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Santa Barbara County Recipients

Adelante Charter School Adventures in Caring Foundation Alano Club of Santa Barbara, Inc. Alzheimer’s Association, California Central Chapter American Heart Association- Ventura County American Heart Association, Central Coast Division Angels Foster Care of Santa Barbara Anti-Defamation League Arthritis Foundation Atterdag Village of Solvang Bishop Garcia Diego High School Boys & Girls Club of Santa Barbara Breast Cancer Resource Center of Santa Barbara Cancer Foundation of Santa Barbara Carpinteria Arts Center Carpinteria Beautiful Carpinteria Education Foundation, Inc. Casa Serena, Inc. Center Stage Theatre Child Abuse Listening Mediation, Inc. Coastal Housing Coalition Community Arts Music Association of Santa Barbara, Inc. Congregation B’nai B’rith Cornerstone House of Santa Barbara Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Court Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Barbara County Courthouse Legacy Foundation Crane Country Day School Direct Relief Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine Dons Net Cafe Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy Foundation Dream Foundation Easy Lift Transportation, Inc. Elings Park Foundation Elverhoj Museum of History & Art Ensemble Theater Company of Santa Barbara Fielding Graduate University Food from the Heart Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Foundation for Santa Barbara High School Friends of the Carpinteria Library Friends of the Library of the Santa Ynez Valley, Inc. Ganna Walska Lotusland Garden Court, Inc. Gay & Lesbian Business Association Girls Incorporated of Carpinteria Girls Incorporated of Greater Santa Barbara Goleta Education Foundation Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital Foundation Goleta Valley Historical Society Great Santa Barbara Ice Skating Association Habitat for Humanity of Southern Santa Barbara County HELP of Carpinteria Hillside House Housing Trust Fund of Santa Barbara County, Inc. Jessie Hopkins Hinchee Foundation Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara Kids Helping Kids La Casa de Maria Retreat & Conference Center Laguna Blanca School Laguna Cottages for Seniors Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County LifeChronicles Lobero Theatre Foundation Marjorie Luke Theatre Mental Wellness Center

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Turner Foundation UCSB Alumni Association United Boys & Girls Club- Goleta West United Boys & Girls Club of Carpinteria United Boys & Girls Club of Goleta United Boys & Girls Club of Santa Barbara: Camp Whittier United Boys & Girls Club of Santa Barbara Westside Club United Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County United Way of Santa Barbara County Villa Majella of Santa Barbara Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care of Santa Barbara Washington Elementary School Westmont College Wilderness Youth Project Wildling Art Museum William Sansum Diabetes Center Women’s Economic Ventures Youth and Family Services YMCA: Noah’s Anchorage Youth Crisis Shelter

Ventura County Recipients

American Cancer Society, Inc., California Division Area Housing Authority of the County of Ventura Boys & Girls Club of Moorpark Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Conejo Valley Cabrillo Music Theatre California Lutheran University California State University Channel Islands Foundation Camarillo Family YMCA Casa Pacifica Centers for Children and Families Community Conscience / Under One Roof Community Memorial Health System Conejo Valley Senior Concerns, Inc. El Concilio Family Services Habitat for Humanity of Ventura County Hospice of the Conejo Housing Authority of the City of San Buenaventura Housing Opportunities Made Easier Interface Children & Family Services Many Mansions Museum of Ventura County New West Symphony Project Understanding of San Buenaventura Southeast Ventura County YMCA The ARC Foundation Turning Point Foundation United Way of Ventura County Ventura County Community Foundation Ventura County Housing Trust Fund Ventura County Medical Resource Foundation Ventura Family YMCA Ventura Music Festival

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Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

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Cover STORY

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A packed City Hall meeting on short-term vacation rentals.

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“It’s like working in a winter wonderland!” exclaimed Copy Chief Jackson Friedman (right). The Indy elves (many pictured here) have spared no ornament in spreading the good cheer. A handcrafted Charlie Brown Christmas decks the Copy Department, thanks to Diane Mooshoolzadeh (third from left), one of our multitalented copy editors. “I went a little Christmas crazy this year,” she confessed. “I always get super excited.” Bring on the eggnog!

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A Santa Barbara man who in June destroyed his next-door neighbor’s home and tried to ax him to death was sentenced 12/15 to 13 years in state prison and ordered to pay an undetermined amount of restitution. Police estimated the property damage at over $100,000. Rudy Collaso (pictured) was previously sentenced to 12 years in state prison for a 1996 voluntary manslaughter out of San Diego County. He was deemed incompetent to stand trial in his Santa Barbara case and sent to Patton State Hospital, but was “restored to competency” and pleaded guilty to the charges. pau l wel lm an

Carrying a banner that read “Standing on the side of love,” Santa Barbara leaders from the Islamic, Jewish, Hindu, and Christian faiths led “Not in Our Name,” an interfaith peace walk and candlelight vigil for the victims of the San Bernardino shooting. The Monday-night walk from the county courthouse to De la Guerra Plaza united nearly 200 interfaith community members who, like SBCC Admissions Advisor and Muslim Akil Hill, were there “to stand in peace.” Among the group of rabbis, reverends, and a Vedanta nun, Christian Pastor David Moore of the New Covenant Worship Center expressed African-American solidarity with Muslim Americans. “We know what it feels like to feel the hate,” Moore said. “This country — Léna Garcia belongs to you as much as to anyone else.”

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trans to find these impacts environmentally “significant” — a legally crucial distinction — only that the agency justify any finding it made with evidence and analysis. How long this will take and how much it delays the freeway-widening effort remains very much an open question.

The widening project has been the focus of intense political and economic heat throughout the South Coast for close to 20 years. In some ways, the feud between former allies

tional congestion the freeway widening would cause by allowing so many more commuters on the road from Ventura and other points south to the South Coast.“My initial review of Judge Anderle’s tentative ruling reflects what I believe our residents want: a good project that will reduce traffic congestion during commute times from the county line to their workplace,” said Schneider.

When Caltrans certified the environmental impact report (EIR) in August 2013, the City Council balked at filing a legal challenge. Instead, a paper environmental group with only a handful of members — the Transportation Futures Committee — lodged a complaint. Attorney Marc Chytilo, a specialist in environmental law with an enviable track record of success in Judge Anderle’s courtroom, has led the legal charge since.

Under state law, the environmental impacts of any project must be mitigated or avoided if they are deemed to be “significant.” If they can’t be feasibly mitigated, decision makers are allowed to make “findings of overriding considAttorneys Marc Chytilo and Ana Citrin eration,” but only after acknowledging the negative impacts and decreeing Santa Barbara Mayor Helene Schneider and that they are outweighed by the benefits. ChytCounty Supervisor Salud Carbajal — who ilo argued that the additional traffic generated share not just the same birthday, November from the south by the freeway widening would 18, but the same ambition to replace Lois back up around Salinas Street and create a jam Capps in Congress — is rooted in unresolved all the way to Goleta. differences over the negative consequences This, in turn, would prompt commuters to of the freeway widening and efforts to miti- take to city streets in greater numbers, seeking gate those impacts. Schneider and City Hall relief from freeway congestion. This doomshave long objected that Caltrans’s environ- day scenario has been embraced by transpormental analysis failed to consider the addi- tation planners at City cont’d page 13 

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by N i c k W e l s h ntense, wiry, and conspicuously devoid of any facial hair, Judge Thomas Anderle can in no way be mistaken for Santa Claus, but for critics of Caltrans’s proposal to widen Highway 101 from Santa Barbara to Carpinteria, Anderle’s ruling this week qualified as an early Christmas present.

In a strongly worded, 76-page decision, Anderle found the environmental analysis conducted by Caltrans to be “legally flawed” and “defective,” ruling that the report “utterly failed” to address the increased congestion the freeway-widening project will generate for nine Santa Barbara intersections — 15 when looking at the cumulative impacts.

Anderle concluded “there is no evidence” Caltrans ever considered the actual impacts to the intersections in question but, even so, that the state highway-building agency consistently concluded “the overall benefits” of the project far outweighed any potential problems.

“It was an abdication of Caltrans’ responsibility,” Anderle concluded, “to consider and resolve every fair argument that can be made about the possible significant environmental effects of the project.”

Absent an appeal by Caltrans or its local partner in the $425 million freeway-widening effort, the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments (SBCAG), Anderle’s ruling means a portion of the environmental document must be reexamined and recalculated.

Anderle emphasized he was not ordering Cal-

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Maurice Joyles (pictured), convicted of robbing, abusing, and trying to kill his 80-yearold friend on New Year’s Eve, was sentenced on 12/15 to six years and eight months in state prison. Judge Brian Hill heard a victim impact statement from Christine Woods, Joyles’s former girlfriend and the grandniece of his elderly victim, Frank Herold. She called Joyles a “sociopath.” Joyles’s attorney read his client’s statement of apology, but Judge Hill said he didn’t see any remorse from Joyles. Hill also ordered Joyles to pay $100,000 in restitution to Herold, who, leaving the courtroom, said, “I’m glad it’s over.”

Julio “Candyman” Diaz — the Santa Barbara doctor found guilty of over-prescribing addictive painkillers that fueled his patients’ addictions and deaths — was sentenced 12/7 to more than 27 years in federal prison. Diaz, 67, was found guilty of 79 drugtrafficking charges. The counts were related to Diaz’s Milpas Street clinic, where many of his patients paid cash in exchange for copious amounts of painkillers like OxyContin, Xanax, and Norco.

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After much talk about cutting babies in half and other forms of logistical compromise during lengthy deliberations last Thursday, the Santa Barbara City Planning Commission proceeded to lop off the baby’s head instead. At least that’s how many Micheltorena Street residents and property owners view a plan — approved 5-1 by the commissioners — to remove 85 on-street parking spaces between Castillo and State streets and replace them with a SKETCHY: A bicyclist navigates traffic along bike lane on each side of Micheltorena Street.

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This lanes-for-parking swap is part of the proposed new Bicycle Master Plan, and it’s by far the most controversial aspect. Neighborhood residents, who showed up in force, contend the loss of on-street parking will be nothing less than catastrophic: Businesses will be rent asunder, residents will be forced to walk many blocks from home to car, and property values will plummet.

But city planners and bicycle advocates — who made a robust showing of their own — contend the new bike lanes will plug a major gap in the city’s system of bike lanes, thus creating a safer, more inviting route for Westside residents who commute to and from work by bike. Nearly twice as many Westsiders, they note, commute to work by bike as city residents as a whole. And no viable alternatives to the Micheltorena Street bike lanes, they insist, exist or are likely to in the next 10 years.

This new Bike Master Plan dovetails into the city’s relatively new General Plan, which places great premium on encouraging modes of transportation other than the automobile. Because city streets are decidedly finite, the new General Plan encourages higher-density — and hopefully more affordable — housing while relaxing parking requirements Later Thursday evening, the city’s Transportation and Circulation Committee likewise endorsed the new Bicycle Master Plan after a similar debate over the trade-offs between bike lanes and on-street parking. Before the plan is finalized, however, it must be ratified by the Santa Barbara City Council, and there the political heat — and — Nick Welsh attendant discomfort — promises to be intense.

Three dogs that attacked a Santa Barbara woman last month have been declared vicious and ordered humanely euthanized. The attack took place in the front yard of a Dibblee Avenue home and left the 46-year-old victim, whom the owner had asked to feed his animals while he was out of town, with severe injuries to her legs that required more than 100 surgical staples. She remains confined to a wheelchair as she recovers. “The testimony provided by the witnesses was very, very compelling as to the severity and ferociousness of the attack, and the fear that other people have of these dogs,” said Sgt. Riley Harwood, who served as the case hearing officer. He noted the dogs’ history of biting. “Had this woman not been rescued by her neighbors, she would have been killed.” The owner, Joseph Martinez, said he intends to appeal the decision. He also wanted to “set the record straight” that his dogs are not pit bulls or pit bull mixes, as described in police reports, but Olde English Bulldogges.

Jerry Forewright, a patron of Santa Barbara’s Spearmint Rhino strip club, is out $74,711, and he’s suing to get it all back. According to his lawsuit, his credit card racked up those charges “on a few occasions” last year. But Forewright says his signatures were forged on the receipts, that Spearmint Rhino

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CIty The new operators of Casa Esperanza homeless shelter on Cacique Street — now Santa Barbara Path — have had their doors open to winter residents since 12/1, but they’ve yet to hit their maximum capacity of 200. The most housed to date is 172, said Jessica Wishan, the shelter’s new director. The shelter has initiated several new admissions policies, including screening guests for sobriety, tuberculosis, and whether they’ve lived in Santa Barbara at least six months. Path is still scrambling to devise a plan to care for the homeless should El Niño deliver the frequent, drenching rains predicted.

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his year so far, 80 71 Santa Barbara 75 County residents 70 have taken their 65 own lives. It is the highest number of suicides in the past 60 15 years, and 10 more than the 55 most recent peak in 2009 dur50 ing the Great Recession. The 45 annual average since 2000 has been 47.

40 “It’s way high, and we’ll 35 have a few more before the 30 end of the year,” said clinical psychologist Dr. Lisa 25 Firestone with the Glendon 20 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Association, a Santa Barbara– YEAR based mental-health organization. “Even with variation year-to-year, contrast, the life expectancy for middle-aged that’s a big increase,” agreed Dr. Paul Erickson, blacks and Hispanics is climbing, as are rates Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital’s director of for younger and older people of all races.

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In March alone, 12 people committed sui- from the Centers for Disease Control — cide. A 22-year-old woman in Isla Vista took which has described suicide as “an increasa lethal amount of pills, a 56-year-old Mon- ing public health concern’’— the national rate tecito man hung himself from a tree, and a went up 2 percentage points between 1999 69-year-old Santa Maria resident died from a and 2013. California’s was slightly lower. In self-inflicted gunshot to the head. In October, that same time, the number of Americans the Santa Ynez Valley was hit with two back- between the ages of 35 and 64 who took their to-back murder-suicides, and just last month own lives rose by almost 30 percent. a troubled Goleta teen died after running into Suicide was the 10th leading cause of death freeway traffic. for all ages in 2013; there were 41,149 suicides, Contrary to popular belief, suicide rates which equates to one every 13 minutes. An tend to rise in the spring and summer, not estimated 3.9 percent of adults reported during the winter. Severely depressed individ- having suicidal thoughts in the past year; 17 uals may not be able to summon the energy to percent of 9th- to 12th-grade students seriattempt suicide during colder months, while ously considered attempting it. Males take springtime and its expectation of happy days their own lives at nearly four times the rate of females, but women are much more likely to can intensify feelings of isolation.

Yet the reasons behind this year’s overall have thoughts of self-harm. spike remain unknown. A review of county Firestone, who regularly trains doctors on coroner reports didn’t reveal any clusters or how to best treat suicidal patients, said she’s age patterns, and the frequency of specific seen a jump within Santa Barbara’s working methods appear consistent over the years, class over the last few years. Before that, the though deaths by asphyxiation and train trend was among teenagers. She wonders if jumped slightly in 2015. Santa Barbara Cot- the new reality of delayed retirement factage Hospital even reported a drop in suicide- tors into depression rates. “When you can’t attempt patients this year (26) compared to make enough to support yourself or your last year (43). retirement, that can be very difficult,” she “It’s a bit mysterious to me,” said Erickson. said. A feeling of hopelessness paired with Usually, economic hard times push the rate access to guns can be especially deadly, added up. But things aren’t particularly bad right Suzanne Grimmesey with the county’s Alconow, he said. And the availability of mental- hol, Drug and Mental Health Services. health services hasn’t changed much in recent Doctors and therapists stress that the years, he went on. Erickson noted, however, choice to end one’s life is rarely an impulthat more resources are still needed to help sive decision made in a moment of despair. county residents experiencing abrupt crisis Instead, the choice often comes after espeor prolonged pain. It’s a significant shortfall cially dark periods of depression and a howlacross the country, he said. ing desperation for relief. The inner pain can Other health care providers said they’re be unimaginable, they say, but it’s imporkeeping an eye on a nationwide trend that tant for the public to try and understand may have some bearing on Santa Barbara’s the depths of that struggle so as to generate numbers. Princeton economists made the empathy and effective treatments. startling discovery this fall that the life expecLuckily, mental-health workers in Santa tancy of middle-aged white Americans is Barbara and beyond say they’re learning actually falling, explained by an “epidemic” of about new ways to prevent, or at least curtail, suicides and afflictions brought on by alcohol incidents of suicide — both short-term care, abuse and prescription opioid addiction. In like the kind provided cont’d page 13  independent.com

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Tom Fayram, the county’s water resources king, said Tuesday that recycled water provided a lot of promise for the future during a hearing on alternative water supplies.

The county supervisors discussed a $500,000 study that found there are 15 recycledwater options that could provide between 2,900 and 7,600 acre-feet of additional supply, costing $300 to $2,200 per acre-foot. One acre-foot, Fayram said, is more or less enough to provide for a single family in a year.

Considering the unappetizing image of salvaging into drinking water the wastewater that would otherwise be sent out to sea, it’s no surprise the word “polishing” was used to describe “toilet-to-tap.” But Supervisor Peter Adam, known for his outspoken voice on the dais, said he could not think of anything less appetizing than eating at a place that had problems with bacteria. “We probably know who that’s been recently,” he said. Fayram said some players in the agriculture industry are concerned about marketing their products if grown with recycled water. “Some buyers won’t purchase it,” he said. Others, he said, prefer it given the growing “groundswell of sustainable” products. With that, Adam jabbed, “If you die of some kind of poisoning … it makes it less sustainable.”

In the past, relations between the area’s water agencies have been strained and acrimonious. “I just want to caution everyone to not get too excited about making a one world water government,” Adam said. “Some have taken actions in their own best interests … others are short of water.” Across the state, more than a dozen desalination sites are being proposed; this week, Carlsbad opened one of the country’s largest — with a $1 billion price tag. Earlier this year, the City of Santa Barbara decided to revive its 1990s-era desal plant for roughly $55 million. An item on whether the Montecito Water District will tap into it is expected to go before City Council next month. The supervisors directed staff to look at a regional desal facility and return to the board next year.

Generally speaking, Fayram said, direct potable reuse is less expensive than desalination, though such treatment might not currently exist in the United States. “It does have to be treated pretty highly,” he said. Lake Cachuma, which will not receive new state water allocations next year, has dropped to 15 percent of capacity. In terms of increasing lake level, the county is limited in what it can do, Fayram said. Other alternative supply options included storm-water capture, imported water, and groundwater. The report did not study conservation. “We looked at it as not an option anymore,” — Kelsey Brugger Fayram said. “It is what we are doing.”

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The Board of Supervisors on 12/8 unanimously supported sending an application (and $6,100 fee) to the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) to review Assemblymember Das Williams’s AB 3. The unorthodox legislation recently signed by Gov. Jerry Brown could establish a utilitytax-funded community services district in I.V. if approved by voters next November.

Though AB 3 mandated the LAFCO application, the supervisors’ tone was more hopeful than the one voiced countless times since the bill’s inception one year ago. Supervisors Peter Adam and Steve Lavagnino, who previously opposed the bill, cautioned about the realistic services the district could provide.

EDuCAtION In a 12/4 e-newsletter sent to Santa Barbara High School parents, the school’s Parent Teacher Student Association announced its monthly eScrip earnings have dropped from about $250 to $60. The eScrip fundraising program lets families support the high school at no additional cost to their pockets

each time they shop at stores like Lazy Acres, Home Depot, Sears, and, until recently, Vons.

“We need to bring that number back up so we can continue to fund programs such as the Teacher Wish List and the After Prom party,” the e-newsletter read.

Calling the new law a Christmas miracle, President Obama has signed the Every Student Succeeds Act, a bipartisan effort that does away with many flaws of 2001’s No Child Left Behind. While No Child created unrealistic, across-the-board achievement goals in math and reading that punished underperforming schools even when they had made academic progress, the new law gives states and their local school districts more flexibility in handling underperforming schools. The policy change also increases funding for early childhood education.

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Lavagnino was referring to the approach necessary to turn so vast a bureaucracy as the county’s Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health Services, otherwise known as ADMHS, around. But the other references to elephants functioned as a political Rorschach test of sorts, with allusions to the majestic pachyderm referring alternately to the mentally ill locked up in County Jail, to the lack of beds set aside in Santa Barbara for the mentally ill, and finally to Laura’s Law, which empowers local judges to order the service-resistant mentally ill into treatment.

Tuesday’s hearing was supposed to be an in-depth progress report on the strides made

by ADHMS since 2013, when private consultants issued two massive reports detailing the myriad ways in which the department’s acute dysfunctionality undercut its ability to provide services. But mental-health advocates upset at the slow pace of reform relative to the miserable experiences endured by their loved ones upstaged ADMHS chief Alice Gleghorn’s detailed presentation, weighing in emphatically and passionately on behalf of Laura’s Law, urging county supervisors to opt in as 15 other counties have already done.

New to their ranks was a letter of support from the Santa Barbara Downtown Organization, upset about the mentally-ill homeless who congregate on State Street. Lompoc Police Chief Pat Walsh stated 30-40 percent of all calls for service in Lompoc involved the mentally ill. Former County Fire chief Tom Franklin described the agonies of navigating treatment for a troubled family member. While he praised ADMHS chief Alice Gleghorn for making “amazing progress” in implementing reforms, it was still too slow.

“For many of the people speaking here,” he explained, “this is an emergency.” Like Franklin, Dave Saunders—right-hand man to District Attorney Joyce Dudley—testified

the time to implement Laura’s Law is now.

Specifically, they urged the Board of Supervisors to spend the $121,000 they budgeted this last summer to enact the regulation.

The last time Laura’s Law was before the supervisors, Gleghorn made it clear she regarded it as a serious distraction to the improvements she was hired a year ago to make happen. In the back and forth this week with mental-health advocates, tempers flared and nerves unraveled. Supervisor Lavagnino lashed out at those who argued against new jail cells in favor of mentalhealth beds, pointing out there’d been 11 homicides in his hometown of Santa Maria this year.“For some people, it’s never going to be enough,” he said.

Even so, other supervisors were inclined to make the effort. When they asked Gleghorn to report back in 60 days with another progress report on “Systems Change,” plus some design plans for the Laura’s Law pilot program, her voice cracked and quavered.

“With all due respect, supervisors, I’ve spent the past two months, 80 hours a week, working on this report.” To be asked to file another one in two months, she said, was “not very promising.”

Three of the supervisors gushed in their praise of Gleghorn’s work thus far. Supervisor Peter Adam was especially lavish, exclaiming that Gleghorn has learned how to “herd quails.” And by many measures, the department has made significant efforts to become more welcoming to clients, more responsive to their needs, and far more collaborative with the nonprofit organizations that provide the lion’s share of the clinical services dispensed with ADMHS dollars.

Although bed spaces remain at a premium, the department recently opened a new eight-bed facility where patients recovering from acute crises can get up to three months of supervised care. It’s about to open a “critical service unit” offering 23 hours of care for those on the verge of posing a threat to themselves or others in Santa Barbara, and it has just purchased the land to build another such facility in Santa Maria.

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Hall and is based on a report conducted by the same engineers who worked on the freeway-widening traffic analysis. Caltrans engineers and attorneys have insisted that in the context of the whole 11-mile widening project — relieving thousands of commuters the agonies of gridlock, also with the addition of a carpool lane—the additional congestion at these intersections is negligible.

On Tuesday, Caltrans attorney Derek Van Hoften sought to change Anderle’s mind, pointing out that of 104 intersections Caltrans analyzed, only nine were projected to experience increased congestion.

