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January 22, 2020

Commemorates 47 years of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision, Roe v. Wade, which affirmed that the constitutional right to privacy includes the right to safely end a pregnancy.

The right to safe, legal abortion is under assault like never before. Over 300 bills restricting abortion were introduced in state legislatures across the country in 2019 alone. This year, the Supreme Court will vote on a case that could undo nearly 50 years of precedent supporting the right to abortion access.

The state of California has led the way on protecting and expanding access to reproductive care — but we are not an island.

Access to safe and legal abortion shouldn’t depend on your zip code.

In 2020, we pledge to protect Roe and ensure that no matter what, people have access to essential health care, including abortion.

We’ll fight back tooth and nail to defend reproductive rights — no matter what.

Together, we pledge to expand not ban in 2020.

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“There has never been a scientific career quite like Mary-Claire King’s.” The New York Times

The Genetics of Inherited Breast and Ovarian Cancer: From Gene Discovery to Precision Medicine and Public Health Thu, Feb 6 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall / FREE Renowned human geneticist Dr. Mary-Claire King discovered the genetic mutation responsible for breast cancer, a finding that has revolutionized the course of cancer research and transformed the way patients are diagnosed and treated. A recipient of the National Medal of Science for her bold, imaginative and diverse contributions to medical science and human rights, Dr. King will discuss the genetics of inherited cancers in this free community event.

Following the talk a panel of experts will address genetics, cancer and you, including the following topics: photo: Steven Dewall

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Presented in association with Breast Cancer Resource Center, Ridley-Tree Cancer Center at Sansum Clinic, Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics and UCSB Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

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With live original music and breathtaking visual poetry, FLIP Fabrique brings the best in contemporary circus from Quebec to Santa Barbara These expert jugglers, high flyers, aerialists and acrobats create a Blizzard that promises to blow away everything in its path.

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“The glamour of a high-flying hotel has found a natural bedfellow in the glamour of contemporary circus... It’s a stylistic match… Beautiful images and inventive acts.” The Toronto Star

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Stories of His Life and Career Join us for Itzhak Perlman’s special 75th birthday celebration, a rare autobiographical evening providing fascinating insight into one of our most revered musical masters.

Through intimate anecdotes, personal photos, archival video and live music, Perlman brings to life his early dreams and inspirations; introduces us to his parents and other influential figures; and revisits life-changing events – including surviving polio and his famous performance on the Ed Sullivan Show at the age of 13.

Tue, Jan 21 / 6:30 PM (note special time) / Granada Theatre Tickets start at $50 / $25 UCSB students A Granada facility fee will be added to each ticket price

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“Lil Buck and Jon Boogz… share a mission: nothing less than to improve the world through dance.” The New York Times Wed, Jan 22 / 8 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall Tickets start at $25 / $15 UCSB students Presented through the generosity of Jody & John Arnhold Corporate Season Sponsor:

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Name: Ben Ciccati ★ Title: Cover Illustrator Voices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Are you a film guy? If so, what kind of stuff do you like? I’m not a film guy, and I hate being inside theaters, but a few favorites are Dark Days, I Heart Huckabees, and the first Star Wars film. But not on HD or Blu-ray. I think that new stuff looks really bad, and I refuse to watch it. I also saw The Irishman (over the course of four nights) and thought it was great, and I love looking at old cars.

OBITUARIES.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 THE WEEK.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 LIVING.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Living Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Starshine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

24 Kumail Nanjiani

Of all the celebrity portraits you’ve done, what’s your favorite? Which one was the hardest to pull off? I can’t even remember who I’ve done! I think Denzel was one of my better ones a few years back. Glenn Close was a challenge.

FOOD & DRINK .. . . . . . . . . . 46 The Restaurant Guy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

COVER STORY

Santa Barbara International Film Festival Interviews, Movies, and More

(Indy Staff)

Dining Out Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

If you could do a live portrait of anyone, living or dead, who would it be? Mr. T. I’m a huge fan.

We could just sit and pity fools for hours together.

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How do you like to work? Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed during the day, after a few at night?

At night with rye whiskey.

Arts Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

FILM & TV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

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ON THE COVER: Brad Pitt illustration by Ben Ciccati.

NEWS.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 OPINIONS.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Angry Poodle Barbecue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Capitol Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

SPORTS.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

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ODDS & ENDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology . . . . . . . 61 This Modern World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

CLASSIFIEDS.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

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WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE: The Bacara drew dozens of doll buyers from around the world eager to bid on the late Huguette Clark’s collection. The day’s priciest doll, a two-foot-tall porcelain “Bebe Jumeau” (below), went for $90,000.

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by Tyler Hayden he cream-colored ballroom of the RitzCarlton Bacara was packed Saturday morning, January 11, with dozens of doll buyers from all over the world eager to bid on the $2 million collection left by the late Huguette Clark, Santa Barbara’s most famous heiress. It didn’t take long for the day’s priciest doll to get scooped up — a two-foot-tall porcelain “Bebe Jumeau” made in France in 1892. The auctioneer said she was extremely rare and in superb “unplayed with” condition, wearing her original rose silk dress and matching bonnet. The bidding war was fierce. Placards shot up and down with identification numbers on one side and a print of a disembodied doll’s head on the other. By the end, Bebe Jumeau went for $90,000 to light applause.

The proceeds from the auction will go directly to the Bellosguardo Foundation, the 501(c)(3) nonprofit tasked with turning Clark’s estate above East Beach into a public arts center. The nonprofit formed in 2014, and Bellosguardo came into its possession in 2017 after a delayed decision by the IRS over gift-tax penalties owed by Clark.

According to its latest financial filings, the Foundation manages $84.1 million in assets, including the 23 acres of land on which the 27-room mansion sits, the structure itself, and cash.

Throughout her life, Clark was a collector. She bought Stradivarius instruments and impressionist paintings. But before that, it was dolls. Clark was meticulous in her choices, selecting only the very best figurines and automatons from France, Japan, and Germany. She also commissioned elaborate dollhouses, collaborated with Christian Dior to make miniature clothing, and later became interested in Barbies. By the time she died at 104 as a near-recluse, she’d accumulated more than 1,100 dolls. A family friend said her dolls were her closest companions.

Clark’s inheritance came from her father, William A. Clark, a Montana senator and among the most powerful and ruthless of

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America’s 19th-century robber barons. He made his fortune in copper mining and used his vast wealth—$31 billion in today’s dollars—to buy favors and fix elections. After a heavy-drinking dinner in 1907, Mark Twain described him as “as rotten a human being as can be found anywhere under the flag.”

Clark’s legacy includes the country’s largest Superfund site (6.6 million cubic yards of earth contaminated with arsenic, lead, and copper that washed down from one of his mining operations), some philanthropy to the Boy Scouts, a massive New York City home, and of course, Bellosguardo.

To the disappointment of many in Santa Barbara, the Bellosguardo Foundation hasn’t explained how it plans to transform the

property—lacking parking and, uninhabited since the 1950s, saddled with millions of dollars in deferred maintenance—into a publicly accessible art museum. According to past and present boardmembers, the nonprofit, overseen by the New York Attorney General’s office, hasn’t convened any formal meetings, conducted a feasibility study, or shared complete financial records. At least four members have resigned in protest.

The nonprofit’s founding documents stated it would start collecting admission fees by 2017. In March 2018, its president, a local campaign consultant, Jeremy Lindaman, said that a press event would be conducted “in the near future” to publicly discuss options for the property’s use. In November 2018, board chair Dick Wolf announced Bellosguardo would be borrowing artwork from The Frick Collection in Manhattan within the next six months. None of those commitments have come to fruition. Lindaman and Wolf have not returned the Independent’s repeated requests for comment. Meanwhile, the property has hosted a number of private events, including weddings for $100,000, an elaborate The Great Gatsby–themed gala, and, in one unconfirmed report, an Amazon corporate retreat.

The foundation’s tax returns for the 2017 fiscal year (the most recent available) offer some, but not much, insight into its operations. Lindaman is collecting the only salary, now at $120,000, up from $75,000 the year before. Other employee wages were listed at $106,000, but no details were given.

The nonprofit paid $278,000 in taxes, the mansion depreciated $327,000 in value, and $5,800 was spent on repairs. The Estate of Huguette Clark, via the New York Public Administrator’s Office, gave $550,000 to the foundation while Wolf contributed $75,000.

“Qualifying distributions” totaled $608,000 and $928,000 was spent on “direct charitable activities.” But again, no details were provided other than to say the year’s activities entailed “board formation” and “community outreach.” n

About 50 Santa Barbarans commanded the sidewalk on 1/9 outside the county courthouse to demand peace (above), while a bipartisan vote in the U.S. House of Representatives invoked the War Powers Act in an attempt to limit the president’s ability to start hostilities in Iran. Chanting “No War with Iran” and singing lyrics to “Give Peace a Chance,” the S.B. gathering elicited supportive honks from end-of-the-day drivers headed down Anacapa Street.

A neighbor driving by a home on Lincolnwood Drive in the San Roque area noticed flames shooting out the top of a chimney stack on 1/8 and alerted the homeowners, who called City Fire and then aimed a garden hose at the flaming chimney from a second-floor balcony. Fire Engineer Kevin Corbett said the homeowner had largely put the fire out by the time fire crews arrived, but firefighters went onto the roof and into the attic to pull away the burned wood for any remaining hot spots.

INFRASTRUCTURE Granite Construction workers have begun excavating to reach the broken corrugated pipe responsible for the sinkhole discovered 12/27 at Turnpike and the 101, working Monday-Friday, 6 a.m.-5 p.m.

The repairs should be completed and the on-ramp back in one piece by 2/3 if the weather cooperates.

The work will cost about $1 million. In the meantime, Caltrans advises southbound motorists to use either the Patterson Avenue or State Street highway entrances.

COURTS & CRIME On 1/8 at about 4:30 p.m., the Isla Vista Foot Patrol got a 9-1-1 call of an armed robbery on the 900 block of Embarcadero del Mar. The Sheriff’s Office did not disclose the location of the alleged robbery, but a Daily Nexus writer reportedly saw it occur at Buddha Bowls. The suspect was last seen running toward Del Playa after taking cash from the register and is described as male, Hispanic, in his late twenties or early thirties, and wearing a hoodie and jeans. Anonymous tips can be left at (805) 681-4171 or sbsheriff.org/home/ anonymous-tip.

The families of four who died in the Conception boat fire off Santa Cruz Island on 9/2 announced on 1/13 a lawsuit filed in federal court against the owners of the dive boat. Attorneys from Saltz, Mongeluzzi,

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ow that Santa Barbara’s new City Council has survived the ceremonial niceties of the swearing-in ceremony on January 7, its members got down to the threat posed by sea-level rise. The detailed report, prepared by a private consultant, constitutes a grim shaggy dog story with no punch line yet.

Crafting one will be the work of the council in the months ahead.

City planners and now the council itself are preparing for multiple scenarios —ranging from bad to worse in terms of probability and impact. By way of planning purposes, the worst case involves an increase of 6.6 feet between now and 2100.

If no action is taken to mitigate this, the planning document indicates 1,250 parcels could be at risk of serious damage.

The proverbial rising tide may lift all boats, but not all waterfront areas, according to the report, are equally vulnerable to serious damage. The wastewater treatment plant, for example, will be rendered “permanently inoperable as currently designed,” the staff report states, in the 6.6-foot-increase scenario. That scenario would adversely affect the entire city, not just those areas more immediately impacted by rising water levels. Likewise, the report notes that even 2.5 feet of sea-level rise will have serious impact on most harbor functions. “By 6.6 feet of sea-level rise,” the staff report added, “the harbor would be unusable without reconstruction.” Only somewhat less dra-

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Barrett & Bendesky of Philadelphia and Panish Shea & Boyle of Los Angeles stated the suit directly counters the claim made by the boat’s owners, Truth Aquatics, for protection under a pre-Civil War maritime law, as the owners had no night patrol and no means for the safe charging of lithium ion batteries.

The suit was filed on behalf of crewmember Allie Kurtz and passengers/divers Yulia Krashennaya of Berkeley, and husband and wife Kaustubh Nirmal and Sanjeeri Deopujari of Connecticut.

matically, a 2.5-foot increase could exacerbate coastal bluff erosion by a factor of 40 percent; with a 6.6-foot increase, erosion’s toll would increase by 140 percent.

This week, the council got a detailed briefing on these scenarios. No action plans have been put before them. All that will come in the months ahead.

Sea-level rise is just one of several major policy decisions to confront the newly constituted council in the first quarter of the New Year. Also on the menu are a host of tenant-protection measures involving advance notice for eviction notices and the amount of relocation assistance required for tenants forced out through no fault of their own. Tenant-rights advocates insist the new and tougher protections are necessary to protect working families struggling to maintain a toehold in Santa Barbara’s daunting housing market. Landlord advocates insist such protections will make landlords less willing to rent to less-well-off tenants and will prompt smaller mom-andpop landlords to sell out to bigger investor groups less sensitive to the economic challenges posed by the housing market on lowincome tenants.

In addition, the “new” council will find itself addressing the thorny issue of relocating the Saturday Farmers’ Market to make way for a new police station at the site of the Cota Street parking lot now home to the weekly market.

—Nick Welsh

CITY The city’s hotel bed tax registered a 3.2 percent increase just five months into the fiscal year, according to a report released this month for November 2019. However, it fell 2.2 percent compared to last year, possibly due to lower hotel occupancy during the Cave Fire, city finance analyst Diego Martin suggested. The 12 percent tax — imposed on visitors occupying a room in a hotel, motel, or similar establishment — earned $1.3 million in November 2019, for a total of $9.8 million so far. The city’s budget includes nearly $20 million from the tax. n

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Salud Carbajal dismissed as “wholly inadequate” the rationale offered by President Donald Trump to justify the killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani two weeks ago in Baghdad, stating no evidence has been presented that Soleimani posed an “imminent threat” IMMINENT THREAT? “It was wider than the Grand Canyon,” said Rep. Salud to the United States, Carbajal, describing the gap in evidence provided to support the strike on Iranian as required under Gen. Soleimani. the War Power Act. Carbajal, a Democrat and a supporter of off on a tirade.”

Trump’s impeachment, was present at Over the weekend, Esper said that while the congressional briefing on the attack. Trump provided no evidence of an immiIn addition, he stated, he read the written nent threat, he still believed such attacks justification the administration provided. were imminent. Esper said he himself Neither, he said, came close to making the shared that belief.

Carbajal voted in favor of a congrescase for imminence.

“It was wider than the Grand Canyon,” sional resolution that would limit Trump’s Carbajal said, describing the gap in evi- ability to conduct military strikes in Iran dence provided. As far as the congressional without congressional approval, which briefing itself, he added, “If there was a Hall passed by a vote of 224-194. An identical of Fame for the Worst Briefing Ever, this measure will soon be taken up by the Senwould have been there.” ate, where its fate is anything but certain.

He noted that Secretary of Defense Mark Carbajal voted in favor of a proposal to Esper has since acknowledged there’s no include similar language in the National specific evidence supporting Trump’s Defense Authorization Act, a $700 billion assertion that Soleimani was planning to spending bill. That language, however, did launch attacks on four American embassies not survive in the final bill — approved by throughout the Middle East. both the House and the Senate. Carbajal “He’s all over the map,” Carbajal said of voted in favor of that final measure.

Trump. “He’s just making stuff up, going —Nick Welsh

More Foster Kids Find Forever Homes

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ecuring permanent homes for foster kids, easing the workload on child welfare social workers, and nurturing the connection between kids and their families are just a few of the improvements in the Santa Barbara County Welfare Services Department.

On Tuesday, the Department of Social Services presented its fourth annual update on Santa Barbara County Child Welfare Services to the Board of Supervisors, after press time. The 105-page report details statistical progress and new efforts to increase the quality of life for foster kids, their families, and the social workers who help them.

Permanency — which is defined as the child either being reunited with their family, being adopted, or getting guardianship — has gone up. According to 2018 data, 62 out of the 175 children in foster care found permanency within 12 months. This is an increase from the 61 out of 186 children who found permanency in 2017.

“A number of factors are contributing to this success,” the report states, “including the use of Safety Organized Practice, increased focus on quality engagement of families, improved communication with the Juvenile Court partners, and improved visitation practices.”

The report also focuses on the happiness of social workers and other welfare staff at work. The objective is to “develop a trauma-informed workplace and staff retention and recruitment strategies, where staff wellness and satisfaction lead to a stable and competent workforce.”

According to the report, child welfare workers experience “burnout” and leave their jobs at a higher rate than other helping professions.

Attrition rates are decreasing for those working for County Welfare Services, though. The 2017-2018 fiscal year attrition rate average for social workers was 13.43 percent, which improved to 11 percent this past 2018-2019 fiscal year. —Delaney Smith

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Mental-Health Beds Coming to Lompoc

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ith typical understatement, county mental health czar Alice Gleghorn acknowledged, “It’s a very big deal.”

Her tone, however, was more weary — deadpan, perhaps—than elated. Gleghorn and crew helped broker a deal that will lead to 80 new beds sprouting up for a new acute-care mental-health facility in Lompoc at the site of the state-of-the-art substance abuse center that went out of business nearly two years ago.

In its place, Crestwood Behavioral Health—the largest private mental-health provider in the state—will operate a locked facility with three separate units, each one calibrated to address mental-health challenges of different levels of severity. Some patients will be there for years, others a relatively short period, and others for five to six months.

Last month, Crestwood signed a letter of intent with the property owner, Lompoc Medical Center. The lease is expected to be signed in February. If all goes according to plan, Crestwood will be ready for customers sometime in October.

“We’re very happy to be here,” stated Crestwood’s Executive Vice President Dr. Patricia Blum.

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Making the deal financially viable is the stream of patients — 32 — that Gleghorn and the Department of Behavioral Wellness will send and pay for. Currently the department sends 125 patients in need of serious long-term care to out-of-county facilities in faraway places like Sacramento and Sylmar.

“For the past three years, this has been our number-one priority,” Gleghorn declared.

Care for patients sent to Crestwood by the county will be covered by Medi-Cal under the auspices of the county’s conservatorship program. The cost of such treatment, Blum stated, will hover about $425 a night. Having an in-county facility offers a range of much-needed acute-care options with much closer supervision and coordination than is possible in out-of-county facilities. For family members inclined to participate, it offers a clear advantage.

Blum said Crestwood offers an employment training program in which patients are paid competitive wages for a range of jobs, from receptionist to gardener to peer support specialist, if only for an hour and a half a week. “Other than the paycheck, it gives people a sense of purpose,” Blum said.

