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he problem of cell phone compatibility with the statewide 9-1-1 system has some emergency responders seriously distressed and has prompted a wrongful-death lawsuit and two prominent Santa Barbarans to testify about the matter in Sacramento in the same week.

The issue emerged publicly after the parents of 24-year-old Jordan Soto — who died from a medical emergency in January — filed a lawsuit last week alleging the system is to blame for their daughter’s death. The suit was filed against the State 9-1-1 Advisory Board, California Highway Patrol (CHP), City of Santa Barbara, and its police department. Medical Director for Santa Barbara County Emergency Medical Services Angelo Salvucci and former Santa Barbara fire chief Warner McGrew made the trip to the state capitol to urge the 9-1-1 Advisory Board to give more attention to the incompatibility issue.

Last January, Soto’s relative called 9-1-1 after finding her collapsed and unconscious. Even though the family’s residence on Tinker Way is less than a mile from a fire station, the call was routed 30 miles south to a Ventura California Highway Patrol dispatcher because it was made on a cell phone. The call was then transferred to the Santa Barbara dispatch center. The lawsuit alleges that the family member had provided the accurate address to the Ventura dispatcher, but the Santa Barbara dispatcher gave the emergency response team the incorrect address. The first responders spent several minutes searching for what turned out to be a nonexistent location on the wrong street.

“The dispatcher in the old days could tell exactly where a call is coming from,” said Orange County–based attorney Mark Peacock, who is representing the Sotos in the civil action.

Landlines have street addresses embedded into their transmission signal so there is no confusion about where the responders should go.

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REACHING FOR REFORM: Santa Barbara County EMS medical director Dr. Angelo Salvucci (pictured) warned that patients have been “dying at an unacceptable rate” because of routing issues between cell phones and the state’s 9-1-1 system. Inset above, a city dispatcher takes an emergency call.

Plus, a landline call would have gone straight to the Santa Barbara dispatch center, saving a small amount of time. But 80 percent of 9-1-1 calls today are made on a cell phone, according to Dr. Salvucci.

“This is something that should be fixed yesterday,” said former fire chief McGrew, who is a family friend of the Sotos. “This is a big deal.” In Santa Barbara, many cell phone calls are taken at the Ventura CHP dispatch center, which is the regional location that covers wireless calls from Moorpark to Santa Barbara.

A potential remedy was the RED (Routing on Empirical Data) project, which sought to reduce busy signals on wireless 9-1-1 calls by analyzing call data from involved agencies, including the state 9-1-1 division and law enforcement agencies. The RED project would map all wireless calls in a given cell-tower sector to determine which dispatch jurisdiction they came from and then send them to the appropriate local dispatch center. It was implemented in 2008 but was later terminated reportedly for financial reasons.

Representatives for the defendants named in the lawsuit, which was first reported by the Santa Barbara News-Press, said they could not comment on pending litigation, though some offered a glimpse into how the system works.

Santa Barbara Police Lieutenant Jim Pfleging explained when dispatchers take a call, they receive information on how far the caller is from the cell tower. Dispatchers then might receive a rough estimate about the latitude and longitude of the caller. “When [CSI] first came out, everyone thought you could drill down to the single piece of nothingness … that isn’t the case,” Pfleging said, adding that several factors such as weather and type of cell phone also come into play.

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Despite the problem in pinpointing their location, cell phones have proved very useful in reporting drunk drivers and disseminating Amber alerts, Police spokesperson Sergeant Riley Harwood said. “The technology evolves so rapidly, and agencies will always be one or two steps behind the curve when it comes to keeping up with advances in technology,” Harwood added.

Salvucci believes fixing the problem has been a low priority, and he’s written letters to state officials offering to help secure funding for a wireless optimization service like the RED project. Salvucci found it disconcerting that the 9-1-1 state advisory board had no idea when new cell towers are constructed, where the calls are routed, and how many are misrouted every day. Brad Alexander, a spokesperson for the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, said he could not comment on the matter.

Salvucci said that for a patient suffering from cardiac arrest, the likelihood of survival decreases by 10 percent for every minute of delayed treatment. About 1,000 individuals suffer heart attacks in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties every year. Salvucci said dispatchers, EMTs, and firefighters try their best to save lives but are unnecessarily delayed by this dilemma.

He added that the responders suffer the collateral damage because they see what could have been done had they been dispatched sooner.

A concept dubbed the “chain of survival” by the American Heart Association says that if your heart stops, multiple medical interventions have to take place for you to survive. “When that first link is broken, everything else we do is worthless,” Salvucci said. “That link fails across ■ the state thousands of times a day.”

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Former law student and Laguna Blanca teacher Joseph Beck pleaded no contest to three misdemeanor counts of having sex with a minor and was sentenced to 180 days in jail. Beck will also have to register as a sex offender for three years, the duration of his probation time, though he will not be placed on the permanent sex offender registry. Laguna Blanca is involved in a separate civil lawsuit, which claims one of its teachers failed to report a previous sexual assault discussed by the same victim.

John Wilson, who pleaded no contest in August to several fishing-related crimes, was sentenced to six months in County Jail and three years of felony probation. California Fish and Wildlife found that Wilson nabbed crabs from other fishermen’s tanks and sold the stolen catch at fish markets throughout the area. The District Attorney’s Office also charged him with five misdemeanors related to fishing out of season, failing to manage traps, and neglecting to account for his commercial yield. Wilson, who said he has fished in the area for 34 years, apologized for his actions but said such activity is common among fishermen.

Judge Thomas Anderle dismissed a lawsuit filed against the City of Santa Barbara, Police Chief Cam Sanchez, and police spokesperson Sgt. Riley Harwood by 10 people who claim they were the victims of slander and emotional distress when they were named in an ongoing gang-suppression effort and when their mugshots were displayed during a November 2013 press conference on the Operation Falling Dawn crackdown. The ruling also allows the city to recover its attorney’s fees. Anderle said city police were within their First Amendment rights of petition and free speech.

Bernard “Barney” Melekian will be Santa Barbara County’s new undersheriff and start on 1/5/15, the Sheriff’s Office announced this week.

Melekian — who will assume the position following Don Patterson’s retirement earlier this month — briefly worked for the Sheriff’s Office here in the 1970s. From 1996-2009, he was the chief of police for the City of Pasadena, where he spearheaded programs to reduce gang violence and saw homicides drop 70 percent. Most recently, Melekian — who holds a PhD in policy, planning, and development from USC — has consulted for, among other jurisdictions, the police departments of Chicago, Baltimore, and Seattle.

CITY The distant dream of homeownership became a reality for 12 low-income Santa Barbara families on 11/18 when Habitat for Humanity of Southern Santa Barbara County (SSBC) unveiled the new Canon Perdido Affordable Homes development. The 44 new residents, including 22 children, joined Mayor Helene Schneider and a crowd of sponsors and donors in a ceremonial ribbon cutting, signaling the newly opened doors of a property nearly two years in the making. Habitat for Humanity SSBC’s board president, Jon Martin, called the homes “a symbol of God’s love through hundreds of volunteers.”

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Among community college students throughout California, Thursday night has become the new Friday, and that’s creating spillover problems for the neighborhoods immediately surrounding Santa Barbara City College. The issue came up at last week’s Neighborhood Task Force meeting where residents upset by noisy college students blamed administrators for holding so few classes on Fridays. If City College students had more Friday classes to attend — and tests to take — they’d be less inclined to blow off steam on Thursdays, argued Beebe Longstreet, a lower Westside resident and Task Force member.

At earlier Task Force meetings, college officials insisted the campus is solidly booked on Fridays. But at last week’s meeting, they seemed to retreat from that posture, saying it is an issue they are currently exploring. In fact, according to Executive Vice President Jack Friedlander, it turns out there are only 14 percent as many Friday classes scheduled at City College as there are Mondays through Thursday. The shift away from Fridays began 10 years ago, Friedlander said, in response to faculty concerns that traditional 50-minute classes left too little time for actual instruction. At the same time, the campus switched to block scheduling, and the State Legislature allowed schools to compress their sessions from 17.5 weeks to 16. Originally, the plan was that 50 percent of the higher-credit classes — requiring four hours a week or longer — would meet one day a week. For a host of reasons, it hasn’t worked out that way.

Friedlander said City College hopes to rectify this matter by the next fall semester. In addition, he noted that many of the online classes offered at City College require at least one classroom day a week. Some of the Thursday night effect can be blunted, he said, by making that one day be Friday, or what Friedlander calls the “Friday Hybrid.” Likewise, he said, Friday enrollments can be boosted by encouraging faculty members to schedule required classes on Friday. At last week’s Task Force meeting, college trustee Marianne Kugler said campus faculty were solidly opposed to changing schedules. But Friedlander — Nick Welsh said the faculty senate has already endorsed the idea.

Downtown Santa Barbara got into the winter spirit with the arrival of the State Street holiday tree on 11/25.

The 45-foot tree’s saga began several miles outside Fresno where Southern California Edison brought it down as part of its annual reforestation initiative.

Consumer Fire Products stepped up to sponsor the $20,000 cutting and delivery when Edison let the Downtown Organization know it wouldn’t. Lights will officially blink on when the 62nd Annual Downtown Santa Barbara Holiday Parade begins on 12/5 at 6:30 p.m.

Grand Marshal Alan Thicke has signed on to lead this year’s Winter Nights & Holiday Lights parade.

One of Santa Barbara’s most powerful displays of philanthropy occurred for the 12th year in a row on Monday at the Coral Casino, where representatives from 184 organizations were treated to lunch and donations by the Montecito Bank & Trust’s “Community Dividends” program. After speeches by bank president Janet Garufis and founder Michael Towbes, who came up with the idea of giving out a total of $1 million to various community groups each year, awards of varying amounts were doled out to both established powerhouses like Direct Relief and the Santa Barbara International Film Festival as well as emerging nonprofit players like Kids Helping Kids and Just Communities Central Coast.

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COUNTY It was an appropriately chilly day on 11/20 as a crowd gathered to herald the groundbreaking for the long-awaited Ice in Paradise rink. Goleta Mayor Michael Bennett joined members of the Greater Santa Barbara Ice Skating Association, the nonprofit behind the new rink, in officially starting work on the icy playground following more than 15 years of planning and fundraising. Then, construction workers began moving the dirt in earnest adjacent to Camino Real Marketplace and Girsh Park, for the arena slated to open in September 2015.

More than 200 people gathered outside of the Goleta Community Center on 11/20 to commemorate the 43 Mexican students who disappeared almost two months ago in Mexico’s state of Guerrero, repeating the word used most widely with this protest — “indignant.” “It shows that people really want to do something,” said event organizer and UCSB grad student Idalia Robles, referring to the sizable turnout. Participants — young and old — lit candles and circled around portraits planted into the grass.

Santa Barbara Unified School District head honcho David Cash delivered his State of the Schools address this week wherein he discussed challenges presented by the new Common Core State Standards, significant reforms offered by the Local Control Funding Formula, and efforts being made in the English-proficiency arena. He also said fewer students surveyed for the California Healthy Kids program reported smoking marijuana, but the percentage of students who had tried an e-cigarette in the last month has doubled. Suspensions are down by 18 percent, Cash said, and expulsions have also decreased.

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dise — and is relatively isolated without being n September 20, 2013, Joel Lopez too far out of the way. Some Forest Service offiand Cipriano Torres were about cers, however, expressed surprise that the site to begin another day of harvest- was created so close to a well-used road, for ing their secret cannabis crop on a most grows are more remote. steep slope hidden in the chaparral scrub of The field itself is terraced into individual little Happy Canyon, just over the mountains from garden areas shielded from view and wind by Santa Barbara. Above them, tipped off two stacks of branches on the south side. A sophisweeks earlier by a call from a suspicious deer ticated irrigation system of tubing and tarps hunter, Sheriff ’s detectives and Forest Service at one point wove through the site, sucking officers kept watch. As the water from the spring by gravity and via a batterywind started to gust up the hill, they let loose their dogs. operated pump. The growAfter a short and franers had cleared much of tic chase, Lopez and Torthe area’s thick chaparral res were arrested, two rifles but intentionally left some were found, and the team to provide cover from the air. “These people are confiscated 100 pounds of smart,” remarked one offiprocessed marijuana worth $250,000 from the site, which cer. “They make something once included as many as happen with nothing.”

1,600 plants. Lopez, 28, and Though more than 500 Torres, 38, would each plead pounds of old drip lines no contest to felony mariand trash had already juana cultivation and gun been removed from the charges, and were sentenced SECURITY: Pictured is a Forest site, bottles of fertilizer to 120 days in jail and five Service officer, who wished to remain — many of them from years of probation. They’ve anonymous, and his K-9 partner.

Mexico and illegal in the since been deported. Lopez U.S.— remained behind, lived and worked at the site for approximately as well as cans of WD-40, packets of herbicide, six months, and he expected to be paid 5 per- white plastic buckets spray-painted green, and cent of the total yield. Torres was at the garden Budweiser boxes. The cooking area featured for five months, was promised between $15,000 a thick clump of food wrappers, plastic bags, and $20,000, and believed that the harvested egg cartons, tequila bottles, and cans accumumarijuana was bound for Los Angeles. lated below pots and pans raised on a table of It’s been more than a year since the bust, but boughs. And in the sleeping nook, there was a there was still plenty of trash strewn throughout cell phone charger, mirror, razors, soap, tooththe forest during a rare media visit to the grow brushes, Tylenol, and clothing — pants still on a site last Friday. As volunteers with Los Padres drying line, shirts, boots cut into slip-on shoes, ForestWatch picked up the remnants, officials men’s briefs, and a pair of women’s underwear. said the grow was probably set up by MexiAs the ForestWatchers got to work filling can drug cartels a few years ago in this location bags with trash, Forest Service spokesperson because it lies just below a natural spring and is Andrew Madsen thanked the volunteers, situated on a south-facing slope that gets good explaining that without them such sites would sun. (Legend has it that Happy Canyon was remain permanently polluted as his agency named by the bootleggers who worked stills simply doesn’t have the resources for cleanups. there during Prohibition.) The pocket also has Madsen said 60 illegal sites and 181,139 plants strong cell reception — crucial for coordinating were eradicated in the Los Padres National Forcont’d page 12 drop-offs of supplies and pickups of merchan- est in 2013, making it one november 26, 2014

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of the country’s most popular places for these grows. Some are booby-trapped with trip wires attached to shotguns and peppered with covered pits filled with sharpened sticks, said Jim Solis with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. Los Padres topped the eradication list last year with Shasta-Trinity National Forest coming in second; that area saw 34 operations and 158,261 plants yanked.

So far for 2014, the Santa Barbara Sheriff ’s Office has carried out 10 eradications that destroyed 47,000 plants in 18 separate gardens; an additional 18,000 plants were found either already harvested or dead from drought. The estimated street value of the live plants was $131 million. The raids are coordinated with a host of other law-enforcement agencies, and recently, Fish and Wildlife has gotten more involved and created Marijuana Eradication Teams (METs). Funding for the operations

often comes from the state Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (CAMP) program.

Forest Service biologist Kevin Cooper said the detrimental impacts of grow sites on the environment and wildlife can’t be understated.

He pointed to risks to endangered species and the diversion of precious water during the drought. Animals that like to nibble on young cannabis shoots are often killed and sometimes eaten. “It’s a shame,” he said. “[It’s] irritating and disappointing.”

Cooper also said that the public land plagued by toxins, clear-cutting, and erosive landscaping can take many years to return to their previous pristine states, and sometimes they never do. Officials also often note that the sites are fire hazards. The 2009 La Brea Fire, which burned more than 90,000 acres in north Santa Barbara County, was blamed on a cook■ ing fire at a grow camp.

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Amid hundreds of protesting students and opposition from Governor Jerry Brown, the UC Board of Regents voted 14-7 last week to move forward with a plan to increase tuition by 5 percent each year over the next five years.

UC officials have not shied away from advocating for the proposal, which would boost annual tuition from about $12,200 to about $15,600 by 2019. UC President Janet Napolitano argued the hike is necessary to sustain the world-class university system and that the plan would mitigate the need for a massive hike in the future.

But Brown and several elected officials who serve as regents opposed the increase, calling for creative ways to reduce overall cost while still improving quality. Assemblymember Das Williams, who chairs the State Assembly’s Committee on Higher Education, argued in a statement, “The prosperity of our state depends on qualified and prepared individuals in our workforce; students alone should not have to carry the financial burden of their education.”

On Monday, students at UCSB and other UCs participated in a walkout in protest.

Last Thursday afternoon, dozens rallied at Storke Tower, and several students traveled to San Francisco to speak at the regent’s meeting. Among the attendees was UCSB Associated Students President Ali Guthy, who argued the state needs to be held accountable for investing in public education. “If we get more state funding, [tuition] won’t go up,” Guthy said. “My perspective is that, yes, the responsibility is in the hands of Napolitano and the regents. But a big chunk of this is the responsibility of the state. The master plan for education is that everyone would have the access to quality and affordable education.”

Students who come from families that bring in $150,000 a year or less will continue to receive some or all of their tuition paid for, according to UC officials. About 55 percent of undergraduate students receive grants that pay for their full tuition.

UC also came under fire because four chancellors, including UCSB Chancellor Henry Yang, received a 20 percent pay raise in September. Yang’s paycheck increased from about $325,000 to close to $390,000 in base pay. Napolitano contended at the time that this raise was an effort to balance the pay scale and that competitive sala— Kelsey Brugger ries are necessary for the best talent.

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Obama Tackles Immigration Reform resident Obama took executive action last Thursday to temporarily shield up to 5 million undocumented workers and children from deportation, a measure that could affect a significant portion of Santa Barbara County residents.

While there is no way to accurately count undocumented people, the Public Policy Institute of California estimates that the densest undocumented populations, roughly 9 percent of the state’s overall population, reside in Los Angeles County and on the Central Coast. A 2007 Grand Jury report estimated Santa Barbara County’s undocumented population at anyFOR THE FAMILIES: Hazel Putney-Davalos, Santa where between 29,000 and 75,000.

Maria organizer for CAUSE, said that for an undocuThe advocacy group CAUSE mented family member of hers who is eligible under (Central Coast Alliance United the new program, “nothing else in the world matters” for a Sustainable Economy) puts besides gaining the legal protection that will allow him its current estimate at 39,000. And to stay with his kids. according to CAUSE organizer Hazel Putney-Davalos, over half of them will benefit from the president’s actions. the Senate overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan Those actions would expand the 2012 comprehensive immigration reform package,” Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Capps said in a statement, “and while similar (DACA) program, which allows those brought legislation introduced in the House has over to the U.S. as children to apply for work permits 200 bipartisan cosponsors, we have not had and two-year deportation deferrals. Under the a single opportunity to debate or vote on it on new regulations, the deferral period would the House floor.” expand to three years, and the cutoff date for Greg Gandrud, Central Coast Republican arrivals would be January 1, 2010, as opposed Committee vice chair, averred that reforming to June 15, 2007. There will also no longer be an immigration is the purview of Congress. But Gandrud questioned the legality of Obama’s upper age limit of 31.

The president’s plan also creates a new defer- “political ploy” and suggested that it was a result ral program for the undocumented parents of a failure to seriously work on a bill. He called of citizens or permanent U.S. residents, like- for a policy that acknowledges all the various wise for three years at a time, including work categories of immigrant and that “maintains authorization. It does not include the parents American identity, American culture.”

William Robinson, a professor of sociolof DACA-eligible children.

Lastly, the president’s actions scrap the ogy at UCSB who studies immigration, agreed Secure Communities program that allows fed- with Gandrud that the president should have eral agents to request local law enforcement to focused more attention on immigration earlier, hold inmates past their jail terms so they can but he pointed out that Congress bears blame, be transferred to federal custody. According to as well. He also said that left out of the disthe Santa Barbara Sheriff ’s Office, 606 inmates cussion is U.S. policy regarding trade and the were released to Immigration and Customs drug war that has led to much of the migration Enforcement (ICE) in 2013, and 151 in 2014 (as from Latin America. Robinson added, “The U.S. economy and the global economy cannot of November 18).

Santa Barbara immigration attorney Tanya function without immigrant labor. … So you De Vos explained that U.S. Immigration Ser- really can’t separate the ethical and humanitarvices will begin accepting petitions for newly ian side from the economic side.” eligible recipients of deferred action on or Protecting U.S. jobs, however, is exactly around May 20 (180 days after the announce- the reason that Joe Guzzardi, spokesperson ment). Those hoping to apply, she said, would for the Santa Barbara–based Californians for need to gather documents to verify they’ve had Population Stabilization, denounced Obama’s continuous residence since January 1, 2010. She announcement. Those who came here illegally, warned about “notario fraud” in which scam- he said, should not be rewarded, nor should mers take payment to guide applicants through they be competing with the most vulnerable the petition process. Hopeful deferrees will go for employment. “It’s against the law to employ illegal immigrants. If they are working, most to a trusted organization or lawyer, she said.

The president did not offer a new pathway to of the jobs they hold are relatively low-paying, citizenship. Although many immigrant-rights so it doesn’t make a lot of sense to say we are advocates applauded Obama’s actions, they are going to legalize them because they are paying still holding out hope for congressional action, taxes. It is possible the taxes won’t even cover as is 24th District Congressmember Lois expenses of processing all the applications.”

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LEDE IN CRUDE, FO CAPS:DUDE: cappy IT’S THE cappy cappy cappy Venoco executive Iancappy Livett cappy cappy cappytocappy pushed the council do nothing, while Linda Krop of the EDC (foreground) asked for stricter rules.

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ore than four years after Carpinteria voters solidly defeated Measure J, the initiative launched by Venoco to push its Paredon project through, and only weeks removed from Measure P, the failed countywide drilling ban that a majority of Carpinteria voters rejected, the Carpinteria City Council voted this week to toughen its oil regulations but keep the controversial Paredon proposal afloat.

Approximately 70 people packed the council’s hearing room to make their cases, prompting Mayor Brad Stein to quip that they “killed a lot of trees” with the number of speaker slips.

Industry insiders implored the city to put changes on the back burner, environmentalists invoked the finite nature of fossil fuels, and residents — still soured on Measure J — questioned Venoco’s motives. Ultimately, the council voted unanimously in favor of instituting stricter development standards for operations

along a stretch of the Carpinteria bluffs.

