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Ellen DeGeneres sells Ennisbrook estate; Dennis Miller’s home up for grabs, p. 6

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

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Carnival Time!

Droves of students will descend on the Montecito Union School campus for oldfashioned fun and games, p. 12

Meet the Teacher

As the Thomas Fire roared toward his campus, Dr. Andy Surber kept everything and everybody together, p. 20

Going Solo

Versatile singer-songwriter Nellie McKay performs Saturday, June 2, at SOhO, p. 34

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Dennis Miller’s house; Les Misérables; Oprah’s attire; Caren Rager; Michael Rosenfeld’s charity; Paul Walker’s death; Rob Lowe; Kim Cantin on Ellen’s show; Story Bikes; violinist Anne Akiko Meyers; Scholarship Foundation of SB; Polo Club; SB Bucket Brigade; and Dianne Gayoski Duva

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Letters to the Editor

A mountain of missives from MJ readers including John Blankenship, Mike Hornbuckle, Albert Mercado, Michele Morrow, Jim Thomas, Nino Maiani, Steve Marko, Dale Lowdermilk, the Norbergs, Guy Strickland, the Grahams, Steve King, Ray Bourhis, Lad Handelman, Penny Bianchi, and Larry Bond

10 This Week

Knit ‘N Needle; pain workshop; Spanish; art show; re-opening gala; MUS carnival; Republican Club; free music; concert; tech class; school’s out; MBAR; poetry club; 1st Thursday; Leanne Wood; Relay for Life; library club; Hospice; Sunset Soirée; Master Chorale; family weekends; brain fitness; art; bereavement; and story time

Tide Guide 12 Village Beat

Biltmore reopens after five-month closure; short-term rental ban denied by Coastal Commission; MFPD acknowledges its firefighters; and Montecito Union School hosts annual Carnival

14 Seen Around Town

Lynda Millner covers the Boys and Girls Club gala in Carpinteria; Spirit of Entrepreneurship Awards; and CAC champions dinner

16 Real Estate View

Michael Phillips crunches numbers for the Montecito Heat Index, whose latest score is a scorching 95, some 30 points higher than last month’s

20 Meet The Teacher

Sigrid Toye explores Laguna Blanca Lower School and goes to the head of the class with heads of school, including Dr. Andy Surber and Rob Hereford

23 Brilliant Thoughts

Brain reign: Ashleigh Brilliant gives readers something to contemplate: the word think, thinking ahead, and how it relates to the law

25 On Design

Caroline Harrah has a brush with greatness in the form of Montecito painter John Saladino, who appeared downtown for his “Patrimony” exhibit

26 Spirituality Matters

Steven Libowitz learns about Peace Sticks from the Rillings; Dance Tribe; Yoga Soup; and SB Mantra Lounge Kirtan

27 Legal Advertising 34 On Entertainment

Steven Libowitz discusses Cookin’ at the Cookery with Marion Caffey; Nellie McKay; classical music; and State Street Ballet

36 Far Flung Travel

Chuck Graham chronicles spring on Santa Cruz Island and Cavern Point, where there’s a whole lotta shakin’ going on – in the form of an earthquake

37 Aging in High Heels

Beverlye Hyman Fead meets Natalie Myerson, who does charity work, crossword puzzles daily, and plays bridge – all at 98 years old

Your Westmont

The college names alumnus Scott Lisea as campus pastor and assistant to president for church and community relations

42 Calendar of Events

State of Art Gallery; UCSB music; Jeff Denson; Brian Setzer; artist Brad Nack; Cambridge Drive concerts; SB Ukelele Club; Lolly Allen; and Rubi Ate the Fig

46 Classified Advertising

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

47 Local Business Directory

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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.

Re-Considering Home Rule

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n 1991, the residents of Montecito engaged in a heated debate, turning down a vote for cityhood by fewer than 100 votes. Every 10 years or so, the debate over home rule rises again. Advocates believe that local knowledge of local needs allows communities that are self-governing to better plan their own future, to control their own affairs, to set local priorities, and to make local government more efficient, accountable, and responsible.

The recent efforts of citizen Abe Powell and his volunteer Bucket Brigade gives credence to the theory that local involvement can help do a job that government resists, and at a fraction of the cost. The combination of volunteer workers and locally purchased services helped ensure that every dollar collected was spent more wisely.

Opponents argue that home rule will ruin Montecito, that it will raise property taxes, lead to a loss of zoning control, destroy our semi-rural community character, create parking meters, lead to a deluge of affordable housing, and bury our community in legal liabilities. In other words, it’s a bad idea, so why bring it up again?

Who Would Benefit

Nearly 80% of California’s 38.3 million residents live in the 482 incorporated towns and cities which have voluntarily chosen home rule to govern themselves and determine the course of their own destiny. Unfortunately, Montecito is among the disenfranchised minority, always on the outside looking in, begging for the benevolence of those who sit in the seats of power in the county and the state.

Today, Montecito’s only elected representative is Santa Barbara County 1st District supervisor Das Williams, who represents Carpinteria; Summerland; Mission Canyon; and the Eastside, Westside, Riviera, San Roque, downtown, and waterfront areas of the City of Santa Barbara, as well as Montecito.

Understandably, Williams’s primary priority is not Montecito but balancing the needs of all his constituents. I believe that to effectively plan the future of Montecito, we need local leadership whose first priority is to protect, preserve, and enhance our semi-rural residential lifestyle and the personal safety and security of our 8,995 residents.

The Home Rule Advantage

The eight municipalities that have adopted home rule in Santa Barbara County comprise more than 68% of the county’s population. All incorporated cities and towns control their own affairs to the fullest extent possible.

Town Name

Buellton Solvang Guadalupe Montecito Carpinteria Goleta Lompoc Santa Barbara Santa Maria

Year of Incorporation Population 2010

1992 1985 1946 No Home Rule 1965 2002 1888 1850 1905

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An Organized Voice

In planning for widening Highway 101, Montecito has had no seat at the decision-making table. SBCAG (Santa Barbara County Association of Governments), the decision-maker, is made up of 13 voting members: the five County supervisors, plus the mayors from each of the County’s eight incorporated towns and cities. This same group divvies up county money for local road construction, repair, and maintenance. That means that tiny Buellton (4,825 residents), Solvang (5,245 residents), and Guadalupe (7,080 residents), all have more transportation decision-making clout than Montecito with its 8,995 residents.

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espite the disasters that blighted our rarefied enclave just five months ago, the real estate market seems to be getting hotter and hotter.

TV talk-show host and serial house-flipper Ellen DeGeneres has made hefty $3.8-million profit selling an Ennisbrook estate, Rancho San Leandro, she bought just eight months ago from Tom and Heather Sturgess.

The former Oscars host has agreed to an off-listing sale of the handsome six acre property for $11 million, according to Variety.

Ellen paid $7,195,000 for the Spanish-style home, which boasts two separate residences, last September.

One is a hacienda built in 1845 and the other a 3,600-sq.-ft. home built in 2006.

The main residence features 4 bedrooms and 4.5 baths, and has stunning ocean and mountain views.

In the meantime, Dennis Miller, comedian and political pundit, has just listed his Stanford White Glen Oaks area home for $9,495,000 with Riskin Partners.

The 9-bedroom, 10-bathroom property on 2.81 acres was built in 1895 and totally renovated this year under the auspices of local architect Marc Appleton.

Les is More The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had a major impact on Janet Adderley’s Santa Barbara Youth Ensemble Theatre’s production of Les Misérables at the Lobero last week.

Max Corden, 7, was due to play the pivotal role of Gavroche, the young street urchin shot on the barricades, but at the last minute his mother,

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Julia, called and said they had to be in London “for some wedding.”

“They didn’t say it was the royal wedding at Windsor,” artistic director Janet tells me.

Max’s father, James Corden, 39, the British host of the CBS Late Late Show, and Julia attended the ceremony at the 14th-century St. George’s Chapel, and later James, reportedly dressed as King Henry VIII – who is buried in the chapel with his third wife, Jane Seymour – emceed the exclusive reception for 200 guests at nearby Frogmore House, hosted by Harry’s father, Prince Charles.

Santa Barbara Polo Club player and Ralph Lauren Polo model, Nacho Figueras, and his wife, Delfina, were among the select few invited, though TV talk-show titan Oprah Winfrey was among the 600 who attended the magnificent ceremony and party at St. George’s Hall, hosted by Queen Elizabeth, immediately afterward.

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LETTERS

TO THE EDITOR

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

Honoring the Fallen

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recent incident in Los Angeles caught my attention and has really troubled me. A high school teacher was fired for his reaction and rant to a student wearing a shirt that had the word Marines on it.

His diatribe on the status of anyone in the military as being the “lowest of the low” and that “only the dumb and stupid people are members of the military. They are not high-level thinkers; they are not academic people,” to quote his exact words.

Unfortunately, this is not an isolated rant that was solely his alone. I’ve experienced that undertone for quite some time as many of the ROTC units are shut down in California’s public schools. Santa Barbara High School closed the program down a number of years ago. Many of the veterans, who once spoke regularly in public schools, have been told not to show up anymore. Military recruiters are no longer allowed on school campuses. These anti-military undertones are

alarming and troubling for the future of the U.S. One has to question whether our future defenders will come from only red states such as Kentucky, Tennessee, and other more conservative parts of America.

I grew up in San Diego, where everyone was related or connected to one of the military bases that existed there. I was in my junior year at UCSB in 1963 when I received my draft notice, which read: “Upon graduation you will report.” I had been in mandatory ROTC in ‘60-61 and had filled that requirement. I did not enjoy the marching and drill, and resented the intrusion into my valuable surfing time. But all of us were there together and understood something of the importance of the training. By 1965, I graduated and joined up for naval flight school in Pensacola, Florida.

Spending the next five years training and flying for the U.S. Navy in Vietnam. Those five years were to shape and impact my life far beyond

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what I had expected. The men I served with were a great cross-section of America. There were so many fine, intelligent, and more talented, dedicated, and brighter men than myself.

That experience was to lead me, many years later after family and career, to being a part of our local veterans community. The ensuing interaction with veterans of all services and conflicts since WWII has been enjoyable and enlightening. Military service is not for everyone, but those who do serve should be respected and not shunned. The fabric of our society includes academics, clerics, artists, and many other categories, including warriors. The combination is what America is all about and has made this nation like no other. Our history is unmatched from its birth to the present day. During all these years, our country has been blessed with leaders who were from every walk of life. George Washington was our first incredible president, and he was a general who had been a warrior nearly his entire life; other veterans who occupied this great office – Jackson, Taylor, Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and finally [George] H.W. Bush – were of the same mold.

All the above leads me to May 28, Memorial Day, and the ceremonies that honor our fallen. This one day of remembrance is like no other, and hopefully people will have taken time to attend. It was free and lasted only an hour. The Santa Barbara Cemetery is a breathtaking setting and combined with the Santa Barbara Choral Society’s 60+ singers, the vintage military vehicles, the many uniforms and flags, make the event truly beautiful and memorable. The pomp and circumstance with bagpipes, bugles, and resplendent Color Guard create an atmosphere rich in patriotism, honor, and remembrance.

We need to remind ourselves of our history, heritage, and the price hundreds of thousands of men and women have paid for our freedom.

In conclusion, we must remember Calvin Coolidge’s observation: “A nation that forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten.”

John W. Blankenship Co-founding director, PCVF Former lieutenant, U.S. Navy (Editor’s note: The service you and PCVF conducted at Santa Barbara Cemetery on Memorial Day was both moving and memorable; thank you for it all. – J.B.)

Looking for Liberals

When someone asks me why I am a conservative, I point out the fact that America is the first nation in history formed not by a king or tyrant, not on religious foundations, not by race, ethnicity, or religion, but on a belief

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that rights and freedoms come from a divine creator. I can expound on an idea that limited government, low taxes, and reasonable regulation foster a climate of economic growth and a sense of self responsibility, self-reliance, and industriousness that has made us the greatest nation in history.

I can connect these principles to our founding fathers and their philosophies, rooted in the Enlightenment, the Reformation, and early Roman and Greek civilizations. I can point to many historical societies where government got too big and/or tyrants too powerful. I believe there is no place on earth, at any time in the history of mankind that I or anyone from any other background would rather be living than in these United States in these times. When I ask a liberal what is their philosophy, all I hear is the Republicans and DJT [Donald John Trump] are horrible and fascists.

No connection to anything historically anywhere. This frustrates me, as I know these people are voting.

I would hope someone, somewhere, could expound to me as to why they are liberals.

Mike Hornbuckle Montecito (Editor’s note: Our guess is that you, in fact, will hear from someone explaining why he or she is a liberal after reading this, so let’s wait and see. – J.B.)

A John Cox Surprise

Although votes have not yet been counted, pollsters and most media pundits are telling us who the next governor of California will be. Gavin Newsom, former mayor of San Francisco and current lieutenant governor, is their anointed winner.

There are five other candidates in the race, but after the Tuesday, June 5, primary only two candidates will be left to compete for the final vote in November. It does seem highly likely that Newsom will make the final cut in June, but it is not at all clear who his opponent will be in the final runoff. Some political columnists have run articles in which they state that Newsom preferred to run against John Cox, the leading Republican candidate. The idea is that betting on any Democrat running against a Republican in California is a sure thing, and the Democrat can already select in June his office furnishings: the carpets, drapes, and an espresso machine (to serve lattes to his elite supporters).

But, not so fast – could there be a surprise, even in California, similar to what happened in the 2016 presidential election? Hillary Clinton was the sure thing in that election. She was way ahead in the polls, supported by most of the media and the

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This Week in and around Montecito

SATURDAY, JUNE 2 Montecito Union School Carnival MUS hosts an old-fashioned good time with rides, carnival games, raffle, food, and entertainment, all to benefit PTA-sponsored educational programs.

When: 10 am to 3 pm Where: 385 San Ysidro Road Info: www.montecitou.org

(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, MAY 31 Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meetup 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 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 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. The event is free and open to the public.

Various media formats will be 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

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 SATURDAY, JUNE 2 Lecture & Luncheon The Santa Barbara Republican Club will hold its June luncheon at the La Cumbre Country Club. The invited speaker will be Stephen Frank, a Republican political consultant. Mr. Frank is the publisher and editor of California Political News and Views. He appears as a guest on several radio shows each week and often hosts them as well. The subject of his speech is “The Meaning of the 2018 Election.”

The public is invited to attend the luncheon.

When: 11:30 am Where: 4015 Via Laguna Reservations & Info: Barbara, (805) 684-3858 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

SUNDAY, JUNE 3 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 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6 Free Tech Class at Montecito Library iPads and iPhones are versatile devices capable of countless useful functions, but many of these remain a mystery to their owners. The Montecito branch of the Santa Barbara Public Library System will be offering free workshops demonstrating various tips and tricks to help users get more from their Apple mobile devices. Everyone is invited to bring along his or her iPad and iPhone along with any questions.

Users of all levels are welcome.

When: 1 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: (805) 969-5063 THURSDAY, JUNE 7 Last Day of School Cold Spring School students say farewell for the summer! School resumes August 21.

MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito.

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Where: County Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu Poetry Club Each month, discuss the life and work of a different poet; poets selected by group consensus and interest. New members welcome. Today’s poet: David Whyte When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 First Thursday Opening Reception SlingShot Art Studio & Gallery will be hosting an opening reception as part of 1st Thursday. The new exhibit, Reference Point, is a group exhibition featuring art inspired by popular culture and personal experiences. SlingShot is a studio and gallery for artists with intellectual disabilities who want to create and sell art. The work is notable for its uninfluenced raw creativity. Each piece, whether it is a drawing, painting, sculpture, or textile, tells a story reflecting the perspective of an artist. The open studio environment is designed to encourage creative expression, and the on-site gallery offers an exhibition space that fosters a supportive link to the Santa Barbara art community.

Each artist is recognized for his or her talent and artistic vision.

When: 5 to 8 pm; show runs through June 29 Where: 220 W. Canon Perdido, Suite A Info: Sue Dumm, (805) 770-3878 Book Release & Signing Party Join the party and meet local author Leanne R. Wood as she tells some of her hilarious tales about her adventures living around the world. Doubt and fear can hold back many people from achieving incredible things in their lives, but The Power of Things Unseen shows them the invaluable benefits of overcoming these fears and listening to their “inner voice.” Although society often tells people to suppress this voice and follow the path that is expected of them, deviating from this path and following one’s true calling can lead to a much more fulfilling life.

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own potential by bravely choosing “crazy” over “normal.”

