On the Record 15-22 April 2021 Vol 27 Issue 16
SERVING MONTECITO AND SUMMERLAND
The Cold Spring School brouhaha is reaching a fever pitch (story begins on page 6)
Spreading Peace
Moving on Up
Practicing medicine in Santa Barbara for nearly 40 years, Dr. Duncan Turner has moved to Coast Village Road, page 14
Pink Perfection
It’s springtime, the perfect excuse to break out the rosé, a refreshing option no matter the time of day, page 28
Community Environmental Council organized Santa Barbara’s first Earth Day in 1970 in the wake of the SB Channel Oil Spill that took place the year prior. This year’s belated 50th anniversary Earth Day takes place virtually over three days and includes speeches, performances, and the launch of the organization’s Reverse-Repair-Protect climate change plan (story on page 44)
Breaking from Tradition
Holly Malmsten isn’t your typical holistic healer; she helps others by giving their energy systems a reboot, page 22
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5 Editor’s Letter It’s not enough to want to play the role of mayor, cut the ribbons, and kiss the babies. We need a hero. 6 On the Record As the community reacts to potential restraining order against parent, distinct sides have formed in Cold Spring School battle 10 Community Voices Charles and Eileen Read take exception to community activist’s idea that the Montecito Water and Sanitary districts need to combine Tide Chart 11 Letters to the Editor Parking near Riven Rock needs community solution; meanwhile, some 145 local residents take exception to Das Williams potentially joining Coastal Commission 12 Montecito Miscellany A number of Santa Barbara and Montecito standbys have made the Forbes billionaire list, one that has reached record-breaking levels after 2020 14 In Business Turner Medical Arts opens on Coast Village Road 16 Village Beat Sharon Byrne updates community on State housing bills at Montecito Association meeting; Lotusland holds benefit art sale at GraySpace Gallery 18 Seen Around Town Climb documentary features inspiring story of Neil Myers’ recovery after near-death bicycle accident; Santa Barbara School of Squash is a year-round sport and education program for local youth 20 Dear Montecito SBHS VADA student Rowan Dowdall has spent the last year teaching himself guitar, bass, and music producing 22 Montecito Moms Holly Malmsten is a certified holistic practitioner and emotional healing specialist 24 On Entertainment An Iliad provides a modern take on war, the perfect adaptation to mark the return of live theater in Santa Barbara, sans the audience
“One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged.” – Lucille Ball
28 Santa Barbara by the Glass As the old saying goes, a glass of rosé a day keeps the doctor away 30 PERSPECTIVES by Rinaldo S. Brutoco The New Business Paradigm: An Emerging Consciousness Shift The Optimist Daily Spanish chef introduces us to marine grains, the new sustainable superfood 31 Robert’s Big Questions When you hear about the border crisis in the U.S., do you stop to ask the question: “What is the root cause of that problem?” Robert Bernstein says you should. 32 Our Town Harout Aristakessian has faced racism and homophobia, but the well-known dancer has utilized a commitment to positivity to stay on his path 36 Muller Monthly Music Meta Crossword Puzzle 38 In Passing Remembering Nick Katzenstein, Emma Myfanwy Goodman, Richard Anthony Baum, and Dorothy Ellis McKenzie 44 The Giving List Community Environmental Council’s Reverse-Repair-Protect plan is a roadmap for local climate action 45 Body Wise Even behind a mask, smiling makes a huge difference in the way you feel and perceive the world 49 Brilliant Thoughts All around us, people are receiving awards and prizes. But who will recognize and appreciate us? 52 Nosh Town Celebrate the bright flavors of spring with recipes for slowcooked salmon, rosemary popovers, and blackberry yogurt Bundt cake 54 Classified Advertising Our own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales 55 Local Business Directory Smart business owners place business cards here so readers know where to look when they need what those businesses offer 15 – 22 April 2021
Editor’s Letter by Gwyn Lurie CEO and Executive Editor of the Montecito Journal Media Group
A Hero’s Journey?
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n November, Santa Barbara residents will vote to elect their next mayor. Over the past weeks MJ writer Nick Schou has profiled in these pages the four candidates who have thrown their hats into the mayoral ring to lead Santa Barbara into its next chapter: Incumbent Mayor Cathy Murillo; James Joyce III, founder of Coffee With A Black Guy and former District Director to State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson; Randy Rowse, former Santa Barbara City Council Member; and Deborah Schwartz, longtime Santa Barbara Planning Commissioner. The outcome of this race will have serious implications for our city and likely determine whether the next chapter in Santa Barbara’s saga will read as a comedy of errors, a tragedy, or, God-willing, a triumph of the human spirit story. But for that final outcome to happen, we’ll need the one thing our city has lacked for too long: a hero. It’s no secret that Santa Barbara faces profound challenges, made greater by the COVID pandemic. As Warren Buffett famously said: “Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.” Unfortunately, there’s been a lot of nudity in these parts over the past few years and it’s time to put on a suit. In fairness, being mayor in Santa Barbara is not easy. In part that’s because we see that position as a mover of important needles, while in actuality the balance of power in our city government leans heavily toward the City Manager and City Hall’s cadre of career employees. The fact is, the power of Santa Barbara’s mayoral position lies mostly in its bully pulpit potential which only comes into play when the mayor has something important to say. I recently sat down with former Santa Barbara Mayor Hal Conklin, who served on the Santa Barbara City Council from 1977-1993 and even after his tenure continued to play something of an ombudsman role advocating for the arts and downtown revitalization. As a longtime Santa Barbara booster and a shining example of lifetime public service, I thought Hal might have a sage thing or two to say about Santa Barbara’s upcoming mayoral race. I was right.
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“I’m shocked at the lack of imagination in some of the people who want to run for mayor,” Conklin said incredulously. “What do you want to do? This is not the worst question in the world to ask a candidate; why do you want to do this? What is your vision? And I would think you’d have at least some creative thing you’d want to do. Whether I like it or not is irrelevant. But just tell me you’ve got some plan and something you want to do.” I asked Conklin what he would do and, no surprise, the man who was brought here for a summer in 1970 by local resident Maryanne Mott to help start the Community Environment Council for Earth Day and stayed for 50 years has plenty say about where our focus as a city should be. For starters, Conklin thinks Santa Barbara should double down on its heritage as a health destination – harkening back to 1944 and the founding of the Sansum Diabetes Research Center where Dr. William Sansum became the first U.S. physician to manufacture and administer insulin in the treatment of diabetes. “You’ve got some great people who can go in there and clean the place up.
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wo weeks ago, the Montecito Journal reported that Cold Spring School (CSS) had attempted to file a restraining order against Amanda Rowan, a parent of a child at the school, on behalf of three employees of the school district. Santa Barbara Superior Court Commissioner Stephen Foley refused to immediately grant the request; however, attorneys for both the school and Rowan will have an opportunity on April 16 to make their arguments as to why the restraining order should or shouldn’t be granted. According to the petition for the order, the school claims that Rowan has been harassing teachers and staff and allegedly threatening them with Amanda Rowan and Mr. Peanut Butter legal actions as well as the specter of a Santa Barbara Grand Jury probe. As the Journal previously reported, Rowan is fighting the restraining order, citing the district’s recent suspension of her daughter (the only such disciplinary action to have occurred in the past decade at the school) as an example of retaliation against her. The Journal has also confirmed that the Grand Jury has already begun conducting interviews with members of the CSS community, although the precise nature of the inquiry isn’t yet clear.
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Meanwhile, the tit-for-tat publicity war within Montecito’s tiny tony school district is rapidly escalating. The Journal has now learned that one of the school employees named as a victim in the restraining order has just been placed on medical leave, and in a letter distributed to parents, she specifically cited the conflict with Rowan and other parents as the precipitant cause for her departure. On April 2, Dr. Amy Alzina, the school district’s superintendent, forwarded a letter addressed to all fourth-grade parents on behalf of the teacher. “This week, many of you read the news articles discussing some concerning incidences and actions taken by the administration and the CSS school board regarding ongoing threats made by a parent at our school,” the teacher told parents. “Due to the continued harassment and unfounded accusations over the last four years from this person, it has completely disrupted my teaching and learning environment. Therefore, I am unable to serve my students effectively, and it has taken its toll on me.” In her letter, the teacher estimated that she was not going to be in the classroom from April 5 to at least April 19. “I hope that these issues are resolved soon so that I can return to serving my students,” she added. In her email to parents forwarding the teacher's letter, Alzina expressed support for the teacher's decision. “Our children are very blessed to have such an exceptional teacher who goes above and beyond to ensure the needs of every child are met,” she wrote. “I know you will continue to love and support her more than ever during this difficult time.”
Other Employees Weigh In, Albeit Anonymously
On April 8, the Journal met in person with two employees of CSS who claim that it’s the school itself, not Rowan or any other parent, which is responsible for what they characterized as a culture of fear at CSS going back years. They blamed not just Dr. Alzina, but also Yuri Calderon, Chief Business Official and
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by Charles C. Read & Eileen White Read
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Merging the Montecito Sanitary and Water Districts: A Foolhardy Step Toward Cityhood
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he Montecito “water wars,” circa 2015-2020, brought ugly, big-city political shenanigans that shattered the peaceful commonweal of our village. We all remember the misleading mailings that implied Montecito was unlawfully dumping sewage in the ocean. The $100,000 campaign budgets amassed to get a seat on a water board; personal attacks on agency managers and incumbent directors; political dirty tricks such as publicly sharing cease-and-desist letters; a constant stream of misleading “advertorials” promoting certain candidates – we had it all. As longtime residents dedicated to sustainability, environmental responsibility, and water conservation, we breathed a sigh of relief when, after the most recent elections, community peace appeared to be achieved with the $33 million desalination contract between the Montecito Water District and Santa Barbara. This essentially enabled our wealthy and generous village to subsidize 46% of the restarted Charles E. Meyer Desalination Plant’s operations, making water resources available to a far larger number of less affluent fellow Santa Barbara County residents, as well as to ourselves. We are following and supporting the Montecito Sanitary District’s plan to build a $5 million wastewater recycling plant, and we join our fellow villagers in eagerly awaiting the hiring of a new general manager, following the retirement of the widely respected Diane Gabriel. We are looking forward to learning how the new water and sanitary district professionals and directors intend to operate the agencies in order to conserve our limited water resources going forward. Therefore, we were rather startled by the recent Montecito Journal guest editorial by anti-water-conservation gadfly Bob Hazard, which appears to be both misleading and out-of-date. His subject is the working relationship between – and vital environmental decisions that will be made by – the Montecito water and sanitary boards. In his argument, Hazard attempts to manipulate the reader into a false conclusion: That action to further sustainability and “water security” is inextricably connected with joining the two boards into one. However, we can discern no problem with Montecito continuing to maintain separate sanitary and water districts, nor with those
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boards working cooperatively, along with other local, regional, and state entities. They will need to work handin-hand on activities such as water desalination and recycling, rehabilitation of reservoirs, groundwater restoration, and so on. Merging the two boards is a political football that could be a first step toward something no reasonable villager wants: to become a city. Widespread consensus exists throughout California’s coastal areas, from Morro Bay to San Diego, for reclaiming wastewater before it’s flushed into the ocean. No argument there, and in Montecito the water and sanitary boards have been discussing mechanisms, plans and funding strategies. But the working relationship between Montecito’s environmental agencies is a completely separate issue from the political one. In reality, there currently is no strife between the water and sanitary boards, and there hasn’t been since the “Water Security Team” won nine out of the total of 10 seats via elections in 2016 through 2020. Hazard knows this because he served in a voluntary capacity as fundraiser, political strategist, donor, and “advertorial writer” for the “team.” Some of the nine community members who are now water and sanitary agency directors advertised and campaigned together, published op-eds with joint bylines, and generally stated their similar views openly to the community. If you have attended the board meetings or read the minutes, you know that the sanitary and water boards already have very cordial relations.
Why then is Hazard resurrecting his old arguments, made relentlessly in diatribe after diatribe? We suspect Hazard’s real problem might be that the current water and sanitary board members are taking their roles seriously and want to be careful and deliberate in executing their duties as elected public servants, following the law and ethical procedures required of their public offices.
Merging the two boards is a political football that could be a first step toward something no reasonable villager wants: to become a city
Or might it be that Hazard’s actual, but unstated, agenda is for the Montecito Water District to take over the sanitary district, tear down its office building across from the Santa Barbara Cemetery and sell off some of its land to fund a giant $16 million water treatment plant? If that is his agenda, or whatever his true agenda is, he should state it rather than reviving an old straw-man argument. Or might his motive be a grab for political control? Recall that Hazard was the subject of an article in the Santa Barbara Independent on July 25, 2019, exposing his lobbying campaign to convince Santa Barbara County Supervisor Das Williams to support a community services district that
would have combined Montecito’s fire, water, sanitary, and library agencies into quasi-city agency. The plan had no visible support in our village. At the time, Charles Newman, chair of the Montecito Planning Commission, said there was “a dearth of community participation” in this unilateral scheme, which many believed was an attempt to turn our village governance over to a single set of five all-powerful commissars. As has been proven time and time again, our wonderful American democracy works best with maximum citizen participation – as well as unbridled transparency. Many of us believe the water and sanitary boards are doing their jobs in a commendable manner and recognize that their work is far more complex and important to the future of our village than the unnecessary step of consolidation, or the foolhardy march toward cityhood. We believe our community needs to hear directly from those public servants whom we have elected to governance roles for our water and sanitation districts, and from some of the professionals and consultants on whom they rely. We should not be relying on information filtered through gadflies. In particular, since the desalination contract was signed during COVID, many villagers have unanswered questions about it, and also about plans for wastewater recycling, water banking, rehabilitation of reservoirs, and water conservation efforts by homeowners, country clubs, schools, and businesses. Because there has been little opportunity during COVID for open discussion of water and sanitation issues, we respectfully call on both agencies to schedule a joint public information and question-and-answer session later this year when it can be held in person. Perhaps it might be sponsored by the Montecito Journal and moderated by Gwyn Lurie, who so ably handled the 1st District Board of Supervisors forum. •MJ
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A Community’s Search for Answers Editor’s note: The following letter references Bryan Rosen’s Letter to the Editor in the April 8 issue of the Montecito Journal.
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one of the residents on upper Riven Rock had a health emergency, and the ambulance couldn’t get through? On the other hand, Bryan does offer several constructive ideas. First, and most important, is the example he himself sets. Why not bike, manually or electrically, to the trailhead? If the popularity of the hike is exercise coupled with the appreciation of the outdoors, it seems somewhat disingenuous to claim that part of the experience is the ability to drive to the trailhead. It is understandable that parents with young children and pets may be wary of walking up Hot Springs Road; however, as was done on San Ysidro, Olive Mill, and lower Hot Springs, a walking path might alleviate that problem. Bryan also correctly notes that no
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orbes’ 35th annual “World’s Billionaire List” includes a record-breaking 2,755 billionaires, with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos topping it for the fourth consecutive year. This year’s billionaires are worth a combined $13.1 trillion, up $8 trillion from last year. “The very, very rich got very, very richer,” says Forbes chief content officer Randall Lane. Needless to say, as usual, residents of our rarefied enclave are prominently featured in the rankings. Bezos, 57, has a staggering $177 billion, cementing his No. 1 listing, with Tesla tycoon Elon Musk, 49, runner-up with $155 billion, up from 31st in 2020. Bernard Arnault, 77, chief executive of luxury goods conglomerate LVMH, with $164.1 billion; Microsoft founder Bill Gates, 65, with $124 billion; and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, 36, with $97 billion round out the top five. Investor and business tycoon Warren Buffett, 90, business partner of Montecito’s Charlie Munger, 97, with a worth of $99.4 billion, fell out of the top five for the first time in more than two decades, as tech executives dominate the list. Oracle tycoon Larry Ellison, 76, who has a number of homes in Santa Barbara, ranked No. 7 with $93 billion, while Google honcho Eric Schmidt, 65, who just bought Bill and Sandi Nicholson’s Eucalyptus Hill aerie, is listed at No. 96 with $18.9 billion. Frequent visitor and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, 78, whose NFL team trains in Oxnard during the summer, is ranked No. 264 with $8.9 billion, while Star Wars creator George Lucas, 76, who owns an expansive beach house on Padaro Lane, is No. 339 on the list with $7.4 billion. Rosewood Miramar owner Rick Caruso, 62, is No. 680 with $4.2 billion from his real estate empire, while Beanie Baby billionaire Ty Warner, 76, owner of the San Ysidro Ranch and the Four Seasons Biltmore, is at No. 831 with $3.6 billion. Former TV talk show host Oprah
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Rosewood Miramar owner Rick Caruso features prominently on Forbes rich list
Winfrey, 67, is ranked No. 1,174 with $2.7 billion, while Charlie Munger is No. 1,580 with $2 billion. Mega vintner Bill Foley, 76, who owns a beach house on Padaro Lane and the Golden Knights hockey team in Las Vegas, is ranked No. 1,664 with $1.9 billion, with Peter Sperling, 61, at No. 1931 with $1.6 billion.
He’s Not Going Far
Having sold his Cape Dutch-style Montecito compound for a hefty $49 million to TV talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and her actress wife Portia de Rossi, Saturday Night Live comedian Dennis Miller, 67, is downsizing in our rarefied enclave by splashing out $16.3 million for a home just across the road from his old property. The estate, built in 1986, has a number of structures totaling 6,381 square feet with seven bedrooms and seven and a half bathrooms over five acres. The main house has four bedrooms with a three-bedroom guest structure, guard houses, and equestrian stables. The property, nicknamed Gloria, was long owned by University of Phoenix billionaire Peter Sperling, who used it as guest quarters complementing his even larger estate next door. Sperling sold the property in
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Turner Medical Arts Opens on Coast Village Road
r. Duncan Turner, longtime Santa Barbara-based gynecological surgeon and women’s health advocate, has moved his practice to 1250 Coast Village Road, upstairs from Village Properties, The Warner Group, and Synergy Lending. “We are thrilled to be here, and to be able to offer our services more conveniently to our Montecito patients and those further south,” Dr. Turner said during an interview earlier this week. Dr. Turner started his career in Santa Barbara in the mid 1980s as a traditional OBGYN, delivering many babies and running a busy gynecology practice. “As I’ve grown older, so have my Turner Medical Arts has opened on Coast Village Road, patients, and so has my practice,” he welcoming Drs. Michael Giuffrida, Duncan Turner, and said, explaining how Turner Medical Joseph Chang to Montecito Arts has evolved into a forward thinking, advanced medical practice offering treatment for a wide range of gynecological issues, and more. Dr. Turner specializes in vaginal reconstruction, labiaplasty, erectile dysfunction, and hormone replacement therapy for both men and women, and says he is passionate about helping men and women with their sexual health. He routinely performs surgeries including laparoscopic hysterectomies and hysteroscopies, utilizing nearby surgery centers at both Cottage Hospital and in downtown Santa Barbara. The doctor has assembled a team of health professionals in the practice, including Dr. Joseph Chang, who once owned Montecito Aesthetic Institute on Coast Village Road. Dr. Chang specializes in aesthetic facial injections including Botox and fillers, and is also a highly-regarded ocular plastic surgeon, performing eyelid surgery at his alternate site in Bakersfield. Dr. Michael Giuffrida, a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon and liposuction specialist is also with the team, after building a successful practice on the East Coast. Dr. Giuffrida specializes in body sculpting and breast augmentation. Other providers include Caitlin Bozek, RN, who is an expert in injectables, Nurse Practitioner Kirsten DiBenedetto, who works closely with Dr. Turner with his gynecology patients, and Tracy Whitecotton, who oversees the weight management program at the office. “Turner Medical Arts is truly a multi-specialty practice, that, by design, offers patients complete service for their health and aesthetic needs,” Dr. Turner said. The practice also sees patients for hair loss, facials and peels, laser hair removal, transgender medicine, and gynecomastia (excess breast tissue on males), among other concerns. The majority of patients seen by Dr. Turner include those wanting hormone replacement therapy, of which the doctor utilizes bioidentical hormones that are mainly compounded in specialized pharmacies. “I’ve had many of the same patients for decades,” he said. “They started seeing me to have their babies, and now their needs are changing. I’m happy to have evolved with them.” Next month, the practice will welcome two new providers: Mary Sidavanh, RN, will provide intravenous hydration and vitamin treatments, and another doctor is being brought on to provide concierge internal medicine, with a focus on antiaging. “We’ve really chosen the best people to help us expand while we get comfortable in this new office space,” said Karen Spaulding, who oversees the development of the practice. The new, upstairs office space is filled with natural light, and includes several treatment rooms and offices, ensuring patient privacy. Dr. Turner says he is looking forward to getting the boutique practice back to normal after the pandemic. Last year, a majority of his work was done via telehealth, which he still offers to patients who prefer to be in the comfort of their own homes. The doctor offers a free, 10-min consultation via phone for every potential patient. For more information, visit www.turnermedicalarts.com. Turner Medical Arts is located at 1250 Coast Village Road. •MJ
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by Kelly Mahan Herrick 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.
