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SB Choral Society observes 70th year by raising $60K at Rockwood Woman’s Club, p. 28

LETTERS, P. 8 • ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT, P. 23 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 42

REBUILD NOW? OR, WAIT AWHILE? BOB HAZARD PONDERS THE ADVISABILITY OF REBUILDING RIGHT AWAY OR PUTTING PLANS ON HOLD FOR A YEAR... OR TWO... OR THREE; IT DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU LIVE, HE SAYS (GUEST EDITORIAL BEGINS ON PAGE 5)

Montecito Voter’s Guide

John Cox, Jen Christensen, and Justin Fareed top our list of preferred candidates, p. 10

Village Beat

Planning Commission approves mixed-use condo project on Coast Village Road, p. 12

On Entertainment

UCSB’s annual Spring Concert Series fills the air from May 27 to June 8, p. 31

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE 5 Guest Editorial

Bob Hazard surveys the scene, touching on FEMA recovery mapping, rebuilding, insurance costs, debris basins, and future alternatives

6 Miscellany

Richard Mineards makes media rounds; soprano Audra McDonald; Granada Premier patrons; Monarch Wealth Strategies; Grassini vineyards; SB Choral Society; Justify wins again; Boys & Girls Club; Katy Perry’s mom; and farewell to Tom Wolfe

8 Letters to the Editor

A compilation of posts from Journal readers comprising Daphne Moore, Fred Hayward, Thomas Carlisle, John Blankenship, Nimita Dhirajlal, Dale Lowdermilk, Peter Kastl, Justin Ruhge, Francesca Galt, Janet Smith, Scott McCosker, and Charles Hamilton

10 Coming & Going

James Buckley tackles the California Primary, slated for June 5: propositions and candidates (namely Jen Christensen); and art at Narrative Loft

12 Village Beat

Condos on Coast Village Road; Gallery Montecito show; Teens Sing for SB; and Jon Vreeland’s book at Chaucer’s

14 Seen Around Town Photography: iheartmygroom

Lynda Millner covers the VNHC annual Mother’s Day luncheon; Jardin de Las Rosas; and Mike Lewis’s latest book

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Tide Guide 23 Brilliant Thoughts

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30 On Entertainment

Steven Libowitz reports on I Madonnari at the Mission; UCSB concert series; Floor to Air fest; Avila Beach Blues

34 Our Town

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44 Real Estate

Mark Hunt returns to the Journal fold, encapsulating Montecito home sales in May and highlighting a quartet of available properties in 93108

45 Spirituality Matters

Steven Libowitz talks with Lisa Citore about Women’s Ritual Theater; Yoga Soup; Ecstatic Breathing; ACT workshop; coping; SB Yoga Center; and NVC

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Guest Editorial

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

To Rebuild or Not?

Mark your calendars for June 11, 2018. That’s the expected date for the public release of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Flood Recovery Maps for Montecito. The map release will mark a critical milepost in making the rebuilding decisions that will shape the future character of Montecito for the next 50 years.

FEMA Recovery Mapping

According to Eric Simmons, FEMA regional representative in the Los Angeles office, “the FEMA Recovery Mapping for Santa Barbara County will serve as an important research document for re-building Montecito.” A preliminary draft of the recovery maps was delivered to the County last week for private comment, but County officials are restricted from making public comments at this time.

Partnering with the California Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) and the County of Santa Barbara, the new recovery maps will delineate the boundaries of new “flood hazard zones” in Montecito, including projected flood level elevations, and the estimated velocity of future creek flows. The maps, based on 100-year flood projections, are expected to reflect certain wider flood zones, rechanneled watercourses, and creek banks that overflowed by as much as 20 feet during the January 9 devastation. Peak creek flows are expected to be 1.7 to 2.6 times higher than the pre-burn flows, according to FEMA’s Simmons.

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Monte ito Miscellany

by Richard Mineards

Richard covered the Royal Family for Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Mail, and was an editor on New York Magazine. He was also a national anchor on CBS, a commentator on ABC Network News, gossip on The Joan Rivers Show and Geraldo Rivera, host on E! TV, a correspondent on the syndicated show Extra, a commentator on the KTLA Morning News and Entertainment Tonight. He moved to Montecito 11 years ago.

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nd I don’t mean just for Prince Harry and his new wife Meghan Markle.

Having covered the British Royal Family for more than four decades, I was deluged with interview requests on TV and radio nationwide to bring my 40 years of expertise to the forum.

The local ABC affiliate, KEYT-TV, had presciently booked me a couple of months back to make a number of appearances, which included two shots on the morning show with anchor Joe Buttitta and his meteorologist wife, Kelsey Gerckens, and a remote from my cottage home in Montecito with reporter Alys Martinez. I did a further remote for the Fox station’s Kacey Drescher.

Senior reporter John Palminteri interviewed me for KJEE radio, and HLN – the sister cable network for CNN – asked me to do Ashleigh Banfield’s Crime and Justice, which I taped at the CBTV Studio on State Street, near the Paseo Nuevo.

I also bumped into a former ABC-TV colleague Jeff Greenfield, a speechwriter for the late Senator Robert Kennedy, who was assassinated 50 years ago in June, a tragic event I viv-

idly remember, traveling to London to sign the condolence book that had been set up at the U.S. embassy in Grosvenor Square.

The wedding itself at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, built in the 14th century by King Edward III, lived up to every expectation, with Prince Charles escorting the bride, ravishing in a Givenchy-designed silk gown with a stunning intricately embroidered 15-foot train and a magnificent diamond tiara lent by the Queen, down the aisle, given her father, Thomas Markle, was recovering from heart surgery.

Among the 600 glamorously garbed guests were Santa Barbara Polo Club player Nacho Figueras and his wife, Delfina, and Montecito’s most famous resident, TV talk-show titan Oprah Winfrey.

Harry, 33, looked quite resplendent in his Blues and Royals cavalry uniform, with his brother, Prince William, looking equally dashing as best man.

And, as I predicted here in my column of September 21, 2017, his 92-yearold grandmother, Queen Elizabeth,

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have lived on Santa Rosa Lane for over 30 years. The ugly power lines have always been a blight on what should be beautiful mountain views. Years ago, I asked Southern California Edison to take a look at the mess for safety reasons and to discuss the possibilities of putting the wires under the ground. The technician’s response was “They don’t bother me.”

Now, after the recent fire and subsequent mudslide disaster, the problem of the power lines goes way beyond aesthetics. Evidence seems to show that the fire was started by a poorly maintained Southern California Edison power pole. On my street, the tangled wires are dripping across and into hedges, winding around other wires, and most frightening, entwined in dead and brittle branches. An inferno waiting to happen.

Does our community have to endure another tragedy before Southern California Edison finally faces the obvious and puts their wires underground? It would be a sign that they are willing to do all they can to avert the horror of another disaster. In the name of decency and common sense, please do this now.

Daphne Moore Montecito (Editor’s note: We are with you on this, Ms Moore, but the various utilities, both public and private (power, cable, so-called “wireless” companies, telephone land lines, et cetera), have created a deliberately confusing array of cross-purposes whose poles, antennae, and ungainly attachments encroach upon our views, so much so that it has become nearly impossible for homeowners to even begin discussions that could lead to undergrounding.

They’ve also made it prohibitively expensive. I believe the only way to make this happen is legislatively. The California legislature has recently mandated that all new homes built and/or renovated in the state after 2020 must feature solar panels on south-facing roofs. If legislators can do this, why not push them to require that all utilities must be placed underground by... let’s say 2020? This could be a winning formula for a budding politician or political cause. Justin Fareed, are you listening? – J.B.

The Art of the Deal

My fingers are still crossed. Save the children.

Pedophilia must be addressed, and President Trump is as incensed as we are. I sure hope these sealed indict-

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ments are acted upon to conclude this terrible episode in our nation’s history. One of the keys is the murder of Seth Rich. Connecting the dots runs the gambit from Benghazi to the sale of Uranium One. Hang on!

Fred Hayward Montecito (Editor’s note: We here at Montecito News Central came up blank when trying to decipher your missive and can’t figure out what you are referring to. But thank you for your letter. – J.B.)

Dazed and Confused

I’m a little confused about something. Maybe one of your editor’s notes can enlighten me. How is it a gunrunning convicted felon – Oliver North (remember the Contras?) – now heads up the NRA? I believe a federal judge turned down his request to own a gun.

Also, at the NRA convention recently in Dallas, no one could bring a gun. Does that violate their 2nd Amendment rights?

Thomas Carlisle Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Well, we do remember the Contras, and yes, it was an embarrassing moment for the U.S. that sales of arms were made to Iran against the wishes of Congress, and that the money received went toward support for the Nicaragua Contras against their communist opponents. Colonel North was found guilty on three counts in connection with all that, but a federal judge vacated those felony convictions a couple years later (1991). And, since he is no longer a legally “convicted felon,” he’ll probably make a pretty good NRA president. As for the convention in Dallas, the main speaker was to be President Trump, and security requirements called for the disarming of the audience. Second Amendment rights don’t necessarily follow gun-toters into public arenas. – J.B.)

He’s for Brown

I do not normally get “publicly involved” in politics, but the upcoming election for sheriff is too important to ignore. As a 50+ year resident of Montecito and a longtime observer of local politics, I cannot fathom why anyone would think it’s time to try to replace sheriff Bill Brown with a much less experienced deputy. How

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uesday, June 5 (polls are open from 7 am to 8 pm) is that time again, folks, when you’ll be asked for “permission” to spend yet even more money that California doesn’t have to fulfill a wish list of spending by our profligate legislators.

But hey, what the heck, it’s not only not their money, it’s also not your money. It’s funny money! And, better yet, since there really isn’t any money at the city, county, state, or certainly the federal level after current and former government employees receive their salaries, benefits, vacations, benefits, and pensions, who cares that we sign a whole new bunch of IOUs? Let the good times roll.

This primary election, there are a number of legislature-driven ballot proposals that require a “Yes” or “No” vote. Why they didn’t just pop these on the November ballot is no secret: better chance of passage now, when mostly dedicated [government] union members, their friends, and immediate family members make up the electorate.

Ah well, here goes anyway:

by James Buckley

Prop 68: Just another 40-year $4.1-billion bond boondoggle that’ll add another $200 million in payments until long after you’re dead and buried. Just say “No.” Prop 69: This is an essentially meaningless constitutional amendment that would purportedly prevent future assemblies from spending “transportation money” on anything other than transportation. If you believe that will actually happen, well... we suppose a “Yes” vote will do no harm, and if it makes you feel as though you’ve done something positive, go ahead and just say “Yes” or “No.” It really doesn’t matter.

Prop 70: A constitutional amendment that would require a supermajority vote before the Cap and Trade revenue can be accessed. If you believe politicians will pay any attention to this, well... Just say “No.” Prop 71: Provides that any ballot measure approved by a majority of voters shall take effect five days after the election is certified. Who cares?

Just say “Yes” or “No” Prop 72: This “permits” – it doesn’t

exclude them from doing so – the legislature to exclude newly constructed rain-capture systems from property tax reassessment. We vote “Yes” on this and hope it will do some good.

U.S. Senate

We like Kevin Mottus; his strong opposition to the easy permission of various companies to erect an array of cell towers near homes is appealing.

Of course, he doesn’t have a shot in hell of winning this seat, but he seems like a good guy.

Governor of California

John Cox (R) is our choice. Speaking of shots (see above paragraph), here’s a guy who may just have that proverbial shot at winning. It is a long shot, but hey, as Jim Carrey’s character says in a memorable Dumb & Dumber scene when told his chances were “a million to one” that he’d get to date the married woman he was enamored of, he responded: “You mean, I have a chance?!”

In California, the powers that be have cemented their positions by doing away with party affiliations.

The top two vote getters are the only names that progress from primary to election status. With some serious competition among the Democrats vying for gubernatorial status – Gavin Newsom, Antonio Villaraigosa, and Delaine Eastin – Mr. Cox could come in second and set up an actual race (John Kerry only beat President Bush by 10 points in this state). Besides, we like Mr. Cox’s campaign slogan: Make California Great Again.

U.S. Representative, 24th District

This is always tough, as both Salud Carbajal and Justin Fareed are not only good guys, but are also hometown boys. Unfortunately, Mr. Carbajal pretty much votes his party’s line and it’s a line we’ve come to... fear and distrust. So, our vote is with Mr. Fareed, whose heart is in the right place.

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We like Sofia Collin, who has accepted the voluntary spending limit of $600,000, which would allow her to issue a statement in the voter’s guide, but you won’t find her statement in the voter guide, because she has also chosen not to pay the $6,000 such a statement would cost. The likelihood is she doesn’t have the $6,000, let alone the $600,000 she is allowed to raise.

Her plan, should she win – which is seriously unlikely – is “to address the homeless epidemic.” Her philosophy is to create sustainable jobs in order to integrate the homeless into the economy. “I believe everyone has a right to work,” she says. She would set up a state-funded entity that would ensure that a small business that hired

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. – Winston Churchill

Sofia Collin has put her money where her heart is and is running to represent the 37th District in the State Assembly

a homeless would be off the hook for liability. The state-funded entity would be responsible for paying whatever expenses that arise out of giving someone a job. This will probably never happen, but it shows that Ms Collin is thinking creatively.

Another Collin proposal: an initiative she calls “merit ticketing,” in which a law enforcement officer would be allowed to issue a ticket “of nominal monetary value” to citizens they see doing good in their community.

As for why anyone should vote for her, Sofia says, “I’m not running against [Monique Limon]; I’m running with her. I don’t like the idea,” she explains, “of animosity between candidates; I prefer to give candidate choices, and then people can make decisions based upon merit rather than our shortcomings.”

Ms Collin was born in New York City, grew up in Westchester County, and moved to California at the age of 14. Her father was a photographer and her mother “did accounting” work. Sofia attended Cate School for two years, and transferred to Santa Barbara City College where she earned associate degrees in humanities and English, and graduated from Berkeley with two bachelor degrees, one in English and one in philosophy. She currently lives in Santa Barbara and works with the SIMA Corp. in property management.

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arlier this week, story poles at 1062 Coast Village Road were taken down after being up for two weeks, denoting the height of a new mixed-use development slated to go in place of the current 14-unit apartment complex. On May 10, the Santa Barbara Planning Commission unanimously approved the project, which includes nine, two-story residential condominium units, one commercial condominium unit, and a subterranean garage with 23 parking spaces.

The project is to be located on the property between Starbucks and China Palace; property owners David Back and Monika Draggoo plan to demolish the 10,000-sq.-ft. apartment building, carport, and hardscape, as well as remove seven mature canary island pine trees, and one gold medallion tree. The new project

includes a stone façade commercial building facing Coast Village Road, as well as a subterranean garage with six commercial parking spaces and one commercial bicycle space. It also includes nine residential condominiums housed in five separate buildings, including private subterranean two-car garages that include private elevators into the units. The average 2,400-sq.-ft., 3-bedroom condos include living space on the ground floor, bedrooms on the second floor, and rooftop decks.

