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Big Sur photographer Kodiak Greenwood (right) and The Indy’s Editor-at-Large Ethan Stewart traveled to the French capital earlier this month to chronicle the United Nations’ historic Climate Change Conference. Enduring bomb scares, marathon workdays, and what Stewart described as the “the Burning Man of the environmental movement,” the duo recaps their trip to the poignant City of Light in this week’s cover story. Here, they mug for Kodi’s camera in front of one of 12 massive hunks of glacier ice imported from Greenland as part of a melting art installation near the Pantheon named simply “Ice Watch Paris.”

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Winter kills About 35 people clustered around the entrance to the Santa Barbara courthouse to remember the homeless individuals who died in the past year. In the face of a wind strong enough to rattle the palm trees nearby, a couple of ministers active in homeless affairs took turns intoning the names of nine people claimed by the streets. For each name, another minister lit a candle. Another three names were called out by people in the crowd. After each name, those congregating responded, “We remember.” It was a somber ceremonial event; Santa Barbara Mayor Helene Schneider said a few words as did City Councilmember Cathy Murillo. Alice Gleghorn, head of Santa Barbara County’s Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health Services, showed up, as well.

Much on the minds of those present was finding a suitable shelter for hundreds of homeless people who will otherwise be very wet and cold if the much-anticipated El Niño storms deliver as predicted. After 109 homeless died between 2009 and 2011, many from exposure, area government agencies joined forces with the Unitarian Society to create a semi-improvisational network of nighttime warming centers in area churches. Six churches are participating on the South Coast, providing makeshift bed space for 390 people.

Warming-center organizers have indicated a willingness to provide daylight services, as well. Should an official emergency be declared — Nick Welsh in response to El Niño, the Red Cross would activate its own network of shelters.

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Santa Barbara residents are asked to weigh in on what they’re looking for in a new police chief at a public hearing scheduled for 1/7/16 at the Louise Lowry Davis Center (1232 De la Vina St.). Santa Barbara’s longtime chief, Cam Sanchez, announced in October he would retire in February, capping a 35-year career in law enforcement and 15 years as Santa Barbara chief. Supporters extol Sanchez’s commitment to community-oriented policy; critics complain morale among the troops tanked under his tenure, leading to recruitment and retention issues.

City officials said they expect the new chief to be hired by sometime this spring. An interim chief will be appointed to run the department for a few months.

Police have confirmed the name of the 27-year-old man found 12/15 under a truck at a public parking lot on Anacapa Street. He’s been identified as Nathaniel Curteman of Santa Barbara and Lompoc. In what city police called strange circumstances, Curteman was found “pinned underneath the front of a pickup truck in the lot.” Authorities said the investigation into the cause and manner of Curteman’s death is ongoing. No other details were released.

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ews —at least Santa Barbara style — can often be a long shaggy-dog story with little pretense of a punch line. This past year was decidedly dif different with significant news erupting over such hot-button issues as the drought, the Refugio Oil Spill, the housing crunch, and the manic game of musical chairs among the politically ambitious that was unleashed when Lois Capps announced she would not seek reelection to Congress after serving 17 years.

In no particular order, here’s The Indy’s effort to compress 365 days into 750 words.

THE DROUGHT: It’s official — Santa Barbara just endured the four hottest and driest years in a row since the Bible recorded the Great Flood. While Lake Cachuma — which supplies half the water dished out to South Coast water agencies — is not bone dry, it may as well be. This year, there will be no dam water delivered from the Cachuma Reservoir. None.

Area water customers cut consumption by more than 25 percent, and some groundwater basins got hit extra hard. But even if El Niño

delivers all that’s been promised, the good old days are gone forever.

Given the harsh realities of weird weather, water managers estimate Lake Cachuma can be counted on for only four years without rain, not the seven years they traditionally banked upon. That’s a big change. Filling the breach for the City of Santa Barbara— and maybe Montecito—is the radically refurbished $55 million desalination plant, scheduled to begin squeezing the salt out of the sea and producing potable water this coming fall.

HOUSING: With a vacancy rate so tiny it’s measured in microns, it’s little wonder South Coast rents have skyrocketed. At the bottom of the recession, an average two-bedroom cost $1,500 a month; now it’s closer to $2,400.

Even though 22,000 jobs have been added to the local economy, wages have flatlined for a majority of job categories. The economic pain inflicted has given rise to a push to increase Santa Barbara’s minimum wage from $9 to $15 an hour in some unspecified, not-so-distant future.

The harsh realities of the rental market were clearly a major reason the Santa Bar-

bara City Council unanimously enacted the most restrictive vacation-rental rules in the state. And it’s inspired ferocious neighborhood blowback against the large number of international and out-of-town students enrolling at Santa Barbara City College. Bearing the brunt of that anger was City College President Lori Gaskin, who announced her retirement this year.

On the flip side, developers are investing big bucks in building rental housing. Landlorddeveloper Ed St. George wants to triple the number of beds in his Cliff Drive apartments —from 500 to 1,500—and millennial wunderkind developer Neil Dipaola is trying to squeeze three times as many apartments onto his Funk Zone property as area zoning allows.

City Hall enticed such development by relaxing parking requirements. That works on outer State Street, but in established neighborhoods, the neighbors have squawked.

POLITICS: From macro to micro, this was a huge year politically. Most obviously, Lois Capps announced she would not seek reelection to Congress after winning election for nine consecutive terms. In that time, Capps cont’d page 10 

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Ronald “Chad” Williams (pictured), arrested last year for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old boy while serving as director of the San Marcos Christian Camp in 2005, was convicted 12/18 on two counts of child molestation. He will be sentenced on 2/3/16 in Santa Barbara County Superior Court and faces a maximum of nine years in state prison.

Sentenced in June to a year in jail for torturing a 6-month-old miniature pinscher puppy, which had to be euthanized, and choking his girlfriend, former SBCC exchange student and Chinese national Duanying Chen was released 12/18 from County Jail and immediately placed into U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. According to ICE officials, Chen will remain in custody “pending his appearance before an immigration judge” with the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Paul Greco, the prosecuting attorney who has helped run the Santa Maria District Attorney’s office the past year, was placed on medical leave this week after the smoldering remains of an interoffice romance reignited in a highly combustible manner. Greco, who is married, had a months-long affair with a younger prosecutor, also married, whom he supervises. The woman’s husband reportedly found out about the relationship recently and placed what Greco described as a threatening note on the windshield of his car. Just prior to getting the note, Greco told others in the department the woman’s husband had pulled a gun on her, demanding she tell him the details of their relationship. In reaction, Greco alerted a friend who works for Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office, who in turn notified a superior. That took place November 30. A warrant was issued and the woman’s husband arrested. The prosecutor with whom Greco had a relationship reportedly did not confirm her husband threatened her with a gun. Instead, she reportedly said, he threatened to kill himself unless she described her romantic involvement.

Her husband was released and not charged.

Greco, in the meantime, went missing. He was reportedly distraught, armed with a gun, and expressing suicidal intentions. Sheriff’s deputies managed to track him down by pinging his cell phone. A mental-health evaluation was conducted, and it was determined Greco posed no imminent threat to himself or others. The DA’s Office has asked another law enforcement agency to investigate the incident for any criminal wrongdoing. In the meantime, senior prosecuting attorney Tim Covello has been appointed to assist senior prosecutor Mag Nicola in running the Santa Maria office. District Attorney Joyce Dudley issued a cryptic press release on the matter shortly before an article appeared in the Santa Barbara News-Press stating Greco had been placed on leave. In an email exchange, Dudley said it remains uncertain how long Greco will remain on leave.

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The fireball that flashed across Santa Barbara skies Tuesday night around 6:08 p.m. was a Russian SL-4 rocket body burning up as it reentered the atmosphere, said Major Matthew Miller with the U.S. Strategic Command’s Joint Space Operations Center, which tracks international space missions for domestic safety. The booster, launched Monday in Russia, could be seen from Mexico to Las Vegas as it fell back to Earth. No details were immediately available about the rocket’s mission, though U.S. officials have stated the type is often used by Russia to launch satellites and other spacecraft.

For supporters of the historic and dilapidated Franceschi House, “The goal now is to convince the city that preserving [it] is a much better, and much more affordable, option than demolishing it,” according to the Pearl Chase Society, the abandoned home’s most powerful advocate. The issue will find itself before City Council as a “very high priority for the beginning of 2016,” said Jill Zachary, the new director of the Parks & Recreation Department.

“The task is daunting, no matter what we do.”

Complicating the discussion is the hillside home site’s stability, drainage, and access along narrow streets in a vocal neighborhood. The Society’s online petition supporting preservation recently passed 1,100 signatures, and it remains the custodian of more than $100,000 in private, earmarked donations.

COuNty The Montecito Fire Protection District is purchasing a lot on the corner of San Ysidro Road

and San Leandro Lane for a new station that would rapidly respond to incidents on Highway 101 and nearby beach neighborhoods. The vacant parcel, at 1510 San Leandro Lane, sold last year to a developer for $1.1 million. The district is in escrow for $1.5 million. A public meeting about the acquisition is scheduled for 1/25 at the district’s Board of Directors meeting. The purchase would not change the district’s plan to first open a new station in its eastern portion, to better serve neighborhoods off East Valley Road, Sheffield Drive, and Romero and Toro canyons.

The Goleta Water District this week purchased 2,500 acre-feet of California Aqueduct water from the Antelope Valley-East Kern Water Agency for $1.2 million, said Ryan Drake, Goleta water supply and conservation manager.

The district will pay an additional $1.4 million, he said, to cover the cost of moving the water to Lake Cachuma and, eventually, sending it back to the Antelope Valley within 10 years. The district will be reimbursed for any unused portion. The purchase also averts a potential cutoff of Lake Cachuma water to 22 Gaviota avocado and lemon ranchers in May 2016, should the drought continue unabated through a fifth year, officials said.

The Orfalea Fund’s nine-year, $7.8 million program that has transformed cafeterias in public schools across the county scored high marks recently in an independent evaluation. The study, carried out by Carlsbad-based Evaluation Specialists, found that the organization’s School Food Initiative added more organic and locally sourced fresh fruits and vegetables to school kitchens while cutting back on processed ingredients. The program also surpassed state and federal guidelines for sugar, salt, and fat. Launched in 2003 by Kinko’s founder Paul Orfalea and his wife, Natalie, the Orfalea Fund sunsets at the end of 2015, totaling more than $175 million in grants.

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t was 7:15 p.m. and very cold on February 19, 2013, when Olive Street residents said they heard loud “pops” then moans outside their windows. They saw two people cautiously approach a crumpled figure on the sidewalk and then hurry away. Along the dark stretch of road between Santa Barbara High School and Greater Hope Baptist Church, neighbors discovered Kelly Hunt on his back next to a bicycle, his RIFT: Murder victim Kelly Hunt (second from left) flashes gang signs next to Isaac Jimenez (far right), mouth moving but no words who is accused of murdering him. coming out. A passing UPS driver stopped to give CPR, and paramedics cut through Hunt’s sweatshirt present. They and a few others all reportedly to reach four bullet wounds in his chest, but left the party to play football at Ortega Park Emergency Room doctors pronounced him but headed under the Santa Barbara High School bleachers to drink beer when it started dead soon after he arrived at the hospital.

It took police six months to arrest Hunt’s to rain. When the group returned, Hunt was alleged killers, Eastside gang members Joseph no longer with them. During the case’s preCastro, 22, and Isaac Jimenez, 25, who have liminary hearing back in October 2013, detecbeen in jail since and are now on trial. SWAT tives claimed Hunt had voiced threats against teams took Castro into custody at a Cook Eastside gang members and was killed in Avenue home. Jimenez was tracked down retaliation. and apprehended in Washington State. The The motive for the shooting has not yet pair face life in prison without parole, and been explored in trial, which is moving at their jury trial is expected to conclude by the an exceedingly slow pace due to an unprecend of January. So far, defense attorneys have edented amount of evidence in the case — seized on discrepancies in eyewitness testi- 170,000 pages of printed documents, lengthy monies — which described the two fleeing wiretap recordings, and numerous photos subjects as young Latino men with shaved and computer files. In an unusual move, the heads — and sought to discredit informants. entire jury was taken on a walking tour of the They have also alluded to tensions between murder scene and surrounding area.

Hunt and Ventura gang members right before Last week, one of Hunt’s relatives appeared his death. on the stand. He explained Hunt sometimes Hunt’s murder came at a time when Santa helped his mother, who was present in the Barbara authorities were voicing serious courtroom, with her housecleaning business, concerns that the Mexican Mafia was exert- and that Hunt was “one of his best friends.” ing increased power and influence over city It was revealed that the relative, who has his street gangs. There would be seven attempted own criminal record, told detectives shortly murders in the eight months following the after the murder he had reason to believe shooting, and a high number of gun- and Castro and Jimenez wanted to kill Hunt. drug-related arrests. A top gang leader was When asked by lead prosecutor Kim Siegal if sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping and he had previously understood Jimenez to be a extortion. The city’s proposed gang injunc- good friend of Hunt’s, the relative responded tion had its day in court, too, though it was pointedly,“I thought so.” He also told Siegal he was uncomfortable on the stand as there is a ultimately struck down.

Hunt himself was a known gang mem- “code” within gang culture to not cooperate ber. He belonged to Ventura’s Midtown gang, with law enforcement. a skinhead group with white supremacist Shortly thereafter, Jimenez’s defense attorties, and often carried a gun. Hunt, a k a ney, Ilan Funke-Bilu, asked the relative if he “Thumper,” was also involved with a smaller was “mad-dogging” his client. The relative subset of Midtown called the Crazy Winos. sneered at Funke-Bilu, and claimed ignoBoth groups are linked to sales of metham- rance. After a few more tense exchanges, phetamine and heroin. The Midtown gang, Siegal objected to the argumentative tone police have said, recently realigned itself with of Funke-Bilu’s questioning. During further the Sureños, a Southern California Latino cross-examination, Castro’s defense attorney, gang that holds sway over Santa Barbara’s Michael Hanley, asked the relative about the Eastsiders. Jimenez was reportedly an associ- term “green light” and what it means in “gang parlance.” The relative claimed he did not ate member of Midtown.

Witnesses gave testimony during the trial know. Typically, police have said, the term that the night he was killed, Hunt, 21, had is used when a gang orders someone killed. attended the birthday party of an Eastside The trial has recessed for the holidays and gang member. Castro and Jimenez were also is scheduled to resume January 4, 2016. n

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Accompanied by her lawyer and father, a former UCSB student announced 12/17 at a press conference at the Fess Parker DoubleTree Resort that she has filed a federal complaint against the UC Regents. Hayley Moore claims UCSB failed to investigate her sexual assault last school year by a fellow UCSB student, even after Moore reported the incident to multiple campus officials. She is suing for damages, civil penalties, and attorneys’ fees, among other costs. San Diego–based attorney Alexander Zalkin, who specializes in sexualabuse cases, represents Moore.

A 19-year-old UCSB student was suspended for two quarters after she was accused of cheating on a calculus final last winter quarter. The third-year chemistry major, who is identified only as Jane Doe, has since taken her campus Judicial Affairs case to Santa Barbara County Superior Court, claiming the university denied her due process. Doe is represented by Los Angeles–based attorney Mark Hathaway, who contended the school’s justification for suspension is solely based on “weird” stylistic similarities in some test answers.

Last week, Judge Colleen Sterne threw out a wrongful-death lawsuit filed on behalf of the family of 24-year-old Jordan Soto, who died nearly two years ago of a medical emergency. The lawsuit against the City of Santa Barbara, California Highway Patrol, the state’s Public Safety Communications, among others, alleged a misrouted 9-1-1 phone call contributed to delays and cost Soto her life. The lawsuit alleged the family member gave their accurate address but the wrong one was ultimately relayed to first responders, who spent about 20 minutes looking for the incorrect location. In her ruling, Sterne found that, according to government code, a public employee “is not liable based upon an exercise of discretion.”

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Capps’s announcement was hardly unexpected, and within minutes, Santa Barbara Mayor Helene Schneider and County Supervisor Salud Carbajal—cardcarrying Democrats and political kissing cousins on the issues — quickly found themselves engaged in a do-or-die fight to the finish in this June’s upcoming primary.

By contrast, the battle among Republicans —Assemblymember Katcho Achadjian and Justin Fareed—seems a more muted affair.

Rather than risk all but certain courtroom defeat, the City of Santa Barbara embraced district elections as an antidote to the racially polarized outcomes of the past 40 years. In this November’s race, more Latinos ran for office and more won

than any time since 1850.

The County Board of Supervisors, likewise, is looking at big changes. Not only is Carbajal stepping down after two terms to run for Congress, but Assemblymember Das Williams—termed out in Sacramento —is already running for his 1st District seat against Jennifer Christensen.

The sleeper event of the year was Supervisor Doreen Farr’s announcement that she too was stepping down. Farr, a quiet, moderate liberal, represents the politically strategic and divided 3rd District. Whoever represents the 3rd dictates the balance of power on a board still riven by north-south affiliations. Running to fill Farr’s shoes is her planning commissioner, Joan Hartmann, and financial planner Bruce Porter.

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his is the pivotal question of the 2016 presidential campaign, five weeks before the first votes are

cast: Will Donald Trump’s legion of choleric, non-college-educated citizens turn out in great enough numbers to convert his astonishing dominance in the polls to the ballot box?

The 69-year-old demagogue, real estate developer, and reality TV star so far has confounded the Beltway’s battalion of conventional wisdom peddlers by commanding the Republican field with an ultra-nationalistic campaign message combining xenophobia, jingoism, and bullyboy bluster.

At a time when Hillary Clinton remains the favorite over the insurgency of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders among Democrats, Trump scares the bejesus out of establishment GOP conservatives, who fear his inflammatory immigrant-bashing, warmongering, and authoritarian belligerence will damage their party for decades.

Three key factors have shaped Trump’s success to date, 2015’s top political story, and will determine whether he prevails in 2016: EDUCATION: Trump’s current lead arises from America’s least-educated registered voters. Among Republicans without college degrees, he captured 46 percent in a recent CNN survey, consistent with a raft of similar research. Just 12 percent favored Texas Senator Ted Cruz, 11 percent evangelical neurosurgeon Ben Carson, and 8 percent Florida Senator Marco Rubio.

By contrast, the race among GOP voters with college degrees is close: 22 percent favor Cruz and 19 percent Rubio and Carson, while Trump lags at 18 percent. This so-called “diploma divide” illustrates the depth of working-class anger at Washington’s establishment; it’s important because non-college graduates historically are less likely to vote than those with degrees.

“Trump’s support for the Republican nomination is not defined by ideology or age or gender,” said CNN analyst William Schneider. “It’s defined by education.”

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PHMSA did not return a request for the current number of vacant positions by our press deadline.

What’s more, PHMSA is drastically behind in updating its rules. In 2014, the agency failed to meet its deadline to do so after it was instructed to start the process in 2010 following a number of incidents across the nation. After the Refugio Oil Spill, Congressmember Lois Capps introduced a measure to set aside funds to finalize the pipeline rules.

In October, the pipeline agency released several proposed changes, such as requiring leak-detection systems for all new hazardous liquid lines and requiring more frequent pipeline inline inspections in areas not designated as environmentally sensitive.

Earlier this month, the Santa Barbara county supervisors said the proposal fell short. Among many changes, they suggested the rules should broaden the definition of areas deemed ecologically sensitive. In addition, the supervisors insisted automatic shutoff systems be required for liquid pipelines, noting that the Plains pipeline is the only one in the county without such safety technology and that having shutoffs could have minimized the spill’s “substantial environmental damage.” They suggested the system should automatically shut down the source of oil upon 15 percent deviation from normal operating parameters and should include an alarm that notifies the operator at 10 percent deviation to prevent a potential leak.

When asked exactly how responsive PHMSA has been to county officials, Planning & Development Director Glenn Russell expressed cautious opti‘A sMAll RiveR of oil’ mism. “It is my impression that they are very seriOn the day of the spill, 18 emergency responders, ously listening to what we have to say,” he said.“The managers, and oil-industry workers happened to be spill was a very significant event on the national gathered at the county fire station at Gaviota for an scene.”

In fact, high-ranking PHMSA officials personally annual oil-spill drill. Responding to calls, the entire came out to meet with county officials on at least group, including Plains workers, rushed to Refugio YECH: Refugio Beach and surrounding areas were a sticky mess right three occasions. There were dozens of conference State Beach, where confused firefighters scrambled after the spill and in the days following. calls between the two agencies, according to county to find the source.