Montecito Association Meets
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them, and build six to eight new housing units. SB9 does not require that improvements be made to local infrastructure to accommodate more residents, including water and sewer infrastructure, law enforcement and school capacity, road infrastructure, and more. “We want to be part of the solution,” said Board President Megan Orloff, adding that increased housing and population would have a detrimental effect on traffic, infrastructure, fire risk, and evacuations, and a significant environmental impact. “I urge the community to take an interest in this, and advocate for this,” she said. “We can help solve the housing crisis but in a way that is not detrimental to the community.” While the MA opposes these two housing bills, there are two others that they are in support of: SB55 – which limits building in high fire zones – and SB765, which allows local
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ho doesn’t like an inspirational story? Climb is a documentary of courage and determination that begins with Neil Myers, who lives in Santa Barbara. It had its world premiere at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. It also won the best documentary in the Sweden Film Awards and has been selected for the Columbia Film Festival in Columbia, South Carolina. It will appear in a unique festival in Electra, Texas, at the Cowpokes International Film Festival. In case you didn’t attend our festival this year, SBIFF had a unique way of getting around the pandemic – executive director Roger Durling and his gang created two drive-in “theatres” in SBCC parking lots using LED screens. They were able to show 80 films, playing four times a day for 50 cars. If you didn’t meet Neil on a bike path you may know his marketing firm called Connect. He’s been involved for 31 years in marketing consulting, web design, graphic design, animation, illustration, video editing, videography, and digital marketing. He has helped more than 450 companies
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tell their story. You can also find more information about the documentary at Climbdoc.org. Neil grew up in Santa Rosa, California, riding a bike the way most of us do as kids. He didn’t start riding seriously until he was 55. He weighed 250 pounds but got down to 200 to begin his new hobby. He is now a 61-year-old amateur triathlete who has done individual triathlons where he swims, bikes, and runs and typically finishes in the middle of the pack. But he also has done triathlons as part of a relay team. Two years ago, his team had just won the biggest race of their life, the NTC Triathlon with 4,000 participants. Sadly, just four weeks later he was in the ICU at Cottage Hospital. Neil was enjoying a perfect Santa Barbara day with his road bike descending on Gibraltar Road in August 2019. He saw a flash of a pickup truck and two-tenths of a second later the truck hit him head on. He broke 22 bones including both wrists, one of his legs, nose, seven ribs, and deep lacerations plus a brain bleed. He was in Cottage Hospital for nearly a month and then spent four months in rehab before getting back on his “horse.” Neil told me, “On one of my first trial runs I came upon an accident with a person laid out on the ground and the sirens of an ambulance arriving. My family heard them too and didn’t know who they were for. A frightening time for the family.” One year after getting out of the hospital, he and his team set out to win the Santa Barbara Triathlon, which they had been trying to do for five years. This time it worked. Now Neil was ready to give back. Many people encouraged him, but it culminated at the Tiara Ball in the Bacara Hotel. It’s a fundraiser for Cottage Health. They showed a video about Neil’s accident,
using him as their spotlight patient. Hundreds of people were at the ball and gave him a standing ovation, having been so moved by his story. Neil began to realize how the story could motivate donors. Cottage has used this story extensively in advertising, social media, print, etc. Neil would like to tell his story in order to raise money for hospitals around the country. He plans to do screenings in various cities to raise money for trauma centers. Santa Barbara has the only Level 1 Trauma Center between Los Angeles and San Francisco. That’s probably why Neil survived. He was only four minutes away and given how fast he was bleeding, that was critical. Having a Level 1 Trauma Center nearby is an important goal, making the difference between life and death. That’s Neil’s mission. For more information, call Neil at 805-453-6208.
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Montecito Alumni Write Letters from Life’s Front
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or the second week in a row, this column is hosting a letter from another talented young musician. Rowan Dowdall is a Connecticutto-Santa Barbara transplant attending the Visual Arts & Design Academy at Santa Barbara High School. Between teaching himself to play the guitar and taking supplemental classes at City College, Rowan spends his downtime thinking about the social power of visual art. Today, Rowan will be telling us about how his time in quarantine has allowed him to explore new aspects of music production and design as well as start his own clothing brand.
Dear Montecito,
My name is Rowan Dowdall, but since I’m writing to the Journal to tell you about my work as an artist, I’ll introduce myself with my stage name. I’m Polly, a 16-year-old music producer and founder of the clothing brand
Rowan Dowdall has used his downtime during the past year to teach himself music production
Mezzanine Soleil. Mezzanine Soleil is an idea I’ve had for probably a year or so now. It’s an urban street wear project that I designed to feature my visual art. I
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despised the clothing industry for a long time. I would go out and purposely buy the most tattered, unappealing clothes. But I started looking at my favorite artists and noticed that they used their clothing as a way to express themselves. That it wasn’t actually just clothing. It was their way of sharing a message. I guess it really meant something to me that you’re not just wearing it to look cool, even if that’s a big part of it. I liked the idea that what you’re wearing also tells a story about what you stand for. Especially when we live in a world with such big social justice issues and theatrical presidential campaigns. It’s hard not to have social messages influencing your art. So I’ve been spending a lot of my quarantine time on that. The launch of Mezzanine Soleil is actually going to coincide with the release of my
straight making some of the worst sounding things I’ve heard in my life. But I got a bit better, a bit better. I have a much better grip on what music production is now, but I still have a lot to learn. It’s been cool having all this extra time in quarantine. The circumstances of course are terrible. But if it weren’t for all this time, I might not have been able to learn these new skills. Actually, it’s really opened my eyes up to the fact that I can do this thing, all by myself. I just have to set my mind to it. But as I said, it’s been easier than it might’ve been because I don’t think of the music or Mezzanine Soleil as work so much as fun. And I’m looking forward to the next step. I’d like to continue developing this clothing brand into something profitable that I can build up, but I also am looking forward to continuing
I’m looking for the next step, to continue what I love but also to find a way to remember the things that have inspired me.
new song “Don’t Go” on the 23rd of this month. It sounds like a lot, but it’s never really felt like work. Both of these projects are just so much a part of my life, music in particular. I grew up in a very musical family. Between my mother who is very musical, my uncle who produces music, and my grandpa who was in a band, I grew up surrounded by this art form. My mom actually got me guitar lessons when I was really young, but I was kicked out for not being focused enough. It was just a year ago that I picked up the guitar again, kinda by chance, and started noodling around. I got into it, really into it, and started teaching myself what I could with the help of YouTube. From there, I picked up a little piano and a little bass. As my confidence grew, I even went back to my trusty friend YouTube and spent the start of quarantine teaching myself how to produce music. However many months later, I have just finished my first record. It wasn’t all smooth sailing. I think I sat down for just a week and a half
with my music. Soon I’ll be applying to college, so I’ve started looking at Berkeley, Cal Arts, NYU. I’m looking for the next step, to continue what I love but also to find a way to remember the things that have inspired me. Continuing to grow and learn is obviously a big part of the process, and it’s been important to me to strive for something that is artistically authentic and socially conscious. It was even a big part of the inspiration for my stage name. I chose to call myself Polly in honor of the strength of Polly Klaas, who was only 12 years old when she was abducted and killed. I remember my mom telling me this story when I was younger and thinking how traumatic the experience must’ve been and what incredible strength Polly, and anyone who has been in a similar situation, must’ve had to go through it. That’s the sort of thing I want to remember when I make my art. People’s stories are what keep us authentic and help us strive for better. All the best, Polly •MJ
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Montecito Moms
Holly Malmsten is a certified holistic practitioner and emotional healing specialist
by Dalina Michaels
Holly Malmsten: Energy Healer
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ccording to a Bloomberg report in September, 2020, Americans spend $1,200 a year on average on prescription drugs. Per person, per year. That’s more than anyone else in the world. And that’s crazy, according to Montecito mom and energy healer Holly Malmsten. “Not only are Americans getting sicker, weaker, experiencing more anxiety and depression than ever in history, despite the large amounts of money spent on pharmaceuticals, we have become a country that just treats the symptoms but doesn’t get to the root of the problem. The real issue. And the real issue often is at someone’s core – in the energy they carry,” she explains. Malmsten is not your traditional energy guru. First, she has a degree in sociology and a master’s in clinical counseling. So, she has the traditional “mental wellness background.” However, traditional was not cutting it for Malmsten and her family. “I was not feeling well. I was always tired and so doctors initially put me on thyroid medicine. They said my adrenal glands were stressed
and fatigued.” That very well could have been the case, especially since Malmsten was raising four young daughters and working as a mental health counselor. She had a full plate. And yet, even with the medicines and supplements doctors prescribed, she wasn’t getting better; she was just maintaining. “I realized something needed to change, and I needed to make the change.” So she started where everyone starts these days... with a Google search. “I had heard about energy healing and energy frequencies but didn’t know much about it – and it also sounded a little ‘out there,’ to be truly candid. But I wanted to learn more and see what it all was about.” Through research into the holistic side of health medicine and an intensive nine-month course in energy healing, Malmsten began finding out the underlying cause of her fatigue and stress: “If you are holding internal stress in your body, a low-frequency pattern will resonate and affect your natural abilities to heal and repair, and continue to bring you down.” Malmsten began testing energy fre-
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quencies in her own body and learned that the energy system interconnects the body, mind, and spirit and can become blocked. “While the concept of energy healing has been around for hundreds of years, the bottom line is that the quality of the energy system in your body is going to determine your overall state,” says Malmsten. Once Malmsten discovered this connection, “the Holy Grail” as she calls it, she decided she wanted to combine the holistic understanding of the body, mind, and spirit, with her counseling background for mental health and emotional healing. She starts by testing for blockages, imbalances, or low frequency patterns in the energy system with muscle testing. Muscle testing is a form of applied kinesiology and has been around since the 1970s. Malmsten says energy healing is, in fact, extremely scientific. “It has a lot to do with quantum physics in the body and tracking the energetic waves and electrical signals firing between the nervous system and the brain. Basically, physicists have found that human cells vibrate in hertz (measurements), just like sound waves. Thoughts, emotions, memories, and beliefs affect cellular vibration quality and affect your energy system’s state. Common human emotions have already been measured and mapped out to show the quality of energy generated from specific emotions. Joy is 540 hertz, but fear is low and measures at below 100 hertz. So, if you have fear flowing through your body, then the body can’t heal itself because it doesn’t have the fuel to move through.” She goes on to explain: “Once the low emotional energy is released, or blockages removed, then the stress mode switch is turned off and you can be in a balanced state of homeostasis.” In this ideal state, natural healing, repairing, and recovering mechanisms are turned on. The body then has the available energy to heal and repair itself and to recover from adversities. “When you hold stress, it causes cer-
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tain parts of the brain to shut down. The creative part of the brain shuts off to ‘flee’ or ‘fight.’ This will manifest itself in all aspects of your life. “I found I had two types of clients: those who had gone through a specific traumatic event (like the Montecito debris flow), and those who just felt they could not move forward in their lives in a healthy and happy way because of various reasons.” Before Malmsten began practicing this on clients, she had her own source of studying – her family. “I practiced this on my kids at first. They would come to me if they felt stressed about school, or worried about a test… I would do the energy healing and they would right away feel lighter and happier and so I knew it was working on the cellular level.” The best part of energy medicine is that there are no negative side effects, and most importantly, you will hopefully be more equipped to handle stress in the future. Nowadays, with her four daughters – ages 20, 17, 15, and 13 who are competitive surfers – and husband, Ryan, who is a realtor, Malmsten is excited to be sharing her energy healing and counseling with others. So, with energy healing and taking care of her own family, how does Malmsten find time for self-care for herself? “A perfect day for me is taking a walk on Butterfly Beach, going surfing as a family, and having fajitas on the patio at Los Arroyos for dinner. “I love what I do and so I really enjoy going to work and helping my clients. I am also writing a book to help simplify and demystify the concept of energy healing – and how the energy system determines whether a person can heal and overcome adversity.” To learn more about Malmsten, check out her website: www.hmholis tichealth.com •MJ In this column, we feature Montecito Moms with interesting and unique careers. If you have a mom you think would like to be featured, email dalina@gmail.com 15 – 22 April 2021
Village Beat (Continued from page 16 16)) jurisdictions to put setback limits on Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs). The MA is currently working on raising awareness of these issues via townhall meetings and through articles in this paper, raising funds to pay for Jackson’s work, and partnering with other communities in an effort to defeat SB9 and SB10. They are looking for contributors to help fund the very important cause; for more information, visit www.montecitoassociation.org. During Community Reports, Montecito Fire Chief Kevin Taylor introduced the District’s new Public Information Officer, Christina Favuzzi, who has been brought on to help the District communicate better with the community. Favuzzi comes from Central Coast news outlet KSBY, where she covered news in San Luis Obispo and surrounding areas, including in Montecito during the Thomas Fire and 1/9 Debris Flow. Chief Taylor reported that the District is preparing for an early fire season, which begins in May, which is four weeks earlier than last year. Chief Taylor also reported that six home hardening grants were recently given to local residents, to help them prepare their homes for fire season. Santa Barbara County Sheriff Lieutenant Butch Arnoldi gave his monthly report on recent crime, which included a package theft on Danielson, shoplifting in the Upper Village, a DUI traffic stop on East Valley Road, a beached boat on Butterfly Beach, a mental health crisis situation at Bonnymede, check forgery on Cota Lane, drug arrest on Coast Village Road, purse stolen from car at Cold Spring trailhead, residential burglaries on Ten Acre Road and Orchard Avenue, and spray paint vandalism at Cold Spring trailhead. MUS and Cold Spring School Superintendents Dr. Anthony Ranii and Dr. Amy Alzina reported that the majority of their staff members and teachers are reaching full vaccination from COVID-19. Dr. Ranii said that recommendations from the Public Health Department are changing rapidly, and that the newest recommendations are that students only need to be three feet apart, instead of six feet apart. “This was a big change for us. It allowed us to take advantage of indoor learning,” he said. Student enrollment at MUS
has increased 3.5% since the beginning of the year, with new families coming from Los Angeles and the Bay Area. Dr. Ranii reported that MUS will have an in-person graduation ceremony this year. Dr. Alzina reported that Cold Spring School has stopped the community COVID-19 testing with the reduction in case numbers. CSS held its first board meeting in person this week. Darcel Elliott with First District Supervisor Das Williams’ office reported that the County has met the State’s Orange Tier case rate and positivity rate for one week. If these metrics are met for one additional week, movement into the less restrictive Orange Tier may take effect as early as next Wednesday, April 21, 2021. The County can move into the Orange Tier of the Blueprint for a Safer Economy when its case rate has been under 6 cases per every 100,000 residents and test positivity is under 4.9% for the last two weeks. The potential for this forward move comes after the state raised the metrics threshold for counties to meet after achieving a goal to vaccinate more than 4 million Californians who live in areas hardest hit by the pandemic, as measured by the Healthy Places Index. Santa Barbara County’s adjusted case rate, as of Tuesday, is currently 4.6 cases per 100,000 residents and local test positivity is 1.9%. Some activities which will be allowed with Santa Barbara County’s anticipated move to the Orange Tier include increases indoor restaurant seating to 50% capacity or 200 people maximum; gyms and fitness centers can move to 25% capacity indoors; indoor pools can open; wineries and breweries can operate at 25% or 100 people indoors maximum; movie theaters can open at 50% or 200 people maximum; museums, zoos and aquariums can open at 50% capacity for indoor activities; places of worship can open at 50% capacity for indoor activities; bars with no food service can open outdoors with modifications; and all retail can open with no capacity limits. The next Montecito Association Board of Directors meeting is Tuesday, May 11.
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On Entertainment
by Steven Libowitz
“An Iliad”: Tale of War, With a Modern Twist
An Iliad will livestream from The New Vic
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ur troubles coping with the COVID pandemic have stretched beyond the one-year mark. But that’s a short blip of time compared to the arduous ordeal of relating conflict, rage, war, and more over three millennia — with no end in sight. Such is the plight of the storyteller in An Iliad, the modern-day adaptation of Homer’s epic poem of the Trojan War and the great fighters Achilles and Hector. The bard is tasked with sharing his tale with a modern audience, mashing up references with wars throughout the ages with the ancient story of Greeks and Trojans. It uses poetry, prose, humor and stirring accounts of rage and its aftermath — even live music, composed and performed live by Santa Barbara Symphony Cellist Jonathan Flaksman— to share the experience from multiple perspectives. Ensemble Theatre’s production of playwrights Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare adaptation of Robert Fagles’s translation of Homer’s classic also marks something of a resurrection, as An Iliad represents the first-time audiences can watch live theater since March 2020 — albeit only through video streaming. John Tufts returns to ETC after appearing in The Invisible Hand and his award-winning turn in the oneman show I Am My Own Wife, once again serving as all the characters in a piece that vividly drives home the timelessness of mankind’s compulsion toward violence. ETC’s artistic director Jonathan Fox helms the performances that take place on the stage of The New Vic, with each of the five performances airing live. Fox and Tufts took a rehearsal break last weekend to talk about the play over Zoom. Q. What drew you to want to produce — and act — in An Iliad?
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Fox: From the technical approach, I wanted to find something that I thought would be its own theatrical experience without an audience, that would work as a video. But I knew from the get-go that I wanted the performances to be live, not recorded. So, the actor had to address the audience. I had read An Iliad 10 years ago, and John had mentioned it to me several years ago as well. I went back to it and realized it could work. It’s such an unusual piece and I wanted to see how we could approach it. Tufts: I first encountered the play a few years ago and fell in love with it immediately. I was so impressed with how much of that massive text they were able to incorporate, somatically and literally, into the play. It’s cool because it intersperses the verse text of Homer with their own very political prose text. They weave those things together so cleverly where sometimes you can’t tell the difference. Other times they make it deliberately apparent as when a character breaks the verse to draw a connection between 3,000 years ago and now with anachronistic inclusions. Fox: The two people who adapted the poem focus on the very human aspects that lead us to keep waging war over and over and over again. It is meant to be the poet, Homer, coming in to talk to a contemporary modern audience as if he’d traversed centuries. He’s fully aware that he’s talking to a modern audience — and so updates some of the references — in the same way that Homer was talking to his contemporaries by reciting this poem over and over again. Tufts: This guy has been sort of doomed to wander the earth and tell this poem. It’s imperative that he makes a connection with the audience. So, within the first four lines of text, he breaks it down and says, “Look I got a hard job here relating this ancient text to you guys but stick with me.”
He’s trying to connect which is why he very literally conjures the muse to inspire him. He’ll draw a connection between towns that would have existed in ancient Greece with places we’re familiar with, like Goleta or Lompoc. When he talks about naming the dead, rather than go through a list of distant sounding Greek names, he’ll point to soldiers who died on the battlefield in World War I and say that these were their stories. Even to conjure up the emotion of rage — he’ll ask, “What sets you off?” Even though you’re wearing a mask, I can see how animated you are just talking about the play. That leads me to ask about how you change characters in a one-man show like this. What’s the mix of gift to craft to luck? Tufts: I don’t know about gift, but I do understand craft because it requires a lot of work. You have to really just go through the grind. This text is long, and the contemporary part is so idiosyncratic that getting all of those word repetitions and beats that were written very specifically for one of the playwrights to perform is considerably more difficult than with I Am My Own Wife. I like to start all rehearsal processes off book, to be as prepared as possible so that the director and I get to start on the same level and then go even further. So, I spent three solid weeks before rehearsal began just memorizing the script. Fox: From a director’s point of view, it’s the most amazing gift for an actor to be so well-prepared coming in. As long as they’re flexible, which John is. I was just thinking that playing a lot of characters is really just one step from what a reader does with a novel when they’re imagining each character’s voice and actions. Does that make any sense? Tufts: It does, and here’s why – as an actor, it’s always my goal to be as good as I was when I was five. That’s when we’re all amazing, partly because we’re learning how to lie, but it’s also when we commit so deeply and so fully to our imaginations that nothing can interrupt it. I watch my seven-year-old son play in the backyard and he’s all in being this guy, then someone else and responds to me that way. It’s very natural. That commitment to an absurd storyline is exactly what we want to do as actors (and) as adults. I want to perform in a way where it’s both natural and also completely satisfies my imagination. In this production, John, you also get to interact with a cellist live on stage who takes on the role of the muse through music. How is that for you? Tufts: My voice is a baritone, so it’s nice to have that timber come in and mingle, but more crucially it’s that music is the closest thing we have to a muse nowadays. A song can transport
you to when you first heard it, and just the pitch, the vibrations, can force our mind to unlock itself a little. So, it’s a brilliant device. Fox: We first met Jonathan over Zoom, and he was unshaven and had a wool cap on that made him look a little bit homeless. That was the concept that John and I had about his character, like he was a street poet. So, it made it even more that the musician and the poet could be seen as doppelgangers, the muse is a reflection of the poet who conjured him up. It really adds another element of theatricality to have a musician on stage.