When: 6 to 8 pm Where: Float Luxury Spa – in the courtyard – 18 E Canon Perdido FRIDAY, JUNE 8 Last Day of School Montecito Union School students are out for the summer! School resumes August 22.

SATURDAY, JUNE 9 Relay for Life This year’s Relay for Life by the American Cancer Society will feature a celebration of community uniting together, being stronger together, and recovering together. First responders will arrive with trucks used to fight the Thomas Fire. Aimee Eyer Delavett, All Saints by-the-Sea rector, who opened the doors of the Church, as it became a triage center, will open with an invocation. Members of the Bucket Brigade crew, who continue to help many survive, are attending. Activities include food, bands, games, a jolly jump, booths, and raffles.

When: 9 am Where: Montecito Union School Campus, 385 San Ysidro Road Montecito Library Book Club Join for a lively discussion of this month’s title. Check the library for current title; new members always welcome. Join for a lively discussion of Kitchens of the Great Midwest, a novel by J. Ryan Stradal, the book for the month of June.

When: 11 am to noon Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Hospice Bereavement Class & Heritage Potluck Prepare your loved one’s favorite dish at home & join for a special potluck in remembrance of those we have loved and lost.

When: noon to 1:30 pm Where: Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care, contact for address Cost: free RSVP: (805) 690-6296 Hillside House Sunset Soirée Hillside House proudly announces its 15th Annual Sunset Soirée at the exclusive El Mirador Estate in Montecito. Proceeds benefit the 59 adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, who make their home at Hillside House. The event opens with a reception, including hors d’oeuvres and Clendenen Family Tocai Friulano, a silent auction, raffle ticket sales, and Dixieland by the Satchmo Jazz Trio. A sumptuous, four-course dinner prepared

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denen Family wines specially selected by founder, owner, and master vintner Jim Clendenen follows. During each course, Clendenen will share his winemaking philosophy, insights, and creative process. Before dessert, there will be a live auction for a six-person gourmet dinner with fine wines donated and hosted by Laurie and John Tilson. The parent of a current resident will share her thoughts on having her son live at Hillside House.

When: 4 pm Where: directions provided at time of registration Tickets: $250 per person; a table of eight is $1,800. In-kind donations for the silent auction are welcome.

Info: www.hillsidehousesb.org ONGOING 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. 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 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 •MJ

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fter nearly five months of closure following the January 9 debris flow, the Four Seasons Resort The Biltmore is slated to reopen its doors this Friday, June 1. “We are so looking forward to welcoming back our guests, as well as our local community who have been so supportive of us during this time,” said general manager Karen Earp, who has been overseeing the extensive efforts to restore the property.

The historic resort, which recently marked its 90th anniversary in December while the Thomas Fire raged in our foothills, was built in 1927 by renowned architect Reginald Johnson. Sitting on 22 acres overlooking Butterfly Beach, the 207room resort has been a mainstay in Montecito, hosting travelers near and far for vacations, weddings, corporate events, and more. “A lot of work has been going on behind the scenes, and our goal has been to restore the resort to its original condition,” Earp said.

During a private tour earlier this week, we saw hundreds of workers on site making the finishing touches on multiple areas: in addition to extensive landscaping work, there has been restoration on a few guest rooms, the tennis courts, the employee and administration areas, areas of the main lobby, and all fabric and cushions have been replaced at the restaurants and pool. Even the staff uniforms are being replaced, with team members being fitted this week for their new attire. “Everything will be clean and pristine when we open the doors on Friday,” Earp said.

When the mudflow came down Olive Mill Lane in the early morning hours of January 9, it traversed the tennis courts that front Hill Road

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and made its way onto the grounds, affecting several garden areas before reaching the employee/administration building, where it caused damage to electrical systems and employee offices. “Luckily, there was very little damage to guest rooms,” said Digital Marketing manager Rachel Rock, who hosted our tour. Guests were quickly brought from their bungalows to the main lobby, where they sheltered in place until about noon, when they were escorted off the property by authorities. The resort had only been reopened for one day following the Thomas Fire closures. “On January 8, we reopened after several weeks of cleaning up ash, and it was pristine,” Earp said. “It will look even better now.”

The closure has been an opportunity to update other aspects of the resort, including revamping all food menus at the Resort and Coral Casino, revising the spa treatment menu, and adding new product lines. “We are excited for everyone to taste and see our new offerings,” Earp said.

During the closure, many of the staff of 550 people were able to give their time at other Four Seasons properties on seasonal assignments and have returned ready to reopen The Biltmore with renewed enthusiasm and ideas.

“It’s our people that really provide the wonderful experience for our guests, and their loyalty has been humbling,” Earp said, adding that, “many of the employees have been with us for more than 20 years.” The loyalty extends to members of the community, with Earp adding that the support the resort has received from the Montecito community has been overwhelming. “We are so proud of our little corner of Montecito.”

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The four Davids from the Boys and Girls Club Board: president David McKeever, David Beard, David Bolton, and David Edelman at their annual gala

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he Boys and Girls Club of Santa Barbara (BGC) found a new and beautiful country venue, the Heartstone Ranch, in Carpinteria for its annual gala. This time the attire was – what else? – country chic! All the “cowgirls” and “cowboys” gathered on the terraced lawn amidst dozens of rose bushes to toast 80 years of the BGC helping the youth of our town.

Music by the Jazz Villains kept the cocktail reception lively, while executive director Laurie Leis welcomed the guests. The silent auction was

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huge and displayed on tables all over the lawn. Then it was time to go down another terrace for a sunset dinner served at tables decorated with lemons and leaves.

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Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson and Assemblywoman Monique Limon presented a joint resolution honoring BGC’s 80 years in the community was accepted by senior vice-president of Field Services John Miller. He told the audience, “We served 1,700 kids last year.” Monique mentioned that she went to the BGC growing up.

Hannah-Beth knows and said, “The best way to keeps kids out of trouble, is to keep them busy.” That’s what BGC does.

Emcees were Janet Garufis and Andrew Firestone. Andrew did his usual at coaxing the bids for the live auction: a package deal to see The Voice on NBC, the fire station hosting a dinner for 10, or an electric bike from Story Bikes (an you don’t have to pedal). There was a paddle raise, and Janet presented a video while telling us how a group of firemen way back when started BGC for 6- to 18-yearolds.

BGC engages with club membership at only $40 a year or 16 cents a day, which includes a snack and dinner. Every kid has a place to go after school. They empower through transformative programs including one-on-one tutoring, teen leadership programs, art and computer classes, plus sports. They elevate by giving young people the opportunity to be who they were meant to be. Our donations make all of this happen.

The evening was made possible by the event committee: Valerie Banks, David Beard, Brenda Blalock,

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Spirit of Entrepreneurship

The Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort (formerly The Fess Parker) was the venue for the 2018 Spirit of Entrepreneurship (SOE) Awards. An exciting event for the 33 finalists, all women, being judged in 11 categories with three finalists in each. The SOE Foundation is to support entrepreneurship at all levels in our area and to give financial support and education of high school and college student entrepreneurs.

The evening began in the Rotunda with some of the students at tables to explain their ideas, while guests sipped cocktails and listened. The ones that have won the New Venture Challenge, a one-day business pitch competition put on by the Scheinfeld Center of Entrepreneurship at SBCC, are awarded financial support in the form of seed capital and scholarships.

Since 2011, the foundation has raised more than $67,000 for the winners.

During dinner in the newly redecorated ballroom, the awards were given with lots of yelling and cheering from the audience for favorites. Winner of the Hospitality/ Tourism category was Nirasha

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by Michael Phillips

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he Montecito Heat Index illustrates demand for Montecito single-family homes in five price sectors. By identifying buyer demand, (signed contracts) rather than sales (closed escrows), we create a forward-looking indicator of market strength rather than sold data often more than a month old.

And since real estate activity fluctuates seasonally, today’s Heat Score is compared to this date last year. All data are from the Santa Barbara MLS and are uniformly deemed reliable.

So how “Hot”is today’s market?

Today’s total Heat score is 95, practically identical to last year’s score of 96, yet significantly higher than last month’s score of 63.

Looking at the adjacent chart, the $1-2M group is clearly our demand leader, outperforming all other sectors and besting last year by a sizeable 144.4%. Nearly half of the houses in this group are presently under contract and heading to closing.

Buyers also like the $4-5M sector scoring a 23 compared to an equally strong demand last year for this group. These estate properties found much more attention than either the $2-3M or the $3-4M sectors, which

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underperformed by nearly 50% compared to last year. And the high-end $5M and above estates continue to stay rather quiet, scoring a 6, just off a bit from last year’s 10.

Since the December and January troubles, we have been closely watching for the impact those events might have upon our housing market. Would there be a rush to exit with discounts to market for quick sales? Would buyers remain on the sidelines uncertain about joining a community in recovery and facing years of potentially dangerous rain seasons? With 10% of our housing stock destroyed or in need of major repair, would unaffected properties fare better than before?

It is difficult to believe that it has been nearly six months since the Thomas fire forced our first first evacuation. And it still isn’t completely clear, at least to me, how the market

is responding. We do 50 know for certain, that 44 45 there has not been a 40 rush to list and sell.

35 In spite of those hor30 rific events which have 25 impacted all of us in 20 18 varying degrees, few 15 homeowners appear 10 to be leaving. This is 5 demonstrated most 0 directly in the high-end 1-2M estate properties many situated in the vulnerable foothills.

Last May, there were 23 listings in the $4-5M sector, today there are 13, and where last May there were 80 listings in the $5M and above group, today there are just 47. This group has had 70 or so active listings for years. Without doing the precise math, it looks like half of these properties were taken off the market. There is no doubt but that the high-end is staying put. Look back to the market meltdown in 200607; the same thing happened. As the market eroded, the high end put their hands in their pockets and waited.

Although not as pronounced as the upper end, in truth, there has been no increase in inventory in any sector.

The saying that markets hate uncertainty might apply best here.

And the year over year numbers demonstrate this. Listings in Montecito are down about 25% and sold properties are down a significant Heat Index

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43%. In contrast, Hope Ranch listings are up 27% and sold properties are up 37%. And we are seeing an effect on prices as well. Every area around us except Carpinteria, which was also impacted by the events, is enjoying an increase in median sales price: Hope Ranch up 41%, East of State up 12%.

We are down 5%.

So, how to view this? Disaster as we have just experienced will have market impact. They always do. The saying that markets hate uncertainty might apply best here. It seems important, however, that buyers have not retreated either; demand, admittedly focused more upon the low-end, is nearly identical to last year in spite of mortgage rates at a seven-year high. It could have easily been different. Buyers could have walked away. When sellers feel more confident and jump back in, we should start to more fully participate in an otherwise robust local market.

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dent, Christopher Von der Ohe, 7, who lives in Pacific Palisades.

“Julia said she might be able to stay behind with Max as he really wanted to play the role, but when James told her it wasn’t just ‘some’ wedding but the wedding, the Royals won out!”

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n The Power of Things Unseen, Leanne Wood encourages and teaches readers through a true and engaging personal journey. As an aid worker in post-communist Romania and later an entrepreneur in the U.S., Wood has many exciting and life-changing stories to share. Doubt and fear can hold back many people from achieving incredible things in their lives, but The Power of Things Unseen shows them the invaluable benefits of overcoming these fears and listening to their “inner voice”.

Caren Rager takes the helm at the Granada

The Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts has appointed Caren Rager as the new Chrisman executive director and president at the venerable Granada as of July 1, I can exclusively reveal.

Caren replaces Craig Springer, who is retiring after eight years of excellent service at the helm and returning to Orange County.

“During his tenure, Craig helped establish the SBCPA’s central role in supporting the performing arts in Santa Barbara county,” says Palmer Jackson, board chair.

Among Craig’s many accomplishments are curating the Granada Theatre concert series and launching the Jurkowitz Fellows in Arts Management initiative that offers teenagers with an interest in performing arts a program through which to explore “the business of theater.”

Caren joined the organization in 2002 and served on the management team during the theater’s $60 million renovation. She became a leading player when the theater re-opened in March 2008 and currently holds the role of director of administration and finance.

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In addition, together with the Santa Barbara Historical Museum, she co-edited and produced the memoir of local artist Elizabeth Eaton Burton entitled My Santa Barbara Scrap Book and wrote two Noticias, their historical journal. She is also a regular contributor to the Montecito Journal Magazine writing the column entitled “Moguls and Mansions.”

A retired teacher of English and American history with the Santa Barbara School District, Hattie attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, earning degrees in both English and History as well a teaching credential.

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Stories behind transportation, entertainment, philanthropy, and celebrations have all found expression through her pen.

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Wrapping herself in romanticized Spanish tradition, she nevertheless bobbed her hair to create the institutions that prepared the way for the Santa Barbara of today.

Unveiling! Dream Foundation’s board chair, Kenny Slaught, Dream Foundation’s CEO, Kisa Heyer & Hotel Californian’s owner, Michael Rosenfeld (photo by Dream Foundation)

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Los Angeles entrepreneur Michael Rosenfeld, owner of the Hotel Californian, has donated part of the tony hostelry’s extensive grounds fronting State and Mason streets, to the popular charity, the Dream Foundation.

The area, to be known as the Dream Plaza, will feature 1,140 stones, measuring 3x2 to 1x1 in size, which can be engraved with the names of loved ones, or to celebrate major family occasions, which sell for between $25,000 to $5,500 each.

A major donor also has the opportunity to have the plaza named in his or her honor.

“It’s all about dreams, faith, and good will,” said Michael, who is also redeveloping the multi-roomed Plaza hotel in Century City. “It’s the sincerity and commitment we all believe in.

“The plaza will represent a gathering place and lasting memory for donors and loved ones to share for years to come.”

Matt Neal, spouse of Kenon, a Hodgkin’s Disease sufferer who died four years ago, also spoke, recounting his wife’s battle with the illness and the 10 days they enjoyed in Hawaii courtesy of the foundation, which has now reached the milestone of granting

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MEET THE TEACHER

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

Dr. Surber of Laguna Blanca Lower School

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s I entered the parking area on the Laguna Blanca Lower School campus, everything looked as I remembered it at the end of the 2016-17 school year. Children were happily playing, staff were all present and accounted for, spring flowers could be seen placed artistically in the carefully pruned landscaping that surrounds the perimeter of the office. Nothing seemed out of place – even though the campus is in the middle of Montecito, at the center of what had been that “once-in-200-years event”: the Thomas Fire, the largest wildfire in California history, and the ensuing debris flow that followed.

From the welcoming smile that greeted me from Darla McDavid, assistant to the head of the Lower School, not even a ripple was noted about the last few difficult months.

Naturally curious after having spoken with other Montecito administrators, I knew there had to be a story as to how the students, staff, administrators, and parents of Laguna Blanca Lower School were able to find their way to the pastoral setting that greeted me both outside and inside the school office.

Head of the Lower School, Dr. Andy Surber, was kind enough to take time out of his busy day, quickly morphing from a tour of the school with a prospective parent, to guiding me upstairs to his office overlooking the campus, for an interview.

Adjusting his signature bowtie, Dr. Surber admitted that it had been quite a year. “Not something one could plan for, that’s for sure,” he notes, “but here we are, safe and sound, thanks to so many kind and generous people who stepped up to the plate to help us along the way.”

Abandoning the Campus

As the Thomas fire crept west from its path of destruction in Ventura, great plumes of smoke and ash announced its coming. The administrators of both Laguna Blanca campuses met to plan their next move and head of school Rob Hereford decided the most prudent course of action would be to close both campuses several days in advance of the upcoming winter break. The children had been wearing masks or confined to their classrooms, and even the Surber family in Goleta found breathing the smoke and ash-filled air intolerable and opted to leave for a few days themselves.

“The entire situation was scary for everyone,” Dr. Surber recounts, “regardless of where they lived, because of the capricious moods of the winds and the uncertainty of the fire’s direction. The webcams on campus,” he recalls, “tracked the glow of the fire as it crept over the mountains, the fallen ash looking just like snow.

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When the blaze actually arrived in the Montecito area, the firefighters, as the first responders, were in every corner of the community to protect as many structures as possible. “The advantage our school had was that we could see the fire coming and act accordingly – and those firefighters were absolutely terrific… they were just everywhere! I couldn’t be more grateful,” recalls Andy.

As the winds finally changed direction, combined with the hard work of the thousands of firefighters, it was deemed safe for workers to enter to begin the massive cleanup. Winter break allowed the crew to have full range of the campus, both inside and outside of the classrooms. The campus was then prepped for occupation after the break to begin classes as usual.

