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Not easy being green: Lotusland’s historic Monterey cypress removed in decaying pieces, p. 6

MOVIE GUIDE P.22 • ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT, P. 23 • OPEN HOUSES, P. 44

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New Digs For Teles

With a team of 10 and on the lookout for 10 more agents, high-end Teles Properties resettles on CVR, p.12

It’s The Pitts

Montecito’s abundant hedges owe much to the beauty and resilience of the lowly pittosporum, p.24

The concept was first proposed in 1965, so it will have taken nearly 70 years to complete and will have cost as much as putting the first man on the moon.

But hey, that’s the price of progress! (Trigger alert: sad story begins on page five)

Key Figures

Pianist Madeline Slettedahl tunes up for performance with baritone Ben Lowe at UCSB, p.29

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5 Guest Editorial Bob Hazard is on the road again, chiefly Highway 101; he analyses the status of the project that would widen 101 in Montecito, including who’s to blame for its delay 6 Montecito Miscellany Lotusland mourns; Ellen DeGeneres goes to school; Katy’s latest breakup; Royal Tea at SB Choral Society; Neverland up for grabs; Gigi Hadid in Vogue Arabia; annual Royal Ball; CALM authors’ luncheon; The Cunning Little Vixen; and Michael Keaton’s Batman attire 8 Letters to the Editor John Anderson’s grand missive; Karen Friedman’s tale; Charles McLaughlin on water; Jacqueline Cooper defends Hollywood and Jan Evans replies; plus David McCalmont gets political again 10 This Week MBAR meeting; Knit ‘N Needle; Dr. Roger Dunham at SB Maritime Museum; The New Yorker; speaking Spanish; Timothy O’Leary; painter Marianna Victoria Mashek; SB Strings; Montecito Moms; Barbara Ireland Walk; Japanese matcha; Joe Holland; all about bees; artist Kathleen Lord; author Melonie Mazman Hayden; SB Music Club; mindfulness retreat; MA meeting; Dr. Andrea Gurney; basketry group; Wendi Hunter; Luce Puppets; International Orchid Show; kids expo; MFPD schedule; art classes; brain fitness; Story Time; talking Italian; and farmers market

Tide Guide Handy chart to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach 12 Village Beat Teles Properties sets up shop on CVR; hit-and-run vehicle on Hot Springs Road; MUS honored; and Laguna Blanca’s spring benefit 14 Seen Around Lynda Miller chronicles the Opera Santa Barbara Ball and Santa Barbara Historical Museum’s Fernald Mansion 22 Movie Guide 23 Brilliant Thoughts Truth or Consequences: Ashleigh Brilliant, a poet who knows it, tries to get to the bottom of truth – starting from the top 24 Growing Green Dan Seibert digs deep and opens the gate when it comes to Montecito’s Hedgerow and those popular living barriers known as pittosporum 26 Spirituality Matters Steven Libowitz previews Dale Halaway’s seminar; professor Arnold Sikkema; SB Bodhi Path Center; workshop with Rachel Wilkins; Yoga Soup and Full Moon Meditation; Authentic Relating Games; mindfulness retreat; Constellation Circle; and SpiritSings 28 Your Westmont General Stan McChrystal explored our rapidly changing world at President’s Breakfast, and John Blondell uses female lead as Richard III set for March 9-11 29 On Entertainment Steven Libowitz catches up with Baritone Ben Lowe and pianist Madeline Slettedahl; Rita Wilson sings at Granada; SB Blues Society; and Frankie Harman takes Center Stage 35 Our Town Joanne Calitri climbs aboard the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus while chronicling NAMM and SBUSD; plus UCSB Art & Lectures hosts Gloria Steinem 38 Legal Advertising 41 Meet The Teacher Sigrid Toye spotlights Aura Greig, English and AP instructor at SB High School, who ventured to San Francisco and Uganda along the way 42 Calendar of Events UCSB music; pianist Igor Levit; Santa Barbara Strings; David Wiesner exhibit; Natasha Kislenko with SB Music Club; Wild Brew Fest; Opera SB’s Vixen; Ron White and Margo Rey; jazz in the air; St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra; and Alton Brown Live 44 Open House Directory 46 Classified Advertising 47 Local Business Directory

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by Bob Hazard Mr. Hazard is an Associate Editor of this paper and a former president of Birnam Wood Golf Club

When Will We Widen the 101 Thru Montecito?

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idening the 101 from the Ventura County line to Goleta has been in the planning process since 1965, 52 years ago. In 1993, 24 years ago, Caltrans set aside $70 million, enough money at that time to widen the 101 from two lanes to three from Bailard Avenue in Carpinteria to the Milpas Street interchange in Santa Barbara, a distance of 11.7 miles.

Unfortunately, the project was killed because of a loss of landscaping and the earmarked funds were transferred to other California highway projects. Since 1993, the bill for widening has risen to $723 million – a tenfold increase and still climbing.

When President Kennedy announced his intention to put a man on the moon in May 1961, it took only eight years for what became The Apollo Program to put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon. It is ironic that widening the 101, if finished by 2030, will cost as much as Apollo program, and take 65 years, nearly seven times longer.

Why Widen the 101?

Montecito and Santa Barbara residents and businesses depend upon more than 15,000 daily commuters from Ventura to provide a plethora of local services. Increasingly, those who make our community function are stuck in 101 gridlock that is expected to exceed 10 hours a day by 2030.

We wonder why everything in Montecito costs more, forgetting that a clogged 101 extends delivery times and raises the price of delivered goods for everyone.

Traffic congestion also paralyzes tourists trying to escape the traffic nightmare of L.A. by journeying up the coast to our laid-back and carefree community. Ha! The 101 is the only highway through the South Coast region of Santa Barbara County. It is the second-most important north-south highway in California after Interstate 5. It is our lifeline, if we need escape from raging wildfires, earthquakes, biblical floods, or tidal tsunamis.

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Current Status of the 101 Widening Project

Phase 1) Milpas to Hot Springs. Widening the two-mile stretch of the 101 between Milpas and the Hot Springs-Cabrillo Boulevard exit began in the fall of 2008, and was completed in the fall of 2012. The total cost was approximately $80 million.

Phase 2) Mussel Shoals to Carpinteria. Widening the six-mile stretch between Mussel Shoals, near the Ventura County Line, to Carpinteria Creek, plus adding a seaside bike path, had a start date of spring 2012 and a completion date of spring 2015. Phase 2 came in at a cost of approximately $100 million, less than its projected cost of $150 million.

Phase 3) Carpinteria Interchange Improvements. Widening a 1.1-mile section of the 101, plus reconstructing the Linden Avenue and Casitas Pass overpasses in Carpinteria; widening the 101 bridge over Carpinteria Creek; extending Via Real from the Carpinteria Creek area to Casitas Pass Road; and adding bikeways, pathways, and new ramps, began in September 2016. The project is fully funded.

Completion is expected to take four years at an estimated cost of $100 million.

Phase 4) Carpinteria to Santa Barbara. The final phase of the project is the widening of 10.9 miles of the 101 from Carpinteria to just north of the Hot Springs-Cabrillo intersection. It will be the most difficult and expensive part of the project, due primarily to pinched rights-of-way in Montecito, causing lanes in some places to be reduced in width from 12-feet wide to 11 or 11½ feet, accompanied by a lack of shoulders and landscaped dividers.

Phase 4 is currently in the design and engineering phase, with Caltrans responsible for the design from Carpinteria to the Padaro Lane interchange. From Padaro to the Hot Springs-Cabrillo interchange, SBCAG (Santa Barbara County Association of Governments) has retained PointC consultant Tony Harris as a corridor advisor. The consulting firm of Mark Thomas & Co. has been retained

by SBCAG to do the design work within the Caltrans EIR parameters.

The widening from Carpinteria through Montecito may be broken into four or five segments for funding and construction. It is likely that widening from Carpinteria to Padaro Lane will start first, with the Montecito portion probably consigned to last place. The Carpinteria piece has less litigation and fewer neighborhood complaints. Phase 4 construction could begin as early as late 2019 or early 2020, depending on Coastal Commission permitting approval. Once the widening is finished, we can expect no further improvements on the 101 for the next 50 years, so the community had better get it right the first time.

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Bills and Fines Eye-Opening Event TO THE EDITOR Water The letter entitled “Water Wise Ms [Janice] Evans’s disdain for the

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Water Woes” written by Ray Bourhis (MJ #23/7) hit very close to home. I have a good friend who lives on Orchard Avenue whose underground water line into her home sprung a leak recently.

She was informed by the meter or wall. Looks like we have been reader that her meter was spinning dealing with walls and borders for a too fast, and he had the water to her long time. There are countless verses home turned off. Immediately, that in the song, and it ends with: “And afternoon, she had the problem fixed they all live together in a crooked by hiring a crew to dig up the line and replace it with new pipes. little house.”

A week later, she received her I think it was a political message W W W. M O N T E C I T O M A G N I F I C E N C E . C O M water bill of over $2,400 ($800+ for of the day. the water and a $1,500 penalty). I’m Maybe it still is. sure Mr. Bourhis is putting in an What do I know? appeal against his outrageous penalKaren Friedman ty. It would be interesting to follow Montecito (Editor’s note: You got it close; here his plight.

Some would say the water district are the words to the nursery rhyme: “There was a crooked man, and he is out of control, but in reality they are in control. walked a crooked mile.

Charles W . McLaughlin He found a crooked sixpence upon a Montecito crooked stile.

(Editor’s note: Perhaps all this contenHe bought a crooked cat, which caught tious activity can come to a close soon, as a crooked mouse, And they all lived together in a little California’s water situation is now better crooked house.” than it has been for nearly a decade.

The ditty, according to a Wikipedia Santa Barbara and Montecito are still entry, refers to events that occurred in drought, but there’s plenty of water in the early 1600s along the border to draw upon throughout the rest of the between England and Scotland. – J.B.) state. – J.B.)

A Grand Station Nevertheless

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was amused to note that Mr. [Ashleigh] Brilliant himself seems to have inadvertently perpetuated a misnomer in a recent column (“Name Blame”, MJ #23/8). The error is in reference to Grand Central Station. NYC kids know that it is not a station but a terminus… Grand Central Terminal.

John Anderson Montecito (Editor’s note: As an ex-New Yorker, I can attest that nearly everyone living in that city referred to Grand Central Terminal as... Grand Central Station! – J.B.)

A Crooked Tale

Do you remember a song with the words, “He found a crooked sixpence along a crooked stile,” from the 1960s? I think it was from an old English poem. A stile is an arrangement of steps that allows people, not animals, to climb over a fence

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Congratulations to Mary Whitney

entertainment industry as a whole (“Oscar Grouches”, MJ #23/8), as well as for the many young, talented singers of today, allows me only to feel sorry for her being so sadly out of touch with today’s youth, vigor, talent, optimism, and costume.

She will have missed so much by tuning out the Academy Awards and not watching the many entertaining, brilliantly written and produced stories, acted by people who are being given awards for these talents and the music written for these movies, etc.

She cannot and should not compare these amazing people to a man like Mr. [Steve] Bannon, President Trump’s right-hand man, who has written in his website,”Breitbart News, of his association with the Ku Klux Klan, his disdain for the ACLU, his rhetoric that he would not send his children to a school because there were too many Jews (Is he afraid they could not keep up scholastically?). Is this a man who should be coaching the president of the United States?

Did Ms Evans find the words used

by Mr. Trump during his rallies for his presidential run were words she

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SATURDAY, MARCH 11

(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 9 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito. Today the board will discuss a deck extension on Alston Road, new accessory structure on Santa Rosa Lane, new garage on East Valley Road, a second-story addition on School House Lane, and many other agenda items.

When: 1 pm Where: County Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library.

When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Lecture at Maritime Museum “Within the Minds of Submariners: A Cold War Saga Beneath the Pacific on the Spy Submarine” is the topic of a lecture presented by Roger C. Dunham, M.D., who served as a nuclear reactor operator aboard a spy submarine for several years, conducting espionage against the Soviet Union during the Cold War. When: 7 pm; members-only reception at 6:15 pm Where: Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, 113 Harbor Way Cost: free for members, $10 for non-members Registration: www.sbmm.org or call 456-8747 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 10 Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group. The assembly is for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish. Participants should be familiar with the basics.

When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Book Signing at Tecolote Timothy O’Leary will sign and read from his new collection of short stories in Dick Cheney Shot me in the Face.

When: 5 pm Where: Tecolote Book Shop, 1470 E. Valley Road Info: 969-4977 Second Friday at Santa Barbara Tennis Club Painter Marianna Victoria Mashek unveils her new exhibition at SBTC. Of Russian descent and influenced by Russian Folklore, Marianna’s artwork is a personal journey of both the inner and outward expressions of love, romance, and culture. She draws from her imagination and details of life. Having majored in fine art studies at UCSB, graphite and watercolor are her favorite mediums. The show runs today through April 7; tonight is the opening reception.

When: 5:30 to 7:30 pm Where: 2375 Foothill Road Info: 682-4722

17th Annual Barbara Ireland Walk for Breast Cancer The Cancer Foundation of Santa Barbara presents a 5K, 10K, or 15K walk and run along Santa Barbara’s waterfront in support of local breast cancer research and programs.

Join Barbara Ireland, her family, and hundreds of other champions of breast cancer as they rally at the Barbara Ireland Walk and Run for Breast Cancer. Everyone is encouraged to register either individually or as a team; the squad that raises the most money will have its name engraved on the Barbara Ireland trophy. All participants are invited to relax afterward in the post-event Spa Zone featuring massages, manicures, and more. All of the funds raised from event registration fees and pledges benefit local breast cancer research and programs at the Cancer Center of Santa Barbara with Sansum Clinic. These programs include research, which makes cancer-fighting agents available in our community; genetic counseling, which provides patients with the chance to determine their cancer genetic risk and possibly have their treatment modified as a result; and navigation, which offers patients a consistent care coordinator during their experience with breast cancer.

When: 8:30 am Where: Chase Palm Park, 323 East Cabrillo Blvd.

Cost: $60 for adults, $20 for children 12 and under; participants who raise $100 or more will have their registration fees waived Registration: www.ccsb.org/irelandwalk2017 Benefit Concert Santa Barbara Strings’s Artistry of Strings benefit concert will provide support to nurture young musicians and sustain their teaching artists.

The performers will be Mary Beth Woodruff, violin; Jane Chung, violin; Basil Vendryes, viola; Andrew Smith, cello; and Robert Cassidy, piano.

An artists reception with wines and cheeses will follow the performance.

When: 7 pm Where: Hahn Hall at Music Academy of the West, 1070 Fairway Road Cost: $40 for adults; $10 for students Info: www.santabarbarastrings.org Montecito Moms at Creekside Local all-women rock band Midnight MYNX and A Flock of Cougars will be mynxing it up at the Wildcat with their eclectic mix of new and old covers and originals.

When: 8:30 to 10:45 pm Where: 15 West Ortega Street

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SATURDAY, MARCH 11 Enjoy Japanese Matcha Learn how to make a bowl of matcha, Japanese powdered green tea, and serve it to your guests in the spirit of appreciation and hospitality, the cornerstones of the Way Of Tea. Then visit the “Look Through the Heart” teahouse, ShinKanAn, for a demonstration given by the students of Sokyo Kasai. Advanced registration required.

When: 11 am to 1 pm Where: Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, 1212 Mission Canyon Road Cost: $20 for members, $35 for non-members Registration: sbbg.org/classes-events or call 682-4726, ext.102 Lecture & Luncheon The Santa Barbara Republican Club will hold a luncheon meeting at the La Cumbre Country Club. The speaker will be the Republican Club’s “favorite Democrat” Joe Holland, SB county clerk, recorder, assessor. He will speak about how “We can make our government work better for all of us.”

The public is welcome to attend.

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She won the prestigious Chelsea Flower Show in London, receiving gold medals in 2005 and 2007 and receiving a Silver Gilt in 2003.

After rolling out its “Plant Bee Friendly” initiative with nine local nurseries last year, the Beekeepers Guild of Santa Barbara secured a grant from the Fund for Santa Barbara to continue its educational program for 2017.

While continuing to promote backyard beekeeping, the guild engages the whole community in growing plants that support bees. Kate will sign her book immediately following the talk.

Many native, drought-tolerant, and bee-friendly plants have been donated by local nurseries to be given away.

Refreshments served.

