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Montecito realtor Houghton Hyatt basks in glory of Justify’s Triple Crown win, p. 6
LETTERS, P. 8 • ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT, P. 17 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 42
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Shape Up
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James Buckley ventures on land and air – via helicopter – with Kevin Taylor and Chip Hickman of Montecito Fire Department to explore the flood and fire lines
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Justify wins Triple Crown; Oprah’s new digs; South Coast biz awards; ETC play; Summer Nocturne; Kick Ash Bash; CAMA luncheon; Leanne Wood’s book; Ty Lounge; Craig McCaw; July 4 parade; and Anthony Bourdain
8 Letters to the Editor
An assortment of posts from MJ readers including Tom Kress, anonymous, Thomas Carlisle, Larry Bond, Art Thomas, Ray Bourhis, Denice Adams, and Sanderson Smith
10 This Week
Knit N Needle; Spanish group; film screening; IMPROVology; wildfires story; SB Humane Society; Sam Pace & Gilded Grit; MUS meeting; museum meditations; MPC meets; basket weavers; Todd S. Purdum; and MBAR
Tide Guide 12 Village Beat
FEMA releases new interim flood maps to aid in rebuilding; Montecito Association meets; and Rotary Club of Montecito chooses new president
13 Spirituality Matters
Steven Libowitz chronicles the “Shape of Meditation”; Dr. Richard Miller; Authentic Relating Games; Hansavedas Sangha; Dawa Tarchin Phillips; and Gail Brenner feels right at home
14 Seen Around Town
Lynda Millner covers the SB Rescue Mission and “We Can Do It”; La Primavera; plus the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara
16 Ernie’s World
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18 On Entertainment
Steven Libowitz previews the Live Oak Music Festival; Cache Valley Drifters; SB Writers Conference; and MAW’s schedule
23 On Law
As part of an ongoing series, attorney Steven Blum returns to the Journal fold exploring “an act of God” – a.k.a. divine intervention – in legal terms
Like busy bees, our work together creates sweet results.
36 Our Town
Joanne Calitri covers all the graduation ceremonies from YMC Preschool, El Montecito Early School, Cold Spring, Laguna Blanca Lower School, MUS, and Our Lady of Mount Carmel
38 Legal Advertising 39 Movie Guide 40 On Fitness
Karen Robiscoe catches up with the State Street Mile, the fundraiser that aids the Crime Victim Emergency Fund
42 Calendar of Events
Mesa music; Hawaiian guitarists; films at UCSB; Damien Escobar; Goodland Concert Series; Center Stage dance; movie with music; John Butler Trio; Momentum Dance Company; and Brass Bear comedy
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There’s Bad News... And Good News
MFD Division chief Kevin Taylor, Nanco owner/pilot Taylor Nancarrow, and MFD chief Chip Hickman get ready to ride
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irst, the bad news: “There’s plenty of material up here waiting to come down,” says Kevin Taylor, division chief of Operations at Montecito Fire Department. He says this as he, I, and Montecito Fire chief Chip Hickman examine the Montecito back country and the dry steep mountains directly above in a four-person, single-rotor helicopter flown by Nanco Helicopters founder/pilot Taylor Nancarrow. The door is open on my side to facilitate photography. It’s noisy, less than spacious, but comfortable. We are all wearing headphones to communicate. Taylor is a reassuringly good pilot. What we see, however, is less than reassuring. Boulders perched uncomfortably on steep slopes of mostly sandstone, with little vegetation – certainly no trees, oak, or otherwise – to hold them in the eventuality of what most professionals like to refer to as a “rain event.” We pass over what Chip calls the Dozens of rivulets feed into the steep upper “Triple Dip” on the Jackson Ranch: reaches of San Ysidro Creek on the way down off three small reservoirs of private water the mountain; there has been little regrowth in the area since the January 9 debris flow storage that firefighters use to “dip” their equipment into during fire “events.” It’s good that they are there and even better that Mr. Jackson makes the water available. “As long as the material doesn’t encounter an obstruction,” Kevin notes as we eye a series of rivulets that water runoff has used and will use to make its way down the mountain, “it will flow toward the ocean. If it does [run into an obstruction], with the volume of material there is,” he explains, “it’s going to start to fan out.” Eventually, of course, the water finds its way to the sea. The rest of the stuff – the debris – stops along the way. “With a little bit of imagination, you can see how this all developed over the course of the last five thousand, ten thousand years,” Kevin adds. I notice aloud about what seems to be regrowth in a green area below. “That’s the remains of the Tea Fire,” Kevin informs, “which acted as a ‘fire-stop’ during the Thomas Fire, California’s largest recorded fire.” The Thomas Fire took out 10 Montecito homes, along with a great number of homes in Ventura, others outside Ojai, and elsewhere. That the Tea Fire burn was able to stop the Thomas Fire points to one glaring observation: controlled burns over the years could