At least that was the plan…

The Rains Came Down

School was in session for only four days before warnings from the weather service predicted a massive rainstorm. Dr. Surber and the administrative team decided, for the safety of students and staff, to close the school ahead of the storm. “I was put in touch with Ellen Barger with the Santa Barbara County Education Office who had developed a plan with Rob Lewin, head of Santa Barbara Office of Emergency Management.

All the local schools were called to a meeting about the potential danger of

the anticipated storm. We were told that eighty-five to ninety percent of the watershed had burned and they were unsure of the total amount of rainfall… but predicted up to six inches,” Andy says.

The weather on Sunday and Monday, before the disastrous rain event in the early hours of January 9, was chamber-of-commerce perfect.

There certainly was no indication that the weather would disintegrate as quickly as it did. “That night, around three in the morning, the bells outside our house were ringing like crazy in a fierce wind! From the wind and text alerts, I knew something really bad had happened and turned on my police scanner for dispatches.

I learned that first responders trying to access Montecito couldn’t get in because it was inundated with mud and debris. Hearing the area being isolated was frightening, and I was concerned for the well-being of our families and felt helpless not knowing what had happened in the area or to them,” explains Surber. He noted that the most heartbreaking thing he heard on the scanner that morning were dispatches to reach certain homes and to find them no longer there.

The next day, a Lower School team including the head of Upper School, Dr. Lolli Lucas, and head of Middle School, Steve Chan, reached out to make contact with the Laguna Blanca

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establishment; her opponent, a business man with no political experience, was deemed unfit for the office. The post-election analysis is that Hillary was over-confident, ran a poor campaign, and made too many serious gaffes, the most serious perhaps having lumped all who supported her opponent’s proposals in a “basket of deplorables.”

Gavin Newsom, much like Hillary, is the darling of the privileged classes and is relying on support of liberal cities, especially San Francisco and Los Angeles. Also, like Hillary in debates, he is short on substance and many unbiased observers have been surprised by his poor performance. Newsom’s inability to connect with average, working-class voters can potentially create an opening for John Cox, if he makes it to the runoff against Newsom. Also, looking at Newsom’s record in San Francisco, he oversaw a housing crisis, a growth in homelessness, increasing crime, and deplorable conditions in some neighborhoods. Again similar to the 2016 election, the counties may play a major role in offsetting Newsom’s advantages in liberal cities. Coloring counties blue or red, as they lean Democrat or Republican, the map of California shows more red than blue counties.

Based on all the above similarities between the 2016 presidential election and the governor’s race in California, one may ask is Newsom about to pull a “Hillary Clinton” gaffe? Newsom might want to reconsider his preference for the Republican opponent, John Cox, who is focusing his campaign on helping the average voter in the working class, not the privileged classes. Also, if pundits don’t want to see some reporters crying on TV again in 2018, they should withhold their support for Newsom until he can select his office furnishings with certainty.

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Don’t fall into the trap of voting for Villaraigosa with the hope he can beat Newsom. Republicans need the House of Representatives more than they need the governorship of California. Besides, Mr. Cox has just as good a chance of beating Mr. Newsom as Mr. Villaraigosa has. – J.B.

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I very much appreciate Mr. Blankenship’s dedication to our country and our veterans. However, I strongly disagree with his assessment that those who challenge an incumbent are there for “ego.” Bill Brown challenged an incumbent sheriff when he was first elected. Was that ego?

More importantly, I am offended by his comment regarding “bored and restless union members.” Those members he referred to are the deputies, firefighters, and communications dispatchers that were and still are in his community due to the fire and debris flow. Mr. Blankenship, I respect your choice for sheriff, but you owe an apology to the brave men and women who you claim are “bored and restless.” They have the same right to support their chosen candidate.

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Mythology tells us it is a Golden Ball and there is a longing to recover it, and that longing drives one to the quest to bring it home. All great journeys start out when something needs to be recognized or recovered.

At midlife is where this longing really is intensified. On the other hand, in our youth, this yearning is masked by illusions and hormones. There is because there is no one there to guide.

The golden ball is stolen, lost, and or ignored and sadly, most never even know it has gone missing.

The Seven Secrets opens the hidden thresholds that reveal the “way” into the mystery. It is a call to adventure, revealing the cryptic clues of which direction to travel, skills, talents, attitudes, and relationships that will be needed to complete the journey; not but once, but the ability to enter into the mystery and bring back the treasures into the village again and again and again.

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graduating from UCSB with a major in experimental psychology. The talented Maiani family has been a Santa Barbara and Montecito mainstay for many decades; we go back with them for at least three-plus of those decades. Nino played guitar at my daughter Lily’s wedding at the beachfront home of the remarkably generous Nina Terzian; Nino is a highly regarded musician and – something I did not know – has been a spiritual leader and professional life coach/mentor for more than 30 years. – J.B.)

Me Too! Me Too!

Many of you think of The Who album when you think of who’s next. Unfortunately, I now think of the #MeToo movement: Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Morgan Freeman, and on and on. I was so scared the other day when Mr. Rogers from the neighborhood’s name popped up on my screen.

Thank goodness it was an advertisement for a documentary and not another #MeToo connection.

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All in the Numbers

Most gang members wear clothing, have tattoos, flash hand signs, and/ or draw graffiti that identifies their gang affiliations. A large number of the tattoos and urban art contain the telephone area code identifying the gang’s city, county, or region of control. If telephone area codes within certain metropolitan locations were changed, gang tattoos, graffiti, and hand signs would be rendered inaccurate, outdated, and confusing.

For example, many of the 50 gangs sporting the number 213 in their logos and tattoos are identified with Los Angeles County. The 510 area code is incorporated or camouflaged within the tattoos of nearly 40 gangs in the Oakland and the Bay Area.

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Another Think Coming

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robably one of the most famous of all motivational slogans was first thought up in 1911

by Thomas J. Watson, the man who became head of IBM: His brain-wave was the single word: “Think.” But now that we have machines so “smart” that their ability to think is a matter for philosophical debate, we also have some very cynical variations on that slogan.

There was, for example, a popular novelty card which had two words on it: “THINK AHEAD.” But the last letters of the second word, approaching the right-hand edge of the card, were smaller and squashed together in order to get them in – the idea being that the person laying out this design had evidently not left enough space to fit all the letters in properly. In other words, he or she had obviously not thought ahead. There was another card of the same ilk, with only one word on it, which was presumably supposed to be the familiar slogan “THINK!” But it actually appears as “THIMK!” – again giving the message that somebody had obviously not done enough thinking.

You might be under the impression that thinking ahead is always preferable to the alternative. But, despite the current fashionability of meditation, there is one branch of our society that, in at least one respect, strongly disapproves of thinking ahead. And the distinction can be a matter of life and death.

I am thinking of the law, especially when it comes to the matter of killing.

If you thought about it before doing it, the law calls that “pre-meditation,” and considers it a more serious crime than if you did it on a sudden impulse.

The pre-meditated kind of killing is called murder. But if you can convince a jury that you just did it on the spur of the moment, you might get off with the lesser (though sexist-sounding) charge of “Manslaughter.”

Ironically, meditation, as it is taught and practiced today, is specifically directed against thinking. As one of the many online instructors puts it, “If you notice your mind thinking, that’s okay, just bring your focus back to your technique.” (The “technique” being various methods to avoid thinking.)

So, if you do meditate, for goodness’s sake, don’t meditate about bumping somebody off. And if you must commit that nasty deed, try not to think about it in advance. If 31 May – 7 June 2018

possible, act strictly on the spur of the moment. The classic case of this kind involves a husband catching his wife and her lover “in flagrante delicto,” which I probably don’t have to translate for you. Some cultures – traditionally even the French with their love of liberty and fraternity – tend to be much more sympathetic, in such cases, to the perpetrator, rather than to the victim, of the “crime passionnel.”

But, as far as the law is concerned, the idea of culpable thinking does not necessarily apply only to the taking of life. There are other forms of questionable behavior in which, legally, the key element of guilt is the matter of intent. Our law books still recognize the charming old concept of “Malice aforethought.” Did he really mean to do it, or was it all just an unfortunate accident? And accidents (a.k.a. “happenstance”) especially of the automobile-related variety, are indeed our most prevalent form of unpremeditated killing.

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Finally, since we began by discussing motivational slogans, another one which for a time had wide circulation was the exhortation to “DO IT NOW!” But this had a tendency to backfire. It is said that one owner of a small company put that message up all over his offices – but after a few weeks he took all the signs down. When asked why, he said, “It worked too well. Before I knew it, the bookkeeper had skipped with $20,000, the chief clerk eloped with my secretary – and the office boy threatened to beat me up!”

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families and staff. A map was created to find the location of each household, and calls were made to establish that all were present and accounted for.

Fortunately, they were able to reach everyone.

Girls Inc. to the Rescue

On January 12, arrangements were made for all the students and faculty who could make the trip (the Montecito corridor of the 101 freeway was flooded and impassible, and the 192 in disrepair) to gather on the Upper School campus in Hope Ranch. “I felt it was important to keep our families together and to reconnect after the disaster. The following week,” Dr. Surber continues, “we met on the Upper School campus again as a school with as normal a schedule as was possible. I don’t have enough words of praise for the flexibility of our teachers and parents, not to mention the staff of the Upper School, during this period. As awesome and accommodating as everyone involved was, I knew we would need to find a place where we could spread out and create a situation as close to our own school environment as possible.”

Dr. Surber and his team began a search and eventually settled on

the beautiful Girls Inc. campus on Hollister Avenue. Runs were made back to the Lower School campus, now in the mandatory evacuation zone, under the supervision of the Sheriff’s Department to gather materials and books, even transplanting desks and chairs for the children. “If it hadn’t been for Barbara Ben-Horin, the CEO of Girls Inc., and her openarmed welcome, assistance, and flexibility, the move would have been impossible. She and her amazing staff made us feel at home with the use of the entire facility. Girls Inc. gave us space and the time to remain as long as we needed, thus avoiding the inevitable frequent evacuations that would have caused further emotional stress on our children had we moved back to campus sooner. I am so grateful to Barbara and everyone at Girls Inc.”

The threatening Thomas Fire, the largest such wildfire in California history, loomed just north of Laguna Blanca Lower School campus

Back Home Again

After over a three-month absence, on April 24, the children spent their first full day on their own campus in Montecito. “We were all so relieved to be back home,” exclaimed Andy, “and to have survived in one piece and as well as we did. There are so many people who helped us along the way: the firefighters, the entire Laguna Blanca community on both

The Thomas Fire looked even more menacing when photographed at night at the same campus corner

campuses, our teachers, parents, staff, the wonderful people at Girls Inc. and so many other acts of kindness bestowed upon us.”

The 2017-18 school year is Dr. Surber ’s fifth as head of Laguna Blanca’s Lower School. Andy came to Laguna Blanca in 2013 from Grace-St. Luke’s Episcopal School in Memphis, Tennessee, where he held the position of head of Lower School for four years. He also has elementary teaching and middle school leadership experience at Phoenix Country Day School in Paradise Valley, Arizona, and at Dakota Elementary School in Dakota, Illinois. He met his wife, Mary, a teacher at Laguna Blanca Lower School, when they were both child development majors at Rockford University in Illinois

and, as fate would have it, have taught in the same schools ever since. They have two sons, both at Laguna Blanca, Keenan in ninth grade and Logan in seventh.

I left the campus full of admiration and awe, seeing how the events of the past few months seem not to have impacted the school at all.

Andy’s final words perhaps say it best: “To think of how many people stepped up to help us and bent over backward to make sure we were comfortable. I would have never known these wonderful people if we hadn’t had to work through this common experience… I’ll always be so grateful for the help, guidance, and support of everyone connected to our expanded Laguna Blanca community.”

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ontecito master designer John Saladino, made a rare appearance in downtown Santa Barbara on May 18, for the public unveiling of a never-before-shown collection of his paintings.

The private exhibition was part of the grand opening of Colette Cosentino’s eponymous Atelier + Gallery located at 11 West Anapamu Street. Themed “Patrimony”, the body of work (11 paintings in all, nine on display) is “personal” to Saladino – a “gesture,” he said, as he enters the “penumbra of [his] life.”

Over the course of his 50-plusyear career, Saladino has been widely regarded as an innovator and master of elegantly and subtly, blending history with modernity to create fresh yet timeless spaces – primarily through architecture, interior design, and landscapes. Here in Montecito, his most oft-mentioned project is the Wallace Frost Tuscan Villa he meticulously restored and refashioned as his dream home. The villa was eventually sold to Ellen DeGeneres and Portia di Rossi for more than $26 million in 2013.

Commenting on Saladino’s work, “Patrimony” attendee and CEO of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Larry Feinberg, remarked that “[his] impeccable taste, color sense, and understanding of classical art is always expressed subtly and with his own take… something that comes across in all of his decorative art and now in his paintings.”

Addressing the crowd, Saladino described the 64” x 64” Belgian linen canvases as “landscapes of desire.”

Incorporating architectural elements that provide structure along with “vapor,” softness, and sensuality, they suggest a “yearning” and a “passage,” he said. According to gallery owner Cosentino – a decorative artist and painter who has worked with Saladino on multiple projects over the years – two of Saladino’s paintings have already been sold. The works are offered at $38,000 each.

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Spirituality Matters

That’s the spirit: Peace Sticks Life Force workshop fills the air at DiviniTree Santa Barbara

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Give Peace (Sticks) a Chance

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eace Sticks seems like a super-simple concept – participants toss a pair of sticks back and forth with a partner. And that’s exactly how it started with Shine and Evan Rilling, the Ojai-based brothers who created the practice.

“It came to us on a hike more than a decade ago, when we picked up some sticks and stated throwing them to each other,” Shine Rilling recalled last weekend. “We had a profound experience of connection and found ourselves going into a zone – the flow state, a moving meditation of being highly present, and witnessing our bodies functioning at what felt like a super-natural level.”

Rilling, who graduated with an honors major in biology and minors in Spanish, philosophy, and psychology, as well as in deep interest in surfing and indigenous cultures, brought Peace Sticks to the Lucidity Festival half a dozen years ago, which is where I first encountered the practice just minutes after arriving on site.

It was astonishing how just tossing sticks with changing partners – none of whom I’d met before, created an instant connection that continued to deepen as the practice progressed to more complicated patterns of changing hands while simultaneously passing the pair of painting sticks.

The explanation is fairly straightforward, Rilling said.

“It’s all about collaboration. It only works if both people are choosing to help each other,” he explained.

“That’s a huge shift, because most sports and games are about competition. When you go into the field of collaboration, there’s a much higher potential of what’s possible.”

What also helps is that there’s no judgment. Or at least no space for self-critical thinking to settle in and take over.

“There’s no space for fear about how you’re doing,” Rilling said. “It’s just pure presence, because you’re playing continuously. Once you start, you just keep throwing the sticks even if they fall. So, eventually the mind will let go, because you’re not stopping to evaluate.”

What happens is akin to how animals operate in nature. “They move with pure perfection,” he said. “It’s not a mental process. Life just knows how to do it. When a cheetah chases an antelope, it’s 100-percent natural instinct. Human beings have that ability, but we’re out of nature so much

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that we don’t often go into that state often. But once you wake that up by playing for a while – and you’re literally holding a part of tree in your hand – that native intelligent force starts moving your body for you in the best way possible.”

Indeed, that was what I experienced back at Lucidity, as my partners and I kept exchanging the sticks almost gracefully through gradually more complicated movements, creating what felt like an intuitive dance in tossing and catching odd-shaped sticks that would be hard to explain with the mind.

“It’s a phenomenon that just happens,” Rilling said. “I call it the activation of our wild life force energy.”

As Peace Sticks grew, Shine began teaching and developing in incorporating other methodologies to awaken life force energy and connect human beings using the sacred crafted sticks – which he acquires from indigenous cultures – to employ awareness and empathy to create connections with harmony and balance in more structured environments. He’s brought Peace Sticks as a team-building course for top executives of Fortune 500 corporations as well as leaders in environmental and sustainable business, and taught the practice in schools and retreats, and even as group therapy at a renowned rehabilitation/recovery center.

This weekend, he’s bringing the practice to a public workshop in Santa Barbara for the first time since appearing at the Sol Food Festival several years ago. Peace Sticks Life Force Workshop takes place 6:30 to 8 pm at DiviniTree Santa Barbara, the yoga studio where Shine Rilling and friends offer the “moving meditation” with the Peace Sticks as a tool to experience the “Chi Flow State”. The 90-minute session will be immediately followed by his Shining Lion Cacao ceremony, Rilling’s take on the sacred practice drawn from indigenous cultures from around the world.