When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: Unity of Santa Barbara, 227 E. Arrellaga Street Cost: free Info: beekeepersguildsb@yahoo.com Artist Reception at Porch “The Beauty of Broken”, an exhibit

by Carpinteria artist Kathleen Lord, runs through April 27. Today join for a reception to meet Kathleen and enjoy refreshments and beverages. “The Beauty of Broken”, Kathleen’s mixedmedia (marble dust, acrylic paint, and plastic found on our beach) triptych, “has to do with breaking waves, the breaking of our ecosystem, and the breaking human communication via the cell phone.”

When: 3 to 5 pm Where: Porch, 3823 Santa Claus Lane Info: 684-0300 Book Signing at Tecolote Melonie Mazman Hayden will sign Chekov in Queens.

When: 3 to 4 pm Where: Tecolote Book Shop, 1470 E. Valley Road Info: 969-4977 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 they are free to the public.

When: 3 pm Where: Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 East Anapamu Street Cost: free SUNDAY, MARCH 12 Mindfulness Practice Retreat A half-day retreat with guided meditations from Radhule 9 – 16 March 2017

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When: 2:30 to 6 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: donation Info: 969-5031 TUESDAY, MARCH 14 Montecito Association Meeting The Montecito Association is committed to preserving, protecting, and enhancing the semi-rural residential character of Montecito.

When: 4 pm Where: Montecito Hall, 1469 East Valley Road Tuesday Talk Andrea Gurney, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology at Westmont College and private practitioner, lectures on “Raising Emotionally Intelligent Children.” Free childcare with reservation.

When: 6:30 to 7:30 pm Where: El Montecito Presbyterian Church, Parish Hall, 1455 East Valley Road Reservation: bkennedy@westmont.edu WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15 Basketry Group Basketry Group is a great place to find out about basket weaving and to connect with other weavers. Bring some weaving to work on. If you are a beginner, just come to watch and learn. There will be materials available and someone who is eager to help you get started. This will be an active, enthusiastic group and welcoming to newly interested weavers.

When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 The Art of Wordless Storytelling This lecture will enhance your understanding of David Weisner’s work by placing it in an art-historical context, examining the many strands of influence in his approach to wordless storytelling. Speaker: Wendi Hunter When: 6 to 7 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 THURSDAY, MARCH 16 Luce Puppets: Splashy Sea Saga Sail the Seven Seas with Sailor Sam and his little pal Salty as they search for adventure, treasure, and a boat that won’t sink! Join in the slapstick hijinks and meet mythical creatures along the way: a giant octopus, a

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by Kelly Mahan

Kelly has been editor at large for the Journal since 2007, reporting on news in Montecito and beyond. She is also a licensed realtor with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, and is a member of Montecito and Santa Barbara’s top real estate team, Calcagno & Hamilton.

Teles Properties Opens on Coast Village Road

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uxury residential real estate firm Teles Properties opened a new Montecito office March 1 on the second floor of Plaza Montecito on Coast Village Road. Associate district manager, Larry Martin, who is helping to oversee the new office with managing director Karen Greensweig, sat down with us last week to discuss the firm and the opening.

Teles, which was once located farther up Coast Village Road, is one of 26 satellite locations across California, with select offices also located in Colorado and Cabo San Lucas. Martin says the strategic move to Plaza Montecito, the Alberto Valner-owned, Spanish-style building located between the Honor Bar and Jeannine’s, is in part to allow the company’s agents heightened

access and visibility as Teles continues to grow and recruit in the area. “The idea is that any Teles agent can go to any Teles office across the state and feel welcomed,” Martin said. “The new office will deepen our footprint up and down the California coast by connecting our northern L.A. offices to our office in Carmel.”

Martin, a former agent at Sotheby’s, has been selling real estate in the Santa Barbara area for more than 16 years, and currently oversees 10 agents at Teles in Montecito. “The goal for us is to recruit about ten more agents to join our team,” Martin said, adding that the company prides itself on cohesion, camaraderie, and a family-like atmosphere. “Making the move to Teles is the best career move I’ve ever made,”

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he said, adding that Teles is known for its ever-evolving technology platform and marketing strategies. “The company does the grunt work so our agents can be out making connections and selling houses,” he said.

The 1,200-sq-ft remodeled office houses 12 work stations and a conference room and is the ideal place to meet with clients.

To celebrate the new office launch, Teles president Peter Hernandez and CEO Peter Loewy hosted a

Mastermind Workshop and networking event to welcome agents from other brokerages to learn about Teles.

The occasion was then followed by an opening reception with appetizers and wine. “We’re delighted at the value Montecito brings to the Teles brand and we look forward to growing our business alongside these great establishments in this burgeoning community.” Loewy said. Teles Properties was established close to 10 years ago, and started with a team of 10 agents; there are now more than 520 agents. The brand is also looking at eventually expanding with a Santa Barbara office, Martin said.

The office is located at 1255 Coast Village Road, suite 201-B. For information on Teles and the Montecito office, please visit www.telesproperties.com.

Hit & Run Vehicle Sought

A hit-and-run occurred in Montecito last week, on Hot Springs Road just east of Sycamore Canyon Road. As of press time, a suspect in the accident has yet to be apprehended, according to California Highway Patrol Public Information officer Jonathan Gutierrez. “We’re hoping folks from the Montecito community can help

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The Opera Ball

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his year’s Opera Santa Barbara Ball was a celebration of “Belle Epoque France” inspired by their upcoming production of Puccini’s La Rondine. Ooh, la, la! Their guest of honor, Fred Sidon, also had ties to France. He has been awarded two knighthoods by the French government: the Order of Arts and Letters and the National Order of Merit, the highest honor France bestows on non-citizens. He’s into all things French and speaks it fluently.

Fred and his wife, Diane, were involved in Opera Santa Barbara’s first production in 1994. Then he served on the board from 2001 to 2008 including four years as president. He has spearheaded community outreach events and even sponsored tours of Italy relating to opera. Fred attended his first opera at age seven. No wonder he learned to love opera so much.

In spite of the gigantic rain storm, the Loggia Room was packed with opera fans, dressed in their finest enjoying wine and canapés. The cen-

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SEEN (Continued from page 14) Costume designer Ben-Oni Cortes with guests Amber and Nelson Crow

Opera Ball co-chair Pat Andersons, honoree Fred Sidon and wife Diane

terpiece of the cocktail room was an Eiffel Tower where many posed for pictures. The hit of the fashion statements had to be co-chair Joann Younger in her Eiffel Tower dress.

Costume designer for Opera Santa Barbara Ben-Oni Cortes, who now also works in Los Angeles, designed it. The dress lit up and it being a marvel of engineering, she could even sit down in it.

The other two people who headed up the gala evening’s committee Opera board member Mary Dorra and opera singer Molly Clementz were Pat Andersons and Rodney Baker. Their hard-working commit- Jean Rogers, Joan Rutkowski, Judy tee was Deborah Bertling, Ben-Oni Smith, and Sandy Urquhart. The Cortes, Mary Dorra, Mary Penny, exquisite table centerpieces were

Co-chairs for the Opera Ball, Joann Younger and Rodney Baker

flowers done by Joni Papay. Pat thanked everyone “for returning year after year.”

Board chair Nancy Golden expressed the excitement of the opera. As their motto says, “Opera Santa Barbara, Life… Set To Music.”

The evening was full of that with operatic arias and duets and special performances by State Street Ballet and Santa Barbara Youth Opera. The requisite “can can” personified the theme. Special guest artist was soprano Jeanine De Bique, whose voice gave you goosebumps. Artistic director is Kostis Protopapas.

Andrew Firestone led the live auction enticing folks to bid on opera

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House museums are popular. The first one was George Washington’s Mount Vernon when some ladies in pre-Civil War years decided to restore the much-dilapidated home.

Montecito has Casa del Herrero and Santa Barbara has the Fernald Mansion. The home belongs to the Santa Barbara Historical Museum (SBHM) but has been closed for several years.

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Never Again Neverland, the former 2,700 acre Los Olivos home of the late Michael Jackson owned by Santa Barbara Polo Club patron Tom Barrack, is back on the market again, with a hefty 33-percent reduction in price from $100 million to $67 million.

The property, now renamed Sycamore Valley Ranch, includes a 1982 Normandy-style, 13,000-sq-ft six bedroom mansion designed by Robert Altevers, as well as a 50-seat theater, a four-bedroom guesthouse and a separate two-bedroom guesthouse, along with nearly two dozen other structures.

Jackson, who died in 2009 at 50, bought the estate for $19.5 million in the late ‘80s from golf club entrepreneur William Bone. Jackson was in default on the loan on the ranch when it was bought by Colony Capital, 69-year-old Barrack’s private equity firm.

“This quintessential California estate is now ready for the next chapter in its journey,” says listing agent Joyce Rey of Coldwell Banker.

Tea Time A torrent of tony tête toppers descended on the Music Academy

Hats off to Diane Boss (photo by Linda Blue Photography)

of the West when the Santa Barbara Choral Society hosted a sold-out Royal Tea with Darren McGrady, former chef to Queen Elizabeth and the late Princess Diana.

Such was the popularity of the event, for which Darren – who I have known for 10 years – winged in from his home in Dallas, Texas, that numbers, originally pegged at 48, climbed to more than 70, with hopefuls still calling on the morning of the super sandwich soirée.

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A forest green, late-model Land Rover or Range Rover, similar to this one, is sought in connection with a hit-and-run that occurred last week in Montecito

identify the vehicle and driver,” Officer Gutierrez told us.

The incident occurred on Wednesday, March 1, between 3:10 and 3:15 pm. According to a witness, a car was rear-ended by a late model dark (forest green) Land Rover or Range Rover, driven by a white male adult in his 50s with long blond hair.

The witness said once the moderate crash occurred, the driver of the Land Rover or Range Rover exited the vehicle and approached the front window of the vehicle which he had just hit; he spoke shortly with the driver, who was hurt, and then ran back to his car and sped away.

The witness said the suspect’s vehicle had multiple stickers on the back window, with prominent yellow stickers. The California license plate contained the number 6 and letters of P and J (no specified order). The suspect vehicle would have moderate frontend damage caused from colliding into the rear of the victim vehicle.

There was also a white female adult

sitting in the front passenger seat, and she had shoulder-length blonde hair and was possibly in her 50s.

The victim in the accident was transported to Cottage Hospital with neck and head injuries; she has since been released.

“We feel like this vehicle is very identifiable, and we are hopeful we will find the suspect,” Officer Gutierrez said. Please call (805) 9671234 and ask for Officer Darker, who is the investigating officer, if you have any pertinent information.

MUS Honored

On March 3, Montecito Union School (MUS) reps attended a special ceremony with Tom Torlakson, state superintendent of Public Instruction.

The school was named a federal nominee to compete in the U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools (ED-GRS) recognition program, which honors schools that conserve resources while promoting health and environmental literacy. All the nominees were also named Green Achievers, the highest honor in the California Green Ribbon Schools recognition program.

We’ve been covering MUS’s advancement in the program over the last several years; they earned Bronze Level in 2015 and Gold Level in 2016.

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and cruelty are breathtaking, and we blind-sided by an opponent in power John McCain and Mitt Romney Adity, insertion 10-16, 2017 are brainwashing our date: generations Friday, of chil- whoMarch really doesn’t care what the con- for the same reason Adolf Hitler dren with these degrading and destructive sequences are for taking them on in loved Neville Chamberlain in 1938. public, with or without court-room Democrats hate Donald Trump Advalues. creation/delivery date: Tuesday, March 7, 2017because at 1:20:39 PM caind_met03 I challenge you to name the award-win- evidence of the left’s wrong-doing. he hates the left, and is will-

wanted her children to hear? (I would not repeat them, you know, the “F” word). Did she not see the swastika signs at his rally that he never asked to be removed? Did she not hear his contempt for women and his sleazy remarks aimed at them?

People see what they want to see.

I can only ask Ms Evans to open her eyes and heart to those people in our country to have built a great nation. Free schools for our children, presidents who have given us Social Security, Medicare, made sure we had a free press and you had the right to view your ideas without being held accountable. All, I might add, are from our Constitution, held up by Democratic presidents.

If Janice Evans would open her mind, her heart, and find joy in watching our talented, our young, without looking at what they are wearing, she would be a more joyous person.

Jacqueline Cooper Carpinteria (Janice Evans responds: Your intolerance of anyone with an opinion other than yours is quite evident in your letter addressed to me. I’ve found it quite entertaining to watch the progressive liberal left swarm “like lemmings over a cliff” when anyone dares to utter a thought, or question an action that does not emanate from their tribal mentality.

Your defense of the Academy Awards and “the many entertaining, brilliantly written, produced stories and acted by people who are being given awards for these talents and the music written for these movies”, is indicative of the shallow, mindless, and totally distracted lives that so many in our society seem to be living today.

The sexuality and scatological language of a large segment of movie productions in the past two generations is appalling. The depiction of unfaithfulness, deceit, duplic-

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ning philanthropists, inventors, scientists, or significant achievers of the entertainment industry of the past three or four generations as compared to previous generations. Generally speaking, the entertainment industry, including most of the music, has continued to degrade itself with its mindless quest for fame and money – forget talent, class, and taste.

The balance of your letter became a tirade against the Trump administration; unfounded allegations against members of his staff; a clear embrace of the ACLU and feminism; support for free schools and all of the entitlement programs, which have all been upheld “by Democratic presidents.” You assert that Social Security, Medicare, entitlements, and free schools are all Constitutional guarantees; they are not!

You chastise me for “seeing what I want to see” and advise me to open my “mind and heart” to those entertainers and others that you admire so much. If you were to take your own advice, I doubt that you would have written your letter to the editor scolding me. Happy trails. – Jan Evans.)

Taking on the Left

Everybody who’s anybody knows that Barack Obama & Company (not Hillary) is operating a “shadow government” parallel to the U.S.’s legitimately elected government, for the express purpose of thwarting the will of the people who voted for Obama’s successor, and undermining the programs and policies the people endorsed through the election.

Accustomed to “country club” Republican opposition in the past, the left is totally flummoxed and

The most important accomplishment that must arise from four years of Donald Trump in the White House is the humiliating defeat of the left in American politics and its fall from grace. The next most important accomplishment is demonstrating by deeds in action the pleasures of success that accrue to a newly “militarized” Republican Party, which takes on the Democrats and wins.

Democrats love Republicans like

ing to take action to put the left in its place. A conservative purist could not do to the left what Donald Trump has already begun to do: disassembling the machinery of the left and exposing their deeds and intentions in public for everyone to assess for themselves.

Hold on folks; we’ve got 47.5 months more to go!

David S. McCalmont Santa Barbara •MJ

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Brilliant Thoughts

by Ashleigh Brilliant Born London, 1933. Mother Canadian. Father a British civil servant. World War II childhood spent mostly in Toronto and Washington, D.C. Berkeley PhD. in American History, 1964. Living in Santa Barbara with wife Dorothy since 1973. No children. Best-known for his illustrated epigrams, called “Pot-Shots”, now a series of 10,000. Email ashleigh@west.net or visit www.ashleighbrilliant.com

The Hole Truth

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et’s start this discussion with a poem I like. Can you identify the author?

I told the winds to blow, and they blew, I told the birds to fly, and they flew, I told the grass to grow and it grew – I also told my lover to be true.

Are you stumped? Okay, I have to confess – the author is – or was, some 50 years ago – Yours Truly... And already we have raised several questions about truth. When we talk about a lover being “true,” is that the same kind of truth as you swear to tell in court? And what about “Yours Truly” – how truly am I really yours? Did I say “really?”

Where does reality come into this?

The truth is that nobody knows what the truth is. But one thing I can definitely tell you is that it may be more soothing than you think. In fact, “sooth” was an old-time way of saying “truth” – hence we get “forsooth,” and your friendly neighborhood “soothsayer.”

I first encountered this concept as a child, when one of my favorite comic books was called “True Comics.”

Its contents looked like other comics, but the stories supposedly really happened. Somewhat puzzlingly, the Public Library had no “True” section.

There was only “Fiction” and “NonFiction.”

For better or worse, religion also comes into this. In a famous New Testament passage (John: 18.37-38), Jesus tells Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea, that he has come to bear witness to the truth (which of course is what all true believers of every faith believe). To which a possibly cynical Pilate replies, “What is Truth?” And, perhaps significantly, there the dialog ends.

But there are many kinds of truth.

