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Santa Barbara Polo Club jump-starts 106th season after Ambassadors Cup on May 2, p. 6

ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT, P. 26 • MOVIE GUIDE & OPEN HOUSES, P. 45

More on ADUs

Montecito Planning Commission meets to further explore “granny unit” rules and regulations, p.12

Water News

Montecito Water District benefits greatly from this year’s rains and invests nearly $2 million to bank it, p.13

A MAGIC MANSION Eight talented (and well-dressed) world-class magicians and their assistants about to descend upon the University Club for a night of prestidigitation, illusion, mind reading, card tricks, soothsaying, and sorcery (okay, there’ll be no soothsaying) and you’re invited to join them! (story on p.20)

COVER PHOTO: Steve Wastell, Kelley Starr Donahue, Olesya Thyne, and Lou Serrano (Photo by Priscilla)

Fine Line

Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood of Whose Line Is It Anyway? visit Chumash Casino for “Scared Scriptless”, p.32

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On The Water Front

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Montecito Miscellany

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Letters to the Editor

Bob Hazard is up to his waist in desalination as he plumbs the depths – from negotiations, a facility, advantages for the City, and the desal plant’s history SB Polo Club; surfer Cole Robbins; Gourmet Girls at Tecolote; Michael Hammer and family; Sally Bedell Smith; ETC’s Baby Doll; author Terry Tempest Williams; UCSB’s Brandon Whited; La Rondine at Granada; Compagnie Herve Koubi; Museum of History’s new exhibit; Breakfast for Heroes; Rescue Mission meal; Lilya Zilberstein; Rob Lowe’s sons; Ellen’s L.A. home; Michael Douglas opens up; and goodbye to Michael Towbes David McCalmont sounds off about Fox News; Mikki and Bob Lally write from Ireland; Richard Mineards’s fan club weighs in; Bill Giordano for the birds; Don Thorn’s free speech; safety first for Larry Bond; Ben Burned questions cancer

10 This Week

MBAR meets; Sweeney Todd; Renewing Holy Ground; treasure hunt; Carp’s Home & Garden tour; book signing; SB Youth Symphony concert; May Day gala; MA Land Use; lecture at El Montecito Presbyterian; Summerland yoga; Knit ‘N Needle; poetry group; Cynthia James exhibit; Spanish talk; Spirit of Entrepreneurship; MAW madness; and Centering Prayer retreat

Tide Guide Handy chart to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach

12 Village Beat

Kelly Mahan Herrick reports on MPC and Accessory Dwelling Units; Montecito Water District update; and Coast Village Association

14 Seen Around Town

An artist “worth getting excited about”

Lynda Millner gets to know Girls Inc. of Carpinteria at their luncheon; pianist Peter Clark’s birthday bash; and National Charity League

26 Brilliant Thoughts

(The New York Times),

Can you hear him now? Ashleigh Brilliant takes a shot at explaining the storied “Shot heard ’round the world” chronicled by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Alessio Bax returns to the SBCO stage.

27 Ernie’s World

SCHUMANN SQUARED

Tuesday, May 16, 2017 / Lobero Theatre 5:30 pm, Supper Club / 7:30 pm, Concert Heiichiro Ohyama, Conductor / Alessio Bax, Piano PROGRAM:

Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 and Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 61 A DOUBLE HELPING OF ROBERT SCHUMANN will bring the season to a memorable close. We welcome back dazzling Italian pianist Alessio Bax—praised for his lyrical playing, insightful interpretations, and extraordinary technique. According to Gramophone magazine, “His playing quivers with an almost hypnotic intensity.”

Join us for Supper Club in the Lobero Courtyard for dinner from Via Maestra 42 and wine from Pence Ranch. Enjoy a relaxing pre concert dinner plus an exclusive interview with one of the evening’s musicians.

CONCERT: $50 – $60 / SUPPER CLUB: $50 Call 805-966-2441 or 805-963-0761 for tickets.

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Info: 805-966-2441 / sbco.org Programs and Artists Subject to Change.

Before his reign in Spain, peripatetic Ernie Witham endures the necessary evils of LAX’s turnstiles and body scanner – only to misplace his computer

30 Fitness Front

Karen Robiscoe races to expound on the Nite Moves Summer Sunset Series, which kicks off its 29th season and Aqualthon thanks to event director Jay Campbell

31 Coming & Going

James Buckley makes note of Diana Starr Langley and Magic Mansion fundraiser for Unity Shoppe on May 13; artist Mara Abbound’s sunflower work at San Ysidro Village; The Little Door; MClub with Marla Elena McCall; Bullets Over Broadway; Ryan Zinke; Frank Hotchkiss; and Hunter Ranch Golf Course

31 Our Town

Joanne Calitri, with all due respect to jazz appreciation, delves deep into National Poetry Month and gets to know Enid Osborn, Santa Barbara’s poet laureate

In Passing

A tribute to the late Judy Love Hicks, loving mother and wife who “embodied the American Dream”

32 On Entertainment

Steven Libowitz chronicles Opera Santa Barbara’s La Rondine; Murray Perahia at UCSB; Chumash hosts “Scared Scriptless”; zoo’s IMPROVology; musical goes to school; in theaters

35 Spirituality Matters

Steven Libowitz previews Bodhi Path Center gala and open house; Mahakankala Buddhist Center; “Painting the Stars”; Solidarity & Compassion Project; La Casa hosts programs; and Unity of SB hosts course based on Gary Simmons’s book

38 Legal Advertising 42 Calendar of Events

Lobero welcomes Justin Townes Earle; three mariachi groups in town; singer Crystal Bowersox; Lucy Holtsnider and Zion Klos; Founding Day gala; Dancing Oak hosts Ojai Concert Series; Sing It Out! at Lobero; Willie Nelson in the Bowl; and SB Revels on May Day

45 Open House Directory

Movie Guide 46 Classified Advertising

Our very own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales

47 Local Business Directory

Smart business owners place business cards here so readers know where to look when they need what those businesses offer

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ON THE WATER FRONT

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

Desal Negotiations with City of Santa Barbara Hit Rough Water (Part I)

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fter two years of discussion, negotiations for a desalination agreement with the City of Santa Barbara have hit a rough patch. Some would say they have struck a reef. Crafting a fair deal with the City for desal, which should be easy, has suddenly become problematic.

Benefits of a Shared Regional Desalination Facility

Both the City of Santa Barbara (the City) and the Montecito Water District (MWD) view desalinated water as a reliable, drought-proof, locally controlled addition to their respective water portfolios. Both the City and MWD see the Pacific Ocean, holding one-third of all the water on the planet, as a giant, inexhaustible, self-sustaining, natural water reservoir stretching from Montecito to Tokyo and beyond.

Desalination of local seawater is a much better option for meeting future water needs than building more dams and surface reservoirs on distressed streams and rivers that dry up in times of drought. New surface reservoirs in California, opposed by environmentalists, cost more than a billion each. It is also environmentally and politically insensitive, as well as wasteful, to transport other peoples’ water from the Colorado River or the High Sierras, 465 miles to Montecito in times of drought. Local, reliable desal water allows State water to be diverted to where it is needed most for agricultural use to support farming, save jobs, and prevent the need for imported food.

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Good Egg

by Richard Mineards

Richard covered the Royal Family for Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Mail, and was an editor on New York Magazine. He was also a national anchor on CBS, a commentator on ABC Network News, host on E! TV, a correspondent on the syndicated show Extra, and a commentator on the KTLA Morning News.

He moved to Montecito ten years ago.

A Bold, Brave and Funny One Woman Show Written and performed by Elaine Gale Directed by Rod Lathim

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May 5-7, 2017 Center Stage Theater This show is a compassionate, enlightening story about how we make sense of our lives, move through challenges, sustain loss, and maintain love, hope, gratitude, forgiveness, and a sense of humor.

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Polo Club on Its High Horse

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anta Barbara Polo Club will be in full swing next month, with the opening of the horse mecca’s 106th season on Sunday, May 7, and a week before that the kickoff of the Federation of International Polo’s Ambassadors Cup on Tuesday, May 2, for five days of world-class equestrian gamesmanship.

The 93rd annual cup competition features six international teams with 12 ambassadors and two locals players per team.

“I worked with Argentinian Marcos Uranga to form FIP and traveled together, circling the world several times to enlist polo associations,” says polo patriarch Glen Holden, former U.S. ambassador to Jamaica.

“Marcos served as president for the first 17 years, during which we had more than 40 countries involved. Then

Polo patriarch Glen Holden, former U.S. ambassador to Jamaica

I served as president for 10 years, during which I recruited the rest of the 80-plus countries that play.

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TO THE EDITOR

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

The Unfriending of Bill O’Reilly

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ill O’Reilly not only put cable television’s Fox News Channel on the map 20 years ago, but he single-handedly brought a moribund American cultural conservatism back to life.

Rush Limbaugh blasted to smithereens the left-wing monopoly on what political stories and viewpoints reached the American people with his pioneering nationally syndicated radio talk-show host...

But it was Bill O’Reilly who focused more acutely than Rush Limbaugh on the great issues which tended to subvert and undermine the Judeo-Christian cultural influence in America, and he did it on America’s favorite medium of choice – television – albeit the less ubiquitous cable version of television.

Bill and Rush never liked each other – as is often the case among two alpha males vying for the greatest attention – but in tandem they did a monstrous assault job on the left. They were quite a tag team!

The left has never recovered from its media monopoly derailment, and

it never forgives or forgets. Any number of times it thought it had Rush Limbaugh on the ropes pertaining to some scandal that was blown way out of proportion, but those “scandals” never really stuck to him. Listeners and advertisers came and went, with new ones always around to replace the faint-hearted ones who fled. Former ratings plateaus were penetrated on the rebound, like the Dow Jones Industrial Average recovering from a stock market recession, as both programs gradually climbed to new heights of credibility and popularity.

But long before Bill O’Reilly’s troubles surfaced just a month ago, I had the sub-conscious feeling that Bill O’Reilly’s news and broadcast formula was getting fatigued, a little trite, and quite predictable. Which is not to say he didn’t possess a winning formula for his presentation of issues and passionate punditry. It’s just that Rush Limbaugh, unlike O’Reilly, has maintained a fresh approach. After 29 years on the air, Rush is still capable of coming up with new, insightful, and

provocative things to say, which keeps him from lapsing back into predictability.

Bill O’Reilly, to me, was sounding tired. I often found myself listening/ watching something other than The O’Reilly Factor at 5 pm. I didn’t think I was really missing that much. If his name cropped up in the political discussions later on, I could consult his talking points opening monologue online.

Could it have been that the Murdoch boys were looking for an opening to revamp the primetime Fox News lineup? If so, nothing like an apparent sex scandal to give cover for a coup d’état in the making.

Greta and Megyn Who? The left will, of course, translate these happenings as evidence of the corruption, hypocrisy, and declining popularity of conservative-traditionalist rightwing politics in America. They thought so when Fox News got rid of Greta Van Sustern and Megyn Kelly, both of whom were seamlessly replaced by other very competent spokespeople, particularly Tucker Carlson.

Unlike the left-wing media, the overall conservative media is growing in breadth, substance, and quantity (if not quality). Fox News Channel is still an important component of this huge communications machine, but the whole edifice is no longer going to

rise and fall based on the fortunes of Fox News.

We should not pile-on Bill O’Reilly, now that he’s been unceremoniously removed from his prestigious pedestal atop the world of conservative news and opinion. He’s only 67 years old.

He’s already made tons of money doing things other than primetime cable news television. Newspaper columns, talk radio, authoring books, entertaining audiences in lecture halls, first with Glenn Beck and more recently with Dennis Miller and Jesse Watters.

All’s right in America and the world.

Fox News Channel will more than survive without Bill O’Reilly, so don’t write an epitaph for Bill, Fox, or the movement yet. Nothing and nobody’s died, and there’s no obituary laying in wait for use anytime soon!

David S. McCalmont Santa Barbara

Jingle from Dingle

Just catching up on the news from home while seated on Bud Bottoms’s sculpture of Fungi the Dolphin at the harbor in Dingle, Ireland.

Bob and Mikki Lally Montecito (Editor’s note: Actually, Mr. Lally sent this to us a number of years ago, but we never received it. He [I’m guessing here]

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THURSDAY, MAY 4 Divine Inspiration Gallery Exhibit An exhibit from the field studies of an imaginary botanist questions the impact of biotechnology on current cycles of nature, as well as metaphorical explorations. Cynthia James paints using traditional techniques of oil on copper panels.

Opening reception tonight.

When: 5 to 8 pm Where: 1528 State Street Info: 805-962-6444

(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, APRIL 27 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito.

When: 1 pm Where: County Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu Sweeney Todd Laguna Blanca School Theatre Arts department will present Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Set in 19th-century London, this “cutting edge” musical tells the story of ousted barber Benjamin Barker, also known as Sweeney Todd, and his revenge on the scheming judge who exiled him for 15 years. When the bloodthirsty Sweeney returns to London to find his family, he joins forces with the failing pie shop owner Mrs. Lovett, and the two introduce a new, carnal ingredient to Lovett’s meat pies that sends the people of London straight to the shop — and new victims to Sweeney’s barber chair.

The show includes mature content and is rated PG-13.

When: April 27 and 28 at 7 pm, and April 29 at 2 pm Where: Laguna Blanca’s Spaulding Auditorium, 4125 Paloma Drive Info: dcaldwell@lagunablanca.org FRIDAY, APRIL 28 Renewing Holy Ground: A Work & Garden Weekend Join in the stewardship of La Casa’s grounds and facilities. Working alongside staff, help tend the orchard and gardens and participate in other work projects appropriate to your skill level. Come for an inexpensive

weekend of lodging in the Casa San Ysidro dormitory and share in the community of working, gardening, and praying together. All are welcome. This weekend is hosted

by La Casa Staff.

When: tonight at 7:30, through Sunday at 1:30 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: resident, $75; commuter, $45 Info: www.lacasademaria.org SATURDAY, APRIL 29 Treasure Hunt in Carpinteria Seventy-five vendor stalls will overflow with treasures and merchandise at the Museum Marketplace on the grounds of the Carpinteria Valley Museum of History. This popular monthly fundraiser features antiques, collectibles, hand-crafted gifts, plants, and great bargains on gently used and vintage goods of every description, including jewelry, furniture, housewares, clothing, books, toys, and much more.

When: 8 am Where: 965 Maple Avenue in Carpinteria Info: 684-3112 Annual Carpinteria Home & Garden Tour Carpinteria Beautiful’s Home and Garden Tour features five homes and gardens. Organizers anticipate the full splendor of spring flowers and budding trees to help showcase the unique lineup of inspiring homes.

Wear comfortable walking shoes and plan to spend the day in one of the few remaining quaint oceanside communities.

When: 11 am to 5 pm Cost: $30 per ticket Info: caklink64@gmail.com

Book Signing at Tecolote Jo Haldeman, wife of H.R. Haldeman, White House Chief of Staff during President Nixon’s years, will sign her memoir, In the Shadow of the White House: A memoir of the Washington and Watergate Years.

When: 3 to 5 pm Where: Tecolote Book Shop, 1470 E. Valley Road Info: 969-4977 Youth Symphony Concert More than 300 local students ages 9 to 18 will perform a free classical music concert at the Page Youth Center. Presented by the Santa Barbara Symphony, the performance will feature musicians from the Santa Barbara Youth Symphony, other symphony youth outreach programs, and several area schools.

When: 3 pm Where: 4540 Hollister Avenue Info: (805) 898-8785 MONDAY, MAY 1 May Day Celebration Santa Barbara Revels invites the entire community to enjoy its 9th annual May Day Celebration in De la Guerra Place across from Paseo Nuevo Cinemas.

This seasonal tradition to welcome in the May is free for everyone, and all ages are welcome. Everyone coming to the May Day festivities can join in singing seasonal songs; learning a traditional English Country dance; making flower garlands, nosegays, and wreaths; and, of course, winding the may pole!

When: 4 pm Where: 651 State Street

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TUESDAY, MAY 2 Montecito Association Land Use Committee The Montecito Association is committed to preserving, protecting, and enhancing the semi-rural residential character of Montecito; today the Land Use Committee meets to discuss upcoming projects.

When: 4 pm Where: Montecito Hall, 1469 East Valley Road Tuesday Talk A lecture at El Montecito Presbyterian: Creating Balance in Technology Use – Key Principles for Developing a Family Digital Plan by Dr. Winifred Lender When: 6:30 to 7:30 pm Where: El Montecito Presbyterian Church, Parish Hall 1455 East Valley Road Childcare: free childcare available with reservation: Info: bkennedy@westmont.edu WEDNESDAY, MAY 3 Summerland Evening Yoga A longtime Summerland tradition, taught by Bob Andre. Small Hatha 1 yoga class with brief meditation and breathing work.

When: 5:30 pm Where: Summerland Church, 2400 Lillie Avenue Cost: donation THURSDAY, MAY 4 Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library.

When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Poetry Club Each month, discuss the life and work of a different poet; poets selected by group consensus and interest. New members welcome. This month’s author: T.S. Eliot.

When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

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FRIDAY, MAY 5 Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group. The group is for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish. Participants should be familiar with the basics.

When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Spirit of Entrepreneurship Awards Eleven outstanding women entrepreneurs will receive awards; the winners were selected from a field of more than 100 nominees in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. The gala event supports future entrepreneurs by contributing the proceeds to the SBCC Scheinfeld Center New Venture Challenge, which gives awards to regional high school and collegiate students for the best business plans.

When: 5:30 to 8:30 pm Where: Coral Casino, 1260 Channel Drive Info: www.soefoundation.org SATURDAY, MAY 6 May Madness

Music Academy of the West presents its annual massive treasure sale. Items available include furniture, rugs, small appliances, kitchenware, garden accessories, fine linens, antiques, silver, crystal, china, art, collectibles, hardcover books, board games, music and movies, electronics, jewelry, men’s and women’s clothing, luggage, and sports equipment.

Merchandise will be arrayed by type throughout the academy’s grounds.

Proceeds from the estate sale will directly benefit the Music Academy.

Parking will be available on the campus. Additional parking space and shuttle service at Las Aves complex, located on the corner of Los Patos Way and Cabrillo Boulevard.

When: 9 am to 3 pm Where: 1070 Fairway Road Info: (805) 695-7950

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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.

Further Discussions on ADUs

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t a special hearing earlier this month, the Montecito Planning Commission (MPC) spent nearly seven hours further discussing ordinance language pertaining to Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs), in an effort to be able to make recommendations to both the Santa Barbara Board of Supervisors and Santa Barbara County Planning Commission.

Since January 1, 2017, County planners have been busy revising existing development standards and permit procedures to implement new State legislation that encourages the development of ADUs to help combat California’s housing crisis. In the past few months, County staff has also been working on amending existing ordinance language to reflect the new State laws, and the board of supervisors will be tasked with finalizing the language in the coming months.

