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CAUSE FOR CONCERN: CAUSE’s Frank Rodriguez — on the mic — outlines findings of a new report detailing impacts of Santa Barbara’s harsh rental housing market in front of City Hall. Joining him are Jacob Lesner Buxton, Emily Allen (left), Solia Cabrera, Rob Fredericks, City Councilmember Meagan Harmon, and Maricela Morales (right).

New Report Details Housing Woes Latino Tenants Disproportionately Feel Burden of South Coast’s Unforgiving Housing Market

by Nick Welsh anta Barbarans are forever talking about the high cost of housing. On Tuesday morning, organizers with CAUSE (Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy) — a tenants’ rights advocacy group that’s been bird-dogging the South Coast’s rental market for years — gathered in front of Santa Barbara’s City Hall and reported that 43 percent of the tenants they’d surveyed had experienced rent increases of $100 or more in the past five years. Likewise, the CAUSE report found that 15 percent of the tenants surveyed had been evicted in the same time period.

The report is based on 20-question interviews conducted with 590 tenants — mostly low-income Latino families— living in the five cities from Oxnard to Santa Maria. The punch line of the report was not merely how unforgiving the South Coast rental market is; it was the extent to which that burden is disproportionately felt by Latino families.

Santa Barbara renters, the report noted, are significantly more “cost-burdened” than homeowners. In Santa Barbara, 67 percent of homeowners are white, while 24 percent are Latino. Only 29 percent of homeowners, the report found, qualify as cost-burdened —meaning more than 30 percent of household income goes to housing — while 55 percent of Santa Barbara tenants fall into that category. In fact, CAUSE organizer Maricela Morales exclaimed, Santa Barbara County tenants have the dubious distinction of being the sixth most cost-burdened out of California’s 58 counties. “That’s something we don’t want to strive for,” Morales said in front of City Hall.

Based on statistics provided by Zillow, CAUSE found rents increased by 27 percent in the past five years while median wages increased by only 8 percent. Nearly 20 percent of survey-takers reported moving to another home, almost 10 percent to another city, and 14 percent to another family’s home. As many as 38 percent cut food or health costs. Nearly

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Fredericks called attention at the press 80 percent reported experiencing significant habitability issues — pests, mold, and broken conference to a general proposal that would pipes being the most common. Only 43 per- go to the City Council later in the day: to cent said the issues were fixed by the landlord build as many as 56 new rental units on the after being reported. city-owned parking lot located at Castillo and “This is a call to action,” said Morales. Carrillo streets. For that plan to work, City “Ultimately, words do not put a roof over our Hall would have to contribute the parking lot heads.” land, and the Housing Authority would have Mandatory leases are necessary, she stated, to find the financing. as are just-cause eviction protections and rouAlthough many details have yet to be tine habitability inspections. But more hous- ironed out, Fredericks said the project would ing needs to be built, she added, especially provide no parking. The units would go to for people on the low end of the pay scale. people making 80-120 percent of the area In the past several years, 2,677 new units of median income, or to the so-called “missing rental housing have been built or approved middle” typically passed over by developers in the county targeting people making above seeking density bonuses offered by City Hall moderate income; by contrast, she said, only 306 new units ‘These numbers show what we targeting very low-income tenants have been built. already know — that we have a Perhaps the most startling juxtaposition in the report was big crisis in Santa Barbara.’ the number of vacant housing —Rob Fredericks, units compared to the numexecutive director/CEO ber of homeless people in the of city Housing Authority county. According to the Census, there are nearly 10,000 of the former, and, according to a recent home- to encourage the building of rental housing.

Fredericks said the proposed development less survey, nearly 2,000 of the latter.

Supporting CAUSE at the press confer- would select car-less tenants so that neighence was Rob Fredericks of the city Hous- bors wouldn’t feel the limited-parking pinch. ing Authority. “These numbers show what Preferential treatment would be given to rentwe already know — that we have a big crisis ers who worked downtown, and rents would in Santa Barbara,” said Fredericks. be kept about 20 percent below market rates.

That’s a reflection, he added, of a It was about this time last year that Frederbroader crisis both statewide and nation- icks’s proposal to build 40 “tiny homes” on the ally. Nationally, for every 100 low-income site—as supportive housing for the chronihouseholds, there are only 35 available cally homeless—was blown out of the water and affordable units. It’s no wonder half by neighborhood critics. During Tuesday’s a million people, he said, are homeless. council deliberations, the new proposal was Congress needs to be lobbied to increase received with enthusiasm; even Councilmemexpenditures for the tax credits necessary ber Kristen Sneddon, typically against excesto build affordable units, but the city needs sive density, pushed for maximum density. to consider issuing bonds for new afford- But councilmembers also made it clear that able housing construction. Los Angeles Fredericks and the Housing Authority had to and Alameda counties have already done hash out their plans with the neighbors. n so.

Chadwick (pictured), the Santa Barbara Zoo’s male African lion, was humanely euthanized on 12/5 after battling a degenerative illness. The mean life expectancy for lions in captivity is 16.9 years; Chadwick was 21. He was born at the Indianapolis Zoo in 1998 and arrived in Santa Barbara in 2003. He shared his enclosure with female lion Gingerbread, with whom he sired two offspring.

Plans for more lions to take up residence in the zoo’s Cats of Africa exhibit are in the works and may involve a male-female pair.

COUNTY On 12/9, Judge Colleen Sterne doubled-down on her January tentative ruling that the California Coastal Commission and the State Coastal Conservancy failed to protect the public interest when it quietly settled a coastal access lawsuit with the Hollister Ranch Owners Association and gave up the public’s right to visit Cuarta Canyon beach. Sterne vacated the settlement in a 48-page ruling that found in favor of the Gaviota Coastal Trail Alliance, which sprang up to fight the settlement. The parties meet before Judge Sterne again on 12/16.

Goleta’s Planning Commission approved a resolution to align the city’s accessory dwelling unit (ADU) ordinance with state law.

Commissioners increased front and secondary setbacks on corner lots to 20 and 10 feet, respectively; the state’s overall setback is four feet. The rules also speed up approval to 60 days from 120 days, require approval of projects that conform to state law, increase sizes and number of ADUs on a lot, and impose ADUs on multifamily dwelling lots. The City Council takes it up on 1/21.

STATE Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced on 12/6 a block on insurance companies canceling, or not renewing, homeowner policies for residents near a declared wildfire disaster. As many as 800,000 property owners could be affected by Lara’s moratorium. Earlier research by his agency showed that 10 percent more people lost their policies after last year’s massive wildfires than in previous years and that the number of people seeking new policies with the state’s insurer, the FAIR Plan, increased dramatically. n

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n Santa Barbara County, 38,000-39,000 people utilize food stamps through CalFresh, California’s version of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Now, the Trump administration is imposing new conditions that would lead to around 1,700 county residents losing those benefits, which average $148 a month, when the rule goes into effect in April 2020.

ure that applies to five out of 58 counties in California.

“The basic premise here is that taking people’s food benefits away will act as a ‘motivator’ to go find a job, but that is simply not something that the science supports,” said Maria Gardner, deputy director of the county’s Department of Social Services. “The truth is that a lot of the jobs out there don’t offer the stability or wages needed to lift yourself out of poverty.”

‘The basic premise here is that taking This trend is not confined to Santa Barbara. A recent people’s food benefits away will act study showed that around as a “motivator” to go find a job …’

44 percent of all Americans —Maria Gardner, deputy director of the now work in low-wage county’s Department of Social Services jobs.

In 2017, around 13 percent of households with children Current rules state that work-eligible, in the county were below the Federal Poverty able-bodied adults without dependents Line, and around 33 percent were above the must be working at least 20 hours a week poverty line, but still failed to reach economic to qualify for SNAP benefits. If they aren’t self-sufficiency. meeting those requirements, recipients Experts like Caitlin Rathe, a PhD student are eligible for just three months’ worth at UCSB who writes on the American welfare of benefits over the course of three years. system, say that programs that train and reStates previously had the ability to skill workers, as well as a higher minimum waive these requirements for certain wage, could be part of the solution. “If we had counties based on exceptional economic a living wage that people could survive on, or circumstances, such as high unemploy- programs that helped train people, that would ment. The new rule takes away that abil- be really helpful,” said Rathe. “But the fact is ity, unless the counties in question have that these services just aren’t very robust, and unemployment rates over 6 percent, a fig- they aren’t widely available.” —Brian Osgood

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nce again, the City of Santa Barbara is being sued over its crackdown on unpermitted vacation rentals. But this time, the plaintiff is not vacation-rental operator Theo Kracke, who won his suit against the city earlier this year.

The plaintiff in this case is a two-man association, known as the Santa Barbara Inland & Coastal Property Rights Association. It’s made up of Eric Ryan, a condo vacation-rental operator, and James Fenkner, his neighbor who owns a vacation rental in the same complex.

Fenkner’s suit, which comes after a unanimous 2015 City Council vote to ban all vacation rentals in residential zones city-wide, is over one of his two Santa Barbara properties — a condo on Bath Street he has rented out as a 30-days-or-less vacation rental. The city told Fenkner multiple times from 2013 to 2015 that he could not use his property as a short-term rental unless he converts it to a hotel, but Fenkner said he doesn’t want to because he plans to eventually live in the condo.

He also said the condo has been used as a vacation rental for 15 years, long before he owned it. He said he only ran into trouble with the city when he registered it as a business. He said that immediately after filing the legal claim two years ago, owners of rentals in the R-4 Zone, where his and

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POINTING THE FINGER: James Fenkner is suing the city over a condo on Bath Street he has rented out as a short-term vacation rental.

Ryan’s Bath Street condos are located, were given licenses to continue operating, and he said he has continued to pay transient occupancy taxes and rent out his unit ever since.

S.B. Superior Court Judge Thomas Anderle issued a tentative ruling in their favor on six out of seven points in a summary judgement motion by the city. The tentative ruling does not mean the case is a slam dunk; rather, it means Anderle found six of Fenkner’s points to be worthy of actually going to trial and won’t be immediately thrown out. The case will go to trial in early spring 2020.

—Delaney Smith

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FIRE DRILL: Messaging missed the mark in a few ways during the Cave Fire, including a technical glitch that delayed alerts from going out and residents receiving messages in the wrong language.

Sending the Right Message?

County Working Kinks Out of Emergency Alert System Following Cave Fire

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patch alert goes out, all emergency messages following have to go through a representative from about 14 county agencies before being sent to the public, which eats up a large amount of time. The messages must be sent twice — once in Spanish and once in English — because bilingual alerts are required by law.

The county’s main public alert tool is ReadySBC. Currently there are 331,135 registered accounts with ReadySBC, a huge increase from just a year ago, when only 52,850 were registered.

ReadySBC alerts (previously known as Aware & Prepare) are powered by Everbridge, which also runs Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), a federal public-messaging system that goes through the Federal Emergency Management Agency and uses cell phone towers. WEA is the only alert system the public doesn’t need to sign up for ahead of time to receive alerts.

Although Everbridge can be incredibly helpful in creating a single platform to send out multiple messages, the system is too easy to trip, such as when the simple letter ñ in a Spanish message shut down the whole Everbridge platform. Although this was a machine error rather than a human one, it needs to be addressed before the next emergency hits.

“The emergency notices were sent too late at night,” said Greg Trainor, whose house was in the “voluntary” zone during the Cave Fire. Many people living in the same zone also reported receiving such notifications after 10 p.m. Tuesday night and were concerned that if the Cave Fire had been a deadlier situation, they would have never woken up to see the notification.

Though the county is taking great strides to improve its notification system, it’s still up to Santa Barbarans to make sure they’re signed up for ReadySBC and prepared to evacuate in emergencies even without the county’s prompting. n

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by Delaney Smith hen the Cave Fire broke out in the Santa Ynez mountains above Camino Cielo around 4 p.m. on November 25, the Santa Barbara County dispatch office quickly realized that flames were headed straight down the hill toward populated parts of the county. They immediately issued an emergency alert.

The first alert went out smoothly. But later in the evening, when evacuation order alerts were about to be sent, the entire messaging system froze. It turned out that when entering the Spanish version of the alert, the tilde over an ñ caused a massive glitch, forcing the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) to get tech support while the evacuation message remained suspended in space.

“I only received one text from S.B. County Aware & Prepare, which was not until 8:30 p.m.,” said Kendra Duncan O’Connor, who evacuated on her own accord at 7:45 p.m.

Monday night. “At this point, my neighborhood was in serious jeopardy. San Antonio Creek Road was on fire.”

Despite these problems, people in other neighborhoods praised the alert system for working better than in any past disasters.

The Cave Fire took no victims and destroyed only one nonresidential structure. The county is now analyzing what worked well with its emergency alert system and what still needs to be fixed before the next disaster strikes.

The county learned from mistakes it made during the 2018 Montecito Debris Flow, when 23 people died, 19 of whom lived in the “voluntary” evacuation zone. Among other errors, the county distributed incorrect evacuation maps.

To correct this flaw, the OEM now has its own full-time GIS [geographic information system] specialist who assists with drawing evacuation maps, according to Raquel Zick, spokesperson for the Sheriff ’s Office.

Zick explained that after the initial dis-

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t a time when craft breweries, wine tasting rooms, and artisanal gin mills appear to be keeping Santa Barbara’s central business district economically afloat, Anthony Wagner — the Santa Barbara Police Department’s civic engagement coordinator — is proposing an ambitious plan requiring conditional use permits for all new licenses to sell wine, beer, and spirits from liquor stores, corner markets, gas stations, and grocery stores. FIRE POWER: Small booze bottles with low price points and high Currently, 7,600 licensees alcohol content have been targeted by City Hall for more oversight. operate in the tri-county area — 146 are within city limits. These has had had to cut specialty assignments establishments have accounted for 5 per- to maintain patrols at full strength, Wagner cent of all calls for service in the past five said the department can no longer handle years, costing City Hall, Wagner said, about so many alcohol-related calls for service. $800,000 a year. Many places, he charged, Fees from violations could generate the sell miniature bottles of hard liquor for 99 $100,000 needed to fund a full-time comcents and single cans of malt-liquor beers pliance officer.

Wagner’s proposal leaves alone the 389 with up to 8.1 percent alcohol content and become gravitational points for domestic bars and restaurants that sell alcohol and violence, graffiti, street drunks, drug sales, the 82 tasting rooms and craft breweries and gang activity. Wagner said 25 other that operate under permits afforded manumunicipalities, including Ventura and San facturers. Though there was no opposition voiced when Wagner presented the proposal Luis Obispo, have similar measures.

According to state guidelines, Santa Bar- before City Council, some in the bar and bara should have only 37 establishments restaurant industry worry that if passed, it’s selling beer, wine and spirits; instead, it has only a matter of time before they, too, will be 67. At a time when the police department similarly regulated.

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Camp 4, a highly contentious parcel of land in the Santa Ynez Valley, shared space with safe military housing and parental leave for federal employees in a bill that addresses more than 300 separate federal subjects from the “accounting” category to Yemen, and including Indian lands. Before being added to the defense bill, Camp 4 passed the four relevant committees in CHUMASH COUNTRY: A defense bill expected to pass Congress Congress, Rep. Carbajal’s office before the end of the year would place the Camp 4 property into a federal trust. said.

The bill is the result of a yearlong effort between Democrats and Repub- However, after the explosive Washington licans in D.C., according to The Hill. One Post report on Monday that the military hid of the deal busters was the issue of PFAS, or its assessment that the war in Afghanistan per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, cancer- could not be won, presidential candidate causing chemicals found in firefighting foam Sen. Bernie Sanders urged Congress to vote that contaminates groundwater at hundreds down the defense appropriations act, which of military sites. The House version of the failed to “rein in out-of-control spending,” act placed PFAS under the Superfund law. according to Democracy Now, and added Republicans refused to sign it, though the cur- $22 billion to a bloated budget. rent version bans PFAS use by the Pentagon.

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he Santa Barbara City Council trudged through the lengthy plan to build rental units in the heart of downtown Tuesday, a move that could both chip away at the housing crisis and help revitalize the dying State Street businesses.

The council spent hours working with the Planning Commission to discuss and take straw votes on the 22 recommended changes from city staff in November, when it unanimously agreed to move the city’s experimental highdensity rental-housing program to the downtown area and away from the Milpas Corridor. The council did not get through the list of recommended changes in November but completed its votes without the Planning Commission on Tuesday.

The experimental rental-housing program is known as the Average Unit-size Density (AUD) program. It was approved in 2013 as a way to encourage developers to build more housing by allowing greater building density for rental apartments after the city spent 40 years with few to none built at all. It has an initial duration of eight years or until 250 new units were constructed. It’s currently six years in, and more than 225

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Council Votes to Increase Building Height Limits, Protect Historic Districts

“We have to look toward our future,” said architect Brian Cearnal of building heights during public comment. “High ceilings and beauty are not mutually exclusive. It’s been 100 years since the earthquake, and it’s time to reenvision.”