And in those cases, he stressed, the burden

would only be a few seconds more. Anderle declined to budge, stating he well understood the enormity of the case. “I’d hate to tell you how much time I put in on it,” he said, washing his large hands over his bald head.

Chytilo and his Transportation Futures Committee had also asked Anderle to require additional analysis for the impact of additional traffic on the freeway itself —not just the intersections—but the judge refused, explaining that because the issue was not raised during the public-comment period on the environmental documents, Chytilo had failed to exhaust all legislative n remedies before pursuing litigation.

by the county’s new crisis stabilization unit, can help keep people stay alive in times of immediate need, and longer-term strategies, like teaching individuals how to recognize their personal warning signs and then talk themselves off the ledge, may mean lasting recovery.

“It’s about getting higher functions of the brain working, instead of emotion running things,” explained Firestone. She tells patients to look at family photos or listen to music when they’re feeling despondent. Sometimes just being in a public space can bring relief.

And sleep is important—not enough can make a person impulsive and aggressive.

“We want to help people understand there’s a part of them that wants to kill themselves, but they can stop that part from winning.”

The challenge, she stated, is helping patients remember those strategies when they’re in crisis mode.

That’s why it’s important that friends, family, coworkers, and even strangers be sensitive to those fighting inner demons, Firestone said. A simple connection may start pulling them from the depths. “Reach out. Smile at people. Be willing to talk to someone if they’re upset,” she said. “Half of the time they’ll tell you to get lost, but the other half, they’ll know you care, and that can mean everything.”

Anthony Rodriguez has made it his life’s mission to be the one to listen. As the driving force behind the Santa Barbara Response Network, he regularly connects with those who are contemplating or have just attempted suicide, and the families of those who’ve succeeded. Rodriguez is the survivor of childhood abuse and an intentional overdose, and so he knows with personal intimacy the feelings of isolation and shame that can spiral out of control. And he recognizes how difficult it can be to ask for help.

“You have no idea,” he said of the fear that comes with speaking up, given the stigmas around mental illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

Rodriguez can’t explain this year’s spike, either.“It’s very worrisome,” he said, remembering a particularly tough case of a 5-yearold killing himself after being bullied. But he also recalled his time with a 16-year-old mother struggling with addiction and at risk of losing her child to foster care. She called Rodriguez after she cut her wrists at the beach. The teen survived, forged

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through recovery, and recently graduated high school. “When you fight the fight, that makes it all worth it,” Rodriguez said.

The best help he can offer, he explained, is to be a neutral, nonjudgmental shoulder to cry on, and to remind people that they’re loved, even when it doesn’t feel that way.

Rodriguez also decried the lack of mentalhealth services regionally and nationally.“It’s not just the family’s issue,” he said. “It’s all of our issue.”

This Monday evening, Rodriguez spoke at a confirmation class at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, where he works as an educational outreach worker. A dozen middle school and high school students nibbled pizza and listened to him talk about friendships and self-worth. Most of the time they kept their arms crossed, but when Rodriguez asked how many of them knew someone who had committed suicide, three hands went up. When he asked how many knew others who had talked about suicide, three more were raised.

And when Rodriguez asked how many of the students had thought about killing themselves, there was a silence until one teen slowly put up his hand. “I’m very proud of you,” Rodriguez said. “It’s not an easy thing to talk about.” People do care, he said;“I care.”

But the only way to give yourself a chance is to ask for help,“because you’re so important.”

Afterward, as Rodriguez prepared to step into his next class, he remarked how glad he was the teen had been honest. Rodriguez had been keeping his eye on him for some time.

“It makes it so much better to know someone is listening,” he said. “We can all make that difference in someone else’s life.”

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better hide its family jewels. The backlash to which I’m referring is the one directed against anyone who looks vaguely Arab, Muslim, or, for that matter, Puerto Rican. And the family jewels to which I allude are Santa Barbara’s historical, defining architectural style. This look is described in the brochures alternately as “Spanish,” sometimes as “Andalusian.” But whatever tag you give it, the key element activating our collective pineal glands is decidedly “Moorish” in origin. That’s right, Moorish. As is no longer taught in school, the Moors were both Arabs and Muslims, and they invaded Spain way back in the pre-Crusade day. The stereotypically Spanish exclamation “Olé” for example, is an enthusiastic bastardization of “Allah,” the Muslim prophet. By any modern metric — math, astronomy, the disposal of unwanted bodily excretions—the invading Moors were far more “civilized” than their Spanish invadees. Before eventually being forced out, the Moorish occupiers would seek to cram this civilization down the ungrateful throats of the occupied, who, in spite of themselves, still wound up learning a thing or two about Moorish architecture. Hence the Andalusian pipedream that today is Santa Barbara in all its self-intoxicated splendor. No more conspicuous example of this hallucination-as-art can be found than at the corner of Mission and State streets, former home to a blandly utilitarian Mobil gas station and now

home to what any idiot could easily confuse for a mosque. But instead the building, silly by even Santa Barbara’s most shameless standards, is home to new 7-Eleven and Subway sandwich shops. If the Backlash Brotherhood ever does make it to Santa Barbara, I would suggest this new edifice should be Stop Number One. The Slurpees, I’m told, are to die for.

I get that people are jumpy. If terrorists — even American-born, American-raised, county bureaucrats living in the Inland Empire — are going to target obscure government office buildings in San Berdoo, who among us can delude ourselves we’re immune from attack?

In this week’s Republican Punch and Judy show, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump went at it tooth and claw, and my heart went out to the relatively sane, measured, and balanced individuals I know who belong to the Republican party. Trump, we are told by Republican pundit Tony Quinn, is inevitable because he speaks to “the racism of nostalgia” so imbedded in older white voters composing the backbone of the GOP. Having become afflicted with a bad case of Trump Fatigue, I found myself perversely cheering on Texas Senator Ted Cruz. Watching the debates, I am reminded the enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend. Had the United States bothered learning this simple lesson when it comes to waging war in the Middle East, none of us would be worrying today about

ISIS, Al-Qaeda, or email hoaxes that shut down the entire Los Angeles Unified School District.

Cruz — spiking in some polls — is clearly the shiny new object, but Trump remains the most appallingly original candidate: boldly unapologetic fear, greed, and hate without false humility about any higher powers. Cruz is a more radioactive incarnation of the same old smug, smarmy, faith-based vituperation upon which we’ve already overdosed too many times. But he can definitely dance.

When it was suggested the gunman who shot up the Planned Parenthood offices in Colorado Springs qualified as a political terrorist, Cruz insisted the man was a “transgendered leftist activist.” Religiously, Cruz is born-again Christian-Zionist ayatollah who eagerly embraces an end-of-days sharia. To the extent he reads the Bible, it’s all about “smiting.” He was introduced at a recent event

by Pastor Kevin Swanson, who, among other things, contends the Bible justifies the execution of homosexuals. Although Cruz would repudiate these remarks, his campaign has been backed to the tune of $15 million by a family of Texas fracking billionaires — the Wilks brothers—who contend homosexuality constitutes not just a sin, but an actual crime. When it comes to ISIS, Cruz has coyly intimated he’d carpet bomb “the bad guys” with nukes. “I don’t know if sand can glow in the dark,” he famously said,“but we’re going to find out.” When asked to elaborate this week, he merely smirked.

Stupidity is hardly restricted to any one party. California Democrat Loretta San-

chez — now running for U.S. Senate against Kamala Harris — is trying to extricate feet

from mouth after stating she knows for a fact that 5 to 20 percent of Muslims worldwide would be “willing to use” ISIS-like terrorism to promote the “caliphate.” Given there are 1.6 billion Muslims on the planet, am I to really believe 320 million are ready to cut off my head with a Swiss Army Knife? No wonder I don’t sleep at night.

As we in the United States desperately seek refuge in our Paleo selves, women in Saudi Arabia — for the first time ever! — went to the polls and cast their ballots. To step on somebody else’s line, that qualifies as one small step for women, but one giant leap for mankind. And French voters just rejected a slate of highly accomplished and charismatic xenophobes running for national offices by a margin of 70 percent. Given recent mayhem in Paris — unquestionably ISIS in origin — voters there could be excused if they went the other way. And maybe it’s just coincidental, but Paris happened to be the site where 200 nations signed on the dotted line to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. More to the point, Big Business and the interglobal insurance industry showed up, as well, to show support.

Their presence went beyond the usual greenwashing; plain and simple, alternate energy means big bucks. It’s all but certain we’ll be arguing over what that line means in the years to come. But we signed it. To do otherwise would have been unthinkable.

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Mary Jane & Jude Anthony Blau

Mary Jane (Bruske) Blau passed away peacefully on Monday, November 30, after pruning her beautiful rosebushes in her garden with her sister Madelyn.

She was 75. Jude Blau, loving husband of Mary Jane, passed away peacefully in their home on Thursday, December 3, surrounded by family. He was 84.

Passing away three days apart was just like them, for they were an extraordinarily loving couple, at turns sweet, considerate, and playful, always devoted to one another. They had just celebrated their 39th anniversary on November 13 — a veritable parade of friends descended on the house to pay their respects.

They also enjoyed a lively, fun Thanksgiving dinner two weeks later. Up until the very moments of their deaths, they were tender and brave as they basked in the company of their family and friends, sharing memories, meals, hugs, and laughter.

Death Notices Auggie Trujillo: 08/28/191812/10/2015; 97, Santa Barbara, CA. Ronald Dean Nelson: 01/26/1944-12/09/2015; 71, Santa Barbara, CA. Dorothy Ann Hughes: 07/01/1921-12/08/2015; 94, Santa Barbara, CA. Josefina “Fina” Valdez: 05/12/1926-12/08/2015; 89, Carpinteria, CA J. Jerry Geneau: 03/18/193212/06/2015; 83, Santa Barbara, CA. Joseph David Worth: 06/19/1928-11/28/2015; 87, Carpinteria, CA. Olegario V. Tovar: 03/06/193011/26/2015; 85, Santa Barbara, CA. Sun Chong Lee: 12/01/92411/26/2015; 91, Santa Barbara, CA. Angelo Granaroli: 12/06/192411/23/2015; 90, Carpinteria, CA. Muriel Agnes Siry: 07/01/192411/23/2015; 91, Santa Barbara, CA. Joan “Darlene” Bjorkman: 08/27/1933-11/20/2015; 82, Goleta, CA. Kenji Ota: 05/14/1923-11/10/2015; 92, Goleta, CA. 16

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Jude and Mary Jane met in Santa Barbara through her sister Madelyn. After a brief and romantic courtship, they wed at San Roque Church in 1976; dear friends contributed music and readings. They settled in Goleta but later moved to Santa Barbara. Their home was constantly swirling with family, friends, neighbors, and, at times, foreign students.

They adored traveling. Visiting friends and family and attending school reunions was a priority because they believed in nurturing lasting relationships.

They also got to visit Monaco, London, Italy, and more; toured the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad, Russia; and took scenic cruises (Alaska, Gulf of St. Lawrence). Every adventure — the journey and the destination — was embraced with gusto and savored long afterwards.

Both of them were lifelong learners, avid readers, and “culture vultures.” Opera was a special favorite for Jude; he knew the words and got emotional during dramatic passages. Mary Jane, a musician herself, especially enjoyed the Santa Barbara Symphony.

In later years, their favorite activities included simply relaxing in the garden in the evenings, watching British detective shows in the living room at night, or puttering around straightening up while listening to classical music on the radio.

Always there was love and plenty of it. Theirs is a legacy of gentleness, generosity, and empathy, which they shared with everyone with whom they came into contact — partly as a result of earnest, conscious efforts to live out their convictions, but also just because that’s who they were.

Mary Jane was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Henry and Stella Bruske. She was predeceased by sisters Shirley and Betty and brother Bob, and is survived by brothers Tom and Dan and sister Madelyn, and a large and beloved extended family.

She was raised in Detroit, and entered the Adrian Dominican Convent after graduating from high school. She earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Siena Heights University in Michigan. In the early 1970s, she came to live in Santa Barbara and cared for Madelyn’s children, allowing her sister to work. Later, she held a variety of jobs, including hairdresser and elementary school teacher at San Roque School.

In her life with Jude, Mary Jane was a homemaker in the

truest sense of the word. Their house was cozy and welcoming.

Out back, she tended a colorful garden that grew lush with vegetables, herbs, fruit trees, and flowers. When she worked at Santa Barbara Orchid Estate, many spectacular orchids were added. It became a sanctuary for them, their families, and visitors, as well as birds and other wildlife.

Whether lounging in the garden or gathered around the large kitchen table, everyone in Mary Jane’s orbit felt completely welcomed, listened to, and cherished.

Jude was born in Hamilton, Ohio, to Joseph and Helena Blau.

He was predeceased by sisters Joan and Shirley and is survived by brothers Jack and Jerry and sister Sue. Jude began college aiming to become a physician but eventually earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Dayton, Ohio. That story — one he shared often with his children as they encountered their own adult challenges — was one of disappointment, perseverance, and triumph.

Jude then served in the United States Navy in Philadelphia, was honorably discharged in 1958, and moved to sunny California.

He married Frances Colborn in 1960, and they had six children.

They later divorced.

He worked for ScheringPlough Pharmaceuticals as a sales representative from 1960 to 1996; his sharp intellect and vibrant personality made him a standout in his career. He won many accolades and awards, including a luxurious European cruise that he and Mary Jane remembered in detail and with delight.

Upon retirement, Jude devoted himself to diverse volunteer activities, including serving food at a soup kitchen, hospice, and the American Lung Association. He had strong political convictions, supported and promoted candidates he believed in, and even wrote the occasional passionate Letter to the Editor of this newspaper. He was also a docent on the Amtrak Coast Starlight route. He got a big kick out of telling and hearing jokes (including — it must be said — old ones and bad ones). He loved pizza, football, going to plays at the Circle Bar B Ranch, and long walks and talks along Shoreline Drive with his dear friend Keith Forster. He seemed to know people wherever he went and struck up conversations easily; he was exuberant. No doubt his arrival in Heaven will displace Saint Peter as the greeter!

Jude and Mary Jane are also survived by six beloved children, Teri Chace (husband Alan), Joseph Blau (wife Kathleen), Frank Blau (wife Linda), Eileen Horne (husband Greg), Julie Pascal (husband Roger), and Jim Blau; nine cherished grandchildren, Wes and Tristan, Kimberly, Peter, and Joshua, Caitlin and Justin, Lily, Stephanie and Danny, and Seamus; and one great-grandson, Cade, as well as a special niece Rosemary (wife Linda). Jude and Mary Jane were blessed by many, many friends, most especially everyone in Saint Anthony’s faith community.

A Memorial Mass and reception was held on Sunday, December 6, at St. Anthony’s. A private Memorial Service and inurnment will be held later.

The family wishes to thank all the loving hospice caregivers, especially Janet Bondarenko.

They ask that in lieu of flowers, contributions be made in Jude and Mary Jane Blau’s names to Assisted Home Health & Hospice Foundation, 302 North Milpas St., Santa Barbara, CA 93103 or via its website at assisted1.com.

included UCSB Manzanita Vil Village. He was Project Manager for the Entrada project on lower State Street at the time of his death.

Beyond Steve’s passion for architecture, he loved taking back road trips. He was also an avid surfer as a young man, and he always loved good company and good food. One of his greatest joys was the time spent with his family and grandchildren.

A private family celebration of his life will be held in accordance with Steve’s wishes.

Donations in Steve’s honor can be made online to The Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research (lustgarten.org).

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Steven Nolan Carter

Steven Nolan Carter passed away peacefully at his home in Santa Barbara on December 7, 2015.

He was the loving husband of Peggy Carter, devoted father of Katie Cota (Justin) of Lompoc and Patrick Carter (Rachel) of San Francisco, stepfather of Todd Brais of Santa Rosa, adored grandfather of Cassie, Jack and Clara Cota, brother of Jan Carter (Oliver) of Berkeley and Dave Carter (Barbara) of Escondido, and son of Jean Carter of West Covina. He was predeceased by his first wife, Suzan Carter, and his father, Jack Carter.

Steve was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and grew up in West Covina, California. He graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo with a Bachelor of Architecture and moved to Santa Barbara to begin his career. He spent the last 26 years as a partner at DesignArc, where he was Project Architect on the Santa Barbara Bowl for 20 years. Other projects

Mary Sweeney Zeldis, beloved wife, mother, sister, daughter and friend, passed away peacefully at home after a year living with cancer. Born a farmer’s daughter in North Dakota, she found her way to Santa Barbara in 1975 and here she made her gardens, friendships and art. She raised her son Antonio while working in jobs from waitress to ad sales at the News-Press. In 1982 she met her husband-to-be, Bill, at the Copper Coffee Pot. They were married years later at the Courthouse and toasted with coffee ever after.

In 1985 she became an RN and worked at St. Francis, Cottage Hospital, Cate School, and the VNA. She studied Vedanta for years in Pennsylvania and India and practiced her Spanish, yoga and world dance everywhere and always. After she retired from nursing in 2000, she wrote a local guidebook, taught ESL classes, and worked beside and traveled with her husband.

She belonged outdoors and loved sharing time there with her friends on a morning walk or in weeks of camping. She had a piercing wit and a deep trust and respect for the profound. She loved her kitchen, her garden, her poetry and books, and especially her skis. Generous, playful, deliberate, devoted, childlike and wise, she was truly loved. She is survived by her husband Bill, son

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Publishers Association), which honored him in 1992 with its Benjamin Franklin Person of the Year Award history. for Lifetime Achievement.

Dan was a world-renowned author Dan knew about self-publishing because he’d done and speaker whose motto was “No one it all, even shipping from his home and garage wareshould die with a book inside them.” So many of us house. He wrote the book on how to create a booth at are published authors thanks to his 1979 book The Self- a book fair. Dan was an expert on promotion, as well, Publishing Manual — a guide that encouraged and speaking at media and public relations breakfasts and taught writers how to navigate the process long before presenting book-publishing weekend seminars at his self-publishing became hilltop home, at which the far more accessible I gave public relations phenomenon it is today. tips.

Dan, who died on Dan and I were a November 1, 2015, at team in the 1980s and age 77 from complicafriends during his life tions of cancer and a in Santa Barbara. He fall, was a beloved figure wrote; I promoted. And in the book industry. when you followed his Publishers Weekly called advice, you too became him a “self-publishing an author. His bookpioneer.” shelves overflowed with An aviation profesbooks that he had made possible. My late hussional who began his band Robert Muller’s career with the management of a parachute books were self-pubcompany in California lished thanks to Dan. and went on to design For authors, even if it was five in the morning, parachutes, Dan’s first Dan was always just a self-publishing advenphone call away. ture was one that folEven though everylowed his passion: He HIGH FLYING: Hang gliding and parachute enthusiast had written a technical Dan Poynter visited the cockpit of the vintage DC-10 on one was his friend on treatise on parachutes display at the new Santa Barbara Airport terminal in the phone, Dan loved that he was pretty sure 2011. his privacy. It gave him no publisher would more time to write. want. And just like that, Dan was a publisher.

He also loved holidays and used Thanksgiving and A passionate and skilled skydiver (not one to shy Christmas to revise and update his books. I think away from adventure, he skydived into the North his Self-Publishing Manual had 16 revisions.

Pole—a first for the world—and cheerfully admitFrom my garden I see Dan’s palm trees, and I will ted to breaking an appalling number of bones from always remember our talks, including one meeting parachuting and skydiving), Dan penned the 1972 around his kitchen table when the Global Ebook books The Parachute Manual: A Technical Treatise on Award was born. We held the inaugural Global Ebook the Parachute and Parachuting: The Skydiver’s Hand- Awards dinner at the Santa Barbara University Club. book, which are seen by many as cornerstones of sky- Dan looked great in a tuxedo.

We should all be so lucky to leave a legacy as rich diving literature.

Then he went looking for a book on hang gliding. as this nonstop author-publisher did. His accomplishHe couldn’t find any. So he wrote one. One hundred ments are myriad.

While Dan may no longer be with us, his writings thirty thousand copies later, it’s still in print.

A recent comment from one of his skydiving bud- and the connections he formed within the book-pubdies shows what a pioneer he was in aviation: “Dan lishing community will ensure his legacy is kept alive.

Poynter influenced parachute riggers worldwide not Becky Carbone, his assistant for the last 13 years, has just in technique but in minute-to-minute decisions been collecting emails from New Zealand to Canada. regarding quality and safety.” His contributions were He was so sweet and was loved by so many. The blurb formally recognized in 2012 when he was inducted my husband wrote for the back of Dan’s books says it into the National Skydiving Museum Hall of Fame. all: “Dan Poynter has generously guided thousands Whatever Dan experienced became a book. Over to authorship.”

Thank you, Dan. You were a true pioneer, and your the years, through his company Para Publishing, Dan wrote more than 130 books on topics ranging from self- impact will long be remembered around the world. publishing to Frisbee throwing to air travel.And he was You were one of a kind. in constant demand as a self-publishing consultant.

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A gathering in her honor will be held at her home at noon on January 9.

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lon; nephews Justin and Zachary Dillon; sister-in-law Wendy Bliss MacMurray (Tim) and brotherin-law Timothy Kenyon Bliss (Ginny); nephews Jason MacMurray and Teddy Bliss; nieces Kristen and Megan MacMurray and Tory Bliss; and Israel and Mary Torres.

Patty requested no memorial service, but contributions to Family Service Agency, 123 West Gutierrez Street, Santa Barbara 93101 are welcomed.

Christopher “Kit” Smith and sister-in-law Margie of Honolulu, Hawaii, and nieces Suzanne Smith and Sandra Bramhill.

In lieu of flowers, a contribution in Dick’s name may be made to the Cancer Foundation of Santa Barbara, or a charity of your choice.

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Santa Barbara Cemetery.

Gail is survived by her husband Richard, daughter Jennifer Saad (Samir), son Dr. Steven McLaren (Angela) and grandchildren Drew Saad, Elena McLaren and Colin McLaren.

In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made in her honor to Transition House of Santa Barbara.

To remember Marco, please donate to the good folks that helped to take care of Marco’s partner Jacquie during her last 5 months, the Sarah House at www.SarahHouseSB.org.

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Patricia Dillon Bliss died peacefully at home on 3 December 2015. She was born 17 August 1945 in Sioux City, Iowa, the first child of Ilene Tanner and Francis Bernard Dillon.

Patty grew up in Sacramento, California, and attended Holy Spirit School and McClatchy High School. She attended UCSB and was a member of the Alpha Phi Sorority, where she began her lifelong passion for volunteerism.

Patty was a devoted full-time community volunteer who helped people in need through an impressive list of local nonprofits: the Junior League of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Montecito Association, Planned Parenthood, Family Service Agency, Santa Barbara Foundation, Girls Inc. of Carpinteria, Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics and The Women’s Fund of Santa Barbara. In 1996, Patty was named Woman of the Year and in 2004 Health Care Hero.

Patty will be sorely missed by her family and many friends.

She proved herself a fierce survivor in her battles this year addressing them with a bravery, humor and graciousness that was admired by all. Her family is very appreciative of the thoughtful and tireless care that was provided by numerous medical staff, nurses and caregivers.

Patty was preceded in death by her husband of 46 years, Terry George Bliss, in 2012. She is survived by their daughter Chonnie Bliss Jacobson, son-in-law Paul Jacobson, and her granddaughters Lily Marjorie Jacobson and Emily Bliss Jacobson of Snowmass Village, Colorado; siblings John Forrest Dillon (Kristina) and Paul Francis Dillon (Kristi); nieces Anneli and Karalee Dil-

Born August 3, 1932, died November 30, 2015, after a brief illness.