At their March hearing, commissioners outlined several areas they wanted staff to further research. Planner Noel Langle outlined the eight areas that needed review and enlisted the help of representatives from our local special districts, Montecito Sanitary District, Montecito Fire Protection District, and Montecito Water District, as well as Santa Barbara County Building & Safety.

Much of the content reviewed dealt with language nuance, including removing specific words and phrases that could be interpreted to be inconsistent with the State legislation language, therefore adding the potential for legal challenge.

Two of the areas of review dealt with placing limits on the size of ADUs in relation to the size of the property. The commission intends to retain the existing development standard that requires the total gross floor area of all covered structures, including a residential second unit, shall not exceed 40 percent of the gross lot area on which the residential second unit is located. They also intend to establish a maximum floor area for the ADU that is related to the lot area, when the ADU is located in a new structure, not one that is already existing on the site.

The State legislation states that increased floor area of an attached accessory dwelling unit shall not exceed 50 percent of the existing living area, with a maximum increase in floor area of 1,200 square feet, and the

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total area of floor space for a detached accessory dwelling unit shall not exceed 1,200 square feet. It will be up to County staff to reconcile our local ordinance language so that it is not in conflict with the State legislation.

The MPC also pored over design guidelines that may be placed on an ADU, including that design review will be performed by the chair of the Montecito Board of Architectural Review, and the dwelling should be compatible in height, architectural style, and landscaping style as the existing residence. Parking was also discussed, with the conclusion that tandem parking within setbacks may be prohibited in certain high-fire areas, if the parking circumstance could prevent the rapid evacuation of a dwelling.

Other clarifications: if a proposed ADU project involves a structure that is 50 years old or greater, the Historic Landmarks Advisory Commission may review and comment on the project, as long as the application for the ADU is still processed in a ministerial manner. Also, any homeowner who builds an ADU on their property must reside on the property, either in the principal residence or the ADU, and the ADU may be rented out provided that the length of any rental shall be for longer than 30 days.

At their March meeting, the MPC asked that current existing development standards that provide that an ADU shall not be allowed on a lot in addition to a guesthouse should be retained. County staff has determined that maintaining that standard interferes with the rights of the homeowner, if they already have a permitted guesthouse on their property and want to build an ADU. However, as executive director Diane Black pointed out, other ordinance regulations, including the lot area requirements, would likely prevent a property owner from having both a guesthouse and an ADU. It is proposed that once an ADU has been approved on a lot, a guesthouse or similar structure shall not subsequently be approved unless the ADU is removed or converted to an allowed accessory structure.

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roughly $2,200. If a district customer wishes to convert an existing structure into an ADU, the Sanitary District would impose the difference (about $5K) between those two costs, as an ADU that is lived in full-time would require a more significant sewer system than a pool cabana, which isn’t designed for full-time use. “We have the responsibility to make sure that sewage gets collected, doesn’t spill out of the system, that there is capacity within that property,” Gabriel said.

Division chief of operations from MFPD, Kevin Taylor, told the commission that the Fire District intends to continue to fully enforce existing fire and life safety standards in regards to building new habitable space on properties in Montecito. Those standards may include restrictions on ingress, egress, and fire sprinklers. The District does not have or enforce parking standards, Taylor said.

Montecito Water District manager Nick Turner said he has seen 15 applications for ADUs since January. He reiterated that the District would not be issuing new water meters, and that ADUs will be served using the existing service through the primary residence. ADUs will be subject to the MWD’s water meter moratorium, among other ordinances. The applications are reviewed by District staff, and if it’s determined that a new

ADU’s estimated water use is not in compliance with allotment and water use ordinances, MWD would deny the application.

After much complicated discussion, the Commission directed staff to integrate their comments into the ordinance language, which will be reviewed at a subsequent meeting on Wednesday, May 17. To read more, visit www.sbcountyplanning.org.

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This news comes after the increase in the District’s State Water Project (SWP) allocation, as well as the news of a significant increase in storage in Lake Cachuma, which currently sits at more than 50% of total capacity. The District is anticipating a mid-year 40% allocation (1,060 acre feet) of water from Lake Cachuma, with a subsequent allocation of 1,060 acre feet likely to be issued around October 1.

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very year, Girls Inc. of Carpinteria holds a luncheon to honor girls and women of inspiration. According to executive director Victoria Juarez, this was the biggest attendance ever, with more than 300 ladies and gentlemen attending. The co-chairs, Nancy Koppelman and Amanda Kastelic, turned the gym into a charming luncheon venue with Santa Barbara shade umbrellas, plants, and clever table decorations. Amanda revealed, “My co-chair, Nancy, taught me three things: gratitude, teamwork, and energy.”

Board president Stefanie Herrington welcomed the group. We learned this event has gone from a $2,000 fundraiser to $80,000. Obviously, they are doing everything right.

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Gonzalez, and Maria Zamora. Ana has been with Girls Inc. since kindergarten. She was just awarded $20,000 from the National Scholar award.

She has lobbied in Washington, D.C., and studied policy at Georgetown University, plus more. Alitza spent four weeks on the UCSB campus last summer. She will become an immigration attorney. Maria is 2017 Junior Carpinterian of the Year and is also a member of the Eureka Program. She too has spent time on a campus, this one Georgetown University. They are all examples of being “strong, smart, and bold.”

The Women of Inspiration luncheon recognized three honorees with deep community involvement who are outstanding role models for young women: Nini Seaman, a parent volunteer, local artist, and former board member; Asa Olsson, who is a local actress and spent 17 years building a drama program and performance center at Girls Inc. of Carpinteria; and Mericos Foundation, which supports Girls Inc. Eureka Program which puts girls on college campuses during the summer so they can learn about education at a higher level.

The keynote speaker, Erica Ford, had come all the way from New York City to inspire the luncheon with her energy. She is founder of LIFE Camp (Love Ignites Freedom through Education) and Peace is a Lifestyle.

They provide at risk inner city youth with tools they need to stay in school and out of the criminal justice system.

Erica’s motivation came from growing up in a high-crime neighborhood of Jamaica, Queens, in the 1980s where she attended many funerals of her friends. She has won countless awards and praise from public figures such as former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and the reverend Al Sharpton. Erica believes, “Society tells kids they aren’t worthy. In school, they told me I talked too much. Now I earn a living talking.” She has 18 sites for her programs, and there was no gun violence last year.

Here’s to strong women. May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them. For more information, visit girlsinc-carp.org.

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Surprise Party

One of our local favorite pianists, Peter Clark, turned 79 recently. Gloria Montano feted him with a surprise birthday party of about 75 friends.

We gathered at Peter’s home while he was out to lunch. He returned to find valets parking cars and a band playing.

Peter wears many hats in his musical career – pianist, vocalist, composer, entertainer, humorist, arranger, producer, artist, and writer. Whew!

He was born in England and moved with his family to Australia when he was 10. After six years of study in classical piano, he went to Sydney and made a hit on Australia’s Amateur Hour at age 17. He became a professional musician and used the name

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“I put on the first FIP Ambassadors Cup to award the volunteers who were doing all the work operating the federation. They come together and play polo to establish comradeship in their efforts to run the organization.”

Local players participating include Summerland hotelier Pat Nesbitt, Old Etonian Carpinteria-based financier Andrew Bossom, Beverly Hills attorney Leigh Brecheen, Joel Baker, and George Dill.

As the cup tournament climaxes, the impeccably manicured Carpinteria club kicks off its new season with a robust roster of competitive teams in the 12- and 16-goal tournaments and a new head of the club’s polo academy, Jess Scheraga, as I exclusively revealed here.

Club president and Texan tycoon John Muse tells me a brand-new ProAm league will be launched at the eight- and 10-goal level during the high-goal season, and two corporate sponsors have returned, Gulfstream and the Santa Barbara realtors Engel & Volkers, as well as Karma, manufacturers of a new high-performance electric car, the Belmond El Encanto, Santa Barbara Magazine and the Montecito Journal.

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Cole on a Roll

fifth and won the title of best male nose-rider in the championships, he won our Eden by the Beach’s Rincon Classic.

Cole, who studied at Montecito Union School, Santa Barbara Junior High, and SB High, went on to UCSB majoring in architecture.

His father, Mike, is a residential developer, and mother, Neilla, a property manager and accountant, while his brother, Brett, who works for the construction software company Procore, is also a keen surfer.

“My father taught the both of us to surf at the age of 10,” says Cole. “Dad was a very avid surfer and is still one of the best longboarders I’ve ever watched.

“We both turned pro around age 15 and began traveling the world. I qualified for the world tour at age 16 and have been chasing a world title ever since. I am honored to call Montecito home and to have an office so close to the beach.”

It’s obviously paying dividends.

Let’s Hear it for the Girls It was a very in-tents occasion when the Gourmet Girls – Gail Kearns, Lindsey Moran, and Denise Woolery – launched their new culinary camping book at Tecolote, the lively literary lair in the upper village, erecting a Cole Robbins chasing a world surf title

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Montecito surfer Cole Robbins is on the crest of a wave!

Cole, 26, a realtor with Village Properties on Coast Village Road, has just returned from the Tupira Surf Club in Papua, New Guinea, after participating in the World Longboard Championships.

Prior to jetting to the South Pacific where he placed a commendable

pup tent on the green outside and staging a faux camp fire.

It took the tony triumvirate a year and a half to put together The Gourmet Girls Go Camping, which contains 140 recipes tested at various camp grounds around the state, including Big Sur and the Ventana campground.

“It’s not just canned beans and weenies anymore,” says Gail, who

Camp cuisine can be fun with the Gourmet Girls

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“The Air France staff were cute, though,” William, who was traveling on to Normandy on a boat trip, tells me. “The attendants brought her food from first class and Armie popped back frequently to kiss her.”

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helped her colleagues serve lamb burgers with harissa sauce, a combination of mayonnaise, sour cream, and Moroccan spices to fans.

Scrumptious.

Hammer Time Inveterate Montecito car and art collector Michael Hammer was definitely in grandfatherly mode when his actor son, Armie, daughter-in-law Elizabeth, and two-year-old granddaughter, Harper, visited our rarefied enclave to catch Peppa Pig, the anthromorphic animal at the Arlington, followed by dinner at Somerset, the beautifully designed new eatery on East Anapamu Street.

Just days later, the 30-year-old thespian and Elizabeth were on an Air France jet to Paris, en route to Russia for a press event for his new film, Free Fire, when a visa foul-up caused them to miss their original flight.

The tony twosome took another French airlines flight, but found there was only one first class seat available, with Elizabeth relegated to business class, where, by sheer coincidence, Montecito travel publisher, William Tomicki and his wife, Barbara, were 27 April – 4 May 2017

Sally Forth Five years ago, prolific author Sally Bedell Smith was at the Montecito Country Club for a Channel City Club talk about her best-selling tome on Queen Elizabeth, who just celebrated her 91st birthday.

The Vanity Fair contributing editor was back in our rarefied enclave at a club breakfast speaking about the popular monarch’s 68-year-old son, the Prince of Wales, the oldest heir to the British throne in more than 300 years and the subject of her seventh biography, Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life, at Fess Parker’s DoubleTree following well-received works on Princess Diana, Bill and Hillary Clinton, CBS founder William Paley, and global gadabout Pamela Harriman.

The 68-year-old Washington, D.C.based writer says: “I wanted to explain the sources of his insecurities and his strengths, as well as the genesis of his causes. He is profoundly misunderstood, thought of as an old fogey.

“A bundle of quirks, restless energy, and insecurities. An unusual combination of traditional and modern. Why did he marry Diana, who at 20 was 12 years younger than he, and, more pertinently, a woman he barely knew after just a dozen dates?

“How deeply was he marked by that profoundly unhappy first marriage? How did he find the resilience and the means to bounce back after Diana’s death? What was the allure of Camilla, and why couldn’t Charles let her go?”

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A Little Night Magic

Besides being a master “magician,” Steve Wastell also rescues wolves and will take the lucky silent auction bidders on a sunset walk with his wolves in Sedona, Arizona

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iana Starr Langley is co-chairing along with Arthur von Wiesenberger and John Thyne, the upcoming Magic Mansion fundraiser for Unity Shoppe on Saturday, May 13, at the University Club.

The reason for a Unity Shoppe fundraiser, usually held around Christmas, in the spring? Diana says last year’s KEYT telethon did not raise nearly as much money as in years past – mainly because of some unfortunate technical glitches – and she and the committee wanted to do something to make up for the shortfall, which has affected the Unity Shoppe’s ability to purchase inventory for the thousands of clients that depend on Unity Shoppe services.

“It’s not a sit-down dinner,” ‘Magician’s Assistant’ and Village Properties real-estate agent Leanne Wood explains during a short conversation with her and Ms Langley at our office. “Even though it’s not sit-down,” Leanne explains, “it’ll be really heavy apps and lots of food.”

“You’ll be able to graze all night long,” Diana adds, “and no live auction; no ask.”

Attendees will be given small plates that fit on the drink glasses to make it easy to eat; there will be a number of dining stations throughout the space, and “lots of cocktail tables.” Upon arrival at “Nipper’s Lounge,” guests will receive a passport and a schematic explaining where and when everything is (each performance will repeat four times).

Diana promises that all the magicians are “A-Listers, direct from the Magic Castle in Hollywood.” The list of performers include: Jeff Bornstein, a former Hollywood stuntman and his wife, Kimberly, a mind reader; the duo was most recently featured

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Jeff and Kimberly Bornstein are among the featured performers at upcoming “Magic Mansion” fundraiser for the Unity Shoppe

on TV’s Masters of Illusion. Steve Wastell is a performer and Silver Medal Winner for Strolling Magic at the Magic Castle in Hollywood. Lou Serrano and his wife, Dee Dee, have a list of clientele they’ve performed for that includes Johnny Depp, Martin Short, Reba McEntire, and Jennifer Aniston. John George will dazzle with his dexterity and technical skill in illusions and sleight-of-hand magic.

Joe Skilton has appeared on Spike TV, TLC, Masters of Illusion, and in commercials and TV series in Germany, Europe, and Japan. Rmax Goodwin’s magic is marked by expert sleight-ofhand and clever banter.

Walk with the Wolves In addition to the walk-around magic and the two floors of performances, there will also be a Social Photo Booth set up for those wishing to have a hard-copy memento of the evening (and yes, props will be available). There’ll be no live auction, but the silent auction (“more experiences, less stuff”) will include an elegant cruise aboard the elegant 52-cabin yacht, SeaDream, backstage passes to a Beach Boys and/or a Kenny Loggins concert (“wherever they are performing anywhere in the U.S.”). A Walk with Wolves features a day with professional magician Steve Wastell and his “Apex Protection Project” pack of wolves near Sedona, Arizona; he and his wife rescue wolves and currently have seven of the animals staying with them at their house. You’ll walk with Steve and his canine charges into the Arizona wilderness and will likely absorb a sunset “howl” and other wolf-like things. An evening for four at the Magic Castle is another silent-auc27 April – 4 May 2017

tion item.

Price for “regular” attendance is $250; VIP at $350; a full-price adult ticket comes with one child’s ticket (the evening is a 21-and-over adults-only production) for a 3:30 pm afternoon show and if your child has a friend or friends, they can join him or her for an extra $20.

VIP ticketholders are invited to arrive early (6:30) to learn how to do a magic trick taught by one of the eight featured professional magicians (six performing, two walk-around). VIP tickets also come with preferred seating in all four rooms on the two floors that have been designated for various magical events and shows.

Dress is cocktail attire. Performances are set to run from 7 to 10 pm, at which time pianist-singer Jason Libs (a regular at The Red Piano) takes over for two hours of rockin’, rollin’, and dancin’ to music from the 1950s, ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s (singing along will be encouraged). Libs will go until midnight or so.

For more information and to purchase tickets, go to www.unityshoppe. org, www.magicmansion.org, or email: magicmansionsb@gmail.com.

Mara Abboud, in front of her tile mural on the wall at San Ysidro Village, was named “International Artist of the Year” at the International Beaux Arts in New York in 1977, “Artist of the Year” at the 1980 Santa Barbara Arts Festival

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And the prices are reasonable. Not cheap, but not expensive. There’s that “just right” combo again. Wines, both California and French, are well priced and well chosen, by the glass or by the bottle.

What I liked most about The Little Door, besides the charming French accent of Ms Recher, is the “neighborhood” feel of the place. Emma moved to Santa Barbara from France two years ago at the behest of her cousins Frederic and Nicolas Meschin (who co-own The Little Door in West Hollywood with Cirque du Soleil, and comic Jim Carrey) in order to open Owner Emma Recher in front of the front door at The Little Door on East Anapamu

Mara Abboud’s Sunflower

Boston-born artist (she lived in New York City for 12 years before arriving in Santa Barbara some 29 years ago) Mara Abboud has just completed overseeing the installation of her latest work of art that now beautifies the stone wall at the end of San Ysidro Village (the new commercial center behind the pharmacy).

She discovered Santa Barbara and Montecito the way many (including Oprah Winfrey) have: by accident. Mara came here for a show, she explains, and admits, laughing, that she “never thought in a million years I’d ever leave New York, but once I saw the palm trees and the ocean and the tiles [on the roofs], that did it for me.”

Mara comes from a successful and artistic family: her brother, Joseph Abboud, is an internationally known menswear designer who famously has clothed many Hollywood actors and was Bill O’Reilly’s resident designer for a spell. Her sister, Jeanette Vacca, writes music and lyrics, including having written a little song called “Santa Barbara”, which the Santa Barbara Choral Society sang at its opening gala last May. Her other sister, Nancy Ashe, who has passed away, was a gifted sculptor.

The attractive sunflower tile artwork now gracing the wall at San Ysidro Village began as a painting on silk, which turned into some experimentation on small tiles, serving trays, and later on 16”x20” tiles. “But 27 April – 4 May 2017

Mara Abboud recently designed the Granada Theatre 90th Anniversary Celebration poster; her work is collected around the world

then my desire was to go really big,” she says as we both admire the nearly finished product (a black tile border will be placed around the mural within the next week or so).

Mara was commissioned to do the work after Jelinda DeVorzon introduced Mara’s art to the owners of San Ysidro Village. Although nothing happened at that point, two years later, Mara got a call from them, explaining that they were considering decorating the wall with “something that would capture the imagination.” The couple was especially drawn to one of Mara’s sunflowers that she’d painted on silk.

They asked if she could create something similar and put it on tiles for their wall. The high-resolution scans of Ms Abboud’s design were transferred to tile and then fired at 1,600 degrees.

Nina Terzian is arranging a public celebration and “unveiling” of the wall in the upcoming weeks. “This wall is for everyone,” Mara reiterates and invites the public to inspect it, admire it, and perhaps even be inspired by it.

There’s a new place in town at which to hang your hat, coat, cane, umbrella, or simply to hang out. It’s called The Little Door and it actually has a bigger brother in West Hollywood, also called The Little Door.