Although several councilmembers and other architects agreed with Cearnal, several others did not and feared the extra height increase might hurt the beautiful Santa Barbara views.

“As an architect of 44 years, I can tell you that it’s easy to build a four-story building in 45 feet,” said architect Gil Barry. “All the extra three feet does is provide luxury 10-foot ceilings. … Building three feet taller will block views, but above all ‘Building three feet taller will else, it is simply not compatible with our cherished block views, but above all else, it small-town character.” is simply not compatible with our Ultimately, the council voted 5-2 in favor of cherished small-town character.’ extending the height to 48 — Architect Gil Barry feet, with councilmem(pictured above) bers Dominguez and Kristen Sneddon dissentnew units have been built. ing. The councilmembers were perplexed At Tuesday’s meeting, the most disputed about where the height increase could take issues involved building height limits and effect, so they voted to take upper State protections for the city’s historic districts. Street out of the equation.

The two topics seemingly confused most of The other highly disputed topic centered on the potential for downtown rentthe councilmembers, though.

“I don’t think we’ve been properly briefed als to negatively impact the city’s historic here,” Councilmember Jason Dominguez landmarks. said. “We’re making decisions on huge “Okay, let’s just put up billboards and swaths of land, and we don’t know the neon while we’re at it if we don’t want to proimpacts.” tect our historic district,” Dominguez said.

Dominguez’s sentiments appeared to be He compared the move to turning Santa shared by the rest of the council at one point Barbara into Culver City. or another, although Mayor Cathy Murillo The council voted 4-3 to keep the Castillo, disagreed with him and said the briefing De la Vina, and Brinkerhoff historic districts from the earlier Planning Commission out of the AUD building zones in order to meeting should suffice. discourage developers from building there.

Currently, the height limit for new buildCity planning staff will take the council’s ings in the Central Business District is 45 votes and further develop the AUD amendfeet, but the proposed change asks for 48 feet ments before bringing them back to the instead. The three-foot difference stirred up council to finally vote them into municipal controversy. n code.

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Democratic Party Food Fights in Races for County Supervisors and Assembly

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o the extent Santa Barbara ever had a monolithic Democratic Party “machine” remains open to debate; what’s becoming clearer by the day, however, is the extent to which the local Democratic Party is riven by many of the same generational and ideological fissures that define its national counterpart. This became obvious with the outpouring of filing statements submitted by candidates running for three of the county supervisorial seats in this March’s election, not to mention the packed house vying for the South Coast’s soon-to-be vacant seat in the State Assembly.

Most obvious is the intraparty food fight now picking up steam for 1st District supervisor between incumbent Das Williams and challenger Laura Capps, both cardcarrying progressive Democrats. Where Williams enjoys stronger ties within the party establishment and the unions, Capps — a member of the Santa Barbara school board — has long enjoyed strong support from the local women’s movement.

The putative pinch point that propelled Capps into this race is cannabis and the extent to which — she claims — Williams and the county supervisors opened their arms too wide and too fast to a new industry that has yet to get its odor issues in check. Capps is pushing to place new limits on campaign donations, charging that such contributions give special interests undue access and influence.

By contrast, the race for the 3rd Supervisorial District — which encompasses parts of Goleta, Isla Vista, and much of the Santa Ynez Valley — was expected to be something of a snooze as incumbent Joan Hartmann fought off a challenge from Bruce Porter, the Santa Ynez businessperson and school boardmember she beat four years ago. Such expectations were unceremoniously dashed this past week, as Hartmann — a former EPA administrator who enjoys strong support from the county’s environmental establishment — discovered last Friday that Isla Vista activist and member of Eco Vista Jessica Alvarez Parfrey was challenging her as well.

Parfrey, who has yet to return calls for comment, made her announcement at a Climate Strike event hosted last Friday hosted by the Sunrise Movement, strong supporters of the Green New Deal. Hartmann, who spoke earlier at the event, was never notified that Parfrey’s announcement was to be the event’s final act. Parfrey had been hired by Hartmann to run her campaign operations in Isla Vista but was reportedly let go a few weeks ago.

The Isla Vista voting block has long been key to the outcome of battles for the 3rd District, which in turn has long been key to the ideological tilt of the board. Parfrey commented on that at Friday’s event; given the importance of Isla Vista voters, she argued, the district should be represented by an Isla Vista resident.

While Santa Barbara’s environmental establishment strongly backs Hartmann, some of the younger and more radical environmental activists affiliated with organizations like the Sunrise Movement have faulted her for not doing more to promote the Green New Deal. It’s not enough that Hartmann voted — as part of a 3-2 majority — to endorse the Green New Deal, they’ve argued; the supervisors need to actually implement its program.

Parfrey has never run for office before, and her announcement caught not just Hartmann but the South Coast’s environmental and political communities by total surprise. While her odds of prevailing would appear slim, her candidacy could hurt Hartmann’s chances of winning the election outright in the March primary and push the contest to a November run-off.

In the meantime, Hartmann’s chief rival, Porter — the onetime U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Commander and Santa Ynez businessperson — has dropped his affiliation with the Republican Party and is seeking to run as an Independent. (Porter has not responded to repeated calls for comment.) This time around, Porter intends to campaign against the supervisors’ policies regarding cannabis — which he’s described as a “debacle” —and in a clear pitch for the Isla Vista vote, to end food insecurity for college students.

Porter’s sailing, however, will be anything but smooth.

Joining the 3rd District Race is Karen “Snakebite” Jones, a libertarian-minded Republican known to be enthusiastically outspoken when it comes to denouncing Porter. Jones described herself as a “tea-party Republican, a free-the-slaves Republican, and an I’m-for-gay-marriageRepublican-if-I-don’t-have-to-make-your-wedding-cake Republican.” Porter, she dismissed as a “Chamber of Commerce, get-off-my-lawn sort of Republican,” if even that, given his declined-to-state status.

Jones ran for the district seat four years ago, sparing little verbal ire when it came to Porter. Rumors abounded of Republican efforts to talk Jones — who serves on the Santa Ynez airport advisory board — out of the race to give Porter a better chance. Clearly, those efforts were for naught.

By contrast, the race for the 4th Supervisorial District — centered in Orcutt — seems positively restrained. Running to fill the vacancy created by the imminent departure of Supervisor Peter Adam, perhaps the most outspokenly conservative supervisor the board has seen in decades, is Adam’s longtime administrative assistant Bob Nelson.

Where Adam has famously worn his heart on his sleeve, Nelson has played a quiet, behind-the-scenes role as the congenially enigmatic conservative who got things done.

For months, it appeared Nelson might run unopposed in the 4th, which is considered the most conservative voting district in the county. But this past week, Diana Perez — an education administrator who for the past five years has served on the Santa Maria school board — took out papers as well.

In the meantime, the race for the Assembly seat is beginning to resemble a starting lineup for the Boston Marathon, with so many Democratic Party hopefuls running against each other that the party has been effectively precluded from endorsing any one candidate.

Santa Barbara Mayor Cathy Murillo would seem the de facto frontrunner given her years in office, name recognition, and strong ties to the union wing of the party machine.

But the field is populated with Democrats long seen as promising and formidable. Of those, Jonathan Abboud, longtime Isla Vista activist and City College trustee, is the most immediately obvious. But for more than 20 years, Elsa Granados quietly kept afloat Standing Together to End Sexual Assault (formerly known as the Santa Barbara Rape Crisis Center) and has generated considerable goodwill in that capacity.

Although Jason Dominguez just lost his reelection bid for the Santa Barbara City Council by just eight votes, he too has name recognition and a demonstrated ability to campaign hard. Dominguez will court the more moderate wing of the party.

The Assembly district includes much of Ventura, and Stephen Blum, an attorney based in Ventura, has jumped in. Blum has impressed with his comedic gifts. Ventura County Supervisor Steve Bennett has not yet taken out papers but is reported to be giving the race serious consideration.

HIGHLY CONTESTED: Incumbent 3rd District County Supervisor Joan Hartmann (center) — whose seat is sought by Republicanturned-independent Bruce Porter (top) and right-winger Karen Jones (bottom) — discovered last Friday that left-wing Isla Vista activist Jessica Alvarez Parfrey (not pictured) is also challenging her.

Running as no-party-preference is Anastasia Stone from Goleta.

To date, the only Republican to enter the fray is a 22-yearold named Charles Walton Cole of Alston Road.

Given state election rules, the top two vote-getters in the March primary — regardless of party affiliation — will face n off in November.

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Opinions FIGHTING CITY HALL: I’ll spare you all the bilious blather about Trump and impeachment, an endeavor both doomed and nec-

essary. Back when the Deep State was still worth a damn, things would never have gotten to this pass. Someone on the Trilateral Commission or the Council on Foreign Relations would have quietly picked up a phone, and after a quick jab from the tip of a passing umbrella, Trump’s hair would suddenly fall out and his voice would elevate an octave or two.

And the world could move on.

Instead, we find ourselves stuck in perpetual Bizarro World where Goliath doesn’t just kick David’s ass but chucks him face first into the woodchipper of history. Desperately, I’ve been searching for alternate Davids.

Two weeks ago, I stumbled onto one, during a Santa Barbara City Council open mic session.

Speaking was Gil Barry, a longtime architect now in the autumn of his discontent.

When Barry speaks, words can’t get out fast enough. Something terrible, he stated, was happening. It turned out Barry’s desperate urgency was the sort that afflicts mild-mannered men who wake up one morning to discover they’ve been living next door to a toxic chemical graveyard. For 40 years.

Barry was not happy. He lives on the Mesa with his wife, and for 30 years, their nextdoor neighbor was an orchid greenhouse

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operation, which—it turns out—used large quantities of pesticides that are so toxic and carcinogenic that the EPA banned them outright in the ’80s. Now the heirs of this property want to scrape up the contaminated payload and haul 170 truckloads of dirty dirt to points elsewhere. After that — though no applications have yet been submitted — they hope to split the three-acre lot so they can build three new ocean-view homes.

Barry worries that the dust particles kicked up during the two months it’s expected to haul away the toxic soil might give him cancer. “They picked the wrong guy to mess with,” he told me. Actually, he used a word other than “mess.” It’s the frequently used acronym for Fornication Under Consent of the King.

Barry’s been known to tilt at a windmill or two before. He’s won some and lost some.

Now he’s taking on City Hall, the ultimate in windmills. And this week, Barry won a significant, if procedural, victory.

Barry is not one for nuanced calibration. Contaminated runoff from the site, he warned, could easily migrate downslope and seep into the lagoon by Hendry’s Beach. His chief concern is Dieldrin, a known carcinogen that doesn’t break down and accumulates over time in one’s body fat. In one particularly inflammatory epistle, Barry wrote, “Tourists, come to Santa Barbara and give your kids cancer.”

Toxicology experts hired by the orchid

heirs say if Barry ate 100 milligrams of the soil per day for 26 years, his risk of cancer would increase by just .03 percent. By contrast, they added, if Barry ate two strips of bacon a day, his chances would jump by 18 percent. A county health official sought to reassure Barry, telling him he already had a one-in-three chance of getting cancer and a one-in-six chance of dying from it.

That didn’t work.

A contractor hired by the orchid heirs offered to put Barry and his wife up—free of charge — in an ocean-front condo in Hawai‘i during the two months of excavation. That didn’t work, either. Barry turned him down. One has to wonder what Barry’s wife thinks.

Barry is also bit by the salami tactics he says agents for the orchid heirs have deployed, “piecemealing” the ultimate project into smaller components to minimize environmental scrutiny and bureaucratic review. It should be noted that the proposed soil scrape has, in fact, been reviewed and approved by the county’s Air Pollution Control District and its Department of Environmental Health Services. That being acknowledged, Barry has a point.

Agents for the orchid heirs have been too cute by half. First, they apply only for a soil remediation permit, saving their housing plans for later. And they claim they’re exempt from having to get a coastal development permit—more onerous and time-consum-

ing—because they are allegedly remodeling the single-family home. Planners with the City of Santa Barbara bought this side-steptwo-step shuffle.

Barry appealed to the Coastal Commission, and this week, the Coastal Commission notified Barry and City Hall that Barry was right. The orchid heirs were not entitled to the “single-family residence exemption” because their application never suggested that any structure will be improved or repaired. That means they need to get another permit, a process that will allow Barry to continue arguing for more stringent mitigation requirements.

As now conditioned, all excavation must stop if the excavation causes dust levels to reach or exceed 50 micrograms per cubic liter.

That’s not good enough, Barry insists. He’s pushing for the 25-microgram limit adopted by the South Coast Air Quality Management District in Los Angeles. County health experts caution that the L.A. standards seem more stringent than they actually are because they allow longer periods of exposure. I don’t pretend to have a competent opinion about that. But Barry does. “I’m not accepting 26 micrograms,” he stated. “I’m not accepting 30.” Then he reminded me, “They’re messing with the wrong guy.”

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Carmen Fierro

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8/29/1932 - 11/9/2019

5/3/1962 - 11/26/2019

California (further information will be shared on social media sites).

Martin Rump

9/14/1966 - 11/22/2019

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Rhoda Rosenthal

7/6/1944 - 10/6/2019

Carmen Fierro, born August 29, 1932, of Santa Barbara, CA passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by her family, on Saturday, November 9, 2019. She is survived by her beloved husband, Raul Fierro of 65 years, sister Consuelo Perez, daughter Victoria Pointer (Michael), son David Fierro (Kaylyn). She is preceded in death by her parents, Juan Perez and Rosario (Jimenez) Perez, siblings Joseph Perez, Guadalupe Romero, and Esther DeLaTorre. She was blessed with seven grandchildren, Brian Pointer (Dalen), Kevin Pointer, Shannon Pointer Sadecki (Ian), Steven Fierro (Miranda), Jaclyn Fierro, Quinn Fierro, and Chase Fierro. She has five great grandchildren, from Brian and Dalen (Luke and Abe), Shannon and Ian (Logan), and Steven and Miranda (Ellory and Mateo).

Carmen arrived in Santa Barbara at age four and attended Lincoln Elementary, Santa Barbara Junior High, and Santa Barbara High School, class of 1951. She worked for local businesses having far-reaching impact in the community, including several lemon packing houses, Knapp Nursery, Woolworth’s, Ott’s Hardware, and Let’s Dine Out. She retired from Santa Barbara County Child Health Department after 16 years of dedicated service to the children and families of Santa Barbara County. She embraced her identity as both a Mexican and American citizen, having travelled the world and welcoming all those she encountered with open arms. Her unconditional love for family kept her heart full. Carmen had an unwavering devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe. On many occasions she could be found with a Rosary in her hands praying for her family, friends, and that all those in the world find the same comfort of peace and grace that filled her heart throughout her life. She will be greatly missed by the many people she deeply touched. May she rest in peace with the conviction of her legacy as an endearing matriarch of exemplary character to soothe her in eternity. She will forever be loved and missed by all those she leaves behind.

A Rosary will be held at 7 p.m., December 19, 2019 at Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church. A Funeral Mass will be held at 10 a.m., December 20, 2019 at Our Lady of Sorrows.

Her burial at Calvary Catholic Cemetery will follow immediately thereafter.

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“The waves whisper to me, calling me to the soft sand.

The water seeps over my feet, surrounds where I stand.”

Quietly, and peacefully, but all too suddenly, Ralph Grijalva left this earth in the wee hours of November 26, 2019.

Ralph was born in Santa Barbara, California on May 3, 1962, and was proud to be an eighth generation native. He attended local schools, including Roosevelt Elementary, La Colina Jr. High, and San Marcos High School. He later relocated to Ventura and graduated from Buena High School. Soon after, Ralph embarked on what would become his career as a construction contractor. As a young man, he honed his skills in the trades and learned what it takes to become successful in the business. Ralph was a lover of the ocean and an avid surfer from the time that he was a teenager.

His passion for the sport took him all over the world, including big-wave surfing spots in South Africa, Australia, Indonesia, Costa Rica, and Bali. His search for surfing adventure led him to the beautiful islands of Hawaii.

It was there that he decided to make his home, and settled on the North Shore of Kauai. Ralph spent many years there as a successful construction contractor, and most recently as a property manager at Sea Lodge Condominiums in Princeville, Hawaii.

He developed a love for woodworking and began creating beautiful furniture from exotic hardwoods. To Ralph, family was everything. He was a singlefather of three beautiful daughters, Shanice, Sanoe, and Ella, with whom he shared his passion for the ocean. He thought nothing of loading up his truck in the morning with everything the three might need for a day at the beach. As for himself, all he needed was his surfboard.