Architect Brian Cearnal, who also designed the Plaza Montecito building and two condos on the former property of Turk Hessellund Nursery, has presented the project to various Montecito and Santa Barbara entities, including the Land Use Committee

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Mother’s Day Luncheon

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It began with emcee Pamela Dillman Haskell moderating the lively (cool?) teen-parent fashion show from K.frank. The Santa Barbara Arts Performance Company high school students performing in partnership with the Arts Mentorship Program preceded it. Who doesn’t love Dancing With the Stars! They were Charley Goldstein, Anabel Goldstein, Frankie Harman, Parker Pallad, Morgan Fell, Mya Chiarappa, and Audrey Zuck, choreographed by Cloe Roberts.

Strutting the runway were Sareena and Sheela Hunt; Dawson and Stuart Fuss; Bella Carson and Theresa Borgatello; Anabel, Vivian, Charlotte, and Gary Caesar; Audry and Judy Murphy; Emma and Lisa King; and Jonathan, Arielle, and David Moorman.

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Then it was emcee Andrew Firestone’s turn to raise extra funds with the live auction, which he did with trips to Hawaii, Deer Valley, Utah, and a custom dinner for 10 at State & Fig restaurant.

VNHC executive director Rick Keith reminded us, “VNHC has been here for 110 years. My grandchild wondered if I’d been here since the beginning. I assured him I may look like it, but I wasn’t.” There were 45 volunteers and 40 caregivers who were invited to attend the luncheon.

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When: 1 pm Where: County Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu

Voice Academy Showcase Santa Barbara Voice Academy hosts singers performing current popular music with George Friedenthal on piano, Ray Pannell on guitar, Larry Perpoli on drums, and Randy Tico on bass.

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After-School STEAM Program Build with Legos, do snap circuits, and drop-in craft activities at Montecito Library. Ages 5 and up.

When: 3:30 to 4:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

Cold Spring School Art & Maker Faire Art & STEAM projects on display in classrooms and STEAM Room; handson stations to tinker, play, build, and explore; music and edible art.

When: 5 pm Where: Cold Spring School, 2243 Sycamore Canyon Road

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Book Signing at Tecolote National award-winning author Mack W. Borgen will hold a book signing at Tecolote Book Shop for his newly released book, Dead Serious and Lighthearted: The Memorable Words of Modern America – Volume 1 (19571976).

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created him Duke of Sussex, making his former Suits actress bride “duchess” – titles not used since 1843.

I was last at the chapel, where Harry was christened and the Queen will be buried with her father, King George VI and Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, in due course, in 1999 when Prince Edward, the monarch’s youngest son, married Sophie Rhys-Jones becoming the Earl and Countess of Wessex, for MSNBC. It is to be hoped, having gone off without a hitch in perfect weather, the couple’s marriage will be a true love match, given the Windsors’ past record for less than domestic bliss, including Prince Charles and Diana, Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, and Princess Anne and Mark Phillips.

My fingers are tightly crossed.

McDonald is Lovin’ It Soprano Audra McDonald, who has a record-breaking six Tony Awards, two Grammys, and an Emmy, was in top form when she appeared in the last Granada performance of the UCSB Arts & Lectures current season.

New York-based McDonald, who received a National Medal of Arts in 2015, the highest honor for achievement in the arts, was doing her third concert of a nine-city California tour with her tony trio – Andrew Einhorn on piano, Gene Lewin on drums, and Mark Vanderpoel on bass.

Singing an eclectic selection from George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, and Lerner and Loewe, she wrapped the highly entertaining two-hour show with “Climb Every Mountain” from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic The Sound of Music.

Kath Lavidge, A&L Council co-chair, and Ed Lavidge with Audra McDonald (photo by Grace Kathryn Photography)

Patron Party Social gridlock reigned when attorney Michael Bollag and his wife, Tracy, hosted a super sunset soirée at their stunning aerie near Hope Ranch for Granada Premier Patrons.

Music for Money Santa Barbara Choral Society marked its 70th anniversary with a Sentimental Journey-themed gala at the Rockwood Woman’s Club, with 125 guests raising more than $60,000.

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Memorial Day Ceremony

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“It has just gone from strength to strength over the past few years and is a vital part of the theater’s fundraising,” says Craig Springer, who retires next month after eight years as head honcho.

Among the cultural horde were Anne Towbes, Robert and Val Montgomery, Palmer and Susan Jackson, Gretchen Lieff, Steven Sharpe, Susan Gulbransen, Robert and Christine Emmons, Christopher and Lisa Lloyd, Kim and Tammy Hughes, Christopher Lancashire and Catherine Gee, Hal and Haley Conklin, Barbara Burger and Paul Munch, Eric and Nina Phillips, Haley Firestone Jessup, Allen and Anne Sides, Wayne Siemens, Rob and Pru Sternin, and Kirsten Springer.

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The boffo bash, co-chaired by Marylove Thralls and Mary Dan Eades, revisited the post-war era with the Broadway musical and the Big Band sound.

JoAnne Wasserman, who is celebrating her 25th anniversary directing the choir, with David Potter on piano and Bob Lally narrating, conducted the concert featuring classic songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter, Hoagy Carmichael, and Ira Gershwin.

Afterward, the guests, many in vintage costume, tucked into a heaving buffet of Swedish meatballs, mini chicken pot pies, lemon pound cake, and mini eclairs.

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of the Montecito Association, both the Montecito Board of Architectural Review and Santa Barbara Architectural Review Board, the Montecito Planning Commission (for courtesy review), and the Coast Village Association. The project was revised to mitigate several issues, including neighborhood privacy issues concerning noise and lighting on roof decks, and the removal of onsite trees. Neighbor concerns were addressed by adjusting the parapets on the rooftop decks, eliminating two “Juliet” balconies, and frosting the stairway windows. The tree concerns were also mitigated: the initial proposal included the removal of all onsite trees; now, a greater setback is eliminating the need to remove so many trees, and 42 trees will be planted.

The board voted unanimously to approve the project, as well as two modifications including an interior setback modification and an alteration that would allow for lesser distance between the buildings, both of which City staff conclude are minor and have a negligible impact.

Cearnal and the project team continue to tweak design elements on the project, and will return to the ABR for further design review; the ABR had favorable comments on the Spanish-

style architecture.

Once ground is broken, it’s expected the development will take 16 months to complete.

“Pop-up” Show at the Gallery

The Gallery Montecito hosted a pop-up show on Saturday, May 19, with artist Taki Gold, who showed off his “Girl God” Jacket Line. “It’s unique, wearable art that is one-ofa-kind,” said gallery curator Bobbi Bennett.

The jackets are displayed on simple mannequins, which are included in the jacket purchase so they can be displayed as an art piece in a room.

Gold says each Jacket has a personal story of how it was created; each story is displayed near the jacket in the Gallery. “The intention behind “Girl God” is to honor the women in my life, who made my war beautiful during the Liberian Civil War,” Gold said.

Allora by Laura styled the jackets on display with designer skirts; the opening drew many Montecito locals to try on the jackets, and only four remain. They’ll be on display through Friday, May 25.

The gallery is located at 1277 Coast Village Road.

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This Sunday, May 27, at 8 pm, KEYT will air the Teens Sing for Santa Barbara sold-out concert that took place on March 9 at the Marjorie Luke Theatre.

The concert raised $65,000 for the Unity Shoppe Santa Barbara and Montecito Disaster Survivors Fund and featured the talents of local teens, as well as Montecito local Kenny Loggins.

The concert footage was filmed and edited by Jeff Martin of KEYT and includes vignettes from Loggins, Teens Sing co-creators and co-producers Jackson Gillies, Tali Ratcliffe, and Kiara Lin, and Montecito mudslide survivor Lauren Cantin, who most recently sang with Brad Paisley at his benefit concert on May 12 at the Santa Barbara Bowl.

The concept for the concert was born from co-producer Lin, who wanted to help the Cantin family and the Montecito community following the January mudslides. Cantin lost her father, Dave, and her brother, Jack, remains missing and is presumed dead. Lauren was rescued from the mud after six hours; her mother, Kim, also survived. “Visiting Lauren and her mother in the hospital and knowing that we’ve lost so many people, that houses and families have been torn apart, I couldn’t stand to see my community as it was. So on January 10, I decided to organize a benefit show/concert.” Lin said. “We realized this show was a way of representing the younger population, who also felt compelled to help but had no way of doing so.”

Book Signing at Chaucer’s

“To see my name next to Gore Vidal’s on the shelf in a bookstore is something I’ve joked about for years.

I’d gently run my fingers along the spines of the other books, announce to anyone in the vicinity, stranger or not, ‘My book will be right about here, see?

Right here.’ Apparently, when we joke about something enough times, the joke manifests itself into reality,” says MJ contributor Jon Vreeland.

On Tuesday, May 29, at 7 pm, Chaucer’s Books will host the launch of Jon’s debut book, The Taste of Cigarettes: A Memoir of a Heroin Addict, a book he wrote while majoring in English at Santa Barbara City College from 2014-16.

Next Tuesday, you may ask anything you want during (or after) the Q&A portion of the event about the book, addiction, and so forth. There will also be a few minutes of reading, along with refreshments, a lot of special people, and of course, the book signing.

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Users of all levels are welcome.

When: 1 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: (805) 969-5063

on display, including digital drawing, digital imaging, video, photography, and web design.

When: 5 to 7 pm Where: MAD Academy, 905 North Nopal Street Info: http://madacad.com

6th Grade Production Cold Spring School 6th grade presents Crazy For You! When: today and tomorrow, 6:30 pm Where: Cold Spring School Auditorium, 2243 Sycamore Canyon Road

Grand Re-Opening Party DJ Darla Bea throws a Grand Re-Opening party at Ty Lounge at the newly reopened Four Seasons Resort the Biltmore. Dinner, dancing, cocktails, and music.

When: 7 to 10 pm Where: Ty Lounge at the Biltmore, 1260 Channel Drive Cost: free admission; open to the public

THURSDAY, MAY 31 Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library.

When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Chronic Pain Workshop Dr. Hesu Whitten discusses his findings on healing from chronic pain.

When: 6 to 7 pm Where: Simpatico Pilates, 1235 Coast Village Road Suite I Info: 637-5650 FRIDAY, JUNE 1

MONDAY, MAY 28

SATURDAY, JUNE 2 Free Music The Santa Barbara Music Club will present another program in its popular series of concerts of beautiful music.

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

When: 3 pm Where: First United Methodist Church, Garden and Anapamu streets Cost: free

Spanish at Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish conversation group for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish.

Participants should be familiar with the basics.

When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

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Student Art Show Santa Barbara High School’s Multimedia Arts & Design (MAD) Academy will host the MAD Academy Showcase, a display of art created this year by the Academy’s 360 students.

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Concert for the Community The Summerland Band will perform at the corner green at Pierre LaFond for a free community concert; bring blankets and a picnic to enjoy the free music.

When: 4 to 6 pm Where: corner of San Ysidro and East Valley roads

Family fun Weekends at Montecito Country Mart Saturday includes pony rides and face painting 10 am to 1 pm; a petting zoo from 1 to 4 pm; ice cream at Rori’s from 1 to 4 pm.

Memorial Day Ceremony Veterans, their families, those serving in uniform, and the community are invited to join the Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation (PCVF) for a free ceremony honoring all of those who have died in military service to our country. Air Force colonel (retired) and PCVF Board chair Philip J. Conran, will serve as master of ceremonies, which will include speakers from different military branches. The event will commence with the time-honored bagpipe procession by pipe major Bill Boetticher.

The Santa Barbara Choral Society will perform a selection patriotic songs to honor those who gave their lives to protect our freedoms. This auditioned, semi-professional chorus is celebrating its 70th year of service to the Central Coast under the skillful baton of Joanne Wasserman, who is celebrating her 25th year as conductor.

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When: 10 to 11 am Where: Santa Barbara Cemetery, 901 Channel Drive Group reservations: (805) 969-0695 Info: (805) 259-4394 Sunday includes kids arts and crafts from noon to 3 pm; ice cream at Rori’s from 1 to 4 pm.

MONDAYS Connections Brain Fitness Group Brain program for adults who wish to improve memory and cognitive skills. Fun and challenging games, puzzles, and memory strengthening exercises are offered in a friendly and stimulating environment.

When: Mondays, 10 am to 2 pm Where: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Lane Cost: $50 (includes lunch) Info: 969-0859 VNHC Bereavement Class – Writing to Heal A workshop using writing to heal the heart. No writing experience required.

Facilitated by Marsha Goldman, MSW, Ph.D. When: Mondays, June 4 through July 9, from 2 to 3:30 pm Where: Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care (contact for address) Cost: free Info: (805) 690-6219 or marsha. goldman@vnhcsb.org

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

Where: Portico Gallery, 1235 Coast Village Road Info: 695-8850 TUESDAYS Story Time at the Library When: 10:30 to 11 am Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 WEDNESDAYS Yoga on Coast Village Yoga is back on Coast Village Road at Simpatico Pilates! Stretch, strengthen, breathe, and rejuvenate, with Vinyassa flow classes taught by Leanna Doyle. All levels are welcome.

When: 8:30 am Where: Simpatico Pilates, 1235 Coast Village Road, suite I Info/Reservations: 895-1368 THURSDAYS Casual Italian Conversation at Montecito Library Practice your Italian conversation among a variety of skill levels while learning about Italian culture. Fun for all and informative.

When: 12:30 to 1:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Carpinteria Creative Arts Ongoing weekly arts and crafts show with many different vendors and mediums.

When: every Thursday from 3 to 6:30 pm in conjunction with the Carpinteria farmers market.

Where: at the Intersection of Linden and 8th streets Information: Sharon at (805) 2911957 •MJ

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Brilliant Thoughts 13-Month CD Special

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

Heavens on Earth

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ne idea that keeps cropping up in literature is the notion that our land – whichever land it happens to be – is at least in some way as holy as those far-off Biblical places we have been taught about since childhood.

Here are two fine examples: First, we have the mystical William Blake, whose vision in the poem “Jerusalem” was that Jesus (the “Holy Lamb”) might personally have visited England. He asks a series of suggestive questions, such as: And did Those Feet, in Ancient Time, walk upon England’s mountains green?

And was the Holy Lamb of God in England’s pleasant pastures seen?

This leads to a glorious dream of England as the possible New Jerusalem. (Meanwhile, our original Holy Land remains the subject of unholy conflict.)

But Blake was writing at the beginning of the 19th century, and he could not help contrasting that magnificent hope with the actual scars he saw being inflicted by the “dark satanic mills” of the Industrial Revolution.

Then, a century later, we have Francis Thompson, a forlorn vagrant living in London, conceiving that City, in his reverent poem “The Kingdom of God” as being almost literally linked with Heaven. Out of the depths of his own despair, he recalls the story in Genesis about the patriarch Jacob, who dreamed of a ladder stretching from Earth to Heaven, with “the angels of God ascending and descending on it.” And Thompson anchors his ladder to a familiar landmark, which has given its name to a whole district of Central London: ut (when so sad thou canst not sadder) B Cry – and upon thy so sore loss, Shall shine the traffic of Jacob’s ladder Pitched betwixt Heaven and Charing

Cross.