One is mathematical. We take it for granted that 2 and 2 make 4 – until some wise guy says, “Why not 22?”

That’s the trouble with taking things for granted.

But I used the word “identify” above.

Surely, identity is an unquestionable aspect of truth. Things are what they are. People are who they are. If only it were that simple! But identity ain’t what it used to be. Quite apart from the currently fashionable crime of “identity theft,” more and more things are turning out to be not what we thought they were. Places on Earth once considered inaccessible have become tourist 9 – 16 March 2017

Meccas. Objects far from Earth are no longer beyond human reach.

Isn’t there anything we can be really sure of? Or is truth just a big doughnut – with plenty to chew on, and even to swallow, but surrounding a core of unfathomable emptiness – in fact, a hole? – which, in terms of true love, irresistibly evokes that plaintive plea: “Doughnut forsake me, Oh, my Darling!”

But, holey or holy, truth is here to

Surely, identity is an unquestionable aspect of truth stay – at least to the extent that a real American town has Truth as its name.

The town is in New Mexico, contains about 8,000 people, and is a county seat. Actually, Truth is only part of its name, the full version of which is Truth Or Consequences. For some reason, locals don’t call it “Truth” for short.

(Maybe that much truth is too hard to bear.) Instead, they call it a bland “T or C.” How did it get such an outlandish name? You may think that it comes from the old party game (sometimes called “Truth or Dare”) in which participants have to give a correct answer or pay a penalty. Well, it does – but only indirectly. It actually came from the name of a popular radio game show, which my family used to enjoy, before 1946, when we had to return to England (where the BBC was much more straight-laced).

Alas, it was not until 1950 that the radio show, which often did elaborate stunts, announced that, to celebrate its 10th anniversary, it would broadcast live from any town which would change its name to Truth or Consequences. The municipality which had been Hot Springs, New Mexico, since 1916, took up the challenge – and the rest is history (and geography.)

So. where does this leave us? As far as truth is concerned, we’re left with a poem by Yours Truly on the all-too-familiar theme of the untruth of True Love; a beloved religious leader who claimed to represent the truth two millennia ago (and nevertheless suffered the consequences); a doughnut of truth surrounding a Black Hole – and a town which dares not speak its name.

•MJ

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GROWING GREEN

by Dan Seibert Mr. Seibert helps people out with their plants for a living, and is familiar with all kinds of gardening and small designs of planter beds and pots. His background includes 14 years at San Ysidro Ranch, some time at the Biltmore, and 10 years as head gardener at El Encanto. You can reach him at: danosb@cox.net)

The Hedges of Montecito

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ences may make good neighbors, but fences made of hedges help make not only good neighbors but also hidden homesteads and happy homeowners; hedges are living barriers that provide privacy and create beauty, by virtue of being a hedge.

The most common around here – the one I call the quintessential hedge of Montecito – is pittosporum undulatum.

Named because the leaves are wavy; they undulate.

A good example of blocks of it is the stretch of East Valley Road between San Ysidro and The Valley Club. Or, virtually anywhere in the Hedgerow.

Within the next few weeks, their sweet, tropical fragrance will begin wafting through the neighborhoods of Montecito and some streets in Santa Barbara. When I moved here in 1986, I developed a penchant for what became a favorite pastime: discovering and identifying fragrant plants.

They can fool you by having small inconspicuous flowers. Such is the pittosporum, with its small cream-colored

This is a simple, beautiful gate through a pittosporum hedge; along with a profusion of other plants, pittosporum hedges and trees define what is known as Montecito’s Hedgerow

The red-orange flowers are Cape Honeysuckle, which were in bloom a month ago, in the midst of a giant pittosporum hedge

flowers that look like popcorn and are easy to dismiss.

In 1988, I was living on East Victoria Street near the County Bowl. One evening, walking back from the Victoria Market (love that store), I pass a sweet fragrance. Looking around, I didn’t see any flowers and after walking back and forth, I narrowed it down:

COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING On Wednesday, March 22, 2017, the Montecito Planning Commissions will hold a public hearing at 123 East Anapamu Street, Room 17, Santa Barbara, CA, which will include the following items: 1. Case No. 16ORD-00000-00015. Adopt a recommendation to the Board of Supervisors that Board of Supervisors adopt an ordinance (Case No. 16ORD-00000-00015) amending Division 35.2, Montecito Zones and Allowable Land Uses, Division 35.3, Montecito Site Planning and Other Project Standards, Division 35.4, Montecito Standards for Specific Land Uses, Division 35.6, Montecito Site Development Regulations, Division 35.7, Montecito Planning Permit Procedures, Division 35.9, Montecito Land Use and Development Code Administration, and Division 35.10, Glossary, of Section 35-2, the Santa Barbara County Montecito Land Use and Development Code, of Chapter 35, Zoning, of the Santa Barbara County Code; and 2. Case No. 16ORD-00000-00016. Adopt a recommendation to the County Planning Commission that it recommend to the Board of Supervisors that Board of Supervisors adopt an ordinance (Case No. 16ORD-00000-00016) amending Division 2, Definitions, Division 4, Zoning Districts, Division 7, General Regulations, Division 11, Permit Procedures, Division 12, Administration, Division 13, Summerland Community Plan Overlay, and Division 16, Toro Canyon Plan (TCP) Overlay District, of Article II, the Santa Barbara County Coastal Zoning Ordinance, of Chapter 35, Zoning, of the Santa Barbara County Code.

A typical scene in the Hedgerow is that of homes and estates surrounded by barriers, high and low, made up mostly of pittosporum

it was coming from above me. A pittosporum tree in full bloom. The only downside of this plant is the sticky orange seeds that drop from it.

There are other choices for hedges; the Texas Privet is a favorite, with its dark green oval leaves. It’s in front of the Biltmore along Channel Drive. It grows from four feet up to 10 feet tall, and is a slow grower during most of the year. For a gardener, that amounts to a labor-saving incentive. Another favorite of mine is Cape Honeysuckle, with its orange flowers that bloom continuously from Christmas to about now.

A nice combination for a hedge is

a pittosporum-Cape Honeysuckle mix, such as the handsome hedge that surrounds much of the Music Academy of the West. And I admire its informal look.

There are other honorable mentions of hedges, such as the fluffy feathery podocarpus, the red and green sheared high and tight Eugenia, and the all-parts-poisonous oleander.

The pride of Montecito, however, is the pittosporum, so for the next few weeks, as it blooms, you should take time to admire its foliage and breathe in its glory.

When it comes to hedges, let chaos reign.

•MJ

The proposed ordinance amendments revise the existing regulations, including permit processes and development standards, in order to implement recent revisions to Government Code Section 65852.2 regarding accessory dwelling units (currently referred to as “residential second units” in the County’s zoning ordinances).

The Montecito Planning Commission meeting begins at 9:00 a.m. The order of items listed on the agenda is subject to change by the Commission. Anyone interested in this matter is invited to appear and speak in support of or in opposition to the project. Written comments are also welcome. All letters should be addressed to the Montecito Planning Commission, 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101.

Letters, with nine copies, should be filed with the secretary of the Montecito Planning Commissions no later than 12:00 P.M. on the Friday before the Montecito Planning Commission hearing.

Maps and/or a staff analysis of the proposal may be reviewed at Planning and Development, 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101 a week prior to the public hearing. For further information, please contact Noel Langle at (805) 568-2067, by email to noel@co.santa-barbara.ca.us or FAX to (805) 568-2030.

If you challenge these projects (Case Nos. 16ORD-00000-00015 and/or 16ORD-00000-00016) in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence to the Montecito Planning Commission prior to the public hearing.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this meeting, please contact the Hearing Support Staff (805) 568-2058. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the Hearing Support Staff to make reasonable arrangements.

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Former SBHM trustee Warren Miller, April Walstad, board president Sharon Bradford, and board member John Woodward visiting the Fernald house

complete his law studies.

He lived through two catastrophic fires and was forever afraid of kerosene lamps. He used candles and electricity as soon as it was available.

He had decided to return home but never made it, because he stopped off in Santa Barbara to visit friends. The fates intervened and he became sheriff at the young age of 22 of this lawless town. He survived two months in that position and was then elected district

attorney. That began 40 years of public service, serving three terms as county judge and in 1881 becoming mayor of Santa Barbara.

In 1862, he married Hannah Hobbs and began constructing their home, which was very different from today.

It began as a two-story square made of brick with a lean-to kitchen in the rear.

In 1880, architect Thomas Nixon completely transformed the house similar to today.

Jeremy White, Ph.D., and museum outreach coordinator Hannah Gordis inside the Fernald house

The family grew and so did the house. Peter Barber made further additions and daughter Florence made the last additions in the 1920s. Florence wanted the house demolished when she died in 1958, but the SBHM saved the house and in 1959 moved it to their property on Montecito Street. It was quite a trip. First the house was cut into thirds and hoisted onto trailers. The journey required two days with some 400 telephone lines cut in order to pass. It was exciting when

one section became stuck on the railroad tracks. A frantic call was made to the northbound Southern Pacific to stop the train.

Many of the family’s belongings are still in the home along with other period pieces that have been brought in.

As one of the docents, Jeanne Martin, Ph.D., told me, “The house reflects the history of progress of Santa Barbara in Victorian times.”

For reservations or information, call (805) 966-1601.

•MJ

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Spirituality Matters

by Steven Libowitz “Spirituality Matters” highlights two or three Santa Barbara area spiritual gatherings. Unusual themes and events 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.

Getting Closer

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ale Halaway’s next transformational seminar, the second of five “Relationship N’ You” weekends scheduled in Santa Barbara for 2017, takes place March 10-12. Participants will learn how to become more conscious – and what to become conscious of – to experience more joy, love, and fulfillment in all relationships, partnerships, and friendships – even with money. The seminar helps attendees discover how some people energize you and others “flatline” you, and what to do about it; the differences between what men and women want in a romance; what gets in the way of truly embracing others; clear out the low-energy games that have been restricting connection; and a method for infusing soul into your relationships.

Participants can take the seminars in any order; it’s not necessary to have started in January. For more details and registration information, call Montecito transformational and spiritual coach Ragan Thomson at 453-7281, or visit www.joyticity.com or www.montecitourbanfarms.com.

Particles and Praying

Arnold Sikkema, Trinity Western University professor of physics and president of the Canadian Scientific & Christian Affiliation, explores the interaction between science and faith in a lecture titled “Quantum Physics and Christianity” at 3:30 pm on Friday, March 10, at Westmont College in Montecito. The talk delves into what quantum indeterminacy might mean for Christian theology, including how we could

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The event is aimed at enhancing Westmont’s science-faith conversation by bringing it into dialogue with current understandings of quantum mechanics, one of the most important theories of modern science as it governs the operations of small particles. The free talk takes place at Darling Foundation Lecture Hall, Winter Hall, Room 210.

Back at Bodhi Path

Santa Barbara Bodhi Path Center hosts a day of intensive meditation practice on Saturday, March 11, with visiting teacher Khaydroup Zangmo, who served as the center ’s resident teacher more than 15 years ago. Khaydroup completed two retreats of three years each in France under the guidance of master Gendun Rinpoche after spending five years studying with Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche in the 1990s. Khaydroup moved back to the United States in 2000 to be a resident teacher at the Santa Barbara Bodhi Path Center, and during her two-year stint also helped found both the San Luis Obispo and West Los Angeles Bodhi Path centers. The West Los Angeles group moved to Pasadena in 2004 where Khaydroup continues as the resident teacher.

Saturday’s event focuses on The Prayer of the Seven Branches, which is found frequently in many forms throughout Buddhist texts. Using Shamar Rinpoche’s commentary on “The King of Prayers”, the day will be devoted to understanding and practicing each of the seven branch-

es during both the morning and afternoon sessions, set for 9:30 am to noon and 1 to 4 pm, with lunch break at the center brown bag-style.

Each session will feature readings, discussion, and practice. The fee is $60 for both days, or $35 or either session, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Register on site at 9 am.

Embodied Flow

Rachel Wilkins’s workshop lets participants drop into the profound healing space of pure somatic awareness and deep relaxation though embodied movement, meditation, and yoga nidra. During the 1 to 4 pm event on Saturday, March 11, at DiviniTree Yoga, guests will have the opportunity to connect with the innate wisdom and regenerative energy of the body, restore with abhyanga Ayurvedic self-massage, develop a nourishing and creative home practice, and learn how to integrate therapeutic self-care practices into their daily routines. Cost is $30 in advance, $35 at the door. Visit www.sb.divinitree.com/schedule/ events-workshops.

Soup for Nourishment

Yoga Soup events coordinator Britta Gudmunson is offering free one-hour talks on Holistic Nourishment each month on the second Saturday of the month. The playful inquiries led by the heart-based nourishment coach explore a range of topics, including nutritional habits and inclinations, movement and exercise, social life and relationships, vocational endeavors, and spiritual practices. All are invited to join the conversation and perhaps leave feeling both thoughtful and empowered by the opportunity to actively shift and shape your perspective on the definition of “healthy.” This month’s talk, slated for 12:30 to 1:30 pm on March 11, is titled “Mindful Eating: How slow-

ing down changes our lives and our bodies”.

Later that same night, Patrick San Francesco, an energy healer from Goa, India, visits Yoga Soup to offer a Full Moon Meditation, followed by a Q&A session and individual healing for all participants.

The 6 to 9 pm event, which cost $35, features healing sessions from 6 to 7 pm, followed by the meditation at 7:30 pm (which will also stream live online), before the evening concludes with the conversation period from 8 to 9 pm. As the founder and chairman of the Samarpan Foundation, Patrick has been invited to speak at the United Nations, where he presented a unique earthquake resistant, cost-effective, and green building concept that has now been utilized in projects in Nepal, India, and various parts of Africa. More info at www. lightmovement.org.

Divas, Diving Deep

Lamara Heartwell, the Santa Barbara-based Hendrix Institutetrained coach who founded Santa Barbara’s weekly ecstatic dance gathering Dance Tribe in 2009, is teaching “Coming Home: a Women’s Movement Journey” at Yoga Soup next Thursday, March 16. The workshop, for women only, provides an opportunity to open the pleasure body and expand your capacity for self-love and intimacy with your essential nature. Set up as a freeform, non-lineal movement practice, the journey will have participants listening to and following the impulses of their bodies, guided by the natural intelligence that courses through flesh, blood, and bones. The goal is to leave feeling nourished and rejuvenated from breathing into and moving with every cell of your body in a state of loving presence. The 7 to 9 pm event costs $20 in advance, $25 day-of/at the door. Dance Tribe still meets from 11 am to 1 pm every Sunday.

•MJ

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dangerous bunny, a fearsome dragon, and an unusual sea monkey. An original show from Luce Puppets at Montecito Library!

When: 10:30 to 11:15 am Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library.

When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAY, MARCH 17 Orchid Show Santa Barbara International Orchid Show returns to Earl Warren Showgrounds this weekend.

Thousands of blooms in every imaginable shape, color, pattern, and texture, will be showcased at the spectacle, one of the country’s largest and oldest celebrations of orchids.

When: today through Sunday, March 19, from 9 am to 5 pm daily Where: 3400 Calle Real Info: www.SBOrchidShow.com

Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish.

Participants should be familiar with the basics.

When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 SATURDAY, MARCH 18 Kids Expo The 12th Annual Parentclick Kids Expo featuring platinum sponsors Kubisch and Ferris Orthodontics, Girls, Inc. of Santa Barbara, Cottage Health, and The Learningden Preschool. The event will be held at La Cumbre Plaza, where more than 60 local businesses and organizations will fill the plaza with booths meant to educate parents on the many programs and activities available to families in Santa Barbara County from the newborn stage to teen. This event is fun for all ages!

Parents can gather information on camps, classes, health, sports, fitness, education, non-profit volunteer opportunities, and more. Kids will enjoy a variety of free interactive activities at every table, music, games, and live performances and entertainment.

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ONGOING Montecito Fire Protection District’s Fire Prevention Chipping Schedule Week of March 13 – Lower Romero, Oak Grove, Alisos, Olive, Piedras, Veloz, Lilac, Feather Hill, Camino Del Rosario, Knollwood, Tabor, and Orchard.

Vines, grass, palms, succulents, and other small trimmings can be put in dumpsters that have been donated by MarBorg Industries. The dumpsters are placed at pre-identified locations within the participating neighborhoods during the week of the project. Participants are asked to stack larger shrub and tree limb materials at the edge of the nearest passable access road for free chipping.