RC was born in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, the oldest son of Dudley Wall Smith and Elizabeth McClean Case.

After graduating from Punahou School, he attended Princeton University on an NROTC scholarship. He was a proud alumnus of both schools.

While serving three years in the navy, Dick met and married Marion Larimore “Larie” Elliott of Sherman Oaks, CA. They settled in Manhattan Beach, and Dick worked for Security Pacific National Bank in Los Angeles and, after a transfer in 1972, Santa Barbara. In 1987, he started working for Santa Barbara Bank and Trust until his retirement in 1994.

Dick loved his family, baseball, golf and traveling with his wife.

He was active in numerous community organizations. serving on the boards of The Cancer Foundation, The Boys & Girls Club, the Montecito YMCA, the Chamber of Commerce, Casa Dorinda Foundation and Birnam Wood Golf Club. He was president of the Rotary Club of Santa Barbara and the Santa Barbara Club.

He is survived by his wife of sixty years and his sons, Rick and Camille of San Diego, Doug and Angela of Culver City and daughter Judy Milam and Steve of Goleta, and his four wonderful grandchildren, Ginny and Case Smith and Jordan and Ali Milam.

He is also survived by brother

Gail (West) McLaren passed away on Nov 26, 2015, after a brief but valiant fight with cancer. She was cared for at home by her daughter, husband and Visiting Nurses. She was admitted to the hospital on November 24 and was surrounded by family until she finally succumbed to her illness.

Gail was born June 6, 1934, in Portland, Oregon. After graduating with honors from the University of Oregon in education, she taught for one year prior to marrying her husband, Richard, on June 16, 1957. She met Richard through mutual friends at a college dance. Company transfers resulted in moves to Michigan, Virginia, Delaware, Oregon, Minnesota, Illinois, Pennsylvania and California. She was a loving mother who helped raise and guide her two children while being active in their schooling, the AAUW, League of Women Voters, Chicago March of Dimes, and a number of other charities.

She retired to Santa Barbara in 1994, where her philanthropic interests continued. She became active in Newcomers, Transition House Auxiliary, Symphony League, the Women’s Club and two book groups. She valued greatly her many Santa Barbara friends. She loved the numerous summers spent with her grandchildren, showing them the wonders that Santa Barbara held.

She was a dedicated mother and a doting grandmother ever ready with a camera to catch a picture of her beloved grandkids. Gail was an avid lover of the arts, gardening (especially orchids), cooking, yoga and spending time entertaining friends and family.

The family will hold a private service and entombment at the

Barry Sauerwein, aka “Barrington,” Born February 15, 1955, passed away at his home on November 29, 2015. He was a favorite local musician as a drummer with various local Santa Barbara bands. He is survived by his mother, stepfather, sister, brother, 2 nieces and a great nephew, as well as many friends. His ashes will be laid to rest at his father’s gravesite at the Santa Barbara Cemetery on Thursday December 17, 2015, at 2:30pm.

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Stephen Duncan Hooper was born in Michigan in May 1944.

The eldest of four children, Steve loved putting on puppet and magic shows for his younger siblings, the family cat, photography, Monopoly, basketball, track, and his lifelong passion, reading.

Steve graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a B.A. in sociology in 1966. He was last employed

by Santa Barbara City College.

He bravely battled brain cancer for many years. He never complained but fought courageously to the end. Steve died peacefully in November 2015. He was blessed to have had a few loyal friendships, many lasting over five decades. Preceded in death by his father, Duncan L. Hooper; his mother, Mary H. Hooper; and his youngest brother, Francis A. Hooper, Steve is survived by a younger brother and sister. Steve will miss his morning newspaper, his friends and coffee at Trader Joe’s, his beautiful collection of books, his older model SAAB and his beloved Santa Barbara.

Please consider a donation in his name to the American Cancer Society (cancer.org) to further brain cancer research.

Marco passed away on Thursday, December 12 2013, at 8:22 PM. It has been almost 2 years, old friend!

But we feel you always with us.

Your sense of humor, your jokes, and your famous “serious” look comes up all the time.

And it brings back memories of our joyful time together.

And we laugh today as we laughed then.

It’s as if you are in the same room with us.

Today we remember you everywhere, from warm Santa Barbara to cold Michigan.

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First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a Communist; Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a socialist; Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a trade unionist; Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out — because I was not a Jew; Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak out for me.

— Yetta Harris, S.B.

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n addition to the news that SBCC ranks sixth in UC transfers among the state’s 113 community colleges [independent.com/UCtransfers], it should be known that only 11 of those colleges have a dormitory for their students.

Those community colleges that do provide dorms are in rural areas. The proposed West Beach dormitory will house 1,500 students in an established residential area adjacent to waterfront activities enjoyed by all Santa Barbara residents. And, these will not be students from our community but rather those from other states and nations.

— Sue Mellor, S.B.

Quell the Trump-et

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f you think about it, both ISIS and Donald Trump have a lot in common. They have both gone on way too long. One preaches hate of all infidels or people who don’t aspire to their vision of the universe, and one preaches hate of minorities, the “idiots,” ugly people,

and thinking people, in other words all people who don’t agree with his vision of the universe.

Extremism applies to both. I hear people say Trump is straight talkin’, honest, and saying what everyone wants to hear. No, not me for sure, nor my friends.

He is mean, false, uninformed, selfish, covetous, avaricious, and downright embarrassing. And, really, does he qualify as a public servant?

I see no humor in this; Saturday Night Live did us no favors. The media focuses on his antics; people in the world see us as mean and ignorant. He is the downside of free speech, which of course we would not change.

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Over the last 30 years, U.S. politicians have continued to pass legislation that widens the gap. The only way America is going to turn this around is to elect those who will reverse the trend.

Scandinavian counties with Democratic Socialist governments are the best at keeping these problems to a minimum. Our last such president was four-term Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The only Democratic Socialist candidate among our current presidential contenders is Bernie Sanders, and I urge you to vote —Harold “Hal” Hill, Goleta for him.

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A Wet Christmas, Please

EL NIÑO, ARE YOU LISTENING? I’m dream-

ing of a wet Christmas, just like the ones we used to know.

When streets glistened, Cachuma overflowed, and gutters gurgled.

When H2O was (relatively) cheap, and no one worried about the Sierra snowpack.

No one was replacing lawns with cactus or gravel. Parks were emerald green, and fountains sprayed musically. Life was great, with the turf springy underfoot, kids and dogs racing around, just like they promised us in the “sunny California” promotions.

But that was then, and now is now. Reality has set in like your obnoxious Midwest in-laws here for the holidays, and probably a lot longer, and, “Where’s the flat-screen TV and lunch?”

If it poured today, I wouldn’t care if the uphill neighbor’s yard spilled acres of water and my garage flooded. I wouldn’t care if the roof leaked or my car stalled or water filled my shoes as I tried to cross the street.

I want to smell wet dog as my gloves dry on the stove. I want Figaro the cat to track mud in the house and roll on the rug.

I wouldn’t care if my stopped-up gutter collapsed from the weight of the water.

I’d love to see rowboats on State Street, garbage cans floating through the streets, and children splashing in knee-high mud puddles.

But sadly, there are children who’ve never seen rain. I want to see TV weather-folk waving their arms and slopping around in rain gear.

Face it: We live in The Land That Weather Forgot. The rest of the country gets hit with earthquakes and cyclones on an annual basis.

But they’re hardy folk. We’re so delicate that we moan if the mercury climbs above 80 or falls below 70.

Our drought is lasting a whole business cycle. Children are born and go to kindergarten without putting on raincoats.

Old ladies lug buckets of water from the shower to nourish their petunias. Roofers go bankrupt for lack of work. Homeowners run hoses from their showers and clothes washers to try to save their backyard putting greens.

Montecito millionaires write huge checks to pay off water quota overruns. You have to put in a special order to get a glass of water at a restaurant.

Mind you, I’m not begging for a Santa Barbara disaster, either. I don’t want to see cars up to their snouts stranded in the Garden Street freeway underpass or school buses full of orphans hydroplaning on the 101.

I don’t want to see El Niño go nuts. You want massive flooding? We’ve had it. In January 1914, 9.36 inches lashed the county in 48 hours, killing two people, washing out rail-

road bridges, roads, and telephone lines, and virtually isolating Santa Barbara from the rest of the civilized world. (Some people think that’s not such a bad idea.)

Mr. and Mrs. Louis Jones of Montecito (the Daily News account oddly does not mention his wife’s name), a wealthy couple living at the Wildwood estate, went for a drive before the storm hit.

After visiting a country club, they headed home but found that all the roads and bridges were washed out. So they decided to walk along the railroad tracks to the Miramar Hotel. There proprietor H.J. Doulton tried to persuade them to stay. But they had four children at home being cared for by servants, so they decided to borrow a lantern and press on.

It was a mistake. Their bodies were found the next day.

One night in January 1969, Dick Smith dragged me from my Goleta bed into a downpour to cover not only a railroad crash but also a flood over in the Santa Ynez River canyon. All hell had broken loose in the tiny community of Paradise. By dawn’s ugly light the scene was one of utter devastation. Helicopters plucked 120 people from the wreckage.

“Cars were rolling and banging along” in the floodwaters, one man told me. Butane tanks were floating. Another man told me that he and his wife spent five hours on their roof.

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“I thought we were goners.”

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PHASED OUT: “There’s a plus side to short-term rentals,” said Eric Kelley, pictured with a vacation bungalow he operates with his wife, Peggy Lindt. “Our downtown business [The Book Den] benefits tremendously from tourism. Short-term rentals allow middle-class families to come to Santa Barbara. As a businessman, I worry we’re going to lose something there.”

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few incorrigible weekend renters to shut down the tranquildestination of Santa Barbara, the debate ity of a family neighborhood. Common are the horror stoover short-term vacation rentals has pit- ries of clogged street parking, over-amplified playlists, and, ted neighbor against neighbor, home- if the offending party pad has a pool, loudly announced and owner against property manager, lawyer poorly executed drunken cannonballs at 3 a.m. against government, and the city attorney’s office against While it’s not against the law to cut loose on private the multibillion-dollar online industry that makes it easy property, the burgeoning cottage industry of property ownfor anybody with an extra bedroom, house, or entire apart- ers renting out rooms or homes on the short-term (fewer ment complex to profit from steady waves of out-of-town than 31 days) has run up against city and county zoning visitors. laws. For decades—way before online hosting platforms For the past several months, the public displays of con- such as Airbnb and VRBO or Craigslist or even classified tention at both the city and county level have forced Santa ads in the back of this newspaper—these land-use laws Barbara residents and their elected politicians to deeply consider the character of residential neighborhoods and whether short-term vacation rentals can coexist on the same street. Sure, vacationers and other travelers fuel the economy, and their hosts (the legitimate ones, at least) purchase business licenses and pay taxes on cash flow.

Last year alone, the city raked in $1.2 million in Transient Occupancy Tax (which does not include hotel tax), while county coffers collected $1.4 million. That’s not chump change. Plus, the Santa Barbara–based companies that coordinate such home-style lodging steadily employ a middle-class workforce, from marketers and bookkeepers to the housekeepers and landscapers responsible for maintaining rentals as the nicest-looking homes on any FULLY LOADED: Friends and enemies packed City Council chambers as the debate unfolded. given block. However, it only takes a

have designated the majority of residential neighborhoods as family-friendly zones of stability apart from the commercial bustle of areas described for hotels or B and Bs. For the most part, that’s why Santa Barbara city officials unanimously cracked down on short-term rentals this past summer. And just last week, councilmembers voted (again, across the board) to forego any effort to write a new law allowing home sharing, where on-site homeowners briefly rent out extra bedrooms to out-of-towners. The city’s position is among the strictest in the state, mirroring Monterey and, in Marin County, the town of Tiburon.

Santa Barbara County officials—who regulate vacation-rental hotspots throughout the unincorporated Santa Ynez Valley and Montecito — aren’t far behind. Last week, the County Planning Commission voted 3-2 to direct staffers to update zoning code to include a ban on short-term rentals in residential areas. In a separate motion, all five commissioners remained open to short-term rentals located on ranches and farms, where, especially in the north county, traffic and noise issues dissipate across rural landscapes far away from distant neighbors. The commission will revisit the issue in February before it goes to the Board of Supervisors in the spring.

Aside from the guiding principles of residential zoning laws — but no less critical — city and

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THE TOURIST NEXT DOOR A decade ago, longtime Santa Barbara resident and UCSB grad Theo Kracke moved his family and apparel business to Ventura. They didn’t want to sell their Mesa home, so they opted to turn it into a shortterm rental. When they had trouble finding a reputable company to manage it, Kracke decided to do it himself. In PARADISE LOST: Since the 2006 inception of Paradise Retreats, owner Theo Kracke 2006, he launched Paradise (pictured) has paid $3 million in Transient Occupancy Taxes to the city and county combined.

Now, he’s facing “devastating” losses as officials enforce against short-term vacation rentals.

Retreats, a management company that caters to homeowncounty officials have also been moved by stories of ers with high-end second homes they’d like to rent out long-term residents bumped from rentals as landlords when they’re not using them. As the business grew, the clear space to accommodate the more lucrative short- Krackes moved back to run it full-time. These days, term market. In that respect, the growing number of Paradise Retreats has 24 employees and a few dozen vacation rentals has further crippled housing options independent contractors (housekeepers, handymen, for folks trying to simultaneously live and work in gardeners) to manage 110 properties countywide. Since Santa Barbara. Short-term rentals might not hit the its inception, Paradise Retreats has been operating long-term market as hard as, say, the region’s private transparently with a valid business license and has paid English-language schools or heavily enrolled higher- the city more than $1.2 million in Transient Occupancy education institutions, but when Santa Barbara’s Taxes, Kracke said. “You could say we have been in a vacancy rate is at half of one percent, every bedroom partnership with the city.” lost to tourism hurts.

There are 349 legitimate (license-holding, tax-pay“We have an important housing/job balance to ing) short-term rentals within city limits, according achieve, and the commercial use of residential properties for shortterm vacation rentals runs completely counter to those goals in the city’s General Plan,” said Rob Pearson, executive director and CEO of the Housing Authority of the City of Santa Barbara. “What kind of community do we want?

For me, it’s having a workforce that gets to live where it works, or at least within a relatively easy commute. Sadly, Santa Barbara is fast becoming a town where this is not true for middle-income, or even upper-middle, workers due to an inadequate housing supply. Allowing housing to become short-term vacation rentals increases its cost, reduces supply, CORNERED: Airbnb consultant Toussaint Miles (center) got an earful at a county and exacerbates the problem.” workshop over the summer.

Naturally, the issue is more complicated than that. For years, both the city and county have been issuing business- to the Planning Division. Kracke’s company manages license tax certificates to homeowners wanting to run 40 of those, 30 of which—including the one he owns their properties as short-term rentals. That common personally — are located in single-family neighborpractice has helped create an estimated 2,550 vaca- hoods where such use has always been illegal. None tion rentals countywide, with 1,200 in the city alone, of his clients’ properties, Kracke said, were purchased according to analyst Jeanette Rottas with TXP, an solely to be profitable upscale vacation rentals, none economic consulting firm hired by vacation-rental are home-shares, and stays of fewer than 30 days make marketplace HomeAway to crunch the numbers in up 80 percent of his business. With city enforcement Santa Barbara County. (Concrete tallies remain elusive, officers now on high alert, Kracke has been given until however, because many hosting platforms have yet to the end of next year to remove those offending properprovide hard data on the number of listings in any ties from his portfolio. “My business will drop by 60 given neighborhood). percent,” Kracke said.“It’s a devastating blow.”

“As a city, we’re culpable,” Councilmember Gregg Since that summer vote, Kracke, 52, has made the Hart said at last week’s meeting. “We can’t continue rounds at City Hall, where he came to realize that the to do that.” That notion of culpability will likely gain council’s hasty crackdown was based on an incorrect belief that vacation rentals reduce the supply of affordsubstantial legal traction in the coming weeks.

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able housing while degrading neighborhoods, a train of thought unsupported, he said, by any formal fact-gathering report. A picture closer to the truth, Kracke believes, is of a few bad apples spoiling the basket of respectable mom-and-pop management companies that provide a service that’s in huge demand.

That doesn’t change the fact that vacation rentals and home-shares are illegal in most Santa Barbara city residential neighborhoods. On this front, Kracke is gunning for new rules, spelled out at Save the Rentals Santa Barbara (strsantabarbara.org), a site he helped launch on October 1.

Kracke has also lawyered up with Rogers, Sheffield & Campbell to sue the city, he said, joining “multiple” property owners “trying to adjust to [the city’s] attack on our legal rights.” Paradise Retreats also refused to hand over company records, dating back to October 2012, detailing its properties and their financial wherewithal, requested by the city via subpoena in October.

“The real solution is fair regulation,” Kracke said, lobbying for a cap on the number of short-term rentals in any given neighborhood, detailed

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“The city’s decision to prohibit all short-term rentals is an overreaching solution,” Kracke said. “Fair regulation can be developed which will address the concerns of housing and neighborhood quality while preserving the economic and social benefits provided by short-term rentals.”

So far, city officials aren’t buying it, even when Kracke factors in the $1.2 million in Transient Occupancy Taxes collected last year (plus another $245,000 for creek restoration), a number that could almost close the city’s $1.8 million gap in its general fund reserves.

“In a rush to judgment, the city arbitrarily changes direction and issues an enforcement order against us,” Kracke said, explaining his path to court.“They say we must cease business operations by January 1, 2017.

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RENTAL ON THE RANGE: Colin Murphy (pictured), a winemaker at Koehler Winery in Los Olivos, said there’s a big difference between urban vacation rentals and those “out in the sticks. There’s not a one-size-fitsall solution.” So far, county officials have remained open to vacation rentals on agricultural land, but their final decision comes this spring.

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City Attorney Ariel Calonne said,“We don’t believe that collecting [Transient Occupancy Tax] creates an estoppel against enforcing the zoning ordinance,” meaning, generally speaking, that just because the city has been inconsistent on this issue doesn’t mean its position now is illegal. Kracke plans on filing his lawsuit early next year.

Meanwhile, the pressure is closing in on the county level, as well, where Kracke’s company manages 60 (of the 496 legitimate) vacation rentals in unincorporated areas, most of them in residential neighborhoods, from Montecito to the Santa Ynez Valley.

At last week’s County Planning Commission meeting, Leanne Schlinger, who runs Santa Ynez Vacation Rentals, encouraged commissioners to take a “responsible, rational, and educated” approach. “This is the Planning Commission, after all. Let’s come up with a plan, not a ban.”

Schlinger’s lawyer, Matt Allen, with Price, Postel & Parma, pointed out that a vast agricultural parcel shouldn’t be treated the same as a single-family home on a quarter acre, adding, “To create a ban that does no good except put reputable people out of business seems shortsighted.”

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GAME ON: “Enforcement really turns into the proverbial game of Whac-A-Mole, where we [locate] the problem, then it comes up in another place,” said George Buell (pictured), the city’s community development director.

cover story As written, the county’s ordinance is up for interpretation. On one hand it states that homes in residential neighborhoods are intended for single families on a non-transient basis. On the other, and more precisely, “short-term rentals are currently not defined in our code,” said Jessica Metzger, a senior planner with the county’s department of Planning and Development. Her job now is to help add that definition before the issue reaches the County Board of Supervisors for a final vote that promises more of the same spit and vinegar — and threatened legal action — that has characterized the debate from the get-go.

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STRANGERS IN SMALL TOWN, U.S.A. Kelly Gray lives half a mile from the downtown Los Olivos flagpole, on a deadend street with eight homes. Late last year, the family across the street moved, and their home, Gray said, was purchased by business partners looking to expand their portfolio of vacation rentals. Gray was upset by the news. For years, the residents of this little street knew one another, looked after each other’s kids and pets, and pitched in for speed bumps. Troubled by the prospect of a revolving-door vacation pad nearby, she looked up the zoning and found that operating a short-term rental in her neighborhood “is not an expressly permitted use.” Right away, she hand-delivered her “strong objections” in a letter to the Sotheby’s agent who listed the property. A handful of neighbors added their names, as well.

“I’ve visited the county several times in opposition to this,” said Gray, who’s an attorney.

“I’m concerned about taking family rentals off the market and turning them into businesses.

It has a really big effect on the community. We’ve lost the town.”

There’s not as much hyperbole to that last statement as one might think, according to Bob Field, former chair of the Valley Planning Advisory Committee in Santa Ynez.

“Los Olivos residents have already lost their downtown to over-thetop wine tasting.” There are at least 32 tasting rooms in town, according to the Los Olivos Business Organization. Do the math with the estimated 400 single-family homes, and “that’s a wine bar for every 12 houses,” Field said.“Unbridled tourism has taken over, and we want to rein it in before Los Olivos residents lose their neighborhoods, too.”

Field pointed to data tediously compiled by Gray as she pored RALLY IN THE VALLEY: As county officials approach a through maps found at online hostcritical juncture this coming spring, Leanne Schlinger (pictured) and her employees at Santa Ynez Vacation Rentals have lobbied ing sites. Shockingly, she discovered for a short-term rental plan, not a ban. that upward of 40 percent of the homes in Los Olivos are set up to accommodate vacationers. This doesn’t bode well for a community’s foundations, she said: families with kids in local schools and churches, dads coaching little league, moms running point on just about everything else. Gray hopes that last week’s vote by the County Planning Commission may turn the tide as the Board of Supervisors takes it up next year.

Said Field,“The bottom line will be whether our supervisors think it is more important to preserve and protect our neighborhoods and agricultural lands for the long-term benefit of people who live here or to commercialize them for the transient pleasure of people who do n not.”

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12/17: Mariachi Divas Christmas The musicians of this all-female mariachi group represent Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, Colombia, Japan, Sweden, and other descents. They’ve created “ranchengue,” an original style of music that blends ranchera and meringue.

When you celebrate this distinctive brand of mariachi music, you will be singing and dancing along.

8pm. Chumash Casino Resort, 3400 E. Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez. $30. Ages 21+.

Call (800) 248-6274 or visit chumashcasino.com.

thurSday 12/17 12/17-12/21: Food for Fines Pay your overdue library fines by bringing items of food to the library that will be donated to the Unity Shoppe of S.B. Canned goods, plastic jar, and sealed-box items will go for a rate of $1 per item (no expired food). (This exchange does not include replacement fees, collection agency fees, or other fees.)

Thu.: 10am-7pm; Fri.-Sat: 10am5:30pm; Sun.: 1-5pm; Mon.: 10am-7pm; S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St.; 962-7653. Thu.Fri.: 10am-5:30pm; Sat.: 10am-

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12/17: The Blues and Greys, Clean Spill Named one of the “Bands to Look Out For” by The Santa Barbara Independent this year, the Blues and Greys will bring their dark pop and new music to SOhO. Opening the show will be indie-rock band Clean Spill. 9pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $10-$12. Ages 18+. Call 962-7776 or visit sohosb.com.

12/17: Santa Barbara Festival Ballet The dancers of the S.B. Festival Ballet will perform an excerpt from The Nutcracker with dancing mice, marching soldiers, sugar plum fairies, and more.

Bring your little dancers for a short ballet class afterward. 4pm.

Goleta Library, 500 N. Fairview Ave., Goleta. Free. Call 964-7878 or visit sbplibrary.org.

