M.Special Brewing Co. (Goleta) Fri.: The Pit. Sat.: Matthew Clark Trio. 6860 Cortona Dr., Ste. C, Goleta. 7-9pm. Free. Call (805) 9686500. mspecialbrewco.com
9/12-9/13: M.Special Brewing Co. (S.B.) Fri.: Bad Neighbors, 8-10pm. Sat.: Strange Hotels, 8-11pm. Free. 634 State St. Call (805) 308-0050. mspecialbrewco.com
9/16: Topa Topa Brewing Co. (S.B.) Ladyfinger, 6-9pm. 120 Santa Barbara St. Free. Ages 21+. Call (805) 324-4150. topatopa.beer/pages/happenings
9/15: The Red Piano Church on Monday: Morganfield Burnett, 7:30pm. 519 State St. $5. Call (805) 358-1439. theredpiano.com
BY TERRY ORTEGA & ISABELLA VENEGAS
Shannon Rae
9/13:
Film Screening, Forum, and Q&A: The Cost of Silence Arrive before the screening to meet change-makers in our region, discover resources, and more at the community tabling event. See the 2020 documentary that was secretly filmed over nine years by an oil industry insider that exposes the devastating consequences of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill followed by a panel discussion and audience Q&A. There will be a private post-event meet & greet reception with filmmakers and a representative of local frontline NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) at Arnoldi’s (600 Olive St.) Tabling event: 3pm; screening: 4pm; discussion: 5:15pm; VIP reception: 6-7:30pm. The Marjorie Luke Theatre, 721 E. Cota St. GA: $10-$15; VIP: $70. Call (805) 884-4087. tinyurl.com/CostOfSilence-Sep14
9/13: Gil Rosas, Pianist & Entertainer: A Concert of Seven Decades of Music Enjoy music from the Great American Songbook featuring music by Gershwin, Berlin, and Porter as well as classical selections from acclaimed pianist and S.B.’s own Gil Rosas and surprise guests. This is a benefit for the Center for Successful Aging. 3-5pm. The Marjorie Luke Theatre, 721 E. Cota St. $28.50-$45. Call (805) 884-4087. luketheatre.org/events
9/13: Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) Collection Event S.B. residents can bring antifreeze, batteries, used motor oil/ filters, paint, fluorescent lightbulbs, cleaning supplies, garden chemicals, electronics/e-waste, and more. Visit the website for more information and how to transport your waste. 9am-1pm. SBCC Lot 2-C (La Playa Stadium Parking Lot). Free tinyurl.com/HHW-Sep13
9/13: Wyatt Flores, The Brudi Brothers Country music’s singer, songwriter, and musician Wyatt Flores will be in S.B. on his Welcome to the Plains Tour named after his 2024 full-length debut album with the folk, country, and rock-and-roll sound of the Brudi Brothers to open the show. One dollar per ticket will go toward the Red Dirt Relief Fund. 8pm. The Arlington Theatre, 1317 State St. $43-$150. Call (805) 963-4408. arlingtontheatresb.com
9/13: Free Nature Walk at Elings Park Join the S.B. Botanic Garden for a walk through the park to learn about birds led by the garden’s Director of Education and Engagement Scot Pipkin and Terrestrial Invertebrate Conservation Ecologist Zach Phillips, PhD. 9-10:30am. Elings Park, 1298 Las Positas Rd. Free. Call (805) 682-4726 or email info@SBBotanicGarden.org. tinyurl.com/Free-NatureWalk
SUNDAY 9/14
MONDAY 9/15
9/15: MOB Jazz Quintet Take in the eclectic international jazz from area jazz luminaries Bruce Bigenho, Eje Lynn-Jacobs, Shaun Oster, Gunnar Juergens, and Sam McKinney. 7pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $15 (cash at the door). Call (805) 9627776. sohosb.com
TUESDAY 9/16
9/16: Direct Relief Open House Take an all-access look at Direct Relief’s state-of-the-art distribution center, meet the team, and see emergency medical aid ready to be deployed in their mission to provide global aid from S.B. to the frontline of the crisis. 4-7pm. Direct Relief HQ, 6100 Wallace Becknell Rd. Free. Email info@directrelief.org tinyurl.com/DR-OpenHouse
WEDNESDAY 9/17
9/17: Fred Armisen: Comedy for Musicians but Everyone Is Welcome Comedian, writer, producer, musician, and 11-season veteran of SNL, Fred Armisen, will bring his comedic musings and musical observations and vignettes to S.B. 7pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. GA: $40-$60; premium: $107. Call (805) 963-0761. lobero.org
9/17: The Audubon Society and the S.B. Museum of Natural History Present: The Language of Birds with Nathan Pieplow Author of the Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds Nathan Pieplow will unlock what birds are constantly telling us in this illustrated talk as you listen to red-winged blackbirds, cliff swallows, and more. 7-8:30pm. Fleischmann Auditorium, S.B. Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol. Free. Call (805) 964-1468. sbnature.org/calendar
9/16: S.B. Museum of Natural History Volunteer Educator Open House Meet and mingle with the Museum’s stellar group of volunteer educators, enjoy light refreshments, and learn about volunteer opportunities at the Museum and Sea Center. Register online. 10-11:30am. Farrand Auditorium, S.B. Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol. Free. Email jprichard@sbnature2.org. sbnature.org/calendar
9/14: Chaucer’s Book Talk & Signing: Hendrika de Vries Author Hendrika de Vries will talk about and sign copies of her new book, Open Turns: From Dutch Girl to New Australian, an inspirational coming-of-age memoir set in 1950s Australia where an immigrant girl swimmer turns challenges and disappointments into opportunities for success. 3pm. Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State St. Free. Call (805) 682-6787. chaucersbooks.com/events
Roots & Dreams
9/14: Hora del cuento en el Museo de Arte de Santa Bárbara/Storytime at the S.B. Museum of Art Esta hora del cuento y actividad artística bilingüe favorecerá el desarrollo temprano de la alfabetización de su hijo a través de rimas con gestos, movimientos y cuentos cortos tanto en inglés como en español, e incluye la entrada gratuita al museo. This bilingual storytime and art will support your child’s early literacy development through action rhymes, movement, and short stories in both English and Spanish and includes free admission into the museum. 11-11:40am. S.B. Museum of Art, 1130 State St. Free. Call (805) 963-4364. tinyurl.com/Storytime-Bilingual
9/13: Somos Xicanas y Lowriders (Writers and Riders)/ We are Chicanas and Lowriders Contemple una impresionante exposición de coches lowrider del Nite Life Car Club de S.B., conozca a sus orgullosos propietarios y descubra la rica historia y el arte que hay detrás del movimiento lowrider. A continuación, diríjase a la Galería Faulkner a las 15:30 h para asistir a la lectura de la nueva antología, Somo Xacanas, que recoge las voces de 80 chicanas, con algunos de los autores participantes que compartirán sus obras. See a stunning display of lowrider cars from Nite Life Car Club of S.B., meet their proud owners, and learn about the rich history and artistry behind the lowrider movement then head to the Faulkner Gallery at 3:30pm for a reading from the new anthology, Somo Xacanas, featuring the voices of 80 Xicanes with some of the contributing authors who will share their pieces. Noon-5pm. S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free. Call (805) 962-7653 or email info@sbplibrary.libanswers.com tinyurl.com/Raices-Y-Suenos
9/16: Celebrando la Herencia Latina a Través de Clases de Cocina Nutritiva/Healthy Flavors: Celebrating Latin Heritage Through Nutritious Cooking Esta sesión trata sobre identificar el siguiente paso más adecuado para alcanzar tus objetivos de salud. Reúnete los martes durante cinco semanas para descubrir formas prácticas de incorporar más verduras a tu dieta sin sacrificar los sabores que te gustan. Aprende técnicas sencillas para añadir más ingredientes de origen vegetal a tus comidas diarias. Las clases son en español This session is about identifying the next best step toward reaching your health goals. Meet on Tuesdays for five weeks to discover practical ways to bring more veggies to your plate without sacrificing the flavors you love. Learn simple techniques for adding more plantbased ingredients to everyday meals. Classes are in Spanish. 5:30-7pm. MLK Jr. Rm., Eastside Library, 1102 E. Montecito St. Free. (805) 962-7653 or email info@ sbplibrary.libanswers.com tinyurl.com/Sabores-Saludables
An Abundance of Art
9/12: 2nd Fridays Art @ SBTC Artist Reception: Laura Denny The exhibition, presented by the Goleta Valley Art Association (GVAA), shows through October 1. 4:30-6pm. S.B. Tennis Club, 2375 Foothill Rd. Free. Call (805) 682-4722. santabarbaratennisclub.com/art
9/12-9/13: Community Action Workshop Exhibit Art Show Opening, Artist Swap Meet, and Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser This show is presented by 10 area assemblage/ collage artists. Funds raised go toward CAW. The exhibit runs through September 21. Fri.: Opening night: 5-8pm; Sat.: pancake breakfast: 9am-1pm; Little Shop of Hoarders swap meet: 9am-3pm. 631 Garden St. Free-donations. Call (805) 301-7857. sbcaw.org/upcoming
9/12-9/13: SCAPE’s (Southern California Artists Painting for the Environment) Annual Juried Fall Show: Nature’s Palette Explore and purchase artwork inspired by the natural splendor of the Central Coast with proceeds to benefit Explore Ecology’s environmental education programs. Fri: show: 2pm; reception: 5-6pm: Sat.: 10:30am-4:30pm. Music Academy of the West, 1070 Fairway Rd. Free. Email scapeartists@yahoo.com tinyurl.com/Natures-Palette
9/13: Slingshot/Alpha Art Studio Annual Sale Art from Slingshot’s 40 artists will be for sale. 11am-2pm. 1911 De la Vina St., Ste. B. Free. Call (805) 770-3878 or email slingshotart@alphasb.org tinyurl.com/Slingshot-Sale
9/13: Rubenstein Chan Contemporary Art Opening Reception: UNFOLD View the works of L.A.-based artists Sijia Chen, Chiho Harazaki, and Kaoru Mansour. 3-6pm. 410 Palm Ave., Unit B3, Carpinteria. Free. Call (805) 576-6152. rubensteinchan.com/exhibitions
Star Motel/Lompoc
9/12: Flying Goat Cellars Artist Reception: Kathleen McCabe-Martin: Mosaico di Vetro Mosaics Mosaics will be on view and for sale through November 30. 4-6pm. 1520 E. Chestnut Ct., Ste. A, Lompoc. Free. Call (805) 736-9032. tinyurl .com/McCabe-Martin
Naked Shakes Celebrates Its 20th Season with Shakespeare’s “THE TEMPEST”
“Here’s hoping [they] bring Shakespeare in the park to Santa Barbara for years to come.” ~ Independent
Summer Shakespeare is supported by The Towbes Fund for the Performing Arts
THURSDAY SEPT 25
Dawes can move seamlessly between folk rock, piano ballads, and sprawling jams while maintaining both an immediately recognizable sound and a freedom from expectations. This tour will be just brothers Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith – finding new ways to present material from their entire catalogue, distilled down to only the most essential ingredients.
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DEC 4
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The Cinco Corazones are back! For all the trailblazing musical acts who’ve emerged from Los Angeles, very few embody the city’s wildly eclectic spirit more wholeheartedly than Los Lobos. The multiGRAMMY® winning band made an indelible mark on music history by building a boldly unpredictable sound all their own, selling millions of records and spreading cultural diversity across the globe.
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DAVID STARKEY’S NEW NOVEL TAKES A ONCE-SUCCESSFUL ROCK DUO ON A TOUR OF JAPAN
The slyly subtle wit of David Starkey meets the quirky cultural universe of Japan in Starkey’s new novel, The Fairley Brothers in Japan. A family road trip adventure following two middle-aged brothers, once moderately successful as a folk-rock duo but mostly estranged since their career and relationship fizzled out in the 1980s.
Andy, the younger, more optimistic brother, has made a home in Kyoto, teaching English and marrying a Japanese woman, Fumiko; while his older, more uptight brother Chris is recently divorced, retired, and a bit at loose ends when the random use of one of their old songs aptly titled “Whenever I Hit the Road” in a Honda commercial gives them the opportunity for a reunion tour in Japan.
It’s such a great setup for a road trip story that explores the ideas of family, aging, and culture. “Where did the inspiration come from?” I asked Starkey. “Well, my son went over there nine years ago to teach English as a foreign language and at some point got married to a Japanese woman,” he laughs. “I’ve gone over there just about every year, other than COVID.”
And while the characters aren’t based on Starkey and his son, and for the record, he has a sister but not a brother, Starkey does say, “I’ve been in bar bands my whole life [one of his bands, the Winehounds, can be heard frequently at Samsara Winery], and I’ve also been a poet for a lot of my life. I’ve gone through a lot of bad poetry readings and a lot of unsatisfying gigs, so I just thought I could kind of meld that together and
create these characters. … But the more I thought about two brothers who had been successful, semi-successful earlier, and were trying to resurrect their career based on this chance use of a little bit of their song in a Honda commercial. …
I have all the details already. I have the place, the smells, the sights, every little thing. All I have to do is drop these two characters in there and put them in gigs and make stuff up. But it was, it was one of those, everything kind of fell into place and it was that.”
The eccentricities of Japan are definitely another major character in the book, and the ups and downs of touring life as well. For example, the brothers are invited to the Honda headquarters, which they think is a big deal, only to be brushed off with the gift of a travel mug. And they book a wedding reception where the couple only wants them to play the same song (their Honda hit) over and over and over again.
Song titles and lyrics add a layer of humor and complexity to the story, as they did in Starkey’s previous novel, Poor Ghost. “It’s mostly songs that I have written myself, just like before,” says Starkey. “So,
the song titles, the lyrics, are just things I figured I could borrow because I wrote them.”
While he didn’t have any specific band in mind as musical inspiration for the Fairley Brothers’ sound, when asked to describe it, Starkey says, “I think they would be kind of an alt country, maybe something like a mellower Uncle Tupelo, their second album … before they became Wilco and Son Volt; it’s like they had this kind of funky energy.”
Funky energy is also a good way to describe the book itself, funny but also moving and relatable as it explores the ephemerality of creativity and fame, the outrageous quirkiness of Japanese culture, and the complexity and deep connections of family relationships.
While The Fairley Brothers in Japan is not a sequel to Poor Ghost, the books are thematically linked to the music world, and Starkey says the third book in the trilogy “it’s about Elvis Presley being elected president” is also well under way.
—Leslie Dinaberg
The Fairley Brothers in Japan (Keylight Books) comes out in both paperback and hardcover on September 16. David Starkey will have a book talk and signing at Chaucer’s Books on Sunday, September 28, at 3 p.m. See bit.ly/4mLPPx6.
Bonnie Rubenstein, whose beloved Silo118 gallery in the Funk Zone closed in early 2024, didn’t stay away from the business long. She is opening a new gallery in Carpinteria on September 13, in partnership with Irene Chan. Unfold, featuring the art of Sijia Chen, Chiho Harazaki, and Kaoru Mansour, is the first “official” exhibition at Rubenstein Chan Contemporary Art (a k a The Bean), on view through October 26. All three artists are Asian women, born in Asia, who came to the U.S. to live at different points in their lives, said Rubenstein.
Sijia Chen is an internationally recognized multimedia artist who creates intricate papercut collage paintings, sculptures, and public art rooted in questions of cultural identity and community. Using materials such as immigration forms, menus, and family photographs, Chen transforms personal and collective histories into layered visual narratives.
“The other two also show extensively around the country and in their native countries,” said Rubenstein. “These are very accomplished artists doing very charming and wonderful work.”
Chiho Harazaki is a Japanese-born artist based in Los Angeles, who is known for her innovative “tape art,” blending traditional influences with experimental methods. Her practice centers on memory, cultural storytelling, and the immigrant experience, reflecting the duality of inherited values and modern life.
Kaoru Mansour is originally from Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, but has been based in Southern California since 1986. Her work radiates warmth and a belief in kindness as a connective force, offering viewers moments of stillness and gentle human connection.
“Their voices remind us that cultures grow when shared. Immigrant artists carry the perspectives of another culture, offering us new ways of seeing and understanding. Their stories enrich our own, showing how cultures intersect and deepen our shared experience,” said Rubenstein in a statement about the upcoming show.
The gallery is nicknamed “The Bean” as a nod to its location at 410 Palm Avenue, Carpinteria, which was once the site of the Henry Fish Lima Bean and Seed Company. The exhibition opening is Saturday, September 13, 3-6 p.m., but Rubenstein said that they will primarily be open for events and by appointment but both gallerists live in the Palm Lofts, so chances are good that if you call (805) 576-6152, one of them will be able to show the work. —LD
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“Red-Crowned Crane” by Chiho Harazaki
David Starkey
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FOLK ORCHESTRA OF SANTA BARBARA RETURNS FOR A NEW SEASON OF GLOBAL SOUND
BATTLE HORNS, HURDY-GURDIES, AND MORE: FOLK ORCHESTRA UNVEILS 2025-26 LINEUP
The Folk Orchestra of Santa Barbara (FOSB), a one-of-a-kind ensemble transforming traditional folk into a community celebration, returns with their blend of folk and classical instrumentation. With anticipated “sea-shanty sing-alongs, a visit from an international Scottish fiddle master, more Irish songs, and … an ancient Celtic war instrument,” the four-concert season is expected to be distinctive and joyful.
