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The two contenders for 1st District Supervisor meet on stage at MUS in first Montecito face-to-face matchup, p.5

More than $200,000 worth of second-hand items, including artwork, furniture, antiques, clothing, sports and kitchen equipment, even vehicles up for grabs for one day only during Montecito’s biggest and best estate sale of the year (story on p.40)

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SHOWROOM 5 Guest Editorial

Bob Hazard breaks down the race for 1st District Supervisor, by the numbers, listing reasons to vote for Jennifer Christensen or Das Williams

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Gwyneth Paltrow comes to town; Drew Barrymore on First Dates; church bell; Katy Perry’s property; Zuckers’ books; Cameron Platt valedictorian; Davey’s Voice; PAL “Putting Kids First”; CADA’s Amethyst Ball; State Street Ballet bash; Women Fund of SB grants; and West of the West on L.A. television

8 Letters to the Editor

Edmund Geswein on minimum wage; Martha Blackwell, for the birds; Gordon Hartwig by the numbers; Jim Powell on water; Diane Graham on sewage; Dan Seibert offshore; and Rooster Bradford sounds off about populism

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Knit and crochet; poetry group; Sunio Ueda art exhibit; art gallery opening; Walk & Roll; Samarkand Spring show; Bead Elements & Design; candidates forum; May Madness; prayer retreat; Bill Dewey at Porch; foster care campaign; Four Fauves exhibit; Wayne Pacelle at Tecolote; Mindfulness Meditation; MA meeting; Martin Seay at Chaucer’s; The New Yorker; Family Fun 5K and Tot Trot; golf tourney; Sedgwick hike and more

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Casa Dorinda expansion granted conceptual approval; Silverhorn at Biltmore robbed and suspects sought; May Madness at MAW; Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation presents Great Gatsby event; Pearl Chase Society holds 16th home tour; farmers market not going anywhere; Coast Village Road car wash to open; and Westmont Commencement speakers announced

14 Seen Around Town

Lynda Millner gets into Bond 007 mode at Coral Casino for All Saints By-the-Sea Parish School; annual Mad Hatter’s luncheon; and Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network gala

16 Coming & Going

James Buckley starts with a Sides order courtesy of Allen and Anne; “Hope and Laughter” while interviewing J.T. Turner and Lucinda Winters Nash; SB Channelkeeper’s 16th Annual Blue Water Ball; Beau Lettieri writes about SB High theater’s Hair; and Laren Berris chronicles 9 to 5 at San Marcos High

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Steven Libowitz describes SB Choral Society’s Spring Gala “When in Rome…” fundraiser; SB Middle School hosts 1980s-themed dinner/auction; Roar and Pour at the Zoo; SCAPE at the Bacara

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

Jennifer Christensen or Das Williams?

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he June 7 election ballots are being mailed to you this week. Sixty percent of you will choose to vote by mail between Monday, May 9, and the cutoff date of Tuesday, May 31. If you are not yet registered to vote, the last date to do so is Monday, May 23.

Arguably the most important choice on the ballot for Montecito residents is the selection of a replacement for Salud Carbajal, our long-term First District Santa Barbara County supervisor, who is exiting his position to run for California’s 24th Congressional District of the U.S. Congress as a successor to the soon-to-retire Lois Capps.

On Friday, May 6, the Montecito Association is sponsoring a Candidates Forum, pitting would-be District 1 County supervisors Jennifer Christensen and Das Williams in a spirited debate at the Montecito Union Elementary School auditorium, beginning at 4:30 pm.

June 7 is not a primary. The race is over when residents of the First District, which includes Carpinteria, Summerland, Montecito, Mission Canyon, and Cuyama, as well as the Eastside, Westside, waterfront, downtown, Riviera, and San Roque sections of the City of Santa Barbara, make their selections.

James Buckley, owner-founder of Montecito Journal, presented a strong case and has endorsed Christensen as the right choice to replace Carbajal, in his April 14 editorial “Our Choice for First District Supervisor.” As a follow-up to James’s editorial, I asked each candidate to give me the top 10 reasons why voters should support him or her:

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I can get the 101 widened on time, on budget, and without filling our neighborhoods up with traffic. As your First District Supervisor, I will listen to and support the Montecito Association, the Montecito Planning Commission, and the Montecito Board of Architectural Review. #5. I can fix the county’s unfunded pension liability. I serve as an elected trustee and chair of the Santa Barbara County Employees’ Retirement System – the county’s pension fund with $2.5 billion in assets. I have earned the trust of county workers and union members. My opponent granted the unsustainable benefits that are putting a chokehold on the ability of public agencies to provide essential services to our communities. #4. As a long-term, first-district resident and homeowner, I am familiar with the problems created by inconsistent and uncertain land-use policy, and the frustrations of dealing with the county. I am committed to protecting and preserving the character of our community from over-development and providing good customer service at the planning and development counter. #3. I want to serve as your county supervisor because I can make a difference. There is no one currently serving on the board or running for the board of supervisors who has my background, education, and experience in Santa Barbara County government – and perhaps, more importantly, in county

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egarding the recent letter, “Flip Those Burgers, Private” (MJ #22/17), it is certainly true that members of the military do not get their fair share for all they do, and it is also true that a $15 minimum wage is unlikely to benefit the economy.

However, with that said, let’s consider the statement “If you don’t want minimum wage, don’t have minimum skills.” Well, guess what! There are actually a lot of highly skilled people stuck in minimum-wage jobs today.

The problem is their skill and aptitude didn’t land them a job in their field, so they ended up working a minimum-wage job outside their area of expertise just to get a paycheck.

These are people with college and professional degrees. Some have worked very hard and got in a lot of debt to get multiple licenses or certifications, yet their fields are oversaturated. There is an oppressive over-the-top system of licenses and certifications, and it’s getting more and more expensive to achieve these credentials.

Gone are the days when people could get training on the job and have their abilities recognized without an official certification for every little thing. When a system works against you like that, working hard and keeping a positive attitude isn’t going to get you up the ladder. It seems likely that the sour job market and difficulty of achieving upward financial mobility is being caused by crony capitalism (not capitalism in and of itself) and too much regulation. America does not need a rapidly increasing minimum wage. Instead, it needs to be restored as the land of opportunity the way it was several decades ago.

Edmund Geswein Lompoc (Editor’s note: Man, you are so right.

All this new minimum-wage legislation will do is make it that much more difficult for anyone to start and stay in business.

Yeah, some will benefit, but most won’t.

We are going the way of Europe, where for teenagers and young adults in their 20s it is almost impossible to find work.

A Hillary win will guarantee that we’ll continue to slog down that sad road. We citizen parade watchers will stand glumly by as armies of stern and determined regulators march down our city streets, notebooks in hand, ready to take on the enthralling task of controlling every little activity in our now officially pointless lives. And, all I can say to that is: Go, Donald! He may turn out to be as bad as

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everyone else has turned out to be in the past 30 years, but he seems like our last and only chance to avoid that fate. – J.B.)

Watch Those Birds

Recently, while flipping through channels, I was fortunate enough to land on OWN’s Super Soul Sunday segment just in time to catch a heart-grabbing clip of four baby birds leaving their nest from within the safe haven of a mature tree.

It is spring, and while it is a good time for pruning and thinning, it’s also a good time to be thoughtful of the potential nesters in the limbs above. As the trees and shrubs around us succumb to the extreme drought conditions, our little creatures who depend upon the habitat for their livelihood don’t need us creating further stresses, particularly right now, as they try to bring new generations into this wild world.

Martha Blackwell Santa Barbara

Gotta Love That IRS Code

I am sorry, but your response to my letter concerning how many pages are in the Internal Revenue Code (“Fact-Checking CPA” MJ #22/16) is just another example of the media getting it wrong and not actually checking the facts. (Tax Professor Maule of Villanova discusses this issue on his blog, Mauled Again, in great detail (see http://mauledagain. blogspot.com/2014_07_01_archive. html#4779052786611193331, http:// www.mauledagain.blogspot.com/ ): Tax Myths: Part XII: The Internal Revenue Code Fills 70,000 Pages.

The assertion that the Internal Revenue Code consists of 70,000 pages is one of my favorite tax myths because it is so silly, so easily debunked, and so indicative of America’s tax ignorance. As I’ve explained in a series of posts, starting with Bush Pages Through the Tax Code, and continuing with Anyone Want to Count the Words in the Internal Revenue Code?, Tax Commercial’s False Facts Perpetuates Falsehood, How Tax Falsehoods Get Fertilized, How Difficult Is It to Count Tax Words? A Slight Improvement in the Code Length Articulation Problem, and Tax Ignorance Gone Viral, Weighing the Size of the Internal Revenue Code, Reader Weighs In on

Weighing the Code, and Code-Size Ignorance Knows No Boundaries, I have explained why the Code is nowhere near 70,000 pages, how the misinformation was developed and spread, and why the Code is no more than 2,000 pages long.

This myth persists because some people want it to persist. There is political advantage in convincing people that the Internal Revenue Code is a behemoth. It makes it easier to eliminate the Code, the income tax, the Internal Revenue Service, and, eventually, government. If the cam-

since 1913, so they know what they are talking about. The total rules that tax practitioners have to take into account are lengthier than just the Code and regulations, and that’s what the broader CCH publication captures. The 73,954 pages in the CCH publication contains not only “rules” but also huge amounts of material that do not qualify as rules, such as annotations, obsolete and amended provisions, commentary, planning tips, visualizations, citation histories, and a variety of other useful information that are simply not rules.

Marginal Tax Rate Effective Tax Rate Tax Amount Federal 25.00% 11.84% $17,762 FICA 7.65% 6.35% $9,522 California 9.30% 4.01% $6,020 Total Income & FICA taxes 22.20% $33,304 Property Taxes 16.67% $25,000 Gasoline Taxes 0.26% $400 Sales Taxes 2.20% $3,300 41.33%

Total Taxes paign succeeds, it would not be the first time a group of politicians had their way by fueling misinformation and spreading myths.

Even though the sources you cited should be reliable, unfortunately journalism has gone downhill and they do not check their sources. The big problem is your use of the term “Internal Revenue Code.” The standard CCH edition of the Internal Revenue Code is 5,500 pages long, but that is highly misleading. That volume is targeted at tax practitioners and includes old statutory provisions that have been repealed or revised The CCH folks have been publishing information on federal taxation

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And that 70,000 pages claim? That includes all sorts of material that doesn’t qualify as a rule or as a regulation. As a journalist, you owe it to your readers to do more than pass on misinformation In addition, your 50% tax rate example is incorrect. Taking your example of a married couple making $150,000, filing jointly and assume one person pays Social Security and Medicare, and they pay $25,000 in property taxes plus approximately $6,000 in California income taxes. See https://smartasset.com/taxes/california-tax-calculator#eW3NymUjCt for calculation. The taxes would be as in the above chart.

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The other taxes you mention are minor or do not apply, such as death taxes (California has no estate tax and the federal estate tax only applies on death, and anybody with a good tax attorney can avoid it even if it is over the exemption of $10.9 million).

If you are an alcoholic or a smoker, you may have a few more taxes but it won’t have much effect, as you will die sooner.

Don’t confuse income taxes with all the other taxes. If you can’t detail it out then, how do you know whether the source you are taking it from is telling the truth? You need to do a little fact-checking on the internet and/ or quit writing about subjects you have little knowledge about.

Gordon Hartwig Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Hmmm. Sounds simple enough to me. As an example of federal over-reach, let’s take the six-year-old Affordable Care Act, aka ObamaCare: its 2,000-plus pages of stuff only wonks have ever read has been buttressed by, at this point, some 17,000 pages of explanations, suggestions, clarifications, and prevarications. The IRS Code has been in existence for more than a hundred years and 70,000 pages is probably a minimum number of pages necessary for authorities to explain its arcane elements to most of us; perhaps only professionals such as yourself can find what you’re looking for in fewer pages. – J.B.)

Another Water Way

In acquainting myself with indigenous perspectives on watersheds, I have realized that consciousness is as vital an element in finding workable solutions to water problems as is water.

The YouTube series “Thinking Like a Watershed: Indigenous Perspectives,” demonstrates that indigenous views are important because Southwestern tribal peoples, for instance, have lived comfortably in arid environments for millennia.

How? Their attitudes have allowed them to survive so long in such a droughtprone environment because they have always felt deep respect with nature in general, for water, and have collaborated for equitable and sustainable water use. Also, their cultures are rooted in the realities of the environment; they do not attempt to make the environment what it is not, to transform that environment, for instance, into an English or tropical garden.

A similar attitude, inspired by Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy of collaborative can-do-ism enabled an impoverished village in India, Siddhi Village, to transcend the tragedies of highly technological and centralized governmental watershed solutions – and thrive (“A successful case of participatory watershed management 5 – 12 May 2016

at Ralegan Siddhi Village in district Ahmadnagar, Maharastra, India”).

This success happened as a reaction to the government’s building of large dams and centralized water management, which raised ecological vulnerability of the ancient river systems and destroyed the age-old traditional systems of irrigation aligned along natural drainage features. As a result, animal populations decreased and soil fertility waned, leading to lower ecosystem productivity. Considerable strain on groundwater resources then led to the emergence of new weeds and soil micronutrient deficiencies.

In Siddhi Village, the groundwater level had dropped to 20 meters.

Unlike governmental solutions, however, rainfall is not centralized. Thus everyone in the village could mobilize to harvest every drop of rain that fell: through small, microsystems of trenches, small dams, drainage plugs, percolation tanks, and so on. Two or more farmers could cooperate to build one of the microsystems, sharing the costs. This initiative recharged the groundwater, which then became available all year round at a mere 6.5 meters.

Subsequently, trees, grasses, and other flora began to thrive. Water was distributed equitably to irrigate crops, which were selected to match soil moisture and the needs of the villagers. The farmers prepared organic manure by using human and animal wastes, as well as crop residues. As the wealth of the village increased, they were able to invest in solar street lamps, and the village became a model of sustainable water management throughout India. The Bishnoi of India’s desert region, Rajastan, have similarly thrived through cooperation with nature and one another.

These success stories are predicated upon mutual respect (toward both nature and one another) and cooperation rather than a competitive model of water use. The model of water usage that often pops up in the American Southwest, including Montecito, however, is often that of simple self-interest: something like the Prisoner’s Dilemma of game theory. But, as John Nash realized in A Beautiful Mind, it is not always in one’s own best interest to act blindly in what appears at first to be in one’s own best interest. In fact, often the best result comes from doing what is right for oneself, and for the group, the commons, the water table.

We are not, after all, prisoners who cannot communicate with one another but can think together to negotiate sustainable solutions.

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This Week in and around Montecito

(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, MAY 5 Knitting and Crocheting Circle Fiber art crafts drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library.

Must have some manual dexterity for crochet and knitting.

When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Poetry Club Each month, discuss the life and work of a different poet; poets selected by group consensus and interest. New members welcome. Today: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Art Exhibition Reception “De-Coherence: A Revisualization of Color and Space,” an exhibit by Sunio Ueda; opening reception tonight.

When: 5 to 8 pm

Where: Faulkner Gallery East, 40 East Anapamu Street Info: ueda_5963@hotmail.com Grand Opening: Contemporary Art Gallery 10 West Gallery joins the already vibrant art district surrounding the Santa Barbara Art Museum at State and Anapamu. 10 West Gallery features abstract and contemporaryrepresentational local artists in an elegant, modern setting. The gallery will present a new exhibit every month with a rotating set of artists including painters, sculptors, and photographers. Receptions take place monthly during the 1st Thursday Art Walk.

When: 5 to 8 pm Where: 10 West Anapamu Info: 805-770-7711

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SATURDAY, MAY 7 Photography Exhibit at Porch Photographer Bill Dewey kicks off his newest exhibit, “Islas Vistas”, with a reception at Porch. Bill has been photographing the California landscape since the early 1970s and has had a photography studio/business in Santa Barbara for 30 years.

When: 3 to 5 pm Where: 3823 Santa Claus Lane Info: 684-0300 teachers, and parents walk or ride to school, rather than drive.

When: 8 am Where: Via Vai, Ennisbrook, and Casa Dorinda trailhead Info: 969-3249 Samarkand Spring Art Show The annual show will feature more than 150 pieces of two- and threedimensional art created by both seasoned professional artists and those new to the creative expression. A rich variety of media will be represented, including watercolor, oils, acrylics, pastels, photography, pen and ink, pencil sketches, charcoal, and sculpture. All artists live or work at The Samarkand, a senior living community in Santa Barbara.

When: today through Monday, May 9, 10 am to 5 pm Where: 2550 Treasure Drive

Cost: admission is free Info: www.TheSamarkand.org Bead Elements & Design Show The Bead Elements and Design Show will be returning to Fess Parker DoubleTree Santa Barbara, with handcrafted jewelry, artistic beads, one-of-a-kind clothing and accessories, jewelry supplies, and vintage items. The show offers 80 hands-on workshops in handcrafts such as jewelry making, glass fusing, mixed media, enameling, soldering, wirework, metalwork, beadwork, art clay, leatherwork, bronze, art glass, freeform weave, and pearl knotting.

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fter another eight-hour hearing on Casa Dorinda’s expansion plans, Montecito Planning Commissioners (MPC) unanimously agreed to move forward with the project during a special meeting on Monday, May 2; final approval is expected at the regular MPC hearing scheduled for Wednesday, May 18. The hearing came after two other daylong discussions about the project took place in October and December. In February, the SB Board of Supervisors granted an appeal of the MPC’s decision to require a focused Environmental Impact Report on a specific portion of the proposed project: the historic bridge.

The project includes demolition, renovation, and new construction on the 48-acre Montecito campus, which includes adding new residential units, memory care facilities and personal care facilities, a new dining facility, new maintenance facilities, and associated landscaping and improvements. The ingress and egress to the

site is slated to change, with the southern bridge slated for demolition, and a new bridge to be built, providing twoway access. The new entrance and exit would include new driveways, a new entry gate and walls, and would line up with the four-way intersection at Hot Springs and Olive Mill. The open space that surrounds the campus is also slated for reconfiguration, allowing for an expansion of the woodland area from 18 acres to 21 acres.