This Little Door is located just across from the county courthouse and because the eatery’s two patios have been elevated above ground level, they afford diners a tasty view of one of America’s most beautiful public buildings.

This location (129 East Anapamu) has had its ups and downs over the years, lately mostly downs, as everything before The Little Door has failed in one way or another. It would seem to be a perfect location, but traffic, parking, ambiance, food, whatever, just hasn’t been right. Winston and Susan Sullivan’s Tutti’s Bakery succeeded here for a while, but most enterprises have languished.

I believe co-owner Emma Recher and her chef, Jean-Paul Luvanvi (who’s been cooking in and around Santa Barbara since 1987), have come up with a combination that will allow them to not only survive but to prosper. What they’ve done is create a

In 1892, only three horses ran in the Kentucky Derby

this eatery. The decor is... unusual.

Deep-purple accents and dark-blue ceilings command attention. The central chandelier seems to have a life all its own and sprawls out from its center like an octopus (or poulpe, en francais). But, much like Emma’s accent, it too is charming and attractive.

Sheepskin covers on dining room chairs add to the quirky informality, but the oak floors (mahogany on the patios) and linen tablecloths announce that The Little Door’s mission is serious.

Its mission, I believe, is to serve French-inspired cuisine with dollops of influence from California, Asia, and the rest of the Mediterranean region, and to serve it up with friendliness and aplomb.

The Little Door is open Monday through Saturday. Happy Hour runs from 4:30 to 6 pm, and the half-price wines and inexpensive small food items are certainly a way to test and taste. Dinner is served from 5:30 to 9:15; door closes at 10:30. Friday and Saturday, they take reservations until 9:45 and close the door at 11 pm.

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LETTERS (Continued from page 8)

Bob and Mikki Lally enjoy some fresh inspiration from home during visit to Dingle, a Santa Barbara Sister City

probably sent it to my former AOL e-mail address (journaljim@aol.com), which I hadn’t until recently used for a number of years. I only keep it as a backup, in case my regular e-mail fails me, which it did in France last year, accounting for my having gone back to checking for new mail. In any case, we thank Bob and Mikki for their persistence and clarity of vision. – J.B.)

Coffee Klatch Conspiracy Our gang really enjoys spending an hour or so at Pierre Lafond’s, petting and giving treats to the doggies and peacefully discussing current events. We also love reading Sir Richard’s [Mineards] column (Montecito Miscellany) weekly and learning about all the happenings in our “rarified enclave.” We rely on

“Sir Richard” for keeping up with the movers and shakers. He brings us into the heart of events he covers, and we can imagine ourselves being “in the room.”

Jean Von Wittenburg Susan St. John Jane Burkemper Karen Drown Pierre Lafond coffee group Montecito

Don’t Trim That Tree... Yet

I am a volunteer for Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network and Ojai Raptor Center. Spring is nesting season for all our fine feathered friends, so this is not the time for trimming trees. Baby songbirds and owls are common victims as they choose palm trees and low branches of other trees for their homes. When trimming trees this time of year, a high percentage of our rescues come from people inadvertently destroying nests.

We have a choice as to when we trim our trees. Weather in Santa Barbara has a mean temperature of 65-75 degrees year round. On behalf of the birds and their families, please do not trim trees this time of year.

Final note: it is a myth that a baby bird once touched by a human will not be accepted by its mother. If you should find a baby bird on the ground,

County of Santa Barbara Board of Supervisors

Free Speech, R.I.P.

UC Berkeley, birthplace of the Free Speech Movement (see: Mario Savio circa 1964-65), is now the place where free speech dies. Over and over, free speech has been stabbed in the back at Berkeley. Case in point: Recently, David Horowitz, Milo Yiannopoulos, and now Ann Coulter were not allowed to speak at UC Berkeley.

Who is behind this and why are conservatives always targeted? Simply put, the left is the culprit. At Berkeley, UC officials, violent radical hecklers from leftist groups, and brainwashed students are stifling free speech. To make matters even more dangerous, the campus police have been ordered to stand down.

What is the outcome? Only the socialist left has freedom of speech. Furthermore, if a society or democracy means anything, it must have the ability to have free speech, where different views can be discussed.

Don Thorn Carpinteria

Safe at Last!

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Nonmedical Marijuana Interim Urgency Ordinance Extension Tuesday, May 2, 2017 Board Hearing Room Fourth Floor 105 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara Hearing begins at 9:00 A.M. On Tuesday, May 2, 2017, the County Board of Supervisors will conduct a public hearing to consider the following: a) Receive and file this report that describes the measures taken to alleviate the condition which led to the adoption of the Nonmedical Marijuana Interim Urgency Ordinance, pursuant to Government Code section 65858(d). b) Adopt the urgency ordinance which extends the Nonmedical Marijuana Interim Urgency Ordinance by 22 months and 15 days, thereby extending the temporary moratorium on any activities associated with the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, including the cultivation, distribution, transportation, storage, manufacturing, processing, and selling of nonmedical marijuana, nonmedical marijuana products, and industrial hemp, and on personal outdoor cultivation (Case No. 17ORD-00000-00004). c) Determine that the Nonmedical Marijuana Interim Urgency Ordinance is not subject to the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), pursuant to CEQA Guidelines sections 15061(b)(3) as it has no potential for causing a significant impact on the environment, and 15308 as a regulatory action that will protect the environment (Attachment 2). d) Direct staff to return to the Board 10 days prior to the expiration of the urgency ordinance, or at the adoption of the permanent ordinance, to issue a report that describes the measures taken to alleviate the condition which led to the extended Nonmedical Marijuana Interim Urgency Ordinance, pursuant to Government Code section 65858(d).

Please see the posted agenda and staff report available on April 27, 2017, under the hearing date, at http://santabarbara.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx.

The Board of Supervisors meeting begins at 9:00 a.m. The order of items listed on the agenda is subject to change by the Board. Anyone interested in this matter is invited to appear and speak on the project.

Remote testimony can also be given at the Betteravia Government Center, 511 East Lakeside Parkway, Santa Maria. Written comments are also welcome. All letters should be addressed to the County Clerk at sbcob@co.santa-barbara.ca.us.

For additional information, please contact the project planner, Jessica Metzger at: Email: jmetzger@countyofsb.org | Tel: 805-568-3532 Attendance and participation by the public is invited and encouraged. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this hearing, please contact the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors by 4:00 p.m. on Friday before the Board meeting. For information about these services please contact the Clerk of the Board at (805) 568-2240.

If you challenge the project in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence to the Board prior to the public hearing.

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please return it to its nest (look up). If you can’t find the nest, or the bird is injured, please call the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network at (805) 6811080 for help. Thank you.

Bill Giordano Montecito

I took down my Rebel flag (which you can’t buy on eBay any longer) and peeled the NRA sticker off my front window. I disconnected my home alarm system and quit the candy-ass Neighborhood Watch. I bought two Pakistani flags and put one at each corner of the front yard. Then I purchased the black flag of ISIS (which you can buy on eBay) and ran it up the flagpole. Now the local police, sheriff, FBI, CIA, NSA, Homeland Security, Secret Service, and other agencies are all watching my house 24/7.

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The Doctors’ Orders

I think there’s more to Ernie Salomon’s letter (“The Cancer Industry,” MJ #23/15) than J.B. is willing to admit. I once caught a radio interview in which the interviewed M.D. admitted his profession paid more attention to treatment than to prevention because that was where the (insurance) money was. There are plenty of lousy health care professionals, even here in town (ask me about the one doc-in-thebox I saw... even his staff complained about him). I’d also like J.B. to provide empirical data and stats as to exactly how successful the SB Cancer Center is.

Prevention is probably the best medicine: avoid sugar, keep your weight in check, and eat green and orange fruits and vegetables, in particular beans – with lima, the small red kidney, and regular green beans said to be best.

Also, a good amount of water and an ounce of nuts and/or seeds per day, including flaxseed.

Finally, check out the Tumeric Paste videos on YouTube and there’s also Prevention magazine.

Ben Burned Montecito (Editor’s note: I don’t have any “stats” to prove or disprove my contention that the overwhelming majority of M.D. types are in it to save lives and treat disease. It certainly seems likely that once a cure is found, most of what passes for cancer “treatment” will turn out to have been sorely inadequate to the task. But doctors do what they can when they can. I do, however, agree with your dietary advice. – J.B.) •MJ

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through the Semitropic Water Storage District Groundwater Banking Program. The board acted to reserve 1,500 shares at a total purchase price of $1,890,000. This action is expected to improve the reliability of the SWP by ensuring an ability to recover a minimum of 1,500 acre feet (or more) per year from the water bank to supplement the District’s annual SWP allocation, which historically averages less than 60%. This arrangement also provides for the storage of surplus water up to 4,500 acre-feet (or more) during periods of normal or wet conditions for use during future periods of drought.

“It is distinguished from other groundwater banking options primarily because it represents the purchase of a long-term asset, providing an initial 18-year term with possible contract extensions,” said MWD general manager Nick Turner. “Reliance on surface water reservoirs such as Lake Cachuma or San Luis Reservoir for storage of surplus water inherently has risks such as significant loss to evaporation, and potential for spill during years with above-average rainfall.”

According to Turner, groundwater banking is an effective tool for increasing water supply reliability and security. Acquiring local and regional groundwater storage has become a priority for the District, particularly

since February of this year, when torrential rain around the State “spilled” San Luis Reservoir. The spill meant lost water for SWP participants, including Montecito Water District and other Santa Barbara County agencies.

With warm weather approaching, water supply for fire protection is a key concern, and to this end the District partners with Montecito Fire Protection District in an annual fire hydrant replacement program to ensure that equipment is up-to-date and fully deployable when needed.

Last Tuesday’s meeting confirmed that six additional fire hydrants were replaced in fiscal year 2016/17, marking the successful achievement of a shared goal to eliminate dated “Dry Barrel” hydrants. Thirty Dry Barrel hydrants needing replacement remain in Montecito Water District’s service area, eight in the jurisdiction of the City of Santa Barbara and 22 in Carpinteria-Summerland Fire Protection District. Montecito Water District is in communication with both agencies regarding the possibility of implementing similar programs for continued community benefit and safety.

The Montecito Water District serves a population of approximately 13,100, providing water to more than 4,600 customers. For more information, visit www.montecitowater.com.

Coast Village Association Update

Last week, Coast Village Association (CVA, formerly Coast Village Business Association), held a community meeting at the Four Seasons Biltmore, in an effort to garner participation and enthusiasm for the resurgence of the longtime organization. Two-dozen people attended, including Coast Village Road merchants, property owners, nearby residents, and City and County representatives.

President Bob Ludwick began the meeting by introducing some of the key players, including vice president Trey Pinner, secretary/treasurer Thorn Robertson, and executive director Sharon Byrne. Ludwick gave an overview of what he is trying to accomplish within the organization, which includes holding four community meetings per year, in addition to celebratory events along the road (Ghost Village Road, Montecito Motor Classic, a potential wine and art event series), and monthly board meetings.

The organization’s by-laws are in the process of being revised and updated, and Ludwick says he hopes to have a fully seated board by June.

City transportation planner Rob Dayton gave a brief presentation, providing an overview of the planned freeway widening through Montecito and its potential effect on Coast Village

Road. A roundabout at Olive Mill Road is in the works, as well as the reconfiguration of the Cabrillo/Hot Springs off-ramps. “Traffic is obviously a big concern along the street, and it greatly affects business,” he said, adding that the CVA meetings will be a platform in which to come up with solutions to the parking and traffic issues along the road. “Advocacy is a very big part of the Association moving forward,” Ludwick said.

A discussion was had on the new development on the road, including the potential openings of the restaurants located in the former locations of Peabody’s and Montecito Inn, respectively, the remodeling of 1187 Coast Village Road, and the building of John Price’s mixed-use building on the corner of Olive Mill, which will be finished next year. The group discussed how to prevent Coast Village from becoming inundated with vacancies such as lower State Street.

Ludwick is currently looking for suitable candidates to sit on the CVA board, and he outlined the four committees that board members will be asked to participate in. They include Traffic & Safety, Events, Beautification, and Promotion, Marketing, and Public Relations.

For more information, and to get involved, visit www.coastvillageroad. com.

•MJ

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COMING & GOING (Continued from page 21) The interior of The Little Door is dominated by a deep-blue sky and a sprawling, hand-crafted chandelier

Expansion plans include lunch for corporate events. And they’ll book private events on Sunday evenings.

Call The Little Door at (805) 560-8002 or do it online: reservations@thelittledoor.com.

Baron Ron Herron (of KZSB AM Radio 1290), with whom I shared a morning radio show some time back, always says that when he reads a promo in a newspaper he looks for the ad that is sure to be included. Well, you’ll look but you won’t find. Peter Clark invited me to try The Little Door, and I liked it so much I thought you should know about it.

Montecito Journal will, of course, accept their advertising dollars should they decide to advertise with us, but whether they do or not... I believe you’re going to like this place.

The MClub Inaugural Tour

I don’t know how or why her previous employer could have let her go, but Montecito Bank & Trust nabbed Maria Elena McCall and named her VP and its new MClub director.

Maria is a most valuable asset, and if they’re smart (and we know they are)

MClub hosts Dana Newquist (left) and Mark Stehrenberger enjoy a little Model T “thumbs up” with Montecito Bank & Trust VP Maria McCall at the Petersen Automotive Museum during MClub’s inaugural trip

Montecito Bank & Trust will never, and I mean never, let her go.

I had the recent good fortune to join Maria and about 40 other mostly MClub members on the club’s debut outing to the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. Onboard a brand-new Santa Barbara Airbus were guest host and auto aficionado Dana Newquist and celebrated Swiss-born car designer, illustrator, and artist, Mark Stehrenberger.

Maria had the foresight to supply

us early risers with pastries from Renaud’s, while Mr. Newquist handled the coffee orders. Peter Clark and I sped away to grab our own espressos at the Coffee Bean in Carpinteria before boarding.

It was an all-day affair, and included a 90-minute tour of the Petersen “vault,” where cars not on display in any of the showrooms on the upper floors are kept, repaired, polished,

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• The Voice of the Village •

27 April – 4 May 2017

An Evening with

David Sedaris

Wed, May 3 / 8 PM / Arlington Theatre Tickets start at $25 / $19 UCSB students An Arlington facility fee will be added to each ticket price

“A master of pointing out the absurd in everyday life.” USA Today David Sedaris is beloved for his sidesplitting books including Naked and Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls, a favorite voice on NPR’s This American Life and a regular contributor to The New Yorker. A highly-anticipated collection of his diary entries, Theft By Finding, will be released in June. Join Sedaris for another can’t-miss round of wickedly witty observations and fantastically fun book signing. (Mature content)

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“The twentysomethings in Old Crow Medicine Show marry old-time string music and punk swagger.” Rolling Stone Experience Dylan’s watershed album like never before, when these groundbreaking mountain music revivalists tip their hats to his incalculable influence.

Elizabeth Gilbert

An Evening with

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Tue, May 9 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall

In Conversation with Pico Iyer

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Chip Kidd “The closest thing to a rock star [in the world of graphic design].” USA Today Designer and art director Chip Kidd has changed the way book jackets are perceived – from a protective covering to a work of art. A recipient of the National Design Award for Communications, his jackets are collected in Chip Kidd: Book One, and his TED talks on creativity have been viewed more than 12 million times.

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Brilliant Thoughts

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

Heard Round the World

M

ost of us are familiar with the expression “The shot heard round the world.”

And many of us may know that it comes from a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson and refers to the first shots of the American Revolutionary War. But, just to refresh your memory, I will give you here the opening stanza of that poem, which is known as the “Concord Hymn” (Concord, Massachusetts, being the ironically named site of this initial carnage.)

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

The battle referred to occurred in 1775, and Emerson was, of course, speaking purely poetically in his conception that any shot, or even the actual news of the event, could literally be heard at any distance, in any brief time. Even to reach the country most concerned, Great Britain, word

of this, and all other occurrences in North America, took weeks to cross the Atlantic.

(Allow me to interject here that, as a Briton born, and partly bred, I have always looked on the entire Revolutionary conflict as a great tragedy, which would and should never have happened, but for outrageous stubbornness, misunderstanding, and incompetence on the British side.

I think you will find that George Bernard Shaw – an Irishman – agrees with me, if you read his play The Devil’s Disciple.)

But it is interesting to note that Emerson was writing 62 years after the event, in 1837 (just two years after he and his wife moved to Concord), which happened to be the same year in which Samuel Morse patented his “electric telegraph.”

This invention, when put into commercial use several years later, made it possible, not yet for shots, or for any other sounds, but at least for words in coded text form, to be sent,

for the very first time (in theory, at any rate) around the world, at the virtually instantaneous speed of electricity. Only in theory, because first there would have to be wires strung all around the world.

(A hugely expensive attempt toward that goal was actually made by the Western Union Telegraph Company just after the Civil War, in 1865-67. It involved sending an expedition to lay a telegraph line all the way from San Francisco via British Columbia and what was then still Russian North America, across Siberia to Moscow – but this ultimately proved too ambitious an undertaking and had to be abandoned.)

To transmit sounds, and, most importantly voices over the same medium, of wires, the world had to wait until Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent on his “telephone” in 1876 – just more than a century after the Battle of Concord.

But it was not until the early 1920s that it became possible, thanks mainly to the work of Guglielmo Marconi and Lee de Forest, to send sound over great distances without the use of wires.

This was the birth of “wireless,” or “radio.”

Unfortunately, there had, in the meantime, already been many shots heard metaphorically, if not yet literally, around the world. Among those, we might list the shots at Fort

Sumter in 1861, which started the American Civil War, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in April 1865, which came just after its end – and the shots fired in June 1914, by a Bosnian Serb named Gavrilo Princip, that killed the Austrian Archduke, Franz Ferdinand, and his wife, and ignited the first of two World Wars – not forgetting the shots that extinguished the entire Russian royal family in Ekaterinburg on July 17, 1918.

To those, we may add sensational suicides by gunshot, in the world of Commerce, such as those of George Eastman, the founder of Kodak, and Ivar Kreuger, the “Swedish Match King” – both in March 1932.

And the more recent shootings in the 1960s of several prominent American leaders were indeed so rapidly reported around the world that they hardly need to be itemized here.

But we now live in an age in which, for better or worse, it is possible for people all over the world literally to hear shots at the moment of firing – a world beset, on a daily basis, by just too much shooting.