12/17-12/18: S.B. Maritime Museum 15th Anniversary Celebration Have you seen the renovated S.B. Maritime Museum? There are interactive and educational exhibits and programs, the new Children Gallery, and more. The community is invited on Friday to

enjoy a day at the museum for free. Thu.: Anniversary Celebration: 5:30-7:30pm; free-$10. Fri.: Community Free Day: 10am-5pm; free. S.B. Maritime Museum, 113 Harbor Wy. Call 962-8404 or visit sbmm.org/all-events.

Friday 12/18 12/18: Velvet Jones 15-Year Anniversary Celebrate 15 years of music at Velvet Jones with S.B.-born alt-rock band Beta Play and earth-shattering rock ’n’ roll band The Kyle Gass Band. If you bring a toy to the door to this benefit show for the Toys for Tots toy drive, your ticket will only be $5. Start the anniversary party early, and catch the Western indie-rock band Jared & The Mill. Jared & The Mill: 7pm; $10.

Anniversary Celebration: 9pm; with toy: $5; without toy: $12-$15.

Velvet Jones, 423 State St. Ages 21+. Call 965-8676 or visit velvetjones.com.

12/18-12/20: Eagle Cruise Eagle season is back! Cruise Cachuma Lake, and get a chance to see a bald eagle, maybe perched on a towering oak tree, soaring through the sky, or plummeting into the water in a hunt. Come see the national

symbol of the United States in person. Reservations are strongly recommended. Fri.-Sat.: 10am-noon and 2-4pm; Sun.: 10am-noon. Neal Taylor Nature Ctr., 2265 Hwy. 154. $7-$17. Ages 4+. Call 568-2460 (weekdays) or 686-5055 (Fri. and weekends) or visit tinyurl.com/CachumaEagle.

12/18-12/19: Drew’s Comedy Club: Hal Sparks, Felipe Esparza Plan to laugh with popular stand-up comic Hal Sparks, who has been featured in the movie Dude, Where’s My Car? and TV series Queer as Folk, and Felipe Esparza, winner of NBC’s Last Comic Standing in 2010 and best known for his raw, real-life comedy. Tickets include dinner and the show. 7pm. Chumash Casino Resort, 3400 E. Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez. $50. Ages 21+. Call (800) 248-6274 or visit chumashcasino .com.

12/18-12/20: Jingle S.B.: A Holiday Artisan Marketplace Entrepreneurial incubator Impact Hub, Cultivate Events, Isabella Gourmet Foods, and area artisans are getting together to create a marketplace wonderland for you and those who haven’t finished their holiday shopping quite yet. Join on Friday for an openingnight party featuring artisans, live music, craft cocktails, winemakers, holiday photo booths, gift wrapping, and more. Fri.: 5-8pm; Sat.: 11am-8pm; Sun.: 11am-7pm. Impact Hub Santa Barbara, 1117 State St. Free. Visit tinyurl.com/jinglesb.

Saturday 12/19 12/19: A Sky Full of Holiday Stars on Ice International, national, and regional ice skating champions, as well as students in the Skating School, will perform two shows that you can join.

Enjoy the holidays at the coldest place in S.B. — on ice! VIP tickets include entrance to the meetand-greet dessert party. 12:30 and 5pm. Ice in Paradise, 6985 Santa Felicia Dr., Goleta. $15-$60.

Call 879-1550 or visit iceinparadise .org.

12/19: S.B. Music Club Holiday Concert The S.B. Music Club brings the opportunity to hear two great piano duos by two pairs of talented pianists: Darius Milhaud’s Scaramouche, andreina diaz

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12/17-12/19, 12/22: The Holiday Lights Photography Tour Eye See S.B. will take you on a 90-minute tour that is fun for area families and tourists alike as you start at La Arcada, walk up State Street, and end by the Arlington Theatre. You will share information about iconic S.B. landmarks and learn tips on how to successfully capture photographs illuminated by the holiday splendor. Use one of your photos as this year’s holiday card! Bring your camera and/or smartphone. 5:30pm.

La Arcada, 1114 State St. $25-$55. Visit tinyurl.com/holidayphototour.

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3pm. First United Methodist Church, 305 E. Anapamu St. Free. Call 617-3401 or visit sb musicclub.org.

12/19: Art From Scrap Workshop: Bright Shiny Baubles The definition of a bauble is a small, showy trinket or decoration. Guest artist Judy Nilsen will teach you how to make your very own baubles. Give them as gifts, and no one will ever know they are made from recycled materials. 10am-noon.

Art From Scrap, 302 E. Cota St. $8. Children ages 5 and younger must be accompanied by an adult. Call 884-0459 or visit exploreecology.org.

12/19: December “Members Share” This program will feature Betsy Green discussing her book Way Back When in 1915. Dorothy Oksner and Rosa Avolio will go deep into

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12/19: Film Screening: The Sound of Music Don’t miss the hills of Austria on the big screen! Watch Maria bring much-needed joy and music into the lives of Captain Georg Von Trapp and his family. There are songs about a first love, a secret love, puppet love, and favorite things. See you there!

7pm. Plaza Playhouse Theater, 4916 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria. $7. Call 684-6380 or visit plazatheatercarpinteria.com.

the Society’s website and the tremendous amount of research data available, and then there will be a stunning video by photographer Barbara Hodgdon titled Inherited Things. You are invited to share holiday goodies, genealogy projects, photographs, and artifacts. 10:30am.

First Presbyterian Church, 21 E. Constance Ave. Free. Call 884-9909 or visit sbgen.org.

12/19: K-9 PALS Jewelry and Bake Sale Fundraiser Shop for goodies, eat delicious treats, and support K-9 PALS’ veterinary care, food, training, and daily needs. K-9 PALS is a shelter dedicated to providing humane care, adoptions, and advocacy for homeless and abandoned dogs in our community. Noon-3pm.

The Pet House, 5781 Calle Real, Goleta. Free. Visit tinyurl.com/ K-PalsDecemberFundraiser.

12/19: Salsa Bash Come get your salsa on with Yes You Can Dance Salsa. Dancers Hector Sanchez and Danielle Merino will teach a lesson before the

dance for those not familiar with the steps. All you need is energy and groove. This Saturday is for dancing salsa, okay?

8pm-1:30am. Ayni Gallery, 216 State St. $10. Call 699-7098 or visit tinyurl.com/YesYouCan DanceSalsa.

12/19: The Coals Led by singer/songwriter Jason Mandell, this heartfelt California country folk band is named after one of the oldest L.A. bars and evokes sounds of The Band. You must come hear this unique group. 7:30pm. Standing Sun Winery, 92 Second St., Unit D, Buellton. $10-$15. Call 691-9413 or visit standingsun wines.com.

12/19: Crafts at the Libraries If you’re not in the seasonal mood quite yet, drop in for holiday crafts at the Eastside Library! And if you’re looking to make just wintery crafts to celebrate the month of December, join the Goleta Library. Noon2pm; Eastside Library, 1102 E. Montecito St.; 963-3727. 1:302:30pm; Goleta Library, 500 N. Fairview Ave., Goleta; 964-7878.

Ages 4+. Free. Visit sbplibrary .org.

12/19: Film Screening: Kindness Is Contagious This David Gaz feel-good documentary is all about being nice and the benefits of it. Pay It Forward writer Catherine Ryan Hyde, Connected author James Fowler, and Dacher Keltner, director of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, will discuss the great motto “Nice guys finish first!” 7pm. Center of the Heart, 487 N. Turnpike Rd. $10.

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12/20: Banjo Babes The nation’s top female banjo artists are joining together for a show featuring the five-string banjo.

Wyoming’s The Littlest Birds, Sharon Martinson, songstress Erin Inglish, The Small Glories, Evie Ladin, and Ventura’s own Donna Lynn Caskey will bring toetapping rhythms, timeless folk, bluegrass banjo riffs, and everything in between. 7pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $12-$15. Call 962-7776 or visit sohosb.com.

12/20: Family Nature Day Take this day to spend time with family while learning all things natural history and exploring the Museum Backyard and Nature Club House. There will also be an educational program on the hour throughout the day in celebration of the winter solstice.

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12/20: Spectacular Santa Barbara Pie Contest The holiday food feasts are not over! Sign up as a contestant in this pie-eating contest and win various prizes, or come ready as a guest for lots of slices. Judges include S.B. Mayor Helene Schneider, head baker of McConnell’s Ice Cream Jordan Thomas, food photographer and cookbook author Leela Cyd, and more. Proceeds will go to the Transition House of S.B., an organization dedicated to family homelessness. Contestants must register by Friday, December 18. 3-6pm. Sama Sama Kitchen, 1208 State St. $15. Visit tinyurl.com/ spectacularpiesb. Read more on p. 41.

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12/20: Alec Lytle & Them Rounders Acoustic Trio This Americana folk group has released its debut album, The End of Ours, and will perform in S.B. The full band made an appearance two weeks ago, and this time around, just the acoustic trio will be here bringing folk, roots, country, and blues. Enjoy wine and live music that will take your senses through the tall pines, rolling hills, and blankets of coastal fog this afternoon.

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12/21-12/23: Santa’s Starry Ride Go around the world with Santa and his reindeer! He will deliver presents as participants enjoy the different night skies with constellations and their unique stories.

The 40-minute starry ride ends December 31. 2pm.

S.B. Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol. Free-$16. Call 682-4711 or visit sbnature.org. future of agriculture and plant conservation. 4-5:30pm. S.B. Botanic Garden, 1212 Mission Canyon Rd. Free. Call 682-4726 or visit sbbg.org.

12/21: Reggae Vinyl with Reza S.B.’s own Reza Farinpour has an eclectic and evergrowing collection of early/ old-school reggae he wants to share with you, as well as classic funk and soul vinyl that he may mix in later in the evening.

This night is for reggae lovers to gather in a friendly atmosphere and share their love of the music and the history. 9pmmidnight. Mercury Lounge, 5871 Hollister Ave., Goleta. Free.

Ages 21+. Call 967-0907.

Tuesday 12/22 12/22: Memorial for People Who Have Died on the Streets Take a few moments to remember those who have died from homelessness in Santa Barbara County. This memorial is co-sponsored by Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE), the Interfaith Initiative, Common Ground, Santa Barbara County, and the Central Coast Collaborative on Homelessness (C3H).

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12/22: Handmade Journal Workshop Need a new journal or a last-minute holiday gift? Make your own unique journal, using repurposed book covers! You will fold, sew, and assemble with old hardback covers and blank papers.

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1-3:30pm. Solvang Library, 1745 Mission Dr., Solvang. Free. Ages 10+. Call 688-4214 or visit sbp library.org.

12/22: Omar Velasco’s First Festival of Friends Goletaborn indie/folk musician Omar Velasco recently released his debut album, Golden Child, and now wants to share it with his friends and community.

All songs are sourced from his nomadic childhood, filled with earthy, acoustic, artfully arranged tracks with a jazzy feel and orchestral undertones.

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“Many visitors are surprised to find this different kind of experience here at the garden,” said Thomas Craveiro, a trustee at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. “This is a typical Japanese tea garden designed with California native plants.” The best way to experience the ShinKanAn Teahouse is during one of the tea ceremonies, which are held every second Saturday of the month. Taught for the past 10 years by Sokyo Kasai, who instructs from the Urasenke tea ceremony tradition, the classes are open to the public and inform both casual visitors and more serious students like Craveiro about the rules, history, and meditative processes of this Japanese tradition. The ceremony always begins with a homemade sweet, which prepares the palate for the bitter, foamy matcha green tea that was prepared last Saturday by Takako Wakita (above), a student of Kasai’s for the past six years. “The tea room is a very special space,” explained Kasai. “We don’t chat about everyday things. Conversation is only about the meeting and appreciating the space we’re in now.”

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We gathered at dawn with hopes of spotting something amazing and checking a new species off of our expanding life lists, because thanks to the long stretch of unseasonably warm weather, this promised to be more than your typical birding adventure. Known as “the Warm Blob,” this unique weather anomaly has pushed warm water currents northbound since late 2013, bringing lots of avian species from southerly waters into our neck of the woods.

We first headed toward the west end of Santa Cruz Island and Carrington Point on neighboring Santa Rosa Island. Waters were cooler out in the glassy Santa Barbara Channel, where we saw huge numbers of black-vented shearwaters, whose flotillas also included the occasional northern fulmar, Pomarine jaeger, and red-necked phalarope. Once we cruised south into the gap between the two islands, we started spotting Sabine’s gulls, parasitic jaegers, south polar skuas, rhinoceros auklets, and California gulls. As

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we approached deeper waters on the south side of Santa Cruz, where upwelling from the 6,300-foot-deep Santa Cruz Basin attracts pelagic species, we found huge rafts of black and least storm petrels rolling in the swells.

Turning southeast, we beelined Brown booby toward tiny Santa Barbara Island, coming across feeding frenzies of common dolphins, California sea lions, and brown boobies along the way. We even saw a pair of Craveri’s a averi’s murrelets. Just a quarter-mile off that isle is Sutil Island, a massive rock outcropping that’s become a favorite roosting site for Mexico’s brown boobies. I expected to see just a handful, but then one of the trip leaders started counting all of the ones clinging to the sheer north face. Like everyone else onboard, we were astonished to find 84, which made an impressive end to our trip into the unknown.

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n November 2015, I walked into the little white church with the brown roof on the corner of Figueroa and Olive and felt like I’d come home again. Two weeks prior, I had overheard two women at the Laundromat talking about their church’s Christmas concert. “If you want to get a seat,” one of them said, “you’d better get there early!”

The feeling in that little church on that warm Sunday evening was simply and purely of joy itself. Everyone was hugging, kissing, laughing, and loving each other in a way I hadn’t witnessed since Mom took us back to the Gallagher family reunion when I was 12. In fact, that was it! This didn’t feel like a church at all— all it felt like family. They even grabbed hold of me like I was one of their own.

As I listened to the magnificent choir, I silently thanked my mother, God rest her soul. Mom was born in Memphis and raised on Southern Gospel music. She learned to sing the blues by listening to Billie Holiday and Lil Green and spent countless hours down on Beale Street. After Mom passed a few years ago, I started to feel like it was my turn to sing. When I joined in singing the hymns, I swear I heard my mother’s voice.

Sitting there, I thought about how I loved going to Catholic church as a little girl. I always talked to God like He was my friend. Over the years, I began to drift from my religious upbringing and experimented with going to nondenominational churches, self-realization centers, and Eastern-religion temples, but none of them spoke to my heart.

Two of my best girlfriends are dyed-in-the-wool Christians. Our favorite subject is God, but neither of them has ever tried to convert me— probably because whenever they quoted scripture, my insides screamed, “Back off, Cowgirl!” But whenever an old coworker of mine, a devout Baptist from Georgia, used to praise Jesus every five minutes and pray for me unapologetically, I just wanted to crawl in her lap.

Why couldn’t I hear the message from people of my own background and color?

Who cared? It felt like I found the God of my childhood! It didn’t take long to realize it wasn’t just the music that grabbed my soul that day and kept me coming back week after week— week it was the Holy Spirit.

Each Sunday, Pastor Ficklin asks if any of the guests feel moved to join the church. One lovely December Sunday, I stood up and took a seat facing the congregation. With eyes twinkling, Pastor turned and asked his flock, “All those in favor of Cody Free becoming a member, say aye!” The whole church said, “Aye!” Then, “Any opposed?”

In that split-second pause, my heart stopped. I looked up with tears streaming down my cheeks and almost said out loud, “Please?” From the looks on their faces, I knew I belonged.

A recent Sunday-school lesson was “Pray for Boldness.” As one of the newest and happiest members of Greater Hope Baptist, I am shouting from the rooftops, “PRAISE THE LORD!” — Cody Minnick Free

Greater Hope Baptist Church is located at 430 East Figueroa Street. Call 966-7264.

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1. On a larger scale, fewer people are dying due to war than ever before. So the human race is actually improving on the killing-each-other thing, even if our easy access to news makes us think otherwise.

2. “I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.” —Wendell Berry 3. When I talk to teenagers, which I do almost every day, I feel nothing but hope for the future. Somehow they see through it all, and at the core they are

by Starshine kind and accepting. Wildly so.

4. I had dinner with a congressmember the other night, and I came away with hope. He was a smart, thoughtful, senemail: starshine@roshell.com sitive guy, and he’s not the only voice of reason out there representing us.

5. Hope Spots, dedicated to preserving places critical to the health of the earth’s oceans 6. I keep thinking how great it is that it’s not the Middle Ages.

7. Last night I helped a father receive his first child into his own hands through tears and howls of joy. Amazing, miraculous things are quietly happening all the time. (Oh, and the Palmina Nebbiolo 2011 is a very nice little wine.)

8. When people do kind things—the right thing—with no promise of reward. Two recent examples include an unlocked bike left untouched on a busy street and a lost wallet returned with all the cash inside.

9. Puppies! They have the power to bring out a gentle side of humans.

10. “Let It Be,” The Beatles 11. I have found peace in the process of returning to the basics. I moved to a farm and started to learn what it really means to live connected to the earth, connected to your food and water sources. It reminds me every day where we come from, and where we are going: the dirt. And the peaceful perfection of that simple truth allows me to find happiness one moment at a time.

12. Dance class. Dancing soothes every existential ouch there is.

13. Reading Kurt Vonnegut, the master interpreter of sanity 14. The peanut butter pie at the Deschutes Brewery pub 15. Humans of New York 16. My wife walks with a crutch. A few weeks ago, the wind knocked over our recycle bin and the trash was all over the sidewalk. A woman stopped her car, got out, and helped my wife put it all back in the bin.

It’s these acts of kindness that make me believe, despite everything I hear, that most people are inherently good.

17. The Moscow mule (no fewer than four people swore by the curative properties of this refreshing cocktail) 18. The book I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson 19. This headline: “Paris Defies Terror to Celebrate Hanukkah” 20. And my absolute favorite, this anonymous quote: You’re a ghost driving a meat-coated skeleton made from stardust, riding a rock, hurtling through space. Fear nothing.

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know, you guys; it’s bad out there. Just blowfish-ugly in every direction. Terrorism and police brutality. Rising sea levels and E. coli outbreaks. The words “President Trump.”

Here in our dusty California hometown, we can’t get the skies to rain — and yet we’re drowning in bad news. We skulk away from headlines, afraid to learn of yet another calamity. The other day, I attended a holiday parade and quietly wondered if the van on the street corner, the one whimsically arrayed in holiday lights, might just be packed with explosives.

But enough. Refusing to hand over my seasonal smiles to dread, I begged my fantastic friends for some reasons to feel hopeful about humankind — just a few tiny toeholds to help me clamber up on top of the Awful for some much-needed perspective. They delivered, as fantastic friends do. And I’m regifting their 20 gems to you. Happy holidays.

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sports and the benefits of football,” Bailes told reporters in a conference call. “I have two children who play football, and I believe football is safer than it’s ever been.”

Tom Crawford, football coach at Bishop Diego High for the past 16 years, agrees that the game has become safer. “We should be thankful they’re doing that research,” he said. “The health of our players should be paramount. The information is having an impact on the way the game is taught, officiated, and played at the COMPETITIVE CONCERNS: Bishop Diego coach Tom Crawford hugs Matt Shotwell (42) high school and youth level.” after winning their first CIF play-off game against Newbury Park in November 2014.

Bishop Diego has implemented safeguards based on the research. “We have limited full-speed contact drills in TOO MANY GAMES? Several high school football teams practice,” Crawford said. “We’ve adopted rugby-style tack- will have played 16 games — an NFL season’s worth and ling, which is shoulder-oriented and gets the head out of more than colleges play—when they face off in the CIF State the way. We have a full-time trainer, Kristy Lash, who puts Bowl games at Sacramento State this weekend. Among them is Camarillo, which defeated Bishop Diego 54-28 on its way another set of eyes on kids at every practice and game.”

The Cardinals’ helmets offer high-tech protection.“There to a Southern Section championship. Bishop (12-1) ended are sensors that keep a tally of the force of impacts and the a season that equaled its longest and best, while Camarillo accumulation of impacts,” Crawford said. “It goes into a (15-0) continued to roll through its next two games by scores computer program and alerts Christy. If the numbers are of 55-27 and 63-49. too high, we pull the kid out of practice.”

Crawford said just one of the Cardinals had a concussion SOCCER FINAL: UCSB played three of the four teams this season, and he sat out two games.“We put him through that reached the NCAA men’s soccer Final Four: Stanford, a protocol,” the coach said. “It used to be that he would play Akron, and Clemson, which ousted the Gauchos in the third as soon as he stopped showing symptoms. Now he has to round of the play-offs. Stanford lost to UCSB 1-0 early in the season, but it routed Clemson 4-0 in the national championbe cleared by a doctor. It’s a minimum two-week process.” n The protocol applies to high school athletes throughout ship match. the area. The Santa Barbara School District has formed a partnership with Pediatric Trauma services at Cottage Hospital to evaluate and treat students in its athletic programs.

“There’s no sporting activity from which you can eliminate risk,” Crawford said.

“There are any number of ways a teenager can get hurt, like falling off a skateboard.

Football is a sport that challenges them physically and mentally to strive as individuals and collectively. They develop bonds and lifelong friendships. It’s hard to match that in a classroom.”

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have a crush on college football. There are way too many bowl games, but at the end of the old year and beginning of the new, I will be savoring four of them: Orange (Clemson-Oklahoma), Cotton (Alabama-Michigan State), Fiesta (Notre Dame-Ohio State), and Rose (Iowa-Stanford). The former two will produce the finalists for the national championship, but there is no finer setting for the sport, championship or not, than the Rose Bowl beneath the purple majesty of the San Gabriel Mountains on New Year’s Day. The season that preceded these matchups was full of thrills and heartbreaks, from Michigan State’s miracle finish against Michigan, to Stanford’s 30-second comeback against Notre Dame. Week to week, with championship hopes riding on every outcome, it was an emotional roller coaster.

The National Football League cannot match it, but with the play-offs approaching, December does bring urgency to the NFL, as well.

Into this holiday pigskin feast drops a movie that could give football fans a kick in the head. Concussion, scheduled for release on Christmas Day, is the story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, the forensic pathologist who studied the brains of some deceased pro football players and discovered chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). It is a devastating disease, suspected in dementia and depression-related suicide, that has been attributed to the years of repeated head blows the players endured. The NFL, a moneymaking machine, did not welcome the news, and Omalu had to overcome a decade of denial and disapprobation before the league owned up to its brain-injury problem.

Omalu has not limited his concerns to pro football. Last week, he set off an alarm that might sound in every American community. He penned an opinion piece that appeared in the New York Times under the headline: “Don’t Let Kids Play Football.” He maintained that children who play the sport are susceptible to CTE, and there is a moral obligation to prevent them from subjecting themselves to harm until they can decide for themselves after age 18.

It is interesting that Will Smith, who plays the crusading doctor in Concussion, was a supportive fan of high school football when his son, Trey, was a wide receiver at Oaks Christian School. The actor once landed in a helicopter near Carpinteria High to attend a junior varsity game in which his son played. Trey Smith had some college offers but opted for a career as a deejay instead.