It would be fire engineer Chris Olmstead who planner Matt Young. “They were very responsive first saw a glint of black on the hillside about a half-mile California has already adopted three new laws address- where they could be,” he said, noting limitations presented away. He recalled “a small river of oil flowing down and ing prevention and inspection of pipelines as a direct result by the ongoing investigation. Earlier this month, Plains’s dropping down into the ocean.” of the Plains spill. One was introduced by Assemblymem- Line 903—which connected to the ruptured pipeline—was Crossing the freeway, the group found a wet pool of crude, ber Das Williams; two were introduced by State Senator successfully purged of crude that had been sitting idle since roughly 20 by 50 feet, spilling into a concrete culvert that Hannah-Beth Jackson.

PHMSA ordered it shut down nine days after the spill. ran under Highway 101. Two Plains workers were already No oil spill fits the mold of one contingency plan. The Environmental Defense Center Chief Counsel Linda there, making cell phone calls. Though a Plains operator in dynamic between locals highly protective of the Gaviota Krop noted that changes already adopted at the state level Midland, Texas, had shut down the pipeline at 11:30 a.m., Coast—rich in ecological diversity—and the federal agents could be used as a crowbar to influence national regulators. a company representative in Bakersfield did not report hailing from out of the area demonstrated that even the best Specifically, changes compel the State Fire Marshal to inspect the location coordinates and estimate spill volume to the plans are only as efficient as the human beings employing pipelines annually, require the state’s Office of Spill PrevenNational Response Center (NRC) until 2:56 p.m., according them. But the plans and regulations in place lacked teeth. tion and Response (OSPR) to expedite processes, and oblige to federal records. County fire personnel made reports of pipelines in ecologically sensitive areas to be equipped with the best leak-detection technologies, including automatic unknown oil on the beach and in the water multiple times chANGe beginning at 12:43 p.m. At 2:07 p.m., fire officials reported Line 901 was the only oil pipeline in Santa Barbara County shutoff valves. not regulated by the county’s Energy Division, and, not coinAt a recent Christmas party, Capps bumped into Fred the oil was coming from a Plains pipeline.

Meanwhile, the firefighters built a dirt dam, stopping cidentally, the only pipeline not equipped with an automatic Upton, a Republican who chairs the Energy & Commerce an estimated 4,200 gallons from pouring into the ocean. shutoff valve. The pipeline was overseen by the small, notori- Committee. Upton had a much larger spill— spill nearly 1 milThe oil flowed into late afternoon. “It’s a long piece of pipe,” ously understaffed federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials lion gallons leaked—in his district in Michigan in 2010.

Safety Administration.

Capps and Upton, who are both leaving Congress after this Vanderzwaag said.“It’s a lot to drain out.”

Line 901’s interstate designation (meaning it crosses state term, have pledged pipeline safety will be their key mission TippiNG The scAles boundaries) dates back to its original construction. It was this year. Capps said she will work with the committee to The extent that the Refugio Oil Spill will make a difference intended to connect to energy infrastructure traveling to draft legislation to ensure national standards are written to in the prevention and response to manmade disasters will refineries in Texas, but it’s unclear if the pipeline ever trans- reflect the urgency. “While I do think that the Plains spill become clearer in 2016. But synopses thus far indicate Santa ferred oil out of state. Today, the pipeline terminates in Kern contributed to the national dialogue on the need for stronger pipeline-safety standards,” Capps said, “it has been one Barbara beaches were not contaminated in vain. It appears County. the obscure agency known as PHMSA, which stands for PHMSA, whose workers are known to jump ship for part of a much larger conversation that requires us to come Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, higher-paying, private-sector jobs, was pushed by Congress together to address the immediate need for improvements is poised to enact tougher restrictions on pipeline operators earlier this year to hire an additional 109 inspectors. As of in pipeline regulation.” n July, 58 positions were still vacant. A spokesperson with such as Plains. ne sunny Tuesday this May, Santa Barbara County Fire Captain Craig Vanderzwaag found himself tracking down the source of an overwhelming stench reported near Highway 101 and Refugio. He and two firefighters would trace the fumes to the nearby beach, where they were shocked to find black waves crashing on the shore.

The May 19 event would become known to Santa Barbara and the nation as the Refugio Oil Spill.

The rupture of the now-infamous Line 901 leaked an estimated 140,000 gallons of crude, with 21,000 gallons washing into the Pacific Ocean. State wildlife workers would eventually collect 202 dead birds, 65 live ones, 99 dead mammals — including 15 dolphins — and 63 live mammals. Among the animals collected, 69 pelicans, sea lions, loons, and others would later be freed.

As the U.S. relies more on domestic crude oil, it’s no coincidence there have been more spills. Plains All American Pipeline, the oil transportation company responsible for the spill at Refugio, has been ranked fifth in “spill incidents” by the U.S. Department of Transportation with its 175 spills in the past decade. Of those, half were 215 gallons or less. The executives of the multibillion-dollar company, operating 16,000 miles of pipelines in America, could face misdemeanor charges for negligence in Refugio. Separate class-action and civil lawsuits have been filed.

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SHARE THE ROAD wiTH SANTA: It’s become

fashionable in some political circles to bemoan the so-called war on Christmas.

Should this conflict play out anything like the war on drugs, poverty, cancer, or terror, I’d say Christmas—even when euphemistically referred to as “the holidays”—has clearly won.

In Santa Barbara, by contrast, we fought our jihad against Christmas 15 years ago, and, I regret to report, Santa Claus was tarred and feathered, exiled ignominiously to Oxnard, and subsequently strafed by a carload of driveby shooters, no doubt in the throes of youthful exuberance. I am referring to the 18-foot-high papier-mâché Santa Claus figure that for 52 blissful years loomed large over Santa Claus Lane as one of the most gleeful expressions of unrepentant tac-o-rama and roadside kitsch west of the Mississippi. Santa—along with an equally garish Frosty the Snowman —qualified as genuine landmarks for car-bound families on road trips, alerting them they were passing by Rick and Pat McKeon’s outlandish North Pole amusement park, replete with petting zoos, miniature train rides, and more date shakes than one could stir a straw in. By 2000, Santa Claus Lane found itself in the throes of a Guccification effort, and Jolly St. Nick was impeding the progress of property values. Despite valiant efforts by preservationists—the figure constituted a “vestigial remnant of the American roadside vernacular,” they explained—the Powers-that-Be decreed Santa had to go. It was a commercial road sign,

they sniffed, not even architecture. Even King Herod would have been kinder. In 2002, the eviction orders were executed, and Santa Claus was relocated to the digs of a private Oxnard water company where he forlornly watches over the freeway.

I dredge up this ancient history because where Santa Claus is concerned, the Powersthat-Be are intent on adding insult to injury.

They are quietly trying to snuff out what’s known as “The Santa Claus Lane bike path” before the plan’s ink has dried. To the extent there’s a villain involved, it’s Caltrans and that agency’s my-way-is-the-highway quest to widen the freeway from Santa Barbara to Carpinteria. Naturally. All roads, after all, lead to Highway 101.

Even by my standards, this may be a stretch. But it’s Christmas, so I’m entitled. To widen the freeway, Caltrans must first widen two Carpinteria bridges that span Highway 101, one by Linden Avenue, the other

by Casitas Pass. Naturally, Caltrans wanted to install mondo-gargantuan, industrialscale bridges, and naturally these mortally offended the Mayberry-style sensibilities of all card-carrying Carpinterians. In a tour de force of bureaucratic evasion, denial, and double-speak, Caltrans managed to ratify an environmental impact report decreeing there were no adverse “impacts” to the project, even though the document detailed how the newand-improved bridges would inflict serious damage to two nearby creeks and also can-

nibalize eight acres of farmland. Normally these two non-impacts are deal killers. But because these adverse consequences were not officially designated as “impacts,” Caltrans was not legally required to mitigate anything.

In a token concession to reality, however, the report concluded that these nonexistent impacts could and should be addressed at a later date when the Carpinteria City Council makes the necessary changes to the city’s Local Coastal Plan to allow the bridge widening—and freeway widening—to proceed.

When the bridge project got to the Coastal Commission, the Kommissars du Koast concluded that Caltrans should build two new and relatively tiny stretches of Class I bike lanes along the coast, which, combined, would plug major gaps in bike access along the coast.

One of these lanes would begin at Santa Claus Lane and run to Carpinteria Avenue in downtown Carpinteria. The other would run from downtown Carpinteria to Rincon Point. These two new lanes would connect the dots to form a new bikeway spanning about five miles; it would also provide cyclists and pedestrians infinitely safer and vastly more scenic routes than they have now. By connecting with coastal bike routes that already exist, they’d also allow cyclists to ride all the way from UCSB to Mussel Shoals. In other words, it’s a very big deal.

In fact, the Kommissars thought these bike lanes were such a big hairy deal that they decreed the lanes had to be built before the bridge-widening project could even commence. The bike lanes, they admitted, are not cheap. But lack of funding, they insisted in

fine print inserted into their ruling, would not constitute an acceptable excuse for Caltrans to renege on the deal. Guess what? Caltrans is already reneging.

Last month, the Carpinteria City Council convened to ratify the Local Coastal Plan changes needed for the bike lanes to be built, the bridge expansions to take place, and eventually for the freeway widening to occur. At that meeting, representatives from Caltrans made it clear they regarded the bike lanes as the City of Carpinteria’s “pet project.” It was decidedly not, they insisted, part of their own project. And because of this, the Caltrans reps made clear, they were not financially obligated in any way, shape, or form where the bike lanes were concerned. What they didn’t say is,“Hope you got kissed because you sure got screwed.” They didn’t have to.

Caltrans has problems of its own. The freeway-widening project is slated to cost $450 million. Santa Barbara voters authorized bonds in 2008—in the form of Measure A —to the tune of $140 million. Other transportation taxes that normally go to area road-improvement projects were cannibalized to the tune of $135 million. That means Caltrans is roughly $200 million in the hole where funding for the freeway widening is concerned. I sympathize. I even empathize.

But asking Carpinteria to pony up the funds to mitigate the negative environmental impacts created by Caltrans is kind of like expecting someone to pay out of pocket for all the wonderful Christmas presents they get. Bah, humbug! But Merry Christmas.

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Ronald Dean Nelson passed peacefully in his sleep from complications of lung cancer Wed., December 9, 2015, at Serenity House at the age of 71. Ronnie was born in Kansas January 26, 1944, and moved to Santa Barbara with his family as a young child. He attended Washington Elementary, La Cumbre Jr. High, and Santa Barbara High School.

Ronnie spent most of his younger days surfing, was a member of Santa Barbara Surf Club and spent many of his years surfing Hollister Ranch in the 1960s. Ronnie was an accomplished surfer, loved the ocean, and enjoyed visiting friends at the “The Pit” and playing with his loving dog “Scooter.” Ronnie is survived by his mother Betty, sister Patricia, children Dennis, Joy, Janel, Elaina, Josh, 6 grandchildren, and 1 great-grandchild. A memorial will be announced for family and friends at a later date. Ron’s family would like to thank the staff at both Serenity House and Cottage Hospital for providing his life with amazing comfort and care during his last phase of life.

Joyce McDavid Douglas 1921-2015

Joyce McDavid Douglas, a longtime resident of Santa Barbara, died peacefully in her sleep on November 8, 2015, in Montara, CA. Her daughter Ara and son Alex were at her side. She was 94 years old. An exceptionally bright child, Joyce was skipped twice during elementary school and started high school at 12. An honors student throughout, she graduated from Lincoln (IL) Community High School, where she was a four-year member of the National Honor Society and the Debate Club, and spent three years on the staff of the school’s magazine,“The Railsplitter.” She was a charter member of the school’s chapter of the Quill and Scroll (an international honorary society for high school journalists), a three-year member of the Home Economics Club, and a fouryear member of the Glee Club, for which she earned a varsity letter. Her post-HS interest was to go to college and study art and, although she was quite good at it, the idea was squashed, first by her father who thought it frivolous and then by the sudden obligation to run the household when her mother’s doctor ordered a year’s bedrest due to a weak heart. Three years later, she married for the first time and then attended Lincoln College for a year while he served 16

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abroad in World War II. Decades later she enrolled in several courses at Santa Barbara City College. Joyce (aka Mommy) first came to Santa Barbara with her two little girls in February 1953 to marry William A.“Bill” McDavid and adopt his three daughters.

They were introduced by Joyce’s best friend who had worked as a housekeeper for Mr. McDavid while her own husband was stationed at Camp Cooke (now Vandenberg AFB). What started in June 1952 with a halfdozen letters of mutual interests and comradery turned into a whirlwind courtship five months later when the military couple — passing through town again on their way to yet another assignment — told Bill that they thought he and Joyce should consider marriage. When he broached the idea, Joyce responded enthusiastically — and the letters increased exponentially. With the exception of two phone calls, one telegram, a couple of holiday cards, a birthday card, and an exchange of photos, the entire courtship took place via 128 handwritten letters. To make a long story short, by mid-February, Joyce had trained a replacement, put her little house on the market, shipped multiple boxes and, with her daughters in tow, boarded the train to meet her husband-tobe and his daughters for the first time. Arriving on a Thursday, they were married on Saturday. Somewhere in his letters, Bill had said he hoped she had a sense of adventure.

Little did she know how soon the next one would come. The following January, thanks to a promising job offer, they all moved to a tiny two-bedroom house in Kodiak, Alaska!

And then, only eight months later, due to a problematic work environment and promising new offer, they moved to Alton, Illinois.

That adventure, which included the birth of their son, lasted a year and a half, before they returned to Santa Barbara in May 1956. While in Alton they learned that the erratic boss in Alaska had died from a brain tumor and then, back in Santa Barbara, they learned that the struggling small college in Alton had gone bankrupt and closed. An accomplished and award-winning poet, Joyce was a longtime member of the California Federation of Chaparral Poets. She won their first place award in 1971 for her poem, “Sunflower.” In 1986, she won their Roadrunner-Up trophy for “Ariana at Eighteen.”

She was also published in the Christian Science Monitor and Capper’s Weekly, among many others. In addition, she wrote hundreds of poems acknowledging or honoring family and friends on special occasions. A member of the First Christian Church of Santa Barbara for nearly 60 years, she served in almost every role available, including alto in the choir, elder, historian, Poet Laureate, and Sunday school teacher. Professionally, she held numerous jobs, eventually retiring in 1983 after 18 years as a secretary within the district offices of the Goleta Union School District.

After Bill McDavid died in 1973, Joyce started a new adventure when she met and fell in love with another native son, Walt Douglas. They wed in 1975 and were married for just shy of 39 years. During that time they were active in many groups and activities, including The Westerners and the Arlington Theater Organ restoration.

The oldest child of Carl W. Smith, a WWI marine who became a school teacher and principal, and the former Leota Mae Gibbs, a lifelong member of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), Joyce is survived by her sister, Madeline Arenson, daughters Ehrin Abram, Ara McDavid Fancher Croce (Rich), Marianne Daughety, Marcia McDavid, and son Alex McDavid, as well as Walt’s children, Dudley, Aaron (Darlene), and Jena Douglas. She also loved and leaves a cornucopia of grandchildren, a plethora of great-grandchildren, three

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great-great-grandchildren, and a bounty of nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husbands, William A. McDavid and Walter C. Douglas, her brother Carl Smith Jr., daughter Cathy McDavid Barrett, granddaughter Tomi Bortolazzo, and stepdaughter Kim Douglas. A memorial service will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, January 9, 2016, at the First Christian Church, 1915 Chapala St., Santa Barbara, CA. A reception will follow at Harry’s Plaza Café. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to either the Memorial Fund at the First Christian Church, or to her hospice provider, Pathways Health, by using the online option at pathwayshealth.org or by printing out the donor form on the website and sending it to Pathways Foundation, 585 N. Mary Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94085.

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Frank is survived by his wife and soulmate, Mary. His children, Frank and Stephanie (Charlie), sister, Shelby. His five grandchildren: Ashley, Savannah, Gianna, Charlie “Nobie,” and Trevor. His sister-in law, Beverly (Dwight). Brother-in-Jaw, Bill (Becky).

His nieces Erin and Karl. Nephews Shawn and Brian as well as his close friend Larry.

Frank left a remarkable impression among friends, family colleagues, and acquaintances. Frank worked at Cottage Hospital in the Blood Bank laboratory for 26 years.

Many of his students would come to Frank for fatherly advice; he was truly a loving Kentucky Gentleman.

Frank is deeply missed. Not a day goes by without fond memories of the wonderful years we spent together. His legacy of friendship, compassion and his lust for life will live on forever in our hearts.

Doris Thome

Doris Thome passed away in November 2015. Born In Chicago, she spent her twentyyear marriage on the move. Each of her five children was born in a new location. In 1972 Doris settled in Santa Barbara, became a nurse and found her niche. She left Cottage Hospital for an even more challenging career, that of a hospice nurse. Then years of hospice nursing gave Doris insight into her patient’s deepest thoughts. From lavish lifestyles to inner-city hovels, she received a gift of unimaginable layer. Death is a varied, intimate and as full of wonder as is life. Retirement led to new avenues; writing was one. Recalling her hospice patients, her charges nagged at her to get it right. Twelve years in the making produced her personal journey.“My Way: Reckoning with Medical Death,” was completed in 2015.

Doris was a worker bee; she learned gardening working next to her mother and has never stopped loving it. Working at the age of thirteen, she discovered her strengths: handling money, helping people, designing and sewing her own clothes and anything artistic. She credits her parents for she inherited many of their strengths. Doris is survived by her five children, their offspring and numerous great-grandchildren as well as her only sister.

Kenji Ota

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Ken Ota was the first in Santa Barbara County to teach kids and teens!

• Judo – Bully Proof at Dojo 1964 • Social Dance and Manners in Miye’s beauty shop 1960 • Junior League Social Dance and Etiquette 17 yrs (with Miye) • Debutante Ball – Instructed fathers and daughters how to : Bow, Curtsy, escort, promenade, waltz, etc. (with Miye) • Judo UCSB produced Black Belts tested

by Ms. Fukuda (highest ranked USA) • Annual Women’s Judo Camp in USA. Participants from Hawaii, Alaska, Canada, Japan, USA, UCSB. Hosted Aikido/Ki with Tohei Sensei from Japan 2yrs.

• Aikido/Ki Seminars UCSB • Introduced Ballroom Dancing and competitions to colleges & universities.

Started at UCSB. Sensei’s dance parties at the dojo no alcohol, drugs or smoking. They had a great time meeting people & practicing dancing with everyone.

• Learned to be Ladies and Gentlemen (dance too) They dressed up & looked good.

• 1st Aikido/Ki training videos used by students, law enforcements agencies, & teachers of other martial arts They can still hear Sensei’s voice saying don’t be afraid to make mistakes, never give up, and “ yes I can!” Kenji gave many scholarships & discounts to help kids & big kids.

A Japanese farmer’s son, born in Lompoc overcame a disability (rheumatic heart), survived the Internment Camp in the desert (Arizona) tolerated prejudice to excel and share his knowledge. Ken worked and studied hard, also practiced over and over to be the best in every art he taught.

He shared his knowledge and encouraged the young or older students to do the best in whatever they do.

Thank you, Sensei No flowers or potluck. Please donate for the dojo roof fund.

Thank you from the Dojo members.

Dana Marie O’Neill 1958-2015

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Winifred Gage Bennett “Winni” b. Jan. 28, 1924 d. Dec. 14, 2015. She died peacefully in her home surrounded by family & friends.

She is proceeded in death by Robert E Bennett & their son Daniel, survived by her sister Margie & Lloyd (deceased) and family, her children Maria, Bobby, Joanne (Neil), John (DeeAnna) & Mark, 5 grandchildren Athena (Kevin), Christina, Alex, Dustin (Anna), and Francis-Blue. Winni will be truly missed.

There will be a Mass at Mount Carmel on Dec. 26, at 1pm and there will be a gathering at the family Abode following.

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Obituary: Memorial Celebration of Sensei Kenji Ota’s Colorful Life. Honorable Teacher of Aikido with Ki, Judo, Dance 1923 - 2015.

Passed November 10, 2015.

Memorial: January 16 at the Dojo 255 Magnolia Avenue, Goleta, CA 93117.

Memorial: 3:00 pm Service. Remembering what Sensei said or did to motivate and inspire confidence and poise.