There have, of course, been many other inspirations concerning Earthly Paradise. To the Hobos (in the Burl Ives rendition), it constituted a “Big Rock Candy Mountain” with “cigarette trees, “lemonade springs,” and a “soda water fountain.”

But centuries earlier than all of these, in the year 1516, a book came out whose very title virtually created the genre of ideal earthly places. It was called UTOPIA (which in 24 – 31 May 2018

Greek means “No place”) and was written by Sir Thomas More, whom you may best know from various media versions of “A Man for All Seasons.” Scholars are still arguing about this book, which seems to be a mixture of genuine proposals for an improved society and satirical criticism of More’s own times.

But what’s most striking to me is the contrast between religious freedom, which he generously granted to the inhabitants of Utopia, and the actual fate of Sir Thomas More himself. More, who had risen to become Lord High Chancellor, one of the most powerful men in the Kingdom, was still such a straight-laced (dare I say bigoted?) Catholic that when his king, Henry VIII, broke with the Church of Rome, More refused to sanction the separation and was executed for his defiance, on a charge of treason. His last words, we are told, were “I die the King’s good servant, but God’s first.”

Many other writers since then have come up with their own versions of Utopia, which have often been described as island paradises, far to the west or far to the east of wherever contemporary reality might actually be situated. But the true historical irony is that most of us today are living lives with powers and privileges, which to our ancestors would virtually have qualified us as gods. The very fact that our every dwelling has its own internal access to running water would in itself have seemed miraculous not so long ago.

Yet even today – and perhaps, in some ways, even more so today – we cling to our own dreams of places where life is better. You can look up lists of places where the people are supposedly happier and other lists of places where the climates are supposedly the best in the world – and there is little or no correlation. In fact, the allegedly happiest country in the world is Norway – which has one of the most miserable climates.

Not surprising that its chief cultural contributions have been the gloomy music of Grieg and the even gloomier plays of Ibsen.

Perhaps we should be glad that there are no real Heavens on Earth, so that, while we are striving here, “Heaven” can still have some real meaning. Or, as Robert Browning put it: Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp – Or what’s a Heaven for?

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Teamwork, neighborhood input to drive recovery effort

by Matt Pontes, Assistant County Executive Officer and Director of Recovery Santa Barbara County mpontes@countyofsb.org

The many agencies, organizations and non-profits involved in the

The County launched the Montecito Center for Preparedness, Recovery and Rebuilding as a “one-stop-shop” for residents affected by the disaster. The Center, at 1283 Coast Village Circle in Montecito, offers free assistance such as consultations by local volunteer architects, mental wellness counseling, and help from Case Managers Montecito recovery effort are emphasizing from the County’s Planning and Development long-term safety concerns along with the Department who are assigned individually to provide community’s need to rebuild quickly as neighborhoods residents with one-on-one assistance. recover from the Thomas Fire and 1/9 Debris Flow tragedy.

“Our immediate goal is to help the community recover as quickly as possible by bringing together the collective resources of multiple agencies and community groups,” said First District Supervisor Das Williams, Chair of the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors. “At the same time, we are mindful that strategic, inclusive decisions will build a more resilient Montecito in the future,” he noted.

The short-term recovery effort is focused on getting residents into repaired or rebuilt homes as soon as possible. Community groups, including local architects, engineers and land-use specialists, are joining government agencies and non-profit entities to lend assistance and expertise.

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Several important planning studies and reports are expected in the coming weeks that will help move the rebuilding effort into a higher gear, too.

The highly anticipated flood hazard maps from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which are expected to be delivered in June, will provide a critical guide to future development decisions in Montecito.

The County’s Thomas Fire and 1/9 Debris Flow Disaster Recovery Strategic Plan, now in development, calls for improved storm preparation and evacuation protocols, and identifying long-term steps to reduce the risk of damage from future debris flows.

With all options coming into focus, residents can soon take the lead in developing a shared vision for the long-term resiliency of their neighborhoods.

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Updated flood hazard maps from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which will be available to the public in June, will guide development decisions such as whether to elevate or relocate a damaged or destroyed home. The updated maps will reflect the Santa Barbara County 100-year - or 1 percent chance Board of Supervisors Approves per year - flood hazard Stay connected to what’s 'Like-for-Like' Building Code Update conditions and new elevations happening with recovery to Address Montecito Recovery after the 1/9 Debris Flow. efforts. Sign up to receive the On May 15, 2018, the Santa Barbara County Board of County’s Recovery eNews Supervisors approved an update to a section of the (sign up at ReadySBC.org).

County’s zoning ordinances commonly known as the “like-for-like” provision, which will allow Montecito property For more information The Montecito Center for owners to rebuild homes damaged in the 1/9 Debris Flow and assistance: Preparedness, Recovery & more quickly and safely.

Get Ready for Summer!

The ordinance allows homeowners to avoid time-consuming land use permits, design reviews, and potential appeals if they choose to rebuild disasterdamaged homes in the same location and in the same manner (including size and design) as their previous homes. The amendment approved by the Board will give homeowners additional flexibility to elevate rebuilt structures of the same design to a safer level, and relocate further away from flood plains, while still being considered a “like-for-like” rebuild.

Contact the Montecito Center for Preparedness, Recovery and Rebuilding at 805-845-7887 montecitocenter@sbcoem.org or visit in person at 1283 Coast Village Circle Montecito, CA 93108

Rebuilding is here for you!

You can drop by the Center, located at: 1283 Coast Village Circle or call at 805-845-7887, or email the Center at: montecitocenter@sbcoem.org.

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For more information and recovery assistance: Visit ReadySBC.org or contact the Montecito Center for Preparedness, Recovery and Rebuilding at 805-845-7887, montecitocenter@sbcoem.org or visit in person at 1283 Coast Village Circle, Montecito, CA 93108.

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LETTERS (Continued from page 8)

do you argue with phenomenal success?

Bill steered this county through one of the biggest crises in the history of Santa Barbara, during the December fire and the January mudslides. Bill has incredible experience and was recognized by experts for his leadership and control of an almost impossible string of disasters.

Bill Brown demonstrated the skills and caring that he has shown for many years as a member of the Board of Directors for the Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation, as well as being involved in many other community organizations. Bill has always been an advocate of the homeless, lost veterans, the mentally ill and other minorities. He has, at the same time, managed to represent the needs of a large and very diverse county. We all deserve to have the best sheriff possible for our communities and Bill Brown is most certainly that! Vote for Bill Brown on June 5 and end this costly ego contest backed by bored and restless union members.

John W. Blankenship Montecito (Editor’s note: We concur. I had arranged an interview with Sheriff Brown but it never happened. Nonetheless, we agree that nothing in his record would indicate a need for him to be replaced.

As a rule, Montecito Journal doesn’t endorse law enforcement candidates, such as sheriff or district attorney, so we won’t comment further except to say that Sheriff Brown has performed admirably and with dignity. – J.B.)

Change and Reform

I had the honor of working at the Santa Barbara County Jail from 200709 as a culinary arts instructor and a Servsafe instructor, through SBCC Adult Ed. During this time, I was able to observe closely a very challenged population, struggling to overcome addictions, unhealthy behavioral patterns, and a yearning to experience relief and change. I viewed this environment as a rich opportunity to promote reflection, connection, and more important a sense of responsibility in how they affect their internal and external environment through the choices and actions they take.

Through a simple act such as chopping, I was able to observe how most of the population was challenged with attention deficit disorder and lack of basic awareness skills, often making it hard for them to follow instructions.

It was after an inmate chopped his finger with a prepping machine due to his lack of focus that I marched to sheriff Bill Brown’s office for advice on how to solve this problem.

Not being politically savvy, I did not know who I would meet and even

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wondered if such a busy man would have time to talk to me.

To my surprise, I was informed that the sheriff was busy, but that he would take a few minutes to see me.

Immediately, I felt comfortable in his presence due to his openness, his genuine interest in my observations and a willingness to do something about the issue. He explained that he understood the presenting issue, which was one of the causes for the inmates to keep rotating back to life behind the cells. We discussed the project of Vipassana that strives to teach self-awareness skills through meditation in jail systems. Sheriff Bill Brown came across as very solution-oriented from the moment I met him. We were soon discussing how to incorporate these tools, observe results, and then possibly consider integrating these into the jail reformation program.

I offered to volunteer to run these meditation classes until we saw results. For a year, every Sunday, my church became to sit in silence with the female inmates from Honor Farm while guiding them on how to work with self-control, self-compassion, and compassion for others.

I have also witnessed how, thanks to the culinary program at the jail as well as the Servsafe program, many inmates have created for themselves an opportunity to reintegrate into society with skills they feel empowered with. It is in moments as such that I feel proud to belong to our community. I feel protected by authorities that are willing to listen, allow active participation, and strive for healthy changes in our disciplinarian systems.

These qualities are hard to find in leaders who truly care for our system and its improvement. Currently, I am a proud board member for the Prison Yoga Project that is already working on providing self-regulating skills to the inmates, as well as an opportunity to connect with healthy awareness of their body.

Sheriff Bill Brown’s commitment to reform and offer life skills of re-integration into society is visible throughout the years, he has been in service to us through the different programs the jail offers. At the same time, his priority of safety for us is also balanced out in making sure that inmates returning to society have the right resources available to become committed and safe citizens.

I thank sheriff Bill Brown for being an inspiring model, delivering me to true respect for the authorities in whose hands our community we entrust. Without his approval, none of these positive changes could have taken place.

During the unfortunate disaster period with fires and floods, heavily affecting our community, sheriff Bill

Brown never failed to reassure us that safety would be restored and again showed his commitment through the diligent work he conducted during our challenging times with natural disasters. At that time, I happened to be in Spain visiting family and his presence was visible on international TV. I couldn’t feel safer while my heart bled for our community from afar.

In conclusion, re-electing sheriff Bill Brown would be a continuation of great work and ongoing positive service rendered to our community.

We are truly fortunate to have such a great leader.

Nimita Dhirajlal Santa Barbara (Mr. Dhirajlal is the owner of Nimita’s Cuisine on East Haley Street.)

Shy and Curious

Debbie Wasserman-Shultz recently proclaimed that the NRA was “...just shy of being a terrorist organization...”

Does that mean we should consider Ms Schultz “just shy” of being a political saboteur-terrorist when she, and the DNC, “fixed” the 2016 nominations against Senator Bernie Sanders?

Was the FBI/CIA “just shy” of becoming a domestic political terrorism organization when it planted an informant in the Trump campaign?

Just curiously shy.

Dale Lowdermilk Santa Barbara

A Vote for Oprah

In this time of political disarray, a “normal” politician very likely would lose to President Trump in 2020. A political outsider would have the best chance of wresting the presidency from him; after all, it worked for Mr. Trump to be an outsider.

While it’s understandable for Oprah Winfrey to balk at running for president – after all, she’s worked hard to get to where she is today and wants to relax a little – it’s imperative that a conciliatory person becomes president. It’s time to stop the political backstabbing that’s occurring in Washington.

Please, Oprah, pick up the phone and call in. Your country is counting on you.

Peter Kastl, M.D., Ph.D. Tulane University New Orleans (Editor’s note: We admire the talent and energy of Ms Winfrey, a Montecito resident, and we can’t fail to notice that she would indeed make the perfect Democratic candidate. When Oprah was America’s most popular TV talk-show host – a position now owned by Ellen DeGeneres, yet another Montecito resident – she famously gifted her audience members with all kinds of freebies. Sounds like a winning political formula to us. – J.B.)

The military don’t start wars. Politicians start wars. – William Westmoreland

Reform Immigration

We oppose amnesty in any way for DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). Anyone who wants to become an American citizen should get in line and do the deal. Dreamers should go back home or get in line.

American taxpayers should not have to pay for them. To stop future violations of our national sovereignty as we had in the past eight years with that idiot, Obama, we need The Wall.

It is obvious the present process of naturalization is too long and expensive. It should be reformed to be a three-year process. If the candidate did not pass their tests in that time, then another year would be granted. If that failed, then the candidate would be deported, or placed on a temporary work program. The process was originally five years but changed to 14 in the late 1900s. Costs for newcomers should be limited to clerical processing costs.

With anywhere from 12 to 20 million illegal immigrants in the U.S., our representatives will need to mount a draconian effort to train all these illegals in American culture, history, and English. Otherwise, we will not have an American system, as we know it today, for our grandchildren.

In addition, we need to reform the immigration system to eliminate chain migration and race visas, and anchor babies. We need to police anyone coming to the U.S. and select them on the basis of our need and their qualifications. No one should be allowed to come here illegally or to stay illegally after visas expire.

Justin M. Ruhge Lompoc (Editor’s note: Funny about all this. I had friends who applied for Swiss citizenship some years back. He was a Dutch citizen, she French. He had found work in Switzerland and decided they would both apply for citizenship. It was a 12-year process that required my friends to openly display their “Swissness.” They would meet at regular intervals with a minder who had apparently followed my friends’ activities rather closely. During dinner at my home, they described one such meeting, whereupon their minder had asked them why they, for example, ate so often at a local McDonald’s instead of at a Swiss-style eatery. I’ve lost contact with the couple so don’t know if they ever attained their desired Swiss citizenship, but the Swiss certainly don’t make it easy to become citizens of their country. I do believe it should be somewhat easier to become a U.S. citizen, but there should be some requirements, just as you have outlined. – J.B.)

The Soul of Mission Canyon

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Commission (HLC) or an Architectural Board of Review (ABR), a public place of distinction and poetry was created in Santa Barbara.

Beautiful and one of a kind, the Mission Canyon Corridor from the Old Mission to the City Landmark Historic Bridge over Mission Creek and Mission Canyon Road to Foothill is such a place.

Here is a rare example of pre-history and history. The stream and surrounding natural environment with boulders and landforms from ancient debris flows and earthquakes are here to enjoy and learn from. Go deep into Rocky Nook and see the local geology scientists have been using as an example since our heartbreaking January disasters.

The early Santa Barbara pioneers had traveled widely, were well-educated, and valued the landscape they found here. Their thoughtfulness and talents helped to design a timeless combination of built and natural features so fitting for this space.

Circulation patterns from ancient times organically curve with the land and avoid the usual grid network of streets. The emphasis is always on nature. It keeps us grounded and lifts the spirit. People who walk here love it.

Stroll uphill to the ruins of the ancient reservoir and gristmill. Cross the footbridge through majestic native trees and see the graceful old entrance to Rockwood. Notice everything on this vernacular streetscape! You’re experiencing a unique treasure of historic resources in this world of change and uniformity.

No need to travel distant places for the extraordinary. The Mission Canyon corridor is an intact historic cultural landscape right here in our midst.

Francesca Galt Santa Barbara

Ranchero Visitadores Shout Out

On May 5, I had the pleasure of attending the impressive 88th Annual Rancheros Visitadores Parade to Old Mission Santa Ines in Solvang.

The 750 “Tough Enough to Wear Pink” cowboys once again rode their beautiful horses and carriages in support of the fight against breast cancer. The Cancer Foundation of Santa Barbara was awarded a check in the amount of $166,000, which was raised by these wonderful people. These funds will support the treatment, research, and wellness programs at the Ridley-Tree Cancer Center that are delivered to our county’s cancer patients, regardless of their ability to pay.