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he Board of Supervisors was set to discuss proposed revisions to the budget for the North County Jail project in their meeting on Tuesday, as the project trudges into the New Year tens of millions of dollars over budget and months behind schedule. While initial bids for the project were in the range of $77 million, current estimates place the number at around $111 million. The county blames the project’s financial woes in part on contractor Rosser International, which abruptly went out of business in July 2019 with the project only 80 percent completed.

The agenda for the Board of Supervisors meeting states that budget revision requests include $1,856,700 in additional funds to account for increased construction costs that are the result of the fact that “projections from the contractor and the project did not progress at the pace that was anticipated,” according to John Greene, the senior project manager for the project. Greene also said that the budget revision will adjust budgeted expenditures “in FY2019/20 from $8,168,000 to $10,024,700.”

The North County Jail is the central legacy of Sheriff Bill Brown, who says that the new jail is necessary to address concerns about overcrowding and inadequate facilities at the current county jail in South County. The South County jail has been the subject of serious allegations of abusive practices and deteriorating conditions for inmates. The criminal justice advocacy group Disability Rights California slammed the county jail in a 2016 study, calling the facility’s conditions “inhumane” and “unsanitary.” The report also condemned the jail for excessive use of solitary confinement, a practice that has been criticized as cruel and counterproductive by social justice groups.

Sheriff Brown has said the new facility will address many of those concerns by alleviating the problem of overcrowding that has affected county jails after California’s realignment initiative transferred scores of prisoners from state prisons to county jails. In 2017, the South County Jail’s population was 120 percent of capacity. The North County Jail is expected to be completed in June 2020. —Brian Osgood

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LOSING OUR GRIP? City Attorney Ariel Calonne ponders new state housing laws that strip cities of local control.

How High Can You Go?

City Faces New Height Limit Allowing 80-Foot-High Projects

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or eons, the battle cry in Santa Barbara’s land-use wars has been “quality of life” and “neighborhood compatibility.”

Thanks to a flotilla of new state laws —including one that would allow developers to build structures up to 80 feet high — such subjective judgments will no longer be allowed when it comes to judging the merits of proposed new housing developments.

The new laws were passed by the Legislature and signed by Governor Gavin Newsom to expedite the development of new housing statewide by limiting local land-use controls.

Under the new laws, local governments will be allowed to restrict where and how new housing is built only if the planning rules are based in objective, numerically measurable criteria.

In addition, the legislature and governor imposed new limits on the number of design review hearings local governments can hold for proposed housing projects to no more than five. All this constitutes a seismic change for how planning has been conducted in Santa Barbara, where members of the city’s multiple design review boards and commissions frequently take far more than five bites of the planning apple. Here, “neighborhood compatibility,” however subjective, has long been the gold standard by which “the size, bulk, and scale” of proposed development projects have been judged.

At last week’s council meeting, the City Council got a massive brain dump on these new housing laws. That meeting left even the wonkiest councilmembers at sea as to City Hall’s legal and constitutional authority to insist on its own local prerogatives when it came to planning matters.

The provisions of the new height-limit law stand in stark contrast to language included in the City Charter for Santa Barbara that limits the maximum size to no more than 45 feet. (Under certain circumstances, the council has indicated a willingness to allow 47 feet.) The new law would give developers an additional 33 feet in height and an 80 percent increase in housing densities. This specific provision would apply only in cases where the development was proposed within half a mile of a major transportation hub, 100 percent of the units offered were affordable,

and 80 percent of those units targeted lowincome residents.

No such projects have yet to be proposed in Santa Barbara, and it’s not clear how likely such a proposal might become. If one were put forward, Mayor Cathy Murillo suggested, that would be a good thing. “Wouldn’t we want that — 100 percent affordable?” she asked.

New councilmember Michael Jordan later expressed concern that the new pro-housing legislation might drive up the value of land in Santa Barbara by allowing higher densities, making it harder for genuinely affordable housing to “pencil out.” In turn, he worried, the State Legislature might be moved to increase the allowable building heights even further. “It’s 33 feet now,” he said. “Maybe they’d bump to 50 to make things pencil out.”

The increasing tension between housing affordability, neighborhood compatibility, and local control will play out statewide in the months and years to come. Councilmember Jordan looked to City Attorney Ariel Calonne for guidance as to how hard City Hall could reasonably hope to push back on such state intrusions and in which instances resistance was futile. Calonne was reluctant to hazard an opinion in public but promised to provide the council a paper on the special powers enjoyed by the City Hall as a charter city.

The $64 million question in the current context is to what extent the statewide urgency of California’s housing crisis trumps the special powers exerted by charter cities, which enjoy greater constitutional protections of their municipal autonomy. In an ideal world, Calonne opined, the Legislature would recognize that not all cities are the same. Santa Barbara, he stated, has a long history of promoting, accommodating, and even requiring affordable housing in city planning policies. In prior years, the city spent millions to partner with nonprofit housing developers. Today, 12 percent of the city’s housing supply is earmarked as affordable.

At the same time, he stated, Santa Barbara has—for about 100 years—vigorously defined and defended its sense of place.

“Santa Barbara is not an off-the-rack city,” said Calonne. “It’s a custom-built place.” n

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At a Friday, January 10, hearing, Trigild asked to substitute its general counsel, David Wallace, for Hoffman; Pini proposed Michelle Roberson, a Santa Barbara attorney. Roberson, who owns Sierra Property Management with her husband, Kevin Roberson, a general contractor, knows Santa Barbara, charges local prices, and can be counted on to be onsite, Pini’s attorney argued. The city and Trigild’s attorneys pointed out that Wallace would bring continuity and resources to a complicated and highly litigious case. And, they said, while a qualified attorney, Roberson had no experience with receiverships. Pini has now filed suit against Wallace, accusing him of practicing law in California without the requisite license, a charge Wallace refuted in court.

Both Wallace and Roberson are to brief the court on their intended billing practice and costs by January 31. —Jean Yamamura

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he man put in charge of fixing thousands of code violations at eight of landlord Dario Pini’s Santa Barbara properties, William Hoffman, is planning on retiring because of health issues. This came as a surprise to Judge Colleen Sterne, who had appointed Hoffman as the receiver 20 months ago. This put a pause to more than two decades of tensions between Pini and city building inspectors over the conditions of the rental properties.

So far, since the receiver’s appointment in April 2018, 76 percent of needed repairs at the first location to be remediated, 320 West Mission Street, have been completed.

But much work still needs permitting and funding at the other properties, including at the East Carrillo, Los Aguajes, and West Arrellaga apartments.

Hoffman sold his property management company, Trigild, in December 2018 to a Texas company, a fact mentioned during a deposition in a lawsuit that Pini brought against first Hoffman, then Trigild, whom he accused of removing Victorian-era

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SEAT AT THE TABLE: Laura Capps held a press conference on Monday with supporters of her bid for 1st District Supervisor, including retired, longtime Santa Barbara County superintendent of schools Bill Cirone.

Longest-Serving Supe of Schools Endorses Capps

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ormer Santa Barbara County Superintendent of Schools Bill Cirone — the longest-serving superintendent of schools in the state — announced his endorsement of Laura Capps for 1st District Supervisor last Friday at Sunflower Park. Capps, who’s been on the Santa Barbara Unified school board since 2016 and was elected board president last month, was surrounded at the event by a group of mostly educators.

Her supporters focused their praise on her work in improving Santa Barbara schools and tackling tough issues like child hunger and the increasing poverty rate. Most danced around the tensions between Capps and her opponent, incumbent Das Williams, but Cirone didn’t mince his words.

“Das Williams is, and always has been, the number-one champion in the cannabis industry, promoting and supporting policies that many feel are harmful for children and their families who live in the district,” Cirone said. He went on to quote Williams as saying, “I’d rather have our schools smell like pot than lay off our teachers,” when

Williams was confronted with community concerns about cannabis farms being too close to schools.

Replying to the Independent’s request for comment, Williams said Cirone’s statement was “outlandish and misleading.” Williams, who lives in Carpinteria, said his daughter will be attending the community’s schools and that he wanted the best for her and all their neighbors. (For Williams’s full statement, see independent.com/news.)

Capps has long asserted that although she supports the legalization of marijuana for adult use, she believes the county has gone too far with pot farms and that their closeness to schools — particularly in Carpinteria — is unsafe for children. Carpinteria residents against the skunky smell invasion have looked to Capps to take Williams’s seat over the issue.

“In today’s divisive world, we need leaders with Laura’s integrity and values,” Cirone said. “We need someone who will stand up for what is right, even if it means taking on powerful interests.”

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Opinions TWO-BIT SOLUTION: For the better part of last week, my morning newspaper was a noshow. I’d call the L.A. Times and yell into the

one-way void of their telephonic voice portal.

Nothing would happen. The same affliction, it turns out, befell subscribers of the Santa Barbara News-Press. Had UFOs abducted everyone delivering newspapers on the South Coast?

Readers got restless. Newspaper carriers, we would later learn, were among the first casualties inflicted by a well-intended new state bill designed to protect gig economy workers from the manifold oppressions of the gig

economy. People who had worked directly for the two newspapers were told they no longer had jobs. They could apply for their old positions, but with a new company with whom the newspapers had contracted. As with all games of musical chairs, a lot of people awoke to discover they no longer had a seat. How many, we still don’t know.

Progress, like God, I guess, moves in mysterious ways.

I finally met my carrier this weekend. He was searching the street to find my digs. He was a new guy. He was delivering three papers, not just one; his route, he said, was crazy making and confusing. I sympathized. But for myself, as well. If I ever got to read a morning paper again, it would be after I got home at night.

The car he drove was chillingly emblematic of the newspaper industry as a whole.

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Old Dogs, New Tricks about the only thing that wasn’t. The body was slap-dashed with a blizzard of Bondo-gray patches. They alternated with streaky smears of scratched paint. The steering wheel was intermittently wrapped up in duct tape. There was something mesmerizing and primal about it, like a boxer’s wrapped fist or a wounded shark hunting for a cozy place to die.

If you read newspapers, you already know newspapers aren’t doing particularly well.

Between 2008 and 2018, 25 percent of all journalism jobs in the United States disappeared.

According to the Washington Post, the number of lost journalism jobs in the U.S. in 2019 was almost 4,000. For newspapers specifically, the numbers are even worse. Nearly 50 percent of employees found themselves forced to find new jobs in that same 10-year period. Circulation has dropped to the lowest ever since 1940 when economists first started tracking such things.

Revenues dropped 13 percent in 2018 alone, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission. To the extent there’s been significant new growth, it’s been with online advertising.

The bad news there is that half those new revenues go to Google and Facebook, who are doing to newspapers — Jeff Bezos’s ownership of the Washington Post not withstanding — as they have done to downtowns.

If the numbers are grim, the reality is more so. In communities that have not been rendered “news deserts” outright, “ghost papers” struggle to stay afloat, anorexic shadows of their former selves. As exquisitely imperfect as the

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news media undeniably is, local newspapers provide a service that can’t be replicated by all the aggregators, bloggers, and social media sites combined. At some point, some working stiff has to actually watch all those city council meetings, sit through those long and tedious trials, and talk to all those people who think they have something to say.

Because they often do.

On good days, we — local newspapers — provide the mud and straw from which the bricks and mortar of communities are built.

On good days, we provide the community a thermometer to take the temperature of its soul.

On occasion, we have such days.

I am, of course, biased beyond belief. As a paid writer, reporter, and editor, it’s in my obvious self-serving self-interest to believe the sun rises and sets according to the treadmill of my deadlines. That being acknowledged, we

do bring something to the party. Just look at any community that lost its paper; they’ve become the sound of one hand clapping, the dog that didn’t bark, and the singer without a band. In all that silence, you can no longer hear yourself think.

We’re all scrambling to find a new way. Big changes, we are told, are afloat for the muchbeleaguered and significantly improved NewsPress, though that paper’s new editor, Nick Masuda, has “absolutely and unequivocally” denied persistent rumors that the paper was being sold to the Los Angeles Times.

We at the Independent are trying out

something new and different. According to Pew Research, only 14 percent of the public pays for local news. We’re trying to increase

that number. It’s not asking that much.

We’re asking our readers to strip-mine their couches, sock drawers, car ashtrays, and other repositories of errant coins and subscribe to the Independent. Our rates, I have to say, qualify as a steal. For $30 — $29.99 to be precise — you get a year’s subscription; $2.99 gets you a month. By contrast, Edhat charges $52; Noozhawk starts off at $99. We’re considerably cheaper than Netflix or Spotify or any number of those apps you pay for but never actually use. But please bear with us as we work out some sign-up kinks.

Technically, this subscription gets you everything the paper has to offer online without interruption or intrusion. Without it, you won’t be able to read everything we’ve posted online, just the shorter stuff. News articles longer than 650 words, for example, will not be accessible without subscriptions. During natural disasters, such as floods and fires, or unnatural ones — elections — our intention is to make sure everyone can get everything. The paper that hits the streets every Thursday will remain, of course, 100 percent free.

Mostly, it’s an opportunity to try something new to allow us to evolve and grow. Think of it as a tip; think of it as a donation; think of it as you will, but please subscribe. It’s your way of keeping the dog barking, the one-hand hand clapping, and the lead singer accompanied by —Nick Welsh her backup band.

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n less than 20 days, the first ballots will be cast in the pivotal election to decide if Donald Trump’s narcissistic nihilism wins a second term.

On February 3 in Iowa, a collection of overwhelmingly white Democrats, a group numbering about one-third the population of Santa Barbara County, will vote for preferred party nominees and begin to shape the campaign narrative leading to the momentous November 3 election.

Here is a selection of benchmark data points to help make sense of the race amid the blizzard of bewildering media coverage to come.

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0: Percentage of change to Trump’s “favorable” rating since his historic impeachment in the House in November, according to a Morning Consult survey of 161,591 registered voters, which showed unwavering support from 43 percent of the electorate as of January 1.

-1: Percentage of change to Trump’s “unfavorable” rating since impeachment, down one point, to 53 percent, since impeachment; his net -10 point favorable/unfavorable rating (43-to-53 percent) was his strongest in the Morning Consult poll in 2019.

15,413: Number of false or misleading claims Trump made in the first 1,055 days of his administration, according to the Washington Post’s “Fact Checker” last month.

The Challengers

4: Number of Democratic contenders who have led Iowa’s bellwether Des Moines Register poll to date. After Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, and Pete Buttigieg previously led, Bernie Sanders now is ahead, with all four within the margin of error.

60: Percent of Iowa Democrats who told the Register polltakers they remain undecided.

48: Percent of African-American voters who favor Biden for president, in a national survey of 1,088 black Democrats by the Post and Ipsos Research, with Sanders at 20, Warren at 9 and Buttigieg at 2 percent.

The Money

150 million: Total dollars presidential candidates, including Trump, spent on advertising in December 2019, according to data released by Advertising Analytics.

50 million: Total dollars all presidential candidates spent on advertising in Dec. 2015, one month before last election year.

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The Voters

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17: Percentage of Republicans who say that the Democratic Party has “a lot” or “some” good ideas,” according to Pew. 13: Percentage of Democrats who say this about Republicans.

73: Percent of all voters (77% of Republicans and 72% of Democrats) — who say that people registered with the two parties “not only disagree over plans and policies, but also cannot agree on the basic facts,” according to Pew Research.

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Richard Lawrence White 5/23/1942 – 12/14/2019

Richard Lawrence White was born in Cottage Hospital, the fourth of five sons to Harwood and Alex White, in the middle of World War II. He was a big, strapping boy, built like his mother’s tribe, with a physical likeness to his grandfather, sculptor Francois Michel Tonetti.

There’s no good time to be born with special needs. The country and the world were scratching back from the Great Depression and The War. The mood everywhere was to succeed. Not that he lacked physical prowess—-like his brother Gilbert, he had a live arm that could zing a baseball, and a big easy tennis service motion.

But killer instinct showed up only in one quarter—-fishing.

Richard loved fishing and was good at it.

Richard attended Cold Springs and Crane Schools.

Later, he found a better learning environment at Happy Valley School in Ojai, which issued no letter grades, and where hikes, folk dancing and pottery classes with Beatrice Wood supplanted competitive sports. A set of Richard’s plate-ware graced the family’s Sandyland beach house for years thereafter. After Richard contracted rheumatic fever in his Junior year, he moved back home and finished up at Santa Barbara High School.

Surf guru, George Greenough, made Richard his sidekick in middle teen years, fishing and surfing on air mattresses at Sandyland. George’s creative brain was kicking into high gear, and Richard was game to help out. They made headlines one summer catching sharks and bat rays over 200 pounds from those little air mattresses. George and Richard harvested clams aplenty from both slough and beach, and kelp bass from the Carpinteria Reef.

In his late teens Richard worked on the party boats out of Norm’s Landing. Manny Cordero, a local Captain, hired Richard to deck for him on the Santa Barbara Special. It was a life highlight for Richard.

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Richard’s most shining hour came in the Coyote Fire, in the fall of 1964. Rich and Alex were at Neroli, the family’s Mountain Drive homestead, when the fire started. Rod, his oldest brother, packed the valuables and decamped from the hill. Rich stayed behind to defend the house. While the fire surrounded Neroli and showered the house with embers, Richard doused spot fires with a garden hose. When the flames got too hot, Rich took shelter in Neroli’s old water tunnel. Houses burned all around, but Neroli was saved.

Richard combined his love for helping people and for the outdoors by serving on the Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue Team in its formative years.

His passion for fishing took Richard offshore in boats large and small. His brother Rod, a legendary fisherman, usually had a spot for Richard whether chasing salmon on the Spiffy 2, or chartering long range for tuna out of San Diego. They made quite a duo. Rod was a perfectionist Ahab, especially when a salmon was writhing on his line. Rod read Richard the riot act for the slightest miscue. The more pressure Richard felt, the more he fumbled. It made for quite a scene.

But they persisted for decades.

By the way, they landed a hell of a lot of fish.

In the 1980’s Richard earned his black belt in supermarket coupons. He found a Sensei, who took him under wing for weekly raids. Woe be Ralphs and Albertsons, whose marketing departments got lax with their double discounts on ten percent Tuesdays. The pair pounced with L.A. Times coupons gleaned from the Christian Science Reading Room dumpster. Bagfuls of their take landed at the Salvation Army.

The thrill was in the hunt.