Dinner: 6:30 pm R.S.V.P. email otaztoy@ yahoo.com, (805) 636-8290 Dance: 8:00 pm under 2 crystal chandeliers. Sensei will be there (in spirit and in our hearts) proudly watching.

Ken Sensei was So. Cal. Ballroom Dance Champion. Danced on TV + contests danced with Shiela Sloan (Ballroom Dance Champion Great Britain + USA) His teacher.

U.S.A. Martial Arts Hall of Fame 2004 (exciting performance by his students at his induction dinner) Was champion for Girls and Ladies.

Encouraged them to be as good or better than men. In some professions or business.

Too young. Too full of life. Our dearest, sweet, beautiful, intelligent, zestful, restless, caring, indefatigable, force-of-nature Dana Marie O’Neill was pulled from our arms on the rain-soaked evening of December 13th.

The foe was breast cancer, an adversary she had seemingly vanquished over the course of an eight-year battle, but one that recurred two years ago and to which she finally succumbed at the youthful age of 57.

Over the span of her bustling life, Dana accomplished more than most can even dream. Hailing from Santa Cruz and San Jose, she migrated south to attend UCSB, graduating with a degree in psychology.

After college, Dana moved to Steamboat Springs, where she led whiney packs of troubled teens out for weeks at a time through the Colorado Rockies. There in those rugged climes she became a proficient kay kayaker, fearless climber and expert skier, and developed something of an insatiable lust

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f you can’t follow directions and do the job, as a presidential hopeful would say: “You’re fired”! Alice Gleghorn, the head bureaucrat at county Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health Services (ADMHS), seems again to be stuck at the five-yard line not knowing how to run, pass, or kick [independent.com/herdingquail].

Santa Barbara County is finally on the cusp of developing an all-encompassing master plan for our society’s most vulnerable, the mentally ill. Law enforcement is addressing “jail-cell therapy” and proposing new housing and allocation of beds for this segment of the incarcerated. But ADMHS continues to resist implementing Laura’s Law, regardless that 15 other counties already have. It’s like rotating a bald tire. ADMHS’s existing policies and practices don’t work, and never will.

The day I walk downtown and do not encounter the same wretched souls that I have met for the last 25 years will be the day we have sealed the crack they’ve been falling through their whole life. Santa Barbara is better — Jeff Ross, S.B. than this.

Move It On Over

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he Planning Commission is moving toward eradicating all on-street parking on the four blocks of Micheltorena Street between State and Castillo streets.

I am a business owner at Micheltorena near Chapala Street. There is no available nearby off-street parking, and many of my clients are disabled, making it especially crucial that they have a nearby and convenient means of parking. Businesses on this street will suffer significant financial losses if this plan is implemented.

The city could add a new stoplight on Sola Street (to make the street safer for bicyclists) and move the planned bike lane one block down. That block has no businesses that use on-street parking. I believe the many businesses and our patrons on Micheltorena can peaceably coexist with this plan as long as it doesn’t eliminate the already very limited parking available on Micheltorena Street.

— Jennifer Larsen, S.B.

Paris Matters to S.B.

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he COP21 climate talks in Paris resulted in a historic moment in the fight against climate change.

For the first time, the world’s countries have agreed to act and to be held accountable, sending a clear signal that citizens and governments worldwide are ready to move to a clean-energy economy. For Santa Barbara County — which has seen the amount of rooftop solar double in the last three years — an accelerated transition to clean energy is good news. But these transitions by no means mark the end of the climate crisis.

Even if all pledges are met by all 196 countries that submitted plans, the world is still headed toward 2.73.5°C of warming. This is well above the 2°C maximum that most scientists say will prevent the worst impacts of climate change.

Much of the actual work to build more efficient buildings, design more bike-friendly neighborhoods, and support more climate-friendly agriculture will take place at the regional level. The tasks that lie ahead are not just to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions but also to explore how to sequester existing emissions and prepare our coastal and inland communities for climate-related disruptions. [Read the full version at independent.com/opinions.]

— Sigrid Wright,

cont’D along a meandering, eighteen-month solo trip through Central and South America wherein she immersed herself in the Brazilian Mardi Gras, got robbed at knifepoint in Rio, hitched boat rides with indigenous people up to the headwaters of the Amazon, and got utterly lost in the flooded rainforest for several days, taking shelter from a downpour in an abandoned lean-to before being found and led to safety by shepherds.

She then pushed further south to Patagonia, then back north along the Andes where she was the only woman on two climbing expeditions, each summiting peaks of over 20,000 feet. Later she crawled through the centuries-old, unmapped silver mines of Potosi, paying her guide in the local currency of coca leaves and dynamite. In Ecuador she came close to dying of pneumonia in a dank traveler’s hovel but, once recovered and reinvigorated, pushed overland through the murderous region of Medellin, trudged north up the unpaved isthmus of the Darien Gap, parked for a few months to hone her Spanish skills in Guatemala, then went on to Mexico where a rip current dragged her out into heavy Pacific surf and nearly drowned her. She survived by mustering a harrowing swim to shore during which she vowed to settle down and return home, which she promptly did only to run out of gas en route in a rental car at 2:00 a.m. in South Central L.A. She moved back to Santa Barbara in 1991, adding to her scholastic résumé an MFCC degree from Cal State Northridge and writing her thesis on—what else?—wilderness therapy. After working as a translating mediator for Ventura County Superior Court, she repurposed her skills into a successful real estate career here in Santa Barbara. Then, in 1997 she married her longtime and patient fiancé and promptly launched headlong into the next phase of her adventurous life by giving birth to her two sons—verily the joys of her life—who she then began dragging along on her seemingly endless secession of further adventures including Canada, Mexico, Kenya, and even an arduous climb up to the top of Half Dome, and all in just the past year.

Dana is survived by her mother and father Beverly and Bill O’Neill, siblings Rory, Kirk and Steve, uncle Jack O’Neill, cousins Janis, Bill and Rio Spicer, husband Robert Johnson, and sons Luke and Dane Johnson O’Neill, as well as an expansive bevy of friends and admirers and fellow “Burners” the world ’round. A memorial service is scheduled for January 23rd in Skofield Park.

In Dana’s own inimitable words,“It’s a short spin on a little blue ball.” By which she meant, don’t squander it!

Joan Margaret Petersen 07/12/24-12/09/15

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¶ In the Family Nature Day listed in The Week under December 20 last week, we inadvertently included a December 22 educational event about winter solstice that was canceled.

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Santa Barbara resident Joan Margaret Petersen, 91, died Dec. 9, 2015, at Serenity House hospice from complications of a stomach disorder.

Joan had a gift for making friends out of strangers and taking people in need under her wing. She was admired for her optimism, humor, Christian faith and outgoing nature. She particularly loved her home, grandchildren (who called her Nana) and

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Joan was an only child born July 12, 1924, in Sale, Cheshire, England, to David (b. Kilmarnoch, Scotland) and Jessie Sharp (b. Liverpool). She was raised and educated in England. In her youth she was athletic and a standout high jumper with Olympic aspirations. During World War II, Joan was employed as a secretary at Brasenose College, University of Oxford. She also did volunteer war-effort work. Her primary mode of transportation was bicycle (“riding 16 miles each way in the rain”).

She met the love of her life, Robert T. Petersen (Bob) of Santa Barbara, a lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Corps, on a blind date in London. Joan’s war bride story is an exceptionally romantic one and a highlight of her memoirs, entitled “I’ve Been Thinking.”

Joan married Bob in Santa Barbara on March 23, 1947, a month after arriving in New York City on the Queen Elizabeth. (“The worst Atlantic crossing in 50 years, with towering waves crashing over the ship.”) Bob met her in New York, and they flew together to California on a prop plane.

Joan and Bob settled in Santa Barbara and raised three daughters — a librarian, an elementary schoolteacher and a journalist. Joan became a U.S. citizen but kept her accent. In conversation, she made liberal use of British idioms. Ask her age? “As old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.” Her maiden name? “Sharp by name but not by nature.” On turning 90,“soldiering on.”

While she occasionally was homesick, she felt blessed to live in “paradise.” Her parents took the opportunity to immigrate and were frequent visitors.

Joan was high-spirited and independently minded. Primarily a homemaker, she also worked outside the home. Her professional accomplishments included administrative assistant to a UCSB professor, an investor and a well-known entertainer. She managed the Lobero Theatre box office and started her own business, the Ticket Bureau of Santa Barbara, specializing in theatrical and sports events. Joan was widowed in 1999.

She was a devoted member of Trinity Lutheran Church, where she participated in a Bible study group, the choir and a home ministry program. She was a playground aide; school choir director and P.T.A. president; a president and lifetime member of the Danish Sisterhood, Lodge No. 165 (honorary Dane by marriage); and a longstanding member of the Santa Barbara Woman’s Club, where she served on the board. She was also a member of Daughters of the British Empire and Soroptomist International, and a volunteer at the Braille Institute.

She enjoyed singing, the theater and acting, travel, lawn bowling, painting and needlepoint, reading and watching the PBS channel. A highly intuitive person, she was skilled at reading tea-leaf fortunes. Despite her English roots, Joan wasn’t much of a gardener.

In recent months, Joan often expressed how much she appreciated her caregiver, Roberta Fell, who she embraced as a sister in spirit.

Joan is survived by her daughters Gail Smith (Allan Smith) of Hopewell, NJ; Lynn Englund (Rob Englund) of Paradise, Calif., and Karen O’Hara of Santa Barbara; six grandchildren, Colin and Imogen Smith, Daniel and Paul Elsen; Mary Clarke and James O’Hara; and two great grandsons who live in Japan.

A Celebration of Life will be held at 2 p.m., Jan. 23, at Trinity Lutheran Church, 909 N. La Cumbre Road. Following a memorial service, we will share stories about Joan’s remarkable life. In lieu of flowers, she asked that donations be made in her memory to her church or a favorite charity.

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Ethan Stewart •

t is sometime past 1 a.m. outside of the Bataclan nightclub in

Paris. The night is crisp and bustling with people, the promise of the coming winter delivered with each biting blow of wind that rattles down the age-old Boulevard Voltaire.

It’s one month to the day that terrorist gunmen stormed the fabled rock-and-roll venue, turning a well-attended Friday-night performance by Palm Desert’s Eagles of Death Metal into a bloodbath of worldwide proportions. Eighty-nine concertgoers were left dead that night; more than 200 were wounded.

And now, outside the club, with a bullet-riddled tour bus still parked front and center along the curb, an impressive impromptu open-air temple to the deceased and the destroyed has taken shape. Waist-deep drifts of floral arrangements, candles, photographs, letters, signs, and assorted other mementos of loss and remembrance paint a complex and very much living mosaic of love — a most messy and anguished and inspiring love.

Overwhelmed, I make my way around the side of the building and down a glowing and narrow cobblestoned alley to the Bataclan’s side door. The scene is awash in that romantic and diffuse yellow-white glow that illuminates the City of Light each day when darkness arrives. It is a light as old as the

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city itself, or so it feels as I run my hands over the building’s thick stucco exterior, my fingers tracing deep and chunked-out bullet holes.

A lone candle and modest bouquet of roses sit by the door. A family of four huddles around it, teary-eyed and whispering things I can only imagine. Time transfigures and folds over itself as I stagger my way through a torrent of confused emotion. I find a wall and lean against it with the raw weight of the world, my own tears not far behind.

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ust hours before, in the converted Le Bourget airport about a nine-mile drive to the north, the most significant and ambitious environmental treaty the world has ever known was ratified. With a simple swing of his gavel right around 7:30 p.m. Paris time, French Foreign Minister and COP21 President Laurent Fabius brought to a close the business end of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (a k a the 21st Conference of the Parties or COP21) — and, with it, the approval of the so-named Paris Agreement, a historic and binding international treaty between nearly 200 countries aimed squarely at the long-term reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions.

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It was the potential for bearing witness to that very moment that motivated my travel to Paris late last month.

Against the advice and furrowed brows of nearly everyone in my life, I, along with photographer and Big Sur native Kodiak Greenwood, boarded a plane just two days after Thanksgiving. As a freshly minted father and realistic citizen of the world, I would be lying if I didn’t admit to my own amount of consternation about making the trip just a few short weeks after the heartbreaking barbarism that rocked France’s capital on November 13. But journalism is what I do, and I’ve long since learned that being afraid never pays off.

More to the point, telling stories about the natural world and the myriad ways we interact with it— it be they beautiful or disastrous or somewhere in between — is what’s motivated my writing for the past decade, so this two-week Earth-minded get-together was

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o with 2015 about to conclude as the warmest year on record here for Planet Earth, just a year after 2014 earned the same distinction, I found myself in Paris, chasing stories for The Santa Barbara Independent. What unfolded over that fortnight was beyond succinct or brief description.

The largest gathering ever of world leaders under one roof marked Day 1, with heads of state from more than 150 nations coming together in a pomp-and-circumstance-rich display of solidarity in taking real action against climate change. To that end, delegates and negotiators from just more than 190 countries along with official UN observers and lobbyists from thousands of ecofocused nongovernment organizations came together with scores of scientists, innumerable amounts of media folk, and hundreds upon hundreds of activists at Le Bourget each day for the rest of the conference’s duration.

Then there was the dizzying swirl of spinoff events and highprofile, celebrity-stacked pro-planet parties and, perhaps best of all, sharply pointed public art installations. The French government, as part of its state of emergency in the wake of the terrorist attacks, put a strict ban on public assembly during COP21. But the voice of the people is paramount in conferences such as this, and their demands and desires were not denied, thanks to efforts of artists big and small.

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ored around the edges with the heavy hand of fear and suffering still echoing from November’s assault on the Western world’s way of life. To be in France, a place steeped in the spirit of revolution, at a time when the man-made death spiral of our planet shared the stage with the wickedness of terrorism and the realities of endless war, was a most arresting and poignant sort of life poetry. It is a verse that will help inform everything that comes next in my life.

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s longtime readers of The Independent may recall, I also covered COP15 from Copenhagen, a gathering of similar scale and import to Paris but one that ended in an absolute dysfunctional failure. The haves of the world simply refused to hear the needs of the world’s have-nots, and the talks quickly descended into a flaming shit show of mistrust, hollow promises, and virtually zero resolve. There was real fear that a similar fate would unfold in Paris. However, by the time the dust settled last week, it was clear the negotiators didn’t let that happen this time around.

Of course, like all successful compromises, the deal that was ultimately brokered was a mixed bag of victories and losses that depend on your vantage point in life. But the Paris Agreement, by any informed measure, is far better than some hoped for and not nearly as bad as most feared.

Could it have done stronger in motivating the world to wean itself of fossil fuel sooner?

Absolutely. But was such an outcome possible when you consider the massive chasm of differences between all the interests huddled around the negotiating table? Unfortunately not.

This is how multilateral, international treaties get done.

There’s been no shortage of both celebration and trepidation since Fabius’s gavel knock heard round the world. But most agree that the Paris Agreement will only reverberate for generations to come if the nations that brokered it trend toward the ambitious end of the plan rather than hide out in the loopholes they created for themselves as part of the process.

“We must enjoy this historic moment, but the hard work has only just begun,” explained the European Union’s chief negotiator and climate commissioner, Miguel Arias Cañete. “What has been promised must now be delivered.”

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will ultimately have a legacy of failure. I could not disagree more — to me, Arias Cañete’s declaration is an open and honest invitation to hope, something that’s desperately needed in these modern times of arrogance, dangerous extremism, and shortsighted brinksmanship. It was in that alley alongside of the Bataclan that I was hit with the hammer of humanity. High on history and unable to sleep, we made our way to that place of such marked tragedy with no real purpose other than to check it out and add our sympathies to the chorus of worldwide caring. I did not expect the experience to bring my entire COP21 journey full circle, casting the long days of history making in a most illuminating light.

But it was there, among the flowers and the tears and the unbridled, high-voltage current of emotion, that I found the higher-altitude view I’d been searching for since landing in Paris. You see, the majority of government leaders who made the trip to Paris to horse22

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I have no doubt that these individual pilgrimages, no matter how brief, reduced these men and (few) women to a place of pure humanism. It’s impossible to be in that space and not feel the deeply tethered ties that bind us all, no matter our economic station or particular national interests. It is a raw and softening thing to which all humans respond and which, I believe, became a catalyst for compromise between those who typically fail to see eye to eye.

Maybe I am alone in saying this, but I suspect the Paris Agreement would have been much weaker had it not been for the

wickedness that transpired throughout Paris on that now infamous Friday the 13th.

The very people charged with finding common ground in the name of our collective greater good were reminded of their fragile and all-connecting humanity in the most primordial of manners just hours before the talks began.

After all, when faced with the seemingly insurmountable or the impossibly dark, hope is the only realistic first step toward a positive outcome. Without it, no journey to a better place is able to begin, let alone be achieved. Hope is what brought us all to Paris, hope is what allowed an agreement to be found, and hope is precisely what will carry us forward into the lifetime of work that awaits. Indeed, it is hope that is at the N heart of our humanity.

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12/24-12/25: Organic Soup Kitchen’s Holiday Gift Wrapping Party and 7th Annual Christmas Dinner Celebrate the holidays and those in need! Volunteers are all welcome to come together and help wrap gifts. Please bring paper, scissors, and a gift to wrap! There will also be tree trimming, holiday decorating, holiday drinks, and food. On Christmas day, the community is welcome to enjoy an authentic Italianstyle Christmas dinner while listening to music by DJ Darla Bea. Santa will also be there, handing out gifts! Thu.: Gift Wrapping Party; noon-2pm; call 886-7427 or visit tinyurl.com/GiftWrappingParty. Fri.: Dinner; noon-3pm. Veterans Memorial Bldg., 112 W. Cabrillo Blvd. Free. Call 886-7427 or visit tinyurl.com/OrganicSoupKitchenHoliday2015.

12/24, 12/30: Preschool Storytime Bring the youngsters into the library for some stories, maybe poetry, or a song. Each storytime has a different theme, but each is a guaranteed good time for all. Sneak away for a little downtime during the holidays.

10:30-11am. Thu.: Carpinteria Library, 5141 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria; 684-4314; Thu., Wed.: Goleta Library, 500 N. Fairview Ave., Goleta; 964-7878. Free.

Ages 3-5. Visit sbplibrary.org.

12/24: Posada Posada is the reenactment of the journey of Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem as they seek shelter for the birth of Jesus. Join in as you journey through town and conclude at the church with a simple carol service and reception. 4-5:30pm.

Fess Parker’s Wine Country Inn, 2860 Grand Ave., Los Olivos.

Free. Call 688-4454 or visit smitv .org.

12/24, 12/26-12/27: 23rd Annual Candy Cane Train It’s your last chance to enjoy the final three days of this festively decorated miniature train! A ticket buys you a ride, a coupon for a future ride, and entrance into the holiday display of Toy Trains and Teddy Bears. Riders must be at least 34

inches tall. Receive a discount and avoid the line by buying your tickets in advance online.

1-4pm. South Coast Railroad Museum, 300 N. Los Carneros Rd., Goleta. $2-$4. Call 964-3540 or visit goletadepot.org.

Friday 12/25 12/25: Family Time at the Jewish Community Center Spend time with family for stories, arts and crafts, music, and dance.

Share challah with your friends and family. 10:30am-11:30am.

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Call 957-1115 or visit jewishsanta barbara.org.

12/28: Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven Known for its uniquely American alt-rock, Americana, insurgent-country sound, Cracker (pictured) will perform in Santa Barbara. Frontman David Lowery will also front Camper Van Beethoven, a rock band that mixes pop, ska, folk, and alt-country. Come see these two bands do what they do best — play live! 8pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. $29.

Call 963-0761 or visit lobero.com.

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saTurday 12/26 12/26: Do No Harm Band Join S.B.-based blues rockers the Do No Harm Band, who will provide high-energy music even after Christmas Day. All five musicians began performing before they were teens, so you can expect a lot of authentic, original, exciting rockin’ tracks and crazy moves on the dance floor. 9pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221

12/27: Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Trio, Billy Childs & Hamilton Price A Grammy-nominated drummer and band leader, Gerry Gibbs has nine jazz albums’ worth of music history. Spending weeks in the No. 1 spot for jazz recordings and topping the National Jazz Radio Charts, the Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Trio (pictured) is ready to bring undeniable class and grace with jaunty and headswaying melodies. Joining them will be jazz pianist Billy Childs and bassist Hamilton Price. 7:30pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $12-$15. Call 962-7776 or visit sohosb.com.

tucky. Get your hoop on with the girls. 7pm. The Thunderdome, UCSB. $5-$12. Visit ucsbgauchos .com.