Dr. Julian Bailes, a neurosurgeon played by Alec Baldwin in Concussion, is a colleague of Omalu but does not share his opinion about the danger of contact sports to children, who are a long way from colliding with the force of NFL players. “I’m a big believer in the benefits of organized

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12/19, 12/21-12/23: High School Girls Basketball: S.B. Tournament of Champions The Santa Barbara Dons jumped off to a great start (a 7-0 record, two tournament titles, and two MVP awards for senior star Amber Melgoza), raising hopes that they might make a run at their first TOC crown in three decades. Fifteen other top-notch teams from Fresno to San Clemente will try to claim the coveted Gold Division trophy. Saturday’s opening round starts at 11:30 a.m. Santa Barbara faces Edison of Huntington Beach at 7 p.m. After games on Monday and Tuesday, two teams will remain undefeated, and they will square off at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Santa Barbara coach Andrew Butcher says the concession stand will take care of hungry spectators, promising “healthy alternatives” in addition to hot dogs, churros, and cotton candy. J.R. Richards Gym, S.B. High, 700 E. Anapamu St. Free -$6.

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with more than 120 people, including crew members, judges, and competitors, with cameras rolling and chefto-be sagas unfolding from about 7 a.m. until midnight.

Combined with a sea-urchin challenge — which included a visit to the Santa Barbara Harbor and a cook-off at Sanford Winery in the Sta. Rita Hills the day before — the Bacara footage became part of the December 10 75-minute show. That’s a “supersized” episode by Top Chef standards but still a miniscule representation of the logistics, manpower, and money required to produce this 13th season of the Emmy Award‒ winning show. Considering that it was just one of 13 episodes filmed in six areas statewide, from Los Angeles, Palm Springs, and San Diego to Oakland and San Francisco, it’s easy to see why such productions are considered powerful drivers for regional economies, not to mention massive boosters for tourism, as well, once the season airs.

The show is also a feat of storytelling magic, for the producers are never quite sure how the narrative will play out, which is why there’s so much happening behind-the-scenes UNI IN THE VINES: Contestants (from left) Chad White, Phillip Frankland Lee, Isaac during the six-week-long statewide Toups, Kwame Onwuachi, and others prepared sea urchin among the vines that shoot. At the Bacara, for instance, surround Sanford Winery on last week’s Top Chef episode, which also showcased the while judges sat through three hours Bacara Resort. of service from two-person teams — who didn’t realize their “surf and turf” collaboration was a “surf vs. turf” standoff until they presented their dishes — there were about 20 people, including what seemed to be about five main directors, in the “video village” watching every single move

by Matt KettMann on eight different flat screens. Much like an air-traffic-control room, the itting at a blufftop table on the grassy grounds steady monitoring allowed for real-time direction to all playof the Bacara Resort, Padma Lakshmi, Tom Colic- ers, with suggestions for judges to repeat certain comments chio, Cat Cora, Suzanne Goin, and a few more more clearly, for competitors to stand somewhere else, or for superstars of the food world are overlooking the cameramen to focus more intently on kitchen snafus. Story Pacific Ocean and enjoying the coastal breeze as producers, who track potential lines of drama, were simultathey critique plate after plate of culinary creativity. I, mean- neously tapping away at their laptops in the village, while the while, am inside the resort’s rather spacious yet now cramped “glam squad” of hair and makeup pros filtered in and out and, and hot kitchen, dodging cameramen, audio engineers, and a off to the corner, the “food porn” team took shots of brilliantly gang of earbud-wearing producers as frantic teams of ambi- lit dishes as they rotated on a 360-degree wheel. tious chefs throw together quickly considered but beautifully Back in the kitchen, the situation is both crazier and less executed dishes, which they hope will impress — or at least not insane than it seems on television. It’s more chaotic because offend — those celebrity chefs outside. There’s cussing, finger there are about three times as many people in the kitchen as cuts, and constant banter between cooks about which ingre- you can see on the screen, with near-collisions between cooks, dients are ready, how much time is left, and whether a medic is servers, producers, cameramen, and the errant journalist haprequired, peppered with the occasional Zen-like aside.“Focus, pening constantly. But it’s a little less hectic because timing is grasshopper!” blurts one chef, as jalapeños are sliced and rad- much more spread out and predictable than it feels on-screen, ishes plated, followed soon by “oh, fuck!,” “timer?,” “drinking with ample time for cooking and plating, so long as the chefs water, please!,” and “extremely hot, extremely hot — coming have planned correctly.

But the emotions are 100 percent real. When one of the around!”

This is what Top Chef looks like when you’re allowed to teams I watched delivered their dish to the table, the renowned peek behind-the-scenes for an hour or so, as I was this past super-chef Tom Colicchio summed his thoughts up bluntly: spring when the wildly popular Bravo series came to Santa “I don’t like either of them.” As the contestant’s eyes started to Barbara County to shoot the episode that aired last week. The get a little teary, admitting that this was a new dish for her, she competitive cooking show — whose “California Road Trip” replied,“It’s hard to learn as you go while you’re being judged.”

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St. Barbara wine & beer dinner, Dec. 4: Parker cut

his brewing chops working with friend Patrick Rue of The Bruery in Orange County, where last year they concocted the Bierbara ale based on an ode to St. Barbara, who is celebrated in the Levant with a dish called “burbara” that, like the beer, combines barley with raisins, apricots, and exotic spice. This year’s version, which uses some of Potek’s ice wine, was served with smoked lamb shank by Wildwood. thirdwindowbrewing.com Wildwood’s soft opening, Dec. 7: West’s sleek new

digs feature a big kitchen, tight bar, and plenty of outdoor seating, where three of us went a little crazy ordering the brisket, pork ribs, shrimp and grits, braised market greens, Frito pie, jalapeño-cheddar sausage, two orders of coleslaw, and a slice of wild berry pie. Go with a group, and share it all is our best advice. wildwoodkitchensb.com Potek’s sparkling wine demo, Dec. 8: In what will

hopefully be for a recurring series of educational events, Potter hosted a select few beverage directors, restaurateurs, retailers, and journalists to taste his full range of sparkling Potek blanc de blancs, from the current 2012 release to the 2015 base wine. That was followed by a quick nip of his forthcoming blanc de noirs and then the chance to disgorge, cork, cage, and take our own bottles home. potek.com — MK See themillsb.com.

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ie bakers, start your crusts! On December 20, the first ever Spectacular Santa Barbara Pie Contest will go down at Sama Sama Kitchen, and entries are being accepted until December 18.

The delicious idea of Santa Barbara‒raised illustrator/stylist Joya Rose Groves and photographer/author Leela Cyd, Sunday’s contest — judged

by Mayor Helene Schneider, among other pie aficionados—will feature both savory and sweet pies, which attendees will try as they sip on seasonal craft cocktails by bartender Spencer Cantrell and enjoy accompanying scoops of McConnell's Fine Ice Creams.

Groves recently explained her pie love.

Why start a pie contest? Leela Cyd and I are pie enthusiasts, but we both missed the KCRW one in L.A. Leela won a Portland pie contest two years ago, and it was the best day of her life. We were like,“Let’s just have our own. There’s no reason not to.” It’s also a very cozy and very celebratory food.

What pies do you anticipate? Hopefully some unexpected taste combinations.

You can put anything in pie crust, so it’s an unlimited blank canvas, from traditional, like mincemeat and apple pie, to all kinds of things in between.

When did you become a pie enthusiast? I was raised to be a pie enthusiast. My family calls the whole fall and winter “pie season.” My mom is a baker, and my sister is a pastry chef. We have a long tradition of family pie-crust recipes and lots of good memories of having a fire at home and having birthday pies and Christmas pies.

So cake wasn’t a big thing? We definitely had cake, but pies were the main affair.

And now we have a lot of savory pies, as well. Chicken pot pie was the meal at my wedding last year.

In our cake-dominated culture, is pie on the rise? We all live in little bubbles, but in my little bubble, pie is making a comeback because it’s part of the homesteading movement. Pie represents a more wholesome scene than cake. For me at least, pie is associated with a fire in the hearth, with all of the festive handmade things. Cake has maybe more of a fun party reputation. The idea of pie made from scratch has a really sweet quality.

What’s your favorite pie? Right now, it’s probably pear and hazelnut pie. I’m a big — Matt Kettmann fruit-pie person.

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Sachi Ramen has opened at 721 Chapala Street, the former home of Esau’s Café.

GANDOLFO’S OPENING IN JANUARY:

Reader Steve let me know that Gandolfo’s Deli at 718 State Street, the former home of Killer B’s, Kozmo’s, California Crisp, and Fat Burger, plans to open January 15.

RESTAURANT CLOSINGS: Here is a list of food establishments that have closed in the last year:

 December: Taco Bell, 3771 State St.  November: Beach Bowls, 901 Linden Ave., Carpinteria; Bistro 1111, 1111 E. Cabrillo Blvd. (now Marbella); Boochies, 113 W. De la Guerra St.; El Torito, 29 E. Cabrillo Blvd.; Kogilicious, 956 Embarcadero Del Norte, Isla Vista  October: Blue Agave, 20 E. Cota St. (now Nectar); Crazy Good Bread, 4191 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria; Culture Counter, 38 W. Victoria St.; Fresh & Easy Market, 336 N. Milpas St.; iGrill Korean BBQ, 3132 State St. (now Kimchi)  September: Arch Rock Fish, 608 Anacapa St.; Crazy Good Bread, 38 W. Victoria St.; Las Brasas Mexican Grill, 5915-B Calle Real, Goleta (now China King); Muddy Waters Café, 508 E. Haley St.;

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ver the optimist, even artist Molly Hahn was surprised when she was offered a book deal. It came about after her Buddha Doodles, one-page drawings with mindfulnessinducing captions, had gathered a healthy social media following. So popular was it that Hahn started an online store selling pillows and blankets emblazoned with her drawings. Suddenly she needed an assistant to fill the orders. “I got hundreds of emails, and I tried to keep up,” Hahn said. Then one day, amid the glut of missives was an email from a book publisher. “My assistant was checking them and said,‘Molls, did you see this email from Andrews McMeel?’” It was from one of the publishing house’s editors, and it read, “I think we can do a book of these.” Hahn was thrilled, explaining,“Andrews McMeel!

They do Calvin and Hobbes, Dilbert, Dilbert The Far Side, and Oatmeal! I had to go for a walk after I read it.” She signed with them, and the book drops in January 2016. “They told me last week [Buddha Doodles] got the most pre-orders of any of their books, and they’re taking it to a big book-industry convention,” Hahn said.

Her many Santa Barbara friends will not be surprised by Hahn’s victory. She’s a vivid presence around town, funny and effervescent with enthusiasms that include regular dance videos for her Facebook friends.

On the other hand, her pals are also familiar with Hahn’s serious side, and that her doodles infer a “journey” or “therapy work” won’t surprise them, either. She’s pulled success out of very dark times.

Hahn hails from Arcata, California. “My parents were both mentally ill and abusive, and when I was 18, I divorced myself from them,” she explained. They were also poor.

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heart, to explore my wounds.” She’s also a wiz at numbers and entered UCSB as a math major, though she quickly switched to liberal arts, taking myriad subjects from global studies to film production classes.“But I had also been doing a cartoon ever since high school,” she said. Her Patty strip ran in the Daily Nexus (where she learned about deadlines). After graduating, Hahn took a brief sojourn in Los Angeles working for Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt’s The Animation Show as well as doing production on a number of art projects, including working with UCSB classmate Kazu Kibuishi, who created the underappreciated Flight graphic novels.

In 2001, Hahn abandoned Los Angeles and returned to Santa Barbara, where she has long had an art studio/apartment downtown. She began a doodle-a-day project, which became her website Mollycules, and was doing fine until her world collapsed.

“I suddenly wasn’t getting any production work, I had relationship problems, and my grandmother died,” she said. She lay on her studio floor (where she was behind on rent) wondering, as she put it,“What the fuck am I going to do?” Then all of a sudden the phrase Buddha Doodles swam into her head. It was just an experiment at first, she said, an attempt to create some kind of medicine for the soul. And now it has by one estimate a million fans. “It’s been quite a journey,” said the irrepressible Hahn.

The rest isn’t exactly history, but it does seem like the stuff of movies, and with Hahn’s film studies background, that may be the next aspect of her empire. Meanwhile she’s still doodling with cosmic purpose and keeping up with the lucrative store. Pretty good for a girl who began life on welfare.

“I don’t even know what’s next,” Hahn said.

“But I think it will be great.” — D.J. Palladino

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Molly Hahn will sign copies of Buddha Doodles at her book-release party Tuesday, January 19, 2016, at 7 p.m. at Chaucer’s Books (3321 State St.). Call 682-6787 or see chaucersbooks.com

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Popular deejay Diplo has done it again with an explosive new single titled “Be Right There,” featuring up-and-coming Canadian artist Sleepy Tom. The ’90s classic has been reinvigorated as the Los Angeles native throws a heavy bass, an upbeat tempo, and intermittent drops onto the desperate lyrics.

The track mashes a sample of Jade’s 1992 “Don’t Walk Away” with animated synths that will keep you and your friends bouncing all night long. The beat is simply addictive, and anyone listening, whether it’s in the car or in the club, won’t be able to stop their head from bobbing and their feet from tapping.

— Arianna Irwin

This is a great album. Lush without feeling over-produced, dramatic without feeling portentous, it’s a strong set of songs that soothe and soar. While in the vein of the galloping kind of folk rock so familiar these days, Velasco embellishes his music with enough psychedelic flourish and emotional depth to make it closer to ’70s acts like Fleetwood Mac and Spirit than his more shallow contemporaries.

“Dreamtube” has that timeless, heard-this-somewhere-before quality found in the best pop melodies, and opener “Snowy Water” is beautiful. This is a very confident and well-crafted debut from a Santa Barbaran — it’s hard to believe it’s his first.

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Making Brands Sound Better

While many can help shape the look of a brand, area entrepreneur and producer Rogan Allen will shape their sound. With his soon-to-debut business, SoundBrand, Allen intends to offer signature audio logos for small-scale companies with a personalized touch.

Allen developed his business model with guidance and education from Women’s Economic Ventures (WEV), who assisted him in streamlining and scaling his plans through their Self-Employment Training (SET) program. “I went in with 10 different ideas, and this is the one that was the most feasible and realistic,” he said.

A songwriter and producer with more than 3,000 compositions and numerous accolades under his belt, Allen has had more than a decade of tune-crafting experience but conceived his sonic logo business idea only recently. Audio logos — be they jingles, repurposed pop songs, or second-long start-up sounds — are an increasingly important aspect of brand identity. Allen’s SoundBrand will offer customized tones and tunes for area companies — or even individuals — lacking a recognizable sound. “Everything and everyone is becoming a brand these days,” he said. “In the next five years, audio identities are going to stretch beyond companies and commercials — they’re going to represent people. That’s something we want to be ahead of the trend on here.”

Yet in his time at WEV, Allen found hardly any competitors composing on a small-scale basis, with only a few big-name sound designers servicing huge corporate clients at high prices. A part-time employee at Trader Joe’s, Allen likens his boutique brand to the trustworthy and friendly experience provided by the popular chain, as opposed to the more impersonal experience found at a grocery megastore. “We’re gonna do it affordably for them, walk them through it, hold their hand each step of the way if they need,” Allen said.

SoundBrand is slated to open its sonic doors in early 2016 with soundbrand.audio.

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ertain classics of the holiday season are formed into a prince. He takes Clara through worth experiencing at least once — a the enchanted forest to his kingdom, where fine example is The Nutcracker, the dark she is greeted with a celebration of the army’s and extraordinary, yet startlingly beautiful, success. This kingdom exists in a magical uniballet about a young girl whisked away to a verse, one characterized by the ensuing festive world of warring mice, sugarplum fairies, dances, performed by the variety of magical and magical, dancing elements of winter. The creatures of the realm. Romance and whimsy greater Santa Barbara area has a number of abound throughout this jubilee of impressive productions of The Nutcracker running this ballet performances.

State Street Ballet is characterized by its winter, but perhaps the most lavish and visuinventive combinaally stunning production is that of State tion of classic techStreet Ballet (SSB), nique with dance Santa Barbara’s prochoreography of a fessional ballet commore modern style

by Maggie Yates pany. Formed in 1994 to create a vibrant, by former American unique experience Ballet Theatre dancer Rodney Gustafson, that combines important and elegant pracState Street Ballet puts on a production tices of the finest traditions of ballet with featuring the company’s professional cast as cutting-edge physicality. With choreography well as student dancers from its associated by Gary McKenzie, Marina Fliagina, and SSB dance-training program, Gustafson Dance.

Artistic Director Gustafson, the company’s Since its first production in 1892 in St. The Nutcracker is made especially sensational Petersburg, Russia, the two-act ballet, set by the added excitement of theatrical special to Pytor Tchaikovsky’s now famous musi- effects that bring the prince’s kingdom of cal score, has become a beloved traditional wonder to life. The production is also staged Christmas tale in our culture. For those with trimmings from Russia, giving it a taste unfamiliar, the story takes place on Christmas of authenticity that still retains a sense of the Eve, beginning with an extravagant holiday exotic. party in a splendid drawing room. Young A professional touring company, State children Clara and Fritz receive gifts, includ- Street Ballet takes its production of The ing a wooden nutcracker, of which Clara is Nutcracker through Colorado and Washparticularly fond. Fritz breaks the nutcracker, ington every year, working with local dance and Clara is deeply upset. After everyone has programs there to feature talented students left the party and gone to sleep, Clara creeps alongside the professionals. These collabdownstairs to find the toy and realizes that orative efforts are an important tenet of State her drawing room is in a state of disorienting Street Ballet’s outreach program to mentor flux: Everything except Clara grows to mas- young dancers. The return of The Nutcracker sive proportions. Clara is suddenly witness to to the Santa Barbara stage will conclude the a surreal battle: The mice are warring with an dance company’s tour.

For the fourth year in a row, Tchaikovsky’s army of gingerbread soldiers, led by her prefamiliar and overwhelmingly emotional score cious, but wounded, nutcracker.

Clara sees her nutcracker in danger. She will be played by the Opera San Luis Obispo throws her shoe to distract the advancing Orchestra, under the direction of Brian Asher mouse king, allowing the nutcracker to defeat Alhadeff. Don’t miss this classic of the holiday the foe. The battle ends with the nutcracker’s season — State Street Ballet and Gustafson army victorious, and the nutcracker trans- Dance are sure to produce a spectacle.

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SPANISH TREASURES: Last year, the Christmas Revels honored holiday tales from Ireland (pictured). For this season’s production, they focus on 11th-century Andalusia, when Moslem, Jew, and Christian were all welcome to express their faith.

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f there was ever a holiday season in need of some powerful interdenominational cheer, it’s this one. With political Grinches calling for the exclusion of Muslim immigrants from entering the United States, we would do well to remember the unfortunate consequences of the expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain in 1609, and the forced exodus of the Jews in 1492 that preceded it. These sad episodes marked the heights of xenophobia on the part of Spanish royalty and together brought an end to the centuries during which Spain could boast of harboring the Mediterranean world’s most culturally diverse population.

It’s fitting, then, that this season’s edition of the Christmas Revels should turn back the clock all the way to the 11th century in

by Charles Donelan search of an era in which Moslem, Jew, and Christian were all welcome to express their faith in the kingdom of Andalusia. Featuring a cast that includes not only the Christian pilgrim Egeria (Meredith McMinn) but also such familiar historical figures as the great rabbi Maimonides (Robert Demetriou) and the Muslim philosopher Averroës (Luis Moreno), The Christmas Revels: In Celebration of the Winter Solstice, “The Treasures of Spain” is sure to inspire ecumenism of the highest order.

The Christmas Revels is a participatory community performance that’s steeped in historical research and redolent of the noncommercial Christmases of past centuries. By combining such traditional fare as Morris dancing, the Lord of Misrule, and the Twelve Days of Christmas with a different specific historical setting each year, Revels realizes its twin goals of instruction and delight. Artistic director Susan Keller painstakingly assembles a stellar cast for each production, placing equal emphasis on continuity and novelty. In “The Treasures of Spain,” continuity is perhaps best symbolized by the return of Matt Tavianini in the role of Joha, the foolish sidekick of Don Juan (Bill Egan). It’s these two who stumble upon the treasure trove of Andalusia in southern Spain and set the show’s plot in motion.

For novelty, there’s guitarist Chris Fossek, who will be making his Revels debut with flamenco stylings, and dancer Maya de Silva, a visiting artist from New York City who has performed her flamenco specialty with the Metropolitan Opera and at Lincoln Center. Dance artist and producer Alexandra King will bring her Lamma Bada Dancers to provide this new Revels with some Middle Eastern selections. As always, Solstice makes good use of the community in the form of choruses—the Solstice Singers and the Yuletide Children’s Chorus—and as musicians and dancers, as well. The Christmas Revels is a great way to introduce young people to the extraordinary range and simple joy of seasonal celebrations of the winter solstice.

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by Richie DeMaria

YOU GET WHAT YOU GIVE: ’Tis the season, and what an abundance of

musical gifts await in the coming days. Tonight, Thursday, December 17, if the reds and greens of commercial cheer have rendered you colorblind, consider revitalizing your wearied eyes with the alternative hues of The Blues and Greys and Clean Spill (SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 9pm).

Should you be seeking an alternative locale altogether, on the other side of the Santa Ynez Mountains, the Mariachi Divas will warm the chilly river valley with their world-famous dancing and merrymaking (Chumash Casino, 8pm).

Under the tree of Friday, December 18, sit a few huge concert presents too enticing to leave unopened. Best of all, these are the kinds of gifts that benefit others, as well. Velvet Jones will celebrate its 15-year anniversary with not one but two shows to fill out the night. First, at 7 p.m., Tempe, Arizona’s Jared and the Mill will deck the Velvet Jones halls with their acoustic-driven southwestern melodies. Following their show, area favorites Beta Play take the stage with opener The Kyle Gass Band, featuring KG of Tenacious D, for their annual holiday show. The show will benefit Toys for Tots, meaning your love for homegrown rock ’n’ roll will help make a child’s holiday season brighter. Should you want a preview of the night’s proceedings or have Friday conflicts, consider enjoying Beta Play from the decorated comforts of your home on the Thursday night prior, when you can also watch their online holiday concert via Concert Window (concert window.com, 6:30pm).

Back over at SOhO, they will be throwing their Annual Holiday Sweater Party with Spencer the Gardener, One Two Tree, Conner Coffin and Travers Adler, and Green Flag Summer (the duo of Matt Kustura and Andrew Fedders). Whether your sweater sports a Santa, a reindeer, or some newfangled Internet meme done up holiday style, no doubt the sounds of such Santa Barbara mainstays will make your holidays sweeter. All proceeds benefit the Unity Shoppe and Boys & Girls Club. Should you consider yourself an area music fan, between this or the Velvet Jones party, you would be a veritable Scrooge to skip out on either.

On Saturday, December 19, Buellton’s Standing Sun Winery continues its tradition of hosting some of the nation’s best country and folk bands with The Coals (Standing Sun Winery, 7:30pm) with food by Al Fresco Picnic.

What an on-the-nose name for a band playing so close to the winter holidays, although with their California country sound, they will certainly be stuffing your stockings with a substance far more pleasant than coal itself.

Or, you could see Venice, curiously one of Holland’s favorite bands, who will be celebrating Christmas Santa Monica–style over at SOhO (8:30pm).

If Sunday finds you out and about taking some last-minute shopping breaks in the Funk Zone’s very de-stressing tasting rooms, consider settling in altogether at the S.B. Wine Collective, where Alec Lytle & Them Rounders will be rounding ’em up with their folky tunes (4pm). A little wine, a little folk music, nearby a beach… Certainly East Coasters, in their frigid climes, could never enjoy such a welcome holiday shopping respite. Enjoy it on their shivering behalf.