During previous meetings, commissioners took issue with the demolition of the southern bridge, so County staff presented eight different alternatives to the proposed plans. Staff explained the alternatives each presented new issues, mainly with traffic along Olive Mill Road, and suggested to the commission that the proposed demolition of the bridge was the most viable option. Neither bridge meets flooding requirements and access required by the Montecito Fire Protection District,

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And there was “his” car as I drove up to the Coral Casino.

Greeting me were four handsome guys from UCSB in tuxedos checking out whether we knew our spy code to enter Casino Royal and enjoy an elegant evening in Monte Carlo. Mine was Vesper. But this was a benefit for All Saints By-the-Sea Parish School.

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When we lived in Spain and took our kids to Marbella – where Sean Connery lived – for a vacation, my son was sure he could just run around and find the Bond Car. Unfortunately, it was rather like finding out there is no Santa Claus. He never found it.

Another time, my husband and I were in West Berlin sitting at an outdoor café when two gorgeous young women in gold jumpsuits came walking by. We asked them what was going on. They replied, “This is to promote the movie Goldfinger,” which was the latest Bond film. And 007 lives on!

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Even better, abalone – tons of it – is harvested locally by The Cultured Abalone Farm, whose website claims its “red abalone are nurtured from egg to market and fed with harvested and cultivated seaweeds in cool clean water from the Santa Barbara Channel.” So, no need to feel you are depleting yet another of nature’s bounties when ordering abalone.

Oh, and make sure your abalone is sautéed by Michael Hutchings, whose dish and recipe this was. Michael was former White House Chef John Moeller’s collaborator in cooking and creating the six-course meal held at the Sides’ home on April 21.

It could have been the beurre blanc that made the tiny meat-like pie so tantalizingly tasty, or the enoki mushrooms, or tomato concasse, but really, after Michael was done pounding the abalone into a flat little but oh-so-ed-

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Initial restoration work has now started on the 116-year-old All Saints by-the-Sea Episcopal Church with the historic bell tower and its 616pound bell coming down to allow for much-needed seismic reinforcement to stop it collapsing.

Montecito architect Bob Easton, who is overseeing the $11-million project with Santa Monica engineer Bruce Resnick, tells me: “What must come down will also come back up.

“The bell tower has many cracks and is really just a pile of stones. It is being rebuilt and strengthened, and with a freshened face will be ready for another century or more.

“It will be the same size and shape and look, but without the decades of ivy. There is a theory that the ivy is actually holding it together, but I don’t believe it.

“Once the tower’s stones are removed, catalogued, and assessed, and the rubble foundation is removed, a new strong foundation will be built secured deep in the earth with four caissons.

“The tower will be rebuilt with many of the existing facing stones that are worthy around a reinforced

concrete core. The two spires will be rebuilt with steel cores, lightening the loads, and the bronze bell will be safely stored in the sanctuary during construction.”

The structure site will be fenced for safety, and scaffolding will be erected and taken down at least three times, so progress will be viewable. The work will be completed in October.

Next up is reinforcement work with steel beams to the main building’s walls and roof, which means the congregation moving to alternative premises for services, which is still to be decided.

Work should be completed by 2018.

Dates and Fates Former Montecito resident Drew Barrymore only announced in late March she was splitting from her art-dealer husband Will Kopelman after three years.

But already the actress has signed up for a new NBC dating show with fellow Montecito resident and TV talkshow host Ellen DeGeneres called First Dates.

The 41-year-old thespian will not be starring on the series, however. Rather she will be providing the voice-over.

Ellen is executive producing the series, while Shed Media, which is part of Warner Bros. TV, where Ellen tapes her long-running Burbankbased talk show, is producing.

The reality series, which will have eight hour-long initial episodes, is based on the hit U.K. show of the same name, but will be set in Chicago.

It has been called an “observational documentary series” that takes a look at a variety of real first dates happening over one night at the same restaurant.

Barrymore also has another series lined up. She will be starring in Santa Clarita Diet, a new comedy series for Netflix that will roll out next year.

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Fill them half-full with water. You now will have, in each bottle, a miniature ocean with a mini-atmosphere.

Next, plug each bottle with a rubber cork through which a thermometer penetrates into each bottle. Before placing the cork, however, in only one bottle drop in one Alka-Seltzer tablet.

The tablet will dissolve, releasing carbon into the atmosphere of its bottle.

The thermometers will indicate that the Alka-Seltzer bottle’s temperature will increase the most.

Jim Powell Montecito (Editor’s note: Good stuff, Jim; keep up the pressure, though I’m not sure what your Alka-Seltzer demonstration is supposed to prove, as you have agitated and thereby heated what would otherwise be still water. – J.B.)

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I posted this message on NextDoor, an online community forum for [neighborhoods]. It reaches 466 households: “Sooner than later, many of you will have to replace the sewer lateral on your property. We recently did and learned a lot in the process. The pipes – for which you are responsible – and that connect to the Montecito Sanitation District’s (MSD) main line, are very

old clay, and as they have connections every five feet, are subject to cracking that then allows tree roots to invade; the continuing drought conditions have accelerated this damage, as the roots stretch out further and further searching for moisture.”

We had the good fortune to have Ricardo (“Rico”) Larroude, MSD supervisor, provide us excellent guidance and advice on the most cost- and quality-effective way to get the job done: a newish trenchless technology.

This is costly but requires no digging up of your landscape and because the new pipe is seamless, it is bulletproof for keeping tree roots out of your line.

Rico urged us to get at least three competitive bids on the job, as the many local plumbing providers range widely in their pricing. We received four estimates, ranging from $13K to $7K for replacing 120 feet of sewer line. I’m sure any/all would have done a fine job as all work has to be inspected by MSD. We did not choose the high or low bid. Express Rooter was our number-one choice, and we are totally 100% satisfied with our decision. The owner, Burt Short, is friendly, flexible, professional, prompt, and efficient. He communicated regularly with us on job progress and managed the project in a neat and super-low disruptive way. He handled all the necessary application,

permit, inspection, refund, and rebate paperwork with MSD and the County, as well as staying in close contact with Rico.

MSD currently offers its customers a rebate of up to a maximum $2K for replacing your sewer line. These monies will not be available forever; Santa Barbara had such a program but terminated it when the City exhausted its program funds.

Shout-Out to Caroline Martin at the MSD for her terrific help and for getting our rebate processed in record time.

Kudos and huge thanks to Rico, Burt, and Caroline; they are consummate pros and excel at customer service!

Diane Graham Montecito (Editor’s note: Well, shucks, Diane, we’re pleased to pass on all your good news! – J.B.)

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It was one of those recent hot evenings when the beach is the place to be, but there’s another place that’s even better: 200 yards offshore.

I’ve been in Santa Barbara Outrigger for 20 years; we have our turn-around points when we paddle east. The

Dan Seibert and his Santa Barbara Outrigger mates head back from Fernald Point as the sun sets slowly in the west (photo: Dan Seibert)

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Biltmore, Hammonds, the Miramar, and on this evening it was Fernald Point. The sun was setting behind the Biltmore, so we knew we would be getting back in the dark.

It was a good 10 miles from the harbor and back, and the whole time we were in paradise.

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1789, France had a dictator who called himself king. The country was broke after several wars and a couple of years of bad crops. There just was not enough sourdough, cheese, and wine.

The people hurt under the new taxes and less income. Using the American Revolution as their excuse, the people not only revolted, they became revolting. Not only did they do in the royal family and destroy everything royal, they then began to eat their own. Up went the guillotine and off went the heads of even the intelligentsia, who had supported and urged the revolution in the beginning. The people’s leadership changed daily and became a national nightmare. When historians think of populism, they are reminded of this terrible time in France. The 10 years of “terror” ended with another dictator, Napoleon, a military guy who brought some peace.

Yes, we are broke, but Congress has not overdone it yet with taxes. Yes, we have a fancy, stupid bunch of folks who think they are better than we are, but they have not led the charge, and they won’t come out of their comfortable college temples. Trump is not the leader of this popular uproar, but he is riding the wave and taking advantage of “The Movement.” This movement is driven by disgust. Disgust with

You hear it all the time. Presidential candidate Trump is causing a populist movement, or his attraction is just an example of populism. It is always made to sound ugly.

First, you need to understand what “populism” really means in the political sense. To us, the historical nuts, populism is a derogatory term referring to the French Revolution of 1789 to 1799. That revolution was 10 years old when France tore itself a new one.

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politicians and their hangers-on who simply promise and promise, but only take for themselves.

It is disgust with our role in the world; It is disgust with the values of everyday life; it is disgust that these insiders would run up 14 trillion in debt while making too many citizens dependent on them. It is disgust with our weak military and military leadership. It is disgust with the professors who teach failed socialism; it is disgust with the bureaucrats and the double-dippers ripping off the system. In general, it is a big disgust with the entire rotten barrel of fish.

Voters, registered as Democrats and Republicans and others, want someone who will tell the invested to go to hell, damn the torpedoes, and yell, “Full speed ahead.” That person is Mr. Donald John Trump.

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finance and operations. #2. I love Santa Barbara – who doesn’t? Is it the beauty, the people, our coastline, our open spaces? It is all of these qualities – and I am willing to doggedly protect our quality of life. #1. I am not a career politician; I am a career professional. I can be trusted to protect our community and our financial resources. I intend to remain a part of this community. I’m here to stay.

Das Williams’s Top 10 Reasons to Vote For Him

#10. As a former Santa Barbara City Council member and state legislator, I am one of the most experienced public policy-makers to ever run for Santa Barbara County supervisor. As an experienced negotiator, I know how to make compromises to move the First District’s and Montecito’s constituent agenda from ideas straight into action. #9. I am endorsed by First District supervisor Salud Carbajal, who has represented the First District for the last 12 years and served as former First District supervisor Naomi Schwartz’s chief of staff for the 12 years prior. I am also supported by hundreds of well-known local individuals and organizations including the current presidents of the Montecito Water District and Montecito Fire Protection District, three current planning commissioners, the Santa Barbara County Firefighters, the Sierra Club, the Santa Barbara Women’s Political Committee, and the Santa Barbara County Democratic Party. #8. In my 12 years of public service, I have built many high-powered contacts and resources – and I am willing to put my expansive Rolodex to work for Montecito and the First District. #7. I need no on-the-job training. My experience as a city councilmember and Assembly member offers decades of public-policy practice and proficiency. #6. I grew up in Santa Barbara County and now reside in Carpinteria. I attended local schools, including Santa Barbara City College and UCSB. I have a bachelor’s degree from Berkeley and worked in the private sector for a Los Angeles tech start-up. #5. I can deliver a balanced budget, which I have done with a state budget of $171 billion and a city budget of $300 million, while protecting vital services and creating jobs. #4. I can bring the right parties to the table to creatively address Montecito’s and Santa Barbara County’s water issues. I worked closely with local water agencies to help secure $2 million in emergency drought relief for the Lake Cachuma pump project. #3. My years on city council and in the State Assembly have strengthened my commitment to the importance of land use. I support the Montecito Community Plan and its implementation through the Montecito Planning Commission and the Montecito Board of Architectural Review. #2. I am committed to improving public safety. I am working to improve emergency response times and have experience serving this community during multiple fires, including the Tea and Jesusita fires, and have worked to ensure we are prepared for the next natural disaster. #1. I am a proven champion for our environment. I have dedicated my life to protecting our beaches and ocean and will keep doing this as your county supervisor.

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Montecito Insider Save the Dates

by Kelly Mahan

A Mediterranean house on Santa Barbara Street is the largest home on the tour; it has recently undergone a massive remodel to bring it back to a single- family residence

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wo popular events by a pair of local nonprofits are scheduled for the coming weeks, both taking place, in part, in Montecito.

The Pearl Chase Society’s popular Historic Homes Tour is scheduled for Sunday, May 15, and is expected to sell out. The 16th tour has been in the works for months, and this year it features seven homes with a mix of architectural styles including Craftsman, Mediterranean, and the whimsical style of the Moody sisters.

Themed “From Moody to Manse,” the excursion will show a cluster of four Moody sister cottages in Montecito, located on Rosemary Lane.

In the 1930s and ‘40s, the enterprising Moody sisters: Harriet, Mildred, Brenda, and Wilma, were a develop-

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ment force in the area, designing, decorating, and selling about three-dozen “pixie like” homes in Santa Barbara and Montecito. Some are located on Periwinkle Lane, and there are six on Rosemary Lane; others are located all over town.

According to Pearl Chase Society president Barbara Lowenthal, the post-war climate of the time called for the sisters’ use of reclaimed parts of dismantled estates; lumber, windows, doors, and paneling were adapted and reused in these storybook houses, inspired by the fairy-tale books the sisters had enjoyed as children.

According to English folklore, a bottle with ninepins, nine nails, and nine

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Platt-inum Performance Laguna Blanca alumna Cameron Platt, an English major, has been selected as valedictorian of Princeton’s class of 2016.

Cameron, whose Hope Ranch parents are hotel executive John, a Duke and Colgate graduate, and Kelly, who attended Brown and UCLA, will deliver the valedictory address at the Ivy League university’s commencement ceremony on Tuesday, May 31.

After she graduates, Cameron, who is also earning a certificate in theater, will spend the summer working on a production to be presented at New York’s Fringe Festival before moving to Oxford, England, as a Rhodes Scholar, on her way toward a distinguished academic career.

Her studies have already taken her to the beautiful university city, where she participated in the Middlebury Bread Loaf School of English and did research in the historic Bodleian Library last summer.

Cameron earned the Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence in her sophomore year and was the co-winner of the George B., Wood Legacy Junior Prize for exceptional achievement during the junior year. She was elected Phi Beta Kappa last fall.

As an actor, director, and in other production roles, she has worked more than 30 theatrical productions.

Future Rhodes Scholar Cameron Platt, Princeton valedictorian of 2016

Cameron is president of Princeton University Players, the sprawling campus’s student-run musical theater company.

At Laguna Blanca, attending grades 7 thru 12, she is well remembered for her many appearances on stage in the Spaulding Auditorium and her impressive performance in the classroom, where she racked up a number of awards, including the Math Prize as a junior, before heading off to New Jersey for the next chapter in her glittering education.

No doubt her family will be toasting her success at the historic hangout, The Alchemist & Barrister, one of my favorite Princeton eateries, in due course.

Lost in Translation An order of Los Angeles nuns is hitting out against a judgment allowing Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry to buy a former convent in the tony enclave of Los Feliz, saying the bogus ruling was based on a mistranslated Vatican decree.

The nuns, from the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary order, argue that Katy’s lawyers misled a judge using the document, which they had incorrectly translated from Latin.

The five sisters say that, properly translated, the paperwork would have prevented the sexy songstress from completing her $14.5-million cash purchase of the Mediterranean-style villa, which was given to the Catholic church by former Montecito residents Daniel and Bernadine Donahue after her death in 1968.

Margaret Cone, an attorney for the order, says: “Katy Perry and others will learn: you don’t mess with these nuns.”

The highly unusual court case has pitted the sisters against the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

The nuns say they had already sealed a deal with restaurateur Dana Hollister for $15.5 million, but the archdiocese, headed by Archbishop José Gomez, says they had no right to sell the pricey property.

Judge Stephanie Bowick ruled in

the former Dos Pueblos High student’s favor last month, referring to an appeal submitted to the Roman Rota Tribunal – the highest appellate tribunal of the Catholic Church – by one of the sisters last June asking permission to sell the sprawling estate.

The tribunal responded in December in Latin – a response that Katy’s lawyers translated, claiming it showed that the matter had been resolved.

However, the nuns say the paper actually says the case has been referred to a different division of the Vatican, and is therefore still being dealt with by the church.

Mike Hennigan, an attorney for the archdiocese, thunders: “The translation was a proper, verified translation.

This motion appears to be an effort to delay the court’s finding that the Hollister transaction was invalid.”

The Vatican has not responded to requests for comment on the issue.

But a legal rep for Katy says her team “is confident in the judge’s ruling and do not believe that there are any grounds to support any change to the decision.”

Stay tuned.

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Museum The Santa Barbara Museum of Art is undertaking the most ambitious building renovation project in its history. The need is great, and it is urgent.

At the center of the renovations is the need to safeguard the 28,000 works of art in the collection, to ensure the safety of visitors and staff, and to provide spaces that bring art alive and enhance the visitor experience. The campaign will fund essential upgrades, ranging from seismic retrofitting for earthquakes to replacing an aging roof and mechanical systems for a building that’s more than 100 years old.

We are asking those who believe in the power of art to invest in our renovation and expansion efforts.

You can go to campaign.sbma.net to make a gift and learn about the campaign.

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Benefits of the Week

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

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he Santa Barbara Choral Society’s annual Spring Gala fundraiser is going Italian for 2016. But “When in Rome…”, which takes place Saturday, May 21, at Rockwood Women’s Club in Mission Canyon, didn’t choose the theme arbitrarily. In an ambitious adventure, conductor JoAnne Wasserman and members of the Choral Society will be traveling to Italy next month as cultural emissaries of the Santa Barbara community on the ensemble’s fourth International Performance Tour, when they will be singing, among many other works, selections by Morten Lauridsen with the legendary composer in attendance, in cathedrals and chiesas in Naples, Rome, Florence, and Lecco on the shores of Lake Como (will George Clooney drop by?).

You can get a tasty preview of the trip at the gala, however, by joining in on the journey across Italy in cuisine and song. The evening begins at 5:30 pm with antipasti et aperitivo on the terrace and limoncello cocktails before adjourning to a sumptuous Italian buffet feast in a setting that will remind visitors of a charming Italian trattoria. Via Maestra 42 caters the gala buffet-style dinner, which features traditional Italian entrées, (vegetarian and gluten-free options are also available). Hot and cold beverages and fine wines accompany the meal.

A trip overseas might also be in the offering, as guests are invited to bid on one of the exciting vacation stays in Provence or Tuscany in our live auction. And don’t forget to stop by the silent auction for charming Italianthemed gift baskets and more.