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Foundation, and we are so very grateful that for the past seven years we have been the recipient of the Rancheros Visitadores’s generosity.

On behalf of the Board of Trustees of the Cancer Foundation, I’d like to give a “shout out” of heartfelt thanks to the Rancheros Visitadores for all their help.

Janet Smith Montecito (Ms Smith is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Cancer Foundation.)

Share and Share Alike

Scott McCosker may have had some business to attend to in Macau, but he remembered to bring his most important reading material with him

I am heading back to Montecito, but wanted you to know that I brought your publication to Macau and ended up sharing it with some wonderful people here.

Scott McCosker Montecito

Rain and Drought

when the Central Coast is in a drought, Northern California is not.

For the five Cachuma Member Units, participation in the SWP was seen mainly as a way to augment Cachuma supplies during a Central Coast drought. Our recent experience just two to three years ago did not fit the historical pattern when practically the entire State fell into a severe drought. More recently, we see the north getting precipitation and not the Central Coast. Santa Maria, not connected to the Cachuma Project, saw State Water Project participation as an alternative to lesser quality and unreliable groundwater.

Later, Mr. Hazard writes, “Worse, it has a high fixed-cost component.”

The $550-million capital costs (translated into fixed costs of bond debt) necessary to construct the Coastal Branch and the contractual obligation to pay for relevant ongoing capital costs of the State Water Project were investments in infrastructure. They are not related to how much water is ordered and delivered in a given year and must be paid even if no State Water is ordered in a given year. I’ve often said it’s a bit like a mortgage obligation, whether you live in the house you own or not.

This infrastructure, including parts of the larger State Water Project and all of the Central Coast Branch system of pipes, pumps, and treatment facilities is now proving itself to be extremely valuable to the ongoing functioning of Lake Cachuma and south coast water agencies’ ability to forestall rationing, even when there are reduced annual supplies passing through the SWP system. This is possible because other water agencies throughout the State have stored more State Water than they need and are willing to market it.

I always thought the Carpinteria

I am writing to you as the former GM of the Carpinteria Valley Water District, not as the “extra help” employee I am now for the Santa Barbara County Water Agency. I am a regular reader of the MJ and your well-written columns in particular. I am hoping to convey to you what I believe to be significant misconceptions regarding the State Water Project and State Water.

Re: Bob Hazard’s most recent On The Water Front column, I would like to point out the following: Bob states that “Table A State Water is readily available when it rains, but unavailable in drought when needed most.”

It was understood by the California Department of Water Resources and most Central Coast water buffaloes back when Santa Barbara participation in the State Water Project (SWP) was approved in 1991 that based on historical records, most of the times • The Voice of the Village •

Valley Water District overinvested in State Water, by as much as 50 percent.

It remains to be seen if this “extra” investment, enabling twice the capacity in the project that it needs, pays off in some future arrangement with other water agencies. I think and hope it will.

If climate change is indeed at work and upsetting the historical pattern of droughts in Northern California usually not coinciding with droughts on the Central Coast, we are losing some of the original value we expected to derive from the SWP. I’m not convinced this has happened yet. I see State Water as a mostly reliable source of supply of water to mitigate droughts experienced by the Cachuma member agencies and Santa Maria into the foreseeable future.

Variable State Water delivery costs are separate from fixed bond debt and other related contractual project costs. State Water, both in the form of: 1) annual deliveries as doled out by the Department of Water Resources, based on availability of water and a water agency’s right to annually request up to a certain amount (but not receive a predetermined allocation) in proportion to the agency’s financial share of capital costs; or 2) as purchased (State) Water delivered to or stored for other water agencies is now and will remain a vital source of supply for the Cachuma member agencies, as well as Santa Maria into the foreseeable future.

Both of the above options to access State Water depend upon: 1) the Coastal Branch system of the SWP, and 2) the Cachuma Project (only for Cachuma member agencies, not Santa Maria) and are supported by both past and future capital costs related to these two projects.

Charles B. Hamilton Carpinteria •MJ

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Silent auction chair Bart Francis with SBCS treasurer Jim Robbins and his wife, Susan (photo by Marylove Thralls)

Buttitta and his meteorologist wife, Kelsey Gerckens, conducted the auction, which included trips to Montana, Bear Lake, North Carolina, and Mexico.

Among those facing the music were Todd and Allyson Aldrich,

(From left) SBCS artistic director and conductor JoAnne Wasserman, board VP Mary Dan Eades, past president Debra Stewart, and guest Pauli Von Simpson. Car in background is a vintage 1941 convertible owned by Richard Mann (photo by Marylove Thralls)

Board member Deb Rosique strikes a “Rosie the Riveter” pose during the cocktail hour at the SBCS 1940s-themed event (photo by Marylove Thralls)

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Barbara Burger and Paul Munch, Peter and Karen Brill, David and Diana Dodds Reichert, Michael Eades, Dick and Marilyn Mazess, Kostis Protopapas, Debra Stewart, Richard Mann, Gary Wasserman, and emcee Karen Williams.

Two out of Three Montecito realtor Houghton Hyatt, who lost her home in the January mudslides, is getting used to the feel-

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Her father Ted Nixon’s syndicate, Starlight Racing, has an interest in Justify, the winner of the 144th Kentucky Derby, and at the weekend had another triumph at the 143rd Preakness Stakes at the Pimlico race course in Baltimore, Maryland, a monumental step forward in the hunt for the Triple Crown.

Justify, who won by half a length in decidedly soggy conditions, became the 24th horse to win both prestige races and looks to become the 13th thoroughbred in racing history to land the Triple Crown, with the third leg, the Belmont Stakes, next month.

“I’m on Cloud Nine.” says

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by Steven Libowitz

Chalk It up to Time: I Madonnari at the Mission

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hile great works of art have survived centuries and millenniums, with each new generation having the chance to appreciate what came before, there’s also something magical about embracing the ephemeral. Perhaps it’s in the parallel to our own lives, which – though they span many decades on average – are only a brief instant in the greater scope of time. Santa Barbara’s famed Summer Solstice Parade is really an exercise in ephemeral performance art, as no matter how many months and man hours go into creating the imaginative floats, they all end up in recycling bins or reused for future projects just a few hours after the procession ends.

The same is true for I Madonnari, the street painting festival that has taken over the plaza in front of the Santa Barbara Mission every Memorial Day weekend since 1987. Each year, about 200 artists create 140 street paintings handdrawn with chalk pastels on the blacktop while the public watches. The elaborate compositions with remarkably vibrant colors eventually get washed away by the weather, either a late spring storm or just by wind, sun, and footsteps.

“It’s one of the aspects that I love about the festival,” said Kathy Koury, the executive director of Children’s Creative Project, who founded the festival and the concept of sponsored street painting art as a fundraiser for the nonprofit arts education program of the Santa Barbara County Education Office after witnessing first-hand the street painting competition in Grazie di Curtatone, Italy.

I Madonarri, named for the 16th-century practice of reproducing the image of the Madonna in the chalk drawings, was the first of its kind in North America, though the idea has since spread far and wide and now includes similar events in more than 150 cities throughout the Western Hemisphere.

“It demonstrates and connects to what we do at the project,” said Koury. “It’s about the joy of creating, not about the finished product. That’s what art is, and it’s also what is so fascinating to the public. They’re exposed to the whole idea of putting a lot of effort into doing this, even though it’s just going to get

Mission possible: I Madonnari festival is the chalk of the town

Steven Libowitz has reported on the arts and entertainment for more than 30 years; he has contributed to the Montecito Journal for more than 10 years.

washed away.”

That’s also part of the appeal for many of the artists, including Jennifer LeMay, a graphics artist who has been painting with the chalk pastels at I Madonnari since the festival’s third year, when she was still an art student at UCSB. “I’m totally cool with the idea that people are walking all over them the day after we finish,” she

said. “With something so large, where would you put it anyway? I love the idea of just being able to go big and just walk away from it afterward. But it is great that they don’t wash it away like some festivals do, so you can linger and come and see it after the weekend.”

Most folks, of course, take a look during the three days when the painting and festival itself take place, over the Saturday to Monday of Memorial Day Weekend. Half the fun is watching the artists create their works, either from original drawings or photographs, or reproductions of existing works of art. Nearly all of the artists enjoy interacting with the onlookers, answering questions about the process, and explaining how it all works.

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“That’s actually how I learned to get better myself,” explained Ann Hefferman, a 20-year I Madonarri veteran who last year joined several other experienced chalk artists on a reciprocal visit to Santa Barbara sister city Puerto Vallarta to create street paintings with local artists and children. “So, I especially love it when little ones come and plunk down by my square and just watch. What we’re doing is really performance art.

There’s a responsibility to interact with people.”

The bruised knees, aching joints, sunburned necks, and filthy fingers are all just part of the fun, a badge of honor signifying membership in the close-knit community of artists who create the drawings in their assigned rectangles. The individual artists decide what to draw, with simple guidelines including no nudity, advertising, logos, or anything that might be offensive, said Hefferman, who this year has settled on painting garden eels, a breed that lives in the Indian Ocean, boasts stripes or polka dots, sprouts out of the sand, and goes with the current, she said.

The spaces range in size from 4x6 feet to 12x12 feet, with sponsors picking up the $150 to $700 fee. The festival has sold out its entire allotment of squares ever since year one, Koury said.

Children are also encouraged to take matters into their own hands, via painting a 2x2-foot square of their own; 600 are available for $12 each including chalk, which form a 40x60feet patchwork of paintings when complete. Other activities include nonstop live music on a stage all three days, plus an Italian market featuring authentic cuisine.

And then, when the music stops, food is all eaten, and the paintings finished, the weather takes over, eventually fading the colorful drawings back to basic blacktop on the Mission’s plaza.

“When I first started, I had the idea that everything was so precious,” Hefferman admitted. “But as a veteran, I know the elements rule. There will be busloads of tourists walking all over our paintings. But I’m fine with it. I know I created it, so I know I can do it again if I want to.”

For hours, band line-up and more information, visit www.imadonnar ifestival.com.

Blowing into Town

The UCSB Department of Music annual Spring 2018 Concert Series – in which nearly all of the student ensembles perform for the public from Sunday, May 27, to Friday, June 8, to close out the academic year – is perhaps putting its best foot forward with the opening offering this weekend. The University Wind Ensemble 24 – 31 May 2018

On the horn: Students perform as part of UCSB’s annual spring concert series

is celebrating its 25th year, and the quarter-century milestone is bringing some big names and past participants back to the seaside campus.

Paul Bambach, a senior lecturer in clarinet and director of the ensemble who founded the group back in 1993 after spending his first couple of years in town coaching woodwind and brass students as a volunteer, has invited all of wind ensemble’s alumni to return as guest performers sitting in with the current members for the second half of Sunday afternoon’s concert at Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall.

One in particular also gets the singular honor of conducting the “Star Spangled Banner” to kick off the music: Air Force 2d lieutenant Brian M. O’Donnell, who currently serves as a flight commander in the academy band in Colorado Spring. “He will be wearing his military uniform to conduct the national anthem,” Bambach said. “Having a person like that as an alumni is a real thrill for all of us.”

Opening concerts with the anthem is a longstanding tradition for the ensemble, Bambach explained. “Back even before 9/11, I had some ROTC members in the ensemble, and they asked me if we could play the anthem in every concert as long as service members are in harm’s way,” he said.

“So, we’ve been doing that at every concert we play. I’m aware there are people who get upset about that and refuse to stand. I don’t argue with them. I don’t have an opinion on that behavior. But personally to me, it’s an honor to be able to honor the people who put their lives on the line so we can do what we do.”

What they do is play exciting pieces of music either composed or arranged for wind ensembles, including the mid-size work that follows The Star Spangled Banner: John Frantzen’s symphony for band, “Catalyst”. “The piece has to do with an individual wanting to make a change in their life,” Bambach said. “The movements reflect that in the titles: “momentum”, which is what it takes to get started; “euphoria”, which arises in knowing you are committed; “last twilight”, which reflects the battle within of holding on to what’s familiar while

desiring the change; and finally, “catalyst”, when there’s no turning back.”

As an added treat, the composer himself will be on hand to introduce the work after earlier attending rehearsals and teaching a composition class for students in College of Creative Studies, Bambach said. It’s an echoing of Frantzen’s first appearance in town, when the Wind Ensemble’s performed the Los Angeles-based composer’s work “Euphoria” for its 20th anniversary.

“He had seen that we were performing the piece and asked if he could come up for the performance,” Bambach recalled. “He came to rehearsals and really helped the kids understand the piece, and then he stayed after the end, and spoke to everyone at the reception. I was very excited about the way he presented himself and how he was with the students, so kind and gentle and warm, just the kind of person to serve as a role model. So, when we were doing another one, I wanted to bring him again.”

The second half of the concert is devoted to patriotic works celebrating the Memorial Day holiday, including Morton Gould’s American Salute, Charles Ives’s Variations on America, Carmen Dragon’s arrangement of Samuel Ward’s America the Beautiful,

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COMING & GOING (Continued from page 10) conspiratorial way: if you are an actual taxpayer, “your side” is her side. If that sounds audacious, then perhaps we have some ‘splainin’ to do: The auditor-controller is one of just a few independently elected countywide positions, along with sheriff, district attorney, and a few others.

“As auditor-controller, I’d have been elected by the voters and would report directly to them and not to the Board of Supervisors or any other official,” Jen explains during a planned “coffee break” on the patio outside Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf on Coast Village Road.

Jen suggests it’s fair to call her position “the chief fiscal watchdog for the County,” and, naturally, there really is something to that. She says her purview would include the school system, the special districts, and the cities. “It’s really a broad-reaching position that acts as a fiduciary and is really charged with protecting our money and our assets.”

She has previously served as the Financial Reporting, Cost Accounting, and Budget Division chief in the auditor-controller ’s office, where she oversaw the complete budget process, so she knows – or at least has a pretty good idea of – where the bodies are buried and, perhaps even more importantly, who the grave diggers are and what tools they use.

As auditor-controller, Jen would have the legal duty to independently verify revenue sources to determine whether department heads have “fudged the numbers,” by estimating high in order to build-in excessive expenditures. “A budget is a year-long exercise,” she stresses.

“For the estimates, the preparation, and the budget hearings – and I’ve done this for four years – I sit with

We have no doubt that Jen Christensen will serve with distinction and integrity if elected as Santa Barbara County auditor-controller

the board during those hearings as an independent representative of the citizens of Santa Barbara County. The information coming through,” she says, “needs to be trustworthy and it needs to be accurate. The numbers need to be right.”

Jen points to a decision made four years ago to give County employees additional days off and upon signing off on it, the Board of Supervisors were advised by County staff and the then auditor-controller that there would be “no fiscal impact” to the County. “Somebody wasn’t doing their job,” she says. “More importantly,” she adds, “it was an example of the Board of Supervisors making a decision based on false information.”

“The question,” Jen suggests, is “Where is our auditor?” intimating that the current auditor, Betsy Schaffer, clearly wasn’t up to the job.

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hears or notices something that may put County spending in harm’s way.

The nice thing about Ms Christensen is that she seems to revel in the arcane machinations behind the budget process and absolutely enjoys sniffing out schemes to overspend or “fudge the numbers.”