Several Venoco employees, including Ian Livett, vice president of coastal operations, voiced opposition to the changes, instead suggesting that the council take no action. The Paredon project — its application was deemed complete in September, and an environmental review is scheduled to begin early next year — would see the construction of a 175-foot onshore-to-offshore drilling rig near the company’s existing processing plant on the bluffs.

Venoco and industry officials contended that the rules could result in costly lawsuits for the city — a potential lawsuit was discussed in the council’s closed-session agenda the same day — but proponents, including the Environmental Defense Center, countered that the rules are legally sound and benefit from strong precedent. The changes won’t be immediate but rather will be folded into broader zoning and land-use code updates scheduled for 2015. ■

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BY N I C K W E L S H iting a rush on new well applications in response to the ongoing drought, Montecito Water District officials have requested the county impose an emergency moratorium on the requests.

The mere announcement served to accelerate the demand with seven new applications submitted the day the story surfaced last week. District manager Tom Mosby argued the moratorium is necessary so long as the emergency drought conditions persist. Montecito’s groundwater basins, notoriously small to start with, are exceptionally hard to manage when the county is approving additional wells, he said. (The district does not issue well permits; the county’s Department of Environmental Health Services does.) Last year, there were 13 applications. Not counting the latest seven, there have been 70 this year. How many of these have been drilled remains unclear.

There are roughly 600 permitted wells within the Montecito Water District. Three dozen of them have failed in the past two years, Mosby said.

Supervisor Salud Carbajal, who represents Montecito, said he had not seen the request yet, but he wanted to know whether the idea enjoyed broad community support. Planning and Development director Glenn Russell said such measures are typically countywide and

that Montecito’s request is novel. The obvious legal fear is a takings claim. The right of property owners to any water below their properties is legally superior to those held by the water district. If a property owner without a district water meter were denied the ability to drill, that might constitute a “taking” in the eyes of the law. It’s not clear, however, how many vacant parcels of land exist within the Montecito service district that fit this description.

Mosby contended it is “illogical” that the water district should be expected to manage its limited water supplies without the power to regulate the number of new wells drilled, and he expressed hope that the supervisors would help address “this disconnect.” Two members of the California Coastal Commission weighed in on the question last week, objecting to three new wells that had been approved at Fernald Point by the Montecito Planning Commission. The Coastal Commissioners argued it made no sense to approve new wells for a groundwater basin suffering from overdraft during a drought emergency, but geologists countered that the water those wells could capture would otherwise flow to the ocean where it would be “wasted.” That matter will be heard by the Coastal Commis■ sion in December.

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Henry Ybarra  – 

Julie’s signature gift of joy, shown through her constant smiling and laughter, will never be forgotten. She will be deeply missed by her family, friends and all that knew her.

A memorial will take place on November , , at : am at San Lorenzo Seminary, in Santa Ynez with a reception to follow at Mattei’s Tavern from noon - : pm.

Manfred A. Gauer -

Henry left peacefully from his Santa Barbara home on Nov. th. A native of Santa Barbara whose family has been here since the turn of the th century, he grew up in the Depression and at the age of twelve began working to support his family. This was a point of pride for Henry. He valued hard work and embraced responsibility.

The s was his favorite decade. His eyes glowed when he reminisced about dancing to Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey. A good dancer and guitarist, he learned the music of the famous “Trio de Los Ponchos.” Modest about his talents, he even played “Boogie Woogie” on the piano.

Henry was a passionate billiard player and proud member of the Elks for over  years. His unconventional style earned him the nickname “The Phantom.” This referred to how fast he moved around the table.

Many fell to the Elks’ best player. His greatest victory came in Vallejo, CA. This contest featured two Egyptian champions who were favored to win. However, as the Vallejo news reported, each one fell to the veteran Henry Ybarra. He played until his last days, humbly passing on his knowledge to anyone who asked. He is revered by the Elks club and a plaque will be placed on his favorite table by his colleagues.

Henry loved Santa Barbara and this city has lost a quiet pillar in the community.

Anyone who knew him would say that they were happy to have known Henry.“The Leader of the Band is tired and his eyes are growing old. But his blood runs through my instrument and his song is in my soul.”

Services will be held at Our Lady of Sorrows on Sat., Nov th, am.

Known by friends as Freddy, Manfred A. Gauer passed away peacefully on November , , at age  after a short illness.

He was born to Ingrid and Manfred Gauer on March , , at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. He attended Norte Dame School and received his AA in construction as SBCC this year. Freddy was a freespirited, fun-loving person with a gentle soul and an unforgettable smile that lit up the room, loved many and was love by all who knew him.

He is survived by his daughter, Sutton, and grandson, Kea, living in Hawaii. Freddy is also survived by his parents and sisters, Andrea and Antonia. Freddy was a kind and loving man and he will be greatly missed by family and many friends.

In lieu of flowers, a trust has been established for Sutton. Checks may be made payable to Ingrid Gauer, Acct# , Union Bank,  North Fairview Ave., Goleta, CA 

John Karl Mielke -

Julie Brasseur Benson // - //

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Julie Brasseur Benson died unexpectedly in her home in Los Olivos on the early morning of October , , at the age of .

Julie is survived by her husband, Ron; son Carter and his wife Ashley; son Taylor and his wife, Jennifer; granddaughter, Ava; and grandson, Jack.

Julie was born in Chicago, IL, to Jules and Maxine Brasseur. Julie married Ron Benson in May of , and during their marriage of  years they welcomed two children into their home, Carter born in  and Taylor in .

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John had the most beautiful copper red hair and a fiery, magnetic personality to go along with it. As a boy he loved spending time at the “Ranch” in Lompoc with Grandpa Cecil and Grandma Jean.

Quick-wited with a commanding presence, he knew and was known fondly by almost everyone in his hometown of Morro Bay. He loved to visit and chat and enjoyed barbecuing. He was active with his sons in Scouting and very proud of and deeply loved his wife and sons.

John worked as a Water Operator for Los Osos CSD, City of Morro Bay Water Department, and most recently for the Department of Defense.

John is survived by his wife, Jeannie, and their sons, John Jr and Ben; his mom, Edrie Ohl (Goleta); his dad, Steve Mielke, and wife, Annette (Paso Robles); his brother, Craig Murray, and fiancé, Michele Ogawa (Goleta); aunt, Jacque Ohl-Trlica (Goleta); and cousins, Andrew Trlica and Chad Ohl-Trlica, and Chad’s daughter Elsa Leigh.

There are also many other extended family members and friends throughout mostly California and Arizona. He was predeceased by his grandpa Cecil Ohl and wife Jean, and his uncle Lee Trlica.

A memorial service took place at the LDS church in Morro Bay on October th.

“John, I consider myself privileged and fortunate to have been chosen as your mom.

I’m saddened to my core by your loss. You will never be forgotten and will always be in my heart. I see you in your boys and that helps. Happy birthday, son. I had no idea we wouldn’t be together to celebrate your th.”

I love you, Mom.

John Karl Mielke Sr. of Morro Bay, California, left this world unexpectedly on October th, , at the age of  while working on San Nicholas Island Naval Base.

John was born in Lompoc, California, on November st, , to Edrie Anna Ohl and Steve Karl Mielke. At  years of age, he moved to Goleta with his mom. He attended Brandon and Ellwood elementary schools as well as Goleta Valley Jr High. To John’s delight, he became a big brother to Craig Murray in . Before high school he moved to San Luis County to live with his Dad. He attended Atascadero and Morro Bay High Schools. He graduated from MBHS in . He played the tenor saxophone in the band and was active in ag classes. It was there that he met his wife and best friend, Jeannie Cunningham. They

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school when the U.S. entered World War II. He joined the Air Corps and with the th Bomb Group, piloted B- Liberator bombers out of Manduria, Italy. He loved flying – the thrill of learning loops, rolls, spirals – the thrill of being up amidst the clouds. However, the joy of flying was severely tested during his time in Italy.

He escaped many harrowing situations – shrapnel-damaged planes, an emergency landing in Corsica, bailing out over Germany and time in an internment camp in Switzerland. Frank and the navigator from his plane escaped Switzerland and with the help of the French Maquis, returned to their base in southern Italy.

Back in the States at Christmas, , in the Savarin Bar in Penn Station, he asked Barbara Jean Goudy for her hand in marriage. She accepted, they married on April ,  and lived happily together for almost  years. They moved to Laguna Beach, California in  and a few years later to La Crescenta, where they raised their two children, Barbara and Bill.

Frank and Bob Ford partnered in the Ford-Molina Company, where they represented a wide variety of product lines and were the first U.S. distributors for Sony Electronics. Frank and Bob were great friends as well as partners; they worked together for over  years.

Frank immersed himself in life and at one time or another enjoyed skiing, sailing, soaring, tennis, hiking, biking, horseback riding, water skiing, backpacking, scuba diving, golf, archery, shooting. He was an avid reader and investor. He and Barbara (Bobbie) traveled extensively throughout the world and shared their passions and adventures with their children, grandchildren and friends.

Frank leaves behind many friends in addition to many tech support callcenter folk throughout the world who will “miss” his penetrating questions.

He never stopped his love of learning and exploring – including the world of technology.

Frank was known for his integrity, sense of humor, graciousness and tenacity. He will be sorely missed. When asked how he wished to be remembered, he replied: “My life was the most wonderful a man could have.”

Frank is survived by his beloved wife, Barbara; his two children, Barbara Howell (Joe) of Santa Barbara and Bill Molina (Suki) of Boise, Idaho; as well as his grandchildren, Ben Howell (Elena), Sarah Howell Natalini (Lucas), Libby Molina, Kerry Molina and two great-grandchildren Beckett and Cleo Howell.

In memory of Frank, donations may be made to your favorite charity.

John Daniel Van Ryn // – //

During this season of Thanksgiving, we remember Frank Molina, who died peacefully at home in Santa Barbara, California, on August , , a few weeks shy of his rd birthday. He was born in New York City and raised, along with older siblings Edgar and Elsie, throughout that city by their parents, Frank and Amalia Molina. His parents emigrated from Guatemala to the United States in , and his father worked on Wall Street in the coffee export business.

Frank was attending NYU night

He is a deeply loved father, adored brother, uncle, and friend. He will be greatly missed.

He was a mechanical engineer, outdoorsman, avid boater and fisherman. John was a

devoted father. He graduated high school at Saint Joseph’s High School in . He later attended Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo and graduated in . He is survived by Valerie Van Ryn and Lucas Van Ryn. A Memorial Mass will be held at : pm Friday November , , at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church at  East Valley Rd., Montecito. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the California Marine Sanctuary Foundation at www.californiamsf.org.

Arrangements entrusted to McDermott-Crockett Mortuary.

Angela Russell  - 

Angela was born Angela Carol Hammond on April , , in Normanton, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England.

She was the second daughter of James and Lille Hammond, younger sister of Patricia Ann and later older sister of Philip James. She attended Castleford Road Junior School from  to  and then Woodhouse Junior School when the family relocated to a new house at Garth Avenue, Normanton. In  she transferred to Normanton Secondary Modern School and later to the Whitwood Mining and Technical Training College on the outskirts of the nearby town of Castleford. Upon receiving her technical degree, she joined the Motor Union Insurance Company in Leeds, with her sister, as a full-time employee at the young age of . In October , at the age of , Angela came to California, on a holiday, with her sister Pat and Pat’s new husband, Robert Taylor (Bob). This temporary arrangement became permanent and then she met Sid Russell, (Russ) in January  and then were married on October th . Angela truly enjoyed working for several companies, over her professional career, including State Farm, Graybar, BEI as well as volunteering at Cottage Hospital. She loved so many of the people at the institutions and became close friends with so many. To Bob, she was the younger sister he never had and took his in loco parentis duties on behalf of her Dad, very seriously. Suspicious of the intent of this American boy introduced by Angela, it must have been a tough “interview” for Russ! He eventually won the approval of Bob, and as we all know Angela was blessed with a life partner and friend in Russ who has proved his loyalty and devotion to his princess in so many ways, not least in these last several weeks, and over  years.

We who knew and loved Angela as a sister, wife, cousin or true friend will miss her always, and she will, of course, live on in our memories. From her brother; She shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary her, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the Sun and in the morning, We will remember her. She sleeps beyond England’s foam. Goodnight sweet princess and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

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third thing any get-shit-done organization absolutely must have is a catchy acronym. Otherwise, you’re DOA. Ideally, such acronyms should be no more than three letters long and spell something pronounceable that calls to mind the organization’s core mission. In this context, the cruel and chronic dysfunction that’s plagued Santa Barbara County’s Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health Services the past 30 years seems all but inevitable.

ADMHS? That’s not a name. It’s a semi-random cluster of capital letters that induces sudden dyslexia in most readers. It defies physical articulation.

Anyone who tries sounds like they’re suppressing a cough and a sneeze simultaneously. But for an organization that’s attempted to treat the mentally ill and the addicted as if they magically occupied separate planets — with no overlap — that perhaps makes perverse sense.

My sources tell me the ADMHS officials are working hard behind the scenes to “re-brand” themselves. The organization’s top dogs have spent the past two years reconfiguring their structural DNA. As they prepare for a massive reboot, they’re looking, naturally, for a new name. One candidate is Department of Behavioral Services. Department of BS? Don’t. Personally, I like MAD — Mentalhealth, Alcohol, and Drugs — but that’s dangerously Old School, and no doubt Mothers Against Drunk Driving would sue for trademark poaching.

Whatever new name is adopted, the powers that be must still confront one of the most stubbornly intractable acronyms of all time: PHF. That stands for Psychiatric Health Facility and is pronounced “Puff.” It’s where people are held involuntarily after they’ve been deemed an imminent threat to themselves or others — memorialized in the California Penal Code as section . When first built, the Puff unit could hold 25 patients, but for a myriad of reasons, federal regulations would later restrict the unit to no more than 16. For a county of 400,000, that’s certifiable. If we merely met the statewide average of psych beds per capita, we’d have 70. For all the howling, the crowding only gets worse. In recent months, the Puff unit has been mysteriously inundated with individuals deemed “Incompetent to Stand Trial”— ISTs for short — on misdemeanor charges, but not necessarily sick enough to qualify as . At times, eight of the Puff ’s 16 beds are occupied

by ISTs. At other times, it’s four. Whatever the number, ISTs tend to stay as much as five times longer than most  patients.When the Puff is full — it always is — the IST population can’t be sent to Vista del Mar in Ventura County; Vista Del Mar won’t accept individuals facing criminal charges even if only for intentionally spilling Mountain Dew on a CVS store floor. In fact, Vista del Mar is so often full that Santa Barbara County is now negotiating with a facility in Pasadena — even further away for family members seeking to maintain contact and provide support. Despite all the talk in recent years, Cottage

Hospital’s ERs remain slammed by 5150 traffic.

In 2012, Cottage diagnosed 367 individuals as . Last year, it was 739. As of this October, we already hit 718. The average length of time spent chilling in the ER? Twenty-three hours.

The good news is that the county appears poised to announce it will soon open a 23-hourand-59-minute “crisis stabilization” holding facility capable of a maximum population of eight people. Nobody ever got better in 23 hours, but maybe a person could decompress sufficiently to not Puff. Likewise, the county is searching for a spot to open a desperately needed 30-day residential crisis facility — such as the one now operating in North County after successfully working out a host of embarrassing kinks. But the real estate market being what it is, several deals have reportedly crashed and burned before the dotted line could be signed. Not only is the need acute, but millions of dollars in state grant money that’s been set aside for just this purpose will disappear — evaporate — this June if that money’s not spent.

Lastly, Pennsylvania Republican Representative Tim Murphy — the only clinical psychologist in Congress — has authored a sweeping, ambitious, and, yes, controversial mental health bill in response to the many mass shooting involving the mentally ill in recent years.

Among its key features, the Murphy bill would abolish the 16-bed limit on Puff units throughout the nation. For Santa Barbara, that’s enormous. Congressmember Lois Capps was asked to cosponsor the bill — as 31 other Democrats

have already done — by area mental-health advocates, but she declined to do so. Capps is troubled by provisions deemed too coercive and insensitive to privacy considerations by some advocates. Murphy’s bill has been attacked because it relies heavily on court-mandated outpatient treatment, or else. I get it, but sometimes you just have to pick your poison.Without that coercive leverage, hundreds of thousands of mentally ill people will not voluntarily seek treatment. But they most definitely wind up behind bars instead. Capps, we are told, has hitched her wagon to an alternative mentalhealth bill sponsored by Democrat Ron Barber of Arizona. His bill, however, is conspicuously MIA on the 16-bed limit. Barber, it turns out, was wounded in 2011 by mentally ill gunman Jared Lee Loughner, who we have since learned was determined to go out in a 165-round-a-minute blaze of death. Luckily for Barber, Loughner only got to 30. But, unluckily, Barber is now 161 votes away from defeat in a bitterly contested recount battle with his Tea Party opponent. He probably won’t make it back next year, and neither will his mental-health bill. Capps, it turns out, just happens to sit on the same Energy and Commerce Committee as Murphy. It remains unclear to what extent — if any — they’ve ever spoken.

Lois, meet Tim. Tim, meet Lois. Do something.

The alternative, of course, is simultaneously FUBAR and SNAFU. If you aren’t familiar with these acronyms, I’d suggest looking them up.

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he challenges of four major medical conditions and several mild ones face me every day, and I have worked hard to get where I am, in less pain and managing much better. I have much faith, thanks to health-care providers — help for which I am deeply grateful — my loving family and friends, and to my deepening spirituality. That I am able to be an excellent grandpa is such a blessing. I wake up happy most every morning, in pain, yes, yet determined and upbeat.

I’m grateful for my disability insurance, for which I paid premiums for the 35 years I worked. Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), while not providing the benefits of expensive plans, does, with Medicare, help cover my basic needs. Some are finding it easy to criticize the SSDI program, quite inaccurately claiming it is easy to qualify and saying that the many qualifying are faking symptoms and are lazy takers of taxpayer revenues.

I once had a not-very-supportive attitude toward the disabled until I became disabled myself. Anyone having such an attitude should try volunteering to help their disabled neighbors.

— Charles F. Thielman, Santa Maria

How’s This for Stupid?

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egarding the “Election Introspection” letter on November 13, it’s not California that’s stuck on stupid. When Obama took office, our economy was in a tailspin, the level of deficit spending had soared to new heights, and we were stuck in a war under false pretenses that we could not or would not pay for. Osama bin Laden was still on the loose, unemployment was rising, the stock market was falling, and our dependence on foreign oil was increasing. Is that the case now?

Voters did vote stupid but not in California. What we are likely to sow is an increasingly dysfunctional and partisan government that will reverse any gains in our slowly growing economy. The gap between the superrich and the other 99 percent will grow unchecked. The average voter will feel increasingly disenfranchised and locked out of making a difference in their vote as more billions of dollars from PACs flood the election cycles, grossly distorting the facts about candidates and issues.

Remember, the “right wing” of the Supreme Court has spoken: Corporations are people, too! Now that’s stupid.

— Brian Miller, Lompoc

Drunk? Don’t Drive

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hen I was 16 in April 1992, a driver with a 0.28 blood-alcohol level hit me head-on. The collision caused a coma, brain injuries, and paralysis with multiple broken and dislocated bones. I stayed in two hospitals for seven months; 17 months of therapy followed. Relearning to walk and talk was difficult.

Although my hearing is damaged, I became a strong partner with the California Highway Patrol two decades ago. We educate people throughout the Central San Joaquin Valley about the dangers of impaired driving. Safer roads resulted, and I’m happy that some of my students went on to UCSB and took what they learned with them.

Spreading that safety throughout California is my goal.

Holiday celebrations normally contain alcoholic beverages. Do not make destructive decisions like drinking and driving. I urge all to designate a sober driver before festivities begin. This hero avoiding alcohol drives those who drink to prevent crashes like mine, including those — Lori Martin, Tracy with fatal outcomes.

Thank You, Dr. Garofalo

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or all with a severe wound that might lead to amputation, I urge you to see Dr. Sal Garofalo at the Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital Wound Center. After a sore on the bottom of my heel went all the way to the bone, three doctors advised me to have a below-the-knee amputation. Dr. Sal, however, said he could save my leg — and he did. It took patience, but Dr. Sal checked my heel weekly, told me to eat a high-protein diet, and prescribed treatment and care. I thank him and his staff from the bottom of my heel.

My thanks also go to Dr. Edward Li, a vascular surgeon who would not give up on my leg. He made sure my heel got the blood flow it needed to get better. As for the competent and caring personnel at Valle Verde Health Center, it’s called a skilled nursing facility, but the nurses, aides, and therapists there are much more. I never knew so many nice people existed in one place.

— Bob Scott, S.B.

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Santa Barbara’s Best People B Y BA R N EY B R A N T I N G HA M , K E L S EY B RU G G E R , A LY C O M I N G O R E , C HA R L E S D O N E L A N , M I C H E L L E DR OW N , B R A N D O N FAST M A N , T Y L E R HAY DE N , LY Z H O F F M A N , M AT T K ET T M A N N , ET HA N ST EWA RT, R A N DY W E I S S , N I C K W E L S H , A N D J OH N Z A N T • P H OT O S B Y PAU L W E L L M A N

During D urin the Thanksgiving week of 1986, The Santa S Barbara Independent published its first issue i ever, a roundup of the good-hearted and hardworking people that make the Santa Barbara community thrive. Every year since, we’ve continued that tradition, shining a bright light on those folks who’ve ded dedicated their time to improving the lives of others. other Nearly 30 years later, we’ve yet to run out of of Local Lo Heroes — indeed, the hardest task of the year year is i whittling the list down — and we proudly presen this year’s roundup to you to enjoy during present this week week of giving thanks. this

Cameron Stewart

Taking Care of Those with Special Needs

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ameron Stewart is a big kid with a huge heart — only, he’s not a kid. He’s a 35-year-old man who was born and raised in Santa Barbara. He dedicates seven days a week to caring for kids and adults who have special needs.

Cameron was an aid in the school district for 12 years before recently taking a teaching position at Goleta Valley Junior High School, where he has a class of 12 students who are moderately to severely disabled. Cameron has a unique way with all of his students; a parent recently called him to take her child home from the hospital because she knew Cameron’s presence would be beneficial.“They are no different from you or me,” Cameron said of his 12- and 13-year-old students — his favorite age because they are grown up enough but not as busy as teenagers.