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featuring works by Aaron Copeland, Ola Gjeilo, Rollo Dillworth, Lauridsen and other contemporary composers in The World of Song concert. The show also features the choral premiere of Jeanette Vacca’s enchanting song “Santa Barbara”. Finally, cap your night with authentic Italian gelato and espresso under the stars, serenaded by strolling musicians. You might find yourself leaving with a song in your heart, say “That’s Amore” or “O solo mio…”, as you stare at the stars on your way home. Arrivederci!

Tickets range from $125 for Un Biglietto Singolo (one person) to $1,800 for a table for eight that includes reserved seating, first call for the buffet, vino replenishment ad libitum, a bottle of hand-crafted limoncello for the table host, and VIP reserved seating at the concert. Call 965-6577, email info@sbchoral.org or visit www. sbchoral.org. And feel free to don your chic Italian finest or at least a pair of big sunglasses to get into the spirit before you arrive.

“Beat It” to “Footloose” Fundraiser

Rockwood gets an entirely different makeover this weekend when Santa Barbara Middle School hosts its annual dinner and auction. The “Like. Totally. Rad. ‘80s.” fundraiser, which takes place on Saturday, May 7, is the perfect place to pull on those neon-pink leg warmers or parachute pants and tease your ‘do into the clichéd big hair for a rockin’ evening opening with a two-hour cocktail and silent-auction segment, followed by a seated dinner, student performance and a live auction. Then at 10 pm, just when all middle-schoolers should

be home in bed getting ready for the final month of school, all are invited to repair to the ‘80s After Party at Blind Tiger on lower State Street. Make sure to wear your best costumes, get your platform shoes well-oiled and ready to go and, whatever else you do, “Don’t You Forget About Me”. Tickets are $115 each, $15 for the after-hours party (which includes two drinks).

Visit www.sbms.ticketspice.com/auction for tickets and information.

Roar and Pour

This after-hours mini-wine festival at the Santa Barbara Zoo takes a bit of the focus off of dining on meat to offer the opportunity to actually spend quality time with the animals.

Many of the critters stay out late, and the entire zoo is open so guests can stroll as they sip tastings from nearly 30 local wineries and enjoy music and more. August Ridge, Cebada Wine, Kalyra, Pomar Junction, and Ranchita Canyon are among the vineyards and wineries represented and admission ($60) includes unlimited tastings and a Riedel commemorative glass to take home.

VIP tickets ($115) include entry a full hour before the official 5-8 pm event, plus high-end reserve tastings featuring wines that will not be poured at the main event, complimentary appetizers, and special animal encounters. And yes, it’s true, tasty eats are available for purchase from local food trucks or you can pre-order a Roar & Pour Picnic Box from Rincon Catering through the zoo itself. Proceeds benefit the animals at the Santa Barbara Zoo. Call 962-5339 or visit www.sbzoo.org.

If you can’t make it on such short notice, or tickets are gone, don’t worry – the zoo’s much bigger and lengthier Zoofari Ball XXXI: Zoofari at Sea returns August 27.

E-SCAPE to the Bacara

Southern California Artists Painting for the Environment, better known as SCAPE, is the more than 200-member strong association founded 14

years ago that produces exhibitions to raise money to protect open spaces, to increase public awareness of environmental and conservation issues, and to promote camaraderie and provide education for artists. Environmental Defense Center, Community Environmental Council, the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, UCSB’s Sedgwick Reserve, Coal Oil Point Reserve, Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation, the Land Trust for Santa Barbara County, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History have all benefited from SCAPE’s largesse.

SCAPE’s 4th annual “Visions of the Gaviota Coast” takes place the weekend of May 13-14, appropriately, at the Bacara Resort on the coastline the beneficiaries – the Gaviota Coastal Conservancy and Naples Coalition – are fighting so hard to save from development, as they represent the last remaining stretch of rural Central California coast. More than 100 SCAPE artists are participating in the exhibit, and the works – including watercolor, pastel, acrylic, and oil paintings – all depict scenes from the Gaviota Coast, between Coal Oil Point and Point Sal and inland as far as Nojoqui Falls.

Everything, including photography by guest artist Reeve Woolpert, who has been documenting the area for many years, is for sale to the general public, with a hefty 40 percent of the purchase price donated to the nonprofit environmental organizations.

Patrons can begin selecting art work at 1 pm on Friday, May 13, which is also when the silent auction featuring trips, gift baskets, and more art opens.

A Meet the Artists reception takes place from 5-8, during which Bacara will be providing light appetizers from executive chef Vincent Lesage while Standing Sun Winery will pour glasses of their reds and white, with donations (for the nonprofits) enthusiastically encouraged. Area bands and singer-songwriters will offer live music for the reception. And here’s something unusual for a fundraiser: admission is free. For more info, call 683-6631 or visit www.S-C-A-P-E.org.

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Cost: admission is $10, which includes all three days and parking Info: www.beadelements.com

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

Candidates Forum Montecito Association hosts 1st District Supervisorial Candidates Forum with Jennifer Christensen and Das Williams.

When: 4:30 pm Where: MUS Auditorium, 385 San Ysidro Road Info: 969-2026

Centering Prayer Practice Retreat A mini-retreat day for Centering Prayer practice. There will be meditation walks, journaling, reflection, and prayer practice. Sisters Suzanne Dunn, Jeannette Love, and Annette Colbert. Beginners welcome.

When: 9:30 am to 1 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: donation Info: 969-5031

SATURDAY, MAY 7 May Madness Music Academy of the West (MAW) 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 MAW. 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.

Foster Care Recruitment Campaign Recruitment of loving resource families is the bottom line for Santa Barbara County (SBC) Foster Care, and to generate increased awareness of the need for additional families, the county recently launched an innovative recruitment campaign titled Our County Our Kids, a program of Santa Barbara County Department of Social Services. In addition to recruitment, the campaign works to ensure that the 425 children and youth in foster care across the county receive the services and support they need to develop to their full potential.

Today an inspirational meeting will be held for community members, featuring county leaders in foster care, as will a panel of youth and resource families as they address the current state of foster care in SB County.

When: 4 to 6 pm Where: Santa Barbara Library Faulkner Gallery, 40 E. Anapamu Street RSVP: Anastasia Stone, (805) 694-8070

Fine Art Exhibit “Four Fauves in California” Corridan Gallery present “Four Fauves in California”, an Exhibit of Fine Art by James-Paul Brown, Ken Christensen, Kathleen Elsey, and Sarah Carr. Curated by William Fedderson, this show includes works by these accomplished artists in the inspiring Fauvist Style, rarely seen in Santa Barbara.

When: show runs through June 18; opening reception today, 4 to 7 pm Where: 125 N. Milpas Street Info: 966-7939 SUNDAY, MAY 8 Book Signing at Tecolote Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States and author of the book The

Humane Economy: How Innovators and Enlightened Consumers are Transforming the Lives of Animals will be discussing the themes of his book and signing copies.

When: 2 pm Where: Tecolote Book Shop, 1470 E. Valley Road Info: 969-4977 Mindfulness Meditation A half-day retreat with guided meditations from Radhule Weininger, M.D., Ph.D. All levels welcome.

When: 2:30 to 6 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: donation Info: 969-5031 TUESDAY, MAY 10 Montecito Association Meeting The Montecito Association is committed to preserving, protecting, and enhancing the semi-rural residential character of Montecito.

When: 4 pm Where: Montecito Hall, 1469 East Valley Road WEDNESDAY, MAY 11 Book Signing at Chaucer’s Come and visit with Martin Seay as he

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signs his debut novel, The Mirror Thief.

When: 7 pm Where: Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State Street Info: 682-6787 THURSDAY, MAY 12 Knitting and Crocheting Circle Fiber art crafts drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library.

Must have some manual dexterity for crochet and knitting.

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

When: 7:30 to 9:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road

Golf Tournament at Glen Annie Golf Course with proceeds benefitting The California Project to Cure Blindness at UCSB, raising awareness and critical funding for stem cell research. The California Project to Cure Blindness at UCSB is a leading program in stem cell research aimed at developing groundbreaking cellular therapies for the treatment of macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, retinitis pigmentosa, and other blinding eye diseases.

The golf tournament is open to the community and individuals and/or teams are encouraged to register.

Where: 405 Glen Annie Road Cost: $175; price includes banquet, silent auction, putting contest, blind shot challenges, prizes, and more Info: www.eyenvision.com

Family Fun 5K and Tot Trot Join the Montecito Family YMCA for a fun-filled day for the entire family at their Fourth Annual Family Fun 5K and Tot Trot. The day will start off with a Family 5K and Tot Trot for children ages 3 to 7. After the races, guests are invited to enjoy a pancake breakfast and a free family festival with carnival games, relays, open swim, and much more.

All proceeds from the event will support the Y’s Open Doors Scholarship program, which provides financial assistance to help all families benefit from YMCA membership, regardless of their income. This makes preschool, summer camp, swim lessons, membership, and more possible for families who otherwise wouldn’t be able to participate.

When: 8 am check in, 5K starts at 9 am, and Tot Trot starts at 10 am Where: Montecito Family YMCA, 591 Santa Rosa Lane Cost: $30 for adults, $20 for youth (8-14), and $8 for children (3-7) Info: www.ciymca.org/montecito

Sedgwick Reserve Hike The rugged Santa Ynez Valley is the setting for a series of monthly interpretive hikes and nature activities open to the public on the 6,000-acre UCSB Sedgwick Reserve. Three hikes with varying themes such as geology, landforms, Sedgwick panoramas, plants, and animals or birds will be conducted, with hiking levels of Easy, Moderate, or Strenuous. These hikes are approximately two to three hours each and are followed by the opportunity to picnic with your own lunch at the reserve. In addition to the hikes, other activities such as a tour of the newly renovated old barn, the new observatory, the pond, and the new Tipton House, as well as a set-up for painters at the pond, and the use of a bocce ball court are all planned for those who don’t want to hike and would like to just enjoy the reserve attractions while the hikes are being conducted. Reservations required.

In inclement weather, the hikes will be cancelled.

When: 8:30 am Cost: $10 per hiker, or $15 per couple or family suggested donation Info and RSVP: Sedgwick@lifesci.ucsb. edu

Golf Tournament Eye & Vision Care of Santa Barbara will host its 5th annual

Free Music The Santa Barbara Music Club will present another program in its popular

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series of concerts of beautiful music.

A valued cultural resource in town since 1969, these concerts feature performances by instrumental and vocal soloists and chamber music ensembles, and are free to the public.

When: 3 pm Where: Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 East Anapamu Street Cost: free SUNDAY, MAY 15 Historic Homes Tour The Pearl Chase Society presents its 16th Historic Homes Tour, which will take attendees to seven different homes in Montecito and Santa Barbara, including four Moody sister cottages on Rosemary Lane, two downtown Craftsman homes, and one Mediterranean home on Santa Barbara Street.

When: 11 am to 4 pm Cost: $60 for members, $70 for nonmembers, and $90 for ticket and first time membership Info: www.pearlchasesociety.org Writing as a Spiritual Practice Come explore how writing practices can open the imagination, heart, and mind to the flow of spiritual energy. The week is designed to allow you to experiment with a variety of approaches to writing that can sharpen your skills, vary your habits, and open new avenues of reflection. It will be an opportunity to refuel your personal writing or your current project and to relax into conversation with other writers. Led

by Marilyn McEntyre, Ph.D., who teaches medical humanities in the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program and is a fellow at the Gaede Institute for the Liberal Arts at Westmont College and a hospice volunteer.

When: Sunday, May 15, 7:30 pm to Friday, May 20, 1 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: $525-$700 Info: www.lacasademaria.org ONGOING Montecito Fire Protection District’s Fire Prevention

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MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS Art Classes Beginning and advanced, all ages and by appointment – just call.

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When: 10 am to 2 pm Where: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Lane Cost: $50, includes lunch Info: 969-0859 TUESDAYS Story Time at the Library A wonderful way to introduce children to the library, and for parents and caregivers to learn about early literacy skills; each week, children ages three to five enjoy stories, songs, puppets, and fun at Story Time.

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Enjoying this repast along with us at our table were Jim and Kristen Hathaway, artist James-Paul Brown and his wife, Juliet Rohde-Brown, and Bion and Anna Rice. Bion – who crafted the Cabernet Sauvignon served with the Roasted Beef Tenderloin at his Sunstone Vineyard in Santa Ynez – believes that, thanks to global warming, Santa Barbara County will soon be producing some of the best cabernet sauvignon anywhere.

The rest of the menu – made from recipes taken from chef Moeller’s book, Dining at the White House: From the President’s Table to Yours – was equally tasty and satisfying. What follows are the savory details: After the abalone, we were served a Wild Mushroom & Leek Soup with Thyme Cream (which, paired with the Au Bon Climat Pinot Noir, was declared by host Archie McLaren, “a match made in heaven”). Next up was a perfectly crisped Seared Squab with Braised Endive & Artichoke. The main

dish was the previously mentioned Roasted Beef Tenderloin served with Cracked Peppercorn & Herb Butter in a Black Truffle Demi Sauce, Asparagus, Yellow Carrots, Yukon Gold & Parsnip Purée. The Organic Mesculin Greens Salad with Mustard Shallot Dressing and Local Sheep Cheese finished our meal off the European – or at least French – way. Our dessert was a White House favorite, taken from the cover of chef Moeller’s book: Warm Flourless Chocolate Torte, Almond Tuile, Raspberry Sauce and Fresh Fruit.

Each dish, as it arrived at our tables brought by the quietly efficient catering staff, was lovingly described and elegantly introduced by chef Moeller.

Mr. McLaren introduced each wine, along with the vintner, most of whom were present.

The wines – all Santa Barbara County vintages – began with Fred Brander’s 2013 Sauvignon Blanc au Naturel, followed by Jim Clendenen’s 2005 Au Bon Climat Nielsen Vineyard Santa Maria Valley Pinot Noir, Bob Lindquist’s 2012 Qupé Syrah, Bion Rice’s 2012 Sunstone Vineyards

Cabernet Sauvignon, and ended with Dick Doré’s & Bill Wathen’s 2013 Foxen Tinaquaic Vineyard Cabernet Franc (grown in Foxen Canyon “without water, except for what nature gives us,” says Wathen).

In addition to the al fresco sunset dinner (the weather cooperated: warm and sunny, no wind), all 42 guests were treated to a tour of the Sides’s home, the former Brooks Institute of Photography turned once again – after nearly 50 years – into a handsome and surprisingly intimate private home by Mr. and Mrs. Sides.

Chef Moeller regaled the small gathering with tales from his 13 years in the White House, informing us, for example, that the chefs always shopped locally, and always with Secret Service close by, though they never watched over him as he cooked.

In answer to a question from one of the diners at the end of our meal, Moeller suggested that, even though he was having fun traveling around the country promoting his book, he would definitely consider going back to the White House if Mrs. Clinton

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were to be elected and asked for him.

He served all eight years of the Bill Clinton presidency.

The $500-per-person event was a benefit for the Central Coast Wine Classic (scheduled this year for mid-August) and hosted by its founder and chairman, Archie McLaren.

The Best Medicine

An upcoming event is being called “Hope and Laughter” and will serve to do three things: 1) honor Montecito’s longtime and now-deceased favorite son, comic legend Jonathan Winters (he was Montecito’s very first Village Fourth grand marshal back in 1996); 2) to introduce Crescend Health, formerly known as Phoenix of Santa Barbara, and 3) to acknowledge three outstanding contributors to the mental health of the community.

Jonathan Winters’s daughter Lucinda Winters Nash, Crescend Health executive director J.T. Turner, and I met recently to discuss the event.

“Hope and Laughter”, J.T. explains, replaces a long-time fundraiser, Art Along the Creek, which for eight years, what is now Crescend Health organized with the local SCAPE art group (Southern California Artists Painting for the Environment). Jonathan Winters became associated with the nonprofit in 2011, when he was the featured artist at its Art Along the Creek fundraiser.

When planning for the “Hope and Laughter” event began in earnest, J.T. called Lucinda to see if she would like it to be in honor of her father.

Lucinda said “Yes”, and the “Jonathan Awards” were born in honor of a man “who had wrestled with psychiatric challenges,” J.T. says, “and triumphed over them in his brilliant and unique way.” The awards will be given out on Wednesday, May 11, to philanthropist Lillian Lovelace, psychiatrist Zev Nathan, M.D., and Suzanne Riordan, an advocate for the rights of the mentally ill and executive director of Families ACT! The rest of our conversation follows: Q. Why the name change or rebranding of Phoenix of Santa Barbara to Crescend Health?

A. (J.T.) We’ve been providing mental health services and treating drug addiction since 1972, so it’s a big thing for us to change. But, for many years, our agency has been confused with the University of Phoenix, or Phoenix House, a big drug treatment center on the East Coast. People thought we had an office in Phoenix and one here; there was a lot of confusion using the term Phoenix of Santa Barbara, so our board and I decided we needed a new name. We hired a strategic planner to help us, got seventeen different names, came up with a short list, and 5 – 12 May 2016

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Crescend Health came to the top. We introduced our new name on March tenth with a proclamation from mayor Helene Schneider and a letter of recommendation from Das Williams from the State Assembly.

Is that the reason you are holding this event on May 11?

(J.T.) Yes. We decided we’d have two ways to introduce ourselves. One was the event with the mayor with about seventy people there. And the other is to have a much larger affair – a gala at El Encanto – for about two hundred fifty people. The question was: what would make this event special?

And featuring Jonathan Winters makes it even more special, right?

(J.T.) Lucinda’s dad was an example of someone who struggled with mental health issues at times and even spent about eight months in a facility when he was in his thirties. He was diagnosed as bi-polar before it was called that – it was called “manic-depressive” disorder – and this was before Lithium. He managed to triumph, however, to convert the demons into angels. His life is a great story of how you take that demonic energy... he talked about his days at “the funny farm” and about hearing voices... into a triumphant life, which meant a whole lot to millions of people.

What better person to have as a focus for an event for us as a mental 5 – 12 May 2016

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(Lucinda) I don’t know if you could get out as easily as you could get in (she laughs), but I do remember [my father] saying he was subject to

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But even though he already had three solo albums under his belt by 2005, that side of his career was mostly laying dormant until he put out All I Do Is Lie in 2014. Now the follow-up, What To Fear, takes another giant step forward, with deeper emotions emerging over more advanced soundscapes, including several songs featuring a rock rhythm section (bass-

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Watkins brings nearly all of the players to his headlining gig at SOhO on Tuesday, May 10, when he will also be joined by singer Petra Haden, who opens the show with current musical partner Jesse Harris (the pair recently released the album Seemed Like A Good Idea – Petra Haden Sings Jesse Harris).