“I’ve been of many ceremonies from lots of different cultures, with many ritual offerings,” he said. “Cacao is great because it’s the legal and very accessible one. It’s not as committed as, say, peyote. But at the same time, it’s an opportunity to let a healing medicine from the earth touch our hearts and activate through us, connecting the group in harmony, and share prayers and songs. We’re basically giving our love back to each

other and to the earth, practicing our sacred reciprocity.”

Rilling will perform his own music as part of the ceremony, with he and his friends employing didgeridoo, Native American flutes and drums in mostly original song. Much will be drawn from his Shining Lion’s latest album, Love Vibration (listen to tracks online at www.shininglionmu sic.com.) “It takes people into a good connection to nature and each other, focusing on the planet we are creating together,” he said. “It’s very positive music.”

Admission is $20 for each event, or $36 for both. DiviniTree is located at 25 E De La Guerra St. Call 897-3354 or visit http://sb.divinitree.com. Visit www.peacesticks.com for more information on Rilling or the practice.

Dance It out

There’s certainly no dearth of opportunities for ecstatic dancing in Santa Barbara, what with the popular weekly Dance Tribe gatherings at the Towbes Center for Dance every Sunday from 11 am to 1 pm, and a separate smaller experience every Wednesday evening called Rhythms of Life, where the frequent Tribe DJ and coordinator Marcelino Poppa Sepulveda creates a transcendental journey that blends devotional and deep beats at the Santa Barbara Dance Center.

Now, there’s another entry on the scene, as Yoga Soup has begun offering First Fridays Ecstatic Dances. The “barefoot, substance-free, no talking, live DJ get-down dance party” takes place 8 to 9:30 pm on the first Friday of the month, with the next session taking place on June 1. The 90-minute jam follows a one-hour Contact Improv warm-up that’s included in the $15 admission. There’s a Tribe connection here too, as that time period used to be occupied by an additional monthly Dance Tribe offering, but that went by the wayside. Now, the Soup, which is a significantly smaller (and much more intimate) space, is counting on some support for the event that will loosely follow the typical ecstatic dance “wave,” as slow and mellow music builds to a chaotic intensity before returning to stillness at the end. Enjoy a meditative inward movement journey or dance and connect

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with your neighbors. Plus, it’s a charity fundraiser, as all proceeds will he donated to local nonprofits to support the community.

More at the Soup

Santa Barbara-based sound journey leader Shane Thunder brings his 432hz Sound Healing offering back to Yoga Soup for a 7:30 to 9 pm session on Friday, June 1... Alexis Slutzky hosts a Young Adults Council Circle at the downtown studio at 7 pm on Wednesday, June 6, when those 18-28 are invited to share and listen from the heart about what is moving inside during our times. What are the dreams you are carrying for yourself and the world? The intention is for this to be as inclusive an event as possible, and poet and musicians are invited to bring your craft to share. Admission by $10 donation at the door. Slutzky also leads another of her periodic Community Grief Rituals at Arroyo Hondo Preserve next weekend. (See more details in next week’s column.)

Ongoing Opportunities

Santa Barbara Mantra Lounge Kirtan gathers to chant meditative/ devotional songs in call-and-response style in the small chapel at Unity of Santa Barbara on Saturday, June 2. All are welcome regardless of beliefs, experience, or quality of voice. Partaking of plant-based refreshments follows the 7 pm kirtan. Details at www.facebook.com/ MantraLoungeKirtanSantaBarbara.

Sunburst’s Sunday Meditation Gatherings continue weekly at 10:30 am (Gates open at 9:30) at the Sanctuary located at 7200 S. Highway 1, Lompoc. Enjoy live spirit-filled music, an insightful talk, and guided and quiet meditations followed by a camaraderie-building gathering over a delicious vegetarian brunch. A special children’s program is offered for ages 4+. Upcoming themes include Practicing Honesty & Truthfulness (June 3), Stilling the Mind (June 10), God as Divine Father (June 17), The Science of Kriya Yoga (June 24), and Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life (July 1). Free (Donations accepted). Info at 736-6528 or http://sun burst.org.

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bids will be received and posted electronically on PlanetBids for: BID NO. 5652 DUE DATE & TIME: June 20, 2018 UNTIL 3:00 P.M. Restroom Remodel at Cabrillo Ball Park A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on June 12, 2018 at 10:00 a.m., at the Corner of Milpas Street and 800 Calle Puerto Vallarta, Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Please be punctual since late arrivals may be excluded from submitting a bid. Bids will not be accepted or considered from parties that did not attend the mandatory pre-bid meeting. Please RSVP via PlanetBids no later than close-ofbusiness the day prior to the scheduled bid walk.

The purpose of this project is to remodel the restroom facility at 800 Calle Puerto Vallarta, at Cabrillo Ball Park.

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

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

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

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

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. Contractors and Subcontractors must be registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code 1725.5. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California Class A-General Engineering OR Class B – General Building Contractor’s license. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned license at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being nonresponsive.

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

The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California.

Bidders are hereby notified that they shall furnish a Bid Guaranty Bond in the form of a money order or a cashier’s certified check, payable to the order of the City, in the amount of 10% of the bid, or by a bond in said amount and payable to said City, signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California.

When submitting a bid via PlanetBids™, the Bid Guaranty Bond must be uploaded as part of your submittal AND the original Bid Guaranty Bond must be received by the bid date and time to be considered responsive.

The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award. _________________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager Published May 30, 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

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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 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. 20180001368. Published May 23, 30, June 6, 13, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing 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. 20180001245. 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, 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. 20180001397. Published May 23, 30, June 6, 13, 2018.

Jayasinghe. FBN No. 20180001386. Published May 16, 23, 30, June 6, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing 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 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 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS of Santa Barbara County on NAME STATEMENT: The April 10, 2018. This statefollowing person(s) is/are ment expires five years from doing business as: Arri- the date it was filed in the ba Capital, 3192 Copa Office of the County Clerk.

De Oro, Los Alamitos, CA I hereby certify that this is 90720. Colin Miller, 3192 a correct copy of the origPublished: May 30, 2018 Copa De Oro, Los Alamitos, inal statement on file in my CA 90720. This statement office. Joseph E. Holland, was filed with theMontecito Coun-Journal County Clerk (SEAL) by ty Clerk of Santa Barbara Melissa Mercer. FBN No. County on May 8, 2018. This 2018-0001094. Published statement expires five years May 9, 16, 23, 30, 2018. from the date it was filed in the Office of the County FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Clerk. I hereby certify that NAME STATEMENT: The this is a correct copy of the following person(s) is/are dooriginal statement on file in ing business as: Loadstar my office. Joseph E. Holland, Movers, 1014 Via Regina, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Santa Barbara, CA 93111.

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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 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.

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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Brian King with Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree, the 2018 Rock Star Life Achievement award recipient for the Spirit of Entrepreneurship fête

The Spirit of Entrepreneurship winners for 2018

Rodriguez, Media Communications Lindsey Carnett, Nonprofit Sarah Otterstrom, Professional Services Ann Levine, Retail Zdena Jiroutova, Science/Technology Kristin Denault, Wholesale/Manufacturing/ Global Trade Michele McDowell, Agricultural/Wineries Marta Alvarez, Emerging Business Raiza Giorgi, Green/Social Entrepreneur Diana Pereira, and Health Robin Long. The

impartial six judges had 75 applications, spending many hours choosing the finalists and winners.

One winner that was easy to choose was the 2018 Rock Star: Life Achievement Award Recipient, Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree, who is both a leading philanthropist and a businesswoman. “Not enough people know that Lady Ridley-Tree is the CEO of Pacific Air Industries plus Air-Cert,

Inc., a company founded by her late husband, Paul, in 1959,” says Cathy Feldman, board chair/CEO of the SOE Foundation. “Leslie commutes to their headquarters in Chatsworth every week to supervise the business, even though she is in her 90s. Her business is an airplane parts distributor and repair shop. They maintain an up-to-date inventory for airline companies and delivery services like FedEx around the world.”

I remember when Leslie told me, “I used to tell Paul he had to go to work to earn more money, so we can give it away.” Many years ago, she lived in New York and ran a shelter on the West Side helping get kids off the street, especially girls.

She started what would become the first HeadStart program in the United States. A special lady, indeed.

It was announced that SOE would

now become part of WEV (Women’s Economic Ventures), which have been changing the face of business since 1991. They do that through business training, loans, and consulting. To know more, call (805) 965-6073.

Community Action Champions

The Community Action Commission (CAC) of Santa Barbara County just held their 13th annual CAC Champions dinner in Solvang at the Corque Hotel.

Until recently, I was not aware of this nonprofit and all they do. But during the mudslide, they were my lifeline when I called 211. I always got a real person on the line and could ask if we were supposed to evacuate. Since we were right on the border, I never knew. They could zero in on their computer maps to our house and tell

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exactly. Little did I know that was part of CAC. Once a year, CAC honors those Champions of youth, families, and seniors in our county. This year, one of the stars was the newly retired executive director of CAC, Fran Forman.

She worked tirelessly on behalf of children, teens, families, and seniors to promote their education, job skills, physical/emotional well-being, and economic security in an effort to stabilize their lives.

Another champion was Dr. Kevin Walthers, superintendent/president of Allan Hancock College. He has built relationships with the community and created innovative fundraising programs. Under his leadership, the college launched The Hancock Promise, which allows students who graduate from high schools in Santa Maria, Lompoc, Santa Ynez, and Cuyama to receive their first year of tuition and fees for free.

The third star was CenCal Health (CCH), which gave a generous matching gift allowing this year’s event to raise more than $100,000 to support the Healthy Senior Lunch program of CAC in our county. CCH began from a small local health plan to the largest health insurer in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties. They provide for those who would not other31 May – 7 June 2018

wise have health care coverage.

Introducing the Champions were Jim Raggio, Bob Freeman, and Guy Walker. David Bolton was master of ceremonies. Upon arrival, we had a wine reception outdoors on the terrace and then went into the ballroom for dinner and awards.

CAC works through its 22 health and human service programs, including Head Start, Healthy Senior Lunch, Weatherization Assistance, Family & Youth Services, and 211 Santa Barbara. They serve more than 10,000 people throughout the county each year and employ 400 health education and social service workers and are one of the County’s largest employers.

CAC executive director Pat Keelean wanted us to know the top event sponsors were CenCal Health, Rabobank, Athur Gallagher, BB&H Benefit Designs, Chumash Foundation, and Deckers. “Tonight, we are all partners in the quest to ensure our seniors remain healthy and independent – that makes each one of you a champion as well.”

You can dial 211 to find health and human services for postpartum depression, health care, counseling, food assistance, housing, and much more. For additional information, check out www.cacsb.com.

•MJ

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would be difficult, producing confusing and internal leadership turmoil.

Tattoos containing the original area codes would have to be reconfigured once new area codes are assigned. Ink parlors would have to work overtime and “legacy” gang members would be less inclined to flash their outdated area codes, resulting in fewer confrontations and more free time for oil painting and meditation.

The cost of this “transformation” would be quite high, as businesses struggle to revise their letterheads, business cards, and websites every five years, but if it saves one life, wouldn’t it be worth it?

Everyone is “thinking outside the box” on this one, but the solutions may be underneath it.

Dale Lowdermilk Santa Barbara

SCE Says “Down with the Eucs”

Southern California Edison (SCE) and its agents continue to rely on hunches, lack of knowledge, and deter-

the patient.

Park Lane is under serious attack by the SCE tree trimmers/removers.

Trees destined for removal are marked with an X. Trees designated to be topped are designated with a large spot or circle.

Drive by and see for yourself.

Why does SCE not just get on with undergrounding the utilities now that

No disease was evident on this large eucalyptus tree downed by SCE on Park Lane, although there is plenty of evidence of a treasure trove of stores of food for the local woodpecker community

predicates gun ownership on the necessity of a “well-ordered militia.”

All Congress needs to do is to define “well-ordered militia” and restrict gun ownership to those groups. Clearly, state police and National Guard are well-ordered militia. Local police, transit police, and campus police would all qualify. Gun clubs with restrictive membership policies, intensive training programs, regular meet-

ings and careful weapon registration records might also qualify. Even local chapters of the NRA might meet those conditions.

Current law does not allow us to take guns away from everyone. But this plan would help us disarm criminals, loner psychopaths, and adolescents too young to form good judgment about firearms.

Guy Strickland Santa Barbara

Going Next Year Too

mination to slaughter the Eucalyptus on Park Lane. Again recently, a significant acorn woodpecker granary was destroyed. The tree beyond the outer layers where woodpeckers store food, there is no evidence of decay, none. Same holds true up and down Park Lane. This tree was at 700 Park Lane. It was a major granary for many woodpeckers without doubt but sick, decayed, or dying? No way! Trees can be tested without having to destroy

the roads need to be rebuilt anyway?

Instead of the rapacious tree program robbing Montecito of more of its scenic beauty.

Doug and Nancy Norberg Montecito

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We just got back from the Pearl Chase Society Historic Homes Tour.

What a perfect way to spend a Sunday in spring. Did you miss it? Don’t make the same mistake next year! Kudos to the Pearl Chase Society for master-planning this community event.

The chosen homes represented five distinct architectural styles, and each and every one of them exuded its own fascinating time in history. The unique and sophisticated personalities of the homeowners were on display, too.

We were bowled over by the insight, knowledge, and genuine friendliness of the team of drivers, greeters, house managers, docents, and homeowners; each of them made us feel welcome and wanted; their enthusiasm was contagious.

The only flaw – and we’re not complaining – was that the tour was apparently over-subscribed; there was no space at the mandatory parking lot and we waited nearly an hour past our scheduled ticket time for the van, but we were not turned away at the last home despite arriving a half-hour past closing time. Instead, we were graciously urged to come on in and enjoy the house and gardens. We’re eagerly looking forward to next year and another chance to see inside more

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of Montecito’s extraordinary historic homes.

Diane and Garrett Graham Montecito

School Shootings

Instead of asking what role guns, drugs, or mental health may play in school shootings, perhaps we should ask what role the “school institution” may play: confinement, boredom, indoctrination, pressure, bullying, impersonality, et cetera. One thing sure: absent crowded public schools, there would be fewer mass shooting opportunities. Another thing sure: absent the public-school monopoly, humans would still think and learn as they always have, but likely more happily; according to their individual interests and abilities.

“School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency.

It doesn’t take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not.” – H.L. Mencken Steve King Carpinteria

Third Party Law Claims

My firm is working closely with Montecito residents on all matters concerning First Party insurance claims: matters involving claimants’ own homeowners and business insurance policies.

In addition, we have been carefully evaluating a number of different lawyers and firms that are representing Montecito residents in cases involving Third Party claims: cases against entities alleged to have caused the fire and subsequent mudflow. The Third Party litigation is seeking damages beyond the contractual damages recoverable in the homeowners and business cases.

I am writing at this time to endorse and recommend the team of attorneys that I believe will best represent the interests of claimants in these Third Party cases. This team consists of three firms: Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP (Frank Pitre); Panish, Shea & Boyle, LLP (Brian Panish, Rahul Ravipudi); and Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger (Mike Kelly).

This group represents the finest trial lawyers in the state, with extensive experience in the prosecution of mass tort and wildfire litigation. Frank Pitre led litigation against the utility giant PG&E arising from the San Bruno Explosion and Fire in 2010 and the Butte Wildfire Litigation in 2015. Pitre, Mike Kelly, and Brian Panish were 31 May – 7 June 2018

recently appointed to lead the North Bay Fire Litigation in San Francisco.

They have extensive experience prosecuting cases against utilities.

While based in California, the practice of these firms and their reputation is nationwide. They have won record verdicts and settlements in multi-plaintiff cases throughout the country and have been repeatedly selected by their peers to lead the most prestigious professional organizations in the United States. In my opinion, few lawyers in America can match their achievements, credibility, high ethical standards, or dedication to their clients.

In the coming days, we will be sending important information with details about how to add your name to the plaintiffs being represented in the Third Party cases. We are planning a June event for Montecito homeowners and business owners, where you can meet the other lawyers and speak with me regarding any questions you may have pertaining to your current insurance issues. I look forward to seeing you all.

Ray Bourhis Montecito/San Francisco

Keep the Sheriff

We hired Bill Brown to protect us, and he has done as good or better than any sheriff has ever done. The last thing we need is to experiment

with a new sheriff. California has a total of only 58 sheriffs. Choosing the right and best person to lead and represent them is a decision they take very seriously. For 2017-18, the Sheriffs of California elected our own Sheriff Brown to be their president. Not surprisingly, the police chiefs of California did the same thing in 2005 when Brown was chief of police in Lompoc. He is the only person ever to have served as president of both the California State Sheriffs and California Police Chiefs Associations.