When it came to tales, Richard was Mountain Drive’s answer to Walter Mitty. He had climbed mountains, trekked wild hinterlands, braved towering seas, and above all, caught record-breaking fish.

Some of Rich’s tales were factual. It was up to the listener to figure out which was which.

As his three brothers sought their way in commerce and professional life, Richard was the son who stayed at home.

His father long passed away, Richard was Alex’s able body on the hill until her passing in her 82’nd year. Not that his brothers wandered far. Rod

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and Gilbert built homes on White Hill, and Bendy lived a short mile away. Richard was a helping hand at the many White Family gatherings convened over the decades.

Richard made it possible for Alex to live out her days in the rambling redwood retreat, hosting her legendary dinner gatherings. He watered the half-acre lawn, babied along the century-old water system, and cleaned out the driveway’s drain pipes before each rain.

Richard and Alex also kept company with a full menagerie of dogs, cats, bees, chickens, and an occasional chipmunk.

Richard brought the kitties with him after Alex died, and he moved up over the garage.

They gave each other solace, if cats need such, and the kitties thrived for many years. Mama cat had catholic litters for several years, until a coyote finally caught up with her. Rich loved those cats as he always did little critters. But he resolutely refused to have another. We always wished another kitty had found its way to his lap.

Rich took particular joy in his funky little patio. He had a single comfortable chair under a bower of greenery. Across from his chair were bird feeders of every sort. He loved to sit and watch the birds at close range, sometimes getting the jays to eat peanuts out of his hand. Rich’s precious cymbidiums marched up the steps to the terrace and down to the garage. He coaxed scores of opulent blooms from his plants. This was Rich when he found peace, where his caring landed with full force.

Rich’s passing closes the book of Neroli on Mountain Drive. He was Neroli’s most durable steward. Over 70 of his years Richard lived right there, outlasting even Alex’s 65-year reign.

Richard left us two years after the Thomas Fire destroyed Neroli. He wasn’t doing so well anyway. But the fire did him in. He never came near recovering.

Richard is survived by his brothers and sisters in law, Dr. Gilbert White and Dorene White, Harwood “Bendy” White and Kathryn Snow; nephews Thayer, Michael, Robert, and Stewart White, and niece Alexa Avila. He is pre-deceased by his brothers Stewart White and Roderick White.

A celebration of Richard’s life is scheduled for 3 pm, February 1, on White Hill.

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Ann P. Seed

03/29/1928 – 12/15/2019

Ann Peckham Seed was born March 28,1928 in San Francisco, California to Hildreth and Marion Peckham.

She grew up on San Diego’s Point Loma along with her older brother Peter Peckham, and older sister Jane Peckham.

She attended Cabrillo Elementary School, Dana Junior High School, and graduated from Point Loma High School in June of 1946.

Ann was as a gifted athlete.

She was a lifelong member of the ZLAC Rowing Club of San Diego, grew up playing tennis and horseback riding at the family ranch in nearby Julian, California. She also traveled extensively with her mother, as far as Brazil and Argentina in 1948; and sailed to post war western Europe and Berlin in June 1950.

Ann attended college at Stanford University, where she lived in Jordan House, and graduated in 1950 with a Bachelor of Arts degree (BA) in Geography. While attending Stanford Ann met Roy Gaskin.

After graduating from Stanford Ann married Roy in 1950, the father of her two surviving children James Gaskin (Jim) and Marcelene Ide (Marcie).

In 1963 Ann moved to Santa Barbara and made it her home for the rest of her life. She was a member of the Junior League of Santa Barbara, the Assistance League of Santa Barbara, and the Cottage Hospital Auxiliary.

In 1971 Ann began a new life when she married Harris Seed.

Ann and Harris travelled the globe together, making lifelong friends on their way. Ann’s favorite pastime was to share their second home in Kona, Hawai’i with their family and friends. Ann was close to Harris’ two children Nan and Hal. Ann was an accomplished golfer, playing competitively for La Cumbre Women’s Club in their Championship tournaments, Member Guest events, and Ringer tournaments. She achieved multiple Holes-In-One. Ann and Harris loved golf and played courses throughout Santa Barbara, Hawaii, Australia and Scotland.

Besides golf, Ann was an avid football fan, cheering for Stanford especially when they played against California Berkeley, Harris’ alma mater.

She also loved to play the horses at Del Mar and was quite skilled at cooking and collecting recipes. Ann was a kind-hearted woman; a loving

wife, mother and grandmother who spoiled all of us endlessly.

Ann passed peacefully at her home in Hope Ranch on December 15 at 91 years old.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Harris Waller Seed, and her granddaughter Mira Ann Ide. Ann is survived by Jim; Marcie; Jim’s wife Christine; Marcie’s husband Thomas Ide; Nanette Verkaik; her husband Wim; Dr. Hal Seed; his wife Lori; grandchildren Michael Ide, Josiah Verkaik (Monica), Bryan Seed (Alyssa), Amy Bayer (Scott); and great grandchildren Stephanie Verkaik, Luke Verkaik, Adam Harris Seed, Kadyn Seed, Luke Bayer, Arwen Bayer, and Abby Bayer.

Many, many thanks to the wonderful staff who took care of Ann in her home.

A memorial for Ann will be held in the Riviera Room at La Cumbre Country Club on Thursday, February 13, 2019 at 11:00 am. Aloha attire or Stanford jerseys are encouraged.

In lieu of flowers, contributions in memory of Ann may be made to the Wounded Warrior Project, DAWG (Dog Adoption and Welfare Group or SBDAWG.org), or the Santa Barbara Zoo.

Judith “Judy” Savio 6/2/1943 – 1/8/2020

It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Judith “Judy” Savio (née Heft) on the morning of January 8th, 2020. She was with family, in her familiar bed, exactly as she wanted to be when the time came for her to leave this earth. She was 76.

After beating breast cancer twice, she was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer in June of 2018. One of the first doctors she saw estimated she had about 11 months to live, but—in true Judy style—she refused to follow “the norm” and stayed with us for more than a year and a half. She left on her own terms, choosing to stop treatment and begin hospice care at the end of 2019.

She said she was ready to go.

Judy was born to Bernice (née Kelly) and Julius “Judd” Heft on June 2, 1943 and was raised in Chicago Heights, IL. Her father was fighting in the European theater of World War II when she was born, but her mother had the support of her own family and

obituaries her in-laws to help her until her husband returned from war. Growing up in a home where extended family was always ready to offer love and a helping hand was one of the greatest influences on how Judy would live her life. A significant part of her legacy is a fierce love of and dedication to family, including the friends who became family.

In the late 1960s, Judy moved from her hometown to Santa Barbara, CA. Though she often missed the fall colors and spring lilacs of the Midwest, she stayed in California for the rest of her life, calling Goleta home for more than 40 years.

She met Carmen Savio in early 1974 while square dancing, and less than a year later they were married. They spent the early years of their marriage having road trip adventures, exploring new restaurants, and, yes, square dancing. They were both parishioners of St. Raphael’s Catholic Church in Goleta. In 1980, they welcomed their only child, Kelly, into the world. Judy and Carmen gave Kelly the finest example possible of what good parenting looks like, as well as what a fun, loving, respectful, and supportive marriage looks like.

Carmen passed away far too early in 1994 from Lou Gehrig’s disease, and Judy bravely and gracefully took on the challenge of raising a teenage daughter as a single parent.

Those who didn’t know her well may not have realized that Judy’s personable but sometimes staid facade hid a quirky and uniquely adventurous spirit. She was a roller coaster enthusiast, a Neil Diamond superfan, as well as a lover of old movies and trashy (but not too trashy) romance novels.

She went parasailing and hot air ballooning, climbed pyramids, and casually navigated the roads of Macedonia as if it was her regular commute.

Judy had a distinctive sense of humor and was easily won over by a good joke. She could knit, cross-stitch, and liked to try her hand at quilting every now and then. She also enjoyed watching the World Cup and offering commentary such as “The blue team isn’t playing very nice, so I hope they lose.” Win or lose, she was a supporter of any Chicago sports team (even though she almost never watched them play), and she cried tears of joy when the Cubs finally won a World Series in 2016 (even though she couldn’t have named a single player on the team). She had Lou Malnati’s

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In one of the last conversations Judy had with her daughter, she commented that life had been a great ride. It is telling that when she was asked shortly after diagnosis if there were any items on her “bucket list” that still needed to be checked off, she answered “no” and meant it. Judy made the most of her time on Earth, and her daughter is forever grateful for the example Judy set.

Judy worked at Hughes Aircraft/Santa Barbara Research Center (SBRC). When she retired from SBRC in the mid1990s, she went to work as a receptionist in the psychiatry department of Sansum Clinic, before finally retiring about six years ago. Many of her colleagues remained life-long friends and join her family in mourning the loss of this special woman.

Judy was preceded in death by her wonderful parents, her beloved husband, and her dear brother, Michael Heft. She is survived by her daughter, Kelly Savio, son-in-law, Victor Breen, and her grandson, Thomas “TJ” Savio-Breen, who was her favorite person in the world. She only had 21 months with TJ, but she was a natural at being “grandma”, and filling the role was both her greatest joy and the final flourish on her beautiful life. She is also survived by extended family and friends who have loved her and supported her every step of the way as she navigated this final journey with cancer.

In lieu of flowers, please make contributions to the organizations that meant most to Judy: DAWG (sbdawg.org), The ALS Association (alsa. org), Santa Barbara Humane Society (sbhumanesociety. org), or the American Cancer Society (cancer.org).

Judy’s family would also like to offer deepest thanks to Dr. Daniel Greenwald and the nurses and staff at Ridley-Tree Cancer Center for the most outstanding and compassionate care we could have possibly asked for as we all faced Judy’s diagnosis, and both Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care of Santa Barbara and the staff of Right at Home Santa Barbara for helping us keep Judy as comfortable as possible in her final days.

A celebration of life mass will be held at St. Raphael’s Catholic Church (5444 Hollister Ave. in Goleta) on Saturday, January 18 at 10am.

Theodore Patchen

7/18/1926 - 11/19/2019

Theodore Patchen, known as Ted died peacefully on November 19, 2019, at age 93.

He was a long term Santa Barbara resident and retired Santa Barbara High School teacher.

Ted was endlessly curious and interested in the world around him. He loved to tell jokes, play pranks, and tease.

He was an artist; a lover of poetry, a sailor, a builder and handyman who found unique ways to jerry-rig all things.

Even in his last year, when his mobility had greatly decreased, his morning question to his wife Lydie was “What are we going to do today?”

Ted was born in 1926 and grew up in northern California during the Depression. Like many Depression era children, Ted and his sister Mary were often “farmed out” to families so his single mother could work to support them.

In hindsight, Ted commented that while the family was very poor, his childhood was enjoyable and interesting as he was exposed to life on farms in rural parts of California.

Ted graduated from Grant Union High in Sacramento in 1947. His college education was interrupted by WW II. He attended an Engineering Science and Management War Training program at Stanford and then was drafted into the military, serving in the Philippines. When the war ended, he completed his education at UC Berkeley. During these college years, he began a lifelong love of sailing. He managed to purchase a sloop, the Socorro, which he sailed all around the bay with his lifetime friend Jeep.

Ted’s real calling was to be a teacher. So after graduation from Cal, and a brief period of working as a chemist and salesman, Ted attended San Jose State University to earn his teaching credential.

On a sailing trip to Mexico he saw Santa Barbara for the first time and decided he wanted to live there. It became his home for 56 years. He first taught at Santa Barbara High School for a couple of years in

the late fifties. In 1958, he saw an ad recruiting American teachers to teach around the world at schools on military bases. Intrigued by the prospect of seeing more of the world, he applied and lived abroad for several years. In 1960 Ted taught in Wiesbaden Germany, and there met his German wife to be, Lydie Himpe.

Ted and Lydie became engaged. After they married, Ted and Lydie were stationed in a different country every year, living in Germany, France, Norway, Italy and England. This was a particularly joyful phase of their lives as they shared a love of travel, history, culture, good food, picnicking, and collecting antiques.

Ted returned to Santa Barbara in 1965 and from then on his life revolved around his home life and his job as a teacher. Ted did a phenomenal amount of work on the family home himself – laying concrete patios ,building walls, and landscaping. Shared mealtimes, birthday celebrations, and holidays were very important to him. For a while, he hand made his gifts to his children, and he had a tradition of making Advent calendars for his family until the last few years of his life.

Ted returned to Santa Barbara High school, teaching mostly chemistry. As a teacher, Ted was well loved. He thrived on his job, enjoying his students, and delighted in finding ways to both make sure they understood the material and keep them engaged. He was known for telling jokes and presenting great experiments, and occasionally setting his classroom on fire. Smokey the Bear became his classroom mascot.

In his sixties, Ted retired from teaching. After retirement, he returned to his love of sailing, purchasing another small boat, the Invictus, in which he traveled up and down the coast. Ted remained as active as he could, working out at the YMCA, up until his 92nd year. When he was forced to be more sedentary, he was uplifted by bird watching. He maintained 7 bird feeders in his yard and spent many contented hours observing them.

Ted is survived by Lydie, his wife of 59 years; his children Oona, Michael, and Anneke; his daughter-in –law Kristine, his granddaughter Seneca; his sister Mary; his nephew Eddie; his two grand nephews Ryan and Eric, and their families.

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Susan Elizabeth Shank 12/23/1938 - 1/5/2020

Susan loved: Learning, sports, and visiting new places.

Being outdoors in the sun and near the ocean. Playing bridge and talking politics.

Her post-retirement business card read: world traveler, bridge player, financial advisor. Susan Elizabeth Shank, daughter of Donald Jay and Ruth Rabe Shank, grew up in Scarsdale, NY. She loved to travel. Her first trip was with her Girl Scout troop “The Ten Troopers,”—a summer tour of Europe where her troop met with other scouting groups.

Travel became a life-long passion.

Her father was involved in education and politics, and their close relationship inspired Susan to be curious, study hard, and be passionate about making a positive impact on the world. He shared his love of the ocean with his children, and they have passed it on.

Susan was exceptionally proud of her “baby brother,” Dr. Peter Rabe Shank, Professor Emeritus of Medical Science at Brown University, and loved to brag about him and his achievements.

Susan attended Cornell University’s College of Industrial and Labor Relations, where she graduated in 1960. She remained lifelong friends with Alpha Phi sorority sisters Jane (Finnegan) Kocmoud and Kay (Sullivan) Abrams. She was a dedicated career civil servant who worked for the US Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics starting in the Kennedy administration in DC, moving to the San Francisco regional office for many years, and then back to DC until her retirement in 1994.

She kicked off her retirement with a round-the-world trip with both her daughters, and never wanted to stop! She continued to travel into her mid-seventies. Among her favorite destinations were Turkey, Australia, and the Mayan ruins of Central America.

She loved to research each adventure, and often financed trips for her traveling companions.

Susan was active in civil rights, social justice, and feminism throughout her life. In the early days of the Kennedy administration, she volunteered to travel on weekends to small cities in the South,

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meeting with local community action agencies to prepare contracts funding some of the first Head Start programs providing pre-school education for poor children. In later years, she volunteered to teach reading to underprivileged kids in DC, worked on the Santa Barbara Civil Grand Jury, and served as the co-President of the League of Women Voters of Santa Barbara.

Susan married Kenneth Clay Holland Sr. in 1963.

Together they raised two daughters (Jennifer and Sherry Holland) and her stepson Ken Jr. (Fritz).

Susan lived her final years on the Mesa in Santa Barbara, CA, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. She enjoyed many walks along the bluffs of the Douglas Family Preserve with friends, family, neighbors, and her sheltie, Melbourne.

She was a fan of most sports. She played tennis in her younger days, and was an active spectator throughout her life. Susan was proud to have traveled the world to attend all four Grand Slam tournaments. Just last March, Susan and Jane Kocmoud attended the finals of the BNP Paribas Open tournament near Palm Springs. She also loved both men’s and women’s basketball, and attended many LA Sparks games.

Susan was known as an exceptionally strong and independent woman who lived life on her terms. She will be remembered as a loyal and generous friend, fierce supporter of women’s rights and social justice, lover of the ocean, the sun on her face, adventure, and her family.

She is survived by her daughters Jennifer and Sherry Holland and their families, her stepson Ken Jr., her brother Peter (Kathy) Shank, her nephew Jonathan (Paige) Shank, and their boys Dylan and Benji. Also, her cousin Kim (Stephanie) LiottaAtkinson, their girls Quinn and Annika, and an extended family who gathered for Rabe family reunions at the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

Her circle of friends included Ken and Mara Holland, Jane Kocmoud, Diane Rivera, Jan Porter, Kay Coats, Lois Orr, Jane Benefield, Sabine French, Allyson Jones, Barbara Tennison, Austin and Suzanne Cohen. She was predeceased by her nephew, Jeffrey Shank.

Susan’s daughters are grateful to Annie, Minnie and a host of other caregivers who allowed her to stay at home until the end, and treated her with compassion, kindness, and respect.

The family is planning a celebration of life at a later date.

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Richard B. Welch 12/6/1939 - 1/1/2020

Richard (Dick) Welch passed away at Samarkand Skilled Nursing Facility in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day. He was born on December 6,1939, to Donald B. Welch and Genevieve Hinkle Welch at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara.

Dick’s young years were spent in the small town of Santa Barbara where everyone knew each other. He delivered newspapers on his bike and often walked to the train station with his Gramps Hinkle to watch the trains come in.

He attended Roosevelt School and graduated from Laguna Blanca School in 1957. When he was 12 years old he acquired his first horse, Bucky, and soon became an accomplished rider.

Years of riding in Hope Ranch, the S.B. back country and the mountains of the Eastern Sierra gave Dick the greatest pleasures that nature offers.

In his adult years his devotion to the preservation of forest land led him to connect with Los Padres ForestWatch. He felt these early experiences in Santa Barbara enriched the values of loyalty, responsibility, respect for others, and service to community which were inherent to his family.

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arts before attending UCLA School of Business for an MBA in Business and Finance.

After graduation from UCLA he enrolled in the U.S. Army Reserve Program and spent many years attending reserve training sessions.

While at Occidental Dick met Frederica Blanchard who was attending UCLA. They married in 1962 and lived in Westwood while Dick completed his degree and Frederica taught elementary school. Following six months active Army Reserve duty at Fort Ord, Dick and Frederica moved to Dick’s hometown, Santa Barbara, where he joined his family mortuary business now named Welch-RyceHaider. He worked in partnership with staff serving families in Santa Barbara and Goleta for 14 years.