He loved experiencing the beautiful Kauai sunsets with his girls at his side. He is survived by his daughters, parents Judy Manriquez (Eugene, deceased) and Ralph Grijalva, brothers Jeffrey Grijalva (Brenda), Gene Manriquez, Jr., and sister Jeanie Cornet (Danny), and nieces and nephew, Carolyn, Sawyer, and Bryan. He is preceded in death by his beloved grandparents Ralph and Henrietta Grijalva, and Eleanor Perez. A memorial “paddle-out” is planned for December 29, 2019 at Hanalei Pier, in Hanalei Bay, on Kauai. In addition, a separate paddle-out event is being planned for a later date and will be held in Ventura,

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Martin Rump, beloved husband, father, son, uncle, and brother, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly of a heart attack on November 22, 2019.

Martin was born on September 14, 1966, in San Gabriel, California to Albert and Irmlind Rump (nee Matthies). He grew up in Santa Barbara where he attended Peabody Elementary and La Colina Jr. High School and graduated with the Class of 1984, from San Marcos High School. After attending Santa Barbara City College, Martin joined the U.S. Army and served as Military Police, performing law enforcement duties on Oahu, Hawaii from 1988 until 1992. While in Hawaii, Martin met the love of his life, Elena (nee Lindborg), to whom he was entirely devoted. Together since 1991, Martin lived with Elena and her family, helping raise their niece Bernice and nephew Kaipo, until they purchased a house in Ewa Beach, Oahu. They married in 1999. In 2007, Martin and Elena moved to the mainland settling first in Santa Barbara, then Memphis, TN. They returned to SB County and lived in Isla Vista, Lompoc, and eventually settled in Santa Maria. Martin loved children and dogs. Because he had always wanted children, the greatest joys in Martin’s life came from the births of his son Micah in 2009 and his daughter Matelina in 2010. A super-dedicated father, he spent all of his free time with his children. Martin was a collector of many things, including baseball cards, Star Wars memorabilia, stamps, and coins. He loved playing golf and taking his kids to the beach.

He always had a science fiction book in progress. A loyal and committed man, Martin was devoted to his immediate and extended family and had several cherished lifelong friends.

Martin is survived by his wife, Elena and his children Micah and Matelina, parents Irmlind and Albert of Santa Barbara, his brother Max (Simone) of Farmington Hills, Michigan, his godchildren Toma Savae and Sheena AA Lindborg, as well as by numerous aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and cousins.

There will be a Graveside Service at 12:00 P.M., on December 12, 2019, at the new part of the Santa Maria Cemetery, (1501 South College Dr., Santa Maria, CA 93454). A reception lunch

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Robert Henry Minc was born in Tayport, Scotland on July 6,1944 to Henry and Catherine Duncan Minc. Robert passed away on October 6,2019.He is survived by his brothers Ralph(Vicki) and Raymond(Lisa).

While he attended Gainesville High School, Florida, he excelled in swimming and diving.He won two events at the Florida State Breaststroke Championships.During the Vietnam War,Robert enlisted in the U.S. Airforce in 1966.

He served two tours of duty in Vietnam.

After his Air Force tenure, he worked until retirement in the field of laser logistics with Aerospace and Defense Companies in the Santa Barbara area.

Janis A. Shinn

5/16/1929 - 11/29/2019

Janis A. Shinn died peacefully in her sleep on November 29, 2019 at Serenity House in Santa Barbara, Ca. She was born in La Grande, Oregon to Leslie Duncan and Christine (Wheatley) Duncan. She graduated from Medford High School and attended Oregon State University.

Janis, a strong and resilient woman was a champion of her family, involved in her community, and knitted together a vast circle of friends. All were welcome into her home.

Janis met the love of her life, William Shinn, in Southern California and the pair moved to Goleta in 1961where they raised their five children; Vicky, Dave, Tom, Kathy, and Pat. Bill and Janis loved to travel and take the back roads, snow and water ski, play tennis, and spend time at the beach. They cherished their time with family and friends at their Lake Nacimiento cabin.

Janis was predeceased by her husband, William Shinn, in 2016. She is survived by her five children: Vicky Derscheid (Ke n), David Crocker (Lucille), Thomas Crocker (DeeDee), Kathryn Morales (Martin), and Patrick Shinn, 12 grandchildren, and 22 great grandchildren.

Janis was energetic and loved life, she will be missed by all who knew her.

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4/2/1931 - 11/18/2019

Rhoda Rosenthal was born in Bayonne, New Jersey on April 2nd, 1931 to Abram Turteltaub and Gertrude Wigdor Turteltaub. She spent two years at Bennington College and finished her BA at Sarah Lawrence College in 1975. She attended Yale Law School, breaking age and gender barriers, and graduated in 1979. This led to a career as counsel for W.R. Grace Restaurant Group. Living in Westport, Connecticut from 1955 to 1985, Rhoda was married to Edwin R. Green from 1950 to 1970. Subsequently she married Herbert C. Rosenthal in 1971 and they were together until his death in 2007. She and Herb relocated to California in 1985, settling in Santa Barbara in 1991. Rhoda was an accomplished pianist, studying piano at Bennington College and continued to play throughout her life making public performances regularly. She also played string bass in the Norwalk (Connecticut) Symphony and was on the symphony board (1980s). She was a founding member of the Lib Trio of Westport, Connecticut. Rhoda was an active and dedicated volunteer with Santa Barbara Planned Parenthood for more than 20 years, and was on the board of the Santa Barbara Library and the Women’s Board of the Santa Barbara Symphony.

Rhoda was an avid crossword puzzle solver, doing the New York Sunday Times puzzles in ink and a competitive Scrabble player. She is survived by her children Teresa Green (Ettore Cosentini, of Uzzano, Italy), Bill Green (Linda Durakis, of Westport, Connecticut), and Maria Green Cohen (Jeffrey Cohen, of Bexley, Ohio). She is also survived by her step-children Rob (Sonia Banwer), Steve, and Larry Rosenthal; and her eight grandchildren Sam and Annie Rosenthal; Tessa, Amelia, and Sophia Green; Max and Annabelle Cohen; and Matteo Cosentini.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in her memory to Planned Parenthood. A celebration of her life took place on Friday, December 6 at the Valle Verde Theater in Santa Barbara, CA.

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oth as an elected official and now as a private citizen, I have always enjoyed reading the Independent and have the utmost respect for your publication, editors, and writers.

I am compelled to share my concerns about “The Cannabis Corner,” as last week’s column — “A Ganja Gift Guide” — seemed particularly misguided. While the author reminds us that someone who receives a gift of cannabis must be 21 or older, the content of the gift guide is geared to those of any age. The messages are shocking: Purchase a “brightly colored clutch that says ‘I AM HIGH’” or a gift box of “cannabis goodness” that will come with a “blue ribbon and a tree will be planted in your honor.” The author goes on to promote “infused gummies” and then “coloring books” that take on a whole new meaning when “paired with pakalolo.” Finally, the highlight is a late-night delivery service that keeps “proper stoner hours from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m.” The appeal to the drug culture and to our youth is undeniable.

As you know, policymakers, including school boardmembers and county supervisors (I’ve served as both), have spent decades attempting to remove the allure and ability of alcohol, tobacco, and drugs to influence young people or risk the health of others. Just as the community is trying to ensure that youth and pregnant or breastfeeding women don’t use cannabis, and medical professionals are increasingly clear about the dangers cannabis use presents to youth and pregnant or breastfeeding women, this column makes that work even more difficult.

I get it. There is a market and interest in cannabis, and despite my many efforts as a supervisor to reduce the scope of our Santa Barbara County ordinance, our county has opened the floodgates to its production and distribution. I know that it is your responsibility to report a balance of news and opinion pieces. Yet it seems an effort could still be made on your part to not encourage or glamorize the use of cannabis in a free promotion cloaked as a column in the Living section. —Janet Wolf, S.B.

Medicare Already for All

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emocrat liberal nitwits who propose “Medicare for All” do not know what Medicare is.

All Americans are forced to contribute to Medicare when they start to earn an income. Since it

was cast on the American public by liberal President Johnson in 1965, Medicare takes your contribution out of your salary along with your Social Security and payroll taxes. You have no choice. It is the law!

Further, it is no insurance until you have paid into it for 40 years. Then, when you turn 65, if you live that long, Medicare pays part of your medical expenses, if any, and you keep on paying for it until you die. There is nothing free about Medicare.

In the meantime, while you work, you have to buy personal insurance. Medicare is the worst insurance ever invented by liberals; even worse than Obamacare. —Justin M. Ruhge, Lompoc

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well-known sage once queried: “What does it profit a person if s/he gains the whole world but loses his/her soul?” In the United States, something akin to hysteria in response to perceived fears regarding a loss of economic survival has resulted in selective blindness and denial of the veracity of what is taking place between our president and the Ukraine.

Since when is it conscionable to abandon the defense of a vulnerable nation by withholding funds vital to its democratic existence to perpetuate the personal agenda of the purported leader of the free world?

It is time for all Americans to abandon any myopic perceptions that they might be harboring and hold our president accountable, lest we lose our very souls.

—Elizabeth Araluce Mason, Goleta

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¶ Last week’s news report on the city’s homeless czar should have said the Santa Barbara Foundation gave $150,000 to SBACT, not $200,000. And, after the Independent went to press last week, rain caused the Santa Barbara Zoo to reschedule the Snow Leopard Festival & Sledding at the Zoo to January 26, 2020.

The Independent welcomes letters of less than 250 words that include a daytime phone number for verification.

Letters may be edited for length and clarity. Send to: Letters, S.B. Independent, 12 E. Figueroa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101; or fax: 965-5518; or email: letters@independent. com. Unabridged versions and more letters appear at inde pendent.com/opinions.

Constance Hannah 1925 - 2019

Memorial gathering January 4, 2:00pm Environmental Defense Center RSVP to ConnieandBobHannah@gmail.com for details.

Connie died on Saturday, November 23 at the age of 94.

She knew many people in Santa Barbara from her work as a frequent spokesperson for the League of Women Voters of Santa Barbara, and from her previous work at the UCSB Child Care Center during the l980's.

Earlier in her career she had always worked, and when she moved to Southern California she was anxious to find new work to do, and eager to see as much of the far west as possible. She and her husband Bob accomplished both, and learned to love the very different climate from their previous home in Denver. They had eagerly explored all of that state during their early marriage, when Bob had served in the Army at Fort Carson, in Colorado Springs and Connie had worked in various social service agencies.

Connie was born in 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio and spent her entire childhood in the suburb called Bay Village. It was a small and charming town outside of Cleveland, on Lake Erie. The Lake played a big part in her family’s life because the children all learned to swim at a very early age, and spent their teen free time swimming, boating and beaching.

Connie's own mother died when she was two, and when her father remarried, she had the good fortune to have an educated, perceptive mother. Elizabeth had three children of her own, Doris, Jean and Dick, and was determined to treat all of her children equally. Because both Libby and Harry Watson had graduated from college they assumed that their children would too, and all of them did, finding successful careers as a result. All of Connie’s siblings have survived her.

Connie always felt that she had had an idyllic childhood, in a place with great natural beauty and with a lot of freedom when she was young. As a result she began to think for herself at about 15, and insisted on attending Antioch College in Southern Ohio. There she joined the work-study program, and had work experiences at the National Labor Relations Board in Chicago, at

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Time-Life magazine in New York, and on the city room staff of the Detroit News. She majored in psychology and journalism. She expected to continue working in news rooms, but when the war ended, the men returned to their previous jobs, and women were all sent to do the society pages. That caused her to rethink her career.

She returned to college on an assistantship in the Child and Adolescent Psychology Department at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. She received her Masters Degree there, and met her husband Bob, who came from Denison, Iowa. They had been married for 68 years at her death.

When they lived in Colorado, Connie worked for 17 years at the Florence Crittenton Home in Denver. That was the largest maternity home in the country, with its own hospital, school for the girls, and counseling program. Colorado had an excellent law requiring that all unmarried mothers have full counseling, and only release their child in a formal court hearing. With a psychology background, it was easy to help girls decide what they wanted to do in one of the most serious decisions they would ever make.

Connie and Bob moved to Santa Barbara in the 1970’s and their son Lee attended UCLA and UCSB. Lee and Lala Hannah were married in Madagascar in the late 1990s and Connie and Bob visited them when they lived in Cape Town just after the birth of their daughter Tia, and again when they had moved to the Washington DC area for the birth of their son Jay. After Lee and Lala moved to Santa Barbara, Connie spent many happy hours with Tia and Jay, Lala and Lee. Connie did not let being a wonderful grandmother deter her from her work on environmental and social causes, striving to make a better community. She loved staying in touch with her many friends in the League and EDC, in her book group, in her poetry group, her neighbors, and old friends as far away as San Luis Obispo, Denver and Guatemala, up until the time of her death.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the Environmental Defense Center or the League of Women Voters.

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in Goleta. Sea turtles at the islands. A whale shark in the sanctuary. Is our slice of South Coast ocean turning into a tropical coral reef? No, not by a long shot, but the Santa Barbara Channel is indeed changing.

Back in fall 2014, a dramatic and prolonged marine heat wave coined “The Blob” crept out of the Pacific and slowly spread along the West Coast. At the same time, a strong El Niño was gathering steam. It peaked in 2015 and eventually subsided in 2016, but the unusually high ocean temperatures brought on by these two extreme events never really went away.

The Santa Barbara Channel sits at a unique and liferich transition zone, where cold water from Alaska meets warm water from the equator. Historically, it’s enjoyed a cool but comfortable average temperature of 16-17 degrees Celsius (or 60.8-62.6 degrees Fahrenheit). During the height of the Blob-El Niño anomaly, temperatures got as high as 22.5°C (72.5°F), and as recently as 2018 were hitting 21°C (69.8°F). While the overall average has levelled back out, it’s still 1-2°C above what it was before.

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2013, as waters were heating up, a mysterious and insidious disease started wiping out populations up and down the West Coast. “While sea star wasting syndrome (SSWS) has been around for decades, this most recent outbreak is unprecedented in scale and scope,” said UCSB marine biologist Carol Blanchette in a prepared statement.

The disease begins with lesions on the stars’ bodies and arms, which leads to limb loss and death. They essentially

of as warm species really took off,” said Ryan Freedman, a research operations specialist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). “It was pretty shocking at the onset, and then we didn’t see fish community change back. Usually after you get an El Niño, things shift back. But what’s out there doesn’t resemble the old community anymore.”

It’s not just fish. Scientists are seeing different types of birds, whales, sharks, urchins, and crabs out there — some only single sightings, others with much more regularity. “Although big ecological changes in response to climate change can be alarming,” said NOAA researcher Lindsey Peavey Reeves, “they present new opportunities new oppostunities for anyone — fishermen, kayakers, surfers — to encounter and appreciate new species.” However, there are real causes for concern in this warmer paradigm, she noted, like the massive die-off of sea stars and the disappearance of key kelp beds.

Sunflower sea star The seemingly obvious driver for all the newness, as Reeves pointed out, is climate change, though scientists are still trying to melt away. Hardest hit were ochre stars, the orange, red, connect the dots. Observations are being logged and purple specimens we were used to seeing in tide and long-term studies are underway. The Chan- pools. Sunflower sea stars in deeper waters were also nel is adapted to withstand a decent amount of killed off in massive quantities. This much-larger species, variation, explained UCSB biologist Jenn Caselle. which can reach more than three feet in diameter and “But in my view and observation,” she went on, has between 16-24 limbs, feeds on urchins, and without “these heat waves are not normal and are almost them, urchin numbers — particularly the purple variety certainly determined by climate.”

— have skyrocketed.

Some older fishermen and scientists say Urchins often feed on giant kelp holdfasts, which keep they’ve seen this before. Stop panicking, they the long strands of leafy habitat anchored to the sea floor.

Purple urchin scold. Things will cool off. The kelp will come As they munch through them, they create sandy desback. “I’m not sure they’re right,” Casselle cau- erts in their wake, where fish used to forage and crabs That would be significant for any ocean ecosystem, as tioned. “We’re well outside the natural variation of the 40 and snails used to live. “Historically, purple urchins have a tick or two difference on the thermometer is enough to years we have data for. This all has a very strong climate made barrens, but not as large and persistent as they are upset the delicate balance of food webs. But it’s especially thumbprint on it. … Sea snakes down in Ventura? Ham- now,” said Kim Selkoe, a UCSB marine ecologist and dramatic for the Channel, because the threshold separat- merheads chasing fishermen out of the water? That’s just director of the Commercial Fisherman of Santa Barbara. The purple urchin proliferation has also started to ing a coldwater fish environment from a warm one just wackadoodle.” happens to be 16.2°C, smack in the middle of our old push out red urchins, the species that Santa Barbara is so temperature range. famous for catching and exporting.