“The two people who adapted the poem focus on the very human aspects that lead us to keep waging war over and over and over again.” — Jonathan Fox, artistic director at ETC This is the third time you are working together at ETC. What makes the relationship work? What’s the connection or commonalities? Tufts: I had a thrilling time doing I Am My Own Wife here, and then Jonathan and I really got to know each other on Invisible Hand. That play is just relentlessly heavy, but Jonathan has a really good eye for where things can lighten up, where humor can exist, whether it’s through irony or characters just being aware of their own humor. When you’re exploring a play that touches on themes of grief and rage, having somebody who’s good at finding the humor really helps. And he’s got such a clear eye for theatricality and how to move around the space. Fox: We had a get-together with donors to talk about the show via Zoom, and John said that the whole play is very much like a piece of music, like a score. My job is almost like a conductor who brings out certain tempos or certain tones or emphasis, which I agree with. It’s John’s job to embody it. But if I’m hearing something from outside or being a little more attentive because I’m seeing it in the moment and point out where a section needs to be quieter or more impassioned — John is really very professional and very talented at picking up things very quickly. What I ask for will be there the next time we go through it. So, in a sense, we’re partners in trying to get this score to a certain place together. Tufts: Trust is built through clear communication. John explains what 15 – 22 April 2021
he’s trying to communicate really clearly, so I can see it in my head and get a sense of how it would feel in my body. Trust gets established right there. What makes An Iliad right for Santa Barbara right now? What should people take away? Fox: There’s a lot of violence or imagined violence in the play, but there are moments of crushing beauty. It got me choked up because there’s the connection between characters. And the cathartic moment in both the poem and adaptation is a burial, a letting go of grief, of allowing yourself to breathe out, and open yourself up to the next chapter. Tufts: We’ve had a year where we’ve been deprived of the glorious art of theater. I’m so excited that we get to leap back in this way with such a pure expression — one guy in a theater talking to people and telling a story like this — and pure elemental storytelling. So, they can take away whatever themes they want.
Skating on ‘Thin’ Ice for SBCC
The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett’s crime caper series featuring the society couple Nick and Nora Charles,
Brian Harwell in The Theatre Group at SBCC’s online streamed production of The Thin Man (Photo credit: Ben Crop)
Patriotic Pandemic Performance
Laksmini Wyantini and Asta in The Thin Man (Photo credit: Ben Crop)
was first published as a magazine serial in 1933. But it wasn’t long before the tales of the high-life living couple and their dog, Asta, being drawn into the seamy underbelly of crime as amateur sleuths aiming to help out their friends and family was turned into a hit radio serial. It would then be most famously memorialized in Hollywood movies featuring William Powell and Myrna Loy, who went on to make five sequels over the next decade. Bowing to the pandemic, The Theatre Group at SBCC turns back time to stream a production of The Thin Man as a live radio play based on the 1934 Lux Radio Theatre script centering on the rich, glamorous couple who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis, all featuring sound effects and commercials. Katie Laris directs a stellar cast of SBCC’s veteran players and other local thespians including Robert Allen, Brian Harwell, Rene Hooper, Jon Koons, Penny O’ Mahoney, Stuart Orenstein, Sean O’Shea, Van Riker, Jenna Scanlon, Ethan Scott, Leslie Ann Story, Matthew Tavianini, Laksmini Wyantini, and Madison Widener. Stream at your leisure between April 21 and May 8, with a single ticket ranging from $5-$15. Visit www.theatregroupsbcc. com for more.
Van Riker, Madison Widener, and Brian Harwell in The Thin Man (Photo credit: Ben Crop)
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“Nay, why reproach each other, be unkind, For there’s no plane on which we two may meet?” The words might be a little too poetic and eloquent for modern times, but the sentiment is surely something that might have been spoken aloud on the floor of the U.S. Senate this week, say, perhaps by a centrist such as Joe Manchin. In truth, the question forms the first two lines of an eight-line poem called “Polarity” by Claude McKay, who was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, the prominent literary movement of the 1920s. McKay’s works ranged from vernacular verse celebrating peasant life in his native Jamaica to prosaic poems that protested racial and economic inequities. “Polarity” is part of a trio of McKay’s nearly century-old poems that L.A.-based composer George N. Gianopoulos has set to music via a pandemic project from Long Beach Opera to commission 20 young composers to write new folk music. Gianopoulos selected “America” and “White House” to complete the baritone-piano song cycle, titles that seemed beyond prescient when wrote them in October. “There was a lot of tension in the air politically, with things obviously having been stirred up for many years leading up to the election,” he explained. “I wanted to find some poems that I felt were really representative of what I was feeling and what was happening to the country. I came across these poems and they really spoke to me.” Gianopoulos was moved that McKay was expressing similar sentiments 100 years ago about “the divide, and the huge differences that people have in their approaches to life. It’s not necessarily purely political, more moral philosophy. It touches on all of these things that are still happening now in society, and it really demonstrates how maybe not too much has changed in almost 100 years.” The poems also clearly spoke to bass-baritone Cedric Berry, who premiered the works in their original format for a virtual Long Beach Opera concert. Berry, who will serve as the soloist for the Santa Barbara Symphony’s virtual concert dubbed “Fanfare for the Common Man” on April 17, proposed that he reprise the “Polarity” piece with the local orchestra, Gianopoulos said. “He really fell in love with the piece and has become a real champion of my music and this cycle in particular,” said the composer whose works now range to Opus 44. When music director Nir Kabaretti agreed, that necessitated Gianopoulos needing to orchestrate the work in a week — a
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Cedric Berry will serve as the soloist for the Santa Barbara Symphony’s virtual concert dubbed “Fanfare for the Common Man” on April 17
difficult task but one with a path. “The way that I approach writing for the piano is usually pretty textural and colorful to begin with, really about internalizing the text as best I can and trying to do it justice,” Gianopoulos said. “With a lot of vocal music, the piano is written to simply accompany the voice and sometimes even doubles the vocal line throughout. My approach is to have two very separate and independent instruments, with the piano laying a foundation for the voice, but still being its own animal with its own momentum, not just supplemental to the voice but an equal in many respects.” The newly orchestrated version will have its world premiere in the Symphony’s All-American music showcase displaying a diverse range of U.S. composers as part of its season-long commitment to spotlighting the breadth of symphonic music created in America, while also taking note of our troubled times via the pandemic, the politics and the personal. Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man,” composed as a response to America’s entry into World War II, serves as an opening salvo in evoking the vast American landscape and pioneer spirit to rekindle hope as we enter the second year of a global pandemic. Bookended by Joan Tower’s updated response, “Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman,” the pieces also serve to spotlight the Symphony’s heralded brass section. In addition to “Polarity,” Berry — a former Resident Artist with the L.A. Opera whose most notable recent roles include Yusef in the world premiere of the Central Park Five opera — is featured in Copland’s Old American Songs, which includes “Simple Gifts,” “I Bought Me a Cat,” and “Zion’s Walls.” The orchestra’s strings will come together for “Serenade for Strings” by Robin Frost, the late Santa Barbara composer and past Symphony board member, and Pulitzer Prizewinner George Walker’s “Lyric for Strings.” The wind section will deliver Samuel Barber’s “Summer Music for Wind Quintet,” with the full ensemble’s take on “The Unanswered Question” by Charles Ives rounding
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On Entertainment (Continued from page 25 25)) out the program. The concert, which was recorded last week live on stage at the Granada following pandemic safety protocols, streams on Saturday night and Sunday afternoon, with previews, interviews, and more as part of the program. Visit www.thesymphony.org.
Ziggy Bows to Bob
Marking the 40th anniversary of reggae icon Bob Marley’s death, his most successful son, Ziggy Marley, is performing a tribute to his legendary father at the first non-classical show of the new season of “Concerts in Your Car” at the Ventura County Fairgrounds. Ziggy, an eight-time Grammy winner who also possesses an Emmy Award, has enjoyed an even longer career than his famous father as a guitarist, songwriter, and humanitarian. A musical pioneer, Ziggy infused his father’s reggae genre with funk, blues, rock, and other elements to create his own style. As a prolific composer, Marley primarily performs his own songs, so a chance to hear Ziggy and his band focusing on his late father’s music is a rare event indeed. Show times are 5 and 8:30 pm on April 17. Visit www.concert sinyourcar.com for details and tickets.
Still Streaming for UCSB
Charleston’s Ranky Tanky’s inspired take on the soulful songs of South Carolina’s Gullah culture earned the band the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Regional Roots Music Album. Having adopted a name that translates loosely as “Get Funky,” Ranky Tanky is a relentlessly upbeat ambassador of the culture known for retaining more African linguistic and cultural heritage than any other African American community in the United States. The dynamo quintet introduces audiences to the language, rhythm, and music of the region with a distinctly American sound that incorporates jazz, blues, gospel and R&B. Hear for yourself when the band plays for UCSB Arts & Lectures’ “Race to Justice” series at 5 pm on April 15, followed by a Q&A session. Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie, who has displayed her formidable street dance chops as a favorite member of Dorrance Dance — a frequent visitor to the Granada in the pre-pandemic days — now returns to town, virtually, with her own company. The Israeliborn, New York-based “b-girl” who boasts extensive training in ballet and modern dance, will present “Odeon,” a new work for seven dancers and four musicians, bringing together and remixing street and club dances including breaking, hip hop, house and vogue, all set to a mix of early 20th century romantic music and popular
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Afro-Brazilian rhythms. A moderated Q&A follows. Tune in starting at 5 pm on April 20. Also, try your own hand (legs?) at the styles on April 22, when Asherie teams with club star Archie Burnett in a free movement workshop called “Shake-a-Leg with Archie & Ephrat,” when the pair will share some of their favorite social dances. Visit https://artsandlectures.ucsb.edu.
Auditions Live from the Lobero
The final auditions for 2021 Spirit and Junior Spirit of Fiesta are slated for 3 pm on April 17, with the event taking place back at the Lobero Theatre, where Fiesta originated in 1924. The audience is invited to attend, but only virtually as pandemic protocols still prevent such in-person gatherings. The auditions will be broadcast live on KEYT-TV (channels 1013 and 13) and live streamed on www.keyt.com. The community is invited to tune in to share in the day’s events and watch the dancers perform in anticipation of winning the coveted crowns that will have them appearing in public numerous times leading up to 2021 Old Spanish Days in August, which is still on track to take place as California is slated to open fully in mid-June.
Poetry for the Pandemic
The 7th annual “Spirits in the Air: Potent Potable Poetry” reading will be held, virtually for the second consecutive year, from 7-8 pm on April 21, as one of the events for 2021 Santa Barbara Poetry Month, held in conjunction with April’s National Poetry Month. Current Santa Barbara Poet Laureate Emma Trelles will be among the participants along with three of her surviving predecessors in the prestigious position — LaureAnne Bosselaar, David Starkey, and Chryss Yost — plus Susan Chiavelli, Robert Krut, Amy Michelson, Diana Raab, and Jace Turner. The reading is hosted by George Yatchisin, the “Drinkable Landscape” columnist for Edible Santa Barbara, food writer for the Santa Barbara Independent, and author of the poetry volumes Feast Days and The First Night We Thought the World Would End. The poets will read their own verse and/or the work of others about libations of all sorts in an event that, until pandemic protocols prevented, took place in person at The Good Lion, the Granada building home of the veteran mixologist mavens. The Good Lion owners Brandon Ristaino and Misty Orman’s other local locations Shaker Mill and Test Pilot will be offering to-go cocktails to enjoy at home while listening to the verses virtually. “From Bacchus to Berryman, from Li Po to Dorothy Parker, drink and
lyric flights have danced a long, sometimes loving, sometimes leery waltz,” Yatchisin said in a press release. “This event helps prove how the magic of words can help unite us even in a time when we are physically isolated.” Not coincidentally, Santa Barbarabased Gunpowder Press — co-edited by Starkey and Yost (who is married to Yatchisin) — has just published the largest collection of local poets in one volume in the city’s history. While You Wait, edited by Bosselaar, features 80 Santa Barbara poets and is dedicated to the region’s “healthcare heroes” for their continuing efforts to keep us all safe during the COVID pandemic. Gunpowder has arranged with Sansum Clinic Healthcare to gift the volume to more than 1,750 Sansum healthcare workers, creating a companion website (www.whileyouwait. org) where the poems are easily (and hygienically) accessible to all readers. The 222-page volume is broken into several major thematic sections — from nature, to “love and affection,” “life and dreams,” and aging — is easily searchable and sortable, and includes several poems in Spanish and one in the Chumash language, Samala, with translation. The poets range from schoolchildren to novices to established writers, including all eight living Santa Barbara Poets Laureate. One, Yatchisin’s “Pandemic Domestic,” even addresses the COVID crisis directly. The original plan had been for the most recent past Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara to edit the anthology for free distribution in clinics and hospital waiting rooms, Bosselaar explained, adding that now they have gone virtual, too. “It will reach even more people than I’d hoped,” Bosselaar said. What’s more, Santa Barbara MTD has partnered with Gunpowder Press to place posters on buses so people on the move may still enjoy the poetry. Patients in waiting rooms can also safely access the poems online on a smartphone or tablet with a QR code, which brings you to the book’s website.
Music to Our Eyes
Joe Woodard is well-known around town as a veteran cultural critic focusing on music, film and art, a witty and urbane freelance entertainment scribe who contributed for years to the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, DownBeat and many music magazines and enjoyed long associations with the Santa Barbara Independent and News-Press. His two books are appreciations of jazz legends Charles Lloyd (the Montecito maverick) and Charlie Haden. Woodard himself is also an accomplished guitarist, singer, songwriter
Joe Woodard’s debut novel, Ladies Who Lunch
with a number of albums under various group names, and also serves as head of the Household Ink Records label. So, it’s a little bit of a surprise that his first novel Ladies Who Lunch turns out, in Woodard’s own words, to be a satirical work that takes readers on a journey through the chic lunch spots and outposts around Los Angeles circa the 1990s. His protagonist is a newly divorced Danielle Wiffard who navigates a maze of romantic, sexual and — now this makes more sense — musical encounters with celebrities and socialites, alternately cavorting with a symphony maestro, a big-hatted country crooner, a swaggering TV talk show host and a has-been teen idol among a range of potential romantic interests. Meanwhile, her lunchtime gal pals watch and chirp away about all of it as together they refine the “Art of Lunch.” Household Ink publishes the book on April 20, with Woodard chatting with longtime friend and writer colleague D.J. Palladino later that night for a Zoom interview and reading via Chaucer’s Books (www.chaucers books.com/event). Woodard will also appear at the Fourth Anniversary party at Palladino’s Mesa Books on Sunday afternoon, April 25 (www. themesabookstore.com).
Chaucer’s Choice
Majestic waterfalls, sweeping vistas, granite-clad ridges, hot springs, and rock-hopping are all part of the hiking and backpacking opportunities in the southern Los Padres National Forest that stretches across our Southern California terrain. But sometimes deciphering the maps, messages, and figuring out where to go for what can seem a bit like navigating a maze. Now local author Craig R. Carey has undertaken the challenge of leading readers through the best 15 – 22 April 2021
of what the foothills and backcountry in California’s second-largest national forest has to offer. Hiking & Backpacking Santa Barbara & Ventura features almost 100 of the finest routes between the Gaviota Pass and Lake Piru. Readers can learn how to explore lush trails above the cities and town, using the info to make plans for a day hike, a weekend backpacking trip or a deep backcountry journey through stretches of the Chumash, San Rafael, Dick Smith, Sespe, and Matilija wildernesses. The book features detailed section maps and GPS coordinates, waypoints, camps, trailhead directions, permit information, and recommendations for hiking with children. Carey, who grew up hiking and backpacking the region before graduating from UCSB with a BA in History, offer an adventurous virtual evening with Chaucer’s Books at 6 pm on April 22. Visit www.chaucersbooks. com for details.
Notice Inviting Bids HIGHWAY 144 UTILITY LID RELOCATIONS – WATER AND WASTEWATER Bid No. 4022 1.
If any Addendum issued by the City is not acknowledged online by the Bidder, the PlanetBids System will prevent the Bidder from submitting a Bid Proposal. Bidders are responsible for obtaining all addenda from the City’s PlanetBids portal. Bid results and awards will be available on PlanetBids. 2.
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Project Information. 2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at the Sycamore Canyon Road from Stanwood Drive to south of the Five Points Roundabout at Alameda Padre Serra, and is described as follows: Identify, lower and protect water valve and manhole covers within the Caltrans work zone. After the grinding of the AC and the placement of new overlay by Caltrans, return to locate and raise the utility lids to the new grade. 2.2 Time for Final Completion. The Project must be fully completed within 65 calendar days from the start date set forth in the Notice to Proceed. City anticipates that the Work will begin on or about May 1, 2021, but the anticipated start date is provided solely for convenience and is neither certain nor binding. 2.3 Estimated Cost. The estimated construction cost is $ 122,000
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License and Registration Requirements. 3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): Class A General Engineering Contractor.
Talk of the Town
Pakistan-born novelist Mohsin Hamid is an international bestselling author whose four books over 17 years include The Reluctant Fundamentalist, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, and Moth Smoke, in which he takes on ethnic identity, class disparity, and mass-urbanization with a bold and inventive approach. A winner of the Betty Trask Award and a Pen/Hemingway Award finalist who has been twice shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize was most recently heralded for 2017’s Exit West. His April 16 conversation with Pico Iyer as part of UCSB Arts & Lectures’ “Speaking with Pico” virtual series will be followed by a moderated Q&A. Get a jump start on Earth Day weekend with Dr. Robert Bullard, a Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy at Texas Southern University and is better known as “The Father of Environmental Justice.” Bullard, who boasts more than four decades of action advocating for racial equality and fair environmental and urban planning, has served as founding director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University and is the award-winning author of 18 books that address sustainable development, environmental racism, climate justice, community resilience, regional equity and more. Bullard’s talk for UCSB Arts & Lectures’ “House Calls” series, titled “The Quest for Environmental and Racial Justice,” will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Dr. David N. Pellow, UCSB’s Chair of Environmental Studies and Director of the Global Environmental Justice Project. Visit https://artsandlectures. ucsb.edu. •MJ
Bid Submission. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept electronic bids for its Highway 144 Utility Lid Relocations Project (“Project”), by or before April 28, 2021, at 3:00 pm., through its PlanetBids portal. Bidders must be registered on the City of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to submit a Bid proposal and to receive addendum notifications. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually submitted/uploaded with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. Large files may take more time to be submitted/uploaded to PlanetBids, so plan accordingly. The receiving time on the PlanetBids server will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, hardcopy, and facsimile bids will not be accepted.
3.2 DIR Registration. City may not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder is registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work pursuant to Labor Code § 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions. 4.
Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: http://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=29959 A printed copy of the Contract Documents may be obtained from CyberCopy Shop, located at 504 N. Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, at (805) 884-6155.
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Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of 10 percent of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that within ten days after City issues the Notice of Award, the successful bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and any other submittals required by the Contract Documents and as specified in the Notice of Award.
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Prevailing Wage Requirements. 6.1 General. Pursuant to California Labor Code § 1720 et seq., this Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes. 6.2 Rates. These prevailing rates are on file with the City and are available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half. 6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code § 1771.4.
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Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bonds, each for 100% of the Contract Price, as further specified in the Contract Documents.
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Substitution of Securities. Substitution of appropriate securities in lieu of retention amounts from progress payments is permitted under Public Contract Code § 22300.
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Subcontractor List. Each Subcontractor must be registered with the DIR to perform work on public projects. Each bidder must submit a completed Subcontractor List form with its Bid Proposal, including the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the base bid price) for each Subcontractor that will perform Work or service or fabricate or install Work for the prime contractor in excess of one-half of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form included with the Contract Documents.
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Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders for more detailed information before submitting a Bid Proposal. The definitions provided in Article 1 of the General Conditions apply to all of the Contract Documents, as defined therein, including this Notice Inviting Bids.
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William Hornung, C.O.M., General Services Manager Publication Dates: 1) April 14, 2021 2) April, 21, 2021 END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS
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Santa Barbara by the Glass
Kimsey 2020 Grenache Rosé ($29):
by Gabe Saglie Gabe Saglie has been covering the Santa Barbara wine scene for more than 15 years through columns, TV and radio. He’s a senior editor with Travelzoo and is a leading expert on travel deals, tips and trends. Gabe and wife Renee have 3 children and one Golden Retriever named Milo
Everything’s Coming Up Rosés These Pink Wines are Perfect for Spring
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iming has a lot to do with rosé. That pink color – an alluring hue that can range from salmon to blush – is the by-product of grape juice and grape skins coming in contact for a few hours, or for a day, maybe two or three, until just enough tint bleeds into the wine. The result, to the eye, can be spellbinding. Then there’s the timing driven by the calendar. With spring comes sunshine and warmth, along with that nagging desire for an adult beverage that’s as quenching and refreshing as it is pretty, and one that’s apropos to sip any time of the day or night. No wine fits that bill better than rosé. Winemakers push rosés out young to preserve their freshness and verve, so you’ve likely seen a lot of 2020 rosé promos lately. No need to go far: some of the best in the market hail from Santa Barbara County, and they represent some of the best wine values out there. Here are six worth seeking out (and buying by the case) right now.