Founded by Adam Phillips, a musician with a background in musical theater and a longtime love for folk music, the orchestra began as an informal jam group. “We had violins and guitars … mandolin, accordion, Scottish small pipes and whistles … [and] a harp, and it was so much fun,” Phillips said. “Everyone brought folk tunes and we just had fun.”
The idea for a fully fledged orchestra began when Phillips started creating arrangements of global folk tunes combined with more classical instruments. “I thought it would be amazing to do a group like that but with real orchestrations.” Eight years later, the ensemble has become a local treasure, developing a loyal community of concertgoers.
When asked why the FOSB resonates with the Santa Barbara community, Phillips said, “The audience always learns about or hears something that is new to them. Whether it is a different folk instrument or a new kind of tune, or a little bit of history that [he] tells, audience members always enjoy that aspect of [their] programs.”
Phillips also hopes that audience members “walk away with a smile on their face, the realization that they can experience new sounds right here in Santa Barbara, and a desire to tell all of their friends about their favorite local orchestra.”
The season begins on September 19 through 21 with Songs of the Sea, a voyage into global maritime
music with familiar songs such as “The Water Is Wide,” “The Wellerman,” and other seafaring shanties from Spain, Italy, the Americas, and more.
On November 7 through 9, the spotlight turns to Scotland and features special guests Alasdair Fraser, “long regarded as Scotland’s premier fiddle ambassador,” and Natalie Haas, “the sizzlingly talented Californian cellist, who has been touring internationally and wowing audiences worldwide for over 25 years.”
In the new year, specifically on January 30 and 31, and February 1, the orchestra will travel back to the medieval times, breathing life into centuries-old music “with strings, hurdy-gurdy, harps, and ancient Celtic battle horns.”
Finally, the season will close on March 13 through 15 with Irish, one of the most popular annual shows, featuring “Irish favorites, Celtic surprises, and stirring sing-alongs.” —Alice Dehghanzadeh
Specific venues and times for the concerts, as well as tickets to purchase, are available at folkorchestrasb.com.
Folk Orchestra of Santa Barbara
Adam Phillips and the Folk Orchestra of Santa Barbara
Sports LIVING
THE BEST AND WORST OF TIMES IN MUNICH, 1972
Before the opening of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, I began to realize that this idealistically conceived gathering of the world’s athletes might not offer me an escape from the world’s problems.
Waiting in line with other journalists to get our credentials, I was confronted by a European reporter who noticed I was an American. He began scolding me about the Vietnam War.
Hey, aren’t we all here to enjoy watching beautiful young people strive to run faster, jump higher, and be stronger in a brotherly fashion?
The opening ceremonies bolstered that optimism, as athletes from 121 nations paraded around the track in the gleaming new stadium. Jane Frederick was one of them, a 20-year-old U.S. track and field athlete, an Olympic first-timer like me.
“I was on cloud nine, like walking in sparkly stars,” she said. “I remember the pastel colors, beautiful lavender, turquoise, orange and yellow, pink. It was so festive. This was my first international competition, the first time I wore a U.S.A. uniform. I felt like one of those kids dancing in the flower fields high in the Alps.”
For 10 days, Germany’s vision of a “Games of Peace and Joy” prevailed, in vivid contrast to the militarized Nazi Olympics of 1936. ABC televised the events to the United States, extracting drama from the competition for medals. On September 4, the network featured swimmer Mark Spitz winning his seventh gold medal.
The next day, the show was murderously interrupted.
September 5, a film released early this year, tells what happened from the perspective of the ABC crew who found themselves facing the life-anddeath drama of Black September terrorists slipping into the Olympic village, slaying two Israeli Olympians and taking nine hostages.
Olympic Pentathlete Jane Frederick Recalls Those Fateful Summer Olympic Games
by John Zant
While the network was smuggling reporters and cameras close to the scene, I was in the press village some 300 yards away as a throng of sports writers received periodic briefings from Hans Klein, the press chief of the organizing committee. There were many conversations. A local reporter predicted it would “end bloody” because he was certain the German authorities would not give in to the terrorists.
Jane Frederick spent the day on a tour of the Alps in Innsbruck, Austria, and did not learn of the invasion until boarding an evening train back to Munich. Arriving at the Olympic Village, she was stopped at the entrance.
“A translator said, ‘I’m sorry, we have to close everything down because they are making a decision whether to shoot it out or transport them to the airport.’ ” she recalled. “I was stuck on a bridge. I look down and there’s a huge transport helicopter. It’s about 9:30. All these military buses start coming and going. Eventually one of them stops directly under me, opens up doors, and the hostages and terrorists walk out to get into that helicopter.”
While she was peering from above, Frederick dropped a souvenir Tyrolean hat. A soldier picked it up. A second
helicopter was on the other side of the entrance, and both of them thundered off into the sky.
“They open up the gates; the guy brings me my hat; they let us go into the village,” Frederick said. “We had to be escorted to get food and then had to stay in our rooms.”
Meanwhile, in the press lounge, I gathered with others watching televisions that carried the ABC news feed. There were reports of a shootout at the military airport where the helicopters had taken the hostages and their captors. A rumor spread that a successful operation had freed the Israelis. It wasn’t until 3 a.m. that the grim truth was revealed. ABC anchor Jim McKay said, “They’re all gone.”
Frederick received a different spin at 5 a.m. “The Village Voice, a little newspaper for the athletes, was slipped under the door,” she said. “It says all the hostages are safe. I went to the athletes’ lounge. Everybody was watching TV. That’s when we all learned the truth. The main thing for me was, what a betrayal by the Germans, telling us everything was okay.”
Olympic officials, led by outgoing International Olympic Committee president Avery Brundage, showed minimal
sensitivity by suspending the Games for a day and holding a memorial. Frederick, who had already competed in the women’s pentathlon a 21st-place finish sympathized with the athletes who had yet to compete. “I felt it was proper to continue the Games,” she said. “But nothing would ever be the same.”
Rain started to fall during the remaining days in Munich, and misfortune befell several athletes. Jim Ryun, the world-record holder in the mile who had trained in Santa Barbara, got into a traffic jam on the track, stumbled, and fell out of contention in the 1,500 meters. The U.S. men’s basketball team, 62-0 all-time in the Olympics, lost to the Soviets in a controversial finish.
But as U.S. player Kenny Davis later told Sports Illustrated: “Think of being in a helicopter with your hands tied behind your back and a hand grenade rolling toward you … and compare that to not getting a gold medal. If that final game is the worst injustice that ever happens to the guys on that team, we’ll all come out of this life pretty good.”
After winning the college women’s pentathlon title while competing for Colorado in 1973, Frederick moved to Santa Barbara to train with Olympic hopefuls at the UCSB track. She experienced the fallout from Munich at Montreal in 1976. The Olympic Village was like a prison guarded by armed soldiers. “It was so depressing,” she said. She placed seventh in the pentathlon.
The U.S. boycott kept Frederick out of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, and an injury at the Olympic Trials knocked her out of the 1984 L.A. Games. UCSB was then the site of a satellite Olympic Village for rowing and canoeing athletes, who competed at Lake Casitas. A double chain-link fence with electronic sensors encircled the campus dormitories.
Atlanta’s Centennial Olympics in 1996 were marred by an act of domestic terrorism, a bomb that was detonated in a public park.
The Olympics will return to Los Angeles in 2028, and the city hopes it can recapture the spirit of the 1984 Games, which went surprisingly well. The jingoism of the “U-S-A” chants was a bit excessive, but the American athletes did perform splendidly without the presence of the boycotting Soviets and East Germans.
Jane Frederick continued to compete internationally after 1984. She excelled in the heptathlon, which replaced the pentathlon as the women’s multi-event test, setting an American record and increasing her haul of U.S. championships to nine. She retired from competition after earning a bronze medal at the 1987 World Championships. Jackie Joyner-Kersee, who had broken her record, won the title.
Fully retired after years of coaching and training, Frederick has settled in her Santa Barbara home. No Olympic medals are on display, but she has a collection of pins that she exchanged in friendship with other athletes, and powerful memories of the best and worst of times at Munich in 1972. n
Jane Frederick
Santa Barbara Surf Museum Opens
Santa Barbara Sur f Museum Opens
Gates Foss first surfed the waves in Santa Barbara nearly 100 years ago, pioneering the sport at Rincon Point while diving for lobster and abalone off his homemade board. Since then, Santa Barbara has become an international surf destination and home base for numerous surfboard shapers whose innovations have pushed the sport to new heights.
Now there’s one location where this rich local history is being documented: the Santa Barbara Surf Museum, part of Surf N’ Wear’s Beach House on lower State Street. The museum is a passion project for Roger and Grayson Nance, the father-son shop owners, who hosted the museum’s grand opening on Wednesday, September 3. The event also honored the retirement of Renny Yater, the 93-year-old legendary surfboard shaper.
Finally, a Home for a Century’s Worth of History
“Seeing Renny retiring and getting older, I was like, hang on … all these stories he’s been telling me for the last 10 years, if we don’t write them down and put them on the wall, they’re gone,” Grayson said.
Alongside memorabilia like archival photos and vintage ukuleles, the museum’s centerpiece is its board collection. Visitors walk through decades of progression, starting with a 1930s-style plank made of 105 pounds of traditional Hawaiian koa wood, then moving through Yater’s iconic, lightweight “Spoon” designs, and arriving at contemporary handcrafted shapes from local legends such as Marc Andreini and Cooper Boneck.
“This all comes from my dad’s collections,” Grayson said. “While other shops are trying to add more board space, we’re actually repurposing ours to make room for these stories.
And we didn’t hire anyone to build it out. We did it ourselves.”
Each board tells the story of how shapers adapted their designs for better performance and different styles of surfing. Some surfers looked to nature for inspiration, like when shaper George Greenough sparked the shortboard revolution with designs inspired by the speed of a tuna’s tailfin. Many of the sport’s innovations were created right here on Santa Barbara’s waters because of its unique conditions.
“It truly goes back to the waves here,” Grayson said. “Our point breaks are consistent. This place is one of the most ideal testing grounds for new boards, and that’s what brought the original innovators.”
Santa Barbara might be a single spot on the map, but its influence is felt everywhere.
“No matter where you go in the world, you’re going to meet somebody that surfs,” Roger said. “I can wear a Yater hat in New York City, and someone’s gonna go, ‘Santa Barbara!’ ” Yater is a core part of this surfing history. He moved to town in 1959 to commercial fish for lobster, with shaping being his easy, off-season job. But then the movie Gidget came out later that same year, and it caused public interest in surfing to skyrocket. Yater flooded the market and became the biggest name in town.
“This museum is special because it’s just about Santa Barbara surfing,” Yater said. “It’s the closest look at our local history and culture.”
That hometown tie runs deep. Surf N’ Wear’s Beach House is a family-owned business built by and for people who have contributed to local surf culture. Even shop employee Camryn Foss is the great-granddaughter of Gates Foss, the first surfer in Santa Barbara. A century after his rides at Rincon, his legacy now hangs on the shop’s walls.
For shapers like Andreini, the craft and its history are inseparable.
“I infuse historic elements into what I make,” Andreini said. “Surfing is a feeling sport, so certain boards really connect you with the beauty of the waves. I really love when I can make a board for somebody that helps them get a better experience out of it. That’s what I enjoy doing.”
The museum also carries personal meaning for community members and people who are plugged into the tight-knit surf scene.
“I’ve grown up coming to this surf shop and going into that board room. Now it’s this museum that tells a cool story as you walk through,” said Shane Orr, a surfer and Santa Barbara native.
The Santa Barbara Surf Museum is more than a display of memorabilia it’s a reminder of how waves, boards, and people shaped a community.
“Now, we finally have one place where all those stories can live,” Grayson said.
Story and Photos by Jordan Winter
Beach House owners Roger (left) and Grayson Nance (right) with Renny Yater, the 93-year-old legendary surfboard shaper
The Santa Barbara Surf Museum welcomed hundreds of visitors for its grand opening on September 3.
Lots of Love in Mother-Daughter Rivalry
In the midst of a rivalry between the top flag football teams in Santa Barbara County is a family dynamic years in the making.
San Marcos High School co-head coach Jaylon Letendre cut her teeth coaching her
Jaylon and Carly Letendre Compete on Opposite Sides of Flag Football Matchup
by Victor Bryant
daughter Carly Letendre at the youth level, but now Carly is a senior captain for rival Dos Pueblos High School.
“It’s hard because we are rooting for each other, so that’s hard; it’s emotional,” Jaylon said. “It’s my daughter; I want her to do well, but I love these girls that I’m investing my time in too. It’s emotional.”
For the past two years, Carly and Jaylon have been on opposite sidelines, but the rivalry between San Marcos and Dos Pueblos reached a crescendo on Thursday, September 4, as the teams were both ranked in the top 10 in the CIF Southern Section and jockeying for position atop the Channel League standings.
Dos Pueblos held on for a 15-14 victory and improved to 12-1 overall this season as San Marcos came up a yard short of the end zone on the final play.
“It felt really good to get the win, because we have been preparing and working really hard in practice,” Carly said. “My mom
has coached me since I was in elementary school, so it’s really nerve-racking to play against her because she knows what I am going to do.”
Jaylon coached Carly and many of the other girls on both the San Marcos and Dos Pueblos rosters in the Friday Night Lights flag football league. Those players have now blossomed into stars at the high school level.
“Most of the girls have played for me at some point in their youth career,” Jaylon said. “I started coaching Carly many years ago, and we were the only girls’ team. We would play against the boys every week.”
Despite the narrow loss this week, San Marcos (11-3 overall, 2-1 Channel League) has proven that it can compete with the top teams in Southern California as well. The Royals have played a tough non-league schedule, with their only losses coming to private school powerhouse Santa Margarita.
“The girls are growing and developing, the sport is growing, and I really just love the joy you see when any team is out there playing,” Jaylon said.
The two teams will match up again in the second round of Channel League play on September 30, and with the talent on the respective rosters, a spot in the CIF-SS Division 1 playoffs is a near certainty for both teams.
“This game puts the 805 on the map in terms of flag football. We are playing good flag football up here,” said Dos Pueblos coach Doug Caines. “This thing is exploding, and I am excited to be at the ground level.”
WAR
Adapted by JOE LANDRY
Directed by JAMIE TORCELLINI
Carly Letendre (left), senior captain for Dos Pueblos, and her mom, Jaylon Letendre, co-head coach of San Marcos
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County of Santa Barbara Planning Commission Workshops
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS
Ordinance Streamlining and Housing Accommodation Amendments Workshop
On September 24, 2025, the County Planning Department, Long Range Planning Division will conduct workshops with the County Planning Commission and Montecito Planning Commission regarding the upcoming Ordinance Streamlining and Housing Accommodation Amendments to the County Land Use and Development Code, and Montecito Land Use and Development Code, and Coastal Zoning Ordinance. The amendments include revisions to:
Simplify the permit review process;
Standardize language and procedures;
Remove redundancies in the ordinances;
Revise development standards to enable residential development to the allowed densities; and
Modernize the multi‐family residential and commercial zone districts to allow more multi‐family and mixed‐use residential development.
The workshops will include a presentation from Planning staff and their consultants, opportunity for public comments and questions, and questions from the planning commissioners. No action will be taken at these workshops. The Montecito Planning Commission and County Planning Commission will conduct additional hearings to take action on the ordinance amendments following the workshops.
For additional information, please view the project webpage https://www.countyofsb.org/3449/Zoning‐Ordinance‐Amendment‐Project or contact Ben Singer at bsinger@countyofsb.org or (805) 568‐2025
The County Planning Commission Workshop will begin at 9:00 A.M. on Wednesday, September 24, 2025, and the Montecito Planning Commission Workshop will follow at approximately 1:00 P.M. The workshops will be held at: Planning Commission Hearing Room County Engineering Building 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
For current methods of public participation for the hearing please see https://www.countyofsb.org/1625/County‐Planning‐Commission or https://www.countyofsb.org/1647/Montecito‐Planning‐Commission or the posted agenda.
Staff reports, draft amendments, and the posted agenda will be available on the Wednesday prior to the hearing at the Commission’s website above or contact the Planning Commission Recording Secretary at dvillalo@countyofsb.org or (805) 568‐2058 for alternative options.
Attendance and participation by the public is invited and encouraged. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, American Sign Language interpreters, sound enhancement equipment, and/or another request for disability accommodation may be arranged by contacting the Hearing Support Staff at (805) 568‐2000. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the hearing will enable the Hearing Support Staff to make reasonable arrangements.