What would Emerson, the great transcendentalist, who believed in the unlimited potentiality of humankind, have to say about today’s world, in which it is so easy – and not only for embattled farmers – to fire shots which can be heard around it? •MJ

LegaL Notice If You Are or Were a Customer of the Montecito Water District, You May be Entitled to a Refund A class action settlement may affect you if you are or were a non-agricultural water customer of the Montecito Water District (“District”) from October 1, 2008 through August 31, 2013. As part of the settlement, the District has agreed to pay refunds for water user fees non-agricultural water customers paid to the District from November 4, 2011 to August 31, 2013, after some District customers alleged such fees were unlawful. If you qualify, you may send in a claim form to ask for settlement payment, do nothing (and receive no payment), exclude yourself from the settlement, or object to the settlement. The Santa Barbara Superior Court has given preliminary approval to this settlement and will have a final hearing on August 8, 2017 to consider whether to approve the settlement, so benefits may be paid.

ARE YOU AFFECTED AND/OR ENTITLED TO A REFUND? If you are a current or former non-agricultural customer of the District for any period of time between October 1, 2008 to September 1, 2013, who did not submit an opt-out form in the lawsuit on or before August 12, 2014, you are a “Class Member” and a part of this lawsuit. As such, you may be entitled to a refund.

WHAT IS THIS REFUND CASE ABOUT? The lawsuit, Patrick M. Nesbitt et al. v. Montecito Water District, Case No. 1415836, claimed certain water rates the District charged to its non-agricultural customers violated Article XIII D of the California Constitution (referred to as “Proposition 218”). Specifically, the plaintiffs alleged the rates imposed on the District’s non-agricultural customers exceeded the proportional cost of service to provide water to their particular properties and, as a result the District’s non-agricultural customers were, in effect, subsidizing the water costs of the District’s agricultural customers.

The Court has determined that the water rates charged to the District’s non-agricultural customers violated Proposition 218, but the Court did not reach a decision on the amount of damages, if any, to be awarded to the Class for this constitutional violation. The District denied and continues to deny that the rates were unlawful, and denies and continues to deny that any refunds are due. The two sides disagree on how much money would be refunded if the case went to trial on the damages owed. Therefore, the settlement is a compromise that avoids costs and risks to both parties from continuing the lawsuit; pays money to qualifying existing and former District customers; and releases the District from certain liabilities, as described in more detail in the Notice on the Settlement website, www.cptgroup.com/Montecito-Water-Settlement.

HOW WILL REFUNDS BE CALCULATED? The District has agreed to pay up to $1,862,250 (the “Settlement Fund”) for refund claims for water user fees paid by non-agricultural customers from November 4, 2011 to August 31, 2013. If eligible, you will receive a refund based on the number of claims submitted and paid out of the Settlement Fund. The maximum refund amount you could receive will be based on the difference between the rate you actually paid for water and the rates set forth in the settlement agreement, plus interest, all as calculated and described in the Notice on the Settlement website, www.cptgroup.com/Montecito-Water-Settlement.

WHAT ARE YOUR OPTIONS FOR CLAIMING A REFUND? A current or former District customer must submit a valid claim postmarked by July 5, 2017. The validity of your claim will be verified by the Claims Administrator. A claim form was mailed to all customers on or about April 5, 2017 and may also be printed from the Settlement website, www.cptgroup.com/Montecito-Water-Settlement. Refunds cannot be processed and issued until the preliminary approval of the settlement by the Court is made final.

WHAT ARE YOUR OPTIONS IN THIS SETTLEMENT? You may either: 1) File a claim form and receive a refund after the claim is verified; 2) do nothing (and receive no refund); 3) exclude yourself from the settlement; or, 4) object to the settlement. If you do not want a refund and do not want to be legally bound by the settlement, you must exclude yourself by July 5, 2017, or you won’t be able to sue about the legal claims in this case. If you exclude yourself, you cannot get a refund from this settlement.

If you stay in the Class, you may, but are not required to, file written objections to the settlement by July 25, 2017. The Notice on the Settlement website, www.cptgroup.com/Montecito-Water-Settlement, describes how to exclude yourself or object. If you object by the deadline, you must also appear at the hearing on August 8, 2017 at 9:30 a.m. If you do not object to the settlement, you need not appear in Court on August 8, 2017.

At the hearing on August 8, 2017, the court will consider whether to issue final approval of the settlement and requested attorneys’ fees and expenses of up to $475,000, to be paid separately by the District and not out of the refund claims.

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Ernie’s World

“SELLING SANTA BARBARA SINCE 1997”

by Ernie Witham

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An Apple a Day?

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think LAX has more turnstiles than Disneyland. And we’d been in them for hours trying to check our bags and get to security.

I bought a brand-new laptop for our trip to Spain, which I now had to put into a separate tray, so they could determine that it wasn’t an atomic bomb. Then I hurried into the body scanner, spread my legs, and put my arms above my head. I nodded, so that whoever was studying my anatomy would know that I appreciated them not laughing.

Upon exiting, a large, humorless guy said: “I’ve got to frisk you.” I assumed the pose. I got a small itch in one of those hard-to-reach places.

I was tempted to ask him to scratch it. “Come with me,” he said before I could mention it. He had me put my palms up. I wondered if he’d gone to

staff. “I’m a writer with no computer.

For a month. In Spain!” Ironically, I knew the credit-card bill for it would be waiting when we got back.

Their expressions said: “Sacré bleu!” But one young lady said: “Come on!” and started running.

“Hurry,” she said, picking up the pace. I ran faster. My bad hip that may need surgery was yelling: “Are you serious?” We rounded a corner.

I nearly took out an elderly couple.

“Do you remember which security station?”

“The one with the guy wearing rubber gloves!”

Except for my wheezing, we ran in silence for a while, finally arriving at security.

“Describe it,” a guy said.

“MacBook Air,“ I panted. “It has a grey plastic cover. To protect it.”

Except for my wheezing, we ran in silence for a while Catholic school and was now going to strike me with a ruler. Instead, he took a thin stick and ran it all over my hands, then put it into a machine.

After a moment, he said: “You should trim your nails. Have a nice day.”

We were really late now. “Grab my stuff,” I said. Pat handed my belt and shoes to me, and I quickly and awkwardly redressed. Then I grabbed my camera case and computer bag and we raced off. Our gate, as always, was a half-mile away. We hadn’t eaten anything in hours. So, we ducked into a snack shop and grabbed a package of crackers and cheese left over from the war, a bottle of water, and ran onto the plane.

I crammed my computer bag under the seat in front of me, but I couldn’t get my feet comfortable. “Why don’t you take what you need out of your bag and put it in the overhead?” Pat suggested. I took out my book, my reading glasses, and my brand-new MacBook Air… “Did you grab the computer?” I asked.

“I thought it was in your bag.”

“They made me put it into a tray.”

Pat looked ashen. “Oh, no! Tell someone! Quickly!”

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“Ha!” He disappeared into a back room. He came out and grabbed a clipboard. “Sign here.” He ambled back into the back room, was in there for several minutes before he emerged holding my brand-new, never-actually-used, MacBook Air. I like to think that if it were a puppy, it would have whimpered and licked my face. Although, maybe, it would have bitten me for leaving it alone.

“Let’s go,” marathon runner Air France lady said. We ran back around all the corners, around several restaurants with photos of ice cold beer and burgers with fries. Past the elderly couple who now cowered against the wall. Up one concourse and down another, until we got back to Gate 150.

“Thank you,” I gasped. I ran down the ramp into the plane and down the aisle. In a movie, people would have been cheering. In real life, they barely glanced at me.

Pat was thoroughly relieved to see me. She handed me the water, which I thought about throwing in my face, like triathlon winners do when they cross the finish line.

“Turns out they are holding the plane for a missing passenger,” Pat said. “You really didn’t need to hurry.”

“That’s good,” I said, then passed out.

•MJ

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Other highlights include the $32-million 1936 Bugatti on loan from the Mullin Museum (Mr. Mullin now heads up the Petersen), and a Forza Motorsport Racing Experience with 10 racing simulators in which one can choose from a number of tracks to race around in. A Precious Metal exhibit of silver cars in the Meyer Family Gallery was an eye-opener.

There is also an extensive display of photos taken by Jesse Alexander, who Montecito residents may recognize as the photographer who made portraits of them for Lucky’s early

back-page upside-down campaign in Montecito Journal.

We were so well taken care of, the trip was so well-managed, and MClub director Maria McCall was so efficient, cheerful, and informative, that even though we spent the better part of six hours on our feet and couldn’t wait to finally sit down, she deserved a standing ovation.

The MClub’s very next outing will be a Frederick Weisman Art Foundation tour on Thursday, May 18. Mr. Weisman and his wife, Billie Milam Weisman, have collected more than 400 major works of art and MClub members will enjoy a visit to their private 1927 Mediterranean mansion in Beverly Hills to view the collection, filled with paintings by masters such as Picasso, Miro, Cezanne, Kandinsky, and others. “It’s a 90-minute walking tour of the house,” Maria explains, “and of an annex that was built to hold more of the art. Afterwards,” she says, “we’ll dine at the Montage Hotel rooftop in Beverly Hills with beautiful views of the surrounding Hollywood hills. Then, shopping on Rodeo Drive before heading back to Santa Barbara.”

Maria has lived in Santa Barbara for the past three decades but hails from New Orleans, Louisiana, where she’ll be taking MClub members on a five-day outing the first week of December. “I know what it means to miss New Orleans,” she quips. “It’s a foodie and jazz tour. We’ll eat the best food in town and listen to the finest jazz. I know all the great hidden spots and I take people out every night, so anyone who sticks with me will have a good time in New Orleans.” Part of Maria’s plan is to “go to Central Grocery Store, buy a Muffuletta, go down to the river, have a little picnic,

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Upcoming tours include the Laguna Pageant of the Masters in August, which is “a large living picture with real humans depicted as some of the masters’ works. Their bodies,” she explains, “are painted into the picture and they stand very, very still.” The pageant includes a live orchestra, and it’s all done under the stars in Laguna Canyon. “It’s a beautiful show. We’ll stay there for two nights,” she continues, “and enjoy art and festivities at Laguna Beach.”

Another planned MClub trip is to Catalina Island in October. “We’ll stay at the hotel Metropole. We’ll learn how to make Catalina tiles, and we’ll also live like Wrigleys, dining at the Wrigley mansion up on the hill at Mount Ada.” Maria will bring her group to Dale Chihuly’s glass studio.

“Dale is a glass artist and has done,” she notes, “the glass ceiling at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. We’ll visit him.

Some of his best pieces will be there on Catalina Island.”

Next year, Maria will escort a limited group to Japan “to enjoy the cherry blossoms.” Bullet trains are part of the tour, which includes temples, gardens, springs, Mt. Fuji, Tokyo, and Hiroshima.

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FITNESS FRONT

by Karen Robiscoe

Ms Robiscoe is a certified fitness trainer through the National Academy of Sports Medicine, and conventionally published author of short fictions, essays, and poetry. Her chapbook: Word Mosaics, is available online at Fowlpox Press. E mail Karen at chickenscratch@cox.net, or visit http://charronschatter.com

Nite Moves

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t’s that time of year again. Pranks have been played, eggs have been hunted, and April showers have dropped the last of the season’s rain, but there’s more than May flowers waiting to bloom in the springtime sun. Hundreds of Santa Barbara athletes are, too, trading umbrellas for running shoes and raincoats for wetsuits as Nite Moves Summer Sunset Series prepares to start its 29th annual season.

Under the guidance of race director Jay Campbell, the Aqualthon is sure to remain a local’s favorite, as he has kept the best of the best and added to it.

“Even as an organizer, you feel the endorphins,” Jay said, explaining what inspires him to host such an involved get-together, featuring competitive swims and foot races, as well as post-race refreshments, raffles, and rock-n-roll bands. “It’s exciting just to be down here. Feeling the vibes and good energy everyone exudes. It’s the

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Let’s look at the basics of it. Basics for local residents, the running course that spans the distance from dog-friendly Leadbetter Beach to the Mesa and back is so beautiful, thousands of vacationers travel here every year from all over the globe just to enjoy it for a few days. With the route’s mile markers readily apparent, and encouraging volunteers standing by at critical turnarounds, if you join for the entire season of Nite Moves Sunset Series – Thursday, May 4, through August’s end – you’ll get to enjoy it every Wednesday evening of the summer. And not just on land. The Aqualthon encompasses a 1K swim in combination with a 5K run for the well-rounded athlete to test his or her limit.

“It’s the longest-running Aqualthon in the state.” Jay noted, wanting to be clear there is more to it. “But most people think there’s only one swim, when in fact, there are three. A 2K, a 1K, and 500-meter swim, there’s also

options for the distance you run.”

Jay’s smile grew yet wider as he told me every child who enters the 1K run will receive a ribbon (13 and under), and that the soft sand sprint for the smaller folk out there is still in place.

Lisa Ballantine has watched son Jake grow through both those last year. The Santa Barbara mom is an avid runner, as is her husband attorney James Ballantine, and together, the three of them have participated in Nite Moves for well over a decade.

Jake went from stroller, to soft sand, to placing high in the adult standings – bypassing the kids run altogether.

“They’re fast racers. They’ve broken the 19-minute barrier often,” Lisa said, adding: “As a parent, being part of Nite Moves is a high priority, and not to be missed. It’s fun, fitness, family, and ice cream! There couldn’t be a better excuse to be at Leadbetter beach on Wednesday night with your family and like-minded friends.”

Running since her teens, the California native added thoughtfully: “It’s a subtle way of instilling discipline into your family’s life too. The 18-week season makes you commit to being there and becoming faster and fitter each week. Starting young is the best way to experience running in a fun way, and Nite Moves provides just that environment, nurturing the development of your child’s love of exercise. The Santa Barbara Junior lifeguards program offered to kids in the summer gets them loving the ocean, and Nite Moves is the opportunity to add the challenge of ocean swimming to a significant run.”

The duathlon aspect is definitely a motivating factor for local triathlete Chuck Roth. A family man like the Ballantines, his three boys compete in the kids’ run, and he and wife Leslie ply their measure in water and on land. “I swim faster than her, but she runs faster than me,” Chuck told me, laughing. “And that’s saying something. When you get out of the water and try to run it’s challenging.

Swimming is all upper body, and running is all lower; the transition is hard to do.“ He’s well-suited for the feat. A physical education teacher and water polo coach at San Marcos High, he had advice for those dipping in for the first time: “You have to have some idea

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how to sight the course for the swim.

Knowing some of the land markers really helps since you can’t see the buoys until you’re very close to them.

But don’t be too competitive out of the gate – get the experience. The first half of the running course is all uphill, and the last half is all downhill.” As with so many entrants, the race is just part of the draw for Chuck. “The ability to compete is always fun, but to have your family and friends with you makes it really special.”

Longtime Goleta resident Denise Diven agrees. “I love how the community comes together and has a good time on a Wednesday evening.” Beaming, she added how years ago, her husband used to sail out at Leadbetter, and how she would wave to him from her vantage point at Shoreline Park. “I love the turnaround at Elise Way near Lazy Acres on the Mesa. I feel like ‘Yay!’ I’m halfway there, and of course, the people are just so positive.”

Shared activity creates bonds. That’s a given. Even if you don’t know anybody by name when you first enter, you’re sure to have made a few friends by evening’s end — generally around dusk. The athletic events are followed by snacks and beverages provided by such local favorites as SB Fish Market, McConnell’s ice cream, and Pacific Beverage. From fish tacos, to dairy treats, to icy cold beer, the live, postrace rock-and-roll complements the good vibes of the crowd.

As first-time racer Jenny Song said: “I like how everyone continuously cheers each other on. It’s a fun and encouraging competition.” She mentioned, “I was very proud of myself for finishing. It made me feel more determined than ever to continue running, and increased my set speed also.”

More than just a bystander, I can tell you from participating in Nite Moves many times that it’s as much a part of the Santa Barbara summer scene as the local festivals, parades, and celebrations staged at our beaches and parks.

You simply have to come down and try it, and once you do, you’re likely to find yourself signing on for a season.

With raffles every week, you could win an Xterra wetsuit to ward off the water’s briskness, or a gift certificate to Joe’s café to warm up another way.

A steal of a deal, no matter how you slice it, as Jay himself says: “Nite Moves is the best bang for your buck.

After going to runs around the country now for over 30 years of my life, I can say that without a doubt.”

You can pre-register for Nite Moves online at www.runsantabarbara.com/nite-moves, or sign up the night you participate. So grab your shoes and swimsuit, and see what makes this Santa Barbara tradition a standout.

•MJ 27 April – 4 May 2017

Our Town

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National Poetry Month

Newly appointed SB poet laureate Enid Osborn [center] surrounded by fellow poets hosted by LaureAnne Bosselaar at her home

“ Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument – language and breath.”

— Terrance Hayes, Academy of American Poets chancellor

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pril is both Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM) – created

by Smithsonian National Museum of American History curator John Hasse, Ph.D., in 2001 to honor jazz as an American art form – and National Poetry Month, created in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets to increase awareness and appreciation for American poetry. Their website has daily poems, materials for teachers, job listings, poetry event listings, an online store, and more. The United Kingdom and Canada have established poetry months as well.

The new poet laureate for Santa Barbara 2017-19 is Enid Osborn, successor to poet laureate Sojourner Kincaid Rolle, celebrated at an intimate all-poet gathering at the lovely home of Laure-Anne Bosselaar, following her formal installation by the SB City Council on April 11.

The poets attending included Sylvia Alcon, Gudrun Bortman, Steve Braff, Mary Brown, Christopher Buckley, Pamela Davis, Marsha De la O, Carol Decanio, Tessa Flanagan, Phil Taggart poet laureate of Ventura, Lois Klein and Ron Doctors, Christine Kravetz, Pamela and Chris Davis, Perie Longo, Marcia Meier, David Peacock, Peg Quinn, John and Muriel Ridland, Sojourner Rolle, David Starkey, Dan Thomas, Emma Trelles, Paul J. Willis, Sarajane Woolf, George Yatchisin, and Chryss Yost.

Enid was presented with a painting

by Matt Rodriguez titled True Love.

She noted the painting at SBCAST during a poetry meeting there and 27 April – 4 May 2017

Our Town’s upcoming teen poets wish to remain anonymous but happy to pose for their first press photo with library technician Linda Cherry

mentioned it to Laure-Anne. After the presentation, she read her inauguration poem titled “Call Me Poet”.

Refreshments and stories followed.

Enid said, “It’s an honor to be chosen poet laureate of Santa Barbara.

I see this as both recognition of my work thus far, and a call to service that I take much to heart. I hope to be an energetic ambassador for poetry and the many gifted poets in our area, including quieter voices we may not have heard. I am proud to join the ranks of distinguished past laureates who have given – and continue to give – so generously. And what a fine thing to partner with our library – the heart of Santa Barbara literary life! I have some good ideas and look forward to working with our great, arts-loving city and county over the next two years.”

Oh, we love our poets; note the Granada Theatre alleyway is officially SPACKS STREET in honor of passed poet laureate Barry Spacks. Monthlong events are held at local bookstores, cafes, art centers, and univer-

In Passing

by Amy Love

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t is with great sadness that we said goodbye to our friend and mother, Judy Love (Hicks), who passed peacefully in her sleep on March 13, 2017.