Tercero 2020 Mourvèdre Rosé ($30):
Winemaker Larry Schaffer is already seeing this one fly out fast from his Los Olivos tasting room. He stomped the grapes himself, by foot, and the juice only saw skin contact for about an hour before going into a stainless steel tank for fermenta-
Montecito residents Nancy and Bill Kimsey hired right when they brought winemaker phenom Matt Dees on board right when they launched their eponymous brand in 2008. The grapes for this wine come from their lovely 22-acre estate vineyard in Ballard Canyon, a prime growing region just north of Buellton that’s prime for Rhone grapes, like grenache. Just over 30 hours of skin contact here, and a profusion of uplifting citrus notes. kimseyvineyard.com.
Hills region, just west of Buellton. Kudos to winemaker Blair Fox and his team for another mouthwatering rosé that balances refined notes of strawberries and cherries with streaks of grapefruit and orange rind. Pop this one open at lunch and finish off throughout the afternoon. fessparker.com.
Zaca Mesa 2020 Rosé of Grenache ($25):
Epiphany 2020 Grenache Rosé ($25):
tion at cool temps over four weeks. The mourvedre grapes – sisters to syrah – came from Camp 4 Vineyard in the Santa Ynez Valley. This wine is brilliant and delicious, and it’s brimming with tropical notes (although that could be because I enjoyed a bottle of this one on the shores of Maui last week). Nab some of the Tercero 2020 Cinsault Rosé ($30), too – probably the lightest colored rosé around! tercerowines.com.
The bright acidity in this wine is enhanced by red berry aromas and watermelon flavors. A very subtle suppleness on the palate makes it especially food-friendly and super tasty. As part of the Fess Parker portfolio of wines, these grenache grapes hail from the brand’s proprietary Rodney’s Vineyard along Foxen Canyon Road. Fermentation took four months – half of it in neutral oak barrels and half in stainless steel tanks. epiphanywineco.com.
Fess Parker 2020 Pinot Noir Rosé ($25):
Winemaker Kristin Bryden and her team have crafted a deliciously dry rosé from estate-grown grenache grapes. This one screams spring, with its tasty tartness and superfluity of stone fruit flavors – lychee, apricot, peach. The color is also especially eye-catching, leaning toward diluted scarlet, and the texture is lovely. This is the rosé you quaff at the beach, or poolside, at that exact moment when the work week comes to an end. zaca mesa.com.
Carhartt 2020 Chase the Blues Away Rosé ($25):
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This rosé is elegant and polished. That may be the product of the fruit – pinot noir sourced from Rio Vista Vineyard in the coveted Sta. Rita
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.” – Lucille Ball
The Carhartt wine brand, with its popular cabin-style tasting room in Los Olivos, has been rebranded to drive the family angle home – welcome to Carhartt Family Wines. The “Chase” in the name of this grenache rosé is a loving tip-of-the-hat to Brooke and Mike’s son; the trio handles all grape growing and winemaker duties. This wine is big on minerality – most of the grapes were picked extra early to harness acidity – and the red berry and red apple flavors make it utterly yummy. carharttfami lywines.com. Cheers!
•MJ
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Perspectives
by Rinaldo S. Brutoco
Rinaldo S. Brutoco is the Founding President and CEO of the Santa Barbara-based World Business Academy and a co-founder of JUST Capital. He’s a serial entrepreneur, executive, author, radio host, and futurist who’s published on the role of business in relation to pressing moral, environmental, and social concerns for over 35 years
The New Business Paradigm An Emerging Consciousness Shift
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n 1991, the late Jeremy Tarcher, a renowned publisher and dear friend, invited me to spend a day discussing the World Business Academy’s sense of the emerging business principles with his “Tech Group” in Los Angeles. At the end of the day, Jeremy took me aside and said, “That’s a book you just dictated. Would you be willing to have me publish it?” Jeremy had a reputation for publishing commercially successful books that dealt with all the ways consciousness was shifting in our society, so of course I was flattered at the idea. Rather than write the book as solely my thoughts, however, I suggested we take each of the topics I had outlined that day and create an anthology where each chapter would be authored by one or more Academy Members and Fellows (30 eventually participated). With a $50,000 advance, the Academy was able to hire Alan Rinzler, an editor Jeremy liked, to work with Tarcher on the anthology. The Academy also persuaded Stanford Business School Professor and Academy Fellow Michael Ray to serve as co-editor for this totally innovative project. Ray was the Academy’s very first Fellow and went on to become the first “John J. McCone Chair of Innovation and Creativity” at the Stanford Business School – an impressive feat all by itself worth mentioning. Thus funded and staffed, we began parceling out the chapters to be covered in order to effectively communicate the breadth and depth of what we saw as an emerging business paradigm that was dramatically different than had ever existed, particularly in the shadow of “greed is good.” As conceived by Thomas Kuhn in his watershed book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, the word “paradigm” explained the monumental forces that periodically changed global society. In his introduction for the book, Professor Ray provided a brilliant context by applying this conception to the business community. Kuhn explained that a paradigm represents the “fundamental assumptions” about the nature of the world. “A scientific revolution occurs,” Ray wrote, “when there is a paradigm shift – when the old set of assumptions no longer hold true, and a small band of scientists develops a new paradigm that everyone recognizes and applies…” We are all fully aware of Newton’s mechanistic theory of physics being swept away by Quantum Physics, and how radically it has changed everything since. In fact, many argue that the last great paradigm shift society experienced was of even greater magnitude – Copernicus “discovered” that the sun did not revolve around the earth and that man, despite the Catholic church calling it heresy, was not the center of the Universe. We began to see ourselves, for the first time, as “cogs” in a much grander reality. The New Paradigm in Business: Emerging Strategies for Leadership and Organizational Change (1993) similarly swept away the now outdated notion that the sole purpose of companies was to make profits for their shareholders. According to Milton Friedman in the 1970s, no other motivation was appropriate to a business enterprise. That ushered in the decades of the “greed is good” thing and the likes of Gordon Gecko as its superstar. In 2020 that dictum, that prior dominant business paradigm, was finally rejected and swept away by the Business Roundtable and even the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. What has replaced it? The idea we have long espoused at the Academy has become common wisdom: business serves society by generating appropriate profits as a by-product from providing society something appropriate it needs and wants. Who are our stakeholders? First and foremost, our employees – this is the “tribe” we have created to serve our customers, who are the reason we formed the tribe in the first place. In addition to employees and customers, our stakeholders include our vendors and, of course, our shareholders while also serving the communities within which we operate – including the big one called the biosphere here on planet earth. Employees, customers, vendors, communities, and the biosphere itself all rank as high or higher on a business’ list of responsibilities when earning profits. Viewed this way, profits are the surplus that business creates to continue reinvesting in our stakeholders. Profit-making devoid of this connection to all stakeholders is an illegitimate extraction of resources for inappropriate reasons such as greed, power, or the desire to take unfair advantage of our capital markets system.
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Sea-Based Superfood
Spanish chef introduces us to marine grains, the new sustainable superfood
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pain’s renowned Chef del Mar or ‘chef of the sea,’ Ángel León is an expert at pushing the boundaries of seafood. The chef’s restaurant Aponiente won its third Michelin star in 2017 and León’s latest project is introducing the world to a new sustainable superfood. León is known to be an innovative chef, viewing the ingredients he has from new angles and perspectives, so it’s no surprise that he’s noticed something that many others failed to see in eelgrass, or Zostera marina. These slender blades grow in meadows in the Bay of Cádiz. León noticed tiny green grains resembling rice at the base of these blades. Following his instincts, he decided to find out whether these marine grains are edible, and as it turns out, the tiny clusters are packed with potential. The grains are gluten-free, high in omega-6 and -9 fatty acids, and contain 50 percent more protein than rice per grain. León is familiar with serving dishes that utilize unappreciated and under-valued marine ingredients. He told The Guardian, “When I started Aponiente 12 years ago, my goal was to open a restaurant that served everything that had no value in the sea,” adding, “the first years were awful because nobody understood why I was serving customers produce that nobody wanted.” Nonetheless, he continued his quest to push “cuisine of the unknown seas,” serving sea-grown versions of tomatoes and pears as well as chorizo made from discarded fish parts. Eventually, his efforts were recognized in 2010 with his first Michelin star. Now León and his team want to prove to the world once again the value of the humble “marine grain.” An in-depth study found that it was an important part of the diet of the Seri, an Indigenous people living on the Gulf of California in Sonora, Mexico. Working with a team at the University of Cádiz, León cultivated the perennial plant by adapting small areas of salt marshes into a “marine garden” for the grains. Cultivating Zostera marina for consumption benefits more than just our health. León and his team watched how the marine garden transformed the abandoned salt marsh into a flourishing habitat with diverse species thriving within it. It’s also a major carbon absorber. According to the WWF, seagrass is capable of capturing carbon 35 times faster than tropical rainforests. •MJ At the heart of the new paradigm is the awareness that business does not operate in some separated, non-connected reality from the society that gives rise to it. Viewed this way, paying appropriate taxes is not only morally required, but also an act of self-preservation so that business can enjoy serving a healthy society that is still capable of generating more surplus. Engaging in the major social issues of the day (e.g., MLB removing the All-Star Game from Atlanta) is not only allowable, but mandatory if business wants to have healthy, growing markets to serve. Allowing all adults to vote easily and without hassle is not just good social policy, it’s good business policy. It builds a stronger electorate, and in the process a stronger, more vibrant society. The business of business, it turns out, is to serve society rather than prey upon it. In so doing, a more active role for business (beyond just sending in contributions as Senator McConnell would prefer), is required if we are to re-align business initiatives with our broader social goals that will make for a more just, sustainable, healthy society which in turn leads to far better business opportunities – and serves all our stakeholders. This altered perspective is literally a massive change in consciousness. When asked how he could so miraculously carve warm, emotion-laden human forms from cold lifeless marble, Michelangelo Buonarroti responded that he never carved anything in marble. Rather, he revealed, his technique was to merely “chip away” the excess marble from the form already within the marble, so it could be freed. As I wrote in my 1993 foreword, The New Paradigm in Business shares Michelangelo’s goal: liberating from the marble slab of current business practices those forms that will empower human society and create a sustainable global economy. That is a massive shift of consciousness that portends a more activist business community in all societal matters, no matter whether Senator McConnell approves or not. •MJ
“You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball
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Robert’s Big Questions
hospitals and assassinate teachers and medical workers. Witness for Peace placed brave Americans and Europeans in this horrific war zone because the terrorists avoided their attacks in their presence. The Honduran government wanted no part of this. So, Reagan paid off the Honduran military to destroy the democratic institutions of Honduras. In recent years, Lucy has worked inside Honduras. She tells me the situation is more terrifying now than being in the war zone in Nicaragua in the 1980s. Why? Because the violence is everywhere, no longer confined to a war zone.
by Robert Bernstein
Degrees from Physics departments of MIT and UC Santa Barbara. Career in designing atomic-resolution microscopes. Childhood spent in Europe and the East of the US. Passion to understand the Big Questions of life and the universe. Duty to be a good citizen of the planet.
What are the Root Causes of the Border Crisis?
In 1986, Robert Bernstein was a volunteer at the “National University of Engineering” in Managua, Nicaragua
Thousands of refugees fled to the U.S. in the 1980s, many to Los Angeles. That is where many were forced into the gang culture that was unknown in Central America. When they returned to Central America the existing death squads merged with this gang culture. A perfect storm of terror that exists today.
adical” is often used to disqualify an idea as “extreme.” Did you know that it comes from the same origin as “radish” and means to “go to the root” of a problem? Every night, the news is full of the crisis at the US-Mexico border. The “analysis” is limited to the immediate humanitarian issues along with the implication that we are being “invaded” by “alien” hordes. Regarding the latter point: How does the U.S. compare with other countries in accommodating refugees? A few years ago, we were in Jordan and learned that nearly 10% of their country is refugees. The U.S.? It is less than one-tenth of a percent! The question that is rarely asked
and never answered: Why are these people fleeing here? What is the root cause? How bad would things have to be for you to leave all of your friends, family, and social support system to go to a hostile place with a different language and customs? Do you remember the U.S. support for death squads, terrorists, and brutal dictators in Central America during the Reagan years? Not once have I heard this connection to the current crisis in the corporate news. I have a dear friend Lucy who did human rights work in Nicaragua near the Honduran border with Witness for Peace in the 1980s. This was the war zone where Reagan funded terrorists to make raids from Honduras into Nicaragua to burn schools and
In El Salvador and Guatemala, Reagan supported brutal governments that used death squads to terrorize the population. In Guatemala, one of the largest death squad organizers was called “Friends of the Country.” Many of the board members of Bank of America belonged to them. Bank manager Keith Parker said that shooting dissidents works very well. Really. Thousands of refugees fled to the U.S. in the 1980s, many to Los Angeles. That is where many were forced into the gang culture that was unknown in Central America. When they returned to Central America the existing death squads merged with this gang culture. A perfect storm of
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by Joanne A. Calitri
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Arts in Lockdown #26:
Harout’s COVID-safe dance class in action (Photo credit: Ross Barrett and Darrien Henning)
Dancing It Out with Harout
yourself, you will always give yourself the opportunity. Often the diversity is what separates societal members. As a performer if I can show the unity within the diversity through intersectionality, then I am performing in a magical way. It’s important to me to have an all-inclusive mentality for myself, do perspective taking, be cognitively complex, staying away from absolute statements and practicing emotional intelligence. That is the core of who I am and transcends through the types of dance arts I create. As a choreographer, I create choreographies that can reach the masses. As a teacher, it is important to me to make sure each student feels acknowledged and represented through my art.
Harout Aristakessian and his dancers in a virtual benefit performance for Center Stage Theater in 2021, after being tested negative for COVID and staying in their bubble (Photo credit: Ross Barrett and Darrien Henning)
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rofessional dancer-choreographer Harout Aristakessian self-describes as being at the intersection of three nationalities – Lebanese, Armenian, and American, as well as a gay-feminist-cisgender Christian, ultimately seeking to break the social constructs of sex, gender, race, nationality, and creed through dance. He is the founder and artistic director of the Dance with Harout (DWH) Performance Company based in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, once voted best Dance Ensemble in the 2017 SB Downtown Holiday Parade. With a natural instinct to dance as a child, he began his career at age 15 with a scholarship award from the L.A. Millennium Dance Complex. From his first gig at 16 at the Troubadour, he went on to the 20172018 NBA Clippers Performance at the Staples Center; the Disney Channel’s
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So Random in 2011; Solid Gold Tribute to Project New Hope/Dancer El Cid LA in June 2011; opening for Vesta Williams in L.A. in 2013; opening for Shante Moore; dancer in the PopK Concert LA Coliseum in 2014; and music videos for Cody Simpson. He has also worked with Darcel Wynne (Solid Gold), Darrien Henning, and Leslie Scott. Harout is an expert in jazz funk, hip hop, heels technique, burlesque, modern, and jazz dance. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communication with a minor in LGBTQ Studies from UCSB in 2013, while also earning an Associate in Arts in Choreography and Dance Technique and an Associate in Science in Dance Teaching from Glendale Community College in 2011. Talented, open, and ready to teach dance to anyone at any level, here is our interview:
Harout performing a virtual benefit for Center Stage Theater in March, 2021 (Photo credit: Ross Barrett and Darrien Henning)
Q. Talk to us about what diversity, equity, and inclusion mean to you. A. As a first generation ArmenianAmerican in a bilingual household growing up in poverty in L.A., I had to acclimate to American culture. I grew up in a very conservative, homophobic community, and did not come out till I was 19. When I received my scholarship to train in L.A., all the classes I signed up for were hip-hop to show masculinity because of the family community. I did not start dancing in heels and other genres until I decided to love myself enough to come out. I faced racial profiling experiences at a young age, getting frisked at airports being Armenian, and told I was “too hairy” for an audition. Being gay was hard on my family, however they did support me in the arts, my mother is accepting of it, we get along great. I tell her she’s “my girlfriend.” What shifted it all for me was I decided to stop making people wrong for not accepting me, I just accepted them, which eventually helped them accept me. I believe, when you love
“Ability is of little account without opportunity.” – Lucille Ball
How did you navigate lockdown as a dancer-choreographer? For me the future is now. Waiting for the future prevents me from taking action in the present. All I have control over is my identity as a dancer, choreographer, and teacher. What I can do is keep training and creating, and not worry when the show is returning. I tell my students, the future is now, do it now, create possibilities, eliminate confusion, and be clear. We are here for the journey as opposed to the performance. How did you teach dance during lockdown? I took one week off when it first hit, and one of my L.A. students Nabulungi asked me what the contingency plan was if the lockdown goes past two weeks, and I shifted the teaching to Zoom. I was very fortunate that all of my performance company students shifted to Zoom seamlessly, which helped me stay afloat. Leading the performance company rehearsals online was very challenging at first because I am not computer savvy; I had to teach myself so much. I eventually got the
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Lotusland Art Sale
In an effort to rethink traditional in-person fundraising efforts, Lotusland has announced a new benefit event, Sanctuary. Earlier this year, 36 local artists were asked to create new work inspired by Lotusland. The artists were given three days to visit the Garden and only eight weeks to create, capture, and complete their muse at Lotusland. “With a desire to connect the community to our mission, we dreamed up this concept for a new benefit event with participating artists from our region,” said Lotusland Executive Director Rebecca Anderson. Whether it be a painting of a specific garden, a sculpture using found materials, or art created in the Garden, it was a creative conceptual challenge that the artists were craving, especially this year, Anderson said. The art will be on display at GraySpace Gallery in Santa Barbara beginning next week, allowing in-person viewing for up to eight people at a time; it is then available for sale online. Funds raised support Lotusland’s sustainability programs which promote and teach individuals, groups, gardeners, and institutions about the best methods and practices in horticulture, environmental responsibility, and stewardship. “We view this online sale and show as a way to foster connection with Lotusland’s supporters, engage and encourage local artists, and sustain the Garden’s important sustainability programs,” Anderson said. “In response to the pandemic, and the shortfalls we experienced as a result, we needed to rethink fundraisers.” The artists and show are curated by volunteers Ashley Woods Hollister and Casey Turpin, and the Gallery space is sponsored by Ruth Ellen Hoag and GraySpace Gallery. Hollister has long supported local artists through her work with Art from Scrap and as the former director of the Morris Squire Foundation. Turpin is an avid volunteer in the Insectary Garden at Lotusland, and both are passionate about showcasing Lotusland’s beauty and science through the eyes of a local artist community. “We knew this could be a special way for people to bring a piece of the Lotusland sanctuary to their own home,” explain Ashley and Casey, co-curators of the exhibition. Participating artists include Paulo Lima, R. Nelson Parrish, Michael Adcock, Taiana Giefer, Skip Smith, Meredith Brooks Abbott, Phoebe Brunner, Robert Abbott, Rick Garcia, Baret Boisson, Leslie Lewis Sigler, Ruth Ellen Hoag, Joan Rosenberg-Dent, Kerrie Smith, Michael Haber, Lindsey Ross, Manjari
“Portals: An Entrance, Lotusland 3.16.21” by Blakeney Sanford is on sale as part of Lotusland’s new fundraiser
Sharma, Jessica June Avrutin, Bobbi Bennett, Connie Connally, Inga Guzyte, Maria Rendon, Cara Bonewitz, Lynda Weinman, Blakeney Sanford, Erika Carter, Cathy Moholm, Luis Alberto Velazquez, Sophie Gibbings, George Leo Sanders, Ro Snell, Olivia Joffrey, Lily Hahn, Whitney Hansen, Whitney Brooks Abbott, and Ryan Shand. The Online Art Sale & Gallery Exhibition launches next Thursday on Earth Day, April 22, and goes through May 3, 2021. Visit www.lotusland.org/sanctuary for more information. GraySpace Gallery is located at 219 Gray Avenue. •MJ
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A Woman of High Character
I have read the coverage about Cold Spring School and Amanda Rowan’s efforts to find out what happened to tax dollars. I have known Amanda Rowan for many years, first as a student and later as an active and supportive member of my synagogue and its board of directors. I know her as a person with
a deep sense of integrity and honesty. Her perspectives are always insightful and built on a well-honed understanding of the situation at hand, gained by diligent investigation. My synagogue went through a challenging period with divisive leadership spreading innuendos and false accusations. They also kept some of their darker motivations well below the surface. Amanda was one of the first on the scene to countermand their efforts, speaking truth to those in power. She was always highly articulate and direct in what she said and wrote regarding our difficulties both with lay leadership and me. I always appreciated her candor. Amanda is a person who wears her heart on her sleeve, a passionate defender of what she knows is right, and, in the spirit of the late John Lewis, she has no compunctions about “getting in the way” when things are wrong. Amanda Rowan is an unswerving advocate for what is fair and just. She has nothing in mind but the best