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t has been quite an extraordinary six months for Montecito realtor Houghton Hyatt. It began catastrophically when her home was destroyed in the devastating mudslides, but has ended ecstatically with her father Ted Nixon’s horse Justify winning the coveted Triple Crown just 111 days after its first ever race. “It is all quite extraordinary,” says Houghton, who works at Sotheby’s Realty. “I’m still trying to get my head around it! It was pure joy watching Justify cross the finish line with my dad. He’s the first Triple Crown winner with Louisville owners which is incredibly special for our family.” Ted is a partner in the syndicate, Starlight Racing, and Justify is only the 13th horse in history to land the Triple Crown, winning the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness in May. The three-year-old chestnut colt was purchased as a yearling for $500,000, but after its latest victory at the 150th Belmont Stakes in New York, winning by three quarters of a length in the 1.5-mile race, is now valued at a hefty $75 million. The breeding rights have now been sold to the international stallion farm Coolmore, the world’s largest breeding operation of race horses, according to ESPN, and will sire foals around 250 times a year, with each live foal averaging $150,000. An extraordinary story of agony and ecstasy. Winfrey Goes to Washington Montecito’s most famous resident TV talk show titan Oprah Winfrey has been having a busy week.
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For 25 years, Oprah brought viewers to tears with her heartbreaking stories with her Chicago-based show, not to mention the breathtaking makeovers and generous gifts that would go down in history. But in Washington, D.C., it was Oprah’s turn to shed a few tears when the National Museum of African American History and Culture, part of the Smithsonian, opened a new exhibit to honor her considerable legacy. Oprah, who was accompanied by her best friend, CBS TV morning show anchor Gayle King, was clearly moved as she checked out the new 4,300-sq.-ft. exhibit surveying her life, told in images and artifacts taken from her personal collection, and broken up into three sections – America Shapes Oprah, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and Oprah Shapes America. Meanwhile, she also closed on the purchase of another home to add to her impressive collection. The 64-year-old media mogul has just splashed out $8.275 million on a 43-acre Washington waterfront estate
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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
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any quiet heroes of these last few months have escaped the deserved visibility that first responders and other notables have received in this and other local media. But, we must try to name some of these quieter-but-not-lesser heroes, and thank them as best we can and as frequently as they come to mind. From my vantage point as a resident of “Baja Montecito,” a business owner on Coast Village Circle, and president of the Coast Village Association, I witnessed many such heroes and acts of selfless, indulgent, extravagant kindness in the days and weeks following One-Nine. Two such people, among the many I witnessed at close range, are Alison Hardey – the spirit and owner of Jeannine’s on Coast Village Road – and our own executive director, Sharon Byrne. These two, exercising their considerable personal gifts and expertise, served as guide, counselor, and friend to so many in our community who needed hugs and information as the uncertain, sad days of early January unfolded and tumbled into February and March. We simply cannot thank them enough for being there. Alison and Sharon, you made a “there” on Coast Village that wasn’t present before these disastrous days. We needed the coffee, scones, hugs, and tears mingling to acknowledge, validate, and mark our community sense of loss. We needed information and direction and news and the details of hope that Sharon pumped out to the community in her daily email blasts. Her behind-the-screen work on behalf of our community of businesses and members was such a lifeline to shuttered businesses and their shattered owners. The combination of stare-you-in-the eyes empathy from Alison and field general leadership from Sharon kept many of us going. Can I get an “amen” to that? These tangible, edible, palpable gifts to our limping community resounded with generous love. Our community is grateful. The Coast Village Association is indebted to you for unexpectedly increasing our visibility in the midst of our wounded village. And I thank you personally because I love the community you two have loved so extravagantly. It is an honor to serve with you both. Bob Ludwick Montecito