Come Tuesday, December 22, Omar Velasco will host his first annual Festival of Friends (SOhO, 8pm). The concert will feature a variety of Santa Barbara musicians, with proceeds going toward the benefit of Velasco’s ailing friend.“This is our attempt at contributing to the spirit of brotherhood, because I think it’s important for everyone to do what they can,” Velasco said. Support some great music and support a friend of a friend in need.

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Elverhøj Museum – C. Wood: East to West: The Kimono Series, through Jan. 24, 2016.

1624 Elverhoy Wy., Solvang. 686-1211.

Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum – First Long Distance Telephone, Jack N. Mohr: Acrylic paintings, collages, other early works, Lynn Deutch: Antarctica, Kenya, Burma, Galapagos, through Dec. 31.

21 W. Anapamu St., 962-5322.

Museum of Contemporary Art S.B.– Tam Van Tran: Aikido Dream; Michael DeLucia: Appearance Preserving Simplification, through Feb. 21, 2016. 653 Paseo Nuevo, 966-5373.

Rancho La Patera & Stow House – Multiple permanent exhibits. 304 N. Los Carneros Rd., Goleta, 681-7216.

S.B. Historical Museum – Alexander F. Harmer, through Feb. 8, 2016; The Story of Santa Barbara, permanent exhibition. Free admission. 136 E. De la Guerra St., 966-1601.

S.B. Maritime Museum – Divergent Focal Planes on the Channel: From Darkroom to Lightroom, through Jan. 3, 2016. 113 Harbor Wy., 962-8404.

S.B. Museum of Art – Peter Halley: Geometry of the Absurd Absurd, through Feb. 21, 2016; Cayetano Ferrer: Interventions, through Mar. 13, 2016; Looking In, Looking Out: Latin American Photography Photography, through Mar. 20, 2016; Degas to Chagall: Important Loans from the Armand Hammer Foundation, Visions of Modernity: 20th-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints, ongoing exhibitions. 1130 State St., 963-4364.

S.B. Museum of Natural History – Edward S. Curtis: Luminous Portraits of American Indian Life, through Jan. 4, 2016.

2559 Puesta del Sol, 682-4711.

S.B. Museum of Natural History Sea Ctr. – Multiple permanent installations. 211 Stearns Wharf, 962-2526.

Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art – Saar, Serra, Surls, and More: Thirty New Acquisitons in Contemporary Art Art, through Dec. 19. 955 La Paz Rd., 565-6162.

Wildling Museum – Eyes on Nature: Student Art from Dos Pueblos High School School, through Jan. 11, 2016; Legacy and Loss: Landscapes of the S.B. Region, through Feb. 1, 2016. 1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang, 686-8315.

Galleries Allan Hancock College Library – Children’s book illustrations, ongoing. 800 S. College Dr., Santa Maria, 922-6966.

Architectural Foundation Gallery – 2015 Kids Draw Architecture, through Jan. 7, 2016.

229 E. Victoria St., 965-6307.

Artamo Gallery–Masterpol & Györfi: In Contrast Contrast, through Dec. 31.11 W. Anapamu St., 568-1400.

Arts Fund Gallery–Artists' Balls, through Jan. 30, 2016. 205-C Santa Barbara St., 965-7321.

Beatrice Wood Ctr. for the Arts – Chloe Rahimzadeh: Primary Transitions, through Jan. 3, 2016. 8585 Ojai-Santa Paula Rd., Ojai, 646-3381.

Bronfman Family Jewish Community Ctr. – Generations of Celebration through Art, through Jan. 19, 2016. 524 Chapala St., Art 957-1115.

Cabrillo Pavilion Arts Ctr. – Sharing Our Hidden Talents, through Jan. 29, 2016. 1118 E. Cabrillo Blvd., 897-1982.

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

Carivintas Winery – Connie Rohde: The Uninterrupted Brushstroke, through Dec. 31.

476 First St., Solvang, 693-4331.

Carpinteria Arts Ctr. – Season's On, through Jan. 11, 2016. 855 Linden Ave., Carpinteria, 684-7789.

Channing Peake Gallery–S.B. S.B. Printmak Printmakers Juried Exhibition Exhibition, through Jan. 21, 2016.

S.B. County Administration Bldg., 105 E. Anapamu St. Churchill Jewelers & Gallery –Watercolors by Ruth Ellen Hoag; Oils by Tom De Walt, through Dec. 31. 1015 State St., 962-5815.

Divine Inspiration Gallery of Fine Art – Pedro De La Cruz: Life Is Art, Life Is Divine, Life Is Love, through Feb. 26, 2016.

1528 State St., 570-2446.

Easton Gallery – Bill Dewey: Waterways, through Dec. 31. 557 Hot Springs Rd., 969-5781.

Elizabeth Gordon Gallery – America Martin: 10 Years of America, through Dec. 31.

15 W. Gutierrez St., 963-1157. galerie102 – Jane Peterson: Welcome Earthlings, through Jan. 10, 2016. 102 W. Matilija St., Ojai, 640-0151.

Gallerie Silo – Steven DePinto: Fire on the Desert: a New American Landscape, through Jan. 31, 2016. 118-B Gray Ave., 640-5570.

Gallery 113 – Suemae Willhite, through Jan. 2, 2016. La Arcada, 1114 State St., 965-6611.

Gallery Los Olivos – December "Small Works" Show and Sale, through Dec. 31; Felice Willat, Mary Vasquez, Randee Ward: Nature Interpreted Interpreted, through Jan. 3, 2016. 2920 Grand Ave., Los Olivos, 688-7517.

Goleta Library – Picassos for Peanuts December Art Show, through Jan. 8, 2016.

500 N. Fairview Rd., Goleta, 898-9424.

Harris and Fredda Meisel Gallery of Art – Sicilian Translucency: Watercolor Paintings of Traveling Artists, through Jan. 1, 2016. 2415 De la Vina St., 687-7444.

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dec. 17-24 JadeNow Gallery – Ryan and Jeff Spangler, Donn Salt, Deborah Wilson, through Feb. 16, 2016. 14 Parker Wy., 845-4558.

Lady McClintock Art Gallery – Portrait Artist, Rosemary McClintock brings life to reproductions of the Masters, through Jan. 31, 2016. 1221 State St., Ste. 6, 845-0030.

Larry Iwerks' Studio/Gallery– Manny Lopez: West Coast Exhibit Exhibit, through January 2016. 958 Weldon Rd., 965-5486.

Leigh Block Gallery – Susan Savage: Given to the Light Light, through Jan. 29, 2016.

2050 Alameda Padre Serra, Ste. 100, 563-8820.

Los Olivos Café – Suzanne Huska: Valley Visions, through Jan. 7, 2016. 2870 Grand Ave., Los Olivos, 688-7265.

Lucky Penny – Campbell Baker, ongoing.

127 Anacapa St., 284-0358.

Marcia Burtt Gallery – Holiday Exhibition, through Jan. 17, 2016. 517 Laguna St., 962-5588.

MCASB Satellite – Magic Mountain, through Jan. 31, 2016. Hotel Indigo, 121 State St., 966-5373.

MichaelKate Interiors & Art Gallery – CLICK, through Feb. 15, 2016. 132 Santa CLICK Barbara St., 963-1411.

Montecito Aesthetic Institute – Patricia Houghton Clarke & Stuart Carey: MetamorMetamor phographs, through Jan. 5, 2016. 1150 Coast Village Rd., Montecito, 565-5700.

Oliver & Espig Gallery of Fine Arts–Tielle Monette and Sergey Fedotov, ongoing. 1108 State St., 962-8111.

Pacifica Graduate Institute – Mythic Threads: Art, Healing and Magic in Bali Bali, ongoing. 801 Ladera Ln., 879-7103.

Palm Loft Gallery – Sacred Abundance, through Jan. 17, 2016. 410 Palm Ave. Loft A-1, Carpinteria, 684-9700.

Porch –Virginia McCracken, through Dec. 30. 3823 Santa Claus Ln., Carpinteria, 684-0300.

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

Roy – Brad Nack: 100% Reindeer Art Show Show, through Dec. 31. 7 W. Carrillo St., 966-5636.

S.B. Artwalk – Arts & Craft Show, ongoing Sundays. Cabrillo Blvd. at State St. S.B. City Hall Gallery – Ray Strong: Shared Vision/Common Ground Ground, through Feb. 18, 2016. De la Guerra Plaza, 568-3994.

S.B. Tennis Club – Angels and Things with Wings, through Jan. 1, 2016. 2375 Foothill Rd., 682-4722.

SOhO Restaurant & Music Club – Morrison Hotel Gallery, ongoing. 1221 State St., 962-7776.

Sullivan Goss, An American Gallery – Lockwood de Forest Brass Cutouts, through Dec. 31; Angela Perko: Earthly Delight Delight; American Details, through Jan. 3, 2016; 100 Grand, through Jan. 31, 2016. 7 E. Anapamu Grand St., 730-1460. wall space gallery – Aline Smithson: Portrait as Autobiography Autobiography, through Dec. 31.

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

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Church at the Crossroads – S.Y.V. Master Chorale, Youth Ensemble, Orchestra: Festival of Carols. 236 La Lata Dr., Buellton, 350-4241. sat: 7:30pm sun: 3pm First United Methodist Church – S.B. Music Club Holiday Concert. 305 E. Anapamu St., 617-3401. sat: 3pm St. Anthony'S Chapel – Quire of Voyces: Mysteries of Christmas. 2300 Garden St., 965-5935. sat: 7pm Trinity Episcopal Church – Advent Organ Series. 1500 State St., 965-7419. sun: 3:30pm

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Chumash Casino Resort – 3400 E. Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez, (800) 248-6274. thu 12/17: Mariachi Divas Christmas (8pm) Cold Spring Tavern – 5995 Stagecoach Rd., 967-0066. fri: The Nombres (7-10pm) sat: Larry Iwerks Christmas Show (2-5pm); Claude Hopper's Annual Hollerday Show (6-9pm) sun: Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan (1:154pm); Led Zecutives (4:30-7:30pm) The Fig Grill – 5940 Calle Real, Goleta, 692-8999. sat: Dos Pueblos Jazz Quartet (6-8pm) Granada Theatre – 1214 State St., 899-2222. thu 12/24: Calvary Chapel Christmas Eve (3 and 5pm) The James Joyce – 513 State St., 962-2688. thu: Alastair Greene Band (10pm) fri: Kinsella Brothers Band (10pm) sat: Ulysses Jazz Band (7:30-10:30pm) sun, mon: Karaoke (9pm) tue: Teresa Russell (10pm) wed: Victor Vega and the Bomb (10pm) Lobero Theatre – 33 E. Canon Perdido St., 963-0761. sat-sun: The Christmas Revels: In Celebration of the Winter Solstice: The Treasures of Spain (2 and 7pm) Marjorie Luke Theatre – 721 E. Cota St., 884-4087. thu 12/17: SBJHS Music Dept. Winter Concert (7pm) Maverick Saloon – 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez, 686-4785. fri: Carolyn Mescher Band (8pm) sat: The Regulars (3pm); Carolyn Mescher Band (8pm) Mercury Lounge – 5871 Hollister Ave, 967-0907. mon: Reggae vinyl with Reza (9pm) SOhO Restaurant & Music Club – 1221 State St., 962-7776. thu: The Blues and Greys, Clean Spill (9pm) fri: Annual Sweater Party (7pm) sat: Venice Holiday Show (8:30pm) sun: Banjo Babes (7pm) mon: Jazz Jam with Jeff Elliott (7:30pm) tue: Omar Velasco (8pm) wed: Cory Sipper, Zach Madden (7:30pm) Velvet Jones – 423 State St., 965-8676. fri: Jared and the Mill (7pm); Beta Play, The Kyle Gass Band (9pm)

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dance Carpinteria Middle School – Curtis Studio of Dance: The Nutcracker. 5351 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria, 684-4099. fri: 7pm sat: 1pm Center Stage Theater – Momentum Dance Company 2nd Annual Winter Concert. 751 Paseo Nuevo, 963-0408. thu 12/17: 7pm Granada Theatre – State Street Ballet: The Nutcracker. 1214 State St., 899-2222. sat: 2 and 7:30pm sun: 2pm Marjorie Luke Theatre – Goleta School of Ballet: The Nutcracker Tutu Suite. 721 E. Cota St., 884-4087. sat: 1:30pm

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Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, and Tessa Thomson star in a film written and directed by Ryan Coogler.

Reviewed by D.J. Palladino

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aybe it’s no surprise that Sylvester Stallone steals this movie from its presumed star, Michael B. Jordan. It’s his world, after all. We first see Rocky Balboa (Stallone) in his restaurant, Adrian’s. He’s a plainspoken man clearly lost in a mood of resigned retreat from the world, though you quickly realize it goes deeper than that, particularly after a funny, touching scene in which the grise Italian Stallion visits the cemetery where Paulie and Adrian are buried (conveniently) next to each other. He reads the paper to them complaining between ragged breaths that it’s getting harder to walk up there. “Wonder what that means?” he asks. The rest of us don’t. We’re touched despite ourselves.

But the sulky, charismatic Jordan is the movie’s real backbone, playing the illegitimate son of Rocky’s old rival and friend Apollo Creed. Jordan is convincing in pouty scenes and in battle. Even so, Philadelphia is the film’s most interesting character; the locations are real working-class neighborhoods in Kensington and Fishtown —’hoods with trash-strewn elevated train streets and hipster locales like the fabulous Johnny Brenda’s bar.

EYE OF THE TIGER: Michael B. Jordan (left) plays the son of Apollo Creed opposite Sylvester Stallone as Rocky.

What energizes the movie, however, is director Ryan Coogler, who made the great tragic independent film Fruitvale Station with Jordan, and now he turns this shopworn material into something daring and flashy, particularly the first big boxing match of the film. Coogler shoots the bout in one prowling take. It’s the most dazzling and scary use of the gimmick since Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men; it feels like a terrifying ballet. That fight alone makes Creed worth seeing.

While the rest of the film turns sappy and conventional, Coogler is smart enough to know that the violence and schmaltz are the twin points of sports dramas.

His Creed is a fine bookend to the original movie. And Rocky Balboa may feel like he’s close to the end in the gritty beginning of this movie, but by the film’s finish, you have to admit that the old fighter might go another whole distance as the new coach. n

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n the Heart of the Sea is an enjoyable retelling of the plight of the whaling ship Essex, which was sunk in 1820 by a sperm whale.

Of all the major artistic works to have been inspired by the incident, Ron Howard’s new movie is perhaps the most simplistic, but it achieves its aims. Awash in watery light and soft hues, it’s a lullaby of a movie on a sensory level and mostly solid, if a little ordinary, in its storytelling.

The film unfolds from a conversation between author Herman Melville (played sensitively by Ben Whishaw, who always WHALE TALE: Based on the events that inspired Moby-Dick, In the looks on the brink of tears) and Essex surviHeart of the Sea stars Chris Hemsworth as sailor Owen Chase. vor Tom Nickerson (Brendan Gleeson), who was a teenager while onboard. This being a film from such as when the stranded men question the reason Hollywood’s eternal golden boy, the incidents are told for their disaster or when Nickerson recounts his most through the eyes of a young man’s innocence, and as traumatic memories. They are simply worded scenes such everything is relatively gentle. As historical movies but deep. go, this is of the kind wherein everyone is staid and life The characters onboard are mostly indistinguishable is like a landscape painting, suffused with stiff dignity. (though Cillian Murphy, as Matthew Joy, is a standout) The thrills come in the form of the whale, who is and much of the dialogue perfunctory, Old World, New an exciting and dread-inducing presence onscreen. At Englander speak. If Melville’s epic is the most highbrow times it feels a little like watching the same recurring aesthetic interpretation of that fateful sinking, then T. rex attack dream that filmmakers will never seem to Howard’s offering is more like a good picture book. Still, wake from, with the pursuant whale even so much as I enjoyed the movie. Told straightforwardly through roaring in the middle of a spooky night. The bland man- lush visuals with a wholesome tone, it’s a soft adventure lion Owen Chase (Chris Hemsworth), all unflinching to cocoon in on a rainy winter day and a better movie heroism, is another cliché. But some poignant scenes than its widespread critical panning would lead you to offset these occasional moments of un-believability, believe. n

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The following films are playing in Santa Barbara FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, through THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24. Descriptions followed by initials — RD (Richie DeMaria) and DJP (D.J. Palladino) — have been taken from our critics’ reviews, which can be read in full at independent.com. The symbol O indicates the film is recommended.

FIRST LOOKS O Creed (132 mins.; PG-13: violence, language, and some sensuality) Reviewed on page 55.

Fiesta 5 In the Heart of the Sea (121 mins.; PG-13: intense sequences of action and peril, brief startling violence, and thematic material)

Legend (131 mins.; R: strong violence, language throughout, some sexual and drug material)

Legend

Noma: My Perfect Storm (100 mins.;

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

befriends a feisty cave-boy along the way. The movie tackles themes of parental loss, fear, and loneliness through the timeless medium of dinosaurs traveling on a brave odyssey. The Good Dinosaur works on many levels. Depending on your age group, it is a sweet and cute movie or a poignant visual poem or some combination of both. (RD)

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(135 mins.; PG-13: sci-fi action violence)

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Chef Rene Redzepi talks about his culinary philosophy in this documentary that focuses on his restaurant Noma, which has won Best Restaurant in the World four times.

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The highly anticipated next chapter in the Star Wars saga, the film is set 30 years after Episode VI — Return of the Jedi.

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Sisters (118 mins.; R: crude sexual content and language throughout, and for drug use)

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler star in this comedy about two sisters who throw a house party as a last hurrah before their parents sell the family home.

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Youth (124 mins.; R: graphic nudity, some sexuality, and language)

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (86 mins.; PG: some mild rude humor)

When Alvin, Simon, and Theodore think that Dave (Jason Lee) is going to dump them after proposing to his new girlfriend, the trio flies into action to stop it from happening. Fairview/Fiesta 5 Daddy’s Home (96 mins.; PG-13: thematic elements, crude and suggestive material, and language) Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg star in this comedy that pits father against stepfather.

Fiesta 5 (Opens Thu., Dec. 24) The Danish Girl (120 mins.; R: some

Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel star as best friends Fred and Mick — one a retired orchestra conductor, the other a film director. While on vacation, Fred gets an invitation from Queen Elizabeth II to perform for Prince Philip’s birthday.

Plaza de Oro (Opens Thu., Dec. 24)

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The Hateful Eight (168 mins.; R: strong bloody violence, a scene of violent sexual content, language, and some graphic nudity)

Quentin Tarantino’s latest takes place in Wyoming after the Civil War, where two bounty hunters, played by Samuel L. Jackson and Kurt Russell, seek refuge from a blizzard at a stagecoach stop.

There they encounter a handful of other characters. Riviera (Opens Thu., Dec. 24)

OThe Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 (137 mins.; PG-13: intense sequences of violence and action and some thematic material)

What was always missing in the films is the dramatic sense of hunger that ran through Suzanne Collins’s novels. But the moviemakers wisely turned it into something more like a The Hero with a Thousand Faces saga. Katniss is a female Luke Skywalker, plucked randomly from the outback and sent into the center of the corrupt Panem. She’s the reluctant linchpin holding her family and civilization together. (DJP)

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Tom Hanks stars as a U.S. lawyer recruited by the CIA to rescue a pilot being held by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Alan Alda, Amy Ryan, and Eve Hewson also star. Plaza de Oro

sexuality and full nudity)

Inspired by Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener, the film chronicles their lives and marriage as Lili — formerly known as Einar Wegener — undergoes the first ever male-to-female sex-reassignment surgery in 1920s Copenhagen. Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander star.

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Tom Hardy in any movie is enough awesomeness for most fans. And here you have Hardy playing both of the legendary Kray brothers, British gangsters who terrorized swinging London during the 1960s. Hardy is great, but like most crime movies, the story is far more interesting as the boys carve out their empire than it is as they begin losing it.

Visual dazzle can prevent the ultimate comedown of watching a guilty pleasure fall apart slowly. A good monster story deserves a fiery ending, but all Legend can muster is an anticlimax bathed in ironies. (DJP) Plaza de Oro

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OBrooklyn

(111 mins.; PG-13: a scene of sexuality and brief strong language)

The film begins visually in dowdy monochromatic tones with a surprisingly drab Saoirse Ronan as Ellis, an Irish girl with no prospects on the eve of her departure for America. As Ellis sets sail, however, the film’s colors brighten and deepen and the story accumulates glories of composition and striking period details. Brooklyn is indeed a strong woman’s film, but it’s also a glowing testament to America’s meaning.

(DJP) Paseo Nuevo

OThe Good Dinosaur (100 mins.; PG: peril, action, and thematic elements) In Pixar’s newest film, The Good Dinosaur, a budding young sauropod named Arlo (voiced by Raymond Ochoa) goes on a quest to find his homeland and

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The nondescript title refers to a small division of the Boston Globe staff dedicated to long investigative work. The story begins in 2001 when new Globe editor Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber) reads an alarming column in his own paper that alludes to a priest sexually abusing children with a church apparatus apparently covering for him. Baron directs the Spotlight staff to look into allegations, and the story keeps expanding in horrible dimensions. (DJP) Fairview/Paseo Nuevo

Trumbo (124 mins.; R: language including some sexual references) For the first half of this film, you will wish that Dalton Trumbo had written Trumbo. The setup is the worst kind of history-on-parade filmmaking — every scene introduces a new celebrity who is either a Communist or hates them.

Great performances abound, mainly by Bryan Cranston as Trumbo and Michael Stuhlbarg as Edward G. Robinson.

Although better than Schoolhouse Rock! history, this film is clearly in need of a more artful screenwriter. (DJP) Riviera

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Chown suggests that although this provided us with a mere one percent survival advantage, that turned out to be significant. I think you’re ready to find and use a small yet ultimately crucial edge like that over your competitors, Aries.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): Artist Robert Barry created “30 Pieces,” an installation that consisted of pieces of paper on which he had typed the following statement: “Something which is very near in place and time, but not yet known to me.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, this theme captures the spirit of the phase you’re now entering. But I think it will evolve in the coming weeks. First it’ll be “Something which is very near in place and time, and is becoming known to me.” By mid-January it could turn into “Something which is very near and dear, and has become known to me.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is uncanny, wild, and lawless.” Greek philosopher Plato wrote that in his book The Republic, and I’m bringing it to your attention just in time for your Season of Awakening and Deepening Desire. The coming days will be a time when you can, if you choose, more fully tune in to the uncanny, wild, and lawless aspects of your primal yearnings. But wait a minute! I’m not suggesting you should immediately take Homework: Make a guess about what you will be most proud of 15 years from today. Testify at FreeWillAstrology.com.

action to gratify them. For now, just feel them and observe them. Find out what they have to teach you.

Wait until the new year before you consider the possibility of expressing them.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Congratulations! You have broken all your previous records for doing boring tasks that are good for you. In behalf of the other 11 signs, I thank you for your heroic, if unexciting, campaign of self-improvement. You have not only purified your emotional resources and cleared out some breathing room for yourself, but you have also made it easier for people to help you and feel close to you. Your duty has not yet been completed, however. There are a few more details to take care of before the gods of healthy tedium will be finished with you. But start looking for signs of your big chance to make a break for freedom.