Judy was born in 1940s Nebraska to Richard and Jerry Hicks, and the family lived in small towns including Ansley and Broken Bow. The second of five children, Judy was instrumental in raising her three younger sisters and helping her parents.

Perhaps it’s tempting to dismiss Judy as an artifact of a bygone era, but in life she embodied the American Dream. She traveled from Nebraska to California with no money and only a high school education. Landing in Los Angeles, Judy took a job working in the insurance industry, where she met her future husband, Dick. She always had the drive to be at her best, and that is what everyone, including her husband, loved about her. Dick put her on a pedestal from the very start. Together they moved to Santa Barbara in 1971 and made a life to aspire to with their two beloved children and many pets. They loved to entertain and their home was always filled with good music, food, and friends.

Judy was the ultimate parent. Her kids became her full-time job and nothing made her happier than spending time with them. She was 100-percent committed to helping her children be the best that they could be. She taught them to cook, do homework, and she never, ever missed a sporting event. She was their biggest fan.

Judy was well-known for her cooking. She learned by doing, and her hero was Julia Child. Ask anyone who knew her and they will tell you that her dinners were beyond compare. But the most famous dish of all was her fried chicken, a legacy lost with her passing.

After Dick died in 1987, she moved to Summerland, California, to the house of her dreams and was there for 20 years. Judy owned and ran Summerland Video circa 1990, where she knew every customer by name and loved sharing her encyclopedic knowledge of movies. She always had a recommendation for anyone who asked. She was loved by all who met her because of her infectious friendliness.

After retiring circa 2005, Judy lived the end of her life on the top of a hill in Summerland, overlooking the Pacific Ocean from her living room. Her highest priorities were making her family amazing dinners and watching her only grandchild grow up. Each Tuesday night, she hosted dinner for her family.

Now she is gone and the torch passes. Judy always wanted to help her family, and her legacy will be passed on to her children and granddaughter.

She is survived by her children, David and Amy; her beloved granddaughter, Blake; son-in-law Bill; and her siblings, Richard, Ginger, and Sandi. Tuesday nights will never be the same.

•MJ sities to celebrate the poet and poetry.

A new favorite is Concrete Poetry for teens at the SB Library. Invented by SB poet Simon Kiefer, teens learn the use of the placement of letters and words on a single page via manual typewriters to add another layer to the meaning of their poems such as those of ee cummings. Simon led the teens, who quickly got the concept and seriously typed away undistracted composing their poems, with proud parents hanging out. I tried out the 1932 Royal model 10-SX typewriter thinking, “This works for my byline photo!”

There were dozens of antique typewriters on hand, such as the classic Smith-Corona and Remington models, all made in the USA. Library technician Linda Cherry and research librarian Brent Field helped with the workshop. Simon said, “I have been a typewriter enthusiast since my sum-

mer typing class in junior high. The typewriter is perfect for poetry and personal correspondence, without Spell Check and exhaustive editing; the words typed reflect more closely one’s emotions. The teens at this workshop quickly figured out how to use the typewriters and jumped right into writing expressive poetry.

We plan to exhibit some of the works created here in the lobby showcase of the library during National Poetry Month.”

On Sunday, April 30, there are two final poetry events: selected students reading their poems at the SB Museum of Art, and a poetry book exchange at The Mesa Bookstore, which currently was saved from closing by writer D.J. Palladino and his wife, Diane Arnold.

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On Entertainment

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

by Steven Libowitz

Swallow-ing a Changing Era

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hen Opera Santa Barbara (OSB) concludes its 23rd season with its first production of Puccini’s operetta La Rondine (The Swallow) this weekend, the company itself will have a lot of company in the work’s local debut. Artistic director Kostis Protopapas, who will conduct La Rondine, takes his first turn behind the podium for the piece, while stage director Tara Faircloth, whose credits include helming operas for Houston, Wolf Trap Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, makes her OSB debut with her first turn directing Puccini’s operetta, though she’s assisted elsewhere on the piece in the past.

Meanwhile, soprano Karin Wolverton, who plays Magda, the worldly woman who falls in love with a naïve student and Met Opera veteran tenor Adam Diegel, who portrays Ruggerio, are both new to both OSB and their roles.

That’s by design, explained Protopapas.

“It’s exciting to do things for the first time,” he said. “Of course, the more you do a piece, the more you discover and learn. But there’s nothing like the first time. It’s like first love. The process of discovery can’t really be duplicated.”

La Rondine – which is the bittersweet tale of a jaded Parisian courtesan who longs for genuine love with a younger man – stands alone in Puccini’s canon, both as his only operetta and as the most lighthearted. The timing of its composition and debut had something to do with that, Protopapas noted.

“He started writing it in 1914 at the beginning of World War I, and he somehow captures a lot of the essence of the time. The war was a watershed event in that the old order broke down, which had great repercussions in music, the end of Romantic times, not only in people’s imagination, but also the way artists looked at their work.”

Puccini, Protopapas proposed, might have been “saying farewell to an artistic side that’s more romantic and innocent... and looking back at his life and at his work. You can hear and feel that he’s paying tribute to a time of innocence that is not going to return. So in some ways, it’s a nostalgic piece reflecting Puccini’s thoughts about his life, love, and art.”

The composer known for major works that, in Protopapas’s words feature “stormy and stressful love stories with big body counts and violent deaths at the end” takes a calmer turn with La Rondine. “He pokes a little bit

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of fun at the notions of love as they were portrayed in his earlier operas,” he said. “The deep passion, the dying for love, and all those things that were the hallmark of romantic opera. This is his only opera in which no one dies.

And there’s a lot of humor and wit. It’s multifaceted and very interesting.”

While La Rondine represents stage director Faircloth’s OSB debut, it’s hardly the first time she and Protopapas have worked together.

“I’ve done more shows with her than any other director,” he said, noting that they met when both were in their 20s at the summer program Opera in the Ozarks in Arkansas, which featured nightly campfires that lasted till 2 in the morning. “When everybody’s careers started blossoming, I went back and hired her as soon as I could.”

Faircloth offers a commendable quality in her directing, he explained.

“She manages to bring to each piece a relatable contemporary sensibility without making it anachronistic.

Audiences can struggle with operas that are 100 years old or more, appreciating them but not really connecting.

But she manages to make the characters seem like someone you know or love from your own life. I don’t know how she does it, but she manages to make them very real, and very accessible.”

(Opera Santa Barbara’s La Rondine performs at 7:30 pm Friday and 2:30 pm Sunday at the Granada. Tickets cost $29 to $204. Visit www.granadasb.org or call 899-2222.)

Center and is led by music director Andy Radford, the SB Symphony’s principal bassoonist.

Radford also serves as guest conductor of the Westmont Orchestra Concerto Concerts, which take place 7 pm Thursday in Westmont’s Page Hall and Friday at First Presbyterian Church. The orchestra will perform music by Johannes Brahms, Bach, Georges Bizet, Camille Saint-Saens, Claude Debussy, Nikolai RimskyKorsakov, and contemporary composer Karen Tanaka, while the soloists include oboist Chyna Charbonneau, violinists Lalia Mangione and Andrea Larez, violist Erik Fauss, soprano Elena White, and harpist Mia Dortch. Tickets cost $10, students free.

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, mandolinist Chris Thile, and bassist Edgar Meyer – who scored two Grammys and wowed everyone with their boundary-busting 2011 CD The Goat Rodeo Sessions – just released a Bach Trios CD, featuring arrangements of The Art of the Fugue, keyboard works including The WellTempered Clavier and various trio sonatas. The threesome – who previewed the music on A Prairie Home Companion (which Thile now hosts after taking over for Garrison Keillor last fall) – are performing together in just nine cities across the country, including this Tuesday, May 2, at the Granada Theatre. Tickets for the 7 pm show cost $54-$154.

Sherwood & Mochrie Hit the Chumash

Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood, veteran performers on the long-running Whose Line Is It Anyway? TV show dating back to its origins in Britain in the 1980s, have also toured together for more than two decades.

With the deftness of acrobats, the two have honed their timing and instincts to create shows drawn from the TV show’s games and beyond via suggestions from the audience – and often volunteers who step on stage to add an extra element of the unexpected.

After previous performances at the Granada in Santa Barbara, the pair now head up to the Chumash Casino Resort’s Samala Showroom for an 8 pm “Scared Scriptless” show on Friday night. (Tickets are $25. Visit www.chumashcasino.com.) Sherwood shared some of the insights into the history and process.

Q. The live shows feature longer versions of some of the games we know from the Whose Line TV show. Why? A. We can get ourselves into more trouble and work our way out, torture each other intellectually, which is a lot more fun. It’s like short form, long form – there are fun hoops and games that the audience can sink their teeth into, while we get to do a scene where we can develop the characters a bit, something that’s more than just lineline-line, laugh-laugh, scene over.

What is your process for getting ready to perform? Do you have a routine?

The preparation was all the years I did shows in coffee shops, theaters, and on TV, and all those hours and

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Classical Corner

Multiple Grammy Award-winning Murray Perahia, the veteran pianist known for both his artistry and teaching technique who was a visiting artist at the Music Academy of the West the last two summers, performs at 7 pm Friday at UCSB’s Campbell Hall. The program features Bach’s French Suite No. 6 in E Major, Schubert’s Impromptus, op. 142, D. 935, Mozart’s Rondo in A Minor, K. 511 and Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, op. 111. Tickets are $35 to $60.

Santa Barbara Youth Symphony headlines a free community concert at 3 pm Saturday afternoon at the Page Youth Center. The performance features musicians from the Santa Barbara Youth Symphony, other Symphony youth outreach programs, and several area schools – more than 300 local students ages 9-18 in all. The symphony is a program of the Santa Barbara Symphony’s Music Education

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WATER (Continued from page 5)

Supply Agreement (WSA) with Montecito would give the City a way to lessen the pain and financial risk for City ratepayers. The benefits to the City for shared use are in place, but the barriers in the currently proposed agreement make the deal unpalatable to many on the MWD Board, if not a majority.

Tweaking a fundamentally flawed deal may not be the best solution. Sometimes the best deals are those you walk away from.

A Little History

In the late 1980s, faced with an extended five-year drought (1986-1991), the City of Santa Barbara, the Goleta Water District (GWD) and MWD jointly built, financed, and, over five years, paid for a $34-million desalinated water facility located in the City of Santa Barbara.

The desalination plant had a production capacity of 7,500 acre feet per year (AFY), expandable to 10,000 AFY. The City was entitled to 3,181 AF per year (42%); Goleta was entitled to 3,069 AFY (41%); Montecito was to receive 1,250 AFY (17%). Construction costs were shared based on entitlements. Montecito’s share was approximately $5.7 million; the City of Santa Barbara paid $14.5 million; and Goleta about $13.8 million.

The famed “March Miracle” of 1991 dropped 15.4-inches of rain on the Lake Cachuma watershed in one month, effectively ending the five-year drought.

Still, in June 1991, City voters elected to make desalinated water a permanent part of the City’s water supply portfolio rather than just an emergency supply during periods of extended drought.

The plant opened and operated on a test basis for four months, from March until June 1992, before being placed into standby status. MWD and GWD elected to opt out of their obligation to fund the facility in a reduced-cost standby mode after the initial five-year contract period, leaving the City to go it alone.

An Environmental Impact Report (EIR) was certified in May 1994. In October 1996, the California Coastal Commission issued a permit to the City for a permanent desalination facility, producing up to a maximum of 10,000 AFY. The desalination plant remained in standby mode until July 2015, when the Santa Barbara City Council voted unanimously to reactivate the Charles E. Meyer Desalination Facility in response to the 2012-15 drought.

In 2014-15, MWD invested some $615,000 in consulting fees, legal fees, and staff time investigating its own desal facility with a sub-surface intake system, at an estimated cost of $68 to $84 million, depending on location. In late 2015, MWD shifted its focus to discussions with the City regarding potential shared use of the City’s desal facility as a more attractive alternative, pending written permission from the State water regulators and the California Coastal Commission to explore collaboration.

The City’s Offer in Fall 2015

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In the fall of 2016, Josh Haggmark, Santa Barbara Water Resources manager, informed the city council that he projected a 300 AF shortfall in the City’s water supply in the summer of 2017 and again in 2018, due to inadequate pipe and pump capacity to get State and purchased water into Lake Cachuma. This led the council to impose a citywide ban on all lawn watering, effective January 1, 2017.

Negotiations with MWD continued on a weekly basis, but politically, the path became more difficult. Earlier, city councilwoman Cathy Murillo (now a candidate for mayor) noted her reluctance in negotiating an agreement with Montecito thusly: “My constituents do not approve of the Montecito lifestyle.”

Politically, how could the City justify selling 1,250 AFY of City water to MWD, while residents were told to let their own lawns die? Fortunately, the City ban on lawn watering was suspended in March after heavy winter rains.

Desal Negotiations in 2017

Two new directors, Tobe Plough and Floyd Wicks, were elected to the Montecito Water Board in November 2016 and a new Strategic Planning Committee was appointed by president Dick Shaikewitz to address water supply issues.

The City requested MWD to share equally in the cost of designing, building, and maintaining a conveyance system to move desalinated water from the desal plant to the City-owned Cater Treatment facility. To date, that payment of a non-reimbursable $252,967 has not been made while MWD considers its options. Since September 2016, the City has been funding design costs for a conveyance pipeline for its own use. Without MWD’s participation, all design work has recently been stopped on the conveyance pipeline.

Finally, David Moore of Clean Energy Capital, an MWD desal consultant and chief negotiator, presented the MWD Board with a detailed assessment of the terms of the present Water Supply Agreement on March 21, 2017. Moore received strong board and audience feedback. A City staff person attended the March MWD Board meeting. In the absence of a videotape, the City has requested an audio recording. The specific terms of the agreement are enlightening and intricate but sometimes confusing, complicated, and contorted.

[Next week, in Part II, readers will be offered a detailed look at the specific terms of the Water Supply Agreement between the City of Santa Barbara and MWD.] •MJ

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In the fall of 2015, the City of Santa Barbara forwarded a Term Sheet to MWD, offering 2,500 AFY of water (70% of the 3,500 AF of water MWD used last year) for each of the next 20 years.

With a year’s lead time, IDE Technologies, the City’s desalination contractor, had firm prices to add the two needed RO modules (called trains), to produce the added 2,500 AF for Montecito, taking the desal plant from its planned 3,125 AF capacity for the City’s exclusive use to 5,625 AF, but still short of its maximum 10,000 AF permitted capacity. The advantage of increasing capacity from 3,125 AFY to 7,500 AFY is that adding additional trains would result in lowering the cost of desal water to City users from an estimated $2,400 per AF at 3,125 AF to somewhere around $1,600 per AF at 7,500 AF, because of greater operating efficiencies and economies of scale.

The City of Santa Barbara needed a response from MWD by December 31, 2015, for IDE to contract for the added trains to be installed concurrently with the opening of the City desal plant in late 2016 or early 2017. MWD did respond on December 31, 2015, but the staff message was a mixture of new terms based upon an expectation of torrential rains from a forecasted El Niño that did not happen.

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When the El Niño rains did not materialize, MWD contacted Rebecca Bjork, Director of Public Works at the City of Santa Barbara, to re-open desal negotiations. With continued drought and the City’s increased need for all 3,125 AFY of desal water, City officials cut the amount of water offered to Montecito in half from 2,500 AF to 1,250 AF a year.

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Frustrated by the slow pace of MWD negotiations, the City notified MWD that it had to share in the City’s costs of continued negotiations for a Water Supply Agreement. These costs included the City’s legal services, staff costs, consultant costs, permitting costs, and all engineering and planning costs associated with the joint agreement. A non-refundable MWD payment of $193,594 was delivered to the City in September 2016 to allow for continued negotiations.

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throne a man “of many dimensions and accomplishments, much more than people are aware.” After 300 interviews with close friends and Clarence House advisers, including dinners at St. James’s Palace and Buckingham Palace.

“My research was an eye-opener.

Most of the aspects were positive.

He is a future king trying to make a difference.”

When I covered the Royal Family for the Daily Mirror in London in the mid-1970s, I would see Charles every weekend at the Guards Polo Club at Windsor and his delightful bodyguard, Mac, who would stand dutifully by the prince’s blue Aston Martin Volante convertible, complete with a silver Welsh dragon mascot on the hood, a 21st birthday present from his mother while he was attending Trinity College, Cambridge.

I would always take a peek inside to see what music Charles was playing on his cassette tapes, mostly the Rolling Stones and Neil Diamond.

One day, between chukkers, HRH caught me checking out his “polo car,” which was basically used to transport him the short distance between Windsor Castle and Smiths Lawn, and asked, “Anything I can do for you, Mr. Mineards?”

I quickly replied: “Nothing too dramatic, sir. My career does rather depend on you staying around!”

Fond memories.

Oh, Baby Ensemble Theatre Company (ETC) has another hit on its hands with its new stage adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s Baby Doll, a dysfunctional love triangle based on the controversial 1956 Golden Globe Awardwinning dark and sensual comedy directed by Elia Kazan.

Set in the Mississippi Delta in the 1950s, with wonderful scenic design

by Sara Ryung Clement and effective lighting by Jared A. Sayeg, the Jenny Sullivan-directed play follows two rival cotton gin owners. the abusive alcoholic Archie and nemesis Silva, superbly played by Shawn Law and Asher Grodman, with ABC Boy Meets World star Lily Nicksay as the nubile teen childlike title character, all making their ETC debuts.

Rounding off the talented quartet

with her dance Anywhere I Can See the Moon.

Closing the entertaining show, the UCSB dancers again took the stage in the heritage work Running Dance by a scion of modern dance, Jose Limon, restaged by professor emerita Alice Condodina with an excerpt from his full-length work, Psalms.

Hollye and Finley Jacobs with Terry Tempest Williams (photo by Christy Gutzeit) Baby Doll isn’t just child’s play (photo by David Bazemore)

is Wendy Phillips as eccentric Aunt Rose, who has guest starred in nearly 100 episodes of television in her half-century career and co-starred with Robert De Niro in Midnight Run and Warren Beatty in Bugsy.

A rare gem not to be missed. It runs through Sunday, April 30.

This Land is Her Land Jeff and Hollye Jacobs opened the doors of their beautiful Montecito home when they hosted a sunset soirée featuring UCSB Arts & Lectures speaker, prolific author Terry Tempest Williams and her latest tome, The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks.

Conservationist and activist Williams has penned 15 books and in 2006 received the Robert Marshall Award from the Wilderness Society, the highest honor it can give to a U.S. citizen.

“I see it as a life engaged topped by your passions,” Utah-based Williams,

a cousin of former presidential candidate Mitt Romney, gushed before speaking at Campbell Hall.

Among the guests were Sandy Robertson, Mike and Nancy Sheldon, Amanda Masters, Finley Jacobs, Christopher Lloyd, Jamie Gordon, Andre Butcher, Keighley Lane, and Laura Shelburne.