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Kudos to All
I would like to congratulate the folks at the Montecito Center for Preparedness, Recovery, and Rebuilding. Their selfless perseverance as a team and central source of support, information, and resources for residents, businesses, employees, and communities affected by our two greatest natural disasters – the December 2017 Thomas Fire and the January 9 debris flow – has revealed the beautiful and giving soul and nature of our Montecito community and has given fight against the disastrous results of blackened mountains and pollution-filled landscape and seascapes. Much like Richard Mineards’s Miscellany columns in your fine Montecito Journal, it seems appropriate to list some of their names for recognition of these life-sharing dedicated souls to say as much thanks as possible. Not all are listed or found at this writing, but should be. In no specific order, they are: Michele Drum (California Hope), Alexis Henderson, Jessica Steele, Andrea Borgatello and family, Simmons Montecito Helping Hand, Jewish Family Federation, Marvel Hitson, Josephine Di Loretti, Gary Brown, Rob Smart, Dennis Whelan, Salvation Army, United Way, FEMA, the Beebe family, Orfale family, Natalie Oriales, Goggia family, Eric Shalla family, Dan Horgan, Bronfman family, Susan Lambrose, Eunice Jaramillo, Maribel Jarchow, Montecito Journal, and others... If speaking for us survivors in the entire Montecito community is appropriate: we are grateful. Tom Kress Montecito (Editor’s note: There are many more people and organizations to thank, Abe Powell and the hundreds of volunteers in his Bucket Brigade, for example, but actually way too many to list. Thanks for taking the time to point out just a few of them. – J.B.)
An Unhappy Soul
I have lived in Santa Barbara for 32 years. I am originally from New England. When I first moved to Santa Barbara, my initial impression was that people were entitled – snobby – and not very friendly. Now that I have lived here for this long, it is my community. I lost everything I owned
in the Painted Cave Fire in 1990. I’ve raised two kids and experienced Santa Barbara differently as I became an integral part of it as a nurse, mother, and volunteer. I have always felt, however, that Montecito was different. Although I took care of many sick humble people from there, my experience with Montecito is that Montecitans live in a bubble of their own. The amount of wealth and materialism that exists in this “village” could not have been more clearly illustrated than in the spring edition of Montecito Journal (glossy edition). I did not expect the Journal to be full of doom and gloom about Montecito’s condition after the fires and flooding/mudflow. I did, however, expect more than a reference to “the neighborhood has changed,” “three months of disruption,” “Welcome to a Neighborhood in Transition.” Your edition of Montecito Journal has upset Santa Barbara. Many people I know are furious. Stay in your bubble. Dig yourselves out. Montecito has enough money on their own. Some people were more than inconvenienced. They lost their lives. Anonymous Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: First, we don’t understand how you could feel so strongly about an issue and then send it in anonymously. But, we felt the subject matter of your letter was something we should and could address. Montecito Journal is both a weekly community newspaper and a semiand soon to be tri-annual glossy publication. We have spent the last six months covering virtually every detail of our dual disasters in our Montecito Journal (weekly). In fact, I’d say Montecito Journal had the best coverage of any local or national media of the events that occurred. This week’s editorial is a good example of the kind of coverage we’ve given and will continue to give.
Our glossy edition, however, is a different animal. It is out for six months and takes a good three months of preparation, so many of the articles that appeared were in the works well before the rain and the mud. We agonized over how much space we should or could have devoted to the calamities, but finally decided that, other than referring to them in the glossy’s “editorial,” we’d run with what we had planned. The message to be taken from that is that life goes on, and Montecito remains a remarkable, resilient, and desirable place to live, despite the natural disasters it has recently been heir to. To do otherwise, we believe, would have done a disservice to our readers and our advertisers. – J.B.)