During his tenure at the mortuary he also served as a Director on the Board of Santa Barbara Bank & Trust (SBBT). It was then he realized he had a passionate interest in business and finance. He resigned from his Board position after serving 4 years and subsequently began a banking career in 1978 as a Commercial Loan Officer. Later he and colleague, John Murphy, formed a new division at SBBT called The Private Client Division. As Senior Vice-President he loved serving individuals in business who needed help to work through challenges that would bring them back into financial stability. He retired from SBBT in 2002 and continued to stay active in the community through his interests in the nonprofit world.

Dick learned that Santa Barbara is a generous town that gives of itself through hundreds of nonprofit agencies in order to provide service and support to those in need. He was excited when he realized that the knowledge he gained from his business career could be shared with the nonprofit community and he found that while working with others, he made long lasting friendships.

Dick joined the Downtown Rotary Club 1968 and maintained a lifelong membership. He served as President 1974-1975.

He joined the Board of the S.B. Scholarship Foundation when it was a fledgling and served as President 1972-1974.

He believed in the value of education for all and in the work of the Foundation.

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College Foundation, Chair of the YMCA Capital Campaign to renovate the “Y”, and Chair of the Planned Giving Committee of Family Service Agency.

He served for 35 years as Trustee for Wood Glen Hall and 4 years as Trustee for Laguna Blanca School.

Dick was honored and delighted to receive significant recognition for his various contributions to the community as he felt each award was representative of the quality of volunteerism in Santa Barbara.

2002: From YMCA, Volunteer of the Year 2005: From S.B. News-Press, New-Press Lifetime Achievement Award 2007: S.B. Foundation and KEYT Man of the Year Awardwith Woman of the Year Patricia Caldwell Dow Dick became a member of the Santa Barbara Club in 1968. When he became a 50 year member in 2018, he became a Distinguished Emeritus Member as an Arlington Honoree.

Dick was a long term member of the Presbyterian Church in Santa Barbara and served as an elder for many years.

Dick and Frederica are very fortunate to have their family based in Santa Barbara. He was so proud of every member of his family and loved each one dearly. He has gifted us with wonderful memories.

Dick is survived by his wife of 57 years, Frederica; daughter, Jennifer Oakley, and her husband Bill Oakley; son, Jimmy Welch and his wife, Brooke (Allen) Welch; grandchildren Will Oakley (20), Nick Oakley (17), Hailey Welch (12), and Ryder Welch (8); niece and nephews Gregory Welch, Douglas Welch, Benjamin Welch, Michael Blanchard, and Emery Blanchard. He was preceded in death by his parents, Donald and Genevieve Welch and his brother, Stephen Welch.

The Welch/Oakley family would like to extend our deepest gratitude to the staff of Cottage Hospital and to the compassionate care of Samarkand Memory Care and Skilled Nursing Facility as well as to his physicians Dr. Grace Park, Dr. Stephanie Rothman, and Dr. Jervis Yau. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, January 25th, at 10:00 a.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 21 E. Constance Avenue with reception following at the Church.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations in Dick’s honor be made to the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Barbara, the Santa Barbara Scholarship Foundation,

Westmont College, Los Padres ForestWatch, or the charity of your choice. Arrangements entrusted to Welch-RyceHaider Funeral Chapels.

Case Vanderhook

10/9/1936 - 11/27/2019

Case Vanderhook, aged 83, passed away suddenly in Santa Barbara on November 27, 2019. Case, given name Cornelis Arie Clemens Hoek, was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, to Arie and Bep Hoek on October 9, 1936. He was the eldest of 4 children. He spent his youth in the Netherlands and endured the bombing and occupation of his hometown of Rotterdam during WWII. At age 12 he began technical education to become a metal worker/machine fitter. At age 16 Case began working in a shipyard, and at age 19 was drafted by the Dutch Army as a machinist. At age 21, and after serving 18 months in the Dutch Army, Case found himself in search of greater opportunity. He began the process for immigration to the United States and found a sponsor in the Quakers of Santa Barbara. After attending school to become fluent in the English language, he made plans to come to America.

Case left for America from the Rotterdam harbor on August 26, 1958 on the “Groote Beer,” an ocean passenger ship. Once in America, he secured a job one week later with Jostens of Santa Barbara. Case never returned to a life in the Netherlands and became a United States citizen in 1961. Case met Rosalind (Lin) Ament in 1960 and the two married in 1961.

After Lin finished nursing school, and a brief time in Los Angeles, they decided to settle in Santa Barbara. In 1963 they had their first daughter, Tina.

Their second daughter, Susan, followed in 1964. The Vanderhooks bought their first home in 1967 (still owned by the family today) and enjoyed an idyllic life that living in Santa Barbara and Goleta during the 1960s and 1970s provided.

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aura Capps epitomizes collaboration, community, and capability. Collaboration that results in effective action isn’t easy. I served with Laura on the Santa Barbara County Women’s Commission for several years and saw firsthand how she respected and harmonized sharply disparate North County and South County perspectives to benefit women and families countywide. A true feminist, Laura is committed to fostering female leadership and led the first-ever study of gender representation on boards and commissions. And when our findings were published, not surprisingly showing severe underrepresentation of women in leadership roles, Laura led the charge to meet with mayors, city councils, and women to pave the way for achieving parity.

Community outreach is key to effective representation. When our Women’s Commission held “Women Speak Up” listening events, we heard issues of concern from hundreds of women and girls. The comments about sexual assault, bullying, discrimination, and LGBTQ harassment were especially disturbing to me as a filmmaker, educator, and mom of a gay son. When I went before the SBUSD School Board to pitch a sexual education film series for high school health classes, Laura jumped in to support with specific recommendations for next steps. I’ve seen how she stands up for inclusive, progressive sex ed and implicit bias training despite strong right-wing opposition.

Laura not only shares these values but acts upon them. Five years ago, when PFLAG was planning our first interfaith Pride Celebration during the Pride Festival, Laura volunteered her skills to help us pull it off. This has now become an annual event.

And this is one of many examples of her capability.

More than just vocal support, Laura is always quick to jump in and ask, “How can I help make this happen?” We need Laura to continue her results-driven work so that our county can be even more inclusive, equitable, and supportive of women, men, and their families.

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’m not surprised by the news that the Santa Barbara Women’s Political Committee, like the Sierra Club, County Firefighters, and the Deputy Sheriff ’s Association, has just endorsed Das Williams for reelection to the County Board of Supervisors.

Having known Das Williams since his tenure in the State Legislature, I was motivated by his request for candidates to apply for a 1st District Arts Commission position. In his usual conscientious fashion, he and stellar Chief of Staff Darcel Elliott interviewed me and granted me this honor. Working closely with arts commissioners throughout the county, we are able to see how powerfully joint projects can impact county citizens.

Das cares deeply about the day-to-day lives of his 1st District constituents, as witnessed constantly through joyful times and occasionally tragic ones.

His record of environmental stewardship throughout California is second to none, and he is mindful of being fiscally responsible while looking out for the most vulnerable citizens. He collaborates well with his supervisor colleagues, tackling difficult issues with care and creativity.

In short, Das is precisely the right person for our county, and for the 1st District. I was glad to see that the Women’s Political Committee recognizes this as —Mary vanBibber Harris, S.B. well.

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machine shop, Vanderhook Machine & Manufacturing Co., in 1977. He ran the machine shop for almost 25 years until his retirement in 2001. Soon after retirement, Case and Lin, in search of less crowding and low real estate prices, moved to Santa Maria.

Case loved living in Santa Maria and remained there until his death. While living in Santa Maria, Case enjoyed a second career as a real estate investor and property manager.

During his lifetime, Case enjoyed many pursuits and hobbies, including photography, gardening, home maintenance, family road trips, visits to the Netherlands, gadgets, computers, keeping up with the latest technology, bar-bqueing, baking, health and nutrition, long conversations about serious subjects as well as inconsequential chit chat, Skypeing and emailing with his Dutch family, and buying and selling cars and rental property. He especially loved to surf the internet and would spend hours researching and reading about his favorite subjects. Despite his vice for Dutch tobacco, Case enjoyed robust health for the majority of his life having never once had a surgery, been admitted to the hospital, or ridden in an ambulance.

Case is survived by his former spouse, Lin Vanderhook, and his daughters, Tina and Susan, all of Santa Barbara. He is also survived by his family in the Netherlands, sisters Joke Prins and Ria DeGroot (John), nephew, Jeroen Prins (Waya), and niece, Constance Filius (Arjen and Floor). He was predeceased by his parents, sister, Lies Hoek, brother-in-law, Wim Prins, and his best furry friend, Bo. The family wishes to express their gratitude to the special people in Cases’s life; his next-door neighbors, Will and Rachel Smith, and their daughters, Audrey and Adrienne. The Smiths were like family to him and we are so grateful for the love and care they showed him over the last 20 years. We are very grateful to Annie Villarreal whom he enjoyed spending time and traveling with during 2019, and who was with him at the time of his passing.

At Case’s request, no funeral will be held. Memories and notes for the family may be sent to: Vanderhook Family, 5708 Hollister Avenue, #A126, Goleta, CA 93117.

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Jamie Forrest Raney 4/8/1952 - 11/12/2019

Jamie Forrest Raney, 67, of Los Olivos, passed away on November 12, 2019, following a valiant two-year battle with Leukemia and a brief stay in hospice care at Serenity House.

Jamie was born in Queens, New York, on April 8, 1952 to Lester Forrest and Phyllis (Joffe) Forrest.

Jamie’s family moved to California in October 1962, when her father took a job with Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo. Jamie attended Ulysses S. Grant High School in Van Nuys, graduating in 1970. A highly motivated student, she always had a fascination for civil law. She often stated that early in high school, she knew she wanted to be an attorney. After high school, Jamie attended college at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where she met her first husband, and lifelong friend, Donald Raney, and his young son, Erik Raney.

Jamie received her Bachelor of Arts degree summa cum laude from UCSB in 1974 and her law degree from UCLA in 1979. While in law school, Jamie took a one-year clerkship with Chief Judge Thomas Edward Fairchild of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago, Illinois. Returning to Los Angeles for her final year at UCLA, Jamie interviewed for an associate attorney position in a relatively-new law firm in Santa Barbara. Jamie joined that firm in 1980 and was named partner in 1984.

Throughout her legal career, Jamie was proud to be a partner with the Santa Barbara law firm of Fell, Marking, Abkin, Montgomery, Granet & Raney, LLP for over three decades.

Jamie had two loves, her family and the law. Her love of family was born from her own childhood. She cherished the memories of family summer vacations spent in a cabin on the lakes in Mammoth, fishing and playing cards. Jamie was born from tradition, but eager for new adventure. She was as willing to take on a ferocious legal battle as she was willing to tackle the beginner ski slopes or learn to dance the two-step. She was a tenacious reader and always had a science fiction novel on the nightstand. She was a scholar

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of the English language and the origins of words. Family game nights included Boggle, Scrabble, and other word games. Her traditional side made her a collector of beautiful things, such as perfume bottles and clay cookie molds to name a few. In 1995, Jamie met Bruce Bennett. They later married, and in 2015, moved to Los Olivos.

During her nearly 40-year career, Jamie focused almost exclusively on family law matters, particularly those involving complex business and tax issues. As an attorney, Jamie was a creative problem-solver with a focus on the fair, ethical and (when possible) cooperative application of the law. She was a passionate advocate; always poised, focused, and kind. Jamie was able to help so many in our community through personal crisis.

Jamie was one of the first female partners in a law firm in Santa Barbara. She had an unparalleled work ethic and was, by all accounts, a trail blazer and role model for countless younger female attorneys, both in and out of the courtroom. Yet, she never considered herself as such.

Short in stature, she was huge in personality and treated everyone she met with respect.

Jamie was a Founding Director of the Santa Barbara Women Lawyers organization in 1988, and she was President of the Santa Barbara County Bar Association in 1996. She served on the State Bar of California Family Law Committee, and she also acted as Chair of the Family Law Section of the Santa Barbara County Bar Association for many years.

Jamie believed that access to legal assistance was important for the community and was a strong advocate of the Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County.

Since Jamie’s passing, the Santa Barbara legal community has shown a tremendous outpouring of love and support for her colleagues and family. Jamie was oneof-a-kind, with a discerning intellect and a unique concern for others. She will be deeply missed by all who had the pleasure of working with her.

Jamie Forrest Raney was preceded in death by her mother, Phyllis (Joffe) Forrest, and her Uncle Charles Joffe.

Jamie’s father, Lester Forrest, died at age 94 from age-related illness, just two short weeks after Jamie. Jamie is survived by her husband, Bruce Bennett; her son Erik Raney and daughter-in-law Natalie (Mermis) Raney, and her three grandchildren, Jackson, Aleksander, and Eloise; her stepdaughters Kelly Tait and Shelly Brooks; her brother Terry Forrest and sister-in-law Stacy

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(Jordan) Forrest, and nieces Hannah, Kerrin, and Chassa, and nephew Kyle; her brother Michael Forrest and sister-inlaw Joey (Whang) Forrest; her sister-in-law Laurie Bennett, and niece Lindsay and nephew Keegan; her lifelong family friend Bert Terreri; her Uncle Marty Gordon and wife Marie and Uncle Steve Gordon and wife Andrea.

In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to the Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County. Visit www.lafsbc. org and click on “donate.”

Donations can be made in the name of Jamie Raney – in memoriam.

A Celebration of Life event for Jamie will be held on Saturday, February 1, 2020, from 1-4 pm at the Rockwood Women’s Club on Mission Canyon Road. It will be a very casual event in an “open house” format. Please RSVP to the Fell Marking law firm at 805-963-0755 or by emailing supportstaff@fmam.com.

dancing, investing, bridge and Mahjong. Harriet enjoyed working with children and was a volunteer in a kindergarten class.

She and her long-time companion, Jerry Harris, of Santa Barbara, had fun traveling, visiting their families, and going to plays, lectures, concerts and movies.

In August of 2019, Harriet moved from Santa Barbara to a condominium at Pacific Regent, a senior residence in San Diego.

Harriet will be remembered for her beauty, deep love of family, and her passion for cooking, entertaining and cultivating friendships. Her zest for life was epitomized by her favorite song, “Live for Life,” performed by Jack Jones.

Olivia Maria Madrid

03/25/1932 – 12/28/2019

Harriet Silver

11/16/1925 - 1/1/2020

Harriet Silver passed away peacefully in San Diego at the age of 94. She is survived by daughters Janis Berkman (Neil), Lisa Ruderman (Steve), 4 grandchildren, 2 great-grandchildren and her brother, Bob Trilling. She was predeceased by her husband of 41 years, Dr. Samuel Silver, her parents, Charles and Florence Trilling, and her sister, Arlene Shelley.

She was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois and attended Austin High School and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was a music major. Harriet and Sam were married in 1946 and lived in Chicago and then Elmwood Park, Illinois. In 1962, they moved to Santa Barbara, California, where Sam opened a dental practice.

When her daughters were growing up, Harriet taught piano to children and helped run her husband’s dental office. Later, she took interior design courses at UCLA Extension. Over the years, she had a multitude of hobbies, including belly dancing, folk

Olivia Maria Madrid was born March 25, 1932 in Panama and passed away on Saturday, December 28, 2019 at her home in Northern California where she resided with her son and daughter in law.

Olivia met and married Daniel Madrid while he was stationed in Panama during WWII and moved to California residing in Santa Barbara County, California for over 60 years.

Olivia retired from the Goleta Lemon Association where she had worked for over 20 years.

She was known for her strong work ethics, honesty, determination, and tenacious personality. She had a “green thumb” and her passion for gardening.

She loved to crochet, volunteering for various community programs and spending time with her family. She has been reunited with her husband Daniel Madrid who passed away in 1997. Olivia is survived by her two children; her son, Daniel, his wife, Cheryl and her daughter, Corine. She was a grandmother to seven and great-grandmother to 3.

Services will be private with a memorial in Spring in Santa Barbara, Ca.

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approaches on January 22, our attention should be directed toward maintaining and enhancing reproductive and sexual health care that best addresses the needs of diverse people. Anti-abortion movement advocates and politicians anticipated the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, and the movement has successfully worked to create obstacles to both abortion care and contraception.

Roe itself, often shorthanded as providing “the right to choose,” faces significant threats. But reflecting on how we arrived at the current state of reproductive policy reveals that the crisis of access to reproductive care is widespread and experienced unequally. According to the Guttmacher Institute, an “unprecedented wave of bans” on abortion in 2019 resulted in 25 new laws, mainly in the South and Midwest. I advocate for defending Roe and intervening in the policies and practices that continue to erode this landmark decision and intentionally institute reproductive inequalities.

Historically in the U.S., reproductive- and sexual-health-care policies have been shaped by social,

Federal bans on Medicaid funding for abortion care, with exceptions to save the life of the pregnant woman or in cases of rape and incest, were established by the 1976 Hyde Amendment and are reenacted annually. The amendment also applies to women in the military, Native Americans, Alaskan Natives, federal prisoners, and Peace Corps employees, and it is meant to shrink the reach of Roe. A movement to repeal the Hyde Amendment has been led by women of color for decades, and in 2016, the Democratic National Committee Platform supported it. This is expected to be featured during the 2020 presidential election.

This is a critical time to resist policies that restrict reproductive options. Public health decision-makers, voters, and everyday women and girls, by joining coalitions, can raise their voices. Legal collaboration can look like the multistate coalition of 22 attorneys general, including California’s Xavier Becerra, who filed a December 2019 amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court. They support a constitutional challenge to a Louisiana law that requires abortion care providers to have local hospital admitting privileges; an identical Texas law was struck down by the Supreme Court in 2016.

Collaboration for women’s rights is also supported by reproductive justice advocates. The SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective defines reproductive justice as the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities. This framework requires that equitable policies be built by working from the grassroots with those who have the least access to reproductive health care. The Intersection of Our Lives, formed by the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health; In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda; and National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum found in a 2019 poll that “84 percent of women of color voters believe that candidates should support women making their own decisions about their reproductive health.”

Reproductive justice, as a theory, strategy, and set of practices, acknowledges the decisions that women, men, gender nonbinary, and transgender individuals make about their bodies and lives, setting their options within families and communities.

This framework mobilizes us to focus on how power operates: U.S. policies have not applied evenly to all people, and appeals to “choice” do not reach the majority of low-income women and women of color or address the disparities in our society.