Free Fallin’ UCSB’s assistant professor of dance Brandon Whited kicked off his new job in superb style as concert director with Free Fall, the 2017 spring concert at the Hatlen Theater featuring new, original works by graduating students Rachel Epling, Kelli Forman, Savannah Green, and Olivia Maggi.

The seven-piece performance opened with Stephanie Gilliland’s powerful Buffalo, a high-intensity athletic work that brought the dancers face to face with their own inner strengths and fragilities.

Alongside the current students work, the concert marked the return of 2015 alumna, Gianna Burright,

Easy to Swallow Our tony town’s symphony is moving into a whole new aria helping out Opera Santa Barbara with its final production of the season, the charming Puccini work La Rondine, which debuts at the Granada on Friday.

The symphony’s president, Arthur Swalley, and Gaja HubbardKabaretti, wife of veteran maestro Nir Kabaretti, are joining Cathy Dunn, wife of the opera’s artistic director Kostis Protopapas, in the chorus of the show.

It promises to be a performance of high note.

Hard Day’s Night

Compagnie Herve Koubi impresses Finley Jacobs and fellow school students with Terry Tempest Williams (photo

by Christy Gutzeit)

Cannes-based Compagnie Herve Koubi made an impressive southern California debut with What the Day Owes to the Night at the Granada, part of the popular UCSB Arts & Lectures series.

Combining Burkinabe, capoeira, urban, and contemporary dance in a stunning one-hour fusion of acrobatics, martial arts, gymnastics, and ballet, the 10 highly energized male dancers invoked the complex interwoven threads of Koubi’s French-Algerian ancestral history along with powerful imagery evocative of Orientalist

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Spirituality Matters

by Steven Libowitz “Spirituality Matters” highlights two or three Santa Barbara area spiritual gatherings. Unusual themes and events with that something extra, especially newer ones looking for a boost in attendance, receive special attention. For consideration for inclusion in this column, email slibowitz@yahoo.com.

Spring into Mingle

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aving just completed a fourweek course on the intricacies and rewards of a meditation practice, Santa Barbara Bodhi Path Center is hosting a party and open house this evening, Thursday, April 27. The event begins at 7:30 pm with a meditation followed by a brief talk from some of center’s patrons, who will talk about the benefits of the program that supports Bodhi Path. Then it’s “fun time” with food and beverages and an opportunity to connect informally with resident teacher Dawa Tarchin Phillips and other attendees, which range from newcomers to longtime meditators at the center. Food and beverages will be provided, so just come and have fun.

The center is located at 102 West Mission St. Visit www.meetup. com/Bodhi-Path-Santa-BarbaraBuddhist-Spiritual-Community for details.

Meditate and More at Mahakankala

Mahakankala Buddhist Center, which several years ago occupied a building just a block away down Mission Street from Bodhi Path, now conducts its classes, meditations and more from its own space at 508 Brinkerhoff Avenue, by the antique stores just off State State. Following a week off, classes resume on Sunday with the ongoing Meditation for World Peace from 10:30 to 11:45 am, which consists of a guided breathing meditation, preparatory prayers in English, a talk on the topic of the day, and then concludes with a second meditation based on the topic.

All are invited to join to bring peace to the world through the action of meditation and dedicating prayers for world peace. Everyone is welcome – you do not need to be a Buddhist to attend. Suggested donation is $10.

Mahakankala also resumes its weekly Wednesday Learn to Meditate sessions, held 6::30 to 7:30 pm through May. The goal is to increase the understanding and experience of how the state of our mind affects our health and well-being. Perhaps we believe that a positive attitude is generally beneficial. Perhaps we recognize that some lifestyle choices are more harmful than others. But do we understand how our own mind actually creates our experience of 27 April – 4 May 2017

contentment and peace, or of pain and dissatisfaction? We can’t control external situations, but we can learn to control how we respond to them.

As with Sunday’s events, each class begins with a guided breathing meditation and culminates with a second meditation based upon the evening’s topic. Drop-ins are welcome, and the suggested donation is $10.

This week also brings Mahakankala’s once-a-month lecture on Buddhist methods and practices that explore key components of Buddhist faith. Resident teacher Keli Vaughan will address “The Mind of a Buddha” on Friday, April 28, at 7 pm, while May 26 brings a talk on the subject of “Appearance vs. Reality”. Call 563-6000 or visit www.meditationinsantabarbara.org.

Painting with Prayer?

The Science and Religion Study Group at Trinity Episcopal Church, which offers events and discussions that focus on the intersection of science and faith, has slated a presentation based on the Living-theQuestions DVD video titled Painting the Stars, for their next first Monday monthly meeting. The video features 13 leading theologians and progressive thinkers, several of whom have personally spoken at previous meetings, who present an integrated world view. Three of the seven chapters will be viewed and discussed at the 7 to 8:30 pm meeting on May 1 at Trinity, 1500 State Street. The material is intended for a general audience, so you don’t have to be a scientist, philosopher, or a theologian to appreciate the topic, though an interest and appreciation of nature, beauty, and the Divine is helpful.

For more information, call Bob Richard at 680-5590 or email starry robert@aol.com. A free-will offering will be received.

senters will address how traditions and their practices, such as prayers, meditations, chants, and their basic philosophies can help us face our feelings in uncertain and unpredictable times when many are experiencing anxiety, a sense of unease, and dread.

Moderator Weininger will be joined by the reverend Christine McSpadden from Trinity, Imam Niazi from the Islamic Society, rabbi Steve Cohen from congregation B’nai B’rith, Julia Hamilton from the Unitarian Church, and Michael Kearney, a medical doctor who for many years has been studying with Buddhist teacher, scholar, and social activist Joanna Macy. Feel free to bring snacks to share.

Co-existing at La Casa

Weininger is also the facilitator for one of three extended programs that take place or begin this weekend at La Casa de Maria and its Center for Spiritual Renewal here in Montecito.

Her Cultivating Emotional Balance: Steady Your Mind, Strengthen Your Heart study series helps participants find balance through mindful awareness and the practice of compassion for ourselves and others, with some material drawn from her forthcoming book Heartwork: The Path to SelfCompassion. The series takes place 9:30 am to 4:30 pm on Saturday, April 29, and 2:30 to 6 pm on four successive Sundays, April 30 to May 21. Details online at www.lacasademaria.org/events Anam Cara II: Restoring the Harmony of Life Through Celtic Spirituality – which takes place this Friday to Sunday, is a retreat that invites us more deeply into the mys-

Coping with Consequences

The Solidarity & Compassion Project, created by One Dharma Sangha’s Radhule Weininger and several of her fellow local meditation teachers in response to last November’s election results, meets each first Tuesday of the month, also at Trinity Episcopal Church. “How to Be with Our Fear” is the topic for the 7 pm event on May 2, when the preBefore the race, my brother was really calm. He just told me to have fun out there. – Kent Desormeaux

tery of Celtic Spirituality with application to everyday life and our relationship to our bodies and humanity.

Through myth, prayer, and poetry, participants will explore the Celtic call “to be wild with a wild God.” Led by Michael Fish, OSB Cam, a member of the New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur. Finally, you can connect even more deeply with the land in a hands-on way via Renewing Holy Ground: A Work & Garden Weekend, in which participants join staff in the stewardship of La Casa’s grounds and facilities. Help tend the orchard and gardens and participate in other work projects appropriate to your individual skill level. The inexpensive weekend ($75) includes lodging in the Casa San Ysidro dormitory and sharing in the community of working, gardening, and praying together.

A New Eye Toward “I”

Gary Simmons’s 2001 book The I of the Storm: Embracing Conflict, Creating Peace integrated spiritual principles, biblical quotes, martial arts philosophy, and concepts from quantum theory to formulate a method to go beyond merely managing the conflict to realizing peace in our lives. Now Unity of Santa Barbara’s Reverend Larry is facilitating a weekly course based on the book, which will meet 7 to 9 pm on Wednesdays from May 3 to June 7 (skipping May 17). Coming from Unity’s perspective that the only true relationship is one based upon wholeness, the class discussion aims to guide participants out of excuses, fears, and conflicts to create authentic relationships and quality living.

Details online at www.santabarbarau nity.org/i-storm-0.

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Montecito played heavily in the sponsorship of the performance with Richard and Annette Caleel, Irma and Morrie Jurkowitz, and Robert and Margo Feinberg among the key supporters.

Blazing Saddles Our rarefied enclave’s Museum of History was socially gridlocked for the opening its latest exhibition In the Saddle: Santa Barbara, Horses and the Way of the West.

Featuring an array of 27 saddles dating between 1700 and 1990, the fascinating equestrian show also featured ornate silver chased bridles and even chaps worn over the centuries.

Of particular interest is a beautiful leather-etched saddle that belonged to the late president Ronald Reagan and used at his Rancho Del Cielo, which he had gifted to his longtime Secret Service agent John Bartlett, who attended the debut bash.

Also featured was a 1930 saddle that belonged to Hollywood actor Clark Gable, who used to ride in the annual Rancheros Visitadores as a guest of the legendary Walt Disney, one used

by Lee Carrillo, who played Pancho in the popular 1950s TV series The Cisco Kid and an extremely ornate gold and silver one from 1924 that belonged to Will Rogers.

“They cost about $500 to make at the time, which was a great deal of money,” said guest curator Tom Peterson, who worked with Bill Reynolds and Susan Jensen, and the staff of the Carriage & Western Art Museum.

“Now, some of them would be worth at least $100,000.”

Among the inquisitive equestrians at the show, which runs though September 3, were David and Sharon Bradford, Steve and Joan Siegel, Richard and Kay Glenn, Bob and Bill Burtness, museum director Lynn Brittner, Wilson Quarre and Peggy Wiley, Thomas and Sheila Lambert, Jon Bull, my Journal colleague

Lee Fisher, rancher; SBHM Board members Randy Fox and Terry Bartlett; trail rider Chip Preshrey; and Paul Singer of J Bar S Ranch (photo by Priscilla)

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To the Rescue Our tony town’s Rescue Mission hosted an Easter Feast for our community’s more impoverished residents, and for the 10th year I volunteered my services as a waiter.

I was in good company with former Sopranos actor Michael Imperioli and his wife, Victoria, as we served an early dinner of 180 pounds of ham, 120 pounds of potatoes, and 125 pounds of carrots, prepared by kitchen director Wesley Jones and his hard-working team, to 300 guests, rounded off with desserts of chocolate cake, lemon meringue pie, and cheesecake.

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Bearing Down The Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation threw its 3rd annual Breakfast For Heroes at Fess Parker’s DoubleTree, attracting 300 early risers and raising more than $50,000 for the 15-year-old charity that is expecting to help 180 families this year, with a 23-percent increase in requests for financial help.

In the past decade and a half, the nonprofit has donated $1.7 million between 1,808 people in the tri-counties.

The sunrise event, which was co-chaired by Emilee Garfield and Adriana Mezic, featured for-

“The foundation alleviates the financial and emotional strains families experience when caring for a child battling cancer,” says Shelby Thomas, special events director. “Families are able to focus on what is most important: their child.”

Among bleary eyed supporters turning out for the worthy cause, which gave its Little Hero Award to Eliana Georges, were Bruce Heavin, Lynda Weinman, Hiroko Benko, Ginni Dreier, Keith Berry, David Edelman, Heather Ayer, Matt Fish, Wells Hughes, Mark Hunt, Lindsey Leonard, Bibi Moezzi, Leifur Thordarson, Gillian Valentine, Maria Wilson, and J. Paul Gignac.

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A most rewarding afternoon.

Good Impressions Magnificent Muscovite Lilya Zilberstein was the undoubted star of the show when the Santa Barbara Symphony, under Austrian guest conductor Christian Arming, played Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg’s 1868 piano concerto in A minor in a Northern Impressions concert.

The international keyboardist was in her element after a short but delightful piece, Festina Lente for Strings by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt.

The performance, before which there was a moment of silence in honor of the late Michael Towbes, concluded with Finnish composer Jean Sibelius’s stirring Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major.

A delightful evening.

Lowe and Behold Montecito actor Rob Lowe got an earful from his sons, Matthew and John Owen, when he brought them along for a spot on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

“Well, he’s just, like – he’s a manchild,” said 21-year-old John, while 23-year-old Matthew had to lecture his lighting-obsessed father: “Life is not a movie set.”

The tony trio were plugging their upcoming A& E adventure show The Lowe Files, which Rob says focuses on “paranormal activity, freaky, scary urban legends.”

“As a father, I like to teach lessons,” says Rob. “If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right.”

Rob, who was featured as Sodapop Curtis in the 1983 Francis Ford Coppola film The Outsiders, recalled a nostalgic jaunt he’d taken re: the film last month.

He’d rung in his birthday March 17.

“It was my 53rd. I stopped counting at 50, but it was something beyond 50. I went back to where I spent my 18th birthday, which was the set of The Outsiders in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

“It transpired they’ve turned the house into a museum and they have some of my wardrobe, and I was like ‘Dare I try on my 18-year-old shirt?’

And I did, and it worked! So, it was the best birthday gift I ever had.”

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Home Alone TV talk show host Ellen DeGeneres is taking another try at selling her Los Angeles home.

The 59-year-old former Oscars host, who recently put her Montecito 17-acre, 1930s Tuscan-style, Villa di Lemma, on the market for $45 million, as I chronicled in this illustrious organ, recently re-listed a luxury condo she owns with actress Portia De Rossi.

The spacious apartment in the exclusive Beverly West towers, which is selling just shy of $7 million, features panoramic views of the Big Orange.

The 3,800-sq.-ft. pad has two bedrooms, two-and-a-half bathrooms, and floor-to-ceiling windows.

For those in the market for something more short-term, the space is available for rent for $23,500 per month.

Ellen and Portia originally put the condo, which overlooks the oh-so-tony L.A. Country Club, on the market for $7.5 million in 2014. The dynamic duo picked up the condo for $6.2 million the same year.

Century Status Former Montecito resident Michael Douglas, who helped his legendary father, Kirk, celebrate his 100th birthday at the Beverly Hills Hotel in December, feels fortunate his dad is still alive.

The 72-year-old actor has a strong bond with the former Hollywood icon and enjoys hanging out with him when he can.

“He’s still sharp, got a good sense of humor, and can share deep stories that go beyond father and son,” says Michael.

Though the Spartacus star is in good health, Michael says his father is lonely because so many of his good friends – including comic Don Rickles, who died this month – have passed away.

“It’s been a difficult time for my father right now – when you get to that age, you don’t have many friends left. It’s a little more lonely.”

And while Kirk, who splits his time between his Montecito home and Beverly Hills estate, is doing well, he perks up even more if Michael’s Welsh actress wife Catherine ZetaJones, 47, comes to visit.

Michael told the TV show Extra, for which I was a longtime correspondent: “He’s a lot better when my wife’s out here. He seems to perk up when Catherine’s around.”

Despite his own advancing years, the Wall Street actor is still as busy as ever in his own career.

“I’m busier than I ever thought I would be at this age. We got a new Ant-Man coming up. We start shooting soon. Possibly another Marvel

little secret that might come out. I’m working a lot.

“You try to pace yourself in terms of having a good time.”

Fond Farewell

Sightings: Former Charlie’s Angel Jaclyn Smith having fun at The Honor Bar...Singer Katy Perry lunching at the Coral Casino...Jon Hamm of Mad Men getting his Java jolt at Pierre Lafond Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmineards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal.

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Michael Towbes, R.I.P.

On a very personal note, I mark the passing of one of Santa Barbara’s greatest philanthropists, Michael Towbes, at the age of 87.

The Princeton and M.I.T. educated banker and developer, who lived with his charming wife, Anne, just a tiara’s toss from my Montecito manse, died of pancreatic cancer after a short but brave battle.

During my 10 years in our rarefied enclave, I would see the tony twosome at least two or three times a week, and it became a running joke between us when I would quip: “I haven’t seen you in ages!”

Michael, who had lived in our Eden by the Beach for more half a century, donated millions to local organizations, both personally and through his businesses, including the Unity Shoppe, the New Vic, Center Stage Theater, the Elings Park Foundation, and dozens of others.

It is fitting that one of the major beneficiaries of his boundless largesse, the Granada, will host a memorial service on Tuesday, May 23, at 2 pm.

A generous, gentle, courteous, and kind soul who will be much missed.

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 3710

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bids will be received and posted electronically on PlanetBids for:

Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3710 for the BRIDGE PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE PROGRAM-2ND CYCLE will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, May 9, 2017 to be publicly opened and read at that time. Any bidder who wishes its bid proposal to be considered is responsible for making certain that its bid proposal is actually delivered to said Purchasing Office. Bids shall be addressed to the General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and shall be labeled, “BRIDGE PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE PROGRAM2ND CYCLE, Bid No. 3710".

The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete the following: Deck Treatment with High Molecular Weight Methacrylate (HMWM), Epoxy Crack Injection, Concrete Spall Repair, Bridge Rail Repair and Painting, Wooden Deck Replacement, and other maintenance at seven bridges in the City of Santa Barbara per plans and specs. The Engineer’s estimate is $245,000. Each bidder must have a Class A General Engineering Contractor license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code.

The plans and specifications for this Project are available electronically at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. Plan and specification sets can be obtained from CyberCopy (located at 504 N Milpas St, cross street Haley) by contacting Alex Gaytan, CyberCopy Shop Manager, at (805) 884-6155. The City’s contact for this project is Max Kashanian, Project Engineer, 805-564-5450.

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

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations. The Federal minimum wage rates for this project as predetermined by the United States Secretary of Labor are set forth in Appendix B of the specifications and are available from California Deparment of Transportation Internet web site at http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/esc/oe/federal-wages/. Addenda to modify the Federal minimum wage rates, if necessary, will be issued to holders of these specifications. 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 Relates for similar classifications of labor, the Contractor and Subcontractors must pay not less than the higher wage rate. The City of Santa Barbara will not accept lower State wage rates not specifically included in the Federal minimum wage determinations. This includes “helper” (or other classifications based on hours of experience) or any other classification not appearing in the Federal wage determinations.

Where Federal wage determinations do not contain the State wage determinations otherwise available for use by the Contractor and Subcontractors, the Contractor and Subcontractors must pay not less than the Federal minimum wage rate which most closely approximates the duties of the employees in question. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts.

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

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

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

Effective March 1, 2015, Senate Bill 854 requires the City to only use contractors and subcontractors on public projects that have been registered with the State of California Department of Industrial Relations.

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

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 federal-aid contract has a goal of 5 percent DBE participation.

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 19991.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) provides a toll-free hotline to report bid rigging activities. Use the hotline to report bid rigging, bidder collusion, and other fraudulent activities. The hotline number is (800) 424-9071. The service is available 24 hours 7 days a week and is confidential and anonymous.. The hotline is part of the DOT's effort to identify and investigate highway construction contract fraud and abuse and is operated under the direction of the DOT Inspector General.

GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF SANTA BARBARA

William Hornung, C.P.M. PUBLISHED: April 12, 19 and 26, 2017 Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Starks Fitness, 2136 Red Rose Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. Jerad Starks, 2136 Red Rose Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 27, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN No. 2017-0000940.

Published April 26, May 3, 10, 17, 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Blissful Boutiques, 6263 Aberdeen Ave, Goleta, CA 93117. LMG Vendor Events LLC, 6263 Aberdeen Ave, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 7, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify

that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tania Paredes-Sadler. FBN No. 2017-0001067.

Published April 26, May 3, 10, 17, 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Miramar Sportswear; Miramar Sportswear Research & Development, 5930 Via Real St #2, Carpinteria, CA 93013. Stephen Kass, 5930 Via Real St #2, Carpinteria, CA 93013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 11, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tania Paredes-Sadler. FBN No. 2017-0001101.

Published April 26, May 3, 10, 17, 2017.

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

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HAYSCIENCE, 1187 Coast Village Road Suite 356, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

RETZKEDIN LLC, 1187 Coast Village Road Suite 356, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 24, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Noe Solis. FBN No. 2017-0001220.

Published April 26, May 3, 10, 17, 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Jenny Hoffman Designs, 132 Garden Street, STE 2B, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Koncept 1, INC., 132 Garden Street, STE 2B, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 13, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the

original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Connie Tran. FBN No. 2017-0001123.

Published April 26, May 3, 10, 17, 2017.

BID NO. 5531 DUE DATE & TIME: May 10, 2017 UNTIL 3:00P.M. Tree Removal & Pruning at Charles Meyer Desalination Plant Scope of Work to include trimming or removal of trees, bushes, and vines located at the Charles E. Meyer Desalination Plant located at 525 East Yanonali Street.

A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on May 3, 2017 at 1:00 p.m., at the Charles Meyer Desalination Plant, located at 525 Yanonali St, Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions.

The City of Santa Barbara is now conducting bid and proposal solicitations online through the PlanetBids System™. Vendors can register for the commodities that they are interested in bidding on using NIGP commodity codes at

http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/business/bids/purchasing.asp.

The initial bidders’ list for all solicitations will be developed from registered vendors.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications.

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 Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). 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. Contractors and Subcontractors must be registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code 1725.5. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR. Bidders are hereby notified that any service purchase order issued as a result of this bid may be subject to the provisions and regulations of the City of Santa Barbara Ordinance No. 5384, Santa Barbara Municipal Code, Chapter 9.128 and its impending regulations relating to the payment of Living Wages.

In the event of a conflict between Santa Barbara Living Wage and the California Department of Industrial Relations Prevailing Wage Rates, Contractor/Subcontractor shall pay the higher of the two classification rates.

The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California C61 Limited Specialty/D49 Tree Service Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive.

Bidders are hereby notified that a Bid Guaranty Bond in the form of a money order or a cashier’s certified check, payable to the order of the City, in the amount of 10% of the bid, or by a bond in said amount and payable to said City, signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. When submitting a bid via PlanetBids™, the Bid Guaranty Bond must be uploaded as part of your submittal AND the original Bid Guaranty Bond must be received by the bid date and time to be considered responsive.

Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California.

Bidders are hereby notified that a separate Performance Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. ______________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PLOTPINS; SWAYSMART MEDIA, PO Box 50035, Santa Barbara, CA 93150. Brooklyn West Films LLC, 216 Mohawk Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 6, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Connie Tran. FBN No. 2017-0001056.

Published April 26, May 3, 10, 17, 2017.

Catherine Ulrich, 3950 Via Real Apt 126, Carpinteria, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 3, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Connie Tran. FBN No. 2017-0000783.

Published April 12, 19, 26, May 3, 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Events By Emily, 5948 Casitas Pass Road, Carpinteria, CA 93013. Emily

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: “Giffy”; There Was One Flower; There Was One Flower Art, 3950 Via Real

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Published: April 26, 2017 Montecito Journal

Apt 126, Carpinteria, CA 93103. Anne B. Whittaker, 3950 Via Real Apt 126, Carpinteria, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 14, 2017.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tania ParedesSadler.

FBN No. 2017-0000783.

Published April 5, 12, 19, 26, 2017.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 17CV01470. To all interested parties:

27 April – 4 May 2017

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bids will be received and posted electronically on PlanetBids for: BID NO. 5529 DUE DATE & TIME: May 16, 2017 UNTIL 3:00P.M. Gibraltar Davit Replacement Scope of Work to remove existing davit, install small electric driven davit on Gibraltar Dam. Gibraltar Dam is a remote location accessible only by a 6 mile dirt road.

The City of Santa Barbara is now conducting bid and proposal solicitations online through the PlanetBids System™. Vendors can register for the commodities that they are interested in bidding on using NIGP commodity codes at

http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/business/bids/purchasing.as p. The initial bidders’ list for all solicitations will be

developed from registered vendors.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein.

Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained electronically via PlanetBids.

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 Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). 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. Contractors and Subcontractors must be registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code 1725.5. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California “A” General Engineering Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive.

Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California.

Bidders are hereby notified that a Performance Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California.

Bidders are hereby notified that a Bid Guaranty Bond in the form of a money order or a cashier’s certified check, payable to the order of the City, in the amount of 10% of the bid, or by a bond in said amount and payable to said City, signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. When submitting a bid via PlanetBids™, the Bid Guaranty Bond must be uploaded as part of your submittal AND the original Bid Guaranty Bond must be received by the bid date and time to be considered responsive.

The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of 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 in consideration of award.

___________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. Published: April 26, 2017 General Services Manager Montecito Journal

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 5526 Sealed proposals for Bid No. 5526 for the Highway 192 Overlay Project will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 24, 2017 to be publicly opened and read at that time. Any bidder who wishes its bid proposal to be considered is responsible for making certain that its bid proposal is actually delivered to said Purchasing Office. Bids shall be addressed to the General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and shall be labeled, “Highway 192 Overlay Project, Bid No. 5526".

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bids will be received and posted electronically on PlanetBids for:

The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete the following: lowering and raising utility covers as needed to accommodate a Caltrans overlay project per plans and specs. The estimated cost ranges from $100,000 to $200,000. Each bidder must have a Class A license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code.

A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on May 4, 2017 at 9:00 a.m., at City Office 219F, Stearns Wharf, Santa Barbara, to discuss the specifications and field conditions.

There will be an optional Pre-Bid Meeting scheduled for Tuesday, May 9th, 2017 at 10:30 AM at David Gebhard Meeting Room, 630 Garden Street, 93101.

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

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

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations.

In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts.

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

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

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

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

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

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

GENERAL SERVICES MANAGE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA

Petitioner Monica Cervantes-Gonzalez filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name of children from Dante Garcia and Duncan GarciaCervantes to Dante Cervantes and Duncan Cervantes, respectively. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and

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must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed April 11, 2017 by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: May 31, 2017 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 4/26, 5/3, 5/10, 5/17 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 17CV01073. To all interested parties: Petitioners Wynona and Michael Raquiza filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name of

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS

William Hornung, C.P.M. PUBLISHED: April 26 and May 3, 2017 Montecito Journal

child from Serenity Snow Raquiza to Snow Raquiza. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court

days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed March 14, 2017

by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: May 3, 2017 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 4/5, 4/12, 4/19, 4/26

Each May, about 120,000 mint juleps are consumed at Churchill Downs

BID NO. 5533 DUE DATE & TIME: May 16, 2017 UNTIL 3:00P.M. Stearns Wharf Annual Maintenance Repair for 2017 Scope of Work to include removal and replacement of deteriorated piles, pile caps, stringers and deck boards.

The City of Santa Barbara is now conducting bid and proposal solicitations online through the PlanetBids System™. Vendors can register for the commodities that they are interested in bidding on using NIGP commodity codes at

http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/business/bids/purchasing.asp.

The initial bidders’ list for all solicitations will be developed from registered vendors.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein.

Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977.

There is no charge for bid package and specifications.

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 Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). 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. Contractors and Subcontractors must be registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code 1725.5. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California General A Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive.

Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California.

Bidders are hereby notified that a separate Performance Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work.

The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. __________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager

Published: April 26, 2017 Montecito Journal

Notice of Public Hearing 2015 Urban Water Management Plan Update and Water Use Targets (SBX7-7) Montecito Water District is currently preparing an update to its Urban Water Management Plan (UWMP) in compliance with the California Urban Water Management Planning Act. The District will hold a Public Hearing before the Board of Directors to receive and consider input regarding the proposed revisions and updates to the UWMP. The Public Hearing will be held On Tuesday, May 16 at 2pm at Montecito Fire Protection District, 595 San Ysidro Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108 The proposed updates to the UWMP is available for public review prior to the Public Hearing at the District Office, 583 San Ysidro Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108, and on the District’s web site, www.montecitowater.com, as of April 20, 2017.

Comments can be provided up until the date of the Public Hearing to: Adam Kanold, Engineering Manager, akanold@montecitowater.com Montecito Water District 583 San Ysidro Road Santa Barbara, CA 93108 Phone: 805.969.2271 Fax: 805. 805.969.7261 Published: April 26 and May 3, 2017 Montecito Journal

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agement team, as well as a checking account.

For more information about the MClub, call Maria McCall at (805) 564-7362 or go online: montecito.bank.

Bullets Over Broadway

(Clockwise from top left) Elvis Pagano is Aldo, Cole Hanson is Cheech, Penny O’Mahoney plays Olive Neal, and Ben Zevallos is David Shayne in SBHS production of Bullets Over Broadway (photo credit: An Pham)

This year is moving just too fast.

Earlier, say, in January, I spoke with SBHS Drama Department head Otto Layman; we were both in line at Paseo Nuevo waiting to buy a movie ticket. He told me about Bullets Over Broadway, and explained that Santa Barbara High School had the honor of presenting the very first high school production of Woody Allen’s Tony Award-winning musical. I wanted to make sure to cover it and saw that there was plenty of time.

Well, time has run out and the show opens this weekend, Friday April 28.

If you are new to the Santa Barbara area and/or have never seen a local high school production, you are in for a treat. I have not seen any rehearsals and haven’t spoken to any of the cast members this time around, but having seen perhaps as many as a dozen (if not more) Otto Layman musical productions over the past 20 years, I can assure one and all that they will enjoy Bullets Over Broadway if they enjoy Broadway tunes, live acting and singing by talented – always talented, and Otto brings out the best in everyone – young performers, professional sets, an accomplished orchestra, and, well, they can’t go wrong. We plan to have more in next week’s issue, including photos and a review.

Ticket prices are $10 for students, $15 for adults, and a big $25 for up-front reserved seating. Performances are Friday, April 28, at 7 pm; Saturday, April 29, at 2 pm and again at 7 pm; Friday, May 5, at 7 pm; Saturday, May 6, at 2 pm and 7 pm; and a final performance on Sunday, May 7, at 2 pm, at which there will be a special farewell to the senior class performers.

For tickets, go to www.sbhstheatre. com.

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Interior Logic

It was a week for politics, as U.S. secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke visited and spoke at the Reagan Ranch Center on lower State Street.

Attendees had to negotiate their way through a throng of “protestors” at the front and side entrance to the Ranch Center, but it all went on peacefully enough, despite the loud chanting that continued outside throughout most of Mr. Zinke’s talk.

His Interior Department oversees an area that constitutes one-fifth of the territory of the United States, with 471 parks and wildlife refuges, along with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of Land Management.

Zinke called his position “an enormous responsibility” that encompasses 12 time zones, “from the U.S. Virgin Islands all the way to American Samoa.”

The secretary called President Trump “a great boss” and “not a micromanager.” Zinke’s first presidential vote was for Ronald Reagan, whose motto at that time, Zinke recalls, was “Make America Great Again.”

He said that he is part of the effort to “drain the swamp” in Washington, D.C., but that there has been “a little backflow problem.” Not to worry, he says, “I come from generations of plumbers; we’ll get it.”

He seemed to have done his homework and knew more about the Channel Islands than many who’ve lived here their whole lives and he’d only been Interior secretary for less than a month. As for caring for the environment, he called himself a “Boy Scout,” who was taught to leave a campsite in the same condition it was before he got there. That’s how he’ll treat his domain, he promises. “Think big; think bold,” is his command from the president. Last year, 330 million people walked through the country’s national parks.

Zinke says he was “surprised at how small the Yosemite Valley is” and is looking at systems of moving people through, particularly in buses, trolleys, or vehicles “that people will want to ride in.”

He spoke of wind farms and says that estimates are that such farms kill as many as 750,000 wild birds each year, particularly migratory birds.

“It’s a concern,” he says, though adds that there “is a place for wind, but not in migratory corridors.”

He called the solar plant outside Las Vegas “a kind of Mad Max” array that zapped pretty much anything that flew over it, especially insects but also birds. He notes that birds are zapped and head for earth in a smoky death spiral; “they’re called streamers,” he notes. The dead birds attract more insects, which attract more birds, et cetera. “We need to be

U.S. secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke (left) confers with Santa Barbara City councilman Dale Francisco after Zinke’s speech at the Reagan Ranch Center

thoughtful how we derive our energy,” he advised. “Let’s make coal and natural gas cleaner... because we need the energy.” He later added, “God’s got a sense of humor. He gave us fracking.”

“As it turns out, I’m the water master as well,” he responds to a question about water for farmers in California.

“We’re not very good at storing and collecting our water,” so, he says, “we have to look at our infrastructure.” He suggested Californians “need to be more efficient about collection” and would “have to accept that we have to build a collection system... We’ve got to build more storage, and to figure out what is the best way of moving water from where there is too much to where there isn’t enough.”

Chumash tribal chairman Ken Hahn was in the audience and responded to a lengthy question on annexation.

“Sovereignty should mean something,” Zinke said. “As sovereign nations, [tribes] should have the ability to carve out their own destiny.”

Hahn called the process “broken” and thanked Zinke for his position on sovereignty.

Natural seepage in Santa Barbara Channel, the secretary notes, is “about ten thousand gallons [of oil] a day.”

He says he’s “looking at that,” admitting that it’s a sensitive subject because “this is the site of the 1969 spill that set off the environmental movement.” He promises that whatever actions are taken will be decided “on the basis of science.” He credited Republicans for many environmental advances: clean air, clean water, et cetera, and had nice things to say about the group chanting slogans outside. “Every voice counts,” he said as he concluded the Q&A after his talk.

Hotchkiss Running for Mayor!

Frank Hotchkiss, the twoterm Santa Barbara City councilman, announced he’s in the race to become Santa Barbara City mayor last Saturday. “I’m in it to win it!” he says during a short conversation

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Although Santa Barbara Police chief Lori Luhnow and Santa Barbara City councilman Frank Hotchkiss seem to be on separate sides of the “transient” issue (he says we need to get tougher, she says she doesn’t want to “promote a culture of bullying”), they got together recently during a “Freedom Gathering” at the Montecito home of Susan and Palmer Jackson, Jr.

at the home of Palmer and Susan Jackson, Jr., during last week’s “Freedom Gathering” at the couple’s Montecito home.

Hotchkiss had kind words for the current mayor, who as it happens is in Dingle, Ireland, with a small group attempting to rekindle enthusiasm for the Sister Cities program.

Hotchkiss had been waiting to see if another more or less conservative candidate would step forward but decided to take the step himself and see what happens. His issues include opposition to a proposed one-cent additional sales tax, getting tougher on Santa Barbara’s transient population, opposition to rent control, and trimming the city’s budget. He also believes that, while protecting the environment is important, humans should have a higher priority for water resources than fish or salamanders.

We wish him well!

Driving It Home

Hunter Ranch Golf Course owners report a break-in at their golf shop a week ago in which a number of top-name and expensive clubs were stolen. Sensing that the thieves may try to sell the clubs online, they ask if anyone does respond to an online ad offering TaylorMade M1 or M2 drivers and a whole list of TaylorMade clubs – including OS CB putters, OS Monte Carlo putters, and TP Collection putters – to call the local police and report the sellers. Other clubs include Titleist 910 drivers, Callaway Epic drivers and hybrids, along with a series of Odyssey, Cleveland, and Ping Cadence putters.

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Chet Clark.

In his long career, he opened for top jazz artists including Ella Fitzgerald, Billy Eckstine, and Oscar Peterson.

He worked with Shirley Bassey, Billy Daniels, and Dorothy Dandridge. The credits go on for pages.

In 1991, Peter and his late wife, Dallas, acquired Andria’s Harborside restaurant in Santa Barbara, where he was featured at the piano bar.

They sold the restaurant in 2001. Then he accompanied other greats such as Stan Getz and Frankie Laine. Some of you may remember Jane Russell, who lived here. Peter was her accompanist many times, even on the Crystal Symphony for a cruise. He has also appeared in Russia many times.

A few of the friends wishing Peter a happy 79th were Jelinda and Barry DeVorzon, Helen and Jim Buckley, Henry Bartley, Janet and Steve Law, Ruth and Bob Reingold, Morrie Jerkowitz, Arthur and Monica Pettersen, Alan Porter, Greg Cook, Julianna Freidman and Tom Dain, Debbie Borfen, Diana and Ralph McFarlane, Yvone and Dave Bazinett, and Mr. and Mrs. John Thyne III. Gloria wanted to give a special shout-out to Merle Brown for her party planning skills and to the Maitland Ward group for their music.

Cigar and napkin design were by Leslie Person of the Letter Perfect shop.

One of the senior class for NCL Poppy Brittingham with dad Scott

service, leadership development, and cultural experiences.

President Ann Marquis kicked off the evening by explaining NCL,”Each Ticktocker during her six years in NCL (7th to 12th grades) participates in the early years with a focus on communication, preparing for high school, self-image, and respect for others. As they mature, they discuss drug and alcohol abuse with mentors, learn interviewing techniques, and career development. They also learn public speaking, leadership, time management, and etiquette. During junior and senior years, they focus on poise and presentation. It may look like modeling, but it is actually training them to hold themselves with confident elegance and self-assurance that aids success in future endeavors.”

This evening the ballroom was set with a fabulous runway for the fashion show from 11 different stores NCL past presidents Jeannie Burford and Amy Mayfield

Head of the Class

Every year, the National Charity League (NCL) honors its senior class with a recognition ceremony. This year, there were 24 young ladies recognized who had chosen their theme of the Great Gatsby, because the flapper era was the beginning of emancipation for women. The Fess Parker was filled with more than 500 parents, daughters, siblings, and friends for a

social hour, the big fashion show, and dinner.