A Liberal Found
I’d like to respond to Mr. [Mike] Hornbuckle’s “Looking For Liberals” letter (MJ #24/22). I would also like to counter some claims that were made by him. 1) He said he connected with our Founding Fathers with their philosophy on government. Bad example. They had high taxes and their economic growth was due to slavery. 2) He made his point that he was frustrated with liberals who don’t have a point, why they believe in what they believe. Mr. Hornbuckle was talking to loudmouths, not real liberals. I personally get annoyed with conservatives who invoke the name of God as if God is on their side. If they really believe His word, why don’t they take His word when God says stay out of the Middle East? It’s His fight; He’ll settle it. 3) We can have a long discussion how money is allocated in this country, and why for four decades the gap between the haves and have-nots has widened. As a liberal, I too have concerns how our tax money is spent, but
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SATURDAY, JUNE 16 “IMPROVology” Show Leading animal trainer and behaviorist Barbara Heidenreich, who developed the “Force Free” training system, is among animal experts featured at the next IMPROVology show presented by Santa Barbara Zoo. Also appearing is the search dog team of Santa Barbara firefighter and paramedic Eric Gray, and a 10-year-old yellow lab named Riley, who have responded to disasters in Japan and Nepal following the January debris flow in Montecito. When: 7:30 pm; doors open at 7 pm Where: Santa Barbara Zoo’s Discovery Pavilion, 500 Ninos Drive Cost: Tickets are $15, and $12 for Santa Barbara Zoo members Tickets & Info: www.sbzoo.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, JUNE 14 Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library. When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAY, JUNE 15 Spanish Conversation Group at the 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 Film Screening at Montecito Library California filmmakers Kevin White and Stephen Most present a film following the journey from the Rim Fire of 2013 in the central Sierra, to the wine country wildfires of 2017. Along the way, stakeholders, scientists, and innovative resource managers build consensus on how to restore and manage the lands we love and depend on. When: 6 to 8 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: www.storycenter.org/montecitofire-stories-june2018
invited to share a 30-minute reflection and stories about their experience of the fires last year, or in years before. Participants can come to be interviewed or bring a friend, family member, or colleague to have a conversation about the experiences and the lessons using the Listening Station recording kit. Library staff and Story Center representatives will assist. The recording will be stored as part of the California State Library collection. When: 1 to 6 pm Where: Montecito Library, Community Hall, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063; https://archive.org/ details/storycenter Hoppy Hour & Pignic for Pet Rabbits & Guinea Pigs Give your pet house rabbit or guinea pig an opportunity to socialize with other fuzzy friends in a supervised, large play arena on the lawn of the Santa Barbara Humane Society. Socialization is an important part of overall rabbit and guinea pig welfare, and a Hoppy Hour and Pignic is the perfect opportunity to let your pet play with others. Admission is $10 per rabbit or guinea pig. All animals must be healthy and rabbits must have been spayed or neutered at least 30 days in advance. Light refreshments will be provided for participants and their pets. Trims and grooming are also available. When: 1:30 to 3:30 pm Where: 5399 Overpass Road Info: (805) 683-0521 MONDAY, JUNE 18 Sam Pace & the Gilded Grit A rock n’ roll band with heavy soul, all the way from Austin, Texas. When: 8 pm Where: The Red Piano,
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519 State Street Cost: free admission TUESDAY, JUNE 19 MUS School Board Meeting When: 4 pm Where: Montecito Union School, 385 San Ysidro Road Info: 969-3249 Meditations at SB Museum of Natural History Join for ongoing Tuesday evening meditations led by Dr. Radhule Weininger, M.D., PhD. clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, author of Heartwork The Path to Self Compassion, and Buddhist meditation teacher who leads retreats nationally and internationally. In addition to the meditations, Dr. Weininger shares insights and practices combining mindfulness and compassion to reach the roots of issues most of us are grappling with in our lives. These powerful practices can free us from fear, despair, and other oppressive mind states. For more information, visit Dr. Weininger’s website at: http:// radhuleweiningerphd.com. When: 6 pm Where: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol Cost: donations appreciated
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Basket Weavers Group The Basket Weavers Group is a place to connect with other basket weavers. Bring your own project or start a new one. Beginner and all levels are welcomed. Basic materials are provided. Someone is available to help you get started and to learn different techniques. When: 2:30 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Community Hall, 1469 East Valley Road Cost: Free Info: 969-3786 Book Signing at Tecolote Todd S. Purdum will sign his book Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution. When: 4 to 6 pm Where: Tecolote Book Shop, 1470 E. Valley Road Info: 969-4977 THURSDAY, JUNE 21