After the bell rings, Cameron works at STAR Autism, where he spends the afternoon hours with his client, going to the market or helping around the house. On the weekends, Cameron participates in Challenger Sports league, which offers football in the fall and baseball in the spring for children with disabilities.

In addition to his professional life, Cameron recently moved back in with his father, who is suffering from advanced Alzheimer’s.“He could easily be living the bachelor lifestyle,” said his sister, Susan, who added that she has never had a close relationship with her brother.

“That doesn’t matter. He still does amazing things.”

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Allison a Rodney Gustafson

Santa Barbara’s Dance Ambassadors

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or the past 20 years, Allison and Rodney Gustafson have stood as beacons of hope for the Santa Barbara dance community. As the guiding forces behind Gustafson Dance and State Street Ballet, they’re doing much more than facilitating dancers — they’re injecting culture into the pockets of our community that need it most. Since migrating to Santa Barbara from Tuscon, Arizona, in 1994, the Gustafsons have fostered an outlook that many wouldn’t necessarily associate with the so-called “fine art world.”

“Originally, I had a design for the company where I wanted to bring high-quality dance to smaller cities and underserved communities,” said Rodney.

“I’ve always felt like dance is something that everyone should get to do if they wanted to,” added Allison, “and that, first and foremost, children dancing should be having fun.”

Though Rodney came up in the classical American Ballet Theatre, dancing alongside luminaries like Mikhail Baryshnikov, George Balanchine, and Rudolph Nureyev, his direction of State Street Ballet’s 14-member company operates on a far more contemporary, collaborative, and egalitarian level. But it’s the duo’s ever-expanding list of outreach efforts that makes them heroes beyond the confines of the dance world. Currently, State Street Ballet is averaging five tours per year, as well as working with the Santa Barbara Symphony and Opera Santa Barbara, conducting residencies in schools, theaters, and dance studios throughout the county, appearing in numerous free community events, and offering complimentary and reduced-price tickets to almost every overlooked, underserved community under the sun.

For the Gustafsons, getting people in the door to experience dance is not just a business model; it’s a personal credo. “I experienced my first ballet performance when I was 14 years old,” recalled Rodney. “I got dragged into a performance of the Joffrey Ballet, and after that I started my career. It was really a single exposure to the arts that inspired enough to discover my life’s passion.”

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t’s such a simple idea, but it has such profound results,” said Karen Lee Stevens of Animals + Reading = Fun! (ARF!), a program that brings therapy dogs to schools and libraries where children practice reading to them. “We help kids to get excited about reading, and because they are reading to a dog, a nonjudgmental listener, they get to practice and they are getting better,” she said.

ARF! falls under the umbrella of programs created by Steven’s nonprofit All for Animals, which the native Santa Barbaran began as a monthly email in 1997 as a way to inform people of the mistreatment of animals. Inspired by her “soul kitty,” which she found stray in the rain outside a warehouse in Goleta, Stevens said,“I knew I had to do something. I started writing a newsletter and had at one point 6,000 people on the email list. It just grew and grew.”

Stevens’s organization continued to burgeon. In 2002, All for Animals incorporated as a full-fledged nonprofit; more than eight years ago, volunteers began going into area schools, teaching humane education to the youth. Two years ago, Stevens created the ARF! reading outreach, pairing with the Santa Barbara Public Library. “Our pilot program consisted of six teams for a 13-week program. It was a phenomenal success,” she said.“We actually tracked the children’s reading scores — reading fluency and comprehension — and they’ve made some remarkable gains …. It’s a two-pronged [program]: The kids get to practice their reading skills with a nonjudgmental listener, and they learn empathy and compassion for animals.” ARF! now consists of 25 certified teams, all taught by an All for Animals professional dog trainer, and are according to national therapy-dog standards.

“My life has really revolved around animals and reading — they have always been two of my favorite things,” Stevens explained.“One of the reasons why it’s so meaningful for me to go back into the Santa Barbara Public Library is because I was there every Saturday morning as a child.”

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he most conspicuous evidence of Scott Brittingham’s role in Santa Barbara’s civic affairs is the 75-pound bronze statue of Grateful Dead guitar guru Jerry Garcia’s hand in the glen at the Santa Barbara Bowl. Brittingham, a die-hard Deadhead who has personally attended more than 100 concerts, helped raise $40 million to make the Bowl what it is today. Beyond that, Brittingham, now 53, has directed his philanthropic focus to other musical ventures, such as Santa Barbara’s annual New Noise extravaganza and the Notes for Notes program that puts professional-grade musical studios and equipment within the grasp of kids. “I go where I feel I can add value,” Brittingham explained.

Born in Delaware and raised in Los Angeles, Brittingham is the scion of two seriously high-profile families in which giving back was the expectation. Brittingham moved to Santa Barbara in 1996 and has made a point of exceeding expectations. The currency in trade for any philanthropist, he said, is “time, talent, and treasure.” When he started, Brittingham said, he mostly had time. He threw himself into organizations like the Children’s Creative Project and found himself directing kid-laden buses to their proper parking spaces during school field trips. He didn’t shy away from grunt work; he embraced it. “Less noblesse,” he explained,“but more oblige,” riffing on the old saw aw w “noblesse oblige.”

Since then, Brittingham has clearly demonstrated talent and amassed some trea-sure, as well. Today, he and his wife are significant players in the charity world, using the Brittingham Family Foundation as their vehicle.“We like kids and mothers,” he said. “We like schools and students.” In that vein, the foundation has given to the Santa Barbara Birth Center and Women’s Services at Cottage Hospital.

Likewise, he’s worked with the Santa Barbara Scholarship Foundation to provide scholarships to aspiring nurses hoping to attend Cal State Channel Islands. A typical Cottage nurse from out of town stays on the job about five years, Brittingham pointed out. Homegrown nurses, by contrast, last nearly five times longer.“You havee tto o invest in people already here,” he said.

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teven Sharpe, the general director of Opera Santa Barbara, has a deep commitment to fostering community that embraces three distinct areas: nature, culture, and health. Born and raised in Santa Barbara and educated at Santa Barbara High and the University of California, Irvine, as well as in New York City and in France, Sharpe has never stopped giving back or finding new ways to do so. In fact, what makes his career in the nonprofit sector so interesting is how he intertwines all his interests in a single vision of a better world.

From his early days volunteering at the Botanic Garden, where Sharpe established the nature camp for kids, he has connected people with the outdoors, something he still does today with his Sundays at Seven hiking group.

The passion for cycling that led Sharpe to ride from New York to Santa Barbara in 1989 also sparked Transportation Awareness Day and led to several ongoing commitments, including being involved with the Paradise Pit stop, teaching spinning and yoga at Santa Barbara Athletic Club, and training cyclists for the AIDS ride.

As Tom Rollerson’s first full-time employee at the Dream Foundation, Sharpe quickly learned the ropes of high-level philanthropy and proved himself an able administrator and a first-rate organizer. Sharpe founded the Heart + Sole AIDS Walk; he was executive director of the Solstice Parade from 1993-1995 and then artistic director of the Solstice Parade in 2002. Since taking the top spot at Opera Santa Barbara, Sharpe has revolutionized the presentation of opera in this city. From nature to culture and health and fitness to high art, Steven Sharpe can do it all.

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It isn’t always easy, but I try because you never know what someone is going through. You just have to be patient.”

Originally from New Jersey, Jiminez moved to Santa Barbara at a young age with her parents and her three brothers and has since gone on to raise her own three children here in the community she loves so much. Her time at Lazy Acres has spanned ownership changes, countless fads in the food industry, and even turned into a family affair in recent years with both her husband and one of her sons picking up shifts at the store.

During the interview for this story, sitting at a table near Lazy Acres’ front door, Jiminez was passed by at least a half dozen people in the span of 20 minutes who knew her despite her lack of uniform and name tag, all of them greeting her kindly like an old friend.“I can’t believe it,” said the Goleta resident of her Local Hero honor.“It really makes me feel good to know that people notice and appreciate what I do.”

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very other day for the past 12 years, Arnette Zerbe has been waking up early and heading to Butterfly Beach with a couple of trash bags and a garbage scooper in tow. A Wisconsin native who moved to the area with her husband, Anthony, just after the 1969 oil spill, this grandmother has been a one-woman beach-cleaning crew at arguably the most sought-after stretch of sand on the Santa Barbara/ Montecito coast. “This is such an exquisite place,” said Zerbe. “It’s not too hard to care about it.”

A force of nature with energy levels well beyond that of people half her age, Zerbe has expanded her cleanup program over the years to now include the curb and sidewalk above the beach all the way down to the water’s edge. “I realized that what is up there will always end up down on the sand, so I decided to go to the source,” explained Zerbe of her bagful of broken glass and cigarette butts, collected each morning before she even makes it to the beach, where she will invariably fill up a bag before her couple-hour routine is done.

She doesn’t view her work as a high-and-mighty altruistic undertaking but rather as a simple product of being a good neighbor. Informed years ago by a classmate at Santa Barbara City College Continuing Education that her beloved Butterfly (she and her husband live a short walk away) was often one of the dirtiest beaches around, Zerbe was moved to action. “It’s my beach. I live there, so it’s up to me to do something about it,” she said. “Whenever you see a clean beach, it isn’t the city or the county that are doing it; it is the community and the people who care about the beach that are doing the work. Every day when I’m done, I know I am leaving the place a little better than when I found it, and that is such a high for me. Believe me, I get more out of this than I put in.”

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hen Ed France quit his job with the City of Santa Barbara at the age of 24, he said he was the perfect combination of disillusioned, fired up, and — having saved $15,000 — capitalized. A former employee at the Associated Students bike shop at UCSB and a founding member of the California Student Sustainability Coalition, he was ready to sacrifice the career ladder to follow his dream of opening a DIY bike shop in Santa Barbara.

Bici Centro started out in a storage closet at La Casa de la Raza and now has its own Haley Street building. The nonprofit shop has since merged with the S.B. Bicycle Coalition, which France heads, and it’s become ground zero for programming such as a countywide bicycle education program and the monthlong CycleMAYnia celebration. France explained that the shop is so crucial to the Coalition as a whole because it brings staff and volunteers “face-to-face” with community members and their needs. He is especially proud that Bici Centro is a bilingual center and that much of its outreach extends beyond the organic-food-eating, ecologically sustainable, flannel-wearing demographic.

Take for instance the Iluminando la Noche program in which 1,400 bike lights are distributed in the week before the fall time change to a largely low-income Spanish-speaking population that commutes by bike by necessity, not choice. While offering lights to these cyclists, Coalition volunteers also collect their input on safety conditions, and survey them on their knowledge of vehicular laws. Hesitant to take credit, France pointed out that the effort was first spearheaded by Carmen Lozano, former chair of the Spanish Language Outreach Committee. The best thing about the Coalition, France said, is that “we have a great team and we run a flexible organization. If someone has an idea, we can roll with it.”

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f reading and writing are magical powers, Beverly Schwartzberg easily ranks as one of Santa Barbara’s leading sorceresses. For the past 11 years, Schwartzberg has been running the adult literacy program out of the downtown library, personally training close to 750 volunteer tutors in that time.

For Schwartzberg, reading and writing have always been second nature, having grown up in the college town of Amherst, Massachusetts, the daughter of two college professors.

In fact, in 1993, she appeared as a contestant on television’s Jeopardy and did well enough that she still ranks in the Jeopardy Hall of Fame. Schwartzberg came of age both politically and culturally in the 1970s, a time when adult literacy was a high-profile concern. She became an adult literacy tutor her first year out of college; when she moved to California in 1992 to attend graduate school, she jumped back in.

Literacy challenges afflict all walks of life.“The people we tutor are the most demographically diverse group you can imagine,” she said.“We have people who just arrived in the country, we have some of California’s first families, and we have people whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower.” Most, she said, have some literacy skills. Only a few are outright illiterate. Thirty years ago, most were men. Today, it’s just the opposite.

Schwartzberg recruits and trains volunteer tutors; currently, there are 180, all of whom have received nine hours of training. The next trick is to pair that tutor with the right student. The objective, she said, is not to have people reading War and Peace, but to achieve the goals they set out for themselves. The key is to create a place they feel safe going to and d even safer coming back. “It doesn’t always happen the first time,” Schwartzberg said.

While adult literacy is one of the few genuinely bipartisan issues that warring political factions can agree upon —“It’s the cheapest education investment you can make,” she said — the state legislature pulled the plug on Santa Barbara’s adult literacy program during the depths of the Recession. City Hall helped save the program from elimination, and d Schwartzberg quietly worked to educate decision makers about the benefits of her program. “When I started out, I was wanted to change someone else’s life,” she said.“But really ly it’s been my life that’s gotten changed.”

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Sharon Hoshida

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From decades of empowering minorities and women on the UCSB campus to promoting feminism on the Santa Barbara Women’s Political Committee to the founding of the 10-year-old Women’s Literary Festival and one-year-old Granada Books on State Street, Hoshida embodies community activism, choosing to live her life for the enrichment of others.

Hoshida was born in Salt Lake City, and her family saved up $100 and came west, eventually settling in Simi Valley, where they were, as always, one of the only Japanese families around.“I’ve always felt like an outsider on the inside,” said Hoshida, who came to UCSB in 1965 but dropped out in 1967.

“That’s been the theme of my life.”

Her progressive values of questioning authority and protesting the Vietnam (and every subsequent) War were cemented while on staff at Moorpark College. Returning to UCSB for a photography job in 1971, Hoshida started associations for minority and Asian-American faculty/staff. As program director for the UCSB Women’s Center (and, briefly, the MultiCultural Center), she mentored hundreds of students and helped shed light on women and minorities who were publishing books, getting tenure, and otherwise excelling. Off-campus, Hoshida led the anti-Iraq War protests on State Street and was part of the five-person delegation that convinced Congressmember Lois Capps to vote against the war. She cofounded the Women’s Literary Fest in 2006, and upon retirement as director of the Women’s Center in 2008, Hoshida cofounded Granada Books to bring more literary life to downtown.

“Santa Barbara has been a very nurturing environment to be a community activist,” said Hoshida. “In my sunset years in our community, I’m very happy to be creating this space. The community is paying us back.”

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espite living a very global life — Korean War; development aid work in Turkey and India in the 1960s; law and sociology professor stints at Yale, Oxford, UCLA, UCSB, and elsewhere — Bill Felstiner knew little about Chad until he attended a spring 2007 seminar on Darfur up the road from his house at La Casa de Maria. An aid worker there told the 40-year-plus Santa Barbara resident about the crisis in the southern part of the country, and by September, Felstiner was on the ground amid the 70,000 refugees from the adjacent, oft-warring Central African Republic (CAR), asking various aid organizations what they needed most.

“We decided we ought to do something fast,” said Felstiner, so they raised enough money to send a shipment of wheelchair-tricycles to help the otherwise immobile refugees.“By January, we were in business, and it’s been growing ever since.” So far, Felstiner’s Chad Relief Foundation has raised $825,000 (mostly from generous Santa Barbarans), made 10 visits, and done everything from building schools, housing, and soccer fields to installing solar panels on health centers to distributing medicines (from Direct Relief) and vitamins (from Vitamin Angels) in five different refugee camps.

The challenges are daunting, but he knows his work is saving lives, especially as new CAR battles push the refugee population toward 100,000. “Chad is one of the poorest, most awful places on the face of the Earth, one of only four countries in the world where life expectancy has decreased in the first 10 years of this century,” said Felstiner. “We try to make these people’s lives a little more tolerable.”

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Growing up in the Bay Area, Spear was social and energetic. A naturalborn leader, she always strove to be the one who sold the most cookies in Girl Scouts. “Being passionate about what you do is important,� she said. Spear arrived in Santa Barbara in 1988 to attend UCSB, where she earned a degree in psychology. Soon after graduation, she volunteered at Girls Inc. before landing a gig in its fundraising department. December 1 will be her 20-year anniversary with the organization.

Walking through the two Santa Barbara centers, Spear is often approached by a girl who runs up to hug her — breaking from playing basketball or practicing literacy or rehearsing in a play. She eortlessly relates with so many of the 1,200 girls who are served through the organization each year. “Anyone who has met Monica knows she is a lifelong advocate for the empowerment of young girls,â€? said Christi Sulzbach, chair of the Girls Inc. board of directors.

Most Santa Barbarans have probably seen Spear’s big smile around town as she continuously looks for ways to increase the visibility of the program. “Space-wise, we’re bursting at the seams,� Spear said, adding that her goal is to reach 30 percent more girls and raise 40 percent more revenue next year. “She has a very obvious connection with the girls,� Sulzbach said. And while Girls Inc. seeks to provide life skills and empowerment to the youth, perhaps most importantly, “The girls have a lot of fun,� Sulzbach said.

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hen Miguel Meraz accepted a job with the Friendship Center, he hadn’t worked with seniors before. But, he said, he was “tight” with his grandma and decided he would treat his patients how he treated her. Now, 24 years later, Meraz has made it not only his career but his mission to make the men and women he works with every day — most of whom have Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia — laugh. “That’s genuine,” he said.

At the Friendship Center — a decades-old daytime institution offering seniors companionship, activities, and two meals — Meraz works as a program specialist and driver, picking the folks up in the morning and driving them to the center. Calling dementia a “terrible, tragic disease,” Meraz acknowledged the patience required for the job and the hurt that invariably comes with working with the elderly.

“When they do pass away, it hits you in the pit of your stomach,” he said. “You reassure yourself that — whatever you believe in, whatever your faith is — they’re finally resting.” He bonds with them, Meraz said, and enjoys hearing their stories. One patient, a Vietnam War veteran, always receives Meraz’s salute, a small gesture, and “his face lights up,” Meraz said, smiling.

A Santa Barbara High School alum, Meraz, 55, is married and is a dad to three kids, one of whom is about to make him a grandpa for the first time. With his grandson,“first on my list, just in case,” Meraz said — his own face lighting up at the future — is to teach the boy how to treat his own grandparents.

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eroes abound in Joe Coito’s world along the Santa Barbara coastline every summer: “The kids who conquer their fear early in the morning by jumping through the waves … the moms and dads who take health so seriously they make a lifestyle change … the volunteers who stand in the heat on Highway  for six hours handing out water … those are heroes to me.”

Coito, an outdoor enthusiast with a background in finance, has been in the hero-making business for the past 20 years as director of the Santa Barbara Triathlon. “I’m not a triathlete myself,” he said, “but I recognize that Santa Barbara is the perfect community for the triathlon.”

He has expanded the late-August event from a single swim-bike-run race to a two-day festival that attracts up to 2,000 participants, from beginners to world-class athletes.

The long course (mile swim, 34-mile bike ride, 10-mile run) on the first day is the marquee event, but the sprint course the next day has a populist flavor. Options include an open coed race, a “just for fun” division, a family division (parents and kids together), and a women-only race.

Dawn Schroeder and Jamie Allison, founders of Moms in Motion training program, encouraged Coito to start the women’s event.“It’s such an important piece of the triathlon,” Schroeder said.“Joe tries to make each event better than the last. The longevity says so much about him. I hope he does it for 20 more years.”

The triathlon has a significant charitable component.“We’ve raised nearly $500,000 for nonprofit organizations,” Coito said.“I used to randomly select the beneficiary, but now Montecito Bank & Trust asks the community to vote on it.” The 2014 triathlon raised almost $15,000 for Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara.

Tragedy befell the triathlon in 2008 when legendary athlete Barbara Warren died in a crash on the bicycle course. Coito created the annual Barbara Warren Community Spirit Award. “The plaque is hanging next to the East Beach Grill,” Coito said.“I don’t sweep things under the rug.”

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f you’re going to call Dr. Jason Prystowsky a hero, do it behind his back. “I’m not a hero,” said the medical director for Doctors Without Walls – Santa Barbara Street Medicine (DWW-SBSM). “I’ve just had the opportunity to work with amazing doctors, students, and volunteers. And when what should be normal becomes heroic, that’s a criticism of society.” A full-time emergency room physician, Prystowsky has hopscotched all over the globe to treat everything from gunshot wounds in Sudan to tetanus in Haiti, but he said there are more than enough problems on Santa Barbara’s streets to keep him and his teams busy. “There’s an extraordinary need here,” he explained, pointing to rampant poverty, homelessness, and mental-health issues. “That’s the big secret in the room.”

DWW-SBSM and Prystowsky put on weekly clinics at parks and shelters and coordinates with a long roster of area agencies to help hundreds of homeless and working poor with their health problems. Many of their patients are employed, taxpaying citizens, Prystowsky said, and many others are simply thankful for someone to confide in.“That empowers them,” he said.“That gives them humanity.”

Especially appreciative of his student physicians, Prystowsky said the nonprofit is training the next generation of health care leaders who will take the skills they learn in Santa Barbara — pinpointing a need, establishing trust, and practicing responsible medicine — across any border.“Providing medical care under a palm tree in Santa Barbara is the same as under a mango tree in West Africa,” he said.

Of his tireless devotion to his job, volunteer work, and teaching, Prystowsky said it’s the price he pays — what anyone should pay — for living in such relative comfort. “Part of the joy of living in a bubble of aesthetic bliss is giving back,” he said. And no matter how nice it seems, there’s always progress to be made, especially because “the people who are most vulnerable are the ones who have to jump through the most hoops to get care.” Prystowsky encouraged anyone curious about contributing their time or money to drop DWW-SBSM a line. “It’s easy to give back,” he said. “Come join us.”

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Where need existed, she helped develop solutions: in the founding of the Hope School District Educational Foundation and the Women’s Fund and in the creation of successful programs such as Mock City (Assistance League) and Wine Jewelry Chocolate (Child Abuse Listening Mediation, or CALM). She has also held many leadership roles at CALM, including president of its board of directors.“Meredith Scott has been CALM’s personal superhero for nearly 20 years,” said Cecilia Rodriguez, its executive director.

Scott led the San Marcos High School PTSA while her own kids, Kelly and Jordan, attended there, and her collaborative community work has also touched Court Appointed Special Advocates for Youth (CASA), Domestic Violence Solutions (DVS), Storyteller Children’s Center, and many more.

She gave life to the first Santa Barbara chapter of the California Youth Connection — an intense two-year creation process — which enables foster youth to find their own identity and voice locally and in Sacramento.