In case you don’t know what NCL is, Santa Barbara’s chapter supports 21 local non-profit organizations with its mission to foster mother-daughter relationships in a philanthropic organization (not fundraising but volunteering) committed to community

with the seniors and juniors as models. My longtime friend from the LaBelle Modeling Agency days, Julie Walsmith, has directed this show and the girls for 16 years. The senior graduates were: Nicole Belton, Poppy Brittingham, Grace Burford, Emily

Condon, Nicole DeBevoise, Isabelle Doubleday, Josie Doughty, Chloe Hamer, Amanda Hayes, Natasha Heyer, Grace Ingram, Kate Mascari, Delaney Mayfield, Eveline Mayner, Julia McMahon, Catherine Mesipam, Brittany Prentice, Erica Schroeder, Olivia Siemens, Brooklyn Snyder, Lili Soth, Chloe Stevens, Giulia Tasca, and Delaney Werner.

The fathers all looked handsome in their tuxes with a white-rose boutonnière as they danced with their daughters in long gowns following the show. This year’s graduating class from seven different high schools has collectively volunteered 6,423 hours over the past six years. Senior Delaney Werner was the recipient of the Senior Service Award for volunteering the most hours, 603, and gave the keynote address stating, “I am grateful for NCL having laid the groundwork for me to discover my interests and full potential while refining my leadership skills.” The whole class will be going on to college.

Co-chairs and NCL patronesses Carol Ann Maynar and Marie DeBevoise handled all the details for this exciting evening. As Carol Ann said, “I am very grateful to have worked so closely with these young women. And of course, we would like to thank our wonderful stores for the fabulous fashions they generously donated for the show.”

We’ll all be waiting for another extravaganza next year!

Oops!

I mistakenly gave credit to the wrong person at the Jewish Federation Women’s Philanthropy luncheon.

Leslie Cane Schneiderman, not Laini Millar Melnick, interviewed Sherry Lansing. So sorry.

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

FRIDAY, APRIL 28 Mariachi Mavens – It’s something of a misunderstanding that mariachi is the domain of men. Although males have long dominated the musical form that hails from Jalisco, Mexico, three all-women groups took up performing in Mexico City back in the middle of last century and, dressed in colorful traditional skirts and blouses, could often be seen playing in the background during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Mariachi Femenil Nuevo Tecalitlán, who hail from Guadalajara, represent a deep family tradition as Lupita Martinez, who directs and performs along with her sister, guitarist Adriana, are the daughters of Fernando Martinez, who co-founded Mariachi Nuevo Tecalitlán with their uncle, Pepe, who was also the director of Mariachi Vargas until he passed away last year. The 11-member strong Mariachi Femenil has recorded two CDs and toured extensively in Mexico and worldwide, and now comes to Santa Barbara County for three free family concerts showcasing their traditional sound, courtesy of ¡Viva el Arte de Santa Bárbara! The group will also offer a free workshop 6:30 to 8:30 pm on Thursday, April 27, at Franklin Elementary School, 1111 East Mason Street, and perform a special Studio Sundays set at 2 pm April 30 at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1130 State Street. WHEN: 7 tonight – Sunday WHERE: Isla Vista School, 6875 El Colegio Road (Friday); Guadalupe City Hall, 918 Obispo

Street, Guadalupe (Saturday); Marjorie Luke Theatre at Santa Barbara Junior High, 721 East Cota St. (Sunday) COST: free INFO: 884-4087, ext. 7, or www. facebook.com/VivaelArteSB/ Climate Odyssey Art – What if visual art could be used to communicate climate science? Environmental artist Lucy Holtsnider and hydrologist Dr. Zion Klos sailed more than 3,000 miles in a wooden catamaran on a year-long journey in 2015 to document climate change impacts and adaptation strategies. Their goal was to create resources that communicate the effects in a visual way and to share their findings through art. The public can see the images, artifacts, and artwork they produced at a new exhibit at Art From Scrap Gallery that opens this evening.

Holtsnider and Klos will also share their project at a Science Pub event held in conjunction with the exhibit from 6:30 to 8 pm on Monday, May 8, at Dargan’s Irish Pub downtown. WHEN: Opening reception 6 to 8 pm tonight; exhibit continues through June 4 WHERE: Art From Scrap Gallery, 302 E. Cota St. COST: free INFO: 884-0459 or www. exploreecology.org/art-from-scrap-santabarbara.php Founding Day Festival – El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park hosts the celebration marking the 235th birthday of the city’s founding featuring Presidio neighborhood businesses and local entertainment in the heart of downtown. The free event begins with a

THURSDAY, APRIL 27 Earle Music – Singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle, whose famous outlaw country-rock icon father Steve Earle gave him his middle name in honor of Steve’s mentor Townes Van Zandt, marks a decade into his own recording career with an ambitious new album following two highly personal efforts (Single Mothers and Absent Fathers, released four months apart in 2014-15). Kids In The Street, which marks Earle’s New West Records debut, won’t be officially released until May 26 but has already earned Earle some early praise, with Vice’s music site Noisey suggesting that the album “looks to update folk music for the modern audience” as it raises the creative and personal stakes in a soulful set that traverses folk to country and blues.

The now 35-year-old – who has been sober for more than six years following years following in his father’s footsteps battling addiction and spending time in jail – is out on the road with a new show that features The Sadies, the veteran Canadian four-piece folk-rock group whose sound incorporates 1960s garage and psychedelic rock, surf instrumentals, punk rock, and more, as his backing band and opening act.

We hope to hear the perhaps confessional new song “15-25”, with lyrics that include “I’ve always been a stubborn kind of guy... I know I’m probably lucky I survived... I could be doing 25 to life” as well as tearjerker “Faded Valentine”, the surprisingly upbeat “What’s Goin’ Wrong”, and his starkly acoustic interpretation of Paul Simon’s “Graceland”. Having previously played the Lobero as part of the Sings Like Hell series, Earle returns this time under the auspices of New Noise Music Foundation and Numbskull Productions. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 33 East Canon Perdido St. COST: $25 & $33 INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com

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EVENTS

by Steven Libowitz

FRIDAY, APRIL 28 Crystal-clear Vision – Singer-songwriter Crystal Bowersox, who left home to busk on the streets of Chicago at age 17, caught her big break when she placed second Season 9 of American Idol in early 2010.

Her emotive folk-rock-country music, blessed with her old-soul voice and a don’t-mess-with-me attitude gained from her teenage travails set her apart from the other contestants and eventually landed the self-taught musician a record deal and dates opening for Joe Cocker, Harry Connick, Jr., and Alanis Morissette. Farmer’s Daughter, Bowersox’s 2010 debut, made it to the Top 30 on the Billboard album chart, but 2013’s follow-up, All That For This, produced by Los Lobos’s Steve Berlin and featuring Jakob Dylan, only reached No. 71, despite strong reviews, and she has yet to put out any physical product since. Still, Bowersox remains an intriguing and adventurous singer-songwriter, as well as an advocate for understanding of Type 1 Diabetes, with which she was diagnosed at age 6, well worth hearing when she plays a date in the acoustically accommodating Lobero Theatre tonight, three years after her Santa Barbara debut at SOhO. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 33 East Canon Perdido St. COST: $30 & $35 ($105 patron tickets include priority seating and preconcert private reception; $85 VIP tickets include preferred seating and meet-andgreet before the concert) INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com

community prayer service in front of the Presidio Chapel honoring the founding families, followed by an outdoor Founding Day program featuring Los Soldados del Real Presidio de Santa Bárbara, early California dance and musical performances, and living history stations, stage performances, and tours that focus on the history and culture of California.

Enjoy exhibits of heritage gardening, colonial cooking, pottery making, Chumash storytelling, archaeology, plus performances by local musicians, artists, and dancers (including Folk Orchestra of Santa Barbara, Mariachi Las Olas de Santa Barbara, Chris Fossek, and Linda Vega Dance Studio). Walk through the neighborhood with a docent-led tour of historic Chinatown and see the permanent Japanese exhibit Nihonmachi Revisited. WHEN: noon to 4 pm WHERE: 23 East Canon Perdido Street COST: free INFO: 965-0093 or www. sbthp.org/founding-day SUNDAY, APRIL 30 Sing It Out! – It wouldn’t be inaccurate to describe tonight’s performance culminating one of the programs of AHA! (which stands for Attitude-Harmony-Achievement) as a cross between Teen Star and the Breakthrough Performance Workshop.

What’s particularly notable is that the dozen teenagers who will take to the stage at the Lobero Theatre to perform solo renditions of rock and roll covers backed by Tina Schlieske and the Graceland Exiles with Sister Laura weren’t exactly expert musicians when

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their journey began three months ago.

AHA! helps approximately 2,500 area teens per year become more socially and emotionally intelligent, accepting, compassionate, connected, and empowered, thus building peace and progress in the community and beyond.

The youths in Sing It Out! start as nonmusician, non-performers who then receive top-notch support and coaching from facilitators and music coaching, joined by a couple of staff members who go through the same after-school training program. Getting to the point where they can bust out a rock and roll song backed by a live band is a transformative process wherein the teens not only learn to overcome fears and individual challenges, but also how to support their peers, accept support from others, and to stand tall and sing their hearts open in the face of fear. Previously held at Deckers Rotunda in Goleta, the concert moves to the Lobero this year, adding an extra level of professionalism to the proceedings. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: 33 East Canon Perdido St. COST: $30 general, $12 ages under 21 ($130 VIP tickets include preferred seating and a private, pre-event reception from 6 to 7:15 pm with heavy appetizers, beer, wine, and a signature cocktail) INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com God’s Problem Child – That’s the title for Willie Nelson’s latest of his 200plus albums released over more than 60 years, this one out just last Friday. The disc that includes “I’m Not Dead”, which references recurrent hoaxes announcing the legendary country-outlaw singersongwriter’s demise. Still, such poking of fun and maybe the album’s moniker

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SATURDAY, APRIL 29 Dancing Oak Debut – The Ojai Concert Series heads outdoors for the warm weather months as the summer series begins at the Dancing Oak Ranch, the grassy expanse nestled in a wooded canyon on a private estate located a mile off Highway 150, halfway between Carpinteria and Lake Casitas. Kicking things off are The Fenians, the quarter-century-old group (named for the Irish republican brotherhood formed in the mid-1800s) that blends traditional Irish folk with rock and roll, drawing on an ever-expanding repertoire of original creations, as well as contemporary and traditional tunes. Their foundation is decidedly Celtic, but with influences of folk, bluegrass, and jazz that take their music out of the realm of the usual. Having recorded nine albums, the Fenians – Terry Casey, Rob Williams, Brendan Harkins, Tardu Yegin, and Chris Pierce – are also two-time winners of the “Best World Music” category at the Orange County Music Awards. As with all Dancing Oaks shows, gates open at 5 pm, a local opening act starts playing at 5:30, and the main act hits the stage at 7 pm.

There’s also an optional potluck picnic; bring a dish to share and join in for food and drinks with friends and the band under the oaks. Coming later in the summer: Whiskerman (pick-and-grin folk, ecstatic psychedelia, and sturdily constructed poprock) on June 24, and Sam Chase and The Untraditional (Americana rock) on September 9. WHERE: 4585 Casitas Pass Road, Ventura COST: $20 general, $10 kids 7-14 (available only in advance, not at the door) INFO: 665-8852 or www. ojaiconcertseries.com

might be tempting fate, as Nelson suffered health problems serious enough to result in canceling seven concerts earlier this year and reportedly seemed to have orientation issues during a show in Texas on April 22. As it is, the title song, composed by Jamey Johnson and Tony Joe White, features vocals by the late Leon Russell in one of his last recordings, while “He Won’t Ever Be Gone”, written by Gary Nicholson, pays tribute to another recently departed contemporary, Merle Haggard. Nelson and frequent writing partner/producer Buddy Cannon composed the majority of the rest of the album, which also features “Delete and Fast-Forward”, the famed

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musician/activist’s view on the 2016 election, as Nelson injects his voice into the fray. Tonight’s concert at the Santa Barbara Bowl comes just one night after Nelson – who catapulted to commercial and critical success with his mid-’70s albums Shotgun Willie, Red Headed Stranger, and Stardust – was slated to celebrate turning 84 by headlining at the Stagecoach Festival in Indio.

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Revel-ing in May Day – Santa Barbara Revels ninth annual May Day Celebration is a free community affair bursting with traditional activities and song like the flowers on Figueroa Mountain following this winter’s rains.

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shows I did for free. I’ll never catch up to that with paying gigs. But it’s good training. I’ve equated improv with martial arts: You get good at instinctively reacting to whatever situation arrives. In the real world, if you were protecting yourself, you have no idea what a person coming at you is going to do, but you just protect yourself.

It’s kind of like that in improv.

Logistically, caffeine is always helpful. But because the show is always different, you have those opening-night jitters every single night.

We’re always flying by the seat of our pants. That’s pretty good rocket fuel to keep you from sitting back on your

heels and not trying.

So there’s always some nervousness?

No, that word implies fear of failure.

And if you’re a good improviser, you don’t fear failure because you should be on the brink of failure all the time.

It’s more of an excitement of “What the hell is going to happen?” It’s “Oh, boy, here we go!” We know we are good enough to make it not suck, but we also have to make it funny, and that’s the challenge.

Fear as a motivator but not an energy sapper.

You just have to fully surrender to it

in a Zen sort of way. The best improv is pulled out of the air with the adrenaline as the conduit. When you say something funny, it’s great, but the dry erase board is wiped clean in the next moment and you start over. The last thing you said might be the last funny thing in that scene if you don’t keep the energy going.

You’ve developed a trust with Colin after so many years, of course. But on the flip side, how do you avoid falling into patterns, if not ruts, in how you relate to each other on stage?

That’s the constant asset and liability that any good duo improvisers

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have to keep track of. You learn to trust implicitly, but not do things that are predictable. To do improv is to do funny stuff in a different way every single time. That’s the trick of it.

What are each of your strengths and weaknesses, would you say?

You know, in the early days of Whose Line doing a hoedown was a stretch for Colin. But we do so much music now that he’s killing it at making up songs and lyrics. It might not have been his gig before, but it is now.... (otherwise), his humor comes from energy, characters, and reactions. Mine mostly comes from the way I say things because I tend to be more wordy. I use a thousand words and he can get people to laugh with just a look.

How do you think your skill at improv shows up in your life?

Everybody improvises all day long, of course. The difference is we’re trying to make it funny. If I were as good at my own life as I am at improv, I wouldn’t have any problems. But no matter how good you are at listening to your performing partner, the everyday stresses get in the way of that. I haven’t been able to master that skill.

I’m only good at improv when 1,000 people are watching.

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Animal instincts also come in handy during the Santa Barbara Zoo’s “IMPROVology” series (née “Zoo’s Line Is It Anyway?”), which returns next Thursday, May 4, with the same format: prominent animal experts sharing their stories, which then become the fodder for comedy skits created on-the-spot by members of L.A.’s Impro Theatre Company.

The theme for the next family-friendly event is Otters, Worms & Parrots, while Mountain Lions, Stinging Insects & Evolutionary Traits comprise the lineup for the June 15 show.

Pianist Konrad Kono provides the musical accompaniment and local celebs, including KEYT’s Alan Rose and John Palminteri, and Starshine Roshell of The Independent, “judge” the performances. Show time is 7:30 pm in the zoo’s Discovery Pavilion.

Tickets are $15 ($12 for Zoo members).

Visit www.sbzoo.org or call 962-5339.

Want to try your hand at doing improv but are maybe feeling too intimidated to attend the weekly Wednesday workshop where longtime performers share the stage with newbies? Santa Barbara Improv Workshop is offering a special one-day Intro to Improv this Sunday afternoon geared toward those who are new or just curious if they’re capable. The 2:30 to 5:30 pm class takes place at Jefferson Hall, 1525 Santa Barbara Street (home of the regular workshop) and costs $30.

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Ad insertion date: Showtimes for April 28-May 4 Ad creation/delivery date: Tuesday, April 25, 2017 at 4:29:13 PM caind_met04 Details online at www.sbimprov.com. “Let’s Misbehave”, “Tain’t Nobody’s portrays Joe Boyd, a fan of the hap- which hopefully will hit the stage as Meanwhile, the group’s next monthly performance is its annual science fiction-themed show, slated for Saturday, May 6, at 8 pm, at Jefferson Hall.

Admission is $5.

Also, out at UCSB, the student-run Improvability offers two shows every Friday night at Embarcadero Hall in Isla Vista. Admission is just $3 for the 8 pm show, $2 at 10 pm. Perhaps to pay tribute to that night’s competition at the Chumash, this week’s theme is “Whose Show Is It Anyway?” Coming up: “Improv Gets Medieval” (May 5), “Improv B.C.” (May 12), “Improvised Cinema” (May 19), “Wrestlemania” (May 26), and the annual 24-hour Improvathon show, slated for June 2-3. Check the Facebook page: www. facebook.com/ucsbimprovability.

Singing in the Schools

It’s one of the busier weeks of the year in the local theater scene, as not only do all of the established companies in town save for UCSB have a play in production, but three of the four main high schools are also staging musicals on their campuses, while Dos Pueblos just finished its run of The Addams Family over Earth Day weekend.

Santa Barbara is staging Bullets Over Broadway, the Tony Award-nominated 2014 musical adapted by Woody Allen from his own movie. Combining elements of The Godfather and The Producers, Bullets is the story of a young playwright in desperate need of financial backing who accepts an offer from a mobster looking to please his talentless showgirl girlfriend. The songs come from the Golden Age of Broadway, with such numbers as

less Washington Senators who trades his soul to the devil (Jason GonzalesLarson) in exchange for a new life as a baseball prodigy named Joe Hardy (Alex Marquis). Montecito-raised actress turned teacher-director Riley Berris helms the student production,

squarely as Joe’s bat crushes fastballs at 7 nightly May 4- 6 and 11-13 in the school’s auditorium, 4750 Hollister Ave. (On a personal note, as a longtime fan of the Boston Red Sox, this is one of my favorite musicals!) Tickets and info at www.shopsmroyals.org.

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Senior actor, writer, and football player Travis Smillie portrays the tortured title character in the thrilling musical mystery Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Stephen Sondheim’s 1979 Tony Award winner based on Christopher Bond’s play is the suspense-filled story of Sweeney, who takes out his vengeance on a corrupt judge via a deadly plan played out in his barber shop above a pie shop. Joan Curran portrays Mrs. Lovett in the production that gets staged 7 pm April 27-28, and 2 pm April 29, at Laguna Blanca’s Spaulding Auditorium, 4125 Paloma Drive. Admission is $10. Visit www. lagunablanca.org/Page/Arts/ Upcoming-Productions.

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$3,149,000 | 1385 Danielson Rd, Montecito | 3BD/3½BA Nancy Kogevinas | 805.450.6233

$2,775,000 | 4125 Lago Dr, Santa Barbara | 3BD/3BA Calcagno & Hamilton | 805.565.4000

$2,249,000 | 66 Tierra Cielo Ln, El Cielito/Las Canoas | 3BD/2½BA Team Scarborough | 805.331.1465

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