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in several ways. Many other countries, cities, townships, regions, and municipalities (hello, Paris and Iceland) have long ago figured out the conundrum of how to recycle wastewater into potable water. The science behind it is sound, healthy, and is definitely not gross. What’s up, Montecito? Get it together, already, literally. Why are we so behind the times on this? The status quo of water and sanitary districts as separate entities is truly on the wrong side of history. Moreover, the treated sewage currently being dumped at Butterfly may be compromising the coastal kelp beds, which have slowly been disappearing from our coastline. There’s a clue. It may have something to do with the pH of the effluent. Hillary Hauser, can you ring in on this? Kelp forests are the “lungs” of the
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for her community. Amanda acts with righteous purpose toward those who play loosely with their bully pulpits, communal responsibilities, and privilege. She demands the same adherence to morality and ethics from herself that she asks from others. One thing for sure, Amanda does not wait to be called upon to set things right in the community. She knows that injustices take root quickly, and the longer one delays, the deeper those roots become. Those striving for justice and equity in their communities can count on Amanda to step up with them and for them. I have always been honored to have Amanda Rowan in my life. Anyone who has her support is truly blessed. Rabbi Neil Comess-Daniels
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hang of it and led amazing Zoom teaching sessions with breakout rooms, mirror flipping, sound sharing, uploading formations to Zoom, and using annotations as I guide them through their transitions. I made a really cool video using dots to represent a dancer with their initials so they can see how they are supposed to move around the stage. It was fun, interactive, innovative, and definitely made me very creative. I did lose a significant amount of students, once dancers found out the show wasn’t going to happen in June 2020. I started with 36 students and lost more than half of them due to COVID, and my open cardio/technique classes dropped drastically to one to three students. I teach one open cardio dance class a week on Zoom Saturday mornings at 11 am. Socially distant, masked dance classes in person are at SB Dance Arts in their outdoor dance studio, and at Warner Center Park Los Angeles. What do you do to stay creative? I listen to music. Music really helps me get inspired and create. My choreographies come to me, I can be laying down and I’ll see myself do an entire eight-count in my mind, and I also create while driving. Shhhh… don’t tell my mom. Haha! I think because I dig deep as an artist and go to the root of my essence, I’m able to just allow the art to come to me in an unadulterated form. I put
in a lot of effort to have self-awareness and I think being an advocate for my mental health allows me to have a clean slate to allow the creativity to flow. When I perform, I’m in the present, my brain shuts off and I don’t think about any stress or my to-do list. When I choreograph, I get to express myself through movement which is beautiful. When I teach, I inspire people to be the best version of themselves. I love it all. Have any dance shape tips for lockdown? [Laughing] In the beginning, they said, “It’s only two weeks,” and I thought “Ok, I’ll take time off, my body needs it.” I was eating and enjoying the ride — but then I realized, lockdown was not going to end soon, and gyms were closed. I searched online for workout weights, which were sold out, so I used water bottles and my own body weight for resistance and strength training. I designed my own at-home workout of stretching, weights, dance techniques, foam rolling, and later, added a Bo-Flex machine. What was your arts influence during lockdown? I create a lot of dances circling around mental health, same sex love, being confident, owning your truth, breaking down societal constructs, etc. All of these dances could potentially have an amazing influence on
the human condition. Even if people aren’t open to the messages, a seed is planted. Some type of thought becomes present after a viewer has been exposed to artistic expression and can influence the human condition in several ways. What’s next for you? I need to make sure whatever I do next lines up with my values as a person, where I’m operating from love and giving people the space to be who they want to be unapologetically, to shift a trajectory into my roles as a teacher, choreographer, performer, and artist. What is your dream collaboration? I would love to collaborate with Britney Spears as a dancer or choreographer. I’m such a Britney fan, and a big follower of the #FreeBritney movement. If she allowed me to create dances for her with my artistically profound perspective, it would be a healing and blissful collaboration. I’ve always worked with people who are one person away from connecting me to her. So, I’m getting there! How do you give back or pay it forward? During lockdown, I did a charity fundraiser class virtually for the genocidal attacks made on Artsakh in October 2020 by Azerbaijan and donated $2,200 to Armenia. I do sliding scales for students who do not have money to pay for the ser-
vices my community organization provides because it’s about the art, not the money. I just produced, Fantasyland: Where Fantasy Meets Reality, a benefit show for the SB Center Stage Theater and Dance with Harout and is still available to view with donation. I have collaborated with the Breast Cancer Resource Center of Santa Barbara in leading body positivity classes for women suffering from breast cancer. I’ve worked with the Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation, educational institutions where I’ve given lectures on running a dance business and the LGBTQ+ Pride Center at Glendale Community College in Los Angeles. What is the world looking for? What do you want to change? I feel like the world is getting creative right now for my generation. I think we are learning how to roll with the punches during COVID. I want to change the societal constructs that exist. I want to educate the world on communication, how words are constructed and how those constructs have a direct effect on our expression and how we perceive others. •MJ 411 Instagram: @DanceWithHarout Facebook: facebook.com/DanceWithHarout YouTube: youtube.com/DanceWithHarout
2021 Puzzle 4: “Title Search” Solution April’s puzzle challenged solvers to come up with a song from 1969. The grid contains six fairly obvious, symmetrically located theme entries. The first, BEATLESESQUE, is clued as [Reminiscent of the Fab Four]. The other five all are clued with titles of wellknown Beatles songs, as shown in the table below: Revolution Paperback writer Taxman Ticket to ride Day tripper
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lfred Nicholas “Nick” Katzenstein, 73, passed away peacefully in his sleep of natural causes on February 28, 2021, at his home in Santa Barbara, California. Nick will be remembered for living life to the fullest. A decorated war veteran, a longtime and highly respected peace officer, Nick was an extremely accomplished man. Nick was born to Alfred Julius and Nonna Katzenstein in Los Angeles, California, on November 14, 1947. Although his mother was an immigrant from Shanghai, China (of Russian descent), he had an all-American childhood. He was a Boy Scout, played football, wrestled, surfed, and raced Mini Coopers, but his two biggest passions were fishing and baseball. He was scouted to play for the major leagues while in high school. Nick received his education from Mount San Antonio College, Cal Poly Pomona, and the University of Virginia. Nick was born into a Navy family and became a highly decorated Veteran. He was an Airborne Ranger and an Army Special Forces member as a Green Beret and part of the famous SOG unit acting as the Operations NCO. He obtained his MOS’ in Radio Communications, Combat Engineering, and Operations and Intelligence. Nick’s work in the Vietnam war operating in Cambodia was classified for thirty years. His unit MACV-SOG CCS recon (Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, Studies and Observations Group) received the Presidential Unit Citation in 2001, which is given to units that displayed extraordinary heroism in action against an armed enemy. This award is equivalent to the Distinguished Silver Cross award, the military’s second-highest award of valor. He also received the Bronze Star, two Air Medals, the Combat Infantry Badge and Vietnamese Jump Wings. Nick’s best military memories are the relationships established with other Special Forces personnel. Nick took his Military training and experience into Law Enforcement. He started his 31-year career with the Santa Barbara Police Department in 1971. He worked in every division as an Officer, Sergeant and Lieutenant as a patrol officer, “Mary 3” Motorcycle patrol, Detective and Public Information Officer. Nick received over 40 commendations, including the H. Thomas Guerry Officer of the Year Award in 1980. He was a 1975 graduate of the FBI Hazardous Materials (bomb) School, a 1988 graduate of the FBI National Academy, a 1991 graduate of the POST Command College, and completed 70 other specialized training classes. Nick helped develop the department’s original SWAT team and Bomb squad. His highlights while with the SBPD included removing 2,300 pounds of volatile dynamite from a hidden cache in the Santa Barbara foothills and acting as the lead Detective in solving a triple murder case. He also implemented a Historical Homicide Case Review Program, which helps clear unsolved cases and make arrests. In 1996, Nick became well known as the “Voice” of the police department when he took on the role of public information officer. Hardly a day went by where his family and friends didn’t see him on the local news stations. After 31 years as a decorated law enforcement officer, Nick decided it was finally time to hang up his hat and go fishing. Nick had many hobbies and passions and had fond memories growing up fishing with his father and brother. He eventually instilled that passion in his two sons, John and Nicky. Together they went on many trips to Alaska, Mexico, Oregon and the Channel Islands. One of his claims to fame is the heroic fish story of fighting a 1,200-pound marlin for ten hours in the Bisbee Fishing tournament in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Unfortunately, ten hours of the 1,200-pound pull and a frayed line on the pectoral fin was just too much, and the marlin got away. This cry-in-your-beer fish story did not keep Nick away from his love of fishing. Nick also served as president on the board of the Channel Fishing Club. He was an avid Dodger fan and spent his entire life going to Dodger Stadium. He was a board member of the semi-professional Santa Barbara Foresters Baseball Team. But perhaps his best baseball memories were watching his son, Nicky, swing a bat as a toddler and continuing to play in college. He was
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not only his biggest fan throughout his time playing but his biggest supporter during Nicky’s coaching career. Later in life Nick followed the son of his childhood friend, a Major League Baseball pitcher. He would meet up with a group of his friends and they would travel to Florida and Arizona for Spring Training and then ultimately San Diego for the official season. He appreciated the military flyovers and the tribute to the military. Nick was very involved in the community of Santa Barbara and served on multiple boards. His most prominent position was serving on the Old Spanish Days board and eventually becoming the 2002 El Presidente. His theme was “Mi Casa es Su Casa” and those were words he truly lived by. He was so happy to have family and friends from near and far surround him during this special event he loved so much. Up until his death, he continued to serve on OSD and the Carriage Museum Boards. Nick was a member of the Los Rancheros Pobres trail riding group. He had many dear and loyal friends in this group that it’s only fitting he spent his last day on earth at their traditional Saturday lunch laughing and enjoying their company. As they say, the saddle may be empty, but his memory lives on.
Host with the Most
Anyone who had been to Nick’s house could quickly tell he liked to BBQ; maybe it was the six plus grills that he had on his patio that gave it away. He not only loved food, but he loved making people feel comfortable and delighted in feeding them. He was the “host with the most.” Food was his love language, which he learned from his Russian mother. All those that had the chance to indulge in one of Nick’s meals were in for a treat. In Nick’s retirement, he was able to travel often. In addition to his many fishing trips, he saw many friends and family around the world. Shortly after his retirement, he journeyed to South Africa with his mother and brother to meet some cousins. He had such a great time and spoke fondly of these relatives. Nick would often return to his roots in Orange County and spend time with his daughter, Tami, and her family. He loved their time spent at the beach. Nick also made a few reunion trips to Hawaii with his lifelong buddies. His annual reunion in Las Vegas with his military buddies was very important to him, and he kept up with these guys throughout the year. His last big trip was to visit his daughter, Page, and her family in Munich, Germany. He was able to sightsee and eat and drink his way around Germany, Austria, and Italy. Nick wasn’t ready to give up his travels. He had a full agenda planned for when “this virus” would be over. Nick planned to get in his car and take a road trip. In true Nick fashion, he never let anything stop him. After all, he had survived the jungles of Vietnam, where most SOG members did not. It was finally time that his party started “winding down,” but that doesn’t mean it’s over. Nick’s beloved family and friends will hold Nick close to their hearts and keep his memory alive. Nick is preceded in death by his father, Alfred Julius Katzenstein. He is survived by his mother, Nonna Katzenstein of Lake Tahoe, CA; brother, John Katzenstein (Robin) of Salem, Oregon; sister, Arlene “Sue” Wolfe (Ron) of Lake Tahoe, CA; children, John Katzenstein (Larilynn) of Roseburg, Oregon; Tami Hughes (John) of San Juan Capistrano, CA ; Nick Katzenstein (Melissa) of Santa Barbara, CA; Page Plowman (Joe) of Santa Barbara; Step daughter, Kathy Gallagher (Mike Eliason) of Santa Barbara, CA; grandchildren, Johnny Katzenstein of Seattle, WA, Mahala Pokorny (David) of San Juan Capistrano, CA, Summer and Jasmine Hughes of San Juan Capistrano, CA, Presly Plowman of Malibu, CA, Lucy, Carter, and Joseph Plowman of Santa Barbara, Emmie, Isla and Olivia Katzenstein of Santa Barbara; great-grandchild, Jonah Pokorny of San Juan Capistrano, CA; cousin, Gary Klinghardt (Beth) of Oregon. Nieces and nephews in Oregon and California and numerous cousins in Australia and South Africa. Nick also had many dear friends throughout the world and especially in his close-knit community of Santa Barbara. Thank you all for your cherished friendships with Nick over the years. Here’s to calm seas and tight lines! Farewell family and friends. The family asks in lieu of flowers that donations be made in Nick Katzentein’s name to the Santa Barbara Police Foundation. P.O. Box 91929 Santa Barbara, CA 93109 Services pending due to COVID-19. •MJ 15 – 22 April 2021
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n Saturday, March 13, 2021, Emma Myfanwy Goodman, devoted mother of two and adoring grandmother, passed away suddenly from anaphylactic shock, at age 56. Emma was born January 13, 1965, in Kent, England to Sandy and Anne Goodman, the second born of five children. From a young age, she had an adventurous spirit, moving to Paris in her late teens. She moved to Santa Barbara with her two small children, Hannah and Rufus, in 1996. She will be greatly missed by her daughter Hannah, granddaughter Harper, her father Sandy, three sisters, brother, a loving clan of nieces and nephews, cousins and her dog, Poppy. A true visionary, Emma created Alchemy Wellness Spa, a healing sanctuary that provided transformational treatments, bioactive foods and medicinal elixirs to support a dynamic lifestyle. The cafe and spa offerings were ahead of their time. Emma was a master healer, specializing in craniosacral therapy and energy medicine. She had a profound and positive impact in Santa Barbara, inspiring a vibrant community of healers locally. She was a magnet for inspirational leaders from around the world. Emma was elegant and stylish, strong-minded, and charismatic. She was a dear friend to many, and made friends wherever she went. Among many things, she had a natural gift for creating extraordinarily beautiful interiors and gardens. She spent many days at her favorite beach, Butterfly, where she loved to swim along the buoys. She will be remembered especially for her thoughtful, generous nature and vivacious personality. Emma was a beautiful being and her light will be with us forever. Her essence will live long in our hearts. •MJ
Dorothy Ellis McKenzie (1/21/1934 – 4/1/2021)
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orothy McKenzie passed away peacefully in her sleep on 04/01/2021. She leaves behind her daughter Sheelah Smith and her husband Doug Smith, her son Doug McKenzie, his wife Marian McKenzie, and their son, Dorothy’s cherished grandson Ian McKenzie. Dorothy was the only child of William Houston Millar and Ruth Millar (Ellis), and was born in Glasgow, Scotland on 1/21/1934. She met her beloved husband James in the British Royal Air Force. They were married on Dorothy’s 21st birthday, and celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary just days before Jim’s passing in 2015. Dorothy is most known for her career as a prolific “Plein air” landscape artist. Mostly self-taught, she studied at the Regional College of Art in Manchester, England, and the Vancouver Art School in British Columbia, Canada. She exhibited paintings in the Paisley Art Museum and Glasgow Gallery of Fine Arts in Scotland, and has work in the British National Collection. She has pieces in private collections all over the world, and had many shows locally over the years, including SoHO and the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum. She was one of the four artists who started the Santa Barbara beach art show, and was known there by her iconic straw hat. She joined other local artists in environmental efforts to preserve open spaces, notably the Oak Group. She gave art classes at her studio, and some of her students continue in her footsteps, showing their work at the beach art show. Dorothy was a “fey” Scottish lass with untold skills and talents, not least of which was always knowing who was on the phone before it rang. She became a Chiropodist (Podiatrist in this country), and fixed the corns of an Archbishop shortly before he helped crown Queen Elizabeth II. When she joined the RAF, a special session of Parliament opened a new trade group because of her. As the first, she was given her choice of transferring to any RAF station in the world, but remained at the training base where she had just met Jim. She became a rifle sharpshooter there. She loved birds, and rescued many. Her children remember finding grubs and 15 – 22 April 2021
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ichard Anthony Baum passed away in his sleep of cardiac arrest on March 22, 2021 at age 68. He lived a full and vibrant life while fighting a challenging 40-year battle with bipolar disorder. Richard was born on August 18, 1952 at St. Francis Hospital in Santa Barbara, grew up in Montecito, resided in Santa Barbara, and was a parishioner of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church. Intellectual pursuits, specifically economics and mathematics, were his lifelong passions. Richard was awarded a B.A. by UCSB in Economics and Philosophy as well as elected to the Lambda Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in June of 1974 following Honors-At-Entrance at UCSB in 1970. Richard attended graduate school at UCLA from September of 1974 until December of 1980. He was awarded a M.A. by UCLA in Economics in 1976 and was an ABD “all but dissertation” economist from UCLA. His unfinished PhD dissertation was Essays in the Theory of Insurance. Richard loved UCLA and lived by its motto Fiat Lux – Let There Be Light. Continuing education in mathematics fueled his research on complex topics in mathematical economics. Richard was a patient and encouraging instructor teaching students at California State University Northridge, Loyola Marymount University, Whittier College, Ventura College, Santa Barbara City College, and Allan Hancock College. Richard was quick to spot the potential in any student of any ability in any subject. Aside from academia, Richard enjoyed biking the foothills of Montecito, playing tennis at Westmont, designing stationery with a custom-made printing press, and was a prolific and talented creative writer. Late in life Richard met his future wife at Santa Barbara City College where they both were instructors in the Mathematics department. His marriage to Melanie Lansing in 2017 was a dream come true for Richard. Together with Melanie, he enjoyed the symphony, outdoor concerts, dining and conversing with friends, and life with their escape artist cat, Fluffy. Richard is survived by his wife Melanie Lansing; sister-in-law Sandra Baum, older brothers Peter Baum, Francis (Eileen) Baum, and younger sister Mary Baum (Eric Cantlay); aunt Isabelle Baum; cousins John Baum, Theresa Shelley, and Margaret (John) Doyle; nieces Katrina Baum (Paul Stone), Maryann Baum, Stephanie (Saul) Gonzalez, and nephew Kevin Baum; great-nieces Leanne Gonzalez and Sophia Stone; and special friend Ann McEvan. Richard joined his parents, Custer and Persis Baum, eldest brother Eugene Baum and sister-in-law Elaine who preceded his death. Richard’s death occurred on what would have been his father’s 107th birthday and eleven years to the day after his mother’s death. The family of Richard wishes to thank the numerous clinicians and priests who cared for him. In lieu of flowers, Richard may be remembered by donations to Pacific Pride Foundation, Ridley-Tree Cancer Center of Santa Barbara, or the National Alliance on Mental Illness. A commemorative mass will be held on April 14 at 10 am at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, 1300 East Valley Road, Montecito, followed by interment at Calvary Cemetery. •MJ earwigs to feed the nestlings, teaching a mockingbird to fly, and seeing Mum visiting with a friend, a baby pigeon tucked in one arm, chewing up birdseed to poke down its throat in between sips of tea. She spent days (in the rain) at the Child’s Estate Foundation Zoo helping save the lives of seabirds after the horrific 1969 oil slick, and was surprised to find pictures of herself washing birds in the Los Angeles Times. Dorothy was unique, creative, and completely inimitable. She gave great parties, where she had everyone up dancing, leading the way with her purple dress, tiara, parasol and “floozy feathers.” She loved Dixieland Jazz and Johnny Cash. Her imagination was always bringing something new, from the Millennium obelisk her neighbors so enjoyed, to a Mad Hatter’s tea party for friends inside the new shed Jim had built. She loved “bling,” fairies, chocolate – oh,yes, chocolate – and above all, people. Truly a people person, she became best friends with everyone she met, learning their story and that of all their family within minutes. Dorothy of the brilliant blue eyes, our own sparkling, vibrant fairy, our beloved Mum and Grandma, we will miss your most-special light in our lives more than we can ever say. We love you dearly, Mummy, and send you on your way to re-join your darling Jim, where the first thing we know you will do (because you told us yourself) is give a “bop on the nose” to any Angels foolish enough to flirt with him… •MJ
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Letters (Continued from page 36) ocean. We need them. They are as critical to protect as the Amazon rain forests, as they too draw down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Yeah. Just like trees do. So, can we institute a moratorium on what appears to be the ego-based posturing between the water and sanitary districts? Can you two agencies form a more perfect, regenerative union, please? Perhaps a bi-partisan water and sanitation “czar-ship” can be created, consisting of two co-czars, one from each district, charged with reading the science, researching other cities’ very successful unions between water and sanitary districts, gathering consensus, while also developing and implementing a long-term action plan for our lovely town. Some cities’ treatment “systems” are downright beautiful, green, and lush. They serve as centers for public gardens and art. Kind of like a hybrid of the Botanic Gardens, Lotusland, and Alice Keck Park, only better. So, thanks in advance, from all of “us”... the people, the local landscape, and the ocean. We will all be most grateful, in reverse order. LeeAnn Morgan
There, Bear!