Q. You weren’t even a teenager when Nickel Creek started, and now you’re pushing 40. How has your relationship to music changed as you’ve become an adult and are now approaching middle age?

A. It’s still just as fun. I still have that feeling of being a kid and discovering music every day. Now I just have more tools. All these things that I’ve done through the years are inside of me. So it’s the best it’s ever been. I feel much more comfortable in my own skin and have a lot more experience and thoughts about the world around me. Before, it was like shooting in the dark. I didn’t even start dating until I was in my early 20s. So there wasn’t too much to write about. Now I have so much, opinions about everything, and so much to say in a much clearer way.

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How has the process of songwriting evolved over the years?

I usually stumble onto songs. I don’t ever sit down to write one, except once in a while as an exercise. I take inspiration however I can get it. Most of the time I write the music first, starting with an idea for the chords and a melody. I sit with it as a drivearound and go through my day. Topics for lyrics just show up, broadstrokes that I later fine-tune.

With this last record, I was filling in the words, still messing with the lyrics, right up until the time I mixed it. There were some songs where I couldn’t get what I was trying to say across within the context of a few lies.

There were stories I wanted to tell that are hard to do in such an efficient way.

But that’s one of the ways I’m getting better at it.

We all have stories that we tell each other. That’s really all that a song is.

The rest is finding the words that sing well and get your point across, unless you’re trying to be cryptic, which is its own art. Like any art, you can get as nerdy and into the process as you want but never really master it.

Your new album is called What to Fear.

Is that a unifying theme or a big emotion in your life?

Not really. It was a song I wanted people to focus on, so I put it first and made it the title. But it is a theme that’s always been relevant in my life, and perhaps now more than ever. I see it more intensely, especially in the media, which uses fear to get people to watch and listen. And it carries over into all other facets of life. I’m passionate about it enough that I wanted to do a song. The idea has been in the back of my mind for a long time. When the melody came up, it made so much sense of this subject matter.

Another standout is “Keep Your Promises II”, a sort of reprise from your last solo album, All I Do Is Lie. Yeah, I wrote it two times. This was actually the first version but used the other one for album. It wasn’t good enough the first time through five years ago. Around that time I was singing with Gillian Welch and we did the instrumental “Midnight on the Water”. She gave me an assignment to write a song with that melody. So I took the words from my original version stuck them on the waltz. But then a good friend of mine kept bugging me about finishing the original version. I’d forgotten until she sent 5 – 12 May 2016

me a demo of it. So I spruced it up and wrote a bridge and changed the words a bit. When you write a song, you can do what you want: anything is fair game.

How about “Last Time for Everything”?

That was one of a handful of songs that came title-first, and working backwards. I heard someone say that phrase and I liked it, but I figured there must be some savvy country song. But I Googled it and there wasn’t. So I wrote one. I like the idea of looking at endings as not always being negative.

There are positive sides to moving on and losing something that might not have been a great attribute, or a toxic person in your life, or a way of being. The verses are pretty true from my life.

This album is also sonically somewhat different, with the strings and such. How organic was that process?

At first, I thought I might make the album as a bluegrassy instrumental, so I did four songs with the Bee Eaters, then later I overdubbed them onto the rhythm section, which sounded great. It’s always been fun to put people together just to see what happens. That forged the direction on this album.

Double Bass Blooms in Briere Patch

The title of Danny Briere’s new acoustic project references a famous album by Stevie Wonder, but you’d have to think even the great blind musician would see the beauty Songs in the Key of Double Bass. The concept brings together Santa Barbara stalwart bassist James Connolly (Gove County String Quartet, Lit Moon Theater Co., etc.) and fellow stand-up bassist and local resident David Piltch, the brilliant session musician whose milelong list of credit on sessions and/or tours includes scores of big names, from Bob Dylan, Elton John, kd lang and Bonnie Raitt to India Arie, Allen Toussaint and Willie Nelson.

It was Briere, the longtime Santa Barbara-based singer-songwriter-guitarist, who put the quartet together with percussionist Justin Flint – his band-mate in the Benevolent Dictators.

The two bassists are among Briere’s musical friends, but before this they’d never collaborated with each other.

And it happened almost by a whim.

“I was driving down State Street and it just hit me that it would be interesting to have them both on the stage at same time,” Briere recalled.

“I liked the idea of hearing my songs with a double-bass ensemble – how unique would that be? So I pulled over to call them and just asked.”

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were ironed out, the quartet played two one-off concert at Piano Kitchen, Connolly’s small studio-venue on a side street off East Haley. A third gig takes place this Saturday night, May 7, at 8. But now there’s also a new record in the works, an album also called Songs in the Key of Double Bass.

“They’re both so great, at the top of the game, and it’s been amazing,” Briere said. “I wanted something beyond a typical rock band, something more sensitive. To have them on either side of me while I play my songs acoustically – I feel like I hit the jackpot.”

Briere explained that beyond their friendship, it’s the opportunity for interplay between the bassists that drew Piltch into the project.

“I’ve noticed (David) can stretch out with this ensemble in a way he can’t as a session player. When you’re in the studio, they tell you what to do. We had a rehearsal recently, and I looked over at him and he was jamming away with a big smile on his face. And they’re friends, and have tremendous respect for each other, which also adds to the creativity and dynamic.”

Most of the songs have been drawn from Briere’s compositions going back as long as three years, he said, ones that were “raring to be recorded; they just needed to find a home.” Many were inspired by his recent divorce.

“I was married for almost 20 years. It was just time for us to part. As a songwriter, any time you have emotional upheaval it turns into something that comes out of your guitar or piano.

There (are) four songs that we do that are directly related to that experience.”

A couple of other songs touch on reincarnation, while “Beauty Fall” is about “the death of ego,” Briere said

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emotional harassment while he was in there. The nurse in charge taunted him, telling him [under her breath] that he was never going to get out.

[His stay in the institution] seemed to make a difference for him, though.

He made a lot of good crafts and paintings while institutionalized and there was a story going around that his wife, my mother, Eileen, asked if he could be kept a little longer, as he was making a lot of good craft items and they were going to need them at Christmas. He made a ring with an eyeball on it, ceramics, woodcarvings, and all kinds of creative things.

Can you give an example of what Crescend does and how it’s different, if it is?

(J.T.) Crescend isn’t a conventional mental health agency; it revolves around art and creativity, and incorporates those into its programs. It is very innovative. You won’t find many mental health agencies doing poultry therapy, for example. We’ve been doing this now close to two years. We have a three-acre property that we bought in 2003 up by the mission that we call Mountain House, and it has a big chicken coop (called Cluckingham Palace). I have wanted ever since we bought the place to see if we could use it as therapy for our clients. State licensing has prevented us from doing that until recently, but when we got the green light, we went ahead with it.

Jonathan Winters was the very first grand marshal of Montecito’s Village Fourth Parade & Celebration in 1996; though his outfit seems a pastiche of French Army (or Legionnaire) and Santa’s helper’s staff, he really was a U.S. Marine in his youth

We have a staff person who has chickens at home. She has young children and it’s been wonderful for them. We have a client who was very impaired and very regressed, and doing very poorly. Regular therapy wasn’t working, Meds weren’t working. His family was very frustrated.

He said he’d like to help us with the chickens. His cat had been killed on Milpas right in front of him and he’d never really recovered from that, but he volunteered to come every day to the chicken coop to help out. Nothing was working for him until the chick-

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There’s some interesting research going on in the use of animals in treating very regressed clients, especially autistic. If you get a young child a dog or kitten, something profound happens and they begin to come out of their shell. What animals seem to offer is unconditional love with no judgment.

What else?

(J.T.) Crescend also offers gardening therapy, art therapy with classes done by a gifted artist who struggles with mental health issues herself and a work adjustment program where clients are taught and encouraged to develop work skills. We train people in job skills such as how to work with other people, how to show up on time, how to communicate a problem; these are very basic job skills. Working in the kitchen or in the Botanic Garden, provide meals, shopping, just being aware so that when they graduate from our program they’ll have something useful to do.

••• The “Hope and Laughter” gala at El Encanto on May 11 will feature a Jonathan Winters tribute video being put together by MAD Academy senior Santino Solomon that’ll include footage of Jonathan Winters on The Tonight Show with Jack Paar and Johnny Carson, some clips from Mork & Mindy and private footage with Robin Williams. The event costs $150 per person and it is “almost completely sold-out,” says Mr. Turner. If you are interested in attending or helping Crescend Health in its mission, visit www.crescendhealth.org or call them directly at (805) 965-3434.

J.T. Turner will be co-emceeing the evening with fellow Montecito Rotarian Mark Magid. “We’re a practiced duo,” J.T. promises, noting that he and Mark “have done entertainment and songs for the Rotarians yearly.” Mark has a background in theater and has done standup comedy in Los Angeles.

Among the items on the silent auction is a 30”x40” giclée of Lucinda’s favorite painting by her father called “The Umbrella Dancers”, which also graces the front of the program. It

was painted in 1970. Adding to that, the Selah Dance Collective, headed up by Meredith Cabaniss, will be dressed as figures in the painting and will perform a dance based upon it.

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Actor (and Montecito resident) Billy Baldwin, who graced our cover a few weeks ago when he headed up the hugely successful MAD Academy 20th Anniversary celebration out at Deckers rotunda in Goleta (MJ #22/15), reprised his role as emcee one week later at Santa Barbara Channelkeeper’s 16th Annual Blue Water Ball, which proved equally fruitful. “He connected with the audience, engaging them with his personal stories relating to the relevance of Channelkeeper’s mission, living in this community, and what it means to keep our ocean clean,” reports Carla Tomson, whose husband is former world champion surfer Shaun Tomson, and whose contributions to environmental causes and surfing were praised. The event raised more than $150,000.

Keynote speaker for the event was former lighthouse keeper, bigwave surfer, and novice boat builder Christian Beamish, who was there with his wife of five years, Natasha Elliott. Christian was introduced by surfer-filmmaker Chris Malloy.

Along with Mr. Beamish, who offered a private coastal cruise in the Cormorant – his hand-built boat – that went for $10,000, a short video featuring the speaker produced by Tate Larrick of Bread & Butter 805 was unspooled and is now posted on www.sbck.org. Musician David Courtenay serenaded before DJ Michael Ober took over with his dance music. Event co-chairs were Holly Alper and Talli Larrick. The following is the gist of my conversation with Beamish: Q. Your talk?

A. It’s about my voyages aboard the 18-foot Cormorant that I’ve written about in my book, The Voyage of the Cormorant, published by Patagonia, and I’m going to talk about the idea of blood memory, a feeling of histor-

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Natasha Elliott and Christian Beamish in front of the sails of the Cormorant (which they brought to Channelkeeper’s 16th Annual Blue Water Ball), the 18-foot Shetland Isle Beach Boat Christian built from a set of plans mailed by a boat builder in Scotland and namesake of his book The Voyage Of The Cormorant

ical exploration in the mode, without motors or other modern technology, in the interest of trying to find something of what it might have been like for our ancestors. To feel something from before, the idea being that in this time our experience, I think, is radically impacted by current technology. Which I use. I’m a journalist and a writer as well, and I use my recorders and rely on the Internet and drive an automobile, so I certainly don’t put myself above anybody, but it’s a reaching for something.

And, frankly, I’m not sure if I ever quite find it, but there is that incomparable experience of solitude and wilderness, and the stunning beauty of this coastline and the Channel Islands in particular.

fancy. What kind of wood did you use to build it?

The design originated in Norway using Norwegian fir, but the wood I used is simply marine ply. Very modern, very industrial, and epoxy.

I took my boat to a boat show and the “real” boat people sort of looked at it and said, “Yeah, well, neat little model airplane you built there.” It has those classical lines, but the materials I used were the materials that were most readily at hand in San Clemente, where I built my boat.

Tell us about your boat-building experience.

The boat itself is a Shetland Isle Beach Boat, which means that the design comes from the Shetland Isles, where it’s cold, windy, and rough, with short interval seas, and has little pocket coves that the fishermen would traditionally run out of in these boats. They would go forty miles seaward, sailing – and rowing when they needed to – and fish the banks with two men and a boy. The boy tended to the teakettle, as I understand it.

I figured that if it worked for the Shetland Islanders it’ll work on this coast, and it has. I’ve run that boat through some pretty scary moments.

How and why did the Cormorant come to be?

I grew up in Newport Beach, so I knew how to sail, but I’ve been a surfer all my life. In 2002, I took a job in a youth hostel in the Hi Pigeon Point Lighthouse in Pescadero, about thirty miles north of Santa Cruz. It’s a small peninsula that juts out into the angry Northern California sea. At the south end of the point is this place called Whaler’s Cove. No matter what the wind was doing out of the Northwest, that Whaler’s Cove just has the lightest ruffle of water. These blues and these greens. It’s a mesmerizing place, what with beachcombing and a little bit of surfing opportunities, if you’re willing to catch a wave off a rock head

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School director Padric Davis thanked the co-chairs of the Parent Council Gala, Cate Stoll and Kandie Overgaag, and their fabulous committee. Padric had her 13 teachers on stage. As the parents noted, “For many of us, you are our children’s first time away from home. You are their first teachers and first role models. The first person other than mommy and daddy to wipe away a tear. You are the first to provide structure and positively reinforce their good behavior (or not so good behavior). Cheers to you all.”

After dinner, super spy Andrew Firestone led the live auction in his energetic way to raise funds for many school programs, including music and scholarships. Then the gaming tables opened and DJ Gavin Roy added music. The committee was hoping people would go wild on the live auction and spend a fortune gambling, which was the end of the “daring and dangerous agenda” for your eyes only.

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Mad Hatter winners Bill Giordano and Ryan with Betty Fussell

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Anna Ylvisaku and Debbie Geremia by the table they decorated for the silent auction at Mad Hatters

Mad Hatter ladies Victoria Kahn, Nerre Shuriah (winner of most beautiful hat) and Cindy Brittain

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Guests were greeted in the lobby of The Fess Parker by the Ukulele Lulus, setting the mood for the Polynesian Holiday theme. There were leis and mai-tais for everyone. This was the 19th Mad Hatter’s luncheon gone Hawaiian. Aloha, everyone!

This is always one of my favorite events, because of all the hats and color. Chair Diane White and her committee didn’t disappoint. Some of the committee chairs were Missy Sheldon, Wendy Clapp, Pat St. Clair, Darlene Amundsen, and Kathryn Dinkin, with help from the rest of

Transition House auxiliary president Florence Michel with Mad Hatter chair Diane White

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old. They danced to a melting pot of music, proving you can hula to all types of rhythms.

Winners of the hat prizes were Most Creative, Betty Fussell; Most Humorous, Bill and Ryan Giordano (father and son); and Most Beautiful, Nerre Shuriah.

If you’d like to know more about the Auxiliary, call Transition House at 966-9668 and ask for the number of the current Auxiliary membership chair.

Transition House Auxiliary (THA) members. The auxiliary president is Florence Michel, who leads this group that raises funds for Transition House.

In case you don’t know what Transition House does, the executive director Kathleen Baushke enlightened us. “It supports homeless families with children, some 300 children a year, who have lost their housing and moved into our shelter.” Homeless children are three to four times more likely to end up homeless as adults; they experience more health problems and struggle academically and socially.

During their stay at Transition House, infants and toddlers receive quality licensed infant care, while school age children receive tutoring,

homework help, and evening arts enrichment program. There is also a technology and literacy program.

Teens have programs for social outings and help from staff for career and education goals. All the while, Transition House works to get parents back on their feet and into new or better jobs and back into housing.

Board president Jim Buckley (as opposed to MJ founder James Buckley) says, “This is a favorite event of the year. Mahalo! We have more than one thousand volunteers who help us out every year, and we’ve been here for 30 years.”

Master of ceremonies Andrew Firestone introduced the entertainment: Hula, Anyone?, who have been in Santa Barbara for 42 years. They have students from 4 to 84 years

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The Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network (SBWCN) can proudly state that its members rescued more than 3,000 animals last year. The group of volunteers and friends was gathered at the Biltmore for their annual fundraiser luncheon. Since there are no funds from the state or federal governments, this is vital to sustain their work.

It’s pretty amazing to realize that the worldwide ecology drive began in 1969 with the oil blow out here in Santa Barbara. As auctioneer Geoff Green said, “SBWCN has been around for almost 30 years. In the early ‘80s, there was only a group of volunteers who rescued and rehabilitated injured and orphaned wildlife in their homes. It began with 200 animals and escalated to over a thousand in 1988.” The group became licensed by the California Department of Fish and Game and put in their first phone hotline. Then came public education and a first seabird pond in a volunteer’s home.

As the years rolled by, they went from a small downtown center to 2004 when they closed escrow on the McCaw Wildlife Care Center. In 2012, all operations moved to 1469 N. Fairview Avenue. The new executive director is Kasey Gran, who comes with 14 years of animal care expertise.

As she said, “This is my first benefit.” She would want you to know that SBWCN is a volunteer non-profit organization dedicated to nurturing injured, oiled, and orphaned wildlife back to health and returning them to their natural environments.

In 20 years, there have been 50 oil spills around the world. SBWCN rescues animals all the way from Santa Maria to Ventura County. The volunteers rack up 1,000 hours a month during the summer and thousands of miles on their cars. Only a small group of professionals are involved.

Michael Ziccardi, DVM, MPVM, Ph.D., came all the way from Sacramento to enlighten us about what he does as director of the Oiled Wildlife Care Network. He’s also with UC Davis’ School of Veterinary Medicine. When a spill occurs as it did just last year in Santa Barbara, he 5 – 12 May 2016

Wildlife speaker Michael Ziccardi, executive director Kasey Gran, and co-chairs Dana Fritzler and Firth Wilkinson

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has 35 groups throughout California he can call upon. It’s imperative to get the animals out as fast as possible, stabilize them, and send them to a facility for oil washing. “We have the best wildlife response in the world,” noted Michael.