For more information, call 565-8018.

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by Scott Craig Scott Craig is manager of media relations at Westmont College

McChrystal Examines Technology, Teamwork

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eneral Stan McChrystal addressed more than 700 people at Westmont’s 12th annual President’s Breakfast in the Fess Parker Grand Ballroom on March 3. Later that morning, he fielded questions from four Westmont students during convocation on campus, speaking to about a thousand people. At both events, he discussed challenges presented by the rapid pace of technology, globalization, and our increasingly complex society.

At the breakfast, McChrystal said the students in the Westmont Choir reminded him of young soldiers about to go on a mission, who will sacrifice to do what they’ve been ordered to do.

“It really puts the responsibility back on us to do it right,” he said. “If there is any responsibility we have now, it is to think for ourselves, not to watch TV to think for whatever our favorite channel is, not to read and say, ‘Yep, that’s what I should think,’ but to reconsider, to empathize, and to think for ourselves.”

Noting “the world is a little scary right now,” McChrystal summarized recent world history and the factors shaping our contemporary environment. “Migration and refugees are a much more permanent challenge to the world than we might think, and it’s something we have to deal with,” he said. “The U.S. exists in its current state because people migrated, which is a good thing.”

Technology has brought great change. “Most of what all of us do is going to be pushed aside or changed

by technology,” he said. “It doesn’t mean we will be out of a job, but it means we are going to have to change with it.

With the democratization of technology, we have to consider threats from groups or individuals, not just from countries such as Russia and China.

“Now we have people [in] groups or individuals who can threaten things like aircraft carriers and secure facilities,” he said.

McChrystal said that we’ve grown up in a complicated environment and trained for that, but the world has become so complex our response has to change; we can’t keep going back to familiar ways of solving problems.

“Before we can be successful, we have to go into something that feels a little more disorienting. You have to have a foundation to share common purpose.

You are sharing information and pushing it down to the lowest levels of the organization... technology lets you do that now. We can’t forget to think for ourselves.”

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At convocation, McChrystal expanded on the challenges of technology.

“With artificial intelligence and robotics, you’re going to very soon have robots make decisions on whether or not to strike and surround systems with the ability to shoot and a machine will be given enough to make a decision,” he said. “I am very uncomfortable with that.

He advocates extreme transparency and disseminating information broadly. In the past, soldiers did their work independently without understanding how it contributed to the overall goal.

Only the people on the top knew that.

“You lost context, you lost speed,” he said. “We changed out the system so that everybody saw the whole.”

In Afghanistan, McChrystal said, 1,700 non-governmental organizations wanted to help while remaining independent. “We’re going to have to take a ‘Team of Teams’ approach, so that the thing that matters is nobody’s batting average,” he says. “Nobody’s individual contribution really makes the difference. It is only the outcome as a group.”

A failure to understand history will doom us to wander in utter ignorance.

He said the U.S.’s understanding of history in Iraq and Afghanistan was so thin that if the country were a business, it would have been taken to court for not doing its due diligence.

“When you don’t know what the people think or more importantly why they think it, there is no way you can predict what they are going to do,” he said. The people who learn fastest and apply the lessons succeed. “History teaches you that there is not a right answer, there is only a right answer in context of that organization.”

McChrystal ended with an emphasis on empathy, “the ability to get on their side of the table and understand that their fears are not irrational given their backgrounds and experiences. It’s the willingness to be open-minded enough to consider different ideas. I think education is at the heart of that.”

Richard III In Black Box

John Blondell, Westmont professor of theater arts, directs a Lit Moon Theatre production of William Shakespeare’s Richard III, presenting the king’s Machiavellian rise to power and short reign, on March 9-11 at 7:30 pm in Westmont’s Porter Hall BlackBox Theatre. Tickets, which cost $20 for general admission and $15 for students and seniors, may be purchased at westmont.edu/boxoffice. The theater seats an intimate audience of 50, so advance purchase is requested.

In some ways, Lit Moon is continuing the work it started in 2012 when it played Henry VI, Part 3 in Santa Barbara. That production featured an ensemble of eight, with Lit Moon actors Victoria Finlayson and Marie Ponce-DeLeon (‘10) as King Henry VI and Richard of Gloucester, respectively. “This production continues in that direction and spirit,” Blondell says, “and uses four women, including Marie as the aforementioned Richard and ultimately Richard III, and a musician in the performance.

“Though there are many reasons to play this material with women.

The principal one is that I believe that something rich, unexpected, and unnerving results from the fusion of cast and material, which seems completely appropriate for the play and this historical moment.”

Physics and Christianity Arnold Sikkema, Trinity Western University professor of physics, explores the interaction between science and faith in a lecture, “Quantum Physics and Christianity,” Friday, March 10, at 3:30 pm in Darling Foundation Lecture Hall at Westmont’s Winter Hall, room 210.

The Science and Faith Club Lecture is free and open to the public.

This talk will explore what quantum indeterminacy might mean for Christian theology, including how we should think about human and animal free will and God’s acting in the world.

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Baritone Ben Lowe and pianist Madeline Slettedahl unite at Hahn Hall

by Steven Libowitz

The Lowe-down on MAW Recital

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rowing up in Anchorage, Alaska, Ben Lowe never even considered opera singing as a hobby let alone a career until he got to college.

“I sang in the choir, but I was more interested in music theory and composition – but then the opera chorus director asked me to be in the summer show,” Lowe recalled recently. “I had no idea what it was about. She said ‘You get to dress up and be loud and obnoxious’. That sounded fun.”

But even after graduating, Lowe was ambivalent about singing professionally. In fact, he joined the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve for a few years in 2007. “That was when I realized I really did want to be a singer. So I’ve been cultivating my voice ever since.”

All of which explains why Lowe was already 30 before spending his first summer at the Music Academy of the West in 2016, when he not only landed the role of the bonobo in the West Coast premiere of Matthew Aucoin’s Second Nature but also came out of nowhere to win the Marilyn Horne Song Competition.

“I’d been either working my way

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through college or doing local ensembles and orchestras in Los Angeles.

MAW was my first real step out into a bigger life in the classical world,” the bass-baritone explained. “So I was very surprised (to win).”

But Lowe didn’t show up for the big day at Hahn Hall without a whole lot of preparation.

“I knew fairly early what I was going to sing, because I did some research poking my nose about what made past winners stand out above the rest of the singers,” he admitted. “I heard it was about telling a story that connected through all three songs, rather than three different stories. So I was confident in the music and repertoire.”

It also didn’t hurt that he performed

at Hahn the day before the competition at Horne’s masterclass.

“That had been most of my focus, and I got a wonderful response. So I was very comfortable.”

Still, winning was, even by his own hopes, something of a long shot.

“Apparently, I sang well. I was able to really enjoy the music,” Lowe said.

“But it was a total shock to have my

name be called at the end after seeing so many other incredible performances from my colleagues.”

One of the rewards of winning is the mini-recital tour that brings Lowe back to Hahn Hall at 7 pm Saturday for an all-English language program with Madeline Slettedahl, the young

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pianist who won the vocal piano side of the Horne contest. Although they never rehearsed or performed together last summer, the pair has quickly developed chemistry, the singer reported.

“It’s been very exciting watching her move through these very different pieces,” Lowe said. “She’s such an incredible pianist, it feels like I’m getting to sing with an orchestra. She’s always with me, and is very attentive and has very good instincts. We work very well together.”

Saturday’s recital features a wide variety of music from composers Barber (James Joyce Songs), Hogan (Gospel Songs), Holst (Vedic Hymns), Ireland (Songs of the Sea), William Bolcom (Mini Cabs), and Aucoin (Three Whitman Songs).

“We wanted to perform a recital that was not only a broad swath of types of music but also accessible to all audiences,” Lowe explained. “English makes it easier for the audience to understand the words.”

While the first half closes with Barber’s “I Hear an Army”, a reprise of Lowe’s competition slot last summer, the second half lets the singer and pianist dig into more modern music.

“There are incredible moments of chaos and others of simplicity,” said Lowe, who noted he’s eagerly antic-

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ipating offering the gospel works by Hogan. “Those are meaningful to me because I’ve been going to church all my life. I’ve always found a lot of joy and peace and reverence in gospel songs.”

The two sets of arts songs should take the audience on a journey, Lowe said.

“It’s a combination of fun music and more emotional pieces. Each set paints its own unique landscape. If you were to close your eyes and let your imagination go, you can draw a very vivid picture in your head. I’ve found these songs to be very inspiring, and I’m hoping the audience has a similar experience.”

Lowe returns to the Music Academy this summer and will sing Dulcamara, the leading bass-baritone role in Donizetti’s Elixir of Love, on stage at the Granada in August, after serving only in the chorus for last summer’s main opera production.

“He’s such a mischievous character, a swindler – like Harold Hill selling ‘The Think System’ in The Music Man,” Lowe said. “So I’m looking into how to use the patter, the text – there are a lot of very fast lines, spitting out words 100 at mph – to let the music and text speak to the comedy, and reinforce with some physical comedy.

So much of the role is how I’m selling myself.”

Indeed, the con man bamboozles the Elixir character who is most like the one Lowe created for his winning performance at the MAW vocal competition. “Oh, yeah. I get to take advantage of the lovesick tenor,” Lowe said with a chuckle. “Between portraying a talking ape and now this guy, it’s a lot of fun.”

And after August? Who knows.

“I’ll be hitting the audition circuit and see what’s out there,” Lowe said.

Maybe a reunion with Aucoin, who is helming Crossing at Los Angeles Opera in the upcoming season?

“I’m hoping I can audition to be a cover somewhere with that,” Lowe admitted. “I’d love to keep working with him.”

Mrs. Hanks’s Melodies

Rita Wilson found fame as an actress on film (It’s Complicated, Sleepless in Seattle) and TV (The Good Wife, Girls), and as a film producer (Mamma Mia!, My Big Fat Greek Wedding), not to mention her nearly paparazzi-free marriage to Tom Hanks. But music was always her first love.

Five years ago she released her debut album, AM/FM, covering some of her favorite songs growing up, and last year followed that up with an all-original effort. On Saturday, she makes her Santa Barbara singing debut with Liner Notes: Songwriters, Stories, and Music, featuring Wilson and three special guests sharing their songs and the stories behind them.

The other performers aren’t household names, but their songs certainly are. Billy Steinberg co-wrote five No. 1 Billboard singles including “Like A Virgin” (Madonna), “True Colors” (Cyndi Lauper), and “So Emotional” (Whitney Houston). MoZella is the co-writer of several number one hits including “Wrecking Ball” (Miley Cyrus) and One Direction’s top 10 “Perfect”, plus 11 of the 19 tracks on Madonna’s Rebel Heart. Grammy winner Richard Marx has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, and enjoyed big hits with “Hold on to the Nights,” and “Don’t Mean Nothing.”

Wilson talked about her musical roots and desires and the upcoming concert over the phone.

Q. Until just a few years ago, you were mainly an actress/producer – how did you get more seriously into singing and making albums?

A. When the kids were gone and I was able to take a step back, I had all this creative energy. On my 50th birthday, my good friend Nora Ephron – who didn’t direct her first movie until she was 50 – toasted me by saying that great things happen after you turn 50.

So who’s to say that I can’t start something else and be good at it? We limit ourselves, especially by saying that a certain age means we should be slowing down. But to me, it’s more about

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what’s out there? What else could I be doing? What’s in me that I could be discovering?

I’d always wanted to sing and to write, but was way too scared to do it, and even to admit that I wanted to.

But at a certain point, you just stop caring and just do the things that give you joy. There’s a lot more to say as a songwriter when you’ve lived for a while.

After doing all covers on your first album, AM/FM, your second, self-titled album is all songs you co-wrote. How did that happen?

I met (Grammy-nominated songwriter-producer) Kara DioGuardi, who asked me what I really wanted to do with music. I told her, “I wish I could write music like you.” And she said, “What makes you think you can’t?” I don’t write or read music or play an instrument, but she told me if you have something you want to say, I’ll write a song with you. I told her my idea, and that became “Grateful”.

What I learned is that I completely love songwriting. As an actor, you’re given a script and you either do it or not. You either respond to the character or don’t. Nothing in between.

You’re playing someone else, hiding behind a character, and even though you want to bring as much truth as you can, it’s out of your hand. When someone else directs it and edits it, you have no control after you shoot your scene.

With songwriting, it felt so much more personal and intimate in the sense that I could be super truthful, and that brought a lot out of me. The process is so satisfying.

The album is uplifting despite your having just gone through the ordeal with breast cancer. Was it your way of coping?

When you confront something like cancer, you really start bearing down on the things you want to do with your life. If what I write about connects with others, and helps someone else feel like they’ve been understood

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on some level, it’s a very worthy thing to do. A song like “Crying Crying” is about growing up in Hollywood where you’re always supposed to be smiling, even when something is going on underneath – a disease, death of a friend. You put on a happy face in public and only get to be yourself at home. The song touches on the idea of seeing if I tell the truth all the time.

What can you tell me about the “Liner Notes” show, which sounds a lot like the old-style, in-the-round coffeehouse shows?

Yes, exactly! When I was younger, I would come home, get out my albums, pull out the sleeve, put the record on the turntable, and then study the liner notes. I knew every songwriter, background vocalists, studio where it was recorded at, the producer. Everything.

We’ve lost that nowadays. So I wanted to celebrate the songwriter, having gone through the process of working with these incredible ones where our sessions felt like a masterclass for me.

The stories they have behind the hits need to be heard. There’s something very powerful about a songwriter singing his song in the way it was written – very simply with a guitar or piano, some lyrics, and a voice. And when you strip it back down that way, there’s an intimacy and a different perspective on the meaning. It’s like being in someone’s living room, just eavesdropping.

On stage, we take turns with the songs and might sing harmonies on each other’s songs. It’s very much a conversation between us, too. We ask each other questions, things we might have wondered about. Even when we’ve done it before, new stories emerge, or we sing different songs.

It’s really a blast.

Forging on at 40

The Santa Barbara Blues Society (SBSS) celebrates its 40th birthday with an all-star show starting at 7:30 Saturday night. Get more info at 7228155 or www.SBBlues.org.

Here are five reasons why you should be there: 1) History matters – SBBS is the oldest continuously existing such organization in the country, so they must be doing something right.

2) Brothers and a Kid – The show features the Delgado Brothers, which beat out 150 other bands from all over the world to claim the Blues Foundation’s International Blues Challenge last year, while Joey Delgado won the Albert King Award as best guitarist.

Need more? Guitarist Kid Ramos, formerly with the James Harman Band and the Fabulous Thunderbirds (who both played SBBS over the years), will join ‘em along with multiple surprise guest musicians. Trust me, you’ll care.

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takes place at the Carrillo Recreation Center in downtown Santa Barbara, which not only has a big stage set well off the ground and plenty of space for sitting, strolling, or dancing, but also features a sprung floor – yes, there are springs underneath the wood – meaning your knees and other joints will ache a whole lot less than after dancing on concrete.

4) Free eats – As at all SBBS shows, yummy barbecue snacks are served gratis even before the music begins – and there’s usually enough to last into intermission, though with the crowds expected for this special show you might want to eat first or get there early. Plus: birthday cake!

5) Get happy – It’s hard to have the blues when you’re dancing to ‘em.

‘Nuff said.

Montecito Movement

Frankie Harman, the Montecitoraised daughter of actress-philanthropist Pamela Dillman Haskell (and granddaughter of actor Bradford Dillman), was the winner of the first Santa Barbara Teen Dance Star competition in early 2016. Frankie relinquished her crown back in January but not before offering a final solo shot, a show-stopping number danced to James Brown’s still-timely “It’s a Man’s, Man’s, Man’s World”.

Her parents are even more excited that Frankie has been accepted to study in the summer program of the famed Alvin Ailey Company in New York City later this year. She’s only 15, but it’s probably a matter of time before Ailey or some other professional company snatcher her up; in the meantime, you can see her locally this weekend at Configuration at Center Stage. See the Events calendar for details.

•MJ

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support of the PTA and the MUS Green Committee,” said superintendent Tammy Murphy.

Three California school districts and two individual schools were nominated for the federal honor, including Culver City Unified School District, Redondo Beach Unified School District, Redondo Beach Unified School District, Yosemite High School, and The Thacher School in Ojai.