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MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito. When: 1 pm Where: County Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet14 – 21 June 2018
up for all ages at Montecito Library. When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Reptile Family at Montecito Library The Reptile Family is a traveling troupe of reptiles and their handlers designed to help kids discover and learn about the Earth’s most misunderstood creatures through entertaining, educational, and handson experiences. All ages welcome. When: 4 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAY, JUNE 22 Spanish Conversation Group at the 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 SATURDAY, JUNE 23 Fishermen’s Market Every Saturday, get fresh fish and shellfish at unbeatable prices straight from local fishermen on the city pier next to Maritime Museum. Buy fish whole or have it cleaned and filleted to order. Rockfish, lingcod, black cod, live rock crab, abalone, sea urchin (uni), and more are available weekly, rain or shine. When: 6 am Where: Harbor Way Info: www.cfsb.info/sat 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 14 – 21 June 2018
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 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
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ive months after the catastrophic debris flow that damaged or destroyed 470 homes in Montecito and took the lives of 23 members of our community, FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) released an updated flood map on June 11, which will stand as the basis on which property owners rebuild their homes. The map, which is officially called the Interim Flood Advisory Recovery Map, reflects updated flood plains – areas that can be expected to flood in heavy rainfalls – and new elevations that resulted from the events related to the January 9 debris flow. Flood Control Engineering manager Jon Frye tells us the map is considered a 100-year flood map, and shows where clear water will flood if debris basins and creek channels are full, during this interim period while our watershed recovers from the Thomas Fire. “This map will eventually change, in the next four to five years when our hills are re-vegetated,” he said. Following the January 9 debris flow, it was universally acknowledged that previous FEMA flood maps were no longer relevant, though this new map does not replace the current FIRM (FEMA Insurance Rate Map), that determines insurance rates; that map will be redeveloped in about four to five years. “There was an aggressive effort to survey properties and develop this interim map as quick as possible, so the community can start to rebuild,” Frye said. The map shows high-hazard flood areas; those are areas within the yellow borderlines. Properties that are within the yellow borders that are not in the blue/purple overlay can expect to flood 0-6 inches during a 100-year flood. Shaded areas on the map reflect a greater risk of flooding; the lightest blue indicates 6 inches to 1 foot of flooding, while the darkest shade of blue (located mostly in the creek chan-
nels, although there are some dark blue areas on Highway 101), indicates the potential to flood more than 10 feet. Medium shades of blue have varying degrees of flood risk, from 12 inches to 5 feet. The pink lines on the map indicate elevation contours, with associated numbers indicating the vertical elevation in feet. The map reflects changed ground conditions due to mud on the ground and clogged waterways. To facilitate a safety element appropriate to the changed conditions within the high hazard areas, the rebuilding will be informed by the water surface elevations within the boundaries. In order to adhere to flood plain ordinances, homeowners will be required to rebuild 2 feet above the base flood elevation indicated on their property. According to Frye, if a property is located in an area with a “medium-blue” shading, (3.0 to 5.0 foot flood potential), it would need to be built 2 feet higher than the base flood elevation, which could potentially mean 7 feet higher than the current elevation. “This has a significant implication on how Montecito will look,” said Cori Hayman, chair of the Montecito Association Land Use Committee. Hayman also points out the need to look at rebuilds in a cumulative manner, to see if one property’s rebuild could cause drainage issues to a neighboring property. “It’s unclear yet if the County’s like-for-like ordinance amendments will take that into consideration,” she said. As of now, properties within the shaded blue areas, that are not 2 feet above base flood elevation, are considered legal non-conforming. Property owners who may want to remodel their homes unrelated to the January 9 debris flow, may be required to build up if their remodel cost is more than 50
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THE WAY IT WAS
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or the past 12 years, Hattie Beresford has written a local history column for the Montecito Journal called “The Way It Was,” in which she has been able to indulge her long-standing interest in the people and events of Santa Barbara’s past that determined its present. 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.
Eclectic in her interests, Hattie’s articles run the gamut from ranches to mansions, murder to delinquency, and elegant hotels to auto camps. Stories behind transportation, entertainment, philanthropy, and celebrations have all found expression through her pen. This volume contains a small collection of the fascinating stories of Santa Barbara’s yesteryears.