And when diagnosed with ALS, Scott, after initially pausing to come to grips with her new reality, reacted in characteristic fashion — she started Beating the Odds, a pre-Ice Bucket Challenge initiative, with family and friends. Three fundraisers in less than a year — along with other tributes in her name — have raised awareness of ALS and more than $100,000 to advance critical research at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Scott’s dream is finding a cure for this devastating disease that will benefit other families, even if it’s too late to help her own.

Scott’s inspirational, immeasurable philanthropic impact and deep reach into the Santa Barbara community is felt by the many charitable organizations, programs, families, and children whose lives she continues to positively impact.

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hen Felice Fernandez retired as a Franklin School teacher on Santa Barbara’s Eastside in 1995, she went right back to work as a teacher’s aide. And at 86, Philippines-born Felice is still in the classroom. “I love working with kids,” she told The Santa Barbara Independent. Every Wednesday when she leaves school, Fernandez heads off to volunteer at Sarah House hospice, which offers end-of-life care for lowincome and homeless people. There she helps prepare and serve dinner to residents, cleans up, and also serves hugs. “It’s really no big deal,” she said of her volunteering. “I’m just one of many who volunteer in the community.”

“She’s so deserving” of Local Heroes honors, said Debbie McQuade, Sarah House director.“She is one of the most intelligent, well-educated, funny people I know,” said fellow volunteer Linda Proud. Felice is also famous for her near-encyclopedic knowledge of classical and pop music, movies, and books. Proud said, “To me, she just epitomizes the wonderful diversity and character of the people of Santa Barbara.”

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d Holdren hates to see kids getting beaten down and discouraged. During his 21 years as a coach in the Youth Football League, he taught hundreds of players about sportsmanship. The better they were, the stronger the lessons. “I didn’t want to run up the score,” he said. “I’d let linemen carry the ball. I’d punt on first down.

It bugs me when a coach lets his team pile on.”

Holdren also coached Little League baseball, and basketball was becoming popular with the kids when his three sons were growing up. He was a founder of the Goleta Youth Basketball Association.“The emphasis had been on all-star traveling teams,” he said.“We wanted a quality program for everyday boys and girls. We had 150 kids the first year. It grew to 250 and then 400 kids. We played at the old armory, St. Mary’s, Dos Pueblos, Robertson Gym, wherever we could find a court.”

That led Holdren, who was in the construction business, to take on the most daunting project of his life — building a complex that became the Page Youth Center on Hollister Avenue. “It was a huge endeavor,” he said.“We raised $2 million. We borrowed $400,000. It’s really hard to raise money after the fact. For six years, we had bingo nights and put on everything from professional wrestling to cat shows.”

Holdren put together a board including Vaughn Wipf, Tom Caesar, and other community-minded individuals.“Ed persevered the most in time and effort,” Wipf said. “I’ll always remember the night he called and said we finally got the Page Center paid for.”

By the time the gym was built, Holdren’s own sons were too old to play in the youth leagues. “Most of the original boardmembers’ kids didn’t get to play there,” he said.

“My dad is not a touchy-feely guy,” said Dare Holdren, his middle son.“But his dedication to kids is amazing. I’m always hearing people tell me about my dad as their coach.”

Ed and Dare Holdren, a San Marcos High teacher, were father-and-son assistant coaches of the Royals’ freshman football team this past season. “We beat Santa Barbara in our last game,” Ed said.“It was a nice victory”— accomplished, of course, without running up the score.

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very summer since 2011, a vanload of troubled youth from Los Prietos Boys Camp has been delivered to a special UCSB theater class taught by Michael Morgan. They often arrive quiet, defensive, and skeptical. But after six intensive weeks of writing and rehearsing a personal adaptation of The Odyssey in collaboration with UCSB students, they emerge with new self-worth, their creativity and intelligence validated by their own hard work and a final performance in front of friends and family. “They come out of it strong and pretty heroic,” said Morgan, who grew up in Harlem and teaches voice and speech at the university. “It’s a real sense of accomplishment.”

Inspired by the film Shakespeare Behind Bars and alarmed by America’s flailing approach to juvenile justice, Morgan created the Odyssey Project to give a segment of Santa Barbara society often relegated to the sidelines a chance to take center stage. And Homer’s epic, with its male-centric themes of strength and vigilance, is the perfect vehicle for the young men to reflect on their lives upon release from custody — what it means to return to their own personal Ithaca. The program handpicks six to eight qualifying campers between 16 and 18 years old — sometimes from rival gangs — and often features dance, drums, and rap. As Morgan explained, the stage is a level, democratic playing field that builds trust among everyone involved.

With an eye on reducing the recidivism rate among campers, Morgan is developing follow-up outreach mechanisms to Odyssey Project graduates and their families and is producing a documentary on the empowering approach, which has garnered no shortage of praise, awards, and grants.“We’re seeing how theater and social activism intersect to move the dial forward,” he said.

And though the project and the film would certainly benefit from more funding and community support, the impact so far can’t be denied.“It’s one of the most rewarding experiences I’ve had as a teacher,” he said.“I’m really humbled by it.”

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Isla Vista First Responders Grace Under Fire

Because it would be nearly impossible for us to include all the first responders to the Isla Vista tragedy in a single photograph, pictured here is a small number of people representing the Santa Barbara County Sheriff ’s Office and Cottage Hospital (above) and the Santa Barbara County Fire Department and emergency dispatchers (below).

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or this community, May 23, 2014, was a night where six young lives were cut far too short. But it was also a night when several men and women — people whose jobs require heroism every day — displayed bravery and humanity that prevented further tragedy. From the Sheriff ’s deputies who risked their lives by running into gunfire to stop the shooter and administer first aid to the dispatchers who provided calm to hundreds of frantic, frightened callers to the emergency room staff who cared for the seven students injured, the first responders — including the firefighters, ambulance personnel, and paramedics — to the Isla Vista murders epitomize our local heroes. (Also a special thanks to the Coroner’s Office for dealing with a circumstance no one would envy.)

For whatever reason that Friday night, the dispatch center team — which usually includes six people per weekend shift — was overstaffed, said supervisor Susan Farley, with eight employees on hand. The night had been fairly routine until approximately 9:30 p.m., when the first call came in reporting shots fired in Isla Vista’s loop. Farley thought at first that it might just be fireworks. But then the calls flooded in.

“Holy moly,” she remembered thinking,“This is real.”

Looking back, Farley said it was “a very short but stressful time,” commending the eight dispatchers for their teamwork in fielding 121 calls in 33 minutes — four times their typical volume — that were a mix of chaotic Isla Vista–related reports and normal emergency requests. The dispatchers, like others, Farley said, had questions.“A lot of the confusion that the community had — it was all in here, too,” she said.

“Why would someone do this? How could this happen? There were a lot of those discussions going on immediately after, but we still had to answer the phone.”

Around 9 p.m. on Friday, Dr. Pam Lee — the on-call trauma surgeon for Cottage Hospital that night — remembered thinking how slow the night had been so far. About 30 minutes later when she heard reports of a shooting in Isla Vista, she thought it might just be a BB gun.

But when the words “mass casualty” came in, she and about 30 other trauma-team staff — from another surgeon, medical residents, and nurses to anesthesiologists and operating-room personnel — “came out of the woodwork” to help the seven injured.“The team was fantastic.

I said this before when it first happened, but we don’t see this kind of trauma very often here,” Lee said, noting the “emotional trauma” of the situation that accompanied the physical kind.

In the months since, Lee said, one of the victims — five suffered gunshot wounds, two were injured by the shooter’s car — reached out to her. Lee grabbed coffee with the woman and her mom.“It was good just seeing her again and talking with her,” Lee said.“It’s good to see that she’s doing well. We always love seeing that.” ■

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/: Annual Thanksgiving Feast � Santa Barbara Rescue Mission, the only emergency shelter that is open  nights per year from Santa Maria to Ventura, will be hosting its annual Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings to those who may feel forgotten especially during the holidays.

They are preparing to serve more than  meals to community members who are homeless, hurting, and hungry. Noon-pm. S.B. Rescue Mission,  E. Yanonali St. Free. Call -. /: Casa del Herrero Public Tours � Casa del Herrero’s -acre estate is open for public tours throughout the year with trained docents who will interpret the history of the Steedman home, gardens, and workshop. am and pm. Casa del Herrero Foundation,  E. Valley Rd. $. Ages +.

Call - or visit casadelherrero .com. /: Goleta Knitting and Crocheting Group � Even if you don’t know what a reversible cable stitch knit is, you can still join in on the yarning fun to knit and crochet items for donation to charitable organizations. All skill levels are welcome every Wednesday to create and chat. -pm. Goleta Library,  N. Fairview Ave., Goleta. Free. Call - or visit sbplibrary.org. /: Hansen Family & Friends Annual Thanksgiving Songfest � It’s that time of year again to hang out with friends and family and have a good old-fashioned songfest and jam session at this annual celebration. pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club,  State St. Free. Call - or visit sohosb.com.

THURSDAY 11/27 /: Organic Soup Kitchen � With the belief that no person,

regardless of status, should have to compromise the quality of food they feed themselves or their family, the Organic Soup Kitchen will open its doors this Thanksgiving Day to the community, providing a traditional meal and music.

Noon-pm. S.B. Veterans Memorial Bldg.,  W. Cabrillo Blvd. Free. Call - or visit organicsoup kitchen.org. /: ZeeBlu Thanksgiving 5K & Family Fun Run � Children ages  and under are invited to run a short race on the beach, the family can participate in the Family Fun Run for free, or enter in the K run — just be a part of this event where every runner is cheered on

by Zee, the blue-striped zebra. All the proceeds from the K go to the Foodbank of S.B., which provides emergency food assistance to those in need, and the Daniel Bryant Youth & Family Treatment Center, providing safe, effective outpatient treatment for young people struggling with alcohol and drug problems. am. Leadbetter Beach, Shoreline Dr. Free-$.

Call () - or visit k.zeeblu .com. /: Thanksgiving Day Service � Reverend Dr. Randall Day will be leading a traditional service featuring special readings, familiar harvest hymns, and an opportunity to express gratitude. All members and visitors of all faiths will be welcomed to join this celebration of blessings during Thanksgiving.

Light refreshments will be served after the service. am. St. Mark’s-inthe-Valley Episcopal Church,  Nojoqui Ave., Los Olivos. Free. Call - or visit smitv.org. /: Pumpkin Smash at the Zoo � Calling all animal lovers who want to have a smashin’ good time: Watch as elephants, gorillas, and other zoo animals play and interact with pumpkins.

You’ve had your pumpkin time; now it’s the animals’. am-:pm (no admission after :pm for nonmembers or after pm for

members). S.B. Zoo,  Niños Dr. Free-$. Call - or visit sbzoo.org.

/: Thanksgiving Champagne Brunch Buffet � The entire family will enjoy Executive Chef David Reardon’s extensive Champagne buffet, featuring roasted turkey, honey-glazed ham, prime rib, and stations to create waffles, omelets, and salads with decadent desserts to finish the perfect holiday brunch. am:pm. Bacara Ballroom Terrace, Bacara Resort & Spa,  Hollister Ave., Goleta. $-$. Call () - or visit bacararesort.com.

FRIDAY 11/28 /-/: Candy Cane Train � All aboard this festively decorated miniature train. One ticket buys you a ride and a coupon for a future ride and entrance into the holiday display of Toy Trains and Teddy Bears. Riders must be at least  inches tall. Get there early to experience this railroad fun. Receive a discount and avoid the line by buying your tickets in advance online! Rides continue through December  except for December -, -, and -. Nov.  and weekends: -pm; weekdays: -pm. South Coast Railroad Museum,  N. Los Carneros, Goleta. $.-$. Visit goletadepot .org or call -.

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There will be a pre-judging event and the finals. Fri.: :am and :pm; Sat: :am and pm. Granada Theatre,  State

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/: High School Girls’ Basketball: Santa Barbara High Alumni Game � The Dons varsity enters the - season with four returning starters who made history last March by becoming the first Santa Barbara team to play in the State Championships in Sacramento. They lost that Division  final, but they finished the - season with the Southern Section and State Regional titles.

The CIF has promoted them to the Division  level.

The alumni could give them some competition Friday with two former county players of the year, Araceli Gil () and Brittney Crossland (). pm. J.R. Richards Gym, Santa Barbara High,  E. Anapamu St. Free. Call - x.

St. $-$. Call - or visit granadasb.org. /: Mozart by Candlelight � Join West Coast Chamber Orchestra’s annual candlelit celebration of the glorious music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a Thanksgiving tradition for more than  years. pm. First United Methodist Church,  E. Anapamu St. $-$. Call - or visit cieloperformingarts .org. /-/, /: Christmas Is Here Again � This magical musical adventure for the entire family follows young orphan Sophiana and a band of adventurers as they search the frozen north to find Santa’s stolen toys. Unique to PCPA’s production will be the incorporation of projected animated and still images used in the original Renegade animated feature and created by Frozen art director Michael Giaimo.

Shows through December .

Fri.: pm; Sat.: : and pm; Sun., Wed.: :pm. Marian Theatre, Allan Hancock College,  S. College Dr., Santa Maria. $.-$.. Ages +; ages + for :pm. Call - or visit pcpa.org.

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/: Chris Robinson Brotherhood The rock ’n’ roll genre is alive and well as you will hear in a band that has developed its identity as a self-defined “farm-to-table psychedelic rock band.”

Check out music from the band’s latest release, Phosphorescent Harvest. pm. Lobero Theatre,  E. Canon Perdido St. $. Call - or visit lobero.com.

/-/: Anthony’s Christmas Trees and Wreaths This sale marks the th anniversary of this tradition that offers ample supply of trees up to  feet. There will also be custommade and decorated wreaths, cedar garlands, boughs, and water stands. Anthony’s will participate in the Trees for Troops program where you can purchase a tree to be sent to a military family. The lot is open through Christmas Eve. Thu.Sat.: am-pm. Sun.: ampm. Mon.-Wed.: am-pm.

Earl Warren Showgrounds,  Calle Real. Free. Call - or visit www.earlwarren.com. /-/: She Loves Me The Ojai Performing Arts Theater presents a musical that combines romance with music and comedy about mistaken identity with letters to the lovelorn. The show is set in a  shop in Budapest and based on a play by Miklós László that inspired the movies The Shop Around the Corner, In the Good Old Summertime, and You’ve Got Mail. Fri., Sat.: pm; Sun.: pm. Matilija Auditorium,  El Paseo St., Ojai. $-$. Call - or visit ojaitheater.org.

SATURDAY 11/29 /: Book and Treasures Sale Spend time browsing through a wide selection of books, clothing, jewelry, fishing poles and tackle, Christmas decorations, and other treasures. am-pm. Neal Taylor Nature Ctr., Cachuma Lake, Hwy. , Santa Ynez. Free. Call -. /: 34rd Annual Holiday Arts & Crafts Faire There will be unique handcrafted items for sale, including wooden toys, fine jewelry, quilts, crochets, stained glass, ornaments, decorations, and more. This year’s Faire promises art for everyone’s tastes and price range. Music and face-painting will make it fun for the entire brood. am-pm. Carpinteria Valley Museum,  Maple Ave., Carpinteria. Free. Call - or visit carpinteriahistoricalmuseum.org. /: Sustainability in Fashion Join artist and designer Greta Lovina, who uses reclaimed textiles to bring Earth-friendly consciousness with a unique flair to inspire women to express themselves and go green. The evening will include appetizers and wine, and a portion of the

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sales will go toward Women’s Economic Ventures, who provide training, consulting, and loans to women. :pm. Ojai Art Ctr.,  S. Montgomery St., Ojai. $. Visit lovinadesigns.com. /: Figueroa Mountain Brewing 4th Anniversary and Release Party Plan on celebrating this anniversary with live music from bands Stiff Pickle Orchestra and The Molly Ringwald Project, The Pairing Knife food truck, games, contests, and, of course, the th Anniversary bottle release from Fig Mountain. -pm. The Taproom, Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co.,  Industrial Wy., Buellton. Free. Call - or visit figmtnbrew.com. /: Holiday Movie in the Vineyard: Four Christmases Here’s how it will go down: You bring low lawn chairs, blankets, coats, family, friends, and your appetites, and Kalyra will supply Christmas music, wine (mulled spice or regular), popcorn, the vineyard, and as a thank-you to members for being a part of their family, a complimentary dinner from Georgia’s Smokehouse, all to get you in the mood for this new classic Christmas movie with Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn. -p. Kalyra Winery,  N. Refugio Rd., Santa Ynez. Free. Call - or visit kalyrawinery.com. /-/: Birds of Prey This is a unique chance to see live raptors like a red-tailed hawk, western screech owl, or peregrine falcon up close as volunteers of the S.B. Audubon Society’s Eyes in the Sky program introduce you. Unable to survive in the wild, these ambassadors offer an in-depth and close-up look at area birds of prey. -pm. S.B. Museum of Natural History,  Puesta del Sol. Free-$.

Call -.

SUNDAY 11/30 /: Toad the Wet Sprocket, Cory Sipper Glen Phillips, Todd Nichols, Dean Dinning, and Randy Guss are back again because Friday’s sold-out show just wasn’t enough. “There is nothing but the moment. Don’t you waste it on regret …”— like missing your chance to see the boys play your favorite old and new tunes.

Singer/songwriter and guitarist Cory Sipper will open the show.

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:pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club,  State St. $-$. Call - or visit sohosb.com. Read more on p. .

/: Sierra Club Hike This morning, hike Rocky Pine Ridge, a short route filled with wonderful pine trees and rocks. This will be a moderate hike with some boulder hopping, so agility is required.

Bring lunch to enjoy with new friends. Meet at location to travel to trail. am. Bank of America,  State St. Free. Call - or visit santabarbarahikes.com.

MONDAY 12/1 /: UCSB Fall Concert Ring in the fall season with classical music.

The UCSB Department of Music will present the Chamber Orchestra in concert. :pm. Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, UCSB. Free-$.

Call - or visit www.music .ucsb.edu.

/: TELEtalk: American Horror Story This television series offers up a new and chilling theme each season, such as a haunted house, an insane asylum, a witch coven, and this season, a freak show with a killer clown (thanks) featuring Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, and Evan Peters. There will be a Q&A discussion with executive producer Dante Di Loreto after a screening of an episode. -:pm.

Pollock Theater, UCSB. $-$. Call - or visit www.carseywolf .ucsb.edu.

TUESDAY 12/2 /: Ballroom Dancing with Anastasia Who needs Dancing with the Stars when you have Anastasia from Dance Fever Professionals? Join her for an exciting ballroom dance demonstration and an introduction with practice to all the moves you see. :am. Faulkner Gallery,  E. Anapamu St. Free. Call - or visit sbplibrary.org. /: Winter Wonderland Ballet Imagine swirling snow maidens, graceful skaters, and Santa’s helpers. You don’t have to imagine as you get a real sneak peek at S.B. Festival Ballet’s junior company’s Winter Wonderland debut. -:pm. Goleta Library,  N. Fairview Ave., Goleta. Free. Call - or visit sbplibrary.org.

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/: Ari Shavit The senior correspondent for Haaretz and author of My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel will discuss his book that was intended to promote deeper, betterinformed, more-balanced discussion of Israel and the Middle East. Shavit contends that we should all be engaged in profound, free, and civilized discussion of the Promised Land. -:pm.

Campbell Hall, UCSB. Free.

Call - or visit jewish santafbarbara.org.

/: Holiday Stroll Businesses like Creative Kitchen Spaces, Coastal Design, Purrmission Lingerie, and Leslie Sack Dance Studio on West Calle Laureles will open their doors in appreciation of customers, neighbors, and friends this season. Enjoy music, a scavenger hunt, and goodies at each storefront. Light appetizers, wine, desserts, and other beverages will be available. -pm. W. Calle Laureles. Free. /: “Start Smart” Class California Highway Patrol’s Start Smart program is a driversafety education class that targets new and future licensed teenage drivers, parents, and guardians. Discuss traffic collision-avoidance techniques, responsibilities, seatbelt usage, and more to help become responsible and aware. pm.

Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital,  Hollister Ave., Goleta. Free.

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/: No Turning Back This screening of American ski and snowboarding filmmaker Warren Miller’s th film pays homage to the years of mountain culture and adventure filmmaking that has led to every end of the winter world. pm.

Lobero Theatre,  E. Canon Perdido St. $. Call - or visit lobero.com.

WEDNESDAY 12/3 /: A Tuna Christmas Visit the “third-smallest” town in Texas during the most hectic time of the year in this two-man show that will introduce audiences to a myriad of colorful characters from the tiny town of Tuna through dizzying costume and scene changes. Shows through December . pm. Rubicon Theatre,  E. Main St., Ventura. $$. Call - or visit rubicon theatre.org. /: La Arcada Christmas Walk Celebrate  years of this twinkling wonderland. Bring the whole family for holiday fun as this walk will feature photos with Santa, strolling carolers, music groups, fresh-popped popcorn, holiday goodies, and more. This is sure to get you into the Christmas spirit. -pm. La Arcada Court,  State St. Free. Call - or visit laarcadasanta barbara.com.

/: Erin Graffy Author Erin Graffy has written books on ranging topics from history to workbook texts. Celebrate her most recent publication, Old Spanish Days: Santa Barbara History Through Public Art, and get your book signed. -pm. S.B. Museum of Art,  State St. Free. Call - or visit sbma.net.

/: Avi Buffalo, Los Angeles Police Department Avi Buffalo (pictured) is back and ready to take on the world again with an album filled with his observation of the world, relationships, and positivity.

Ryan Pollie, under the moniker Los Angeles Police Department, will bring sparse instrumentation and soft delivery. pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club,  State St. $-$. Call - or visit sohosb.com.

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/: Secrets of a Tamale Chef This entertaining, interactive class will teach you tamale techniques just in time for the holidays. Chef Richard Lambert, owner of S.B. Tamales-to-Go, will provide recipes, a list of ingredients, and instructions on how to make the best tamales ever. :pm. S.B. Public Market,  W. Victoria St. $. Visit nightout.com.