FOOD& DRINK
Little King Coffee’s Empire Expands to Montecito
There’s an almost insatiable need for cultivating community behind Little King Coffee, the shop that opened in Buellton in the spring of 2024 and just debuted their second location near the bird refuge in Montecito last month.
“A lot of coffee shop owners talk about their spots being workspaces, with computers being on and it being silent,” said Grace Gates, who, with her husband, Ryan Dobosh, named their business after their 2-year-old son, Roger. “But that’s never been the case at our shop in Buellton, and I hope that’s not the case at our shop in Santa Barbara either. Because of how wonderful these spaces are, you are able to come and enjoy it with somebody.”
Both Little Kings feature the same simple yet warm vibe, pouring Coastal Collective Coffee, serving breakfast sandwiches with High on the Hog bacon, and selling house-made chocolate chip cookies. The Montecito spot
GRACE GATES AND RYAN DOBOSH’S BUELLTON-BORN CAFÉ
OPENS BY THE BIRD REFUGE
BY MATT KETTMANN
upped the menu ante by adding Oat Bakery bread to the mix, enabling a full avocado toast regime. And it’s all quite fairly priced, at least by today’s standards.
“It’s been so much busier than I thought it would be,” said Dobosh when I visited on the third day it was open. “If I hadn’t done Buellton first, this would have eaten me alive.”
That says a lot for restaurant veterans like Dobosh and Gates. Raised in Los Angeles and educated at Cate School in Carpinteria, Gates went to Austin, Texas, soon after graduating from Emerson College in Boston. She lucked into a job opening the much-celebrated Emmer & Rye, which is where she met Dobosh. Originally from Seattle, he too was into theater, and they quickly hit it off.
They see running a restaurant as much like putting on a play. “We’re all gonna do something together,” Gates told me last summer when I visited the Buellton spot, running into three wine industry folks I knew. “Everyone is on the same page, everyone is working toward the same thing.”
During the pandemic, while Gates was working at the Carpenter Hotel which had basically turned into a coffee shop they kept reading about the amazing things that Greg and Daisy Ryan were doing at Bell’s in Los Alamos.
“Watching Greg and Daisy during the pandemic, they were so good,” said Gates, referring to the partner popups and their launch of nonprofit Feed the Valley. “Who are these people?”
When they posted a job opening for the to-be-opened Bar Le Côte in Los Olivos, Gates reached out. “We were here two months later,” she said.
She took the GM job at Bar Le Côte, and Dobosh was hired at Mattei’s. But opening delays at that hotel led him to the GM job at Bell’s instead. Gates was soon promoted to manage food and beverage for the restaurants’ overarching Companion Hospitality Group.
By the time Roger was born, they were ready to do their own thing. A coffee shop, with mainly daytime hours, made a lot of sense, even though their background on that front was relatively limited. They checked out a former hair studio on Highway 246’s residential westside, and moved in six months of renovations later.
“We felt that there was a need in this community to have a gathering space and a coffee shop that felt really special,” said Gates, who loves seeing moms walk in with their babies and winemakers discussing harvest over lattes. “It’s become a little hub. Are there this many people in Buellton? Who knew?”
Their focus on personal service is key. Rather than holler your name at the counter, for instance, they’ll actually take the extra steps to walk out your drink. “People who are good at hospitality are community nerds,” Gates likes to say. “We’re constantly asking how
to make something so transactional actually nice.”
They were approached by the Runyon Group that’s developing The Post, the small complex next to the end of Cabrillo Boulevard across the street from the Andrée Clark Bird Refuge. It didn’t seem so crazy once they walked the space, especially because there was such a large patio overlooking the lagoon. (The occasional slough stink is the only occasional negative here.)
The early signs are stellar would-be employees lined up without any advertising. “I think they all want to work somewhere they can be proud of,” said Dobosh. They sold out of food the first day by 12:30 p.m., so he’s already ordered more coffee from Coastal, more bacon from High on the Hog, and more hot sauce from Priedite Barbecue, who they know from Bell’s.
“You can grab coffee and be in a beautiful place there’s not much of that in the world for these third places,” said Gates. “We see this as an opportunity to really build a space that could be somewhere for people to catch up.”
Ryan Dobosh and Grace Gates
Avocado and berry toasts
JBaked with Love
ennifer Gonzalez-Neely comes to her love of bagels honestly. She grew up in New York, and recalls, “Having a bagel was part of my weekly, if not daily, diet.” But that doesn’t mean she won’t give them a twist at Mother Dough Bagels, open for a very successful eight months now in the former Recipes Bakery spot on Santa Barbara Street.
For while she rightfully asserts, “They are New York–inspired, and you will taste the malt, and it will be boiled,” the sourdough makes her bagels more Californian. Then there’s one more way Mother Dough distinguishes itself “I incorporate Asian-inspired flavors close to my heart, as I was born in the Philippines,” she says.
FOOD & DRINK
Turns out the culinary bug runs in Gonzalez-Neely’s family. Her brother, a chef in Connecticut, loved playing with Asian-fusion flavors, even serving burgers on ube buns. Inspired by his creativity, Gonzalez-Neely asked herself, “How come nobody puts furikake on a bagel?” It worked. A blend of seaweed, sesame, sugar, and sea salt was the “everything” topping people craved. Jennifer’s followup question became, “If I can do that with a bagel, why shouldn’t my spreads be as creative?” Meet the best-selling gochujang cream cheese.
A MOTHER LODE OF DELICIOUS AT MOTHER DOUGH BAGELS
BY GEORGE YATCHISIN
The success now wasn’t something the Neelys dreamed of back during the early days of the pandemic. (Husband and business partner Tom “bounced around the corporate world for 15 years,” hiding a hankering to open a small business someday.) After having their two children, Jennifer, who had a background in branding and marketing, admits, “I had a bit of an identity crisis, as I didn’t want to be in front of a computer all day while someone else watched the kids.”
The two devised a plan that gave Jennifer six months to learn all she could about baking and bagels in particular. Starting to sell bagels from their house for pickup during the pandemic, “demand was huge; we’d sell out in under five minutes,” Tom says.
The hunt for a commercial kitchen, the obvious next step, was bumpy. A real
estate agent client took them to check out the adorable Recipes spot that Tom remembered seemed “a pipe dream.” But Jennifer wrote a letter to the owner laying out what they hoped to do, and also played on the fact that they would be across from a construction zone for years as the new police station goes up. It worked; Jennifer claims, “The owner thought we’d keep the soul of the place.”
In the eight months they’ve been open, just Fridays through Sundays, business has boomed to the point the Neelys are again looking for an off-site kitchen for bagel production. Turns out the space now is so small, they can’t make eggs and bagels at the same time. “Coming from New York and knowing the usual unlimited options at a bagel shop, we hope to do that,” Jennifer says. “But we do make everything from scratch even if it’s more laborious, it’s worth it.”
That everything includes jam made with the French method (a three-day process), house cured salmon, and handmade syrups for coffees, including the in-demand miso-caramel that Jennifer calls “not too sweet with a salty umami profile.” All that said, at least more grab-and-go items, especially for lunch, will be coming soon. Maybe, eventually, Filipino food pop-ups.
The couple have been overwhelmed by the support of the community, especially fellow restaurateurs and those in the business. Jennifer took an early bread class with Pascale Beale and considers her a mentor, saying, “She’s a great businessperson as well as a chef.”
So, among all the other ways Mother Dough grows, connecting with the community will be at the forefront. “I like the idea of highlighting local businesses it’s not easy here,” says Jennifer. “It’s good to collaborate, cross-promote. It’s my favorite thing.”
Mother Dough Bagels, 604 Santa Barbara St.; open Friday (8 a.m.-1p.m.), Saturday, and Sunday (9 a.m.-1p.m.); motherdoughbagels.com; @motherdoughbagels
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Mesa Burger in Goleta Closes
Mesa Burger Goleta, which opened their doors in Camino Real Marketplace in May 2019, closed on September 1.
“It is with heavy heart that we share the closing of our Goleta location,” the eatery says. “We want to sincerely thank all of our loyal customers, our amazing staff, the City of Goleta, and the Marketplace for all their years of support!” The restaurant closed their Montecito location in September 2022, after a little more than two years in business. The flagship Mesa location at 315 Meigs Road, which opened in December 2016, is open for business as usual. Thanks to reader Jonathan D. for the tip!
’CITO REOPENING: Montecito Gourmet, formerly the Village Cheese & Wine Store, has announced the grand reopening of its remodeled store at 1485 East Valley Road in Montecito. The renovation expands seating and introduces a full coffee, wine, and craft beer lounge as well as a dinner experience, bringing together Montecito Gourmet’s imported cheese and charcuterie boards with gourmet flatbreads, oysters, crudo, caviar, and a curated selection of Santa Barbara, Napa, French, Italian, Spanish, and New Zealand wines, including the debut of their own estategrown cabernet sauvignon.
THE CRUISERY LAUNCHES “TAILS & TAPAS” HAPPY HOUR: There is a new option for local Happy Hour fans: the Cruisery at 501 State Street launched a “Tails & Tapas” Happy Hour. It runs daily (except Saturdays), 3-7 p.m., with $1 oysters, the return of skillet nachos, an upgraded tapas menu, and unique happy hour cocktails. They have also added a Dog Happy Hour item with $1 from every order donated to local dog rescues, starting with CARE4Paws this September.
PIZZA COMING TO ISLA VISTA: Reader Jonathan D. tells me that he has seen construction going on at 6576 Trigo Road. Word on the street is that it will be a pizza place. I took a sneak peek; the dining area remodel appears to be nearly complete, and there is a new painting on the wall depicting people eating pizza, which kind of confirms the rumor.
SPEAKING OF ISLA VISTA: Mojo Tea House, which opened at 6530 Seville Road in Isla Vista in August 2019 (replacing Ike’s Love & Sandwiches, which moved to State Street), has closed. When I was in the area, I saw the space being shown by a local commercial Realtor to numerous potential tenants, some food-related and some not. Sizzling Lunch, which opened at 6533 Trigo Road in September 2019, has also closed their doors.
John Dickson’s reporting can be found every day online at SantaBarbara.com Send tips to info@SantaBarbara.com.
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WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 11
ARIES
(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): I can’t speak the Quechua language, which is Indigenous to the Andes Mountains. But I have lifted one of their words to use for our purposes here: munay. It refers to an intensely practical and visionary love that includes far more than sweet feelings and affection. When we practice munay, we offer discerning respect and detailed appreciation to those we adore. We are generously eager to help our allies live their best lives. It takes discipline! And focus! And ingenuity! To be a rigorous and vigorous source of munay, we must cultivate it as a daily practice. In the coming weeks, Aries, I hope you will go a bit wild in your expression of this tender force of nature. Imagine yourself as a gentle whirlwind of love that spreads interesting beauty and bestows useful blessings. Be a relentless dispenser of catalytic gifts.
TAURUS
(Apr. 20-May 20): The medieval Persian polymath Avicenna believed the soul entered the fetus not with the first heartbeat, but with the first dream. I offer this idea for your poetic consideration, dear Taurus. Let’s imagine that the next beautiful thing you create will not arise from your forceful intention. Rather, it will emerge because you give yourself permission to fantasize, to wander freely in wonder, and to meander with curiosity on the frontiers. Your assignment is not to hustle, but to incubate; not to push forward, but to dwell expectantly in the mystery.
GEMINI
(May 21-June 20): The bowerbird constructs elaborate groundbased shrines not as nests but as seduction lures. The enticer might gather blue bottle caps, yellow flowers, and shiny stones so as to create a scene that piques the attention of a potential mate. These objets d’art are not merely decorative. They are displays that demonstrate discernment, skill, and aesthetic intelligence. I authorize you to be like a bowerbird, Gemini. What collection of symbols, words, gestures, and curiosities will magnetize the people or opportunities you long to engage with? It’s not about flashiness; it’s about alignment. What you draw into your sphere will reflect the vibes you emanate.
CANCER
(June 21-July 22): The pearl doesn’t begin as treasure. In its earliest form, it’s an irritation: a grain of sand that’s really a wound inside the oyster. Over time, the creature coats it with layers of nacre, turning discomfort into luminescence. Let’s use that as a metaphor for you, Cancerian. In my view, your task right now is not to escape or shed what’s bugging you, but to expedite the coating process. What is that gritty thing? A memory, injustice, or unmet yearning? It’s crucial you don’t reject it and don’t let it fester. I think it’s best to turn it, layer by layer, into a luminous asset, even a treasure. Prediction: The pearl you form will long outlast the wound.
LEO
(July 23-Aug. 22): Olive trees can thrive in rugged environments, including rocky and nutrient-poor soils. Their root systems are wide, deep, and resilient. They are welladapted to full sun, high temperatures, and low water availability. In comparing you to an olive tree, Leo, I’m not implying you will always have to be as hardy as they are. But in the coming weeks, you will be wise to be equally plucky and persevering. Here’s another fact about the olive tree you can and should emulate: Its fruit is valuable and in demand.
VIRGO
(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The Basenji is a dog breed that doesn’t bark. Instead, it produces an eerie, melodic yodel called a baroo. This oddity isn’t a flaw or drawback; it’s an interesting uniqueness. In the coming weeks, Virgo, I invite you to express your personal versions of the baroo your idiosyncratic offerings and singular gifts. Playfully resist the pressure to be more conventional or “on brand.” Be faithful to what yearns to come out of you, which may be raw, radiant, and a little weird. Let your authenticity be exactly what it is: a beacon, not a liability.
LIBRA
(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Scientists discovered that some caterpillars, while dissolving inside their cocoons, retain memories of their caterpillar lives even after becoming butterflies. In my view, that’s equivalent to us humans remembering details of our previous incarnations: having an all-new body but being able to draw on what our past body learned. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you will be able to draw on this amazing capacity in the coming weeks. The person you used to be will have key revelations and inspirations for the future you.
SCORPIO
(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): According to Celtic mythology, Cerridwen is the goddess of inspiration. In her cauldron, she brews magical elixirs that bestow the powers of wisdom, creativity, and transformation. The humans most likely to earn her blessings are those who are patient and willing to be changed. Of all the signs in the zodiac, you Scorpios are now at the top of the eligibility list for gifts like these. And the next three weeks will be the most favorable time for you to ask for and receive such blessings. Here’s a clue that will help you get all you deserve: Believe in magic.
SAGITTARIUS
(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In ancient Chinese philosophy, ziran means naturalness, spontaneity. It might refer to the way a mountain is purely a mountain, and a wave is a wave without trying to be a wave. I think you Sagittarians are due for an extended engagement with this wild ease and elegant freedom. After weeks of inner labor, your soul wants to breathe in ziran. Your assignment is to let yourself be as natural and unconstrained as you dare not correct or careful or “optimized.” So, I advise you to head in the direction of what’s simple and real and good. Emphasize smoothness over effort. Choose your rhythm, not theirs. You aren’t required to prove your healing. You just have to live it.
CAPRICORN
(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Serendipity” is an English term that refers to beautiful accidents, fortunate interruptions, unexpected opportunities, and surprisingly wonderful discoveries (The French equivalent is sérendipité; Italian: serendipità; Japanese: serendipiti.) The word didn’t exist until 1754, when author Horace Walpole coined it. Lovely outbreaks of good luck and uncanny blessings had been happening from time immemorial, of course, even though there wasn’t this precise word for them. Here’s a key point: They are more likely to occur if you believe they’re possible and make yourself alert for their arrival. That’s good advice for you right now.
AQUARIUS
(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The placenta is the only organ that the human body creates from scratch and then discards. Let’s pause for a moment to register how remarkable this is: to grow a temporary life-support system and then jettison it once its purpose is fulfilled. Inspired by this miracle, I speculate that you may soon undertake a metaphorical version of it. A situation or experience that has nurtured you is reaching the end of its mission. Though it has served you well, the wise move might be to outgrow it and move on to a new phase of your evolution. At the very least, it’s time to embark on a search for new forms of nourishment.
PISCES
(Feb. 19-Mar. 20): In Balinese gamelan music, there’s a technique called kotekan. Two instrumentalists play distinct musical parts that together create a seamless, intricately melodic and rhythmic texture. Let’s make this your metaphor to live by in the coming weeks, Pisces. In my astrological opinion, you are not meant to work solo. Your greatest success and most fun will come by generating harmony through collaborative improvisation and shared timing. A small warning: Someone else’s input may at first feel like interference, but it’s actually the missing part of the song. Let yourself blend, bounce, echo, and respond. Genius will be born in the spaces between.
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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.