The California Code,” she says, “speaking to the California Budget Act, governs everything the audit does, everything the supervisors do, what actually constitutes a legal expenditure for any department, and what controls are in place by object level. In other words, you actually control, to a smaller level, for each department, salary, and benefits expenditures, separate from services and supplies expenditures, separate from capital expenditures. Those are built into our system and a budget is built around those parameters.”

Anyone who wallows with such enthusiasm in this kind of detail has our vote.

ities (she is also assistant treasurer) is to estimate inflows and outflows of revenue “every single day”; she maintains an 18-month projection of those expectations on a day-to-day basis.

Jen Christensen is a proven, ethical, and trusted fiduciary who has been quietly protecting the public’s money for 16-and-a-half years. “And so, here I am asking for the voters to ‘put me in coach’ for the not-so-quiet protection of our County money and assets.”

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“A Minor Disturbance”

Harrison Maxwell Gilman, son of Montecito’s Richard Gilman, was born and raised in Santa Barbara, and is a 2018 New York University graduate with a BFA in film (with a minor in art history and a minor in the Business of Entertainment).

Conor Scheinberg and Harrison Gilman are featured in upcoming “Portrayal of a Minor Disturbance” at the Narrative Loft

Jen has extensive experience in County finance and municipal law and offers voters a “well-rounded education and experience package.”

She graduated from USC and has been in Santa Barbara for 16 years, beginning as attorney for the auditor, the assessor, the treasurer, and a host of financial-related offices in the County counsel’s office.

As Santa Barbara County Investment chief, she currently makes all the investment decisions for the County, “as related to the Treasury Pool of some $1.6 billion invested in five-year-and-under fixed rate portfolio currently.” Plus, there is a $190-million “overnight liquidity” fund for everything from cashing checks for County employees to paying vendors, to sudden emergencies. Part of her responsibil

His focus, though, is not on film but in art. “I have sold my art to clients in Los Angeles, New York City, and Nashville,” he says. His art was recently chosen to be in the ‘We Rise Art Festival’ in Los Angeles May 19-28, alongside renowned contemporary artists such as Glenn Kaino, Swoon, and Shepard Fairey.

Harrison and another Santa Barbara artist, Conor Scheinberg, have chosen to exhibit their work at the Narrative Loft, 1 Calle Cesar Chavez, on Wednesday, May 30.

The exhibit, called “Portrayal of a Minor Disturbance”, goes from 5 to 7 pm, after which Santa Barbarabased bands The Cows Cabbage and Goldy will entertain from 7:30 to 9:30 pm. “The art is for sale,” Harrison says, but “the show is free” and open to the public.

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and John Phillip Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever. Among the expected 20 to 25 alumni joining the ensemble’s approximately 35 to 40 members are three who were in Bambach’s first group 25 years ago, including bassoonist Derek Katz, a current UCSB faculty member and musicologist.

“I’m not really sure how many there will be, because last time many more came than I was expecting, although some of them just wanted to be in the audience.”

Also, four of his former teaching assistants will be performing, while his current graduate assistant Cynthia Vong will conduct Eric Whitacre’s Lux Aurumque in the middle of the patriotic works as a tribute to victims and survivors of the 2014 Isla Vista massacre. “It’s a beautiful band arrangement of the choral piece that means light and gold,” Bambach noted. “People hear the music and see imagery, thinking up outer space, the beyond. It’s overwhelming. My goosebumps get goosebumps. We’re playing it not just for the victims but also the survivors to see the beauty in life that they can continue experiencing.”

Admission to the University Wind Ensemble’s concert at 3 pm on Sunday is free, but reservations are strongly recommended. Also performing in the music department’s Spring 2018 Concert Series are the Ensemble for Contemporary Music (ECM), Chamber Choir and Women’s Chorus, Middle East Ensemble, Gamelan Ensemble (with the community gamelan ensemble Gamelan Sinar Surya and a Tarling ensemble), Chamber Orchestra and Chamber Players, Jazz Ensemble (featuring special guest Jeff Babko of the Jimmy Kimmel Live house band on piano/ keyboards), Music of India Ensemble, and Gospel Choir. Admission ranges from free to $15. For dates, locations, program details, and tickets, visit www.music.ucsb.edu or call 893-7194.

Up in the Air: a Serendipitous Sonnet

At first, Santa Barbara Centre for Aerial Dance founder-director Ninette Paloma was none too pleased when she discovered that several of her planned guest artists for this weekend’s Floor To Air Festival had been saddled with visa issues and weren’t going to be able to arrive in time to participate in the high-flying show’s fifth anniversary production. But then Paloma was able to round up a bunch of mostly California-based artists for this year’s offering, and the luck didn’t stop there.

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from SBCC’s new professional dance company performing on Friday night, May 25, at the Lobero. “It turned out to be pretty serendipitous, because 14 is the number of lines in a sonnet, which also has five that are stressed and five non-stressed in the iambic pentameter form.”

So titling the performance, A Sonnet of Limbs wasn’t much of a – ahem – reach.

“It’s the perfect poetic way to approach the production,” she said.

Indeed, the Floor To Air Festival has always been something of poetry in motion, as the performers use strength and agility to produce flowing feats of flight that seem almost effortless in their beauty and grace. The show is the culmination of a week-long festival featuring student and professional choreography, classes, workshops, and mini-presentations from artists both local and from afar.

Sonnet of Limbs distills the elements of aerial dance down to 14 distinctive (and sometimes opposing) sentiments, as it marries the ancient arts with the contemporary approaches in a kinetic regaling of the creative process. The pieces deliver the story of creation, from inspiration to elation, with stops at frustration and vindication along the way, said Paloma, who choreographed most of the movements (with contributions from Shelby Lynn Joyce and Isabel Musidora), and will direct Friday’s show. “They flow one after the other along the journey,” she said. “It starts very raw, with organic movements that are vulnerable and authentic, as if a person is simply telling you how they feel, with no fanfare, and then, by the end, it’s an unapologetic piece filled with gorgeous fabric and color, a huge 12-minute-long piece to end the evening.”

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FunkZone May Gallery Exhibits Arist Salvadore Matteo with his cut paper sculpture work titled “Re-Re-Cooked & Recycled 2015” at the GraySpace Gallery SB

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he sun and hundreds of people covered the Funk Zone downtown for its monthly Friday art walk. May brought art with extreme detail to most of the galleries. Here are the top works: GraySpace Gallery owner Charlene Broudy has raised the bar once again with her Distinctive Artists exhibit: Salvadore Matteo, Dug Uyesaka, and Madeline Garrett. Here the art was selling fast notably for Matteo and Uyesaka, different in scale, similar in the extreme detail taken to render the layered works. Matteo uses plain archival paper, oils, and printed images on archival paper, cuts up the paper into curvilinear shapes, and re-creates the original art in a multi-layered flow design. Using only a simple razor blade, he sculpts the paper from a one-dimensional surface into a 3-D form. It’s a blender treatment that infuses new energy into a flat object. Drawing from his background in architecture, he sees in 3-D and makes it more, with works in all white to printed cut-up sculptural waves such as his mockup of Warhol’s soup can, titled “Re-Re-Cooked & Recycled

2015”. Each of his pieces is signed next to the original blade used to create it, mated artistically into the sculpture.

My brief interview with him on the spot showed him to be a most humble, honest, and passionate artist, ready for his next invention. Currently living in the L.A. area, his collectors include our town’s Julia LouisDreyfus. Uyesaka continues to make perfected assemblage art from scraps of paper and found objects in miniature form. For this show, he made 101 pieces on white mat board, each sized 5” x 5” and titled with humorous wordplay on paint swatch colors such as “1U11B Ghost Violet”.

As he is community-minded, $25 of his seriously affordable works priced at $75 will go to Direct Relief and the One805 Fund. Madeline’s abstract mixed media large panel works are themed from her years of photographing urban graffiti, sending hidden redacted messages. Her use of stray tertiary colors and drawn etched black lines against backgrounds of muted blue-grays provides interesting talking points. Each piece yielding its own message to the viewer.

[from left] Arts Fund executive director “Torrie” Cutbirth, artists Summer Roman, Leslie Lewis Sigler, and Connie Connally, with exhibit curator Ashley Woods Hollister at the Arts Fund Gallery Santa Barbara

Coming in next are artists Connie Connally, Summer Roman, Lindsey Ross, and Leslie Lewis Sigler in the group exhibit “JuxtaPOSE” at the Arts Fund Gallery SB. The exhibit was created and curated by Ashley Woods Hollister, executive director of the Squire Foundation SB. Hollister continues her generous support of local artists by pairing these four into the exhibit based on an abstractly and rather loose definition of “portraiture,” that being unconfined to the human form. Ashley said, “The artists here all had a Squire Foundation artist in residency. Their link to portraiture is noted in both the traditional human portrait = Connie and Lindsey, and the conceptual use of the word, as in Leslie and Summer’s works, whereby they infer a human value into an innate object like historic silverware or the natural world. There is an interplay of two separate dialogs of portraiture, thus juxtapose.”

A review of the art show’s two proud Texans, Connally and Sigler, who found home in SB and in each other’s art. The mating of their human and dinnerware paintings and drawings shows similar views of light direction; color choice, placement, and use; detail in line drawing; and an unarguable sense of scale from the face to the fork.

Roman’s eye is so refined, she can freehand draw large-scale works with a “simple” ink pen on paper. She makes circles and waves to form one image that is an overlay of two microscopic photographs – one from nature and

one from the human body; for example, “I Feel You, You Feel Me”, is drawn from microscopic images of cross-sections of blades of grass paired with human-skin sensory receptors. She is happily examining these various overlays as she works toward understanding oneself and the relationship to the surrounding world: “There are circles in everything!. Ross explores female nudes in forested nature and streams, her series titled, “Nymphs In Narnia”.

Using her new 32” x 24” Chamonix View Camera and one of the first photographic methods, the ambrotype, Ross conveys a vintage-macabre view of the female in nature; the female is much more highlighted than joined by the nature she embodies, re-explaining a truth in juxtaposing.

[Note: Ambrotypes are made on a glass plate coated with a wet, light sensitive substance producing a negative image mounted against a dark background or coated with a dark varnish to give the illusion of a positive.]

Mentions go to the Silo118 Gallery artists Michael C. Armour, Peggy Ferris, Christian Garcia-Olivo, Max Gleason, Yumiko Glover, Tom Pazderka, Roger Eliot Stevens, and Toshy, whose contemporary paintings, sketches, and photographs were curated by gallery owner Bonnie Rubenstein, a stalwart supporter of local art, and to SB pop artist Wallace Piatt and his LoveWorn Gallery grand opening in the Funk Zone.

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their structures by at least two feet above FEMA’s base flood elevation (BFE) and relocating homes farther away from new creek beds.

Breakaway walls that are intended to collapse under water and debris loads without danger to the elevated portion of the residence will be encouraged, if not required. The same is true for the use of flood pilings or supporting columns to ensure future flood safety. These flood mitigation improvements, plus required building code upgrades, are expected to inflate Montecito re-building costs.

The Case for Rebuilding

477 structures in Montecito have been identified as damaged or destroyed by the debris flow. Of these, 247 were red-tagged as destroyed, including 153 homes, 22 businesses, and 72 garages and guest houses. An additional 155 structures were yellow-tagged as heavily damaged, while 220 structures were identified as green-tagged or less damaged. There has been some reduction in these numbers due to re-categorization since the initial designations were issued, but there is no escaping the fact that 477 of our neighbors are facing one of the more critical decisions of their lives – one that will greatly affect the future of this community – to rebuild or not to rebuild?

Last week, a sympathetic County Board of Supervisors (BOS) extended the “like-for-like” re-building code adopted after the Tea Fire to include homes lost in the Montecito debris flow. County case workers and the County planning commission professionals will make the call as to whether the rebuild is “substantially like-for-like” and therefore free from design review by the Montecito Architectural Board of Review (MBAR). A building permit would still be required, but neighbor input would be greatly restricted.

Covering the Cost

Homeowners who hope to rebuild are reporting that insurance carriers have been playing a waiting game. Out-of-state adjusters seek quick, low-ball settlements with policyholders. Adjusters delay settlements for those who wait, hoping that delay works to their advantage. Terrified homeowners face a ticking time clock; at the end of two years or fewer, homeowners must settle or face paying both a mortgage payment on their uninhabitable home, plus rent for temporary housing.

Frequently, homeowners who refuse to settle endure a change in adjusters forcing them to start the painful negotiation process all over again. Removal of private mud has been a sticky mess, with most policyholders reporting reimbursements of 70% of costs or less. Some residents who hire attorneys are met with insurance adjusters who immediately stop all negotiations. Other policy holders turn to public adjusters who typically take 10% of reimbursements, on the theory that it is better to receive 90% of a fairer adjustment than 100% of a low-ball offer.

Adjusters were initially offering homeowners insurance reimbursements in the neighborhood of $250 per square foot, but that’s totally unrealistic in Montecito where a minimum of $500 per square foot is needed to interest an architect or a contractor in rebuilding. Many say that with the high demand and the new construction requirements, the true cost of rebuilding in Montecito will be in the range of $750 to $1,000 per square foot.

Montecito’s Debris Basins

The giant 208,000-cubic-yard Santa Monica Creek debris basin, built by the federal Natural Resources Conservation Service after major flooding within the Franklin and Santa Monica watersheds in Carpinteria in 1969, is considered “the Crown Jewel of the Santa Barbara Flood Control District.”

The Santa Monica Creek debris basin did its job, catching the flow of boulders, trees, and utility poles tumbling down creeks on January 9. According to Tom Fayram, Santa Barbara County deputy director of Public Works for Flood Control, “The basin filled to an estimated 50-feet deep with material that would otherwise have damaged or destroyed Carpinteria.”

By comparison, the six puny creek debris basins above Montecito provided scant protection. In 2016, the National Marine Fisheries required fire and flood professionals to close the San Ysidro and Cold Spring Creek debris basins above Montecito. Fortunately, these closures have now been put on hold, upsetting fish people, but pleasing Montecito homeowners who realize that our existing debris basins are inadequate and inconsequential without major re-engineering.

Potential improvements to the debris basins are now under discussion by County Flood Control for at least the San Ysidro, Cold Spring, and Romero Creeks.

Future Options

Homeowners in Montecito’s flood zones appear to be receiving insurance reimbursement offers of $400 per square foot or less, well below the current costs for re-building. There appears to be little or no reimbursement offered for lost landscaping. Insurance disputes over stone walls, gates, and other destroyed structures are common. Reimbursement offers for mud removal have also been typically less than costs. Outlays for homeowner documentation, reconstruction estimates, legal expenses, and personal adjuster fees are seldom reimbursed.

Insurers who paid for hotel stays during mandatory evacuations in 2017-18 will be less likely to pay for next year’s evacuations. Linkages to the Thomas Fire by the January 9 debris flow will be a year older and weaker. Multiple evacuations will each be subject to standard deductions.

Mortgage rates reached a seven-year high of 4.8% in April. Property taxes on rebuilt homes will be subject to current value property tax assessments. Both raise rebuilding costs.