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12/28: Mariel Bildsten Jazz Quartet This jazz trombonist and teacher knows music from classical to funk to Latin and more. She’s performed at the Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Swing 46, and many other prestigious venues. She and her quartet will play jazz that will get you swinging and swaying to the jazzy beats. 7:30pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $15. Call 962-7776 or visit sohosb.com.

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Morehead State Support the UCSB Women’s Basketball team, who will play against Morehead State, hailing from Ken-

12/29: Fused Bead Key Chain Craft Look no further for a fun and creative activity to do over winter break. Make your own keychain using fused beads. Patterns will be given, but all participants are encouraged to use their imagination. Hang them on your backpack, and be the coolest one at school! 2-3:30pm.

Goleta Library, 500 N. Fairview Ave., Goleta. Free. Ages 6+. Call 964-7878 or visit sbplibrary.org.

Wednesday 12/30 12/30: Leslie Lembo & Raw Silk Spend the eve of New Year’s Eve with Leslie Lembo, who has been influenced by Aretha Franklin, Sarah Vaughan, James Taylor, and more. She and her band, Raw Silk, will show the same vocal power that they brought to the International Jazz Festival, S.B. Vintners Festival, and more. 8pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $10-$12.

Call 962-7776 or visit sohosb.com.

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Thursday 12/24 Calvary Chapel’s 5th Annual Christmas Eve Service: 3 and 5pm. Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. Call 730-1400 or visit calvarysb.com.

Christmas Eve Service: 3, 5, and 9pm. S.B. Community Church, 1002 Cieneguitas Rd. Call 687-7797 or visit sbcommunity.org.

Christmas Eve Services at the Old Mission: 4, 7, and 11:55pm.

Old Mission S.B., 2201 Laguna St. Call 682-4151 or visit santa barbaraparish.org/calendar.

Family Christmas Eve Service: 4pm. Christmas Eve Service with carol sing: 7 and 10pm. All Saints-by-the-Sea Church, 83 Eucalyptus Ln., Montecito. Call 969-4771 or visit allsaintsbythe sea.org.

Children’s Nativity Service: 4pm. Carol Singing: 9:30pm.

Festival Choral Eucharist: 10pm. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1500 State St. Call 965-7419 or visit trinitysb.org.

Christmas Eve Worship: 4 and 8pm. Christmas Lessons and Carols Worship: 11pm. Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 380 N. Fairview Ave., Goleta. Call 967-1416 or visit gslcms.org.

Christmas Eve Service: 5pm. Summerland Presbyterian Church, 2400 Lillie Ave., Summerland. Call 969-9318 or visit summerlandchurch.org.

Christmas Eve Worship: 7pm. Christmas Eve Reception: 8pm. St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 4575 Auhay Dr. Call 967-6327 or visit standrewspcusa.org.

English Family Mass: 5pm. Spanish Mass: 9pm. Our Lady of Sorrows Church, 21 E. Sola St. Call 963-1734 or visit our-lady-ofsorrows-santa-barbara.com.

Nativity Matins & Liturgy: 8pm. St. Athanasius Orthodox Church, 300 Sumida Gardens Ln. Call 685-5400 or visit stathanasius.org.

Stories from the Stable: 5pm. Lessons and Carols Service: 7pm. Peace Among the People and Music in the Heart: 9pm. Unitarian Society of S.B., 1535 Santa Barbara St. Call 965-4583 or visit ussb.org.

Family Dinner Service: 6pm. Candlelight and Carols Service: 8pm. First Congregational Church, 2101 State St. Call 682-7146 or visit santabarbarafirst.org.

Christmas Eve Reception: 5pm. Christmas Eve Worship: 7pm. First Presbyterian Church, 21 E. Constance Ave. Call 687-0754 or visit fpcsb.org.

Christmas Eve Candlelight Services: 5 and 7pm. Unity Church of S.B., 227 E. Arrellaga St. Call 966-2239 or visit unitysanta barbara.org.

Christmas Eve Service: 5:30pm. Living Faith Church, 4597 Hollister Ave. Call 967-5651 or visit livingfaithsb.org.

Christmas Eve Service: 6pm. Community Covenant Church, 5070 Cathedral Oaks Rd. Call 967-2671 or visit comcov.org.

Christmas Eve Gathering: 4pm. Reality Carpinteria, 5251 6th St., Carpinteria. Reality S.B., S.B. High School Theater, 700 E. Anapamu St. Call 684-5247 or visit realitysb.com.

Christmas Eve Service: 6pm. Goleta Valley Church, 595 N. Fairview Ave., Goleta. Call 967-4113 or visit goletavalleychurch.com.

Christmas Eve Service: 4pm. New Life Church, 50 E. Alamar Ave. Call 687-1116 or visit nlcsb.org.

Eve of the Nativity Vesperal Liturgy: 6:30-8pm. S.B. Greek Orthodox Church, 1205 San Antonio Creek Rd. Call 683-4492 or visit saintbarbara.net/calendar.

Family Service: 4pm. Candlelight Service: 9pm. El Montecito Presbyterian Church, 1455 E. Valley Rd., Montecito. Call 969-5041 or visit elmopres.org.

Christmas Eve Family Service: 4 and 5:30pm. Hope Santa Barbara, Elings Performing Arts Ctr., 7266 Alameda Ave., Goleta.

Call 682-6232 or visit hopesb.com.

Family Communion Service: 4:30 and 6pm. Contemplative Communion Service: 11pm. Free Methodist Church, 1435 Cliff Dr. Call 965-1338 or visit fmcsb.org.

Family Service: 6pm. Candlelight Service: 10pm (music starts at 9:30pm). Trinity Lutheran Church, 909 N. La Cumbre Rd. Call 687-1577 or visit telcsb.org.

Christmas Eve Service: 5pm. Christ Lutheran Church, 6595 Covington Wy., Goleta. Call 964-2267 or visit christlutherangoleta .org.

Christmas Eve Candelight Service: 5pm. Montecito Covenant Church, 671 Cold Springs Rd., Montecito. Call 969-0373 or visit mcchurch.org.

Christmas Eve Service: 5pm. Spanish Mass: 7pm. Midnight Mass: 11pm. Saint Joseph Catholic Church, 1500 Linden Ave., Carpinteria. Call 684-2181 or visit stjosephchurch.org.

Christmas Eve Service: 5pm. Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 820 N. Fairview Ave., Goleta. Call 967-7867 or visit liveoakgoleta.org.

From Fear to Joy Christmas Eve Service: 6pm.

Shoreline Community Church, 935 San Andres St. Call 963-4228 or visit shorelinechurch.com.

Traditional Christmas Eve Service: 6pm.

Lessons & Carols Compline Service: 9pm.

Carpinteria Community Church, 1111 Vallecito Rd., Carpinteria. Call 684-2211 or visit carpchurch .org.

Christmas Eve Service: 6pm. Carpinteria Valley Baptist Church, 800 Maple Ave., Carpinteria. Call 684-5014 or visit carpinteriabaptist.org.

Candlelight Christmas Eve Service: 6:30pm. Calvary Baptist Church, 736 W. Islay St. Call 569-0508 or visit cbcsb.org.

Family Service: 7pm. Candlelight Service with Chancel Choir: 9pm. First United Methodist Church, 305 E. Anapamu St. Call 963-3579 or visit fumcsb.org.

Candlelight Christmas Eve Communion Service: 7pm.

Oaks Bible Church, 560 N. La Cumbre Rd. Call 570-8061 or visit oaksbible.org.

Christmas Eve Worship Service: 7pm. Emanuel Lutheran Church, 3721 Modoc Rd. Call 687-3734 or visit emanuellutheransb .org.

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Music of Christmas: 9:30pm. Christmas Eve Candlelight Service: 10pm. St. Mark’s-in-the-Valley Episcopal Church, 2901 Nojoqui Ave., Los Olivos. Call 688-4454 or visit smitv.org.

Friday 12/25 Christmas Day Service at the Old Mission: 7:30, 9:30, and 11:30am. Old Mission of S.B., 2201 Laguna St. Call 682-4151 or visit santabarbaraparish.org/calendar.

Christmas Day English Mass: 7:30 and 9:30am. Christmas Day Spanish Mass: 12:30pm. Our Lady of Sorrows Church, 21 E. Sola St. Call 963-1734 or visit our-lady-of-sorrows-santa-barbara .com.

Orthros: 8am. Divine Liturgy: 9am. Saint Barbara Greek Orthodox Church, 1205 San Antonio Creek Rd. Call 683-4492 or saintbarbara.net/ net calendar. net/ Christmas Service: 9am. Spanish Mass: 11am. Saint Joseph Catholic Church, 1500 Linden Ave., Carpinteria.

Call 684-2181 or visit stjosephchurch.org.

Christmas Day Holy Eucharist with Choir and Hymns: 10am. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1500 State St. Call 965-7419 or visit trinitysb.org.

Christmas Day Worship Service: 10am.

Emanuel Lutheran Church, 3721 Modoc Rd. Call 687-3734 or visit emanuel lutheransb.org.

Carols and Communion: 10am. St. Mark’s-in-the-Valley Episcopal Church, 2901 Nojoqui Ave., Los Olivos. Call 688-4454 or visit smitv.org.

Christmas Day Service: 10am. Christmas Day Lunch: 11:30am. All Saints-by-the-Sea Church, 83 Eucalyptus Ln., Montecito. Call 969-4771 or visit allsaintsbythesea.org.

Christmas Day Service: 10am. Carpinteria Community Church, 1111 Vallecito Rd., Carpinteria. Call 684-2211 or visit carpchurch .org.

Christmas Day Service: 11am. Christ Lutheran Church, 6595 Covington Wy., Goleta. Call 964-2267 or visit christlutherangoleta .org.

Family Vesper: 6:30pm. Santa Barbara Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 425 Arroyo Rd. Call 967-1611 or visit knowjesusfully.com.

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12/31: Date Night (Kids Only) The kids are falling in love with animals at the Zoo! Enjoy a date night out with your sweetheart or friends while your kids participate in animal-themed activities, eat pizza, and learn fascinating facts about animals. 5:30-10pm. S.B. Zoo, 500 Niños Dr. $30 ($20 each additional sibling). Call 962-5339 or visit sbzoo.org.

12/31: New Year’s Eve Pops Concert Ring in 2016 with Nir Kabaretti as he conducts the S.B. Symphony at the New Year’s Eve Pops with a new score. Enjoy favorite tracks from Broadway produc productions such as Phantom of the Opera, movies including Back to the Future and Star Wars, and other classics. 8:30pm.

Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $38-$153.

Call 899-2222 or visit granadasb.org.

12/31: An Interfaith Contemplative New Year’s Eve Prepare for the New Year with quiet intention by walking a labyrinth in the Chapel and sharing interfaith reflections and meditations.

10pm-midnight. La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Rd. Free. Call 969-5031 or visit lacasademaria.org.

12/31: Four Aspects of Christian and Buddhist Love All throughout the night and into the next day, experience self-love, love of God, love as a foundation for compassion, and love as a service. Make your life more meaningful and explore Christian and Buddhist love.

4pm. La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Rd. $100-$175. Call 969-5031 or visit lacasademaria.org.

12/31: Bacara New Year’s Eve Disco Party Boogie into the New Year with favorite disco classics. The Bacara Ballroom will be transformed into a disco nightclub with party favors, a champagne toast, dinner, and more.

Disco attire is encouraged. Tickets must be purchased online. Dinner with party: 7pm-1:30am; $150. Party: 10pm-1:30am; $65. Bacara Resort & Spa, 8301 Hollister Ave., Goleta. Ages 21+.

Call (866) 987-1292 or visit tinyurl.com/ bacaranewyear.

12/31: New Year’s Eve Dinner at The Bistro Ring in the night with style. Bacara’s award-winning cuisine, including lobster, seared Nantucket Bay scallops, and braised short ribs, and live music can be enjoyed. An à la carte menu is also available. 5-10pm. Bacara Resort & Spa, 8301 Hollister Ave., Goleta. $35-$80. Call (866) 987-5772 or visit tinyurl.com/bacaranewyear. bacaranewyear 12/31: New Year’s Eve @ Zodo’s This afternoon and night will be split into four different time brackets for family bashes. Lanes include pizza, soda, two hours of bowling, rental shoes, party favors, and a champagne/cider toast.

Make sure to call ahead before your children do! 3:30pm-1am. Zodo’s Bowling & Beyond, 5925 Calle Real. $70-$90.

Call 967-0128 or visit zodos.com.

12/31: 6th Annual Best Deal on State Street Velvet Jones has some of the sweetest deals for a memorable New Year’s Eve bash. Here you can party with friends, listen to music, and dance the night away into 2016. 8pm-2am. Velvet Jones, 423 State St. $30-$40. Ages 21+.

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12/31: New Year’s Eve Bash with Vaud & The Villains This vintage New Orleans jazz and R&B band will bring a dynamic theatrical performance.

Prepare for this 19-piece 1930s orchestra and cabaret that’s Americana noir meets Moulin Rouge. 9:30pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $45-$150.

Ages 21+. Call 962-7776 or visit sohosb .com.

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12/31: The Molly Ringwald Project New Year’s Eve Bash This will be one huge dance party with the best ’80s music, laser light show, and New Year’s toys, accessories, and decorations.

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12/31: Tierra and Friends New Year’s Eve This will be one musical New Year’s Eve as Tierra sings hits with special guests Techeetah Lopez, Monibee, S.B.-based Latin funk band The Groove Line, and emcees Frankie Firme and Angel Baby.

Dance to “Old School Jamz” and real classics. 9pm-1am. El Paseo Restaurant, 813 Anacapa St. $65/individual, $125/ couple. Ages 21+. Call (951) 880-4758.

12/31: New Year’s Eve with Andre Monari and Panzumo Bring in the Year of the Monkey with Brazilian festivities.

Enjoy a delicious Brazilian dinner (available until 10pm), two sets of live music with band Andre Monari and drumming with Panzumo, and a drum circle when the clock rings midnight.

5pm-1am. Brasil Arts Café, 1230 State St., Ste. C. $20-$25. Call 845-7656 or visit brasilartscafe.com.

12/31: New Year’s Eve: Under the Big Top A view of the ocean, glittering string lights, gold and wondrous surprises, there is no better place for community members both young and old to enjoy a festive evening. There will be champagne, caviar, oysters, lobster corn dogs, and more. The $195 ticket includes admission to the Ty Lounge Party that will feature live entertainment and a champagne toast; otherwise, it’s $145 for dinner, and a $70 cover applies for the party. Dinner: 6-10pm (seatings available at 6 or 8:30pm); Ty Lounge Party: 10pm-2am.

Bella Vista Restaurant, Four Seasons Resort The Biltmore S.B., 1260 Channel Dr. $70-$195. Call 969-2261 or visit tinyurl .com/nyebigtop.

12/31: Big New Year’s Party with the Soul Cats This area 14-piece band will play classic rock, R&B, and soul hits for all your dancing needs, and then DJ Totem will come onstage to put on a late-night light show. There will be complimentary champagne, silly hats, and horns. 9pm-1am. Maverick Saloon, 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez. $10/individual; $15/couple. Ages 21+. Call 686-4785 or visit mavericksaloon mavericksaloon.org.

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12/31: Tequila Mockingbird Wear your dancing shoes before grooving over to Dargan’s, where this classic rock cover band will be performing. You can rely on them to keep the party going into the New Year. 10pm-12:30am. Dargan’s Irish Pub & Restaurant, 18 E. Ortega St. $5. Call 568-0702 or visit darganssb.com.

12/31: The Lark Presents New Year’s Eve Chef Jason Paluska will present a holiday menu filled with indulgence and merriment. From citrus-cured ocean trout to S.B. sea urchin pappardelle to dark chocolate bavarois served cold with maple custard, this dinner is one perfect way to end 2015. 5-10pm. The Lark, 131 Anacapa St. $100. Call 284-0370 or visit thelarksb.com.

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12/31: White & Gold Brazilian New Year’s Eve Party Bring your family and friends for a fun night of live music, fancyfeathered Samba dancers, capoeira performers, Brazilian band Prakantar with Mariano Silva, and more.

Oh, and let’s not forget the delicious Brazilian food for purchase, full bar, and midnight toast. 9pm-1am. Cabrillo Arts Pavilion, 1118 E. Cabrillo Blvd. $35-$55.

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12/31: Solstice Bollywood Party Wear your Indian finery for this magical evening of Indian foods, champagne, live music, and dancing. This is a great option for all, young and old, vegans and omnivores. 7:30pm-midnight. India House, 418 State St. $35. Call 965-3396 or visit solstice parade.com.

12/31: King’s Ransom New Year’s Eve Party This rock band will play a “treasure trove” of classic hard-rock favorites. Enjoy dancing, contest giveaways, party favors, singing, and a champagne toast. DJ BEN1am will bring on the early-night funk house tunes. 8pm-1am. Creekside Inn, 4444 Hollister Ave. $15. Ages 21+. Call 964-5118 or visit creeksidesb .com.

12/31: Brew Year’s Eve Be exposed to one of the best-kept secrets in town! In its sixth year of hosting the best NYE celebration, The Brewhouse will feature S.B.-based dirty country/bluegrass band Big Jugs and Portland-based punk-rock band The Mutineers. Spend all night listening to tunes. 9pm-2am. The Brewhouse, 229 W. Montecito St. Free. Call 884-4664 or visit tinyurl.com/brewyears.

2/31: The Hungry Cat New Year’s Eve From grilled prawns and butter-poached cobia to chocolate tart with salted caramel Earl Grey whipped cream, this New Year’s Eve menu is sure to surprise you as 2016 will. 5-11pm. The Hungry Cat, 1134 Chapala St. $75. Call 884-4701 or visit thehungrycat.com thehungrycat.com..

12/31: New Year’s Eve Dance Danc Party Boogie down to 2016 with a flashback concert featuring ’70s disco tribute band BooBoo gie Knights and ’80s band The Spazmatics. Groove to Bee Gees’ “How Deep Is Your Love,” Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On,” and many other classic hits. 9pm-1am. Chumash Casino Resort, 3400 E. Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez. Free Free.. Ages 21+. Call (800) 248-6274 or visit chumashcasino.com chumashcasino.com..

12/31: S.Y. Kitchen Presents New Year’s Eve Dinner Have an elegant New Year’s Eve dinner. Menu includes grilled octopus and Blue Point oysters, steamed Salt Spring Island mussels, oxtail ragu, braised duck leg, and more. These items will be offered à la carte to be enjoyed with other seasonal offerings.

Lunch: 11:30am; dinner: 5pm-closing. S.Y. Kitchen, 1110 Faraday St., Santa Ynez. $75. Call 691-9794 or visit sykitchen.com.

12/31: Tonic Nightclub NYE2016 Ring in the New Year on the biggest dance floor in S.B. This night will include three balloon drops, three deejays, and a whole lot of dancing. Get a chance at picking the song of your choice at midnight by purchasing the platinum package. 8pm-1:30am. Tonic Nightclub, 634 State St.

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12/31: New Year’s Eve at Belmond El Encanto Spend this New Year’s Eve in style. The first sitting includes a threecourse menu along with live entertainment, and the second sitting includes a five-course menu with a Nebuchadnezzar-sized bottle of champagne to pop.

Menu includes pan-seared venison loin, truffle soup, and other festive dishes.

First sitting: 5-7pm; $65. Second sitting: 8-10pm; $125. Belmond El Encanto, 800 Alvarado Pl. Call 845-5800 or visit tinyurl .com/belmondelencanto.

12/31: New Year’s Eve 2016 at Sandbar This is a dinner party! Entrée includes carne asada and chile relleno, build-your-own tacos de pescada, fajitas de Sandbar, and more. There will also be champagne, party favors, and noise makers. Advanced reservations are required. 7pm1:30am. Sandbar, 514 State St. $39.99. Call 252-5409.

12/31: New Year’s Eve at Wine Cask Enjoy a three-course à la carte menu. You’ll have eight first courses, eight main courses, and four desserts to choose from! 5:30-10pm. Wine Cask, 813 Anacapa St. $85. Call 966-9463 or visit winecask.com.

12/31: Annual Masquerade Soiree Enjoy the live music of Mark Parson Flambeau Duo, masks, beads, a special four-course Cajun and Creole menu, and everything that resembles a New Orleans New Year Masquerade Celebration. Last seating time includes midnight celebration, party favors, and PierrerJouët Champagne. Seating times: 5, 7, and 9pm. The Palace Grill, 8 E. Cota St. $60-$80. Call 963-5000.