FARMERS MARKET SCHEDULE Thursday Goleta: Camino Real Marketplace, -pm Carpinteria:  block of Linden Ave., -pm

Friday Montecito:  and  blocks of Coast Village Rd., -:am

Saturday Downtown S.B.: Corner of Santa Barbara and Cota sts., :am - pm Local Artisans & Farmers Market: Calle Real Shopping Ctr.,  Calle Real, Goleta, am - pm

Sunday Goleta: Camino Real Marketplace, am - pm

Tuesday Old Town S.B.: - blocks of State St., -:pm

Wednesday Solvang: Copenhagen Dr. and st St., :-:pm

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owntown Santa Barbara is proud to announce that the first Presenting Sponsor in the 62-year history of the Holiday Parade will also be the crew that ensures Santa Barbara’s tradition of the Holiday Tree continues. Consumer Fire Products, Inc., a company currently based in Oregon and Goleta and founded by a Santa Barbara native, is the angel that will bring the Holiday Tree home to Downtown Santa Barbara. The tree is donated by Southern California Edison, and is already scheduled to be part of SCE’s annual reforestation efforts.

Consumer Fire Products, Inc. produces FOAMSAFE exterior fire protection systems and Fireshades Window covers, among other safety products. As firefighters who have fought in many wildfires throughout California and the Western States, the Consumer Fire Products, Inc. team is a firefighter-owned company that is empowering homeowners with the tools to save their own homes, while being able to safely evacuate.

“I’ve been thinking hard about how we can best give back to help our community,” says Irene Rhodes, a firefighter and the inventor of this home safety product. “As firefighters, we are always willing to step in and save the day!”

The official lighting of the Tree will take place on Friday, December 5th, at 6:30pm by the Holiday Prince and Fairy at the beginning of the 62nd Annual Downtown Holiday Parade Presented by Consumer Fire Products, Inc., and will shine brightly throughout the holiday season.

Downtown Santa Barbara would like to thank our generous Parade sponsors: Presenting Sponsor Consumer Fire Products, Inc., Montecito Bank & Trust, The Towbes Group, Paseo Nuevo, The Bank of Santa Barbara, Canary Hotel, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, SB Nightlife, CASA Magazine, Santa Barbara Independent, Wheel Fun Rentals and Bacara Resort.

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ou (or your parents) grew up with the 62nd Annual Holiday Parade Celebrity Grand Marshal: actor/ writer/reality star Alan Thicke! You may remember him as patriarch Jason Seaver on “Growing Pains” (1985-1992), but this 7-time Emmy nominee also came into our living rooms as a writer for TV series and specials (Richard Pryor, Johnny Cash, Barry Manilow) and songwriter/singer (theme songs for “Facts of Life” and “Diff’rent Strokes” – which he also sang). More recently, Thicke had a recurring role on “How I Met Your Mother” and appears regularly on “Real Time with Bill Maher.”

Currently, Thicke is starring with his family in the second season of the TVGN/Slice sitcom/reality show “Unusually Thicke,” filming in Carpinteria, Santa Barbara and Montecito – close to home for this Carpinteria resident.

For the Huffington Post, Alan authors the Boomer Humor column. A champion for the cause of diabetes, Alan was the keynote speaker at the annual Sansum Diabetes Research Institute’s “Together We Triumph” luncheon in Santa Barbara.

Alan was recently inducted into the Canadian Walk of Fame and is husband to former Miami model Tanya Callau and proud “Pops” to sons Brennan (Entrepreneur), Robin (rock star) and Carter (high school genius), as well as grandsons, Tyler and Julian.

Alan and his family will be riding down State Street in style – a red 1968 Shelby GT500 convertible, driven by owner Stan Tabler.

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Holiday Performances Saturday, November 29 Channel City Chorus Strolling along State Street (1-3pm) Holiday Horns, Marshalls Patio (2-4pm) Sunday, November 30 Guitarist Vic Moraga Marshalls Patio (2-4pm) Saturday, December 6 Channel City Chorus Strolling along State Street (1-3pm) Sunday, December 7 Santa Barbara Revels Marshalls Patio (noon-2pm) Saturday, December 13 Tuba Christmas Storke Placita (noon-1:30pm) Channel City Chorus Strolling along State Street (1-3pm) Sunday, December 14 Guitarist Vic Moraga Marshalls Patio (2-4pm)

Saturday, December 20 Holiday Horns, Marshalls Patio (2-4pm) Thursday, December 4 Enjoy the a cappella sounds of Blended Contempo – this group will put you in the holiday spirit, performing on Marshalls Patio, 900 State (5-6:30pm).

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Joyful Hoop Dance, presented by Dana Morton, will dazzle you with a holiday LED hoop performance, 900 State (6:30pm).

Thursday, December 11 Mariano Silva and the Brazilian Cultural Arts Center will perform Capoeira and AfroBrazilian dance “flash mob” style, featuring explosive movements, vibrant colors and authentic costumes, starting at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (1130 State) and moving down State Street to… where?

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Thursday, December 18 Bring your blankets or folding chairs to Marshalls Patio for an outdoor showing of “It’s a Wonderful Life,” presented by Premier Outdoor Movies. Stay for the entire show or hang out long enough to hear your favorite line or see a beloved scene. Free popcorn!

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Kicking off on 1st Thursday (December 4), this Downtown Santa Barbara Holiday shopping-oriented program includes culture, dining, shopping, services, performances — all geared to make your Holiday shopping just a little bit easier and a lot more fun!

Bring the kids! Santa Barbara Macaroni Kid hosts FREE macaroni jewelry-making in holiday colors and other holiday crafts, including Christmas ornaments. You bring the kids; we’ll bring the craft supplies! (December 11 and 18, 900 State, 3-5pm)

To find Downtown Santa Barbara merchants ready to invite you in for extras to add to your holiday experience, go to www.downtownsb.org/hometown-holiday-nites.

Each day, be sure to get your gifts wrapped by LifeChronicles (Marshalls Patio, 10am to 3pm, donations gratefully accepted).

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In the corridors of power in Washington, D.C., and the serpentine bowels of the national security/intelligence complex, James Risen may be the most hated journalist in America. Risen’s latest book, Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War, is a scathing indictment of the fearmongering and profiteering that keeps the War on Terror humming along a dozen years after 9/11. Risen describes his book as “a case study in how unintended consequences and the search for money and power have become the hallmarks of the war on terror.”

When fear is married to unlimited budgets and bipartisan political support, and grown-up oversight is chucked out the window in the name of homeland security and counterterrorism, bad decisions happen, fraud and waste happen, and sooner or later the line between right and wrong, moral and immoral, is blurred.

Risen hammers home the point that the War on Terror has been a boon for the deregulated national security industry: “America’s richest discovered that the hottest way to make money was to get inside Washington’s national security apparatus.”

More than any other war in American history, Risen argues, the War on Terror has been waged along freemarket principles. Staggering amounts of money are involved, and powerful, politically connected constituencies have a vested interest in keeping it flowing indefinitely. This means that new threats and new enemies must constantly be identified and new weapon systems

developed and deployed. Financing an open-ended global war isn’t sustainable, even for one of the richest nations on the planet; domestic priorities like infrastructure projects, health care, education, and adaptations to climate change languish in the long shadow of national security.

The War on Terror and the emphasis on homeland security has altered the dynamics between the government and the press, between the government’s legitimate security interests and the people’s right to know what the government is doing in their name. Risen understands this only too well as the Obama administration has targeted him for prosecution for refusing to reveal his sources. This is the same administration that claims to be one of the most transparent in history. “Of all the abuses America has suffered at the hands of the government in its endless war on terror,” Risen writes, “possibly the worst has been the war on truth.”

In an age of fear and secrecy, a democratic society will deteriorate unless there are people brave enough to tell the truth regardless of the consequences.

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hat started as a penny drive in 2002 by the San Marcos High School AP economics class has now turned into a nationally recognized nonprofit called Kids Helping Kids (KHK). Run by students, with oversight by teacher Jamie DeVries, the organization raises money for disadvantaged kids. For example, KHK covers SAT/AP test fees for students and provided a wheelchair for a youth with a rare skin disease. The organization also goes beyond the county limits and has accomplished supporting a safe house for at-risk children in Nicaragua and funding the building of a preschool in Rwanda.

Several benefit events take place throughout the year to raise money — it has raised more than $1.4 million to date — such as school dances, a talent show, and, in particular, its annual benefit concert, which has had musical heavy hitters such as Sara Bareilles, Mat Kearney, and Toad the Wet Sprocket perform for the cause. This time, Kids Helping Kids has secured platinum-selling singer/songwriter Ingrid Michaelson to headline the fundraiser. The event takes place Saturday, January 10, 2015, 7 p.m., at the Granada Theatre (1214 State St.). For tickets and information, call the Granada box office at 899-2222 or see — Taylor Harrison kidshelpingkidssb.org.

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At the end of November, taste buds and tummies anticipate the feast that is the traditional Thanksgiving meal. Unfortunately, not everyone can afford the fall harvest goodies. Each year, Martial Arts Family Fitness (MAFF) helps less-fortunate community members enjoy a holiday spread with its Thanksgiving Basket Brigade. Funds are donated to purchase the goodies, and then MAFF members (pictured) volunteer to put together and distribute the full meals — turkey, potatoes, cranberry sauce, stuffing, pies, etc.

This year, more than 150 families received Thanksgiving dinners.

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sternum: MOB. It stands for “Mind on Basketball.”

That was Green’s emphasis while his body was missing from UCSB’s games. The 6 5 swingman from Oakland made his college debut in a 2011 exhibition, scoring 17 points in a victory over San Francisco State. He and Arizona recruit Alan Williams, a husky post player, appeared to be the future of Gaucho basketball. In Green’s case, it turned out to be the distant future.

A fractured left foot ended Green’s freshman season before it really started. That was the first in a cascade of injuries that wiped out his sophomore season, as well. He managed to play in three games last February, between the healing of his foot and the breaking of his wrist, for a total of 33 minutes.

MOB sustained Green, though not to the detriment of another reason for his attending UCSB. “Every once in a while I say: ‘Mind on Books,’” he said. He is majoring in anthropology and could have settled into student life without putting his limbs at further risk. But then he would not be the man his parents raised him to be.

“There are other people in this world who have things worse than I’ve had … cancer, things that are life-risking,” Green said. “I want to be a living testimony: Don’t give up.

There are always going to be obstacles in life; it’s how you embrace them and how you overcome them. Are you going to quit on something you love?

“I’m a basketball lover. I like to watch [NBA stars] Paul Pierce and Carmelo Anthony. They get to the basket, have a good mid-range game. I try to pattern my game after them.

During all those injuries, I tried to mentally learn moves by watching a lot of basketball.

“I look at my mother, Sheila, for guidance. She’s always about academics, working hard, being clean, and being kind to people. She kept my spirits up, always making sure I was fine, even if she was far away, telling me to stick with it. My father, Reggie, played college ball. He knows what I can do. He’s always been confident, telling me to keep my head up.”

Reggie Green was in the stands at the Phog Allen Fieldhouse two weeks ago when his fully fit son came off the bench and contributed nine points in UCSB’s season opener at No. 5–ranked Kansas. “I fouled out, a couple bogus calls, but that’s how the game goes,” John Green said. “My father told me, ‘The only thing you can do from here is take off and be better.’ ” Green’s improvement was immediate in the Gauchos’ next game, an overtime thriller at Florida Gulf Coast: 17 points in 26 minutes of action. “On the floor, I had a little rushed tendency,” he said. “Now I’m starting to slow down. I’m getting more comfortable.”

Green said those words after his most complete game yet, 17 points and seven rebounds in a 91-45 blowout at The Master’s College last Saturday. “It’s the tip of the iceberg, what we’re seeing now with John Green,” Gaucho coach Bob Williams said. “What we’re seeing now is good; later in the year, you’ll see what I’ve been talking about for three years. … He’s probably the most versatile scorer we have.”

Green is a senior in years, a junior in eligibility, and a freshman in enthusiasm. “It feels good to see myself on the court, giving the team what the coach wanted to see, that one missing piece, that X factor the team has needed the past couple years,” he said. His recovery couldn’t be better timed, with Alan Williams geared up to have a huge senior year and depth at every position. “Last year we were good but not great,” Green said. “This year we can be great. We took two tough losses on the road that we learned from.”

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only season as head coach, led the army’s women THEY’RE BACK: UCSB’s John Green (#31) made his college debut in a 2011 exhibition, but a into the NCAA tournacascade of injuries ended his freshman and sophomore seasons. Now he’s back and looking ment — a first for any forward to a big year. (Below) It’s been more than eight years since Maggie Dixon, who passed basketball team at the U.S. away at age 28, coached the army’s women into the NCAA tournament. But her fingerprints Military Academy — but are all over the Black Knights’ team that will face UCSB’s women in the Thunderdome on Friday her fingerprints are all night, November 28. over the Black Knights’ team that will face UCSB’s Panthers’ head coach when Howland went to UCLA. women in the Thunderdome on Friday night, November 28.

Maggie Dixon played at the University of San Diego Dixon died suddenly of a heart ailment on April 6, 2006, (USD). After being cut by the WNBA’s L.A. Sparks, she foljust weeks after her team’s tournament loss to Tennessee, at the age of 28. She was so beloved during her brief time at West lowed her brother’s footsteps into coaching, first as a volunteer assistant at DePaul. When he heard Maggie was being Point that she is buried at the academy’s cemetery overlookinterviewed at West Point, Jamie had serious doubts. “The ing the Hudson River.

David Magarity, a veteran men’s basketball coach whom enrollment was 10 percent women,” he said. “But after hangDixon hired as her assistant, passed up an NBA scouting job ing out with the players, Maggie said, ‘I have to coach these to stay on as head coach of the army women. They made their kids.’ ” second NCAA appearance last year and are picked to finish The rest was history, cheers, and tears. Jamie’s frequent first in the Patriot League preseason poll. They present quite a thoughts about his sister are buoyed by what a former USD challenge to the struggling Gaucho women. coach, Kyle Smith, once said about her: “Maggie Dixon never ■ Maggie Dixon has a connection to UCSB. Her brother, had a bad day.”

Jamie, was a graduate assistant coach with the Gaucho men’s team in the 1991-1992 season, when she was a 14-year-old Head over to player at Notre Dame High in Sherman Oaks. “That was the presidiosports.com first time I saw that she was taking basketball seriously,” said Jamie, who is eight years older. “We talked a lot.” Jamie folfor Athletes of the Week lowed UCSB assistant Ben Howland to Northern Arizona and more stories. and then to the University of Pittsburgh, taking over as the november 26, 2014

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hen Joseph Marinello was given a year to live in family and food and getting together, and how powerful 1991, he didn’t want his family’s rich tradition of that can be in creating a healthy family,” explained BowItalian cooking to die with him. So the first-genman, remarking that the process also brought her closer eration American, whose parents immigrated to her sisters and even taught her 94-year-old Uncle Arty through Ellis Island in the early new things about his late brother, as 1900s, picked up a tape recorder well. “There is also my dad’s belief and shared everything he could that anybody could be a good Italremember about growing gardens, ian cook,” she added. “His notion making meatballs, and perfecting of improvisational cooking is pesto, among dozens of other techsomething he always stressed with niques and recipes. people, the idea that you can take When he passed away at 75 years a few simple ingredients and those old in 1992, the tapes were passed ingredients can combine to create a to his three daughters, whom variety of dishes.” he’d raised with his wife, Julia, in The bright-green hardcover Burbank. But the grieving sisters book, decorated with both tantalizcouldn’t bear to hear his voice ing food photos and faded pictures so soon. “About 10 years after he from the family albums, is already died, we finally listened to them,” for sale at various bookstores and said his daughter Joan Bowman, cooking shops around town. Yet who moved to Santa Barbara in even if it didn’t sell one copy, Bow1986 and raised her own children man and her sisters are satisfied JOE’S GIFT: Before he died, Joseph here. “It was hard for us, but when with the record they’ve left for their Marinello recorded all of his kitchen and we did, we realized that we had a children and had a great time doing garden knowledge onto a tape recorder. treasure.” it. Said Bowman, “It was really a joy.”

Rather than just turn the tapes into a recipe book for their extended family as dad intended, Bowman and her sisters, Linda Carman (a Bay Area resident) and Jeri Pederson (of Grants Pass, Oregon), decided to turn the intimate recordings into a real book.

Relying heavily on Bowman’s experience from a publishing career with Girls Inc.’s Advocacy Press, the sisters built a book that blended their family’s favorite dishes (including many from their mother and other relatives) with compelling vignettes that channeled their father’s spirit. The result is La Cucina Marinello: Three Generations of Italian Cooking, a very practical yet often touching 235-page book of recipes, kitchen tips, gardening techniques, and heartfelt memories to make your own home a hotbed of Italian-American cuisine.

“We really tested the recipes, and we worked on the narrative, too,” said Bowman. “We wanted to capture my father’s tktktk and I think we did, especially in the gartktk:vision, dening chapter, where you can almost hear his New York Italian accent. We love the simplicity and the charm of his straight talk.”

The easy-to-follow recipes range from the traditional (Italian wedding soup, Bolognese sauce, Sunday meatballs, etc.) to the personal (mom’s meatloaf, Aunt Vera’s manicotti, Joe’s hamburgers with oven fries) to the more creative (no-cook marinara and freezer-friendly pesto).

There are also handy charts on equivalents (fresh versus canned tomatoes, dry versus liquid ingredients), suggestions on what to put in your pantry, and a glossary that helps understand the Marinello family’s kitchen A DAUGHTER’S MISSION: Santa Barbara’s Joan Bowman language. and her two sisters put together their family’s recipes, But for Bowman, the recipes relay deeper themes. including Sunday’s “magic” meatballs, for all to read.

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n the month of December, many theaters program the old reliables — holiday shows that promise weary shoppers familiar forms of Christmas cheer. But that’s not what’s happening at Ensemble Theatre Company. On December 4-21, Daniel MacIvor’s hit comedy The Best Brothers makes its United States debut right here at the New Vic. The two-person show picks up the story of brothers Hamilton (Michael Polak) and Kyle (Kasey Mahaffy) in the immediate aftermath of their mother’s death. It seems she was crushed by a falling drag queen while attending a gay pride parade, and her sons have a lot to do, much of which will be familiar to anyone who has gone through the process of planning a funeral, closing a house, and resolving an estate in the aftermath of a parent’s death. The fact that the men haven’t seen each other much in recent years means there’s also lots of contrasting personalities; Kyle is gay and has a penchant for pursuing inappropriate partners, while Hamilton needs a lot of order in his life.

Brian Shnipper, who is directing The Best Brothers, has become a regular visitor to Ensemble with three great shows to his credit

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in recent years, including Opus and Bell, Book & Candle over at the Alhecama and Red at the New Vic.“As soon as I read this script, I completely identified with it and loved it,” Shnipper said, following a rehearsal last week.

He went on to describe the show as one that

“feels very current for a couple of reasons.

First, the gay theme is handled in a way that’s bright, funny, and contemporary, and second, although it starts out as a familiar comedy of sibling rivalry, it takes a turn toward something darker and richer. When I reached the end, I found myself really touched by it.”

One particular item in the mother’s will causes more consternation than all the others put together, and that’s her Italian greyhound. The question of how this bequest will be resolved takes center stage as the story unfolds. Perhaps the dog represents the need for companionship, or maybe it’s just an excuse to express some of the grief the men are feeling. Either way, deciding what to do with mom’s pup becomes a big deal. Playwright MacIvor has an ear for witty one-upmanship and a gift for slightly surreal, visionary monologues, and both these talents are on full display in The Best Brothers.

For tickets and information, call 965-5400 — Charles Donelan x109 or visit etcsb.org.

that there is no love lost between ex-bandmates, Roger Waters was not invited to participate in the project. Of course, Floyd purists might object to the very concept of The Endless River, just like they did when the band soldiered on without Waters after 1983’s The Final Cut (or, for that matter, without Syd Barrett after 1968’s A Saucerful of Secrets). But one can just as easily make the case for a great band revisiting its past and harvesting its relics. In that spirit, The Endless River takes its name from lyrics found on The Division Bell’s closing track, “High Hopes.” It comprises four almost completely instrumental sides, while also utilizing some 1969 Wright rehearsals, which reinforce the vintage Floyd feel.

On the whole, the album harks back to pre-The Wall Floyd, recalling, especially, aspects of “Echoes” and “Welcome to the Machine,” albeit sans lyrics. Ste-

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Last fall, as a kickoff to their annual fund drive, KCSB FM . launched Bank Burner Records. The small, boutique label was created by a team of station employees and alums primarily as a way to give back to the musicians working in and around the KCSB community. While Bank Burner has only had one release so far — a shimmering seven-inch from Santa Barbara neo-surf act Dante Elephante — last week it helped usher in another station milestone: KCSB’s first-ever compilation of live, instudio recordings. The CD, out now and available via the station’s website, is called Live in Studio A: -, and it includes 19 tracks from artists that have graced the KCSB control room over the last year and a half.

Dreamed up and produced by KCSB General Manager R. Yibing Guo, Live in Studio A pulls performances from seven of the station’s regularly scheduled programs, including Future Daze, …………fun!!, The Freak Power Ticket, Cue the Blues, and Las Flores, as well as the now-defunct Boombox Surround Sound and Rambling Jams. As such, the music on it zigs and zags all over the map, encapsulating everything from ambient darkwave to strummy twee pop to bombastic punk funk. Among the highlights are selections from faraway acts like Brazilian singer/songwriter Rodrigo Amarante, New York folk act Streets of Laredo, and L.A. psych rockers The Blank Tapes, as well as a stellar cross section of Santa Barbara artists, including Whoolilicious, Remambran, and recent UCSB alum Chris Cubbison’s Cub’B. And in true symbiotic nonprofit fashion, all proceeds from album sales get filtered right back into the station, which will enable KCSB’s programmers to keep bringing the goods. “[This] is something I have long wanted to do,” said Guo. “But this release is just a sampling of some of KCSB’s best performances.”

For more info, or to purchase Live in Studio A: , visit kcsb.org.

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PINK FLOYD THE ENDLESS RIVER Serving mostly as homage to the late Richard Wright, Pink Floyd’s The Endless River incorporates a portion of its source material from sessions for 1994’s The Division Bell. Indeed, some of the songs on this album were originally intended for an ambient companion piece to that record — The Big Spliff — which the band ultimately chose not to release. Luckily for die-hard Floyd fans, David Gilmour reached the conclusion that the Spliff recordings should be cannibalized for a new — and perhaps final — Pink Floyd project. To that end, Nick Mason was recruited to add percussion and overdubs, and Wright’s old organ, piano, and synthesizers were repurposed for the new album, which also features contributions from Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera.