Ann Packard presented a video narrated by Diane Cannon to further illustrate what SBWCN does. Donna Sweet was there with her son and two raptors, which always enthralls the audience. She explained that falconry hasn’t really changed at all in 5,000 years.

Geoff got everyone to raise their paddles: $1,000 for a raptor rescue,

$500 for a seabird, $250 to rescue a mammal, and $150 for a nest of songbirds. Of course, any donation is welcome.

Those responsible for this important event were co-chairs Pat Carter, Dana Fritzler, and Firth Wilkinson along with committee Sally Bromfield, Roland Bryan, Kasey Gran, Ann Packard, Julia Parker, and Joanne St. John. Board president is Debby Aceves.

If you’ve never visited the rescue facility on Fairview, call Kasey at (805) 680-1120. She’d be happy to show you around. You might even want to be a volunteer or a donor.

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ENDING THIS WEEK SBCC Student Showcase – As Santa Barbara City College prepares to close out its academic year, the theater majors and other attendees in the advanced acting class come together to perform a Festival of Plays: A Student Showcase. This year’s offerings include Almost, Maine, by the award-winning American actor and playwright John Cariani, who is best-known for his role as forensic expert Julian Beck on TV’s Law & Order. Almost, Maine encompasses nine short plays that explore love and loss in a remote, mythical “almosttown” called Almost, which one reviewer described as “a series of nine amiably absurdist vignettes about love, with a touch of good-natured magic realism... with nifty surprise endings (about) falling in and out of love.” The work also stirred up some controversy back in 2014 when a planned high school production in North Carolina was canceled after some parents and churches complained about the play’s inclusion of a same-sex couple. The festival will also premiere We Could Be Anything by Gustav Högmo, a City College student and film production major who has previously written screenplays for three short films.

According to the SBCC Channels, the work revolves about two high school students – who have grown apart due to different personality and popularity paths – in their last week before graduation. Students act in

all the roles and serve as directors and in the behind-the-scenes crew for both productions, and creating sets from existing materials in the theater department. WHEN: Both plays are performed beginning at 7:30 May 4-6 WHERE: SBCC’s Jurkowitz Theatre, 721 Cliff Drive COST: $5 general, free for SBCC students INFO: 965-5935 or www.theatregroupsbcc.com THURSDAY, MAY 5 Back to (Tiny) SOhO – Saxophonist Karl Denson spent a good part of last summer filling in for the ailing iconic saxist Bobby Keys for the Rolling Stones Ole’ Tour, which found him performing in humongous stadiums in Central and South America culminating in a historic free concert in Cuba. That was quite a head-turner for longtime fan Denson, who, with his band Tiny Universe, had devoted one of its own tours a few years ago to performing the songs from the Stones’s classic 1971 album Sticky Fingers.

Now, Denson and Tiny Universe are back out on the road in anticipation of their upcoming release in the fall, with a pretty impressive lineup of their own. The current touring band is comprised of Richmond guitarist DJ Williams, Soulive drummer Alan Evans, Greyboy Allstars bassist Chris Stillwell, Crush Effects’s David Veith on the keys, Seattle’s Chris Littlefield on trumpet and ace slide, and lap steel guitarist Seth Freeman. Tiny Universe’s last LP New

THURSDAY, MAY 5 CRIT: Spring ‘16 – Weslie Ching’s next episode of her free genre-blending showcase offers artists a chance to present new work and works-inprogress followed by feedback and discussion from the audience. Choreographer Robin Bisio and filmmaker Ethan Turpin will preview their new dance video, Wildflower, created with Bonnie Crotzer on Figueroa Mountain last spring, while Crotzer will also dance another new creation by Bisio to live music by Santa Barbara band Ghost Tiger (featuring Montecito-raised singer/guitarist Alixandra Macmillan-Fiedel). Veteran dancer/ choreographer Melissa Lowenstein offers a new work that ties her love for movement with her interest in the written word as it appears in her journals and books. The piece posits that the phrase “nothing matters” opens to the possibility that everything matters. Ally Bortolazzo, who studies performance art and sculpture at SBCC, presents the audience-participatory event Untitled (Basting), and Amanda Staples, a time-based artist who was recently accepted into an artist residency program in Berlin, will present To Serve Man, a performance piece symbolic of the mother bird and baby bird relationship, the feeding and regurgitation ritual representing the food and supply chain and taking a look at opposition to domesticity, questioning ownership and preparation of food. Elizabeth Folk, lecturer in art at SBCC, UCSB, and Allan Hancock College, moderates the evening. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo, upstairs in the mall COST: free INFO: 963-0408 or www.CenterStageTheater.org

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FRIDAY, MAY 6 Isla Vista Jugglers Festival – It’s a big anniversary year for the festival in which throwing things all over the place (mostly in the air) is not only allowed, it’s the whole point! Of course, it’s even better if you can catch them, which most of these folks do pretty darn well, since some of the finest amateur and several professional jugglers from all around the West Coast and beyond gather for the 40th year, making the IVJF the longest-running regional juggling festival in the world. The annual springtime event out on UCSB’s campus hosts athletes and artists who also specialize in related arts including unicycling, diabolo, devil sticks, poi, and more as they come together to juggle and perform alone or together, attend workshops, and compete in juggling games such as quarters juggling, combat, Simon Says, numbers contests, and endurance juggling with mini-prizes. All are welcome from complete beginners to seasoned professionals.

As the website suggests: If you don’t know anybody when you arrive just introduce yourself – jugglers are very friendly. The action takes place with free admission at UCSB’s Recreation Center Multi-Activity Court (MAC Gym) all weekend except for Saturday night’s show, which returns this year to the Isla Vista Theater and will be hosted by Rick Rubenstein. As always, profits support the Santa Barbara Rape Crisis Center in the name of the late Patty Laney in whose honor this festival was founded. WHEN: 6-11 tonight; 10 am-6 pm tomorrow (show 7:30 pm); 10 am-4 pm Sunday COST: free (donations accepted); $15 general, $8 college students, children & seniors INFO: 898-3919 or www.sbjuggle.org

Ammo featured singer Nicki Bluhm and a raucous rendition of The White Stripes’s “Seven Nation Army.” But the group is best-known for its tight and boisterous stage show, which returns to SOhO for one-night only tonight.

WHEN: 9 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $20 in advance, $35 at door INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com Riley Does Dolly – Country music legend Dolly Parton wrote the music and lyrics for 9 to 5 the Musical, the popular and critically acclaimed Broadway show based on the hit comedy movie from 1979. Montecitoraised theater teacher Riley Berris finishes up her second year at the helm of the the San Marcos High School department directing the musical featuring themes of revenge, as three female characters join together to find their strength and and independence as they fight to get back at their chauvinist boss. The riotous plot twists keep the root-for-theunderdog audience on the edge of their seats, and the show is bursting with fashionable ‘70s clothing and musical dance numbers that have thrilled audiences for almost 40 years.

WHEN: May 5-7 and 12-14 WHERE: San Marcos High School Theater, 4750 Hollister Ave. COST: $14 general, $12 students and seniors, $6 SMHS Royal Card holders INFO: www.smhstheaterdept.com/showdates or www.shopsmroyals.org

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FRIDAY, MAY 6 UCSB’s Too Much Water – The Theater Department’s workshop production of KJ Sanchez’s new play being developed with the ensemble and directors follows Ophelia’s ghost as she revisits Elsinore, guided by other famous suicides Meriwether Lewis, Seneca, and Virginia Woolf. Combining found text, transcriptions of interviews with contemporary young women and highly theatrical movement, Too Much Water explores the lives of “good girls,” the social taboos of madness, and the repercussions and reverberations of suicide. Jenny Mercein and Joyelle Ball direct. WHEN: Tonight & tomorrow and May 10-15 WHERE: UCSB Performing Arts Theater COST: $17 general, $13 students & seniors INFO: 893-7221 or www.theaterdance.ucsb. edu Island Rhythms – Feliciano Arango and Amistad Cubana boast the Arango family, featuring on bass Feliciano, who was a founding member NG La Banda, one of the most celebrated dance bands in Cuba, and continues to develop his bass style called Timba. Feliciano has also worked with musical titans such as Chucho Valdés, David Murray, and Maraca.

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SATURDAY, MAY 7 Celebrate Mom... or Spring – Quire of Voyces’s Songs of Rejoicing and Remembrance falls on Mother’s Day weekend, but you don’t have to have maternal instincts to enjoy the vocal ensemble’s stunning performances at the acoustic Eden of St. Anthony’s Chapel.

Nathan Kreitzer, who founded the Quire 22 years ago, directs the singers in a “bright sun shower” of a cappella song featuring Renaissance motets, poignant threnodies of remembrance, and stirring sacred songs of the American choral tradition. The ensemble will perform works by William Byrd, Ralph Vaughan Williams, alongside pieces from modern composers Daniel Brinsmead, René Clausen, and Kim André Arnesen, plus Brinsmead’s “Love bade me welcome” and Daniel Gee’s “O Lord, Thou hast made us for thyself”, both commissioned by Quire of Voyces, as well as composer-in-residence Michael Eglin’s “Prayer”. The concert also serves as a preview of the program that the Quire will perform on its upcoming July tour of England and at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod in Wales, one of the most prestigious choral festivals in the world now celebrating its 70th year. WHEN: 7 tonight, 3 pm tomorrow WHERE: St. Anthony’s Chapel at the Garden Street Academy, 2300 Garden Street COST: $20 general, $15 students & seniors INFO: 965-5935 or www.quireofvoyces.org

Rivera, while Cristina joins on vocals and percussion. The group performed at SOhO last summer, and returns to town tonight for a free show at the even more intimate MultiCultural Center Theater on the UCSB campus, where, despite the theater seating, we’re told dancing is encouraged. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: University Center Room 1504 COST: Free INFO: 893-2064 or www.mcc. sa.ucsb.edu/events TUESDAY, MAY 10 Bowl-ing Shuffle – Nope, it’s not a new dance craze at your local 10pin alley. Just a little moving things around for tonight’s pair of local concerts. Newbury Park rockers The Neighbourhood, originally scheduled for a bash at the Bowl tonight, instead play a little closer to home at the Majestic Ventura Theater.

Meanwhile, country star Chris Stapleton – he of the May 2015

debut album Traveller that hit the ground running by showing up at No. 2 on the Billboard Country chart in its first week – now takes over at the Bowl tonight in a date rescheduled from one that was scheduled to take place in April. Following a historic turn on the CMA Awards where he was the first artist to win Album of the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year, and New Artist of the Year in the same year, Traveller also became the first album ever to reenter the Billboard 200 all-genre album chart at No. 1. Stapleton capped off the year by taking home two awards out of four major nominations at the Grammys. Anderson East opens. Stapleton: WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: 1122 North Milpas St. COST: $45-$55 INFO: 962-7411 or www.sbbowl.com Neighbourhood WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 26 South Chestnut St., Ventura COST: $44.50 - $49.50 INFO: 653-0721 or www. venturatheater.net •MJ

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She starred in the original casts of Miss Saigon, The Three Musketeers, and The Look of Love, a 2003 musical revue of the songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David. Off-Broadway, Callaway received a Drama Desk nomination for her performance in The Spitfire Grill (Playwrights Horizons), and also appeared in Brownstone (Roundabout), No Way to Treat a Lady, Marry Me a Little, and Godspell. As a concert artist, her resume includes serving as one-half of the show Sibling Revelry created with sister Ann Hampton Callaway. And she also sang the Academy Award-nominated song “Journey to the Past” in the animated feature Anastasia and voiced in song Princess Jasmine in Disney’s Aladdin. Her cabaret act – which has played to rave reviews at venues from New York’s Rainbow & Stars and Metropolitan Room to the Donmar Warehouse in London – features her favorite Broadway show tunes, songs from movie musicals, and pop hits from the 1960s.

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and County staff cited additional testimony by County Flood Control, civil engineers, FEMA, architects, biologists, and a historian, who all agree that rebuilding the bridge is the safest option and least impactful on biological resources.

Staff also presented recent changes to the proposed project, including a reduction in the maximum number of apartment residents from 286 to 276; an agreement from Casa that no other requests will be made to change the open space dedication for at least 20 years; and an agreement to implement a Transportation Demand Management plan with a goal to reduce traffic trips for residents and staff. Casa reps also reiterated a previous promise: that the campus will continue to remain a private campus, refraining from renting out the facilities for events. “We wanted to show them that we listened to them and worked hard to solve a lot of the issues in which they had concern,” said Casa rep Kirsten Ayars.

Last year, MPC asked that a more stringent, focused Environmental Impact Report be conducted on the bridge redesign, as a less stringent Mitigated Negative Declaration was used as the environmental document for the project. But Monday’s verbal agreement was a step in adopting the Negative Declaration, and another hearing is scheduled for May 18, giving staff time to finalize language before MPC grants final approval.

The campus expansion would likely be the last one needed on the site due to the current conditional use permit, which still caps the number of residents at 360. More than 100 people are currently on a waitlist for the facility.

Robbery Suspects Sought

Earlier this week, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office released surveillance footage and photos of a robbery that occurred at the Four Seasons Biltmore Hotel on March 29. “At this point in the investigation, we’re releasing the clips and photos in hopes that someone may recognize the suspects and have information that will assist our investigators in this case,” said sheriff adjutant Brad McVay. Three suspects are wanted for

ing this case, please call the Sheriff’s Criminal Investigations Division at (805) 681-4150. To leave an anonymous tip, call (805) 681-4171.

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A robbery suspect looks into a surveillance camera at the Biltmore Hotel on March 29; he and two others are suspected of robbing the Silverhorn jewelry store in the hotel and stealing five Rolex watches

stealing five Rolex watches from the Silverhorn jewelry store located inside the hotel. The robbery happened at approximately 3 pm on March 29, and the suspects were first seen on video surveillance prior to committing the crime in the back parking lot of the Biltmore in a silver Hyundai Santa Fe. According to McVay, the two male robbers cased the area before going inside the store. During the course of the crime, one suspect distracted the clerk while the other suspect broke into a display cabinet and took the luxury watches, valued at $35,500.

When the clerk noticed the second suspect breaking into the display case, she attempted to stop him, but the first suspect pushed the clerk back into the wall and fled out of the store behind the first suspect.

The two suspects ran out of the hotel through the restaurant and to the waiting silver Hyundai on Channel Drive. The female getaway driver picked up the two male suspects and sped away northbound on Olive Mill Road. Sheriff’s deputies and Santa Barbara County Air Support Copter 2 responded and searched for the suspect vehicle but were not able to locate it.

Through the course of the investigation, the suspect vehicle was determined to be a rental car out of Van Nuys and abandoned in Ventura. The car was rented the day before the crime by a person using a Puerto Rico driver’s license; however, the suspects in the robbery have not been identified.

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This Saturday, May 7, Music Academy of the West (MAW) presents its popular shopping sale: May Madness. The huge rummage sale supports one of the largest and most successful support volunteer organizations in Santa Barbara: The Women’s Auxiliary of MAW, whose fundraising efforts generate net proceeds exceeding $200,000 annually to help support the full-scholarship program at the academy.

Thousands of items will be for sale at May Madness, estimated to be valued at more than $200,000. The items include furniture, area rugs, small appliances, kitchenware, garden accessories, fine linens, antiques, silver, crystal, china, art, collectibles, board games, jewelry, men’s and women’s clothing, luggage, sports equipment, and vehicles. Organizers tell us the sale will include more furniture than usual, and a special treasure trove of more than 50 Chinese and European antiques has been provided

by Kim Kieler of Kim3 Asian Art & Antiques. Her donations include a Ming Dynasty table, an 18th-century armoire from Transylvania, several 18th-century Swedish pine cabinets, antique Chinese lacquered cabinets, screens, and tables, and hand-painted silk hanging lights. “It is an incredible array of artwork and furniture,” said May Madness chair Claire Johnson, a member of the Women’s Auxiliary since 2014.

Johnson, along with Auxiliary chair Kate Winn-Rogers and May Madness project manager Jennifer Jaqua, and more than 150 volunteers from the Women’s Auxiliary and the community, have been working behind the scenes for months, preparing and pricing inventory for the event so it

May Madness organizers include Auxiliary chair Kate Winn-Rogers, event chair Claire Johnson, and project manager Jennifer Jaqua

runs smoothly and efficiently. “It’s gratifying to see all of it being recycled and reused to benefit the Academy fellows,” Johnson said, adding that the funds earned pay for scholarships that enable 140 outstanding fellows from around the world to study in Santa Barbara each summer.

Special this year: a May Madness ticket offer for the Academy Festival Orchestra Opening Night Concert, on Saturday, June 25. “Buy one, get one free” tickets will be available at the Hahn Hall Ticket Office, and all additional tickets for the summer festival will also be available for purchase.

May Madness is generously supported by the following corporate sponsors: Chaucer’s Books, Village Properties, Ablitt’s Fine Cleaners, Hazelwood Transfer and Storage, McCann Mini Storage, and Schmidtchen, Alvarado & Co. The sale is expected to attract 1,500-2,000 attendees, many of whom come from other cities to attend the event, according to Johnson. “They bring their trucks and vans, and make a day of it!” she said.

Because of construction on campus, parking will be more impacted than usual, and additional parking space and shuttle service will be available at Las Aves complex, located on the corner of Los Patos Way and Cabrillo Boulevard.

The sale is Saturday, May 7, from 9 am to 3 pm at 1070 Fairway Road.

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Don’t Forget!

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s usual nowadays, computers deserve the credit – or the blame. Until these dandy/ diabolical devices came along, there were only two ways to remember anything: (1) keep it in your brain, or (2) write it down. Now there is a third method, which threatens to absorb and replace the other two: stuff it into a computer.

In theory (which is more and more becoming fact), we now no longer have to remember anything – except how to operate the computer. All human knowledge is in the process of becoming available to even the humblest of mortals.

Actually, there are still some things computers can’t quite remember for us – such as smells, tastes, and, par-

that latter time of life when it might be most comforting to have a clear mind, many must suffer the embarrassment and confusion of fitful forgetting. In one of its more severe forms, this malady is known by the name of a German psychiatrist who first identified it in 1901. To the uneducated ear, the name sounds like “Old-timer’s Disease.”