Options for property owners include: 1) rebuilding at a higher cost; 2) waiting five years and do nothing now; 3) sell their broken homes and building parcels at a discounted price; 4) work cooperatively with neighbors in an effort to recover the full value of home, possessions, and land through possibilities such as “inverse condemnation”; 5) lobby local, regional, and national government agencies for publicly funded solutions that mitigate the possibilities of future loss of human life and the destruction of homes and businesses.

Whatever choice homeowners make will be painful and unprecedented.

Come November, we should all pray for a relatively dry rainy season, as it looks like we’ll need at least one, probably two of those before things are comfortably MontJournal_May23rd'18:Layout 1 5/17/18 3:23 PM Page 1 behind us. Additionally, if and when we have a forecast of heavy rain, residents should heed any and all evacuation mandates.

•MJ

Future Insurance Rates

It is expected that mortgage lenders will require flood insurance in areas of high risk as defined by the FEMA maps. Affordable flood insurance for property owners, renters, and businesses in Montecito will likely be limited to FEMA’s National Flood Insurance program with a maximum building structure coverage of $250,000, plus up to $100,000 for a separate contents policy.

Private insurance companies are expected to use the FEMA maps to determine whether to exit the Montecito market, raise future rates, or continue present coverage. The case for increased insurance costs and fewer companies willing to insure seems to be the stronger one.

Rebuilding Safely

Unfortunately, fire and flood experts from Cal Fire, FEMA, and the U.S. Forest Service report that vegetation re-growth above Montecito has been only 5% to 10% of the expected recovery rate due to dry soils, a hot fire, soil loss in the debris flow, and late rains. The BAER (Burn Area Emergency Response) report regarding the probability of damage or loss from future debris flows for Montecito, rates the threat level as “Very Likely.”

Neither hydro-mulching nor reseeding is viewed as feasible this year because the burn areas above Montecito are too steep. Native plant seed is available in the soil, but the lack of rainfall has prevented germination.

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Executive director of VNHC and CEO/president Lynda Tanner on either end with the late Sally Fordyce family Zoe Peake, Polly Fordyce, husband Sam, and Katherine Peake

president Lynda Tanner told us, “Sally was a 15-year volunteer at Serenity House and a longtime donor.

She also volunteered at Saint Francis Hospital, Braille Institute, and the Rescue Mission. Sally’s stepdaughter told us of Sally’s special traits, “grace, kindness, and compassion.” She was born in what’s now Pakistan, grew up in North Wales, and moved to Washington, D.C., when she was 23 years old. She moved here in 1994 and was married to Sam for 45 years being a gracious mother and stepmother to her large family.

Our second mom to be honored was the lovely (inside and out) Jelinda DeVorzon. I remember knowing her when she was pregnant with her third boy Daniel – now a grown man.

Jelinda always makes you feel like you’re the most important person when she talks with you. Her three sons think so too. As Matthew said, “I’m lucky I got you for a mom.” Her songwriter husband, Barry, echoed their words through a song he wrote especially for her with one of the lyrics being, “I need a Jelinda in my song.” The town loves her for all the work she does through many organizations such as being chair and president of the SB International Film Festival, producing the Unity Shoppe Telethon, chairing Cottage Hospital Philanthropists and Individuals of Wealth Committee. Then there is the Tiara Ball, creator of the Montecito

Union School Carnival, and the list goes on. You definitely earned this honor, Jelinda. You are a true gracious southern belle. She did come from Mississippi.

All the ladies went home with a long-stemmed rose.

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Peoples’ Self-Help Housing finally (postponed due to fire and flood) were able to have the grand opening of their new affordable housing development at 510 North Salsipuedes St. If you’ve driven down Haley Street, it’s that beautiful Spanish-style building on the corner. There were 300 applications, and a lottery was held for the 40 apartments and the lucky winners.

We learned when people have stable housing, their income can rise more than 30 percent in one generation.

There are five one-bedroom units, 22 two-bedroom units, and 13 three-bedroom units. This includes a large community center with a multipurpose room, learning center, kitchen, staff offices, and onsite laundry facility plus an interior courtyard and a tot lot. There is a wall with a colorful and beautiful 60-foot by 6-foot mural in the courtyard, which was done by three local artists: Phoebe Brunner, Cynthia James, and Masha Keeting.

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PSHH president/CEO John Fowler and Carrie Towbes, Ph.D., at the dedication of the Michael Towbes Center

I’m still impressed.”

Father Dan Lackie gave the invocation. PSHH and The Duncan Group board chair Dave Gustafson introduced the board and staff. Executive vice president and CFO Ken Trigueiro told us the history of Jardin de las Rosas. He first saw the property eight years ago. Redevelopment added funds and the neighborhood wanted the family housing. The corner was a junky eyesore.

If officers are leading from in front, watch out for an attack from the rear. – Howard Tayler

Mayor Cathy Murillo remarked, “Everyone knows ‘It take a village,’ but this took an entire metropolis.” There were proclamations given from the Office of Assemblywoman Monique Limon, the Office of State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, and the Office of Congressman Salud Carbajal. A testimonial from Camilla Herrivck, who is a resident was extremely heart-warming. She has two special-needs boys and they have lived for 10 years in a studio. They will be grateful to have a door to their bedroom and a proper table.

The late Michael Towbes was a board member for 20 years and brought his expertise to their projects. His daughter, Carrie, was there to cut the ribbon for the community center dedicated to her father. Carrie told that her father always said, “There’s only one thing better than a ground-breaking and that is a ribbon cutting.” He also added, “Don’t build what you want.

Build what the community needs.”

A fabulous addition to affordable housing is the Jeanette Duncan Learning Center. It has been around so many years they have kids who are now college graduates. Jeanette remembers one little boy. She asked 24 – 31 May 2018

him what he wanted to do when he grew up. He replied, “I want to go to Harvard and be a Supreme Court judge.” I think the learning center might have had something to do with that!

The morning ended with a ribbon cutting and lunch. If you want to know more, log on to www.pshhc.org.

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The title of Mike Lewis’s first book is not about jumping off bridges, but When to jump. If the Job You Have Isn’t the Life You Want. Mike now lives in San Francisco but his folks, Michael and Betsy Lewis, live in Montecito half the year. Mike’s publisher is Henry Holt. Not too shabby!

Mike recently had a book signing at a rather unusual venue, the Santa Barbara Athletic Club. He wrote his how-to book based on his own life. At 24, he was working in a prestigious finance job but he really wanted to be a professional squash player. Before making the jump, he decided to talk to people who had done it – lots of people. After interviewing hundreds, he chose 40 stories for his book. But before he wrote the book, he started playing squash professionally.

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Jeff earned a black belt in karate and opened up a karate school but the little voice said, “This isn’t what you want to do,” so he sold the school and the “rest is history.”

Mike has a four-step program: Phase 1, Listen to the Little Voice; Phase 2, Make a Plan; Phase 3, Let Yourself be Lucky; and Phase 4, Don’t Look Back.

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Mike is also CEO of When to Jump, a global community of people who have left one path to pursue a different one. Good luck, Mike, with your jump.

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The trees having the most trouble this year are Magnolias, Redwoods, Birches, Avocados, and Pitts. They are in big trouble everywhere. The good news, I know how to fix the problem. But, know this… I can’t raise the dead. So act quickly when you see they’re in trouble.

A serious pathogen attacking the healthy oaks is the Gold Spotted Bore. Hard to detect, and deadly to a healthy oak tree, as they hide their larva behind the bark, and eat the cambium tissue and when you find them, it’s often too late.!

Inspection for this insect is a wise precaution because they can spread from tree to tree without being noticed.

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS

Notice Inviting Bids ARROYO BURRO OPEN SPACE RESTORATION PROJECT – CIVIL CONTRACT Bid No. 3911 1.

2.

Bid Acceptance. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept sealed bids for its Arroyo Burro Open Space Restoration Project - Civil Contract (“Project”), by or before Tuesday June 5, 2018, at 3:00 p.m., at its Purchasing Office, located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, at which time and place the bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually delivered to the Purchasing Office.

The receiving time at the Purchasing Office will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, electronic, and facsimile bids will not be accepted.

Project Information.

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located within the Arroyo Burro Open Space Park, and is described as follows: The project work includes all labor, material, supervision, and equipment necessary to complete the civil construction work. The scope of work generally includes mobilization, bonds, insurance, implementation of the Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP), clearing and grubbing, dewatering, demolition of on-site features, creek channel excavation, fine grading and compaction, engineered fill placement, construction of rock slope protection, off haul of excavated material salvaging and placement of willow stakes as shown in the Plans. Permanent erosion control, irrigation installation, and planting will be completed by others.

2.2 Time for Completion. The planned timeframe for commencement and completion of construction of the Project is: July 30 – October 15, 2018.

2.3 Engineer’s Estimate. The Engineer’s estimate for construction of this Project is: $1,500,000

3.

License and Registration Requirements.

3.2 DIR Registration. City will not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder and its Subcontractors are registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work under Labor Code section 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.

5.

6.

Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. A printed copy of the Contract Documents may be obtained from CyberCopy Shop, located at 504 N. Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, at (805) 884-6155.

Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of ten percent of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that, within ten days after City’s issuance of the notice of award of the Contract, the bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and all other documentation required by the Contract Documents.

Prevailing Wage Requirements.

6.1 General. This Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes.

6.2 Rates. The prevailing rates are on file with City and available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half.

6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code section 1771.4.

7.

Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bond for 100% of the Contract Price regardless of contract dollar amount.

8.

Substitution of Securities. Substitution of appropriate securities in lieu of retention amounts from progress payments is permitted under Public Contract Code section 22300.

9.

Subcontractor List. Each bidder must submit, with its Bid Proposal, the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the Base Bid) for each Subcontractor that will perform work or service or fabricate or install work for the prime contractor in excess of one-half of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form included with the Contract Documents.

10.

Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders before submitting a Bid Proposal.

11.

Bidders’ Conference. A bidders’ site visit will be held on Wednesday May 30, 2018 at 8:00 a.m., at the following location: the Arroyo Burro Open Space, located at the end of Alan road, Santa Barbara, California for the purpose of acquainting all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite. The bidders’ site visit is mandatory. A bidder who fails to attend a mandatory bidders’ conference may be disqualified from bidding.

12.

Retention.

12.1 Percentage. The percentage of retention that will be withheld from progress payments is 5 %.

By: ___________________________________

Date: ________________

William Hornung General Services Manager Publication Dates: 1) May 16, 2018 Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Innovative Security Coatings Systems, 449 Old Coast Hwy Suite B-6, Santa Barbara, CA 93103.

Paul Allard, 449 Old Coast Hwy Suite B-6, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Refugio Flores, 1701 North H Street, Oxnard, CA 93030. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May

2) May 23, 2018

7, 2018. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Connie Tran. FBN No. 2018-0001368. Published May 23, 30, June 6, 13, 2018.

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

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BID NO. 5657 DUE DATE & TIME: June 11, 2018 UNTIL 3:00 P.M. Sewer Pipe Materials Testing for the Wastewater Main Rehabilitation FY 18 Project No pre-bid meeting will be held.

Scope of work includes all insurances, labor, materials, equipment, supervision, appurtenances necessary per specifications, and any required bonding to perform laboratory testing of physical properties of standard-wall thickness system rehabilitation pipe manufactured and installed in accordance with the provided design criteria.

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

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

3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): Class A

4.

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

business as: Back to Earth Landscaping, 44 Portola Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93105.

Jaime Nava, 44 Portola Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93105.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 23, 2018. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN No. 2018-0001245. Published May 23, 30, June 6, 13, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: New Beginnings; New Beginnings Counseling Center, 324 E. Carrillo St. Suite C, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. NBCC, 324 E. Carrillo St. Suite C, Santa Barbara,

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

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained electronically via PlanetBids.

Bidders are hereby notified that 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 Published May 23, 2018 Montecito Journal

CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 8, 2018. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Connie Tran. FBN No. 2018-0001397. Published May 23, 30, June 6, 13, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Arriba Capital, 3192 Copa De Oro, Los Alamitos, CA 90720. Colin Miller, 3192 Copa De Oro, Los Alamitos, CA 90720. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 8, 2018. 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. 2018-0001386. Published May 16, 23, 30, June 6, 2018.

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

We live in a world that has walls, and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns. – Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men

business as: Arriba Capital, 3192 Copa De Oro, Los Alamitos, CA 90720. Green Estates & Realty, INC, 3192 Copa De Oro, Los Alamitos, CA 90720. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 8, 2018. 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. 2018-0001387. Published May 16, 23, 30, June 6, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JLS Writing and Editing, 1410 Garden Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Jessica Shea, 1410 Garden Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 9, 2018. 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 Jazmin Murphy. FBN No. 2018-0001409. Published

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Notice Inviting Bids ARROYO BURRO OPEN SPACE RESTORATION PROJECT – LANDSCAPE CONTRACT Bid No. 3912 1.

2.

Bid Acceptance. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept sealed bids for its Arroyo Burro Open Space Restoration Project - Landscape Contract (“Project”), by or before Tuesday June 5, 2018, at 3:00 p.m., at its Purchasing Office, located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, at which time and place the bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually delivered to the Purchasing Office. The receiving time at the Purchasing Office will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, electronic, and facsimile bids will not be accepted.

Project Information.

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located within the Arroyo Burro Open Space Park, and is described as follows: The project work includes all labor, material, supervision, and equipment necessary to complete the civil construction work. The scope of work generally includes mobilization, bonds, insurance, implementation of the Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP), Irrigation installation, container planting, erosion control blanket and wattle installation, placement of willow stakes, and a bid alternate of two tears of project site maintenance and monitoring. Site demolition and grading will be completed by others.

2.2 Time for Completion. The planned timeframe for commencement and completion of construction of the Project is: October 1 – December 15, 2018.

2.3 Engineer’s Estimate. The Engineer’s estimate for construction of this Project is: $450,000 (base contract or $500,000 if including maintenance)

3.

License and Registration Requirements.

3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): Class A or C27.

3.2 DIR Registration. City will not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder and its Subcontractors are registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work under Labor Code section 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.

4.

Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. A printed copy of the Contract Documents may be obtained from CyberCopy Shop, located at 504 N. Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, at (805) 884-6155.

5.

Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of ten percent of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that, within ten days after City’s issuance of the notice of award of the Contract, the bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and all other documentation required by the Contract Documents.

6.

Prevailing Wage Requirements.

6.1 General. This Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes.

6.2 Rates. The prevailing rates are on file with City and available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half.

6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code section 1771.4.

7.

Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bond for 100% of the Contract Price regardless of contract dollar amount.

8.

Substitution of Securities. Substitution of appropriate securities in lieu of retention amounts from progress payments is permitted under Public Contract Code section 22300.

9.

Subcontractor List. Each bidder must submit, with its Bid Proposal, the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the Base Bid) for each Subcontractor that will perform work or service or fabricate or install work for the prime contractor in excess of onehalf of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form included with the Contract Documents.

10.

Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders before submitting a Bid Proposal.

11.