The record is crowned, of course, by Gilmour’s virtuosic guitar playing. Reinforcing the impression

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phen Hawking is sampled on the cosmically quantum track “Talkin’ Hawkin’,” while the gorgeously transcendent “Surfacing” finds the band at a new zenith. The only lyrics to be found are on the closing track, “Louder Than Words,” which was penned by Gilmour’s wife, Polly Samson, and sung by Gilmour: “We bitch and we fight / Dis each other on sight / But this thing we do … it’s louder than words.” It’s an appropriate coda to Pink Floyd’s epic mythos.

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LOVE IN THE COLD NORTH Reviewed by Joseph Miller

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Almost, Maine, presented by Westmont College Theatre Arts Department. At Porter Theatre, Saturday, November 22. fter seeing this production of Almost, Maine, it’s easy to understand why John Cariani is one of the most watched American playwrights alive today; he turns his back on edgy trends in the post-post-whatever art world and unabashedly celebrates warmth, romance, and humor in ordinary small-town life.

In a word, this play believes in innocence.

In fact, I walked into Saturday’s performance not knowing the piece and was quickly convinced it had to be 40 years old — until one of the skits took up sameSNOWBALLED: Dillon Montag sex romance.

Cariani is perhaps best known for his (Pete) and Chloe Burns (Ginette) television role as Julian Beck on Law and find that love runs full circle in Order. But Almost, Maine, his first play, put Almost, Maine. him on the writer’s map in a big way. Since its world premiere by the Portland Stage Company 10 years ago, the production has enjoyed more than 2,500 stagings. Cariani clearly mined a buried vein of gold in the American imagination, and this Westmont College production did the same for the large audience on closing night.

Almost is a northern Maine town near the Canadian border that’s not quite incorporated in any state municipality. Nine romantic vignettes portray stranded hearts as they confront near misses, near losses, and the limbo of unrequited love. The script indulges exaggerated corniness and puns — which end up being quite funny, for all the intelligence and playfulness of the writing.

Powdered snow on the stage, winter wear, and layers of white sheer curtains made for simple but effective scenic design. And the 10 Westmont student actors gave delightful performances, displaying wonderful comic skills and convincing depth of heart.

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Ten Red Kings. At SBCC’s Jurkowitz Theatre, Friday, November 21. he massively popular multiplayer online role-playing game known as World of Warcraft (WoW) may seem like an odd point of departure for a contemporary play — or you may be saying to yourself,“It’s about time.” Either way, that’s what playwright Mark Rigney has used to jump-start Ten Red Kings, which weaves together dramatizations of WoW gameplay with a framing story about a camp in Montana where people go to recover from gaming addictions.

Margot Cates, ably played by Sabrina Wagner, is a grieving teen whose parents order her to give up her gaming habit, even though Nightwatch (Hannah Wade), BIG SIS: Samantha Demangate plays the spirit of Courtney Cates her WoW avatar, remains her closest in Ten Red Kings. connection to her dead sister, Courtney (Samantha Demangate). Margot’s powerful emotional connection to not one but two characters supposedly inhabiting parallel worlds — her avatar in WoW and her sister as a kind of memory ghost — puts extraordinary pressure on the “real” situation she’s in at the camp.

Fortunately, the other campers provide plenty of contrast and comic relief.

Vera Olin and Colton Fair have a lot of fun with their characters, Paula and Joey, and Amanda Probst holds her own against the unruly lot as the head counselor, Rhonda. There are also plenty of trolls and zombies, and even a silly wizard named Varleigh (Lazer Friedman). While Ten Red Kings may not provide the last word on gaming addiction, it should satisfy the demand for plays about ■ World of Warcraft for some time.

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The band will hit Santa Barbara’s SOhO this week on the last stretch of its worldwide tour behind Cuckold. In anticipation, we caught up with ZahnerIsenberg to chat about touring disasters, lyrical inspiration, and how to sum up life SUB POP’S YOUNG GUNS RETURN WITH in an album.

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by Cassandra Miasnikov your tour so far? The best parts have pretty easily been the shows. Last night we had a really good sound guy, and there have been some radio sets that have been really fun. The shows on this tour have been the best we’ve ever done.

The worst part of the tour has been our van getting ransacked. Some people broke in and stole some gear. It sucked, but it also was a learning experience.

We borrowed some gear and learned how to be better on the fly as a result. We didn’t lose everything, but I lost a pedal board I’d spent years curating and two of the guitars that we’d been playing the whole tour with. It’s interesting, because the guitars that were stolen are actually on either side of the new album’s cover.

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Was the process different on this album than on your previous album? I write songs the same way I always have. That’s the security of the project — I write and write and write until I have enough to choose from. I wait for life to happen, for shit to disturb me or excite me, and then I write about it. I collect as many songs as I can and record them as best as I can. Once I have enough, I put it together into an album. … The only thing that changes drastically between albums is what kind of music I’m listening to at the time and who I’m playing with — the natural musical influences. I really want to up the ante on my practice and start playing for hours every day, like I did when I first started. That increased amount of practice, combined with the amount of shows we are playing, is going to really influence my future music.

Do you have an overarching theme for your albums at all? The songs are all interconnected, but not intentionally. I believe that summing up my life in an album that way is simple and complex enough. This new album is primarily about growing up and relationships, mostly, but it wasn’t intentional. Those are both really simple, basic things, Avi Buffalo plays SOhO but under those umbrellas are a lot Restaurant & Music of subjects and a lot of dynamics.

Club (1221 State St.) on Wednesday, All these themes get tied together: December 3, at 9 p.m. Call 962-7776 or music, relationships, life, getting visit sohosb.com for more information. older, dealing with yourself.

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he wine is chilling, the turkey is roasting, and the house is smelling all nice and seasonal. You’ve AND arranged the appetizers just right, the first guests have yet to arrive — all that’s left to do is cue up the soundtrack. Forget what the football fans tell you: Thanksgiving should have music. (And no, the halftime show doesn’t count.) In the spirit of T-Day, we asked two of our favorite music makers, Toad the Wet Sprocket frontman Glen Phillips and S.B.turned-L.A. songwriter Velasco, to help us compile the perfect Thanksgiving playlist — complete with liner notes.

Once the food coma has subsided, you can catch Toad and Velasco live at SOhO Restaurant & Music Club on Friday, November 28. (Glen & Co. play a second date on Sunday, November 30, too.) For tickets and info, call 962-7776 or visit sohosb.com.

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Paul Simon

“Never been lonely, never been lied to. Never had to scuffle in fear, nothing denied to.” I love the way he contrasts the rattling noise of the first world with the simple perfection of a humble newborn.

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� “Born at the Right Time,”

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� “Second Chances,” Gregory

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“I’m all bloody knuckles, longing for home. If it weren’t for second chances, we’d all be alone.” Gratitude and forgiveness go well together. � “Joy,” Lucinda Williams

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Because you can only have so much gratitude. Every once in a while you need to grab something back.

VELASCO’S PICKS � “Strange Stairway,” Bill Fay Group

It starts off strange and ethereal, like the morning after first snowfall. When things begin to die, that’s when quiet reigns, and you begin to reflect on things, like the afterlife and ascending the “strange stairway.” He says, “The only thing that’ll get us up off the floor is the love inside we.” � “What Is Life,” George Harrison

A magnificent and joyous sendoff to the warm days! I love this song. It fills me with the joy and gratitude for life needed to get through the dark winter days.

Besides, what would a T-Day be without a song to make you get up off your ass and dance with abandon?

� “Peace Piece,” Bill Evans

Can you picture anything but the beautiful descent of snowflakes? Or the lilting, graceful fall of leaves in slow motion? Or perhaps skating on a frozen pond hand in hand with your beloved? This song infuses any of these clichés ■ with warmth and sublimity. One of my all-time faves. november 26, 2014

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT LISTINGS art exhibits MUSEUMS Art, Design & Architecture Museum – Barton Myers: Works of Architecture and Urbanism and Bollywood 101: The Visual Culture of Bollywood Film Posters, through Dec. 12; Eric Beltz: The Cave of Treasures, through May 1, 2015. UCSB, 893-2951.

Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum – Pamela Benham: Pamela Benham Paintings; Evita, Abstract Art Collective Exhibit, through Dec. 31; multiple permanent installations. 21 W. Anapamu St., 962-5322.

Museum of Contemporary Art S.B. – Requiem for the Bibliophile and Bloom Projects: Lisa Tan, Sunsets, through Dec. 14.

653 Paseo Nuevo, 966-5373.

Rancho La Patera & Stow House – Multiple permanent exhibits hosted by the Goleta Valley Historical Society. 304 N. Los Carneros Rd., Goleta, 681-7216.

S.B. Historical Museum – Under the Umbrella: Lutah Maria Riggs, through spring 2015; The Story of Santa Barbara, permanent exhibition. Free admission. 136 E. De la Guerra St., 966-1601.

S.B. Maritime Museum – Patti Jacquemain: From the Mountains to the Sea: Woodblock Prints and Mosaics, through Feb. 1, 2015. 113 Harbor Wy., 962-8404.

S.B. Museum of Art – Contemporary/Modern: Selections from the Permanent Collection; Art to Zoo: Exploring Animal Natures, through Jan. 4, 2015; Degas to Chagall: Important Loans from the Armand Hammer Foundation and the Collection of Michael Armand Hammer and Martin Kersels’s Charm series, ongoing exhibitions. 1130 State St., 963-4364.

S.B. Musem of Natural History – John Gould and Illustrators: The Bird Man, through Jan. 4, 2015. 2559 Puesta del Sol, 682-4711.

Ty Warner Sea Ctr. – Multiple permanent installations. 211 Stearns Wharf, 962-2526.

Wildling Museum – Painting the Wilderness, through Jan. 5, 2015; Charley Harper: Beguiled by the Wild-ling, through Jan. 19, 2015. 1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang, 688-1082.

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Allan Hancock College Library – Children’s book illustrations, ongoing.

800 S. College Dr., Santa Maria, 922-6966.

Art from Scrap Gallery – Homespun Holiday, Dec. 4 - Jan. 5, 2015. 302 E. Cota St., 884-0459.

Artamo Gallery – Ann Baldwin, Christina Hall-Strauss, Julia Pinkham: Autumn, through Nov. 30; Michael Kessler: Water & Stone, Dec. 4-Jan. 18, 2015. 11 W. Anapamu St., 568-1400.

Atkinson Gallery – Art Alumni Invitational, through Dec. 5. 721 Cliff Dr., Rm. 202, SBCC, 965-0581 x3484.

Beatrice Wood Ctr. for the Arts – Robert Rheem: Recent Paintings; Source & Inspiration, through Dec. 28. 8585 Ojai-Santa Paula Rd., Ojai, 646-3381.

Bella Rosa Galleries – Morris B. Squire: Nature Conservancy, through Nov. 30.

1103 State St., 966-1707.

Bronfman Family Jewish Community Ctr. – Voices, ongoing. 524 Chapala St., 957-1115.

The C Gallery – Natural Tendencies, through Jan. 14, 2015. 466 Bell St., Los Alamos, 344-3807.

Cancer Ctr. of S.B. – Art Heals, a permanent exhibit. 540 Pueblo St., 898-2204.

Carpinteria Arts Ctr. – Portals, through Dec. 31. 855 Linden Ave., Carpinteria, 684-7789.

Casa Dolores – Saintly and Spirited: Art Made of Tin; Objects from the Permanent Collection, through Dec. 31. 1023 Bath St., 963-1032.

Divine Inspiration Gallery of Fine Art – Samuel Smith, through Dec. 27. 1528 State St., 962-6444.

Faulkner Gallery – William Mitchell: Ad Hoc-Plein Air Observations, through Nov. 30.

40 E. Anapamu St., 564-5608.

Flying Goat Cellars – The Sea at 5am, through Nov. 30. 1520 E. Chestnut Ct., Ste. A, Lompoc, 736-9032. galerie102 – Holidaze Group Show, through Dec. 28. 102 W. Matilija St., Ojai, 640-0151.

Gallery 113 – Hedy Price Paley and David Crouch, through Nov. 30; Allison Wells:

Hereabouts and nearby, Dec. 1-27. La Arcada, 1114 State St., 965-6611.

Gallery Los Olivos – The Painter and the Potter, through Nov. 30; Irina Malkmus, through Dec. 3; Small Treasures, Dec. 1 - Jan. 31, 2015.

2920 Grand Ave., Los Olivos, 688-7517.

The Good Life Craft Beer & Wine Cellar – Suzanne Huska, through Nov. 30. 1672 Mission Dr., Solvang, 688-7111.

Harris & Fredda Meisel Gallery – Friends & Family, through Jan. 9, 2015. 2415 De la Vina St., 687-7444.

Hotel Indigo – The Vastness Is Bearable, through Dec. 7. 121 State St., 966-6586.

James Main Fine Art – Channing Peake: Self-Portrait, through Jan. 2, 2015. 27 E. De la Guerra St., 637-8632.

Jane Deering Gallery – The Flat File Project, ongoing. 128 E. Canon Perdido St., 966-3334.

The Lark – Kevin Eddy, ongoing. 131 Anacapa St., 284-0370.

Larry Iwerks’s Weldon Art Ranch – 8x10 ARTXtravaganza, through Jan. 25, 2015. 958 Weldon Rd., 965-5486.

Los Olivos Café – Sharon Foster: Our Beautiful Santa Ynez Valley, through Jan. 8, 2015. 2870 Grand Ave., Los Olivos, 688-7265.

Lucky Penny – Campbell Baker, ongoing.

127 Anacapa St., 284-0358.

Montecito Aesthetic Institute – Neo Diversity, through Jan. 10, 2015. 1150 Coast Village Rd., Ste. H, Montecito, 969-0083.

MultiCultural Ctr. – Judy Baca, through Dec. 19. UCSB. 893-8411.

Pacific Western Bank – Celebrating 28 Years of I Madonnari Posters, ongoing. 30 E. Figueroa St., 883-5100.

Pacifica Graduate Institute – Mythic Threads: Art, Healing and Magic in Bali, ongoing. 801 Ladera Ln, 969-3626.

El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park – Nihonmachi Revisited: Santa Barbara’s Japanese American Community in Transition, 1900-1940; Memorias y Facturas, ongoing. 123 E. Canon Perdido St., 965-0093.

S.B. Artwalk – Arts & Craft Show, ongoing.

Cabrillo Blvd. at State St. S.B. City Hall Gallery – Pursuit of Passion: Early Santa Barbara Women Artists, through Feb. 20, 2015. De la Guerra Plaza, 568-3990.

S.B. Tennis Club – LAX Wax Art, through Dec. 5. 2375 Foothill Rd., 682-4722.

Sojourner Café – Peggy Oki, through Jan. 2, 2015. 134 E. Canon Perdido St., 965-7922.

Sullivan Goss, An American Gallery – Frank Kirk: The Secret World of Frank Kirk and Celebrating 30 Years of Art, through Nov. 30; Leon Dabo: Art for Art’s Sake and Dan Lutz: Original Expression, through Dec. 28; 100 Grand, 2014, Dec. 4 - Feb. 1, 2015; Anders Aldrin: Color Seeking Form; Jean Swiggett: One Man Renaissance, Dec. 4 - Mar. 1, 2015. 7 E. Anapamu St., 730-1460.

Tamsen Gallery – R.W. Firestone, ongoing.

3888 State St. , 687-2200.

UCSB Library – Images of Africa; An Artist Looks at His African Heritage, through January 2015. UCSB, 893-2478. wall space gallery – Barbara Parmet & Christa Blackwood: Unbound, through Dec. 28.

116 E. Yanonali St. C-1, 637-3898.

Youth Interactive – Cartoons, through Nov. 30. 209 Anacapa St., 453-4123.

LIVE MUSIC CLASSICAL

First United Methodist Church – Mozart by Candlelight. 305 E. Anapamu St., 963-3579.

FRI: 8pm S.B. Museum of Art – Quire of Voyces. 1130 State St., 963-4364.

THU /: 6:30pm Trinity Episcopal Church – Advent Organ Series. 1500 State St., 965-7419.

SUN: 3:30pm

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THU: Greg Harrison (7pm) Blush Restaurant & Lounge – 630 State St., 957-1300.

SUN: Chris Fossek (6pm) Brasil Arts Café – 1230 State St., 245-5615.

FRI: Live Brazilian Music (6:30pm) Cold Spring Tavern – 5995 Stagecoach Rd., 967-0066.

FRI: Patina Strings (2-5pm)

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Salt Martians (2-5pm); Stone Phoneys (6-9pm) SUN: Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan (2-5pm); Little Jonny and the Giants (4:30-7:30pm) The Creekside – 4444 Hollister Ave., 964-5118.

FRI: The Evolution Band (8pm) SAT: DJ Dave Lopez (8:30pm) MON: Karaoke with Dyno Mike (7pm) WED: Country Night (7pm) Dargan’s – 18 E. Ortega St., 568-0702.

SAT: Traditional Irish Music (6:30pm) WED: Karaoke the Band (8:30pm) Endless Summer Bar/ Café – 113 Harbor Wy., 564-1200.

FRI: Acoustic guitar and vocals (6:30pm) EOS Lounge – 500 Anacapa St., 564-2410.

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et’s face it: A romance involving the unlikely union of quantum mechanics and the general theory of relativity doesn’t sound all that promising. Add to the equation the often formulaic confines of the biopic genre, and you’re probability of a good time at the movies just dipped dramatically. Luckily, the smart and heartfelt Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything is all about defying the odds.

The movie picks up Stephen’s story in the early 1960s as he begins his doctorate at the University of Cambridge. A science-minded atheist from an eccentric family of intellectuals, he hits it off with a churchgoing student of medieval Spanish poetry named Jane. Their budding romance — including a date at a firework-spangled outdoor formal — is artfully captured by director James Marsh, whose singular vision and attention to detail are on full display throughout the film. Just as their relationship is taking root, though, Stephen is diagnosed with ALS (aka Lou Gehrig’s disease) and given two years to live, a prognosis that will test his resolve and that of his soon-to-be wife.

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The following films are playing in Santa Barbara WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, THROUGH THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4. Descriptions followed by initials — AC (Aly Comingore), JF (Jackson Friedman), and DJP (D.J. Palladino) — have been taken from our critics’ reviews, which can be read in full at independent.com. The symbol ✯ indicates the film is recommended.

FIRST LOOKS ✯ Citizenfour

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(114 mins.; R: language)

In the opening scenes of Laura Poitras’s latest documentary, we meet our hero through a series of encrypted emails. It was under the name “Citizen Four” that famed National Security Agency (NSA) whistle-blower Edward Snowden first reached out to Poitras and then eventually lured her, along with journalists Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill, to Hong Kong. Once there, Snowden turned over thousands of classified documents about the U.S. government’s pervasive global surveillance strategies to them, all within the confines of a stark foreign hotel room.

There should be no pretense made about Citizenfour’s goals or biases: Poitras depicts Snowden as a sacrificial lamb whose lone objective lies in exposing the NSA’s unconstitutional agenda.

Furthermore, she and Greenwald have long aligned themselves with Snowden’s tactics and beliefs. With that knowledge firmly in place, though, Poitras’s film plays out like a triumphant, tension-filled masterpiece that benefits from, rather than crumbles under, its limitations.

Filmed mostly in Hong Kong during Poitras’s and Snowden’s first and only face-to-face meeting, Citizenfour weaves a taut, fascinating character study between its barrage of specs about just how much private information the NSA can (and does) see. Thanks in part to the intimacy — and built-in paranoia — of the encounter, these hotel-room discussions and interviews (with Greenwald, especially) carry a thriller-like quality and ultimately drive Poitras’s film to completion.

That Citizenfour hardly mentions the deluge of other, far more dangerous classified documents Snowden leaked is worth mentioning, but ultimately misses the point. The film sets out to replicate the shock, confusion, and anger that Poitras felt the first time Snowden pulled the proverbial curtain on our national government. And walking out of the theater after Citizenfour’s final scenes, you can’t help but feel like it succeeded. (AC)

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 (123 mins.; PG-13: intense sequences of violence and action, some disturbing images, thematic material) Reviewed on page 74.

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Riviera Horrible Bosses 2 (108 mins.; R: strong crude and sexual content and language throughout)

Dale, Kurt, and Nick decide to start their own company and then get dragged into a crazy kidnapping plan by their investor.

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LASHING OUT: J.K. Simmons (left) is utterly engrossing as a volatile instructor at a New York music academy in Whiplash.

Penguins of Madagascar (92 mins.; PG: mild action, some rude humor)

Four penguin spies join forces with an elite undercover agency to try and stop a villainous doctor from destroying the world.

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SCREENINGS No Turning Back (98 mins.; NR) Warren Miller’s 65th ski film pays homage to mountain culture and adventure sports filmmaking with footage from Mount Olympus, the French Alps, and Niseko, Japan.

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This Is What Democracy Looks Like (72 mins.; NR)

Jill Friedberg and Rick Rowley direct this documentary about the 1999 street protests against the World Trade Organization Summit in Seattle, Washington.

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A large inflatable robot named Baymax befriends a prodigy named Hiro. Together they assemble a group of friends to form a tech-savvy hero brigade. Big Hero 6 has a lot going for it, but it doesn’t love its own ideas enough to finish strong. (DJP)

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✯ Birdman

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A washed-up actor (Michael Keaton) must put his ego aside when he signs on to a Broadway play that could relaunch his career. Birdman is a lot bigger than its injokes and a lot smaller than its faux philosophies suggest. But the reason to love this film lies almost completely in its performances. (DJP) Paseo Nuevo

✯ Diplomacy

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Director Volker Schlöndorff ’s historical drama documents the relationship between the German military governor of occupied Paris and the Swedish con-

sul-general during WWII. The best parts of this talky film lie in its stellar performances and unstated truths. (DJP)

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Dumb and Dumber To (110 mins.; PG-13: crude and sexual humor, partial nudity, language, some drug references) Twenty years after their first adventure, Harry (Jeff Daniels) and Lloyd (Jim Carrey) go in search of one of their long-lost kids in the hopes of getting a new kidney.

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✯ Gone Girl

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When Nick’s wife goes missing and the media starts to swarm, he quickly becomes a suspect in her disappearance.

Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike star.