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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Manages full‑service Cashiering Office and assists in oversight of daily operations of other business services as needed. Supervises student employees and daily operations. Maintains adequate cash security measures in accordance with A.S. and University internal control standards. Audits daily records of receipts, tracks change funds and daily sales summaries. Coordinates AS Publications sales and inventories, ticket sales, inventory and settlement and ensures adequate controls are maintained on cash equivalents throughout the Cashier’s Office. Prints statistical reports concerning receipts, deposits, and loans. Select, train and supervise student cashiers and student managers. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience. Experience working in a service‑oriented, customer service role. 1‑3 years experience cash handling and strong math aptitude. 1‑3 years merchandise/ticket sales experience. 1‑3 years experience with axs ticketing software or any other ticketing software.Solid communication and interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with all levels of staff and faculty verbally and in writing. Strong attention to detail. Ability to interpret policy, particularly University Policy on cash handling and cash equivalents. Solid communication skills and interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with students and staff verbally and in writing. Understands the fundamentals of excellent customer service. Solid organizational skills and ability to multi‑task with demanding timeframes. Ability to use sound judgment in responding to issues and concerns. Ability to use discretion and maintain confidentiality. Notes: Occasional evening or weekend hours required. UCSB Campus Security Authority under Clery Act. Satisfactory criminal history background check. Hiring/Budgeted Hourly Range: $29.35/hr. to $30.73/ hr. Full Salary Range: $29.35/hr. to $42.06/hr. he University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #80596
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Hiring/Budgeted Hourly Range:
$25.00/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #80976
DIRECTOR OF EX ECUTIVE COMMUNI CATIONS
OFFICE OF THE CHANCELLOR
Independently oversees executive communications, working closely and regularly with the Chancellor on a communications strategy that expresses and supports the vision and mission of the university. Prepares a wide range of communications including speeches and presentations, reports to the Faculty Legislature, Foundation Board of Trustees and Alumni Board, international keynotes, media quotes and responses, campus memos, communications with UC Office of the President, public statements, interviews, award nominations, and general correspondence, with high visibility and consequence of error. Researches issues and special topics, consults with campus colleagues, writes reports, and works on complex communication projects requiring quick thinking and response, strong subject matter expertise, a high degree of political acumen and sensitivity to nuance, and an in‑depth understanding of how to reach out effectively and respectfully to different audiences. Exercises diplomacy, tact, and discretion at all times; works with a high degree of autonomy while developing strategies and tracking
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FACILITIES MANAGEMENT
Performs general duties related to the maintenance and operations of the portable and recycled water irrigation systems, both manual and automatic, throughout the campus. Reqs: 1 ‑ 5 years experience performing a variety of advanced semi‑skilled irrigation duties including installing, repairing, and maintaining manual and automatic irrigation systems and related equipment. Notes: Spends prolonged periods of time digging by hand to expose irrigation pipes, valves and wiring. Spends prolonged periods of time squatting in excavated holes repairing pipes, valves and wiring. This entails working in awkward positions, kneeling for long periods of time, working in wet conditions, and forcefully gripping a range of hand and power tools. Spends long periods of time seated on mowers and other equipment, with exposure to heat, cold, and other weather changes. 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 Hourly Range: $23.23/hr. to $28.89/hr. Full Hourly Range: $23.23/hr. to $30.66/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard
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Under the supervision of the Clinical Supervisor, the medical assistant provides medical and administrative support to the physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, clinical nurses, and licensed vocational nurses. The medical assistant will assist, perform or provide limited support for the following: exams, procedures, taking vitals, perform point‑of‑care lab testing, checking in/out patients, filling out necessary paperwork, taking phone/electronic messages and following directives from the clinicians. The medical assistant will also act as a medical chaperone. The medical assistant will perform autoclave and laundry duties, and run errands as needed. Reqs: High School diploma or equivalent.
Current CPR certification/Basic Life Support (BLS) certification. Licenses/ Certifications: Certification with one of the following agencies: Master’s American Association of Medical Assistants (AMA) American Medical Technologists (AMT) California Certifying Board of Medical Assistants (CCBMA) Local Emergency Medical Services Agency (LEMSA) Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA) Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA). Note: Applicants without a proper certification will not be considered. Notes: Mandated reporting
requirements of Child Abuse and Adult Dependent Abuse. Student Health requires that clinical staff must successfully complete and pass the background check and credentialing process before the start date. To comply with Santa Barbara County Public Health Department Health Officer Order, this position must provide evidence of annual influenza vaccination, or wear a surgical mask while working in patient care areas during the influenza season. Per California Code of Regulations Title 8, Section 5199 Aerosol Transmissible Disease Standard requires; upon hire and annually thereafter Tuberculosis (TB) screening for all employees. The method of testing is determined by past medical history and any current symptoms. Per Cal/OSHA regulations and UCSB Campus Policy, all UCSB personnel who use respiratory protection equipment shall be included in the UCSB Respiratory Protection Program and required to complete respirator fit testing upon hire and annually thereafter, completed by UCSB Environmental Health & Safety. Any HIPAA or FERPA violation is subject to disciplinary action. Student Health is closed between the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays. Work hours may include Thursday evenings from 10am‑7pm. Hiring/Budgeted Hourly Range: $25.43/hr ‑ $30.39/hr. Full Hourly Range: $25.43/hr ‑ $31.60/ hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #70317
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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. 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
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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 Hourly Range:
$34.29 to $41.51/hour. Full Hourly Range: $34.29 to $61.02/hour. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #80805
PROSPECT
Serves as a key analyst for the Development Team in Arts & Lectures (A&L) in coordination with Central Development’s Prospect Management, Development Research and Donor Relations units. Supports a complex and multifaceted program covering all programs within A&L. Provides leadership for all analytical functions that support the strategic goals, initiatives and projects leading toward the philanthropic support from individuals, foundations and organizations to A&L with an emphasis at the $2,500+ level. Establishes, develops, and maintains comprehensive systems within the unit in coordination with Central Development; supports the Arts & Lectures Development team in short and long‑term strategic planning, “moves” management, research of prospects, portfolio recommendations, project planning and stewardship activities for program development, complex events and implementation that is focused on achieving operational and fundraising goals for Arts & Lectures. Proactively plans, organizes, and attends strategy meetings and coordinates follow up for Major Gift prospects; prepares materials and reports that analyze the activities, progress, and goals of the Arts & Lectures Team; ensures the consistency, timeliness, and accuracy of information disseminated to donors, prospects, and internal constituents. Reviews and analyzes data as it relates to fundraising strategies, prospect identification, prospect management and associated trends. Coordinates communication and works closely with Development Research on collaborative projects and related prospect issues. Identifies, manages and completes special projects for other fundraising goals as needed. Responsible for a high level of prospect and gift analysis, and research reporting to the development team. Provides analytical reporting to the development team and Executive Director as appropriate. Proactively identifies issues and solutions and makes recommendations to the Team. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience; 1‑3 yrs Experience with donor database or CRM software (e.g. Advance, Raiser’s Edge, Blackbaud, etc.); excellent computer skills including proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Google Suite and demonstrated ability to quickly learn various software programs; this position requires the utmost degree of confidentiality. Notes: May be called upon to work occasional evenings and weekends at various Arts & Lectures, Development Office, Institutional Advancement or campus‑wide events; satisfactory criminal history
background check. Hiring/Budgeted Hourly Range: $31.47 ‑ $36/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu
Job #80965
SENIOR DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT, ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES DEVELOPMENT
Serves as Senior Director of Development (“Sr. Director”) for the Ecological and Environmental Sciences team. This team focuses on a complement of initiatives prioritized for areas of campus within the Ecological and Environmental Sciences, including: the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Restoration, the Marine Science Institute, the Natural Reserve System, Sustainability, and the National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis. Projects may also include team efforts in partnership with the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and Math, Life, and Physical Sciences, as well as other special projects. The Sr. Director focuses 75% time on major gift ($100k+) and leadership gift ($1M+) fund raising activities, prospect discovery, pipeline building, and lower‑level gift solicitations ($10,000+). 15% of time is focused on other activities related to fund raising, including events, volunteer committee engagement, administrative duties and strategic planning, and implementing aspects of the Ecological and Environmental Sciences development program. 10% of time is focused on the management and supervision of the EES Development Analyst. Responsible for designing and executing planned strategies for the identification, cultivation, solicitation, closing, and stewarding of major gifts from individuals, corporations, and foundations. Works personally with donor prospects and supports the Academic and Program leadership, faculty, and volunteers in prospect relationships, in order to maximize philanthropic support for the Ecological and Environmental Science areas, interdisciplinary initiatives, and the university overall to raise gifts to meet identified fundraising priorities. Is a resource for the Natural Reserve System, NCEAS, the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration, the Marine Science Institute, and UCSB Sustainability, and may have responsibility for particular unit areas, initiatives, and projects. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training. 4‑6 years of experience fundraising in higher education. Notes: This is an annually renewable contract position with no limit on total duration. Flexibility and willingness to travel frequently. Ability to work comfortably with a flexible work schedule, including travel for major donor cultivation and some evening and weekend work. Required to hold a valid driver’s license, have a driving record that is in accordance with local policies and procedures, and/or enroll in the California Employer Pull Notice Program. Satisfactory conviction history background check The budgeted salary range is $115,000 to $140,000/year. Full salary range: $108,100 to $204,900/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 protected status under state or federal law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu Job # 80758.
SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER
UC SANTA BARBARA PROFESSIONAL AND CONTINUING EDUCATION
UCSB Professional and Continuing Education (PaCE) seeks a dynamic Program Manager to shape the future of its Engineering and Technology training portfolio. The Program Manager leads the development of innovative training programs by researching industry trends, building partnerships with technology companies, and designing workshops, courses, and certificates that meet real‑world demand. They collaborate with advisory boards, instructors, and instructional designers to create courses with measurable outcomes, while overseeing budgets, setting enrollment fees, and ensuring programs are both financially sustainable and academically rigorous. In addition, the Program Manager partners with marketing teams to promote PaCE’s technology programs, strengthen enrollment, and enhance student retention. They recruit and support instructors, manage contracts, and serve as the primary liaison with UCSB departments to ensure smooth course logistics and student services. The role also involves monitoring competitor programs, assessing return on investment, and providing leadership with enrollment and budget projections.This position offers the opportunity for a strategic, entrepreneurial professional to bridge education and industry, and to make a direct impact on the growth and success of UCSB PaCE’s Technology programs. This is a Hybrid position that allows the flexibility to work from home but requires weekly presence on the UCSB campus. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training; Continuing education in a related field; 4‑6 yrs Experience in producing and delivering training programs in collaboration with industry partners; 1‑3 yrs Experience with curriculum design, collaborating with instructors, and managing academic programs; 1‑3 yrs Experience in management, marketing, sales, and business processes; 1‑3 yrs Experience in sales and customer relationship management software such as Salesforce; Working knowledge of online training platforms, technology and best practices; excellent analytical skills to understand how student needs can be addressed through the design and delivery of training programs; Demonstrated, excellent interpersonal and writing skills for collegial and professional exchanges with diverse audiences in university as well as business settings; Thorough knowledge of and skill in delivering programs; Solid knowledge of MS Office Suite, Google Suite, Zoom software. Notes: Satisfactory criminal history background check. Hiring/Budgeted Salary Range: $60,300‑$85,000/yr. Full Salary Range: $60,300 ‑ $103,900/ yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #80997
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DIREC TOR DRAMATIC ART AND DANCE DEPARTMENT
Oversees all the technical elements and activities (except costumes) related to department’s season of theater and dance productions. Acts as liaison between designers and shops to ensure all designs are translated and executed properly. Creates working drawings from designer drawings and elevations for use in shops. Facilitates technical set‑up, operation, and coordination of personnel for technical rehearsals for all mainstage productions. Recruits, schedules, trains, and supervises student lab production run crews for mainstage productions. Oversees technical budgets and coordinates budgets with area supervisors. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree in technical related major or equivalent experience. 1‑3 years of practical technical theater experience (including demonstrated leadership experience). Notes: Requires the ability to work some evenings, weekends, and holidays. Satisfactory conviction history background check The budgeted hourly range is $31.47 to $34.05/hr. Full hourly range: $31.47 to $55.12/ hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 80764
RESIDENTIAL OPERATIONS
Maintains various areas in the University Center, AS Building, Multi‑Cultural Center, front of University Center, Lagoon Plaza and the University Center patio areas. Performs unskilled and semi‑skilled duties as directed. Operates vacuum cleaners, buffers, shampoo machines, wet/dry vacuums, waxers, floor scrubbing machines during stripping, washing, buffing and/or other related cleaning operations. Maintains security for one or more assigned areas; may load/unload large trash receptacles. May assist with training student personnel. Works individually or as part of a team in cleaning and/or maintaining work areas. Reqs: Working knowledge and experience utilizing the following equipment: vacuums, conventional and high‑speed buffers, extractors, and related custodial equipment desired. Will train on all equipment and chemicals used. Demonstrated ability to work effectively with others as a team. Must have effective communication skills. Ability to interact as a team member with sensitivity towards a multi‑cultural work environment. Notes: May be required to work other schedules other than Tues ‑ Sat to meet the operational needs of the department. Required to hold a valid driver’s license, have a driving record that is in accordance with local policies and procedures, and/or enroll in the California Employer Pull Notice Program. Satisfactory criminal history background check. Pay Rate: $25.74/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #80855
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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: LINDA JANE BRYANT No.: 25PR00415
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: LINDA JANE BRYANT
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: JOY E. MARGOLIS in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.
THE PETITION requests that (name): JOY E. MARGOLIS be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)
The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 10/09/2025 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101.
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copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk. Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer 8/8/2025 by Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Andrew Miller; PO Box 5691, Santa Barbara, CA 93150; 805‑969‑4451 Published: Aug 28 2025. Sep 4, 11 2025.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: EDNA E. BAUER No.: 25PR00429
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: EDNA E. BAUER A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: DENNIS P. IDEN in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.
THE PETITION requests that (name): DENNIS P. IDEN 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: 10/09/2025 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street PO Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93101. ANACAPA DIVISION. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A
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LEGALS (CONT.)
Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk. Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer 8/18/2025 by Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Brooke C. McDermott; Mullen & Henzell, L.L.P.; 112 E. Victoria Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; 805‑966‑1501
Published: Aug 28. Sep 4, 11 2025.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF TARA C. HOLBROOK aka TARA HOLBROOK
Case No. 25PR00435
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of TARA C. HOLBROOK aka TARA HOLBROOK
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Elizabeth Eliot Needham in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA BARBARA.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Elizabeth Eliot Needham 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 on Nov. 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM in Dept. No. SB 5 located at 1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101.
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner:
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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER
ESTATE OF: LORENZO CAPOVILLA
No.: 25PR00440
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: LORENZO CAPOVILLA
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: GIUSTINA MARTIN in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.
THE PETITION requests that (name): GIUSTINA MARTIN and DENISE ALLEN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)
The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 11/20/2025 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101.
ANACAPA
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk. Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer 8/22/2025 by Nicolette Barnard, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Andrew Miller; PO Box 5691, Santa Barbara, CA 93150; 805‑969‑4451
Published: Sep 4, 11, 18 2025. NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: MARTIN JOSEPH HUNT (also known as Martin J. Hunt) No.: 25PR00452
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: MARTIN JOSEPH HUNT (also known as Martin J. Hunt)
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: MARY KATHRYN HUNT in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.
THE PETITION requests that (name): MARY KATHRYN HUNT 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: 10/9/2025 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept:SB 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101.
ANACAPA DIVISION
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk. Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer 8/27/2025 by Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Dana F. Longo, Fauver, Large, Archbald & Spray LLP; 820 State Street, 4th Floor, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; 805‑966‑7000 Published: Sep 11, 18, 25 2025.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: BARBARA B. HALL No.: 25PR00375
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: BARBARA B. HALL
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: FLETCHER R. HALL in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.
THE PETITION requests that (name): Fletcher R. Hall 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: 09/25/2025 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101.
ANACAPA
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance
may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk. Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer 07/31/2025 by Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Stephen T Frank 1114 State St., Ste 271 Santa Barbara, CA 93101
805‑962‑0101
Published: Sep 4, 11, 18 2025.
FBN ABANDONMENT
STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
FBN No.: 2025‑0001893
The following person(s) have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: Sun Coast Realty and/ or Sun Coast Property Management, located at 2115 Garden Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, in Santa Barbara County. The fictitious business name referred to above was filed in Santa Barbara County on August 14, 2001, File No. 2011‑0002537.