Bidders’ Conference. A bidders’ site visit will be held on Wednesday May 30, 2018 at 9:00 a.m., at the following location: the Arroyo Burro Open Space, located at the end of Alan road, Santa Barbara, California for the purpose of acquainting all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite. The bidders’ site visit is mandatory. A bidder who fails to attend a mandatory bidders’ conference may be disqualified from bidding.

12.

Retention.

13.1 Substantial Complexity. The City Council or its designee has approved a finding under Public Contract Code section 7201 that this Project is substantially complex and therefore requires a higher retention amount than 5%.

By: ___________________________________

Date: ________________

William Hornung General Services Manager Publication Dates: 1) May 16, 2018 Montecito Journal

May 16, 23, 30, June 6, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Builders; State Street Architects, 10 East Figueroa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Steve Balikan, 336 W. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 10, 2018. This statement expires

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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. 2018-0001094. Published May 9, 16, 23, 30, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Loadstar Movers, 1014 Via Regina, Santa Barbara,

CA 93111. Joseph Christopher Vaccaro, 1014 Via Regina, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 24, 2018. 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 Margarita Silva. FBN No. 2018-0001254.

Published May 9, 16, 23, 30, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Emily’s House Cleaning, 5554 Lafayette St., Ventura, CA 93003. Jorge J Guerrero, 5554 Lafayette St., Ventura, CA 93003. Maria Peralta, 5554 Lafayette St., Ventura, CA 93003. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 30, 2018. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in

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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. 2018-0001309. Published May 9, 16, 23, 30, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Guido D’Arezzo Center for Creative Expression, 351 Rosemead St., Santa Barbara, CA 93110.

T.J. Natale, 351 Rosemead St., Santa Barbara, CA 93110.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 27, 2018. 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 Rachel N. Gann. FBN No. 2018-0001295. Published May 9, 16, 23, 30, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ITSWEB, 1187 Coast Village Road, Suite 1-511, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Brian D. Skelton, 1187 Coast Village Road, Suite 1-511, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 12, 2018. 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 Jazmin Murphy. FBN No. 2018-0001135. Published May 9, 16, 23, 30, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Envi Express Delivery; Envio Motor Scooters; Evolution Motor Company; Evolution Solar Systems, 27 W. Anapamu #454, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Evolution Sustainable Industries Incorporated, 27 W. Anapamu #454, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 19, 2018. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN No. 2018-0001226. Published May 9, 16, 23, 30, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Inspiration Gallery of Fine Art, 1528 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Sharon Spear, 1371 Plaza Pacifica, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 27, 2018. This statement expires

five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Connie Tran. FBN No. 2018-0001298. Published May 2, 9, 16, 23, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Beeroretical Technologies, 513 Garden Street, STE N, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Zachary Lewis Rosen, 513 Garden Street, STE N, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 18, 2018. 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. 2018-0001209. Published May 2, 9, 16, 23, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: San Roque Pilates, 3419 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105.

Tasha C. Holmstrom, 3939 Camellia Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 18, 2018. 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 Jazmin Murphy. FBN No. 2018-0001210. Published May 2, 9, 16, 23, 2018.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 18CV02454. To all interested parties: Petitioner Elisa Tapia filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name of children: Brian Rene Tapia to Brian Rene Contreras; Jasmine Marie Tapia to Jasmine Marie Contreras; Saida Abigail Tapia to Saida Abigail Contreras; Abdiel Jesus Tapia to Abdiel Jesus Contreras. 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 about must file a written objection that included 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 July 11, 2018 by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: July 11, 2018, at 9:30 am in Dept.

6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published May 23, 30, June 6, 13, 2018.

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Boys and Girls Club board members and event committee are David Bolton, Carolin McCall, Katie Hoegh-Guldberg, David Beard, Kim Kjar, B&G programs director, with Penny Sharett, VP of Union Bank (photo by Priscilla)

At the gateway entrance from State Street to the Grassini Winery and others are Hugh Margerum of Margerum wines, Jen and Skip Abed, Nicole and Yasutomi Fujiwara (photo by Priscilla)

when Grassini vineyards opened its new 1,400-sq.-ft. tasting room at the historic El Paseo.

The 104-acre vineyard in the Santa Ynez Valley was planted in 2002 and mayor Cathy Murillo cut a ribbon to mark the new opening.

Among the guests quaffing the vino and noshing on the bounteous canapés from the Wine Cask, just a tiara’s toss away, were Katie Grassini, Thomas Rollerson, Gwen Stauffer, and Kathy Janega-Dykes.

Fund and Games It couldn’t have been a more perfect evening when the Boys and Girls Club of Santa Barbara threw its 80th anniversary gala at the Heartstone Ranch in Carpinteria, with the 220 guests raising $200,000 for the popular organization.

The super soirée, emceed by Montecito Bank & Trust chairman Janet Garufis and the ubiquitous Andrew Firestone, also featured an awards presentation from Senator Hannah-

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Congratulations to the supporters, sponsors and volunteers of the Boys and GIrls Club; Jeanette Shade, Leonard Himelsen, John Miller, George Leis, president MBT, CEO/chairman Janet Garufis, emcee, and KEYT’s John Palminteri, Jose Cardenas, Antonio Bautisa, Oscar Herrera, and Jalen Robelsan (photo by Priscilla)

California Assemblymember Monique Limon and California Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson holding the presenting Boys and Girls Club 80th year anniversary proclamation (photo by Priscilla)

Beth Jackson and Assemblywoman Monique Limon for the club’s work, which has 1,700 members in afterschool programs.

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three-hour session with rocker Alan Parsons at the newly remodeled Notes for Notes Studio – snapped up for $3,250 – and a trip for 20 fans to an L.A. Dodger’s game, which went for $5,500.

Among the supporters were Laurie and George Leis, Brenda Blalock, David Bolton, David Edelman, John Palminteri, Riley and Dacia Harwood, Joanne Funari, Steven and Pamela Merchant, and David and Sachi Thompson.

Heroism doesn’t always happen in a burst of glory. – Mary Roach

Merry Mary Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry’s mother, Mary Hudson, has written a parenting guide to help those living with children who are under “demonic influences.”

The evangelical pastor has penned a self-help book, Joyful Parent – Happy Home, in which she also attacks leading figures in pop culture, such as her daughter, for their sexually explicit behavior on stage.

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Dos Pueblos student’s father, Keith, also a pastor, also revealed she had an abortion in her teenage years, yet is now a born-again Christian.

Among the views she presents in her new tome is that pop culture, including raunchy music videos, are a “cultural Armageddon facing today’s teenagers,” before adding that “Satan’s visual attack on our youth is relentless.”

Hudson also believes that anyone suffering with mental health problems should have “a good session of worship, as it is better than any medicine.”

Liviu and Let Live Santa Barbara entrepreneur Liviu Tanase, founder and CEO of ZeroBounce, a data-purging email validation system, is featured in the latest issue of Entrepreneur magazine.

The 33-year-old Romanian, whose article is titled “Strategies for Cultivating a Winning Work Culture”, launched his first company in his home country at the age of 18, while studying in Bucharest, before moving his business to our Eden by the Beach.

He also has offices in Ireland and India, as well as Romania.

“I read every bestseller on management and apply what I learn as it makes sense for my company’s cul-

ture and workforce,” says Tanase.

In Memoriam On a personal note, I remember the extremely dapper writer Tom Wolfe, who has just died in New York aged 88.

Wolfe, who I would often meet at oh-so-chic parties during my 25 years in Manhattan, including working on the gossip column of New York Magazine, leaves behind a remarkable collection of work, including his first novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, and The Right Stuff, both made into hit films.

The author, who became a sartorial icon as well, given his penchant for white suits, was a most charming raconteur and ever-curious writer.

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

THURSDAY, MAY 24 Downtown LIVE Art & Wine Tour – The self-guided epicurious tour through galleries, shoppes, and bars on lower State Street and environs that later gave rise to Santa Barbara’s monthly 1st Thursday events is making a comeback. Patrons move from spot to spot at their own pace while sampling savory foods and wonderful wine provided by local restaurants and wineries. The 2018 tour includes some faves from the past (and current 1st Thursday locales), such as the Museum of Contemporary Art and Santa Barbara Historical Museum, ex-1st Thursday’ers Salt Caves, and unexpected left turns like the Bobcat Room, Couch, and The Shade Store – all of them located below Carrillo Street. Among the restaurants providing tasty vittles – one per stop – are bouchon, Brasil Arts Cafe, Loquita, Los Agaves, Oat Bakery, opal, Paradise Cafe, and The Honey B, while Au Bon Climat, August Ridge Vineyards, Grassini, Lucas & Lewellen Vineyards, and Margerum Wine Company, plus others, will be serving the wines. The LIVE part refers to actual artists painting or otherwise creating art on site. Meanwhile, the tour finishes with one of the great additions to the event, a final party at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum with more food and wine, plus live music by local band ECHO, and a silent auction. It only happens once a year, if that, so get out your walking shoes (and party dresses) and get ready to tour and taste. WHEN: 5:30 to 9:30 pm COST: $70 INFO: 9622098 or www.downtownsb.org.

UCSB Dance, Downtown – The nearly 30-year-old UCSB Dance Company is a student dance ensemble which, under the direction of Delila Moseley, offers graduating senior dance majors the opportunity to perform and travel as a preprofessional dance company. In addition to shows on campus, the company has toured in California and other western states, as well as internationally, twice visiting China, six

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times in Italy, three times in the Czech Republic, and once to Cyprus before last year’s excursion to London and Athens. This weekend’s trip is a little closer to home, as the Center Stage Theatre is only about a dozen miles or so from campus. The program features works by guest choreographers, from reconstructions of classic works of modern dance, to cutting-edge contemporary choreography. WHEN: 8 pm today & tomorrow WHERE: Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo, upstairs in the mall COST: $23 general, $20 seniors, $16 students INFO: 963-0408 or www.

CenterStageTheater.org Debussy for de Bucket Brigade – Santa Barbara-based pianist Robert Cassidy has curated a special program of chamber music by French composer Claude Debussy to raise funds for the Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade, the Montecitobased organization that has been providing hands-on disaster relief to the victims of the devastating debris flow last January. Cassidy will be joined by familiar colleagues who are connected to UCSB’s Department of Music or the Music Academy of the West or both, including fellow pianist Natasha Kislenko, cellist Jennifer Kloetzel, saxophonist Patrick Posey, and violinist Mary Beth Woodruff. Being performed are Debussy’s Sonata for Violin and Piano, solo piano pieces “La Cathedrale Engloutie” and “L’isle Joyeuse”, “Rhapsody for Saxophone and Piano”, “Petite Suite” for piano four-hands, and the Sonata for Cello and Piano. No tickets required. All of the funds raised at the event will go directly to the Bucket Brigade.

WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Hahn Hall, Music Academy of the West campus, 1070 Fairway Road COST: Free, $20 donation at the door requested INFO: 969-8787 or www.musicacademy.org MindTravel with Murray – Composer and pianist Murray Hidary created MindTravel in 2013 when he invited a small group to his living room for a live performance

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of his improvisational, real-time compositions at the piano. The positive feedback led him to develop the presentation for theaters and outdoor spaces. Within less than five years, he’s brought the experience to Central Park, TEDx, Lincoln Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Grace Cathedral, The National Arts Club, and festivals including Wanderlust, Carlsbad, and Burning Man, plus beaches all over the world.

The MindTravel journey takes place through wireless headphones, offering a deeply personal experience while sharing in community. Hidary brings the journey to Leadbetter Beach this evening, where listeners can lie on a blanket looking at the stars, walk by the ocean waves, explore flowing movement to the music while listening live through the headphones to the improvisational piano meditations inspired by mystical traditions and theoretical physics, and enjoying the beauty of a floating light installation amidst the setting sun. WHEN: 7 to 9 pm WHERE: Leadbetter Beach, Shoreline Drive, below SBCC COST: $25 to $30 INFO: www.mindtravel. com FRIDAY, MAY 25 Kit Kat Club on Campus – UCSB Theatre Company closes out its season with a trip back in time to Germany on the cusp of the Nazis’ rise to power for a production of Cabaret. The iconic musical by Kander & Ebb, with book by Joe Masteroff based on the play by John Van Druten and stories

by Christopher Isherwood, won a slew of Tony Awards back in the day but still resonates today. The world of the Kit Kat Club helmed by the emcee and featuring English entertainer Sally Bowles – a place to “leave your troubles outside” – serves up irreverent, sexy, and politically sharp entertainment as the world outside is falling apart, while nearby, in contrast, Fraulein Schneider strives to maintain traditional values and keep her boarding house roof squarely over her head. The drama examines questions of the social apathy, denial,

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or willing participation that led to the Holocaust, while confronting us with the direct question, “What would you do?” Julie Fishell directs. WHEN: 8 pm today & tomorrow, and May 29-June 3, plus 2 pm tomorrow and June 2-3 WHERE: UCSB Performing Arts Theater COST: $12 to $24 INFO: 893-2064 or www.theaterdance.ucsb. edu SATURDAY, MAY 26 Still a Tom Cat – Do girls still throw their panties on stage wherever Tom Jones performs in concert, as invariably happened back in the 1960s and ‘70s when the Welsh pop singer was a serious sex symbol. Those were the days when his impossibly bold and brassy versions of songs such as “It’s Not Unusual” and “What’s New, Pussycat?” sent Jones into the stratosphere, both in Britain and the U.S. Decades later, he was somehow relevant again, with covers of Prince’s “Kiss” followed by an album of duets, which paired him with the likes of Van Morrison, the Pretenders, Portishead, and the Cardigans before Wyclef Jean produced one of his albums in the early 2000s. Fewer than two weeks shy of his 77th birthday, Jones shows no signs of letting up. He penned an autobiography in 2016 covering his half a century in the biz, and also put out Long Lost Suitcase, an album whose track titles are interwoven into the chapters of a book, and show him still pushing the boundaries as he covers songs by Gillian Welch, Willie Nelson, the Rolling Stones, Hank Williams, and The Milk Carton Kids. That voice can still seduce, but maybe leave the underwear on your body. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Santa Barbara Bowl, 1122 North Milpas St. COST: $54.50 to $114.50 INFO: 962-7411 or www. sbbowl.com Cracklin’ Ballet – Santa Barbara Festival Ballet, the folks who create the massive production of The Nutcracker at the Arlington Theatre each December, have a slightly smaller offering in late spring. The Toy Shoppe is a one-act ballet geared 24 – 31 May 2018

for all ages but most likely to enthrall younger children as the one-hour show teems with color, warmth, movement, and music as the piece addresses the question “Do the dolls in a toy shop have a life of their own?”