Activists for reproductive justice, in coalition with allies, provide dynamic ways to enhance our reproductive rights and health. The personal and political stakes are high, and there are many ways to raise awareness of the threats to women’s rights and support reproductive justice. March, protest, lobby, educate, collaborate, and, above all, vote.

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This is a critical time to resist policies that restrict reproductive options. political, and legal contests over gender, class, race, sexuality, immigration, and religion. Abortion care may be legal, but for many women and girls, it is effectively inaccessible.

Some barriers have high media visibility, such as the 2003 federal law prohibiting a medical abortioncare procedure when then-President George W. Bush approved the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. Also highlighted were the bombing of abortion clinics, the murder of doctors and clinic workers, and the installment of anti-abortion U.S. Supreme Court judges.

But innumerable low-visibility practices and policies in many states curtailed abortion-care access, including a lack of abortion-care providers in many regions, insurance bans, government-mandated waiting periods, and medical procedure limitations. Low-income women and women of color are most affected by these constraints and have fewer resources to work around them.

A range of federal funding restrictions contribute to unequal access to reproductive information and care. The Global Gag Rule, established in 1984 as the Mexico City Policy, prohibits U.S. funding for organizations that provide or even discuss abortion.

This logic is now applied within the U.S. to restrict Title X funding. The nonprofit Planned Parenthood and other holistic reproductive-care providers have turned down this federal funding to avoid complying with the silencing of abortion-care information. By so doing, they provide safe, legal, low-cost reproductive care.

Laury Oaks chairs UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Feminist Studies.

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here’s no place like home,” said Dorothy Gale (played by Judy Garland) in The Wizard of Oz. Thanks to that 1939 Oscar-winning film, the adage has become one of the most recognized movie lines.

This time of year, it’s a particularly apt saying for Santa Barbara cinephiles, as our hamlet becomes host to an 11-day feast of movie morsels.

On Wednesday, January 15, the 35th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival kicks off with the screening of A Bump Along the Way, a comedy from Northern Ireland about a woman in the middle of life who gets pregnant from a one-night stand. Thursday morning, State Street theaters whir to life with screenings that begin at 8 a.m. and continue into the wee hours of night. The breadth and depth of films on this year’s roster is grand and offers something for most every viewing taste. (Check our list of Films to Find on page 25 for a few suggestions to get you started.)

In addition to film viewing, the festival has its usual stellar lineup of actors, directors, screenwriters, artisans, and producers who will be talking to audiences about their craft. Renée Zellweger will receive the American Riviera Award for her turn as Judy Garland in Judy on Thursday, January 16, followed by Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver, who will take the stage the next night. Other honorees include Lupita Nyong’o, Laura Dern, eight Virtuosos, and Modern Master honoree Brad Pitt, all of whom will be feted throughout the festival.

In this week’s Independent, we offer a peek at some of the upcoming fare via interviews with director Andrew Davis, Virtuosos host Dave Karger, and documentary subject Gracie Fisher. Also, find out what’s on the Screen Cuisine menu, what’s being offered by Santa Barbara filmmakers, and Indy staff recommendations in Films to Find.

For daily coverage of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, see independent.com.

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f the many documentaries being screened at Barbara–based Steal Big, Steal Little, and numerous this year’s Santa Barbara International Film thinking person’s thriller/action films, brings a deft Festival, acclaimed director Andrew Davis’s touch to Mentors. Last week, we met for a breakfast Mentors: Tony & Santi wins extra points for interview at his Riviera home, which affords dazzling multi-layered context and concept. At its center is the views of the mountains and the Pacific. He humbly friendship — and mentor-protégé relationship — of considered the views and grinned, “Not bad for a two prominent photographers, Santi Visalli (87, and a Chicago kid who grew up by the steel mills.”

Santa Barbara resident) and Tony Vaccaro (97). Their But Davis is hardly the archetype of an untouchdecades of important work — from WWII forward able, aloof Hollywood celebrity with a Santa Barbara — producing iconic imagery for Look, Life, and other hideaway. Moving to town in 1984, he and his wife, outlets are treasure troves, visually capturing history Adrianne, raised their children, Julian and Jenna, here and have been active community members. and humanity.

Via the handiwork of Davis and his producer/ Mentors, Davis surmised, “came about as a kind of editor/co-cinematographer Ethan Boehme, Men- labor of love. It was a fluke, and it possesses you after tors blends magnetic scenes of the two legendary a while. Then you give birth to something, and you veterans reminiscing, waxing philosophical about have to take it to nursery school.” photography, swapping Sophia Loren stories, cutting It was through meeting Visalli and hearing about each other’s hair, and cooking with a hypnotic his potent bond with Vaccaro that led Davis cavalcade of striking images from their into a serendipitous launch of the film. At archives. a party in Santa Barbara, Davis asked Visalli if he’d ever heard of Tony VacBefore our eyes, in rapid montage succession, we’re fed shots of JFK, caro. “He looked me in the eye and Mentors: Tony & Santi screens said, ‘I wouldn’t be here without a young Robert De Niro, Frank Tuesday, January 21, 7 p.m., Lloyd Wright, the Beatles, AlexanTony Vaccaro,’ ” Davis recalled. “He at the Lobero Theatre. See der Calder, Marlon Brando, Lauren started explaining their relationship, sbiff.org.

Bacall, Federico Fellini, Lina Wertand I thought, ‘I’ve gotta interview müller, Marcel Marceau, and countless these guys. They’re not going to be other subjects, alongside artful visions around forever.’ ” So Davis, along with of urban environs, life during and after (and Boehme and Santi’s son, brought cameras between) wartime, and much more. It all adds up to to shoot the subjects for two days in New York state. “[Visalli and Vaccaro] were so loveable and charisan experience of concentrated time travel, counterbalanced by the affable here-and-now rapport Visalli matic and turned out to be this odd couple, this love and Vaccaro share in a room together. story,” said Davis. “But it was couched in a context Davis, a noted feature film director whose credits of world history, being artists, helping each other.” includes The Fugitive, Holes, The Package, the Santa On making the documentary, Davis explained that ANDREW DAVIS CONTINUED ON P. 27

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Our editors caught sneak peeks of many of the films screening during this year’s film festival. Here are a few of their favorites.

Bump Along the Way: The festival’s Opening Night film from Derry in Northern Ireland focuses on a teenage daughter and her middle-aged mother, who gets pregnant during a one-night stand.

Their strained relationship can only get warmer A Bump Along the Way due to the pending arrival, which makes for a heartwarming kick-off to the festival.

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or the past decade, Dave Karger has mine at the magazine, Sean Smith, was the one been the interviewer for the Santa Bar- who was hosting the SBIFF’s Virtuosos for the bara International Film Festival’s (SBIFF) first couple of years that it existed. He was moving wildly popular evening with the Virtuosos to Africa to join the Peace Corps. He let the Santa honorees. Thanks to his amiable personality, quick Barbara International Film Festival know that he wit, and thoughtful questions, the actors — who was leaving the country, but said he had a friend join Karger one at a time in the hot seat for a quick from Entertainment Weekly who just moved to Q&A about the film for which they are being hon- L.A. he thought would be a good person for this ored and then return for a group Q&A during the event. They said, Okay, we trust you.

I don’t think they knew who I was, but that’s second half of the night — tend to become relaxed and open. The group chat portion of the event has okay. They said, Yeah, let’s give him a try. That was been known to produce some of the festival’s most my first year doing the Virtuosos in 2011. I had side-splittingly funny and memorable moments. a great time. Roger Durling seemed to be happy Karger, who spent 17 years as a senior writer with it. All these years later, here I am. It’s a true at Entertainment Weekly, has had an illustrious, highlight for me, not only to actually do the event, award-winning career as a television host, inter- but also to help pick who the honorees are going viewer, and “entertainment expert.” He’s had guest to be every year with Roger. I love it. spots on Today and Access Hollywood Live and at myriad red-carpet affairs. He also works for How do you decide which actors to honor? Roger Turner Classic Movies and IMDb. In addition to and I go to the early fall film festivals like Toronto. I his day jobs, he’s been an SBIFF fixture since he go to Telluride, Cannes. I’m definitely taking notes took over as the Virtuosos interviewer in 2011. in my head all year long of films and who I think This year, Karger will chat with honorees Awkmight be good for this event. Once September wafina (The Farewell), Taron Egerton comes around, Roger and I start an email chain. We just go through all the peo(Rocketman), Cynthia Erivo (Harriet), Beanie Feldstein (Booksmart), ple that we like and which ones we Aldis Hodge (Clemency), George agree on. We make the offers and Join Dave Karger as he MacKay (1917), Florence Pugh cross our fingers. interviews the 2020 Virtuosos (Little Women, Midsommar), and Saturday, January 18, 8 p.m., Taylor Russell (Waves).

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I recently spoke with Karger and natural — like they’re chatting See sbiff.org. over the phone about the evening with a friend who happens to keep from his side of things. The following people on point. Is that something is an edited version of our conversation. that you had to learn, or do you have a natural affinity for it? I’m a chatterbox. That’s How did you become an interviewer for Virtuosos? my nature. I’m also pretty nosy. I just love talking It kind of happened by accident. I started doing a to people. The fact that my job essentially is talking couple audience interviews here and there when I to people or with people — I feel very lucky that was a writer at Entertainment Weekly in New York. that’s what I get to do for a living. My whole goal is I moved to Los Angeles 10 years ago. A friend of to make them feel comfortable because a lot of the DAVID KARGER CONTINUED ON P. 27

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Born 2 Drive: Featuring intense documentary racing footage, this doc follows 15-year-old Oliver Solberg, the son of rally racing legend Petter Solberg, as he aims to become a champion like his father. It concerns dreams of sons living in the shadow of famous fathers Born 2 Drive while offering quite a thrill ride.

The Flying Circus: What do four actors from Kosovo do when their theater is shut down as Serbian pressure mounts on the verge of all-out ethnic war?

They head to perform at a festival in neighboring, and presumably friendlier, Albania, embarking The Flying Circus on a border crossing trip that’s both humorous and hair-raising.

The Goya Murders: This good cop/bad cop/serial killer film from Spain is a traditional, trope-filled tale, but done well with some of the country’s most famous actors.

There’s plenty to enjoy for art lovers, but the vio- The Goya Murderers lence does get a bit gnarly.

The Marijuana Conspiracy: The most overtly cannabisfocused flick in the fest, this dramatic comedy employs plenty of clichés and puns to tell the true tale of Toronto women who signed up for

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— then there will be eight more short docs showing at the Arlington at 5 p.m. That lineup includes glimpses of herons that hang at Los Baños, the fisherman “Dumpling King” of Isla Vista, and the Fishbon artist collective.

For those seeking Santa Barbara– produced narratives, the Santa Barbara Live-Action Shorts will run on Sunday, January 19, 7:30 p.m., at the Arling-

ton, with stories ranging from abusive coaches and gunfighter nurses to yard sales and full-frontal gladiators.

When it comes to features, there are six to choose from. Two of those are covered elsewhere in this issue: there’s a feature about the young woman portrayed in Amazing Grace on page 28, and the Screen Cuisine roundup on page 30 includes The Delicacy, which will also be a longer feature in next week’s paper.

The remaining four films in this sidebar are: The Lafayette Escadrille: With World War I about to ignite — and the United States watching idly from afar — dozens of Americans took off to France to fight. A number of them, who became known as the Layfayette Escardille, took to the skies, pioneering aerial warfare against the Central Powers under the tricolored flag. This is their story, narrated by Brad Hall, the Montecito-residing husband of Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

The Mustangs: An American Story: Once a symbol of freedom, tens of thousands of wild horses are now fenced in by the government. This doc dives deep into that conundrum and includes a visit to Return to Freedom, the sanctuary for these animals run by Neda De Mayo near Lompoc.

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ANDREW DAVIS CONT’D FROM P. 24 “the only game plan was to try to get as much out of their story and their history. They are world observers.

They have been around the fanciest and the poorest people, in war, being bombed. … I was just trying to find areas that would be of interest about their relationship.”

In terms of still images to draw on, Davis was dealing with an embarrassment of possibilities. “There is a lot to work with, a rich library of imagery to help integrate with these stories. It’s like you have a bunch of gold and diamonds thrown at you and you have to figure out how to make a bracelet out of this,” Davis laughed.

Although most of Davis’s film work has been Hollywood feature films, his background includes brushes with both documentary work and still photography, a passion in his Chicago childhood. After studying journalism, he pivoted into film as a cameraman,

serving as a second unit cinematographer on the streets of Chicago during the riotous ’68 Democratic Convention, for Haskell Wexler’s celebrated, semi-realist film Medium Cool. More recently, he was part of another Chicago protest film with Wexler, during the Occupy Movement’s NATO convention demonstrations in 2012, for the film Four Days in Chicago. Davis also shot a documentary about the making of his respected 1978 music-related indie film Stony Island.

At present, Davis is developing at least two projects — a novel and then screenplay, spun off his political thriller The Package, and a new take on Treasure Island, based in New Orleans.

But shooting Mentors planted a seed of an idea — to create further documentaries about other mentor-protégé relationships, “maybe develop a series of other stories about mentorship,” said Davis. n

DAVE KARGER CONT’D FROM P. 25 times they’re really nervous because they’re in front of an audience. They want to do a good job. I can’t afford to be nervous, because my job is to make sure that they’re not. Now that this is my 10th year, honestly, I can say, I know that the Santa Barbara audience is so friendly and lovely that it makes it easy for me not to get nervous, because I know you guys just want a good time. No one’s judging.

No one’s judging me or anybody else on that stage.

How do you prepare for an evening of interviews with eight different actors separately, and then together, such as the Virtuosos event? For Virtuosos, I’m seeing all of the big awards movies just to get a sense of who I want to pick.

But honestly, once we have the people chosen, the interviews are so quick. We really do focus on the current movie — it’s not like doing a career retrospective where I need to do the deep dive. I can really focus on the movies that we’re honoring these virtuosos for.

What I try to do is think about the audience. For Taron Egerton, I know that basically everyone has probably seen Rocketman, so I can really dig deep into specific scenes and moments because I know the audience will know what I’m talking about. If it’s Aldis Hodge and the movie is Clemency, which probably 5 percent of the audience will have seen by the time I’m interviewing him, then I know I need

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The Amber Light: With Scotch whisky expert Dave Broom as your guide, this doc dives into the history and culture of Scotland’s beloved brown booze, relying on poetry, music, and literature to drive home how critical the beverage is to understanding the country. Scotch fans will be enthused by the famous distilleries on display, but more memorable are more visceral discussions of how taste and smell can connect us with the surrounding world.

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Born in a Ballroom

Born in a Ballroom: This film is a love letter from a filmmaking granddaughter to the late Eleanor Mailloux, who co-founded Hütte Restaurant in the rural Appalachian outpost of Helvetia, West Virginia. After a globetrotting life raising five kids, the stern, stubborn, but always fair Mailloux returned to her hometown to cook Swiss-inspired cuisine that TV foodie Andrew Zimmern made famous. The film is about family, community, and how cuisine can be the through line for a life well lived.

Gutterbee

Gutterbee: Apparently based on a true story (now that would be a doc!), this quirky, darkish comedy concerns a German man who’s hellbent on opening a traditional sausage restaurant in a small American town where xenophobia is running hilariously rampant.

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Fatei and the Sea: About shellfish farmers in the Sea of Japan near Vladivostok, Russia, this documentary is so intimate and character-driven that you think you’re watching a narrative film. As Fatei and his family scare off poachers, plead with politicians for protection, and feast on their harvests, the screen fills with stunning underwater scenes.

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By a Sharp Knife: In this reality-based story, an 18-year-old Slovakian youth is stabbed by neo-Nazis in an initiation rite. Director Teodor Kuhn delves beyond the details of

The Birdcatcher’s Son: A sharply crafted, fablelike Swedish charmer, director Richard Hobert’s film follows a 19thcentury family’s woes on the remote terrain of the Faroe Islands. A legal provision grants them land rights to a son, but only daughters are in the offing, a problem dealt with through the The Birdcatcher’s Son introduction of an outside partnering — and community ostracism. What may seem the attack to focus on the aftermath, when melodramatic is surprisingly artful and the victim’s truth-seeking father runs into emotionally touching. a maze of obstacles, including the tyranny of the nihilistic perpetrators and a tangle The Pencil: Criminal edginess and cre- of technicalities preventing justice from ative flights intermingle to inspiring and being served. Dramatic angles range depressing ends in Russian director/ from family solidarity amid adversity to writer/actress Natalya Nazarova’s tale of the knife’s edge perils of a warped justice redemption. Framed by shots of a pen- system. cil factory’s machinery, the film follows a woman from St. Petersburg who uproots Faith Based: Crisp writing, excellent actto the isolated area where her artist hus- ing, and a plotline that is both hilarious band is being held as a political prisoner. and heartwarming make this comedy one She encounters a violent thuggish element to see. Funny or Die regulars Luke Barnett in her class and adopted town, and the and Tanner Thomason star as two best powers of art abut cruel realities. friends who, despite knowing little about religion and nothing about filmmaking, decide to make a “faith-based” movie in hopes of getting rich quick. Nothing goes as planned (naturally), and the process of making A Prayer in Space — a film about the first prayer ever prayed in space — threatens to tear apart the lifelong friends.

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“Gracie wakes up every morning Times were dark as Fisher’s very surwith a smile and goes to work,” explained vival hung in the balance. When she was released from the hospital, hard questions Montgomery, a longtime family friend. “She and intense anxiety dominated her thoughts of the has nothing but love and compassion to give. She’s future. “I just felt like a floating head,” she said. an inspiration. Whatever your obstacle in life that’s Five years later, Fisher, now 22 and enrolled at keeping you from pursuing your dreams or connectUCSB, is back to writing music. She’s aided by a com- ing with other people, she’s an example of how you puter program and a mouth stick she uses to play the can get over that. How you can get over yourself.” piano one key at a time. One of her compositions, Modest and generous, Fisher credited her AMAZING GRACE CONTINUED ON P. 35

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“What child in that situation has a big enough heart that they’re already thinking about, ‘How do I help other people?’ ” As the snow-white family dog, Kodi, circled our feet, Fisher also thanked her mother, Debbie, for pushing her to live life again. “When I got home, it was easy to get into the habit of just sitting in bed and watching TV,” she said. “It was kind of all that I felt comfortable doing. But my mom told me, ‘You still have things to contribute. You still have stuff you can do.’ ”

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“It’s so beautiful to watch them interact with each other,” she said. “Gracie is still her complete own person making all of the choices in her life, and her mom — all of her family — supports that so wonderfully.”

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Carpinteria Birdwatching Class Learn

about those curvy-necked, longlegged waders, herons and their allies and get an overview of Goleta’s Lake Los Carneros. 6:30-8pm. Carpinteria Library, 5141 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria. Free. Call (805) 455-0053 or email jbc@jbcsystems.com.

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one last look at this juried exhibition showcasing fine art inspired by National Parks, monuments, preserves, and recreation areas in the state and hear a panel discussion with featured artists. 3-4:30pm. Wildling Museum, 1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang. $5-$10. Call (805) 688-1082.

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1/16: The Future of Seafood Under Climate Change Using his research on the California Dungeness crab fishery, Dr. Chris Free will discuss how climate change is altering ocean physics, chemistry, and biology, and how this affects ocean creatures and humans. 7-8pm. S.B. Maritime Museum, 113 Harbor Wy. $10$20. Call (805) 456-8747. sbmm.org

FRIDAY 1/17 1/17: S.B. Coalition for Freedom Vigil for Freedom 2020 Please wear blue in solidarity with area survivors of human trafficking as you take part in a candlelight vigil and hear from speakers from the DA’s Office’s Human Trafficking Task Force and area faith communities for National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. 5:30-6:30pm. De la Guerra Plaza, 15 E. De la Guerra St. Free.

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1/17: Kyle Swan Guitarist and vocalist Kyle Swan will blend elements of funk, blues, flamenco guitar, and jazz.

6-8pm. Carr Winery Barrel Rm., 414 N. Salsipuedes St. Free. Ages 21+. Call (805) 965-7985. carrwinery.com

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1/18: Clay Studio Open House Meet staff members and learn more about courses, memberships, and workshops at the reopening of this community art center committed to fostering the creative process in ceramic arts. 1-7pm. Clay Studio, 1351 Holiday Hill Rd., Goleta. Free.

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1/18: Laughing Nomad Comedy Show Be prepared to roar with laughter during this “bring your own beverage” comedy show hosted by Orr Redko featuring Gayla Johnson, Cat Alvarado, Brent Pella, and Sarah Taylor. 7pm. S.B. Community Arts Workshop, 631 Garden St. $20-$25 (credit card only). Ages 21+. Call (805) 324-7443.

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jazz saxophonist Karl Denson and his band of master musicians will play songs from their 2019 album, Gnomes & Bad-

ryan will perform a delightful program with a reception to follow. 3pm. Logan House, Beatrice Wood Ctr. for the Arts, 8585 OjaiSanta Paula Rd., Ojai. $25. Call (805) 6469951. chamberonthemountain.com

1/19: Carpinteria Woman’s Club Social & Potluck Bring your own beverages to this potluck and stay for the Dirty Cello concert led by vivacious cross-over cellist Rebecca Roudman, who combines blues with a wailing cello to virtuosic stompin’ bluegrass. Proceeds go toward the nonprofit Music and Art for Youth. Potluck: 4:30pm; concert: 6-8pm.

Carpinteria Women’s Club, 1059 Vallecito Rd, Carpinteria. $20.

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1/19: Subtronics Cyclops Invasion

1/18: Opening Reception: California Fibers: A Closer Look This exhibition from 18 contemporary artists will showcase works in weaving, basketry, sculpture, quilting, embroidery, felting, surface design, knitting, crochet, wearables, and mixed media.

The exhibit shows through February 29.

2-4pm. Beatrice Wood Ctr. for the Arts, 8585 Ojai-Santa Paula Rd., Ojai. Free. Call (805) 646-3381. beatricewood.com

1/18: The Good Good Show Enjoy a

1/18: Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe American singer and funk and

1/19: Grigoryan Brothers, Guitar Duo Guitarists Leonard and Slava Grigo-

pint and deep belly laughs during this night of stand-up comedy featuring Kevin Camia, Leah Rudick, Julie Weidmann, Joe Carl Abousakher, Omar Nava, and Merrill Davis.

7:30-10:30pm. Night Lizard Brewing Co., 607 State St. $5. Ages 21+. Call (805) 770-2956.

American dubstep and riddim deejay and producer Jesse Kardon, a k a Subtronics, will provide beats like “Loopholes” and “Glitch Fight.” VIP tickets include a meet and greet.

9pm. Eos Lounge, 500 Anacapa St. GA: $20; VIP: $99. Ages 21+. Call (805) 564-2410.

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Grossology Bring the kids to make snot-like slime, check out moldy bread, and learn about gross things during this afternoon workshop. 3:30-4:30pm.

Island Rm., S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free. sbplibrary.org

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Underwater Parks Day Festival Dive into the

world of marine science with interactive activities and crafts in a celebration of marine protected areas, which are underwater parks that preserve the biodiversity and abundance of ocean life. 10am-3pm. Sea Ctr., 211 Stearns Wharf. Free. Call (805) 962-2526 x103.

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Crab Fest for CALM …

Get Crackin’! Join the CALM Auxiliary who specializes in the prevention and treatment of childhood trauma for a fun evening of crab cracking, live music, a no-host beer and wine bar, and prizes! 5:308:30pm. Carriage & Western Museum, 129 Castillo St. $75. Ages 21+. Call (805) 965-2376.

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1/19: Closing Weekend: Celebrating the National Lands of California Take

gers, and more. 9pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $28-$30. Ages 21+.

Call (805) 962-7776. sohosb.com

Coming Home Series 2020: Stories We Tell

Participants are invited to share in the magic of cultural, personal, and mythic storytelling during a weekend that will feature a gala banquet, a sneak peek at the 2020 Film Conference, the annual Authors Spotlight, a career workshop, and more. Visit the website for the full schedule. Pacifica Graduate Institute, 801 Ladera Ln. Free-$170.

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TUESDAY 1/21 1/21: Itzhak Perlman: Stories of His Life and Career This 75th birthday celebration will honor this beloved violin virtuoso, who will share stories from his life and career as well as perform a classical program with longtime pianist Rohan De Silva.

6:30pm. The Granada Theatre, 1214 State St.

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artsandlectures.ucsb.edu 1/21: Cultural Switching & Gender Judo In this talk, Lela Lee — AsianAmerican actress, cartoonist, television writer, and the creator of the animated cartoons the Angry Little Asian Girl, Five Angry Episodes, and the comic strip Angry Little Girls — will explore the opposing value systems that often create inner conflict for Asian-American women.

6-8pm. MultiCultural Ctr. Theater, UCSB. Free. Call (805) 893-8411.

Love and Power: A Brief Evening of

One Acts Theatre Eclectic presents a night of one-act comedies featuring A Marriage Has Been Arranged by Alfred Sutro about a self-made millionaire and a noble but penniless Lady and The Auditioning by Lisa Marciano, a hilarious story about a director and writer and the auditioning process.

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1/21: Theo Katzman Singer/ songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Theo Katzman will perform songs from his rock-and-roll-inspired album Modern Johnny Sings. 8:30pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $22.50-$25.

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WEDNESDAY 1/22 1/22: Food for Thought Luncheon Join the Jewish Federation’s Women’s Division for a luncheon with S.B. Chief of Police Lori Luhnow, who will speak about safety. Noon-2pm. S.B. Club, 1105 Chapala St. $36. Call (805) 957-1115.

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Love Heals All Wounds

Hip-hop phenoms Jon Boogz and Lil Buck will join forces in this soul-stirring program that brings their intricate hybrid of street dance styles with a stellar cast of movement artists, live musicians, and powerful spoken-word by artist Robin Sanders in a performance that takes on vital issues like climate change, mass incarceration, and immigration. 8pm.

Campbell Hall, UCSB. $15-$40. Call (805) 893-3535.

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This month’s book is Pashmina by Nidhi Chanani. 5:30-6:30pm. Island Rm., S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free.

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1/15-1/19, 1/21: SOhO Restaurant & Music Club Wed.: SBHS Theatre Benefit Show. 7pm. $15. Thu.: Empire of Love EP Release: Chance Makers.

8:30-11:30pm. $10. Ages 21+. Fri.: The Politics of Dancing. 9pm-midnight. $15.

Ages 21+. Sat.: Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe. 9pm. $28-$30. Ages 21+. Sun.: Maria de la Vega & The Wayward Five. 7:30-10pm. $15. Tue.: Theo Katzman.

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1/17-1/19: Maverick Saloon Fri.: Molly Ringwald Project. 9pm-midnight. Sat.: Flannel 101. 8:30-11:30pm. Sun.: Are We Not Horses. Noon-4pm.

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1/17-1/19: Mercury Lounge Fri.: Dash. 9pm-midnight. $5. Sat.: Ellwood’s Album Release Party. 9pm-midnight. $8. Sun.: The Giri Austyn, The Haunts. 8-11pm. $5. 5871 Hollister Ave., Goleta. Ages 21+. Free. Call (805) 967-0907.

1/17-1/18: M.Special Brewing Co. Fri.: Colonel Angus. 7-9pm. Sat.: Jackwagon. 6-9pm. 6860 Cortona Dr., Bldg. C., Goleta. Free. Call (805) 9686500. mspecialbrewco.com 1/18: The James Joyce Ulysses Jasz. 7:30-10:30pm. 513 State St. Free.

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Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55, “Eroica” Israeli pianists Sivan Silver and Gil Garburg have thrilled audiences and critics alike with their unique and contemporary arrangements. The duo will perform a special arrangement for piano four-hands and strings based on Johannes Brahms’ G minor Piano Quartet, Op. 2, and close the evening with Beethoven’s intensely emotional Symphony No. 3 “Eroica.”

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1/17: Shabbat Worship Service This community-wide celebration of freedom will feature the Red Sea Rhythm Rockers choir and poetry. 6:30-7:30pm. Congregation B’nai B’rith, 1000 San Antonio Creek Rd. Free.

SATURDAY 1/18 1/18: Crossing the Bridge Join this event that will honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy in remembrance of the crossing of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, AL. 11am-2pm. Friendship Plaza (in front of cafeteria), SBCC, 721 Cliff Dr. Free.

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MONDAY 1/20 1/20: Morning Program The community, church congregations, and organizations are welcome to De la Guerra Plaza for music, dancers, guest speakers, and elected officials, followed by a Unity March to The Arlington Theatre, where the main program will take place. 9-10am. De la Guerra Plaza. Free.

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classic contemporary cinema line arrives in Two Jakes, the 1990 sequel to Chinatown, when Jack Nicholson, as gumshoe Jake Gittes, says with signature Nicholson snarl-charm, “The past. There’s always plenty more where that came from.”

The line suddenly resonated in my head as we stood in the vintage hallway of the Ojai Valley Inn’s Neff building — in part because Two Jakes had this swarming historic slice of elegant real estate as a location. A large framed photo of Nicholson and costar Harvey Keitel in ’40s-vintage garb hangs in this hallowed hallway, alongside photos of VIPs, politicos, and celebrities who have visited here — including Arnold Palmer, Jimmy Carter, Audrey Hepburn, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Rita Hayworth, and current celebs understandably opting for the anonymity clause. Follow the hallway to the Neff Heritage Bar (where “Throwback Thursdays” afford Ojai locals with half-off deals) and the fine dining Olivella restaurant.

This significant structure in the 805 is the historic heart of the property and legacy of the inn. Built in 1923 from a design by architect-to-the-stars Wallace Neff, the golf/country club project was spearheaded by Ohioan-turned-Ojai-an-glass-magnate Edward Libbey, who essentially birthed the modern town of Ojai (Chumash for “moon”). But that’s another story, or at least another part of the story. The original clubhouse is the center of exponential expansion beginning in 1934 and now including a vast village of stylish Mediterranean buildings, with 303 rooms spread out over 220 acres.

It has to be seen, traversed, enjoyed, and preferably slept upon to be fully appreciated. Which is what my wife, Peggy, and I did on a recent Monday night, for an elegant, quick, close getaway, for about 28 hours before returning to regularly scheduled life programming.

We have been making an annual pilgrimage to Ojai for many years to the contemporary music haven of the Ojai Music Festival in June. We wanted to check out this unique gem of a western town, with its Krishnamurti-blessed status as a “spiritual vortex” beyond festival time, a long weekend when musical nerds roam the town and/or invade the place. The pleasant surprise was that the inn property is something of a

self-enclosed town/world of its own.

From our suite — a model of comfortable luxury in the Paseo Villas area — we roamed to take in the Spa Village and the go-to hang zone of the Indigo Pool (one of four pools here) and ate at Jimmy’s Pub (named after early in-house golf pro Jimmy Demaret) and breakfasted at Libbey’s market. At a specific time before twilight — 4:55, as instructed — we joined the friendly cult of pink-seeking zombies perched around the property, staring at the Topatopa Mountains for Ojai Valley’s legendary “pink moment.”

Speaking of color scheming, even for those of us disinclined toward golf, or the trappings of golf culture, the large, enveloping acreage of green, green grass conveys an atmospheric beyond the sport of the matter.

The lawns serve as a lush moat of green surrounding the inn property, acting as a buffer from the outside world. Not that said “outside world” is to be avoided.

The inn is something of an oasis unto itself, an idyllic place set within the idyllic civic place that is Ojai. We hopped on bicycles, complimentary for guests, and rode along the famed Ojai bike trail into town, making a de rigueur stop at Ojai Tortilla House for a reasonable, de-scrumptious lunch taken back to the inn’s epic lawn for a picnic.

The major new development at the inn is this year’s opening of its impressive Farmhouse compound, a site for culinary and other events — including a spate of Christmas-timed events in the inn’s “Serenity Season.”

Designed by Napa-based architect Howard Backen (also slated to renovate the Spa Village soon) in a rustic yet contemporary style, the Farmhouse’s large, integrated structures combine barn-like motifs and rugged corrugated metal roofs with a sleek minimalist aesthetic, flecked with the industrial chic of I-beams.

A central monolith-like fireplace and cubic silo is an anchoring element between the two buildings.

Aptly, the Farmhouse is simultaneously rustic and sleek, post-postmodern and retro. It’s a fitting addition, in short: At the Ojai Valley Inn compound, which is graced with a strong then-and-now character, a famed movie line begs amending: “The past and the unfolding present. There’s always plenty more where that came from.”

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wo years after it was all but wiped out by the 1/9 Debris Flow, the Cold Spring Trailhead on East Mountain Drive reopened this Sunday, January 12. “Over the last two years, the Cold Spring Trail has hosted many months of work, but more than that, it’s been a place for us to get together and begin to rebuild our lives,” said Ashlee Mayfield, president of the Montecito Trails Foundation. “Restoring access to these public spaces has been a priority for the city, county, and Forest Service. We have been thoroughly supported by them in our efforts.”

East Mountain Drive is still closed at Cold Springs Creek while a new bridge is designed and constructed. The trailhead, however, is accessible to pedestrians.

“As we continue to mourn the devastation of the 1/9 Debris Flow, especially the week of the two-year anniversary, it’s also important to celebrate the accomplishments we’ve made in recovery,” said Supervisor Das Williams. “Our county staff have worked above and beyond over these two years on recovery and the progress we’ve made would not be possible without the countless dedicated community volunteers willing to do the work to rebuild. It’s really awe-inspiring to be a part —Indy Staff of.”

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TRADITION TIME: The costumed Bracebridge performers carry on an age-old holiday celebration.

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everal years ago, I was interview-

ing the unreasonably talented and conversationally charming Cate Blanchett before her appearance at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Our interview ended with the reflexive pleasantry of asking about each other’s upcoming Christmas holiday plans.

“We are going to the Bracebridge

BY JOSEF WOODARD dinner at the Ahwahnee, in Yosemite,” I blurted, to which the actor gasped, a tad befuddled, exclaiming, “Wow, that’s a lot of strange words.” I didn’t have adequate time to go into explanation, but I quickly realized it must have seemed I was slipping into some exotic tongue.

Of course, those words, though strange to much of the world, can be power words, and appetizing words, to those in the know. The Yosemite Valley is a famed natural wonder of the world (and National Park), while Ahwahnee is the Native American (Ahwahneechee) word for the area, translating to “gaping mouth.” It’s also the name of the high-end hotel that opened there in 1927.

Bracebridge, meanwhile, is a bit more complicated. Launched in 1927 and cocreated by Ansel Adams — an aspiring musician before becoming a revered photographer — the Bracebridge Dinner series shamelessly taps into antiqued, Anglophile origins (not unlike Santa Barbara’s Christmas Revels), despite being based on sketches by Britleaning American author Washington Irving in the early 19th century.

Pricey and proudly historic, the four-ish-hour sensation is, at its core, an elegant and savory seven-course meal interwoven with an elaborate Winter Solstice pageant of music, dance, comic manners, and merry “mummery.”

The tradition returns to the Ahwahnee for several performances each December leading up to Christmas, which is where I was headed soon after speaking to Blanchett that year. This past December, a dozen years after that last Bracebridge experience, my wife, Peggy, and I returned to the scene of the sensation, where much remained blessedly the same, including the charismatic force and presence of Andrea Fulton at the center of the action. The 74-year-old Fulton, singer/actor/ director and head of the Fulton Chorale, was celebrating her 40th year as director, producer, and centerpiece (in the role of Housekeeper) of a tradition led by her father, Eugene, from 1934 to 1978.

At a dinner the night before the Bracebridge, Fulton held forth at a gathering and told tales of Ansel Adams, whom she called “beard” as

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Launched in 1995, the SantaBarbara.com Visitors’ Guide was the first website dedicated to information about the South Coast. Long before Google and Yelp were born, the site served as the area’s first restaurant guide. It was also the first Santa Barbara website filled with photos, which was then a rarity in an era of mostly text websites, as digital cameras were not yet widely available.

Back then, Dickson purchased a Kodak DC-40 digital camera for $700 that had a 32-photo capacity and no display to review photos that you just took. “It was primitive by today’s standards, but state-of-the-art in the mid-’90s when developing film and scanning negatives was the normal way to put photos online,” said Dickson. “A few of those original photos remained online until this week.”

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Barbara.com Visitors’ Guide relaunched this year, replacing the 25-year-old website with a user-friendly, modern design that’s a source of easy-to-find information for locals and tourists. The new, service-focused website is mobile friendly and designed to give users access to area information in one or two clicks.

“It was like saying goodbye to an old friend,” said founder John Dickson, known to many as “The Restaurant Guy” for his blog and this column in the Santa Barbara Independent. “But scrapping the original website was long overdue.”

On summer solstice in June 2017, Dickson, with his son, Jimmy, in tow, embarked on a two-and-ahalf-year whirlwind tour of South Coast, trying to have a new site ready by 2020. The site primarily covers things to see and do in Santa Barbara, Goleta, Montecito, and Summerland, as well as wineries across the Santa Ynez Valley. In addition to new photographs, the upgrade includes 360-degree panoramas and videos.

Dickson worked with numerous people in town for the relaunch, including photographers David

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a child, and her earliest role in a Bracebridge, at the ripe age of 5. She also discussed plans to pass the Bracebridge production torch and legacy to others, such as young director Sarah Coykendall and veteran music director Gregory Parker, also at the table.

On the big night, all the elements came choreographically into sync, with its costumed serio-comic theatrics, innuendo-laden ribaldry, and timeless paeans to peace, unity, and nature. (Yosemite herself is the real stage backdrop to this event.) The kitchen and costumed workers filtered into the evening’s production mix, seamlessly serving between acts such treats as tangelo brined scallop, truffle rabbit confit empanada, and a supremely tender butter-roasted Brandt Ranch beef tenderloin. Plum pudding and toasts of wassail figured into the protracted finale, as if the parties on all sides of the stage, house, and kitchen were reluctant to bring about evening’s end.

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All in all, at Bracebridge, time stands still in its way, even as taste buds and other senses dance in an acutely present-tense mode. Word to the wise: Think Christmas early and make reservations now.

Packages for the 2020 Bracebridge Dinners during next Christmas season can be booked via n bracebridgedinners.com.

John Dickson’s reporting can be found every day online at SantaBarbara.com. Send tips to info@SantaBarbara.com.

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iterary critic Harold Bloom famously credited William Shakespeare with “the invention of the human,” by which he meant that in Shakespeare’s plays, we find forms of consciousness that would come to define Western conceptions of selfhood and individual autonomy. The same grand claim could easily be made for Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, Op. 55. Nearly twice as long as any previous composition in the genre, the Eroica symphony, as it has come to be known, stands as the classical repertoire’s most universal expression of the rise of such core 19th-century notions as freedom and human rights.

When the Santa Barbara Symphony takes the stage at The Granada Theatre January 18 and 19 for the second half of its January program, the players will do so knowing that the music they are about to perform has endured for more than 200 years and that, more so than perhaps any other symphony, the Eroica stands a good chance to remain as popular in 2220 as it is today. As maestro Nir Kabaretti remarked in a recent phone conversation, “When you hear it, you are breathless; it captures the souls of the musicians who play it.”

In three quarters of an hour, Beethoven traverses an emotional landscape that extends from the depths of sorrow to the heights of joy and triumph.

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era in which it was composed were often puzzled or even frightened by the complex polyphony and weird details that distinguish it from the symphonies of Mozart and Haydn and from Beethoven’s own first two compositions in the form.

While familiarity has reduced this challenge to the ears, the Symphony No. 3, especially when played at the accelerated tempi Beethoven preferred, still has the capacity to shock. This is music at its most sophisticated and somehow also at its most primal. Hearing it played live will be an experience you will remember for the rest of your life.

As always with the Santa Barbara Symphony, the remainder of the program reveals the artistic director’s cosmopolitan sensibility and his deep feeling for the character of his musicians and our community. The guest soloists are a married couple, Sivan Silver and Gil Garburg, who have developed an international reputation for their virtuosic work as performers of music written for piano four-hands.

In describing the work that they will play, maestro Kabaretti said that while they have mastered the normal 19th-century repertoire for the piano four-hands configuration, the Concerto for Piano, Four Hands and Strings in G Minor (2016) represents a significant step beyond what other duos have done in the past. The work is an adaptation by composer Richard Dünser of the Piano

S.B. DANCE THEATER FOUR AS ONE: Sivan Silver and Gil Garburg have earned a reputation for their performances of music written for one piano played by four hands.

Quartet in G Minor, Op. 25 of Johannes Brahms that the couple commissioned after discovering that Brahms had begun work on the piece as a composition for their specialty. Why not then create a version that includes both? Kabaretti sees this extravagant work as an apt pairing with Beethoven’s great Romantic breakthrough, one that reflects Brahms’s status as the former’s spiritual heir.

Opening the evening is a shorter (approximately 15 minutes) work by the contemporary composer Michael Torke. Although Ash was written in New York City in 1988 by a then-27-year-old American, in form and style it blends comfortably with the Viennese music written a century and more previously.

Rhythmically energetic, and “tricky and hard” according to Kabaretti, it ought to make a delicious appetizer for the Brahms and Beethoven works that will follow it.

It’s always delightful to step into the Granada for a Santa Barbara Symphony concert during the film festival. As our town celebrates film, the iconic medium of the 20th century, it can be a tonic to reconnect with one of the greatest art forms of the 19th.

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When Christopher Pilafian was anointed as artistic director of Santa Barbara Dance Theater in 2013, it would have been logical to assume that a retrospective of his vast catalog of work would soon follow. After all, here was an artist who’d spent nearly four decades sharing space with some of New York City’s most reputable choreographers and dance companies, traveling the globe to perform and present the efforts of his years spent at Juilliard. He had now been given an academic platform and an engaged audience from which a reflective survey could easily transition into blissful retirement.

But Pilafian wasn’t going out like that.

“I’m treating the company as a collaborative lab,” he would say when describing his vision for the now 44-year-old institution. And over the past seven years, he’s made good on that promise, inviting dozens of international and national artists to come into the studio and inject dynamic and diverse perspectives into his intimate company. When Pilafian’s dance concerts began to attract the L.A. set, he saw an opportunity to expose the university’s bourgeoning dance majors to new audiences and created a highly coveted apprentice program in response.

From January 16 through 19, dance enthusiasts will be treated to Pilafian’s latest cooperative efforts: a fourworks program that includes a re-staging “Miserere Nobis” from famed N.Y.C. choreographer Jennifer Muller; a premiere of the retro stylized “1221 Primrose Ln.” by Stephanie Miracle; Pilafian’s own “Chrometrics,” which includes his professional and apprentice dancers; and an appearance by the UCSB Dance Company in Nancy Colahan’s “A Trio of Glass Etudes.”

To see Pilafian authentically motivated by the prospect of elevating the works of others is to understand his dedication to the examination of energy, a theme that has appeared in his choreography time and again over the years. “Stimulation begets stimulation,” he said to me over drinks one night. “Exploring my role as curator means I get to exercise the more playful, risk-taking side of myself that has been wanting to come out for a while now.” Don’t miss the chance to see how that investigation plays out on UCSB’s Hatlen stage. See sbdance theater.org.

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hinese New Year is fast upon us, and their tradition requires that each generation unless you have already made plans to exceeds the last by improving and embeltravel to China by January 24, you’ll lishing the achievements of the previous one. be ringing in the Year of the Rat right here This can mean many things: higher human in Santa Barbara. Fortunately, the Santa pyramids; tighter twists of their torsos; and Barbara Center for the Performing Arts at more plates, all of them spinning.

The Granada Theatre has Because they are no thought ahead and prolonger content with the vided a very auspicious more familiar flips and evening on Wednesday, flops of the unaided January 22, when the human body, these acroworld-renowned Peking bats will take to cycles, Acrobats will take the bi- and uni-, in pursuit stage as part of their latest of big air. Regardless of

by Charles Donelan whether or not you take North American tour.

This particular group, circus people seriously, formed in 1986, represents the best of the these performers will move you to moments best when it comes to this nearly three- of unexpected amazement. When I saw them millennia-old tradiin Beijing a few years tional art form. What ago, I was t r u ly a fabulous Santa Barastounded not only bara coincidence that by what they could do, the Peking Acrobats’ but also by the breakmost famous alumni, neck pace at which Qin Shaobo, played they do it. No sooner the Amazing Yen, has someone blown Danny Ocean’s “grease your mind and scared man” in the remake of you half to death than Ocean’s 11, and at the there is another group same moment that his on stage in another Ocean’s costar Brad garish set of costumes Pitt takes the stage all conspiring to create across State Street at unbearable suspense.

The Arlington TheIt lasts until the last atre, the Amazing gymnast has stuck the Yen’s old gang will be last landing, the last flying through the air wine bottle has been at the Granada with balanced on the tip the greatest of ease. of the last nose, and The Amazing Yen may have moved on, the last chair has been removed from the last but the flexible flyers who make up this 2020 forehead. See them in person and believe the edition of the Peking Acrobats are every bit impossible. There’s no movie magic here, just as capable of pulling off unimaginable feats human persistence in the face of gravity and in or outside of a casino vault. The ethos of probability.

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“These are two big games that you’ll remember, and these are the ones that you want to win,” said Hicks of the rivalry.

“These are big, not only for league and going into the playoffs, but for city-wide bragging rights. All of these kids grew up together and they know each other, so that’s the fun part in being able to win these games.”

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Diego Espinoza opened the scoring in the 72nd minute when he beat San Marcos goalkeeper Sam Friedman near post with a shot from just inside the 18-yard box off a free kick from Miguel Alvarado. However, the Royals immediately responded with Matt Hislop goal off a flick ahead by A.J. Ranii for the equalizer.

Santa Barbara coach Todd Heil said, “74 or 75 minutes of no goals, and then all of a sudden you get two goals and it’s a 1-1 tie. I guess at the end of the day, you might say it was probably the right result.”

Santa Barbara (12-1-3 overall, 1-0-1 Channel League) and San Marcos (8-3-5, 0-0-2) are not the only solid teams in the Channel League. Lompoc is currently tied for first place with Santa Barbara with a 1-0-1 record in Channel League, and Cabrillo is much improved.

Dos Pueblos (10-3-1) won the Hart tournament coming into league play but lost to Santa Ynez 2-0 in its league opener before rebounding with a 2-1 win over Cabrillo.

“The big thing is the number of returning players that each team has with experience from last year and the quality of those players,” Heil said. “Some of the bigger-name players from each of the programs, especially here locally, have at least a year or two of high school varsity experience.”

The Dons have been at the top of the Channel League for several years, but every team will have to bring their A-game n in order to get a positive result in 2020.

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he non-league tune-ups are over, and with the New Year, the meat of the high school boys’ basketball season has arrived.

The first week of Channel League play featured the Santa Barbara versus San Marcos rivalry game, which was played at SBCC for increased seating, after hundreds of people were turned away at the door during both soldout matchups last year. Santa Barbara junior guard Jasper Johnson sent the Sports Pavilion into a frenzy with a game-winning lay-in at the buzzer off a perfectly placed lob to the rim by Stephen Davis to secure a 45-43 victory for the Dons.

Johnson is the son of acclaimed actor, producer, and director Don Johnson, best known as the star of Miami Vice, and his flair for the dramatic gave the Dons a major leg up in the Channel League title race.

“We’re kind of getting into things and working out our offense and our defense,” Johnson said post-game. “I feel like this is our turning point, and we’re going to be really hard to beat.”

Lost in Johnson’s heroics was the rivalry game debut for Santa Barbara first-year head coach Corey Adam. The Dons got off to a rough start this season against stiff competition. Injuries and sickness contributed to the 5-6 start, but the Dons regrouped and have now won six in a row.

“Defensively, we’re pretty good right now. Offensively, we still got some work to do,” Adam said. “But they’re learning, they’re getting better, and they’re understanding.”

Expectations were sky-high for Santa Barbara coming DIFFERENCE MAKER: Jasper Johnson poured in a team-high 15 points, into this season after the Dons finished 29-5, reached the including a game-winning basket at the buzzer to lift the Dons over rival CIF-SS 2A semifinals and defeated Oxnard in the openSan Marcos. ing round of the state tournament under Dave Bregante last season. Channel League co-MVPs Bryce Warrecker and Stephen Davis returned from that team in addition to back from last year’s team, so just having another year with Johnson, who has been on varsity since his freshman season. most of the same group goes a long way,” Hicks said. “They’re The return of Johnson to the lineup after he has been side- growing, and I’m growing as a coach, so it’s been good.” lined for several games with various ailments has solidified A balanced lineup that can be led by several different playthe Santa Barbara lineup, and the returners are adjusting to ers on a given night makes San Marcos a dangerous team. The Royals led Santa Barbara 38-32 going into the fourth quarter Adam’s new style of play.

“He’s been injured and sick, and he lost about 10 pounds before cold shooting evaporated the lead.

“We usually do well when we move the ball around and when he was sick. He didn’t have much weight to lose,” said Adam of Johnson. “This is Jasper’s first game in. … I can’t get everybody involved. We try to get into the paint and make remember the last time he played.” decisions from there,” Hicks said. “I think when we did those On the other side of the court, San Marcos head coach things we were in good position, and when we went away from Jelani Hicks was left to wonder what could have been after those they were able to make runs.” the stunning finish.

The rivalry has unique meaning for Hicks, who gets to see Last season, Hicks was in much the same predicament that players he has watched and developed for years as a longtime Adam is this season, replacing Landon Boucher after he led youth coach in Santa Barbara thrive for both teams. “This is the Royals to a CIF championship. But he put together a solid probably the most entertaining high school game in town,” season, including a second-place finish in the Channel League. Hicks said. “It’s always fun to be a part of it.”

This year, San Marcos has rebounded from a 0-3 start, With 12 players returning from last year’s team, Hicks is which included losses to Oxnard, which has a 20-1 record this bullish on his team’s ability to compete for the Channel League title and is eager for the rematch against Santa Barbara season, and national powerhouse Mater Dei. “Year two has been a good one. We have a lot of returners on January 25.

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ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19): Comedian John Cleese has an insight

I hope you’ll consider. He says, “It’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent. It’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about.” I hope you’ll make this advice a priority in the coming weeks. You’ll be wise to prioritize important tasks, even those that aren’t urgent, as you de-emphasize trivial matters that tempt you to think they’re crucial. Focus on big things that are challenging, rather than on little things that are a snap.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): Author Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)

was born with sun and Mercury in Taurus and in the 10th house. Astrologers might hypothesize from these placements that he was ambitious, productive, tenacious, diligent, realistic, and willful. The evidence supporting this theory is strong. Balzac wrote over 80 novels that displayed a profound and nuanced understanding of the human comedy. I predict that 2020 will be a year when you could make dramatic progress in cultivating a Balzac-like approach in your own sphere.

But here’s a caveat: Balzac didn’t take good care of his body. He drank far too much coffee and had a careless approach to eating and sleeping. My hope is that as you hone your drive for success, you’ll be impeccable in tending to your health.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Before he was 21 years old, William

Shakespeare and his wife had birthed three kids. When he was 25, while the brood was still young, he started churning out literary masterpieces. By the time Will became a grandfather at age 43, he had written many of the works that ultimately made him one of history’s most illustrious authors. From this evidence, we might speculate that being a parent and husband heightened his creative flow. I bring this to your attention because I want to ask you: What role will commitment and duty and devotion play in your life during the coming months? (I suspect it’ll be a good one.)

(June 21-July 22): Cancerian-born painter Stanley Spen-

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breakthroughs; you over-think and over-polish. But I have a good feeling about the coming weeks, Virgo. I suspect you’ll find the sweet spot, self-editing with just the right touch.

cer (1891-1959) didn’t align himself with any artistic movement. Early on, his work was an odd blend of French postimpressionism and 14th-century Italian LIBRA painting. I appreciate his stylistic independence and (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Thomas Love Peacock was a Libran suggest you draw inspiration from it in 2020. Another author whose specialty was writing satirical novels that unique aspect of Spencer’s art was its mix of erotifeatured people sitting around tables arguing about cism and religiosity. I think you’ll enjoy exploring that opinions and ideas. He was not renowned for cheerblend yourself in the coming months. Your spiritual ful optimism. And yet he did appreciate sheer beauty. and sexual longings could be quite synergistic. There’s “There is nothing perfect in this world,” he said, “except one part of Spencer’s quirky nature I don’t recommend Mozart.” So much did Peacock love Mozart’s music that you imitate, however. He often during one several-month stretch wore pajamas beneath his clothes, he attended six performances of the even to formal occasions. Doing genius’s opera Don Giovanni. In this HOMEWORK: How will you that wouldn’t serve your interests. create the story of your life in 2020? spirit, Libra, and in accordance with (But it will be healthy for you to be astrological indicators, I encourage RealAstrology.com somewhat indifferent to people’s you to make a list of your own peropinions.) fect things — and spend extra time communing with them in the coming weeks.

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(July 23-Aug. 22): Johannes Gutenberg invented the

printing press in the 1440s. In subsequent decades, millions of mass-produced books became available for the first time, making their contents available to a far wider audience than ever before. The printing press caused other changes, too — some not as positive. For instance, people who worked as scribes found it harder to get work. In our era, big culture-wide shifts are impacting our personal lives. Climate change, the internet, smart phones, automation, and human-like robots are just a few examples. What are doing to adjust to the many innovations? And what will you do in the future? Now is an excellent time to meditate on these issues.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You’re skilled at the art of self-editing.

When bright new ideas well up in you, you understand they are not yet ready for prime time but will need to be honed and finessed. When your creativity overflows, tantalizing you with fresh perspectives and novel approaches, you know that you’ll have to harness the raw surge. However, it’s also true that sometimes you go too far in your efforts to refine your imagination’s

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Jean-Michel Basquiat started his

career as a graffiti artist. When he evolved into being a full-time painter, he incorporated words amid his images. On many occasions, he’d draw lines through the words. Why? “I cross out words so you will see them more,” he said. “The fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them.” In the coming weeks, you might benefit from discreetly using this strategy in your own life. In other words, draw attention to the things you want to emphasize by downplaying them or being mysterious about them or suggesting they are secret. Reverse psychology can be an asset for you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Because of the onslaught of the inter-

net and social media, lots of people no longer read books. But in 2020, I highly recommend that you not be one of that crowd. In my astrological opinion, you need more of the slow, deep wisdom that comes from reading books. You will also benefit from other acts of rebellion against the Short Attention Span Era. Crucial

blessings will flow in your direction as you honor the gradual, incremental approach to everything.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “I love to be surprised by something I

have never thought of,” declares Capricorn actor Ralph Fiennes. According to my analysis of the astrological aspects, you’ll be wise to make that one of your top mottoes in 2020. Why? First, life is likely to bring to your attention a steady stream of things you’ve never imagined. And second, your ability to make good use of surprises will be at an all-time high. Here’s further advice to help ensure that the vast majority of your surprises will be welcome, even fun: Set aside as many of your dogmas and expectations as possible, so that you can be abundantly receptive to things you’ve never thought of.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “I love fools’ experiments. I am always

making them.” So said one of the most famous and influential scientists who ever lived, Aquarian-born naturalist Charles Darwin. In accordance with upcoming astrological factors, I invite you to draw inspiration from his approach. Allow yourself to explore playfully as you conduct fun research. Just assume that you have a mandate to drum up educational experiences, and that a good way to do that is to amuse yourself with improvisational adventures.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): “How do you get your main pleasure

in life?” That question was posed to Scorpio author Evelyn Waugh and Piscean social reformer William Beveridge. Waugh said, “I get mine spreading alarm and despondency.” Beveridge said, “I get mine trying to leave the world a better place than I found it.” I hope you will favor Beveridge’s approach over Waugh’s in 2020, Pisces — for two reasons. First, the world already has plenty of alarm and despondency; it doesn’t need even a tiny bit more. Second, aspiring to be like Beveridge will be the best possible strategy for fostering your mental and physical health.

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LEGALS ADMINISTER OF ESTATE NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: NADINE G. GOENA NO: 19PR00562 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of NADINE G. GOENA A PETITION FOR PROBATE: has been filed by: VIRGINIA AYALA in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION for probate requests that (name):VIRGINIA AYALA be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: on 1/30/2020 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 objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

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

Attorney for Petitioner: Michael Anatole‑Channel Islands Law Group, A P.C. 58 N. Ash St., Ventura, CA 93001; (805) 652‑6941.

Published Jan 9, 15, 23 2020.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: LEONARD HOLDEN, JR. NO: 19PR00592 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of LEONARD HOLDEN, JR., aka LEN HOLDEN, JR. A PETITION FOR PROBATE: has been filed by: JULI C. BORTH in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION for probate requests that (name): JULI C. BROTH be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

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Anacapa Division.

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

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

Attorney for Petitioner: Evelyn J. Gruen, Attorney At Law PO Box 202, Simi Valley, CA 93062; (805) 522‑8152.

Published Jan 9, 15, 23 2020.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: JOHN E. LINDGREN NO: 19PR00583 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of JOHN E. LINDGREN A PETITION FOR PROBATE: has been filed by: KATHERINE V. LINDGREN in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION for probate requests that (name): KATHERINE V. LINDGREN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: on 1/30/2020 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 objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

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

Attorney for Petitioner: Rosaleen Wynne 222 East Carrillo Street, Suite 207, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 966‑1204.

Published Jan 9, 15, 23 2020.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER

ESTATE OF: FRANK BUSO NO: 19PR00496 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of FRANK BUSO A PETITION FOR PROBATE: has been filed by: TERRY RODRIGUEZ in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION for probate requests that (name): TERRY RODRIGUEZ be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: on 02/20/2020 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 objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

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

form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Cristi Michelon Vasquez 132 East Figueroa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 805‑882‑2226.

Published Jan 15, 23, 30 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LIFE AND WHIMSY at 2110 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 19, 26 2019. Jan 2, 9, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KOMATIS ART at 1943 Grand Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Gerald Comati (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Gerald Comati Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 10, 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: 2019‑0003069. Published: Dec 26 2019.

Jan 2, 9, 15, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: MCQUARRY CONSTRUCTION SERVICES at 605 San Ricardo Dr, Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Peter T McQuarry (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 17, 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: 2019‑0003134.

Published: Dec 26 2019. Jan 2, 9, 15, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ELLWOOD CANYON FARMS at 286 Winchester Canyon Rd, Goleta, CA 93117; Ellwood Canyon Farms Inc, 215 W Figueroa St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 conducted by a Corporation Signed: Jack E. Motter, CEO Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 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 Thomas Brian. FBN Number: 2019‑0003108.

Published: Dec 26 2019. Jan 2, 9, 15, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EMERGENT RESILIENCE at 430 Dogwood Dr., Buellton, CA 93427; 7Trails Foundation (same address) conducted by a Corporation Signed: Kevin M. Gallagher Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 18, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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by Maria F Sanchez. FBN Number: 2019‑0003141. Published: Dec 26 2019. Jan 2, 9, 15, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WINNING MAKES, INC. at 1 N. Calle Cesar Chavez #124, Santa Barbara, CA 93103 conducted by a Corporation Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 13, 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: 2019‑0003089.

Published: Dec 26 2019. Jan 2, 9, 15, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PARADISE CAFE at 702 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Acme 702 Anacapa Street LLC, 218 Helena Ave, Suite A, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 conducted by a Individual Signed: Charlotte Villanueva, Managing Member Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 16, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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by Maria F Sanchez. FBN Number: 2019‑0003100. Published: Dec 26 2019. Jan 2, 9, 15, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SUMMERLAND BEAUTIFUL at 1187 Coast Village Rd, #560, Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Summerland Beautiful, Inc. (same address) conducted by a Corporation Signed: Katie Musial, Agent Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 17, 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: 2019‑0003133.

Published: Dec 26 2019. Jan 2, 9, 15, 2020.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Design Review Board Goleta City Hall – Council Chambers 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B Goleta, CA 93117 Tuesday, January 28, 2020 at 3:00 P.M. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Design Review Board (DRB) of the City of Goleta will conduct a public hearing on the date set forth above to consider the following new project: Design Review University Plaza Shopping Center Upgrades 200 Pacific Oaks Road (APN 073-440-001, 002, 012) Case No. 19-0201-DRB Residential Second Story Addition 7028 Scripps Crescent (APN 073-184-013) Case No. 19-143-DRB One Stop Shop Lighting Plans 7020 Calle Real (APN 077-155-003) Case No. 19-071-DRB PUBLIC COMMENT: This hearing is for design review only. All interested persons are encouraged to attend the public hearing and to present written and/or oral comments. All letters should be addressed to City of Goleta, Planning and Environmental Review, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, CA 93117 or email to mchang@cityofgoleta.org. Letters must be received by Planning and Environmental Review no later than 24 hours prior to the DRB meeting. Materials received after this time may not be reviewed prior to the DRB meeting.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: The items in this notice are new items. The DRB agenda may also include items continued from prior meetings. All persons wanting to review any project applications may do so by contacting City of Goleta, Planning and Environmental Review at (805) 961-7543. The Agenda, staff reports and project plans will be available approximately one week before the hearing on the City’s website at www.cityofgoleta.org.

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LEGALS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: THE WEDDING DANCER at 5276 Hollister Ave Suite 263, Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Rachel Anne Quittner, 242 Daytona Dr, Goleta, CA 93117 conducted by a Individual Signed: Rachel A. Quittner Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 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: 2019‑0003142. Published: Dec 26 2019. Jan 2, 9, 15, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: ASE MARKETING GROUP INC., ASE PRINTS at 83 Cardinal Ave. Goleta, CA 93117; ASE Marketing Group, Inc. (Same Address) conducted by a Corporation Signed: Gabriel Amparan, CFO Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 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 Thomas Brian. FBN Number: 2019‑0003169. Published: Dec 26 2019. Jan 2, 9, 15, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: ALLEGIANT at 27 W Anapamu St, Ste 231 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Stephen J Sanderson 991 Driftwood St Upland, CA 91784 conducted by a Individual Signed: Stephen J Sanderson Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 18, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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by Maria F. Sanchez. FBN Number: 2019‑0003145. Published: Dec 26 2019. Jan 2, 9, 15, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MARK MCCLURE, CSR 12203 at 5080 Rhoads Ave. #E Santa Barbara, CA 93111; James Marcus McClure (Same Address) conducted by a Individual Signed: James Marcus McClure Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 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 Thomas Brian. FBN Number: 2019‑0003173. Published: Dec 26 2019. Jan 2, 9, 15, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DEL MAR TILE at 1026 E. Haley St. Unit A, Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Adelaida Gutierrez (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Adelaida Gutierrez Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 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: 2019‑0003176.

Published: Dec 26 2019. Jan 2, 9, 15, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SOFI HOT DOGS #2 at 2 N. Milpas St., Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Luis Guillen Villegas 712 Nopalitos Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93105 conducted by a Individual Signed: Luis Guillen V 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 Maria F. Sanchez. FBN Number: 2019‑0002954. Published: Dec 26 2019. Jan 2, 9, 15, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MODERN EYE CARE OF SANTA BARBARA at 2947 De La Vina St., Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Douglas A. Katsev, MD 4225 Via Presada, Santa Barbara, CA 93110 conducted by a Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 10, 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: 2019‑0003061. Published: Dec 26 2019. Jan 2, 9, 15, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ST. FRANCIS VETERINARY HOSPITAL INC. at 934 N H St, Lompoc, CA 93463; St. Francis Veterinary Hospital Inc. (same address) conducted by a Corporation Signed: Shirley Greene, CFO Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 9, 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: 2019‑0003057. Published: Dec 26 2019. Jan 2, 9, 15, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: RESIDENT MOON at 160 Santo Tomas Ln, Montecito, CA 93108; Brandon Goodwin (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Brandon Goodwin Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 17, 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: 2019‑0003127. Published: Dec 26 2019. Jan 2, 9, 15, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KATCH CONSULTING at 5043 Via Lara Ln Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Frank L. Katch (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 27, 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: 2019‑0003199. Published: Jan 2, 9, 15, 23 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FIN WINDOW CLEANING at 84 Mallard Ave, Goleta, CA 93117; Joel Pedersen (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Joel Pedersen Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 11, 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: 2019‑0003074. Published: Jan 2, 9, 15, 23, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PROJECT.JULIA at 2202 De La Vina Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Julia Elliott (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Julia Elliott Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 27, 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: 2019‑0002101.

Published: Jan 2, 9, 15, 23 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: LEN’S FLOOR COVERING, LENS OF SANTA BARBARA at 5720 Thornwood Drive Goleta, CA 93117; Ramtore, Inc. 5118 Cathedral Oaks Road Santa Barbara, CA 93111 conducted by a Corporation Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 17, 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: 2019‑0003124. Published: Jan 2, 9, 15, 23 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HANDSOME FACTORY at 101 S Salinas St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Christopher Lee Trenschel (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Chris Trenschel Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 30, 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: 2019‑0003214. Published: Jan 9, 15, 23, 30 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: ANCHOR, IAYT, DANNAH ROSE, TEMPLE OF THE ROSE, I AM YOUR TEAM at 1423 Park Place #12 Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Dannah C Perez (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 27, 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: 2019‑0003202.

Published: Jan 9, 15, 23, 30 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DTAR, SEYMOUR DUNCAN RESEARCH, SEYMOUR DUNCAN, SEYMOUR DUNCAN PICKUPS at 5427 Hollister Ave. Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Carter Duncan Corporation (same address) conducted by a Corporation Signed: Cathy Duncan Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 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 John Beck. FBN Number: 2019‑0003158. Published: Jan 9, 15, 23, 30 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LUCKY POLO PONY, ROYALTY ORCHIDS, MARCHUS PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, MULTICULTURAL MEDIA at PO Box 1318 # 3059 Sacramento, CA 95812; Allison Louise Marchus (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Allison Marchus Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 2, 2020.

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: 2020‑0000012.

Published: Jan 9, 15, 23, 30 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ANCIENT EARTH PIGMENTS at 5574 Somerset Dr. Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Atelier Nelson LLC (same address) conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 2, 2020.

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: 2020‑0000010. Published: Jan 9, 15, 23, 30 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: LITTLE CORNER STORE at 701 Bath St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Prajapati Dipmala R.; 515 Tepic Pl Santa Barbara, CA 93111 conducted by a Individual Signed: Prajapati, Dipmala R. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 2, 2020. 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: 2020‑0000011. Published: Jan 9, 15, 23, 30 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HEALTHY PET at 3018 State St Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Rene Roberta 2726 Sailor Ave Ventura, CA 93001 conducted by a Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 17, 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: 2019‑0003122. Published: Jan 9, 15, 23, 30 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: CHRISTOPHER ELLEFSON at 111 W Islay St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Christopher Ellefson (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 8, 2020. 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: 2020‑0000096. Published: Jan 15, 23, 30. Feb 6 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ADORN SKIN & BEAUTY at 130 S. Hope Avenue Space F#127 Suite 114 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Alyssa R Lopez 817 E Carrillo St #C Santa Barbara, CA 93103 conducted by a Individual Signed: Alyssa Lopez Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 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 Brenda Aguilera. FBN Number: 2019‑0003191. Published: Jan 9, 15, 23, 30 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MONTECITO WEDDINGS, PERL CONSULTING at 3710 Amalfi Way Unit B Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Emmanuelle Recher (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 6, 2020. 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: 2020‑0000045.

Published: Jan 15, 23, 30. Feb 6 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PURO FLAMENCO at 240 Mathilda Dr Apt C Goleta, CA 93117; Alda Escarcega (same address) conducted by a Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 3, 2020. 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: 2020‑0000039. Published: Jan 9, 15, 23, 30 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHANNEL ACUPUNCTURE, MATT PESENDIAN HEALING ARTS at 2600 De La Vina St., Ste D Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Matthew Pesendian 3149 Lucinda Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 3, 2020. 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: 2020‑0000043. Published: Jan 9, 15, 23, 30 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ALBRIGHT ESTHETICS at 130 S. Hope Ave Space #F 127 Suite 114 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Rebecca Ann Albright 741 Calle De Los Amigos Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 8, 2020. 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: 2020‑0000085. Published: Jan 15, 23, 30. Feb 6 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA AUTO NEGOTIATION at 1985 Stanwood Dr Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Jason Anderson (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 8, 2020. 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: 2020‑0000094. Published: Jan 15, 23, 30. Feb 6 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: DC PLUMBING at 109 S Fairview #A Goleta, CA 93117; Runnin’ Down A Dream 1316 East Mason St #B Santa Barbara, CA 93103 conducted by a Corporation Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 3, 2020.

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: 2020‑0000027. Published: Jan 9, 15, 23, 30 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SERENO RELIEF SERVICES at 208 W. Canon Perdido Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Miriam Christina Ketcham 325 E Valerio St Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 6, 2020.

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: 2020‑0000051.

Published: Jan 9, 15, 23, 30 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: BEST WESTERN ENCINA INN & SUITES, BEST WESTERN PLUS ENCINA INN & SUITES, BEST WESTERN ENCINA LODGE, ENCINA INN, BEST WESTERN PLUS, ENCINA INN, ENCINA LODGE at 2220 Bath Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Encina Investments, LLC (same address) Encina Investments, LP (same address)‑ This business is conducted by a Limited Partnership Signed: Eva Schmidt, Agent This was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 31, 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: 2019‑0003218. Published: Jan 15, 23, 30. Feb 6 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FAIRVIEW SUPPLY at 109 S Fairview #A Goleta, CA 93117; Runnin’ Down A Dream 1316 East Mason St #B Santa Barbara, CA 93103 conducted by a Corporation Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 3, 2020. 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: 2020‑0000026. Published: Jan 9, 15, 23, 30 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MADRIGAL REAL ESTATE at 381 Greencastle Circle Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Edward L. Madrigal (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 6, 2020. 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: 2020‑0000056.

Published: Jan 9, 15, 23, 30 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: 101 PLUMBING INC. at 1411 San Pascual St #A Santa Barbara, CA 93101; 101 Plumbing Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: This was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 9, 2020.

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: 2020‑0000103. Published: Jan 15, 23, 30. Feb 6 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ALEBRIJE at 2915 De La Vina St Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Esperanza Vargas 160 La Venta Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93110 conducted by a Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 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 John Beck. FBN Number: 2019‑0003168. Published: Jan 9, 15, 23, 30 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GRIME TO SHINE at 5160 San Lorenzo Dr. Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Tracy Lynn Wilkes (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 2, 2020. 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: 2020‑0000009.

Published: Jan 9, 15, 23, 30 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: VALUE ADDED DEVELOPMENT at 1117 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Value Added Building, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: This was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 8, 2020.

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: 2020‑0000090. Published: Jan 15, 23, 30. Feb 6 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: SB SIGN CO. at 534 North F Street Lompoc, CA 93436; Arthuer C. Jones (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Arther C. Jones This was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 6, 2020. 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: 2020‑0000059.

Published: Jan 15, 23, 30. Feb 6 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: CIAO A FINE SALON at 3011 De La Vina St. Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Rosemary Perez 1458 Sterling Ave Carpinteria, CA 93013 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 17, 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: 2019‑0003136. Published: Jan 15, 23, 30. Feb 6 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: NOKS EXPERT THAI MASSAGE CENTER, THAI MASSAGE BY NOK at 26 S La Cumbre Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Roy McLaughlin 1204 Merdian Way Lompoc, CA 93436; Somnuk McLaughlin (same address) This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Roy McLaughlin This was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 10, 2020.

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: 2020‑0000119. Published: Jan 15, 23, 30. Feb 6 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: SFM Vista Del Mar Property Management, Vista Del Mar Property at 6529 Trigo Rd. Suite #B Goleta, CA 93117; Edward A. Sweatt 7574 Rothbury Place Goleta, CA 93117; Valerie L. Sweatt (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Partnership Signed: This was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 10, 2020. 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: 2020‑0000124.

Published: Jan 15, 23, 30. Feb 6 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: THE HILT ESTATE at 2240 Santa Rosa Rd. Lompoc, CA 93436; West Coast Wine Ventures, LLC 211 N Stadium Blvd, Suite 201 Columbia, MO 65203 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: This was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 6, 2020.

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: 2020‑0000058. Published: Jan 15, 23, 30. Feb 6 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PIZANO’S CLEANING at 3963 Via Lucero St #16 Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Silvia Pizano (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 6, 2020. 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: 2020‑0000061. Published: Jan 15, 23, 30. Feb 6 2020.

NAME CHANGE 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 petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: BAILEY MILA VESSLUND DENION TO: IRIS BAILEY VESSLUND 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 reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING 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 November 26, 2019 by Pauline Maxwell, Judge of the Superior Court. Published: Dec 19, 26 2019. Jan 2, 9, 2020.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF NOE MANCILLAS ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 19CV06623 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: ALEXA MORA TO: ALEXA MANCILLAS THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING February 19, 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 19, 2019 by Thomas P. Anderle, Judge of the Superior Court. Published: Jan 2, 9, 15, 23, 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 January 30, 2020 @ 3:30PM Jack Reyes Boxes, clothing, furniture, golf clubs Lily Chen Bed‑ full size boxes Complete Weddings DJ equipment.and wedding/event stuff.

Jacob Ahrens Home/Office Furnishing Tammie Vanderpool Household, Furniture Marisela Cuevas Construction Tools, Sports Equip.

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.

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 January 30, 2020 @ 3:30PM Jack Reyes Boxes, clothing, furniture, golf clubs Complete Weddings DJ equipment.and wedding/event stuff.

Tammie Vanderpool Household, Furniture 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.

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