Now that our average is higher, we’re seeing more SO LONG, SEA STARS; HELLO, URCHINS More than half of the 200 or so fisherman that launch and more warmwater fish make their way up from Baja Perhaps the most obvious and dramatic sign that the every morning out of the city’s harbor are hunting reds.

California and San Diego to Santa Barbara. “Ever since Santa Barbara Channel is different than it was even 10 While their catches have gone down, Selkoe explained, the marine heat wave, species that we typically think years ago is the near-total disappearance of sea stars. In prices have gone up, so they’re maintaining their living.

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Selkoe is skeptical the population shift can solely be attributed to climate change, though she believes it plays a part. “The Channel is such a naturally dynamic place,” she said. “It’s hard to link what’s going on specifically to climate change.”

For instance, the Channel used to be jampacked with barracuda back in the 1900s before they moved on. It was the same with albacore; they were common in the 1980s and then went

Nevertheless, some urchin divers are working to create a market for purple urchins, which could help keep their numbers in check. Stephanie Mutz and her partner Harry Liquornik have been catching purples (which are normally too small with too little roe to be eaten), fattening them up at an onshore abalone farm at Dos Pueblos Ranch, and then selling them to adventurous chefs in Santa Barbara, New York, and Los Angeles who covet their sweeter, creamier consistency.

Meanwhile, the spiny lobster market is booming as SEA SNAKES DOWN IN VENTURA? packs of the subtropical crusHAMMERHEADS CHASING FISHERMEN OUT OF tacean crawl north into the warmer Channel. Rockfish THE WATER? THAT’S JUST WACKADOODLE. are doing well, too.

— UCSB biologist Jenn Caselle Rock crab is a different story. Their concentrations away. Nowadays, normally rare bluefin tuna are are on a downswing, which is part of their natural being caught off Santa Barbara. Is that because of ebb and flow, “but climate change might disrupt that climate change, Selkoe wondered, or because their cycle,” said Selkoe. populations are rebounding after new protections?

That already seems to be happening to market Or both? squid, which are harder to catch these days. Selkoe Selkoe also made it a point to set apart what’s also said she’s heard from a number of fishermen happening to the Channel’s kelp to the wholesale that there aren’t nearly as many clams and mussels destruction in Northern California, where more around inshore areas. Without the bivalve mollusks than 90 percent of the aquatic forests are now gone. filtering flecks and food and sediment out of the Our situation is not nearly as dire. water, the visibility is much lower, they say.

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JUST PASSING THROUGH? In recent years, a handful of especially rare species have poked their head into the Channel one or more times but haven’t been seen much since. Were they the forward scouts of in incoming population or just one-off appearances of lone individuals? Only time will tell.

OLIVE RIDLEY SEA TURTLE: Santa Barbara fisherman Steve Escobar recently spotted and photographed an olive ridley sea turtle just outside the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (CINMS) near Point Conception. “He told me the turtle looked to be in fine shape and not injured or unhealthy,” said NOAA’s Lindsey Peavey Reeves in an email. “Typically we would only see that species this far north if they were wayward or cold stunned, since they are a pantropical species. This is actually the population of sea turtle that I studied for my graduate work, and I thought now working at CINMS I would have to say goodbye to olive ridleys, but perhaps they are follow-

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ing me :) More likely they are following marine heat waves and other warm water anomalies that seem to be occurring more and more frequently, meaning we may see more of these ‘tropical’ species in and around CINMS in years to come.”

Reeves’s team also recently saw a green sea turtle at Santa Barbara Island. It’s a rare species to encounter here, but now not abnormal, she explained, as their habitat has already shifted north with the warmer waters.

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PACIFIC SEAHORSE: Pacific seahorses normally only come as far north as San Diego; their southern range stretches all the way down to Peru. But a few were seen nestled in a seagrass bed in Goleta. Like all species of seahorses, females deposit hundreds of their eggs into what’s called the “brood pouch” of the male, where he fertilizes them. After 14 days of gestation period, the male goes into labor and must force the young out of the pouch one at a time, which can take hours.

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LARGEMOUTH BLENNY: The largemouth blenny is a warmwater fish that was first observed north of Baja on the mainland coast in La Jolla in July 2015. It was also spotted in October 2015 at Catalina Island. It was first observed in Channel Island National Park waters off Santa Cruz Island on November 1, 2017. This sighting is the northernmost observation known to date and appears to be a range extension for this species.

YELLOW-BELLIED SEA SNAKE: This venomous reptile inhabits the coasts of Africa, Asia, Australia, Central America, and Mexico, including the Baja California Peninsula. It’s been found three times in Southern California since 2015. The last sighting before that was all the way back in 1972, during a particularly hot El Niño. The yellow-bellied sea snake is front-fanged and, like most other sea snakes, is capable of delivering an extremely potent bite.

NEW RESIDENTS Channel Islands National Park biologists conduct annual surveys throughout their jurisdiction’s kelp forest, intertidal, and coastal ecosystems.

They’ve found three new species that appear to have taken up permanent residence there.

BROWN BOOBY: In 2013, the Channel Islands’ seabird monitoring program documented the first record of brown boobies in the park. This was a major northward expansion of their known range in the Gulf of California and along the Pacific coast of Mexico. In 2015, there was a dramatic rise in booby numbers in the Channel, with counts of more than 170 individuals at Santa Barbara Island. They attempted to nest there in 2017 with unknown success. On August 24, 2019, the park’s first documented hatching took place on the island.

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PELAGIC RED CRAB: This species is typically found southwest of San Diego. In previous warmwater years, it was seen in the Channel but would stick around for only six months or less. Since June 2015, however, pelagic red crabs have been observed year-round on the north side of Santa Cruz Island.

BLACK SEA URCHIN: During kelp forest surveys from 2000 to 2003, a handful of black sea urchins were observed at Santa Barbara and Anacapa Islands. A few more were seen in 2008, but then they weren’t seen again until 2015. Since then, they’ve been consistently spotted at Anacapa, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz islands.

Park biologists have noticed a range in sizes and groupings of individuals, suggesting this species may be forming “small persistent populations.”

BACK IN A BIG WAY These three biguns (and a small one) had all become quite scarce over the last couple of decades.

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NORTH PACIFIC RIGHT WHALE: Listed as endangered since 1970, the North Pacific right whale is the rarest of all large whale species and among the rarest of all marine mammals. Commercial whaling had depleted their numbers, and while hunting is no longer a threat, human activity such as entanglement in fishing gear, vessel strikes, and ocean noise are still major threats.

BASKING SHARK: Once common, these bizarre-looking but harmless creatures had all but vanished from Santa Barbara waters for the last four decades until this April, when boaters suddenly started seeing them again. Second in size only to whale sharks, basking sharks can reach 30 feet long and feed with their big mouths agape on krill and plankton. No one knows why they’re back. “We’re not sure if it’s population recovery or if climate change is influencing where they go,” said Chris Lowe with CSU Long Beach’s Shark Lab. “We just don’t have the data yet.”

GIANT SEA BASS: These behemoths are at the top of the kelp forest food chain.

They can weigh up to 800 pounds, reach more than seven feet in length, and will eat anything they can fit in their gullets, including lobsters, rays, and small sharks. Overfishing brought their population to critically endangered levels, but protections passed in the 1980s helped reverse that. Researchers are now using the upswing opportunity to study the fish, since little is known about their biology and behavior. They’re using

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BLACK ABALONE: Thirty years ago, black abalone could be found all over the Channel Islands’ intertidal zones. By 2009, their numbers had tanked so hard they were put on the Endangered Species List. But a recent study found new populations scattered throughout the sanctuary, whose populations seem to be growing at a nearly exponential rate. It’s still not clear what exactly is bringing the abalone back, or if they’re certain to remain.

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CLOSER TO SHORE Life in the Channel doesn’t start in deep water, or even in tide pools.

It starts in that transformational belt between land and sea, in critically important salt marshes like the 230-acre UC-owned Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve. Hardly immune to climate-wrought changes, sea level rise is slowly shrinking its patches of dry land, where migrating birds such as Osprey sandpipers, sanderlings, willets, herons, and egrets need to land to rest and refuel.

“We’re already seeing lower number of those species overall,” said director Andrew Brooks, adding that coastal development and beach grooming elsewhere may be contributing to the decline. “It’s hard to tie it to one specific cause. But we know the numbers are down. That’s not a good thing.”

Brooks and his team are also keeping close tabs on the endangered salt marsh bird’s beak, a somewhat inconspicuous but cornerstone pollinator of the marsh ecosystem.

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Heavily impacted by DDT, the species had faded from the area but started to crawl back over the last four to five years. A mating pair has taken up residence in the eastern portion of the marsh and is doing well, Brooks said.

He finished with a warning, however. Climate change skeptics like to bring up estimates that were proved wrong, Brooks said.

That fosters doubt. But in most cases, the Snowy Egret predictions were wrong because they were under-estimates. “Things are happening faster than we thought,” he said. “This is an issue we really need to tackle now. We may think we have 20 years when we really only have 10.”

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It’s out at the western Channel Islands — Santa Rosa and San Miguel, specifically — where the “really massive” fish turnover is taking place, says UCSB's Jenn Caselle. Historically, the waters around Santa Rosa and San Miguel were cooler than those surrounding Santa Cruz and Anacapa to the east. They were populated by dark-colored, cold-loving rockfish, señorita, and blacksmith that made their homes and hunting grounds among thick kelp forests.

Now, the observers say, with the higher temperatures, those western islands are starting to look a lot more like their eastern cousins, as warmer-water species like the richly colored garibaldi, sheephead, and kelp bass move in. They haven’t pushed out the others, but as time goes on, researchers say, the losses of colder-water species are going to outpace the gains of warmer-water varieties. The process is called “tropicalization.” Kelp, which likes a cooler climate and has already been weakened by the warming, is also now being mowed down by runaway urchins.

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MPAs have done an incredible amount of good in helping regions depleted of life recover their biomass, Blacksmith fish Freedman emphasized. But now serious resources need to go into gathering good, quantified data on how these areas are impacted by—and how they may be able to protect the rest of the ocean from—the effects of a changing climate. “Getting that published and in the hands of the state — that’s the next big n effort,” he said.

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showcase short-form content from communities around the world, including the U.S., India, Kyrgyzstan, Australia, the U.K., Sierra Leone, Portugal, and Italy, using the medium of cinema to foster and empower independent artists into the mainstream. You’ll see Oscar winners and nominees Marisa Tomei, Minnie Driver, and more with a spotlight on films from South Asia. Visit the website for schedule and locations.

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12/12: Sketching in the Galleries All skill levels are invited to experience the tradition of sketching from original works of art. Guidance and materials will be provided. 5:30-6:30pm. S.B. Museum of Art, 1130 State St. Free. Call (805) 884-6457. sbma.net

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printmakers, photographers, and mixed-media artists, will be represented during this juried competition, with nationally acclaimed painter Ruth Hoag handing out awards. The exhibit shows through January 3, 2020. 5:30-7:30pm. S.B. Tennis Club, 2375 Foothill Rd. Free. Call (805) 862-4722. 2ndfridaysart.com more straight from importers, wholesalers, and manufacturers. There will be vendors selling supplies and tools, as well as jewelry displays and free jewelry cleaning. Fri.: noon-6pm; Sat.: 10am-6pm; Sun.: 10am5pm. Earl Warren Showgrounds, 3400 Calle Real. Free-$7. Call (503) 252-8300.

mystery dinner party! Participants will portray a character and hunt for clues to discover which player is the guilty one. Pizza and snacks will be served. 6-8:30pm. Main Level, S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free. Ages 12-18. sbplibrary.org

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12/14: George Rose This area photojournalist will sign copies of his limitededition, large-format photography book, Wine Country, Santa Barbara County, which he describes as “a celebration of Santa Barbara County, highlighting every wine appellation and ‘trail’ in colorful fashion.”

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12/15: Met Live in HD Encore Screening: Philip Glass’s Akhnaten Take in countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo as he headlines American composer Philip Glass’s transcendent contemporary creation, with Karen Kamensek conducting. This stunning production has acrobats and jugglers to conjure a mystical reimagining of ancient Egypt with Music Academy alumnus Aaron Blake as the High Priest of Amon. 2-6pm. Hahn Hall, Music Academy Of The West, 1070 Fairway Rd. Free-$28. Call (805) 969-4726.

comedian, trained vocalist, writer, and executive producer Colleen Ballinger, best known as her alter ego Miranda Sings, will be in S.B. with her new show.

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to support them.”

The other two participants were U.S. Army veterans Bonnie Casler and Alexandria McIntyre. “It’s the calm underwater,” said Casler, “the bubbles, the peace and quiet, that I haven’t felt in years.”

“This is a big deal to step out of those safe zones,” said McIntyre. “WAVES has brought me a sense of comfort and confidence. Things get better; you just have to find the thing that gets you better.”

More than 150 historic ship and aircraft have been reported lost in sanctuary and park waters, with 30 having been located and surveyed. The DIGGING AND DIVING DEEP: Three U.S. Army and Navy veterans joined scientists and instructors wreck sites are profor a program that combines scuba diving and trauma recovery. tected under state program that helps vets recover from trauma. The and federal law. As recently as 2012, archeologists rest of the team included archaeologists, biologists, discovered the remains of the George E. Billings, a and instructors with the National Park Service (NPS) Pacific Coast schooner employed in the lumber trade and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra- during the early 1900s.

“The NPS and WAVES have been working tion.

“I am lucky, blessed, and honored to be here,” said together for several years to support injured veterans,” Gina Harden, who started her U.S. Navy career as said Park Superintendent Ethan McKinley. “We are the branch’s seventh female military deep sea diver. honored to provide these veterans an opportunity to “With my 35 years as a navy diver, I can help mentor heal and to experience the spectacular kelp forests at these veterans, to listen, to be a sounding board, and Channel Islands National Park.”

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hree U.S. Armed Forces veterans joined an allfemale dive team for a week in November to conduct shipwreck surveys at Channel Islands National Park. They were sponsored by the Wounded American Veterans Experience Scuba (WAVES), a

COME ONE, COME ALL: Local artists and artisans now fill De la Guerra Plaza alongside food, drinks, music, and Santa.

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wendolyn Strong may have been medically fragile, but she still knew how to have fun. She laughed, she loved, and she brought unbounded joy to her family and friends. Despite all the ADA-compliant playgrounds around Santa Barbara, however, none of them allowed her to play alongside her peers.

Gwendolyn’s short but remarkable life will A DAY OF GIVING: Victoria Strong, right, is joined by young friends and supporters who helped raise money for an inclusive playground. help give that chance to other Central Coast “We are so thrilled by the enthusiastic response of children with physical disabilities. A foundation started by her parents, which has raised more than $3 the community to bring much-needed inclusive play million to fund research of spinal muscular atrophy, to our incredible city,” said Victoria Strong, Gwendois also collecting funds to build Santa Barbara Coun- lyn’s mom and executive director of the Gwendolyn ty’s first inclusive playground. It would be the only Strong Foundation. “We have an opportunity to not only provide play for the one in four of us living with one of its kind between Calabasas and Santa Cruz.

A fundraiser luncheon last month was expected a disability who are currently left on the sidelines, to bring in around $20,000. Instead, an avalanche but also to reimagine and elevate public play spaces of giving from more than 200 attendees brought the to be more for everyone, simultaneously fostering day’s total to $150,000. The playground campaign has empathy and understanding in the next generation.”

Learn more and donate at nevergiveup.org. now generated around $750,000 of its $4 million goal in order to break ground by 2022.

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he Grinch, in the form of a Christmastime permitting dispute, may have stolen the Santa Barbara Night Market from the downtown Macy’s building. But in its place has grown the Twilight Holiday Market at De la Guerra Plaza.

The 18-day event, which kicked off December 6 and runs ’til December 23, is hosting many of the Night Market’s 70 vendors who were left out in the cold after the cancellation. “One person should not have the power to affect so many people,” said Twilight Market coordinator Vashti Wilson of the previous organizer. “It was a community event, and now the community is moving it forward.”

While in the U.S. Air Force, Wilson traveled all over Europe, and that gave her the idea to move the affair outdoors. “With their lights and treats and music, open-air European markets are just so cozy and inviting,” she said. “I wanted to recreate that here. Plus, De la Guerra Plaza is so underutilized. It was the perfect spot.”