The immersive production features Festival Ballet’s junior company as a showcase of the youngsters’ talent and training. WHEN: 6 pm today, 2 & 6 pm tomorrow WHERE: Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo, upstairs in the mall COST: $20 general, $15 children under 12 INFO: 963-0408 or www.CenterStageTheater.org SUNDAY, MAY 27 Final Funk – The official headliner for tonight’s concert at the Santa Barbara Bowl is War – the funkrock band whose roots date back to 1962, scored its first hit as ex-Animal Eric Burdon’s backup band with “Spill the Wine” in 1970, and then went on to chart hit after hit after Burdon left a year later, including “All Day Music”, “Slippin’ Into Darkness”, “The World Is a Ghetto”, “The Cisco Kid”, “Low Rider”, and “Why Can’t We Be Friends?”, all within five years. But perhaps there’s more interest in the special guest, George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic, now that the funk mastermind has announced his retirement from touring to take effect next May. His name may not be as big in rock circles as some of the other icons who have also announced their departures from the road, including Elton John, Paul Simon, Ozzy Osbourne, and Lynyrd Skynyrd, but among funk lovers, Clinton is better known than the ex-president who shares his last name. P-Funk and its leader fairly revolutionized R&B during the 1970s, blending soul with the acid rock approach of Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa, among others, creating a sound that basically dominated black music during the era, with more than 40 R&B hit singles and three platinum-selling albums. Meanwhile, Parliament has eyes on releasing Medicaid Fraud Dog, the funk group’s first album in nearly four decades, later this year, after having put out a single “I’m Gon Make U Sick O’Me” in January.

We’ll let you make up your own mind on that one. WHEN: 6 pm WHERE: 1122 North Milpas St. COST: $39.50 to $74.50 INFO: 962-7411 or www.sbbowl.com 24 – 31 May 2018

MONDAY, MAY 28 Time after Time – West Coast Chamber Orchestra’s annual Bach

By Candlelight concert has a special twist this spring: the intimate chamber orchestra concert in a historic Santa Barbara venue is joining with the Santa Barbara Chamber Singers & Soloists for a special concert dubbed “Bach vs. Telemann: Clash of the Titans”. Billed as a rematch from 1723, you the audience gets to decide the winning composer between one pillar of the famous Three B’s and Georg Philipp Telemann, a fellow Baroque composer whose fame eclipsed even J.S. Bach in his day, as he wrote more than 3,000 pieces of music, a massive output that includes music in nearly every genre of the time, from passions, oratorios, and motets to songs, suites, concertos, sinfonias, harpsichord solos, assorted chamber music, operas, and cantatas. Dr. Michael Shasberger conducts as the two composers go quill-to-quill via airs, orchestral suites, cantatas, and motets. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: First United Methodist Church, 305 East Anapamu (at Garden) COST: $10 to $25 INFO: 963-4408 or www.

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 30 Brian’s Song – The award-winning multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer Brian Culbertson plays a distinct brand of genre-crossing contemporary jazz, R&B, and funk that has certainly scored with the contemporary jazz crowd. Culbertson – who plays piano, drums, trombone, bass, and euphonium – began composing back in the 7th grade and crafted a career that has amassed 30 chart-topping singles on Billboard’s jazz charts, plus nearly 20 albums, most of which have also made it to No. 1 on Billboard. Culbertson drew on his sense of love and romance growing out of his recent 20th wedding anniversary to fashion the 13 new songs that on his latest album, Colors of Love, which came out on Valentine’s Day and evinces a sensuous R&B groove. On the road, the album comes to life via a vivid theatrical production incorporating video elements and much more.

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by Mark Ashton Hunt

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

street leading to the home.

The open floor plan is flexible, and there is a remodeled kitchen as well. The master suite includes an expansive deck, fruit trees, and views. This home is in 93108, but not within either of the Montecito school districts.

841 Cima Linda Lane: $5,350,000

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s the local climate starts to shift into something resembling a mid-season, pre-summer pattern (both with the weather and with real estate sales), we can feel it in the air… the upcoming graduations in local schools, college students coming back to visit families and reconnect with their friends in town, residents preparing to head out on adventures, while vacation rental homes are being prepared for guests. Just notice our recent mix of morning overcast (May gray) and long, warm afternoons, and one can sense that summer is on the way.

Heading into this generally busier season for real estate sales, we are seeing new listings boost the local inventory of homes (though still lower than other recent years at this same time, per the MLS). We have also seen considerably more closed escrows in the first few weeks of May (10 homes sold), more than double what we saw in the entire month of April (just 4). Of the 10 properties that have closed escrow so far in May (through the 19th), a few were within the red and yellow evacuation areas, and a few were in the un-evacuated zones of the 93108 ZIP code area.

Some of the sales were at or near full price, others were lower and two (both more than $2,500,000) were reduced considerably from the last listing price.

Overall, with sales in both hard-hit areas as well as those unaffected, it is good to see significant activity in the area and in most price ranges, from an Olive Mill Road area cottage near the beach for just under $1,500,000, to a nearly $6,500,000 sale near Butterfly Beach, and an $8,875,000 sale on upper Hot Springs Road that just closed escrow, to accentuate the positive.

What follows are four homes in the 93108 that are not in any of the evacuation zones; they are in western Montecito, an area of the foothills that is convenient to both Montecito villages, the beach, and downtown Santa Barbara.

14 Chase Drive: $1,895,000

This home is set in the foothills near Barker Pass, on a less-travelled street with ocean and island views. The home has been remodeled in a Mediterranean style and includes a private driveway leading up to the parking area and the two-story home.

There are 3 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, 4 fireplaces, a 2-car garage, fenced rear yard, and lush greenery.

The kitchen boasts custom cabinetry and flows into the dining room and indoor/outdoor living space. The master suite features a private view deck, wrap-around terrace, and en-suite bathroom. This home is located within 93108, but not within either of the Montecito school districts.

121 Summit Lane: $3,450,000 This single-level home is located on more than an acre of land, in the foothills above the Montecito Country Club on a less-travelled lane, down a long driveway. The home offers 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms with ocean/ island views, and is located on a cul de sac for additional privacy and less traffic on the

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This is the first time this home has been on the market in 45 years. This 1920s Spanish Revival home designed by Carleton Winslow (Bel Air Country Club, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, et cetera), highlights the ocean and mountain views.

Set on 1.83+/- acres, the home overlooks the Santa Barbara Channel with views from the harbor and down the coast.

The home reflects and flaunts the architectural integrity of the era in which it was created. The main level includes 4 bedrooms, a formal dining and grand living room, den, groin vault ceilings, archways, balconies, and other period details. Downstairs is a fifth bedroom suite and additional usable space. In addition, there is a motor court entry, private courtyard, specimen plantings, verandas, lawns, and a pool.

Originally part of the Billings Estate, this home is located in the 93108 ZIP code but is also not in either of the Montecito school districts.

1140 Glenview Road: $6,495,000

This private ocean-view home and property includes two separate assessor numbers and is set on 2+/- acres, in the foothills above the Montecito Country Club. The 7,000+/- sq-ft home was originally designed by Jack Warner and takes advantage of the ocean views with walls of glass and oversized windows.

The formal living room with fireplace has ocean views and three sets of French doors that open to a wrap-around deck offering more ocean, island, and harbor views. The family room has French doors that open directly to the tile patio with pool and spa area also featuring ocean views framed between the property’s mature palm trees.

This was also once part of the Billings Estate, but is located within Montecito’s Cold Spring School District.

Feel free to contact me regarding any real estate needs: Mark@Villagesite.com or call/ text (805) 698-2174. Or, please visit my website, www.MontecitoBestBuys.com, from which this article is based.

•MJ America without her soldiers would be like God with angels. – Claudia Pemberton

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Spirituality Matters

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

Seductive Games, with Mindful Intention

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nyone who has attended any of Lisa Citore’s Anima offerings of Women’s Ritual Theater is aware of the solid mind-body-spirit connection exemplified by the self-described “pleasure activist,” writer, sex educator, and healer brings to her work, whether in the field of performance art or sacred sexuality workshops, or anything between. But for the last several years, the only way to get direct experience with Citore field of expertise was to sign up for deep dive weekend (or longer) workshops, many of which are only for women. But now, Citore has created a new entry point called “Tantra Games: Mindful Connecting”, a Tantra Puja (ceremony)-inspired event that offers a mix of playful exercises to create more conscious and meaningful encounters.

The bi-monthly two-hour workshops, which began in March at Yoga Soup, are sort of like a cross between Authentic Relating Games – the mostly verbal encounters into present-moment connection that are led by Simon D’arcy and Tamra Rutherford at the same studio – and Citore’s more overtly sexuality exploring seminars, meant to be safe space for participants to engage in exercises that range from playful and flirty to sensual to soulful.

“The Authentic Games are powerful, but for me connection is much more nonverbal,” Citore explained over the phone while driving back from leading a women’s weekend in the Bay Area. “My love language begins with eye-gazing.

I wanted to do something that was playing with other methods of connecting beyond words and bring in a playfulness, reducing the pressures that can come up when we’re meeting people... There are all different levels of depth, and steps along the way of attraction. All of them are fascinating to me.”

The concept is to create a temporary community that usually happens at festivals such as Lucidity or Burning Man, where “you assume there’s a friendliness,” said Citore, who will lead Tantra Games with her devoted partner Len Van Nostrand, a psychotherapist, counselor, and guide who founded Full Spectrum Recovery. “Then you feel safe in venturing into social experiments, playing in that way, bringing in those aspects of interaction where we are not just talking, and sharing who we are beyond words.” Creating a no-risk arena means that “you just have whatever experience you do in the moment and then let it go when the evening is over. That can make you feel safe to be open.

You can be yourself, try out different things, practice a new way of being with someone in the area of attraction and chemistry – or not – cultivating aliveness while still being authentic with yourself and practicing boundaries.”

While much of her work involves deep confrontations of sexual exploration, the events at Yoga Soup are “very light” in comparison, Citore said. The practices at Tantra Games involve pairing up with different partners throughout the evening to experiment with anything from improv dance to a masculine/feminine forgiveness ritual where the communication takes place while hands are on one another’s hearts. In March, there was a practice where one participant whispered words of endearment/attraction into their partner’s ears – but using gibberish in a foreign language. Another activity involves being witnessed and witnessing someone else with no touching as they called up their own sexual energy, as well as a heart-felt meditations such as a tantra breath circuit. All are designed to inspire authenticity, vulnerability, acceptance, and presence.

“It’s very mild,” she said. “The main idea is to bring in playful ways to create pleasure energy. There’s no goal. You get to practice in the moment and be with the feelings that come up along the way.” The Tantra Games are “like a fun version of the mating dance, a way to take the pressure off, because there’s no agenda, just an innocence and playfulness and curiosity. You get to see how you show up.”

Tantra Games: Mindful Connecting takes place 7 to 9 pm on Friday, May 25, at Yoga Soup. Admission is $18 in advance or $25 day of. Call 965-8811 or visit www.yogasoup.com/events.

Soup’s on!

It’s a busy weekend for events beyond the typical assorted asanas over at Yoga Soup, the expansive studio/shoppe around the corner from Santa Barbara Roasting Company, beginning with a women-only afternoon with Lamara Heartwell. Wisdom Weavers: An Embodiment Journey For Women, which takes place 2:30 to 7:30 pm on Saturday, May 26, finds females joining forces for an easier, more effective, and more fun avenue to strengthen and grow capacity to embody our feminine nature: wild, wise, fierce, loving, and free. Participants will co-create a nurturing space to shed old ways of being and practice various 24 – 31 May 2018

movement based/body-centered methods to support coming home to yourself, resting into your body, and grounding into your essence. According to Heartwell, the offering is geared as the beginning of a movement for women called Wise Women Unite! Admission is $65 in advance, or $75 day-of.

In & Out

Yoga Soup founder/owner Eddie Ellner takes over at 7 pm that night for one of his popular Ecstatic Breathing events. A few minutes of gentle yoga is followed by an hour of breathing, a simple process where participants merely lie on their backs and breathe to a selection of music designed to accelerate and amplify the breath. The practice induces what Ellner ways “can most accurately be called a non-ordinary state of consciousness.... The experience itself will provide its own meaning and insight.” The takeaway is a tool that is immediately available at all times. Admission is $30.

ACT Now

Dr. Diana Hill, a licensed clinical psychologist who majored in biopsychology at UCSB before earning a master’s and Ph.D. at University of Colorado in the similar scholarly spiritual community of Boulder, has integrated firmly into the local community upon her return to town. Hill filled in for Radhule Weininger at the regular One Dharms Sangha Tuesday meditation this week, leading with the topic of “Limbic Hijack”, employing tools to “sooth the over-driven threat-ridden brain” and exploring the neuropsychology of compassion threat, drive, and safety systems. She’ll take a deeper dive on Sunday afternoon, May 27, at Yoga Soup, with Cultivating Psychological Flexibility. The hands-on, evidence-based workshop in Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT) will apply cutting-edge science of behavior change with the heart and wisdom of acceptance and mindfulness – an effective synthesis she also applies in her private practice. The event will introduce the six core processes of ACT: Acceptance, Contact with the Present Moment, Cognitive Diffusion, Values Clarification, Self-As-Context, and Committed Action. Participants will learn to become “psychologically flexible” by identifying personal values and using mindfulness, acceptance, thought diffusion, and committed action to direct your life toward what is important to you. The 1 to 4 pm workshop costs $65.

Call 669-8182 or visit www.drdianahill.com for more info.

Observing the Orb

Winding up the weekend, Patrick San Francesco returns to Yoga Soup to offer a Full Moon Meditation (which will also be globally live-streamed) followed by a talk and Q&A on “Coping with Crisis and Stress in Life”. San Francesco, founder and chairman of the Samarpan Foundation – which offers humanitarian, environmental, and ecological crisis response – will then offer individual healing for participants on site. Proceeds from the $25 fee for the 7:30 to 9:30 pm gathering go to the foundation. Yoga Soup is located at 28 Parker Way. For more information or to register online for any of the events, visit www. yogasoup.com/events or call 965-8811.

Cosmic Caravan Kirtan

Shake things up from the inside out at the Santa Barbara Yoga Center on Friday, May 25, through the power of sound and vibration with an evening of Kirtan – devotional singing and chanting of mantras. Astrud Castillo, a celebrated Kirtan Wallah based in San Francisco who practices and teaches Bhakti Yoga to yoga teachers in training, has more than 20 years of experience meditating on mantras that for her are like road maps that lead directly to the source, the heart, dating back to her time in New York City. Castillo and her Cosmic Caravan – Nicholas Soter on guitar, Jun Ishimuro on flute, and Ajaya Davidson on drum – will lead the practice of chanting mantras from 7:30 to 9 pm at Santa Barbara original yoga studio, located at 32 E. Micheltorena St. Admission is $20. Call 965-6045 or visit www.santabarbarayogacenter.com.

NVC Seeks RSVP

The Non-Violent Communications study group meets for a second consecutive Sunday as a special fifth week of the month this weekend to practice the skills of NVC that offers healing of self and relationships via learning to communicate using language that honors and values everyone’s needs, employing empathy, compassion, and honesty instead of shame, blame, and domination.

Although the meetings take place at a private home in Goleta, they are open to all, whether you have experience in practicing NVC or have read any of the NVC developer Marshall Rosenberg’s books. Activities at the 3 to 5:30 pm gatherings include a check-in, “empathy exchange,” an NVC-related game or exercise, and more. The facilitators – Catherine Cooley and Lesley Weinstock – are eager to expand the outreach and spread the heart-opening practice deeper into the general community. Suggested donation is $15 to $20 per session. Contact Weinstock at 212-0052 or lesleyweinstock@yahoo.com or Catherine at 252-6406 or catherine.d.cooley@gmail.com.

•MJ

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