“These schools and districts serve as role models for their students in two important ways,” said Torlakson in a statement. “First, they manage their own facilities wisely by saving energy, conserving water, and reducing their

impact on the environment. Next, they provide innovative education programs that teach students about nature, the importance of clean air and water, and how to make good choices to preserve the environment for future generations,” Torlakson said.

With the help of Heidi Winston, a former MUS mom and Green Team vice president, MUS applied for the honor based on dozens of green initiatives throughout the campus, including waste diversion via recycling and composting, removal of hazardous materials including pesticides and cleaning products, the removal of carpeting with noxious chemicals,

MUS principal Dr. Nick Bruski, former MUS mom Heidi Winston, Facilities manager Jesse Landeros, superintendent Tammy Murphy, state superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson, and science teacher Vanessa Scarlett, at last week’s honoree ceremony in Redondo Beach

daily UV index monitoring via the school’s Weather Station, less paper usage due to an increase in digital documents, organic gardening, the addition of a refillable water station,

encouraging students and parents to walk to school, increased bike parking, and more. Murphy credits science teacher Vanessa Scarlett for continuing the work and helping the

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school achieve this honor.

Green Ribbon Schools demonstrate exemplary achievement in three “pillars.” Pillar I: reduce environmental impact and costs; Pillar II: improve the health and wellness of schools, students, and staff; and Pillar III: provide effective environmental education that teaches many disciplines and is especially good at effectively incorporating science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, civic skills, and green career pathways. California is one of 29 nominating authorities, including 28 states and the U.S. Department of Defense Education Activity that nominated schools and districts for federal recognition this year.

The U.S. Department of Education will confirm state nominees on April 24.

Laguna Blanca’s Spring Benefit

This Saturday, March 11, Laguna Blanca school will hold its annual spring benefit, iViva Laguna! Feria de Sevilla, at Bacara Resort & Spa. Director of Communications Tara

Broucqsault tells us this year is extra special, as there will be works of art auctioned off by Lower School students who worked with parent and renowned artist Masha Keating.

Keating emigrated to the United States from Russia when she was 13 years old, and in the past 20 years, she says she has found – and reimagined – herself through both oil and digital painting. Currently represented by Izen Miller Gallery in Palm Desert, Keating recently shared her talents with students to create beautiful works of art that will be auctioned off this weekend.

Keating’s artistic endeavors were nurtured by her family while growing up in the Soviet Union. She says her grandfather was an artist and her first major influence. “As a 13-yearold adolescent trying to navigate the pitfalls of growing up, it was very hard to transition into a completely new culture and language,” she shares.

Having painted with oil originally, Keating recently moved to digital painting, a branch of digital art where the artist uses a digital stylus, rather

Artist and Laguna parent Masha Keating at work with her digital art

than an actual brush. For the fundraiser art projects, Keating created a combination of real and digital paintings in partnership with Laguna students in grades EK through 4. Each child was instructed to create a Rorschach print by spilling paint on paper and folding it in two. After collecting photos of everyone’s work, Keating combined the images from each class into one 24x24-inch composition per grade, then digitally manipulated and painted, using the children’s art as a springboard for her own larger inspiration.

At an upcoming March assembly, Keating will also give the upper school students a demonstration of

her techniques using state-of-the art digital arts platforms.

In addition to the student pieces, Keating is donating one of her own works of art, Sky Dance, a digital painting on metal, 18x36 inches, to be auctioned at the event.

Masha Keating is a member of Santa Barbara Studio Artists Organization.

In January, she opened her own studio at SBCAST (Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science and Technology) Studio C. It will be open to the public the first Thursday of every month. Learn more about her art at www.mashakeating. com.

For more information about the event, visit www.lagunablanca.org. •MJ

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Join school a dministrators, 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

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If the project were to start by 2020, it could be completed by 2030, but don’t hold your breath. The currently estimated cost of $425 million can count on only some $140 million in “Measure A” funding, resulting from a half-cent increase in the County sales tax, approved in November 2008 by a supermajority of 79% of qualified voters.

This still leaves $285 million still to come from state and federal funding. Good luck to Caltrans in securing federal highway dollars for California, given the state’s current relationship with the sitting president. The faster that Caltrans is able to complete the final portion of the 101, the less expensive the project will be.

Who’s to Blame for Delay?

The favorite target for turtle-like progress is Caltrans, but the real culprit for delay, if we are honest, is us. For example, In 2012, a group of Montecito residents, insisting on retaining left-lane exits and entrances over the safety objections of the California Highway Patrol, the Federal Highway Administration and Caltrans engineers, petitioned Governor Brown unsuccessfully, creating a two-year delay on the widening project.

In October 2014, CEQA attorney Marc Chytilo led a successful challenge of the Caltrans August 2014 Final Environmental Impact Report for the South Coast 101 HOV Lanes Project, calling it “deeply flawed” with respect to the traffic impact on some existing interchanges. Chytilo’s efforts were supported

by Santa Barbara mayor Helene Schneider and four city council members.

In November 2016, Caltrans issued a revised Environmental Impact Report, which will not be approved by Superior Court judge Thomas Anderle until at least late summer or fall of this year. Because the 101 is no longer maintained to normal standards, pending widening, what we are left with is are potholes, continuous constriction, and trash.

The Phantom 101 Widening

A WOODWIND AFFAIR

Tuesday, March 21, 2017 / Lobero Theatre 5:30 pm, Supper Club / 7:30 pm, Concert Heiichiro Ohyama, Conductor

PROGRAM: Poulenc’s Suite française (d’après Claude Gervaise) Scott’s Sacred Women Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments, 1947 Revision Weill’s Kleine Dreigroschenmusik, Suite from The Threepenny Opera

In one sense, we have already added a third-lane crawlway to the 101 in Montecito--though it is not the high-speed lane everyone expected. The slow lane is called Coast Village Road with a jog at the Montecito Inn, continuing east on North Jameson Lane, exiting onto Ortega Hill Road, over the hill into Summerland, east on Lillie Avenue through Summerland, running past the Polo Club, all the way down to Carpinteria. Twice a day, for three hours every morning and every afternoon, this clogged route punishes local residents and businesses.

There has also been a fourth lane added to the 101, exiting the 101 at Hot Springs, creeping up Hot Springs to dead end at Olive Mill, continuing north on Olive Mill to the Mount Carmel Church, turning right onto East Valley Road thru the Upper Village, and continuing eastward on the narrow and winding State Highway 192 to Carpinteria.

For the last five years, Coast Village Road has been morphing from quaint shopping and street-side cafes to wall-to-wall traffic. Congestion worsens with each year of widening delay. The closure of the southbound on-ramp at Cabrillo and the 101 has sent a tidal wave of southbound beach traffic thru our village, punishing local dining and shopping by making it an excruciatingly unpleasant experience. East Valley Road and the upper village of Montecito are now suffering that same fate.

It’s time we do the right thing and work with Caltrans to remove the roadblocks and fulfill the widening dream that is now celebrating its 52nd birthday and counting.

Next week: What can we expect as improvements for each of the five 101 intersections that affect Montecito?

•MJ

A SUMPTUOUS FEAST FOR DISCERNING woodwind aficionados, this program combines three modernist delicacies by Poulenc, Stravinsky, and Weill, with an agreeably complimentary work by contemporary composer Jeff Scott. A French horn player of great accomplishment, Mr. Scott is perhaps best known as a founding member of the adventurous, Grammy-nominated quintet Imani Winds.

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9 – 16 March 2017

Our Town

Keeping Her Glow

by Joanne A. Calitri

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Contact her at: BeatArtist8@aol.com

John Lennon Educational Tour Bus Students Trevor Hurvitz, Neve Greenwald, Abby White, and Katie Caballero, singer-songwriter Amy Holland and John Lennon bus crew Gabe Smith, Luke Huisman, and Steven Meloney

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rammy-nominated singer-songwriter Amy Holland (her spouse is Michael McDonald) with the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus [JLETB] crew: Gabe Smith, Luke Huisman, and Steven Meloney pulled into La Colina Jr. High School on February 28 to provide four music students the experience of writing and recording an original song with a little help. The students are: 8th graders Trevor Hurvitz on bass, piano, vocals; Neve Greenwald on piano, vocals; and Abby White on guitar, vocals; with 7th grader Katie Caballero on guitar, vocals.

The non-profit bus, which was founded and is funded annually by Yoko Ono Lennon since 1997, provides junior high through college students hands-on time with seriouslystate-of-the-art audio, video, and live production gear and the opportunity to have a professional recording session and songwriting experience.

Donna Ronzone, director of Visual & Performing Arts for the Santa Barbara Unified School District [SBUSD], explained how it came about: “Out of the blue! Jo-Ann Geffen PR contacted the SBUSD on January 26 to find out if there was interest to make a stop in SB. After reviewing what the bus would provide, I decided to make it happen, given their criteria: a second-

ary school with a music program, students who could compose a song and play an instrument, and an adequate power supply for the bus along.”

La Colina fit, and Shannon Saleh, its Theater & Music director, was ready to take it on immediately. “John Lennon was an amazingly creative and talented musician, I can’t imagine what the American songbook would sound like without his work and influence.” Saleh added, “I selected these four students because they play instruments, sing, hold a melody and harmony, experiment with songwriting, and could work together well for the eight-hour experience.”

When I arrived on board, the kids were warming up and being kept to a strict schedule. Neve, Abby, and Katie worked with Amy, Gabe, and Luke to write the song, and Trevor was laying down bass lines with Meloney in the production room. Gabe commented, “We have very talented musicians and songwriters here; I’m super-pumped to have worked with them, for their age they’re light-years ahead of where I was and even possibly where I am now.”

Trevor summed it up for the kids, “I really enjoyed how a small group of people can go onto this bus and come out with a song that everyone put their work into.”

La Colina student Trevor Hurvitz laying down bass tracks with sound engineer Steven Meloney on the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus

With her birthday just around the corner [March 25], octogenarian Gloria Steinem is still exploring, questioning, and championing the unique values we all can bring to one another and society at large.

With clear understanding and warm humor that life experience yields, she maintains a poised and engaging energy while speaking about issues close to her heart: social non-violence, the prevention of domestic violence and child abuse and rehabilitation for victims of it, and of course, gender inequalities.

Thus, to pigeonhole her into one category, feminism, is quite limiting and an affront if you claim she’s your guru. Women’s liberation in the ‘70s equally liberated men from previously established gender roles, lending to shared functions in parenting and trading roles in the job market.

Her March 2 talk at the Arlington Theatre sponsored by the Orfalea Family as part of The Lynda [Weinman] and Bruce Thematic Learning Initiative: Creating a Better World, UCSB’s Arts & Lectures, proved interesting. Some highlights: Throughout the talk and the question-and-answer section led by Roman Baratiak associate director A&L, Steinem kept bringing the collective present to the core foundations of positive human interaction: “We need to listen to each other with common sense, balance, and empathy.” She further directed women who usually put others first to learn to treat themselves as well as they treat those they care for. She posited history has shown that oppression of women normalizes violence of any kind, rationalizes racism, cast systems, and the like, violent crimes are actually supremacy crimes, with

racism and sexism as one in the same.

Steinem asserted that we are currently at a good place to see the connections between the issues and to know we are more on the path toward a true democracy than we were a few years ago. The highlight of the Women’s March in January for her was that prior to it, she was concerned “current society would think pressing send would be enough to contribute to causes, that we wouldn’t get out and relate to others in person anymore, to share what’s on our minds, to make things better. The women’s march changed that. When I was heading home from the march, I took a red cab and the driver told me that he was at the first women’s march in 1970, and it saved his life from going down one road of violence with the panthers to one of peace. Being out there with others, interacting in a positive way with all five senses on board, as psychologists’ studies show, is vital for human survival.”

Steinem concluded, “Don’t get bogged down in shoulds, do what you can, and before you leave tonight, take a moment to introduce yourself to at least three people here.” To a well-deserved standing ovation, she gracefully thanked everyone for coming and met attendees in the lobby to sign her current book, My Life on the Road.

411: Steinem graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Smith College in 1956. Her awards include: Lifetime Achievement in Journalism from the Society of Professional Journalists; the University of Missouri School of Journalism Award for Distinguished Service in Journalism; the Ceres Medal from the United Nations; and the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award.

•MJ

Celebration of Life for our dear friend Alyssa Reginato 1974- 2017 Alyssa was a beautiful, giving, loving daughter, sister & friend, she worked at Red Studio for 18 years and was a loyal employee, co-worker and friend.

Please join us to celebrate her life Saturday March 11 at 2:30, at Elings Park in the Singleton Pavilion, Bring a blanket or chair and any photos that the family may keep.

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You don’t know a woman until you have a letter from her. – Ada Leverson

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including chocolate biscuit, caramel banana cake and chocolate birthday cake, accompanied by pots of tea .

Barbara Burger, honorary chair, was also lauded for her longstanding work with the organization and was presented with a suitably inscribed copy of Darren’s best-selling book Eating Royally.

The royal chef will be out in our Eden by the Beach again on May 20 for Rockwood Abbey, the society’s spring gala at the Rockwood Woman’s Club, with yours truly as emcee and the ubiquitous Andrew Firestone as auctioneer, including a trip to Provence.

Among the guests masticating on the royal fare were veteran conductor JoAnne Wasserman, Debra Stewart, Paul Munch, Brooks and Kate Firestone, Anne Luther, Holly Murphy, Haley Firestone Jessup, Erin Graffy, Gail Arnold, Karen Williams, Deborah Bertling, and Wedgwood china specialist Mary Reynolds.

Royal Treatment A surplus of crowns and kings, not to mention a few queens, descended on the lavishly tented terrace of the Coral Casino for the Pacific Pride Foundation’s 5th annual Royal Ball, which also celebrated the organization’s 40th anniversary.

The 400 creative guests at the majestic soirée, which was expected to raise

Hannah-Beth Jackson and Monique Limon, with Pacific Pride Foundation Royal Ball talent (photo by David Gala)

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the La Pacifica ballroom was transformed into a shimmering silver wonderland by Montecito event wizards Merryl Brown and Percy Sales.

The popular event, which took a year off last year and is now biennial, was co-chaired by Peter Crawford and Pieter van Meeuwen, and fea-

tured a host of sensuous go-go girls and guys gyrating to the throbbing disco beat into the early hours.

Among those enjoying the majestic mayhem were Leslie RidleyTree, Hannah-Beth Jackson, Perri Harcourt, David Edelman, Mindy Denson, David Bolton, Justine

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gift the show has ever given, worth a hefty $1.6 million.

Tears streamed down the face of the students and teachers from the Summit Academy in Red Hook, Brooklyn, when they heard the news.

The founder and principal at the school, Natasha Campbell and Cheryl Swift respectively, were brought on the show a few weeks ago when Ellen awarded them $25,000 for their diligent educational work.

“It is one of Brooklyn’s most underserved communities,” says Campbell.

“Only four percent of adults have obtained a college degree or gone to college. Over 28 percent of the children under 16 live in poverty.”

Her school, however, plans to change that record – and boasts 97 percent of their first graduating class is currently enrolled in college.

Their goal this year is to have 100 percent of the graduating class move on to higher education.

“It is important for all of us to hear this story because a lot of us – we take advantage of how easy our life is, and to go the school we want to go to, and to do the easiest of things,” says Ellen.

“These kids have to overcome all kinds of things, and they go to school every single day and they work hard every single day – and all they want to do is go to college, and they deserve that.”

Brava!

CALM Balm CALM – Child Abuse Listening Mediation – hosted its 31st annual celebrity authors’ lunch at Fess Parker’s DoubleTree, attracting 500 guests and raising around $100,000 for the nonprofit that helps 2,000 families annually.

Four best-selling authors, Montecito’s Fannie Flagg, double-Emmy nominee Dianne Dixon, New York Times bestseller Craig Johnson, and

Opera SB’s Cunning Little Vixen (photo by David Bazemore)

award-winning, self-taught baker Kate McDermott, were interviewed by multi-Emmy Award-winning NBC investigative reporter Hank Philippi Ryan, Susan Gulbransen, daughter of founder Claire Miles, and Tom Weitzel of Entertainment Tonight, at the busting bibliophile bash, emceed for the seventh year by the ubiquitous Andrew Firestone.

Other authors at the popular event, co-chaired by Becky Cohn and Carolyn Gillio for the sixth consecutive year, included Marina Delio, Kathie Deviny, Judith Groudine Finkel, John Gherini, Journal columnist Erin Graffy, Tom Mielko, Kim Hooper, Patti Jacquemain, Bruce Kirkpatrick, Eric Peterson, and the Double Energy Twins, Judi and Shari Zucker.