12/31: New Year Champagne Toast on the Pacific Count down to the New Year on the Pacific Ocean with friends and family. Start your S.B. new year with a two-hour sailing cruise under the stars and moons. Tickets include champagne toasts, and there will be a full bar onboard with drinks for purchase.

Departs at 10:30pm; returns 12:30am.

S.B. Harbor, 125 Harbor Wy., #13. $50. Call 962-8222 or visit sunsetkidd.com.

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Fifteen years ago, Michael Berns (second from right above) and his wife, Wendy, began sharing their seasonal spirit with clients of the Alpha Resource Center, which provides education and support for people with disabilities and their families. Today, the Santa Visit and Christmas Karaoke Party is a beloved annual tradition. This year’s party was last Friday, when the Bernses, who own a karaoke business, set up their equipment in the main room and sang Christmas tunes before St. Nick—escorted by firefighters from Fire Station 13 —arrived to the exuberant applause of the crowd. Santa listened to the wish lists of the attendees and then gave each a small gift, such as the Beanie Babies that the Alpha staff collect throughout the year for the occasion. Berns’s siblings also help plan and arrange the event each year, explained his sister, Patty. “This is a way for our family to give back to the center because of everything they’ve done for our brother Jim, who attends classes here,” she said. See alphasb.org.

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guess in most pictures of me lately, I’ve had gratulations!”, or imply there is a baby onboard in any a baby strapped to me — so many, in fact, way until she’s announced a pregnancy herself — in very certain terms. Okay, that I didn’t have any maybe once she’s like 39 recent solo shots to use for weeks, and you know her my professional bio. So for a really well, or don’t know couple weeks, when the lighther at all and don’t mind ing seemed okay and I didn’t risking calling her, essenhave nursing bra straps hangtially, fat— fat to her face. ing out or baby food in my hair, But this wasn’t just I’d hand both the kid and my to my face; this was to phone to my husband in hopes the faces of pretty much of getting one I liked alright. everyone I’ve ever met.

When I decided on one, I My old boss once ran updated my professional profile into a friend she hadn’t and then, as an afterthought, seen in a long time in posted it to Facebook; my Trader Joe’s and they friends surely hadn’t seen a excitedly hugged. A passpicture of me without a literby congratulated the tle one in my arms, either, for petite twenty-something many moons. Within seconds, and asked when she was my mother-in-law had typed, ANNOUNCING WHAT? The author thought due. She recounted the “What’s up?” The pose disstory to me the next day in played my head and torso in she was posting a tasteful solo shot, but online commenters thought the stork was horror and I’m pretty sure partial profile —apparently an paying a visit. still has a complex about it adult woman can’t post such to this day. a picture without generating More of us probably have mistaken-for-pregnant pregnancy rumors. Oh well, I thought; no one will pay attention to that. Then her friends started com- stories than you’d think, even in this always-have-afilter day and age. Here’s hoping that someone who’s menting: “Is that a bump??”

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t a mere 200 square feet—about the size of three broom closets combined— combined The Mesa Bookstore easily ranks as the best used bookstore, per square inch, this side of the Rocky Mountains. The fact it’s survived for 24 years in such a tiny space, shoehorned into the same Cliff Drive stretch of mom-and-pop shops such as the Rose Café and Mesa Barbers, has much to do with the twinkleeyed ebullience of co-owner David Karys-Schiff (pictured above).

Although an unapologetic Luddite — he favors adding machines and cigar boxes over cash registers and computers — Karys-Schiff qualifies as an in-the-flesh algorithm who long ago learned to suss out what customers like to read more accurately than anything Amazon .com could devise. The trick, it turns out, is simple. “It’s like being a bartender but without the drinks,” he explained. “We listen to what the customers want.”

Once upon a time, Karys-Schiff — who sports a tightly woven ponytail and expertly twirled mustache — was, in fact, a bartender, not to mention an executive chef in many of Santa Barbara’s fanciest restaurants. After growing up in Walnut Creek, he moved to Santa Barbara in the late ’60s with his high school teacher/father and fell into restaurants because he lacked the science and math needed to pursue his dream job as a marine biologist.

Books came by accident. When his mother-in-law moved her Javine’s Sandwiches Etc. from the Cliff Drive storefront to bigger digs, Karys-Schiff and his wife, Lisa, took over the lease. That was 1991. Lisa was an avid reader with an eye for organization and presentation — to cram 10,000 books into such a small space, someone had to be.

Back then, Santa Barbara was loaded with secondhand bookstores.

Today, there’s only The Book Den — more a collector’s paradise than secondhand book emporium — and Paperback Alley in Goleta. Mesa Bookstore is mostly about paperbacks, though about 10 percent of the titles — cookbooks and classics mostly— mostly are hardback. Karys-Schiff buys about two-thirds from customers in exchange for store credit, and the rest come from rooting around estate sales and the like. “It’s the thrill of the hunt,” he explained. Mysteries, suspense, contemporary fiction, and sci-fi are the bread and butter, but there are also shelves for biography, business, philosophy, self-help, natural science, kids, and history. The erotica section — a top shelf four feet wide — is discreetly titled “Ahem.”

Successful bookstores are supposed to have no fewer than 150,000 titles, said Karys-Schiff. He has 7 percent that number, so he credits the store’s success to stubbornness and loyalty. One frequent visitor, now in his thirties, first visited the shop when he was 10. Another woman, who now lives in Rome, stops by whenever she’s back in town.

Some customers browse in peace, but for those inclined to talk, Karys-Schiff offers an uncommonly attentive ear. Their enthusiasms, it often turns out, are his enthusiasms, too. He knows what they’re talking about. “Book people are the best,” he gushed. “They’re always excited about the book they just read or the next book they’re going to read.”

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an irreproachable answer to “Where are you from?” Conner Coffin awaited his destiny: to compete at the highest level of professional surfing. Capricious currents yanked him around in his quest until, midway through this year, he figured it out. On December 3 at Sunset Beach in Oahu, by finishing fifth in the last event of the World Surf League Men’s Qualifying Series, Coffin moved into the top10 rankings, a ticket to the 2016 Championship Tour (CT).

It’s like a golfer qualifying for the Masters and British Open, only more exclusive. Coffin will join 33 others — including the 22 top finishers on this year’s CT and two wildcards—on a tour that will take him to 11 of the world’s prime surfing spots on four continents.

He’s not the first Santa Barbara surfer to get there — just the latest in a span of decades. Tom Curren was a three-time world champion, winning his first in 1985. Chris Brown and Bobby Martinez followed in the wake of Curren on the men’s tour. Kim Mearig won a women’s world title in 1984, and Lakey Peterson is currently ranked No. 6 on the women’s CT. Conner, 22, might not be the last Coffin to carve waves with the sport’s elite athletes. Parker Coffin, 20, will be looking to qualify like his older brother in coming years.

Surfing has been a family thing for the Coffins from the days they could first stand up. The boys grew up near the beach in Montecito. “I’d wake mom or dad up to take me surfing before school,” Conner said. “We’d go down and freeze our butts off.” Rich and Krista Coffin, their parents, later took them to contests and surfing vacations.

“What defines the Coffins is family,” said Chris Keet, the director of the Surf Happens camps that count the Coffins and Peterson among their alumni. “Their parents and grandparents would take them to contests and spend all day with them. They’ve had generations of support.”

Their family extends to Dave Letinsky, a Carpinteria surfing mentor, whom the boys call “Uncle Dave.” He first saw 6-year-old Conner on a wave at Refugio Beach. “Absolutely, I knew he was going to be this good,” said Letinsky, 64. “I could see it in his approach to the waves. You have to be in rhythm with the ocean. He has it.”

While Coffin unquestionably has advantages in pursuing his career as a surfer, both Keet and Letinsky say he’s earned his way. “There’s glitz in Santa Barbara, but the Coffin kids are humble and hard-working,” Keet said. “They have the passion to excel when hundreds of other kids are pursuing this dream at the same time.”

Letinsky said,“[Conner]’s a grounded young man. In my world, I’d say he’s not a punk. He’s super smart. He had Plan A—to get on the World Championship Tour—and another Plan A: to get an education.” Homeschooled to free him up for surfing exploits, Coffin has been taking college courses at SBCC. He also has an aptitude for music, spending hours with his guitar.

“You have to have a strong base outside of surfing,” Conner said last week. “It’s not who I am.”

While conceding he’s long had “a big ambition” to compete on the Championship Tour, he said, “The hard part is wondering if this contest thing is taking away the love I have for surfing; I look at it that I’m bringing my love to the

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TICKET TO RIDE: Conner Coffin joins 33 of the world’s best wave riders for the 2016 Championship Tour, which will travel across four continents to 11 of the top surf spots.

tour. I love good waves.” That affection was nurtured in his well on bigger, powerful waves. He won’t have to perform backyard at Rincon, a premier destination for long rides on out of his skin to do well on the World Tour.”

Conner explained it: “There’s a mystique to the waves, winter waves. During the 2016 professional tour, Coffin will take on such iconic breaks as Jeffreys Bay in South Africa and I try to get on the same wavelength as the waves that and Banzai Pipeline in Hawai‘i. The only stop in North are coming to me.”

America will be at Trestles near San Diego in September. The tour starts March 10, 2016, at the Gold Coast in Australia.

RINCON CLASSIC: For the 33rd time, the Rincon Classic “Conner surfs well on waves of consequence,” Letinsky will bring together contestants from the Santa Barbara comsaid. “Some guys are all over the place. He’s very fluid and munity and beyond. Conner Coffin, the men’s champion in relaxed. The timing is right for him. An 18- or 19-year-old 2013 and last year, is unsure of his participation because of may be ready ability-wise, but they don’t have the compo- World Surf League obligations. It is scheduled for January 16-17, 2016, depending on the conditions. Keet, whose Surf sure. You have to have the inner game.”

Coffin resorted to his inner game when, after struggling Happens produces the event, said the weather through the 2014 qualifying contests, he got off to another and the waves are as unpredictable as frustrating start this year.“I thought, know what? This sucks; ever because of the anticipated El maybe I’ll quit,” he said. He examined his approach and Niño. “It’s like a sleeping child,” realized that he’d been departing from his natural style to he said. “It could wake up impress the judges. “I decided to surf the way I surf when I cranky or in a good mood.” paddle out at the Rincon,” he said.

“You have to be super true to yourself. With that shift in emphasis, everything became simple and clear. I was having fun. All the pieces fell into place.”

12/28-12/31: High School Boys’ Basketball: Santa Barbara Holiday Classic During the last When he came to the decisive four days of the year, Santa Barbara High will be hosting more basketball games than ESPN telecontest at Sunset Beach, his father vises Bowl games. Sixteen teams will play eight games a day, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Among the visitors are was there and his brother was his the Moose from Palmer High in Alaska. The S.B. Dons were 11-1 through last weekend and should caddy in the water with a backup be on course to reach the championship game Thursday night with their strong front line of Bolden board. “He stuck to his strengths,” Brace, Nick Busch, and Ben Clay. Other area teams in the field are Bishop Diego and Carpinteria. J.R. Parker said. “He doesn’t do aerials.

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aron Watty, the man behind Big Tar Wines, can seem to contain multitudes.

A bear of a man at well over six feet, he’s a waiter at bouchon, was a wine buyer at Wine Cask, served as assistant winemaker for Longoria Wines, and even once worked as a model. But all that doesn’t negate his dramatically failed first attempt to pass a UCSB communications course.

“The class in Campbell Hall was basically as big as my hometown,” said the Incline Village native.

“So I had to do a speech —it was something easy like arguing for electric cars — but I was so nervous that I passed out and bounced my chin off the podium.”

He came to, ran to the men’s room, and never returned.

The next quarter, hoping to expunge the grade, he convinced some friends to take the class with him. “Day one, the professor says there’s a speech everyone has to do, and it isn’t a huge deal, but last quarter someone passed out, and we haven’t seen him since, so we hope he’s okay,” explained Watty. “At that, my friends sitting with me pointed at me and said,‘He’s right here!’” That quarter, he handled the speech fine and earned an A. These days, it’s hard to believe public speaking was ever an issue—especially after following Watty around at a recent Saturday farmer’s market. There, he greeted everyone with a smile while purchasing produce for the December 7 winemaker dinner that he prepared himself to showcase the latest Big Tar wines. He did get some help from his mom, Kathleen Watty, the recently retired longtime public school principal, which makes sense because Aaron is all about family.

That also showed in the dinner’s leg of lamb, which was succulently grilled and presented upon lentils and roasted purple carrots from Roots Farm.

Lamb was the favorite dish of his Gram Gram,

Watty’s biggest supporter. “While I’m the one who didn’t quite make it through UCSB in a family of educators,” explained Watty, a bit choked up, “she said, ‘Follow your dream.’ ” Now Big Tar features a Cuvée Jean Murphy in her honor, and the sprightly Super Tuscan blend of sangiovese and cabernet sauvignon from Happy Canyon danced to life with the lamb like Fred and Ginger doing the Continental in The Gay Divorcee.

In fact, chef Watty gave winemaker Watty a run for his money all evening. Simple San Sebastian‒inspired appetizers like sardines with cumin cream on crackers or the foie gras he smuggled in from France before the California ban was lifted —“of course that tastes better!” he assured— sang with what might be Big Tar’s signature wine, the brisk and zesty sauvignon blanc. (He’s also introducing a barrel-aged sauv blanc as a chardonnay alternative.)

It’s sad he won’t be doing more work with pinot noir, for his one-off project with 2012 grapes from La Encantada Vineyard in the Sta. Rita Hills was such a lovely yet balanced study of cherry and spice. Served with a Gramercy Tavern‒inspired arctic char—which he special-ordered from the S.B. Fish Market— that was crusted and topped with mushrooms and a vivid layer of spinach, the dish sang in harmony with the pinot. The evening was a strong argument as to why more winemakers need to take to the kitchen for their own wine dinners, for they are often the most adept at making their wines shine with the right foods.

Though Watty has no interest in starting his own restaurant, there may be seasonal pop-ups in the future. But considering he tends to make 50 cases per wine at most, the cooking winemaker bemoaned, “I’m going to need to make a lot more wine.” n See bigtar.com.

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 Lure Fish House, 3815 State St. (formerly Ruth’s Chris)  Nona’s Italian Deli, 415 E. De la Guerra St. (formerly Italian Grocery)  Norton’s Pastrami and Deli, Goleta  Ocean House at Bacara Resort, 8301 Hollister Ave., Goleta (formerly Miró)  Oliver’s, 1198 Coast Village Rd. (formerly Peabody’s)  Pace, 108 Pierpont Rd., Summerland (formerly Big Yellow House)  Pascucci, 6920 Marketplace Dr., Goleta (formerly Holdren’s Grill)  Pickles & Swiss, 7000 Hollister Ave., Goleta (Hollister Village Plaza)  Roxy’s Market/SB Grocery, 2010 Cliff Drive (currently Haggen)  Rusty’s Pizza, 111 State St. (moving from 15 E. Cabrillo Blvd.)  Rusty’s Pizza, 2315 Lillie Ave., Summerland (Stacky’s Seaside)  Rusty’s Pizza, 5934 Calle Real, Goleta (moving from 6025 Calle Real)  Rusty’s Pizza, 4880 Hollister Ave., Goleta (moving from 149 S. Turnpike Rd.)  Santa Ynez Burrito, 956 Embarcadero del Norte, Isla Vista (formerly Kogilicious)  Smart & Final, 3943 State St. (currently Haggen)  Smart & Final, 850 Linden Ave. (currently Haggen)  Sno-Crave Tea House, 7000 Hollister Ave., Goleta (Hollister Village Plaza)  Sprouts Farmers Market, 175 N. Fairview Ave. (currently Haggen)  Subway, 1936 State St.  The Drunken Crab, 416 State Street (formerly Killer Shrimp)  The French Press, 250 Storke Rd., Goleta (formerly Bicycle Bob’s)  Third Window Brewery, 412 E. Haley St. (formerly Tileco)  Wahoo’s Fish Taco, 7000 Hollister Ave., Goleta (Hollister Village Plaza)  Which Wich, five South Coast locations  Zizzo’s Coffee, 7000 Hollister Ave., Goleta (Hollister Village Plaza)  Unnamed, 901 E. Cabrillo Blvd. (inside Santa Barbara Inn)  Unnamed, 7 E. Anapamu St. (formerly Arts & Letters Café)  Unnamed, 17 W. Ortega St. (formerly Nardonne’s Pizzeria)  Unnamed Asian Fusion, 5892 Hollister Ave (formerly The Natural Café)  Unnamed Bakery & Cheese Shop, 131 Anacapa St.  Unnamed Pizzeria, 699 Linden Ave., Carpinteria (formerly Tony’s)

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FELINE FLUXUS: Sean McCann, with cat Heather, uses inter-media and minimalist principles to guide his avant-garde compositions.

McCann admits the book isn’t for everyone — he’s hesitant about sharing it with his linguist sister, for example — but hopes readers will find inspiration in its cryptic phrase collisions.“You would pick it up, read a page or a part of a page, and take from it whatever you want,” he said.“It’s a weird, abstract thing, but to me, as with my music, it evokes a certain unique environment.”

McCann’s compositions have quietly attracted worldwide acclaim, including mention in the highly respected experimental music magazine The Wire, though McCann is a little baffled at the exposure.

“It’s unreal my music has affected people in this way, and it’s always kind of embarrassing or awkward when people bring it up,” he said. “It’s something more internalized, something you make to calm yourself, then you discover, wait, people like this? I can share this with others?”

Though the unpredictable forces of chance and fate are often his greatest muses, McCann has become more deliberate in his approach. This year’s supremely beautiful Ten Impressions for Piano & Strings and 2013’s Steve Reich-ian Music for Private Ensemble find McCann foregoing electronic ambiences for minimalist and modern clas-

sical acoustic arrangements. The approach was a “new hill to climb” for McCann, he said. Next year, he hopes to release a double album titled Music for Public Ensemble, featuring contributions from 15 other musicians.

For McCann’s Recital label, 2016 will also be a big year, with a list of releases including archival recordings from American minimalist gamelan composer Daniel Schmidt and a release of tape experiments from Italian poet Giovanni Fontana. Indeed, both in the compositions he makes and the artists his label represents, McCann prefers works with imaginative routes and hurdles where others prefer linear hallways.

Mentioning the pieces of the Fluxus poets and Stein as an example, McCann appreciates things that open new interpretive doors upon each revisit. “You read it once, and it doesn’t make sense; you read it the next day, it’s gonna be something else.

It opens to your interpretation,” he said.

Open your ears and eyes to his music and words, and you may find yourself entering such new places yourself — to the discreet worlds of candle whispers and rosin resonations, and the silences in between.

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This Melbourne-born artist created a following after opening for James Bay, singer of hit track “Hold Back the River,” in Dallas, Texas, and she’s back for more. Her debut single, “Frail Love,” a clean piano ballad, includes so much emotion and soulful vocals and lyrics that she had to extend her flair onto three more songs, eventually resulting in her first EP, XIII. Filled with slow, acoustic serenades, this album of passion and expression is perfect for when you need to clear your head or think about the future and life.

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fter a hike in Washington’s wet Hoh Rainforest, Santa Barbara–born avant-garde composer, record label founder, and author Sean McCann lit a candle in his hotel room and recorded the sound of the flickering flame. He paired with this whisper the gurgle of the hotel cof coffee machine, rolling a pair of dice to let fate decide how the sounds would harmonize with an equally randomized set of melodies.

The resulting piece fell together, with many spaces and silences punctuating the subtle sounds.

This unreleased piece was not unusual for McCann, who is a man unafraid to take chances. Since graduating Dos Pueblos High School in 2006 and studying broadcasting and communication arts at San Francisco State University, he has released dozens of experimental creations, ranging from dense synth clouds on limited-release cassettes to more stately minimalist string and piano compositions. He also runs a record label, Recital, on which he releases avant-garde and electronic works by composers both contemporary and long-standing, such as Annea Lockwood and Loren Connors.

Somehow, he also manages to fit in a fulltime job providing production support for sound engineers.

McCann’s newest offering isn’t music at all, in fact, but rather a book: Pacifics, released December 1. Pacifics is a 65-page poem created from a vast word bank, two years’ worth of words and phrases randomized and manipulated into abstraction. “It’s definitely a new adventure for me,” McCann said, citing the poems and graphical scores of John Cage and Dick Higgins and the novels of Gertrude Stein as inspiration. “The idea of releasing a book, something less ethereal but more personal, more close to home and close to the ocean, was something that I wanted to put myself through.”