Now spread over the plaza’s lawn is a 4,000-square-foot tent provided by Town and Country Event Rentals, who wanted to help out and provided it at a significant discount. Underneath sits Santa Claus on his throne, a few dozen booths full of clothing, leather goods, health and wellness items, games, art, and jewelry, a Kids Zone, and lots of warmth and cheer. There’s also live music, a beer and wine garden nearby, and food favorites like Kaptain’s BBQ Shack, the Juice Ranch, Hippie Pop popcorn, and McConnell’s Ice Cream. Thirty daytime vendors are operating in Casa de la Guerra across the street. They’ll rotate every day.

Wilson herself is a local entrepreneur and owns Dino Explorerz, a company that sells handcrafted replicas of dinosaur eggs. They were featured in the last Jurassic Park movie, she said, and sold out at last year’s market. Wilson made sure to thank Assistant City Manager Nina Johnson for making the market a reality under a tight deadline and some tricky city rules. “Every step of the way, she has been there to guide and help,” said Wilson. “She presses. She gets stuff done. I’d never seen anything like it.” Wilson also expressed gratitude for the hard work of Katie Hershelt with Cultivate Events. “She’s another dynamic force,” Wilson said.

When the market ends later this month, Wilson plans to keep supporting local artisans and entrepreneurs by selling their merchandise through her online marketplace, SantaBarbaraTradingPost.com. “It’s Etsy for Santa Barbara,” Wilson said. “Local vendors will essentially have their store on the site.”

The Twilight Holiday Market will be open Monday through Saturday from 4 to 10 p.m., and noon to 6 p.m. on Sundays. Wilson noted it’s the longest event held at De la Guerra Plaza after Fiesta Mercado during the Old Spanish Days celebration.

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SPICE GUY: Sales representative and lifelong cook Thomas Walsh (pictured) developed a line of hot sauces for Underwood Ranch, using their special red, and some green, jalapeños to make Asian-, Mexican-, and Southern-inspired flavors.

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ima beans, walnuts, lemons, broccoli, baby carrots

—there’s not much that the Underwood family hasn’t grown since putting down roots in Ventura County back in 1867. But it was the family farm’s mastery of jalapeños that fueled the recent decades of success, specifically by developing varieties whose peppers stayed spicy upon turning the usually sweeter red color.

That’s exactly what Huy Fong Foods needed in the early 1980s, when founder David Tran began building his sriracha hot sauce empire. Nearly 30 years later, Underwood Ranch was growing about 2,000 acres of jalapeños across Ventura and Kern counties solely for Huy Fong, powering a meteoric rise that made the green-topped, rooster-adorned bottles ubiquitous in grocery stores and restaurants of all cuisines.

But then the relationship suddenly imploded in fall 2016, when Huy Fong abruptly canceled all pepper orders, causing Underwood to lay off 44 employees. While lawyers went to war—Underwood Ranch was awarded $23.3 million after a unanimous jury verdict earlier this year, but Huy Fong’s appeals continue — the family decided to turn the divorce into an opportunity.

“We decided it was time for us to start making our own sauces,” explained Thomas Walsh, who’s worked in sales for Underwood since 2009 but, as a lifelong cook, happily took on the challenge to create the sauces. “We understand the sauce business is very competitive, but being who we are, we figured we had a story to tell.”

This past August, Underwood Ranch released its own line of hot sauces with six different flavors, from

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Sriracha: A straight-up challenge to their former busi-

ness partner, this carries the familiar red spice and vinegar tang flavors that were originally popularized in Thailand, but without the preservatives found in other versions. It also uses fresh rather than dried garlic.

Spicy BBQ: “The key with our barbecue sauce is that there

Sriracha and Spicy BBQ to mustard-infused Carolina Gold and Korean-inspired Bibimbap. (See sidebar for rundown.) Unlike most hot sauces on the market, they are all made without artificial preservatives and with fresh ingredients rather than dried pow-ders. And they are all distinctly delicious, as I’ve found them perfect partners to Mexican meals and Asian noodles, cold sandwiches and grilled meats, and even just raw veggies.

Walsh developed the recipes largely in his home, though the sauces are now made at a facility in Camarillo. “The trick is getting the flavor you want and making it shelf-stable,” he said, explaining that he had to cook the ingredients in order to not use preservatives and then ran endless tests on pH levels. “Most chefs can make something taste great today or tomorrow, but making it last in an ambient temperature is a whole different ball game.”

Since launching in Texas and Northern California this summer, Walsh has been focused on growing support in Ventura, Santa Barbara, and points south, and recently unveiled a smaller 11-ounce bottle to make for cheaper shipping. “We want to be in every restaurant,” said Walsh. “We want chefs to give our sriracha a chance.”

The sauces’ base remains those special Underwood peppers. “Every one is grown in Ventura and Kern counties,” said Walsh. “We are truly seed-to-sauce.

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THE HOT SAUCE LINEUP is absolutely no tomato in that product,” said Walsh.

“It’s simply red jalapeño flavor, and that makes it truly unique.”

Carolina Gold: This pairs the pepper heat with mustard

flavors to produce a delicious condiment and mari marinade. “Try it on French fries,” said Walsh. “It’s really good on simple things”

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green peppers on the plant, and we don’t want to throw them away.”

So he chars them to make this very basic, jalapeño-highlighting green sauce.

Bibimbap: A consulting chef suggested that they make a sauce that no one else does. “The new thing in the back of kitchens is gochujang,” said Walsh of the fermented chile paste from Korea. “This is an American version of a Korean-style sauce.” They named it after the popular Korean bowl of rice with seasoned veggies, kimchi, and more, usually topped with the gochujang.

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BEYOND BRUNCH: Recipes owner/baker Meichelle Arntz (left) recently teamed with Jolly Bros. Catering owner Donald Hardin (right) but is still serving cinnamon rolls (below) and more on Santa Barbara Street.

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MEICHELLE ARNTZ Loves Making Everything from Granola to Java

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Australian Coffee: Her husband’s

said, ‘Well, the thing that makes it good is that all the recipes are from our grandma and our aunts. I think you should call it ‘Recipes’ because that’s what makes it good.’” It stuck.

Among the excitement of reaching their eightyear anniversary in January 2020 is the recent merger between Recipes Bakery and Jolly Brothers Catering, owned by Donald Hardin. “I went to a few events he was catering, and I spent some time with him,” said Arntz. “I noticed he was really talented,

family is from Sydney. “They used to come to the States and would go off coffee because they couldn’t drink the coffee here,” she explained.

“So I decided … to have Australianstyle coffee.” The beans come from the Southern Hemisphere and are roasted with an Australian roasting chart. They also sell those beans to go.

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really a gifted chef. Plus, he is such a lovely person. kid. “The other kids would be outside play- I was thinking of bringing a partner in for when I ing, and I would be in the kitchen eventually retire, and he’s young and ready with my grandma, my aunts, to work his butt off.” and my mom, baking cookies,” The partnership was finalized explains Arntz, whose passion on November 1 and sealed with led her to open Recipes Bakery a fake wedding in Las Vegas in downtown Santa Barbara between Arntz and Hardin, nearly eight years ago. “I was representing the marriage always just really fascinated of their two companies. The with all of that. So the recipes merged company will offer we use here are all the recipes catering for a range of prices, I’ve gathered over the last 30 whether it’s a small birthday

BY MARISSA BRENNAN years.” or a massive wedding.

Here are some things to try at The collection of family recipes also serves as the inspiration Recipes, a very popular place to be for the bakery’s name. “Once a week, when the Saturday farmers’ market is we would have a family-home evening,” buzzing across Santa Barbara Street. she explained. “One of the discussions we had was what we should call the bakery. My daughter Toree Cinnamon Rolls: “It’s our signature baked good,” said Arntz. “They are the old-fashioned yeast kind. It takes six hours to make them because you have to do a double raise. I learned how to make them from my aunt when I was 12.

I’ve been ‘rolling’ for a long time!”

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Breakfast Sundae: It’s made with organic yogurt and

farmers’-market berries, but also homemade granola with cashews, flax, almonds, and raisins. “Plus it’s totally gluten free,” said Arntz. “All the oats here are gluten-free.” Actually, about half of the Recipes menu is gluten-free, including the corn fritters, one of their most popular items.

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NEW FOOD FOR OLD TOWN: Chef Owen Hanavan is serving seasonal cuisine at Lemon & Coriander in the former home of The Goodland Kitchen, starting with pop-up dinners through December.

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Inside the former home of The Goodland Kitchen, Lemon & Coriander intends to become a dining destination. “I want the food I serve to be memorable,” Hanavan said. “It should taste great, look intriguing, and be fulfilling, yet still be healthy and light so you can feel good when you leave the restaurant.”

Lemon & Coriander will serve breakfast and lunch Wednesday through Sunday and dinner on Fridays and Saturdays. But through the month of December, a pop-up dinner series will replace regular dinner hours, serving as an opportunity to test menu items and get feedback from patrons. See popup.lemonandcoriander.com.

MESA BREW COMING TO CLIFF: Last August, I

reported that Giovanni’s Pizza at 1905 Cliff Drive on the Mesa, which opened in March 2009, had closed. I followed up that story with a rumor that suggested the space is being taken over by the owners of neighboring Mesa Burger and will be turned into a beer tap room with food. Reader Sande now tells me that there is a new sign on the door of the old-old Giovanni’s that says: “Mesa Brew. Beer, wine, and food — coming soon.”

Sande also says that a worker at nearby Mesa Pizza reports that the owners of Mesa Brew are the same as Mesa Burger, which supports what I heard last summer.

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BRASIL ARTS CAFÉ CLOSING: This just in from Brasil Arts Café at 1230-C State Street. “It’s with great sadness and equally great relief that we will be closing the doors of Brasil Arts Café sometime next week. It’s been a heck of a run over the last seven years and we couldn’t imagine a better community to share this beautiful family restaurant with than all of you. It’s been more than just

a café; it’s been our home. Please come and enjoy our amazing food over the weekend. We have lots of closing bills to pay and appreciate all the support. We would love to see you in there.”

805 DELI ACTION: The 805 Deli at 135 East Carrillo

Street closed in January 2018 and posted a sign that said they would reopen February 1 of that year — then never did. In June of last year, reader Mike noticed a new sign painted on the 805 Deli at Carrillo and Santa Barbara Streets said they would reopen as “The 805 Hazy and Deli.” Reader Chuck now reports that there is finally some construction or movement of some kind at the deli.

YUME SUSHI REINCARNATED: Reader Matt let me

know that Yume Sushi is now back open at their new location, 1134 Chapala Street, the old Bar 29 location. Matt says he enjoyed a great lunch there recently. This was an amazingly quick turnaround because Yume just closed their longtime home at 428 Chapala Street last month.

ONUS DONUTS OPENS: Reader Primetime tells me

that Onus Donuts, offering “Fresh Classic Donuts and Coffee,” has opened at 413 State Street, the former home of Urkeb, The Mex Authentic, Pace, Momma Donna’s, Billies, and Lettuce B. Frank.

Onus Donuts is brought to you by Juan Jimenez, whose family owns the Cajun Kitchen restaurants. Onus offers regular donuts, vegan donuts, and a variety of exotic ones (think Nutella, maple, and bacon, or sprinkled with Lucky Charms cereal). In addition to Dune coffee, you can purchase tea, lemonade, milk, juices, and soft drinks.

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site for Breakfast Culture Club at 711 Chapala Street says they are open for business as usual, as does their voicemail. Yelp also says breakfast is open. Yet I received two messages from readers indicating that changes are afoot. “Heard the Breakfast Culture Club on Chapala is no more,” wrote reader Kim. Reader Jane explained, “I wanted to tell you that Breakfast Culture Club closed and has been sold to another coffee shop. It really did some wonderful things and served as a great community space for all sorts of nonprofits, musicians, and artists.”

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ost somewhere in the misty shrouds of distant memory is the identity of the person who first told me about Brad Nack’s annual reindeer shows. It was midsummer in Manhattan, circa 2001, and Christmas was the furthest thing from my mind, but I had accepted a job teaching writing at UCSB and suddenly I found myself sitting across from someone who offered this sage advice. “Hey, you’re moving to Santa Barbara? There’s this guy Brad Nack who paints reindeer for a holiday party. Go to that, and you’ll meet every cool person in town.” Whoever this prescient person was, I salute you in anonymous retrospect, because I did go to the reindeer show, and I’ve been going ever since.

Through thick and thin, fire and flood, beer and tinsel, wine and hard liquor, Nack has pursued his unique vision of the reindeer in art for 21 winters. Each December, he sets up shop for one night only (per location) and sells his charming and colorful tiny paintings of reindeer by the hundreds, ordinarily until there are none left. It’s an art show, it’s a holiday party, and most of all, it’s an utterly Santa Barbara–specific event, as much a part of our homegrown, surf-salted scene as Solstice, or Spencer the Gardener.

It was in fact Spencer’s mom who inspired the original reindeer some 22 years ago. Nack, who had known Spencer and his mom since he was a kid, decided to give her a holiday gift, and grabbing a handy brush (Brad’s dad, Ken, taught art at SBCC for many years, and there were always

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On a recent Thursday, just prior to the first of the two 2019 reindeer shows, which was held at the Goodland Hotel’s Good Bar last Friday, December 6, I invited Nack to visit my Humanities class at the Laguna Blanca School in Hope Ranch. When I first thought of having him come in to teach my students how to paint reindeer, I was afraid that he would say no, not wanting to give up his artistic secrets. After all, what if

the market was suddenly flooded with fake Nacks, little faux-deer destined to undermine the integrity of the entire project? What would the curators say? Fortunately, that’s not how Brad sees it. In fact, he has been teaching kids to paint reindeer for almost as long as he’s been putting on the shows.

It’s a fascinating lesson, and as a longtime teacher, I was pleased to learn some new tricks from the person who my students insisted on referring to as “reindeer man.” First of all, there’s a process to painting a reindeer, and although I can’t divulge the whole thing here and now, I can say that it involves design thinking, the reversal of figure and ground, and the periodic expansion and contraction of time.

The whole experience was so much fun that even one of the other teachers got sucked into the lesson.

Amid the yawning deserts of commercially crafted Christmas detritus, these homespun deer offer an oasis of genuine cheer. For those curious to witness a real Santa Barbara tradition in person, there’s good news. The Brad Nack 100% Reindeer Art Show rises again on Saturday, December 14, at Restaurant Roy (7 W. Carillo St.) from 6 to 9 p.m. Be there and get your antlers on.

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In her solo debut as a graphic novelist, Emma Steinkellner tells the story of three generations of American witches from the point of view of the youngest one, Moth Hush. Aimed at readers in their early teens, her book revels in the scope and range of effects available to contemporary graphic artists while downplaying the demonic side of witchcraft in favor of a more hopeful, feminist view. Thanks to Steinkellner’s crafty focus on the emotional magic of intergenerational empathy, The Okay Witch explores what it means to be perceived as the “other” by history in a way that teens are likely to enjoy. Older readers will appreciate the story’s steady control of its cultural context.

Without ever calling attention to itself, a scholar’s knowledge of American history loads this work with sturdy and subtle reflec reflections, and not just of what happened in Salem or to the reli religious nonconformist Anne Hutchinson, but also of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire. There’s even a cat who talks like he came straight from the Catskills.

The compositions throughout are first-rate. The liminal land of Hecate, where Moth’s grandmother reigns over a timeless domain of relative safety, shares some of the design features one sees in Little Nemo’s Slumberland. Advancing her story through a constantly shifting jigsaw puzzle of rhythmically appealing page layouts, Steinkellner solves problem after problem with intense visual improvisations. The bravura technique comes to support and, in a way, stand for the kinds of improvised solutions that Moth, her mom, and her friends must adopt in order to meet the challenges posed by living in a world that’s never been welcoming to witches.

Startling overlays, full-page cutouts, and stylized coloring schemes all serve to emphasize the existence of alternative worlds beyond the normative present.

Yet the closeness of the mother-daughter connection and the relatability of Moth’s concerns render even the story’s most fantastic episodes as intimate events occurring within the experience of a consistently believable young woman. As Moth learns through her coming-of-age story, sometimes good enough is actually better than great or awesome, and the best kind of witch to be might be an okay witch. —CD

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Bucking the big theater chains’ demand for a 90-day exclusivity period, Netflix opted instead for a three-week limited theatrical release before making Roma available for streaming worldwide. Despite forgoing a traditional wide release, the black-andwhite foreign-language film still managed to garner 10 Academy Award nominations in 2019, including Best Picture, and took home statues for Best Foreign Language Film, Best Director, and Best Cinematography. Netflix played by their own rules and still won the game. Now, they’ve reshaped the playing field.

This year, Netflix is eyeing a race where they’re arguably their own best competition. Topping their bill of Academy fare are Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman and Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, already viable contenders in the direction, writing, and acting categories, and nearly assured nominees for Best Picture.