The annual Claire Miles Award went to former auxiliary and CALM president Jeanette Carpenter.

Among the many supporters were Rona Barrett, Anne Luther, Eve

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Guest, Alan Rose, Colette Schabram, Bryce D. Corcoran, and Solomon Ndung’u (photo by Isaac Hernandez)

Roddick, Tina Schlieske, Milt and Arlene Larsen, Hayley Firestone Jessup, KEYT-TV weathercaster Alan Rose, and realtor Terry Ryken.

A crowning achievement.

Head of the Class Former Oscars host Ellen DeGeneres would seem to be following in the footsteps of her near Montecito neighbor Oprah Winfrey.

The former Chicago talk-show titan funds a school for girls in 9 – 16 March 2017

Johannesburg, South Africa, and paid for first-year graduates to attend some of America’s best colleges.

Now Ellen, whose Burbank-based talk show is celebrating its 14th year, has followed suit with an entire class of seniors from a Big Apple high school receiving a full scholarship to any state university in New York for a four-year course.

The comedienne, who is leading the philanthropic campaign with store giant Walmart, says it is the biggest Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. – Sydney Smith

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ORDINANCE NO. 2017-01 AN ORDINANCE OF THE GOVERNING BOARD OF THE MONTECITO FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT ADOPTING THE FIRE PROTECTION PLAN FOR THE MONTECITO FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT AND REPEALING DISTRICT ORDINANCE NO. 2014-01.

WHEREAS, the Montecito Fire Protection District operates under the provisions of California's Fire Protection District Law of 1987, wherein the State Legislature declared that the local provision of fire protection services, rescue services, emergency medical services, hazardous material emergency response services and other services relating to the protection of lives and property is critical to the public peace, health and safety of the State of California and that local control over the types, levels and availability of these services is a long-standing tradition in California; and WHEREAS, the State Legislature has also declared that its intent is to provide broad statutory authority for local fire protection districts, encouraging local officials to adopt powers and procedures set forth in the Fire Protection District Law of 1987 to meet their own circumstances and responsibilities; and WHEREAS, Health and Safety Code Section 13861 provides the District with certain powers, including the power to establish and enforce rules and regulations.

NOW THEREFORE, the Governing Board of the MONTECITO FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT ordains as follows: Section 1. Repeal of Previous Fire Protection Plan.

Ordinance No. 2014-01 of the Montecito Fire Protection District is hereby repealed.

Section 2. Adoption of Fire Protection Plan.

There is hereby adopted by the Board of Directors (“Board”) of Montecito Fire Protection District (“District”) the Montecito Fire Protection Plan (“Plan”) attached hereto as Exhibit A and incorporated in full herein by this reference. The Plan contains the following sections: 1. Section 1 – Roofing Assembly Requirements.

2. Section 2 – Vegetation Management. (Including Figure 2-1) 3. Section 3 – Access Requirements for Roads and Driveways (Including Figures 3-1, 3-2, 3-3 and 3-4).

4. Section 4a – Water Supply for Fire Protection (Including Figures 4a-1 and 4a-2).

5. Section 4b – Water Storage for Fire Protection (Including Figure 4b-1).

6. Section 5a – Installation Requirements for Residential Sprinkler Systems.

7. Section 5b – Installation Requirements for Non-Residential Sprinkler Systems.

8. Section 6 – Request for Modifications for Post Disaster Rebuilds.

The purpose of the Plan is to establish regulations governing conditions dangerous to life and property from fire.

Further, the Plan is intended to supplement the District’s adoption of the current version of the California Fire Code, including amendments to the California Fire Code, Building Code and Residential Code (collectively “Code”). In the event of any conflict between the requirements of the Plan and the requirements of the Code, the more restrictive requirement shall govern.

Section 3.

Enforcement and Penalties. (a) Any person who violates any of the provisions of this Ordinance or fails to comply therewith, or who violates or fails to comply with any order made hereunder shall severally for each and every such violation and non-compliance, respectively, be guilty of an infraction punishable by a fine of not more than $250. The imposition of one penalty for any violation shall not excuse the violation or permit it to continue; and all such persons shall be required to correct or remedy such violations or defects within a reasonable time; and when not otherwise specified, each ten days that prohibited conditions are maintained shall constitute a separate offense. (b) The application of the above penalties shall not be held to prevent the enforced removal of prohibited conditions. If a violation is determined to exist or to be impending, the Fire Chief is authorized to take such measures as are deemed necessary or expedient to secure compliance. In carrying out such measures, the Fire Chief and his agents may request, and shall receive, the assistance and cooperation of the County Building Official or other appropriate officials of the County of Santa Barbara. (c) When the Fire Chief determines that any person has engaged in, is engaged in, or is about to engage in any act(s) or practice(s) which constitute or will constitute a violation of any provision of this Ordinance or the Plan hereby adopted, the District Attorney or District Counsel may make application to the Superior Court of Santa Barbara County for an order restraining or enjoining such act(s) or practice(s), a permanent or temporary injunction, restraining order or other corrective order may be granted. (d) In the event that any person, firm or corporation, whether as a principal, agent, employee or other type of representative shall fail to abate or correct a violation of any provision of this Ordinance or the Plan hereby adopted after notice and opportunity to correct or end same, the District Attorney or District Counsel may apply to the Superior Court of the County for an order authorizing the District to undertake

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actions necessary to abate the violation and to require the violator to pay for the cost of such undertaking. (e) Any person, whether as principal, agent, employee or other type of representative who maintains any premises in violation of any provision of this Ordinance or the Plan hereby adopted shall be liable for and obligated to reimburse the District for all costs incurred by the District in obtaining compliance, or which are attributable to or associated with any enforcement action, whether such action is administrative, injunctive or legal; and for all damages suffered by the District, its agents, officers and employees as a result of such violation or efforts to enforce compliance. (f) Any violation of any provision of this Ordinance or the Plan and any amendment thereto may, in the discretion of the District Attorney for the County of Santa Barbara, be prosecuted as a misdemeanor.

Section 4.

Liability.

It is the intent of the Board to establish minimum standards for the protection of the public health, safety and welfare. This Ordinance shall not be construed to establish standards of performance, strength, or durability other than those specified. Neither this Ordinance nor any services rendered in connection with or pursuant to its terms by Fire District officers, agents or employees, are intended as nor shall be construed to be the basis for any express or implied warranties or guarantees to any person concerning any structure or portion thereof or appurtenance thereto constructed, repaired, replaced or removed pursuant to this Ordinance or the Plan hereby adopted.

Section 5.

Findings.

The Board, following due consideration, hereby finds and determines that the adoption of the Plan is reasonably necessary due to local climatic, geological, and topographical conditions existing in the District. The District hereby finds and declares that: The area within which the District is located regularly experiences strong, hot, dusty, and down canyon winds referred to locally as "Santa Anas" or "Sundowners.”

Such wind conditions increase fire danger by significantly contributing to the spread and intensity of fires, and significantly increase the difficulty of effective fire suppression within the District.

If a fire involving a single structure cannot be immediately extinguished, such wind conditions can rapidly spread flames to adjacent structures, significantly endangering lives and/or millions of dollars in property value.

Such winds can spread existing flames from a structure or natural fuel to structures and natural fuel significant distances away, even jumping over fire breaks and freeways, resulting in significant property damage and/or loss of life.

Much of the jurisdiction of the District is within heavy brush and chaparral.

It is generally known to take about 25 years to build up extremely dangerous combustible brush conditions, and the District contains areas where combustible flora has built up for 50 to 100 years.

The District is in an area prone to extensive drought conditions, significantly increasing the already natural combustibility of the chaparral, brush and ornamental shrubbery in the District.

Such fuels can rapidly transform a small manageable fire into an uncontrollable conflagration, compromising the lives and safety of District personnel and residents.

The reduction of such fuels provides a direct correlation to the safety of the lives and property within the District, and will substantially reduce the risk of injury or death to District personnel.

The District is geographically situated such that extreme solar exposure (south, southwest, and west facing slopes) continually results in critically low live fuel moisture levels, further rendering most brush, chaparral and ornamental shrubbery highly combustible.

Due to these conditions even non-structural fires can pose a massive threat to the lives and structures located in the District.

The District is located in close proximity to several active earthquake faults.

During and after an earthquake, there is a high potential for fires and other emergencies threatening the lives of District residents, generally requiring the commitment of all available resources.

Geographic and topographic conditions delay response times for fire apparatus (these conditions include remote structures; narrow, winding roads which hamper the access of modern fire suppression apparatus; and extremely sloping roads which tend to slow fire apparatus response).

Water can be in short supply in the District, and fires in areas with structures with noncombustible roofing typically consume far lesser quantities of water than those not complying with the Ordinance, allowing greater fire suppression coverage, and preventing unnecessary loss of life and/or property within the District.

U.S. Highway 101 traverses the District, and is a transportation route for hazardous materials and some traffic accidents on Highway 101 require the presence of all available fire apparatus, leaving the District with fewer resources to combat structural fires elsewhere in the District.

The Union Pacific Railroad line also traverses the District, and a train accident or derailment could immediately deplete the District's resources, limiting the District's ability to furnish fire protection for the balance of the District.

The Montecito Fire Protection District is in the mutual aid plan and is committed to supply personnel and equipment for serious fires outside the District and which can reduce the personnel and equipment available for response to possible emergencies within the District.

Further, in many instances because of the extra hazardous conditions, a defensible space protection zone around buildings and structures of only one hundred feet is not sufficient to provide for tenable wildland firefighting operations around such buildings and structures. These conditions are common upon

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lands within the District that are located within the Montecito Resource Management Zone as designated by the County of Santa Barbara. Such areas are generally rural areas with slopes exceeding 40% and are covered with old age class chaparral and dense vegetation, creating conditions that are dangerous to fire fighters. The Fire District has designated these areas as Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zones on the Montecito Fire Protection District’s Fire Hazard Severity Zones Map. Portions of the District, however, that are designated on the Montecito Fire Protection District’s Fire Hazard Severity Zone Map as High Fire Hazard Severity Zone rather than Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone as previously designated by the California Director of Forestry and Fire Protection are in residential areas located south of East Valley Road (Highway 192). This area is comprised of more gentle terrain, with less dense brush, and ornamental landscape vegetation around the residences and estates. Road access in this area is moderate.

Due to these conditions as compared to the conditions in the Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone, the District designated this area as High Fire Hazard Severity Zone.

The Governing Board expressly finds and declares that the findings contained herein provide the basis for the amendment, deletions, and additions to the Code contained in this Ordinance.

Section 7.

Severability.

If any article, section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or word of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be unconstitutional or invalid, such holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The Board hereby declares that it would have passed this Ordinance and each article, section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or word thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more articles, sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases or words may be unconstitutional or invalid.

Section 8.

Effective Date and Publication. (a) Effective Date. This Ordinance was introduced for first reading on January 23, 2017, and passed on February 27, 2017, and shall take effect 30 days after final passage. (b) Publication. In accordance with Section 25124 of the Government Code, this Ordinance shall be published once, with the names of the members of the Board voting for and against it in a newspaper of general circulation in the District within fifteen (15) days after its adoption.

PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED by the Governing Board of the MONTECITO FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT on this 27th day of February, 2017, by the following vote: AYES:

J. A. Powell, P. van Duinwyk, J. Venable

NAYS: ABSTAIN: ABSENT:

None None S. Easton, M. Lee

Peter van Duinwyk, President MONTECITO FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT ATTEST:

John Venable, Secretary STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA

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ss.

I, John Venable, Secretary of the Governing Board of the Montecito Fire Protection District, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the above and foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of Ordinance No. 2017-01 of said District, adopted at a regular meeting of the Governing Board, held on the 27th day of February, 2017, at which meeting a quorum of the Governing Board was present and acting throughout, and that the same has not been amended or repealed.

DATED: This 27th day of February, 2017.

John Venable, Secretary MONTECITO FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT A complete copy of Fire Protection Plan (“Exhibit A” to the Ordinance) is on file with the clerk of the MFPD Board of Directors and is available for public inspection and copying in that office in accordance with the California Public Records Act. Published March 8, 2017 Montecito Journal

NOTICE INVITING BIDS The City of Santa Barbara is selling surplus property per Municipal Code Chapter 4.28.020-030 at 20 West Mason Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. The public is invited to bid on this property.

The opening of bids will be held on March 21st, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. in the Public Works Conference Room at 630 Garden Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Offers must be non-contingent, “as is”, close escrow 30 days after approval, and are subject to over bid only after a qualified sealed minimum bid has been received.

A minimum bid price has been set at $1,995,000. A deposit of 3% of the purchase price and proof of financing or funds necessary to close escrow within thirty days must be provided at time of bid.

Call Goodwin & Thyne Properties for more information or to get a bid package (805) 899-1100.

Published March 8, 2017 Montecito Journal

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTOR BID NO. 3781 Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3781 for the Montecito Street Bridge Replacement and Pedestrian Improvements Project will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 P.M., Thursday, April 13, 2017 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, “Montecito Street Bridge Replacement and Pedestrian Improvements Project, Bid No. 3781".

The work generally consists of the removal and replacement of the Montecito (Yananoli) Street Bridge over Sycamore Creek with sidewalks on Montecito Street, and sidewalks and retaining walls on Salinas Street. The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant, and equipment necessary to complete and deliver the finished bridge replacement / pedestrian improvements project per plans and specs. The Engineer’s estimate is $2,900,000. Each bidder must have a Class A license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code.

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 Andrew Grubb P.E., Project Engineer; 805-5645404.

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.

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.

A contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, subject to the requirements of Section 4104 of the Public Contract Code, or engage in the performance of any contract for public work, as defined in this chapter, unless currently registered and qualified to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5. It is not a violation of this section for an unregistered contractor to submit a bid that is authorized by Section 7029.1 of the Business and Professions Code or by Section 10164 or 20103.5 of the Public Contract Code, provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.

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.

GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF SANTA BARBARA

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William Hornung, C.P.M.

PUBLISHED: MARCH 8 & 15, 2017 Montecito Journal

9 – 16 March 2017

MONTECITO PLANNING COMMISSION NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING DATE OF HEARING:

MARCH 22, 2017

PLACE:

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ENGINEERING BUILDING 123 EAST ANAPAMU STREET SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101

The Montecito Planning Commission hearing begins at 9:00 a.m. The order of items listed on the agenda is subject to change by the Montecito Planning Commission. Anyone interested in this matter is invited to appear and speak in support or in opposition to the projects. Written comments are also welcome. All letters should be addressed to the Montecito Planning Commission, 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, California, 93101. Letters, with nine copies, and computer materials, e.g. PowerPoint presentations, should be filed with the secretary of the Planning Commission no later than 12:00 P.M. on the Friday before the Montecito Planning Commission hearing. The decision to accept late materials will be at the discretion of the Montecito Planning Commission.

Maps and/or staff analysis of the proposals may be reviewed at Planning and Development, 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, California, 93101 a week prior to the public hearing. They may also be found on the Planning and Development Department’s website, located at www.sbcountyplanning.org.

If you challenge the project(s) 14RVP-00000-00005, 16ORD-00000-00015, or 16ORD-00000-00016 in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence to the Montecito Planning Commission prior to the public hearing.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this hearing, please contact the Hearing Support Staff (805) 568-2000. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the hearing will enable the Hearing Support Staff to make reasonable arrangements.

Casa Dorinda Open Space Management Plan

14RVP-00000-00005

300 Hot Spring Road Alex Tuttle, Supervising Planner (805) 884-6844 Joyce Gerber, Planner (805) 568-3518

The Montecito Planning Commission will review and provide comments on the revised Casa Dorinda Open Space Management Plan, as required

by Condition #14 of the approved Casa Dorinda Master Plan Conditional Use Permit Revision project, Case. No. 14RVP-00000-00005.