One of Bill’s opponents is endorsed by the deputy sheriffs’ union. The union’s primary interest is in increased pay and benefits, which is not the sheriff’s primary interest. His first priority is to protect public safety.

Isla Vista’s extreme weekend parties and often dangerous Halloween and Deltopia events have been brought under control. When called for, Sheriff Brown creatively used collaboration and the law to solve these chronic problems.

Sheriff Brown pushed for and succeeded in finally getting a much-needed new jail underway. This has been a multi-year effort, and he never let up. He obtained $80 million from the state to build the jail, which is under construction and will be finished early

A little peace of mind goes a long way Having confidence that your assets will carry you through retirement requires thoughtful financial planning.

Our experienced team of advisors will work with you to help develop a long-term strategy to provide the peace of mind you need to enjoy life’s little pleasures.

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 18)

Dream Foundation Board members David Nygren and Justine Roddick (photo by Dream Foundation)

30,000 dreams since its founding in 1994.

Among the guests at the sunset soirée were Mark and Alixe Mattingly, Kenny and Elizabeth Slaught, John and Daryl Stegal, Bob and Holly Murphy, Justine Roddick, Carlos Lopes, Luke and Michelle Ebbin, David Edelman, Kim and Tammy Hughes, Fred and Sarah Kass, Geoff Green, Skip and Jen Abed, Bill and Sandi Nicholson, Doug and Marni Margerum, David Selberg, and Susan Jordano.

Mad Hatter On the subject of Oprah, looking quite resplendent in a Stella McCartney baby pink midi-dress at the nuptials, which she teamed with a vintage Philip Treacy hat – the same London milliner who designed the Duchess of Cornwall’s headwear – but her fetching ensemble did not come without stress.

She revealed she had to change her dress at the last minute after her original outfit would photograph “too white.”

Taking to Instagram following the ceremony, Oprah told fans: “I would like to thank the Stella McCartney team for working all night long to get this dress finished because we had ‘dress gate.’

“Wrong color! But now have the right color. I think we’re going to do OK. But thank you so much for working all night.”

Sleep & Lowe Montecito actor Rob Lowe doesn’t mind sleeping alone.

Despite marrying Sheryl Berkoff in 1991, Rob says he sleeps “better on the road.”

“It’s the truth,” he quipped while appearing on neighbor Ellen DeGeneres’s TV talk show.

“I love her enough to speak the truth... She’s obsessed with playing Family Feud until 5 or 6 in the morning on the iPad and wakes me with ‘Honey, honey! Quick, name five foods that are gross.’

“I’m like, ‘I just want to go to bed,’” he said with a laugh.

Rob and Sheryl have two children together, Matthew Edward, 25, and John Owen, 23.

Check Mate

Kim and Lauren Cantin on Ellen’s TV show

Montecito mudslide survivors Kim Cantin and her 14-year-old daughter, Lauren, were guests on fellow resident Ellen DeGeneres’s TV talk show and presented with a check for $20,000, courtesy of Walmart, to help rebuild their lives.

Both were rescued after their home was demolished by the devastating slides in January, and Lauren’s rescue was seen around the world when she was pulled out of the rubble after being trapped for hours under the remains of her home.

Kim was washed a quarter of a mile and found on a debris pile.

Sadly, her husband, Dave, and 17-year-old son, Jack, did not survive the carnage.

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become pedal peddlers!

The tony triumvirate of Mark Gustafson, Jason Lam and Matt Soares have launched electric bicycle brand Story Bikes, selling them to avid cyclists and also donating to the charity World Bike Relief.

“It all started two years ago when we were in Santa Monica and rented electric bikes to try for the first time,” says Mark.

“We realized how fun they were and it was a great way to get around, get us out of our cars and back on our bikes like college days.”

As a former competitive cyclist, Mark wanted to find a bike that was stylish and well-built, but still affordable.

“But everything on the market was expensive, bulky, and not the look that any of us would want to ride.”

After multiple prototypes, the dynamic threesome came up with the models they are selling today with the patented design hiding the battery in the frame using the latest technology, along with a USB port to charge your phone or Bluetooth.

It can go from Montecito to UCSB and back on one charge.

“We didn’t just want to create a product, but a lifestyle brand with a bigger purpose,” explains Mark.

“Through our various experiences and travels, we had seen the drastic need for improved models of transportation in developing countries, so we decided we wanted to be a true one for one company, donating a regular bicycle to those in need for every Story Electric Bike sold.”

In their research, they found World Bike Relief, which donates to school children, health care workers, and entrepreneurs in developing nations.

“The power of just one bicycle on a community is profound,” adds Mark.

“It helps those overcome the obstacle of distance and thrive.”

The team will be traveling to Zambia in the fall to help the charity deliver the bikes first-hand.

To date, the company – which was launched on Kickstarter last year – has sold 120 bikes, varying in price between $1,390 and $1,690, and donated more than 200 to World Bike Relief.

They can be contacted on the website www.storybicycles.com Dead End The widow of the man who was driving the Porsche during the crash that killed Santa Barbara actor Paul

If I could write a note to my young self, it would be a long list of people who weren’t worth the time

Walker has settled the lawsuit against the German car manufacturer.

Kristine Rodas, who was married to auto racing shop owner Roger Rodas, had accused Porsche of producing faulty mechanics.

Rodas and the Fast and Furious actor died when the 2005 Carrera GT spun out of control on a city street in Valencia and burst into flames after hitting a power pole and several trees.

Walker, 40, and Rodas, 38, both died at the scene of the crash in November 2013.

According to court papers seen by The Blast, Kristine has filed a notice explaining her suit had been “settled in its entirety,” meaning the case can be concluded.

The Porsche was going between 80 and 93 mph in a 45 mph-zone when it careened off the road.

It is not the first time the widow has sued Porsche – she filed a suit for wrongful death-product liability not long after the crash.

But her argument the car was illequipped to handle side impact was deemed moot, since the fatal force came from the front when it hit the lamppost – and her own expert confirmed.

U.S. District judge Philip Gutierrez also rejected the front impact argument because Rodas’s fatal injuries occurred when he was actually hurled into Walker.

He also concluded Rodas’s lawyer had not presented evidence demonstrating the crash was caused by a defective suspension.

But Kristine filed an appeal that was set to be heard next month.

The case, however, has now been settled – although the details were not disclosed.

Wooden It be Nice The violin ruled supreme at Santa Barbara Symphony’s penultimate concert of the season at the Granada under the baton of maestro Nir Kabaretti.

Illustrious Los Angeles-based violinist Anne Akiko Meyers, who studied at New York’s Juilliard School, teamed with the orchestra’s concertmaster Jessica Guideri, in Vivaldi’s Concerto in A minor, with Meyers showing her obvious talent going solo

Anne Akiko Meyers excels (photo by David Zentz)

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SFSB past presidents Steve Hicks, Patty MacFarlane, and Bruce Micheel with board member Greg Bartholomew (photo by Isaac Hernandez)

SFSB Interim CEO Barbara Robertson with Lorna Hedges, Nancy Schlosser, and Jackie Inskeep (photo by Isaac Hernandez)

Scholarship recipients Evan Knight and Shayne Martyniuk with SFSB Board chair Don Logan (photo by Isaac Hernandez)

SFSB past president Barrett O’Gorman and his wife, Jill, with SFSB past president Joanne Rapp (photo by Isaac Hernandez)

on Samuel Barber’s violin concerto.

The entertaining concert wrapped with Rimsky-Korsakov’s crowd-pleasing Scheherazade.

In June, the final show of the season, The Red Violin with Canadianborn violinist Lara St. John, playing along with the film – delayed after the disasters of January – will take place.

On the Money The Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara, which since its founding in 1962 has awarded a handsome $108 million to more than 50,000 county students, marked its annual gift-giving with a dinner for 245 guests at the SB Museum of History.

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Hi-ho, Silver!

Santa Barbara Polo Club is joining the jet set again.

Having had two major aircraft manufacturers, Bombardier and Gulfstream, sponsoring the season in the last decade, Silver Air, a private jet management and charter company, is the new title sponsor of the USPA Pacific Coast Open, the premier tournament on the Left Coast.

It will be played August 16 to September 2, culminating with the final match on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend.

“It’s a fun and relaxed environment to connect with Silver Air clients, jet owners, and other private aviation enthusiasts,” says Chuck Stumpf, the company’s president of business development. “It is a great fit for our brand and our business.”

Bucket List It was music to their ears when the Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade benefitted handsomely from a chamber music concert at the Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall to raise funds for the Montecito-based organization.

Local pianist Robert Cassidy curated an eclectic program by French composer Claude Debussy with fellow musicians, keyboardist Natasha Kislenko, cellist Jennifer Kloetzel, saxophonist Patrick Posey, and violinist Mary Beth Woodruff.

“We wanted to bring continued awareness to the great volunteer work the Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade is doing in our community,” says Cassidy. “There is still a need for funding and volunteers. We all want to help.”

Although the concert was free, attendees were asked to donate $20 or more for the cause. The Profant Foundation for the Arts co-sponsored the event, which raised $1,650.

ed to 2,620 students in ceremonies in Santa Maria and at the Santa Barbara Courthouse’s Sunken Gardens, with 3,400 applying.

“For such a small community, we receive an incredible level of generosity and support,” says Don Logan, chairman. “Our donors understand how critical it is for students to have access to higher education and achieve a degree.”

Among the torrent of supporters were Roger and Sarah Chrisman, Jean Schuyler, Nancy Schlosser, Anne Towbes, Ed and Sue Birch, Palmer and Joan Jackson, John and Patty MacFarlane, Ryan and Angela Siemens, Eleanor Van Cott, Arthur and Winnie Swalley, and Nancy Ransohoff.

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Duva the Right Thing Dianne Gayoski Duva joins MAW board

Dianne Gayoski Duva is the latest member of the Music Academy of the West’s board.

Duva is a founding partner of the Santa Barbara wealth management firm Arlington Financial Advisors and co-hosts the weekly radio show Money Talk on AM1290.

She currently serves as a member of the board for the SB Public Library Foundation, and is on the endowment committee of CALM and the strategic advisory committee for Women’s Economic Ventures.

Sightings: Oscar winner Jeff Bridges at the Sacred Space in Summerland...

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On Entertainment All about Alberta

by Steven Libowitz

Writer/director Marion Caffey is Cookin’ at the New Vic Theatre

J

azz and blues legend Alberta Hunter – who reigned from the 1920s-1950s – did what would be almost unthinkable nowadays, setting aside her life as an artist at the peak of her career to become a hospital nurse shortly after her mother died.

But when she was forced to retire at age 70 (though she was actually 82), her musical career was reborn at New York’s The Cookery, where her bluesy style and salty repartee won over an entirely new audience until she passed away seven years later.

Thirty-five years since her passing, Ensemble Theatre Company (ETC) is mounting Cookin’ at the Cookery: The Music And Times Of Alberta Hunter as the closing show of its current season. Broadway veterans Lavon Fisher Wilson and Dayna Jarae Dantzler share the stage, with Wilson portraying Hunter in her later years as well as her own mother to the young Alberta played by Dantzler, who also takes on several smaller roles, including several males. Hunter’s catalogue is brought to life by an on-stage band led by pianist George Caldwell, who served in orchestra pits for such Broadway hits as Bring In ‘Da Noise, Bring In ‘Da Funk, and The Full Monty, plus logging long stints with both the Duke Ellington and Count Basie orchestras.

Marion J. Caffey, who conceived of and wrote Cookin’ at the Cookery more than 15 years ago and has directed more than 90 percent of the productions ever since, serves as director

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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.

and choreographer for ETC’s staging, which runs June 7-24 at the New Vic theater. He talked about his still-evolving passion project a day after landing in Santa Barbara last weekend.

Q. What was it about Alberta Hunter’s story that inspired you to create the show?

A. I saw the PBS special on her back in the early 2000s, and I was stunned that I had never heard of this person with such a fascinating life. Today, she’s a little-known American jewel.

She was a very big deal in the first part of her career, in the early 1900s. She was in one of the first casts of Showboat, (Hunter played Queenie opposite Paul Robeson in the first London production in 1928) and toured in big cities and played with Louis Armstrong.

Then she quit and became a nurse for 20 years, bringing comfort and joy as a servant of the people in a different way. It was only after she was forced to retire that she came back with an even more successful career, which was completely by chance, when the guys who were starting the Cookery wondered aloud whether she could still sing, which is amazing. I wanted to share her and that story with the rest of the world. So, I dared to create a theatrical work based on her life.

How did you decide to take on such a vast story as a two-actress play? What creative choices did you have to make to do it justice?

I guess I didn’t know better than to tackle it at that part of my career, even

though I didn’t know how to do it.

I’m a director who writes rather than the other way around. I could see all of the things in my head. But I must admit I killed a lot of trees creating the piece. At first, it was too long and involved, and some of the scenes were fun but unnecessary. In its evolution, I think I’ve gotten it down to where it feels more comfortable. My goal was to entertain and enlighten, so at least they walk out knowing a lot more about Alberta Hunter. Each audience has to make the decision of whether it’s successful themselves, but we’ve had more than 40 productions, so something seems to be clicking.

How much research did you conduct into Hunter’s life beyond her music?

Well, I started with reading her biography, which was very informative. Then, as I began to write it, I literally followed her life as best I could.

I went to Memphis and visited her old house, then walked down to the river where she first saw the WC Handy Band, and on Beale Street, where her mom worked as a chambermaid in a bordello. Then I rode the train from Memphis to Chicago, because that’s how she got out of there. I went to what was The Cookery, although it’s something else now, to connect with her journey. And I met with her lawyer and visited her gravesite. It was all to try spiritually connect to her as much as possible, and hope for her blessing to tell her story. It turns out that Danny Holgate, who was the first music director for the show, used to work the alternate nights at the Cookery when she wasn’t performing.

Is it set as a revue, or a biography, or something else?

To me, it’s a musical, featuring Alberta Hunter’s music and other songs from the era. We use much of the songs that she wrote, and it’s built around her comeback, which began at the Cookery, so we keep coming back to that first concert. That’s when she sings her music and the songs she made popular. But other times, we use music to advance the story. It’s quite unique. To me, there isn’t just one way to do a musical. So I call it a blues-ical, even though it has just the two actresses moving it along.

I would imagine in a show like this that casting is key. You’ve had a number of singer/actresses in the role. Why is Lavon right for the part?

She’d covered the show when she

I already want coffee tomorrow

was young enough for the other role, but she never went on. But we’ve worked together on many other productions over the years. She’s a wonderful blues singer, and very gifted as an actress. She has the skill level and tools you need to pull of the part. I met Dana, who plays the other role, at the auditions. That role is equally difficult, because there are so many character that you have to be versatile. That’s very challenging. But Lavon never leaves the stage during the entire show. So, that’s a daunting task too. But they’re up to it.

I’m told you’re updating the musical for ETC. What’s different?

I always adjust it for the performers to fit what they bring to the show. And there are some changes in a few of the scenes that I just wanted to work on and adjust regardless of who was playing the parts.

Also, times have changed. For example, a reviewer about 15 years ago criticized the show because there was a molestation scene. His take on it was that since she wasn’t actually raped, why is it just a big deal? I’d venture that no reviewer would say that today after the #MeToo movement. It’s a part of what made her what she is. So, the audience is much different than the way I wrote, and I’m always aware of that. It will be interesting to see how they react to those scenes today.

So, even after more than 15 years, it’s still a living and breathing work?

Oh, sure. I don’t change the core. It feels right. It’s just about tweaking, or updating and adjusting and making things stronger. You adapt it, but you don’ t mess with the bones. That skeleton has been standing for a good long time.

(ETC has also announced the lineup for its 40th anniversary season, which features School for Lies by David Ives, The Legend of Georgia McBride by Matthew Lopez, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, Everything is Illuminated adapted by Simon Bloch from the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, and Mark St. Germain’s Dancing Lessons.

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Road Trip with a Reluctant Raconteur

It would be sheer folly to expect a linear conversation when interviewing Nellie McKay. The British-American singer-songwriter and actress may be sharp as a tack in creating diverse albums that range from her brilliant 2004 debut Get Away from Me – a double-album from a 21-year-old that was full of clever and original pop songs and a title that played on Norah Jones’s Come Away with Me – to Normal 31 May – 7 June 2018

as Blueberry Pie, her tribute to Doris Day, and My Weekly Reader, a covers album of songs from the 1960s both well-known and obscure.

She was dead-on in her three acclaimed musical biographies/cabarets, which included “I Want to Live!”, the story of Barbara Graham, who was executed in the gas chamber at San Quentin, and Silent Spring: It’s Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature, which examines the esteemed environmental pioneer Rachel Carson.