But there is another, very different, kind of remembering which (ha ha) I forgot to mention at the beginning of this discussion. It can be said in three words: tell somebody else. That, indeed, is how most human knowledge has been passed down through all our generations. Of course, in the process, facts have been transmuted into stories, legends, and myths.

All our own memories will eventually become part of the public domain ticularly, our physical and mental feelings. But they’re getting there.

And when they do, everything we experienced in our entire lives will be accessible, in some kind of memory bank.

Inevitably, there will be the usual privacy issues, which can only be resolved in the course of time. Just as we no longer respect the privacy rights of dead people, so all our own memories will eventually become part of the public domain.

Not that most of us are overwhelmingly eager to improve our personal memorizing skills, anyway.

People with phenomenal abilities to remember long lists of names, dates, or numbers receive little more acclaim than side-show freaks, and do indeed often find it easier to make a living by displaying their talents as performers, rather than by making more productive use of them. What use is there anyway in daily life for mental magic of this ilk, when most information can now be easily “looked up”?

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And the medium of transmission has often taken the form of poetry and song. But the ripples that ride this tide of “oral tradition” may well be all that survive whatever catastrophes await our civilization, our culture, and our computers.

Speaking of songs, it’s remarkable how many of those still circulating today are themselves haunted by the theme of memory. To give just two examples: There’s nothing left for me of days that used to be – They’re just a memory, among my souvenirs. – Connie Francis

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head which, aesthetically speaking, looks so unappealing (fortunately we don’t usually have to look at it) but which has such amazing powers, and is still so little known and understood.

This “brain” somehow contains all our memories, but has its own system of organization, which owes nothing to Melvil Dewey. Some of its contents seem to be accessible only during those strange noctur-

nal trances we call dreams. Or even in the light of day, a single precious piece of data may pop up out of some cerebral file-drawer when you’ve been diligently searching for it everywhere else.

What a pity that it’s so easy today to buy more memory-capacity for your computer but still so hard to make full use even of the capacity your own brain already has!

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To learn about the festival, which takes place from June 13 to August 6, visit www.musicacademy.org/festi val. For more May Madness information, call the hotline at (805) 695-7950.

The remodeled station, which was unveiled in August, includes a larger retail store in place of the former service bays. More work was required on the car wash, which wraps around the new building.

The Chevron Station is located at 1085 Coast Village Road.

Farmers Market Update Last week, we ran a letter from a Montecito resident concerned that our local Farmers Market on Coast Village Road was losing customers and in decline. Farmers Market general manager Sam Edelman, who oversees all seven markets from Goleta to Carpinteria, tells us sales are indeed down slightly from last year, but vendors are expected to stay put and he has no intention of closing the market.

“I was surprised to see that letter, as it seems to me that it’s been business as usual,” Edelman told us last Friday.

We asked Edelman for some statistics on market sales over the last year, and he reported that there has been an 11-percent decline in sales over the past 12 months, which does not alarm him. “Business is seasonal, and dependent on the weather, the produce, and where we are at on the road any given week,” he said. The Friday morning market, which runs from 8 to 11:15 am each week, rotates between three different locations along Coast Village Road, in an effort to not continually burden nearby businesses with park-

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Farmers Market general manager Sam Edelman says despite a slight decrease in sales from last year, the Montecito market is here to stay

ing issues.

Vendors tell us the busiest location is when the market is near Jeannine’s Bakery, as breakfast eaters and coffee-goers usually peruse the market before or after going to Jeannine’s.

The newish Bree’osh Café at 1150 Coast Village Road has also picked up quite a breakfast following, and one vendor said foot traffic seems to be increasing when the market is located on the northern end of the street.

“We aren’t going anywhere, and we look forward to continuing to bring fresh local produce and products to

Montecito,” Edelman said.

For more information about vendors, offerings, and the entire Farmers Market schedule, visit www.sbfarm ersmarket.org.

Chevron Car Wash to Open

According to staff at the Chevron Station on Coast Village Road, a tunnel car wash that has been in the works as part of the station’s recent remodel will be open for business this weekend.

• The Voice of the Village •

by Scott Craig Henry “Fritz” Schaefer III, one of the most distinguished physical scientists in the world, will speak at Westmont’s Commencement on Saturday, May 7, at 9:30 am on Carr Field. President Gayle D. Beebe will present the Westmont Medal to David and Anna Grotenhuis, in honor of their generosity and support of Westmont’s students and service to the Santa Barbara community.

Commencement is free and open to the public, but no parking is available on campus. Guests must park their cars at Santa Barbara City College and use Westmont’s free shuttle service to campus, arriving at SBCC no later than 8 am. About 300 students will participate in commencement. Thirty Golden Warriors, who graduated in 1966, will march in the procession and celebrate their 50th reunion.

Shaefer, a computational and theo-

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David and Anna Grotenhuis, with Westmont president Gayle D. Beebe, will be awarded the Westmont Medal at this weekend’s commencement ceremony

Henry “Fritz” Schaefer III, one of the most distinguished physical scientists in the world, will speak at Westmont’s Commencement this Saturday

retical chemist, directs the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry at the University of Georgia. He has written three books, Science and Christianity: Conflict or Coherence?, Scientists and their Gods, and Quantum Chemistry: The Development of Ab Initio Methods in Molecular Electronic Structure Theory. He has authored more than 1,500 scientific publications and is one of the most highly cited scientists in the world. He has won numerous awards including the American Chemical Society’s ACS Award in Pure Chemistry (1979) and the American Chemical Society Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry (2014).

A 1991 U.S. News and World Report cover story, “The Creation”, claimed Shaefer was a “five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize.” In the article, Shaefer is quoted as saying: “The significance and joy in my science comes in the occasional moments of discovering something new and saying to myself, ‘So that’s how God did it!’ My goal is to understand a little corner of God’s plan.”

David W. Grotenhuis is a partner in the real estate investment and development company Santa Barbara Capital, which has developed and 5 – 12 May 2016

invested in numerous properties in the past 40 years in Santa Barbara, the Midwest, and the Pacific Northwest.

David is also founding partner of Cascade Investment Capital, based in Portland, Oregon. He graduated from Westmont and received The Wall Street Journal Award as the outstanding graduate in economics and business.

He met Wayne Siemens at Westmont, and they’ve been partners for more than 40 years. David has deep Santa Barbara business community connections. He was a founding board member of the Bank of Santa Barbara and past board member of Birnam Wood Golf Club. He mentors and offers business expertise to young interns and entrepreneurs.

Anna Grotenhuis graduated from the University of West Los Angeles School of Law. She worked in the legal community in Los Angeles for many years before moving to Santa Barbara, where she has served on many boards and committees. She currently serves on the Westmont Foundation Board and co-chairs Westmont Women’s Leadership Council.

Together, David and Anna feel that charitable giving is their primary goal in life. They’re passionate advocates for education, especially for those who can’t afford to attend college. They provide diversity and music scholarships at Westmont. They care deeply about Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, where they’ve funded the Grotenhuis Pediatric Clinic. They provide significant support to the Santa Barbara Rescue Mission and fund Westmont Bethel Hospital in Guatemala. They also provide fellowship programs at UCLA Medical Center for interns in the Urology Department. They enjoy meeting scholarship and fellowship recipients each year and feel honored and privileged to know these students and young physicians. They keep in touch with many of them.

The Grotenhuis family has contributed to many philanthropic organizations locally and throughout the world. They believe that charitable giving is about time and energy, loving people, and creating lasting relationships.

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Judi and Shari Zucker surf the brain waves in new book

have written six books about nourishing your body properly, now want to feed your brain.

Their latest 200-page tome, The Memory Diet: More Than 150 Healthy Recipes for the Proper Care and Feeding of Your Brain, introduces a powerful, plant-based diet of leafy greens, vegetables, berries, nuts, beans, and whole grains that can slow down or even eliminate cognitive decline.

The brain-boosting recipes are based on the Mediterranean Intervention Neuro(degenerative) Delay (MIND) Diet, a plan that may reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer’s by as much as 53 percent.

“You learn how to cook these foods the correct way, as many cooking methods actually cause biochemical changes in the food we eat that can negatively affect our brain health, accelerate the aging process, and cause memory decline,” says Shari, who spent a year and a half with her sister researching the book.

The tony twosome were spurred on to write the work when their mother, Debra, now 80, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.

“It was not a generational illness, but environmentally caused,” adds Shari. “It gave us momentum, and we looked at people’s lifestyles or anything that interfered with brain function.

“The disease is a thief. It stole our mother from us!”

The new book contains more than 150 healthy recipes, all free of white sugar, processed ingredients, and gluten.

The dynamic duo, who attended UCSB and earned BAs in ergonomics, the study of human physiology, physical education, and nutrition, wrote their first book How To Survive Snack Attacks – Naturally! when they were just 16, which sold more than 80,000 copies.

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District attorney Joyce Dudley surrounded by Davey’s Voice supporters at the Coral Casino

They’re having an energized book launch bash on Wednesday, May 25, at the bustling bibliophile bastion Chaucer’s, just a tiara’s toss from the iconic Harry’s Plaza Cafe in Loreto Plaza.

Voice Heard Animal lovers were out in force at the Coral Casino for the world premiere of Davey’s Voice, a short film about the five-month-old Doberman Pinscher puppy that had to be euthanized after cruel treatment by Chinese UCSB student Duanying Chen, who, after an all-too-short custodial sentence, was deported back to his home country.

The canine’s death set off a wave of anger in our Eden by the Beach and Montecito’s Gretchen Lieff, together with other pet lovers, formed Davey’s Voice, an action group backed by district attorney Joyce Dudley and state Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, to bring in stiffer punishments for perpetrators of animal cruelty leading to a well-attended protest outside the historic city courthouse last summer.

In memory of the occasion, the seven-minute film, directed by Dave Jenkins and Lynne Shaw and Gretchen as executive producer, with Diana Basehart and Chris Erskine, was made to promote the legal campaign against animal abusers.

The La Pacifica Ballroom was festooned with posters saying “Not In Our Town or Any Other Town” and “Mandatory Sentences for Animal Torturers” as the 85 guests paid rapt attention to the short but well-made film, before animal rescue worker Laura Jones from Lake Forest sang her song “Turn This Wrong Into Right”.

Among those given paws for thought were actor Christopher Lloyd, Rod Lathim, Judi Weisbart, Tom Parker, Alan Sides, Nina Terzian, Kristi Newton, Robert Lieff, Diana Starr

Langley, Mary Doria, and Doug and Marni Margerum.

Just For Kids

Fess Parker’s DoubleTree was absolutely energized for the 13th annual Police Activities League “Putting Kids First” party, which attracted 220 guests and raised around $250,000.

The 17-year-old charity honored Santa Barbara restaurateur Sue Bennett, owner of the popular harborside nosheteria Brophy Brothers with the Founders Award which, because of illness, was accepted by her 12-yearold grandson, Bennett Van Donge.

His father, retiring board president John Van Donge, conducted the auction with Kent Wojciechoski, founder of the Santa Barbara PAL chapter, for lots including an evening for 50 on Charlie Munger’s Channel Cat, an afternoon at his Santa Ynez Valley ranch with Horse Whisperer Monty Roberts, an equine advisor to Queen Elizabeth, and a day with the Santa Barbara Police SWAT team.

Guests at the bash, chaired by PAL executive director Michelle Hillman Meyering with Joyce Reed singing “God Bless America”, included Peter and Gerd Jordano, mayor Helene

Police explorer Juan, Hanna Dreier, Police explorer Roxanne, PAL YLC member Alan, PAL executive director Michelle Hillman Meyering, and Doug Dreier (photo by Martin Alexander)

Pete and Gerd Jordano, John Dixon, and Kent “Wojo” Wojciechoski (photo by Martin Alexander)

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Presenting the Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse 30th Amethyst Ball are the producers and co-chairs: Kevin J. Rock, production lead; event co-chairs Diana MacFarlane, Betsy Turner, Anne Towbes, Holly Murphy, and Susan Neuman, with Maria Long, CADA event team; Mike Lazaro, production and design manager with assistants Violet Coto and Amanda Staples (photo by Priscilla) PAL officer Bryan Kerr and board president John Van Donge (photo by Martin Alexander)

Schneider, Hannah-Beth Jackson, Bob and Patty Bryant, Janet Garufis, Barry and Norris Goss, Bryan Kerr, Mara Abboud, and Paul and Leigh Cashman, More than 1,000 youngsters annually are helped by the organization.

Bacara Ball The Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse’s (CADA) 30th annual Amethyst Ball at the Bacara was a real gem!

The bold-faced name-filled bash attracted a record 400 guests and raised nearly $500,000 for 66-year-old CADA. Event co-chairs Diana MacFarlane, Anne Towbes, Holly Murphy, Susan Neuman, and Betsy Turner pulled out all the stops to make the cavern-

Fans “Rocking at the Bacara” Amethyst Ball Gala and The Alan Parsons Live Project with band members Dan Tracey, guitar/vocals; Danny Thompson, drums; Alastair Greene, lead guitar/vocals; “The man who does it all” Alan Parsons; PJ Olsson, vocals; Guy Erez, bass; Tom Brooks, keyboard; and Todd Cooper, sax/vocals; (not pictured Julian Colbeck) (photo by Priscilla)

At the Bacara Resort and Spa enjoying the gala are Mireille Noone, Jelinda DeVorzon, Leslie Ridley-Tree, Brian King, and Jill and Mark Alfano (photo by Priscilla)

Amethyst Ball Armand Hammer table hosts Misty Millward and Michael Hammer (photo by Priscilla)

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ous ballroom a Gillian Valentinedesigned purple wonderland for “Rock the Bacara”, with the Alan Parsons Project, the main entertainment, and a surprise set by Dave Pack, lead singer of the group Ambrosia, who sang classic songs by The Beatles and The Who. The ubiquitous Andrew Firestone conducted the auction, with lots

including a $10,000 shopping spree at State Street bling emporium Bryant & Sons, a private concert with Eric Burdon and The Animals at a Carpinteria recording studio, a five-course dinner for 40 at the Bacara’s newly reopened Wine Cellar Restaurant with noted chef Bradley Ogden, whose eponymous eatery is a feature at Caesar’s Palace in Las

Vegas, and a week’s stay at a choice of Caribbean resorts in Antigua, St. Lucia, Panama, and the Grenadines.

A silent auction featured a Katy Perry-signed guitar, a Burdon concert at the Golden Nugget in Vegas, a Beyoncé show at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, and VIP tickets to the Ellen DeGeneres show in Los Angeles.

Among the tony throng at the boffo bash, of which Alan Parsons and his wife, Lisa, were honorary chairs, were Hiroko Benko, just back from Japan with Mike Towbes and wife, Anne, Bob and Patty Bryant, Bob and Robin Fell, Leslie RidleyTree, Brian King, Barry and Jelinda DeVorzon. David Edelman, Salud Carbajal, Helene Schneider, Ellen Goodstein, Corinna Gordon, Dolly Granatelli, Michael Hammer, Perri Harcourt, Peter Hilf, Carter and Victoria Hines, Fred Brander, Teresa McWilliams, Nina Terzian, Terry Ryken, Catherine Remak, Jane Orfalea, Mireille Noone, Susan Keller, Dennis Longaberger, Brian Hill, and Milt and Arlene Larsen.

Checking in An avalanche of amazons descended on Fess Parker’s DoubleTree for the 12th annual presentation of grants by the Women’s Fund of Santa Barbara.

Checks totaling $470,000 went to seven local non-profit agencies, voted on by the membership of 668 women and presented by Christine Riesenfeld and Irene Stone.

Since it began in 2004, the fund has awarded grants totaling more than $5.6 million to 78 local non-profit programs impacting more than 90,000 women, children, and families in Santa Barbara, Carpinteria, and Goleta.

Recipients included The Academy for Success, Doctors Without Walls, Easy Lift Transportation, Isla Vista Recreation and Park District, the TRADART Foundation, Isla Vista Youth Projects, and the biggest beneficiary, Garden Court, which received $100,000 toward a capital campaign for low-income senior housing and services.

“We give large grants, frequently for programs that wouldn’t be funded by others,” says Nancy Harter, fund chairwoman. “We are flexible, funding startups, established programs, and capital projects. We look for ways to leverage our investments. Our grants allow agencies to dream big and to achieve those dreams.”

Brava.

On Their Toes It was just tu-tu much when 100 guests turned out at the Santa Barbara Wine Collective in the Funk Zone for a friend-raiser bash organized for Rodney Gustafson’s State Street Ballet.

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 45)

by Ernie Witham

State Street Ballet dancers Deise Mendonca and Mauricio Vera dance a Bachata, paired with Babcock’s 2012 Syrah (photo

by Kyle London Photography)

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s that snow?”

“Yup,” seemed to be the general consensus.

We were with a group of Road Scholars in Flagstaff, Arizona, to learn about early Native Americans. It was late April and 45 degrees. I had brought shorts and lightweight T-shirts for hiking.

Our first adventure, after the previous night’s orientation where we found out we would be traveling more than 900 miles in the next six days to Hopi, Navajo, Anasazi (ancestral Puebloans) and Chacoan sites, was to visit the The Museum of Northern Arizona, which was founded in 1928 by zoologist Dr. Harold S. Colton and artist Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton from Philadelphia. Established as a repository for Native American artifacts and natural history specimens from the Colorado Plateau, it had lots of cool pottery, weaving, and other artifacts.

The paleontology section got started, according to our docent, when someone found a sloth bone at the future JC Penny in Tuba City. Possibly it had been waiting for the two-for-one underwear special, not realizing, even though it was the only one in line, that it was millions of years early.

Another great find was a toe that they were surprised to learn belonged to a Nothronychus graffami or Graffam’s Sickle-Claw Dinosaur, which had been known to exist only in Asia. This one found its way to Utah, where it immediately adapted to its new home by giving up its carnivorous ways and going vegan. By the time it was discovered, it had a pot belly, wide hips for easy waddling, and large hands for grabbing food. An early Lazious junkfoodius.