Full name of registrant abandoning the name: Sue Ann DeRose, 2115 Garden Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This business was conducted by: An Individual. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 8, 2025. Signed: Sue Ann DeRose. (SEAL) By: Joseph E. Holland, Deputy. County Clerk (SEAL). Published: Aug 21, 28. Sep 4, 11 2025. STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: IMPULSE INTERNET SERVICES, LLC: 6144 Calle Real Suite 200 Goleta, CA 93117 The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 4/26/2023 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original File no. FBN 2023‑0001091. The persons or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Impulse Advanced Communications, LLC (same address)
The business was conducted by an A Limited Liability Company. Registrant commenced to tranact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Apr 1, 2006 Signed by: ANTHONY E. PAPA Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 8/13/25, FBN 2025‑0001932 E30. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). Published: Aug 21, 28. Sep 4, 11 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: PRESENTS OF PARADIS: 310 E McCoy Ln, Unit 4F Santa Maria, CA 93455; Presents Of Paradis LLC (same address) This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 22, 2025. Filed by: CAROLINE WHITAKER/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 22, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0002014. Published: Aug 28. Sep 4, 11, 18 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ENDY WELLNESS, ENDY: 3905 State Street, Suite 7‑303 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Endy Health, LLC (same address)
This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Feb 6, 2025. Filed by: JASCYLETTE AVILES/OPERATIONS MANAGER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 22, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0002022. Published: Aug 28. Sep 4, 11, 18 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2025‑0001770
The following person(s) is doing business as: MAX 2.0 Media & Security 5959 Mandarin Dr Apt N, Goleta, CA 93117, County of Santa Barbara. Max Salcedo, 5959 Mandarin Dr Apt N, Goleta, CA 93117
This business is conducted by An Individual.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Not Applicable /s/ Max Salcedo, Owner
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 07/25/2025. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 8/14, 8/21, 8/28, 9/4/25 CNS‑3955379# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SUN COAST REALTY, SUN COAST PROPERTY MANAGEMENT: 2115 Garden Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Geoffrey A DeRose (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: GEOFFREY A DEROSE/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 8, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E72. FBN Number: 2025‑0001895. Published: Aug 21, 28. Sep 4, 11 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: YELLOW BIRD MUSIC INC: 2600 De La Vina Street, Suite F Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Yellow Bird Music 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 Jul 11, 2025. Filed by: ALEXANDRIA ADAMS/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 17, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0001694. Published: Aug 21, 28. Sep 4, 11 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT File No. FBN2025‑0001812
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: QUORUM HOSPITALITY, 1145 EUGENIA PLACE, SUITE 200, CARPINTERIA, CA 93013 County of SANTA BARBARA
SCM HOTEL OPERATING COMPANY, LLC, 4965 PRESTON PARK BLVD STE 235, PLANO, TX 75093
This business is conducted by a limited liability company
The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jul 25, 2025. SCM HOTEL OPERATING COMPANY, LLC S/ TODD MOREAU, MANAGER
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 07/30/2025. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 8/21, 8/28, 9/4, 9/11/25 CNS‑3956010#
SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CLEMENTINE
ACADEMIE: 1828 Loma St, Unit B Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Jessica I Judd (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: JESSICA JUDD with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 14, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0001664. Published: Aug 21, 28. Sep 4, 11 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LORING WINE COMPANY: 308 N. 9th Street, Unit A Santa Barbara, CA 93436; Loring Wine Company LLC (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 29, 2006. Filed by: BRIAN LORING/ LLC MANAGER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 12, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0001920. Published: Aug 21, 28. Sep 4, 11 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GUDGEON STEAM CLEANING, INC: 417 Santa Barbara Street, Suite B9 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Gudgeon Steam Cleaning (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, 2000. Filed by: TAMARA GUDGEON/ SECRETARY‑TREASURER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 8, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0001889. Published: Aug 21, 28. Sep 4, 11 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE NILSON REPORT: 2373 Emerson St. Summerland, CA 93067; HSN Consulting Inc. PO Box 50539 Santa Barbara, CA 93150 This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jan 1, 2020. Filed by: DAVID ROBERTSON/ PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 15, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0001956. Published: Aug 21, 28. Sep 4, 11 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GOT BINNED: 2166 Hardinge St, Unit D Summerland, CA 93067; Nolan T Fuss PO Box 716 Summerland, CA 93067 This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: NOLAN T FUSS with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 18, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E66. FBN Number: 2025‑0001963. Published: Aug 21, 28. Sep 4, 11 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AUM I GOODNESS: 1216 Alta Vista Rd, Apt B Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Aum I Goodness LLC (same address) This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: ELISABETH BAUM‑JONES/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara
County on Aug 13, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0001924. Published: Aug 21, 28. Sep 4, 11 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE PREPARISTA: 314 W. Canon Perdido St., #11 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Jessica D 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 Jul 31, 2025. Filed by: JESSICA WHITE/ FOUNDER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 7, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0001874. Published: Aug 21, 28. Sep 4, 11 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SFR JALAMA: 4120 Jalama RoadLompoc, CA 93436; Stoll Family Ranch (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 1, 2025. Filed by: CATHERINE STOLL/ OWNER/MANAGER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on JuL 17, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0001695. Published: July 31. Aug 7, 14, 21 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: IMPULSE ADVANCED COMMUNICATIONS, LLC: 6144 Calle Real, Suite 200 Goleta, CA 93117; Aseva LLC (same address) This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 1, 2025. Filed by: ANTHONY E. PAPA/MANAGER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 7, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0001882. Published: Aug 21, 28. Sep 4, 11 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. fbn2025‑0001845
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: LOTUS NAILS LOUNGE & SPA, 238 E BETTERAVIA RD STE B, SANTA MARIA, CA 93454 County of SANTA BARBARA BEAUTY SPA 2024 LLC, 238 E BETTERAVIA RD STE B, SANTA MARIA, CA 93454 This business is conducted by a limited liability company The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 7/16/2025. BEAUTY SPA 2024 LLC S/ CAM TRAM PHAM, MANAGING MEMBER This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 08/04/2025. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 8/21, 8/28, 9/4, 9/11/25 CNS‑3955444# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. FBN2025‑0001861 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: IKES LOVE AND SANDWICHES, 1936 STATE ST. SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101; County of SANTA BARBARA ISP2 SANTA BARBARA LLC, 1936 STATE ST, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101; CA This business is conducted by Limited Liability Company The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Not Applicable. Michael Goldberg, CEO
LEGALS (CONT.)
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 08/05/2025 .
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk
8/21, 8/28, 9/4, 9/11/25
CNS‑3848228#
SANTA BARBARA
INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2025‑0001881
The following person(s) is doing business as: Western Propane Service, 2326 Meredith Ln, Santa Maria, CA 93455, County of Santa Barbara. Superior Plus Energy Services Inc., 1870 S Winston Rd Suite 200, Rochester, NY 14618; New York
This business is conducted by A Corporation.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 06, 2025 /s/ Darren Hribar, Secretary This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 08/07/2025. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 8/21, 8/28, 9/4, 9/11/25
CNS‑3957511#
SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: 805 FIDUCIARY: 3425 Los Pinos Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Amber Rouleau PO Box 1108 Santa Barbara, CA 93102 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: AMBER ROULEAU/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 18, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E72. FBN Number: 2025‑0001974. Published: Aug 21, 28. Sep 4, 11 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RODEO GALLERY: 11 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Rodeo Gallery LLC (same address) This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: WALLACE PIATT/ CEO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 18, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E63. FBN Number: 2025‑0001965. Published: Aug 21, 28. Sep 4, 11 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE EDUCATED EDIT: 412 Corona Del Mar, Apt H Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Holly J Erassarret (same address) This business is conducted by A Individaul Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: HOLLY ERASSARRET with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 8, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E73. FBN Number: 2025‑0001896. Published: Aug 28. Sep 4, 11, 18 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE MILO: 202 W. Cabrillo Blvd. Santa Barbara, CA 93101; N Milo LLC 2349 Rickenbacker Way Auburn, CA 95602 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 16, 2025. Filed by: BRIAN LARSON/MANAGER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 21, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0002005. Published: Aug 28. Sep 4, 11, 18 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BARIEAU, BARIEAU WINES, WATHEN CELLARS, WATHEN VINEYARD, WATHEN WINES, WATHEN WINE COMPANY: 1867 Lewis St Solvang, CA 93463; Holly Wathen Wine Company, 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 Sep 8, 2016. Filed by: BECKY GENE
BARIEAU/TREASUER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 20, 2025. This statement expires five
years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0001996. Published: Aug 28. Sep 4, 11, 18 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
& 3372 Revenue and Taxation Code
I, Harry E. Hagen, Santa Barbara County Treasurer-Tax Collector, State of California, certify that:
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ZANIMISTIC EDITIONS: 1482 E. Valley Rd Ste 707 Montecito, CA 93108; Michael I Christie 800 W Ocean Avenue PO Box 0573 Lompoc, CA 93438 This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business
PROPERTY TAX-DEFAULT (DELINQUENT) LIST
Made pursuant to Sections 3371 & 3372 Revenue and Taxation Code
The real properties listed below were declared to be in tax-default at 12:01 a.m. on July 1, 2022, by operation of law pursuant to Revenue & Taxation Code Section 3436. The declaration of default was due to nonpayment of the total amount due for the taxes, assessments and other charges levied in the fiscal year 2021-2022 that were a lien on the listed real property.
I, Harry E. Hagen, Santa Barbara County Treasurer-Tax Collector, State of California, certify that:
under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: MICHAEL I CHRISTIE/FULL OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 12, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E35. FBN Number: 2025‑0001913. Published: Aug 28. Sep 4, 11, 18 2025.
Made pursuant to Sections 3371 & 3372 Revenue and Taxation Code
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: IK3DLAB: 1042 Arbolado Road Santa Barbara,
I, Harry E. Hagen, Santa Barbara County Treasurer-Tax Collector, State of California, certify that:
The real properties listed below were declared to be in tax-default at 12:01 a.m. on July 1, 2022, by operation of law pursuant to Revenue & Taxation Code Section 3436. The declaration of default was due to nonpayment of the total amount due for the taxes, assessments and other charges levied in the fiscal year 2021-2022 that were a lien on the listed real property.
Tax-defaulted real property may be redeemed by payment of all unpaid taxes andassessments, together with the additional penalties and fees, as prescribed by law, or it may be redeemed under an installment plan of redemption.
The real properties listed below were declared to be in tax-default at 12:01 a.m. on July 1, 2022, by operation of law pursuant to Revenue & Taxation Code Section 3436. The declaration of default was due to nonpayment of the total amount due for the taxes, assessments andother charges levied in the fiscal year 2021-2022 that were a lien on the listed real property.
Tax-defaulted real property may be redeemed by payment of all unpaid taxes and assessments, together with the additional penalties and fees, as prescribed by law, or it may be redeemed under an installment plan of redemption.
The amount to redeem, including all penalties and fees, as of September 2025, is shown opposite the parcel number and next to the name of the assessee.
Tax-defaulted real property may be redeemed by payment of all unpaid taxes andassessments, together with the additional penalties and fees, as prescribed by law, or it may be redeemed under an installment plan of redemption.
The amount to redeem, including all penalties and fees, as of September 2025, is shown opposite the parcel number and next to the name of the assessee.
The amount to redeem, including all penalties and fees, as of September 2025, is shown opposite the parcel number and next to the name of the assessee.
All information concerning redemption of tax-defaulted property will be furnished, upon request, by Harry E. Hagen, Treasurer-Tax Collector, at the office locations listed below:
Santa Barbara: County Administration Building 105 E. Anapamu Street, Room 109 Telephone: (805) 568-2920
All information concerning redemption of tax-defaulted property will be furnished, upon request, by Harry E. Hagen, Treasurer-Tax Collector, at the office locations listed below:
Santa Barbara: County Administration Building 105 E. Anapamu Street, Room 109 Telephone: (805) 568-2920
Santa Maria: Betteravia Government Center 511 E. Lakeside Parkway Telephone: (805) 346-8330
Or if Mailed: P.O. Box 579, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-0579
Santa Maria: Betteravia Government Center 511 E. Lakeside Parkway Telephone: (805) 346-8330
Pay on the internet: www.sbtaxes.org
Or if Mailed: P.O. Box 579, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-0579 Pay on the internet: www.sbtaxes.org
All information concerning redemption of tax-defaulted property will be furnished, upon request, by Harry E. Hagen,
Treasurer-Tax Collector, at the office locations listed below:
Santa Barbara: County Administration Building 105 E. Anapamu Street, Room 109 Telephone: (805) 568-2920
Santa Maria: Betteravia Government Center 511 E. Lakeside Parkway Telephone: (805) 346-8330
Or if Mailed: P.O. Box 579, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-0579
PARCEL NUMBERING SYSTEM EXPLANATION
Pay on the internet: www.sbtaxes.org
The Assessor’s Parcel Number (APN), when used to describe property in this list, refers to the assessor’s map book, the map page, the block on the map (if applicable), and the individual parcel on the map page or in the block. The assessor’s maps and further explanation of the parcel numbering system are available in the assessor’s office.
PARCEL NUMBERING SYSTEM EXPLANATION
Property tax-defaulted on July 1, 2022, for the taxes, assessments, and other charges in the bill year 2021-2022: PROPERTY TAX-DEFAULT (DELINQUENT) LIST
The Assessor’s Parcel Number (APN), when used to describe property in this list, refers to the assessor’s map book, the map page, the block on the map (if applicable), and the individual parcel on the map page or in the block. The assessor’s maps and further explanation of the parcel numbering system are available in the assessor’s office.
Property tax-defaulted on July 1, 2022, for the taxes, assessments, and other charges in the bill year 2021-2022:
031-391-025 CABRERA, MARIA L / RODRIGUEZ, EDWARD / RODRIGUEZ, LUZ $ 3,443.58
043-251-031 ALVARADO, JOSE M $ 644.48
053-151-009 PERTSULAKES RICHARD $ 47,959.28
057-221-005 MARQUEZ IME REVOCABLE TRUST $ 45,022.03
065-320-001 KHALED SAUD ALSHEBAILY, LLC $ 117,990.44
065-320-002 KHALED SAUD ALSHEBAILY, LLC $ 219,062.56
065-320-007 KHALED SAUD ALSHEBAILY, LLC $ 228,647.26
065-320-008 KHALED SAUD ALSHEBAILY, LLC $ 702,640.36
065-320-009 KHALED SAUD ALSHEBAILY, LLC
065-320-010 KHALED SAUD ALSHEBAILY, LLC
069-610-008 NOBBE JESSICA $ 33,743.78
073-620-015 BERMUDEZ, SILVIA
079-342-002
079-364-008 LORENTZEN FAMILY TRUST/TRUST
083-030-061
085-092-012
085-510-019
PARCEL NUMBERING SYSTEM EXPLANATION
The Assessor’s Parcel Number (APN),
LEGALS (CONT.)
CA 93103; Isaac C Kershiner (same address) This business is conducted by
A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 15, 2025. Filed by: ISAAC C KERSHNER/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 20, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0001992. Published: Aug 28. Sep 4, 11, 18 2025.
This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E73. FBN Number: 2025‑0001974. Published: Aug 28. Sep 4, 11, 18 2025.
PROPERTY TAX-DEFAULT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GREEN LAMP LEARNING: 1920 Sycamore Canyon Road Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Veronika V Aleiner (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: VERONIKA V ALEINER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 4, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0001849. Published: Aug 28. Sep 4, 11, 18 2025.
(DELINQUENT) LIST
Made pursuant to Sections 3371 & 3372 Revenue and Taxation Code
RESEARCH: 2108 N St, Ste N Sacramento, CA 95816; Gabriel De Roche 3463 State St #149 Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: GABRIEL DE ROCHE with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 13, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0001929. Published: Sep 4, 11, 18, 25 2025.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 29, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0001803. Published: Sep 4, 11, 18, 25 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
I, Harry E. Hagen, Santa Barbara County Treasurer-Tax Collector, State of California, certify that:
The real properties listed below were declared to be in tax-default at 12:01 a.m. on July 1, 2022, by operation of law pursuant to Revenue & Taxation Code Section 3436. The declaration of default was due to nonpayment of the total amount due for the taxes, assessments and other charges levied in the fiscal year 2021-2022 that were a lien on the listed real property.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0002077. Published: Sep 11, 18, 25. Oct 2 2025.
The household and personal property is stored by Brian Ricardo Sanchez in Unit #46 at Honor Storage ‑ Bond Self Storage located at 719 Bond Ave, Santa Barbara, CA 93103.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SB SPUDS: 5514 Armitos Ave #54 Goleta, CA 93117; Vartan Simonian (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 20, 2025. Filed by: VARTAN SIMONIAN/ OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 20, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E63. FBN Number: 2025‑0001988. Published: Sep 4, 11, 18, 25 2025.
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE MAGIC OF SOCCER: 532 W Carrillo Street, 4 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Nancy Salado Hernandez (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 16, 2025. Filed by:
Tax-defaulted real property may be redeemed by payment of all unpaid taxes and assessments, together with the additional penalties and fees, as prescribed by law, or it may be redeemed under an installment plan of redemption.
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DREWRY ELECTRONICS DESIGN SERVICES: 501 W Pueblo Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105 Spencer Drewry (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 06, 2025. Filed by: SPENCER DREWRY/BUSINESS OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 28, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E63. FBN Number: 2025‑0002048. Published: Sep 4, 11, 18, 25 2025.
The household and personal property is stored by Michael Fleckser in Unit #69 at Honor Storage ‑ Bond Self Storage located at 719 Bond Ave, Santa Barbara, CA 93103.