But over the phone, McKay has a penchant for straying off topic and making mid-sentence left turns.

When I apologized about calling a few minutes after our appointed time last week, she said, “Oh, that’s great.

It boosts my self-esteem.”

Come again?

“It makes me feel extremely competent, because I’m usually late, so I really appreciate it when someone else is too.”

Uh, okay.

Ask McKay about why she left behind making albums of original pop songs in styles ranging from 1950s style cabaret to funk, rap, and more, several of which were used in high-profile TV shows such as Weeds and Grey’s Anatomy, in favor of cover material and other projects, and you might get a short, straight if somewhat hard-to-fathom answer: “It’s somewhat a lack of inspiration, as in an inability to express myself. I mean, Tom Lehrer quit to teach math, but I can’t do that.”

But you also might suddenly be subject to a meandering meditation that wanders into political (“There are so many nuclear weapons. It’s insane!”) and sociological issues (“What do you want with mainstream so-called civilization? It’s a sick joke.”), or the economic realities of making it as a musician in modern times (“People can have mega-hits but still make peanuts. We need a universal basic income, so I go where the money is,” which wouldn’t seem to be any of those recent projects.)

Which actually, if somewhat obliquely, brings us to Sister Orchid, her new solo album of interpretations of material from the Great American Songbook featuring selections from the Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington, and Rodgers and Hart catalogs, among others. The spare record on which McKay also plays piano and harmonica is meant to conjure images of lonely truck stops at night, or the darkness in between, and comes from her desire to more or less get off the grid, even as the songs are bright and often cheery. (The title, by the way, is a play on Brother Orchid, the 1940s crime movie about redemption through flowers. Go figure.)

Still, McKay once said she’d never tackle that classic oeuvre of music from the era.

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Nellie McKay performs Saturday, June 2, at SOhO

“There are so many beautiful songs out there, it’s hard to resist the temptation,” she explained. “You grow up with these songs, the ghosts are always around.”

As for McKay, she hasn’t found the same sort of redemption through singing them. “Showbiz is such an inequity,” she said. “It’s funny that you write a song, and for some reason people want to watch you sing it for the rest of your life. It’s an odd concept for me. Why aren’t we watching surgeons operate? Life isn’t fair.”

Fair or not, McKay will offer her interpretations of music from her varied repertoire in a solo show at SOhO on Saturday night, June 2.

“It’s a very intimate evening. We’ll cover a fair amount of ground, take some requests. Just make people happy.”

Kids in the Classical Corner

The Ojai Music Festival, with violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja serving as the artistic director for the 2018 version of the venerable and adventurous classical music excursion, gets going for a long weekend next Thursday, June 7. We’ll have more about the avalanche of artists and programs hitting the mountain village in next week’s column. But first, the amateurs get their show via the Santa Barbara Music Club’s annual Scholarship Winners concerts, featuring dozens of young pre-professional local musicians aged 9-20 performing excerpts on a variety of instruments in two joint recitals taking place on the next two Saturdays, June 2 and 9, both at 3 pm, at SBMC’s new home at First United Methodist Church, 305 E. Anapamu Street.

It’s one of the more anticipated and exciting offerings of the classical club, and closes out its season of free concerts. Check out the SBMC’s website at www.sbmusicclub.org for a complete schedule of the performances, musicians, their teachers, and the repertoire.

Dance Dimensions

State Street Ballet (SSB) is sending off Gary McKenzie, a founding member and its longtime ballet master and teacher at Gustafson Dance, with a gathering at the company’s Towbes Center for Dance on Monday night. The 5:30 to 7:30 pm event is to let alumni, students, friends, parents, dancers and others share drinks, snacks and memories to bid adieu to McKenzie, who is retiring to the countryside in the south of France, as announced during intermission

at SSB’s closing night of its Modern Masters show at the New Vic earlier this month.

Everybody Dance Now! (EDN) Santa Barbara’s 2018 Day of Movement takes place from noon to 5 pm this Saturday, June 2, at Isla Vista Elementary, 6875 El Colegio Road, Goleta. Up first are the opening rounds of the 2-vs-2 kids category and 1-on-1 adult category in a freestyle dance battle with a $200 cash prize per division, followed by a free family dance masterclass with Chrybaby Cozie, a pioneer/creator of Harlem Litefeet who is one of our EDN! teachers in New York City. The day closes with EDN’s spring performance, which also features the semi-finals and finals of the battle.

Admission is free, with donations accepted.

Back here in Montecito, DJ Darla Bea hosts and spins the tunes for the Four Seasons Biltmore Grand Re-Opening party inside the Ty Lounge from 7-10 pm on Friday, June 1, when dancers who have missed moving to the beat for the last six months following the massive mudslide will be crowding the floor at the lounge. That’s also the same night that Summer Nights on the Roof of the Canary gets going for 2018, with DJ aRod in control of the beats to keep the crowd moving as they glide above it all in downtown Santa Barbara.

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Far Flung Travel

by Chuck Graham

The Day the Island Shook

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t started out just like any other day that I lead a kayak tour on Santa Cruz Island; get folks dialed in with their paddling gear and a kayak briefing before launching them off the beach at Scorpion Anchorage.

Spring time on the islands is a dualedged sword; rolling green marine terraces, island wildflowers, and plenty of kayaking trips. However, it’s also the toughest, most challenging time to paddle out there. Residual winter swells combo up with perpetual northwest winds with lots of days blowing a gale. A lot of those days don’t allow access into the sea caves, the main draw for folks traveling to one of the least-visited National Parks in North America.

Not this day, though. Paddling conditions were nice on April 10, calm, glassy water, no swell, and no winds.

That was until 12:30 pm. Always anticipating the worst wind conditions, I decided to shoot my group up to Cavern Point to beat any northwest wind that might increase in the afternoon. After that, we would work our way back to the southeast.

I had 13 folks and a brand-new assistant guide with me. As always, I staged everyone away from the edges of the cliffs. I never know when some rock fall may occur. Like all the islands, the rock is volcanic with multiple, countless seeps. It is weather-beaten and heavily wave-battered.

The rock is always brittle. I’ve seen seabirds dislodge rock and send it falling into the water.

As soon as we pulled into Cavern Point and its sheer 200-foot-tall cliffs, the rock came down on the west wall.

Rock fall out there picks up steam, big boulders hitting ledges and hurdling outward. In this instance, there was a lot of tonnage coming down, but it was the sound that made it so impressive.

Needless to say, by the looks on everyone’s faces, they were all a little rattled to say the least. However, once the slide finished, no one blinked when I said we’re still going inside Cavern Point Cave. At that point, I didn’t know a 5.3-magnitude earthquake had occurred on the south side of the largest, most diversified island off the coast.

I took everyone the entire 360 feet inside the cave. However, on the exit I paddled out first and kept an eye on the cliffs above. From there, I waved everyone out of the dank grotto. That’s when I heard lots of chatter on my handheld radio about multiple rock slides in various locations around the windswept isle. That’s when I knew it was an earthquake.

Everyone was notified on the water with the park ranger scurrying across the southeast end of the island making certain all day trippers and campers were accounted for. They were. There was talk of aftershocks and even a tsu-

nami, but after fires, mudslides, and an eye-opening earthquake, maybe a tsunami is all that’s left?

Later that day, I went for a run over to Yellow Banks on the southeast tip of the island. I stopped at the historic satellite ranch house like I always do and noticed seismic damage to the face of the building that was constructed in 1889. Over two of the doors facing out toward the dry creek-bed, lots of plaster had come down and some minor fracturing was visible above. Everything else was status quo, though. A mating pair of endemic island scrub jays crossed beaks in a dead fruit tree leftover from the ranching era. A pair of island foxes sunned themselves on the bank of the

dry creek-bed and barely paid any attention to me as I continued toward the overlook at Yellow Banks.

Rock fall is always on my mind when paddling around Anacapa and Santa Cruz Islands. I’ve only been struck once by a golf ball-sized rock on the shoulder. It hit the padded strap on my personal flotation device (pfd) dislodged by a pelagic cormorant. Those isles easily have the most caves, and every time I paddle into one or am leading a group inside the honeycombed cliffs, I always have my guard up.

There’s no telling when Mother Nature decides to let loose. It’s a natural adjustment that can occur without warning.

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AGING IN HIGH HEELS

by Scott Craig (photography by Brad Elliott)

by Beverlye Hyman Fead

Scott Craig is manager of media relations at Westmont College

Ms Fead moved from Beverly Hills to Malibu and then Montecito in 1985. She is married to retired music exec Bob Fead; between them they have four children, five grandchildren, and a dog named Sophia Loren. Beverlye is the author of I Can Do this; Living with Cancer, Nana, What’s Cancer and the blog www.aginginhighheels.com, and book Aging In High Heels. She has also produced a documentary: Stage Four, Living with Cancer.

Lisea Named New Campus Pastor

Adding up the Pluses

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ver since I have been doing these columns about interesting people in their 70s, 80s, and 90s, friends have been saying, “You have to meet Natalie Myerson.” A mutual friend finally set us up for a lunch at Louie’s at the Upham Hotel in Santa Barbara, and Natalie was there waiting for us when we arrived, beautifully “put together” as they say. She could just as easily have been sitting at the Plaza in New York City as in Santa Barbara. She wore a stunning purple dress with a lovely shawl and – most importantly – black high heels (not too high, but high nevertheless).

Natalie was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up there until she attended Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland, from where she graduated with a B.A. in English in 1941. She has been in love with the English language ever since; you can tell by the way she speaks. Her mother kindled her love of speaking with elocution lessons early on, and she went on to win many awards in high school.

One of her hints for feeling good about herself is by dressing first thing in the morning, just like her mother always did. Natalie says that her mother, who she adored, was all “laced up” when she came out of the bedroom. She says she never saw her mother in a housecoat. She relates that her mother attended a junior college in Boston in her 50s just so she could speak the same language as her four college-educated children.

Both her mother and her “motherin-love” (Natalie’s expression) were great inspirations to her.

She met her husband, Raymond King Myerson, at a cocktail party in Boston, where he was training for service in World War II as a naval officer at Harvard. She was 22; he was 25. She said to her mother, “He’s the one,” and indeed he was. “He was a gentleman and a gem,” she says.

They enjoyed a bountiful marriage for 63-plus years, before Raymond’s death in 2006.

They had two children, a daughter and a son, two grandchildren, and now a one-and-a-half-year-old great-grandson. She says their lives were filled with children, laughter, and philanthropy and suggests that her life has been all about “luck and gratitude.” Articulate and energetic at age 98, Natalie is pleased to say she 31 May – 7 June 2018

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W 98-year-old Natalie Myerson plays bridge often, does a crossword puzzle every day, stays active in more than 12 non-profit charities, and always dresses for the occasion

still has “many things to look forward to.”

Philanthropy is in her genes, she laughingly notes. Both her mother and mother-in-law gave freely, and that generosity is a genetic factor Natalie fully encompasses. She became president of Junior Hadassah at a young age and later started another organization called the Juliets (Just Unusual Ladies Interestingly Eating Together) before she was married. She hasn’t stopped since. She was, for example, one of the founders of the Santa Barbara Literary Society, and is now involved in more than 12 non-profit charities.

The Myersons moved to Santa Barbara in 1973 and because Natalie has been involved in so many charities for so long, the sons and daughters she “adopted” along the way are more than happy to take her wherever she wants to go.

As for what she does to keep her brain active, Natalie does a crossword puzzle every day and plays bridge frequently.

“Life is like a balance sheet,” she concludes, “made up of pluses and minuses. If you have one more plus than a minus, you are ahead of the game.”

Seems like an excellent way of looking at life to me!

•MJ

estmont has named alumnus Scott Lisea ’88 as the new campus pastor and assistant to the president for church and community relations.

He has served as head of school for Providence Christian School in Santa Barbara since 2015. Lisea begins July 1, and replaces Ben Patterson, who has retired after more than 17 years of faithful ministry.

“My goal is to shape the lives of young people and those who work with them, to lead them into vibrant, authentic relationships with Jesus Christ and with each other,” he says.

“I will do so by intentionally investing in leaders and professionals in the pursuit of that mission.”

“We’re delighted to welcome Scott in this crucial role,” says Westmont president Gayle D. Beebe. “Not only does he bring years of experience in ministry to students, but he fully embraces our commitment to rigorous academics and a deep love of God. I look forward to working with him to establish stronger ties to the church community.”

Lisea has ministered to college, high school, middle school, and elementary school students and families for nearly 30 years. He graduated from Westmont with honors

and a bachelor’s degree in economics and business, earning the Kenneth Monroe Award for Outstanding Male Graduate. He holds both a master’s degree and a doctorate from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena. He served as an area director for Young Life in San Diego before returning to Santa Barbara as Young Life regional director, overseeing two major regions at the same time. After 23 years with Young Life, he joined the faculty at Oaks Christian School as associate head for spiritual life. He served as acting head of school at Oaks Christian from 2014-2015.

President Beebe and vice president for Student Life Edee Schulze co-chaired the search committee that interviewed candidates to replace Patterson, who announced his retirement in September 2017. The college now seeks candidates capable of working with Lisea and advancing Westmont’s diversity and global engagement goals from a biblical and theological perspective.

In the interim, Lisea’s wife, Jamie McEwen Lisea ’88, who also graduated from Westmont and participated in the community interviews with Lisea, will volunteer in the campus pastor’s office. She is the director of women’s engagement for Young Life.

•MJ

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Notice Inviting Bids SANTA BARBARA MUNICIPAL AIRPORT NORTHEAST APRON REHABILITATION PROJECT Bid No. 3923; FAA AIP NO. 3-06-0235-053-2018 1.

Bid Acceptance. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept sealed bids for its NORTHEAST APRON REHABILITATION PROJECT (“Project”), by or before Thursday, June 21, 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.

2.

Project Information.

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at Santa Barbara Municipal Airport 500 James Fowler Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93117, and is described as follows: Pavement Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Base Bid: The Base Bid portion of the Project will consist of pavement reconstruction (approximately 11,900 square yards). The reconstruction areas will include a pavement section consisting of limetreated subgrade, P-209 aggregate base, and P-401 asphalt concrete. The Project will include installation of valley gutters which will direct water to existing drainage facilities. Additionally, the Project will include an emulsified asphalt slurry seal application of an existing apron area which will serve as a temporary aircraft access and parking area for the duration of construction. Aggregate base shoulders will be constructed adjacent to new pavement are also included in the improvements. The Base Bid will also consist of an asphalt concrete mill-and-fill (approximately 810 square yards).

Alternate Bid: The Alternate Bid portion of the Project will consist of an asphalt concrete mill-and-fill (approximately 6,920 square yards). Aggregate base shoulders will be constructed adjacent to new pavement are also included in the improvements.

2.2 Time for Completion. The planned timeframe for commencement and completion of construction of the Project is as follows: Contract Award

Mobilization Element

Construction Element

Total

Base Bid Only

25 Working Days

45 Working Days

70 Working Days

Base Bid and Alternate Bid

25 Working Days

50 Working Days

75 Working Days

2.3

Engineer’s Estimate. The Engineer’s estimate for construction of this Project is as follows: Base Bid - $1,723,736.00 Alternate Bid - $324,236.00 Total Base Bid & Alternate Bid - $2,047,972.00 The basis of award will be on the lowest responsive and responsible bid amount for the Base Bid only.

2.4

Federally Funded Project. The majority of this project is funded under the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Airport Improvement Program (AIP). Contractor(s) will be required to comply with specific federal contract provisions as listed herein and contained in the Bid Documents.

(1)

NOTICE OF REQUIREMENT FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION to ENSURE EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

The Offeror’s or Bidder’s attention is called to the “Equal Opportunity Clause” and the “Standard Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications” set forth herein.

The goals and timetables for minority and female participation, expressed in percentage terms for the Contractor’s aggregate workforce in each trade on all construction work in the covered area, are as follows: Timetables Goals for minority participation for each trade: Goals for female participation in each trade:

19.7% 6.9%

These goals are applicable to all of the Contractor’s construction work (whether or not it is Federal or federally assisted) performed in the covered area. If the Contractor performs construction work in a geographical area located outside of the covered area, it shall apply the goals established for such geographical area where the work is actually performed. With regard to this second area, the Contractor also is subject to the goals for both its federally involved and non-federally involved construction.