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The lighT ThAT never goeS ouT Leave it to the Lobero to not only nurture one of the city’s most dedicated premier circles of donors but also to give them an unforgettably poetic description. The Lobero’s Ghostlight Society is named for a centuriesold theatrical tradition that involves leaving a single light shining at center stage whenever the theater is unoccupied and would otherwise be completely dark.

Typically a single bare bulb, the ghost light serves purposes both practical and superstitious. As anyone who has ever had the misfortune to enter a darkened theater without a ghost light burning will tell you, dark theaters are great places to “break a leg”— literally. In addition, there are myriad legends concerning ghosts’ uses for the light.

The Ghostlight Society refers to an elite organization of particularly generous supporters of the Lobero that has been around since the theater was rebuilt in 1924. On Friday, January 8, 2016, this illustrious cohort will gather onstage to celebrate another season of impeccable programming at the city’s most consistently superior performing arts venue. They will do so by honoring the legendary jazz great Charles Lloyd, who will become the first-ever artist to be named a Ghostlight Society Luminary. Previous recipients of the award have been drawn from among the Society’s members and include Lillian and Jon Lovelace, Anne and Michael Towbes, Lyn and David Anderson, and Baroness Léni Fé Bland. These Luminaries make sure that the Ghostlight at the Lobero never goes out, and that the theater remains a venue of choice for some of the world’s greatest musicians.

Guitarist and jazz vocalist John Pizzarelli will perform and act as the evening’s master of ceremonies.

The event will give the Ghostlight Society’s members an opportunity to thank Charles Lloyd in person for bringing so much great music to the Lobero, to Santa Barbara, and to the world. A longtime Montecito resident and the 2015 recipient of the prestigious National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Award, Lloyd has done more than any other musician to establish the Lobero’s reputation as a preeminent venue not only for jazz but also for roots, world music, and classical recitals. Although the ghost light will not be lit during this event, the ghosts of many great performers and even more satisfied audience members will certainly be in attendance.

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Silent Cinema and Medieval Music – The Passion of Joan of Arc SUN, JAN 10 / 4 PM (note special time) HAHN HALL, MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST $30 / $9 UCSB students A Hahn Hall facility fee will be added to each ticket price

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BOUNDARY PUSHER: Using the “double stack” motif, a pallet of bright Day-Glo colors, and acrylic paint and Roll-a-Tex, Peter Halley composes some of the most distinctive and recognizable abstractions in contemporary art.

Big WAve RideR Geometry of the Absurd: Recent Paintings by Peter Halley.

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Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour featuring Ravi Coltrane, Raul Midón, Nicholas Payton, Gerald Clayton, Joe Sanders and Gregory Hutchinson THU, JAN 14 / 8 PM / UCSB CAMPBELL HALL Tickets start at $25 / $10 UCSB students

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t a time when many artists decry the antiseptic white box of the traditional gallery as an outmoded form of presentation, there are still some shows, such as Geometry of the Absurd: Recent Paintings by Peter Halley, that make the familiar format feel new and exciting. Nothing but the high ceilings, bare walls, and shiny expanses of hardwood flooring in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s Davidson and Colefax galleries could handle the sheer wattage and single-minded intensity on display in this series of eight large paintings created by Peter Halley between 2007 and 2015.

Working within a strict regime of design (the “double stack” motif), palette (bright Day-Glo colors), and materials (acrylic paint and Roll-a-Tex), Halley composes some of the contemporary art world’s most distinctive and recognizable abstractions. These are large paintings that, however powerful they may be in isolation, beg to be seen in series, and SBMA curator Julie Joyce has answered that plea with a resounding “yes” that offers discerning viewers the opportunity to experience the full range of Halley’s vision and message.

The hyper-articulate Halley has never gone back on his initial claim that there’s a fundamental common basis for understanding both minimalism and what was once known as the art of the “New Wave.” In his seminal essay on “Beat, Minimalism, New Wave, and Robert Smithson,” published in

Arts Magazine back in 1981, Halley wisely asserted that, despite apparent surface differences between the Beats, the minimalists, and the new wavers, “All three express America’s fascination-repulsion for its shallow cultural roots and its vulnerability to the impact of technological change.”

In his own painting, Halley developed an abstract language of geometric shapes designed to represent the “prisons, cells, and conduits” that typify not only the guts of our electronic devices but also the patterns of our social interaction, and even the circuits of the thoughts in our postmodern heads. Walking through the exhibition, one experiences these paintings first as sheer sensation—the bright contrasting colors set off vibrations in the eye that are impossible to ignore. But soon that immediacy is offset by the cool rationality with which the artist works through his variations, opening and closing the conduits that connect his “stacks” to the background, and shifting the size and frequency of the various elements in subtle ways.

For me, this led to the impression that the series has a kind of musical directionality, and that in Koinonia (2013) and then again in Self/less (2015), the set of experiments comes to an implicit climax. This impression is of course highly subjective, and your mileage may vary, but there can be no doubt about what a satisfying and interesting ride this is on the crest of Peter Halley’s endlessly new n wave.

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lthough their days as students at UC Santa Cruz are long past, alternative-rock band Camper Van Beethoven still feels strong ties to California. That’s why their last two albums, La Costa Perdida (2013) and El Camino Real (2014), are thematically based on their beloved state, representing Northern and Southern California, respectively.

“This all started initially because we were coming out to play in Big Sur and it was rained out. The show was canceled and delayed a week. At the time, I was living in Oakland, so the whole band hung out at my house and started writing music while listening to The Beach Boys’ Holland album,” explains multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Segel. “Everything on that album is about California and Big Sur, and we started musing on this idea since everyone in the band had lived in Northern California and Southern California and enjoyed the things good and horrific about both areas.”

Camper Van Beethoven briefly disbanded during the ’90s, allowing lead vocalist David Lowery to form a second, straightforward rock band, Cracker. With Lowery as the common denominator, the two bands have been playing joint concerts for several years now, and a series of shows scheduled for the holidays will bring them to JonAthAn Segel Talks the Lobero Theatre on December 28.

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by Austin Murphy relationship between the bands, Segel says,“It’s gone up and down throughout the years. When Camper first started playing again [in 1999], we were a little bit jealous, but as years have gone by, we’ve realized where the different bands’ strengths lie. There are some things very similar but also very different in different ways. For Cracker, David and Johnny [Hickman] are really the driving elements of the band; punk rock and country are strengths for them. Camper is a multi-genre band, a little more psychedelic.”

The way Segel sees it, Camper Van Beethoven’s versatility has been key to their longevity and sustained success over several decades, especially since the core members are all involved in multiple musical endeavors.

“Camper is a really interesting entity,” says Segel. “All five of the people involved are all very musical and have so many musical ideas, and we each have our own bands. So to put us all together means you have this multiheaded entity that has so many different things to say.”

As to what the band is currently trying to say, Segel remains mum on an upcoming album, but the holiday shows will feature the band playing its 1988 album Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart in its entirety, similar to how they have played 1989 album Key Lime Pie at concerts in recent years.

“A few years back, we did shows where we played Key Lime Pie, and the reason was that we only had about three songs from that album in our normal set, so we set about learning everything from that album,” says Segel.

“Now we have [former drummer] Chris Pedersen coming in from Australia, and he was one of the original five people that recorded Our Beloved, and the other idea behind doing the album is that it was recently rereleased

by Omnivore Recordings as a vinyl LP with extras and an extended CD.” Part of what makes Camper Van Beethoven such an enduringly successful act is their ability to churn out relevant and enjoyable music over a span of 30 years—even if it means abandoning the carefree, adolescent attitudes from their college years.

“We’re no longer the 22-year-old assholes,” jokes Segel.“We’re definitely a lot more mature now that we’re about 50 ... but not too mature.

“We’re all still dedicated musicians and music listeners, and there’s always new music to take inspiration from,” he adds.“One of the things that’s great about being an artist in general is that everything you produce makes you a filter for everything you experience in the world around you, and as the world keeps changing, there’s more and more to use as inspiration for art.”

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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.

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.

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Education Reimagined MOUSE HOUSE: “Best Regards” by Virginia McCracken is on view at Porch. 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.

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.

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The Danish Girl

Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander star in a movie written by Lucinda Coxon, based on the novel by David Ebershoff, and directed by Tom Hooper.

Reviewed by Richie DeMaria

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he Danish Girl tells the story of Lili Elbe (Eddie Redmayne), one of history’s first sex-reassignment patients, and her partner, Gerda Wegener (Alicia Vikander). Directed by The King’s Speech’s Tom Hooper, the film is another tale of private suffering told with delicate dignity, albeit at the expense of more daring storytelling. The acting is superb and the set pieces exquisite, but the film is normative on the whole, corseted by its Best Picture aspirations.

Redmayne, who won an Oscar for last year’s depiction as Stephen Hawking, plays a lovely Lili, rendering her with great grace and fragility. He always maintains sweet poise, upholding Lili’s charm both in her most elegant presentations and in her most distressed times as she undergoes sex reassignment. The trials and humiliations of her experiences with medical professionals are among The Danish Girl’s most viscerally intense scenes. But Vikander, as Gerda, is perhaps even more compelling, showing courage and gravitas as Lili’s steadfast partner. In what may be the movie’s most moving moments, we watch as she patiently endures the challenges posed by her partner’s shifting self-expression with silent tears.

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largely aesthetic. We see how inextricable Lili’s inner life is from her outward feminine trappings, yet the film barely touches on the beneath-the-surface feelings informing her performative pursuit. As she becomes more and more painting-like in her femininity, we are left with Gerda as the sole foil through which deeper emotions must be told.

The movie functions like its main character — aesthetically refined but disguising or suppressing trickier emotional territory. For such potentially rich subject matter, the drama could have been deeper. Yet perhaps that was the point. What is remembered here is not the heroism of their struggle but the heroism of their shared happiness, in its delicacy and joy. Maybe in the grand scheme it is a triumph that a love that was once so forbidden can now, in this rendering, feel almost quaint.

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The Big Short (130 mins.; R: pervasive language and some sexuality/nudity) Ryan Gosling and Steve Carell reunite on-screen for this film based on Michael Lewis’s best-selling book about four people who predicted the implosion of the credit and housing bubble and bet against the big banks, thus profiting from the financial crisis.

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Carol (118 mins.; R: a scene of sexuality/ nudity and brief language)

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Will Smith stars as forensic neuropathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu, a U.S. immigrant from Nigeria, who discovers football-related brain trauma called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and fights against the NFL to have his findings known.

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Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg star in this comedy that pits father against stepfather.

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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.

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Riviera Joy (124 mins.; PG-13: brief strong language) Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence team up again with director David O. Russell for this film based on the true

story of Joy Mangano, who invented the Miracle Mop. Allies become adversaries and vice versa as she rises in the business world and becomes matriarch to her family dynasty.

Paseo Nuevo Point Break (113 mins.; PG-13: violence, thematic material involving perilous activity, some sexuality, language, and drug material) This remake of the classic 1991 film starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze tells the same story — a young FBI agent infiltrates a team of extreme sports athletes who also pull off corporate heists.

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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.

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Sylvester Stallone steals this movie from its presumed star, Michael B. Jordan.

It’s his world, after all. What energizes the movie, however, is director Ryan Coogler, who made the great tragic independent film Fruitvale Station with Jordan and now turns this shopworn material into something daring and flashy, particularly the first big boxing match of the film. (DJP) Fiesta 5

O The 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 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) Fiesta 5 Sisters (118 mins.; R: crude sexual content

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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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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.

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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)

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The Santa Barbara Police Department’s Fallen Officer Memorial Project will honor the five S.B.P.D. Officers – H. Thomas Guerry, Henry Evans, Clarence Jensen, Ronald Wainscott, and Richard Williams – who have given the ultimate sacrifice protecting the safety and freedoms of our community.

The Fallen Officers Memorial will include a life size bronze sculpture (depicted above) designed by renowned Santa Barbara artist Bud Bottoms, symbolizing commitment, service, sacrifice and community, and will be engraved with the names of the five fallen officers. The Santa Barbara Police Department front walkway was selected as the site for the memorial so that everyone who walks up the steps will pass by the honorary location.

This project is 100 percent privately funded, so donations are needed to help to bring the Fallen Officer Memorial to fruition. Donor names will be added to an honor roll inside the police station. Those giving $1,500 or more will have their names displayed with the memorial and those contributing $5,000 or more will also receive a special gift: a bronze centerpiece replica of the sculpture.

Please visit www.gofundme.com/sbpdmemorial for details and to contribute online. Or mail checks payable to City of Santa Barbara Police Officer’s Memorial Fund (include name, address, phone, email address & name as you would like it to appear on the memorial) to: Fallen Officers Memorial Fund, Santa Barbara Police Department 215 East Figueroa Street • Santa Barbara, CA 93101 805-897-2320

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(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): The raw materials you have at your disposal in 2016 may sometimes seem limited. You might not have access to all the tools you wish you did. You could be tempted to feel envy about the vaster resources other people can draw on. But I honestly don’t think these apparent inhibitions will put you at a disadvantage. Within your smaller range of options, there will be all the possibilities you need. In fact, the constraints could stimulate your creativity in ways that would have never occurred if you’d had more options.

(June 21-July 22): Swedish movie director Ingmar Bergman won three Academy Awards and was nominated for eight others. Numerous filmmakers have cited him as an important influence on their work.

His practical success was rooted in his devotion to the imagination. “I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality,” he said. Can you guess his astrological sign? Cancer the Crab, of course! No other tribe is better suited at moving back and forth between the two worlds. At least potentially, you are virtuosos at interweaving fantasy with earthy concerns. The coming year will afford you unprecedented opportunities to further develop and use this skill.

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The English word “ain’t” can mean “am not,” “is not,” “are not,” or “have not.” But it ain’t recognized as a standard word in the language. If you use it, you risk being thought vulgar and uneducated.

And yet “ain’t” has been around since 1706, more than 300 years. Most words that are used for so long eventually become official. I see your journey in 2016 as having resemblances to the saga of “ain’t,” Libra. You will meet resistance as you seek greater acceptance of some nonstandard but regular part of your life. Here’s the good news: Your chances of ultimately succeeding are much better than ain’t’s.

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The coming year will be a favorable time for you to nourish a deeper devotion to truth, beauty, and goodness. Anything you do to make your morality more rigorous will generate benefits that ripple through your life for years to come. Curiously, you can add to the propitious effect by also cultivating a deeper devotion to fun, play, and pleasure. There is a symbiotic connection between the part of you that wants to make the world a better place and the part of you that thrives on joy, freedom, and wonder. Here’s the magic formula: Feed your lust for life by being intensely compassionate, and vice versa.

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(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): My old friend John owns a 520-acre farm in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Blueberries are among the crops he grows. If he arranges their growing season so that they ripen in July, he can sell them for $1.75 a pint. But if he designs them to be ready for harvest in late summer and early fall, the price he gets may go up to $4 a pint. You can guess which schedule he prefers. I urge you to employ a similar strategy as you plot your game plan for 2016, Scorpio. Timing may not be everything, but it will count for a lot.

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I predict that 2016 will be your Year of Fruitful Obsessions. In giving this positive spin to the cosmic tendencies, I’m hoping to steer you away from any behavior that might lead to 2016 being your Year of Fruitless Obsessions. One way or another, I think you’ll be driven to express your passions with single-minded intensity. Focused devotion—sometimes verging on compulsive preoccupation—is likely to be one of your signature qualities. That’s why it’s so important to avoid wasteful infatuations and confounding manias. Please choose fascinations that are really good for you.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): You know what physical hygiene is.

But are you familiar with imaginal hygiene? Educator Morgan Brent defines it like this: “Imaginal hygiene is the inner art of self-managing the imagination, to defend it from forces that compromise, pollute, colonize, shrink, and sterilize it, and to cultivate those that illuminate, expand, and nourish it.” It’s always important for everyone to attend to this work, but it’s especially crucial for you to focus on it in 2016. You will be exceptionally creative, and therefore likely to generate long-lasting effects and influences out of the raw materials that occupy your imagination.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your mind sometimes works too hard and fast for your own good. But mostly it’s your best asset. Your versatility can sometimes be a curse, too, but far more often it’s a blessing. Your agile tongue and flexible agenda generate more fun than trouble, and so do your smooth maneuvers and skillful gamesmanship. As wonderful as all these qualities can be, however, I suggest that you work on expanding your scope in 2016. In my astrological opinion, it will be a good time for you to study and embody the magic that the water signs possess. What would that mean exactly? Start this way: Give greater respect to your feelings. Tune in to them more, encourage them to deepen, and figure out how to trust them as sources of wisdom.

Homework: Send me predictions for your life in 2016. Where are you headed? Go to realastrology .com; click on “Email Rob.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Avoid pain and pursue pleasure. Be kind, not cruel. Abstain from self-pity and ask for the help you need. Instead of complaining, express gratitude. Dodge time-wasting activities and do things that are meaningful to you. Shun people who disrespect you and seek the company of those who enjoy you.

Don’t expose yourself to sickening, violent entertainment; fill your imagination up with uplifting stories.

Does the advice I’m offering in this horoscope seem overly simple and obvious? That’s no accident. In my opinion, what you need most in 2016 is to refresh your relationship with fundamental principles.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Many of the atoms that compose your flesh and blood were not part of your body 12 months ago. That’s because every year, 98 percent of you is replaced. Old cells are constantly dying, giving way to new cells that are made from the air, food, and water you ingest. This is true about everyone, of course. You’re not the only one whose physical form is regularly recycled. But here’s what will be unique about you in 2016: Your soul will match your body’s rapid transformations. In fact, the turnover is already underway. By your next birthday, you may be so new you’ll barely recognize yourself. I urge you to take full charge of this opportunity! Who do you want to become?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1803, the U.S. government bought a huge chunk of North American land from the French government. At a price of three cents per acre, the new republic doubled its size, acquiring what’s now Louisiana and Montana and everything between.

I don’t think you’ll add that much to your domain in 2016, Sagittarius, but it’s likely you will expand significantly. And although your new resources won’t be as cheap as the 1803 bargain, I suspect the cost, both in terms of actual cash and in emotional energy, will be manageable. There’s one way your acquisition will be better than that earlier one. The Americans bought and the French sold land they didn’t actually own—it belonged to the native people—whereas your moves will have full integrity.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): Your symbol of power in 2016 will be the equal sign: =. Visualize it in your mind’s eye every morning for 20 seconds. Tattoo it on your butt.

Write it on an index card that you keep under your pillow or on your bathroom mirror. Gestures like these will deliver highly relevant messages to your subconscious mind, like “Create balance and cultivate harmony!” and “Coordinate opposing forces!” and “Wherever there is tension between two extremes, convert the tension into vital energy!” Here are your words of power in 2016: “symbiosis” and “synergy.”

Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Specialized DID YOU KNOW Information is Marine Diesel at 308 N Soledad power and content is King? Your St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Patrick doorway to statewide Public Notices, Gillert (same address) This business California Newspaper Publishers is conducted by a Individual Signed: Association Smart filed with the County Clerk of Santa Search Feature. Sign‑up, Enter Barbara County on Nov 20, 2015. keywords and sit back and let public This statement expires five years from notices come to you on your mobile, the date it was filed in the Office of desktop, and tablet. For more the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, information call County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Cecelia @ (916) 288‑6011 or www.­ Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0003296. capublicnotice.com (Cal‑SCAN) Published: Dec 10, 17, 24 2015. Jan 07 2016.

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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. Published: Dec 10, 17, 24 2015. Jan 07 2016.

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; Interdisciplinary Architecure, 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. 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: 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: Santa Barbara Compassion Farm Collective at 1900 N San Marcos Rd. Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Armando Reyes (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 Tara Jaysinge. 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: The Key Class Fund at 1111 Chapala St. Ste 200 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Santa Barbara Foundation (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Ronald V. Gallo, President and CEO filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 15, 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: 2015‑0003470. Published: Dec 24, 31 2015. Jan 07, 14 2016.

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. 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 . FBN Number: 2015‑0003308. Published: Dec 10, 17, 24 2015. Jan 07 2016.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0003443.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Le‑Me‑In‑Lock at 115 East Mission Sant Barbara, CA 93101; Michael Thompson (same address) This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Michael Thompson filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 15, 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: 2015‑0003462.