They’ll arrive soon.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The English word “fluke” means “lucky stroke.” It was originally used in the game of billiards when a player made a good shot that he or she wasn’t even trying to accomplish. Later its definition expanded to include any fortuitous event that happens by chance rather than because of skill: good fortune generated accidentally. I suspect that you are about to be the beneficiary of what may seem to be a series of flukes, Leo. In at least one case, though, your lucky break will have been earned by the steady work you’ve done without any fanfare.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You may not have to use a literal crowbar in the coming weeks, but this rough tool will serve you well as a metaphor. Wherever you go, imagine that you’ve got one with you. Why? It’s time to jimmy open glued-shut portals … to pry loose mental blocks … to coax unyielding influences to budge … to nudge intransigent people free of their fixations. Anything that is stuck or jammed needs to get unstuck or unjammed through the power of your willful intervention.

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(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to consort with hidden depths and unknown riches. In every way you can imagine, I urge you to go deeper down and further in. Cultivate a more conscious connection with the core resources you sometimes take for granted. This is one time when delving into the darkness can lead you to pleasure and treasure. As you explore, keep in mind this advice from author T. Harv Eker: “In every forest, on every farm, in every orchard on earth, what’s under the ground creates what’s above the ground. That’s why placing your attention on the fruits you have already grown is futile. You can’t change the fruits that are already hanging on the tree. But you can change tomorrow’s fruits. To do so, you will have to dig below the ground and strengthen the roots.”

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Ready for the Cool Anger Contest?

You can earn maximum points by expressing your dissatisfaction in ways that generate the most constructive transformations. Bonus points will be awarded for your ability to tactfully articulate complicated feelings, as well as for your emotionally intelligent analyses that inspire people to respond empathetically rather than defensively. What are the prizes? First prize is a breakthrough in your relationship with an ally who could be crucial to your expansion in 2016. Second prize is a liberation from one of your limiting beliefs.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the coming weeks, the pursuit of pleasure could drain your creative powers, diminish your collaborative possibilities, and wear you out.

But it’s also possible that the pursuit of pleasure will enhance your creative powers, synergize your alliances, and lead you to new opportunities. Which way will you go? It all depends on the kinds of pleasures you pursue. The dumb, numbing, mediocre type will shrink your soul. The smart, intriguing, invigorating variety will expand your mind. Got all that? Say “hell, no” to trivializing decadence so you can say “wow, yes” to uplifting bliss.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Garnets are considered less valuable than diamonds. But out in the wild, there’s an intimate connection between these two gemstones. Wherever you find garnets near the surface of the earth, you can be reasonably sure that diamonds are buried deeper down in the same location. Let’s use this relationship as a metaphor for your life, Sagittarius. I suspect you have recently chanced upon a metaphorical version of garnets, or will do so soon. Maybe you should make plans to search for the bigger treasure toward which they point the way.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A fourth-century monk named Martin was a pioneer winemaker in France. He founded the Marmoutier Abbey and planted vineyards on the surrounding land. According to legend, Martin’s donkey had a crucial role in lifting viticulture out of its primitive state. Midway through one growing season, the beast escaped its tether and nibbled on a lot of the grapevines. All the monks freaked out, fearing that the crop was wrecked. But ultimately the grapes grew better than they had in previous years, and the wine they produced was fabulous. Thus was born the practice of pruning, which became de rigueur for all grapegrowers. What’s your equivalent of Martin’s donkey, Aquarius? I bet it’ll exert its influence very soon.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): “The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important,” said educator John Dewey. If that’s true, Pisces, you are on the verge of having your deepest urge fulfilled more than it has in a long time. The astrological alignments suggest that you are reaching the peak of your value to other people. You’re unusually likely to be seen and appreciated and acknowledged for who you really are. If you have been underestimating your worth, I doubt you will be able to continue doing so. Here’s your homework: Take a realistic inventory of the ways your life has had a positive impact on the lives of people you have known.

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STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: Fish Window Cleaning at 3887 State Street Suite 107 Santa Barbara, CA 93105. The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 2/28/2012 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original file no.

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STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: Adapte Pilates at 1211 Coast Village Rd Suite 5 Santa Barbara, CA 93108. The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 4/20/2015 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original file no.

2015‑0001266. The person (s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Christine Michelle Brigitte Pieton 316 W Micheltorena St Apt A Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Elizabeth Geer Smith 588 Puente Dr Santa Barbara, CA 93110 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 19 2015, I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. Published. Nov 25. Dec 3, 10, 17 2015.

Fictitious Business Name Statement FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Anchor Point at 121 Gray Avenue, Suite 101, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 20, 2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Leposavic Law Firm at 831 State Street Suite 103 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Leposavic Law Firm, A Professional Corp. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 18, 2015.

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 Noe Solis . FBN Number: 2015‑0003280. Published: Dec 10, 17, 24 2015. Jan 07 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Macrocosm Consulting, Santa Barbara Computer Consulting, SB Compute at 7127 Hollister Ave #25A‑143 Goleta, CA 93117; Macrocosm Communications, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Kevin Hess, Managing Partner filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 01, 2015. 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: 2015‑0003362. Published: Dec 10, 17, 24. Jan 07 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Inter, Inter Architect, Interdisciplinary Architecture at 858 Highland Drive Unit 8 Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Interdisiplinary, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Timothy Gorter, CEO filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 12, 2015. 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: 2015‑0003230.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Savant Creations at 3734 Venitia Lane #A Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Arie Lavoy Savant (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Arie Savant filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 01, 2015. 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: 2015‑0003357.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: La Cumbre Home Repairs And Improvements at 535 E. Arrellaga St. Ste 11 Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Tonatiuh Zapotecas (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 02, 2015. 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 Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0003378. Published: Dec 10, 17, 24 2015. Jan 07 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Specialized Marine Diesel at 308 N Soledad St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Patrick Gillert (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 20, 2015. 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: 2015‑0003296.

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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 Jaysinge.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Netlink Ministries at 1089 Oak Glen Road Santa Ynez, CA 93460; Netlink Church Consulting, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 08, 2015. 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: 2015‑0003412.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Badge, Breaker, D’Alfonso‑Curran, Eastern Sierra Cellars, Badage Wines, Curran, D’Alfonso‑Curran Wines, Santayana, Blue Steel, Curran Wines, DI Bruno Wines, Triunfo Creek Vineyards at 4457 Santa Rosa Road #5 Lompoc, CA 93436; D’Alfonso Curran Wine Group, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 03, 2015. 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: 2015‑0003391.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Mobile Desires at 489 Hot Springs Rd. Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Sergio David Dorado 4065 Foothill Rd #E Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Kenneth Aldo Mascheroni 489 Hot Springs Rd. Santa Barbara, CA 93108 This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: Kenneth Aldo Mascheroni filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 10, 2015. 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0003437. Published: Dec 17, 24 2015. Jan 07, 14 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Food For My Soul at 152 Aero Camino Unit G Goleta, CA 93117; Benita Naiman 2191 Piedra Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93108 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 19, 2015. 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 Jessica Sheif. FBN Number: 2015‑0003291.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Le Macaron‑French Pastries In Santa Barbara at 819 State Street, Paseo Nuevo Suite 819 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Floceviclem LLC 27 W Anapamu Suite 406 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Cecila Bach filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 01, 2015.

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 Polter. FBN Number: 2015‑0003356.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Raconteur Pictures at 2625 Clinton Terrace Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Perry Lang (same address) Sage Parker (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Sage Parker filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 11, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Cha Cha Cooking Club at 411 West Willow Av Lompoc, CA 93436; Dulcie Sinn (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Dulcie Sinn filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 02, 2015. 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: 2015‑0003377. Published: Dec 17, 24 2015. Jan 07, 14 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: CCSB, Complete Care SB, Rancho Oso Cazador, Complete Care, Inc, Roc, Complete Care Santa Barbara, Independent Nurse Consulting, Roc Ranch at 1160 N. San Marcos Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Carolyn J. Aijian (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 03, 2015. 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0003390.

Published: Dec 17, 24 2015. Jan 07, 14 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Sullivan Decor at 4958 Pebble Hill Ln. Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Shaun Patrick Sullivan (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 09, 2015. 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 Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0003434.

Published: Dec 17, 24 2015. Jan 07, 14 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Crestline Resources at 1447 Crestline Dr. Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Karen Ingrid Christensen (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Karen Christensen filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 24, 2015. 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 Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0003332.

Published: Dec 17, 24 2015. Jan 07, 14 2016.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Observables at 119 N Milpas Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Securepro (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Dorothy P. Efstratis filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 09, 2015. 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 Jessica Sheaff. FBN Number: 2015‑0003206.

Published: Nov 25. Dec 3, 10, 17 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Eco Cast at 3905 State Street #314 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Daniel Sarena (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Daniel Sarena filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 30, 2015. 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: 2015‑0003346.

Published: Dec 3, 10, 17, 24 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Fish Window Cleaning at 100 North Hope Ave Suite 12 Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Banyan Capital Partners South, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: George Clute, President filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 05, 2015. 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 Deborah Sanchez. FBN Number: 2015‑0003173.

Published: Nov 25. Dec 3, 10, 17 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Medical Writing And Consulting at 4799 Baxter Street Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Mary Emily Garcia (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: M. Emily Garcia filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 19, 2015. 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: 2015‑0003289. Published: Dec 3, 10, 17, 24 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Donahue Inspections at 130 Garden St #1B Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Chris Donahue 242 Reef Ct Santa Barbara, CA 93109 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Chrsi Donahue filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 05, 2015. 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: 2015‑0003186.

Published: Nov 25. Dec 3, 10, 17 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Suspect Studios at 122 W. Arrellaga Street Apt 12 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Matthew Straka (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Matthew Straka filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 17, 2015. 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 Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0003263.

Published: Nov 25. Dec 3, 10, 17 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Optometry Care Santa Barbara at 1629 State Street Suite 1 Santa Barbara, CA 93101‑2548; Wendy L Santizo A Professional Corp. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 18, 2015. 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: 2015‑0003282.

Published: Nov 25. Dec 3, 10, 17 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Lex Sisney Publishing at 2924 Arriba Way Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Linda Nurra (same address) Lex Sisney (same address)This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Lex Sisney filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 08, 2015. 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: 2015‑0003411. Published: Dec 17, 24 2015. Jan 07, 14 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Santa Barbara UC Hastings Alumni Association at 1900 State St. Ste M Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Samantha Baldwin 2230 De La Vina Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Robert Forouzandeh 1421 State St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Jeffrey B Soderborg 1900 State St. Ste M Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Unincorporated Association Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 17, 2015. 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: 2015‑0003260.

Published: Nov 25. Dec 3, 10, 17 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Aldana’s Cleaning Services at 1422 San Pascual St. #45 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Francisco J. Aldana (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 08, 2015. 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 Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0003421. Published: Dec 17, 24 2015. Jan 07, 14 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: St. Paul Cleaners at 407 Bath St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Seung Rae Cho 1233 Saratoga Ave Ventura, CA 93003 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 16, 2015. 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: 2015‑0003254. Published: Nov 25. Dec 3, 10, 17 2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Portal Funding, Portal Funding & Investment at 524 San Pascual St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Alan Casebier (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 23, 2015.

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: 2015‑0003321. Published: Dec 3, 10, 17, 24 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Green Submarine Medical Care at 6 Harbor Way Suite 237 Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Eric Bjorklund (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Eric Bjorklund filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 24, 2015.

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 Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0003335. Published: Dec 3, 10, 17, 24 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Channel City Tech at 1000 Las Canoas Place Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Jeremy Thomas Work (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jeremy T. Work filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 10, 2015. 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: 2015‑0003214. Published: Dec 3, 10, 17, 24 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: After School Languages at 72 South Patterson Ave Apt 101 Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Aurelie Rose McKaig (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Aurelie Rose McKaig filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 09, 2015. 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: 2015‑0003203. Published: Dec 3, 10, 17, 24 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Elite Plumbing at 532 Brinkerhoff Ave Unit E Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Kevin Morelos (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Kevin Morelos filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 06, 2015. 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0003188.

Published: Dec 3, 10, 17, 24 2015.

December 3, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Law Office Of Marc Chytilo at 1505 Mission Canyon Road Santa Barbara, CA 93105; law Office of Marc Chytilo, AProfessional Corp (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Marc Chytilo, President filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 25, 2015. 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: 2015‑0003337. Published: Dec 3, 10, 17, 24 2015.

Name Change IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF DEBRA JEAN SHERK ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 15CV03854 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: DEBRA JEAN SHERK TO: DEBRA JEAN DROGGITIS‑SHERK 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 13, 2016 9:30am, Dept 1, 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 Nov 09, 2015. by James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Nov 25. Dec 3, 10, 17 2015.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF MARY PHILOMENA O’TOOLE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 15CV04005 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: MARY PHILOMENA O’TOOLE TO: MARY TERASE PHILOMENA O’TOOLE 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 20, 2016 9:30am, Dept 1, 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 Dec 10, 2015. by James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Dec 17, 24, 31. 2015.

Public Notices Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to build a 55‑foot Stealth Structure/Eucalyptus Tree Communications Tower. Anticipated lighting application is medium intensity dual red/white strobes.

The Site location is 4500 Hollister Avenue, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, CA 93110 (34 26 24.28N / 119 46 35.48W). The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Antenna Structure Registration (ASR, Form 854) filing number is A0981866. ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS: Interested persons may review the application (www.fcc.­gov/ asr/applications) by entering the filing number. Environmental concerns may be raised by filing a Request for Environmental Review (www.fcc.­gov/ asr/environmentalrequest) and online filings are strongly encouraged. The

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CELLCO PARTNERSHIP and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to build a 55‑foot Stealth Structure/Pine Tree Communications Tower. Anticipated lighting application is medium intensity dual red/white strobes. The Site location is 2660 Santa Maria Way, Santa Maria, Santa Barbara County, CA 93455 (34 54 40.99N / 120 25 59.02W). The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Antenna Structure Registration (ASR, Form 854) filing number is A0948193. ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS: Interested persons may review the application (www.fcc.gov/ asr/applications) by entering the filing number. Environmental concerns may be raised by filing a Request for Environmental Review (www.fcc gov/ asr/environmentalrequest) and online filings are strongly encouraged. The mailing address to file a paper copy is: FCC Requests for Environmental Review, Attn: Ramon Williams, 445 12th Street SW, Washington,

DC 20554. HISTORIC PROPERTIES EFFECTS: Public comments regarding potential effects on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to:‑ 6115002251‑JC, c/o EBI Consulting, 11445 East Via Linda, Suite 2 #472 Scottsdale, AZ 85259, jcastells@ ebiconsulting.com, or 619.548.3798.

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SummoNS SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): CLIFFTON KENT A/K/A/CLIFFTON LEE KENT, JR., an individual and DOES 1 to 5, Inclusive YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): LARRY LABORDE NOTICE! You have been sued.The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

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You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff a letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case.There may be a court form that you can use your for your response.

You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center(www. courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements.

You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca. gov/ selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO despues de que le entreguen esta citacion y papeles legales papa presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no lo protegen. Su

respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta.

Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas information en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.courtinfo.ca gov/selfhelp/espanol/), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podra quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia. Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remision a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro.

Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp/espanol/) o poniendose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales.

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WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD; SPECIAL NOTICE OF LAWSUIT (Pursuant to Labor Code section 3716 and Code of Civil Procedure section 412.20 and 412.30) WCAB No. 8121319 & WCAB No. 8121333 To: DEFENDANT, ILLEGALLY UNINSURED EMPLOYER: APPLICANT, Presiliano Alarcon DEEFENDANTS, Michael Biondo, Biondo Construction NOTICES 1) A lawsuit, the Application for Adjudication of Claim, as been filed with the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board against you as the named defendant by the above named applicant.

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(El nombre y direccion de la corte es) Santa Barbara Superior Court 1100 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: Larry Laborde CFLS SBN 151975; Laborde & Daugherty El Centro Building Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 963‑4567; Fax (805) 965‑0809 (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): DATE: Jun 16 2015. Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer, By Penny Wooff.

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this lawsuit and such attorney should be consulted promptly so that you response may be filed and entered in a timely fashion.

If you do not know an attorney, you may call an attorney reference service or a legal aid office (see telephone directory).

2) An Answer to the Application must be filed and served within six days of the serve of the application pursuant to Appeals Board rules; therefore, your written response must be filed with the Appeals Board promptly; a letter or phone call will not protect your interests.

3) You will be served with a Notice‑ (s) of Hearing and must appear at all hearings or conferences. After such hearing, even absent your appearance, a decision may be made and an award of compensation benefits may issue against you. The award could result in the garnishment of your wages, taking of your money or property or other relief.

If the Appeals Board makes an award against you, your house or other dwelling or other property may be taken to satisfy that award in a non‑judicial state, with no exemptions from execution.

A lien may also be imposed upon your property without further hearing and before the issuance of an award.

4) You must notify the Appeals Board of the proper address for the service of official notices and paper and notify the Appeals Board of any changes in that address.

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Lecturer to teach a quarter‑long course on applied population ecology. This course focuses on application of population ecology to conservation of rare species and management of harvested populations. Topics may include population regulation, population viability analysis, metapopulation dynamics and population monitoring and management.

This Unit 18 Lecturer appointment would be up to 50% time for one quarter of the 2015‑16 academic year with the possibility to continue teaching in ecology and applied population ecology annually, depending on satisfactory performance and need. The applied population ecology course is scheduled for spring quarter (March 28 â June 10, 2016) on Mondays and Wednesdays at 2:30 â 3:45 pm.

Minimum Qualifications Masterâs or PhD degree in ecology or related field Preferred Qualifications Teaching experience at the graduate level Applicants should submit to https:// recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/apply/JPF00645): (1) cover letter, (2) curriculum vitae or resume, (3) recent teaching evaluations, if any, and (3) names of and contact information for three references. All materials should be sent electronically. If you have any questions, please send your request to Assistant Dean Satie Airamé (airame@bren.ucsb.edu). For fullest consideration, all materials should be received by January 8, 2016, although the position will remain open until filled. The ad may be found on the Bren School website http://www. bren. ucsb. edu/people/position_ announcements.html .

The Bren School is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through research, teaching and service.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

YOUR INTERESTS Issued by: WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD Name and address of Appeals Board: WCAB Santa Barbara 411 E. Canon Perdido Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Name and address of applicant’s attorney: Ghitterman, Ghitterman & Feld, 418 E. Canon Perdido St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101; FORM COMPLETED BY: Benjamin P. Feld, Esq. Ghitterman, Ghitterman & Feld, 418 E. Canon Perdido St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101 (805) 965‑4540.

NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served: as the person sued under the fictitious name of: Michael Biondo, Biondo Construction.

Published Dec 3, 10, 17, 24 2015.

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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING Assists with the creation of digital illustrations, web graphics, infographics, animations, and video projects, translating scientific concepts into visual designs for the purpose of research communications and marketing for the College. Provides design assistance for layout for printed materials, such as brochures and posters, and assist with creation of web graphics and website design for the College’s digital marketing efforts. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in art or graphic design, related area, or equivalent combination of education and prior work experience. Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop, familiarity with graphic design layout for publications using Adobe InDesign and an interest in 3D graphic design and animation using software such as Maya. Basic understanding of technological and scientific concepts for translation into design work, and proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. Note: Must be able to work occasional evenings and weekends. $20.75 ‑ $22.71/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20150493

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ADVICE NURSE

STUDENT HEALTH Works in a university ambulatory student health care setting under UCSB Student Health Standardized Procedures and Protocols in collaboration with UCSB Student Health physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners. Acts as an advice nurse, triages students in order to make appropriate appointments and referrals. Provides advice for minor illnesses and injuries and patient education. Works in immunization and travel clinics. Reqs: Must be currently licensed by the State Board of Registered Nursing, have 3 years of experience and a Bachelor’s degree.

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Student Health is closed between the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays. Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled.

Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20150607

ASSOCIATED STUDENTS Provides leadership, guidance and management in all aspects of Independent Media for Associated Students. Serves as a member of the AS management team. Provides continuity and constituency to a 24‑hour experiential learning environment.

Oversees the development of training programs in journalistic practices, writing of press releases, ethics and communication skills for students across the association. Reqs: Understanding of the principles of non‑commercial independent community based media.

Fully conversant with FCC regulations for non‑commercial radio stations.

Excellent communication skills, oral and written. Adept with team development, conflict management and creative problem solving.

Understanding of educational nature of the organization and management through advising in a student run

FOR EVERYONE IN OUR CARE. It’s one of our core values.

In the experience Cottage Health provides to our patients, clinical skill and state-of-the-art technology are only part of the equation.

Equally important is compassion – the demonstration of sincere caring, as fellow human beings, for each patient we are privileged to serve. Along with excellence and integrity, compassion is a Cottage core value. Join us in putting it into practice every single day.

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student initiated organization. Notes: Fingerprinting required. Must be able to work some evenings and weekends. $55,206‑$65,000/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For primary consideration apply by 1/3/16, thereafter open until filled.

Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20150635

DEVELOPMENT ANA­LYST, FOUNDATION RELATIONS

OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT Supports a complex and multifaceted University‑wide program in coordination with Central Development’s Prospect Management, Development Research and Donor Relations units. Provides leadership for all analytical functions that support the strategic goals, initiatives and projects that secure philanthropic support from foundations. Establishes, develops and maintains comprehensive systems. Supports leadership in short‑ and long‑term strategic planning and project management for program development and implementation which is focused on achieving operational and fundraising goals. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience. Strong organizational skills and unfailing attention to detail and accuracy.

Exceptional verbal and interpersonal skills that foster positive relationships with diverse populations. Excellent computer skills including proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet and e‑mail and demonstrated ability to quickly learn various software

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Allied Health • Behavioral Health Clinician – Per Diem • Case Manager – C.O.P.E. • Case Manager – SLO Clinic • Chemical Dependency Technician – Per Diem • CT Technician • Echocardiographer – Per Diem • Pharmacist Intern • Pharmacy Tech • Speech Language Pathologist II – Per Diem • Support Counselor – Per Diem • Surgical Technician I

Cottage Rehabilitation Hospital • Psychologist (Temporary) • RN – Full-Time

• Administrative Assistant – Perinatal • Administrative Director – Surgical Services • Assistant to the President • Catering Set-up – Part-Time • Chaplain – Part-Time • Clinical System Administrator, Sr. • Coffee Cart Barista • Concierge – Part-Time • Cook – Part-Time • Deli Supervisor • Director – IT Security • Environmental Services Rep • Environmental Services Supervisor • EPIC Clinical Analyst (Optime) • EPIC Clinical Analyst, Sr. (Optime) • Food Service – Deli • Integration Analyst – HIE • Interface Analyst (EPIC) • IT Project Manager • IT Project Manager, Sr. • Lead Concierge • Lead Cook • Manager – Nutrition • Research Analyst & Project Development Specialist • Room Service Server – Temp • Security Officers • Sr. Graphic Designer • System Support Specialist, Onbase • Systems Support Analyst – Supply Chain • Unit Coordinator – Surgical Trauma

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We offer an excellent compensation package that includes above-market salaries, premium medical benefits, pension plans, tax savings accounts, rental and mortgage assistance, and relocation packages. What’s holding you back?

For more information on how you can advance your future with these opportunities, or to submit a resume, please contact: Cottage Health, Human Resources, P.O. Box 689, Pueblo at Bath Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-0689. Please apply online at www.cottagehealthsystem.org.

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s I pulled up to 2631 Freesia Drive

secrets slowly over time. The garden and the entire yard are completely fenced, and since the home is situated on a corner lot, it feels private and worlds away.