The Contractor’s compliance with the Executive Order and the regulations in 41 CFR Part 60-4 shall be based on its implementation of the Equal Opportunity Clause, specific affirmative action obligations required by the specifications set forth in 41 CFR 60-4.3(a) and its efforts to meet the goals. The hours of minority and female employment and training must be substantially uniform throughout the length of the contract, and in each trade, and the Contractor shall make a good faith effort to employ minorities and women evenly on each of its projects. The transfer of minority or female employees or trainees from Contractor to Contractor or from project to project for the sole purpose of meeting the Contractor’s goals shall be a violation of the contract, the Executive Order and the regulations in 41 CFR Part 60-4. Compliance with the goals will be measured against the total work hours performed.

The Contractor shall provide written notification to the Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) within 10 working days of award of any construction subcontract in excess of $10,000 at any tier for construction work under the contract resulting from this solicitation. The notification shall list the name, address, and telephone number of the subcontractor; employer identification number of the subcontractor; estimated dollar amount of the subcontract; estimated starting and completion dates of the subcontract; and the geographical area in which the subcontract is to be performed.

1)

As used in this notice and in the contract resulting from this solicitation, the “covered area” is City of Santa Barbara, City of Goleta, County of Santa Barbara, State of California.

(2) CIVIL RIGHTS – TITLE VI ASSURANCE The CITY OF SANTA BARBARA, in accordance with the provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 252, 42 USC §§ 2000d to 2000d-4) and the Regulations, hereby notifies all bidders or offerors that it will affirmatively ensure that any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full and fair opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, or national origin in consideration for an award.

(3) DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS ENTERPRISE (DBE) A DBE Goal of 2% has been established for this contract.

The Owner’s award of this contract is conditioned upon Bidder or Offeror satisfying the good faith effort requirements of 49 CFR §26.53.

The successful Bidder or Offeror must provide written confirmation of participation from each of the DBE firms the Bidder or Offeror lists in its commitment within five days after bid opening.

1) 2) 3) 4) 5) (4)

The names and addresses of Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) firms that will participate in the contract; A description of the work that each DBE firm will perform; The dollar amount of the participation of each DBE firm listed under (1) Written statement from Bidder or Offeror that attests their commitment to use the DBE firm(s) listed under (1) to meet the Owner’s project goal; and If Bidder or Offeror cannot meet the advertised project DBE goal, evidence of good faith efforts undertaken by the Bidder or Offeror as described in appendix A to 49 CFR part 26.

Federal Provisions

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The following provisions are incorporated herein by reference with the same force and effect as if given in full text: 1) Buy American Preference (Reference: 49 USC § 50101) 2) Trade Restriction Certification (Reference: 49 USC § 50104; 49 CFR part 30) 3) Davis Bacon Act (Reference: 2 CFR § 200, Appendix II(D); 29 CFR Part 5) 4) Debarment and Suspension (Reference: 2 CFR part 180 (Subpart C); 2 CFR part 1200; and DOT Order 4200.5) 5) Lobbying and Influencing Federal Employees (Reference: 31 USC § 1352 – Byrd Anti-Lobbying Amendment; 2 CFR part 200, Appendix II(J); and 49 CFR part 20, Appendix A) 6) Procurement of Recovered Materials (Reference: 2 CFR § 200.322; 40 CFR part 247; and Solid Waste Disposal Act) 7) Government-wide Requirements for Drug-free Workplace (Reference: 28 CFR 83.635) 8) Certification of Nonsegregated Facilities (41 CFR Part 60-1.8) 9) Veteran’s Preference (49 USC Section 47112(c)) 10) Distracted Driving (Texting when Driving) (Executive Order 13513/ DOT Order 3902.10) (See Federal Provisions of the Contract Bid Documents for further details.)

Successful Bidder/Contractor will be required to insert applicable federal contract provisions in all subcontracts and shall be responsible for compliance by subcontractor(s).

3.

License and Registration Requirements.

3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification: Class A 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 (10%) of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that, within ten days after City’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. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code section 1771.4. Pursuant to Section 1773 of the Labor Code, the general prevailing wage rates in the county in which the work is to be done have been determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations. These wages are set forth in the General Prevailing Wage Rates for this Project, available at the City of Santa Barbara, General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and available from the California Department of Industrial Relations’ Internet web site at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR/PWD. The Federal minimum wage rates for this Project as predetermined by the United States Secretary of Labor are set forth in the specifications and in copies of these specifications that may be examined at the offices described above where project plans, special provisions, and bid forms may be seen. Addenda to modify the Federal minimum wage rates, if necessary, will be issued to holders of these specifications. Future effective general prevailing wage rates, which have been predetermined and are on file with the California Department of Industrial Relations are referenced but not printed in the general prevailing wage rates.

Attention is directed to the Federal minimum wage rate requirements in the specifications. If there is a difference between the minimum wage rates predetermined by the Secretary of Labor and the general prevailing wage rates determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations for similar classifications of labor, the Contractor and subcontractors shall pay not less than the higher wage rate. The City of Santa Barbara will not accept lower State wage rates not specifically included in the Federal minimum wage determinations. This includes "helper" (or other classifications based on hours of experience) or any other classification not appearing in the Federal wage determinations. Where Federal wage determinations do not contain the State wage rate determination otherwise available for use by the Contractor and subcontractors, the Contractor and subcontractors shall pay not less than the Federal minimum wage rate, which most closely approximates the duties of the employees in question.

This is a federally-assisted project and Davis-Bacon (DBRA) requirements will be strictly enforced.

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.

List of Subcontractors.

A.

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 4100 through 4114 of the Public Contract Code of the State of California all bids shall be accompanied by a List of Subcontractors that the Bidder proposes to use who will perform work or labor or render service to the Bidder in excess of one-half of one percent of the Bidder’s total bid or $10,000, whichever is greater. The names, principal business address, license number, and portion of work that will be done by each subcontractor shall be submitted on the form, which is furnished in the Proposal Forms of this Contract Documents Book.

B.

Bidder shall be solely responsible to correct any errors in the listing of the California Contractor’s license number.

C.

A deadline of 24 hours after bid opening is established by which a bidder must submit corrected California Contractor’s license number information to the City.

D.

A bidder’s failure to submit corrected California Contractor’s license numbers will cause the bid to be non-responsive.

E.

If the Bidder fails to specify a subcontractor for any portion of the work to be performed under the Contract in excess of one-half of one percent of the Bidder’s total bid, the Bidder agrees to perform that portion itself. The successful bidder shall not, without the consent of City either: 1)

Substitute any person, firm, or corporation as subcontractor in place of the subcontractor designated in the original bid; or

2)

Permit any subcontractor to be assigned or transferred or allow it to be performed by anyone other than the original subcontractor listed in the bid.

10.

Optional Bidders’ Conference. A bidders’ conference will be held on Thursday June 7, 2018, at 9:00 a.m (PST), at the following location: Airport Administration Office, 601 Firestone Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 for the purpose of acquainting all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite. The bidders’ conference is not mandatory; however, Bidders are HIGHLY ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND.

11.

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

12.

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

By: ___________________________________ William Hornung, General Services Manager

Publication Dates: 1) May 30, 2018

Date: ________________

2) June 6, 2018 END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS

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EDITORIAL (Continued from page 5)

Coast Village Road Congestion

The unfortunate closure of the southbound 101 on-ramp at the Cabrillo Blvd/ Hot Springs intersection was the result of negotiations between Caltrans and the former mayor of Santa Barbara, Helene Schneider, and her city transportation guru, Rob Dayton.

The city demanded extravagant local improvements to the 101 Milpas interchange, which gobbled up the precious funding needed to keep the southbound 101 on-ramp at Cabrillo open and operating, punishing Montecito with massive gridlock on Coast Village Road, Hot Springs Road, and other local streets.

The Beggar at the Table

The City of Santa Barbara recently posted a permit application to replace the Union Pacific Railroad overpass at Cabrillo Boulevard, build new pedestrian pathways, introduce a new roundabout at Cabrillo and Los Patos Way adjacent to the Andrée Clark bird refuge, and build new bike paths. Meanwhile, Montecito has no official role in negotiating mainline Caltrans funding to widen the 101 overpass and on-off ramps at the dangerous San Ysidro interchange, to bring it to current standards, or to rebuild the Cabrillo or Olive Mill interchanges.

Without designated SBCAG representation, Montecito carries the weight of a cork anchor in 101 decision-making. The City of Carpinteria, with a seat at the table, has negotiated added 101 funding for new, wider bridges, re-engineered on-off ramps, wider freeways, new bicycle paths, and local street and flood improvements. Montecito sits alone, an irrelevant partner, holding out its tin cup, begging for scraps of funding as the last-in-line for 101 widening.

An Official Voice

The January 9 debris flow again demonstrated the weakness of an absence of local governance in Montecito. While County and State officials deserve high praise for both their rescue and recovery efforts, Montecito has had no official voice in evacuation planning, private and public mud designations, mud and debris removal on private property, retention of the Army Corps of Engineers, “extreme risk” or “high risk” community designations, FEMA mapping, installation of temporary Caltrans bridges on 192, long-term flood control mitigation, private property re-building, priorities and future funding, and infrastructure repair and modifications.

Had this same twin disaster event devastated the cities of Santa Barbara, Goleta, or Carpinteria, they would have received the same compassion, rescue and recovery support as Montecito, but would also have had an official voice in how that money was allocated and spent.

Mountain View Napa Newport Beach Santa Monica

1902 1872 1906 1886

74,066 79,915 85,186 89,736

Santa Clara Napa Orange Los Angeles

Revenue Neutrality

The 2,000-pound gorilla hindering incorporation of new towns in California is the imposition of “revenue neutrality.” Instead of self-determination being the driving principle, the welfare of County budgets has become the overriding factor. Revenue neutrality means that the incorporating town (Montecito) only gets to keep the amount of revenue that the County was spending in the area prior to incorporation, not the amount of revenue generated within the area.

Time to Rethink Cityhood

People ask me all the time, “Are you in favor of home rule for Montecito?”

The answer is, “I don’t know, and neither does anyone else.” However, I strongly advocate that the time is right to do the necessary homework needed to make an informed judgment of the costs and benefits of home rule for Montecito.

The story of Montecito has historically been a tale of too little, too late. We were too late to install sewers on Coast Village Road in 1960, so we lost our primary business district to the City of Santa Barbara. We were too foolish to widen the 101 in 1992, out of a fear we might lose our parkway look.

We rejected cityhood in 1991 when it was narrowly defeated at the polls. Is there any value in taking another look? What are your thoughts?

•MJ

How We’re Voting

by James Buckley

The California Primary

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n case you missed last week’s Coming & Going, in which we made our upcoming primary election endorsements, preferences, and suggestions, what follows is an edited version of same, with the addition of races and positions not previously covered:

Governor of California: John Cox Lieutenant Governor: Cole Harris Secretary of State: Raul Rodriguez, Jr. Controller: Konstantinos Roditis Treasurer: Greg Conlon Attorney General: No preference Of the most affluent towns or cities in California, nearly all have adopted Insurance Commissioner: No preference home rule. In order of population, these include: 2nd District Board of Equalization: Mark Burns Town Name Year of Incorporation Population 2010 County U.S. Senate: Kevin Mottus U.S. Representative, 24th District: Justin Fareed Hidden Hills 1961 1,856 Los Angeles State Assembly, 37th District: Sofia Collin Belvedere Island 1896 2,068 Marin Ross 1908 2,415 Marin State Superintendent of Public Instruction: Marshall Tuck Carmel-by-the-Sea 1916 3,722 Monterey County Superintendent of Schools: Susan Salcido Portola Valley 1964 4,353 San Mateo County Auditor-Controller: Jen Christensen Indian Wells 1967 4,958 Riverside County Clerk: Joseph E. Holland Woodside 1956 5,287 San Mateo Atherton 1923 6,914 San Mateo District Attorney: Joyce E. Dudley Los Altos Hills 1956 7,922 Santa Clara County Sheriff: Bill Brown Tiburon 1964 8,962 Marin Treasurer-Tax Collector: Harry E. Hagen Montecito No Home Rule 8,965 Santa Barbara Prop 68: No Hillsborough 1910 10,825 San Mateo Half Moon Bay 1959 11,324 San Mateo Prop 69: No preference Malibu 1991 12,645 Los Angeles Prop 70: No Pales Verdes Estates 1939 13,438 Los Angeles Prop 71: No preference Mill Valley 1900 13,903 Marin Prop 72: Yes Rancho Mirage 1973 17,218 Riverside Laguna Beach 1927 22,723 Orange Cannabis Tax: Yes

California’s Affluent Communities

Dana Point 1989 Beverly Hills 1914 Morgan Hill 1906 Cupertino 1955 Laguna-Niguel 1989 31 May – 7 June 2018

33,351 34,109 37,882 58,302 62,979

Orange Los Angeles Santa Clara Santa Clara Orange

••• Most Montecito voting will take place at El Montecito Presbyterian Church Parish Hall at 1455 East Valley Road.

•MJ

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ENDING THIS WEEK UCSB Music – UCSB’s music department closes out the academic calendar this month, but not before the student ensembles get a chance to crow about their accomplishments in a series of concerts at the seaside campus. The Chamber Choir and Women’s Chorus actually travel downtown to Trinity Episcopal Church (1500 State St.; $15/$10) for their offering on Friday, June 1, when you’ll hear classics and recent works by North American composers including a world premiere of a song from “Monochromes”

by Daniel Kessner. In the post-#MeToo era, the concert also focuses on works of living female composers, with works

by Susan LaBarr, Abbie Betinis, Moira Smiley, and two pieces from An Emily Dickinson Suite by Santa Barbara icon and UCSB professor emeritus Emma Lou Diemer, plus Pulitzer Prize- and two-time Grammy-winner Jennifer Higdon’s Deep in the Night.... Scott Marcus’s popular Middle East Ensemble’s spring concert features special guest Besnik Yzeiri (a first-year DMA student from Albania specializing in viola) – whose composition features a medley of melodies from Albania, Serbia, Turkey, Greece, and Macedonia – with a suite of songs from Iraq, featuring two unique Iraqi rhythms, jurjuna and chobi, Sam Khattar as solo vocalist, and the ensemble’s chorus, among the other highlights (Saturday, June 2; $15/$10).... Three traditional Gamelan ensembles come together under the direction of Richard North to present a variety of traditional pieces in both Indonesian and Malaysian styles, including Topeng mask dances, plus contrasting royal court pieces and ancient village music from West Java, and traditional Gamelan pieces arranged for guitars and bamboo flute (5:30 pm, Sunday, June 3; Karl Geiringer Hall)....

Winners of the quarterly UCSB Chamber Music Competition open the first half of the Spring UCSB Chamber Orchestra and Chamber Players concert before the larger ensemble plays Gioachino Rossini’s overture to Il Signor Bruschino, Brahms’s Academic Festival Overture, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93 (Monday, June 4).... Jeff Babko, the keyboardist for Jimmy Kimmel Live, and Santa Barbara percussionist Kevin Winard are special guests for the Jazz Ensemble’s concert featuring Babko’s arrangement of Devo’s “Girl U Want” and his composition “Nostalgia is for Suckas”, plus works by Thad Jones, Wayne Shorter, and others (Wednesday, June 6).... Marcus also directs the Music of India Ensemble’s sitar and tabla concert of North Indian classical music (Thursday, June 7; Geiringer Hall), before Victor Bell directs the final offering by the UCSB Gospel Choir (Friday, June 8). Unless otherwise indicated: WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, UCSB campus COST: $10 general, $5 students INFO: 893-7194 or www.music. ucsb.edu THURSDAY, MAY 31 Doing it All – Jazz man Jeff Denson more or less reinvent himself, or at least his approach to his music, on each of his album, but Outside My Window, his 12th release as leader or co-leader (and sixth under his own) name, might be his most daring departure yet. The bassist, who is also well-known as a member of Lee Konitz’s quartet for a dozen years, not only amps up his lyrically charged compositional vision, Denson also adds an unexpected twist by giving equal weight to vocals on the album. His own, that is, as Denson delivers an emotionally taut collection weaving together interpretations of iconic songs and deeply felt originals.

ENDING THIS WEEK The State of Things – It’s the final stretch for the 2018 State of the Art Gallery exhibition, which has placed eight outdoor structures created by local sculptors and artists at various points along lower State Street since the first weekend of April. But there’s at least one more live event before the pieces are removed on Sunday, June 10. Most notably, the weekly public readings of the various letters and notes that have been deposited in the Story Catcher Mailbox at the northeast corner of State and Anapamu streets – which at May’s 1st Thursday event featured moving missives of forgiveness, love, despair, and hope read out loud by the local healer Alexis Slutzky – has a final installment from 5 to 7:30 pm on Thursday, May 31.