16ORD-00000-00015 Accessory Dwellings 16ORD-00000-00016 Units Ordinance Amendments Exempt, CEQA Guidelines Sections 15265 & 15282(h)

Montecito Dianne Black, Assistant Director (805) 568-2000 Noel Langle, Planner (805) 568-2067

Hearing on the request of the Planning and Development Department that the Montecito Planning Commission: a) 16ORD-00000-00015. Adopt a recommendation to the Board of Supervisors that Board of Supervisors adopt an ordinance (Case No. 16ORD00000-00015) amending Division 35.2, Montecito Zones and Allowable Land Uses, Division 35.3, Montecito Site Planning and Other Project Standards, Division 35.4, Montecito Standards for Specific Land Uses, Division 35.6, Montecito Site Development Regulations, Division 35.7, Montecito Planning Permit Procedures, Division 35.9, Montecito Land Use and Development Code Administration, and Division 35.10, Glossary, of Section 35-2, the Santa Barbara County Montecito Land Use and Development Code, of Chapter 35, Zoning, of the Santa Barbara County Code; b) 16ORD-00000-00016. Adopt a recommendation to the County Planning Commission that it recommend to the Board of Supervisors that Board of Supervisors adopt an ordinance (Case No. 16ORD-00000-00016) amending Division 2, Definitions, Division 4, Zoning Districts, Division 7, General Regulations, Division 11, Permit Procedures, Division 12, Administration, Division 13, Summerland Community Plan Overlay, and Division 16, Toro Canyon (TCP) Overlay District, of Article II, the Santa Barbara County Coastal Zoning Ordinance, of Chapter 35, Zoning, of the Santa Barbara County Code; and to determine the project is exempt from CEQA pursuant to Sections 15265 and 15282(h) of the State Guidelines for Implementation of the California Environmental Quality Act. The proposed ordinance amendments revise existing development standards and permit procedures in order to implement recent State legislation regarding accessory dwelling units which are currently referred to as “residential second units” in the zoning ordinances. The proposed amendment to the Montecito Land Use and Development Code also deletes language that only applies within the Coastal Zone.

Montecito Board of Architectural Review Site Visit Discussion Dianne Black, Assistant Director (805) 568-2000 The Montecito Planning Commission will discuss commissioner attendance at Montecito Board of Architectural Review site visits.

MONTECITO COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION RECORDING SECRETARY (568-2000) Published March 8, 2017 Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Garvan Electronics, 325 N. 6th Street, Lompoc, CA 93436.

Juan R. Garza, 325 N. 6th Street, Lompoc, CA 93436. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 6, 2017. 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. 2017-0000386. Published March 8, 15, 22, 29, 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Viva Oliva, 1275 Coast Village Road, Montecito, CA 93108. Viva Oliva LLC, 1275 Coast Village Road, Montecito, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 23, 2017. 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 Jessica Sheaff. FBN No. 2017-0000559.

Published March 8, 15, 22, 29, 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following

person(s) is/are doing business as: Seaside Wellness Gardens, 3710 Via Real, Carpinteria, CA 93103.

Rainbow Parrot Conservatory, 1020 Ladera Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 14, 2017. 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 Jessica Sheaff.

FBN No. 2017-0000465. Published March 8, 15, 22, 29, 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Bissell Chiropractic Sports Medicine; Bissell Clinic, 1470 E. Valley Road M, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Bissell Chiropractic Clinic Inc, 1470 E. Valley Road M, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 15, 2017. 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 Connie Tran. FBN No. 2017-0000484.

Published March 1, 8, 15, 22, 2017.

FICTITIOUS

BUSINESS

It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel. – Elizabeth Drew

NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Concensus Designs; East Beach Press, 3756 Torino Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Douglas Gillies, 3756 Torino Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 1, 2017. 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 Tania ParedesSadler. FBN No. 2017-0000341.

Published March 1, 8, 15, 22, 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DWD Builders; DWD Services 140 Tiburon Bay Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Daniel William Drown, 140 Tiburon Bay Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 24, 2017. 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. 2017-0000253. Published February 22, March 1, 8, 15, 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 805 Ghost, 315 Meigs Road Ste A267, Santa Barbara, CA 93109.

Jeremy Byrn Delbianco Mulkey, 414 W. Figueroa St. Unit H, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 15, 2017. 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 Tara Jayasinghe.

FBN No. 2017-0000483. Published February 22, March 1, 8, 15, 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Frankland’s Crab & Co; Monarch; Scratch Bar & Kitchen, 1295 Coast Village Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Phillip Douglas, LLC, 16101 Ventura Blvd. #255, Encino, CA 91436. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 16, 2017. 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. 2017-0000493. Published February 22, March 1, 8, 15, 2017.

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 5519

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 3775 Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3775 for the Cacique & Soledad Pedestrian/Bicycle Bridges and Corridor Improvements Project will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 4, 2017 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, “Cacique & Soledad Pedestrian/Bicycle Bridges and Corridor Improvements Project, Bid No. 3775”.

The project will provide pedestrian and bicycle bridges, roadway and pedestrian lighting, and additional sidewalk along the Cacique and Soledad Street corridors. The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete the improvements per plans and specs. The Engineer’s estimate is $1,700,000. Each bidder must have a Class A license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code.

Sealed proposals for Bid No. 5519 for the LOT 2 STAIRWAY REPLACEMENT PROJECT will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Thursday, 3/30/2017 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, “LOT 2 STAIRWAY REPLACEMENT PROJECT, Bid No. 5519".

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 Laura Yanez, Project Engineer, 805-897-2615.

The City proposes to demolish and reconstruct the Lot 2 stairway facing Canon Perdido Street. The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete the following: demolish existing structural steel stairway, construct new reinforced concrete cast in place stairway with ADA compliant handrail. The Engineer’s estimate is $340,000. Each bidder must have a Class A license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code.

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.

There will be an optional Pre-Bid Meeting scheduled for March 16, 2017 at 10:00 am at 630 Garden Street, Main Engineering Conference Room followed by a site visit to the project site located at 914 Chapala Street at 11:00 am.

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.

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 Eric Goodall, Project Engineer, 805-897-2664.

There will be a non-mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting scheduled for Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at 11 a.m. at Public Works Main Conference Room, 630 Garden Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Attention is directed to the Federal minimum wage rate requirements in Appendix F of these specifications. Addenda to modify the Federal minimum wage rates, if necessary, will be issued to holders of the “Proposal and Contract” specification books. Future effective general prevailing wage rates, which have been predetermined and are on file with the California Department of Industrial Relations, are referenced but not printed in the general prevailing wage rates. If there is a difference between the minimum wage rates predetermined by the Secretary of Labor and the general prevailing wage rates determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations for similar classifications of labor, the Contractor and Subcontractors must pay not less than the higher wage rate.

The City of Santa Barbara will not accept lower State wage rates not specifically included in the Federal minimum wage determinations.

This includes “helper” (or other classifications based on hours of experience) or any other classification not appearing in the Federal wage determinations. Where Federal wage determinations do not contain the State wage determination otherwise available for use by the Contractor and Subcontractors, the Contractor and Subcontractors must pay not less than the Federal Minimum wage rate which most closely approximates the duties of the employees in question.

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.

A contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, subject to the requirements of Section 4104 of the Public Contract Code, or engage in the performance of any contract for public work, as defined in this chapter, unless currently registered and qualified to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5. It is not a violation of this section for an unregistered contractor to submit a bid that is authorized by Section 7029.1 of the Business and Professions Code or by Section 10164 or 20103.5 of the Public Contract Code, provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.

This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.

This project is subject to the “Buy America” provisions of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 as amended by the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991.

The City of Santa Barbara affirms that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation.

Bidders are advised that, as required by federal law, the State has established a statewide overall Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) goal. This Agency federal-aid contract is considered to be part of the statewide overall DBE goal. The Agency is required to report to Caltrans on DBE participation for all federal-aid contracts each year so that attainment efforts may be evaluated. This Agency federal-aid contract has a goal of 6% DBE participation.

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.

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.

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.

A contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, subject to the requirements of Section 4104 of the Public Contract Code, or engage in the performance of any contract for public work, as defined in this chapter, unless currently registered and qualified to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5. It is not a violation of this section for an unregistered contractor to submit a bid that is authorized by Section 7029.1 of the Business and Professions Code or by Section 10164 or 20103.5 of the Public Contract Code, provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.

This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) provides a toll-free “hotline” service to report bid rigging activities. Bid rigging activities can be reported Mondays through Fridays, between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, Telephone No. 1-800-424-9071. Anyone with knowledge of possible bid rigging, bidder collusion, or other fraudulent activities should use the “hotline” to report these activities.

The “hotline” is part of the DOT’s continuing effort to identify and investigate highway construction contract fraud and abuse and is operated under the direction of the DOT Inspector General. All information will be treated confidentially and caller anonymity will be respected.

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.

GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF SANTA BARBARA

GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF SANTA BARBARA

William Hornung, C.P.M.

William Hornung, C.P.M.

PUBLISHED March 8 and 15, 2017 Montecito Journal

PUBLISHED March 8, 15 and 22, 2017 Montecito Journal

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• The Voice of the Village •

9 – 16 March 2017

MEET THE TEACHER

by Sigrid Toye, Ph.D. Ms Toye is a former L.A. Unified School District teacher and has worked as an educational-behavior therapist in private practice since 1979.

Santa Barbara High School’s Aura Greig

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SBHS English teacher Aura Greig (left) and her daughter, Alexandra, vacationing on Catalina Island

he driveway at Santa Barbara High School was deserted, and the winter sun’s golden glow illuminated the iconic building.

Classes were over and the correct classroom was an easy find.

I spotted English and AP teacher Aura Greig at her desk pondering a pile of papers. She greeted me with a warm smile and a friendly handshake, and when I commented on the large stack of “homework” awaiting her she laughed and said, “That’s my job! my once-a-week one-hundred essay papers are best read in one sitting.”

Stunned by the thought, I opened my computer, grateful that it wasn’t my assignment. Aura, however, seemed to relish the task. As our conversation progressed, it soon became obvious that what might be a challenge for some would be a walk in the park for Aura.

For the native California girl living in Laguna Beach, life had been good.

That is, until Aura’s parents divorced when she was 12. “I moved to Hayfork in Northern California with my mother, siblings, and new step-father to a whole different world. Hayfork had a population of one thousand,” she continues, “mostly poor, and we were the poorest of the poor. After our move, my father completely disappeared and provided no support for his children.”

Life was a struggle for the family, and especially for Aura. Although an excellent student with good grades, she began to act out in school. “My step-father was not a pleasant person, and my mother seemed completely subservient and incapable. I was very unhappy and confused and eventual9 – 16 March 2017

ly ended up in a continuation school, a forty-five-minute bus ride in another town.” This change came as a welcome relief. “Those teachers actually were concerned and gave me individual attention,” she notes. “They didn’t know my past, or my family’s history. The idea that taking care of myself, my education, and my escape from this small town was reinforced through this blessing in disguise.”

And take care of herself she did, starting with an important decision.

“I knew the only way to break out of poverty and have healthy relationships was through education: education would be my golden ticket to true freedom. I knew I would need to go on to college.” To that end, Aura ultimately found her way back to Southern California, finishing her last year of high school and working to support herself.

Off to San Francisco

After graduation, full-time employment became a necessity, which meant attending community college parttime at night. “The advantage of those night classes,” she says, “was that I felt I was finally in my comfort zone. I knew I was in the right place, with the right people around me.” Eventually a position opened at the aerospace company McDonnell Douglas. Aura laughs, “It was there that I realized the only thing that separated me from my superior was the college degree on his wall. I was doing the work and he was basking in all the credit.” That was Aura’s ah-ha moment. She quit her job, packed up, and headed to San Francisco State University.

“Being a student in San Francisco became the best time of my life,” she recounts. “I felt that I was with ‘my people’ and I met the best of friends, my husband, and found diversity all around me. Originally I had planned to study law, but I ultimately changed my major to international relations.”

It was this new major that fostered her love for different cultures, different perspectives, and interest in travel.

Marriage and the birth of her daughter, Alexandra, a month after Aura earned her degree, changed her priorities. Staying at home with her child had been her intention but unfortunately, the marriage fell apart and she had to return to work. “The thought of leaving my baby in daycare was painful,” she says. Aura re-evaluated her life and turned to teaching, a career that would allow her the most time with Alexandra.

Oakland needed an English literature and Spanish substitute, a first step in that direction. Aura recalls, “Those two years were the best preparation for a teaching career – my students were predominantly AfricanAmerican and Latino. Those years taught me something that still carries on, even after nineteen years of teaching: if kids know you care about them and trust in what you are teaching, they will step up to help themselves succeed.”

Ultimately, Aura was hired on an emergency credential in the Alameda Unified School District. “For three years, I taught full-time while earning my credentials through a special program in California and continued teaching in the Bay Area for twelve years.” She took one more leap toward a solid future by earning a master’s degree in English literature. “With over a decade of teaching under my belt and three degrees, life finally felt secure,” she says.

Uganda Calls

When Alexandra was 12, a new opportunity presented itself, so mother and daughter packed up and headed for Uganda. Aura had a position teaching at a private international school, and the thought of living in Africa was exciting. “I loved Uganda from the moment I stepped off the plane. The school was wonderful and

my daughter could have a private education for free. The school was rigorous, lovely, and diverse: over forty countries were represented by the students and staff. I might have stayed forever had my uncle, like a father to me, not become ill.” Aura recounts.

“Leaving was sad, but I knew I had to be there for him. We settled in New Mexico for the final chapter of his life.”

By the time Alexandra was a senior in high school, the two came full-circle back to California. Since it was a common goal for Alexandra to attend UCSB, they agreed on relocating to Santa Barbara. On finding a teaching position, “I just got lucky at Santa Barbara High School,” She says. “Teaching positions at SBHS are non-existent because nobody leaves.

But guess what? I got the one-and-only rare position that became available.

How amazing is that? As a bonus, Alexandra was able to finish her last year of high school here as well.

Between the [welcoming] administration and my two best friends who happen to teach here, I feel like I’ve been here all my life.”

When asked how her personal experiences translate to the classroom, Aura pauses before responding.

“There is so much to share with these kids. I understand, on one hand, what struggling feels like, but I also know that many kids may feel connected if I let them know they are not alone. I hope to pass on the lesson I learned at their age: having tenacity and faith in oneself is the key to creating choices in life. I expect the best from them, and I give my personal best. Watching them learn, hearing their critical thoughts, and getting to be around their wit and compassion for one another is my reward.“ The sun was nearing the horizon as I made my way to the car. I recalled the words that had directed me to seek out Aura in the first place. “Mrs. Greig is a real person. tells us stories about herself. She makes our work in class come alive, something we can relate to today. She is really special – she’s right there with us.”

It seems that Aura’s message has resonated. The reward of being a hard-working teacher just can’t get any better than those sincere words from a student.

•MJ

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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)

ENDING THIS WEEK Configuration Concludes – Santa Barbara Dance Arts and The Arts Mentorship Program’s annual showcase of their youthful dance company stages its second weekend at Center Stage Theatre.

The performance features high-energy hip hop, contemporary, and jazz numbers from young dancers who have been studying and perfecting routines all year.

The award-winning Competition Team presents choreography by local favorite Brittany Sandoval in The Blue Light Between Us, a commentary on our phones and social media. And fresh from New York City, Lauren Serrano’s up-to-date “Stop The Hate” is a tribute to the victims of the PULSE Orlando shooting. As happens annually, student work shares the stage with professional choreographers. WHEN: 7 tonight, 2 & 7 pm tomorrow WHERE: Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo, upstairs in the mall COST: $53 patron, $22 general; $15 student tickets available for matinee INFO: 963-0408 or www.

CenterStageTheater.org ONGOING UCSB Music – The university’s growing music department’s ambitious quarterly concerts include performances by a variety of ensembles ranging from classical to new music from March 8-17 on the seaside campus. Day 2 on Thursday bring the Wind Ensemble “Masterworks Arranged (Or Not)”, featuring John Williams’s Summon the Heroes and Igor Stravinksy’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments, plus selections from Gustav Holst, Reinhold Gliere, Giovanni Gabrielli, Maurice Ravel, and Dmitri Shostakovich ($10/$5). The Chamber Choir and Women’s Chorus (at Trinity Episcopal Church downtown) on Friday features new conductors for both ensembles, with Grey Brothers and third-year doctoral student Tyler Reece taking over following the retirement of long-time director of Choral Activities, Michel Marc Gervais. The program includes sacred and secular music by German composers of the 19th and 20th

centuries.... Saturday is saved for Scott Marcus’s Middle East Ensemble offering a broad swatch of music and dance from throughout the region, including a Kurdish song, a Persian instrumental composition, two classic Arab songs, an extended set of Sabah Fakhri songs from in-the-news Aleppo, Syria, and much more, including dances, from Kuwaiti, Lebanese, Persian, and Turkish cultures.... The Chamber Orchestra and Chamber Players take over on Monday for a program featuring Gioachino Rossini’s La gazza ladra, Variation IX (Adagio) “Nimrod” from Elgar’s Enigma Variations, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, plus winners of the quarterly Chamber Music Competition ($10/$5).... Wednesday brings the Jazz Ensemble’s “East Meets West”, featuring a friendly competition between composers from both coasts, with Jim McNeely, Bob Brookmeyer, Thad Jones, and Chris Merz representing the East, and Gordon Goodwin, Bill Holman, Bob Mintzer, Bob Florence, and Randy Aldcroft throwing down for the West ($10/$5). Nathan returns next Thursday (March 16) for a second offering from several of the Jazz Combos, with different players presenting fresh takes on jazz standards (Karl Geiringer Hall; free).