Director David Fincher makes a sprawling downward spiral seem compellingly watchable. (DJP) Fiesta 5

✯ Interstellar

(169 mins.; PG-13: some intense perilous action, brief strong language)

A group of explorers use a newly discovered wormhole to travel farther than human space travel ever once thought possible. Christopher Nolan directs and Matthew McConaughey stars. Stunning visuals and stellar performances more than make up for Nolan’s sometimes overambitious moments. (JF)

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St. Vincent (103 mins.; PG-13: mature thematic material including sexual content, alcohol and tobacco use, language)

A young boy finds an unlikely friend in the grumpy, foul-mouthed war vet who lives next door. Bill Murray stars. Metro 4

✯ Whiplash (107 mins.; R: strong language including some sexual references) A promising young drummer (Miles Teller) enrolls in a respected music conservatory and is mentored by a militant instructor (J.K. Simmons). Even in a year of great films, Whiplash is an extended thrill, enabled by great acting, brisk scripting, and knife’s-edge editing. (DJP)

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(Mar. 21 - Apr. 19): What exactly do you believe in, Aries? What’s your philosophy of life? Do you think that most people are basically good and that you can make a meaningful life for yourself if you just work hard and act kind? Do you believe that evil, shape-shifting, kitteneating extraterrestrials have taken on human form and are impersonating political leaders who control our society? Are you like the character Crash Davis in the film Bull Durham, who believed in “high fiber, good scotch, the sweet spot, and long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days”? Now would be an excellent time for you to get very clear about the fundamental principles that guide your behavior. Recommit yourself to your root beliefs — and jettison the beliefs that no longer work for you.

(June 21 - July 22): Should you cut back and retrench?

Definitely. Should you lop off and bastardize? Definitely not. Do I recommend that you spend time editing and purifying? Yes, please. Does this mean you should censor and repress? No, thank you. Here’s my third pair of questions: Will you be wise enough to shed some of your defense mechanisms and strip away one of your lame excuses? I hope so. Should you therefore dispense with all of your psychic protections and leave yourself vulnerable to being abused? I hope not.

It’s used as a standard in the printing industry. According to its system of classification, there are 104 various shades of gray. I suspect you will benefit from being equally discerning in the coming weeks. It just won’t be possible to differentiate between the good guys and the bad guys.

You’ll misunderstand situations that you try to simplify, and you’ll be brilliant if you assume there’s always more nuance and complexity to uncover. Don’t just grudgingly tolerate ambiguity, Libra. Appreciate it. Learn from it.

LEO

(Oct. 23 - Nov. 21): I am not necessarily predicting that you will acquire a shiny new asset in time for the solstice.

Nor am I glibly optimistic that you will get a raise in pay or an unexpected bonus. And I can offer only a 65 percent certainty that you will snag a new perk or catch a financial break or stumble upon a treasure. In general, though, I am pretty confident that your net worth will rise in the next four weeks. Your luck will be unusually practical. To take maximum advantage of the cosmic tendencies, focus your efforts on the one or two most promising prospects.

TAURUS (Apr. 20 - May 20): I have two encyclopedias of dreams, and they disagree on the symbolic meaning of mud. One book says that when you dream of mud, you may be facing a murky moral dilemma in your waking life or are perhaps dealing with a messy temptation that threatens to compromise your integrity. The other encyclopedia suggests that when you dream of mud, it means you have received an untidy but fertile opportunity that will incite growth and creativity. I suspect that you have been dreaming of mud lately, Taurus, and that both meanings apply to you.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): Are there certain influences you would love to bring into your life, but you can’t figure out how? Do you fantasize about getting access to new resources that would make everything better for you, but they seem to be forever out of reach? If you answered “yes,” it’s time to stop moping. I’m happy to report that you have more power than usual to reel in those desirable influences and resources. To fully capitalize on this power, be confident that you can attract what you need.

Homework: For three days, uphold your highest ideal in every little way you can imagine. Report results at Truthrooster@gmail.com.

(July 23 - Aug. 22): I know you’re beautiful, and you know you’re beautiful. But I think you could be even more beautiful than you already are. What do you think?

Have you reached the limits of how beautiful you can be? Or will you consider the possibility that there is even more beauty lying dormant within you, ready to be groomed and expressed? I encourage you to ruminate on these questions: (1) Are you hiding a complicated part of your beauty because it would be hard work to liberate it?

(2) Are you afraid of some aspect of your beauty because revealing it would force you to acknowledge truths about yourself that are at odds with your self-image? (3) Are you worried that expressing your full beauty would intimidate other people?

VIRGO (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22): Helsinki, Finland, is growing downward. By cutting out space in the bedrock below the city’s surface, farseeing leaders have made room to build shops, a data center, a hockey rink, a church, and a swimming pool. There are also projects underway to construct 200 other underground structures. I’d like to see you start working along those lines, Virgo — at least metaphorically. Now would be an excellent time to renovate your foundations so as to accommodate your future growth.

LIBRA

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SCORPIO

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21): Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist, and mathematician who is sometimes called “the father of modern science.” He expressed his innovative ideas so vigorously that he offended the Catholic Church, which convicted him of heresy. For us today, he symbolizes the magnificence of rational thought. And yet Galileo also had a weird streak. For example, he gave lectures on the “On the Shape, Location, and Size of Dante’s Inferno,” analyzing the poet’s depiction of hell. In the course of these meticulous discourses, Galileo concluded that Satan was more than four-fifths of a mile tall. In this spirit, Sagittarius, and in accordance with current astrological omens, you are temporarily authorized to de-emphasize the constraints of reason and logic so that you may gleefully and unapologetically pursue your quirky proclivities.

(Dec. 22 - Jan. 19): While in his early twenties, actor Robert Downey Jr. appeared in the films Less Than Zero and Weird Science. That got him semi-typecast as a member of Hollywood’s Brat Pack, a group of popular young actors and actresses who starred in coming-of-age films in the 1980s. Eager to be free of that pigeonhole, Downey performed a ritual in 1991: He dug a hole in his backyard and buried the clothes he had worn in Less Than Zero. I recommend that you carry out a comparable ceremony to help you graduate from the parts of your past that are holding you back.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18): In her book Revolution from Within, Gloria Steinem offers a challenge: “Think of the times you have said: ‘I can’t write,’ ‘I can’t paint,’ ‘I can’t run,’ ‘I can’t shout,’ ‘I can’t dance,’ ‘I can’t sing.’ ” That’s your first assignment, Aquarius: Think of those times. Your second assignment is to write down other “I can’t” statements you have made over the years. Assignment three is to objectively evaluate whether any of these “I can’t” statements are literally true. If you find that some of them are not literally true, your fourth assignment is to actually do them. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to transform “I can’t” into “I can.”

PISCES (Feb. 19 - Mar. 20): “Dogs don’t know where they begin and end,” writes Ursula K. Le Guin in her book The Wave in the Mind. They “don’t notice when they put their paws in the quiche.” Cats are different, Le Guin continues.

They “know exactly where they begin and end. When they walk slowly out the door that you are holding open for them, and pause, leaving their tail just an inch or two inside the door, they know it. They know you have to keep holding the door open … It’s a cat’s way of maintaining relationship.” Whether you are more of a dog person or a cat person, Pisces, it is very important that you be more like a cat than a dog in the coming weeks.

You must keep uppermost in your mind exactly where you begin and where you end.

(Sept. 23 - Oct. 22): The Pantone Color Matching System presents a structured approach to identifying colors.

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Featuring fine grilled steaks, fresh seafood, delicious pastas, select American Regional specialties, like Blackened Crawfish‑stuffed Filet Mignon, Louisiana Bread Pudding Souffle. Cajun Martinis, unique beers & well selected wine list. Lunch starts early enough for a late breakfast & ends late enough for an early supper. Voted “Best Team Service” since 1988. Rave reviews in Gourmet Magazine, Gault‑Millau Travel Guide, Zagat & Sunset Magazine.

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OPAL RESTAURANT & Bar 1325 State St. 966‑9676 $$.Open M‑S 11:30a & 7 nights 5p. V MC AE Local’s Favorite, Eclectic California Cuisine fuses creative influences from around the world with American Regional touches: Chile‑Crusted Filet Mignon to Pan‑Seared Fresh Fish & Seafood, Homemade Pastas, Gourmet Pizzas, Fresh baked Breads, Deliciously Imaginative Salads & Homemade Desserts.

OPAL radiates a friendly, warm atmosphere graced by our fun efficient Service, Full bar, Martinis, Wine Spectator award‑winning wine list, private room.

Lunches are affordable and equally delicious.

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SB COFFEE Roasting Company 321 Motor Way SB 962‑5213– NOW WITH FREE WI‑FI! Santa Barbara’s premiere coffee roasting company since 1989. Come in for the freshest most delicious cup of coffee ever and watch us roast the best coffee in town at our historic Old Town location ‑ Corner of State & Gutierrez. Gift baskets, mail order & corporate gifts avail. sbcoffee.com.

ICHIBAN JAPANESE Restaurant/Sushi Bar, 1812 Cliff Dr., 805‑564‑7653. Mon‑Sat Lunch 11:30‑2:30. Dinner 7 days a week, 5‑10pm. Lunch Specials, Bendo boxes. Full sushi bar, tatami seats. Fresh Fish delivered all week.

Ethiopian AUTHENTIC ETHIOPIAN CUISINE Featured at Petit Valentien Restaurant 1114 State St. #14, 805‑966‑0222. Open Sat‑Sun Lunch ONLY 11am‑2:30pm. Serkaddis Alemu offers in ever changing menu with choices of vegitarian, vegan, and meat options. Catering Avaliable for parties of up to 40 people.

French PACIFIC CREPES 705 Anacapa St. 882‑1123.OPEN Tues‑Fri 10a‑3p & 5:30p‑9p, Sat 9a‑9p, Sun 9a‑3p From the flags of Bretagne & France to the “Au revoir, a bientot”; experience an authentic French creperie. Delicious crepes, salads & soups for breakfast, lunch & dinner. Tasty Crepe Suzette or crepe flambee desserts. Specials incl. starter, entree & dessert. Homemade with the best fresh products. Relax, enjoy the ambience, the food & parler francais!

Bon Appetit! pacificcrepe.com PETIT VALENTIEN, 1114 STATE ST. #14, 805‑966‑0222. Open M‑F 11:30‑3pm (lunch). M‑Sat 5pm‑Close (dinner). Sun $24 four course prefix dinner. In La Arcada Plaza, Chef Robert Dixon presents classic French comfort food at affordable cost in this cozy gem of a restaurant. Petit Valentien offers a wide array of meat and seafood entrees along with extensive small plates and a wine list specializing in amazing quality at arguably the best price in town. A warm romantic atmosphere makes the perfect date spot. Comfortable locale for dinner parties, or even just a relaxing glass of wine. Reservations are recommended.

Indian FLAVOR OF INDIA 3026 State 682‑6561 $$ www.flavorofindiasb.com VOTED BEST 17yrs. Finest, most authentic Indian cuisine is affordable too! All You Can Eat Lunch Buffet $9.95 M‑S dinner combos $9.95+ Specials: Tandoori‑ Mixed or Fish, Chicken Tikka Masala, Shrimp Bhuna. Also: meat, curries & vegetarian.Wine & Beer. Take out.

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INDIA HOUSE, 418 State St. Next to 99 Cent Store 805.962.5070. 7 days 11:30a‑ 3:30p ALL YOU CAN EAT Lunch Buffet $8.95. Dinner 5p‑9p. Tandori & North Indian Muglai specialties. World Class Indian Chefs at your service! Traditional floor seating. Indian & Draft Beers, Local Wines. www.indiahouseusa.com

Irish DARGAN’S IRISH Pub & Restaurant, 18 E. Ortega St. (next to lot 10) SB, 568‑0702. $$. Open 7 days 11:30a‑Close (Food ‘til 10p, 11p on Sat/Sun). AE MC V Disc. Authentic Irish food & atmosphere in downtown SB. Specialties from Ireland include Seafood & Meat dishes. Informal, relaxed pub‑style atmosphere. Live music Thursday nights.

Children welcome. Avail. for private parties.

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KYOTO, 3232 State St, 687‑1252.$$.

Open 7days M‑F 11:30a‑2p; Sat Noon‑2:30p Lunch; Sun‑Thur 5‑10p Dinner, Fri‑Sat 5p‑10:30p.Complete Sushi Bar. Steak & Seafood Specials! Sashimi, Teriyaki, original Japanese appetizers & Combination Boat Dinner. SB’s only TATAMI Rooms reservations suggested. Beer, Wine & Sake.

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Natural NATURAL CAFE, 508 State St., 5 blocks from beach. 962‑9494 Goleta‑ 6990 Market Place Dr, 685‑2039. 361 Hitchcock Way 563‑1163 $. Open for lunch & dinner 7 days.

A local favorite for dinner. Voted “Best Lunch in Santa Barbara” “Best Health Food Restaurant” “Best Veggie Burger” “Best Sidewalk Cafe Patio” “Best Fish Taco” all in the Independent Reader’s Poll. Daily Specials, Char‑Broiled Chicken, Fresh Fish, Homemade Soups, Hearty Salads, Healthy Sandwiches, Juice Bar, Microbrews, Local Wines, and the Best Patio on State St. 9 locations serving the Central Coast. www.thenaturalcafe.com SOJOURNER CAFÉ, 134 E. Canon Perdido 965‑7922. Open 11‑11 Th‑Sat; 11a‑10:30p Sun‑Wed. SB’s natural foods landmark since 1978 Daily soups & chef’s specials, hearty stews, fresh local fish, organic chicken dishes,salads & sandwiches & award winning dessert . Espresso bar, beer, wine, smoothies, shakes & fresh juices sojournercafe.com

Steak HOLDREN’S 512 State St. 965‑3363 Lunch & Dinner Daily. Featuring $20 Prime Rib Wednesdays‑ USDA 12 oz Prime MidWestern corn‑fed beef char‑broiled over mesquite; or try from our selections of the freshest seafood. We offer extensive wine & martini lists & look forward to making your dining experience superb!

Reservations avail.

RODNEY’S Grill, 633 East Cabrillo Boulevard at The Fess Parker – A Doubletree

by Hilton Resort 805‑564‑4333. Serving 5pm – 10pm Tuesday through Saturday.

Rodney’s Grill Menu is Fresh and New. Featuring all natural hormone‑free beef and fresh seafood, appetizers, and incredible desserts. The place to enjoy dinner with family and friends by the beach. Private Dining Room for 30. Full cocktail bar with specialty cocktails. Wine cellar with Santa Barbara County & California best vintages by‑the‑glass www.rodneyssteakhouse.com

Thai YOUR PLACE Restaurant, 22 N. Milpas St., 966‑5151, 965‑9397. $$. Open Mon 4‑9:45pm Tues‑Thurs & Sun 11:30a‑9:45p, Fri/Sat 11:30a‑10:30p. V MC AE. Your Place ‑ The One & Only. Voted “BEST THAI FOOD” for 26 years by Independent and The Weekly readers, making us a Living Legend! Lunch & dinner specials daily. Fresh seafood & tasty vegetarian dishes. Santa Barbara Restaurant Guide selected us as the Best Thai Restaurant for exceptional dining reflected by food quality, service & ambiance.

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SANTA BARBARA Winery, 202 Anacapa St. 963‑3633.

Open Sun‑Thurs 10a‑6p & Fri‑Sat 10a ‑ 7p, small charge for extensive tasting list. 2 blocks from both State St & the beach. This venerable winery is the county’s oldest‑ est.1962, and offers many internationally acclaimed wines from their Lafond Vineyard in the Santa Rita Hills. Try some of Winemaker Bruce McGuire’s small production bottling. www.sbwinery.com

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“Ramon Velazquez, former head chef at Cielito, opened a pop-up restaurant on Sundays using the Three Pickles location on Canon Perdido Street. It’s called Corazon Cocina, and they serve a small menu of farmer’s market fresh ceviches and tacos. The food is ridiculously good!”

HELL’S KITCHEN: Owner Ruben Perez at Black Sheep restaurant,  East Ortega Street, tells me that they will be featured on an episode of Hell’s Kitchen and that a filming crew paid them a visit last week.

They cooked a three-course meal for some of the winners from the show.

CAFÉ DEL SOL UPDATE: I received a tip that there

is now construction going on at  Los Patos Way in Montecito, the former home of Café del Sol, which ended its 50-year run last September.

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iller B’s BBQ and Bar, which closed its  State Street restaurant in September, is relocating to  De la Guerra Plaza, the former home of TonyRay’s and Papagallo’s. They hope to reopen this weekend.

“The cool thing we are going to be doing here is that everything is being delivered fresh and smoked,” says general manager Will L’Heureux, adding that they’ll be using Shalhoob meats. “We are going to bring back southern BBQ.” Killer B’s is going to be taking advantage of the large patio that faces De la Guerra Plaza by adding lighting, a new canopy, and live music. “People will be able to see the grill and smoker from the patio,” says L’Heureux.“We will have BBQ events including roasting a whole hog. We want it to be fun.”

Weekday hours are 3-10 p.m. Weekends are 3 p.m.2 a.m. Late-night food will be available. Call 845-2254.

FOODBANK FUNDRAISER: This just in

from Mac’s Fish and Chip Shop,  State Street: “Hi John. Hope all is well with the new family member.

Swaddles, white noise, and bulk wine purchases successfully got us through the first year of all three of our kids. I wanted to send you a quick email to let you know that our annual ‘Holiday Pie Appeal’ has begun! A full $5 from each Holiday Pie sold will go directly to The Foodbank of Santa Barbara, who provide food support to over 102,000 local people every year and help them move from hunger to health. Nearly half of the recipients are children, and they provide both THAT’S THE SPIRIT: A Japanese restaurant will be coming to the former home of physical food and food SpiritLand Bistro on Victoria Street. literacy to help prevent the cycle of hunger. Our HoliNEW JAPANESE RESTAURANT: Reader Terri told day Pie consists of layers of House Roasted Turkey me that she noticed some activity in and around the Breast in Gravy, Sage & Onion Stuffing, Buttered Carformer SpiritLand Bistro at  East Victoria Street. rots, Garden Peas, topped with Parsnip & Potato Mash, Reader Karl spoke to people inside the building and and a side of Cranberry Sauce. They cost $7.50 each, was told that in a few months they will serve Japanese with $5 from each sale going directly to the Foodbank. food.

Please help us support this amazing cause as we shoot to break the $1,000 barrier. We also have them availEAST BEACH TACOS REPLACING NORTON’S: able to bake at home. Kind Regards, Mac.” This just in from reader Spencer: “Norton’s on MilTHANKSGIVING DINNERS: Two weeks ago, I pubpas Street is out. Signs down, moved out. Norton’s lished the names of South Coast restaurants serving a Figueroa location remains in business as usual. They traditional turkey meal on Thanksgiving day. I found will be replaced at  South Milpas by East Beach a few more to add to the list. In Santa Barbara you Tacos, aiming for a New Year’s Day opening.” can go to Bucatini and Relais de Paris. Reader Laura AIRPORT UPDATE: Reader Steve tells me that a new tells me that in the Santa Ynez Valley, you can enjoy sign has appeared at the Santa Barbara Air- Thanksgiving at Greenhouse Café, Hadsten House port. First Class Concessions, Inc., restaurant, Mirabelle Inn & Restaurant, Red Viking is applying for an alcohol permit Restaurant, River Terrace Restaurant & Bar, Root , under the business name La Solvang Restaurant, and Viking Garden Restaurant.

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Published: Nov 6, 13, 20, 26 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Carriage and Western Art Museum of Santa Barbara, Carriage Museum at 129 Castillo St. Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Carriage and Western Art Museum of Santa Barbara PO Box 1587 Santa Barara, CA 93102 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 31, 2014. 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2014‑0003103.

Published: Nov 6, 13, 20, 26 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Brawlin’ Betties, Mission City Brawlin’ Betties, Mission City Vicious Veronicas, Derby Justice League, Mission City Derby Justice League, Vicious Veronicas, MCRD, Mission City Roller Derby at 3433 State St, STE E Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Mission City Roller Derby (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Sarah Bacon President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 03, 2014. 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 Melissa Mercer.

FBN Number: 2014‑0003117 Published: Nov 6, 13, 20, 26 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Jump on the School Bus at 4460 Foothill Rd. Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Sierra Bravo Enterprise, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Sierra Ialso C.E.O This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 03, 2014. 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 Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2014‑0003116.

Published: Nov 6, 13, 20, 26 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Still‑Elevate Your Ethanol at 37 E. Ortega St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Jeremy N. Bohrer 618 Bath St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jeremy N. Bohrer This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 24, 2014. 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 Tara Jayasinghe.

FBN Number: 2014‑0003047. Published: Nov 6, 13, 20, 26 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Autostrada at 1195B Mustang Drive Santa Ynez, CA 93460; Bubbles In Tubs, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Rachel Greenspan This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 17, 2014.

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 Miriam Leon.

FBN Number: 2014‑0002969. Published: Oct 30, Nov 6, 13, 20 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Flor De Campo Winery at 5010 Santa Rosa Road Lompoc, CA 93436; SWC Management, LLC 900 Armour Drive Lake Bluff, IL 60044 This business is conducted by a Limited Partnership Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 07, 2014. 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2014‑0002859.

Published: Oct 30, Nov 6, 13, 20 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Designart Studios, Sea Group, Inc at 532 Santa Barbara St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Sea Group (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Douglas Gheza This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 03, 2014. 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 Gabriel Cabello. FBN Number: 2014‑0003119. Published: Nov 6, 13, 20, 26 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Coherent Business Development Consulting at 7289 Butte Drive Goleta, CA 93101; Louise A Izzo (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Louise A. Izzo This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 21, 2014. 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 Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2014‑0002997. Published: Oct 30, Nov 6, 13, 20 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Makes 3 at 1365 Wyant Road Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Bikibug, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Daniel Sperling, President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 08, 2014.

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 Jan Morales.

FBN Number: 2014‑0002872. Published: Oct 30, Nov 6, 13, 20 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: The Good Lion at 1212 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Good Lion Cocktails, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 24, 2014. 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 Christine Potter.

FBN Number: 2014‑0003044. Published: Nov 6, 13, 20, 26 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Vitamin Angels at 111 W Micheltorena St. #300 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Vitamin Angel Alliance Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Howard Schiffer This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 27, 2014.

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 Jan Morales.