This notice is given in accordance with the Provisions of Section 21700 et seq of the Business & Professions Code of the state of California.
NAME CHANGE
The amount to redeem, including all penalties and fees, as of September 2025, is shown opposite the parcel number and next to the name of the assessee.
All information concerning redemption of tax-defaulted property will be furnished, upon request, by Harry E. Hagen, Treasurer-Tax Collector, at the office locations listed below:
Santa Barbara: County Administration Building 105 E. Anapamu Street, Room 109 Telephone: (805) 568-2920
Santa Maria: Betteravia Government Center 511 E. Lakeside Parkway Telephone: (805) 346-8330
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ARTESANO KITCHEN: 2903 Verde Vista Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Maylinge A Perez This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 18, 2025. Filed by: MAYLINGE A PEREZ with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 18, 2025.
Pay on the internet: www.sbtaxes.org
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: UPTOWN BARBERSHOP: 4425 Hollister Avenue Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Erik Hernandez (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jan 22, 2016. Filed by: ERIK HERNANDEZ with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 21, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0002012. Published: Sep 4, 11, 18, 25 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: POST MEDIA WORKS: 2450 Long Canyon Road Santa Ynez, CA 93460; Joshua E Post (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 8, 2025. Filed by: JOSHUA POST/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 27, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E49. FBN Number: 2025‑0002033. Published: Sep 4, 11, 18, 25 2025.
Or if Mailed: P.O. Box 579, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-0579
NANCY SALADO HERNANDEZ/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 19, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0001982. Published: Sep 4, 11, 18, 25 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA AI: 2021 Castillo St Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Authier Ventures LLC 2108 N St Ste N Sacramento, CA 95816 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 7, 2025. Filed by:
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LOOKING EAST: 28 San Mateo Goleta, CA 93117; Daniel B Kearney (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 22, 2025. Filed by: DANIEL KEARNEY with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 22, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0002041. Published: Sep 11, 18, 25. Oct 2 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ROCKLEDGE CREATIVE: 266 Por La Mar Circle Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Carly Bates (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: CARLY BATES with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 6, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0001867. Published: Sep 11, 18, 25. Oct 2 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
PARCEL NUMBERING SYSTEM EXPLANATION
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PLURIEL
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HEALTH LINKAGES, FUTURE SMILES: 3970 La Colina Rd., Suite 2 Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Children And Family Resource Services (same address) This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Dec 26, 2017. Filed by: MARYELLEN REHSE/
JOSIAH AUTHIER/OWNER AND CEO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 11, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0001900. Published: Sep 4, 11, 18, 25 2025.
The Assessor’s Parcel Number (APN), when used to describe property in this list, refers to the assessor’s map book, the map page, the block on the map (if applicable), and the individual parcel on the map page or in the block. The assessor’s maps and further explanation of the parcel numbering system are available in the assessor’s office.
Property tax-defaulted on July 1, 2022, for the taxes, assessments, and other charges in the bill year 2021-2022: ASSESSOR’S ASSESSEE
005-270-009
007-110-085
007-130-007
007-350-050
009-103-011 DEVOR, MELISSA REVOCABLE TRUST 5/20/99 / KUYT, FRED S $ 97,442.86
LAUREN J / STEIGLER, MICHAEL J
HUMEN JOHN 2 LIVING TRUST / HUMEN DONALD / HUMEN WILLIAM EST/OF
147-090-017
SEAN / WEISFUSS JOHN $ 8,057.34
WEISFUSS JOHN R / SCHWAFEL, SUSAN THORLEY / WALL, STEVE TRUSTEE (for) HINTERMAN MARIE EVE REV / OPPELT, MARGARET REV TR 5/28/97 / MUSFELT, STUART / LITES, M CHARLOTTE TRUSTEE (for) LITES M CHARLOTTE TR / SCHULTZ, DAWN CUSHING / HINTERMAN, DANIEL / ELLIS, BOBBY / JOHNSON, DEBORAH D / MCBRIEN, KELLEN $ 14,618.76
147-090-039 WEISFUSS JOHN $ 2,829.82
147-090-040 WEISFUSS JOHN
JOHN / MAURER, SEAN
JOHN / MAURER, SEAN
GARY LEE / HEFFRON, HAROLD J / HEFFRON, ROBERT JAMES
I certify, under penalty of perjury, that the foregoing is true and correct.
HARRY E. HAGEN, CPA SANTA BARBARA COUNTY TREASURER-TAX COLLECTOR
Executed at Santa Barbara, County of Santa Barbara, California on August 25, 2025 Published in the Santa Barbara Independent on September 4, September 11, & September 18, 2025
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: ART DESIGNS, WORK OF ARTURO: 1221 State St Ste. 12 #90124 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Art Designs (same address) This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Mar 24, 2025. Filed by: ARTURO RODRIGUEZ/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 25, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0001775. Published: Sep 11, 18, 25. Oct 2 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JUNIPER CLAY: 466 Bell St. #0213 Los Alamos, CA 93440; Kristina N Batiste (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: KRISTINA BATISTE with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 19, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0001983. Published: Sep 11, 18, 25. Oct 2 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ROOTLINE LANDSCAPE INC.: 642 Andy Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Rootline Landscape 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 Aug 18, 2025. Filed by: CHRISTIAN RODRIGUEZ/PRESIDENT & CEO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 3, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0002081. Published: Sep 11, 18, 25. Oct 2 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CONEJO HVAC, PLUMBING, ELETRICAL, ROOFS, POOLS, GARAGE DOORS: 2639 Lavery Court, Suite 7 Newbury Park, CA 91320; Conejo Services, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: GARY SOLTANI/CFO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 3, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA PET SITTERS: 1210 West Micheltorena Santa Barbara, CA 93101; N2N Consulting LLC 2018 N St Ste N Sacramento, CA 95816 This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on July 16, 2025. Filed by: NICOLE NOWAKOWSKI/CEO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 28, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E63. FBN Number: 2025‑0001781. Published: Sep 11, 18, 25, Oct 02 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NOOR PSYCHIATRY AND WELLNESS: 1117 State Street, #1022 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Karmouta MD Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: EMMAD KARMOUTA/ PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 22 , 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E66. FBN Number: 2025‑0002013. Published: Sep 11, 18, 25. Oct 2 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: RUBY SOCCER: 1914 Elise Way, B Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Ruby S. Milla Lopez (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 12, 2025. Filed by: RUBY SOLEDAD MILLA LOPEZ/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 4 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E63. FBN Number: 2025‑0002085. Published: Sep 11, 18, 25. Oct 2 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: IMPULSE INTERNET SERVICES, LLC: 6144 Calle Real, Suite 200 Goleta, CA 93117; Aseva LLC (same address) This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 1, 2025. Filed by: ANTHONY E. PAPA/MANAGER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 20, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0001998. Published: Aug 28. Sep 4, 11, 18 2025.
LIEN SALE
NOTICE OF PUBLIC LIEN SALE Business and Professional codes 21700
Notice is hereby given by the undersigned that a public lien sale of the following described personal property will be held online at StorageTreasures.com starting at 10AM on 9/24/2025 to 10AM on 10/1/2025.
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: FAITHANN MARTI BOTTIANI CASE NUMBER: 25CV04610 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: PETITIONER: FAITHANN MARTI BOTTIANI 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: FAITHANN MARTI BOTTIANI PROPOSED NAME: NATALIA CELINE TAURA 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 October 3, 2025, 10:00 am, DEPT: 4, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 1100 Anacapa St Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Santa Barbara A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated 08/18/2025, JUDGE Thomas P. Anderle of the Superior Court. Published Aug 28. Sep 4, 11, 18 2025. IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: IULIA AUGUSTA MCNAMARA CASE NUMBER: 25CV04862 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: PETITIONER: IULIA AUGUSTA MCNAMARA 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: IULIA AUGUSTA MCNAMARA PROPOSED NAME: IULIA AUGUSTA EARL MCNAMARA 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 October 24, 2025, 10:00 am, DEPT: 4, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 1100 Anacapa St Santa Barbara, CA 93101, A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated 08/27/2025, JUDGE Donna D. Geck of the Superior Court. Published
LEGALS (CONT.)
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA Notice
to Creditors
In re the Matter of the: HELEN G. MODUGNO, Deceased, Janet Dell and Jonathan Modugno Co‑Trustees of the MODUGNO FAMILY REVOCABLE TRUST dated July 3, 1996, and it’s First Amendment thereto dated September 28, 2010.
Case No: 25PR00428
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice
is hereby given to the creditors and contingent creditors of the above‑named decedent, that all persons having claims against the decedent are required to file them with the Superior Court, at 1100 Anacapa Street, Post Office Box 21107, Santa Barbara, California 93I21‑1107 and mail or deliver a copy to Janet Dell and Jonathan Modugno, as Co‑Trustees of the MODUGNO FAMILY REVOCABLE TRUST dated July 3, 1996, and its First Amendment thereto dated September 28, 2010, of which the Decedent, Helen G. Modugno, and her predeceased spouse, Ralph V. Modugno, were the settlors and original trustees, at 1114 State Street, Suite 230, Santa Barbara, California 93101, as provided in Probate Code Section 1215 within the later of four (4) months after August 28, 2025, (the date of the first publication of notice to creditors) or if notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, sixty (60) days after the date this notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, or you must petition to file a late claim as provided in Probate Code Section 19103. A claim form may be obtained from the court clerk. For your protection, you are encouraged to file your claim by certified mail, with return receipt requested. Dated: August 14, 2025. Signed: John Gherini Attorney at Law. (State Bar No. 053591) 1114 State Street, Suite 230 Santa Barbara, California 93101 Telephone (805) 966‑4155 Email:, jfgherini@gmail.com Attorney for Janet Dell and Jonathan Modugno, Co‑Trustees of the Modugno Family Revocable Trust dated July 3, 1996, and it’s First Amendment thereto dated September 28, 2010. Published: Aug 28. Sep 4, 11 2025.
SUMMONS
SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL)
NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): GINA M. AUSTIN, an individual; AUSTIN LEGAL GROUP, a professional corporation, LARRY GERACI, an individual, REBECCA BERRY, an individual; JESSICA MCELFRESH, an individual;SALAM RAZUKI, an individual; NINUS MALAN, an individual; FINCH, THORTON, AND BARID, a limited liability partnership; ABHAY SCHWEITZER, an individual and dba TECHNE; JAMES (AKA JIM) BARTELL, an individual; NATALIE TRANG‑MY NGUYEN, an individual, AARON MAGAGNA, an individual; BRADFORD HARCOURT, an individual; SHAWN MILLER, an individual; LOGAN STELLMACHER, an individual; EULENTHIAS DUANE ALEXANDER, an individual; STEPHEN LAKE, an individual, ALLIED SPECTRUM, INCu a California corporation, PRODIGIOUS COLLECTIVES, LLC, a limited liability company, and DOES 1 through 50, inclusive YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): AMY SHERLOCK, an individual and on behalf of her minor children, T.S. and S.S., ANDREW FLORES, an individual
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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS INVITING SEALED BIDS
GOLETA VALLEY LIBRARY ADA, BUILDING, AND SAFETY
IMPROVEMENT PROJECT NO. 9130
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Goleta (“City”) invites sealed bids for the above stated project and will receive such bids via electronic transmission on the City of Goleta PlanetBids portal site until 2:00 P.M. (PST) on Thursday, October 23, 2025, and will be publicly opened and posted on the PlanetBids portal site promptly thereafter. Copies of the Bid and Contract Documents may be obtained from the Planet Bids Website: https://vendors.planetbids.com/portal/45299/bo/bo-search
The work includes all labor, material, supervision, and equipment necessary to construct and deliver a finished GOLETA VALLEY LIBRARY ADA, BUILDING, AND SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT NO. 9130. Work includes the renovation of the Goleta Valley Library as further described in the Project Description.
Project Cost
The estimated cost of Project construction is approximately $5 million (including all Add Alternates). The Basis of Award will be determined on the Base Bid Construction Price not including Alternate Bid Items.
Project Duration
The successful contractor (after receipt of Notice to Proceed) shall have 396 calendar days to complete all work called for under the Contract Documents.
Project Location
500 North Fairview Avenue, Goleta, California, 93117.
Project Description
Renovation of an existing 15,437 square foot single-story structure to meet current Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standards and modern building and code requirements. The project includes ADA restroom renovations, interior and exterior path of travel alterations, electrical system replacement (including switchgear), HVAC system replacement, fire suppression system installation, LED lighting replacement and retrofits, security and life safety system installation and upgrades, installation and replacement of doors, windows, and storefront systems, fascia replacement, interior alterations and improvements, and landscape improvements.
Questions and Communications
All questions must be submitted electronically through PlanetBids. The deadline for receipt of questions is 5:00 P.M. (PST) on Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting
Mandatory pre-bid meetings will be held at the Project Site (500 North Fairview Avenue, Goleta, California, 93117) at:
• Thursday, September 25, 2025, at 2:00 P.M. (PST)
• Tuesday, September 30, 2025, at 2:00 P.M. (PST)
Attendance at one meeting is required. Bidders must attend a pre-bid meeting, fully inspect the Project Site, and will be held responsible for all information presented. It is required that the Bidders become thoroughly familiar with the terms and conditions of the Bid Plans, Special Provisions, and Local Conditions affecting the performance and costs of the Work prior to bidding and it is recommended that this be done prior to attending the pre-bid meeting.
Bid Submittal Instructions
Bidders must be registered on the City of Goleta’s PlanetBids portal in order to access all bid documents, and to receive addendum notifications and to submit a bid. Go to PlanetBids for bid results and awards. It is the responsibility of the bidder to submit the bid with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid submittal deadline. Allow time for technical difficulties, uploading, and unexpected delays. Late or incomplete bids will not be accepted. All communications related to this project shall be conducted through PlanetBids. Questions about alleged patent ambiguity of the plans, specifications, or estimate must be asked before bid opening. After bid opening, the City does not consider these questions as bid protests. All bids must be submitted electronically through PlanetBids on or before 2:00 P.M. (PST) on Thursday, October 23, 2025. At that time, the electronic bids will be opened within the system and made publicly available in PlanetBids immediately following opening.
Bid Security
The bid must be accompanied by a bid security in the form of a money order, a certified cashier’s check, or bidder’s bond executed by an admitted surety, made payable to City. The bid security shall be an amount equal to ten percent (10%) of the total annual bid amount included with their proposals as required by California law.
Note: All bids must be accompanied by a scanned copy of the bid security uploaded to PlanetBids. The original security of the three (3) lowest bidders must also be mailed or submitted to the office of the City Clerk at 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California 93117, in a sealed envelope and be received or postmarked within three (3) City business days after the bid due date and time; otherwise, the bid shall be considered non-responsive. The sealed envelope should be plainly marked on the outside, “SEALED BID SECURITY FOR GOLETA VALLEY LIBRARY PROJECT NO. 9130”.
Performance Security
Pursuant to Public Contract Code section 22300, the successful bidder may substitute certain securities for funds withheld by CITY to ensure performance under the Contract or, in the alternative, request the City to make payment of retention to an escrow agent.
Affirmative Action
The Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) per California Labor Code Section 1771.4, including prevailing wage rates and apprenticeship employment standards. Affirmative action to ensure against discrimination in employment practices on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, or religion will also be required. The City hereby affirmatively ensures that all business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this notice and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, or religion in any consideration leading to the award of contract.
Department of Industrial Relations (DIR)
Pursuant to Labor Code sections 1725.5 and 1771.1, all contractors and subcontractors that wish to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, or enter into a contract to perform public work must be registered with the DIR. No Bid will be accepted, nor any contract entered into without proof of the contractor’s and subcontractors’ current registration with the DIR to perform public work. If awarded a contract, the Bidder and its subcontractors, of any tier, shall maintain active registration with the DIR for the duration of the Project. Failure to provide proof of the contractor’s current registration pursuant to Labor Code Section 1725.5 may result in rejection of the bid as non-responsive.
Contractor License
A contract may only be awarded to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder properly licensed in accordance with the laws of the State and the City of Goleta. Contractor shall possess a valid Class B - General Building Contractor license prior to award of Contract. Said license shall be maintained during the contract period. It is the Bidder’s and Contractor’s responsibility to obtain the correct Contractor’s licenses. Bidders shall be skilled and regularly engage in the general class or type of work called for under this contract.
Performance and Payment Bonds
The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a Performance Bond and a Payment Bond each in an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Price. Each bond shall be in the forms set forth herein, shall be secured from a surety company that meets all State of California bonding requirements, as defined in Code of Civil Procedure Section 995.120, and that is a California admitted surety insurer.
Prevailing Rate of Wages
Pursuant to California Labor Code Section 1773, the City has ascertained the General Prevailing Rate of Wages in the County in which the work is to be done to be as determined by the Director of Industrial Relations of the State of California. Contractor is hereby made aware that information regarding prevailing wage rates may be obtained from the State Department of Industrial Relations and/or the following website address: https://www.dir.ca.gov/oprl/dprewagedetermination.htm. The Contractor is required to post a copy of the applicable wage rates at the job site. Attention is directed to Section 7 “Legal Relations and Responsibility to the Public” of the Standard Construction Specifications.