As we were finishing up our lunch, it started snowing. Sideways. In little round balls. “That’s corn snow!” the locals told us excitedly. Then it started thundering and lightning. “A micro burst, wow!” someone added, as if we were lucky to experience such bizarre weather – and at no extra charge.

We went back to the room to dress appropriately. “This is all we brought?”

“No, here is your Hawaiian shirt.

And flip flops.”

I bundled up in two sweatshirts and my lightweight, slightly-cool-night-inSanta Barbara non-waterproof overshirt. Twenty-two of us piled into three large white vans.

“I think this is just going to blow over,” said driver Vic. He had the blow part right. By the

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Along the Island Loop Trail in Walnut Canyon

time we arrived at the Walnut Canyon Visitors Center, the wind was strong enough to bend the trees. I thought I saw a squirrel fly by. It seemed to be smiling, as if to say: “How ‘bout this weather, huh?”

Walnut Canyon was the ancestral home of the ancient Sinagua, “the people without water,” who built homes in the cliff sides more than 800 years ago, hunted game, farmed, and lived off the plants that grew nearby.

Our guide, Stewart, was pointing all this out, as well as pointing out all the geological layers and their importance to anthropologists, through the large plate-glass windows of the visitors center, as we all tried to take photos through the thick, swirling snow.

“How many people want to hike below rim to see some of the ruins close up?”

Several foolish people raised their hands.

“Are you nuts?” my wife asked.

That’s when I realized I had gotten caught up in the spirit of the thing.

Next thing I knew, I was following a line of people dressed in professional foul-weather gear, down steep, wet stairs to a path that lead around “the island” – a mountain that had ancient dwellings on both sides. North-facing for the summer, and south-facing for the winter. We all wore headphones as we walked past and through 25 dwelling rooms.

Stewart told us about everyday life of the ancient culture, most of which I missed as I was trying not to experience falling off the edge.

Just as my frozen toes were about to fall off, to be discovered by some future anthropologist, the sun came out.

Stewart was still expounding about the ancient Sinagua, who must have been much hardier than me. I took some photos as we started the uphill part of the journey back to the rim.

“How was it?” my wife asked.

“A breeze,” I said.

(From left) State Street Ballet artistic/ executive director Rodney Gustafson, SSB board member Arlyn Goldsby, dancers Deise Mendonca and Mauricio Vera, and board president Lynn Stokes-Pena (photo by Mishan W. Photography)

(From left) State Street Ballet professional track dancers Sydney Huber, Blake Brown, Anna DuWaldt, Emma Brady, and Zoe Womack (photo

by Mishan W. Photography)

Pairing world-class dancers with world-class wines by Babcock, Storm and The Paring, the event kicked off with a flash-mob dance segueing into a tender duet with Leila Drake Fossek and Thomas Fant and the Dying Swan scene from Swan Lake performed by Lilit Hogtanian.

As the Rio Olympics loom large, the show wrapped with an energetic Latin dance performance by Mauricio Vera and Deise Mendonca.

“It was quite the sensory experience,” says organizer Teri Jory, who moved to our Eden by the Beach from New York with her husband, Seth Geiger.

Among those mixing culture with their chardonnay were Jill Dexter, Arlyn Goldsby, Chris Lancashire, Catherine Gee, Denise Caracas, Lynn Stokes-Pena, Denis Grimm, Gary McKenzie and Bob and Alex Nourse.

Wild West West of the West: Tales from California’s Channel Islands, the threepart mini series made by Montecito’s Sam Tyler, with director-writer Peter

• The Voice of the Village •

Seaman, and producer Brent Sumner, which had its world premiere at the Arlington in March, will air on Los Angeles-based public TV station KCET this month.

The film will broadcast over three consecutive Mondays: May 16, 23, and 30 at 7 pm. Repeat airings are slated for the following Saturdays of each of these dates at 7 pm Enjoy.

Sightings: Singer Katy Perry and British actor beau Orlando Bloom checking out the children’s clothing store Dani Boy...Actress Serena Scott Thomas at Olio e Limone...Actor Sam Shepard noshing at the Alchemy Arts Cafe Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings, and amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmin eards@verizon,net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal.

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

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needles was embedded into the hearth of each cottage’s fireplace, to ensure good luck and ward off the bad fairies. A ceramic pixie was also hidden somewhere in each house. The cottages on the tour: Sweetbriar, Mulberry, Canary, and Hillhaven, are bursting with charm and sweet details.

“The sisters’ charming architectural style is uniquely Santa Barbara,” says tour organizer Sue Adams, who says the diversity illustrated in this year’s tour is particularly remarkable.

In 2014, the Society hosted a George Washington Smith themed tour in Montecito.

Also on the tour: two downtown bungalows representing Craftsmanstyle architecture, which dominated much of the new architecture for smaller homes in Southern California in the early decades of the 20th century, from 1905 through the 1920s. The Craftsman architectural movement was rooted in simplicity, originality, and the use of local materials, and allowed for a crop of modest homes for an ever-expanding middle class.

Tour-goers will notice many architectural details typical of the Craftsman style: low-pitched roofs supported by square columns, hand-crafted stone or woodwork, exposed rafters and brackets, and wood siding. Both bungalows have been accented with the owners’ art and travel finds.

The largest home on the tour is a newly restored Italian Mediterranean Revival-style home on Santa Barbara Street, which was built as a single family home in 1921. In 1951, the estate was acquired by several religious organizations and then by a school, which used it as campus headquarters until 2010. The exterior architecture presents classic Mediterranean details, including symmetrical entrances, a tile roof, unadorned masonry, arched windows and doors, wrought-iron window elements, and a formal, Italianate-style garden. Inside the owners have completely renovated the house, bringing it back from an industrial use to a family home.

This home and its gardens are now designated as a Santa Barbara City Landmark; tour guests will be treated to refreshments in this home’s garden.

The self-guided tour is open 11 am to 4 pm on Sunday, May 15. Tour tickets are $60 for members, $70 for non-members, and $90 for a ticket and a first-time-only membership. Visit www.pearlchasesociety.org for more information and to purchase tickets.

Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation’s Moments In Time

For the second year, Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation (TBCF) hosts its Moments in Time event on Saturday, May 21, from 7 to 11 pm. The event 5 – 12 May 2016

TBCF’s Moments in Time committee will welcome guests to a Great Gatsby-themed event at a private estate in Montecito on Saturday, May 21

Moments in Time Great Gatsby event co-chairs Vanessa Decker and Aaron Clark with Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation executive director Lindsey Leonard

features a different theme each year to offer unique and memorable experiences to attendees; this year’s theme is Great Gatsby, and takes place at a private, four-acre estate in Montecito.

The extravagant cocktail party replaces the popular Saks in the City event formerly held each spring that was retired in 2014. “‘Moments in Time’ was named after one of TBCF’s most-beloved programs, which provides special moments for children and teens to provide an uplifting emotional boost during treatment and into their recovery period,” says Lindsey Leonard, executive director of Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation.

TBCF works with the hospital social workers and the parents to organize fun events such as birthday parties in the hospital, attending concerts, meet-and-greets with celebrities, family reunions, and special outings.

This year’s affair will offer up period-centric style and fashion, live jazz, dance performances, signature cocktails, a variety of hors d’oeuvres and food provided by local restaurants, casino tables, a dance party, and a one-of-a-kind auction featuring items including a “Great Gatsby Getaway,” Daniel Gibbings Jewelry, tickets to see The Ellen DeGeneres Show, platinum passes to the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, a private wine collection from Los Cinco Locos, travel destinations, and many others.

Guests are encouraged to dress in Roaring ‘20s cocktail attire.

Co-chairs Aaron Clark and Vanessa Decker have a team of committee members working hard to bring the event to fruition: Matthew Fish, Pamela Gruen, Marina Henning, Meighann Helene, Megan Johnson, Nina Johnson, Sebastian Lebeau,

Justin Leach, Adriana Mezic, Robert Mislang, Monique Montgomery, Julia Moorhouse, Kathryn Roberts, Sylvia Schulte-Molony, Jessica Willbanks, Maria Wilson, and Tara Zanecki. Many local individual and corporate sponsors have helped to make the occasion come together, Leonard said.

A VIP experience is available and will include an early arrival reception with specialty wines, cocktails, gourmet appetizers, live entertainment, masseuses, and fortune-tellers.

“Last year, we helped a record number of 158 families in need living in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura counties. In 2016, we project we will serve 170 families,” Leonard said, adding that the demand services continues to increase each year. “We are proud to be the first non-medical agency families turn to that provides educational, emotional and financial assistance. Without our big-hearted supporters, we would never be able to offer the high-quality level of critical support that we do.”

TBCF is a non-profit organization providing financial and emotional support to families of children with cancer living in Santa Barbara, Ventura, and San Luis Obispo counties. Services are providing to families that have a child diagnosed with cancer up to age 18 and continue until they reach 21 years of age.

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Danny Briere will be cookin’ in the Kitchen with James Connolly and David Piltch on Saturday

but hesitated to reveal more. “I’ve learned not to say too much of what the songs are about. Because you can rob someone of having their own experience. It’s really more what they get out of it, not what I wrote it for.

And I’ve written songs that I didn’t know what they were about until someone else pointed it out.”

New material is on the way. “I wasn’t sure if it would last more than the first show. But we’re getting better-sounding and more interesting every time we play, so I’ll start writing more complicated things for the ensemble.”

As it is, the arrangements are gorgeous and evocative, at least the three recorded songs that were made available for preview. Briere said he feels like a fan, too.

“Sometimes I just stop playing and step to the side and watch David and Jim interact and play off each other.

I think they love it, too. (Piltch) has made 1,000 albums or something, but he told me the other day he’d never heard anything quite like this.”

Briere said he hasn’t spent that much time figuring out what should happen after Saturday’s show at Piano Kitchen – where the quartet will be augmented by backup vocalists Sierra Reeves and Jake Elliot – and the release of the CD. “I don’t look that far in the future. But my fairly modest goal is to open for someone at the Lobero. Otherwise, I’d love to just continue to play with them forever. They can handle any music. I could bring them reggae and it would be interesting. So, I hope that it’s so good that we all love it and are proud enough to do another one.”

Acoustic Addenda

What do David Wilcox, Joan Baez, Nanci Griffith, Garth Brooks, Guy Clark, Nanci Griffith, Peter, Paul and Mary, Cry, Cry, Cry, and Janis Ian have common? They’re just a few of the dozens of artists who have covered songs written by Buddy Mondlock.

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to The Cambridge Drive Concert Series on Friday May 6, with special guest Dan Phillips. The latter is a multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter whose resumé includes designing sounds for Peter Gabriel, writing for Electronic Musician and Keyboard Magazine, recording a “Spider Woman” theme song for Marvel, and developing flagship synthesizers for Korg. He’ll be playing solo acoustic piano on Friday.

Alan Roth’s ChakraBreath Inner Journey inaugurates a new Mission Canyon house concert series from Wayne Marshall, who used to book folk and other acoustic acts at his home in Goleta going back almost two decades. The event starts at 6 pm Saturday with a potluck, followed by a quick opening set from Marshall and the concert/journey featuring Roth on the Zen Japanese Shakuhachi bamboo flute, as heard on his new Fields Beyond the Known – A Shaman’s Tale CD. Details on the event’s MeetUp page: www.meetup. com/S-Cal-Musical-Chakra-Journey/events/230667232.

Riding an Asian Wave

Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s next Wave Film Festival highlights new Pan-Asian films continuing through Sunday, May 15, at Riviera Theater, which has just been announced as the organization’s new home. Among the 11 films to be screened are Oh-Kwang Kwon’s Collective Invention, about an idealistic aspiring journalist spec assignment to investigate the rumor of a man who turned into a fish after participating in clinical trials for a major pharmaceutical company; The Chronicles of Evil, in which a highly decorated homicide detective kills his taxi driver in self-defense, covers up the incident to avoid a negative impact to his career, and then is assigned to investigate the sensationalized case; and Right Now, Wrong Then, about a less-than-a-day relationship between a film director and a local painter he meets while out of town.

Tickets to individual screenings cost $10 general ($8 seniors and students).

The $80 Cinephile Pass includes admission to one screening of each film and access to next Tuesday’s Passholder Reception at Engel & Völkers, while the $250 Patron Pass adds reserved seating for all screenings, and admission to the daily Patron Pass early evening happy hour. Call 963-0023 or visit www.sbiff.org.

Words Worth

Temple Grandin is considered among the most accomplished and well-known adults with autism in the world whose story revolutionized

the way people think of an autism diagnosis. An outspoken proponent of autism awareness, Grandin is the author of several bestselling books, including Emergence: Labeled Autistic, The Way I See It, and Animals Make Us Human. While she was called “weird” as a youth, through working with a mentor, she later developed her talents and created a successful career as a livestock-handling equipment designer and is now professor of animal science at Colorado State University. Grandin will present the lecture “Different Kinds of Minds Contribute to Society” on Tuesday, May 10, at Granada Theatre, through UCSB Arts & Lectures. Tickets cost $15-$40. Call 893-3535 or 899-2222 or visit www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB. edu or www.granadasb.org.

In the book-signing bin, Wayne Pacelle leads a discussion and signs copies of his latest, The Humane Economy: How Innovators and Enlightened Consumers are Transforming the Lives of Animals, at Tecolote Book Shop here in Montecito on Sunday afternoon, May 8. Pacelle work delves into a revolution in American business and public policy that is altering how we treat animals via stories aimed to appeal to both the mind and heart. The book has widespread appeal, as famed anthropologist Jane Goodall called it “an essential read”, while business titan Jack Welch praised The Humane Economy as “critically important”.

More info at 969-4977 or www.teco lotebookshop.com.

Over at Chaucer ’s, David Bienenstock signs his new book, How to Smoke Pot (properly), on Thursday, May 5 (canceled awaiting rescheduling date). In the book, Bienenstock, former West Coast editor of High Times magazine who writes the Weed Eater column and produces a video series called Bong Appetit for VICE, discusses how cannabis sativa has lately been enjoying a long-overdue renaissance following years of being termed dangerous and subversive. But now the question arises as to how members of the weed culture can proudly and properly emerge from the underground without forgetting their roots, or “losing our cool.” Should be a interesting encounter, but maybe you’ll want to light up at home before arriving?

Friday May 6 at Chaucer ’s brings Dr. Roddy Carter, author of Body WHeath: Journey to Abundance, which draws on the author ’s experience preparing athletes for peak performance at the Olympic Games, a career in clinical medicine and research, and lessons from a personal life reboot. The book explains the science of “WHealth” and outlines the road to attain it via Carter ’s

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pathway to health, happiness, and prosperity.

Martin Seay’s debut novel, The Mirror Thief, has been praised as “a true delight, a big, beautiful cabinet of wonders that is by turns an ominous modern thriller, a supernatural mystery, and an enchanting historical adventure story.” The author says a few words and signs copies at Chaucer’s on Wednesday May 11. Call 682-6787 or visit www.chaucersbooks.com.

All About Art

Less than a year after museums, galleries, and city-run public spaces joined together to celebrate Ray Strong with exhibitions of his paintings all over town, sharing the masterful work by the beloved Santa Barbara-based artist. Now many of the paintings from those exhibitions are featured in the artist’s first ever monograph, “RAY STRONG: American Artist”, coinciding with a new exhibit of his works at Sullivan Goss. The show opens for 1st Thursday on May 5 with a special book-release party, and closes on July 3, the 10-year anniversary of his death.

During the same period, Sullivan Goss also hosts “The World at Home”, the gallery’s second solo exhibition for the highly successful Pasadena-based artist Susan McDonnell, and “Strange As it Seems”, also its second exhibition from the Estate of San Diego artist Jean Swiggett.

Tricia Saroya, a Santa Barbara-based artist who does much of her work at her small studio in Dos Pueblos Ranch, is exhibiting a large collection of her new Spirit Totems paintings focusing on close-up encounters with the faces of animals. Saroya will be on hand to discuss her work and help buyers with selections during 1st Thursday at Paradise Cafe.

Santa Barbara Historical Museum gets in on the 1st Thursday After-Party scene for a two-hour stint beginning at 7:30 – a Disco Night dance party with DJ Darla Bea. Mony’s Taco Truck will be on site for the indoor/outdoor bash that also celebrates the exhibition Stars, Snapshots & Chanel, which, fittingly, documents the Santa Barbara social scene of the 1970s with fashion and celebrity photos by Beverley Jackson.

Thirty-one local Carpinteria painters, sculptors, photographers, and more are participating in the 10th anniversary Carpinteria Artists Studio Tour on Saturday and Sunday. A meetand-greet reception with the participating artists takes place 5-7 pm on Friday May 7, at the Carpinteria Arts Center so you can get a sample, share a few words with the artists, and plan your visit to the local studios and galleries. Maps, details, and more online at www.carpinteriaartscenter.org/art istsstudio-tour.

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and not mind the great whites. But, it’s a fantastic place with a rich maritime history of whaling and fishing in these stout little crafts.

I saw a photograph of these guys working in and out of the coves and became entranced by the idea of working in that place and somehow wresting a living out of it. So, how was I going to get my hands on a wooden boat? I read Wooden Boat magazine, as does anyone vaguely interested in boats and while down in Santa Cruz, I was looking at an issue and came across a photograph of what’s called a Ness Yaol by a designer named Ian Oughtred, who lives in the Isle of Skye.

I wrote him a letter (he didn’t do email). Back comes a letter in beautiful penmanship. I had described my coastline and he said, “Yep. I think the Ness Yaol is the one for you. A hundred and fifty dollars for a set of plans.” I got the plans three weeks later, and when I unpacked and laid it out I said, “Oh man, how am I ever going to do this?” I couldn’t make heads or tails of it, despite five years in the Navy Seabees. But, I sat with it and worked out how I would begin.

That’s it?

Not quite. I had written an essay for the Surfer’s Journal in San Clemente about surfing at Pigeon Point (I have a master’s degree in creative writing) and ended up getting a job with the publication as associate editor. So I left my Shangri-La and took the job.

My rental in San Clemente came with a garage big enough to build a boat in.

How did you meet your wife?

I met Natasha at a surf event (she surfs) in San Diego in 2010. I had just

returned from the three-month voyage down the coast to the center of Baja California from San Diego, about which I wrote in my book.