Carlos, the bear, was walking back to his den when he saw her. He felt many feelings all at once. Most were pleasant. He was happy to see her. This She Bear was nothing, if not magical. But being a young, inexperienced bear, Carlos was shy. He nearly dropped the Montecito Journal he was carrying in his mouth as he stood up on his hind legs to wave back to her. She signaled him to come over, and this he did, very slowly, for he still had not remembered her name. “Carlos, so good to see you!” she said. To his surprise, he could tell she meant it. “What is that you are carrying?”, she asked. Having forgotten about the paper, he dropped it, and with shaking paws straightened it out so she could read the front page, all the while struggling to remember her name. They both quickly scanned down and saw: Housing project on Hill Road has Montecito Association motivated to halt “disastrous laws” before they pass. Eyes wide, they looked at each other questioningly, then she quickly flipped to page 10. “Not good, Carlos.” she said. “Our habitat is shrinking already. The Cito can’t sustain so many humans either.” “Have you seen the traffic lately?” He nodded. “We need to follow this, but how?” she asked.
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Carlos told her about the Montecito Association’s Zoom meetings and how his den was set up for viewing. “OK if I come over and watch with you next Tuesday?” she asked. “I can bring some berries for us to share, Wendy Bear knows the best grazing.” Carlos agreed and made a point of saying her name three times when he said goodbye! Walking home to his den in a warm sundowner wind he kept repeating, Wendy, Wendy, Wendy. Michael Edwards
Misinformation Madness
I don’t mean to be unkind, as he seems to be a good guy, but does “Perspectives” columnist Rinaldo S. Brutoco get his information from the action end of an opium pipe, or does he simply make it up while, for example, contemplating his navel? Does he realize how off-the-mark the officious-sounding statements he peddles are? For example, in a recent column, headed up as “Vladimir Putin’s Big Mistake,” Mr. Brutoco opines that the Russian President’s “biggest surprise and disappointment of his entire life” was the election of Joe Biden, and the defeat of President Donald Trump. Mr. Brutoco goes on to describe how Putin and his KGB comrades used everything in their arsenal to get Mr. Trump elected in 2016. How ridiculous. In another casually misinformed paragraph, Mr. Brutoco writes that “it is clear, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Russia did interfere in the 2016 election in order to install his ally, his ‘useful idiot’ [Mr. Trump] … As history reflects, the plan worked brilliantly.” Wow, Mr. Brutoco must have some deep sources within Russia’s Federal Security Service to know such a thing “beyond a shadow of doubt.” With that kind of inside knowledge, who needs evidence? This is a fevered dream concocted by allies of Hillary Clinton who hired former British spy Christopher Steele (for a reported $10 million) to pile up a series of rumors and innuendos fed to him by Russians of dubious credibility and print them in what came to be known as the Steele dossier in order to smear the reputation and derail the brash candidacy of Mr. Trump. What a pile of horse manure. Whew, it’s painful to continue reading how awful our previous president was, how he destroyed America’s influence and reputation abroad, how the “coup,” the “insurrection” he was planning was prevented. Mr. Brutoco’s disinformation derby goes on for many more paragraphs. He opines sagely that Mr. Putin couldn’t know that “the ’little people’ who actually run the election machin-
ery in the country would perform their duties with such integrity…” Anyone who believes the pandemic-designed Georgia election was a paragon of “integrity” is, well, is someone such as your “Perspectives” columnist. Please ask him to refrain from spreading the same load of manure that so many of his colleagues routinely pass around as “fact.” At the least, he could add a disclaimer such as, “As I see it,” or “As I have determined from what little I know.” Then we would understand that what he is writing is just an opinion from a one-sided partisan and may or may not bear any resemblance to actual facts; that his column is just a talkingpoint-filled parroting of speculative opinion and manufactured falsehoods designed by opponents of Mr. Trump. Jim Buckley Montecito
Of Inflation and Deflation
Inflation by definition is an increase in prices and the fall in the purchasing value of money. That is what’s happening at the grocery stores and the restaurants. What is the cause? Rising wages is one. Lost revenue from the pandemic is another. Almost $30 trillion in debt is another. Raising taxes or the very real possibility of higher corporate taxes should be one. Imagine if big corporations that pay two or three percent in taxes would skyrocket to 21 percent as proposed. I am all for big companies paying their fair share of taxes. Just know that is going to be inflationary. Someone has to make up some of the difference in profits and it will be mostly be the public at large. Whether it is higher prices, surcharges or fees, the price of goods and services have to go up. But wait that is not the only scenario. There is another economic term called deflation. Which is the decrease of the price of good and services. For example, a well-oiled machine such as Southwest Airlines could and should create lower prices for airline travel. Another example are cell phone bills. The trend is deflationary as competition and an oversaturated market cause bills to be lowered. The way I see it as long as we do not go back to high interest rates or, even worse, double-digit interest rates we should be fine. If banks go back to giving a free toaster oven for opening accounts, then I will know inflation has gotten way too hot. Steven Marko
Space is Farr Out
The paper should be congratulated on the wonderful weekly articles by Tom Farr. It brings the reality we
“Remember to recognize the small successes that you will have.” – Lucille Ball
are discovering of space into an easily understandable perspective which helps us put our daily concerns into appropriate perspective. This week’s explanation of how our recent knowledge of the space beyond our solar system is particularly helpful in these trying times. Please keep his articles coming to inform us in a layman’s way of developments in space. Robert L Turner
A Need for More
The anti-upzoning campaign of Sharon Byrne and the Montecito Association is misleading, boomer, and indicative of the need for the state to force localities to build higher density housing. Where better than here to have high-density pedestrian-oriented development? Why assume that every new unit equals one more car? Why not visualize and work for a future with 20 times the available housing units but no increase in private car use? The Montecito Association is correct about car use and noise as the greatest detractor to our quality of life. Imagine if the 101 were buried or glassed in as is done with highways in Switzerland. Imagine if loud pipes were banned and the ban was enforced. Imagine if roads were narrowed, as well as walking paths and bike trails extended and maintained. Imagine a future in which every human age 16-75 does not equal one more car. @yimbyaction @cayimby carfree. com for more. Colin Leath
Concerned About Das Williams
Dear Governor Newsom, We are deeply dismayed to learn that Das Williams is seeking an appointment to the California Coastal Commission for the Central Coast. A controversial supervisor synonymous with Santa Barbara’s much-contested cannabis ordinance, Williams was barely able to retain his position in 2020 (even with the political and financial muscle of the cannabis industry). Indeed, there are serious ongoing conversations about a recall of him and a ballot referendum to upend his cannabis ordinance. Williams’ ordinance has led to unprecedented, industrial levels of marijuana grows causing skunk stench and terpene production, that pollute our air from the mountains to the beaches. Moreover, these massive cannabis operations, with their associated effluent, are threatening our environmentally sensitive habitats in the coastal zone and coastal streams.
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On The Record (Continued from page 16 16)) “The sheriff’s car parked in the Cold Spring Road parking lot on the day the restraining order was filed was definitely a PR stunt. Neither Amy Alzina nor Yuri Calderon expected Amanda to come to school at any point or day and cause harm to anyone. This has just further disillusioned me that the administration has the district’s best interest in mind.” The second employee who met with the Journal last week lamented how this situation has affected morale at the small school and also took issue with the restraining order against Rowan. “The restraining order was unfounded, a waste of taxpayer money and is a desperate attempt by administration to portray Mrs. Rowan as a threat to school staff and students,” the person stated. “Removing students from a non-threatening school environment in order to portray Mrs. Rowan to be a threatening person is ludicrous. The only people who feel threatened by Mrs. Rowan are those who chose to defame her and participate in the administration’s rues to portray Mrs. Rowan as a threatening person.” Next week: An even deeper examination of the longstanding issues that led to the current controversy engulfing Montecito’s Cold Spring School.
101 Freeway Construction Closures Northbound Highway 101
• Sunday nights, 9 pm - 5 am, 1 lane: Bailard Avenue to Santa Claus Lane and N Padaro Lane to Sheffield Drive, on- and off-ramps at Bailard Avenue, Casitas Pass Road, Linden Avenue, and Santa Monica Road • Monday-Thursday nights, 8 pm – 5 am, 1 lane: Bailard Avenue to Santa Claus Lane and N Padaro Lane to Sheffield Drive, on- and off-ramps at Bailard Avenue, Casitas Pass Road, Linden Avenue, and Santa Monica Road • On-ramp at Linden Avenue, closed for up to 5 weeks, anticipated reopening May 17, drivers can use the northbound on-ramp at Casitas Pass Road This ramp was closed on April 9 following concerns with the temporary merge after the traffic shift. The construction schedule has been reworked to install the permanent ramp improvements early.
Southbound Highway 101
• Sunday nights, 10 pm - 7 am, 1 lane: Sheffield Drive to N Padaro Lane and Santa Claus Lane to Bailard Avenue, on- and off-ramps at Carpinteria Avenue, Reynolds Avenue, Linden Avenue, Casitas Pass Road, and Bailard Avenue • Monday - Thursday nights, 8 pm – 5 am, 1 lane: Sheffield Drive to N Padaro Lane and Santa Claus Lane to Bailard Avenue, on- and off-ramps at Carpinteria Avenue, Reynolds Avenue, Linden Avenue, Casitas Pass Road, and Bailard Avenue • Consecutive ramps in the same direction will not be closed at the same time. Please use the ramp before or after each closure. • On-ramp at Sheffield Drive, closed for the duration of the project, anticipated reopening 2023, drivers can use the southbound on-ramps at Wallace Avenue and N Padaro Lane
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• Off-ramp at Sheffield Drive, closed for up to 16 months, anticipated reopening end of 2021, drivers can use the southbound off-ramp at San Ysidro Road • Off-ramp at Carpinteria Ave, reopened on March 29
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Flaggers will direct traffic with alternating lane closures as needed during daytime work.
Sheffield Drive & N Jameson Lane
Temporary stop signs have been installed at the intersection of Sheffield Drive and N Jameson Lane for the duration of construction of the Summerland segment.
N & S Jameson Lane, Olive Mill Road, Coast Village Road, on- and off-ramps at Olive Mill & San Ysidro roads
Crews will pothole to confirm utility locations in preparation for upcoming work on the roundabouts and freeway improvements. Flaggers will direct traffic as needed during week of April 11th near the intersection of Olive Mill and Coast Village Road between 7 am and 5 pm daily.
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Beekeepers Guild of Santa Barbara Announces Springtime Schedule
With Santa Barbara’s long-awaited springtime flower blooming season already strongly underway, Santa Barbara’s Beekeepers Guild is hoping to encourage local residents and homeowners to help our county’s bee population thriving. You don’t have to be a beekeeper to do this, the guild says. In fact, planting flowers that bees like may actually be more important to bee livelihood than acquiring a hive. With that in mind, the Beekeepers Guild of Santa Barbara is now inviting local residents to nominate their neighbor’s gardens (or their own) to win one of 10 coveted “Plant Bee Friendly” awards. This is a community competition for green thumbs and hobbyist landscapers to present their gardens, while supplying much needed nectar and pollen for local pollinator populations. In order to qualify, each nominated garden must contain the following: • Flowering plants/shrubs/trees that are attractive to pollinators. Plants with year-round or successive blooms are preferable, providing pollinators with continual forage. • Organic and pesticide-free growth. • A variety of flowers/colors to attract a variety of pollinators, as not all bees are the same. • A clean source of freshwater. • Drought-tolerant, California-native plants if possible. Nominations for this year’s prizes will be accepted until May 31. You can find additional information, including a recommended list of pollinator-friendly native plants for your garden, at www.beeguildsb.org. Meanwhile, the SB Beekeepers Guild is offering a five-session “Beyond Beginning Beekeeping Class” for interested participants. Beginning April 14, and each Wednesday per month for the next six weeks, you can Zoom-in for a class with Juanita Collins the guild’s Community Education Director, in order to learn more about the honeybee. When: Wednesdays at 6 pm Dates: April 14, May 12, June 9, July 14, and August 11 Where: Online (Zoom details will be emailed to registrants) Cost: $40 members/ $60 non-members. Remember, you must register to attend at www.beeguildsb.org. •MJ
Just on health care alone, if you declared Santa Barbara the Mayo Clinic of the West… really promote this is as the premier health location on the West Coast.” Having recently undergone brain surgery at Cottage Hospital, Conklin could not be a bigger believer in the power of Santa Barbara’s medical community. “You’ve got all of the major (medical) institutions of Southern California, including Cedars Sinai, UCLA, and Cottage, all opening up research centers in Santa Barbara… And the fact that the UCSB economic forecast says that investment in medical technology is one of the top economic generators of the South Coast. There’s a huge amount of investment going on in real estate in buildings for medical science. And into research from people like the Ridley-Trees in the cancer center here. A huge amount of philanthropy going into all of these hospitals. Just that alone puts Santa Barbara on the map in terms of a place where important medical research is being done. “I said to Cathy (Mayor Murillo), ‘look, if you’re smart, if you want to promote economic development here, you can go ahead and promote tourism. Everybody knows that. You can go out and you can promote education and bring money into UCSB, everybody knows that. But how many people know that you’re investing in the health care industry as one of the places in the U.S. where you can come and be healed in almost anything? Or that research is going on at UCSB about massive major health crises? And if it is, tell the story.’” Conklin had a lot more to say about where our city’s leaders should be focusing their energies – reviving State Street, boosting tourism, the environment, homelessness, locals supporting local business, building community – but he would agree that what matters right now is what our mayoral candidates have to say. Because whoever becomes Santa Barbara’s next mayor is going to play a big part in determining whether our city’s is a hero’s journey, or one that continues to feel a little like… well… the Little Train That Couldn’t. In the coming weeks, the Montecito Journal will talk further with each candidate in an effort to get the would-be mayors to answer Hal Conklin’s very reasonable questions: “What do you want to do? What are your ideas?” Because it’s not enough to want to play the role of mayor, cut the ribbons, and kiss the babies. We need a hero… A mayor with some vision, a little courage, and real ideas on how we can turn our current city drama into a triumph of the human spirit story. •MJ
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The Giving List by Steven Libowitz
Community Environmental Council This year’s Earth Day Celebration honors Greenpeace USA’s Executive Director Annie Leonard as the recipient of its 2021 Environmental Hero Award
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ith Earth Day 2021 rolling around just a week after the publication date of this issue of the Montecito Journal, you’d think the big three-day festival would be all anybody at the Community Environmental Council (CEC) would want to talk about. After all, it was a nascent CEC that organized Santa Barbara’s first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, a one-block-long event as part of teach-ins and other gatherings attended by 20 million Americans across the country in the wake of the famous Santa Barbara Channel Oil Spill 15 months earlier that still ranks third in size after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon and 1989 Exxon Valdez spills. And after having to scramble to pivot its annual celebration to a virtual event just a month after the first lockdown of the COVID pandemic last April, CEC has had a whole year to plan for this year’s online offering, coming up with an undoubtedly impressive lineup of speeches, performances, and other activities that rivals many of the years when 30,000 people thronged to Alameda Park. Among the notable segments scheduled during the April 22-24 virtual festival – which carries a theme of celebrating climate leadership and can be accessed for free at https://sbearthday.org – are Annie Leonard, Executive Director of Greenpeace USA, receiving CEC’s 2021 Environmental Hero Award and sharing insights into her organization’s vital work along with an interview with CEC CEO Sigrid Wright and UCSB Chair of Environmental Studies and Director of the Global Environmental Justice Project Dr. David N. Pellow. CEC’s Annual Climate Crisis Leadership Summit follows the interview and presentation, featuring climate leaders from around the community sharing their current projects, identifying needs, and offering opportunities for engagement on the final day of the festival, which focuses on Community Leadership. Meanwhile, the “Youth Leadership” lineup on April 22 includes Oxnard-based activist and author (Eat Less Water) Florencia Ramirez along with former CEC Board President and current SB School Board Member Laura Capps; the Wilding Museum Poetry Contest winners sharing their work centered on “What Earth Day Means To Me”; and lots of local entertainment including a new song via video from Montecito’s Kenny Loggins. CEC’s popular Green Car Show and LOACOM’s “Better World” interviews with 1% for the Planet CEO Kate Williams and other environmental change makers anchor the Business Leadership-themed roster on April 23. In a true mark of innovation, CEC has even found a way to put its eco-minded exhibitor booths online via a high-tech platform that allows for live interaction in breakout rooms as well as presentations. Impressive, no doubt. But, as CEC’s communications director Nicole Wald said, it’s just one piece of CEC’s story, which has grown significantly in recent years with plans to expand exponentially soon. “This is a pivotal year for us, a sort of do over for our 50th anniversary year (because of the pandemic), and we are launching our new framework moving forward into this decade,” Wald said, noting that CEC is making perhaps its first big shift since narrowing its focus on climate change in 2004 after being one of the first organizations in the nation to recognize “the biggest threat to humanity was coming down the pipes.” That led to one of the country’s first carbon neutral plans in 2007, a roadmap to get the region off of fossil fuels in one generation that became the Fossil Free by 33 campaign, a decade in changing attitudes to make advocacy resulting in such successes as having its Community Choice renewable energy program happen across 19 cities in three counties in the central coast. But now that’s become the Climate Crisis, necessitating even bolder action. “All the reports have come out, one important one saying we have 10 years to turn things around before things get really ugly,” Wald said. “So this is the time that we really have to lean hard into solutions.”
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What CDC is working on now, Wald said, is putting into effect its bold new action plan, a “framework for how we’re going to move forward in the next decade-plus to really help the community go all in together. The goal is to not just kind of tackle one facet of the climate crisis, but really work toward building community resilience and a groundswell of action to transform the systems that fuel the climate crisis.”
Reverse-Repair-Protect
Hence, Reverse-Repair-Protect, CEC’s ambitious plan for how our local community can meet this urgent moment and go all in together on halting the climate crisis rapidly and equitably. Reverse encompasses a push for ambitious, equitable zero emissions and zero waste goals for the energy, transportation, food, and agriculture sectors; Repair comes by tapping into the power of nature to draw down excess carbon from the atmosphere and repair the disrupted carbon cycle; and Protect encompasses safeguarding public health and vulnerable populations from the impacts of climate change that are already underway. “This is definitely the moment for climate action,” said Energy & Climate Program Director Michael Chiacos. “CEC has been a stalwart in the environmental community for 50 years, but it’s great that climate has become one of the top priorities for our nation. It’s being woven into the stimulus bill and the infrastructure bill and it seems we’re finally taking climate seriously. CEC is the strongest organization on the Central Coast, and we’re moving forward with local solutions. For people who’ve been in the trenches for years like us, it feels like finally the world is really paying attention and realizing that the stuff is hitting the fan and we really need to make this a top priority. We have the technology, it’s fairly easy to do if we had the political will to just change some things.”
“All the reports have come out, one important one saying we have 10 years to turn things around before things get really ugly. So this is the time that we really have to lean hard into solutions.” – Nicole Wald, CEC’s communications director
The goals include 100 percent renewable energy by 2030, 15 years earlier than California timeline, and then using that clean electricity to power not only transportation – especially electric vehicles – but also buildings, Chiacos said. “That will necessitate redesigning our cities so that it’s easier to not have to drive in traffic alone everywhere and make it easier to bike and walk and take transit and telecommute and all of these things. That’s a long game, but we want to put new development into existing downtowns in urban areas, not sprawling out into agricultural lands and wild lands where there’s risk of fire.” CEC’s agriculture and food program aims to dramatically reduce food waste, which amounts to as much as 40% of the food that’s grown in America, Chiacos said. “Think of how much land and water and fertilizers go into growing this food that we waste 40% of, and it ends up in a landfill where it makes methane which makes climate change worse. It’s ridiculous. It happens in people’s refrigerators and at restaurants as well as on the farm. We’re finding ways to reduce that in the supply chain and at the consumer level which not only reduces climate emissions but also feeds hungry people. And we’re also working on regenerative agriculture, sustainable land practices where you can sequester carbon in our soil and help to reverse carbon emissions.” CEC also has a line on the Protect portion of its plan, which has to do with equity and resiliency, Chiacos said. “We know that climate change is going to continue to happen. Hopefully we can reverse as much of the impacts as we can, but we know that there already are impacts and they’re going to be worse for our kids. So how can we prepare for those impacts?” Truth is, Chiacos said, none of these issues are new to CEC, the half-century old nonprofit. “We’ve been working on them for a long time, but now we’re repackaging them and we’re really ramping up these activities,” he explained. “We’re really expanding our work so that we can not only mitigate emissions, but also sequester them and, and prepare for the impacts. That’s why we’re hiring staff like crazy.” Which is also why ramping up donations also matters more in this moment. So enjoy Earth Day and learn a little more next weekend, and then sign on to do what you can to protect the Earth, or at least our little corner. “Sure, we’re a little bit of a backwater town, not a big powerful city, but we are based in California, which is a leader globally in climate solutions,” Chiacos said. “And we do have some really aggressive targets that can become models everywhere.” For more information, visit cecsb.org. •MJ
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Body Wise by Ann Brode Ann Todhunter Brode has been an Aston Patterning practitioner and body-oriented therapist in Santa Barbara for over forty years. A recognized master in her field, Brode writes down-to-earth, compassionate articles on the challenges & rewards of living consciously in the body. She is author of Body Wise: What Your Mind Needs to Know About Your Body. Visit www.bodywisdomforlife.com for more information.