Contractor Experience
The Contractor Company, including the Responsible Managing Officer (RMO) for the Contractor Company, shall demonstrate a minimum of ten (10) years’ experience successfully performing projects of substantially similar type, magnitude, and character of the work bid.
Rejection of Bids
The City reserves the right to reject all bids, reject any bid that is not responsive to the invitation, or to waive any minor irregularity and to take all bids under advisement for a period of up one hundred and twenty (120) calendar days. Failure to provide proof of the Contractor’s current registration pursuant to Section 1725.5 of the Labor Code may result in rejection of the bid as non-responsive. Failure to comply with enforcement provisions pursuant to Section 1771.4 of the Labor Code may result in a determination that the Bidder is not responsible.
Liquidated Damages
The Liquidated Damages shall be $3,000 per day.
Protest
Any protest to an intended award of this contract shall be made in writing addressed to the City Clerk according to Specification Section 002113, Paragraph 5.22 (Protests) and filed and received by the City not more than five (5) calendar days following the date of City’s Notice of Intent to Award the Contract. Any protest may be considered and acted on by the City Council at the time noticed for award of the contract. To request a copy of the notice of agenda for award, please contact the City Clerk (805) 961-7505 or register on the City’s website (www.cityofgoleta.org).
All questions about this project and bidding requirements must be submitted in writing through PlanetBids.
CITY OF GOLETA
Deborah S. Lopez, City Clerk
Publication Dates: Santa Barbara Independent: September 11, 2025, and September 18, 2025
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the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center(www.courtinfo.ca. gov/ selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Website (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. !ADVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su versión. Lea la información a continuación. Tiene 30 DÍAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefónica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en el formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y más información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede más cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exención de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin más advertencia. Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www. lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California,
(www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación de $10,000 o más de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.
The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): San Diego County Hall of Justice 330 W. Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 CASE NO: (Número del Caso): 37‑2021‑0050889‑CU‑AT‑CTL
The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la dirección, y el número de teléfono del abogado del demandante que no tiene abogado es): Andrew Flores; 945 4th Ave, Suite 412, San Diego, CA 92101. Tel (619) 356‑1556 DATE (Fecha): 12/29/2021. Clerk, by (Secretario) /s/ Elizabeth Reyes, Deputy (Adjunto)
Published: Aug 21, 28. Sep 4, 11 2025.
TRUSTEE NOTICE
T.S. No: NLUS‑ZFCL‑0660 Notice Of Trustee’s Sale Under Notice Of Delinquent Assessment And Claim Of Lien Order No: APN: 079‑610‑010 You Are In Default Under A Notice Of Delinquent Assessment And Claim Of Lien, Dated 9/26/2023. Unless You Take Action To Protect Your Property, It May Be Sold At A Public Sale. If You Need An Explanation Of The Nature Of The Proceeding Against You, You Should Contact A Lawyer. Notice is hereby given that Schwartz Vays, as duly appointed trustee of Evergreen Terrace East Owners Association (the “Association”), pursuant to that certain Notice of Delinquent Assessment and Claim of Lien (hereinafter referred to as “Lien”), recorded on 9/26/2023 as Doc# 2023‑0028307in the office of the County Recorder of Santa Barbara County, California, and further pursuant to the Notice of Default and Election to Sell thereunder recorded on 8/13/2024 as Doc# 2024‑0023936 in said county and further pursuant to California Civil Code Section 5675 et seq. and those certain Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions recorded on 1/23/1973 as Book 2440 Page 1194, will Sell on 10/1/2025 at 1:00 PM, north door main entrance to County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara CA 93121, at public auction to the highest bidder for lawful money of the United States payable at the time of sale, all right, title and interest in the property situated in said county as more fully described in the above‑referenced
Lien. The purported owner(s) of said property is (are): Geraldine R Roper & Geraldine R Roper Revocable Trust ‑ 1996. The property address and other common designation, if any, of the real property is purported to be: 313 Northgate Drive #B Goleta, CA 93117, APN 079‑610‑010 (the “Property”). The undersigned trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the of the initial publication of this Notice of Sale is: $40,559.19. The opening bid at the foreclosure sale may be more or less than this estimate. In addition to cash, trustee will accept a cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn on a state or federal credit union or a check drawn on a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the California Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state. If tender other than cash is accepted, the trustee may withhold issuance of the Trustee’s Deed Upon Sale until funds become available to the payee or endorsee as a matter of right. In its sole discretion, the seller (foreclosing party) reserves the right to withdraw the property from sale after the opening credit bid is announced but before the sale is completed. The opening bid is placed on behalf of the seller. Said sale shall be made, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to satisfy the indebtedness secured by said Lien, advances thereunder, with interest as provided in the Declaration or by law
plus the fees, charges and expenses of the trustee. No cashier’s checks older than 60 days from the day of sale will be accepted. This Property Is Being Sold In An “As‑Is “ Condition. The Association identified in this Notice constitutes a “Common Interest Development,” as defined pursuant to California Civil Code Section 4100. The Property described in this Notice constitutes a “Separate Interest” as defined pursuant to California Civil Code Section 4185.This communication is from a debt collector. Schwartz Vays is attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. If you have previously received a discharge in bankruptcy, you may have been released from personal liability for this debt in which case this notice is intended to exercise the secured party’s rights against the real property only. Notice To Potential Bidders: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a Junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. Additionally, all bidders at a sale of property subject to Civil Code section 2924m should be
aware that there is the potential for the sale auction bidding process to be extended for up to 45 days following the sale auction, and Civil Code section 2934m does not require payment of interest on any bid funds remitted to the foreclosure trustee during the time funds are held by the
foreclosure trustee. All post Trustee Sale inquiries should be directed to enforcement@schwartzvays.com
Notice To Property Owner: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to
Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether this sale date has been postponed, and, if
ORDINANCE NO. 25-05
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLETA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING TITLE 17 (ZONING) OF THE GOLETA MUNICIPAL CODE TO IMPLEMENT GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENTS TO ENSURE CONSISTENCY WITH STATE PLANNING LAW AND DETERMINE THE AMENDMENTS TO BE EXEMPT FROM THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT (CASE NO. 25-0001-ORD)
On September 2, 2025, at 5:30 P.M. at the Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Goleta, California, the City Council of the City of Goleta (“City”) conducted the second reading and adopted Ordinance No. 25-05. This ordinance will amend Title 17 (Zoning) of the Goleta Municipal Code. The proposed amendments address food access and fire hazards and were prepared to align with recent amendments to the City’s General Plan / Coastal Land Use Plan.
The City Council of the City of Goleta passed and adopted Ordinance No. 25-05 at a regular meeting held on the 2nd day of September 2025, by the following roll call vote:
AYES: MAYOR PEROTTE, MAYOR PRO TEMPORE KASDIN, COUNCILMEMBERS KYRIACO, REYES-MARTÍN, AND SMITH
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: NONE
ABSTENTIONS: NONE
The ordinance will be effective 31 days from the date of adoption.
A copy of the ordinance is available at the City Clerk’s Office, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California, or by calling the office at (805) 961-7505.
Deborah S. Lopez City Clerk
Publish: Santa Barbara Independent, September 11, 2025
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Bids open at 2:00 PM on Thursday, September 25, 2025 for: LOWER MISSION CREEK REACH 4 ACCESS PROJECT COUNTY PROJECT NO. SC8042
General project work description: The Project generally consists of providing traffic control; removal and replacement of a wall other associated existing improvements; removal and relocation a fire hydrant, removal and reconstruction of an air vacuum valve, removal and replacement of hardscape in the public right of way of excavation for, and construction of a new gate and fence matching existing.
Project location description: The work occurs in the City of Santa Barbara within Public Road Right of Way, and Flood Control District easements on private property adjacent to Mission Creek behind 401 Chapala Street. Plans, Specifications, and Bid Book are available at no charge at https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=43874
The County encourages the participation of DBEs as defined in 49 CFR 26. You are encouraged to employ craftsmen and other workers from the local labor market whenever possible to do so. Local labor market is defined as the labor market within the geographical confines of the County of Santa Barbara, State of California.
Submit bids to the web address below. Bids will be opened and available at the web address below immediately following the submittal deadline.
Complete the project work within 40 Workings Days. The estimated cost of the project is $135,000
A pre-bid job walk is not scheduled for the project. Bidders interested in the project, the site is located on the 100 block west of Gutierrez Street at Gutierrez Street Bridge over Mission Creek adjacent to 401 Chapala Street
This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.
A contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, subject to the requirements of Section 4104 of the Public Contract Code or engage in the performance of any contract for public work, as defined in this chapter, unless currently registered and qualified to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5. It is not a violation of this section for an unregistered contractor to submit a bid that is authorized by Section 7029.1 of the Business and Professions Code or by Section 10164 or 20103.5 of the Public Contract Code, provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.
For each bid all forms must be filled out as indicated in the bid documents. The entire Bid Book must be submitted to PlanetBids when you bid.
Prevailing wages are required on this Contract. The Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations determines the general prevailing wage rates. Obtain the wage rates at the DIR website, https://www.dir.ca.gov/
The Bidder shall possess a Class A General Engineering Contractor license or a combination of Class C licenses which constitute the majority of the work in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 9, Division III of the Business and Professions Code at the time that the Bid is submitted. Failure to possess the required license(s) shall render the Bid as non-responsive and shall act as a bar to award of the Contract to any bidder not possessing said license.
Inquiries or questions based on alleged patent ambiguity of the plans, specifications, or estimate must be submitted as a bidder inquiry by 2:00 PM on the Friday of the week preceding the bid opening. Submittals after this date will not be addressed. Questions pertaining to this Project prior to Award of the Contract must be submitted via PlanetBids Q&A tab.
Bidders (Plan Holders of Record) will be notified by electronic mail if addendums are issued. The addendums, if issued, will only be available on PlanetBids, https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=43874
The OWNER reserves the right to reject any or all bids, to waive any informalities and/or inconsistencies in a bid, and to make awards to the lowest responsive, responsible bidder as it may best serve the interest of the OWNER.
By order of the Board of Directors of the Santa Barbara County Flood Control & Water Conservation District this project was authorized to be advertised on June 4, 2024.
Walter Rubalcava, PE
Deputy Director – Flood Control
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applicable, the rescheduled time and date of the sale of this property, you may call 877‑440‑4460 or visit this Internet Web site: www.mkconsultantsinc.com/ trustees‑sales/ using the file number assigned to this case: NLUS‑ZFCL. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. Notice To Tenant: You may have a right to
purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code.
If you are an “eligible tenant buyer,” you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an “eligible bidder,” you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase, First 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call 877‑440‑4460, or visit this internet website www.mkconsultantsinc.com/ trustees‑sales/ using the file number
ORDINANCE NO. 25-XX
assigned to this case: NLUS‑ZFCL to find the date on which the trustee’s sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee’s sale. Third, you must submit a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee’s sale. If you think you may qualify as an “eligible tenant buyer” or “eligible bidder,” you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLETA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING CHAPTER 8.19, ENTITLED TENANT PROTECTIONS, OF TITLE 8, HEALTH AND SAFETY, OF THE GOLETA MUNICIPAL CODE, AND DETERMINING THE ORDINANCE TO BE EXEMPT FROM CEQA
On September 16, 2025, at 5:30 P.M., at the Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Goleta, California, the City Council of the City of Goleta (“City”) will consider the second reading and possible adoption of proposed Ordinance that would amend Chapter 8.19 of the Goleta Municipal Code, Tenant Protections, to enhance existing just cause eviction protections and add certain other provisions protecting tenants’ rights.”
If adopted, the Ordinance will be effective 31 days from the date of adoption.
Any interested person may obtain a copy of the proposed ordinance at the City Clerk’s Office, cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org or by calling City Hall at (805) 961-7505.
Deborah S. Lopez City Clerk
Publish: Santa Barbara Independent, September 11, 2025
The County of Santa Barbara Community Services Department’s (CSD) Division of Housing and Community Development invites comments on the HOME Consortium and CDBG Urban County Partnership 2024-25 Draft Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER). The Santa Barbara Urban County Partnership includes the County and the member cities of Buellton, Carpinteria, and Solvang. The HOME Consortium is comprised of the Urban County members and the cities of Goleta, Lompoc, and Santa Maria.
The CAPER summarizes and evaluates previous year achievements using Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME) program funds allocated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). As a local government performance reporting tool, the CAPER also documents progress made towards meeting the affordable housing and community services goals established by the County’s Consolidated Plan and Strategic Plan.
The 2024-25 Draft CAPER will be available for a 15-day public comment period from Thursday, September 11 through Friday, September 26. The Draft CAPER may be reviewed online at https://www.countyofsb.org/494/HousingCommunity-Development or in person at 123 E. Anapamu Street, Suite 202, Santa Barbara Monday through Friday between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM.
Written comments may be submitted by mail to 123 East Anapamu Street, Suite 202, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 or by email to HCD@countyofsb.org and must be received by 5:00 PM on Friday, September 26. If you need additional information, have questions, or require special accommodations, please call (805) 568-3520. The County is committed to equal housing opportunities for all of its residents.
La División de Vivienda y Desarrollo Comunitario del Departamento de Servicios Comunitarios (Community Services Department; CSD) del Condado de Santa Barbara invita a comentar sobre el Borrador del Informe Anual Consolidado de Desempeño y Evaluación (Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report; CAPER) 2024-25 del Consorcio HOME y la Alianza Urbana del Condado de CDBG. La Alianza Urbana del Condado de Santa Barbara incluye al Condado y a las ciudades miembro de Buellton, Carpinteria y Solvang. El Consorcio HOME está compuesto por los miembros de la Alianza Urbana del Condado y las ciudades de Goleta, Lompoc y Santa Maria.
El CAPER resume y evalúa los logros del año anterior utilizando los fondos del programa de Subvenciones en Bloque para el Desarrollo Comunitario (Community Development Block Grant; CDBG) y del programa de Asociaciones de Inversión HOME (HOME Investment Partnerships; HOME) asignados por el Departamento de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano de los Estados Unidos (HUD). Como herramienta para informar el desempeño del gobierno local, el CAPER también documenta el progreso logrado en el cumplimiento de las metas de vivienda asequible y servicios comunitarios establecidas por el Plan Consolidado y el Plan Estratégico del Condado.
El borrador del CAPER 2024-25 estará disponible para comentarios públicos durante un período de 15 días, del jueves 11 de septiembre al viernes 26 de septiembre. Puede consultarlo en línea en https://www.countyofsb.org/494/ Housing-Community-Development o en persona en 123 East Anapamu Street, Suite 202, Santa Bárbara, de lunes a viernes, de 8:00 AM a 5:00 PM. Los comentarios por escrito pueden enviarse por correo postal a 123 East Anapamu Street, Suite 202, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 o por correo electrónico a HCD@countyofsb.org y deben recibirse antes de las 5:00 PM del viernes 26 de septiembre. Si necesita información adicional, tiene preguntas o requiere adaptaciones especiales, llame al (805) 568-3520. El condado está comprometido con la igualdad de oportunidades de vivienda para todos sus residentes.
Important Notice: Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the sale shall be subject to the following as provided in California Civil Code Section 5715: “A non‑judicial foreclosure sale by an association to collect upon a debt for delinquent assessments shall be subject to a right of redemption. The redemption period within which the separate interest may be redeemed from a foreclosure sale under this paragraph ends 90 days after the sale.”
Dated: 8/18/2025
Schwartz Vays, as said Trustee 7215 NE 4th Ave. #101 Miami, FL 33138 (800) 875‑9221 License # 10380‑ 99 /s/ Camila Mora, Trustee Dept of Schwartz Vays, as agent for Evergreen Terrace East Owners Association
Published: Sep 4, 11, 18 2025.