Unless otherwise indicated: WHEN: all concerts 7:30 pm WHERE: Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, UCSB campus COST: $15 general, $10 students, free for children under 12 (new $30 season pass includes all the concerts) INFO: 893-2064 or www. music.ucsb.edu.

FRIDAY, MARCH 10 Persistence Personified – David Wiesner, the multiple Caldecott Awardwinning illustrator and author, has been anything but a stranger during the ongoing run of his “The Persistence of Memory” exhibit at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. The graphic artist/comic book hero returns to SBMA this afternoon to discuss the visual ideas and motifs that have recurred throughout his work ever since his early years as an art school student.

Today’s talk will focus in particular on the

THURSDAY, MARCH 9 Love it or Levit – Pianist Igor Levit, whom The New York Times called “one of the most probing, intelligent, and accomplished artists of the new generation”, makes his Santa Barbara recital debut tonight at the Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall. Winner of Gramophone’s 2016 Recording of the Year award, Levit will play Frederic Rzewski’s Dreams, Part II and Beethoven’s 33 Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, op. 120, the latter of which he recorded in 2015 to great acclaim, and for which the London Times raved that Levit was “as nimble as a cat on a high-wire…

One imagines Beethoven playing it like this – in his dreams anyway.” WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Hahn Hall at the Music Academy of the West, 1070 Fairway Road COST: $30 general, $9 students INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

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FRIDAY, MARCH 10 Artistry of Strings – Santa Barbara Strings’s periodic benefit concert highlights music from three distinct eras of classical music in tonight’s performance at Hahn Hall: French baroque violin virtuoso JeanMarie LeClair’s Sonata for Two Violins from the 18th century; 19th century master Beethoven’s early String Quartet in A Major, Op. 18, No. 5; and 20th century composer Dmitri Shostakovich’s Duet for Two Violins and Piano and the Piano Quintet in G Minor. Joining artistic director Mary Beth Woodruff are fellow violinist Jane Chung, violist Basil Vendryes, cellist Andrew Smith, and pianist Robert Cassidy. As always, an artists reception with wines and cheeses follows the performance, which helps fund Santa Barbara Strings’s mission to nurture young musicians through orchestral experiences and in-chamber ensembles. (The weekend also includes a masterclass for the organization’s chamber ensembles and an orchestra rehearsal led by the guests.) WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Hahn Hall at the Music Academy of the West, 1070 Fairway Road COST: $40 general, $10 students INFO: www. santabarbarastrings.org evolution of Fish Girl, his newly released graphic novel. The lecture will be followed by a book signing. Later in the afternoon, Wiesner traverses the 50 yards from the museum’s back door to the Santa Barbara Public Library for a free talk about how he started drawing as a child, including a discussion about the comic heroes and master artworks that influenced his own work, plus the inside info how he gets his ideas and brings them to life. Mary Craig Auditorium at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art WHEN: 1 pm (museum); 4:30 pm (library) WHERE: museum: Mary Craig Auditorum, 1130 State Street (entrance in the rear); library: Faulkner Gallery, 40 E. Anapamu St. COST: museum: $10 general, $6 seniors (free for museum members); library: free INFO: Museum: 963-4364 or www. sbma.net; library: 564-5641 or www. sbplibrary.org Flying Solo – Natasha Kislenko, the Russian-born pianist who spends the academic year at UCSB and the summers on the faculty of the Music Academy of the West, gets the solo spotlight for the free biweekly Santa Barbara Music Club concert. Kislenko – who has concertized extensively in Russia and the former USSR, Germany, Bulgaria, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Brazil, Paraguay, and across the United States – will take the audience on a world tour and back in time about 100 years with a program that include works

by Albéniz, Bartók, Debussy, Gershwin, Rachmaninoff, and Villa-Lobos. WHEN: 3 pm WHERE: Faulkner Gallery in the downtown Public Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. COST: free INFO: www.sbmusicclub. org Wild Brew Fest – The second annual event, an indoor club-based off-shoot of the Santa Barbara Fermentation Festival, returns to SOhO for an even bigger and better lineup than last year’s debut.

Guests enjoy all-you-can-taste jun, cider,

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Attendees can sample specialties from each chef every hour of the event, all of which will feature locally sourced ingredients and ferments of all kinds.

Among the other providers are 101 Cider House, Bees Brothers Brewing, Best Life Brews, Boochcraft, BrewLAB, Cutler’s Artisan Spirits, Patagonia Provisions’ Long Root Ale, Stove Top Brews, Telegraph Brewing Company, Apiary Ciderworks & Meadery, Libertine Brewing Company, Third Window Brewing, Topa Topa Brewing Company, M. Special Brewing Company, and Wylde Honey Wine.

In between sips and bites, traditional alcohol fermentation experts will talk about their processes, while guests can also make their own jar of fermented seasonal vegetables to take home at the DIY Fermentation Station, always a favorite at the main fest. WHEN: 2 to 5 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $55 INFO: 962-7776/www.sohosb.com or www.nightout.com/events/wild-brew-fest/ tickets Rey of White – Ron “Tater Salad” White, who put his Montecito home on the market back in 2014, ironically first rose to fame as the cigar-smoking, scotchdrinking charter member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour (along with Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, and Larry the Cable Guy).

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FRIDAY, MARCH 10 Very Verdi – If Opera Santa Barbara’s fun and furry production of The Cunning Little Vixen left you craving more traditional Italian fare, you can’t go wrong with today’s satellite transmission of The Met: Live in HD, which also represents something of a homecoming for one of its stars.

Sonya Yoncheva reprises her widely praised interpretation of the heroine Violetta Valéry in Verdi’s La Traviata, with Michael Fabiano as her lover, Alfredo. Thomas Hampson – the Music Academy alum who returned for a memorable master class and remarkable recital last summer – revisits one of his most acclaimed Met roles as Alfredo’s protective father, Giorgio Germont. San Francisco Opera music director Nicola Luisotti conducts. WHEN: 9:55 am WHERE: Hahn Hall, Music Academy of the West campus, 1070 Fairway Road COST: $28 INFO: 969-8787 or www.musicacademy. org comedians in America who has seen all of his albums in the 2000s top the Billboard Comedy charts. White’s wife, the breast cancer surviving “Organica” singer-songwriter Margo Rey, who has charted seven times on Billboard, not only opens tonight’s show at the Arlington Theatre, she also heads across Victoria Street for a headlining gig at SOhO tomorrow. WHEN: 8 tonight WHERE: 1317 State St. COST: $47-$58 INFO: 963-4408/www.thearlingtontheatre.com or 800-745-3000/www.ticketmaster.com // Tomorrow: WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $15 INFO: 9627776 or www.sohosb.com Young at Heart – Although the list of jazz luminaries jazz reed man George Young has recorded with includes such famous names as George Benson, Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette, and David Sanchez, not to mention the Saturday Night Live Band – the saxist/clarinetist is not nearly as well-known, though he’s been a professional reed player since the late 1950s. At least locals will be in on the know when Young, who has also contributed to many television and film soundtracks, brings his Hollywood Jazz Quartet – featuring Lou Forestieri on piano, Harvey Newmark on bass, and Mark Stevens on drums – to SOhO this afternoon for the monthly meeting of the Santa Barbara Jazz Society. WHEN: 1 to

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TUESDAY, MARCH 14 For St. Pete’s Sake – The St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra was founded 135 years ago, making it the oldest – and one of the most revered orchestras – in Russia. Deputy artistic director Nikolay Alexeev conducts the ensemble for tonight’s CAMA concert at the Granada, when the orchestra is poised to deliver a visceral program of Shostakovich’s Symphony No.10 in E minor, Op.93 and Brahms’ Piano Concerto No.1. Serving as soloist for the Brahms is Garrick Ohlsson, one of the world’s most soughtafter pianists ever since his triumph as the winner of the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition. Via the ensuing nearly five decades, Ohlsson now has at his command more than 80 concertos, ranging from Haydn and Mozart to works of the 21st century, many of which were commissioned for him. His interpretive and technical prowess should power the piano concert. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street COST: $39-$119 INFO: 899-2222 or www. granadasb.org •MJ

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15 Eat Your Science – That’s the title of tonight’s Alton Brown Live event, during which the James Beard Award-winning author and Food Network star purées a perfect base of science, music, and food into two hours of pure entertainment.

The follow-up to his smash Edible Inevitable tour brings more comedy, talk show antics, multimedia presentations, and music spiced with a slew of fresh ingredients including new puppets, songs, bigger and potentially more dangerous experiments, including fire. Brown promises the interactive evening has “plenty of new therapy-inducing opportunities... things I’ve never been allowed to do on TV.” WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Arlington Theatre, 1317 State St. COST: $30$65 INFO: 893-3535/www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu or 963-4408 or www. ticketmaster.com/venue/73731

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Bernstein, Alixe Mattingly, Janet Wolf, Hiroko Benko, and Diana MacFarlane.

Czech Mates A colorful cavalcade of creative costumes by Stacie Logue and Constance Hoffmann added immeasurably to the whimsical mystique of Opera Santa Barbara’s staging of Czech composer Leos Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen at the Granada.

The 90-minute, three-act work opened in an atmospheric forest glade, wonderfully lit by FrancoisPierre Couture, which greeted the audience on the curtain-free stage on entering the auditorium.

The principal characters both making debuts, top soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian as the foxy female and baritone David Kravitz as the forester, in the fanciful, allegorical fairytale about intrigue between animal characters, were ideal for their roles, while the company’s artistic director, Kostis Protopapas, conducted the orchestra, and Crystal Manich directed the cleverly composed stage.

Mezzo soprano Lauren McNeese and local tenor Benjamin Brecher added to the talented cast’s credentials, along with bass baritone Scott Levin, mezzo sopranos Molly Clemenz and Nandani Sinha, and baritone Evan Bravos.

A veritable vulpine delight.

Vogue Rogue Former Montecito Union School student Gigi Hadid is arguably one of the most successful Middle Eastern models of all time and now she is the face of the region’s newest fashion bible – that is important for so much more than just style reasons.

Gigi, 21, whose father is Palestinian, has been revealed as the cover star of the first-ever print edition of Vogue

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Arabia, posing for two separate blackand-white images wearing a beaded veil.

The veil was draped across part of the supermodel’s face in the Arabic language edition and significantly more of her face in the English language edition.

Despite the women of the Middle East being some of the most fashion-conscious in the world, this is the first time they’ve had a copy of the Conde Nast glossy that represents their region.

The debut print issue, which hits newsstands this week, is entitled Reorienting Perceptions.

It is Gigi’s 17th Vogue cover, but she took to Instagram to say this one is very special for her.

“I think the beautiful thing about there being international Vogues is that, as a fashion community, we are able to celebrate, and share with the world different culture. Being half Palestinian, it means the world to me.

“I hope this magazine will show another layer of the fashion industry’s desire to accept, celebrate, and incorporate all people and customs,

Suiting up It’s one of the most iconic superhero costumes around.

And part-time Montecito resident and Oscar winner Michael Keaton’s Batman rubber outfit from Batman Returns, which stands at 6’5” tall and was worn by the 65-year-old actor in the 1992 movie, just sold for a hefty $41,250, including the iconic cape and cowl at Nate D. Sanders auction house in Los Angeles.

Keaton, frequently seen getting his Java jolt at Pierre Lafond, wore the costume in his and director Tim Burton’s second Batman film together, in which Michelle Pfeiffer was introduced as Catwoman.

A Superman costume worn by the late Christopher Reeve in 1978 was also up for grabs, but did not meet its minimum bid of $40,000.

Fool’s Gold Santa Barbara singer Katy Perry and British actor Orlando Bloom are Splitsville after a year of dating.

A rep for the tony twosome has confirmed that just days after making a public appearance at the Vanity Fair Oscars bash, the dynamic duo have separated.

“Before rumors or falsifications get out of hand we can confirm that Orlando and Katy are taking respectful, loving space at this time.”

The former 32-year-old Dos Pueblos High student and Lord of the Rings star Bloom, have traveled all over the world together during the past year, and just last month Katy surprised the Pirates of the Caribbean star with a secret 40th birthday bash in Palm Springs where she even debuted her newly dyed blonde locks.

She even managed to rope in Bloom’s mother, Sonia, who flew over to surprise him.

Katy previously dated rocker John Mayer and rapper Travie McCoy, and was married to British comedian Russell Brand from 2010 to 2012.

Bloom was married to Australian supermodel Miranda Kerr from 2010 to 2013, and they had one child together, son Flynn, 6.

Stay tuned.

Sightings: New Orleans Saints running back Mark Ingram celebrating his birthday at Opal...Actress Bonnie Hunt noshing at Olio e Limone...

Robert and Robin Fell masticating at Somerset, the oh-so-chic new eatery on East Anapamu Street Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmin eards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal.

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

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Gigi Hadid garners her 17th Vogue cover

and make everyone feel like they have fashion images and moments they can relate to, and learn and grow in doing so.”

Vogue Arabia’s editor-in-chief, Deena Aljuani Abdulaziz, says Gigi is the perfect face to launch the magazine.

“In one poised photograph, she communicates a thousand words to a region that’s been waiting far too long for its Vogue voice to speak.

“She defines tomorrow’s entrepreneurial and dynamic generation.”

The cover was shot by Dutch fashion photographers Inez and Vinoodh, with styling by Brandon Maxwell, singer Lady Gaga’s stylist, who dressed Syrian refugee Hala Kamil, the subject of the documentary Watani: My Homeland, for the Oscars.

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LUCKY’S steaks / chops / seafood... and brunch •

Morning Starters and Other First Courses •

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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.

Today’s Soup .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....................................... 10.

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.

Lucky Chili ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................................ 15. with Cheddar and Onions

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Salads and Other Specialties •

Wedge of Iceberg ....................................................................................... $10. with Roquefort or Thousand Island Dressing

Caesar Salad ................................................................................................ 10.

Eggs and Other Breakfast Dishes •

with Grilled Chicken Breast ........................ .......................................................

Eggs Served with choice of Hash Browns, Fries, Sliced Tomatoes, Fruit Salad

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Seafood Louis ....................................... ....................................................... 29.

Classic Eggs Benedict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...................................... $18. with Julienne Ham and Hollandaise

Crab, Shrimp, Avocado, Egg, Romaine, Tomato, Cucumber

Charred Rare Tuna Nicoise Salad ................................................................ 27.

California Eggs Benedict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....................................... 18. with Spinach, Tomato and Avocado

Lucky’s Salad ............................................................................................... 17. with Romaine, Shrimp, Bacon, Green Beans and Roquefort

Smoked Salmon Eggs Benedict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....................................... 22.

Smoked Salmon and Sautéed Onion Omelet . . . . . . . . . ....................................... 19. with Sour Cream and Chives

Cobb Salad .......................................... ........................................................ 19.

Tossed with Roquefort Dressing

Chopped Salad ..................................... ........................................................ 17.

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.

with Arugula, Radicchio, Shrimp, Prosciutto, Cannellini Beans and Onions

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

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

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

Huevos Rancheros, Two Eggs Any Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....................................... 15.

Tortillas, Melted Cheese, Avocado and Warm Salsa

Brioche French Toast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................................ 14. with Fresh Berries and Maple Syrup

Waffle Platter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....................................... 14. with Fresh Berries, Whipped Cream, Maple Syrup

Smoked Scottish Salmon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...................................... 20.

Toasted Bialy or Bagel, Cream Cheese and Olives, Tomato & Cucumber

Mixed Vegetable Frittata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................................ 17. with Gruyere

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