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by T.M. Weedon free content. and purposeful — With the streaming site’s backing, Scorsese adjectives not usually ascribed to three-andreturns to his iconic mobster milieu, but this a-half-hour epics. The film’s crisp, assertive time with the maturity of an elder statesman pace is a testament to Scorsese’s collaborators, of the cinema. In his new film, former hitman his crew as well as his cast, and the Oscars are Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran (Robert De gearing up to acknowledge Niro), nearing the end of his days, reflects on their feat handsomely, with his life and the choices he has made. Ques- strong contention in the Best tions of conscience suffuse this underworld Adapted Screenplay category, yarn, and fans of Scorsese will notice multiple Best Editing, Best Cinemainstances of him lifting visual quotes from his tography, and Best Costume own filmography and reframing them in a Design. new light of rueful observation. The Irishman Netflix’s other Oscaris a gangster film, yet ruminations on mor- season sensation, this one tality and spirituality hang heavy in the air, from Noah Baumbach, was making it less a return to form for Scorsese born of a preexisting relationship between the site and and more an elegiac summation of a career.

Joining him are a cast of familiar faces, the auteur. Netflix released and new. Al Pacino, perhaps the Baumbach’s last picture, The Marriage Story only septuagenarian Italian in Meyerowitz Stories (New and Hollywood never to appear in Selected), but that was way a Scorsese picture, rewards our back in 2017, before Oscar and Netflix would patience with a flamboyant turn even dare be uttered in the same sentence. as union boss Jimmy Hoffa, a Now, Baumbach’s latest isn’t just in the performance showy and com- conversation; it’s a conversation-starter. manding enough to position Marriage Story is arguably the writer/direchim as an early favorite in the tor’s most accomplished film to date. Adam Best Supporting Actor category. Driver and Scarlett Johansson both give Meanwhile, Joe Pesci stakes out stirring performances as flawed but lovable a different territory altogether. characters who can no longer love each other.

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slyly semiautobiographical entry in the director’s filmography, our aging director protagonist (Antonio Banderas) utters a mantra-like statement: “Cinema saved me.” In his own way, the sensual iconoclast Almodóvar has helped saved cinema. The film is a triumphant late-period, valedictory self-reflection, sometimes evocative of a quieter, gentler variation on Fellini’s artfully navelgazing cinematic tour de force. (JW)

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Cats Dark Waters (126 mins., PG-13) Todd Haynes (Velvet Goldmine, Carol) directs this legal thriller about a corporate lawyer (Mark Ruffalo) who discovers that DuPont’s waste is poisoning livestock and people near one of its plants in West Virginia and decides to take on the environmental case against the chemical giant.

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They’re baaaaack! Dwayne Johnson, Karen Gillan, Jack Black, and Kevin Hart reprise their avatar roles for this fourth installment of the Jumanji franchise. This time around, the teens— Spencer, Bethany, Fridge, and Martha —are paired with different avatars. New characters also join them in the game as they look for their friend who has gone missing.

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It’s been three years since Elsa (Idina Menzel) and Anna (Kristen Bell) and company’s last adventure, and they are about to embark on a new one . Elsa begins hearing strange sounds that call her to the north beyond Arendelle. Elsa, Anna, Kristoff (Jonathan Groff), Olaf (Josh Gad), and Sven journey afar and end up saving their kingdom. Catchy songs, lots of laughs (thank you Olaf), and lovely animation make this delightful family holiday entertainment. (MD)

falls a bit short in both humor and mystery. (MD) Camino Real/ The Hitchcock/Metro 4

Parasite (133 mins., R) Director Bong Joon-ho (The Host, Snowpiercer) helms this black comedy thriller about two families—one rich, one poor —whose lives become inextricably and murderously entwined.

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James Mangold (Logan, 3:10 to Yuma) directs this exciting biopic about the Ford visionary designer, Carroll Shelby (Matt Damon), and his British driver, Ken Miles (Christian Bale), who were determined to build a car that could beat the Ferrari racing team at the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans race in France.

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The Two Popes Knives Out (130 mins., PG-13) Rian Johnson (Looper, Star Wars: The Last Jedi) wrote and directs this “whodunit” about a dysfunctional family who reunites for patriarch Harlan Thrombey’s (Christopher Plummer) 85th birthday. The next morning, Harlan is found dead, and everyone is a suspect.

Despite an excellent cast that includes Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, and Lakeith Stanfield, and some clever dialogue, the film

Richard Jewell (129 mins., R) Clint Eastwood directs this biopic about Richard Jewell, the security guard who discovers the plot to detonate a bomb at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

Despite saving several people after the attack, the FBI accuses him of being a suspect in the bombing. The press vilifies him before he is cleared of charges nearly three months later. Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, and Jon Hamm star.

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Queen & Slim (131 mins., R) Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith star in this film about a couple who go on the run after killing a police officer in self-defense. Bokeem Woodbine and Chloë Sevigny also star.

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Waves (135 mins., R) Lucas Hedges (Manchester by the Sea, Boy Erased) and Kelvin Harrison Jr. (It Comes at Night) star in this film about love, loss, and reconciliation in South Florida.

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idway through the first half of into the crowd,” she said. the UCSB-Wake Forest match Ben Roach, a star keeper for Santa Barin the NCAA men’s soccer quarbara High’s 2017 CIF soccer champions, terfinals Saturday, a resounding played every minute of the season in goal cheer erupted in Dargan’s Irish Pub. The for the Gauchos, recording 12 shutouts. He made four saves against Wake Forest, a TV screens, which had been blacked out couple of them high in degree of difficulty. because of connection issues, finally lit up His mother admitted it was tough to adjust with the action.

Not since the Women’s World Cup from the high-scoring action of volleyball last summer had the restaurant been so to the excruciating drama of soccer. In both packed with soccer fans. They were hopsports, UCSB had great moments this fall. ing to see the Gauchos spring an upset against the No. 4–seeded Demon Deacons LAST TEAM STANDING: No sooner had the and become the only unseeded team to Gaucho soccer team walked off the pitch reach the 2019 College Cup, as they did in Winston-Salem, N.C., than Westmont in 2006 when they won the national College’s women’s volleyball team took the championship. court in Sioux City, Iowa, to play for the Newlywed UCSB graduates Tim and NAIA national championship.

Jenny Deakyne had followed the GauRookie head coach Ruth McGolpin, a chos to St. Louis that year and witnessed 1987 graduate of Dos Pueblos High, took their improbable triumph. They won a the Warrior women as far as any college penalty-kick shootout over Wake Forest volleyball team from Santa Barbara has in the semifinals and scored a 2-1 victory ever gone. “They can be the first to win a national championship,” said Ken Preston over UCLA in the title match. “We look DARN-IT AT DARGAN’S: A large crowd never got a chance to cut loose, as UCSB was held scoreless in the NCAA men’s back at ’06 as a great Gaucho moment,” during the soccer game watch at Dargan’s. soccer quarterfinals. Jenny and Tim Deakyne (above) and their six children are faithful fans of the Gauchos.

Tim Deakyne said.

UCSB reached the NCAA men’s volThe Deakynes have since brought six leyball finals five times and came up short more fans into the Gaucho fold, starting with the birth of their best season in over a decade.” He added, “Too bad it came in each time. Preston coached one of those teams in 1988, when son T.J. in 2007. Five brothers and sisters arrived in the next 11 between the College Cup last year and next year.” UCSB hosted USC took down the Gauchos in five sets. years. The whole family faithfully attends UCSB games. The last year’s NCAA championship, won by Maryland, and it will Westmont went into the 2019 NAIA women’s tournament day that newborn William, now 6, came out of the hospital, he stage the College Cup again in 2020. with modest expectations. The Warriors went 2-1 in pool play, Coach Tim Vom Steeg will lose a strong contingent of seniors then caught fire in the knockout rounds. They beat Eastern was in a seat at Harder Stadium.

The family squeezed into the crowd next to the bar at off this year’s Gaucho team, which went 15-5-4. But if, by some Oregon in four sets and upset defending champion Park (MisDargan’s and breathlessly waited for another great Gaucho good fortune, they can go one step further next year, there will souri) in five. They swept Viterbo (Wisconsin) in the semifimoment to break out. be one big, happy family in Harder Stadium. nals early Saturday and faced Marian (Indiana) for the title Twice in the first half, that evening. incipient shouts of TO THE LIMIT IN AUSTIN: The night before the soccer match, But it was not a weekend for Santa Barbara storybook endjoy dissolved into groans. Thibault Candia’s shot was just off another UCSB team ended its season in spectacular fashion. ings. “We ran into an unstoppable girl,” McGolpin said. Skyler target, and Noah Billingsley’s point-blank header went into the The Gaucho women’s volleyball team, which had its best sea- Van Note’s 20 kills powered Marian to the title by scores of chest of the Wake Forest goalkeeper. son (23-6) and won its first NCAA match in 15 years, took the 25-20, 25-20 and 25-21.

Westmont (31-8) put two players on the all-tournament Then, after the Gauchos had pressed the action for 40 min- Texas Longhorns to the limit in a second-round blockbuster.

It seemed a foregone conclusion that Texas, the No. 2 overall team: senior Cassidy Rea from Ventura and freshman Lexi utes, Wake’s Alistair Johnston pinballed through their penalty area and emerged with a fortuitous shot into the goal. Having seed in the nation, would advance into the Sweet Sixteen. It Malone. With most of her team returning next year, McGolpin attained the 1-0 lead just before halftime, the Demon Deacons had done so for 13 consecutive years. It had not lost a single set says the Warriors can feed off this year’s experience. “I sent a were able to hold off the Gauchos with their possession game in a home NCAA match since 2016, a 20-set win streak. The text to our 2020 commits [newly recruited players],” she said: n Gauchos blew that up by winning the second set Friday, and “ ‘You better be ready.’ ” in the second half.

It was not the fairy-tale result the Deakynes wanted, but when they went on to win the third set, Texas had seen it was a useful lesson in dealing with disappointment. It also enough of Cinderella. Urged on by a vocal crowd, the relieved them of the expensive prospect of taking the whole Longhorns shut down the fairy tale by scores of 25-22, family to the College Cup in Cary, North Carolina. Wake 19-25, 18-25, 25-18, and 15-10.

Forest will join Virginia, Georgetown, and Stanford in the Gaucho coach Nicole Lantagne Welch has assembled final four. a young team with a bright future. A pair of freshmen, Tim Deakyne declared that the Gauchos played “their Tallulah Froley and Tasia Farmer, each had 13 kills against Texas and impressed ESPN commentator Karch Kiraly, the head coach of the U.S. national women’s team.

“Farmer and Froley are making fearless swings against an intimidating block,” Kiraly observed.

Meanwhile, UCSB seniors Lindsey Ruddins and Torre 12/14: College Basketball: Vanguard at Westmont Both Glasker went out in style, finishing with 23 and 12 kills, Westmont teams are 2-0 in the Golden State Athletic Conference heading into this double-header against the Lions from Costa respectively.

Mesa. The women’s game matches a pair of top-five NAIA teams: Charlotte (Mitchel) Roach had a rollercoaster weekend No. 5 Westmont (7-2 overall) and No. 4 Vanguard (4-1). With No. 3 watching the Gauchos compete on TV. She was an AllThe Master’s on the schedule later, this is an important matchup for American volleyball player at UCSB in 1986, and she is both teams. The Warrior women hope they can knock down shots the mother of Ben Roach, the soccer team’s sophomore like the 16 three-pointers they made in their 74-42 win at Arizona Justin Bessard, Cassidy Rea, goalkeeper.

Christian last week. Westmont’s No. 22-ranked men (10-0) will try Westmont basketball Westmont volleyball Roach commended the Gaucho volleyballers for to extend their perfect record against the Lions (6-4). The Warriors The 66 senior averaged 20 points and The senior hitter led the Warrior their composure in Texas, noticing that the fans behind barely escaped with their 10th win, holding off Arizona Christian, 7.5 rebounds as the Warriors opened women to a runner-up finish in the the servers were taunting them with horn-shaped hand 70-69. They have five players scoring in double figures, led by Justin NAIA National Championships, posting conference play with road wins over signals. It reminded her of the fans she encountered in Bessard (15.8). Women: 5:30pm; Men: 7:30pm. Murchison Gym, Ottawa (AZ) and Arizona Christian.

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(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): “Nobody knows really what they’re

(June 21-July 22): “You can shop online and find whatever

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A scholar counted up how often the Bible

doing,” says Aries comedian Conan O’Brien. “And there are two ways to go with that information,” he continues.

“One is to be afraid, and the other is to be liberated, and I choose to be liberated by it.” I hope you’ll be inspired

by O’Brien’s example in the coming weeks, Aries. I suspect that if you shed your worries about the uncertainty you feel, you’ll trigger an influx of genius. Declaring your relaxed independence from the temptation to be a know-it-all will bless you with expansive new perspectives and freedom to move.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): Creativity expert Roger von Oech tells us, “Everyone has a ‘risk muscle.’ You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don’t, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.” Here’s what I’ll add to his advice. If your risk muscle is flabby right now, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to whip it into better shape. Start with small, modest risks, and gradually work your way up to bigger and braver ones.

And what should you do if your risk muscle is already well-toned? Dream and scheme about embarking on a major, long-term venture that is the robust embodiment of a smart gamble.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Many people engage in laughably feeble

attempts to appear witty by being cynical — as if by exuding sardonic irony and sneering pessimism they could prove their mettle as brilliant observers of modern culture. An example is this lame wisecrack from humorist David Sedaris: “If you’re looking for sympathy, you’ll find it between ‘shit’ and ‘syphilis’ in the dictionary.” I bring this to your attention in the hope of coaxing you to avoid indulging in gratuitous pessimism during the coming weeks. For the sake of your good health, it’s important for you to be as open-minded and generousspirited as possible. And besides that, pessimism will be unwarranted.

you’re looking for,” writes pundit Paul Krugman, “but bookstores are where you find what you weren’t looking for.” That’s a good principle to apply in every area of your life. It’s always smart to know exactly what you need and want, but sometimes — like now — it’s important that you put yourself in position to encounter what you need and want but don’t realize that you need and want.

delivers the command “Fear not!” and “Don’t be afraid!” and similar advice. The number was 145. I don’t think that approach to regulating behavior works very well.

To be constantly thinking about what you’re not supposed to do and say and think about tends to strengthen and reinforce what you’re not supposed to do and say and think about. I prefer author Elizabeth Gilbert’s strategy. She writes, “I don’t try to kill off LEO my fear. I make all that space for it.

HOMEWORK: Resolved: The (July 23-Aug. 22): Bachianas BrasileiHeaps of space. I allow my fear to live answer to a pressing question will and breathe and stretch out its legs ras is a nine-part piece of music that come within 72 hours after you do comfortably. It seems to me the less blends Brazilian folk music with a ritual in which you ask for clarity.

I fight my fear, the less it fights back.” the compositional style of Johann Freewillastrology.com.

That’s the method I recommend for Sebastian Bach. The poet Anne you, Libra — especially in the comSexton relied on it, letting it replay ing weeks. ceaselessly during her long writing sessions. My painter friend Robin sometimes follows a similar method with SCORPIO Leonard Cohen’s album Ten New Songs, allowing it to cycle for hours as she works on her latest masterpiece. (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Isaac Newton (1642-1726) was one of hisIn accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to tory’s most influential scientists and a key contributor to select a new theme song or collection of theme songs physics, astronomy, mathematics, and optics. His masto inspire your intense efforts in behalf of your labors of tery of the nuances of human relationships was less devellove in the coming weeks. It’s a favorable time to explore oped, however. He had one close friendship with a Swiss mathematician, though he broke it off abruptly after four the generative power of joyous, lyrical obsession. years. And his biographers agree that he never had sex VIRGO with another person. What I find most curious, however, (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “I’ve spent my life butting my head is the fact that he refused to even meet the brilliant French against other people’s lack of imagination,” mourned philosopher Voltaire, who reached out to him and asked Virgo musician Nick Cave, who’s renowned for his origi- to get together. I trust you won’t do anything like that in nal approach to his craft. I’m bringing this to your atten- the coming weeks, Scorpio. In fact, I urge you to be extra tion because I suspect you will be endowed with an extra receptive to making new acquaintances, accepting invitafertile imagination in the coming weeks. And I would tions, and expanding your circle of influence. hate for you to waste time and energy trying to make full SAGITTARIUS use of it in the presence of influences that would resist and discourage you. Therefore, I’ll cheer you on as you (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): How did humans figure out that a luxuriseek out people and situations that enhance your free- ous fabric could be made from the cocoons of insect dom to express your imagination in its expansive glory. larvae? Ancient Chinese sage Confucius told the following story. One day in 2460 BCE, 14-year-old Chinese princess Xi Ling Shi was sitting under a mulberry tree, sipping tea. A silkworm’s cocoon fell off a branch and landed in her drink. She was curious, not bothered. She

unrolled the delicate structure and got the idea of using the threads to weave a fabric. The rest is history. I foresee a silkworm’s-cocoon-falling-in-your-cup-of-tea type of event in your future, Sagittarius. Be alert for it.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “It is the soul’s duty to be loyal to its own desires,” wrote Capricorn author Rebecca West. “It must abandon itself to its master passion.” That’s a high standard to live up to! But then, you Capricorns have substantial potential to do just that: become the champions of devoting practical commitment to righteous causes.

With that in mind, I’ll ask you: How are you doing in your work to embody the ideal that Rebecca West articulated?

Is your soul loyal to its deepest desires? Has it abandoned itself to its master passion? Take inventory — and make any corrections, if necessary.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I would never try to talk you into downplaying or denying your suffering. I would never try to convince you that the pain you have experienced is mild or tolerable or eminently manageable. Who among us has the wisdom to judge the severity or intractability of anyone else’s afflictions? Not I. But in the coming months, I will ask you to consider the possibility that you have the power — perhaps more than you realize — to diminish your primal aches and angst. I will encourage you to dream of healing yourself in ways that you have previously imagined to be impossible.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): “You owe it to us all to get on with what

you’re good at,” wrote Piscean poet W.H. Auden. In other words, you have a responsibility to develop your potential and figure out how to offer your best gifts. It’s not just a selfish act for you to fulfill your promise; it’s a generous act of service to your fellow humans. So how are you doing with that assignment, Pisces? According to my analysis, you should be right in the middle of raising your efforts to a higher octave; you should be discovering the key to activating the next phase of your success — which also happens to be the next phase of your ability to bestow blessings on others.

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LEGALS LEGAL NOTICES ADMINISTER OF ESTATE NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: WEN HUEY CHANG NO: 19PR00527 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of WEN HUEY CHANG A PETITION FOR PROBATE: has been filed by: JUDY CHANG in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION for probate requests that (name): JUDY CHANG be appointed as personal representa‑ tive to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests author‑ ity to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representa‑ tive to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)

The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: on 01/16/2020 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Anacapa Division.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objec‑ tions or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representa‑ tive, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Marisa K. Beuoy, Griffith & Thornburgh, LLP 8 East Figueroa Street, Suite 300 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 805‑965‑5131.

Published Nov 27. Dec 5, 12 2019.

FBN ABANDONMENT STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: INSEASONHARVEST at 1419 De La Vina Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 06/11/2019 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original file no. 2019‑0001403. The person (s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Sirwan McAlvain (same address) Jessica Ann McAlvain (same address) This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 18, 2019. I hereby

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certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Margarita Silva, Published: Nov 27. Dec 5, 12, 19 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g person(s) is/are doing busi‑ ness as: HEAD TO TOE at 8 8 7 L i n d e n Av e C a r p i n t e r i a , CA 93013; Adrina Zazueta 1227 Cacique St Santa Barbara, CA 93103 conduct‑ ed by a Individual Signed: Adrina Zazueta Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 18, 2 0 1 9 . T h i s s t a t e m e n t e x p i re s f i v e y e a r s f ro m t h e d a t e i t was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk ( S E A L ) b y M a r i a F. S a n c h e z .

FBN Number: 2019‑0002853.

Published: Nov 27. Dec 5, 12, 19 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g person(s) is/are doing busi‑ n e s s a s : A A N D M PA I N T I N G , A & M PA I N T I N G a t 6 1 0 Burtis St. Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Martin Alonso (samea address) Miguel Morales ( s a m e a d d re s s ) c o n d u c t e d b y a General Partnership Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 14, 2019. This state‑ m e n t e x p i re s f i v e y e a r s f ro m the date it was filed in the O ff i c e o f t h e C o u n t y C l e r k .

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck.

FBN Number: 2019‑0002826.

Published: Nov 21, 27. Dec 5, 12 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g person(s) is/are doing business as: BIOLOGICAL MEDICINE GLOBAL CONSULTING at 26 W. Constance Ave #8 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Leslie R. Va l l e ‑ M o n t o y a M . D . ( s a m e a address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 12, 2019. This statement expires f i v e y e a r s f ro m t h e d a t e i t w a s f i l e d i n t h e O ff i c e o f the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by John Beck. FBN Number: 2019‑0002809. Published: Nov 21, 27. Dec 5, 12 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g person(s) is/are doing business a s : R E V I V E H E A LT H a t 4 1 4 Olive Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Revive Public Relations, LLC 209 10th Avenue South, Suite 214 Nashville, TN 37203 conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 14, 2019. This statement e x p i re s f i v e y e a r s f ro m t h e date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Thomas Brian. FBN Number: 2019‑0002822.

Published: Nov 21, 27. Dec 5, 12 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T The follow‑ i n g p e r s o n ( s ) i s / a re d o i n g business as: DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY ACUPUNCTURE a t 2 0 9 W. S o l a S t . S a n t a Barbara, CA 93101; Downtown Community Acupuncture, Inc. (same address) conducted by a Corporation Signed: Jennifer Potthast, CEO Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 07, 2019. This s t a t e m e n t e x p i re s f i v e y e a r s f ro m t h e d a t e i t w a s f i l e d in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Maria F. S a n d c h e z . F B N N u m b e r : 2019‑0002789.

Published: Nov 21, 27. Dec 5, 12 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ALPHA FLORAL at 1810 A Cliff Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93109; High Five Floral Inc 7622 Evergreen Drive Goleta, CA 93117 conducted by a Individual Signed: Michael Nell Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 16, 2019. 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: 2019‑0002595.

Published: Nov 21, 27. Dec 5, 12 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g person(s) is/are doing busi‑ ness as: CANICO FINISH CARPENTRY at 51 Nectarine Ave Apt A Goleta, CA 93117; Canico Construction Corp. (same address) conducted by a Corporation Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 06, 2019. 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 Margarita Silva. FBN Number: 2019‑0002772. Published: Nov 21, 27. Dec 5, 12 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TACOS TECOMAN at 3909 La Colina Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Martin Rivera (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Martin Rivera Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 13, 2019. This state‑ ment expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Brenda Aguilera. FBN Number: 2019‑0002817. Published: Nov 21, 27. Dec 5, 12 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g person(s) is/are doing business as: ANACAPA VAPOR at 4 W De La Guerra St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Benjamin L W Pierce 857 Arbor Ave Ventura, CA 93003 conducted by a Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 06, 2019. This state‑ ment expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Maria Sanchez. FBN Number: 2019‑0002778. Published: Nov 27. Dec 5, 12, 19 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing busi‑ ness as: THE TIDY HOME SB at 126 San Clemente St. Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Tera Folsom (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 04, 2019. 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 John Beck. FBN Number: 2019‑0002753. Published: Nov 21, 27. Dec 5, 12 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g person(s) is/are doing busi‑ ness as: ILY BEAUTY at 7060 Hollister Ave, Ste 103 Goleta, CA 93117; Ly Truc Tran 6626 Picasso Rd, Apt 36 Goleta, CA 93117 conducted by a Individual Signed: Ly Truc Tran Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 15, 2019. 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 Brenda Aguilera. FBN Number: 2019‑0002850. Published: Nov 27. Dec 5, 12, 19 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FORWARD LATERAL at 222 East Canon Perdido Street, Unit 204 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Surfing The Casbah, LLC 730 Ayala Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93101 conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Jesse Aizenstat, CEO Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 12, 2019. 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 Jazmin Murphy. FBN Number: 2019‑0002812. Published: Nov 21, 27. Dec 5, 12 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing busi‑ ness as: ALL MY LOVE at 7930 Whimbrel Lane Goleta, CA 93117; Aneeka Clair Brighton Amaral (same address) Guilherme Ferreira Amaral (same address)‑ conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 15, 2019. This state‑ ment expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Brenda Aguilera. FBN Number: 2019‑0002849. Published: Nov 21, 27. Dec 5, 12 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ASSISTED HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE, ASSISTED PALLIATIVE at 302 N. Milpas Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Assisted Home Care, Inc. (same address) conducted by a Corporation Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 05, 2019.

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 Maria F. Sanchez.

FBN Number: 2019‑0002759.

Published: Nov 21, 27. Dec 5, 12 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g person(s) is/are doing business as: PACK MULE MOVERS at 366 Ribera Dr Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Adam Dyrenforth (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Adam Dyrenforth Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 18, 2019. 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 John Beck.

FBN Number: 2019‑0002856.

Published: Nov 27. Dec 5, 12, 19 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g person(s) is/are doing busi‑ ness as: INNATE BEAUTY at 130 S. Hope Ave. Space #F 127, Suite 103 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Laura Araceli Perez 7615 Dartmoor Ave. Goleta, CA 93117 conducted by a Individual Signed: Laura Perez Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 18, 2019. 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 Maria F. Sanchez. FBN Number: 2019‑0002855. Published: Nov 27. Dec 5, 12, 19 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g person(s) is/are doing business as: FIGS AND CHOCOLATE at 6850 Shadowbrook Drive Goleta, CA 93117; Cassandra Durtschi (same address) con‑ ducted by a Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 05, 2019. 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 Thomas Brian. FBN Number: 2019‑0002766. Published: Nov 27. Dec 5, 12, 19 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DEAN at 6100 Hollister Ave Goleta, CA 93117; Jennifer Shively 26 W. Constance Ave #8 Santa Barbara, CA 93105 conducted by a Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 12, 2019. 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 Maria F. Sanchez. FBN Number: 2019‑0002810. Published: Nov 27.

Dec 5, 12, 19 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OFF THE CURB at 1117 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Lynne Desmond Cage 2814 Puesta Del Sol Santa Barbara, CA 93105 conducted by a Individual Signed: Lynne Desmond Cage Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 08, 2019. 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 John Beck. FBN Number: 2019‑0002801. Published: Nov 27.

Dec 5, 12, 19 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EL GATO, OAKY DOKEY, OH, HAY ROSE at 5069 Presquille Drive Santa Maria, CA 93455; Parker Parker, LLC 721 Crater Camp Dr Monte Nido, CA 91302 conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 08, 2019. This state‑ ment expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Brenda Aguilera. FBN Number: 2019‑0002803. Published: Nov 27.

Dec 5, 12, 19 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CORNER TAP at 201 Santa Cruz Boulevard Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Mesa Brew, LLC (same address) conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 21, 2019.

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 Maria F. Sanchez. FBN Number: 2019‑0002885. Published: Nov 27.

Dec 5, 12, 19 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HITS at 2525 Santa Barbara St. Santa Barbara, CA 93105; High Temperature Superconductors, LLC (same address) conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 22, 2019. 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 John Beck. FBN Number: 2019‑0002902. Published: Nov 27.

Dec 5, 12, 19 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MICO NONET at 605 San Roque Rd. Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Efe Baltacigil 3009 West Barrett St. Seattle, WA 98199; Paul Lafollette 2678 California St., #2 San Francisco, CA 94115; Carrie Dennis 2250 Cove Ave Los Angeles, CA 90039; Katherine Needleman 8024 Rider Ave Towson, MD 21204; Joshua Lee Kramer 605 San Roque Rd. Santa Barbara, CA 93105 con‑ ducted by a General Partnership Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 22, 2019. 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 John Beck.

FBN Number: 2019‑0002905.

Published: Nov 27. Dec 5, 12, 19 2019.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g p e r s o n ( s ) i s / a re d o i n g b u s i ‑ n e s s a s : C R AV I O T T O B R O S ENTERPRISES at 500 Puente Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Darlene S. Levien C r a v i o t t o 6 2 3 0 M a l b o ro u g h Drive Goleta, CA 93117; D a n i e l F. C r a v i o t t o J r 5 0 0 Puente Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93110; James Craviotto 1806 Robbins Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 conduct‑ ed by a General Partnership Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 21, 2019. This state‑ m e n t e x p i re s f i v e y e a r s f ro m the date it was filed in the O ff i c e o f t h e C o u n t y C l e r k .

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Maria Sanchez.

FBN Number: 2019‑0002896.

Published: Nov 27. Dec 5, 12, 19 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g p e r s o n ( s ) i s / a re d o i n g b u s i ‑ ness as: NEXTGEN EVENTS a t 9 9 C a rd i n a l Av e G o l e t a , CA 93117; Adriana Elkington (same address) Michael Elkington (same address) con‑ ducted by a Married Couple Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 22, 2019. This state‑ ment expires five years from the date it was filed in the O ff i c e o f t h e C o u n t y C l e r k .

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jazmin Murphy.

FBN Number: 2019‑0002915.

Published: Nov 27. Dec 5, 12, 19 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T The follow‑ ing person(s) is/are doing business as: AGUIRRE’S CLEANING SERVICE at 673 Carina Drive Lompoc, CA 93436; Gerardo Aguirre ( s a m e a d d re s s ) N o r m a A g u i r re (same address) conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 20, 2019. This statement e x p i re s f i v e y e a r s f ro m t h e d a t e i t w a s f i l e d i n t h e O ff i c e of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Margarita Silva.

FBN Number: 2019‑0002879.

Published: Nov 27. Dec 5, 12, 19 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: D. SHELTON STUDIOS at 801 Cold Springs Rd Santa barbara, CA 93108; David Shelton (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 21, 2019. This state‑ ment expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Maria Sanchez. FBN Number: 2019‑0002892. Published: Nov 27. Dec 5, 12, 19 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CLEAR ESTHETICS at 30 W Mission St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Satara Arthaud I.E. 1489 Owl Ridge Road Santa Barbara, CA 93105 conducted by a Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 19, 2019. This state‑ ment expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Maria Sanchez. FBN Number: 2019‑0002864. Published: Nov 27. Dec 5, 12, 19 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE WELLNESS MOVEMENT, INC. at 1629 Garden Street #1 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; The Wellness Movement, Inc. (same address) con‑ ducted by a Corporation Signed: Cynthia Abrami‑President Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 06, 2019.

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 Maria Sanchez. FBN Number: 2019‑0002770. Published: Nov 27.

Dec 5, 12, 19 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA OFFICE FURNITURE at 5390 Overpass Rd #4 Santa Barbara, CA 93111; (same address) conduct‑ ed by a Corporation Signed: Gilbert J. Regalado Sr. Owner Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 25, 2019. This state‑ ment expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck.

FBN Number: 2019‑00029250.

Published: Nov 27. Dec 5, 12, 19 2019.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GLOBAL SYSTEM TRADE & SERVICES at 100 Oceano Ave Ste 11 Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Adama Perry Traore (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 26, 2019. This state‑ ment expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck.

FBN Number: 2019‑0002932.

Published: Dec 5, 12, 19, 26 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JAMES H. CORDES AND ASSOCIATES at 831 State Street #205 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; James H Cordes 1223 Manitou Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93101 conducted by a Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 07, 2019. 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 Maria F. Sanchez. FBN Number: 2019‑0002795. Published: Dec 5, 12, 19, 26 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LA CHAPALA MARKET at 5780 Hollister Ave Goleta, CA 93117; Lourdes De Maria Ramos 838 Montclair Dr. Santa Paula, CA 93060 conducted by a Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 26, 2019.

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 Maria F. Sanchez. FBN Number: 2019‑0002942. Published: Dec 5, 12, 19, 26 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: REL CYCLERY at 5085 Oleander Pl. Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Alex Chen (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 21, 2019. This state‑ ment expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck.

FBN Number: 2019‑0002884.

Published: Dec 5, 12, 19, 26 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BASH TILE at 712 W Anapamu Street Apt #7 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Bashyr Magomet Bochayev (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 25, 2019.

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 Margarita Silva. FBN Number: 2019‑0002927. Published: Dec 5, 12, 19, 26 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SOL ET LUNA at 121 W Pueblo St. Suite 14 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Paul Zagala 460 Fellowship Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93109 conducted by a Individual Signed: Paul Zagala Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 2, 2019. 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 Rachel Becerra. FBN Number: 2019‑0002956. Published: Dec 5, 12, 19, 26 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PRESCHOOL PATHWAYS at 7 W. Figueroa St., Ste 300 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Preschool Pathways LLC (same address) conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: COLLEEN BANNON, PRESIDENT Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 19, 2019.

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 Maria F. Sanchez. FBN Number: 2019‑0002868. Published: Dec 5, 12, 19, 26 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA WOOD FIRED PIZZA, SB WOOD FIRED PIZZA at 2840‑B De La Vina St Santa Barbara, CA 93105; RQ Project Inc 16849 Bircher St. Granada Hills, CA 91344 conducted by a Corporation Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 20, 2019.

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 Maria F. Sanchez. FBN Number: 2019‑0002882 Published: Dec 5, 12, 19, 26 2019.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g person(s) is/are doing business as: PIP PRINTING, MARKETING & SIGNS at 5735 Hollister Ave, Unit A Goleta, CA 93117; Juice Island, INC (same address) con‑ ducted by a Corporation Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 20, 2019. This state‑ ment expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jazmin Murphy. FBN Number: 2019‑0002876. Published: Dec 12, 19, 26, Jan 2, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g person(s) is/are doing busi‑ ness as: ISAAC CUSTOM WELDING at 709 E. Mason St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Isaac Anguiano 218 S. Steckel Dr Santa Paula, CA 93060 con‑ ducted by Individual Signed: ISAAC ANGUIANO Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 22, 2019. 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 Maria F Sanchez. FBN Number: 2019‑0002909. Published: Dec 12, 19, 26, Jan 2, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g person(s) is/are doing business as: KEYT‑TV KKFX‑TV at 730 Miramonte Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93109; NPG OF CALIFORNIA, LLC 730 Miramonte Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93109 State: MO conducted by Limited Liability Company Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 22, 2019.

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 Rachel Becerra.

FBN Number: 2019‑0002907.

Published: Dec 12, 19, 26, Jan 2, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CA’DARIO MONTECITO at 1187 Coast Village Rd, STE. 3C; CICCIOLO, INC. (same address) conducted by Corporation Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 3, 2019. This state‑ ment 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: 2019‑0002969. Published: Dec 12, 19, 26, Jan 2, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME S TAT E M E N T T h e f o l l o w i n g person(s) is/are doing busi‑ ness as: ROOTED SANTA BARBARA at 1111 Chapala Street Suite 200 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Santa Barbara F o u n d a t i o n ( s a m e a d d re s s ) conducted by Corporation Signed: JONATHAN BOWER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 22, 2019. This state‑ ment expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Maria F Sanchez. FBN Number: 2019‑0002904. Published: Dec 12, 19, 26, Jan 2, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing busi‑ ness as: AYR at 6553 Camino Venturoso, Goleta, CA 93117; John Brian Dawson (same address) conducted by Individual Signed: John Brian Dawson Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 25, 2019. This state‑ ment expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Brenda Aguilera. FBN Number: 2019‑0002923. Published: Dec 12, 19, 26, Jan 2, 2020.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LIFE AND WHIMSY at 2100 Hermosa Court, Lompoc, CA 93436; Melissa Mercer (same address) conducted by Individual Signed: Melissa Mercer Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 04, 2019. 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 Thomas Brian. FBN Number: 2019‑0002988. Published: Dec 12, 19, 26, Jan 2, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LOVEN BAKERY at 312 Cordova Drive #2, Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Christina Koontz (same address) conducted

by Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 12, 2019. 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 John Beck.

FBN Number: 2019‑0002811.

Published: December 12, 19, 26, January 2, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FIGUEROA LAW GROUP at 922 State Street, Suite A2 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Central Coast Law Group, LLP (same address) conducted by Limited Liability Partnership Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 05, 2019. 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 Margarita Silva. FBN Number: 2019‑0003016. Published: Dec 12, 19, 26, Jan 2, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ARLO MOON SALON at 130 S. Hope Ave Space #F127 Suite 122 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Emma Fader 122 Cardinal Ave Goleta, CA 93117 conducted by Individual Signed: EMMA FADER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 2, 2019. 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 John Beck.

FBN Number: 2019‑0002953.

Published: Dec 12, 19, 26, Jan 2, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA WINE CONCIERGE at 830B Poinsettia Way Goleta, CA 93111; Sarah Robin (same address) conducted by Individual Signed: SARAH ROBIN Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 12, 2019. 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 John Beck. FBN Number: 2019‑0002805. Published: Dec 12, 19, 26, Jan 2, 2020.

NAME CHANGE IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF NIKKI ANDRIA REID ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 19CV05876 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A peti‑ tion 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: NIKKI ANDRIA REID TO: REID NIKKI ANDRIA CARR RYAN THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the rea‑ sons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

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IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF RANDALL EDWIN PELLETIER ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 19CV05471 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A peti‑ tion 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: RANDALL EDWIN PELLETIER TO: RANDAL JAMES LYNCH 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 08, 2020 9:30am, Dept 6, Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four suc‑ cessive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Nov 07 2019 by Pauline Maxwell, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Nov 14, 21, 27. Dec 05 2019.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF ALAIN INIGUEZ QUEZADA ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 19CV05916 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A peti‑ tion 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: ALAIN INIGUEZ QUEZADA TO: ALAIN INIGUEZ 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 15, 2020 9:30am, Dept 6, Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four suc‑ cessive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Nov 08, 2019 by Pauline Maxwell, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Nov 21, 27.

Dec 05, 12 2019.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF JESSICA MARY THRELKELD ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 19CV05565 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A peti‑ tion 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: JESSICA MARY THRELKELD TO: JESSICA MARY STEWART 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 08, 2020 9:30am, Dept 6, Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four suc‑ cessive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Nov 07, 2019 by Pauline Maxwell, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Nov 21, 27.

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IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF VINCENT PAGLIARO ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 19CV05439 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A peti‑ tion 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: ABIGAIL LYNN PORTER TO: ABIGAIL LYNN‑MAE PAGLIARO

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THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the rea‑ sons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING January 22, 2020 9:30am, Dept 6, Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four suc‑ cessive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Nov 26, 2019 by Pauline Maxwell, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Dec 05, 12, 19, 26 2019.

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IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF LUCAS PINOLI RICKMAN ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 19CV06164 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A peti‑ tion 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: LUCAS PINOLI RICKMAN TO: LUKE MATTHEW PINOLI 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 January 22, 2020 9:30am, Dept 6, Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated December 04 2019 by Pauline Maxwell, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Dec 12, 19, 26, Jan 2, 2020.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF DENISE DENION ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 19CV06220 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A peti‑ tion 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: BAILEY MILA VESSLURD DENION TO: IRIS BAILEY VESSLURD DENION THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the rea‑ sons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING January 22, 2020 9:30am, Dept 6, Courthouse,

1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four suc‑ cessive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated November 26, 2019 by Pauline Maxwell, Judge of the Superior Court. Published: Dec 12, 19, 26, Jan 2, 2020. shed: Dec 12, 19, 26, Jan 2, 2020.

PUBLIC NOTICES EXTRA SPACE STORAGE will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 6640 Discovery Drive, Goleta, CA 93117 December 31, 2019 @ 3:30PM Sandra Shields Patio furniture, table, boxes, memorabilia Anthony Munoz Personal Patrick Ortiz Personal Cesar Martinez

NOTICE OF FUNDING AVAILABILITY CITY OF GOLETA INVITES APPLICATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2020-2021 FUNDING THROUGH THE GOLETA CITY GRANT PROGRAM AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (CDBG) PROGRAM The City of Goleta is accepting applications for grant funding through its Goleta City Grant Program and the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program. The application process is combined for both programs and will open on December 16, 2019. Applications must be submitted electronically through ZoomGrants no later than 5:00 pm on Friday, February 7, 2020. The City will no longer be accepting paper applications. Visit the City of Goleta’s website (tinyurl.com/goletagrant) for a link to the online application.

For Fiscal Year 2020-2021, approximately $130,000 in funding is available for civic services, community projects, cultural activities, educational programs and special events that are of benefit to the residents of the City of Goleta. CDBG funding must be used to provide public services to the homeless and low- to moderate-income residents of Goleta.

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All programs and activities must benefit Goleta residents.

Programs and activities must be sponsored by non-profit organizations or governmental agencies.

Categories of programs and activities eligible for grants include: Civic projects or services sponsored by Goleta community organizations Cultural activities (e.g. music, art, dance, recreation, etc.)

Educational programs Special events Regional projects of benefit to Goleta residents Public services (e.g. senior services, youth programs, health services, services for the homeless, etc.)

Questions regarding the grant application and funding process should be directed to Dominique Samario, Neighborhood Services and Public Safety Department, at dsamario@cityofgoleta.org or (805) 690-5126.

Publish: Santa Barbara Independent on Thursday, December 12, 2019

AVISO DE FONDOS DISPONIBLES LA CIUDAD DE GOLETA INVITA SOLICITUDES PARA EL AÑO FISCAL 2020-2021 FINANCIACIÓN A TRAVÉS DEL PROGRAMA DE SUBSIDIOS DE LA CIUDAD Y PROGRAMA FEDERAL DE SUBSIDIOS GLOBALES PARA EL DESARROLLO COMUNITARIO (CDBG) La Ciudad de Goleta está aceptando solicitudes para subsidios a través de su Programa “Goleta City Grant Program” y Programa Federal de Subsidios Globales Para el Desarrollo Comunitario (CDBG en inglés). Las solicitudes de subsidios estarán disponibles a partir del 16 de diciembre de 2019 y deberán entregarse antes de las 5:00 pm el viernes, 7 de febrero 2020. Para el año fiscal 2020-2021, hasta aproximadamente $130,000 en financiación está disponible para los servicios cívicos, proyectos comunitarios, actividades culturales, programas educativos y eventos especiales que son de beneficio para los residentes de Goleta. Los fondos federales CDBG tienen que ser utilizados para proporcionar servicios públicos a las personas sin hogar y de bajos a moderados ingresos residentes de Goleta. Visite el sitio web de la Ciudad de Goleta (tinyurl.com/ goletagrant) para solicitar en línea.

REQUERIMIENTOS PARA FINANCIACIÓN DE SUBSIDIOS 1.

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Todos los servicios y / o proyectos deben beneficiar a los residentes de Goleta.

Servicios y / o proyectos deben ser patrocinados por organizaciones sin fines de lucro.

Categorías de los servicios y proyectos elegibles para subsidios incluyen: Proyectos o servicios cívicos patrocinados por organizaciones comunitarias de Goleta Actividades culturales (por ejemplo, música, arte, danza, recreación, etc.)

Los programas educativos Eventos especiales Los proyectos regionales que benefician a los residentes de Goleta Los servicios públicos para de personas de ingresos bajos a moderados (por ejemplo, servicios para ancianos, programas para jóvenes, servicios de salud, etc.)

Una sola solicitud se utiliza para ambos programas y se puede obtener en la ciudad de Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, CA 93117, o al www.cityofgoleta.org. Las preguntas relacionadas con la financiación y / o solicitudes de subsidios para las aplicaciones también pueden ser dirigidas a Dominique Samario, Departamento de Servicios Comunitarios y Seguridad Pública, en dsamario@cityofgoleta.org (805) 690-5126.

Publique: Santa Bárbara Independent, el jueves, 12 de diciembre de 2019

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Office Items, Personal Jose Farias Tools, Homegoods, Personal Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

SUMMONS SUMMONS ‑ (Family Law) NOTICE TO REPONDENT: JUAN C. LEON AVISO AL DEMANDANDO: Petitioner’s name is: FRANCISCA DE LA LUZ Nombre del demandante: CASE NUMBER: (Numero del caso) 19FL00569 You have 30 calendar days after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL‑120) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter, phone call will not protect you.

If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership,

your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs.

For legal advice, contact a lawyer imme‑ diately. Get help finding a lawyer at the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courts.ca.gov/selfhelp), at the California Legal Services website (www.lawhelpca.org), or by contacting your local county bar association.

NOTICE‑RESTRAINING ORDERS ARE ON PAGE 2: are effective against both spouses or domestic partners until the petition is dismissed, a judgment is entered, or the court makes further orders. These orders are enforceable anywhere in California by any law enforcement officer who has received or seen a copy of them.

FEE WAIVER: If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. The court may order you to pay back all or part of the fees and costs that the court waived for you or the other party.

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corte y efectuar la entrega legal de una copia al demandante. Una carta o llamada telefonica o una audiencia de la corte no basta para protegerto.

Si no presenta su Respuesta a tiempo, la corte puede dar ordenes que afecten su matrimonio o pareja de hecho, sus bienes y la custodia de sus hijos. La corte tambien le puede ordenar que pague manutencion, y honorarios y costos legales.

Para asesoramiento legal, pongase en contacto de inmediato con un abo‑ gado. Puede obtener informacion para encountrar un abogado en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en el sitio web de los Servicios Legales de California (www.lawhelpca.org) o poniendose en contacto con el colegio de abogados de su condado.

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1.The name and address of the court are (El nombre y direccion de la corte son): SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT 1100 Anacapa St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101. The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: Francisca De La Luz P.O. Box 4384 Santa Barbara, CA 93140; (805‑729‑3298) (El nom‑ bre, direcion y numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante si no tiene abogado, son): Dated March 15, 2019. Darrel E. Parker, Execcutive Officer; Clerk, by (Secretario, por) Yuliana Razo Deputy (Asistente) Published Nov 27. Dec 5, 12, 19 2019.

NOTICE INVITING SEALED BIDS FOR THE 2019 MISCELLANEOUS CONCRETE REPAIR PROJECT 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, City of Goleta, CA PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Goleta (“CITY”), invites sealed bids for the above stated project and will receive such bids in the office of the City Clerk, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California 93117, before 3:00 P.M., January 15, 2020, and will be publicly opened and read aloud promptly thereafter.

Faxes or any electronic format is not acceptable. Copies of the Contract Documents and Specifications are available from the CITY, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California 93117 upon payment of a $20.00 non-refundable fee if picked up, or payment of a $30.00 non-refundable fee, if mailed or no payment to CITY if obtained from Construction Bidboard, Inc. at http://www.ebidboard.com/, or CITY website at http://www. cityofgoleta.org/i-want-to/view/city-bid-opportunities.

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The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to construct and deliver a finished 2019 MISCELLANEOUS CONCRETE REPAIR PROJECT. Work includes removing and replacing concrete curb, gutter, and sidewalks, driveway access ramps and associated minor paving on various street within the City of Goleta, CA. The contract period is Forty (40) Working Days.

The Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) per California Labor Code Section 1771.4, including prevailing wage rates and apprenticeship employment standards. Affirmative action to ensure against discrimination in employment practices on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, or religion will also be required. The CITY hereby affirmatively ensures that all business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this notice and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, or religion in any consideration leading to the award of contract.

Bids must be prepared on the approved bid forms in conformance with the “Bidding Instructions” and the General Provisions and submitted in a sealed envelope plainly marked on the outside, “SEALED BID FOR 2019 MISCELLANEOUS CONCRETE REPAIR PROJECT. DO NOT OPEN WITH REGULAR MAIL.” The bid must be accompanied by cash or cashier’s check, certified cashier’s check, or bidder’s bond executed by an admitted surety, made payable to CITY. The bid security shall be an amount equal to ten percent (10%) of the total maximum amount bid with their proposals as required by California law.

A contract may only be awarded to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder that holds a valid Class “A” or Class “C-8” Contractor’s license or specialty licensing in accordance with the provisions of the California Business and Professions Code.

The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a Performance Bond and a Payment Bond each in an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Price. Each bond shall be in the forms set forth herein, shall be secured from a surety company that meets all State of California bonding requirements, as defined in Code of Civil Procedure Section 995.120, and that is a California admitted surety insurer.

Pursuant to Labor Code sections 1725.5 and 1771.1, all contractors and subcontractors that wish to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, or enter into a contract to perform public work must be registered with the DIR. No Bid will be accepted nor any contract entered into without proof of the contractor’s and subcontractors’ current registration with the DIR to perform public work. If awarded a contract, the Bidder and its subcontractors, of any tier, shall maintain active registration with the DIR for the duration of the Project. Failure to provide proof of current registration pursuant to Labor Code Section 1725.5 may result in rejection of the bid as non-responsive.

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The Contractor Company, including the Responsible Managing Officer (RMO) for the Contractor Company, shall demonstrate a minimum of three (3) years’ experience successfully performing projects of substantially similar type, magnitude, and character of the work bid. The CITY reserves the right to reject all bids, reject any bid that is not responsive to the invitation, or to waive any minor irregularity and to take all bids under advisement for a period of up to ninety (90) days.

Pursuant to Public Contract Code section 22300, the successful bidder may substitute certain securities for funds withheld by CITY to ensure performance under the Contract or, in the alternative, request the CITY to make payment of retention to an escrow agent.

Any protest to an intended award of this contract shall be made in writing addressed to the City Clerk prior to the award. Any protest may be considered and acted on by the City Council at the time noticed for award of the contract. To request a copy of the notice of agenda for award, please contact the City Clerk (805) 9617505 or register on the CITY’s website (www.cityofgoleta.org).

For information relating to the details of this Project and bidding requirements contact Julie Jang in writing at jjang@cityofgoleta.org.

CITY OF GOLETA _____________________________ Deborah S. Lopez, City Clerk Published: Santa Barbara Independent: December 12, 2019 and January 2, 2020.

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