TS No: 137944‑CA APN: 153‑142‑001 NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND FORECLOSURE SALE WHEREAS, on 5/21/2009, a certain Mortgage Deed of Trust was executed by CONSTANCE ENA CANNON, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN as trustor in favor of BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., A NATIONAL BANKING ASSOCIATION as beneficiary, and was recorded on 5/28/2009, as Instrument No. 2009‑0030501, in the Office of the Recorder of Santa Barbara County, California; and WHEREAS, the Mortgage Deed of Trust was insured by the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (the Secretary) pursuant to the National Housing Act for the purpose of providing single family house; and WHEREAS, the beneficial interest in the Mortgage Deed of Trust is now owned by the Secretary, pursuant to an assignment dated 10/11/2019, recorded on 6/8/2020, as instrument number 2020‑0027876, in the office of Santa Barbara County, California; and WHEREAS, a default has been made in the covenants and conditions of the Mortgage Deed of Trust in that the payment due upon the death of the borrower(s) was not made and remains wholly unpaid as of the date of this notice, and no payment has been made sufficient to restore the loan to currency; and WHEREAS, the entire amount delinquent as of 8/22/2025 is $604,774.49; and WHEREAS, by virtue of this default, the Secretary has declared the entire amount of the indebtedness secured by the Mortgage Deed of Trust to be immediately due and payable; NOW THEREFORE, pursuant to powers vested in me by the Single Family Mortgage Foreclosure Act of 1994, 12 U.S.C. 3751 et seq., by 24 CFR part 27, subpart B, and by the Secretary’s designation of me as Foreclosure Commissioner, SEE ATTACHED, notice is hereby given that on 10/1/2025 at 1:00 PM local time, all real and personal property at or used in connection with the following described premises (“Property”) will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder: Legal Description: THAT PORTION OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 23, TOWNSHIP 5 NORTH, RANGE 28 WEST, SAN BERNARDINO BASE AND MERIDIAN, IN THE COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT A POINT ON THE LINE BETWEEN SECTION 22 AND 23, TOWNSHIP 5 NORTH, RANGE 28 WEST, SAN BERNARDINO BASE AND MERIDIAN, DISTANT THEREON SOUTH 1507.95 FEET FROM THE SECTION CORNER COMMON TO SECTIONS 14, 15, 22 AND 23; THENCE SOUTH 75 DEG. 17’ EAST 258.30 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE SOUTH 33 DEG. 27’ 40” EAST, 42.63 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE SOUTH 79 DEG. 37’ 30” EAST 296.59 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE SOUTH 75 DEG. 32’ 30” EAST 105.27 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE NORTH 10 DEG. 41’ 10” EAST 20.04 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE NORTH 75 DEG. 32’ 30” WEST 105.02 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE NORTH 79 DEG. 37’ 30” WEST 203.57 FEET TO THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING OF THE TRACT OF LAND HEREIN TO BE DESCRIBED; THENCE NORTH 79 DEG. 37’ 30” WEST 70 FEET TO THE BEGINNING OF A CURVE TO THE RIGHT TANGENT TO THE LAST MENTIONED COURSE HAVING A RADIUS OF 20 FEET AND A DELTA OF 90 DEG. 27’ THENCE NORTHERLY ALONG THE ARC OF SAID CURVE 31.57 FEET TO THE END THEREOF; THENCE NORTH 10 DEG. 49’ 30” EAST
ALONG THE ARC OF SAID CURVE 17.15 FEET TO THE END THEREOF; THENCE SOUTH 70 DEG. 54’ 30” EAST 79.38 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE SOUTH 10 DEG. 46’ 48” WEST 215.20 FEET TO THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING. Commonly known as: 4849 LOOKOUT RD, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93105 The sale will be held at: AT THE NORTH DOOR OF THE MAIN ENTRANCE TO THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 1100 ANACAPA ST., SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101 Per the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the estimated opening bid will be $613,595.69. There will be no proration of taxes, rents or other income or liabilities, except that the purchaser will pay, at or before closing, his pro rata share of any real estate taxes that have been paid by the Secretary to the date of the foreclosure sale. When making their bids, the winning bidders with the exception of the Secretary must submit a deposit totaling ten percent (10%) of the Secretary’s estimated bid amount in the form of a certified check or cashier’s check made payable to the undersigned Foreclosure Commissioner. Ten percent of the estimated bid amount for this sale is $61,359.57. A deposit need not accompany each oral bid. If the successful bid is oral, a deposit of $61,359.57 must be presented before the bidding is closed. The deposit is nonrefundable. The remainder of the purchase price must be delivered within 30 days of the sale or at such other time as the Secretary may determine for good cause shown, time being of the essence. This amount, like the bid deposits, must be delivered in the form of a certified or cashier’s check. If the Secretary is the highest bidder, he need not pay the bid amount in cash. The successful bidder will pay all conveying fees, all real estate and other taxes that are due on or after the delivery date of the remainder of the payment and all other costs associated with the transfer of title. At the conclusion of the sale, the deposits of the unsuccessful bidders will be returned to them. The Secretary may grant an extension of time within which to deliver the remainder of the payment. All extensions will be for 15 day increments for a fee of: $500.00, paid in advance. The extension fee shall be in the form of a certified or cashiers check made payable to the Secretary of HUD. If the high bidder closes the sale prior to the expiration of any extension period, the unused portion of the extension fee shall be applied toward the amount due. If the high bidder is unable to close the sale within the required period, or within any extensions of time granted by the Secretary, the high bidder may be required to forfeit the cash deposit or, at the election of the Foreclosure Commissioner after consultation with the HUD representative, will be liable to HUD for any costs incurred as a result of such failure. The Commissioner may, at the direction of the HUD representative, offer the property to the second highest bidder for an amount equal to the highest price offered by that bidder. There is no right of redemption, or right of possession based upon a right of redemption, in the mortgagor or others subsequent to a foreclosure completed pursuant to the Act. Therefore, the Foreclosure Commissioner will issue a Deed to the purchaser(s) upon receipt of the entire purchase price in accordance with the terms of the sale as provided herein. HUD does not guarantee that the property will be vacant. The scheduled foreclosure sale shall be cancelled or adjourned if it is established, by documented written application of the mortgagor to the Foreclosure Commissioner not less than 3 days before the date of sale, or otherwise, that the default or defaults upon which the foreclosure is based did not exist at the time of service of this notice of default and foreclosure sale, or all amounts due under the mortgage agreement are tendered to the Foreclosure Commissioner, in the form of a certified or cashier’s check payable to the Secretary of HUD, before public auction of the property is completed. The amount that must be paid if the Mortgage Deed of Trust is to be reinstated prior to the scheduled sale is based on the nature of the breach, this loan is not subject to reinstatement. A total payoff is required to cancel the
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foreclosure sale or the breach must be otherwise cured. A description of the default is as follows: FAILURE TO PAY THE PRINCIPAL BALANCE AND ANY OUTSTANDING FEES, COSTS, AND INTEREST WHICH BECAME ALL DUE AND PAYABLE BASED UPON THE DEATH OF ALL MORTGAGORS. Tender of payment by certified or cashier’s check or application for cancellation of the foreclosure sale shall be submitted to the address of the Foreclosure Commissioner provided below. Date: August 22, 2025 CLEAR RECON CORP Foreclosure Commissioner By: Hamsa Uchi Title: Foreclosure Supervisor 3333 Camino Del Rio South, Suite 225 San Diego, California 92108 Phone: (858) 750‑7777 Fax No: (858) 412‑2705 Published: Sep 4, 11, 18 2025. T.S. No.: 250515409 Notice of Trustee’s Sale Loan No.: Rasmussen Order No. 92348237 APN: 073‑050‑039 Property Address: 111 South La Patera Lane Goleta, CA 93117 You Are In Default Under A Deed Of Trust Dated 9/10/2024. Unless You Take Action To Protect Your Property, It May Be Sold At A Public Sale. If You Need An Explanation Of The Nature Of The Proceeding Against You, You Should Contact A Lawyer. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, cashier’s check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a cashier’s check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described below. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. No cashier’s checks older than 60 days from the day of sale will be accepted. Trustor: Rasmussen, Rasmussen and Rasmussen, a California general partnership Duly Appointed Trustee: Fortra Law (f/k/a Geraci Law Firm) Recorded 9/20/2024 as Instrument No. 2024‑0027879 in book N/A, page N/A of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Santa Barbara County, California, Date of Sale: 10/1/2025 at 1:00 PM Place of Sale: north door main entrance to County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $4,398,588.95 Street Address or other common designation of real property: 111 South La Patera Lane Goleta, CA 93117 Legal Description: Please See Attached Exhibit “A” The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown above. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. Notice To Potential Bidders: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged
to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. Notice To Property Owner: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (877) 440‑4460 or visit this Internet website www. mkconsultantsinc.com, using the file number assigned to this case 250515409. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. Notice To Tenant: You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are an “eligible tenant buyer,” you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an “eligible bidder,” you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase. First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call (877) 440‑4460, or visit this internet website www mkconsultantsinc.com, using the file number assigned to this case 250515409 to find the date on which the trustee’s sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee’s sale. Third, you must submit a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee’s sale. When submitting funds for a bid subject to Section 2924m, please make the funds payable to “Total Lender Solutions, Inc. Holding Account”. If you think you may qualify as an “eligible tenant buyer” or “eligible bidder,” you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase. Date: 8/27/2025 Fortra Law (f/k/a Geraci Law Firm) by Total Lender Solutions, Inc., its authorized agent 10505 Sorrento Valley Road, Suite 125 San Diego, CA 92121 Phone: (949) 954‑6092 Sale Line: (877) 440‑4460 By: Rachel Seropian, Trustee Sale Officer Exhibit “A” Legal Description Parcel One: Parcel 1 Of Parcel Map No. 12,074, In The County Of Santa Barbara, State Of California As Shown On Parcel Map Recorded September 20, 1974 In Book 13 Page 68 Of Parcel Maps. Excepting Therefrom An Undivided 1/2 Interest In And To All The Oil, Gas And Other Hydrocarbon Substances Lying Below 500 Feet Below The Surface Of Said Land Without Right Of Surface Entry, As Reserved By County National Bank And Trust Company Of Santa Barbara, A Corporation, Guardian Of The Estate Of James G. Williams, An Incompetent Person, In Deed Recorded May 21, 1958 As Instrument No. 17238 In Book 1541, Page 61 Of Official Records, And By Deed Recorded April 7, 1959 As Instrument No. 10743 In Book 1613, Page 63 Of Official Records. Also Excepting Therefrom The Remaining One‑Half Of Any And All Oil, Gas And Other Hydrocarbon Substances Within And Under The Above‑Described Property, More Than 500 Feet Beneath The Surface Thereof And/Or Producible Therefrom Or Therethrough, Without,
However, Any Surface Rights Or Right Of Surface Entry With Respect Thereto. Published: Sep 4, 11, 18 2025
T.S. No. 135009‑CA APN: 043‑243‑009
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE
IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PROPERTY
OWNER: YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 9/22/2006. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER On 10/8/2025 at 1:00 PM, CLEAR RECON CORP, as duly appointed trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust recorded 9/29/2006 as Instrument No. 2006‑0076604 of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of Santa Barbara County, State of CALIFORNIA executed by: GABRIEL PEINADO, A MARRIED MAN WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER’S CHECK DRAWN ON A STATE OR NATIONAL BANK, A CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, OR A CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, SAVINGS ASSOCIATION, OR SAVINGS BANK SPECIFIED IN SECTION 5102 OF THE FINANCIAL CODE AND AUTHORIZED TO DO BUSINESS IN THIS STATE; AT THE NORTH DOOR OF THE MAIN ENTRANCE TO THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 1100 ANACAPA ST., SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101 all right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and State described as: MORE ACCURATELY DESCRIBED IN SAID DEED OF TRUST. The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 1535 SAN ANDRES ST, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101‑4132
The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be held, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, condition, or encumbrances, including fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust, to pay the remaining principal sums of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is: $204,956.29 If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned or its predecessor caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located. NOTICE
TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE
TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the
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California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (855) 313‑3319 or visit this Internet website www.clearreconcorp. com, using the file number assigned to this case 135009‑CA. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale.
NOTICE TO TENANT: Effective January 1, 2021, you may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are an “eligible tenant buyer,” you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an “eligible bidder,” you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase. First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call (855) 313‑3319, or visit this internet website www.clearreconcorp.com, using the file number assigned to this case 135009‑CA to find the date on which the trustee’s sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee’s sale. Third, you must submit a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee’s sale. If you think you may qualify as an “eligible tenant buyer” or “eligible bidder,” you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase. FOR SALES INFORMATION: (855) 313‑3319 CLEAR RECON CORP 3333 Camino Del Rio South, Suite 225 San Diego, California 92108. Published: Sep 4, 11, 18 2025. T.S. No.: 2025‑00454‑CA‑REV A.P.N.: 077‑301‑005 Property Address: 6217 MARLBOROUGH DRIVE, GOLETA, CA 93117
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE
PURSUANT TO CIVIL CODE § 2923.3 (a) and (d), THE SUMMARY OF INFORMATION REFERRED TO BELOW IS NOT ATTACHED TO THE RECORDED COPY OF THIS DOCUMENT BUT ONLY TO THE COPIES PROVIDED TO THE TRUSTOR.
NOTE: THERE IS A SUMMARY OF THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT ATTACHED
NOTA: SE ADJUNTA UN RESUMEN DE LA INFORMACIÓN DE ESTE DOCUMENTO TALA: MAYROONG BUOD NG IMPORMASYON SA DOKUMENTONG ITO NA NAKALAKIP LƯU Ý: KÈM
IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER:
YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 05/09/2005. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER.
Trustor: GERALDINE G. HOGLE, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN
Duly Appointed Trustee: Western Progressive, LLC Deed of Trust Recorded 05/16/2005 as Instrument No. 2005‑0045149 in book ‑‑, page‑‑ and of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Santa Barbara County, California, Date of Sale: 10/15/2025 at 01:00 PM Place of Sale: AT THE NORTH DOOR OF THE MAIN ENTRANCE TO THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 1100 ANACAPA STREET, SANTA BARBARA,
Estimated amount of unpaid balance, reasonably estimated costs and other charges: $ 964,801.27
THE TRUSTEE WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER’S CHECK DRAWN ON A STATE OR NATIONAL BANK, A CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, OR A CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, A SAVINGS ASSOCIATION OR SAVINGS BANK
SPECIFIED IN SECTION 5102 OF THE FINANCIAL CODE AND AUTHORIZED TO DO BUSINESS IN THIS STATE:
All right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described as:
More fully described in said Deed of Trust.
Street Address or other common designation of real property: 6217 MARLBOROUGH DRIVE, GOLETA, CA 93117 A.P.N.: 077‑301‑005
The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown above.
The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, under the terms of said Deed of Trust, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is:
$ 964,801.27.
Note: Because the Beneficiary reserves the right to bid less than the total debt owed, it is possible that at the time of the sale the opening bid may be less than the total debt.
If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy
shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse.
The beneficiary of the Deed of Trust has executed and delivered to the undersigned a written request to commence foreclosure, and the undersigned caused a Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located.
NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on this property.
NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (866)‑960‑8299 or visit this Internet Web site https:// www.altisource.com/loginpage.aspx using the file number assigned to this case 2025‑00454‑CA‑REV. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the
telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale.
NOTICE TO TENANT: You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction, if conducted after January 1, 2021, pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are an “eligible tenant buyer,” you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an “eligible bidder,” you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase. First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call (866)‑960‑8299, or visit this internet website https://www.altisource. com/ loginpage.aspx, using the file number assigned to this case 2025‑00454‑CA‑REV to find the date on which the trustee’s sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee’s sale. Third, you must submit a bid, by remitting the funds and affidavit described in Section 2924m(c) of the Civil Code, so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee’s sale. If you think you may qualify as an “eligible tenant buyer” or “eligible bidder,” you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase.
Date: August 26, 2025
Western Progressive, LLC, as Trustee for beneficiary C/o 1500 Palma Drive, Suite 238 Ventura, CA 93003 Sale Information Line: (866) 960‑8299 https://www.altisource. com/loginpage aspx
Trustee Sale Assistant Published: Sep 11, 18, 25 2025.
NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS TO PURCHASE THE DEED RESTRICTED UNIT LOCATED AT 2615 CASPIA LANE
Notice is hereby given that, on August 21, 2025 or as soon thereafter as the matter may be published, the Santa Barbara County Community Services Department has issued a Request for Proposals to purchase the deed restricted property located in an Unincorporated Area of Santa Barbara County, Assessor Parcel Number 005-700-008, for a total sales price of $160,800.
A complete version of the Request for Proposals may be provided by contacting Andrew Kish at (805) 568-3534 or akish@countyofsb.org, and may be found on the County website below: https://www.countyofsb.org/403/Units-Available-for-Sale
DEPARTAMENTO DE SERVICIOS COMUNITATIOS DEL CONDADO DE SANTA BARBARA
AVISO DE SOLICITUD DE PROPUESTAS PARA COMPRAR LA UNIDAD CON RESTRICCION DE ESCRITURA UBICADA EN 2615 CASPIA LANE
Se notifica por la presente que, el 21 de agosto del 2025 o tan pronto como sea publicado, el Departamento de Servicios Comunitarios del Condado de Santa Barbara ha emitido una Solicitud de Propuestas para comprar la propiedad con restricciones de escritura ubicada en una Área No Incorporada del Condado de Santa Barbara, Numero de Parcela del Tasador 005-700-008, por un precio de venta total de $160,800.
Una versión complete de la Solicitud de propuestas se puede obtener contactando a Andrew Kish al 805-568-3534 o a akish@countyofsb.org, y se puede encontrar en el sitio web del Condado a continuación:
