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Imperfect 10? Bo Derek regrets damaging late husband John’s prior marriage to Linda Evans, P.18

THIS WEEK IN MONTECITO, P.9 • SEEN AROUND TOWN, P.14 • EVENTS CALENDAR, P.38

LEADER OF THE BAND He has featured violin soloist Augustin Hadelich, cellist Lynn Harrell, pianists Lang Lang and Helene Grimaud, Star Wars trumpeter Jon Lewis, and many other brilliant musicians, but Santa Barbara Symphony music director Nir Kabaretti says he’s just part of a team. If that’s true, he and his “team” are on their way to the Super Bowl. (story begins on p.26)

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Village Cheese & Wine

Time To Toast A Hero

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Owner John Braid has passed away, but Victoria Delgado aims to keep his legacy – and infamous manwiches – alive, p.24

Boys & Girls Club of Santa Barbara dinner and auction gala to honor firefighters March 19 at Fess Parker Rotunda, p.43

Mark Hunt sizes up accessible houses from Coast Village Road to Toro Canyon, each priced at less than $2 million, p.44

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On The Water Front

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Letters to the Editor

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This Week

Bob Hazard peers into Montecito’s rainfall forecast, the stark reality of its droughtfilled future, and taps into updates on desalination and recycled wastewater Weight Watchers loss; Bo Derek carries shame; John Cleese talks James Bond; Opera Santa Barbara; Danish String Quartet; Renée Fleming; SB Yacht Club; violinist Kristin Lee; and goodbye to Nancy Reagan Cotty Chubb’s history lesson; Bobby Mercardo on the road; Jean Von Wittenburg writes about letter writers; Matt McLaughlin strips down Trump; Tricia Pennestri with Cub Scout Pack 108; Dan Seibert for the trees; Leslie Nelson in praise of Theodore Sorensen; Ernie Salomon sounds off about Mitt Romney; David McCalmont gets priorities straight; and a phone-scam warning

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Knitting circle; The New Yorker; German conversation; Sedgwick hike; golf tourney; money workshop; Summerland yoga; Mindful Meditation; Vintage Glamour Bridal event; Cold Spring School meeting; high school design competition; support group; Montecito Planning Commission; Wednesday Retreat; Darci Tucker’s play; cocktail reception; French talk; Orchard to Ocean; beekeeping; Princess Day; and free music

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Montecito Association Board meets; Village Cheese & Wine still going strong after passing of owner John Braid

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Steven Libowitz catches up with symphony conductor Nir Kabaretti; Santa Barbara Pi (π) Day Celebration at downtown library; and singer Bob Margolin with SB Blues Society at Carrillo Rec Center

28 Ernie’s World

It’s a “free” country, writes Ernie Witham, who feels free as can be en route to Avila Beach, Avila La Fonda Hotel and vicinity

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James Luksic travels the cinematic globe, assessing the damage of London Has Fallen before seeking refuge with Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

37 State Street Spin

Erin Graffy de Garcia covers Teen Star 2016; jazz tribute for Lin Cook at SOhO; Jazz Society kicks off; and Jonathan Atherton

38 Calendar of Events

Jerry Seinfeld at Arlington; Jon Wilcox and Marley’s Ghost; José Gonzalez at UCSB; Las Colibri at Marjorie Luke; Carp hosts The Odd Couple; Addams in Ojai; SB Ballet Young Dancers; Katie Thiroux performs at SOhO; Rhythm and Arts Project auction; Twilight Zone takes Center Stage; and Loreena McKennitt

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ON THE WATER FRONT

by Bob Hazard

What’s Up with Desal?

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espite a minor boost this past weekend, the long-awaited El Niño has so far been a dud. Unseasonably warm temperatures in February have reduced California’s snowpack to 83 percent of normal. Since September, slightly more than seven inches of rain have fallen on Santa Barbara, compared to an historical average of 11 inches for the same period.

For all of Santa Barbara County, rainfall this water year stands at 67 percent of normal.

Regrettably, the four-year drought seems headed for a fifth year, which means more distressed trees and gardens, continued rationing penalty fees and emergency surcharges, and a continued depletion of Montecito water from the estimated 550 to 1,000 private well owners.

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Hopes that reservoirs would fill and that residents could once again water their gardens have faded. Instead, inland farmers are fighting with coastal urban users for limited state water. Wars between South Coast water districts are escalating. Goleta fights with Santa Barbara over water rights at Gibraltar. Each tiny water district competes unsuccessfully with the massive Metropolitan Water District, with 19 million customers in greater Los Angeles, for the right to purchase decreasing supplies of imported water.

Districts with groundwater are hoarding, going into super-protective mode.

What a mess.

With little recharge, Lake Cachuma, which serves as the primary water supply for more than 200,000 residents in southern Santa Barbara County, is nearing dead pool status, caught in a bizarre fight between water district fiefdoms, seeking to preserve for themselves what little water is available. A $6-million emergency pumping barge at Cachuma needs to be moved upstream at a cost of $900,000 by July 2016 to continue pumping carryover water out of the reservoir. Moving the barge takes a unanimous vote by all districts. Santa Ynez River District ID#1 (Solvang) opposed the move, claiming that their right to Cachuma water for use in downstream releases overrides the right of South Coast users to continue to pump Cachuma water. The issue has since been resolved.

It has become increasingly obvious that the solution to securing a reliable water supply for Montecito, independent of current or future rainfall, includes constructive negotiation for both joint use of the City of Santa desalination facility, and use of highly treated, recycled wastewater for irrigation, or regional groundwater insertion, rather than continued ocean discharge. Neither of these two permanent solutions is currently in play.

We have been assured repeatedly over the last six months that “secret” negotiations are ongoing between two members of the MWD board and water officials at the City of Santa Barbara. The need for secrecy has been that a Memo of Understanding (MOU), allegedly inserted at the City’s insistence, contains a provision that prohibits the two MWD board members from sharing any desal progress reports, or other information, with the remaining three members of the board, or even of sharing progress reports with Montecito ratepayers.

The result is that while all five board members are scrambling to buy increasingly scarce imported water, three of them claim no knowledge of when, if, or how a desal agreement with the City is possible. No discussion of the status of desal negotiations has ever been placed on a MWD Board agenda. Obviously, the exact terms of a negotiated deal need to be kept confidential, but is a progress report too much to ask for?

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Weight Loss: Watchers Stock Drops

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ith a fortune in excess of $3 billion, according to Forbes, former TV talk-show titan Oprah Winfrey is unlikely to feel much pain after suffering a big loss in the stock market as Weight Watchers shares tumbled following a massive drop in quarterly revenue.

The weight-loss giant announced a 21 percent drop in revenue from one year ago, which sent stock prices down 27 percent.

Oprah, who bought a 10 percent stake in the company last year and joined the board, lost $24 million as a result of the disappointing numbers.

The drop was due to a decrease in subscribers to the program, which fell almost five percent in the fourth quarter.

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She posted the ad online to her nearly 31 million Twitter followers and shares of Weight Watchers International Inc. rose 21 percent from $11.49 to $13.44 in just two hours during afternoon trading.

Oprah, who owns just under 6.4 million shares of Weight Watchers, said in that spot she had lost 24 pounds on the program.

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LETTERS

TO THE EDITOR

If you have something you think Montecito should know about, or wish to respond to something you read in the Journal, we want to hear from you. Please send all such correspondence to: Montecito Journal, Letters to the Editor, 1206 Coast Village Circle, Suite D, Montecito, CA. 93108. You can also FAX such mail to: (805) 969-6654, or E-mail to jim@montecitojournal.net

Good to be Back

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fter six months away (fewer than 20 nights in my own bed from mid-August to last Saturday), first teaching Story For Producers to the filmmaking students of the UNC School of the Arts in Winston-Salem and then producing The Dinner starring Richard Gere in New York, I came home worried about how much Montecito might have changed in my absence.

Luckily, I find that there’s been a little more rain (though not enough) and that the Montecito Journal is still publishing screeds from Ralph T. Iannelli.

What a relief.

The latest letter (“Expected Better,” MJ #22/9), the very presence of which gladdens my heart, starts with vaguely blaming the twice-elected-by-a-majority American president for attacking America itself and ends with accusing him of leaving the country more divided than at any time since 1850.

A student of history knows our country, which we love, was then starting truly to grapple with the institutional racism known as slavery, and when, unsurprisingly, some people didn’t want to risk their livelihood and sense of self by opposing it.

Leaving aside that much of the current division in the country was fomented by the long-standing Republican “Southern strategy,” marked by racist dog whistles and appeals to nativist prejudice after the passage of 1964’s Civil Rights Act and currently finding brilliant expression in the candidacy of Mr. Donald “Stubby Fingers” Trump, let’s not forget the role played by Senator Mitch McConnell, leader of the Republican party in the Senate, whose entire agenda after 2008 was framed on denying the newly elected president any legislative success, with the failed intent of denying him a second term.

Need I mention that the very same Senator, currently majority leader in the Senate, representing a state central to the slave trade in 1850, is refusing even to consider a Supreme Court nomination by a sitting president with nearly a year left in his second term, a Constitutional dereliction that would be breathtaking if it were surprising?

It would seem that dividing the country is more than a one-man job.

Mr. Iannelli’s nonsense is a comfortingly still point in a turning world, but nonsense nonetheless.

Finally, let me say, sincerely, that the Montecito Journal’s careful exploration

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of serious issues facing this small community, however wealthy, is a great public service and its commitment to vigorous public debate is a core American value.

Happy I am to find you still here after my wanderings.

Cotty Chubb Montecito (Editor’s note: Pleased to have you back in town. However, just as a historical note, readers should understand that the “racist dog whistles” used in the South over the years after the Civil War was fought and the slaves were freed

by America’s first Republican president were wielded by Democrat politicians and Democrat law-enforcement officers.

A higher percentage of Republican legislators voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than did Democrat lawmakers. Another historical note should be that Senator Charles Schumer (Dem-NY) and a host of other Democrat politicians decreed that no Supreme Court nominees be considered or approved during the last 18 months of George W. Bush’s presidency. Since the U.S. Senate is part of what is supposed to be a co-equal branch of government, it is wildly hyperbolic at the very least to charge either party’s leaders with “breathtaking Constitutional dereliction,” since that is precisely the Senate’s duty: to advise and consent... at its own pace. – J.B.)

The Never-Ending 101 Freeway Widening Project

On May 25, 1961, president John F. Kennedy proposed before a joint session of congress, to commit the Unites States to put a man on the moon before the end of the decade. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human being to walk on the moon. It only took the U.S. eight years, one month, and 25 days to accomplish that great feat.

The widening of the 101 freeway from two lanes to three has been in construction since June 2008, which is about seven years and nine months, depending upon when you read this.

Of course, that’s not including the planning of the project, which started way back in June 1997. All of that for the low, low, price of a half-billion dollars.

Here we have an overpriced multiyear, state-owned project with the support of many politicians. What could possibly be wrong with this

scenario?

When the public first heard of the project, it was well received. There was an obvious problem with an obvious solution. The freeway goes from three lanes to two, causing a bottleneck effect. So why not just make the freeway three lanes from Santa Barbara to Ventura? When first proposed, the entire project was supposed to take two and a half years to complete. But then along came the politicians, and they couldn’t let a good crisis go to waste.

The huge price tag is just one part of it. Measure A was passed to increase tax revenues from the people to the cost of $140 million, along with state and gas taxes to pay for the rest of the project. A group – Common Sense 101 – believes that the project chosen was more than $60 million overinflated from their original estimates.

The extra cost is associated with the contractor price tag and the unnecessary freeway off-ramps to nowhere.

So why did we choose the most expensive of the proposed plans?

Well, politicians know best, of course.

When first proposed, many of our local politicians were torn on which proposed plan to support. However, it was supervisor Salud Carbajal who made the motion to give this huge project to Caltrans. In return, Carbajal has received campaign contributions

from the unions he has supported in the past. It’s the classic Democrat twostep: fund union projects and receive union political contributions.

Let’s not leave mayor Helene Schneider out of this hit job. If we all remember, she was against her political rival’s plan to widen the freeway. Her political consultant, Jeremy Lindaman, was moonlighting as a consultant for a separate freeway plan. However, Schneider eventually yielded when the expansion of the Union Pacific Bridge was authorized to be a part of the project. This bridge was an added cost of about $15 million. Mayor Schneider had to bring home the bacon and have something to show her constituents.

The entire project may end up being scrapped by Sacramento. Falling gas prices has meant less gas tax revenue funds collected by the state. The project is on the Legislature’s chopping block and may end up being left half-completed. However, our taxes will continue to be collected for years to come.

After all the time, money, and labor what do we have to show for it? The project is not scheduled to be completed until sometime in 2017, if we’re lucky. Traffic continues to bottleneck in the same place it always has here

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This Week in and around Montecito

(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, MARCH 10 Knitting and Crocheting Circle Fiber art crafts drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library. Must have some manual dexterity for crochet and knitting.

When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Discussion Group A group gathers to discuss The New Yorker When: 7:30 to 9:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road

FRIDAY, MARCH 11 German Conversation The German Conversation Group meets on the second Friday of each month at Montecito Library.

When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road

SATURDAY, MARCH 12 Sedgwick Reserve Hike The rugged Santa Ynez Valley is the setting for a series of monthly interpretive hikes and nature activities open to the public on the 6,000-acre UCSB Sedgwick Reserve. Three hikes with varying themes such as geology, landforms, Sedgwick panoramas, plants, and animals or birds will be conducted, with hiking levels of Easy, Moderate, or Strenuous. These hikes are approximately two to three hours each and are followed by the opportunity to picnic with your own lunch at the reserve.

In addition to the hikes, other activities such as a tour of the newly renovated old barn, the new observatory, the pond, and the new Tipton House, as well as a set-up for painters at the pond, and the use of a bocce ball court are all planned for those

who don’t want to hike and would like to just enjoy the reserve attractions while the hikes are being conducted. Reservations required.

In inclement weather, the hikes will be cancelled.

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When: 10 am check-in Where: 1054 S. Alisal Road Cost: $150 per person or $500 per foursome Info: tschwartz@alz.org Money Workshop for Women Participants will learn the “Six Ms” of money: Minding, Making, Managing, Multiplying, Mending, and Mentoring.

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conveyance costs to forward the desalinated water to its customers and to pay for any of its own local storage or banking costs.

The City needed to conclude negotiations with MWD before December 31, 2015, to provide its construction partners, IDE Technologies and Peter Kiewit, with the lead time needed to order the modular membrane components to take the desal plant to a capacity greater than the original 3,125 AF to service Montecito needs. Unfortunately, that did not happen.

The result was that the City elected to move forward with its original plan and open its desalination plant at the end of 2016 at the 3,125 AF capacity, all for its own use. It can be argued that the confidential nature of negotiations expired on December 31. The IDE estimate of $20 million to expand the plant also expired on December 31 and will have to be rebid, probably at a higher price tag.

According to MWD, a response to the City’s offer was forwarded to the Santa Barbara City’s Water Resource Manager in January and negotiations are still active. However, MWD’s belated response makes negotiations inconsequential until after the City desal plant comes on-line at the 3,125 AF capacity level in late 2016. This was a lost opportunity.

MWD’s next chance to participate in the City’s desal program will come in January 2018, if it can complete negotiations and give the city a year’s advance notice to expand its plant capacity by a definitive amount to reduce per-acrefoot costs for both entities.

MWD Ratepayers Have a Right to Know

The City has not revealed specific terms or prices of its 2015 offer to the public, but it does not hesitate to discuss guidelines, or issues that might help build trust and understanding to facilitate agreement. In stark contrast, for MWD “business in the sunshine” does not seem to be a high priority.

Wastewater recycling is an important non-rainfall independent solution that needs to be explored on its own. Unfortunately, that isn’t happening either. While other South Coast water and sanitary districts are working together to recycle wastewater for at least landscaping use, MWD has no plans to partner with MSD or to develop regional solutions for the reuse of wastewater treated to a potable standard. This needs to be addressed.

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16 Art Exhibit at Cabana Home Cabana Home announces a new body of work and show, Del Mar Memories, by Santa Barbara artist Bill Dewey.

Dewey, who is well-known for photography shot from his own plane, presents us with an alternative reality by shooting pictures from his computer monitor of a live camera feed on Del Mar

One-Woman Play This March, the Santa Barbara Public Library System invites the public to enjoy both storytelling and a one-woman play

by Darci Tucker of American Lives: History Brought to Life.

A Classic Folktale and Fairytale program will be presented

by Ms Tucker. Adults and children ages four and older are welcome to attend this free show.

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When: 2:30 to 6 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: donation Info: 969-5031 Vintage Glamour Bridal Event Local wedding professionals will provide inspiration and guidance for your wedding day, featuring a fashion show, catered food, entertainment, drinks, DJ/music, raffles, swag bags, and more.

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MONDAY, MARCH 14 Cold Spring School Board Meeting When: 6 pm Where: 2243 Sycamore Canyon Road Info: 969-2678

TUESDAY, MARCH 15 High School Design Competition The Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara is pleased to announce the return of its award-winning High School

Design Competition in 2016. Up to 50 high school students in Santa Barbara County will compete today at the Santa Ynez Valley Union High School in an eight-hour architectural design charrette. They will design a building based on a predetermined program and site, presented to them by competition organizers. Each student will propose a unique design solution by sketching, drafting, painting, or using other means of their choosing, expressing their ideas on paper. This competition is free to all student participants, and design entries will be judged by a jury of architects at the same venue on March 19. Winners will receive prizes donated by supporters of the Architectural Foundation.

When: 7:45 am to 3:30 pm Info & RSVP: www.afsb.org Support Group Parents of Gifted Children Support Group with speaker Dave Mochel, M.A. (CEO, Applied Attention). Tonight’s topic focuses on mindfulness strategies. Childcare will be offered for $8 per child.

When: 5:30 to 7 pm Where: The Knox School of Santa Barbara, 1525 Santa Barbara Street Info: (805) 222-0107

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16 Montecito Planning Commission Meeting MPC ensures that applicants adhere to certain ordinances and policies and that issues raised by interested parties are addressed.

When: 9 am Where: County Engineering Building,

Beach, near La Jolla.

Gallery Hours: 10 am to 6 pm, Monday through Friday; show runs through March 15 Where: 111 Santa Barbara Street Info: 962-0200 Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu Wednesday Retreat Day In this day retreat, you will be guided through a document called The Five Wishes. It provides your loved ones with your preferences and wishes if they are called upon to make difficult decisions for you. Led by Rev. Laura L. Mancuso, MS, CRC, who works as an end-of-life chaplain and advance-care planning facilitator and instructor, and Steve Jacobsen, co-director at La Casa, and the former executive director of Hospice of Santa Barbara.

When: 9:30 am to 3:30 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: donation; lunch is $14 Info: www.lacasademaria.org

THURSDAY, MARCH 17 Knitting and Crocheting Circle Fiber art crafts drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library. Must have some manual dexterity for crochet and knitting.

When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Cocktail Reception Four Seasons Resort The Biltmore hosts a Master Distiller Cocktail Reception, with local distilleries coming together to serve cocktails, food pairings, and more.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 18 French Conversation Group The Montecito branch of the Santa Barbara Public Library System hosts a French conversation group for those who would like to practice their French language conversation skills and meet others in the community who speak French. Both native speakers and those who learned French as a second or foreign language will participate, and new members are always welcome.

When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

SATURDAY, MARCH 19 Basic Beekeeping Now is a good time to join the urban beekeeping movement. Honeybees need us and we need them. This workshop will help the novice learn basic skills. Learn about honeybee society and biology, equipment, starting a colony, and fall and winter management. Bring your own protective gear if you have it. Paul Croshaw is president of the Santa Barbara Beekeeper’s Association and has 40 years of beekeeping experience. He oversees La Casa’s apiary.

When: 9:30 am to 3:30 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: $75 for workshop and lunch Free Music The Santa Barbara Music Club will present another program in its popular series of concerts of beautiful music. A valued cultural resource in town since 1969, these concerts feature performances by instrumental and vocal soloists and chamber music ensembles, and are free to the public.

When: 3 pm Where: Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 East Anapamu Street Cost: free •MJ

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by Kelly Mahan

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t this month’s Montecito Association (MA) board of directors meeting, Evan Krenzien, vice president of development of Caruso Affiliated, gave a report about the status of the Miramar Hotel & Resort project, which is expected to break ground next month.

Krenzien told the board that beginning next week, Montecito residents will start to see the closure of the portion of Miramar Avenue that runs through the Miramar property; fencing, signage, and k-rail will be installed to notify both drivers and pedestrians. “Neighbors have also been notified,” Krenzien said, adding that beach parking and pedestrian access will be affected.

Grading on the site is expected to begin mid-April, and Krenzien said a construction schedule will be discussed at next month’s MA board meeting. The project is expected to take two years to complete, with an additional two-month training period by the hotel’s operator, Rosewood.

Rosewood Miramar Beach is expected to open in the summer of 2018.

In other Miramar news, the Montecito Water District (MWD) upheld Miramar owner Rick Caruso’s appeal of Ordinance 92, granting Caruso an exception in order to allow him an increase in the size of several of the five water meters on the hotel site, as well as a larger service line.

The appeal was necessary because Ordinance 92, which was passed in response to the drought, does not allow an upsizing of water meters. The increase is necessary to have the most efficient and technologically advanced water system on the property but will not increase the water allocation or usage. Caruso was the first to appeal the ordinance.

Also discussed at the Montecito Association meeting: Montecito Union School (MUS) superintendent Tammy Murphy reported that MUS trustee Les Mayfair resigned from the

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KINDERGARTEN PARENT ORIENTATION/INFORMATION NIGHT – MUS AUDITORIUM WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23rd, 2016 6:00-7:30 PM Join school administrators, teachers and the PTA to learn more about the exciting programs offered at Montecito Union School. Hear about our focus on thinking, developing a love of reading, diverse enrichment activities and more! There will be an opportunity to get any questions answered you have about kindergarten at MUS. Students being registered for Kindergarten must be age 5 by September 1, 2016. Children who will turn five after September 2, 2016 and before December 2, 2016 are eligible for a transitional kindergarten option. *In order to register and attend at Montecito Union School, you must live within our district boundaries.

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Laguna Blanca School “traveled” to that glamorous casino at the Bacara Resort with guests in their elegant evening clothes being greeted by a photo op beside a 1936 Bugatti. Mike and Laura Cleary drove it from Montecito.

They have owned it 52 years.

With martinis in hand, guests were ready to spin the wheel at roulette or try for blackjack at one of several tables. Beautiful crystal chandeliers

graced the room with red velvet ropes to cordon the gambling from the silent action. There was also a black-andwhite checked dance floor for later that night. All this to raise funds for the school from kindergarten through 12th grade. Former board chair Tom Pickett told us, “This event was underwritten for $200,000 from sponsors before the party began.” Speaking of board chairs, when head of school Rob Hereford had to go to yet another board meeting, his second-grade son asked him, “Are board meetings fun?”

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Event chair Cynthia McClintock had this to say: “As a new parent to Laguna Blanca last year, I joined the gala committee and the live auction team in hopes of learning more about my new community. I was introduced to a passionate, committed, and supportive team of parents. It was this devotion of teachers, students, and the school that made me want to take on the event chair role this year and to help make this very important fundraiser a success.”

As we entered the dining room, the large screen was showing a Formula One race to keep us in the Monte

Carlo mood. Auctioneers Tom Pickett and Zan Aufderheide kept up the pace with many live auction items, including a formula one racing experience at Laguna Seca with a private flight to Monterey. It is a one-day racing school program where you will learn and apply all of the fundamentals and skills needed to control a fast formula race car. Would that be a “guy thing?”

The school was lucky enough to have an artist of national renown as a parent. Cassandria Blackmore volunteered to help the kindergarten through 4th grade with an art project that could be raffled off. She also donated one of her own contemporary works to be auctioned. Her paintings bring anywhere from $7.000 to $30,000. This one raised $14,000.

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Her ever-present friend, CBS morning show co-host Gayle King, also began posting photos of the success she was having with the weight-loss program last September. She has now lost 25 pounds.

Oprah has always been candid about her own struggles with her weight.

In 1988, she famously rolled out a wagon full of fat on her Chicagobased show to celebrate her 67 pounds weight loss, but soon began putting on the pounds again.

She was at her biggest just a few years later in 1992, at which point she began working with personal trainer Bob Greene.

Six years after that she landed the cover of Vogue – and was asked to lose some more weight by editor Anne Wintour, In a 2009 issue of her eponymous O Magazine, Oprah wrote: “My goal isn’t to be thin. My goal is for my body to be... strong, healthy, and fit, to be itself. My goal is to learn to embrace my body and be grateful every day for what it has given me.”

Oh, Bo Actress Bo Derek has revealed how she still feels ashamed about the affair she had as a teenager with director John Derek that broke up his marriage with Dynasty star Linda Evans.

The former model, who has lived with actor John Corbett in Santa Ynez for many years, was just 16 when she met Derek – 30 years her senior – after he cast the aspiring actress in a new film he was making called Fantasies.

Despite the fact Derek was married to Evans, he and Bo started a relationship and fell in love while away filming in Greece.

In fact, the twosome would move to Germany to escape prosecution under California’s statutory rape laws due to Bo’s age, with her dropping out of school, and Derek and Evans ending their marriage.

The pair would return to California when Bo turned 18, marrying in 1976 and remaining together until his death from heart failure 22 years later.

Now, she has lifted the lid on the guilt she feels surrounding the breakup of Derek’s marriage in Interview Magazine.

Recounting the affair, the 59-yearold, a frequent visitor to the Santa Barbara Polo Club, says: “I just hate myself when I think about doing that.

That’s the worst thing you can do. It was very complicated and dramatic, obviously.

“Some people could say it was meant to be, though, because I was with him until he died. But that just sounds like an excuse to me. It’s still the wrong thing to do.

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it. I said, ‘No, I don’t forgive myself for that.’”

The star of Tarzan: The Ape Man and 10 even revealed how meeting Evans now makes her feel “like s*** 30 years on.”

The affair would make the teenager feel conflicted about Evans, and she went on to talk about how she “worshipped and adored” the older actress.

“She’s been very gracious and kind,” Bo added. “I just saw her yesterday, funnily enough. We were at a jewelry trunk show for charity.

“And she was just as fabulous and wonderful as ever. I always feel like a s*** when I’m around her. It’s just ingrained, years later. That will never change.”

Bo said her parents were “pretty upset” with the pair’s relationship, while in hindsight seeing pictures of herself at the time helped her understand why people “got so upset about it.”

The Long and Short of It Former Montecito funnyman John Cleese, who briefly played the gadget genius Q to James Bond’s superspy in two 007 films, says the current incumbent Daniel Craig is “too short” to play the MI6 agent.

The 76-year-old Monty Python star dismissed Craig’s widely-praised performance when he appeared on British TV. John, who featured in The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day, claimed that his Irish co-star Pierce Brosnan was a much better fit for the Bond role.

And the privately educated comedian remarked, somewhat snobbishly, that 47-year-old Craig, who has publicly questioned whether he wants to remain in the role despite earning millions, that he didn’t go to Eton College, alma mater of author Ian Fleming and princes William and Harry, and even sneered at his Welsh heritage.

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with Brosnan, 62, he said: “I thought he was a wonderful Bond. I thought he was the best 007 since Sean Connery.”

“Because this little Welsh bandy-legged guy that they’ve got at the moment... He’s simply not tall enough, I’m sorry.

“And he certainly didn’t go to Eton.”

Craig is estimated to be between 5’8” and 5’10,” making him the shortest actor to play Bond in the successful film franchise. Connery, 85, towers over Craig at 6’2.”

Fleming, Moore and More Legendary soprano Renée Fleming captivated the audience at UCSB’s sold-out Campbell Hall when she sang an eclectic repertoire with her veteran accompanist Gerald Martin Moore on piano.

When Fleming last performed here at the 1,500-plus seat Granada, I suggested a more intimate venue might be more appropriate for her act, Campbell Hall, which is less than half the size, fit the bill perfectly, allowing her sumptuous voice and consummate artistry full reign.

The sexy siren, who was the first classical artist ever to sing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl in 2014 and was presented with the National Medal of Arts – America’s highest honor for an individual artist – by president Barack Obama at the White House in 2013, was in fine form, singing a delightful variety of songs from classical – Schumann, Rachmaninoff and Richard Strauss – to contemporary, including works from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I. Four years ago, in an historic first, Fleming – who changed gowns twice during her show – sang on the balcony of Buckingham Palace in the Diamond Jubilee Concert for Queen Elizabeth.

Clearly, a woman of many facets.

Whole Lot of Love Opera Santa Barbara had another winner with its production of Gaetano Donizetti’s sparkling comic opera L’elisir d’amore, The Elixir of Love, at the Granada.

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in Santa Barbara. The taxpayers will be paying for this project for years to come. The audacious Democrat politicians who gave us this boondoggle are running for Congress to replace Lois Capps.

Let’s start holding our politicians responsible. Most of the politicians who were involved with this project are currently running for different seats in our area. Why not send them an email about your concerns? Or perhaps stop by their next campaign event and ask them about this project.

Or you could do nothing and continue to enjoy your daily rush hour and your higher taxes.

Bobby Mercado President Santa Barbara Young Republicans (Editor’s note: We understand your frustration, but a little clarification is in order: the project isn’t even scheduled to begin until 2018; a proposed completion date has been set at... 2028! At this rate, we’ll all be dead before any of us actually travels on the third lane. Perhaps if Donald Trump were in charge, things could turn out differently? – J.B.)

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Phillip Pennestri (Tiger troop leader) and son Dawson Pennestri (Bear ranking) created an edible rocket ship for the competition

self-professed fundamental Christian nonprofit here on the radio that profit Preston Fehr (Bear) exhibits his Cub Scout Airlines from gambling houses. It ain’t no cake thang.

Matt McLaughlin took home prizes.

Santa Barbara Here are pictures from the evening and of some noteworthy cakes.

Tricia Pennestri Montecito Cub Scout Pack 108 was honored recently at the annual Blue and Gold dinner held at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church on East Valley Road.

My thoughts went out this morning All ranks, from Tiger through Wolf to to Danish speechwriter and “intelBear, received medals of honor and lectual alter-ego” of president John badges for completing assorted scout- F. Kennedy, Theodore Sorensen, ing requirements, including commu- who did so much to shape President nity service. One of the highlights Kennedy’s narrative, image, and legof the evening is a father-son baking acy through his genius gift of finding competition. Cub Scouts bake with the precise phrases that could penea father figure (or grandfather) and trate the American psyche. He was so compete for the best-looking cake. The good at it that we continue to quote theme this year was “taking flight.” them even after all these decades.

Fourteen boys entered but only a few They will live on forever.

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Nobody else, perhaps only Shakespeare, comes to mind (when Hamlet compares his odious, treacherous uncle with his kingly murdered father to Gertrude) could have been more devastatingly illuminating in presenting an accurate laser portrait of Donald J. Trump, who has captured the fury of the American public at their basest common denominator.

People truly get what they deserve.

Ergo, watch out!

It was the most brilliant, breathtaking speech I have ever heard (or read) in my lifetime. The tone was pitch-perfect and articulate, even optimistic beyond one’s imagination of what the future generations could have in store, provided they act wisely. After “The Donald” exposé, Mitt [Romney] went on to shed this same laser light on Hillary. They are made for each other! I would love to know who his speechwriter was.

Mr. Sorensen lived to be a ripe old age of 82 and died on October 11, 2001, so it wasn’t him. I will preserve this speech on TiVo and hope everybody worldwide will have the opportunity to listen to what Mr. Romney had to say and digest it. Hope springs eternal!

Leslie Nelson Santa Barbara

More Votes for Donald

Romney just got Trump another million-plus votes and hurt Rubio and Cruz in the process! The party leaders just keep adding votes to Trump.

The Republican leadership still does not understand what is happening, and they have not got the one thing that Trump has in spades: street smarts!

They are not stupid people, they just do not grasp what is driving Trump’s successes.

Ernie Salomon Santa Barbara

Trump Changes Priorities

I crawled out of my neo-conservative incubator, which allowed me to breath a rarified atmosphere of pure ideology, and embraced a “nationstate conservatism” that was far less Ivory Tower but addressed real issues that impacted real people in real time and space. The occasion, of course, was for the candidacies of Patrick J. Buchanan and H. Ross Perot in 1992. Buchanan was an articulate and formidable advocate for a worldview that brought much of the Bush ‘41 neo-conservatism into question. But his (Buchanan’s) movement was in its infancy and didn’t have the political and academic-intellec-

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Here’s a Sample of Arts Fund Exhibit

Becoming part of Chris Baker’s interior landscape painting behind them are Carpinteria artists (from left): Sean Anderson, Stuart Carey, Patricia Houghton Clarke, Baker, Julie B. Montgomery, Garrett Speirs, Arturo Tello, and Pamela Enticknap (on floor)

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outh County Sampler, the newest exhibit at the Arts Fund Santa Barbara, is a group show with eight artists from Carpinteria.

Canvassed for the exhibit by curator Nancy Gifford are artists Sean Anderson, Chris Baker, Stuart Carey, Patricia Houghton Clarke, Pamela Enticknap, Julie B. Montgomery, Garrett Speirs, and Arturo Tello.

The art as a whole is eclectically imaginative, an array of styles, genres, and mediums floating on a white matrix. From muted colors to abstract personification, each artist’s deeper soul is most evident in the works, a particularly recherché selection of art by Gifford, to her ongoing credit as one of our town’s most unique curators.

My review of each artist will show “There is no art without intention” [Duke Ellington]. In every group show there is usually one stand-alone artist; however, in this show each artist stands in his or her own space.

Stuart Carey’s work titled “It’s Just A Gender Difference”, a broad stroke multi-muted colored ensemble of acrylic, oil bar, and pastel on canvas, at 132” x 63” vertical size, comparatively shows influences of Picasso splashed with Henri Matisse. The work is of a woman surrounded by white, thinly painted energy lines, quite fashionable in a colorful dress, pompadour hat, pearls, one red stiletto boot, and one blue stiletto boot with her painted red toenails. The confident force of her spiraled blue eyes and oversized mouth counterbalance, the large red pistol in 10 – 17 March 2016

her hand, which oddly, also carries the same thin white energy lines. Talking later with Carey, he shares the mystery of the work: “it is a satirical comment on the global institutionalization of violence against women, inspired by my need to challenge social conventions, bigotry, homophobia, sexism, and religious fanaticism in all its many forms. My paintings are infused with the elements of jazz: rhythm, texture, and improvisation within a framework. It reflects my perception of the world as dynamic energy and color that are in constant motion.”

Sean Anderson’s “Auric Jungle #2”, a polished and clear-coated cast bronze, is a triangle shape 36” x 36” piece. Next to the bronze are four pieces from his oil and fluorescent auto enamel on canvas series: “Violet Basics”, “Blue Hut”, “Pink Hut”, and “Hut #23”. Anderson used the ancient technique of bronze casting for “Auric Jungle”; thus the piece weighs more than 100 pounds. Interviewed at the exhibit opening, he describes the work as a cast of a painting, similar to a relief.

The process starts with a thick oil painting of his subject. He paints over it with rubber paint, a hard wax which makes a perfect imprint of the painting.

Over that are approximately 60 coats of slurry to make the mold, which is put into a high temperature-dewaxing oven. The wax melts out, and bronze molten metal is poured into the mold to become the bronze painting; so positive-negative-positive, aka painting-

mold-bronze painting. The subjects of both his bronze works and the fluorescent enamels on canvas come from his experience as an artist in residence and working in a heath-aid project in the Amazon Jungle of Rurrenabaque, Bolivia, for more than two years. Sean said, “I am interested in investigating the amalgamation of western world cultures and industry with isolated environments, the idea of a back-to-basics style of living and the significance of the natural world in these works.”

Counterpoint to Anderson is Julie B Montgomery’s acrylic on canvas painting, “Striation”, a 72” X 72” panel. She streams layers of paint over paint to create an ethereal eerie escape that has hidden words painted under the layers. The piece caused me to recall the works of Rothko, a colored landscape to get lost in. Julie said, “The process is very fast reductive/deductive, covering the surface with paint and pulling it off the canvas to reveal areas of light.

My inspiration to create ‘Striation’ rests in an exploration of geological layers called striation, as seen in the mountain surfaces in Carpinteria and on the Screaming Eagles freeway heading south. The visible passage of evolution and time as effected by wind, temperature, air, ocean, and earthquake.

I placed obscured personal poetry on the painting, an inner dialogue about evolution and my emotional layers.

There remains a sense of being incredibly minute and incredibly expansive at the same time when contemplating such magnificence in nature.”

Chris Baker’s three-panel oil on canvas epic “Large Interior” measures 80” x 207”, taking the larger part of the gallery seamlessly. The whimsical interior is of a living room to dining room Americana exposé. Quick gaze reminds one of David Hockney’s works, though the artist shares he was initially inspired by a painting by Wade Guyton. Leaving the interpretation to the viewer, Baker explains, “All art is storytelling, and it is my feeling that if the work is made with openness, the story will reveal itself uniquely to you.”

Garrett Speirs’s works are made from a process of creating a stone lithograph and transferring the images onto tarpaper. He has three pieces in the show: “Frayed Connection 1” and “Frayed Connection 2”, that depict a fiber-optics cable pulsing with an electrical charge. His piece “A Brother’s Heart” is a lithograph on stark hospital surgical green tissue paper. It was created to express his grief after his younger brother had a fatal heart attack two years ago. Speirs said, “I will never be able to express the true loss to our lives through my

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tual infrastructure to make much headway with the people who mold and form public opinion. It pretty much died on the vine during the primary season... ...And subsequently, I crawled back into my oxygenated incubator and once again took in the heady whiffs of neo-conservatism in its purest form.

Twenty-three years later, along comes Donald J. Trump, and the force of his pure willpower smashed the incubator to smithereens. No longer is there a “safety net” to return to. I have to sink or swim in the real world of domestic and international politics, where enemies of the American Way are having a field day while the “purists” are locked away in a “safe room,” free of the psychological damage America’s enemies can inflict and impose on the supposed defenders and protectors of America’s traditional interests.

Donald J. Trump is not just another candidate out there. He is more “transformational” on the Right than Barack Obama was on the Left in 2008.

His candidacy is a movement that can alter the intellectual-political landscape, which guides and directs the destiny of the Great American Experiment.

Donald Trump is single-handedly deconstructing and disassembling the conservative intelligentsia and will in due time replace it with an academic force more amenable to the needs of America as a nation-state, instead of a small cabal of doctoral elites supplying intellectual justification for pushing aside institutions that have real meaning and provide real support for real people within a global realm of nation-states.

Global internationalism is in its death throes.

The future of this movement is dependent on Trump’s success at the Republican convention and then again in November. To move a great nation forward requires a largerthan-life figure who can will things into place.

Donald Trump has changed my priorities by forcing me to question the very foundational presumptions and prejudgments of the political-economic theories which underwrote the principles and policies I

now creating a wall of wood. Using eucalyptus pieces with a center core of cement and gravel, and then sealing the wood face.

Dan Seibert Santa Barbara

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Maybe there really is a good use for Montecito’s unruly eucalyptus trees, namely by cutting them into logs for use as border walls and fences, as illustrated by Jared Vazeles at 2910 Sycamore Canyon Road

took as givens each day I awakened.

So far, it looks like I’m not the only person looking in the mirror and slowly changing.

David S. McCalmont Santa Barbara

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The Governing Board will be filling the vacancy by making a provisional appointment until the next election in November 2016. Any person is eligible to be a Governing Board member providing he/she is 18 years of age or older, a resident of the school district, and a registered voter.

Interested community members are invited to complete a Board Candidate Information Sheet and submit a cover letter to the Superintendent, Tammy Murphy (385 San Ysidro Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108), indicating their interest and willingness to serve in this significant public capacity. The Board Candidate Information Sheet and cover letter must be accompanied by a personal resume. The application can be found on the Montecito Union School District website at www.montecitou.org or applications are available at the Montecito Union School District Office at 385 San Ysidro Road between 8:00am-4:00pm.

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things lighthearted.

As I drove by recently, I saw something I’ve never seen before: it looked like a wall made out of the ends of logs. I turned around and pulled into the driveway, eager to find out who the builder is. The gardener onsite directed me to a young guy, in his early 30s, digging a hole.

Welcome, Jared Vazales; he moved here last year from Michigan and is

We are experiencing a large volume of phone calls from citizens who are reporting a familiar phone scam, which is especially prevalent during tax season. In this particular scam, the caller claims to be from the Internal Revenue Service or United States Department of the Treasury, and informs the caller that they owe an outstanding tax bill.

The scammer then tries to con the targeted victim into sending cash through a pre-paid debit card or wire transfer.

They may also leave urgent callback requests through “robo-calls” or via “phishing” e-mail.

The scammers can use caller ID spoofing to make it look as if the call is coming from the IRS or another agency. They may also use IRS titles, or fake badge numbers and use the victim’s name, address, and other personal information to make the call sound official.

It is important to note that the IRS does not: call to let you know you owe taxes without first sending you a bill in the mail; require you to pay your taxes with a pre-paid debit card; ask for your credit or debit card numbers over the phone; or threaten to bring in local law enforcement to arrest you for not paying.

If you receive a call of this nature, do not give out any information and hang up immediately. Contact the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration at (800) 366-4484 or use the IRS Impersonation Scam Reporting web page.

The Sheriff’s Office does not want to see any of our citizens fall victim to a scam, and cautions you to never give personal or financial information out over the phone without ensuring that the call is legitimate.

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board, and a replacement is needed.

Applications are due Monday, April 4; a subcommittee will review the applications and candidates will be interviewed on April 11. The chosen applicant will hold office until November, when the seat will be one of three up for re-election. See page 23 of this week’s edition for specific application information.

Also in November, it’s likely the MUS board will be placing a bond measure on the ballot, two years after the failure of Measure Q, the $27,150,000 school bond measure that was on the ballot in November 2014.

“We want a bond that will pass,” Murphy said, adding, “Critical work needs to be done.” The school board’s Facilities Committee is currently working on outside survey information in order to be successful with the bond measure. The newest plans for the school include mostly maintenance items, including much-needed health and safety improvements on the main building and the kindergarten building. The food service and auditorium building, which was once planned on the campus, has been eliminated. “We are in a much better place of understanding the neighbors’ concerns,” Murphy said. We’ll have more on future plans at the school, as well as the potential bond measure, in a future edition.

Murphy and MA board member Dan Eidelson, who sits on the school board’s Traffic and Safety Task Force, discussed ongoing discussion of traffic issues on San Ysidro Road. Murphy has hired the California Highway Patrol to patrol the roads around the school twice a week for four hours at a time; the extra patrol is costing the district $2,800 per month. In February, CHP officers performed six 4-hour patrols, and issued 36 speeding tickets, four cell phone violation tickets, one turn violation, and one passing violation. “I think this is really telling, and shows us that the concerns we’re hearing from our crossing guards are real,” Murphy said.

Eidelson explained that the Santa Barbara County Public Works Department has been out to the streets surrounding the school and is looking into additional signage and possible lights for the crosswalks at Santa Rosa Road, though preliminary data shows that it is not warranted. “I believe we shouldn’t have to wait until there is a tragedy before the crosswalks get safer,” Murphy said. In addition to the extra patrols, potential signal phasing changes at the Santa Rosa and San Ysidro intersection are being discussed. Crossing guards have also received extra training, and the Montecito YMCA has eliminated group fitness classes that begin at 8:30

am, adding to the frenzy on the roads at that time. “They’re working with us, and we are grateful,” Murphy said.

Montecito Fire Protection District (MFPD) Division chief of operations Kevin Taylor reported that sandbags are still available at Fire Station 1, for residents needing them for upcoming rainstorms. Taylor also introduced battalion chief Alan Widling, who began with the District last year. Widling came to MFPD from the City of Santa Maria’s fire department, where he served for 25 years.

Taylor also reported that the District’s Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP), a framework that enhances wildfire protection by reducing fire hazards while balancing ecological management and fiscal resources, was approved by the Fire District Board.

In other MA news, the Association Board will be hosting a First District Supervisor candidates forum in May; more details to be announced as it approaches.

The next Montecito Association Board meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, April 12, at 4 pm.

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Steven Libowitz has reported on the arts and entertainment for more than 30 years; he has contributed to the Montecito Journal for more than ten years.

by Steven Libowitz

After a Decade, Symphony Still Nir to Kabaretti’s Heart

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Nir Kabaretti conducts his business with Santa Barbara Symphony (photo by David Bazemore)

ith baseball’s spring training in full swing, Red Sox players were all around Nir Kabaretti during this time last week in the Fort Meyers area, where he performed with the Southwest Florida Symphony Orchestra, which he joined just last year. That would make the job nine years short of Kabaretti’s tenure with the Santa Barbara Symphony, where he has re-fashioned the orchestra into a finetuned ensemble.

So not surprisingly, sports analogies popped up frequently during our conversation about this weekend’s concerts at the Granada celebrating the music director’s 10th anniversary in town. Kabaretti is like the catcher on a baseball team or a football quarterback – the player who directs and makes a lot of decisions but serves as part of a full team effort. And just like with those athletic organizations, experience is everything.

“It simply takes time for the chemistry to come together,” he said. “The key to success is to keep working together. Like a basketball team making a blind pass because they know the other guy will be there. It’s not just having good musicians, it’s time together to get the best result.”

Q. What are your favorite highlights looking back?

A. Time flew so quickly, and there are a lot of beautiful memories. That first year, we had (violinist) Augustin Hadelich, who 10 years ago nobody knew who he was. We engaged him right after he won the Indianapolis competition. Now, he’s one of the leading soloists in America. And of

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course, Lang Lang. CAMA just presented both of them this season, so those are things we are very proud of, to bring in well-established soloists like Hélène Grimaud and Lynn Harrell, as well as those at the beginning of their career. And I’m also very happy that over the last years that we’ve shared the stage with soloists from within our orchestra. Even though we can hire almost anyone we want, we have fantastic musicians who are already here. Some of our soloists are real stars. Many of the musicians who now make up the orchestra joined during my years. The composition is much different and well integrated. The newer ones have created a nice chemistry with the longtime veterans. And of course, we have the new venue of the Granada, which had made a huge difference. Having grown up with my first job in an opera house where all (the arts) are together, it’s part of my DNA to have the ballet and opera involved. So I’ve been very happy to have those collaborations happening here now, too.

What is the state of the symphony today as opposed to a decade ago?

Our geographic (location) near L.A. is a big advantage, because we can pull from that pool of great musicians who work in the demanding film industry and others. I think we’ve made ourselves more attractive over the last decade. We increased the fees. The community embraces the musicians who don’t live here, and many of them stay with board members in guest houses, so it becomes a fun weekend, not just a concert. And

having a great hall in the Granada also helps a lot.

We now have phenomenal players who perform on films and TV soundtracks, play chamber music, teach. We allow our musicians to miss concerts for these other endeavors. So, our core musicians are very strong, and then when we do a Mahler symphony and need 10 horns and trumpets, we have those extra musicians we can bring in from L.A. That’s not true in most cities. That makes us a fine ensemble.

It’s a work in progress. But I can honestly say we are much better off today. But it’s very much a team effort. I can’t take credit, I’m just part of the team.

You’re revisiting the Brahms Symphony No. 2 from your audition and Wagner’s Die Meistersinger Overture that you conducted in your first official concert. How do those pieces resonate for you now? And how do they fit with the Hummel Trumpet Concerto that’s also on the program?

These were my first pieces with the orchestra. So many things have happened, it will be nice to look back. To play them again with all those improvements that we’ve talked about is exciting, and a nice way to commemorate this event.

The trumpet concerto is new for me and the orchestra. It’s great to add a new piece to our repertoire. And now to have as our soloist our own principal player Jon Lewis, who was featured in (the) John Williams (score) for the latest Star Wars film, is incredible. He’s definitely the most-heard trumpet player in the world now, and it’s great that it’s our trumpet player who is the leader of that brass section (in the movie).

How do you think you will approach those earlier works with the symphony 10 years later?

Now that we’ve worked together for so many years, we can get deeper, and richer in the dynamics, softer and louder. There’s a higher level of preparation when we start rehearsals, so we can go longer, higher, and deeper. They know the sound that I like, which is more of a rounder sound. So there are things I don’t need to explain, and we can get to that next level and make it even better. There’s always room to improve.

There’s always more detail. It’s like when you see a film for the second time – since you already know the

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story, you then pick up the detail. Or a book, where you find new details and new meanings. It will make a huge difference for us, even if the audience may not pick up the details.

But the entire thing will probably sound much more exciting.

Where do you see the symphony going soon, and in five or 10 years?

We’ve got the next program done, (including) a co-commission with the Philadelphia Orchestra – who are one of the five leading orchestras in the U.S. – and Detroit Symphony of a clarinet concerto by, Jonathan Leshnoff.

I’m very proud to do that, to put us on the national scene. We’ll start soon on the 2017-18 season after that, but after that I’m not sure (because) I’m not under contract at that point.

Both sides need to agree. I know I would be happy if the organization could come up and do more for the the community. We still only reach a very small percentage – maybe two percent of the people (in the area) are our followers. I’d like to reach out to the other 98 percent and do something that would make them feel like we are their orchestra. Now, finally, we are in the position, financially, to do something more substantial beyond the education program we already have that provides kids with instruments and offers them several orchestras to play in. But that’s kids.

We can extend our outreach to adults.

How about people who didn’t grow up in music? Maybe we give them a free concert in the park, and they realize they love music and want to keep hearing it.

I’d also like us to collaborate more with the other artistic organizations in town. My early career was in Europe where the orchestra and opera work together; maybe we can do something like that and be more of a central link to the artistic community. But these things will probably go beyond my tenure. The seeds are already there with the collaborations we have started. It’s about getting everyone on board and taking the risks.

Now that you mention it, how long do you think you will stay on in Santa Barbara?

It’s difficult to know. But I can definitely say I’m not going to retire with this orchestra. It’s not a lifetime position. We’ve accomplished a lot, and there’s more I want to do. But the time will come when there’s not much room for us to grow together, when they want different leadership, or when I want to concentrate on a different part of the world, and it will be time to go. There comes a point where it makes sense to refresh every-

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work, but it was my attempt to show the weight of the loss. His heart sits on a cold impermeable piece of marble, the flesh sags under the weight of such consequential horror... lifeless.”

Continuing the haunting theme of people past is the photography series titled “Diaspora: Puglia 1 – 6”

by Patricia Houghton Clarke. Here we find Clarke’s unretouched images of an abandoned house, yet looking closer, one can find ghosts in its doorways, windows, and mirrors, and their stories left behind in such clues as the placement of everyday articles of clothing or a note on the door. A highly interpretive work, Clarke explains: “My inspiration for the series is connected with the mass migration happening on a world-wide level, and particularly in Europe. The area where these photographs were taken has historically been an area of forced economic migration. People are evacuating to an area that has always been considered impoverished, and yet for the people seeking refuge, it is an area of hope and possibility.” A nod also goes to the perfection of the prints, which Clarke did herself.

Using oils on paper, artist Pamela Hill Enticknap’s newest works are a figurative experience, especially given the tertiary colors she utilizes so well to express the line drawings.

Her works, “Hanging by a Thread”,

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“Veiled”, and “A Cappella 6,” capture and release tension in the emotions perfectly drawn for them. Pamela said, “I interpret cultural influences in ‘Veiled’, and American colloquial

speech in ‘Hanging by a Thread’, and the simple beauty of the figurative line in the ‘A Cappella’ series.”

Arturo Tello’s blithely empirical piece in oils, “The Tao of the Cow”, rests comfortably on its 36” x 48” canvas. Although appearing innocent enough on its own, he actually created it out of his love of nature, cows, and farming. He explains, “The painting is unusual in that most of the space is dedicated to the grassy hill, and the cow is very small, going about its business. My grandfather and my uncles in Mexico had ranches where I loved to visit. The smells and sight of well-cared-for cows in a green pasture are pleasurable to me, filled with a warm nostalgia, a sense of well-being and prosperity. ‘The Tao of the Cow’ is also the name of one of my songs, which goes like this: ‘The past and the future collapse into a pasture, a pasture where a cow lives in the now. As it ruminates, the cow meditates. Energy node, thinking of god. Divine bovine, not turning water into wine, but making milk from sunshine. The Tao of the cow: Live in the Now’.”

Well said, Arturo, and congratulations to our town’s neighbors and their artists.

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Every single one of them. Then the announcer would say: “But that’s not all! If you act right now, you will also receive all the songs of the ‘40s for free!

And the ‘50s free! And the ‘60s free!”

I was thinking of this as we were driving north to Avila Beach. I found a listing on Travel Zoo for a night at the Avila La Fonda Hotel that included a king-sized bed and a two-person Jacuzzi tub in the room. Plus, free breakfast, noontime treats, and happy hour. Unfortunately, we arrived a bit early for the 3 pm check-in.

“We have free coffee and cookies here in our hospitality room all day, if you want to wait.”

“Thanks,” my wife said, “but we just had a large lunch in Los Olivos, so we don’t need any cookies. Right, dear?”

I quickly swallowed the large chocolate chip cookie and slipped the other two into my pocket. “Right.”

“Do you like wine?” the receptionist asked.

“We’ve been known to indulge a bit.”

“Okay, well here are two free wine tastings at Alapay Winery, right across the street. I will call when you room is ready.”

We like free wine. We had stopped at Firestone Winery on the way up to pick up our club membership shipment. “Care to taste some of our other wines?” the pourer asked. “It’s free for wine club members.”

“Seems only fair to you that we try your other wines,” I said.

Here we were at Alapay. The pourer started us with a nice chardonnay.

“Would you like some free pretzels?”

“Why not?”

Just as we were finishing the last wine, a tasty port, my phone rang informing us our room was ready.

“Look, there’s a free bottle of champagne.”

“And a free box of chocolates.”

“I’ll bet this is where they get you,” I said, pointing at a large basket of chips, fruit bars, sodas, waters, and other treats. Probably 10 bucks for each item.”

“Says here, everything in the basket is free. Too bad we are still stuffed from lunch.”

“Right,” I said, swallowing an entire bag of M&Ms.

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We took a short drive to Port San Luis and walked out on the pier, where we saw a mother and baby sea otter frolicking about. The mother was teaching the little one how to dive for food.

“I read that sea otters consume 25 percent of their weight in food each day.”

“Wow, me too!” All the talk about eating was making me a bit peckish, so we headed back to La Fonda.

“Just in time for the Manager’s Reception featuring local wines and appetizers from 5 to 6:30 pm,” they told us.

“Free?”

I swallowed the chocolate chip cookie and slipped the other two into my pocket “Of course.”

After many tastings, we headed back to the room. “Those little sausages were good, huh?”

“I liked the seaweed salad.”

“You might have been an otter in a previous life.”

We had a soak in our “two-person” spa, which must have been designed for two much smaller persons. Then, because we hadn’t had any wine for almost an hour, I opened a bottle from our Firestone visit, while my wife went to the DVD library for a free movie.

“I just found out there is free pie in the hospitality room,” she said. “Three different kinds.” After pie, we finished the wine and made it about halfway through the movie before zonking out.

The next morning after our free croissants and coffee, we went for a hike along the bluffs with incredible views of the coast, then came back to check out.

“What would you like for your departure gift? Chocolate truffles or a souvenir tile?” Although the chocolates sounded good, I figured maybe I could pass the free tile off as a gift I purchased.

“You know,” she said, just as I was walking out the front door, “we start serving free nachos and Coronas in just a few minutes, if you want to hang around.”

I signaled my wife, who was putting our bags into the car. “Do you have •MJ weekly rates?” I asked.

ENTERTAINMENT (Continued from page 26) thing and re-start. So far, we aren’t there yet. The partnership is still very strong, and I’m happy still to serve.

So I can’t name a date. I don’t think it will be another 10 years. But I can tell you it will definitely be very smooth, a nice and agreeable transition.

Math Can be Easy as Pi

Here’s a “Pi in the sky” idea: if you make math fun, kids will take to it like ice cream on pie. Meaning, any way you slice it, math can be exciting.

That’s the idea behind Santa Barbara Pi (π) Day Celebration 2016, an interactive event set to take place at the Faulkner Gallery in the downtown Public Library 4:30-7 pm Monday afternoon, when the date will read 3.14.16, which is how Pi – the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter – rounds up when calculated to five digits. Games, magic with numbers, songs and movement, and, of course, plenty of pie in all sorts of flavors will pack the gallery and spill over into the foyer and even the children’s library.

“That’s the whole point, to make math fun,” said Tom Biesanz, a math educator and author of Right Brain Math who is spearheading the celebration with Ruth Wishengrad, a former elementary school teacher with eight years as a developer of math curriculum who now uses music and movement to help children alleviate anxiety and stress in a program called “Songs to Change Your Tune”. Counting 40 years of experience between them, the pair boast proven methods and strategies to support children in improving math attitude, confidence, and increased math performance. “The focus is on playing. We want the kids to have a good time, and they’ll probably learn something too and maybe change their attitude about math,” said Biesanz.

Among the many activities taking place at the event are macaroni “Pi” necklaces, Golden Ratio games, an interactive presentation on the card game SETS, a live demonstration and presentation on Buffon’s needle experiment, robotics, a Dance Math routine, addition and multiplication on Number Wheels, songs about confidence doing math, calendar math, jump rope math, Pi and math clocks, Tic-Tac-Toe numbers, and a 3-D printer creating some of the door prizes.

There’s even an Einstein Look-Alike contest making note that March 14 was the birthday of the author of the most famous mathematical equation (E=mc2).

“People see math as very mental, and it can be like a foreign language to kids, which can be very hard to enjoy if you don’t understand it, explained Biesanz, who is also known as MisterNumbers on his YouTube channel that has scored millions of

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views. “And about 50 percent of children decide by second grade that they’re not okay with math, and it closes down all sorts of opportunities because math is very important – it shows up in nature, in music, all over the place. So we’re making it very visual, auditory, and multi-sensory. PI Day is geared toward kids of all ages.

Anyone will enjoy it, because it’s a very different approach.”

The organizers are expecting 300500 kids and their guardians to show up Monday afternoon, and all will likely go home with a little sweeter attitude toward math, partially courtesy of Walmart, which donated 400 individually wrapped pies for the event.

As for Biesanz, he’s looking forward to that light-bulb moment when a kid previously stymied by math suddenly understands a concept as a by-product of a game. “That’s when I know this has been valuable,” he said.

Margolin Keeps it Rollin’ Through the Years

Blues singer-guitarist “Steady Rollin’” Bob Margolin was barely out of his teens when he joined Muddy Waters’s band, serving from 197380, just three years before the blues legend passed away. Last year, at 65, Margolin released what could be a career-capping CD, a searing document of love, loss, family, and life as a musician that rises far above the genre’s standard 12-bar fare.

There’s a personal, deliberate change in his approach to the music born of a perspective on the far side of decades on the road, often spare, and with the vocals out front. But Margolin still knows how to swing the beats, too, which will be evident when he returns to town to play a gig for the Santa Barbara Blues Society at the Carrillo Recreation Center on Saturday, March 12, at 7 pm.

Margolin talked about Waters, the river of life, and more in a free-flowing conversation over the phone from his North Carolina home: Q. What do you think were the most important lessons you learned from working with Muddy Waters, both musically and otherwise?

A. There was a language to Chicago blues and the way he ran a band on stage that was very important. It involved people not just picking parts and executing a plan but also listening to each other and inspiring each other and playing in the moment – creative collaboration. Socially, Muddy was very self-aware. He understood exactly who he was and what he had accomplished with his life. But he didn’t want to brag or be obnoxious 10 – 17 March 2016

with it. He would never talk bad about somebody else. He was one of a handful of singers who were very distinctive, but he’d always say “’taint nobody be the greatest, all I can do is be one of the good ones.”

I do have to ask about The Last Waltz, which was an amazing moment in time.

What are your memories from the show and the movie?’

Being there was like walking through a living Rolling Stone magazine. It was rock stars all around.

What was ironic is that Muddy and Pinetop Perkins (piano), who were born in 1915 and 1913, they didn’t know who the rock stars were. They’d come up and thank Muddy for his blues music and how much he influenced them, but Muddy didn’t know who they were. I guess that’s how it goes. I’m 66 and I couldn’t pick Justin Bieber out of a lineup.

Do you think you accomplished your goals after you left his band in 1980? Has the journey been what you expected?

I had an idea of exactly what I wanted to do. It didn’t turn out that way for all that long. I really enjoyed playing blues and other kinds of music in a nightclub for soulful people who wanted to dance or just listen. I didn’t care about recording very much. I really hoped that I could just run around regionally and play in bars and make enough of a living that I didn’t have to do much unpleasant business. But after the ‘80s, it didn’t work very well. So I began to record relatively late in life, almost 40, before I made an album as a bandleader. I had a lot of fun just running up and down the highways, and making noise like a bad little boy, but maybe if I’d started earlier I’d be a lot farther along. Maybe I would have been a rock star.

Your new album, My Road, seems to mark a new direction that takes stock of your career and more. It’s like you approached it as a singer-songwriter,

Bob Margolin performs at 1996 Riverwalk Blues Festival in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (photo by Carl Lender)

much more autobiographical, which is unusual for blues.

I wanted to do something that was unique to me and relatively original compared to songs like “My baby left me and I feel so bad”. So, I wrote stories from my own life. Some are about what it feels like up on the bandstand, living this life. There’s a straight love song, one that mourns losing people who I love. “Understanding Heart” is from having a childhood epiphany where I realized a value that stayed with me my whole life – the value of giving people some slack and understanding their human frailties. There are a couple of songs I co-wrote with people I’m close to, and four I covered that are by friends of mine that I wanted to do my own version of. I very deliberately wanted to set it apart from my previous albums, and from what other people are doing with straight blues. I tried to write modern songs that sound traditional, aiming a little bit higher. It’s up to the world to decide if I accomplished that.

“My Whole Life” has that grizzled perspective that comes from years of experience, using the stage as the sounding board for life observations.

I have had some gratifying and very humbling moments on the band stand.

The songs tell the opposites. There were early concerts (with Muddy) where I’d look out and see thousands of people having a great time and applauding. From behind my shades, I realized my whole life led up to that.

And there have been the sports bars where everybody is watching TV and paying almost no attention to me. My whole life led up to that, too.

The record has a spare and crisp sound that sounds very organic. How did that come about?

I didn’t want to make the same musical choices I’d done before. I wanted to see if somebody had better ideas than I do, so I brought in a producer who could help guide the session and bring some of himself.

Michael Friedman, who produced albums for Pinetop Perkins and Willie Big Eye Smith and won a Grammy in 2011, engineered the album with Bill Morganfield (Muddy’s son).

Fortunately, we agreed on most things, and when I didn’t I went along with his ideas out of trust and respect.

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I’ve met a lot of young people who have old souls. And they love the music the same way my musical heroes did. We can feel those ghosts looking down on us when we’re there in Mississippi at the summer camp where I used to teach and now direct.

It’s all ages and races, and there are 8-year-old boys who can play the hell out of a guitar, and young girls 12-15 who can lead a blues band really strongly already. Some play traditionally, others are progressive and original. I can see already the music will get carried on. The blues will be •MJ fine.

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I like it because I like to be responsive to the audience in the moment. If people aren’t listening to the stories when I tell them, or if I play a song that’s slow and soft and people talk louder, then I know I might as well just rock out and play for the dancers.

Swing dances are great because it’s tremendously fun to keep songs at a certain beat and play a few more slow ones to give the dancers a break from getting too tired-out. But I’ll also make sure I please the Blues Society folks with plenty of Muddy, the best of my own new music, and originals through the years.

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Anne and husband Michael have supported the WSDC for more than 20 years.

It’s no small feat to grow a new orchid. George told us, “You have to wait for it to bloom, which can take five to seven years. Then it is registered with the Royal Horticulture Society in England, which means it will forever bear that name. When they awarded Anne her orchid, she responded, “I used to be called a shrinking violet, but I think being called a Phalaenopsis is better.”

While we’re strolling around sipping wine and sampling canapés, I learned that there were vendors there from Japan, Ecuador, Brazil, Thailand, Columbia, and Hawaii selling their plants along with 50 orchid exhibitors. There was even an orchid doctor, Bruce Kidd, to give advice in case you have a sick plant or don’t have a green thumb.

WSDC executive director Ellen Goodstein reminded the audience that WSDC is a world leader in diabetes research, education, and care. They were founded in 1944 by Dr. William Sansum who was the first United States physician to administer insulin back in the 1920s.

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The invitation announced that the “Big Bang Birthday Bash is celebrating 100 years of connecting people to nature in ways that benefit both.

Support of this event ensures that the Natural History Museum (NHM) continues to be a jewel of the community and a touchstone to the natural world.” Proceeds would go to benefit the science and nature programs for school children.

The museum was also committed to raising all the funds before this 17th annual Mission Creek Gala, so they wouldn’t have to have a silent and live auction. And they did. As president and CEO Luke Swetland told me with a big smile, “We were sold-out weeks before the event.”

Board chair Bobbie Kinnear was also a happy lady as was event chair Emily Jones and her huge committee of 25. It “took a village.”

Honorary trustees were David Anderson, Steve Hicks, Joan Kurze, Palmer Jackson, Jr., Alexander Power, Brian Rapp, Janet Sands, Brooke Sawyer Jr., and Virginia Sloan.

I was only able to attend for an hour, but I’m sure the Armory has never looked so spectacular or held a more dramatic affair. We entered the cocktail space surrounded by black curtains and only a few small lights. Waiters held trays of drinks and passed canapés while a few science demos took place. There was a raffle of two items both from the Amsterdam edition of Audubon prints showing a Florida Cormorant and a Tern.

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The coup de grace was when the space music came on and the draperies slowly parted to reveal the dining area, which was amazing. The various elements were defined in the décor such as earth, sea, islands, gems, and fossils. Some of the tables had trees for centerpieces. The ceiling had giant globes of various sizes hanging down representing planets. All so apropos for the NHM and creating a truly memorable party.

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in the future, they are undertaking a $30 million Centennial Campaign to revitalize. They’ll be linking the indoor to the outdoor experience, creating new galleries, and refurbishing existing ones. Phase one of two is building a permanent Butterfly Pavilion, refreshing the Mammal and Cartwright halls, and improving the backyard area.

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Before attending the OSB reception in their honor are James Ballentine (member of Opera Alliance and former OSB President); Zachary Owen, who played the Dr. Dulcamara; Angela Mannino played Adina; Luis Orozco played Belcore, and congratulated by Sandra Urquhardt, chair, board of directors; with Marco Cammarota who played Nemarino (photo by Priscilla)

Happy with the production of L’elisir d’amore are Joan Rutkowski, OSB board of directors; Steven Sharpe, general director; Trisha Dixon and Howard Jay Smith (photo by Priscilla)

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debut in our Eden by the Beach.

Angela Mannino – who has sung both soprano roles in the show – as the wealthy and alluring landowner Adina was superb, with tenor Marco Cammarota as the equally accomplished lovelorn country peasant.

Luis Alejandro Orozco played another suitor, while bass baritone Zachary Owen was the itinerant charlatan purveying magical potions.

Filled with some of opera’s most affecting arias, the production couldn’t fail to please.

Great Danes The Danish String Quartet was back in our tony town when the fab foursome – Frederik Oland Olsen, Frederik Schoyen Sjolin, Asbjorn Norgaard, and Rune Tonsgaard Sorensen – appeared at Campbell Hall, as part of the popular UCSB Arts & Lectures series.

The adventurous ensemble, who were last here about three years ago, played an eclectic program of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Janacek.

It was an evening to savor.

Life and Death The fourth annual Father Virgil Remarkable Life Awards honored philanthropist and sculptor Robert Emmons and his wife, Christine, at Fess Parker’s DoubleTree, while raising

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Director-producer Rod Lathim welcomed the 190 guests, while Peter and Gerd Jordano introduced the dynamic duo when they received their award, named in honor of the late Virgil Cordano, a much loved priest at The Mission.

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Honorees’ family members include Cathy Kudroshoff, (daughter of Dr, Emmons) honorees Christine and Dr. Robert Emmons, Laurie Preston (sister of Christine); Nora Emmons, Tim Kudroshoff, Jack Kudroshoff, Ryan Emmons, and Grace Hirshan (photo by Priscilla)

2016 Santa Barbara Yacht Club officers are Scott Deardoff, SBYC Treasurer; Shari Guilfoyle, vice commodore William Guilfoyle; Gail Young, commodore Bob Young; rear commodore John Koontz; Theresa Koontz, and Dennis Power, secretary (photo by Priscilla)

Joanne Holderman, David Selberg, and Jean Schuyler.

Yacht’s Going on Santa Barbara Yacht Club, one of the oldest nautical institutions on the Left Coast, kicked off its 144th season under new commodore Bob Young.

A Parade of the Fleet, featuring around 15 vessels, including one of the largest, 72-foot-long Taxi Dancer, owned by Bob, Tom Parker, Richard Compton, and James Yabsley, sailed Saluting 2016 commodore Bob Young and his first mate Gail Young aboard “Taxi Dancer” with captains Tom Parker, Jim Yabsley, Bob Young, family and crew (photo by Priscilla)

Celebrating the 4th Annual Life Chronicles Remarkable Lives Awards and film viewing is Kate Carter, Life Chronicles executive director; Todd Wetzel, guest speaker; and Frances Severence, producer of Remember Me (photo by Priscilla)

beano with decided Oscar-themed overtones, given the glittering boldfaced names event was the same night at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, were Ed and Sue Birch, Keith Berry, Stan and Betty Hatch, Harry and Judi Weisbart, Helene Schneider, Denny and Bitsy Bacon, Ryan Emmons, Larry Dolan, Ron and Andrea Gallo,

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Aoife Quinn of Foggy Dew Band, who sang “Amazing Grace” after the bells honoring those members who have passed (photo by Priscilla)

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“Sleeper” with captain Lisa Gilnger and crew with a celebrating result of 2nd place in Fleet B (photo by Priscilla)

Members, officers, and guests aboard the Polaris to salute 2016 commodore Bob Young are Stephanie and Doug Johnson, Sandy Boneck, captain Roger Chrisman (2010 commodore); Anna Molyneux, (SBYCW); Dennis Boneck, Tara Stoker, (SBYCW); Scott Gordon, hostess Sarah Chrisman, Ken Clements, (2002 commodore); Jo Sadecki, Elsbeth Clements, (SBYCW 2015 PP); Hannan Gagnon and Holly Gagnon (photo by Priscilla)

in front of the club, which was jammed with visiting commodores from other California yacht clubs.

The picturesque parade was followed by Casper’s Trophy Race, which has about 30 participants and hefty barbecue on the club’s beach.

The popular feature, Wet Wednesdays, kicks off next week.

Fond Farewell On a personal note, I remember former first lady Nancy Reagan, who I met a number of times during my career in New York, the last being a glittering Just Say No to drugs benefit at the Tavern on the Green in Central Park.

The former actress, always strikingly elegant and charming, also had an adopted stepson, Michael Reagan, who I have appeared with often on the Fox News Channel.

Nancy, 94, will be buried at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, next to her late husband, who died in 2004.

Together at last...

Sightings: Comedienne Carol Burnett noshing at Lucky’s...Oscar nominee Michael Keaton picking up his java jolt at Pierre Lafond... Warbler Katy Perry having fun at the Wildcat Lounge Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmineards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal.

To reach Priscilla, email her at priscilla@santabarbaraseen.com or call 969-3301.

•MJ

Receiving their first-place trophy in Fleet A is the crew of “Taxi Dancer” with captains/owners Tom Parker, Jim Yabsley, and commodore Bob Young presented by John Koontz (photo by Priscilla)

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Meanwhile, we can only hope – judging from its release date – the horror flick Amityville: The Awakening is an April Fool’s joke. Weeks later, Jodie Foster oversees Money Monster, the name of an economic expert’s TV show that gets usurped by a frustrated citizen with an empty bank account; the co-headliners are George Clooney and Julia Roberts, in what appears to be a brainy, popcorn-crunching respite from the inevitable deluge of sequels and superhero sewage.

My latest checklist contains a pair of mainstream pictures – one of which proves worthy of attendance at matinee prices; the other deserves short shrift.

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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot was inspired by real-life reporter and cable news producer Kim Barker, who authored The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan. On screen, her complex character – as embodied

by Tina Fey – ventures to Middle East warzones, where co-stars Margot Robbie, Billy Bob Thornton (the cool colonel), and Alfred Molina (as mischievous Ali Massoud Sadiq) are hunkered down.

One peripheral player, in the form of first-rate Martin Freeman (recognized chiefly for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies), comes into focus as a viable love interest, bolstering the unstable narrative. This movie has two directors presumably with contrasting agendas; a comedic and vulgar first half eventually gives way to solemn heft.

To her credit, Fey strikes the proper balance and tone as would a more revered actress such as Cate Blanchett or Rachel McAdams.

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London Has Fallen boasts an endless supply of bombs and bullets that, it might be argued, should’ve been aimed behind the camera. This needless and hard-polished supplement to Olympus Has Fallen displays mind-numbing implausibility and loads of derivative dialogue (“Get to the chopper!”) from its opening frame. The premise – revolving around the shadowy death of England’s prime minister, luring western leaders to the country’s capital – hinted at worthy possibilities, had it been employed with more brainpower and conscience, rather than an air of lazy lousiness.

Director Babak Najafi (Easy Money II, Hard to Kill, et cetera) and his screenwriting quartet (four too many) seem less interested in rectifying obvious shortcomings, and more determined to corner the action market on outlandish rubbish. Pointing fingers at any esteemed cast members – Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett – would be tantamount to blaming the Titanic’s passengers.

•MJ

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State Street Spin

by Erin Graffy de Garcia

Teen Star 2016 a Winner

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een Star was a wonderful production. The county-wide program, which culminates in a vocal singing competition showcasing extraordinary teen performers, continues to grow – quite literally. The first year in 2009 was held at Dos Pueblos High School... and sold out. The next year, it was held at SBHS... and sold out. The following years, the Teen Star finals were presented at the Granada.

This year, the program finals were moved to the Arlington.

The audience votes (via text message) for the winner. To make sure all the technology was working, a sample test was held at the opening of the show. The contestants were three volunteers picked at random who held an impromptu a capella sing-off. Three competent adult voices here! The winner was Jeff Miller, who gave us an original and amusing Santa Barbara Blues number based on the idea that, well things are so perfect in paradise- it’s kind of hard to have the blues here.

The students were so great. Some, such as Claire Velez, I could have listened to a whole CD of her intriguing

Jackson Cocciolone was named Teen Star 2016.

The first male vocalist in five years, he wowed the crowd with his competent voice and style with the blues number “The Sky is Crying” and then brought down the house tackling Nessum Dorma with aplomb

and smooth voice.

When Jackson Cocciolone walked out on stage, I told my husband, “That’s the one — he has the ‘it’ factor.” Jackson movingly sang the “The

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Sky is Crying”, accompanying himself with comfortable competence on blues guitar.

He and three others made it into the final round – where he surprised us all by completely switching gears and singing “Nessum Dorma”. I thought the teens would not appreciate an operatic piece. Well, it was such a crowd-pleaser that he received a standing ovation.

I noted that my friend Renée Hamaty was his accompanist. “Nessun Dorma” from Turandot is difficult enough to play in the original key, but it was transposed to baritone range. She worked privately with Jackson in rehearsal to focus on pronunciation, breath, and other numerous musical fine points. It all added up.

So, Jackson Cocciolone was voted Teen Star 2016, but I can tell you, every single singer up on stage was a winner.

Lin Cook’s Final Chord...

The Santa Barbara Jazz Society (SBJS) hooked up with Jeff Elliot’s Jazz Jam

at Soho for a musical tribute and sendoff to Lin Cook. A founder and longtime member of the Jazz Society, Cook had passed away at the age of 91. She was probably considered the first lady of jazz in Santa Barbara, playing here some 30 or 40 years ago. Lin was the real deal – not just a pianist playing jazz songs... but a jazz piano player. I remember how she just nodded and grooved away, while she effortlessly poured out chords and improvised on every nuance.

Jan McBride from SBJS wrote and produced a beautiful printed tribute to Lin. The evening featured a number of local vocalists and instrumentalists. Jeff Elliot opened with a catchy original composition “Heart Murmur” with Chris Judge on guitar, Brendan Statham on bass, and Rex Hart on drums. We also had Miles Napier and Dick Dunlop on piano, singers Sandra Cummings, Eric Harrington, Donna Green, and Jodi de Marcos. Sitting in with bassist Hank Allen was flutist Rueben Martinez and his brother, drummer Rene; the Martinez family was longtime friends of Cook.

Following in Lin’s footsteps (er, I mean fingertips) jazz pianist Debbie Denke performed a fascinatingly awesome arrangement of The Beatles’ “Blackbird” mixed into “Birdland”.

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C ALENDAR OF Note to readers: This entertainment calendar is a subjective sampling of arts and other events taking place in the Santa Barbara area for the next week. It is by no means comprehensive. Be sure to read feature stories in each issue that complement the calendar. In order to be considered for inclusion in this calendar, information must be submitted no later than noon on the Wednesday eight days prior to publication date. Please send all news releases and digital artwork to slibowitz@yahoo.com)

THURSDAY, MARCH 10 Sein Language – Millennials might know Jerry Seinfeld only from the web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. Anyone a little older surely found little life lessons in his enormously successful eponymous TV sitcom that ran on NBC from 19891998 (and, man, it’s hard to believe it’s been more than a quarter century since the series premiered). But even before that, Seinfeld was a popular stand-up comedian who honed his craft in New York and Los Angeles club, testing out routines on the little things in life that we all relate to.

Segments of the routines formed the framing device for the first couple of years of Seinfeld the series, with bits related to the show’s themes. The funny man is back on the road again for another mini-tour and another visit to the Arlington Theatre. Whatever age you might be, the code word is “Go.” WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: 1317 State St. COST: $65-$150 INFO: 963-4408/ www.thearlingtontheatre.com or 800745-3000/www.ticketmaster.com Links to the Past – Multi-talented Montecito musician Jon Wilcox and his bandmates in the West Coast acoustic-roots band Marley’s Ghost are celebrating their 30th anniversary this season, both with the release of a new album, The Woodstock Sessions, and a bunch of gigs, including tonight at SOhO. The album was produced

by Larry Campbell, known for his previous work with Bob Dylan and

Levon Helm, and he took the band deep into its history to find its core and explore. Unlike Charles Dickens’s Marley’s Ghost, who rattles his chains to scare Scrooge into changing his miserly ways, the band employs multi-part harmonies and loads of instruments over a wide swath of style, from reggae to folk to gospel, country and R&B, gently lulling the listener deep into Americana’s treasures.

Some critics have even compared them to the late Helm’s old group, The Band, and indeed their 2013 release, Jubilee, was produced by legendary Cowboy Jack Clement and featured John Prine, Emmylou Harris, Old Crow Medicine Show, and Marty Stuart as guest artists. That’s where they hooked up with all-things-strings expert Campbell, who also sat in on the sessions. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $14 in advance, $18 at the door INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com FRIDAY, MARCH 11 Addams with a Twist – As if The Addams Family Musical – which turned characters and situations inspired by cartoonist Charles Addams’s famed New Yorker panels into a hit Broadway musical – wasn’t weird enough, Ojai ACT is adding another dimension to their production that opens tonight: both kids and adult actors will portray all the roles. The Broadway musical already took something of a left

THURSDAY, MARCH 10 Forward-thinking Folk – Singer-songwriter José González has drawn comparisons to Nick Drake, Paul Simon and Elliott Smith as an eloquent interpreter of folk, pop, and world music known for a supple voice, profound lyrics, and haunting sound. The Swedish-born musician has released just three solo albums, including his debut, Veneer, which won a Swedish Grammy, back in 2003, and In Our Nature in 2006. Over the next seven years, González cofounded the band Junip, which released a couple of albums, and worked on the soundtrack of the film The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, which includes songs from both of the catalogs, as well as material he wrote exclusively for the film. González’s latest effort, Vestiges & Claws, inspired by sprawling 1970′s Brazilian productions, American folk rock and West African desert blues, has been described as both warmer and darker than his previous albums. For his Santa Barbara debut, González will be joined by yMusic, a group of six New York City instrumentalists (string trio, flute, clarinet, and trumpet) whose precise playing and sheer musicality has attracted the attention of such high-profile collaborators as Beck, Sufjan Stevens, and Mark Dancigers. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: UCSB’s Campbell Hall COST: $25-$40 INFO: 893-3535 or www.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 11 Focus on Females – ¡Viva el Arte de Santa Bárbara! and its season of sensation mariachi and other Mexican music continues with another all-women ensemble, Las Colibrí, who have a passion for music, beauty, tradition, and bringing together communities. The Los Angeles-based group, whose name translates to The Hummingbirds, plays in a style popular in the early 20th century, featuring traditional mariachi instrumentation without trumpets. Their repertoire features renditions of classic rancheras and boleros as well as original songs – all taking a smaller and more contemporary approach to the music that incorporates sounds of jazz, rock, and R&B into their original arrangements. Las Colibrí’s four-day Santa Barbara County residency includes one-hour concerts tonight and Sunday in Isla Vista and Santa Barbara, both followed by receptions with the artists. WHEN: 7-8 tonight & Sunday WHERE: Isla Vista School, 6875 El Colegio Road, Goleta (Friday); Marjorie Luke Theatre, Santa Barbara Jr. High, 721 E. Cota Street (Sunday) COST: free INFO: www.facebook.com/VivaelArteSB

turn from the earlier adaptations of Addams’ work, as the movie and TV versions became more popular kitsch than the cartoonist intended.

This show comes straight from the original cartoons, an off-beat take on 19th-century Gothic. A “normal” family, Mal and Alice and their son, visit the off-beat Addams Family when their youngsters are dating in an Addams-style take on Meet the Parents. You’ll revel with Gomez and Morticia, Uncle Fester, Grandma Addams, the kids Wednesday and Pugsley, and manservant Lurch, plus a plethora of Addams’s ancestors haunting the stage. The extra twist is that the unique production mixes the generations between performances, as the adult actors run the evening shows Fridays and Saturdays and the Sunday matinees, but on the Saturday matinees, the youth take over the lead characters. Kids today.

What’re you gonna do? WHEN: 7 pm Fridays & Saturdays, 2 pm Saturdays & Sundays, March 11 to April 3 WHERE: Ojai ACT, 113 S. Montgomery St. COST: $18 general, $12 seniors & students, $5 youth 12 and under INFO: 640-8797 or www.

OjaiACT.org SATURDAY, MARCH 12 Spring Dance – Both the season and the youthful exuberance of the dancers will be on display tonight as the State Street Ballet Young Dancers present a one-night only show at the Lobero. The apprentice company to State Street Ballet will perform new works by Kassandra Taylor Newberry and other cutting-edge choreographers, plus the classic Peter and the Wolf. WHEN: 7

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pm WHERE: 33 East Canon Perdido St. COST: $14-$40 INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com SUNDAY, MARCH 13 Tierney’s Protégé Performs – Singer-bassist Katie Thiroux, who studied both bass and voice since her pre-teenage years, including singing lessons with one of Santa Barbara’s favorites Tierney Sutton, brings her quartet to SOhO this afternoon for the Santa Barbara Jazz Society monthly show. Thiroux has won numerous awards, including a full scholarship to the prestigious Berklee School of Music, and along the way has appeared with such notables as Branford Marsalis, Dr. Billy Taylor, Eric Reed, Jeff Clayton, Larry Koonze, Jeff Hamilton, and many others. Katie’s swinging baseline, clear vocals, and instrumental arrangements are reflective of the influence of her idols, who include Ray Brown, the bassist who was popular with local jazz lovers in his later years, as well as Oscar Peterson, Chet Baker, and Anita O’Day. tenor saxophonist Roger Neumann, guitarist Graham Dechter, and drummer Matt Witek round out the band. WHEN: 1-4 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $25 general, $15 SBJS members, $7 full-time students and local jazz SBJS member musicians INFO: 962-7776/www.sohosb.com or 687-7123/www.sbjazz.org The Tender TRAP – The Rhythm and Arts Project’s (TRAP) winter benefit and auction, which steps up to SOhO following a few iterations at smaller venues in town, boasts an all-star lineup of musicians who have become 10 – 17 March 2016

FRIDAY, MARCH 11 That’s Odd – Santa Barbara theater impresario Ed Giron portrays uptight, obsessively neat TV news-writer Felix Ungar opposite William Waxman as the slovenly and easy-going sportswriter Oscar in DIJO Productions’ revival of The Odd Couple. Neil Simon’s classic comedy has enjoyed long runs on Broadway beginning in 1965, a hit 1968 movie, a popular TV series in the 1970s, and even a conversion to a female version in the mid-1980s and another revival on TV just last year as the tale of the mismatched roommates who annoy and yet learn from each other never seems to grow old. In the original play, Felix has been thrown out of the house by his wife just before his weekly poker game at recently divorced Oscar’s house, where the host decides to take him in despite their vast differences. The tension between the opposing forces proves both funny and touching. Michele Minor and Ming Holden play Gwendolyn and Cecily, the eccentric Pigeon sisters who entice the odd couple to date again, while Gene Garcia, Frank Artusio, Stuart Orenstein, and Van Riker – all veterans of DIJO – play the men’s poker buddies. WHEN: Opens 8 tonight, plays 3 & 8 pm tomorrow, 8 pm March 18, 3 & 8 pm March 19, and 3 pm March 20 WHERE: Plaza Playhouse Theater, 4916 Carpinteria Avenue, Carpinteria COST: $17 general, $13 students & seniors INFO: 684-6380 or www. plazatheatercarpinteria.com

associated with the nonprofit that teaches reading, writing, and math plus life skills to disabled children and adults through visual, tactile, and auditory methodology (especially percussion) combined with speech. The backing band for the evening is Pockets, comprised of some of L.A. and the South Coast’s best session players and touring musicians including Chris Pinnick, Chris Trujillo, Steve Nelson, Jimmy Calire, Craig Thomas, Bill Bodine, Jim Pugh, and TRAP founder Eddie Tuduri. Also appearing are vocalist Táta Vega of Twenty Feet from Stardom fame; husband and wife Bill and Tamara Champlin (Chicago, Sons of Champlin), Carl Graves of Oingo Boingo, and famed Brazilian percussionist (and on-andoff again Santa Barbara resident) Airto Moreira with Dion Cornejo.

WHEN: 6 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $35 INFO: 962-7776 or www. sohosb.com

TUESDAY, MARCH 15 Eclectic Celtic – Since the last time Loreena McKennitt performed in town quite a few years ago, the Irish-Canadian singer-composerharpist-accordionist-pianist has seen her career explode across the globe. Blessed with a remarkably clear soprano voice that she lends to Celtic-tinged traditional and original material accompanied most often by harp, her music has received gobs of critical acclaim while her albums have achieved sales awards in 15 countries across four continents, her seven album totaling more than 14 million copies sold. She’s won two Junos, Canada’s premier music award, and garnered two Grammy nominations, and appeared on dozens of TV and movie soundtracks.

WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: 33 East Canon Perdido St. COST: $48.50 & $72.50 INFO: 963-0761 or www. lobero.com •MJ

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SUNDAY, MARCH 13 Stories from Beyond the Signpost – Speaking of Stories moves through The Twilight Zone back to the source, the accounts that inspired episodes of the iconic early 1960s TV series. The journey into “a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind, a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination” features Henry Brown reading “What You Need” by Lewis Padgett (which inspired the Christmas 1959 episode of the same name), Anne Guynn reading “The Beautiful People” by Charles Beaumont (1964’s “Looks Just Like You”), Robert Lessor reading “The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross” by Henry Slesar (1964 episode), and Rudy Willrich reading “To Serve Man” (1962) by Damon Knight. After all those twists, turns, and surprises, soothe your soul with cookies and milk out on the patio with the performers. What could bring back such fond memories of black-and-white TV from half a century ago better than that? WHEN: 2 pm today, 7:30 pm tomorrow WHERE: Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo, upstairs in the mall COST: $28 general, $18 students & military and Early Bird Special on Sunday purchased by March 11 INFO: 963-0408 or www.CenterStageTheater.org

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ORDINANCE NO. 5737 AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA APPROVING A FIVE-YEAR LEASE AGREEMENT WITH ONE FIVE-YEAR OPTION WITH CHANDLERY ON THE BREAKWATER, INC., AT AN AVERAGE INITIAL BASE RENT OF $1,541.15 PER MONTH, FOR THE PREMISES LOCATED AT 125 HARBOR WAY, SUITES # 3, 4, AND 5, EFFECTIVE APRIL 1, 2016 The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on March 1, 2016.

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara,

Sealed proposals for Bid No. 5439 for the BRAEMAR FORCEMAIN NO. 2 will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 P.M., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2016, to be publicly opened and read at that time. Any bidder who wishes its bid proposal to be considered is responsible for making certain that its bid proposal is actually delivered to said Purchasing Office. Bids shall be addressed to the General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and shall be labeled, “BRAEMAR FORCEMAIN NO. 2, Bid No. 5439".

The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete the following: installation of approximately 3,300 linear feet of 12-inch HDPE pipeline, demolition of existing and installation of new lift station bypass and pump discharge piping, replacement of an existing transition manhole, a new transition manhole, a new gravity manhole, traffic control, bypass pumping, and additional work as required by the contract documents. The Engineer’s estimate is $774,000. Each bidder must have a Class A license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code.

There will be a mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting scheduled for TUESDAY MARCH 22, 2016 at 10:00 am at 403 Alan Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93109.

The plans and specifications for this Project are available electronically at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. Plan and specification sets can be obtained from CyberCopy (located at 504 N Milpas St, cross street Haley) by contacting Alex Gaytan, CyberCopy Shop Manager, at (805) 884-6155. The City’s contact for this project is Philip Maldonado, Project Engineer, 805-560-7544.

In order to be placed on the plan holder’s list, the Contractor can register as a document holder for this Project on Ebidboard. Project Addendum notifications will be issued through Ebidboard.com. Although Ebidboard will fax and/or email all notifications once they are provided contact information, bidders are still responsible for obtaining all addenda from the Ebidboard website or the City’s website at: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard.

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/s/ Matthew Fore Acting City Clerk Services Manager ORDINANCE NO. 5737 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on February 23, 2016, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on March 1, 2016, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Gregg Hart, Frank Hotchkiss, Cathy Murillo, Randy Rowse, Bendy White; Mayor Helene Schneider

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts.

Per California Civil Code Section 9550, a payment bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work.

The proposal shall be accompanied by a proposal guaranty bond in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal, or alternatively by a certified or cashier’s check payable to the Owner in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal.

A separate performance bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from the notice to award and prior to the performance of any work.

January 1, 2016: The call for bids and contract documents must include the following information: No contractor or subcontractor may be listed on a bid proposal for a public works project (submitted on or after March 1, 2015) unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5 [with limited exceptions from this requirement for bid purposes only under Labor Code section 1771.1(a)].

No contractor or subcontractor may be awarded a contract for public work on a public works project (awarded on or after April 1, 2015) unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.

The City of Santa Barbara hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, political affiliations or beliefs, sex, age, physical disability, medical condition, marital status or pregnancy as set forth hereunder.

Pursuant to California Public Contract Code Section 3400(c), the City finds that certain equipment designated within these specifications must be standardized to match existing equipment used within the City’s Water Resources facilities in order to facilitate maintenance and operation activities and to provide improved performance and reliability of these complex facilities. No “or-equal” substitutions will be accepted for equipment designated as “City Standard Equipment – No Substitution Permitted” in the specifications.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my

GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER

hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA

on March 2, 2016.

_________________________

/s/ Matthew Fore Acting City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on March 2, 2016. /s/ Helene Schneider Mayor Published March 9, 2016 Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Tombio, 351 Paseo Nuevo, 2nd Floor, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Christopher Mattson, 8570 Mountain Bell Drive, Elk Grove, CA 95624. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 25, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis. FBN No. 2016-0000577.

Published March 2, 9, 16, 23, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Servicemaster Restoration & Cleaning

by Integrity, 1601 Ives Avenue, Building E, Oxnard,

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PUBLISHED: March 9 and 16, 2016 Montecito Journal

CA 93033. Pacific Building Maintenance, INC., 1601 Ives Avenue, Building E, Oxnard, CA 93033. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 5, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN No. 20160000374. Published February 24, March 2, 9, 16, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing

business as: ALT LLC, 2062 Alameda Padre Serra #101, Santa Barbara, CA 93103.

Advanced Life Technologies LLC, 2062 Alameda Padre Serra #101, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 12, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN No. 20160000438. Published February 24, March 2, 9, 16, 2016.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Cricket Lane Interiors, 4451 Via Alegre, Santa Barbara, CA 93110.

Vicki Dusebout, 4451 Via Alegre, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 5, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN No. 20160000372. Published February

24, March 2, 9, 16, 2016.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV00793. To all interested parties: Petitioner Amy Michelle Benson filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Samantha Dean. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter 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

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ORDINANCE NO. 5738 AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AUTHORIZING THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR TO EXECUTE AMENDMENTS EXTENDING THE TERM OF LEASE AGREEMENT NO. 4,840, FOR USE AND MAINTENANCE OF FIRE STATION NO. 5 WITH THE SANTA BARBARA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, AND LEASE AGREEMENT NO. 24,336 WITH THE SANTA BARBARA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR ITS USE OF A PORTION OF THE EAST SIDE LIBRARY AND FRANKLIN CENTER REAL PROPERTY, BOTH THROUGH APRIL 30, 2018 The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on March 1, 2016.

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara, California.

(Seal)

/s/ Matthew Fore Acting City Clerk Services Manager ORDINANCE NO. 5738 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on February 23, 2016, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on March 1, 2016, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Gregg Hart, Frank Hotchkiss, Cathy Murillo, Randy Rowse, Bendy White; Mayor Helene Schneider

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on March 2, 2016. /s/ Matthew Fore Acting City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on March 2, 2016. /s/ Helene Schneider Mayor Published March 9, 2016 Montecito Journal

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. Hearing date: May 18, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

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Published 3/9, 3/16, 3/23, 3/30 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV00611. To all interested parties: Petitioners Jennifer Bower and Norman Hannotte filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name from Wynona Grace Hannotte

to Wynona Grace Joey Hannotte. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter 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. Hearing date: April 13, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 3/9, 3/16, 3/23, 3/30 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV00420. To all interested parties: Petitioner Vito Anthony Summa IV filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing to Vito Anthony Kait Summa.

The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter 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.

Filed February 19, 2016 by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: April 13, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 3/9, 3/16, 3/23, 3/30 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV00345. To all interested parties: Petitioner Nancy Gonzalez Roche filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name(s) from Armando Murillo Gonzalez and Adrian Gonzalez Murillo to Armando Murillo and Adrian Murillo.

The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter 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.

Filed February 9, 2016 by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: March 23, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 2/24, 3/2, 3/9, 3/16 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV00467. To all interested parties: Petitioners

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Silvia Ortiz and Florencio Bello filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name from Nathaniel Ortiz to Nathaniel Bello-Ortiz. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter 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.

Filed February 10, 2016 by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: March 30, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 2/24, 3/2, 3/9, 3/16 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV00530. To all interested parties: Petitioner Jesus Antonio Aguirre filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Coen Hawthorne.

The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter 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. Filed February 24, 2016 by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: April 13, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

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early years in an orphanage, worked for his family’s wine business as a young man, prompting him to want to buy his own such business later in life. The Braids went on to raise five kids (Reyna, Patrick, Caroline, Carl, and Alex), and John manned the counter at the shop Monday through Friday for 42 years until last August, when Delgado began taking the reins.

After purchasing the business, John kept the store as the previous owners had, selling wine, cheese, and various food stuffs to locals, including celebrities and musicians (who would sometimes join the multi-lingual Kiwi, also an avid guitar player, in the back

of the shop for an impromptu jam session.)

The shop eventually evolved, with Braid adding an array of European (mostly English) products and candy, and growing the deli side of things.

Despite the name of the store, wine was taken off the shelves years ago, and the place became known as a “working man’s deli,” attracting construction crews, gardeners, and plumbers, in addition to MUS students, nearby nine-to-fivers, and others, who keep a steady line going from noon to 3 pm every day.

The shop’s massive sandwiches (known as the “manwich”), even

Victoria Delgado has taken over the reins at Village Cheese & Wine, and intends on making only minor changes to the Montecito institution

made our “Best of Montecito” list that MJ staff compiled in 2011, landing longtime (and still current) employee Kelly Stanford (née Vega) on the front Longtime employee Kelly Stanford on the cover of our Best of Montecito issue in 2011

cover, holding one of the shop’s deli creations. There are dozens of different deli meats and cheeses to choose from, from salamis and prosciuttos, turkey, and ham, to cheddar and Swiss, provolone and jack, which are layered with mayo and mustard, jalapeños, and pepperoncini, on various types of soft bread. “It’s a sandwich you can make at home, but it just tastes better here,” Delgado said.

According to Delgado, who has been both manager of the store and a friend of the Braid family for 22 years, the shop serves 75-150 lunches a day, with customers gathering on the grassy area of the upper village, balancing their manwiches, a bag of chips, and soda on their laps. “Things have slowed a little,” Delgado admits, adding that customers “want to walk in and see him, and now they can’t.”

The store is just how John left it: surf and cultural posters cover the walls, with his back office (aka “his home”) still lined with hundreds of music albums, many signed by musicians who would stop in the shop when they came through Montecito.

“This place was his baby, and I’m trying to maintain the essence of the store on his behalf,” Delgado said fondly, remembering John’s connection to generations of Montecito residents, his genuine curiosity in getting to know his customers, and his generosity during community emergencies including the Tea Fire, when he fed firefighters and those who lost their homes, at no cost. “’It’s on the house, Mate,’ he would say,” Delgado said. “That’s who he was.”

The shop remains open from 10:30 am to 4 pm Monday through Friday; Delgado plans on making a few minor changes to the store, but keeping the feel the same. “Customers don’t want anything to change, and neither would John,” she said.

Village Cheese & Wine is located at 1485 East Valley Road, suite 14. Call 969-3815 for more information. •MJ

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Benefits of the Week

From left: City of Santa Barbara firefighter Mark Kramer, BGCSB members Kassandra and Noenia, and City of Santa Barbara Fire inspector Amber Anderson

by Steven Libowitz “Benefits of the Week” highlights two or three Santa Barbara area fundraisers approximately 10 days to three weeks ahead of the event. Unusual themes and galas with that something extra, especially newer ones looking for a boost in attendance, receive special attention. For consideration for inclusion in this column, email slibowitz@yahoo.com.

Solstice Goes Green La Bohème Professional Dance Group (photo by Eric Roland)

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anta Barbara Summer Solstice has new leaders in place for the first time in many years, and now there’s also a new fundraiser for the extremely popular annual parade and festival.

Emerald Ball came about when Teresa Nowak stepped in during the interim before new co-directors Robby Robins and Robin Erlander were appointed, and created the event to fill in the fundraising gap created when the Halloween-themed Black Cat Ball and winter solstice-oriented White Ball fell by the wayside.

“I thought we’d stay with the color theme and take it up a notch to emerald, to tie it in with spring,” said Nowak, who is the director of La Bohème Professional Dance Group, the two-year-old burlesque fusion troupe whose outrageous outfits and cleverly choreographed routines have drawn lots of praise via appearances at the Solstice Parade and “Thriller” flash dances surrounding Halloween.

La Bohème will perform “Come On Eileen” and other routines at the event.

The ball – which takes place 7 pm to midnight on Saturday March 19, at the recently opened Warren B’s Event Center at 731 De La Guerra Plaza – features music from Santa Barbara stalwart Spencer the Gardener, dance music from DJ Darla Bea, appetizers from Pascucci’s and area catering companies, and the unveiling of the winning design for the posters and T-shirts for the upcoming Solstice Parade and celebration to be held in mid-June.

Solstice workshop artists are making papier-mâché emeralds and other decorations, including pots of gold.

“We’re going for a free, crazy Solstice theme, so wear your favorite green costumes – festive and fabulous,” said Nowak, noting that green masks will be available at the event for those who arrive unadorned. “We want it to be very creative and artsy.

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It’s not like a cotillion.”

Tickets are $20 in advance, $30 at the door, and all of the money raised goes toward putting on the annual parade and the festival. Visit www.bit. ly/1OCR9ek.

with the event’s theme for the standalone Boys & Girls Club, located at 632 E. Canon Perdido Street, that has the mission of inspiring and enabling youngsters to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens. The club is open to children ages 6-18 from 2-7 pm weekdays and 10-2 on Saturdays, offering educational, artistic, and recreational programs that keep kids safe, out of trouble, off the street, and under the supervision of compassionate, energetic adult professionals. Membership fees are just $30 per year. For information and reservations about both the club and the fundraiser, call 962-2382 or visit www. boysgirls.org.

Superman... and Super This Week Boys (and Girls) Think Pink! The David Courtenay, just back from his annual yoga retreat in Costa Rica, plays acoustic soul and reggae music from his new CD Godspeed, while Manny “DJ Magneto” Roldan mixes the recorded tunes for the Boys & Girls Club of Santa Barbara’s 7th annual dinner and auction gala. Be a Hero for Kids takes place 5:30 to 10:30 pm Saturday, March 19, at the Fess Parker Rotunda, where the fresh ocean breezes welcome guests while Andrew Firestone serves as emcee and Steve Epstein as the co-auctioneer. A silent auction and reception is followed by a Dinner & Dessert Dash, and the live auction before the entertainers get the crowd up and dancing.

The event honors Santa Barbara area firefighters – there will even be a city fire truck at the entrance to the hotel – as well as Jalen Commadore and Avery Artigo, two of the club’s own members, who saved a 10-yearold boy from drowning last summer.

Julia Danalevich, recently named the BGCSB Youth of the Year, will share how her club experience has impacted her life.

“We went with the hero theme for this year because the firefighters need a shout-out for all they do to keep us safe,” said Michael Padden-Rubin, development director. “The incident in the pool happened after we had already decided the theme, so it’s a great opportunity to honor these two awesome kids, too.”

Suggested attire for guests: your favorite hero costume, in keeping

16th annual Barbara Ireland Walk & Run for Breast Cancer takes place Saturday

March 12 beginning at Chase Palm Park. There are three course options, spanning 5K to 15K distances, all of which traverse Santa Barbara’s beautiful waterfront. Late registration is $60, but participants who raise more than $100 in pledges pay no fee. All of the proceeds from both registration and pledges benefit local breast cancer research and programs at the Sansum’s Cancer Center of Santa Barbara. These include a resource library and dozens of support groups, both emotional and practical in such areas as Parenting During Treatment and Teens Helping Teens, as well as wellness programs to improve treatment success and quality of life, ranging from flower arranging to meditation, yoga, and QiGong. Call 681-7672 or visit www.sansumclinic.org/classes.

To register for the race, visit www. ccsb.org/irelandwalk2016.

•MJ

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Real Estate

Olive Mill Road (near Butterfly Beach): $1,329,000 Set in Montecito’s beach area, this corner unit

by Mark Ashton Hunt townhome features 3 bedrooms and 2 and a half

Mark and his wife, Sheela Hunt, are real estate agents. His family goes back nearly 100 years in the Santa Barbara area. Mark’s grandparents – Bill and Elsie Hunt – were Santa Barbara real estate brokers for 25 years.

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t is widely believed that Montecito is home to mansions for millionaires, and real estate ownership is beyond reach for most people. As true as that may be nationally, even in the most expensive areas of California, if you are willing to lower expectations from Gatsby to reality, one can find many entry-level Montecito opportunities to consider.

Options run from a rural two-story home on an acre to a condo on Coast Village Road adjacent to shopping and dining, and all are under $2,000,000.

Coast Village Road Condo: $999,000

Most of the units in this 3-story building are 2-bedroom, 2-bath units, making this 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom, south-facing end unit something of a rarity.

The apartment offers an open floor plan, ocean views from the living room and bedrooms, and is near all the conveniences that make living close in so desirable, such as Lucky’s, Jeannine’s, Honor Bar, Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, CVS, Los Arroyos, and the rest.

There is a full-size washer and dryer in the unit (some units share common laundry), and 2 balconies offer indoor/outdoor living. This is one of only three south-facing, 3-bedroom condos in the building.

This unit was listed last year at more than $1 million. Homeowner fees are $570 per month as advertised and the building is located in the Montecito Union School District.

LIFESTYLE

Santa Monica · Beverly Hills Marina Del Rey · Venice Brentwood · Playa Del Rey

JEANI BURKE REALTOR® CalBRE 01149695 805.451.1429 JeaniBurke@gmail.com www.JeaniBurke.com

Paso Robles Drive (near Cold Spring School): $1,535,000

The ever-popular, (and hard to find under $2,000,000), 4-bedroom, 3-bathroom combination is offered in this ranch style, two-story Montecito home. This is the first time the property has been on the market since 1953. The house includes more than 2,100 square feet of living space, cathedral ceilings, gas stove, a dog run, and fruit trees.

The home has been remodeled and is across the street from Cold Spring School.

The master suite has a private balcony with views of the Montecito foothills and Cold Spring School. There is an updated kitchen with Cesar stone countertops, and the cost has been reduced from $1,749,000 to the current asking price.

Toro Canyon Road (remodeled on an acre): $1,999,000

SELLING THE

Santa Barbara · Montecito Hope Ranch · Carpinteria Summerland · Goleta

baths, with more than 1,800 square feet of living space on two levels. The location is just a short block to Butterfly Beach, and in the other direction, Coast Village Road restaurants, shops, and services. Homes on Olive Mill Road are within the Montecito Union School District.

Inside, rounded archways lead to the sunken living room showcasing a fireplace and windows. The kitchen and dining area open onto a large patio, allowing for simple indoor/outdoor living.

The garden features tropical landscaping and privacy. The bedrooms all feature balconies allowing in light and ocean breezes. This unit has a washer/ dryer and a two-car garage with direct access into the home.

The price was recently reduced from more than $1,400,000 to the current asking price. Another townhome in the same complex (listed closer to $1,500,000) is in escrow or may have closed by the time you read this.

SHEENA BURKE REALTOR® CalBRE 01729873 310.596.0011 SheenaBurke@gmail.com www.SheenaBurke.com

©2015 Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. All Rights Reserved. Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC fully supports the principles of the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Opportunity Act. Each Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage office is owned by a subsidiary of NRT LLC.Coldwell Banker® and the Coldwell Banker Logo, Coldwell Banker Previews International® and the Coldwell Banker Previews International Logo, are registered service marks owned by Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC.

This is an opportunity to purchase a 3,000+/-square foot, newly renovated home in the area on just over an acre for less than $2,000,000. Recently brought back on the market, the home was priced at more than $2,000,000 last year.

Set on a private landscaped acre, the 2-story home is in the Monterey Spanish style and offers 4 bedrooms and 2-and-a-half baths. Features include 2 fireplaces, ocean peeks from the upstairs south facing rooms, walnut flooring, kitchen with Viking package, and quartz counters.

Additionally, there is a 2-car garage and a private driveway with parking for guests. This home is in the Summerland and Carpinteria School Attendance Area but is within the Montecito 93108 ZIP code.

•MJ To have me arrange a showing with the listings agent to see one of these properties, please contact me directly: Mark@Villagesite.com or call/text (805) 698-2174. And visit www.MontecitoBestBuys.com, from which this article is based.

HOUSE DIRECTORY SUNDAY MARCH 13 93108 OPEN

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1510 San Leandro Lane 1-4pm $1,795,000 N/A Gene Archambault 455-1190 2225 Featherhill Road 2-4pm $6,995,000 6bd/6.5ba Bob Lamborn 689-6800 1525 Las Tunas Road 1-4pm $6,695,000 4bd/3ba Andrew Templeton 895-6029 630 Stonehouse Lane 1-4pm $6,650,000 5bd/5ba Ron Dickman 689-3135 975 Mariposa Lane 2-4pm $4,799,000 4bd/4ba Amy Baird 478-9318 2332 Bella Vista Drive

By Appt. $4,795,000 3bd/4ba Frank Abatemarco 450-7477 1709 Overlook Lane 1-4pm $4,620,000 5bd/4.5ba Frank Abatemarco 450-7477 705 Oak Grove Drive 1-4pm $4,450,000 4bd/6ba Ron Madden 284-4170 2355 East Valley Road 2-4pm $4,250,000 5bd/9ba JoAnn Mermis 895-5650 1775 Glen Oaks Drive 1-3pm $3,950,000 5bd/4ba Barbara Neary 698-8980 216 Ortega Ridge Road 1-4pm $3,495,000 4bd/4ba Teresa McWilliams 895-7030 595 Freehaven Drive 2-5pm $3,475,000 7bd/5.5ba Ken Switzer 680-4622 2931 Hidden Valley Lane 1-4pm $3,195,000 4bd/4.5ba Kat Perello-Hitchcock 705-4485 2885 Hidden Valley Lane 1-3pm $2,949,000 3bd/2ba Mitch morehart 689-7233 664 Oak Grove Drive 1-4pm $2,740,000 4bd/3ba Jason Siemens 455-1165 309 Avila Way 12-3pm $2,500,000 5bd/3ba Tony Miller 705-4007 43 Humphrey Road 2-4pm $2,399,000 2bd/2ba Marilyn Moore 689-0507 901 Aleeda Lane 1-4pm $2,150,000 4bd/3ba Susan Jordano 680-9060 462 Toro Canyon Road 1-4pm $1,999,000 4bd/2.5ba Sherry Zolfaghari 386-3748 116 Arroqui Road 2-4pm $1,998,000 4bd/3.5ba Scott McCosker 687-2436 1295 Spring Road 1-3pm $1,995,000 3bd/3ba Phyllis Lenker 886-2342 595 Paso Robles 1-3pm $1,535,000 4bd/3ba Troy G Hoidal 689-6808 859 Summit Road 1-4pm $1,525,000 3bd/2ba Stella Anderson 570-8529 1526 East Valley Road 1-3pm $1,485,000 2bd/2ba Christina Ruelas 452-9931 421 Seaview Road 2-4pm $1,395,000 2bd/2ba Robert Watt 252-2190 1220 Coast Village Road #110 1-4pm $999,000 3bd/2ba Laura Collector 451-2306 1220 Coast Village Rd #302 1-4pm $865,000 2bd/2ba Sina Omidi 689-7700

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With choice of Hash Browns, Fries, Mixed Green, Caesar Salad, Fruit Salad

Fresh Squeezed OJ or Grapefruit Juice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .................................... $ 6/8.

Bowl of Chopped Fresh Fruit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......................................... 9. with Lime and Mint

Giant Shrimp Cocktail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...................................... 22.

Chilled Crab Meat Cocktail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....................................... 22.

Grilled Artichoke with Choice of Sauce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................................ 14.

Burrata Mozzarella, Basil and Ripe Tomato . . . . . . . . . ....................................... 19.

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Lucky Burger, 8 oz., All Natural Chuck ....... ...................................................... $ 20.

Choice of Cheese, Homemade French Fried Potatoes, Soft Bun or Kaiser Roll

Grilled Chicken Breast Club on a Soft Bun ................................................. 18. with Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato and Avocado

Sliced Filet Mignon Open Faced Sandwich, 6 oz. ........................................ 24. with Mushrooms, Homemade French Fried Potatoes

Hot Corned Beef .......................................................................................... 19. on a Kaiser Roll or Rye

Reuben Sandwich ................................. ....................................................... 20. with Corned Beef, Sauerkraut and Gruyere on Rye

French Onion Soup, Gratinée with Cheeses . . . . . . . . . ........................................ 12.

Matzo Ball Soup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....................................... 12.

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Wild Mushroom and Gruyere Omelet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................................ 19.

Home Made Spanish Chorizo Omelet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....................................... 18. with Avocado

Small New York Steak 6 oz, and Two Eggs Any Style ................................ 25.

Corned Beef Hash (made right here) and Two Poached Eggs ......................... 19.

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Sliced Steak Salad ............................... ........................................................ 24. with Arugula, Radicchio and Sautéed Onion

Jimmy the Greek Salad with Feta ........ ........................................................ 14.

Dos Pueblos Abalone (4pcs) ........................................................................ 28.

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