(Natasha): I was waiting for a date to show up, and we began talking and hit it off. My date showed up after Christian left, but he gave me his card, which I threw in a drawer.

A month later, I called him. We talked about adventure, and we talked about a place north of Santa Cruz that we both loved. At that point, I was really into going walkabout in a minivan. He had his boat, so we talked about the joy of posting up in a secluded spot. Then, pretty quickly, it was on.

We were married in 2011.

On this three-month trip south, how and where did you sleep?

Well, I learned the limitations of an eighteen-foot boat in the open Pacific.

I [crafted] my sleeping quarters by bending flexible fiberglass battens over like a covered wagon and put the ends of them into the gunwales of the boat. Over the top I stretched some marine canvas, tied it between the masts, and it made a nice, cozy pod. I have seat covers, and I lift them off the boards and lay out a sleeping pad. In a good anchorage, it’s a lovely way to go.

What was the worst weather you ran into?

The worst weather I ran into was well north of Punta Colonet in Baja.

One night, I missed my anchorage and was three or four miles offshore, and it was too hard to read the intricacies of the shore. Soon after sunset it began.

Everything got very still. Behind me, I could hear the wind. They call it a

norté and it looked like a swarm of locusts tearing up the ocean coming down. I dropped the mainsail and kept the mizzen up, brought up the centerboard, and held on for dear life. Rode out the wind for about twenty-five miles down the coast. Just surfing swells. Kind of fun when I realized I was going to be okay, but had I let go of the rudder or the tiller broke or something, it would have been horrible.

Did you learn anything that you didn’t already know about yourself or about sailing?

I discovered that there are different qualities of time. There’s the time when you are going to work, and there’s the time when you’re traveling under sail. I also discovered the boat I built is hardy and well-suited to its task.

I also learned the limitations of traveling by open boat and just a set of oars. I became exhausted and really

drawn and made the right decision to call my trip in the middle of Baja instead of going to the end. My goal was Magdalena Bay, but it was another 150 miles and I was too spent. I probably would have gotten into trouble had I tried to get there.

You go back and forth between Santa Barbara and the Channel Islands. Do you bring the family?

Miles, our son, was born last summer. Our daughter, Josephine, is four. I’ve sailed with Josephine from Carpinteria [to Santa Barbara]. She fell overboard, but she was wearing a lifejacket. She remembers the incident fondly, but I wouldn’t try to bring the family in the Cormorant. There’s too much that could go wrong.

I carry a handheld VHF radio and a satellite device with a 9-1-1 capacity, and I always wear a lifejacket and a lifeline when crossing the channel. I

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for: BID NO. 5450 DUE DATE & TIME: MAY 24, 2016 UNTIL 3:00 P.M. Wastewater Testing Services for Public Works Water Resources Laboratories Scope of Work City requires qualified firms to provide Professional Environmental Laboratory Services and presentation of results to the City for wastewater discharge, bio solids, tertiary ultrafiltration-recycled water, storm water and industrial waste discharge (Pretreatment) samples. Testing services can include various wastewater special projects, and the upcoming Aeration Basin Upgrading Project.

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 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.

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. General Services Manager

FICTITIOUSBUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Majestic Commercial Residential Clean Up Services, PO Box 1036, Buellton, CA 93427.

Alejandro Moreno, 420 Dogwood St., Buellton, CA 93427; Esmeralda Moreno, 420 Dogwood St., Buellton, CA 93427.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 11, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN No. 2016-0001078. Published May 4, 11, 18, 25, 2016.

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This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 27, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN No. 20160001262.

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for: BID NO. 5449 DUE DATE & TIME: June 7, 2016 UNTIL 3:00P.M. Residential and Commercial Street Sweeping Scope of Work to include sweeping of streets in the commercial area and residential area street sweeping program in the City of Santa Barbara.

A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on May 19, 2016 at 9:00 a.m., at the Streets Multi-Purpose Room, located at 625 Laguna St, Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions.

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 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.

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. 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.

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.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA WILDLAND FIRE SUPPRESSION ASSESSMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2016-17 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Santa Barbara will conduct a Public Hearing on Tuesday, May 17, 2016, during the afternoon session of the meeting which begins at 2:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara. The hearing is to consider renewal of the Wildland Fire Suppression Assessment District and the levying and collection of assessments to fund the cost of wildland fire suppression services within the District for Fiscal Year 2016-17.

On May 3, 2016, the City Council adopted a Resolution of Intention, declaring its intention to hold this hearing (hereinafter referred to as the "Assessment Hearing") and to consider renewal of the Wildland Fire Suppression Assessment District. All interested or affected property owners will be afforded the opportunity to be heard by the City Council at the Assessment Hearing. Written comments are also welcome up to the time of the hearing, and should be addressed to the City Council via the City Clerk’s Office, P.O. Box 1990, Santa Barbara, CA 93102‑1990.

The total cost of the Wildland Fire Suppression Assessment District is estimated to be $257,403 for Fiscal Year 2016-17.

This cost results in a proposed assessment rate of $77.82 per single-family equivalent benefit unit in the Foothill Zone and $96.50 in the Extreme Foothill Zone for Fiscal Year 2016-17. Parcels located within the assessment area are assessed based upon their receipt of special benefits from the services over and above general benefits conferred on real property or to the public at large. The Assessments include a provision for an annual increase equal to the change in the Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County Area Consumer Price Index (CPI), not to exceed 4% (four percent) per year without a further vote or balloting process. The total allowable CPI adjustment for 2016-17 is 2.03%, and the rates have been adjusted accordingly.

An Engineer's Report for the Wildland Fire Suppression Assessment District has been prepared and was preliminarily approved by the City Council on May 3, 2016. The Council will consider final approval of the report during the Assessment Hearing. The report is available for review in the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, De la Guerra Plaza, and at the City of Santa Barbara Fire Department located at 925 Chapala Street.

On Thursday, May 12, 2016, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Tuesday, May 17, 2016, will be available at 735 Anacapa Street and at the Central Library. Agendas and Staff Reports are also accessible online at www.santabarbaraca.gov; under Most Popular, click on Council Agenda Packet. Regular meetings of the Council are broadcast live and rebroadcast on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. and on Saturday at 9:00 a.m. on City TV Channel 18. Each televised Council meeting is closed captioned for the hearing impaired. These meetings can also be viewed over the Internet at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CouncilVideos.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need auxiliary aids or services or staff assistance to attend or participate in this meeting, please contact the City Administrator’s Office at 564-5305. If possible, notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will usually enable the City to make reasonable arrangements. Specialized services, such as sign language interpretation or documents in Braille, may require additional lead time to arrange.

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager Published May 4, 2016 Montecito Journal

Barbara CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 6, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN No. 2016-0001022.

Published April 27, May 4, 11, 18, 2016.

FICTITIOUSBUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Re*Design, PO Box 8362 Santa Barbara, CA 93118. Re*Design LLC, PO Box 8362 Santa Barbara, CA 93118. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 5 – 12 May 2016

PUBLIC NOTICE City of Santa Barbara

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Santa Barbara will conduct a Public Hearing on Tuesday, May 17, 2016, during the afternoon session of the meeting which begins at 2:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara. The hearing is to consider recommendations from the Historic Landmarks Commission that the following properties by designated as City landmarks:

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for:

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"The Olives," a Craftsman residence at 2121 Garden Street, Assessor's Parcel No. 025-252003; Our Lady of Sorrows Church at 33 East Sola Street, Assessor's Parcel No. 039-072-007; and The Dolores/Notre Dame School at 33 East Micheltorena Street, Assessor's Parcel No. 027232-014.

You are invited to attend this hearing and address your verbal comments to the City Council. Written comments are also welcome up to the time of the hearing, and should be addressed to the City Council via the City Clerk’s Office, P.O. Box 1990, Santa Barbara, CA 93102‑1990.

On Thursday, May 12, 2016, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Tuesday, May 17, 2016, will be available at 735 Anacapa Street and at the Central Library. Agendas and Staff Reports are also accessible online at www.santabarbaraca.gov; under Most Popular, click on Council Agenda Packet. Regular meetings of the Council are broadcast live and rebroadcast on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. and on Saturday at 9:00 a.m. on City TV Channel 18. Each televised Council meeting is closed captioned for the hearing impaired. These meetings can also be viewed over the Internet at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CouncilVideos.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need auxiliary aids or services or staff assistance to attend or participate in this meeting, please contact the City Administrator’s Office at 564-5305. If possible, notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will usually enable the City to make reasonable arrangements. Specialized services, such as sign language interpretation or documents in Braille, may require additional lead time to arrange. /s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager Published May 4, 2016 Montecito Journal

13, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis. FBN No. 20160001112. Published April 20, 27, May 4, 11, 2016.

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: JCS Estates, 4791 8th St. #1, Carpinteria, CA 93013.

John Starks, 4791 8th St. #1, Carpinteria, CA 93013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 18, 2016.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, 5 – 12 May 2016

County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN No. 2016-0001148.

Published April 20, 27, May 4, 11, 2016.

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: W-3 International Realty, 1482 E. Valley Rd #300, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

Robert Pavloff, 1482 E. Valley Rd #300, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 17, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales.

FBN No. 2016-0000843.

Published April 13, 20, 27, May 4, 2016.

Filed April 13, 2016 by Terri Chavez. Hearing date: June 1, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 4/27, 5/4, 5/11, 5/18

BID NO. 5448 DUE DATE & TIME: May 24, 2016 UNTIL 3:00P.M. New 2016 or Newer ¾ Ton Trucks 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.

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. General Services Manager

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Sequel Salon, 1187 Coast Village Road #3A, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

Fabian Hernandez, 4531 Oak Glen Driven #C, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 6, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN No. 20160001037. Published April 13, 20, 27, May 4, 2016.

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Honey B, 209 W. Haley Street #4, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Katie Belanger, 209 W. Haley Street #4, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 7, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County

Published: May 4, 2016 Montecito Journal

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. 20160001046. Published April 13, 20, 27, May 4, 2016.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV01409. To all interested parties: Petitioner Nery Reyes filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name of child from Benji Adrian Lopez to Benji Adrian Sanchez. 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.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV01350. To all interested parties: Petitioner Isaiah Klein filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name from Isaiah Mbira Ram Klein to Yitzhak Bira Vanara. 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 April 5, 2016 by Terri Chavez. Hearing date: June 1, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 4/27, 5/4, 5/11, 5/18 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV01350. To all interested parties: Petitioners Elizabeth Foscue and Bryan Boyd filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing names from Elizabeth Ellen Foscue to Elizabeth Ellen Foscue-Boyd and Bryan Frederick Boyd to Bryan Frederick Foscue-Boyd and name of child from Caroline Mary Foscue Boyd to Caroline Mary FoscueBoyd. 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 April 12, 2016 by Terri Chavez. Hearing date: June 15, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 4/27, 5/4, 5/11, 5/18 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV01309. To all interested parties: Petitioners Jane Ann Gonzalez and Alfredo Gonzalez filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name of child from Peter Daniel Gonzalez to Peter Daniel Humphreys.

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 April 6, 2016 by Terri Chavez. Hearing date: May 25, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 4/20, 4/27, 5/4, 5/11

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COMING & GOING (Continued from page 49)

do worry that I won’t be able to put a wetsuit on if it all goes south.

What have you learned or observed about the Channel Islands?

I’m encouraged by the return of the bald eagles, the Island Fox, and the apparent success of the marine protected areas. God bless the National Park Service.

How did you become involved with Channelkeeper?

I became aware of Channelkeeper through my work with Patagonia.

They’ve published my book, and our relationship goes back a decade. I am honored to be with Channelkeeper.

Future plans?

I’ve designed another boat, a 27-footer and I’ll put a very sparse cabin on it. I’d like to make childhood [memories] for our children in the 27-footer. I’m rallying support for this next endeavor.

••• Natasha has a landscape business called Sweet Smiling Landscape (805-881-2701), and she specializes in sustainable landscape design, incorporating native plants into home and business landscapes that don’t necessarily look like native plants but take a whole lot less water.

Christian, in addition to being a freelance writer, shapes his own brand of surfboard (christianbeamish.com) as Surfboards California; he also edits other people’s work, and three days a week works at Trader Joe’s on Milpas. It’s “service with a smile,” he jokes.

Channelkeeper, whose stated mission is “to protect and restore the Santa Barbara Channel and its watersheds through science-based advocacy, education, field work, and enforcement” launched a new effort it calls the Seafari Program in 2014, which is an on-the-water experiential education specifically tailored for “underserved” youth.

Channelkeeper is currently looking to raise money for the communications equipment that will enable them to live-stream their Seafari boat tours and live dives to classrooms and other venues. To learn more, go to: sbck.org.

The Dawning of the Age of Aquarius

by Beau Lettieri Last weekend, Santa Barbara High School Theatre opened its eye-popping production of Hair, the iconic American Tribal Love-Rock Musical.

Set in 1968, a period of social and political revolution, Hair tells the story of a “tribe” of American youth living in New York City that struggles to come to terms with the chaos and rapid changes sweeping the 5 – 12 May 2016

The 1960s rock musical Hair is back at SBHS; final performances this weekend, May 6, 7, and 8; (top row, from left) Hailey Turner, Ben Zevallos, Quique Hernandez, Lizzie Saunders; (bottom row, from left) Rio Salazar, and Dante Gonzalez (photo courtesy of Isaac Hernandez)

nation, most notably the conflict in Vietnam and the domestic struggle against the previous generation. Hair has been revised and approached with a new outlook. Director Otto Layman puts it simply: “The show can be about so many things: counterculture, unlimited freedom, the sexual revolution; our production, however, focuses on the reaction to the war and its effect on the youth of 1960s America.”

Wildly successful on Broadway for its revolutionary introduction of rock and roll to the musical form (a previously unheard-of concept) and time-appropriate subject, it was nominated for multiple Tony Awards in its initial run, and won a Tony for best revival of a musical for its 2009 revival.

“Hair was the first contemporary musical, presented in actual time — just after the Summer of Love, and during the turmoil of Vietnam, protest, and social uprising and dissatisfaction with the war,” said Layman.

“Fifty years later, it is still relevant.”

Hair’s “tribe” features the talent of 29 actors from Santa Barbara High School, under the watchful eye of artistic director Layman, celebrating his 20th year as head of the theater at SBHS. In 2008, Layman produced a smaller scale version of Hair at SBHS for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, where it played to sold-out audiences and was named the Pick of the Festival. This time, Layman is coming at it with a fresh approach, different production team, and new cast. Instead of a cut-down version tailored to the dimensions of a ballroom in Edinburgh, the production takes advantage of the scale of the theater to create a Peter Maxinspired explosion of color, complete with a scale VW bus and a helicopter crashed into a jungle temple in Vietnam. The set, designed by

Layman and built by students under the direction of technical director Jonathan Mitchell includes an 18’ x 40’ back wall, a myriad of platforms, and a number of giant murals — most notably a portrait of Jimi Hendrix that has been painted on the back wall.

The musical direction is provided

by Dr. Jon Nathan of UCSB. Bonnie Thor is back as costume designer, bringing the wild fashion and spirit of 1968 fashion to the SBHS stage. Choreography is by SBHS theatre alum Jenna Tico, in her SBHS choreography debut. Additionally, Sio Tepper (also an SBHS alumna) makes her vocal direction debut, after co-musical directing last spring’s production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood and playing in countless productions.

Mark your calendars now: Hair opened on April 29 and has four final performances this weekend: Friday, May 6, at 7 pm, Saturday, May 7, at 2 pm and 7 pm, and Sunday, May 8, at 2 pm for a special Mother’s Day performance. You can go online at sbhsthe atre.com to see and hear the show, and to order tickets. Or call (805) 966-9101, x5029. Let the sunshine in!

Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5 at San Marcos

by Lauren Berris San Marcos High School brings the hit Broadway comedy 9 to 5 – The Musical to a Santa Barbara stage for what we believe is the very first time.

It is based on the popular 1979 movie, with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton.

Director Riley Berris takes a few minutes away from rehearsals to talk about the play and why she chose it.

Q. You’re really breaking some new ground with your play choices. Can you describe why you chose this musical in particular?

Nobody can take the love away from a girl and her horse

A: The last couple shows I’ve done have had male lead roles, and we have such a strong group of young women in our theater department that I wanted to highlight them. I also wanted to find a play that would not only feature these actresses but would also focus on their abilities and styles.

And, I just love Dolly Parton music.

Have you ever seen the movie or the play? What did you think?

I haven’t seen the play, but I recently watched the movie for the first time. I loved how the filmmaking felt completely different than it does now. It genuinely felt like a period piece, even though it was only in 1979. The music and the humor are great, and I think the whole audience will leave the theater feeling uplifted and happy.

Would you say this play has a feminist twist to it?

Absolutely. It has been fun talking with my student, Megan Wilson, who plays Doralee, and the cast about what feminism really means. As with so much of language, this word has been batted around over the years, but I think it really just boils down to women standing up for what they believe in, and that is absolutely at the essence of this play.

How are your male actors relating to this play?

I think the boys are enjoying it as much as the girls. The moments that are slapstick and the experience of working and learning together as an ensemble have made it a fun, rewarding, and educational piece. Not only are they working hard, they’re having a blast.

••• 9 to 5 – The Musical plays Thursday through Saturday May 5, 6, 7, and May 12, 13, & 14 at 7 pm at San Marcos High School. To reserve tickets, visit shopsmroyals.org, or you can buy tickets at the door if seats are available.

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There are other things I could do, there’s really nothing that I love as much as horse racing. – Chantal Sutherland

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

Morning Starters and Other First Courses •

with each entRée

Sandwiches •

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Salads and Other Specialties •

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

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

Eggs and Other Breakfast Dishes •

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

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

Classic Eggs Benedict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .....................................

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Seafood Louis ....................................... ....................................................... 29. $18.

with Julienne Ham and Hollandaise

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tossed with Roquefort Dressing

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tortillas, Melted Cheese, Avocado and Warm Salsa

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

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

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

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

Mixed Vegetable Frittata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................................ 17.

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

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

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

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

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