But don’t miss the other installations, including Brooke Smiley’s tribute to an early woman goddess fashioned out of Montecito mud just a block away. WHERE: Eight street corners on lower State Street COST: free INFO: www.sbac.ca.gov/soag2018

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by Steven Libowitz

FRIDAY, JUNE 1 Stray-ing from Xmas – Brian Setzer is no stranger to the Santa Barbara area. The threetime Grammy Awardwinning guitarist-singercomposer has repeatedly passed through town in December, performing his take on Christmas classics and original holiday tunes that turned the rockabilly revivalist into a wintertime wonder at the Granada and Ventura theaters, and up at the Chumash Casino. But the founder and frontman of the ‘80s hitmaker Stray Cats hasn’t visited town in warmer weather in many years. It was 35 years ago that Setzer’s Stray Cats made rock radio safe again for rockabilly with such monster hits as “Rock This Town” and “Stray Cat Strut” before Setzer moved on to a solo career and later formed his own big band in the mid-1990s. The Brian Setzer Orchestra plugged along nicely, garnering fans with such pieces as a modern-rock/big band version of Louis Prima’s “Jump, Jive an’ Wail”. But then came the first Christmas album, which immediately soared to the top of the holiday charts and resulted in a cottage industry for the tattooed Setzer. Now, for a change, he’s leaving the holiday hollers at home to deliver Stray Cat songs, solo material, updated big-band arrangements, and other originals, including stuff from his 2014 album, Rockabilly Riot, back in Santa Ynez. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Chumash Casino Resort, 3400 East Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez COST: $45 to $65 INFO: (800) CHUMASH (248-6274) or www.chumashcasino.com

His mid-career emergence as an engaging singer isn’t completely coming from left field, as Denson was actually a singer before he played jazz but shelved his voice when he embraced jazz. And he offered his vocal interpretation of “Fixing a Hole” with the San Francisco String Trio on last year’s May I Introduce to You, his Sgt. Pepper tribute timed for the 50th anniversary of the mind-bending album’s release. Expect lots of singing, and several surprises, when Denson brings his internationally flavored quartet – featuring American tenor saxophonist Daniel Rotem, Finnish keyboardist Karti Ikonen, and Israeli drummer Ronen Itzik – back to SOhO following his 2014 club debut.

WHEN: 6 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $15 in advance, $18 at the door INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com FRIDAY, JUNE 1 No Antlers, No Fun – Local artist Brad Nack is mainly known for his whimsical depictions of animals and other fun art, particularly as seen in his annual “100% Reindeer” show that boasts several dozen tiny oil paintings of the critters in various poses and angles that prove popular just before the holidays. But the truth is actually something more nuanced, Nack would have us know. It turns out, apparently, that the fun-loving animal portraits are frequently his reaction to “a crazy world dominated by us humans.”

Nack’s new show, “No Fun”, is his at-

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tempt is to leave aside the whimsy as the ambitious artist eschewed escapism while creating the body of work. As he leaves behind the comfortable and successful constructs of his typical lighthearted subject, Nack is allowing the art take a different direction and seeing what takes its place. At least the location stays the same: Roy Restaurant, where the reindeer have ruled for decades. WHEN: Opening reception 5 to 8 tonight; exhibit through Saturday, June 30 WHERE: 7 West Carrillo St. COST: free INFO: 723-0787 or www.bradnack.com SATURDAY, JUNE 2 Ukulele Blues Party – You can find members of the Santa Barbara Ukelele Club jamming joyously down by the Santa Barbara Harbor nearly every Saturday afternoon around 2 pm. But this week, many of them might be heading downtown a couple of hours later as the Santa Barbara Acoustic Music Association hosts Del Rey in a “Ukulele Blues Party” workshop that will focus on jugband and blues songs orchestrated for the tiny instrument, with playing and singing parts for various skill levels. The goal is to achieve the old-timey sound on the uke, with the right rhythm and chord positions and optimal way to find the melody. Those who just want to hear Del Rey – a self-trained player who has worked with The Mississippi Sheiks, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and Johnny Cash and who has been called “one of the best

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FRIDAY, JUNE 1 Drive on – The Cambridge Drive Concert Series closes out its current season with a pair of wellseasoned performers, both of whom teach and write as well as sing. Swedish singer-songwriter Annika Fehling has a dozen albums to her credit and has been on tour endlessly in Sweden and across Europe, building an enthusiastic following around the world due to her exuberant guitar style and vocals that are at once passionate and tender. Her all-Swede trio features Christer Joansson on guitar and lapsteel and Robert Wahlström on cajon and percussion. Opening is the Jena Douglas Band, the original music outlet for the local singer-songwriter who is also lead singer for the Linda Ronstadt Tribute band called The Stone Phoneys. Douglas, who has more than three decades of musical experience, wrote the combo how-to/ self-help book Change The World – Write Your Song!, which offered fundamentals and more, and she also teaches voice, songwriting, guitar, piano, bass, drums, and performance, including for the nonprofit Girls Rock SB. The band features Mary Madden on guitar, mandolin, vocals, and piano; Keith Christian on lap-steel guitar; Tom Banigan on bass; and Lisa Danhi on cajon. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Cambridge Drive Community Church, 550 Cambridge Drive, Goleta COST: $15 with advance reservation and $18 at the door INFO: 964-0436 or www. cambridgedrivechurch.org

fingerpickers of this or any generation” – can show up at the Alhecama Theatre three hours later. That’s when Rey will offer her “Women in American Music” performance of fingerstyle guitar covering the development of the music from classic blues, to rural blues, to swing and rocking hillbillies, through the stories of the diverse female pickers that played and wrote from 1900-1950. The diverse music is tied together by innovative new guitar arrangements that bring the songs to life. WHEN: 7:30 pm (Workshop at 4 pm) WHERE: Alhecama Theater, 914 Santa Barbara St. COST: $20 (workshop $30, or $25 with concert) INFO: www. sbama.org SUNDAY, JUNE 3 Feel the Vibe – Vibraphonist Lolly Allen, who studied jazz at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, was the first woman to be given the LA Jazz Society’s Vibe Summit Honoree Award two years ago, has earned comparisons to Milt Jackson, Walt Dickerson,

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The vibist has also been praised for “a lanky, leisurely feel... roomy rambles that open up spiritual spaciousness... and a smooth flair for Latin rhythms.” Supporting Allen in her return to SOhO for the Santa Barbara Jazz Society is saxophonist Danny Janklow, who has appeared with modern-day giants Wynton and Branford Marsalis, Benny Golson and Jimmy Heath, among others, plus bassist Michael Alvidrez, pianist Josh Nelson, and drummer Paul Kreibich. WHEN: 1 to 4 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $25 general, $15 SBJS members, $7 members who are local professional jazz musicians or full-time students INFO: 9627776/www.sohosb.com or 687-7123/ www.sbjazz.org •MJ

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VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 12)

The resort will be open for business on June 1, with several planned events to mark the celebration scheduled for next week. Another exciting development: in July, the resort will unveil a new ocean front suite with a private plunge pool. The Four Seasons Resort The Biltmore Santa Barbara is located at 1260 Channel Drive.

For more information, visit www. fourseasons.com/santabarbara.

Communications coordinator Jackie Jenkins, Chief Chip Hickman, and engineer Jordan Zeitsoff celebrate anniversary

Coastal Commission Denies Short-Term Rental Ban

At a hearing earlier this month, the California Coastal Commission denied the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors’s ordinance amendments pertaining to the prohibition of ShortTerm Rentals (STRs). The ban on STRs was approved by the Board of Supervisors in October of last year, after more than two years of multiple hearings as well as community controversy over the issue.

The STR ban passed at the County level included the prohibition of STRs in residential zones, agricultural zones, and mixed-use zones, while allowing “homestays” in residential and AG-1 zones, with restrictions. A homestay is a short-term tenancy in which an owner or long-term tenant of at least six months is on the property at the same time as the short-term tenants.

STRs would also be allowed in commercial zones as well as a new proposed overlay (dubbed the Coastal Zone Historic Overlay Zone), located in Montecito.

The overlay district spans from South Jameson Lane to the beach, between part of Danielson Road and Posilipo Lane. Roads including Edgecliff Lane, Miramar Beach, Humphrey Road, and Eucalyptus Lane are included in the overlay district.

The STR ban was in front of the Coastal Commission on May 10 for certification/approval. According to the Coastal Commission’s staff report, the result of the certification of the amendment, as proposed by the County, would be to require approximately 506 existing STRs Countywide and 142 existing short-term rentals within the Coastal Zone to cease use as vacation rentals. The Coastal Commission denied the ban, citing too few overnight accommodations for coastal visitors, and extremely high demand for the County’s campground units. “Short-term vacation rental units provide an important visitor-serving amenity that supports coastal access, as attested to by the numerous letters submitted to the County and the Coastal Commission from current and prior renters of such units,” the staff report reads.

Now, the ordinance will return

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ing wall. Other activities include Skee-Ball, milk bottle toss, ring toss, face painting, fish bowl toss, lemonade stand, and fresh popped popcorn stand. Food vendors include California Pizza Kitchen, Dave’s Dogs gourmet hot dogs, ParadICE Shave Ice, and of course, the popular PTA bake sale will have homemade treats to enjoy. A raffle will include cameras, a bike, two VIP tickets to The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Magic Mountain tickets, Disneyland tickets, and many other items.

All proceeds from the event, which is sponsored in part by Montecito

Montecito firefighters and staff were honored by the MFPD Board of Directors for their service during the Thomas Fire and January 9 debris flow

to the Board of Supervisors in July, where several options in moving forward will be discussed. Jessica Metzger, a senior planner with the Long Range Planning Department, who has been working on the STR ordinance language for years, tells us there are likely three options that will be presented to the BOS. The first would be that the County “does nothing,” and vacation rentals could continue to operate in the Coastal Zone with no recourse. The second option is to expand the proposed historic overlay district, and a third option would be to propose regulations that would require STRs to obtain a permit and operate with regulations.

MFPD Personnel Honored

At a special board meeting on Tuesday, May 29, the Montecito Fire Protection District Board of Directors recognized every one of its employees for their performance during the Thomas Fire and subsequent mudflow. The firefighters and support staff, who helped navigate the successful rescue of 800+ community members following the mudflow event, were on-duty nearly continuously for 90 days during the fire and mudslide. “Every employee maintained a positive, can-do attitude and provided tremendous leadership to the organization and operational area for the duration of both events,” according to the Resolution read by board member Peter van Duinwyk.

Also recognized at the special board

meeting: communications coordinator Jackie Jenkins, who marked 20 years of service with the District in January, and engineer Jordan Zeitsoff, who marked 10 years of service with the District.

This Saturday, Montecito Firefighters, along with Santa Barbara City Firefighters, will volunteer off duty to raise funds for the Central Coast Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). Firefighters will “Fill the Boot” with donations of dollars and change on Saturday, June 2, at the intersection of Coast Village/Middle Road from 10 am to 2 pm.

With help from Firefighters, MDA can provide services to local families: medical clinics, medical equipment, and the 100-percent wheelchair-accessible youth Summer Camp, which is specially designed for children with disabilities due to muscle diseases.

MDA Summer Camp for local children will be held July 8-14. The facility and all activities are wheelchair-accessible.

MUS Carnival

This Saturday, June 2, Montecito Union School hosts its most popular event: the MUS Carnival! Hundreds of kids and their parents will descend on the MUS campus for an old-fashioned day of fun with rides, games, raffles, food, and entertainment.

The carnival will also have rides such as a Ferris wheel, a mechanical surf board, a train, a foam pit, two inflatable slides, an obstacle course, a double swing ride, a rock climb-

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Country Mart, go toward funding educational enrichment activities funded by the PTA, which funds Art at Lunch, Organic Garden Club, a Poet-in-Residence, and the Green Team, and purchases instruments for the music program and library materials, among other items.

Entrance is free, and there is free valet parking during the carnival; self-parking is available in the Upper Manning parking lot. Attendees can purchase wristbands for unlimited rides and games for $40 or buy individual tickets.

The annual carnival is from 10 am to 3 pm, at 385 San Ysidro Road. Check out www.montecitou.org for more information.

Rubber Duck Regatta

This Sunday, June 3, at 10 am, the Montecito Rotary Club and the Montecito YMCA will co-host the first Montecito Rubber Duck Regatta to raise funds for the YMCA, local scholarships, and other Rotarian service projects.

During the event, 1,000 ducks will race from one end of the Montecito YMCA pool to the other, fueled by leaf blowers and the spirit of the crowd. The winning racer will earn a $1,000 purse, with 2nd place taking home $300 and 3rd place taking home $200. The three-hour event will feature music, food, a bounce house, games, and more.

Individuals can adopt a duck for $25, or a family of five ducks for $100.

For more information, visit www. montecitorubberduckrace.com. •MJ 31 May – 7 June 2018

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next year. This new jail will be a place of rehabilitation and learning a trade, a place for inmates to get a fresh start and become productive citizens again.

Sheriff Brown leads with his heart, not a heavy hand. He is truly a special man. Please join me in voting to re-elect him on June 5.

Lad Handelman Santa Barbara

Ennisbrook Joins in

I always try to speak positives.

Honestly. Now I have something positive to say about Ennisbrook.

On a recent Monday and Tuesday, the entire end of my cul-de-sac was cleared of mud. In two days. I could not believe my eyes. No mud on the end of the cul-de-sac. The mud was cleared from around the oak trees part-way up the street in the forest.

Debris is still left, but the improvement for the oak trees is significant.

It seems as though it will continue.

Thank God. And thank the Montecito Journal.

The forest – a treasure of Montecito – may yet be saved. The Bucket Brigade is such a positive force. And Ennisbrook has now joined in the effort.

Penny Bianchi Montecito

Revered to Reviled

I felt compelled to comment on a couple of items in last week’s issue.

1) the neutral stance the MJ takes on sheriff Bill Brown’s re-election bid.

I actually do not have any personal animosity against Sheriff Brown; however, I still disagree that Santa Barbara County needs a North County jail, and believe it to be a classic case of bureaucratic empire building and another one of those “legacy” projects that public figures seem to yearn for. However, my biggest turnoff of Brown are the ads that have him posing, quite proudly, with Kamala Harris, touting her support. This to me shows beyond a doubt that Brown is completely out of touch with what millions of Californians think of this woman.

Here is a sample, published widely on the Internet: “Pro-life groups are demanding California attorney general Kamala Harris resign her post and end her bid for the Senate after her office stormed into the home of pro-life activist and journalist David Daleiden on Tuesday. They were searching for his undercover Planned Parenthood videos exposing the organization’s inhumane treatment of unborn babies.”

Harris, who became attorney

general thanks in part to Planned Parenthood’s support, has an all too apparent bias in favor of the pro-abortion organization. It’s no wonder, then, that she wanted to conceal any evidence that proves it is a money-hungry business that only feigns to support women’s health. After Harris’s search and seizure, pro-life groups want her out of the public square. The Susan B. Anthony List (SBA) was one of the first to demand Harris’s letter of resignation.

“To use the heavy hand of her office for personal political gain in a Senate campaign is the epitome of conflict of interest and abuse of power,” said SBA List president Marjorie Dannenfelser in a press release. “Ms Harris should resign from her attorney general post and end her bid for the U.S. Senate.

She has abused her government office and no longer deserves the public trust.” As they say, “With friends like that, who needs enemies?”

2) Regarding the letter from New Orleans, urging Oprah Winfrey to throw her hat into the 2020 presidential election ring: I would not like to see her do that; not that I don’t think she could win, because I’m sure she is by far the best candidate the Democrats could field, and she most definitely would give Trump a run for his money, it’s just that, even though I am not politi-

cally aligned with Oprah, I do like her and would not like to see her savaged by the media – not the least of which would be the embarrassing questions to explain away the photos of her and Harvey Weinstein. In short, I would hate to see Oprah go from one of the most revered people in the country to one of the most reviled.

Larry Bond Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: It’s just been our policy over these past 23(!) years that we don’t get involved in endorsing law enforcement races, preferring to leave those positions in the hands of those in law enforcement. Regardless, we don’t see any need to change out Sheriff Brown for someone else, as he has acted with dignity and resolve throughout the past four years.

Ditto for Joyce Dudley.

As for Oprah Winfrey, we too admire her, but believe she’d have a difficult time pulling in any red state. She’d likely do well in California, Oregon, New York, and Massachusetts, but the list of likely wins in other states is small. You have little reason to fear that Ms Winfrey would be in danger of being “reviled” after a grueling campaign. After all, our current president has been mercilessly trashed by both the Democratic Party and the mainstream media, both broadcast and print, and yet nearly 50 percent of the public holds him in high regard. – J.B.) •MJ

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