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osie the Riveter à la World Ms Millner is the author War II has nothing on the of The Magic Makeover, Santa Barbara Rescue Mission Tricks for Looking Thinner, (SBRM). They recently sent out inviYounger and More Confident – Instantly. If tations titled “We Can Do It”, hoping you have an event that women would band together to fund belongs in this column, the women’s homeless shelter at the you are invited to call Lynda at 969-6164. SBRM. They have learned that the average age of homeless women is 59, and they want to provide 32 emergency shelter beds instead of the 13 they had. They only had one bathroom/ shower, which had to be used at different times by both men and women. The new facility has facilities for both. The five women who worked on this unique and charming event were: Priscilla Fossek, Mary Given, Jeanne Heckman, board chair Joyce McCullough, and Julie Willig. Tables were set in an unfinished room with studs showing, done up in red polka dot cloths just like Rosie’s scarf, flowers were in Mason jars, and there were plenty of box lunches for the 100+ ladies. A player piano provided background music. This was part of Rescue Mission president Rolf Geyling and donor the $10-million renovation the Rescue Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree Mission is undergoing as we speak. need some refurbishing too.” It’s the And they have raised more than $8 only walk-in facility between Ventura million so far. and Santa Maria. The project will be As president Rolf Geyling said, completed in February 2019. “If you’d served 3,000,000 meals and 1,700,000 safe nights of shelter, you’d SEEN Page 444
The Way It Was ~ Santa Barbara Comes of Age offers a journey into the past that explores the mountain trails, joins elaborate celebrations for famous visitors, and revels in the mania created by the town’s first horseless carriages. Readers will also meet a quintet of colorful characters whose enthusiasm, vision, and work created the underpinnings of today’s city and contributed greatly to Santa Barbara’s coming of age.
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Ernie’s World
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very now and then (daily), a little voice in my head says: “Ohoh, dude…” This time we were on the Shinkansen, the 200-mile-per-hour Japanese bullet train that is so smooth you could probably give yourself an intricate tattoo without risk of injury. “Ow!” “What are you doing?” Pat asked. I pulled the tip of the pen out of my palm. “I just had a brilliant thought that I wanted to write down right away, but I couldn’t find any paper.” “Does the brilliant thought have anything to do with ink poisoning?” We were on our way to Kyoto, seated in plush comfortable seats, watching the world pass by in a blur, nary a care in the world. That’s when I looked up at the front of our car and noticed two things. One, most of the people on the train were wearing business attire, not Levis. And two, the sliding door between cars opened, the conductor bowed and entered the car. All train
employees bowed to the passengers upon leaving and entering the car. After bowing, the conductor began checking tickets. First time on any train we had seen that. We had our Japan Rail Passes of course, but no one was holding those up. Instead, they were holding up something that looked like black credit cards. “Probably daily commuters,” Pat said. “All of them?” My wife always exudes an air of calmness, so I relaxed, and as the man approached, we simply held up our rail passes. He glanced at my splotchy hand, then he took Pat’s rail pass, opened it and pointed at some red type in the middle of the page. I leaned in close enough to read: Transport services and routes NOT covered by this pass. “This is the express train,” he explained. “You should be on the other Shinkansen.” I thought about trains in the Old West. In the movies, they used to
just throw sidewinders who snuck aboard without a ticket off the train – while it was still moving. Seems like they would always tumble down a hill and roll into some cowboy campsite, where they might be given a cup of rotgut coffee and a plate of hash. If they tossed us off at this speed by the time we stopped tumbling and rolling, we would be a plate of hash. “What should we do?” Pat asked. “Hold on to the door handle as long as you can,” I whispered. “And roll toward a hospital if possible.”