The Face Behind the Mask
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
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he other day, with this topic in mind, I initiated a socially distanced conversation in the parking lot with an anthropology student. We spoke of masks and how they alter non-verbal communication and change our perception of people… especially strangers. To explore this, I suggested that we lift ours to see what we might have missed. I was surprised to discover how much personality had actually been withheld behind his mask. I was also surprised by how risqué it felt to reveal my own full face. I almost blushed. Masking and distancing protocols have impaired our social confidence. As a matter of course, we avoid random encounters and minimize discourse. Acclimating to the pandemic norm has left us more insular and less outgoing. Instead of observing facial expression and making eye contact, we look the other way. When we tune out, we silence a vital source of non-verbal communication that helps us assess the comfort, sincerity, and mood of others. These days, even when we’re out and about, we feel shut in. We shrink our energy field, tuck to the side, and go about our business. No eye contact, no gesture embellishments, mouth set grimly behind the mask. In other words, Zoom aside, communication during the pandemic has gone into the negatives. I first observed this disturbing disintegration several months ago while cruising through the grocery store with pursed lips and a set jaw. The face under my mask was anything but pleasant. Then, I noticed how I avoided social interaction, side-stepping into the bushes on my hike whenever someone approached. Normally gregarious, I had to make a concerted effort to make eye contact and say something agreeable. Instead of just hunkering down until the masking times are over, I want to reclaim my humanity, one smile at a time. If you’d like to join me, here are some things to consider. Facial muscles have a whole range of possibilities. Unfortunately, over time, they lose pliability and settle into a dominant expression. It may sound silly but the emotional tension in your face becomes a holding pattern. As such, your muscles have a default mode of scrunching, puckering, pushing, or squeezing. You see your par15 – 22 April 2021
ticular configuration looking back from the mirror or a casual photo. You feel its imprint when you try to relax. Tuning in, the shape and message of this tension is pretty obvious. If your mouth pulls down, it actually looks and feels like anger or disappointment. Pinched lips could be linked to fear or disgust; a clamped jaw to determination or worry. Although not actively angry, disgusted or worried right now, your default expression delivers a clear message – both to others and yourself. Even if your face is hidden behind a mask and no one is looking anyway, the message gets through. Facial expression influences both what others perceive and what you actually feel. Studies have shown that smiling, even fake smiling, triggers feel-good hormones in your body and frowning, even default frowning, lights up the flight-or-fight area in your brain. Simply, pulling up the corners of your mouth can make you happier; pulling them down can make you angrier. Being aware and choosing to smile changes your perception of what’s happening. In other words: smiling makes the glass feel half full, frowning renders it half empty. To experience how this works for you, take a moment to consider the inconvenience of the pandemic protocols with a big old grin on your face. If you encounter some default frown-tension, just push through it until you reclaim your full smiling capacity. Then, think about it with a frown and contrast the impact of smile versus frown on your perception. Then, practice some smiling mindfulness for the rest of the day and see how it goes. Smile while exercising, smile while doing the dishes, smile while waiting in line. You may find that this small shift of awareness makes a huge difference in the way you feel and perceive your world. The CDC tells us that we won’t be mask-free and breezy anytime soon, regardless of vax status. So, even though it may only affect your own perception, why not smile under your mask? And, why not make eye contact and say a few pleasantries to reclaim some of your social graces? At the end of this ordeal, when the mask finally comes off, perhaps your new default expression will be a smile. •MJ
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Notice Inviting Bids HSIP WEST CARRILLO LIGHTING AND SIGNAL UPGRADE PROJECT Bid No. 3962 1. Bid Submission. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept electronic bids for its HSIP West Carrillo Lighting and Signal Upgrade Project (“Project”), by or before April 29, 2021, at 3:00 p.m., through its PlanetBids portal. Bidders must be registered on the City of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to submit a Bid proposal and to receive addendum notifications. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually submitted/uploaded with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. Large files may take more time to be submitted/uploaded to PlanetBids, so plan accordingly... The receiving time on the PlanetBids server will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, hardcopy, and facsimile bids will not be accepted. If any Addendum issued by the City is not acknowledged online by the Bidder, the PlanetBids System will prevent the Bidder from submitting a Bid Proposal. Bidders are responsible for obtaining all addenda from the City’s PlanetBids portal. Bid results and awards will be available on PlanetBids. Bids will be called out on Zoom at 4:00 pm on April 27, 2021 Join Zoom Meeting. Link is also available on PlanetBids. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82990466653?pwd=RFpQN2dhRWRIOEFVamVSSGhFV2Fmdz09 Meeting ID: 829 9046 6653 Passcode: 80dGTS 2.
Project Information.
2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located on Carrillo Street between Miramonte Drive and Bath Street and is described as follows: Install lighting corridor on Carrillo from Miramonte Drive to Bath Street, reconstruct the curb ramps and splitter island, relocate and upgrade traffic signals, construct a new splitter island, relocate two catch basins and associated storm drain, and install bio retention basins with landscape at the intersection of Carrillo and San Andres; reconstruct curb ramps and install a new median island and mid block crossing at the intersection of Carrillo and San Pascual, and perform a four inch grind and overlay on Carrillo from the west side of San Andres to the west side of Chapala Street 2.2 Time for Completion. The Project must be completed within 115 working days from the start date set forth in the Notice to Proceed. City anticipates that the Work will begin on or about May 15, 2021, but the anticipated start date is provided solely for convenience and is neither certain nor binding. 2.3 Estimated Cost. The estimated construction cost is $2,700,000. 3.
License and Registration Requirements. 3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): A
3.2 DIR Registration. City may not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder is registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work pursuant to Labor Code § 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions. 4. Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: http://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=29959 The Project and its contract documents will be available on the City’s PlanetBids Portal starting on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. A printed copy of the Contract Documents may be obtained from CyberCopy Shop, located at 504 N. Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, at (805) 884-6155. 5. Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of ten percent of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that within ten days after City issues the Notice of Award, the successful bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and any other submittals required by the Contract Documents and as specified in the Notice of Award. 6.
Prevailing Wage Requirements.
6.1 General. Pursuant to California Labor Code § 1720 et seq., this Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes. 6.2 Rates. These prevailing rates are on file with the City and are available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half. 6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code § 1771.4. 7. Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bonds, each for 100% of the Contract Price, as further specified in the Contract Documents. 8. Substitution of Securities. Substitution of appropriate securities in lieu of retention amounts from progress payments is permitted under Public Contract Code § 22300. 9. Subcontractor List. Each Subcontractor must be registered with the DIR to perform work on public projects. Each bidder must submit a completed Subcontractor List form with its Bid Proposal, including the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the base bid price) for each Subcontractor that will perform Work or service or fabricate or install Work for the prime contractor in excess of one-half of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form included with the Contract Documents. 10. Disadvantaged Business Enterprise. 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 10% DBE participation. 11. Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders for more detailed information before submitting a Bid Proposal. The definitions provided in Article 1 of the General Conditions apply to all of the Contract Documents, as defined therein, including this Notice Inviting Bids. 12. Bidders are advised that this project is a Federal-Aid construction project and the Contractor shall agree to all requirements, condition, and provisions set forth in the specification book issues for bidding purposes entitled “Proposal and Contract”. Attention is directed to Appendix B of the “Proposal and Contract” specification book for federal requirements and conditions as well as documents required to be submitted with this proposal request. 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. 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. 13. Pursuant to Section 1773 of the Labor Code, the general prevailing wage rates in the county in which the work is to be done have been determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations. These wages are set forth in the General Prevailing Wage Rates for this Project, available at the City of Santa Barbara, General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and available from the California Department of Industrial Relations' Internet web site at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR/PWD. The Federal minimum wage rates for this Project as predetermined by the United States Secretary of Labor are set forth in the specifications and in copies of these specifications that may be examined at the offices described above where project plans, special provisions, and bid forms may be seen. Addenda to modify the Federal minimum wage rates, if necessary, will be issued to holders of these specifications. 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. Attention is directed to the Federal minimum wage requirements in the specification book entitled "Proposal and Contract." 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 shall 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 shall pay not less than the Federal Minimum wage rate which most closely approximates the duties of the employees in question. By: ___________________________________
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William Hornung, C.P.M., General Services Manager Publication Dates: 1) April 7, 2021
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Simply Remembered, 4289 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Wiefels & Son II, INC, 690 Vella Road, Palm Springs, CA 92264. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 8, 2021. 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). FBN No. 20210001008. Published April 14, 21, 28, May 5, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: San Ysidro Pharmacy, 1498 East Valley Road, Montecito, CA 93108. Montecito RX, 1498 East Valley Road, Montecito, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 6, 2021. 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). FBN No. 20210000974. Published April 14, 21, 28, May 5, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Motion Unlimited, PO Box 20275, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Motion Unlimited, PO Box 20275, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 1, 2021. 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
“I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.” – Lucille Ball
file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20210000926. Published April 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JM Enterprises, 1187 Coast Village RD, Suite 413, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Julian S Memi, 1187 Coast Village RD, Suite 413, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 10, 2021. 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). FBN No. 2021-0000661. Published March 31, April 7, 14, 21, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Montecito Executive Services, 1482 East Valley Road, Suite 42, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Mary L Ortega, 6180 Via Real #70, Carpinteria, CA 93013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 26, 2021. 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). FBN No. 2021-0000859. Published March 31, April 7, 14, 21, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Rio Market Wine and Spirit, 1051 Edison St, Santa Ynez, CA 93460. Mitch Elian Samaan, 2621 W Highway 154, Santa 15 – 22 April 2021
Notice Inviting Bids CHARLES MEYER DESALINATION PLANT INTAKE MODIFICATIONS PROJECT Bid No. 4033 1.
Bid Submission. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept electronic bids for its Charles Meyer Desalination Plant – Intake Modifications Project (“Project”), by or before Thursday May 13, 2021, at 3:00 p.m., through its PlanetBids portal. Bidders must be registered on the City of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to submit a Bid proposal and to receive addendum notifications. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually submitted/uploaded with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. Large files may take more time to be submitted/uploaded to PlanetBids, so plan accordingly... The receiving time on the PlanetBids server will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, hardcopy, and facsimile bids will not be accepted. If any Addendum issued by the City is not acknowledged online by the Bidder, the PlanetBids System will prevent the Bidder from submitting a Bid Proposal. Bidders are responsible for obtaining all addenda from the City’s PlanetBids portal. Bid results and awards will be available on PlanetBids.
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Project Information. 2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located in the City of Santa Barbara at the Charles C. Meyer Desalination Plant, East Beach, and approximately 2,500 feet offshore from East Beach and is described as follows: removing and replacing large diameter pipeline fittings, removing a concrete vault, constructing large diameter pipelines, constructing a new precast vault on driven piles, removing and replacing riprap, extending electrical power and data conduits from the vault onshore that is to be demolished to a new vault, installing corrosion protection facilities, installing new pumps in subsea intake vault and installing and connecting electrical power and data cables, installing a fiberglass hatch on a subsea vault, removing two subsea intake pumps including electrical and data cables and various mechanical and site work. Additional information on the Project location and description are included in Section 01110. 2.2 Time for Final Completion. The Project must be fully completed within 330 calendar days from the start date set forth in the Notice to Proceed. City anticipates that the Work will begin on or about July 22, 2021, but the anticipated start date is provided solely for convenience and is neither certain nor binding. 2.3 Estimated Cost. The estimated construction cost is $3,000,000.
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License and Registration Requirements. 3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): Class “A” — General Engineering Contractor. 3.2 DIR Registration. City may not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder is registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work pursuant to Labor Code § 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.
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Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: http://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=29959 The project and its contract documents will be available in the City’s PlanetBids Portal starting on Wednesday, April 14, 2021. A printed copy of the Contract Documents may be obtained from CyberCopy Shop, located at 504 N. Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, at (805) 884-6155.
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Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of ten percent (10%) of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that within ten days after City issues the Notice of Award, the successful bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and any other submittals required by the Contract Documents and as specified in the Notice of Award.
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Prevailing Wage Requirements. 6.1 General. Pursuant to California Labor Code § 1720 et seq., this Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes. 6.2 Rates. These prevailing rates are on file with the City and are available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half. 6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code § 1771.4.
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Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bonds, each for 100% of the Contract Price, as further specified in the Contract Documents.
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Substitution of Securities. Substitution of appropriate securities in lieu of retention amounts from progress payments is permitted under Public Contract Code § 22300.
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Subcontractor List. Each Subcontractor must be registered with the DIR to perform work on public projects. Each bidder must submit a completed Subcontractor List form with its Bid Proposal, including the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the base bid price) for each Subcontractor that will perform Work or service or fabricate or install Work for the prime contractor in excess of one-half of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form included with the Contract Documents.
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Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders for more detailed information before submitting a Bid Proposal. The definitions provided in Article 1 of the General Conditions apply to all of the Contract Documents, as defined therein, including this Notice Inviting Bids.
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Mandatory Bidders’ Conference. A bidders’ conference will be held on Wednesday April 28, 2021 at 10:00 a.m., online via a video-conference for the purpose of acquainting all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite. The bidders’ conference is mandatory. A bidder who fails to attend a mandatory bidders’ conference will be disqualified from bidding. Login information for the pre-bid meeting will be posted on PlanetBids.
By: ___________________________________
Date: ________________
William Hornung, C.P.M, General Services Manager Publication Dates: 1) April 14, 2021 2) April 21, 2021 END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS
15 – 22 April 2021
• The Voice of the Village •
CITY OF SANTA BARBARA - GENERAL SERVICES DIVISION PO BOX 1990, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93102-1990 INVITATION FOR BIDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received via electronic transmission on the City of Santa Barbara PlanetBids portal site until the date and time indicated below at which time they will be publicly opened and posted for: BID NO. 5892 DUE DATE & TIME: MAY 6, 2021 UNTIL 3:00 P.M. HAZARDOUS WASTE COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL SERVICES Bidders must be registered on the city of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to receive addendum notifications and to submit a bid. Go to PlanetBids for bid results and awards. It is the responsibility of the bidder to submit their bid with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. The receiving deadline is absolute. Allow time for technical difficulties, uploading, and unexpected delays. Late or incomplete Bid will not be accepted. If further information is needed, contact Jennifer Disney Dixon, Buyer II at (805) 564-5356 or email: jdisney@santabarbaraca.gov FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICE ACT Contractor agrees in accordance with Section 1735 and 1777.6 of California Labor Code, and the California Fair Employment Practice Act (Sections 1410-1433) that in the hiring of common or skilled labor for the performance of any work under this contract or any subcontract hereunder, no contractor, material supplier or vendor shall, by reason of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation, discriminate against any person who is qualified and available to perform the work to which such employment relates. The Contractor further agrees to be in compliance with the City of Santa Barbara’s Nondiscriminatory Employment Provisions as set forth in Chapter 9 of the Santa Barbara Municipal Code. CERTIFICATIONS In accordance with California Public Contracting Code § 3300, the City requires the Contractor to possess a valid California A or B contractor’s license AND HAZHazardous Substance Removal certification at time the bids are opened and to continue to hold during the term of the contract all licenses and certifications required to perform the work specified herein. Contractor shall comply with all licensing and permit regulations under Resource Conservations and Recovery Act (RCRA), outlined in Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 263. LIVING WAGE Any service purchase order contract issued as a result of this request for bids or quotes may be subject to the City’s Living Wage Ordinance No 5384, SBMC 9.128 and its implementing regulations. CERTIFICATE OF INSURANCE Contractor must submit to the contracted department within ten (10) calendar days of an order, AND PRIOR TO START OF WORK, certificates of Insurance naming the City of Santa Barbara as Additional Insured in accordance with the attached Insurance Requirements.