Published: Dec 24, 31 2015. Jan 07, 14, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara In‑Home Audiology at 3950 Via Real #230 Carpinteria, CA 93013; Jacqueline Wiley (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jacueline Wiley filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 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 Polter. FBN Number: 2015‑0003468.

Published: Dec 24, 31 2015. Jan 07, 14, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Aston Microphones USA at 351 Paseo Nuevo 2nd Floor Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Presidio Label, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 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 Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2015‑0003470. Published: Dec 24, 31 2015. Jan 07, 14, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: B‑S Partners at 780 Glen Annie Road Goleta, CA 93117; Kevin Birch 1435 Olive Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Cheryl A Schaff 780 Glen Annie Road Goleta, CA 93117; Melissa Birch 1435 Olive Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Harold F Schaff 780 Glen Annie Road Goleta, CA 93117; Blake A Schaff 6079 Suellen Court Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 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 Andrea Luparello . FBN Number: 2015‑0003470. Published: Dec 24, 31 2015. Jan 07, 14 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Streaming Mail, Uber Platform, Streamingmail, Up, Streamingmail.­ com at 629 State Street Suite 222 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Hertza, L.L.­ C. (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: 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: 2015‑0003364. Published: Dec 24, 31 2015. Jan 07, 14 2016.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Santa Barbara Spray Tanning at 6768 Pasado Rd Unit B Goleta, CA 93117; Samantha Abkin (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Samantha Abkin filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 14, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2015‑0003454. Published: Dec 24, 31 2015. Jan 07, 14 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Coming Up Catholic LP at 4254 Rancho Asoleado Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Alison Hicks (same address) Sarah Mettler 6372 Pearlroth Drive San Jose, CA 95123 This business is conducted by a Limited Partnership Signed: Alison Hicks filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 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 Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0003499. Published: Dec 24, 31 2015. Jan 07, 14 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Cota Market at 3570 Sagunto St Santa Ynez, CA 93460; Santa Ynez Market, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Ziyad H Samaan, President filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0003501. Published: Dec 24 2015. Jan 07, 14, 21 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Towers Cleaning at 112 S Canada Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Towers Cleaning (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 21, 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: 2015‑0003506. Published: Dec 24 2015. Jan 07, 14, 21 2016.

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: 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.

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by Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0003188. Published: Dec 3, 10, 17, 24 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.

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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.

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: 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: 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: 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: Turning To Wellness at 1078 Miramonte Dr #3 Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Ryan McGinnis (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Ryan McGinnis filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 22, 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: 2015‑0003519. Published: Dec 31 2015. Jan 07, 14, 21 2016.

Name Change IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF KATHRYN THERESA KEMP ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 15CV04091 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):

December 24, 2015

FROM: KATHRYN THERESA KEMP TO: ALITA KATHRYN MARKUS 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 27, 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 24, 31 2015. Jan 7, 14 2016.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF KIMBERLY LORRAINE GOODLAND ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 15CV03987 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: KIMBERLY LORRAINE GOODLAND TO: NOHEALANI KIMBERLY AWAPUHI’OKALANI WAIMEA GOODLAND 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 24, 31 2015. Jan 7, 14 2016.

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.

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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.

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.

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CASE NO:15CV01501 The name and address of the court is: (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.

Deputy (Delegado) Published Dec 17, 24, 31 2015.

Jan 7 2016.

WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD; SPECIAL NOTICE OF LAWSUIT (Pursuant to Labor Code section 3716 and Code of Civil Procedure

Computer/Tech

Business Opportunity OBTAIN CLASS A CDL IN 2 ½ WEEKS. Company Sponsored Training. Also Hiring Recent Truck School Graduates, Experienced Drivers. Must be 21 or Older.

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SENIOR SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING Provides expert technical knowledge in the form of systems design and administration, programming, consultation, and project management.

Supports research activities on College resources, consults with faculty and researchers in the support of their research, and works to integrate research labs into the College infrastructure. Acts as

PUBLIC NOTICE OF MITIGATED NEGATIVE DECLARATION As required by the California Environmental Quality Act, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Fisheries Restoration Grant Program is providing Public Notice of the completion of a Mitigated Negative Declaration for a proposed project to enhance the capability of streams to produce anadromous salmonids by maintaining, restoring and improving stream habitat essential to salmonid production.

Project Location: Various streams in Del Norte, Humboldt, Marin, Mendocino, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Siskiyou, and Sonoma counties.

Description of Project: This project will use grant funds approved by the California Legislature to initiate activities that are designed to restore salmon and steelhead habitat in coastal streams and watersheds that historically produced large populations of salmon and steelhead. Activities will improve spawning success for adult salmon and steelhead as well as increase survival for eggs, embryos, rearing juveniles and downstream migrants. Bank stabilization treatments will reduce sediment yield to streams. Upslope road decommissioning or repair will also help address these widespread problems. The replacement of barrier culverts with bridges or natural stream bottom culverts will allow adult and juvenile salmonids access to additional spawning and rearing habitat.

The installation of instream structures will recruit and sort spawning gravel for adult salmon and steelhead and create summer rearing pools and over-wintering habitat for juveniles.

The mitigated negative declaration can be accessed online at http://www.dfg.ca.gov/fish/ Administration/Grants/FRGP/Mit-Neg-Dec.asp. It is also available for review at the Department of Fish and Wildlife, 830 S Street, Sacramento, CA 95811; the Northern Region office: 1455 Sandy Prairie Ct, Suite J, Fortuna, CA 95540; the Bay Delta Region office: 5355 B Skylane Dr., Santa Rosa, CA 95403; the Central Region office: 20 Lower Ragsdale Dr., Suite 100, Monterey, CA 93940; and the South Coast Region office: 4556 Lampson Ave., Los Alamitos, CA 90720.

The review period for the mitigated negative declaration starts December 22, 2015 and ends January 20, 2016. Please mail comments to: Department of Fish and Wildlife, 830 S Street, Sacramento, CA 95811; made attention to Ms. Karen Carpio. Comments must be received by January 20, 2016. For additional information contact: Mr. Trevor Tollefson, Senior Environmental Scientist at (707) 7251072; Ms. Gail Seymour, Senior Environmental Scientist, at (707) 576-2813; Ms. Margaret Paul, Senior Environmental Scientist, at (831) 649-2882; or, Ms. Mary Larson, Senior Environmental Scientist, at (562) 342-7186.

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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.

You may seek the advice of an attorney in any matter connected with 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.

TAKE ACTION NOW TO PROTECT YOUR INTERESTS Issued by: WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD Name and address of Appeals Board:

third‑tier support, providing leadership and assistance to other staff members in the support of all departmental users. Develops new services either from scratch or by integrating one or more existing products into the existing infrastructure. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience.

Demonstrated problem‑solving, interpersonal, and communication skills. Must be customer service and detail oriented. Expert level knowledge of linux systems and administration.

Ability to program in one computing language and experience with version control systems (Git/SVN).

Proficient in network configuration and troubleshooting. Expert level knowledge of configuration management and orchestration tools.

Experience with LDAP administration and virtualization.

Note: Fingerprinting required, $74,700 ‑ $88,150/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 #20150634

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.

UX Market Research Analyst (Santa Barbara, CA): Conduct UX research/ analysis to promote Graphiq’s brand equity. Monitor site user behavior data to understand the market & drive up important KPIs. Research mktg materials & UX of competitor products. Dive into user behavioral data, use various stat’l models to look for user segmentations, & dsgn personalization strategies.

Dvlp hypotheses to improve user engagement & brand loyalty. Create visualizations of these hypotheses using Photoshop, etc. Validate hypotheses by conducting web surveys, launching user testing sessions, implmtg tracking codes, & building A/B tests. Collect data from test results, write action reports, & make presentations to sr. mgmt.

Master’s in Mktg or rltd req’d.

Resumes: Graphiq Inc, Attn: Erin Cronin, 101A Innovation Pl, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

Education Bren School of Environmental Science & Management Job Advertisement: Unit 18 Lecturer to teach ESM 211 Applied Population Ecology The Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites applications for a Unit 18 Lecturer to teach a quarter‑long course on applied population ecology. This course focuses on

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.­u csb.­e du/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.

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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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Lead Cook

Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital seeks full‑time lead cook for the day/ evening shift. Job duties include planning and preparing products according to recipes that meet standards of quality and quantity, and meet portion control guidelines.

Temperature control, sanitation and timeliness are equally important.

Knowledge of commercial kitchen equipment operation. 1+ years’ of sous chef or lead cook experience required.

Culinary Arts degree preferred.

Cottage Health offers an excellent DRIVERS – NO EXPERIENCE? Some compensation package that includes or LOTS of experience? Let’s Talk! No above market salaries; premium matter what stage in your career, it’s medical benefits, pension plans, and time, call Central Refrigerated Home. tax savings accounts. Please apply 888‑ online at: www.cottagehealth.­org.

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PORTOLA DINING COMMONS Performs skilled culinary duties and supervises a kitchen serving up to 1,500 meals per shift. Ensures that high standards of food quality, service, sanitation and safety are met according to Dining Services, University and Federal guidelines.

Trains full time and student cooks in new culinary techniques, food and sanitation guidelines. Reqs: HS diploma or equivalency and three years of progressively responsible culinary experience in a high‑volume culinary environment with one year in a supervisory capacity. Advanced knowledge of various cuisines.

Reading, writing, and communication skills in English sufficient to train and direct the work of others. Math skills for recipe development. Knowledge of food safety and sanitation regulations to ensure proper food handling.

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Ability to lift up to 50 pounds and work standing for up to 8 hours per day. Full‑time shift: Sun‑Thurs, 12:00pm‑8:30pm. Days and hours may vary during summer. $16.35‑ $18.79/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. Apply by 1/7/16. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu Job #20150650

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GEVIRTZ GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Directly responsible for managing a dynamic portfolio of successful contract and grant proposals.

Advises researchers and support staff on contract and grant compliance

issues. Responsible for grant proposal preparation and the financial administration of research funds.

Reqs: Excellent organization skills with ability to maintain a high level of accuracy. Ability to work under pressure of strict deadlines while using independent judgment. Demonstrated professionalism, initiative, and analytical skills. Ability to prioritize workload within deadlines. Ability to work independently and as part of a team. Excellent communication skills. Proficiency in Microsoft Excel.

Note: Fingerprinting required. $21.86 ‑ $25.00/hr. 100% time position with full benefits. 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 1/7/16, thereafter open until filled.

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Skilled Major appliance service company looking for quality service technicians/independent contractors.

Call Alex 323‑459‑5181.

Audio and Video Technical Director ‑ Manage and direct all engineering operations for audio and video production company for live performances, overseeing and utilizing all aspects of audio mix, recording, stage lighting, DMX programming, and video equipment from set‑up to transmission for proper sound and image quality. Experience required.

Location: Solvang, CA. Employer: Eskimo Products, Inc. Send CV to: Joseph Hinkens, 1655 Fredensborg Canyon Rd., Solvang, CA 93463.

DEAN OF STUDENTS OFFICE Represents UCSB in the campus‑adjacent community of Isla Vista to maintain productive relationships between the campus and the community, respond to community needs, and connect UCSB resources for the benefit of the community. Establishes and develops collaborative approaches to address neighborhood issues which impact the quality of life for 20,000 residents (half of whom are UCSB students). Provides guidance and direction to specific registered campus organizations that serve special population’s programs.

Reqs: BA in Social Science or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience. Fluency in

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Spanish (both written and verbal). At least three years’ experience working in a higher education setting with knowledge of UC campus policies and working with community initiatives in support of the campus and community relationship. Notes: Fingerprinting required. Mandated reporter for requirements of child abuse. Salary 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. Apply by 1/19/16.

Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20150638

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COMPASSION

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.

Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital

Clinical • Telemetry Technician • Unit Care Technician – SICU • Unit Care Technician – Surgery

Nursing • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Anesthesia Bed Control Coordinator (RN) Clinical Manager – Telemetry Clinical Nurse Specialist Clinical Quality Consultant CRN – Surgery Electrophysiology Emergency Psychiatric Infection Control Practitioner Manager – Cardiology Manager – Palliative Care Manager – Surgical Trauma Med/Surg – Float Pool MICU Neurology/Urology NICU Nurse Practitioner – Nights Orthopedics Peds PICU Pulmonary Renal SICU Surgery Surgical Trauma Telemetry Transfusion Suite

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 • Pharmacy Tech • Speech Language Pathologist II – Per Diem

Cottage Rehabilitation Hospital • Psychologist (Temporary)

Non-Clinical

Cottage Business Services

• Administrative Director – Surgical Services • Assistant to the President • Catering Set-up – 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 • Librarian II • Manager – Nutrition • Research Analyst & Project Development Specialist • Room Service Server – Temp • Security Officers • System Support Specialist, Onbase • Systems Support Analyst – Supply Chain • Unit Coordinator – Surgical Trauma

• Benefits Consultant • Marketing Event Coordinator • Organizational Development Consultant/Trainer • Patient Financial Counselor – Credit/Collections • Sr. Graphic Designer • Supervisor – Admitting • Supervisor – Patient Business Services

Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital • RN – Emergency – Per Diem & Part-Time • RN – Med/Surg – Per Diem

Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital • • • • • • •

CNC – Nursing Administration CRN – Nursing Administration Environmental Services Rep Physical Therapist RN – ICU – Nights RN – Med/Surg – Nights Security Officer

Pacific Diagnostic Laboratories • • • • • •

Anatomic Path Technician Certified Phlebotomy Techs Clinical Lab Scientists – Nights Cytotechnologist – Per Diem Histotechnician Lab Assistant II

• Please apply to: www.pdllabs.com • RENTAL & RELOCATION ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE FOR SELECT FULL-TIME POSITIONS • CERTIFICATION REIMBURSEMENT

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.

Excellence, Integrity, Compassion

Please reference “SBI” when applying. EOE

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27 Calcutta coin 28 Army officer below captain, in slang

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51 Cornell of Cornell University 52 Fr. holy women 53 “Consarnit!”

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Happy Holidays from the Santa barbara independent See Page 9

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

1037 Estrella Dr | $2,600,000 4 beds 3 baths Carla Reeves 805.689.7343

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

121 Juana Maria Ave | $715,000 3 beds 2 bath Kelly Knight 805.895.4406

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

LAND & LOTS

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

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Santa barbara county SaleS area