I half-expected to be met by Samurai bouncers at the stop But the conductor simply told us to get off at the next stop and get onto the proper Shinkansen. Just like they would have done in New York City, after they took all our money and stepped on my Boston Red Sox cap. I still half-expected to be met by a couple of Samurai bouncers at the stop, but we made it safely onto the correct train and, in a whoosh, we were in Kyoto – where we caught a shuttle to our hotel. After much bowing by the shuttle driver, the entry person, the lobby
staff, and the young 90-pounds-atbest lady in a kimono and wooden shoes, who insisted on carrying our bags to the room and explaining how everything worked, we sat down and looked appreciatively at our kingsized hotel bed. Our Japanese exchange home had a master bedroom that consisted of two-inch-thick futon mattresses laid directly onto unpadded, non-plush tatami mats on the floor. Took a few minutes that first night to figure out how to get down to bed. It was even harder trying to figure out how to get up in the morning. “Try rolling onto your stomach, pushing up to your knees, getting one foot beneath you, and standing quickly.” “Okay, you find the number for a Japanese emergency room.” The other great thing about our Americanized hotel room was that we had a view of Nijo-jo Castle, built in 1603 on the orders of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first Shogun of Tokugawa Shogunate. “Are we going to visit the castle?” I asked. “Of course,” Pat said. “I have an entire itinerary for Kyoto. All we have to do is figure out the subway system.” “One more opportunity to end up in Japanese jail,” the little voice in my head said. •MJ
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Ain’t Nobody Here
“ There ain’t nobody here but us chickens!” Now that Dorothy is gone, and no more caregivers are coming to the house, that ditty (by Alex Kramer and Joan Whitney), has, in a way, become my theme song, because I have to keep reminding myself that “There ain’t nobody here but me.” Back in the years before she got sick, Dorothy would frequently go away on trips – usually for just a few days, but sometimes for weeks at a time. She always wished I would go with her, and occasionally I did – but I could hardly keep up with her daunting travel schedule, so usually I stayed at home. But I wasn’t alone, because we always had one or more cats (at most, three) and although Dorothy generally cared for them herself, when she was away, they became my responsibility – and I certainly never felt that I was alone in the house. (That job, which was mainly a matter of opening up cans of cat food, and serving each cat in its own dish, inspired one of my own most popular songs, in which I put appropriate cat-feeding words to Offenbach’s “Can-Can.”) But our last beloved cat, Chummy, died some years ago, and I am now without wife, cats, or caregivers. There was a best-selling book that was published in 1936 called Live Alone and Like It. But it was aimed at single women, not men. It was written by Marjorie Hillis, an editor at Vogue magazine, and came out when she was already 47 years old. However, by 1939, she had apparently stopped “liking it,” and finally got married, to a wealthy chain-store owner. But this was a lady who knew how to roll (or write) with the punches. Ten years later, when her husband died, she brought out another book called You Can Start All Over. I have not seen that book, but, for me, at 84, the idea of “starting all over” somehow fails to be inspiring. Of the many sad songs there are about solitude, one that haunts me now is “Me And My Shadow” [1927, Billy Rose and Dan Dreyer], with those particularly poignant lines: 14 – 21 June 2018
“ And when it’s twelve o’clock, We climb the stair, We never knock, For nobody’s there.” Admiral Richard Byrd wrote a book called Alone about five months he spent at an Antarctic meteorological station in 1934. But he was not completely alone, since he had radio contact with the base camp – which probably saved his life. Colleagues realized, from his transmissions, that something must be wrong (he was actually suffering carbon monoxide poisoning from a poorly ventilated stove) – and they managed to come and rescue him, just in time. In 1950, David Reisman wrote a sociological study which I think is better remembered for its title than for any of its contents. It was called “The Lonely Crowd.” This idea may have inspired an epigram by yours truly, written many years later: “Word finally came that I’d been admitted to the Human Race – and suddenly, I felt very lonely.” In that connection, however, it is hard today, and getting harder, to be completely cut off from your fellow humans, even if you want to be. Before long, no doubt (as has already been put in practice, for various reasons, with animals, both domestic and wild) we will all be “wearing” invisible devices, implanted at birth, which will render it impossible to be accidentally, or deliberately “lost.” I personally am in favor of such trends, despite the dangers many people see in them. But all this technology still can’t alleviate the problem of existential loneliness. Why else would “solitary confinement” be considered such a harsh penalty? And why would the solitude of death (except to those who believe in heavenly reunions) be among its least attractive features? As Andrew Marvell wrote in a poem called “To His Coy Mistress”: “ The grave’s a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace.” What it all comes down to is that there ain’t nobody here but us individuals. In recognition of which, let me offer you one final Brilliant Thought: “ The law against loneliness has been repealed – but nobody wants to celebrate with me.”