FBN Number: 2014‑0003050. Published: Nov 6, 13, 20, 26 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Gray Blacks at 227 Santa Cruz Blvd Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Kenneth Joseph Foresta (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Kenneth Foresta This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 28, 2014. 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 Gabriel Cabello. FBN Number: 2014‑0003070.

Published: Oct Nov 6, 13, 20, 26 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Government Aware, Service Management Consulting at 5110‑A Cathedral Oaks Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Cherie Jasinski (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Cherie E. Jasinski This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 27, 2014. 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 Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2014‑0003060. Published: Oct Nov 6, 13, 20, 27 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Lady “D” Body Juice, Rock Bit Oil And Gas at 116 S. Voluntario Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Dorothy M. Austin (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Dorothy M. Austin This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 23, 2014. 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 Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2014‑0003022.

Published: Nov 6, 13, 20, 26 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Rose And Hughes at 3463 State Street Suite 405 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Susan Henrichs 324 Samarkand Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 24, 2014. 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 Adela

Bustos. FBN Number: 2014‑0003048.

Published: Oct Nov 6, 13, 20, 26 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Alaris Fitness at 2009 De La Vina Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Kristiana Almedia 1530 De La Vina Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a individual Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 9, 2014. 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 Melisa Mercer. FBN Number: 2014‑0002892. Published: Nov 6, 13, 20, 26 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Reality, Reality Santa Barbara, Reality Coastlands, Reality SB, Reality SB, Reality Goleta, Reality Ventura at 5251 6th Street Carpinteria, CA 93013; Reality Carpinteria (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Tyler J. Morgan This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 30, 2014. 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 Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2014‑0003093. Published: Nov 6, 13, 20, 26 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Eighth Day Ventures at 3345 State St. #3187 Santa Barbara, CA 93130; Debra Arnesen (same address) James Arnesen (same address) This business is conducted by a married couple Signed: Debra Arnesen This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 04, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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by Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2014‑0003136. Published: Nov 13, 20, 26, Dec 4 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Crister Fitness at 1119 San Pascual Street #G Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Crister De Leon Vega (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Crister De Leon Vega U. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 03, 2014.

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 Miriam Leon.

FBN Number: 2014‑0003125. Published: Nov 13, 20, 26, Dec 4 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Olivo Santa Barbara at 130 Middle Road Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Barbara J. Hill (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Barbara J. Hill This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 10, 2014. 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 Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2014‑0003182.

Published: Nov 13, 20, 26, Dec 04 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Luz ‑ Design + Marketing at 2913 Paseo Del Refugio Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Andrea L. Arredondo (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Andrea L. Arrendondo This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 05, 2014. 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 Adela Bustos.

FBN Number: 2014‑0003155. Published: Nov 13, 20, 26, Dec 04 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Fox & Goss at 2830‑B De La Vina Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Ashley Fox 212 Canon Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93105 Lauren Goss 128 East Mission St Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: Ashley Fox, Lauren Goss This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 16, 2014.

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 Adela Bustos.

FBN Number: 2014‑0002952. Published: Nov 13, 20, 26, Dec 04 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Adding Technology at 3725 Mariana Way, Unit A Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Natalie Ann Browne (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Natalie Ann Browne This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 04, 2014. 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2014‑0003130. Published: Nov 13, 20, 26 Dec 04 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Horny Toad Activewear at 2020 Alameda Padre Serra, Suite 125 Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Toad & CO. International, Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 03, 2014. 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 Gabriel Cabello. FBN Number: 2014‑0003123.

Published: Nov 13, 20, 26, Dec 4 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Santa Barbara Silver Safari at 7388 A Chapman Pl Goleta, CA 93117; Sylvia Sullivan (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Sylvia Sullivan This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 06, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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by Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2014‑0003161. Published: Nov 13, 20, 26, Dec 4 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Montecito Village Realty, Vaughan Realty at 1975 Inverness Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93108; George William Vaughan (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: George William Vaughan This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 04, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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by Gabriel Cabello. FBN Number: 2014‑0003137. Published: Nov 13, 20, 26, Dec 4 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Produce Plus at 1344 Arabian Trail Santa Maria, CA 93455; Dale A. Johnson (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Dale Johnson This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 27, 2014. 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2014‑0003049.

Published: Nov 13, 20, 26, Dec 4 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: The Kitchen at 38 West Victoria Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Santa Barbara Public Market, LLC 913 De La Vina Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Margaret Cafarelli This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 31, 2014.

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 Adela Bustos.

FBN Number: 2014‑0003099. Published: Nov 13, 20, 26, Dec 4 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: MK Analytics at 431 Peach Grove Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Mathew Kauk (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Mathew Kauk This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 05, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the

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Published: Nov 13, 20, 26, Dec 4 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Sweet Alley at 955 Embarcadero Del Mar Goleta, CA 93117; Caulfield Isla Vista, LLC 1530 Santa Rosa Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93109 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Nicholas W. Mason, President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 05, 2014. 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 Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2014‑0003143. Published: Nov 13, 20, 26, Dec 4 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Handme Company, Handme Prints at 617 Ferrara Way Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Kendra Gaete (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Kendra Gaete This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 05, 2014. 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 Gabriel Cabello. FBN Number: 2014‑0003141. Published: Nov 13, 20, 26, Dec 4 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Tina’s Tutoring at 1528 Santa Rosa Avenue Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Tina Pfadenhauer (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Tina Pfadenhauer This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 31, 2014. 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2014‑0003101.

Published: Nov 13, 20, 26, Dec 4 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Mojozono, Riviera Road at 4025‑B Primavera Road Santa Barbara, Ca 93110; Gerald Hill­ (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Gerald Hill This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 14, 2014. 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 Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2014‑0003228. Published: Nov 20, 26, Dec 04, 11 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Prestige Cleaning at 420 S Canada St Unit C Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Patricia Ramirez (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Patricia Ramirez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 4, 2014. 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 Jan Morales.

FBN Number: 2014‑0003127. Published: Nov 20, 26, Dec 04, 11 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Stewart Financial at 3493 Foothill Road Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Bryan James Stewart (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Bryan J. Stewart This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 13, 2014.

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 Miriam Leon.

FBN Number: 2014‑0003208. Published: Nov 20, 26, Dec 04, 11 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Capigifts, Capigifts.com at 158 Cameta Way Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Graeme Petterson (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Graeme Petterson This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 13, 2014.

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Setting high standards is one thing. Embracing them is another. At Cottage Health System, we make it top priority to work constantly at being our best...for patients, their families, our communities and fellow team members. If you would enjoy living up to your potential at a health system that strives for – and achieves – excellence, come to Cottage.

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STUDENT HEALTH SERVICE Provides medical and administrative support to the physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners, assisting with exams and procedures, filling out necessary paperwork, taking phone messages and running errands as needed. Reqs: Training or experience as a Medical Assistant. HS Diploma and one year of experience as a medical assistant or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Notes: Fingerprinting required. Mandated reporting requirements of child abuse.

Student Health requires that clinical staff must successfully complete and pass the background check and credentialing process before employment and date of hire. Any HIPAA or FERPA violation is subject to disciplinary action. This is a partial year career position, working 11 months per year. Furlough must be Customer Service taken during quarter breaks and summer p/t cashiers 2 positions. 30 hrs/wk, months. Student Health is closed days may vary. Open availability nec, between the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays. Must be able to work M, T, must include Saturdays. $9/hr. Apply in W, F 8‑5 and Th 10‑7. $18.58 ‑ $20.50/ person at: 5156 Hollister Avenue. hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Education Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment Africa, Brazil Work/Study! Change without regard to race, color, religion, the lives of others and create a sustainable future. 1, 6, sex, national origin, or any other 9, 18 month programs available. Apply characteristic protected by law including protected veterans and individuals with now! w w w . O n e W o r l d C e n t e r . o r g disabilities. For primary consideration 269.591.0518 info@OneWorldCenter.­ apply by 12/2/14, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.­ org (AAN CAN) edu. Job #20140546

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AUDIT AND ADVISORY SERVICES Approximately 40 percent of this position’s responsibilities include coordinating, assisting with, and conducting investigations. Responsible for planning and conducting a wide variety of audits, advisory services, and investigation projects. Performs and documents audits and advisory services in accordance with the International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing and Practice Advisories established by the Institute of Internal Audits and the University of California Internal Audit Manual.

Plans, prioritizes, manages, and performs multiple projects and tasks.

Reqs: Possess a Bachelor’s Degree in accounting, business administration, computer science or a related field or equivalent combination of years of experience. Three to five or more years of relevant experience. Notes: Fingerprinting required. Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employee Pull‑Notice Program. $49,193 ‑$70,000/ yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by law including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For primary consideration apply by 12/8/14, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://Jobs.ucsb.­ edu. Job #20140557

DIRECTOR OF DEVEL­OPMENT

ARTS & LECTURES Works to optimize philanthropic support for Arts & Lectures, in response to priorities established by the Miller McCune Executive Director. Fund‑raising efforts are devoted primarily to A & L, with the remaining time to other University initiatives, as appropriate.

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Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employee Pull‑Notice Program.

This is an annually renewable contract position. Flexibility and willingness to travel frequently, as well as the ability to work some weekends and evenings is essential. Salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other characteristic protected

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Almsa, Pierce‑Eislen at 430 South Fairview Avenue Santa Barbara, CA 93117; Yardi Systems, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Gordon Murrell, Secretary This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 5, 2014. 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 Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2014‑0003151. Published: Nov 20, 26, Dec 04, 11 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Law of Attraction Photography; Lawofattractionphotography.com at 475 N Turnpike Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Melissa Cohen (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Melissa Cohen This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 06, 2014. 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 Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2014‑0003167. Published: Nov 20, 26, Dec 04, 11 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Performance Audio at 532 Santa Barbara Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Secure Pro, Inc 1328 Cheyenne Lane Santa Ynez, CA 93460 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Secure Pro Inc. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 06, 2014. 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 Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2014‑0003158. Published: Nov 20, 26, Dec 04, 11 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Blue Palm Press at 203 Hitchcock Way Apt 204 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Margaret Kay Dodd (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Margaret Dodd This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 05, 2014. 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 Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2014‑0003154.

Published: Nov 20, 26, Dec 04, 11 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Regional Business Consulting at 2142 North

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by law including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For primary consideration apply by 12/4/14, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://Jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20140554

INVESTIGATIVE ANA­LYST

OFFICE OF EQUAL OPPORTUNITY & SEXUAL HARASSMENT/ TITLE IX COMPLIANCE Using independent judgment, maintaining a superior level of professionalism and initiative, and adhering to a strict policy of confidentiality, provides direct analytical, caseload management, discrimination complaint handling and discrimination prevention training

to support the Sexual Harassment Officer/Senior Equal Opportunity Investigator and to the Director & Title IX Officer of the Office of Equal Opportunity & Sexual Harassment/ Title IX Compliance. Provides direct caseload management support to the Sexual Harassment Officer/Senior Equal Opportunity Investigator and Director on complaints, investigation reports, policy interpretations and revisions and training programs, including sexual harassment or gender equity projects that require analytical and organizational skills, knowledge of legal issues, and public relations. Represents the department and UCSB at campus and UC system wide professional conferences and community events. Reqs: Minimum 1 year of demonstrated experience in supporting investigation unit or investigator.

Knowledge of best practices and methodologies for conducting investigations, fact‑finding and investigative interviewing.

Position requires excellent oral and written communication skills in collaborative work with administrators, departments, staff and groups.

Demonstrated experience in drafting interview narratives. Requires excellent word processing skills and experience in database management. Demonstrated ability to handle personal, confidential, sensitive and complex information with composure, mature judgment and utmost discretion.

Note: Fingerprinting required. $49,193 ‑ $59,062/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by law including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For primary consideration apply by 12/8/14, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.­ edu Job #20140558

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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 Tara Jayasinghe.

FBN Number: 2014‑0003214.

Published: Nov 20, 26, Dec 04, 11 2014.

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Refugio Road Santa Ynez, CA 93460; Kevin O’Connor (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Kevin O’Connor This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 17, 2014. 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 Gabriel Cabello. FBN Number: 2014‑0003241.

Published: Nov 20, 26, Dec 04, 11 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Channel Acupunture at 2600 De La Vina Street Unit D Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Qigong Works Inc. 13586 Valleyheart Dr. Sherman Oaks, CA 91423 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Matthew Pesendian/CEO This was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 17, 2014. 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 Tara Jayasinghe.

FBN Number: 2014‑0003245.

Published: Nov 20, 26, Dec 04, 11 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: David R. Black & Associates at 1718 Pampas Avenue Santa Barbara, CA 93101; David R. Black (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: David R. Black This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 13, 2014. 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 Gabriel Cabello. FBN Number: 2014‑0003212.

Published: Nov 20, 26, Dec 04, 11 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Do‑Right Solar at 1094 North San Marcos Road Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Eric Torbet (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Eric Torbet This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 21 2014. 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 Gabrielle Cabello. FBN Number: 2014‑0003297. Published: Nov 26, Dec 04, 11, 18 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: First Pacific Financial Services at 3892 State Street Suite 215 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; George W. Emerson 245 Moreton Bay Ln. #5 Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: George W Emerson This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 17 2014. 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 Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2014‑0003246.

Published: Nov 26, Dec 04, 11, 18 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ranch Guys at 3694 Tivola Street Santa Ynez, CA 93460; Recovery Ranch, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Daniel Ross, President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 20 2014. 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2014‑0003273.

Published: Nov 26, Dec 04, 11, 18 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: By Mendi, Mendi Jewlry, The Bazaar Istanbul at 1642 Copenhagen Drive Solvang, CA 93463; Mendi International Corp (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Eyyup Mendi‑President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 212014. 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 Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2014‑0003293.

Published: Nov 26, Dec 04, 11, 18 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Andersen’s, Andersen’s Restaurant, Anderson’s Bakery And Restaurant, The Andersen’s, Andersen’s Danish Bakery, The Andersen’s Danish Bakery And Restaurant, LLC at 1106 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; The Andersen’s Danish Bakery And Restaurant, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Charlotte Andersen This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 202014. 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 Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2014‑0003276. Published: Nov 26, Dec 04, 11, 18 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Mountain And Sea Dental at 2780 State Street Ste 6 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Michael D. Carley DDS, Inc 1115 Cliff Dr. Santa Barbara, CA 93109 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Michael D. Carley This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 13, 2014.

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 Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2014‑0003203.

Published: Nov 26, Dec 04, 11, 18 2014.

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

Productions at 520 W Montecito Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Skyler Bennett 521 W. Montecito Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Skyler Bennett This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 30, 2014.

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 Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2014‑0003091.

Published: Nov 26, Dec 04, 11, 18 2014.

PERFORMING ARTS COORDINATOR

ARTS & LECTURES Works independently to coordinate, plan, procure, and oversee all necessary backstage needs, onstage properties, and provide basic support for all on/off‑campus performances and designated lectures, and special events.

Coordinates Artist residency logistics, including hotel accommodations, outreach activities, and transportation.

Uses computer graphics programs to create bi‑lingual promotional materials for ¡Viva el Arte de Santa Bárbara! and negotiates print media sponsorships. Compiles data and maintains departmental databases for analysis and planning. Leads

Arts & Lectures student employee recruitment efforts. May be required to perform special projects or duties that are within expected administrative functions, as requested by Arts & Lectures Director. Reqs: Experience and creativity in supervision and motivation of student employees, organization of catering and theater backstage scene, experience working in an academic environment, highly organized, flexible schedule. Notes: Fingerprinting required.

Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employee Pull‑Notice Program.

Evening and weekend hours required.

Able to move up to 50 lbs. $20.19/ hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by law including protected veterans

and individuals with disabilities. For primary consideration apply by 12/8/14, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.­ edu. Job #20140544

Skilled Drivers Wanted for local cab co.

Must be 25+ w/ good driving record, valid CA drivers license. days/nights available.

TRUCK DRIVERS! Obtain Class A CDL in 2 ½ weeks. Company Sponsored Training. Also Hiring Recent Truck School Graduates, Experienced Drivers.

Must be 21 or Older. Call: (866) 275‑2349. (Cal‑SCAN)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Baya Recycling Exports at 299 Sherwood Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Mauro Ramon Torrez (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Mauro Ramon Torrez (same address) This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 30, 2014. 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 Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2014‑0003061. Published: Nov 26, Dec 04, 11, 18 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: In‑Depth Imaging at 3866 Center Ave. Santa Barbara, CA 93110; James A. Thomas (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: James A. Thonas This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 19 2014. 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 Tara Tayasinghie. FBN Number: 2014‑0003258. Published: Nov 26, Dec 04, 11, 18 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ananda Press at 1290 Mountain View Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Gail Brenner (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Gail Brenner This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 19 2014. 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 Christine Brenner. FBN Number: 2014‑0003257. Published: Nov 26, Dec 04, 11, 18 2014.

Name Change IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF CRYSTAL PEREZ ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 1469163 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of

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40 Comedian Margaret 41 Amount equal to a million pennies 43 Ending for psych 44 One-horse carriage 46 Vegas headliner?

48 Born to be wild?

49 Dons, as clothes 50 New York silverware city 51 Goes diving, casually 52 Ruckus 57 Miata maker 59 “Open” author Agassi 61 Actress Sorvino 66 “Your Moment of ___” (“The Daily Show” feature) 67 Sliver of hope 68 “___ got a golden ticket...”

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These dogs would be ever so thankful if you could give them their forever home

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name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: DENISE MICHELLE ORTEGA TO: DENISE MICHELLE PEREZ 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.

NOTICE OF HEARING Dec 17, 2014 9:30am, Dept 6, Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Oct 22, 2014 by James E. Herman, Judge of

the Superior Court. Published. Nov 20, 27. Dec 4, 11 2014.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF AMY THOMPSON ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 1469113 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: AMY MICHELLE ELISABETH THOMPSON TO: AYME M’CHEL ELSBETH TOMSON 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.

NOTICE OF HEARING Jan 7, 2015 9:­ 30am, Dept 6, Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Oct 22, 2014 by James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Nov 20, 27. Dec 4, 11 2014.

Summons SUMMONS ‑ (Family Law) CITACION­(Derecho familiar) NOTICE TO RESPONDENT: NANCY ACEVEDO MENDOZA AVISO AL DEMANDANDO: Petitioner’s name is: APOLONIO SANTOS GARCIA Nombre del demandante: CASE NUMBER: (Numero del caso) 1469096 You have 30 calendar days after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL‑120 or FL‑123) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter or phone call will not protect you. If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children.

You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form.

If you want legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. You can get information about finding lawyers at the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp, at the California Legal Services Web site www.­ lawhelpcalifornia.org, or by contacting your local county bar association.

Tiene 30 dias corridos despues de haber recibido la entrega legal de esta Citacion y Peticion para presentar una Respuesta (formulario FL‑120 o FL‑123) ante la corte y efectuar la entrega legal de una copia al demandante. Una carta o llamada telefonica no basta para protegerlo.

Si no presenta su Respuesta a tiempo, la corte puede dar ordenes que afecten su matrimonio o pareja de hecho, sus bienes y la custodia de sus hijos. La corte tambien le puede ordenar que pague manutencion, y honorarios y costos legales. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario un formulario de exencion de cuotas.

Si desea obtener asesoramiento legal, pongase en contacto de inmediato con un abogado. Puede obtener informacion para encontrar a un abogado en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www. sucorte.ca.gov), en el sitio Web de los Servicios Legales de California (www. lawhelpcalifornia.org) o poniendose en contacto con el colegio de abgados de su condado.

1. The name and address of the court is: (El nombre, direccion de la corte es) SANTA BARBARA COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara CA 93101 2. The name, address, and telephone number of petitioner’s attorney, or petitioner without an attorney, is: APOLONIO SANTOS GARCIA 930 San Pascual St. #E10 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o de demandante que no tiene abogado, es) Date (Fecha): Oct 8, 2014.

Clerk (Actuario), Darrel E. Parker, by Susan Donjuan, Deputy (Asistente).

Published Nov 20, 27. Dec 4, 11 2014.

Trustee Notice NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE PURSUANT TO CIVIL CODE § 2923.3(a), 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 IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 03/27/2007. 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: JOHN D. WILCOX AND ROSEMARY S. WILCOX, HUSBAND AND WIFE AS COMMUNITY PROPERTY WITH RIGHT OF SURVIVORSHIP Duly Appointed Trustee: Western

Progressive, LLC Recorded 04/06/2007 as Instrument No. 2007‑0025520 in book ‑‑‑, page‑‑‑ and of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Santa Barbara County, California, Date of Sale: 12/08/2014 at 01:00 PM Place of Sale:AT THE NORTH DOOR OF THE MAIN ENTRANCE TO THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 1100 ANACAPA STREET, SANTA BARBARA, CA Estimated amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $941,523.32 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 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 More fully described in said Deed of Trust Street Address or other common designation of real property: 419 Calle Alamo, Santa Barbara, CA 93105 A.P.N.: 053‑173‑08‑00‑0 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown above.

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. Published Nov 13, 20, 26 2014.

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE File No. 7233.26153 Title Order No. NXCA‑0146928 MIN No. APN 057‑410‑033 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 09/03/04. 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 cash, cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in §5102 to the Financial code and authorized to do business in this state, will be held by duly appointed trustee. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to satisfy the obligation secured by said Deed of Trust. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness

of the property address or other common designation, if any, shown herein. Trustor(s): KIM K CHISHOLM Recorded: 09/14/04, as Instrument No. 2004‑0098473,of Official Records of Santa Barbara County, California. Date of Sale: 12/10/14 at 1:00 PM Place of Sale: At the main entrance to the County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA The purported property address is: 4018‑A OTONO DRIVE, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93110‑3415 Assessors Parcel No. 057‑410‑033 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 $199,152.30. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid, plus interest. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the beneficiary, the Trustor or the trustee. 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 877‑484‑9942 or 800‑280‑2832 or visit this Internet Web site www.

USA‑Foreclosure.­ com or www.

Auction.com using the file number assigned to this case 7233.26153.

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. Date: November 11, 2014 NORTHWEST TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC., as Trustee Andy Tran, Authorized Signatory 1241 E. Dyer Road, Suite 250, Santa Ana, CA 92705 866‑387‑6987 Sale Info website: www.USA‑Foreclosure.com or www.Auction.com Automated Sales Line: 877‑484‑9942 or 800‑280‑2832 Reinstatement and Pay‑Off Requests: 866‑387‑NWTS THIS OFFICE IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE ORDER # 7233.26153: 11/20/2014,11/27/2014, 12/04/2014

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. 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: $941,523.32.

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

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