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buyer

price

date

CARPinteRiA

BiCKeL RiCHARD H tRUSt

StReet WALteR C JR eU

$790,000

12/11/15

5390 eL CARRO Ln

BURGGRAF Anne e tRUStee

BeCKeR DAViD eU

$535,000

12/11/15

6048 JACARAnDA WAY B 4689 mORALeS St

CUYAmA

mOnK miCHeLe O

BRADFORD DOmini eA

$79,000

12/11/15

GOLetA

tAUB KennetH

CARROLL GReGORY F tRUStee

$11,100,000

12/11/15

1064 ViA ReGinA

HALL DAViD R JR

BRADLeY LiSA A tRUSt

$1,125,000

12/10/15

239 RiBeRA DR

GUADALUPe LOmPOC

SAntA BARBARA

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SUmmeRLAnD

FeAZeLLe JOHn K tRUStee

GORDOn mAttHeW K eU

$910,000

12/10/15

654 CAmBRiDGe DR

HeRnAnDeZ SteVe tRtUSt

JOHnSOn SOtt e eU

$977,000

12/08/15

5957 BeRKeLeY RD

SeAWARDS JeFFReY C tRUStee

COFFmAn CHRiStOPHeR F tRUStee

$1,100,000

12/08/15

753 CAtHeDRAL POinte Ln

BeRtRAm eLinOR tRUSt

CUenDet SeBAStiAn eU

$710,000

12/11/15

6245 AVeniDA GAnSO

BOttiAni CeLeSte eU

LUmBeRG SYLViA B

$750,000

12/08/15

503 WinDSOR AVe

CALHOUn tOmASS C tRUStee

COOK A JeAn tRUStee

$885,000

12/08/15

7738 JennA DR

mARQUeZ niCOLAS

LOPeZ mAYRA m eA

$42,500

12/08/15

212 miLLS Ln

LimOn AnnA m

LimOn DAnieL D eU

$210,000

12/11/15

449 tOGnAZZini AVe

DOBRZYnSKA mARZennA

mARtineZ mAtiLDe eA

$335,000

12/10/15

421 S FiRSt St

OAKS tRUSt

DeALBA JeSUS JR eU

$375,000

12/11/15

912 CLemenS WAY

meYeR FReD W tRUSt

COHen PAUL

$275,000

12/10/15

1121 BeLLFLOWeR Ln

WeSt POinte HOmeS inC

SeLLS BetH m tRUSt

$313,000

12/09/15

1401 CROWn CiR

KinG DAViD B

FReemAn ARnettA

$180,000

12/11/15

1414 W APRiCOt AVe

KAVLi FReD tRUSt

KAVLi JOHn e tRUSt

$1,550,000

12/09/15

1130 HiLL RD

JOneS WiLLiAm J tRUStee

BARDAKOS RiLeY FAmiLY tRUSt

$2,495,000

12/08/15

255 BOnnie Ln

WAiS eDWARD A eA

LentZ LAnCe D

$2,300,000

12/08/15

1158 DULZURA DR

HOt SPRinGS inVeStmentS inC

HOt SPRinGS inVeStmentS inC

$535,000

12/11/15

3015 ViStA LinDA Ln

HOt SPRinGS inVeStmentS inC

3025 ViStA LinDA LAne BeACH

$535,000

12/11/15

3015 ViStA LinDA Ln

SeVeRY, DAnA C

BeeRmAnn LeiGH G tRUSt

$3,150,000

12/08/15

2888 eASt VALLeY RD

nAnCY CARteR inVeStmentS

LeeSOn PeteR J iii tRUStee

$1,000,000

12/08/15

653 VeRDe mAR DR A

KieHLBAUCH JAne G tRUSt

SeVeRY DAnA C tRUStee

$1,533,000

12/09/15

1816 GiBRALtAR RD

BRYSOn JULiA e

ABAJiAn KAtHRYn J tRUSt

$925,000

12/11/15

1835 CHAPALA St

FURLAti DARiO tRUStee

HASSeLmAnn eRiCH eU

$600,000

12/10/15

122 W miCHeLtORenA St C

JOneS-StARR GROVe BeACH & De

tURBeViLLe CeLeSte tRUSt

$775,000

12/08/15

1816 De LA VinA St 2

SCHALLA LeOnARD t tRUStee

VAnDeRGRiFt ROnie tRUStee

$1,150,000

12/08/15

400 e PeDReGOSA St K

mCGee LinDA R

HALLeR KimBeRLeiGH eU

$1,120,000

12/11/15

611 e SOLA St

SCHeCHteR JeAnette H tRUSt

SHePHeRD eRiC F

$1,130,000

12/08/15

859 JimenO RD

HeStHAL FAmiLY tRUSt

WOOD WiLLiAm A tRUStee

$750,000

12/11/15

315 e CARRiLLO St

FiGUeROA inVeStORS LtD

BARiL mAX H tRUStee

$13,422,500

12/08/15

614 CHAPALA St

HUnt DOnALD B JR tRUStee

BiSHOP CLiFFORD R eU

$629,000

12/08/15

331 W miCHeLtORenA St

StOWe miCHAeL W eU

eWARt JAnet L tRUSt

$751,000

12/10/15

927 W VALeRiO St

ALAmAR DentAL LLC

DYLY PROPeRtieS LLC

$829,000

12/11/15

2780 StAte St 6

miKO PeteR eU

PARRiS WiLLiAm tRUStee

$198,000

12/10/15

1402 LA ViStA RD

WeSt PHiLLLiP n tRUStee

JeenSen meGAn S eU

$380,000

12/08/15

803 FAWn PL

mORenO meLiSSA V eA

ZieBeLL miCHAeL J eU

$855,000

12/09/15

4004 ViA LUCeRO Unit 8

COFFmAn, CHRiStOPHeR F

ReeD timOtHY S

$1,150,000

12/08/15

4680 GAte WY

PeRRYmAn Kim L

FOnG COLLeen tRUStee

$33,000

12/09/15

4345 mODOC RD

KeenAn RiCHARD eU

GiORGi RAnDALL eU

$377,500

12/09/15

4599 CHeRRY AVe

mCCASLin JeRRARD W eU

SmitH BRiAn eU

$615,000

12/09/15

1232 COSimA Ln

PitA BenJAmin P eU

SHeLLeR BRent S

$340,000

12/09/15

120 ROSS Ln

BReWeR SCOtt D eU

HOSSLi SteVen eA

$370,000

12/11/15

965 BROOKSiDe AVe

WHite nORmAn L tRUStee

GRiFFitH JOe H eU

$350,000

12/09/15

4046 HiLLVieW RD

HeAD miCHAeL eU

HeAD CHRiS m

$340,000

12/08/15

391 mAJeStiC DR

CHAVeZ ViOLetA

CHAVeZ JOeL eU

$213,000

12/08/15

1012 KinGStOn DR

HUSetH, DOROtHY tRUSt 4/14/05

ROY miCHAeL J JR eU

$345,000

12/10/15

2462 n BentLeY AVe

POmPA 1 LLC

mUnOZ-AntOniO GeROnimO eU

$275,000

12/08/15

518 W BUnnY AVe

RUBin JeRemY

GARCiA eDGAR A A

$297,000

12/09/15

917 e ALVin AVe

StROUB JUStin eU

StROUB BRittnie

$25,000

12/09/15

935 e FeSLeR St

DOnOVAn miCHAeL t tRUStee

mARtineZ HeRLinDO

$240,000

12/08/15

326 W ORAnGe St

CARROLL tHOmAS eA

WiLABee Sm PROPeRtieS LLC

$591,500

12/11/15

515 S LinCOLn St

HOSSLi SteVen eA

StASO JeFFReY W eU

$298,000

12/11/15

504 De ARmOnD PL

meJiA OSCAR eU

RiVALDi JAmeS A tRUStee

$295,000

12/11/15

584 De ARmOnD PL

275 tORO CAnYOn LLC

BURKe PAUL eU

$4,604,000

12/09/15

275 tORO CAnYOn RD

SAntA YneZ

HAStinGS WiLLiAm H tRUStee

GUGLieLmO Pete J JR eU

$712,000

12/08/15

3085 COUntRY Ct

UninCORPORAteD

KeLLeY KennetH G

CORDOVA AnDReS JR eU

$300,000

12/10/15

513 S O PL

ROBeRtS JOSePH S tRUStee

HOLLeY tReVOR S eU

$375,000

12/10/15

1505 GARDeniA St

DAViDSOn JAmeS W tRUSt

mACieL JOSe A eU

$187,000

12/07/15

3319 ViA ARneZ

Kee miCHeLLe

PeReZ COReY m eU

$270,000

12/09/15

1555 CALLe PRimeRA

eDGAR JOHn D ADminiStRAtOR

OCHOA KYLe S eU

$295,000

12/10/15

175 miZAR PL

mCAHRen GORDOn L tRUStee

mOneDeRO COURtneY eU

$476,000

12/10/15

1336 OnStOtt RD

FRAnCO JOHn A iii eA

KniLL eLLen t

$600,000

12/08/15

1240 OnStOtt RD

DRUm CAnYOn LLC

FReeDmAn miCHAeL tRUStee

$3,127,000

12/09/15

2401 DRUm CAnYOn RD

GReGORY eUniCe J eU

CHASe WeStOn J eU

$265,000

12/10/15

506 e mOnROe St

mCCALLiSteR SHAROn D eU

BRUemmeR AntHOnY eA

$170,000

12/08/15

1700 n LYnne DR 48

JAmeS RYAn t

CAStiLLO AnGeL G G eA

$307,000

12/11/15

1649 n CAnYOn DR

CAROn mitCH eU

GOmeZ DAViD W eU

$385,000

12/09/15

502 SUmmeRHiLL DR

PAtteRSOn PAUL

RODRiGUeZ JORGe B eU

$299,000

12/09/15

1120 e KAtHRYn WAY

DiCKeY, eiLeen B

meLenDeZ mARiO

$375,000

12/11/15

911 e FRAnCiS Ln

OH, SOO HYUK

DOS SAntOS VALDeni eU

$315,000

12/11/15

2210 S COttAGe Ln

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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InduStRy newS Santa BarBara HiStorical MuSeuM

by Michael Redmon

The single fatal accident of Santa Barbara’s old streetcar system caused several deaths and dozens of injuries on Easter Sunday, 1904.

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n December 4, at the Four Seasons The Biltmore’s Coral Casino, the Santa Barbara Association of Realtors hosted its 108th reception to name new board officers and present awards.

NEW OFFICERS

AWARDS

Realtor of the Year: Stan Tabler of Coldwell Banker Affiliate of the Year: Jennifer LeMert of Fidelity National Title Howard Gates Award: Dianne Johnson and Brianna Johnson Honorary Members for Life: Louis Manzo of Village Properties; Paul Suding of Village Properties Good Neighbor Award: Barbara Tellefson of Unity Shoppe Distinguished Service Award: Adrienne Schuele of Village Properties Community Service Award: Jarrett Gorin of Vanguard Planning LLC President’s Award: Stu Morse of Goodwin & Thyne Properties; Drew Wakefield of Ramada Santa Barbara

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President: Alec Bruice of Santa Barbara Brokers President-Elect: David Kim of Village Properties Vice President: Adrienne Schuele of Village Properties Secretary/Treasurer: Andy Alexander of Santa Barbara Brokers Past President: Reyne Stapelmann of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Other Directors: Janet Caminite, Justin Corrado, Marcos Lazaro, Stuart Morse, Jordan Robinson, Jean Sedar, Doug Van Pelt, and Justin Dees (Affiliate Director)

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

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anta Barbara had a mule car system from 1875 until 1897 when conversion to electric streetcars took place. This system operated until 1929 when it shut down to make way for the automobile a age. Both systems were basically safe, although accidents did occasionally occur. The worst one took place in 1904.

Accidents on the mule lines were quite rare, primarily because the cars moved so slowly. One accident occurred in September 1883 when the brakes failed on a car moving down State Street near Figueroa Street. Several passengers leaped off before the car left the tracks and smashed into an awning post near Canon Perdido Street. No one was seriously hurt.

Conversion to electricity brought more frequent accidents due to higher speeds, an increase in traffic as the number of automobiles grew, and a greater chance of horses being frightened. Inexperienced drivers of the new-fangled autos added another layer of problems. Traffic flow without signals or stop signs could be haphazard at best. Maintenance of equipment could also be a problem.

The single fatal accident of the streetcar system occurred on April 10, 1904.

The Old Mission was packed on that Easter Sunday. Late that morning, the congregation poured out of the church and quickly filled the two waiting cars.

Shortly after their departure, another car moved up Laguna Street to pick up more Easter celebrants.

Car No. 16 was fairly new to the system. It was a standard-gauge car fitted with a narrow-gauge truck to operate on Santa Barbara’s tracks. The company had purchased two of these large cars in anticipation of opening a new line from Santa Barbara to Carpinteria, a dream that never materialized.

The car had seating for 48; that morning, more than 120 crowded onboard.

No. 16 lurched forward with its seven-plus tons of humanity and started down Laguna, heading for the right-hand curve at Mission Street.

It soon became apparent all was not well. No. 16 whizzed past its first stop just below the mission as it picked up speed. The car barely made the turn at Mission Street as both driver and conductor frantically applied two separate sets of brakes.

Ahead was the sharp turn at the intersection of Mission and Garden.

Passengers began to jump from the car, breaking bones upon impact. The driver, Victor Kelton, threw the motors in reverse in a vain attempt to slow the car. It leaped the tracks at Garden, toppled onto its right side, and, sparks flying, slid across the pavement until it smashed into an electric pole.

Rescuers ran down from the mission and poured out of homes to help. They took to the car with a variety of cutting tools to rescue the passengers. Beneath the car were four people, crushed to death. A fifth victim would later die at the hospital. An additional 30 were injured, 17 of them seriously.

A broken brake casting caused a failure of the front brakes. As a result of the tragedy, these larger cars were no longer put on the steep Mission run, and system-wide schedule changes were implemented to induce speed reductions.

No. 16 was repaired and put back to work on the Westside run. It was renumbered No. 19 in an attempt to fade the memory of the only fatal accident in the history of Santa Barbara’s streetcar systems.

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S.B. Association of Realtors 108th Installation & Awards Reception

OPEN HOUSES Carpinteria 4902 Sandyland Road Unit # 245, Studio, Sun 1-4, $425,000, Keller Williams, Ruth Eggli 805-252-9763

3375 Foothill #933, 2BD/2BA, Sat 1-3 Sun 1-4, $795,000, Village Properties, Susie Maybery 805-684-3415 3111 Padaro Lane, 5BD/4BA, Sun 1-3, $13,900,000, Village Properties, John Henderson 805-689-1066

Downtown Santa Barbara

316 West Pedregosa Street, 2BD/1BA, Sun 1-4, $785,000, Coastal Properties, Gary Goldberg 805-969-1258 101 Por La Mar Circle, 2BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $999,000, Coldwell Banker, Bob Oliver 805-895-6967

2109 Chapala Street, 3BD/2.5BA, Sun 1-4, $1,495,000, Village Properties, Gene Archambault 805-455-2966

Hope Ranch 4178 Creciente Drive, 4BR/3BA, Sun 1-4, $3,995,000, Stones Real Estate, Team Eric and Mary 805-682-6090

The Mesa 241 Palisades Drive, 4BD/3BA, Sun 1-3, $1,345,000, Village Properties, Darcie Dierenfield McKnight 805-637-7772

615 Sunrise Vista Way, 4BD/4BA, Sun 1-4, $1,599,000, Broker Tech Inc., Martin J Bennett 415-881-1887

Mission Canyon 1734 Franceschi Road, 4BD/3.5BA, Sun 1-4 $2,395,000, Keller Williams, Bob Walsmith Jr. 805-720-5362

Montecito 546 San Ysidro Road B, 2BD/2BD, Sun 1-3, $1,299,000, Coldwell Banker, Holly McKenna 805-886-8848

1395 Santa Clara Way, 4BD/4BA, Sun 2-4, $1,565,000, Coldwell Banker, Edna Sizlo 805-455-4567

30 West Calle Crespis, 2BD/2.5BA, Sun 2-4, $965,000, Coldwell Banker, Arielle Assur 805-906-0194

1709 Overlook Lane, 5BD/4.5BA, Sun 1-4, $4,620,000, Sotheby’s, Frank Abatemarco 805-969-5005

3132 Calle Mariposa, 3BD/2.5BA, Sun 1:30-4, $1,599,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Robert Johnson 805-705-1606

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814 Paseo Alicante, 2+BD/2.5BA, Sun 1-3, $959,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Doug Van Pelt 805-637-3684

1252 Santa Teresita Drive, 4BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $2,250,000, Village Properties, Mary Lu Edick 805-452-3258

1746 Prospect Avenue, 2BD/3.5BA, Sat 2-4 Sun 1:304, $1,995,000, Village Properties, Priscilla Bedolla 805-680-7146 1734 Franceschi Road, 4BD/3.5BA, Sun 1-4, $2,395,000, Keller Williams, Daniel Zia & The Zia Group 805-637-7148

San Roque 42 Calle Capistrano, 3BD/2BA, Sun 12:30-2, $849,000, Sotheby’s, Ed Kaleugher 805-963-1391

715 Russell Way, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $959,000, Village Properties, Chris Salvetti 805-705-4040

Santa Ynez Valley 2845 San Marcos Avenue, 4BD/4BA, Sat 1-4, $1,679,000, Engel & Volkers, Jan Finley 805-698-7549

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425 Por La Mar Circle, 1BD/1BA, Sun 2-4, $539,000, Coldwell Banker, Karin Holloway 805-895-3718

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Fun Farmhouse in the Foothills Address: 3971 Foothill Road Status: On the market Price: $1,325,000

21 West Arrellaga Street

Bill Dewey

Year of Construction: circa 1890 Architect: Almon Hiscock Based on information from, among other sources, Survivors; Santa Barbara’s Last Victorians, a publication of the Santa Barbara Historical Museum.

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3971 Foothill Road is currently for sale in Santa Barbara, listed

by Cara Gamberdella of Village Properties Realtors. Reach Cara at 680-3826 or cara@villagesite.com.

Original Owner: Louis and Jane Raffour

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The house has three bedrooms upstairs, including a separate master suite with a walk-in closet, large bathroom, and an inviting balcony overlooking the backyard and the mountains beyond. There is another bathroom and laundry room upstairs and a fourth bedroom downstairs, which could easily be an office or a quiet guest room away from the upstairs activity.

The front yard is fenced, there’s a bocce ball court in the side yard, and the big tree in the backyard even boasts a tire swing. This home—which was just built in 2005, quite new by Santa Barbara standards—is ready for fun. Its next owners should be able to move in, worry-free, and start having their share of fun inside its walls—and outside, too.

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his all-redwood-designed Eastlake Victorian house was probably built around 1890 by Almon Hiscock and was known as the residence of highly respected restaurateurs Louis and Jane Raffour. Their restaurant was located near the present-day City Hall and was known for its distinguished menu and exceptional service. The Raffours operated their restaurant from 1878 until 1924. Upon the death of Mr. Raffour, Jane maintained the property for 44 years.

The decorative Eastlake style was named for Charles Locke Eastlake (18361906), a noted Englishman, author, architectural designer, and critic of the Gothic Revival style. In his book, Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery, and Other Details, he advocated that both furniture and décor in the home should be designed with great pride. Manufacturers in the United States quickly caught on to his ideas from the book and used his drawings to mass-produce Eastlakestyle and Cottage furniture.

The home’s architectural attributes include a spacious bay window on the lower level and a second-story gable where the siding has been cut with pointed edges and used in a decorative motif. Elsewhere there are simple yet ornamental brackets used to enhance the roof’s eaves and front porch.

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here are certain details that I love to find in houses, no matter what their style, age, or temperament. They are small touches for the most part. They aren’t structurally significant; they’re changeable. Yet when I find one, it makes me smile. It makes me feel in sync with whomever decided to add it to the house and to their daily lives.

One of these details is a birdhouse. See? I told you they were small touches. But I love finding a birdhouse in a tree or on the eaves of a house that I’m visiting. It means that a like-minded nature lover left their whimsical mark on the property and that they appreciated the birds who visited the yard enough to earmark a corner just for them.

Another such detail is a trellis. I love flowers. They’re lovely to look at and relaxing to tend. But a trellis takes care, patience, and nurturing.

A house with a trellis means that someone took the time to visualize, to plan, and then to train the flowers to grow just so. Besides birdhouses and trellises, I also love wraparound porches, white picket fences, balconies, and fireplaces.

The house at 3971 Foothill Road has every single one of these traits and more. Besides the fact that it has more than a few of my favorite things, one other important fact about this house is that it is not on Foothill Road.Yes, that’s its address, but, no, that’s not its location. Let me explain.

This four-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath home is down a lane off of Foothill Road, between San Marcos Pass and La Cumbre Road, near La Colina Junior High. While my iPhone wants to call it Cathedral Vista Lane, there are no signs, and the six houses on this little cul-de-sac all bear Foothill Road addresses. Foothill is a busy thoroughfare, but once you turn off onto this quiet lane, there’s no traffic and no noise, and you feel like you’re in the country.

The house itself has a country feel, too. It’s big and high-ceilinged with gleaming hardwood floors and an easy, open flow. The living room is open to the kitchen and dining area and literally opens to the backyard, with French doors leading out onto the aforementioned wraparound porch and steps leading down into the large yard.

I imagine those doors open almost all the time, with kids running in and out of the house, and maybe chasing a dog around, too.

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San roque

dusk donahue

by Dusk Donahue

Forging a Quality old Age

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aintaining or improving quality of life in our older years requires staying stimulated and connected. We need stimulation to keep our bodies moving, our brains active, and our spirits lifted so that we remain engaged in the process of living. Walking, biking, gardening, dancing, and exercise classes can keep us physically active. Reading, listening to music or books on tape, using the Internet, attending lectures, participating in a book club or discussion group, taking field trips—all these keep us learning and our brains engaged.

Our spirits are nourished by spending time in nature, meditating, attending church, and working with nonprofits to better our community or our world, or even just lending others a helping hand.

Connectivity is vital. One form comes from setting up places and ways to connect with nature: Create outdoor places to sit in the sun or the shade for napping, reading, listening to the birds, or appreciating the

by Dennis Allen bees, butterflies, and dragonflies; or grow plants and trees for food, for beneficial insects, and for flowers with their fragrance and beauty. And it’s nice to have a deck, terrace, or balcony where you can watch the clouds, the stars, the moon, and the street life. The area need not be large to surround oneself with nature—a small patio with pots will often suffice. Near views of nature can be as fulfilling as great panoramas if we tune in to the subtle day-to-day changes in plants, weather patterns, and visiting insects.

Another type of connectivity comes from interactions with neighbors, schoolchildren, and nearby businesses. Walking the neighborhood pulls one into regional issues (wildfire preparedness, street repair, noise intrusion, pedestrian safety, etc.) and helps us thrive. Social connectivity through frequent visits with friends, one’s children, and grandchildren (Santa Barbara is an inducement for regular visits if they don’t live in town); through volunteering; or even through the companionship of a pet (pets often get us to exercise with regularity) contributes greatly to quality longevity. Variety is the secret, having people of all ages in our lives with one or more persons to count on when needed.

A few years ago, I had the privilege of serving on the board at Valle Verde, one of our retirement communities. The 400 residents, with an average age of 85, mostly educators and professional people, exhibited a rare curiosity and engagement with life. I enjoyed many in-depth, challenging conversations with the vibrant residents, frequently on the subject of climate change. Of note, they received state awards for greening their community. They were definitely not “checking out.”

Old age is an achievement involving a good bit of luck, but achieving quality in old age is intentional and can be the culmination of one’s life.

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.

Area Description

Around the Area

“Storybook” is the perfect way to describe this predominantly residential neighborhood in a prime part of Santa Barbara.

Decorated with homes in various but always intricately done styles, from the familiar Spanish Colonial to less common English Tudor and French Normandy, this is a safe place for kids and dog-walkers to stroll the tree-lined streets, but it’s also just a few blocks from the most interesting commercial strip of State Street that’s not downtown. Nearly secret parks lurk around each suburban corner, and the neighborhood comes alive during the holidays, especially Halloween, when the storybook sense takes on an even more magical aura.

Named by Governor Portola when he camped at the mouth of the canyon back in 1769, San Roque was once best known in Santa Barbara lore for being a great hideout for bandits in the 1850s. A much more peaceful time of agriculture followed until 1923, when the first housing tracts were arranged on circular streets under the name Rutherford Park.

The rest of the neighborhood was developed in the 1950s following World War II, when a wide range of architectural motifs were in vogue, from Santa Barbara’s beloved red-tile roofs to more whimsical versions of French Normandy farmhouse and even genteel American Colonial designs. The patchwork of styles that exist in the neighborhood today is an attraction unto itself, making walks through the area quite interesting, especially when the homes get decked out for Halloween.

San Roque boasts a very neighborly vibe, and the circular streets keep traf traffic quite slow, so dog-walking and kids playing ball are common sights. You are likely to get to know your neighbors quite well here, so expect plenty of invitations to parties throughout the year.

The community is filled mostly with single-family homes, and the sizes and prices vary widely, though prices tend to be higher than in other areas with similar properties.

The neighborhood is perfectly placed between the wild hiking trails that can be accessed through Stevens Park and the commercial corridor of State Street, where a bevy of shops, restaurants, banks, and other needs await.

Indeed, some of Santa Barbara’s best restaurants sit just blocks away, from the iconic Harry’s Plaza Café in Loreto Plaza to the Italian hub of Via Maestra to the croissants of Renaud’s Patisserie & Bistro. The recent addition of a Whole Foods just up State Street didn’t hurt the scene, either. n

Area Highlights The Neighbors

Longtime Santa Barbara families, retirees, and professionals seeking a stylishly suburban lifestyle close to the city.

Market

Almost entirely single-family homes that tend to be priced higher than comparable properties in other neighborhoods because this is a highly desirable place to live. Ranges widely from ornate mansions to much more modest ranch-style homes.

Lifestyle

Family-friendly and very neighborly, so expect to go dog-walking and backyard barbecue with many people on your street.

You’ll Love

Walking to Renaud’s for croissants in the morning, sipping tea at Vices & Spices, chatting it up with the staff at Chaucer’s Books, exploring the wilds of San Roque Canyon, and having drinks with dinner at Harry’s Plaza Café below photographs of Santa Barbara’s past.

Perfect For

Retirees, families with solid incomes, and those who crave classic California suburban living but in a stylish home that’s close to all you need.

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