_______________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager
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Ynez, CA 93460. Moris Samaan, 3548 Glen Abbey Ln, Oxnard, CA 93036. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 12, 2021. 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). FBN No. 20210000703. Published March 31, April 7, 14, 21, 2021 MONTECITO JOURNAL
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Letters (Continued from page 40) Indeed, Williams was the subject of a year-long grand jury investigation and report that singled out his ethically challenged and pay-to-play politics with the cannabis lobby in Santa Barbara County. Additionally, he is the subject of a referral to the U.S. Attorney regarding the unprecedented levels of cannabis operations surrounding Carpinteria High School, that have filled classrooms and football fields with a putrid stench, impacting staff and students who are 75% Hispanic. Presently, Williams’ lobbying for a cannabis dispensary on Santa Claus Lane, a Highway 101 onramp and beach access adjacent to year-round surf camps for children, has provoked intense community resistance. This matter alone would require Williams’ recusal from an expected Coastal Commission hearing and ruling. These are but a few of myriad conflicts that would disqualify him from representing the citizens of California and ruling on the many crucial issues before the Coastal Commission. There are several qualified candidates to serve on the Coastal Commission including the Santa Barbara City Council’s Meagan Harmon, a landuse attorney, who was born and raised here. Regrettably, Das Williams has never had, nor merited, the respect of many of his 1st District constituents. He certainly does not belong on the California Coastal Commission. Respectfully submitted by 145 Santa Barbara County residents from its five districts including Buellton, Carpinteria, Cuyama, Montecito, City of Santa Barbara, Lompoc, Santa Ynez, Solvang, Summerland, Tepesquet, and (by quorum) Concerned Carpinterians, a grassroots organization representing approximately 300
residents in the 1st District. Susan Allen, Susan Ashbrook, M. C. Athanassiadis, Sophia Athanassiadis, Robert Bailey, Valerie A. Bentz, Phd., Susan Beeler Kreutzer, Dave Bettles, Tracy Bettles, Sean Bettles, Dede Borchard, Allen Braithwaite, Tony Brown, Tessa Bryan, Anna Bradley, Timothy Buffalo, Victoria Buffalo, Dinah Calderon, Ricardo Calderon, Anna Carrillo, Janet Carlson, Stephen Carlson, Howard E. Chase, Jo Ann Chase, Jennifer Chisik, James A. Claffey, Debi Clark, Larry Clark, Robert Collector, Eileen Conrad, John Culbertson, Sean Daniel, Bill Dietsch, Elaine Dietsch, Ann Diener, Robert Diener, Gary Delanoeye, Tamara Donohoe, Cheryl Doty, Dewlson Family Farm, Brian Edwards, Linda Ekstrom, Paul Ekstrom, Debra Eagle, Sally Eagle, Terry Eagle, Dan A. Emmett, Rae M. Emmett, Anita Engs, Edward W Engs IV, Stephen K. Figler, Ph.D, Maureen Foley Claffey, Patricia French, Michael French, Jon Gans, Gregory Gandrud, Robyn Geddes, Linda P. Hannon, John Heaton, Valerie Hoffman, Deke Hunter, Ruthie Hunter, Douglas Huston, Llewelyn Goodfield, Marilyn Goodfield, Helen Graves, Scott Graves, Leigh Johnson, Ron Johnson, Rebecca Kapustay, Pati Kern, Richard Kopcho, Darcy Kopcho, Sandra M. Kuttler, Robert Lesser, Jorgito Lucas, David Ludwig, Mike Macari, Barbara Macari, Sarah MascarenasTriguero, Derek McLeish, Corinne Matson, William James Matson, Elizabeth Mandl, V. James Mannoia, J. Mariner, Sharyne Merritt, Carrie Miles, PhD, Cathy Ann Miller, Mitch Morehart, Marla McNally, Stephanie Nicks, Doris Neff, Lionel Neff, John Theodore Nunes, Jr., Renee O’Neill, Bobbie Offen, MaryPat
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All for Democratic ‘Pet Projects’
This is in response to “GOP is Party of No,” by Robert Baruch. With all due respect, Mr. Baruch, the Republican Party is not the party of “no.” It is the party of putting Americans first; capitalism not socialism; energy independence not the Green New Deal; the Constitution; and secure, not open, borders. Regarding the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, it is a redistribution of wealth scheme and slush fund for the Democrat Party. If you take out stimulus check payments, more than half of the $2 trillion won’t even be used until 2022 or later. Only 9% of the money goes for COVID relief and 1% goes to vaccines. All at a time when Americans lost businesses and have no jobs. Where does most of the money go? To non-COVID related spending partisan pet projects. It is virtually a Democrat wish list being fulfilled. It bails out mismanaged blue states (California and New York); $570 million go to the teacher unions; $50 million are for abortions; Obamacare subsidies are expanded (unknown costs); $852 million are for civic volunteer agencies; and millions are for illegal immigrants, not average Americans. This massive spending act will increase our national debt, be paid for by new taxes, and choose winners and losers, which is why Senate Republicans said “no.” Don Thorn
Spring Migration Happening Now
I am writing to share Santa Barbara Audubon Society’s appreciation for our very own hero, Joan Lentz. Through thick and thin, Joan rejoices in birding and continues to teach all of us around her about the beauty of birding and spring migrations in Santa Barbara. Just yesterday, on April 7, Joan sub-
“People either have comedy or they don’t. You can’t teach it to them.” – Lucille Ball
mitted an avid bird report sharing her enthusiasm for birding and expert knowledge about birdlife. As Joan cheerfully noted: “Hi all: Just so you’ll have a heads up: spring bird migration is in progress, although a bit slow to see right now. Remember last spring how windy it was? We may not get such a show this year, because the birds aren’t clogged up by the winds, but trust me, they are coming through! If you have a water feature of any kind in your yard or off your balcony, the birds will thank you in this dry year. Just to see the Yellow-rumped Warblers in full breeding garb (!) combined with some of the orioles and the Black-headed Grosbeaks is enough to get you started. I really like making an eBird list when I’m looking out at my backyard, too. You can look online at Bird Cast, which shows you what’s happening in the skies at night. If you’re trying to get a friend interested in birding, have them sit out with you on one of these evenings when the birds are stopping off to get a drink or to bathe – any source of water that you’ve discovered is bound to attract a crowd of migrants right about now. Many are in full breeding attire and look gorgeous! Good birding!” Indeed. Makes me want to add another birdbath in my backyard. Shout out to Joan, our local Santa Barbara Audubon Society hero, and good birding to all! Katherine Emery, PhD
With Tremendous Gratitude
We want to say, “thank you” to the Montecito Journal and to “Our Town” correspondent Joanne Calitri for her sensitively written and informative story in the April 8 issue about the upcoming closure of Read ‘n Post. Her historical insights about the store’s early years were undoubtedly interesting for many readers. And our staff members truly appreciated the opportunity to recall personal Read ‘n Post experiences in their own words. Together we shared smiles, a few tears, and many happy memories. During the remaining days until Read ‘n Post permanently closes on Saturday, April 24, we invite all our friends, neighbors and customers to visit the store during our “Good-Bye and Gratitude” final sale. It will give us a chance to personally say “goodbye, thank you, and best wishes always!” Jan Hendrickson, Principal Owner John Devereaux, Co-Owner Read ‘n Post, Montecito P.S. Although the Read ‘n Post store will be closed after April 24, Montecito Country Mart plans to continue operating the post office during the interim period while the new Montecito Mercantile shop prepares to open. •MJ 15 – 22 April 2021
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 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 Recognition Racket
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ne thing that many of us feel we don’t get enough of is appreciation. We want to be recognized for our accomplishments, our contributions – or at least for our efforts. All around us, people are receiving prizes and awards, being written about, celebrated, honored in all kinds of ways. Isn’t it time somebody took some notice of us? (I myself am madly jealous of Bob Dylan, whose receipt in 2016 of the Nobel Prize for Literature seemed as unlikely as my own acquisition of that same award will ever be.) But for those of you who would be satisfied with something less than a Nobel Prize, I have news. Somebody is well aware of just how you feel, and wants to satisfy that need. That somebody – or those somebody’s – are the entrepreneurs engaged in what I call the Recognition Racket. Why call it a racket? Because it’s a semi-fraudulent exploitation of a human weakness
– that pathetic desire to have our worth acknowledged, before we too into the dust descend. (And indeed many a deserving person does have to wait for that word of praise until it is inscribed on his or her tombstone.) So, what is the purpose of these enterprises? They’re not kind-hearted souls who just want to give you the credit you deserve. Their primary motivation is financial gain. But how do they turn appreciation of you into money for themselves? Some methods are more blatant than others. They usually involve some kind of publication. There used to be an actual reference book called “Who’s Who.” But, contrary to what many people believe, the term “Who’s Who” is no longer a registered trademark. Anybody can bring out any kind of list or compilation and call it a Who’s Who – just as “Webster’s” is now in the public domain, and any dictionary can call itself “Webster’s
Dictionary.” So, when you get approached by some firm offering to put you in their “Who’s Who,” usually with indications and implications of honor and prestige for your achievements and social position, don’t be taken in. They may not charge you for this “recognition,” but they will do their best to get you to buy one or more, usually expensive, copies of the book. And if you do get hooked, the chances are you’ll find your listing squeezed in among thousands of others, in very fine print. The chief company exploiting this market is a firm called Marquis, which did so well using the “Who’s Who” title standing alone that they now publish at least fourteen spin-offs, including special Who’s Who’s for various regions of the U.S., for different professional fields, for “American Women” – and, believe it or not, a “Who’s Who in Asia,” and a “Who’s Who in the World.” Needless to say, the less reputable of these shady companies not only have their listees pay in advance for inclusion, with no standards concerning their being genuinely notable, but they also sell their lists to other marketeers. Only once was I suckered into ordering one of these useless publications, because I had been “selected” to be included in it. It’s the 1980-81
edition of “Who’s Who in the West.” (“The West” includes 13 American States and 3 Canadian Provinces.) It is 12 inches tall (too big for most shelves) and weighs 11 ½ pounds. It has over 800 pages, with three columns on each page, and eight or nine heavily abbreviated “biographies” in each column, in almost microscopic print. If you happen to own one of these volumes, which by now must be quite rare, you will, sure enough, find me, among 20,000 other honorees, on page 87 (by chance, at the top of the first column). Isn’t there any form of recognition really worth having for its own sake? Of course not. The whole idea of fame and fortune is a modern Western invention. It would mean nothing to a Buddhist – or, for that matter, to any devoutly religious person. In past millennia, all power resided in the monarch, to whom, therefore, all earthly honor was due. Ironically, in our culture, the one day of the year on which a person is honored and appreciated, regardless of merit, at least by those who are closest, is his or her own birthday – a day which marks no greater achievement than that of having stayed alive for another year. But, people value their pets – especially their dogs – because, no matter what day it is, their dogs value them. •MJ
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we were carried away by what the organization had taught us.” “The family has been working hard to replicate the core values of our mission,” says Tom Reed, Unity Shoppe’s executive director. “The work they’ve done to open The Store, especially as the pandemic was taking hold, has inspired us beyond words. We couldn’t be more proud.”
November 2020 for $15.5 million to a mystery buyer who only held on to the estate for three months before flipping it to Miller and his former model wife, Slim Paley, for $800,000 profit.
Honoring a Glorious Prince
It was a decidedly rude awakening when my producer from CBS in Los Angeles called me at 4 a.m. informing me that Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth’s husband for 73 glorious years, had died at Windsor Castle and wanted me to do a five-minute phone interview on his extraordinary legacy. And so it went, with calls from CNN, Fox News Channel, News Nation in Chicago, and KEYT’s morning anchor Joe Buttitta, wrapping an extraordinary day with a Zoom interview for the CBS early evening news in the Big Orange. Philip was just two months shy of his 100th birthday. Given HRH’s funeral is scheduled for St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, on Saturday, I have no doubt my services will be called on again to comment on the solemn ceremonial event that will have all the Royal Family present, including Prince Harry who is winging back to England for the occasion — and hopefully some form of reconciliation with his family after the explosive Oprah Winfrey interview. I am told wife Meghan Markle will not be accompanying him for medical reasons, with Meghan pregnant with the couple’s second child, a daughter. Philip, who I met a number of times during my colorful career, is expected to be laid to rest at the royal burial ground at Frogmore, just a short distance from the castle near his greatgreat grandfather, Prince Albert, the consort of Queen Victoria, who lies with the long reigning monarch who gave her name to an age in a magnificently decorated mausoleum. My abiding memory of the Duke, whose title will now be passed on to his youngest son, Prince Edward, 57, is my last meeting with him in 1998 at a glittering bash hosted by Rolls Royce at the Four Seasons restaurant in Manhattan to launch the Seraph, the first new model in almost two decades, with members of London’s Royal Ballet. I asked him if he still drove his black taxi and he replied in the affirmative but added that it was now being converted to run on natural gas. In fact, he went on to say, the whole Royal Mews at Buckingham Palace, which garages the Queen’s extensive fleet of Rolls Royces and Bentleys, was going green. A wonderful story which made front page news from the simplest of questions. Philip was indeed the jewel in the crown and his wife’s rock during their
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Heir Finds a New Throne
Prince Philip, may he rest in peace
enduring relationship, which started at 13 when as Princess Elizabeth, the daughter of King George VI, she met him as a dashingly handsome 18-yearold cadet at Dartmouth, the British equivalent of Annapolis. It was an extraordinary spark that was never extinguished, and I cannot imagine how Her Majesty, who marks her 95th birthday later this month, must now be feeling. At least she was by his side as he moved on to more heavenly pastures in the centuries old castle he loved where his mother, Princess Alice of Greece, a great granddaughter of Queen Victoria, who sheltered Jews from the Nazis during World War II, was born.
Paying It Forward
Montecito singer Brad Paisley and his wife, Kimberly, and their Nashville-based philanthropic passion project, The Store — based entirely on the Santa Barbara-based Unity Shoppe’s model of giving and feeding those less fortunate with dignity and choice — is featured as the cover story of this week’s issue of People magazine. “We took our boys Huck and Jasper to Unity Shoppe to teach them about serving others and giving back to people in need,” says Brad, 48, “And
Bing’s Search is Over Hotel heir Adam Pritzker settles in Montecito
He may own an $8.5 million Beverly Hills estate acquired less than a year ago, but Pritzker family scion Adam Pritzker, 36, and wife, Sophie, are clearly expanding their holdings. To that end, the eldest son of John Pritzker — and grandson of Hyatt Hotels co-founder Jay Pritzker — has just paid $15.8 million for an idiosyncratic French country-style estate in our Eden by the Beach. The 16-year-old property consists of three structures totaling 12,000 square feet, seven bedrooms and 11 bathrooms, including guest and pool houses, on four and a half acres. Adam, a San Francisco native and Columbia Law School graduate, co-founded General Assembly, a for-profit professional development school for adults that he and his partners sold to the Adeco Group for $400 million in 2018. The estate sits next to comedian and political pundit Dennis Miller’s former home that he sold for $49 million in an all-cash deal with TV talk show host and serial flipper Ellen DeGeneres. It was owned by retired healthcare CEO turned filmmaker Jeff Barbakow.
There’s a New Sheriff’s Worry in Town
Brad Paisley’s charity work featured in People
estate more than a few times since moving here last July, official figures reveal. The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office has responded to calls listed as phone requests, alarm activations, and property crimes. The data, obtained under the Freedom of Information laws by the PA news agency, formerly the Press Association, was released after the tony twosome shared their security fears in the incendiary CBS interview with Oprah Winfrey last month. Officers were called four times in July, with one call listed as a phone request while the others are labelled “alarm activations” and all occurred in the early hours of the morning. Two calls were at Christmas, including an alleged trespasser. The most recent, listed as an alarm activation, was in February at 2:21 am. A spokesman for the sheriff’s office declined to comment, as did reps for the royal pair.
Maybe Prince Harry, 36, is wishing for the top-notch security of his old home at London’s Kensington Palace. Police have been called to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Montecito
“I dyed my hair this crazy red to bid for attention.” – Lucille Ball
Danish international fashion designer Anine Bing, who sold her mansion in the charming Los Angeles enclave of Los Feliz for $5.4 million three years ago, has plonked down $8.6 million for a Tuscan-style Montecito estate to share with her husband, Nicolai Nielsen. The 24-year-old property consists of five bedrooms and seven bathrooms over 5,414 square feet on one acre with a three-car garage. Born in Denmark and raised in Sweden, Bing moved to the Big Orange at age 21 and used her international background to create her sophisticated fashion label, which includes vintage T-shirts costing $99 each. The former model and singer, 38, has 11 stores globally, including Manhattan, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, London, Paris, Sydney, and Berlin.
She’s Booked
Prince Harry’s former actress wife, Meghan Markle, 39, has an avalanche of lucrative deals on the table at their expansive Riven Rock estate. The Duchess of Sussex has been approached by “numerous publishing houses,” according to an old friend and Vanity Fair’s royals’ writer Katie Nicholl. Since stepping down as a serving member of Britain’s Royal Family, the former Suits actress has secured lucrative deals, including a contract with Spotify worth up to $40 million and a partnership with Netflix believed to be more than $135 million. “There are some very serious book deals on the table,” says a close source. “They are all up for consideration.” Stay tuned... 15 – 22 April 2021
And You Get a Commencement Speech . . . And You . . . And You . . . Former TV talk show titan Oprah Winfrey will join singer Miley Cyrus and rapper Lil Nas X at a celebrity-filled, live-streamed graduation next month. The event will offer a celebration of students whose commencements have been cancelled because of the COVID pandemic. Entitled “Facebook and Instagram Celebrate the Class of 2020,” the show will feature a keynote speech by our rarefied enclave’s most famous resident, according to Variety. The event will also feature actress Jennifer Garner, actress-rapper Awkafina, and Olympic gold-medal gymnast Simone Biles. Oprah, 66, is no stranger to commencement speeches, which she has delivered to many institutions, including Harvard and USC.
Third Time Continues to be the Charm
My congratulations to Montecito actor Michael Keaton for setting a Screen Actors Guild Awards record with the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture ensemble victory for The Trial of the Chicago 7. Michael, 69, was a part of the winning cast for the third time, as he also
Michael Keaton sets SAG Awards record
captured the collective honors for his contributions to Birdman in 2014 and Spotlight the following year. “Frankly it’s an embarrassment to me,” he said in a Zoom interview with the Associated Press. “These guys did the heavy lifting. I showed up for a couple of days. I’m getting a credit for not much — but I’ll take it!” The Aaron Sorkin film details the trial of the group of anti-Vietnam war protesters dubbed the Chicago Seven, also stars Frank Langella, Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Mark Rylance.
Jones-ing for More
I’m sorry to hear that Camerata Pacifica’s pianist extraordinaire Warren Jones, 73, is leaving Adrian Spence’s 31-year-old chamber music ensemble. Warren, who has held the Robert and Mercedes Eichholz chair in piano for 11 years, says: “It is now time to
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step aside and treasure the fond memories that we have generated together. “Accordingly, I will not be returning to the stage when Camerata begins in-person performances again.” Warren, who received the ensemble’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012, has partnered with such great performers as Marilyn Horne and Kathleen Battle. He is a long-time faculty member of the Manhattan School of Music and a former faculty member of the Music Academy of the West. He has performed at the White House a number of times, playing at state dinners in honor of the world leaders from Canada, Russia, and Italy. An extraordinarily gifted keyboardist and conductor, he graduated from the New England Conservatory and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Warren, who I’ve watched innumerable times at Hahn Hall over more than a decade, will be much missed.
Investigations Unit, which ran for six seasons between 1996 and 2000 on CBS. “We find Nash some years later and Cheech is going to come back and join me,” he told Ellen DeGeneres. “We’ve got a pretty exciting show that we’re prepping in San Francisco right now.” Cheech Marin played Nash’s partner in the long-running series which has the dynamic duo cruising the streets of Baghdad by the Bay. In the meantime, we can catch Johnson in the NBC sitcom, Kenan.
Building Bridges
Sightings
Montecito actor Don Johnson is coming back to our TV screens in a remake of the hit 1990s TV series, Nash Bridges. Johnson, 71, who found fame as an undercover police detective in the 1980s NBC TV series Miami Vice, is bringing back Nash Bridges of the San Francisco Police Department’s Special
Don Johnson returning to San Francisco in remake of Nash Bridges (photo by Peter Kudlacz)
Prince Harry on his bicycle checking out the volleyball courts at East Beach... actress Jennifer Garner jogging on Butterfly Beach... actor Rob Lowe swimming in the ocean at Miramar Beach Pip! Pip! Be safe, wear a mask and get vaccinated. •MJ
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by Claudia Schou (photos: https://www.nordicware.com)
OUR FAVORITE SPRING GARDEN INSPIRATIONS
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elebrate the season with dishes that make the most of its best and brightest produce and pair them with fresh selections from our local fish markets. Let’s start with Meyer lemons, which are sweet and famous for their herbal aroma. As a relish, this winter and early spring citrus pairs perfectly with fresh salmon. This salmon recipe is simple and delicious. It’s baked low and slow, which yields a moist, tender, velvet-textured flesh. When served at room temperature with fennel and fava beans, or tomatoes and green beans, or beets and garden lettuces, it has versatility and appeal for the entire season. And since it holds well for a few hours, it’s also perfect for a picnic or buffet.
SLOW-COOKED KING SALMON WITH MEYER LEMON RELISH
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ROSEMARY POPOVERS
Prep: 5 minutes Cook: 45 minutes Yield: 6 grand or 12 petite popovers
Ingredients:
Extra-virgin olive oil 1 center-cut King Salmon fillet, about 3 pounds Salt Freshly ground black pepper
Softened butter for greasing pan 2 large eggs 3/4 cup milk 1/4 cup water 1 tablespoon melted butter 1 cup all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon minced rosemary 1/2 teaspoon table salt
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For serving:
Yield: 6-8 servings
Ingredients:
1. Preheat oven to 200° F. Place a pan of warm water on the lowest rack in the oven. This creates a humid environment that helps keep the salmon moist. 2. Lightly brush a baking pan with oil. Brush salmon with oil and season generously with salt and pepper to taste. Place the salmon in the baking pan and transfer it to the oven. 3. Allow 1 to 1 1/2 hours for the salmon to cook through, depending on its thickness. If it seems to be cooking too quickly, reduce the heat a bit. The salmon is cooked when it is just barely firm to the touch and juices are beginning to collect on top of the fillet. 4. Let it rest for at least 10 minutes, or up to 3 hours, at room temperature. 5. To serve, break the salmon into rough pieces and serve with the Meyer Lemon Relish. Variation: Season the salmon with roughly chopped fresh herbs, such as basil or tarragon, grated citrus peel and finely sliced shallots before baking.
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his simple relish is good with most fish and shellfish. Unfortunately, it cannot be made with ordinary lemons. It is best made fresh and served within a few hours. Yield: 1 cup
Ingredients:
1 large shallot, finely diced 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar or lemon juice Salt 1 large Meyer lemon 1/2 extra-virgin olive oil 2 tablespoons chopped parsley 1 tablespoon chopped chervil or chives Freshly ground black pepper 1. In a small bowl, combine the shallot, vinegar, and a pinch of salt. Set aside for 10 to 15 minutes. 2. Cut the lemon into 8 wedges. Remove seeds and central core from each piece, then cut each wedge in half lengthwise. Slice the wedges crosswise into thin slivers. You should have about 1/2 cup. 3. Combine the slivered lemon with the shallot mixture and add a little more salt. Stir in the oil, parsley, chervil and pepper to taste. Correct seasonings if necessary.
1. Place rack in lower third of oven and preheat oven to 375°F. Butter cavities of popover pan with softened butter. 2. Whisk eggs, milk, and water in a large bowl. Add melted butter in a stream while whisking. Add flour, rosemary, and salt and whisk until smooth. Divide batter evenly in cavities. 3. Bake in the lower third of the oven until golden brown, 45-50 minutes. Do not open the oven until done. Remove from the oven. 4. If desired, use a paring knife to make a slit in each popover to release steam. Serve warm with honey butter or jam of choice. Nordic Ware Rose Bundt Pan – 54148 Recreate a garden scene with this perennial favorite. The Rose Bundt pan is made of heavy cast aluminum, it bakes evenly every time, providing crisp detailing on your cake. This easy-release pan produces a beautiful rose-shaped cake complete with petals! 10 cup capacity. Price $41.50.
GLUTEN FREE BLACKBERRY YOGURT BUNDT CAKE Prep: 15 minutes Cook: 40 minutes 10-12 servings
**Source: Washington Post. Adapted from Alice Waters’ Chez Panisse Cafe Cookbook (HarperCollins, 1999). From the “Salmon, Trout and Arctic Char” chapter of One Fish, Two Fish, Crawfish, Bluefish (Smithsonian Books, 2003).
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Make a honey butter by blending 1/2 stick (4 tablespoons) of softened butter with 1 1/2 teaspoons honey. Jam suggestions: blueberry, blackberry or strawberry.
Ingredients:
For the cake: 2 tablespoons butter, melted and cooled 1 1/2 cups gluten-free all-purpose flour, see Cook’s note 1 tablespoon baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1 1/2 cups white sugar 1 cup butter 5 large eggs, room temperature
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1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Melt butter and set aside to cool before prepping the pan. Combine gluten-free flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl and set aside. 2. Using a mixer with a paddle attachment, cream together sugar and butter until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in lemon zest and vanilla. Combine yogurt and milk in a medium bowl. Slowly add half of flour and yogurt-milk mixture to the sugar-butter mixture. Then add the remaining flour. Mix well and scrape the sides of the bowl. Fold in the blackberries. 3. To prepare the pan, brush on cooled butter to lightly coat the details of the pan and evenly dust with gluten-free flour (avoid forming clumps if possible). Pour batter into the prepared pan and tap gently on the counter to remove air bubbles. 4. Bake for 40-50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of cake comes out clean. Let cool in the pan for 10 minutes before unmolding. Cool cake completely before serving. 5. After cake has cooled, combine all glaze ingredients in the bowl to the desired consistency and pour onto the cake.
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Cook’s note: We recommend using Bob’s Red Mill Baking 1:1 Flour, Cup 4 Cup Gluten Free All-Purpose Flour (not whole grain), or King Arthur Flour’s Gluten Free All-Purpose Flour. •MJ 15 – 22 April 2021
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