I drove away feeling as though I had been introduced to a home that could

Address: 2631 Freesia Drive Status: On the market

become an old friend. With three bedrooms and two and a half baths spread over two stories, this house is spacious and airy yet still comfortable and cottage-feeling. Its sunny corners, inside and out, feel ready to welcome a new owner to enjoy it and make memories for generations to come.

2631 Freesia Drive is currently for sale in Summerland, listed by Fred Bradley of Sotheby’s International Realty.

Reach Fred at 689-8612.

Price: $1,975,000

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living room. This grand entrance provides a welcoming preview of the living space below and the compelling ocean view beyond. I can see right away that there is nothing cookie-cutter about this house, from the plentiful multipaned windows to the rich, natural bamboo floors. The kitchen’s beautiful granite countertops and large island beg to be shared and enjoyed as a central gathering place in the heart of this home.

The expansive ocean view entices me outside, and I realize one reason for the extra-special quality of this particular vista: Unlike most of Summerland, the view from the cottages is completely unobstructed. No power lines interrupt the panorama of the sparkling channel and the islands beyond. With large decks both upstairs and down, the view from this home will always remind its residents to slow down and relax.

I might have gazed out at the ocean all day, but another special feature caught my attention. The entire side of the house is a magical garden with more than 40 rose bushes, a flowering trellis, and natural rock pathways. The space is manicured and yet still a bit wild; it feels as if it will reveal its

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in Summerland, I saw two riders on horseback silhouetted against the sky, riding along the ridge above the house. Apparently horses are not an unusual sight for this neighborhood, but it’s not something I see every day in downtown Santa Barbara. So I immediately had the feeling that I was someplace special.

The entire neighborhood has a bit of a country feel. There’s a quiet hillside park below the house with picnic tables and a view of the ocean. Around the corner is the Greenwell Preserve with miles of hiking trails and open space. The closest commercial building is a little business at the end of the lane with antiques, garden art, jewelry, and a private retreat house aptly named The Sacred Space.

It’s no wonder that this entire area feels charmed. The house itself is part of a 20-residence enclave built in 2001 called The Cottages at Summerland, located at the south end of town, apart from the bustle of the main street but close enough to enjoy the shops and restaurants in just a short walk.

Walking through the front door, I found myself on a landing several steps above the

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4145 Creciente Dr | $21,500,000 6 beds 9 baths Adrienne/Steve 805.452.3960

888 Cold Springs Rd | $19,500,000 10 beds 12 baths Riskin Partners 805.565.8600

818 Hot Springs Rd | $15,000,000 6 beds 9 baths Riskin Partners 805.565.8600

FEATURED PROPERTY

511 Las Fuentes Dr | $6,450,000 3 beds 4.5 baths Elberta Pate 805.895.0835

3111 Padaro Ln | $13,900,000 5 beds 4 baths Riskin Partners 805.565.8600

2733 Sycamore Cyn. Rd | Price Upon Request

2733sycamorecanyonroad.com Riskin Partners 805.565.8600

1398 Oak Creek Cyn Rd | $13,650,000 1398oakcreekcanyonroad.com Riskin Partners 805.565.8600

1664 East Valley Rd | $13,500,000 7 beds 12 baths Riskin Partners 805.565.8600

630 Stonehouse Ln | $6,950,000 5 beds 7 baths Riskin/Applegate 805.565.8600

1159 Hill Rd | $5,840,000 3 beds 3 baths Riskin Partners 805.565.8600

2796 Bella Vista Dr | $5,650,000 6 beds 6 baths Tomi S Spaw 805.698.7007

975 Mariposa Ln | $4,995,000 4 beds 4 baths Grubb Campbell 805.565.8879

705 Park Ln | $4,595,000 705ParkLane.com Riskin Partners 805.565.8600

905 E Alamar Ave | $4,300,000 5 beds 3 baths Ted Campbell 805.886.1175

1045 Cima Linda Ln | $4,295,000 1045cimaLinda.com Michelle Eskandari 805.637.8061

1733 Mission Ridge Rd | $4,200,000 3 beds 4 baths Pippa Davis 805.886.0174

2885 Hidden Valley Ln | $3,095,000 4 beds 2 baths Mitchell Morehart 805.565.4546

250 Toro Cyn Rd | $2,925,000 4 beds 4 baths Mitchell Morehart 805.565.4546

7797 Goldfield Ct | $2,695,000 4 beds 5 baths Alyson Spann 805.637.2884

1933 Mission Ridge Rd | $2,650,000 3 beds 4 baths John A Sener 805.331.7402

924 Garden St | $2,600,000 2 beds 2 baths Pippa Davis 805.886.0174

43 Humphrey Rd | $2,499,000 2 beds 2 baths Jackie Walters 805.570.0558

18 W Victoria St #310 | $1,999,000 1 bed 2 bath Donald/Cecilia 805.895.3833

3 Las Alturas Rd | $1,599,000 4 beds 3 baths John Bahura 805.680.5175

150 Eucalyptus Hill Cir | $1,550,000 3 beds 3 baths Mary Lu Edick 805.452.3258

239 Cordova Dr | $1,549,000 4 beds 2 baths Toni Mochi 805.636.9170

227 N Sierra Vista Rd | $1,525,000 4 beds 2 baths John A Sener 805.331.7402

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105 W De La Guerra St #R | $1,495,000 2 beds 3 baths Shandra/Ted 805.886.1176

241 Palisades Dr | $1,345,000 4 beds 3 baths Darcie/Thomas 805.637.7772

3971 Foothill Rd | $1,325,000 4 beds 3 baths Cara Gamberdella 805.680.3826

1337 Virginia Rd | $1,325,000 2 beds 2 baths Jay/Darcie 805.451.4527

811 E Pedregosa St #2 | $1,195,000 2 beds 2 baths Chris Kamen 805.390.1571

FEATURED PROPERTY

112 Eucalyptus Hill Cir | $1,375,000 2 beds 2 baths Christopher/Cecilia 805.453.3407

718-720 W Arrellaga St | $1,050,000 Investment ProPerty Toby/Lynette 805.570.3573

636 W Ortega St | $998,000 GorGeous duPlex Kim Dorsey 805.895.2968

641 Por La Mar Cir #B | $939,000 2 beds 3 baths Billy Mandarino 805.570.4827

133/135 Juana Maria Ave | $929,000 duPlex, two 2bd/1bth unIts Kelly Knight 805.895.4406

474 Amherst Dr | $880,000 4 beds 3 baths Amy J Baird 805.478.9318

1511 Meadow Cir | $849,900 4 beds 2 baths Sally/Lyla 805.450.0852

Costa Rica, Las Mareas | $775,000 3 beds 3.5 baths Susan Jordano 805.680.9060

1116 N Milpas St | $775,000 4 beds 3 baths Jeff/Julie 805.895.9498

4664 Malaga Cir | $765,000 4664malaGaCIrCle.Com Dianne/Brianna 805.455.6570

70 Bristol Pl | $735,000 3 beds 2 baths Marta Weeks 805.689.0410

45 Dearborn Pl #34 | $399,000 2 beds 1 bath Daniel Warnars 805.680.2712

2155 Ortega Hill Rd #36 | $399,000 3 beds 2 baths Jeff/Julie 805.895.9498

669 Picacho Ln | $5,995,000 669PICaCholane.Com Riskin Partners 805.565.8600

4615 Via Roblada | $3,195,000 4615vIaroblada.Com Riskin/Kendall 805.565.8600

The Meadows | Starting at $1,650,000 themeadowssb.Com Dianne/Brianna 805.455.6570

Roblar Ave. | $1,395,000 19.52 +/- aCres Carey Kendall 805.689.6262

East Oak Trail | $1,250,000 20 +/- aCres Judy M Crawford 805.588.1425

1094 Toro Canyon Rd | $999,000 45.99 +/- aCres John Bahura 805.680.5175

3699 Sagunto St | $795,000 PrIme Corner lot Jenae Johnson 805.452.9812

0 Mattei Road | $695,000 5 +/- Flat aCres Jenae Johnson 805.452.9812

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2109 Chapala St | $1,495,000 3 beds 3 baths Toni Mochi 805.636.9170

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price

date

addreSS

buellton/solvang

PIeRsMa bRett eu

MCPHeRson lInDa M tRustee

$365,000

12/01/15

1493 aaRHus DR 10

CaRPInteRIa

Fontes MaRCo a D o

stull Paul M ea

$970,000

12/02/15

1277 la bRea ln

MCWHIRteR steven l eu

MIlleR KIRK l eu

$1,060,000

12/03/15

1480 santa YneZ ave

CaMPI tHoMas s

MaRtIn PeggY tRustee

$750,000

12/02/15

1477 tHeResa st

HeRnanDeZ alvaRo tRustee

tIttle JeReMY R ea

$712,000

12/04/15

1431 toMol DR

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loMPoC

$1,490,000

12/04/15

5165 louIsIana Pl

$890,000

12/02/15

1118 vIa RegIna

PalKe nanCY J tRust

lI XIaoHuI eu

$889,500

12/02/15

5179 Calle asIlo

bennett saRaH C tRust

JoHnson geoFFReY R tRustee

$765,000

12/03/15

611 las PeRlas DR

KoobatIon RICHaRD tRust

MaZlooMa MoRteZa

$539,000

12/01/15

5877 HollIsteR ave

beI sensoRs & sYsteMs Co

states eRIC a tRustee

$1,280,000

12/01/15

7234 HollIsteR ave

MeHRten JoHn a eu

DIRZo loYRa g ea

$815,000

12/03/15

458 PePPeRDIne Ct

HoFFMan MonIKa ea

MultIPleX engIneeRIng

$690,000

12/04/15

667 laRCHMont Pl

beRtagna-RoYal lauRIe

MooRe sHane l

$500,000

12/04/15

325 noRtHgate DR C

MenDoZa InvestMent gRouP

MeRlo taYloR F

$565,000

12/04/15

7634 HollIsteR ave 256

KIMPoRt KatRIna e ea

CoRa eDWIn g tRustee

$335,000

12/04/15

7610 HollIsteR ave 109

buRKe tHoMas e tRust

stanDIFoRD JaReD

$245,000

12/04/15

432 s b st

HoRton veRa J D

oCHoa JaKe R

$285,000

12/03/15

1205 e guava ave

RosenbeRgeR tHoMas a

FeRRo luKe

$245,000

12/01/15

705 n e st

PIeRson loCKWooD g eu

$220,000

12/03/15

1323 CRoWn CIR

DaugHeRtY WIllIaM M eu

laveRtY RogeR M III tRustee

$3,400,000

12/01/15

709 PaRK ln

toWles aMoR H ea

toWles Jeanne g

$925,000

12/01/15

118 MIRaMaR ave

tenIR llC

MeRRIll MICHael M tRustee

$460,000

12/03/15

2855 alta st

KulP PeteR F eu

RaY lauRenCe a eu

$2,300,000

12/01/15

2968 CanaDa este RD

KleIn HaRRY M tRustee

long Russell l JR eu

$1,950,000

12/04/15

2875 MonteCIelo RD

oglesbY Paul

West bluFF CaPItal InC

$1,090,000

12/03/15

2895 glenDessaRY ln

MonRoe tHoMas F tRustee

CallaHan tIMotHY P eu

$1,900,000

12/02/15

1719 loMa st

WeaveR DannY

Douglas bRuCe W

$330,000

12/03/15

1523 CastIllo st

leHMIng ute tRust

RabeR stePHen D tRustee

$950,000

12/01/15

1809 ClIFF DR 2

CIRa DIane l tRustee

lInD saRaH J tRust

$1,285,000

12/01/15

2825 MIRaDeRo DR

langleYJanet a tRust

egeReR JustIn t ea

$1,425,000

12/04/15

219 toYon DR

CaRlIsle bRuCe R ea

CHaRuvastRa nICole eu

$902,000

12/01/15

3955 CaRol ave

DIaZ RobeRt tRustee

MaCKenZIe aDaM eu

$690,000

12/04/15

551 n la CuMbRe RD

CaMPbell, Duane a

DollaHIte JonatHan a

$490,000

12/03/15

5264 PIne CReeK Ct

Young Paul R tRustee

stuRges-MelbY aaRon eu

$440,000

12/02/15

4415 CoventRY Ct

u banK na

Hall JuDItH M ea

$395,000

12/04/15

1424 W MaRsala ave

sMItH, Jean a tRust

ZaRate Jose H

$365,000

12/04/15

2447 n bentleY ave

salaZaR MIguel a ea

salaZaR MIguel a eu

$89,000

12/02/15

128 e alvIn ave

seC HousInH & uRban DeveloPMen

loPeZ MaRC a

$205,500

12/03/15

910 Regent Ct

beaveR JaMes R tRustee

estRaDa DIego R eu

$144,000

12/03/15

435 e PaRK ave 7

santa YneZ

PaRCHMan RICHaRD F tRustee

JoHnston KRIsten s eu

$1,560,000

12/01/15

3940 sKYlaRK RD

unInCoRPoRateD

KenneDY sHaRon ConseRvatoR

KnIll ellen t

$330,000

12/02/15

308 CRYstal CIR

allen JoHn D eu

RaMIReZ Jose s eu

$290,000

12/03/15

3781 uRanus ave

CHaveZ Ruben

CoX anDReW b

$310,000

12/04/15

565 MaRs ave

ellIson tIna J

bRoDY alan

$448,000

12/04/15

4052 euRoPa ave

Haas FRanK R eu

FRoHlICH stuaRt

$681,000

12/03/15

1235 PeaRl DR

FIgueRoa MaRK eu

Xu sHeng l

$430,000

12/03/15

251 valleY statIon CIR

albeRtson JaMes

MClaugHlIn anDReW

$319,000

12/04/15

361 savanna DR

MaDRIgal eZeQuIel eu

gallagHeR JaMes R eu

$215,000

12/03/15

807 seasIDe DR

JaCobson JoHn M tRustee

oCHoa asunCIon eu

$270,000

12/04/15

1653 n baY ave

JoHannsen RICHaRD R eu

MonteJo vInCent M eu

$475,000

12/01/15

812 HaRRIson DR

KIbbe estHeR R tRustee

gutIeRReZ RaFael

$430,000

12/03/15

1750 e DoMIngues st

FeRnanDeZ Manuel eu

oRoPeZa sabRIna M eu

$415,000

12/04/15

837 e louIsa teRR

lIon CHRIstIane-annY tRust

loIZIDes InvestMent gRouP llC

$806,000

12/02/15

478 FouRtH Pl

nIelson ZIta D tRustee

PeReZ benJaMIn u eu

$530,000

12/02/15

207 tHIRD st

ReIllY tHeResa M

van Pelt bRaDlee H eu

$497,000

12/02/15

3562 PIne st

MonteCIto los olIvos

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JJ sHoRes llC Roestel Jan a eu

West PoInte HoMes InC

santa baRbaRa

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bRIttaIn CYntHIa D estoK MICHael tRust

santa MaRIa

CoX JoHn t tRustee

HaRtsoCK KevIn

$740,000

12/02/15

3345 nuManCIa st

MasonHeIMeR WIlbuR eu

leKas Jason eu

$570,000

12/04/15

282 RosaRIo PaRK DR

Deaton leonaRD W eu

CoPe DaRYl v eu

$610,000

11/25/15

2117 laKe MaRIe DR

MCCleaRY DavID eu

lunD ConstanCe D tRustee

$574,000

11/30/15

2098 HollY ln

MCPHeRson lInDa tRustee

MaRQuette Wes eu

$625,000

11/30/15

2089 RebIlD DR

PeRCY CatHeRIne g tRustee

taYloR elaIne b tRustee

$534,000

11/24/15

757 HIllsIDe DR

This data is provided to The Santa Barbara Independent by an outside third-party source and represents a partial list of recorded residential sales in Santa Barbara County on the dates listed.

While this information is public record, The Santa Barbara Independent cannot guarantee the accuracy nor the completeness of this list.

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by Dennis Allen seats and handheld showers, and aesthetically integrated entry ramps are now available. It is possible to have both good design and practicality.

What seems to work best is to plan ahead and take steps to prepare for these life changes before being faced with an emergency. Some of the most effective features to incorporate are: (1) creating a no-step entry, (2) arranging to live on a single-floor level, (3) widening doorways to accommodate walkers and wheelchairs, (4) installing rocker electrical switches and accessible outlets (18 inches off the floor), and (5) changing to lever-style door handles and faucets to facilitate reduced strength and flexibility in hands and fingers.

Physical improvements to one’s home are essential but of equal if not greater importance to maintain or even improve one’s quality of life and avoid isolation.

Next week we will delve into social connectivity, getting around, learning opportunities for the elderly, respect and dignity, volunteering, creating stimulating environments, and engaging with nature.

Dennis Allen is chair of Allen Construction, an employee-owned company committed to building and operating sustainably.

He also serves as chair of the Dean’s Council at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at UCSB and as a boardmember of the Community Environmental Council.

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McGlinchey said. “It’s happened in the past. People decide to get insurance, then it starts to rain, then they’re upset that the insurer won’t pay.” (By the way, the county guide stresses that homeowners insurance doesn’t necessarily cover flooding. It’s best to check now.)

Another smart tip from McGlinchey: “Take pictures of your valuables, put them on a thumb drive, and also send them to somebody so you can say later, ‘This is what it looked like before the damage.’”

McGlinchey remembers playing as a kid in Santa Barbara floodwaters of the past. “We never thought twice about it.

Thank god nothing bad happened.” Her point is that crazy things can happen, and not just water suddenly roaring through when debris dams break. One year, some police officers developed rashes. It turns out the culprit was poison oak that had come churning down and collected in floodwater that the officers waded through. “Whatever’s in the hills comes down,” she said.

Another McGlinchey tip: “Make sure your chimneys are clean.” Some people don’t use their fireplaces much since Santa Barbara is so temperate. But if the power goes, they might find themselves huddling around the wrong kind of heat. They might “build a fire, pour a glass of wine, make themselves cozy,” and then have a creosote chimney blaze on their hands, which happened recently in Goleta.

And speaking of power outages, here’s one last thought: Either buy a generator or be on good terms with a friend who has one, plus a nice, dry guest room. n

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you’ve been way off the grid for a long time, you’ve heard about a big, cantankerous baby that’s filling its lungs and getting ready to howl our way. El Niño has been all over the news — that angry orange equatorial stripe due south of us. In case that didn’t sink in, the City of Santa Barbara recently held a “Sandbag Saturday,” offering 20 free bags per bagger. And it was the hot topic in a recent meeting of the county’s Disaster Council.

Just having something called a Disaster Council makes it clear that our leaders take things like this seriously. What the owners of real estate can do is get their houses in order.

Common-sense things are first, like making sure your storm drains are clear, your gutters are unclogged, and your roof is watertight, said Yolanda McGlinchey, emergency services manager for the City of Santa Barbara. If you’re in a flood zone (maps are available online), place sandbags strategically. The county’s Homeowners Guide for Flood Prevention and Response covers a wide range of such issues, and it’s available online, too.

(And though it’s not real estate related, do have three to five days of water and nonperishable food on hand, plus flashlights and a sturdy pair of shoes next to your bed, said McGlinchey ominously.)

Some smart things the guides advise: Cut back on irrigation so that the ground has farther to go before it gets saturated. Add mulch to gardens to boost absorbency. Get a sump pump and rain barrels. Stop filling your pool now.

And get flood insurance pronto.

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ost adults older than age 65, more than 80 percent according to AARP (American Association of Retired Persons), want to remain in their current home as long as possible. As we advance into old age, the risk of injury, especially from falling, increases dramatically. Taking steps to prevent falls is crucial for “aging in place,” which is the ability to live in one’s own home and community safely, independently, and comfortably.

Some of the measures that help make for safer navigation are ramps for accessible entry and exit, increased lighting, non-skid flooring (no loose throw rugs), solid railings, bathroom grab bars, wider doorways, and no thresholds. Many of these modifications to a home are simple and cost effective. Some, however, are expensive, such as transforming a shower into a roll-in/walkin unit or adding an elevator or stair lift.

In addition to an increased risk of falling and a decrease in mobility as we age, we also face deterioration in all of our senses, plus in our cognitive capacity. Progressive hearing impairment, failing vision, especially when light is dim, and memory decline are prevalent with advancing years.

Technology can enable aging in place in face of many of these aging challenges.

In-home monitoring systems can inform remote family members or caregivers about an older person’s daily activities, such as timely taking of medications, regular eating, and the status of other health vital signs. There has been steady improvement in hearing technology and in mental-exercise programs to keep some of the aging limitations at bay.

A number of seniors refrain from these suggested home modifications because they think the products involved have an industrial appearance. This need not be the case; designer grab bars, beautiful shower

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Michael Redmon is the director of research at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum.

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the largest packing companies in this area.

When Edgar died in 1949, a nephew, Garrett Van Horne, took over the ranch.

In 1967, the family sold the southern half of the ranch to developers but retained ownership of Stow House. The county then bought the land upon which the house sat, and the family in turn donated the house to the county. Today, Stow House and its surrounding buildings are operated as a museum complex and serve as the headquarters for the Goleta Valley Historical Society.

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1624 Hillside Road, 2BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $889,000, Keller Williams, Daniel Zia & The Zia Group 805-637-7148

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tive rancher. He brought in lemon plantings from Florida, developed a new lemon strain resistant to disease, ran soil tests, developed new insecticides, and experimented with new root stocks. Many of his innovations became standard practice in the citrus industry.

Edgar also served in the State Assembly and the State Senate; he was a key figure in establishing the state’s community college system and in opposing sales tax on essentials, such as food. During World War I, he served as food administrator for Santa Barbara County and later served as an officer of the Johnston Fruit Company, one of

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The main house at La Patera Ranch was built of redwood floated ashore by W.W. Stow.

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task of developing a farm, while his father supplied the labor, the equipment, and an endless stream of advice and directives. W. W. Stow also supplied the redwood lumber, which was floated ashore for the ranch house. The area was already known as La Patera (The Duck Pond), and this became the name of the ranch.

Sherman began to lay out the orchards, planting some 9,700 almond and 3,000 walnut trees. In 1875, he planted 3,000 lemon trees, one of the first commercial plantings of citrus in California. The latter produced profitably until the late 1930s.

Sherman also developed the ranch’s irrigation system, funneling water down from the mountain streams and springs into a pond (now Lake Los Carneros) where it was stored until needed during the dry season.

Success in business came with personal tragedy. Sherman P. Stow died from a stroke in 1907. His eldest son, Sherman H., took up management of La Patera, but he was felled by appendicitis in 1915 when he was only 39. The reins of management now fell into the hands of Edgar, a brother of Sherman H. Edgar who proved to be a most innova-

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he house at 304 North Los Carneros Road, built by Sherman P. Stow in 1872-73, was the home of one of the Goleta Valley’s most prominent families.

The paterfamilias of this family was William Whitney Stow. A native of New York, Stow practiced law in that state until coming to California in 1852. He farmed in Santa Cruz County, got involved in politics, served two terms in the State Assembly, and became speaker of that body. In 1856 he opened a law office in San Francisco and eventually became chief counsel for the Southern Pacific Railroad. He also served eight years as San Francisco’s park commissioner and was instrumental in developing Golden Gate Park. Stow Lake is named in his honor.

W. W. Stow decided to buy a ranch for his son, Sherman, and turned for advice to W. W. Hollister, whom he had met while serving in the Assembly. Hollister owned the Glen Annie Ranch in the Goleta Valley and urged Stow to seek property there. In 1872, Stow purchased 1,043 acres from Rosa Senter, the remarried widow of Daniel Hill, for $28,600. Sherman then turned to the

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