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The Rainbow Girls are one of many bands playing for the 30th annual Live Oak Music Festival at Lake Cachuma
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ore than one of the longtime staffers at the Live Oak Music Festival told me that their favorite part of the three-day musical mash-up that serves as public radio station KCBX’s second-biggest fundraiser of the year was the feeling of being part of a family. Considering that I was forwarded four different names of people to talk with who had all been working the fest since its inception in 1989, that sounded like more than hyperbole. “What stands out to me each year usually happens around mid-morning on Saturday, as I’m walking from backstage into audience. I just look around and it hits me: Oh, my god, here we are again, and we did it again, and it’s beautiful,” said Marisa Waddell, now the festival and radio station’s program director who has been part of Live Oak only since year two (okay, I guess I’m the one using hyperbole). “It that’s moment of being immersed and what we can accomplish as a group, people who are incredibly dedicated and talented and committed.” Truth is, that stuff matters to the audience too – music lovers who come from Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and beyond every year, camping with their families and friends, jamming by the fire pit, sharing stories and the warm weather at Live Oak campground on the shores of Lake Cachuma. Sure, the musical lineup matters, but for a lot of people, they still come even they don’t recognize any of the names on the roster of performers, knowing they’ll hear everything from fiddle tunes to funk to folk and much more, as the festival is made to mirror the music played on the eclectically programmed KCBX. It’s about Peace. Love. Dirt. – as the
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expression was coined about a decade ago. Still, even Waddell admitted to some personal favorites: Joe Ely, who did a sunset timed session a bunch of years back, and Mavis Staples, the soul and R&B survivor who has an impressive family lineage of her own dating back to her father, Pops Staples and the Staple Singers. “She was talking about marching with Martin Luther King, Jr., and meeting John Lewis, and sang songs from that era on the main stage,” Waddell recalled. “It made me cry just understanding the history, what she’s seen and done to help further civil rights.” Staples, who turns 79 next month, is back for this weekend’s festival as part of Live Oak’s 30th anniversary, joining a whole bunch of other veteran acts such as singer-songwriter Eilen Jewell, Americana soul band The Dustbowl Revival, and jazz standards singer-guitarist Inga Swearingen. Also on the Friday-Sunday (June 15-17) bill are Santa Barbara-Ventura swing revivalists Big Bad Voodoo Daddy; Arkansas-born singer-songwriter Joe Purdy, whose new movie American Folk had its world premiere at SBIFF 2017; Bollywood-via-American-blues artist Aki Kumar; and soul-funk-R&B singer Niki J Crawford, among about a dozen others.
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EDITORIAL (Continued from page 5) The mud flow at the top of Ashley Road came over the top of this oak tree and deposited the car-sized boulder nearby
MFD Fire chief Chip Hickman points out the manmade “walls” of Montecito Creek as it makes its way past the devastation at Parra Grande and East Valley Road
probably have lessened both the extent of and the frequency of large fires. We spot a collector that runs down into Cold Spring Creek. “It will pick up velocity to thirty-five or forty miles per hour as it heads down the mountain,” Kevin warns. “You can see how all these collectors converge into one of our creeks in Montecito.” Yes, we can.
Re-seeding and Drainage
There are only four Montecito drainages – San Ysidro, Romero, Montecito, and Oak – and there are only four basins, and they’d need to be “two or three times deeper” to contain the amount of debris that could come down. “There’s plenty of threat up there to give us pause,” Kevin points out. I ask about re-seeding and whether that could help alleviate some of the danger we are looking at. “The last place where we re-seeded in Santa Barbara County was the Gap Fire,” Kevin replies, “but the scientific evaluation at the end was that it did not accomplish what they had hoped it would accomplish.” The Tea Fire terrain is similar to what has now been denuded in the Thomas Fire. The drought has exacerbated the conditions, and there hasn’t been enough moisture to spur re-growth of what would be natural plant life. What about debris basins? Can they be expanded quickly to catch and stop loose impediments? “Debris basins are designed to capture large objects and allow the smaller stuff like water and sand to flow through,” Kevin says. But, since there is only about 12-percent regrowth at this point, the likelihood of another debris flow and/or even flooding is significant, particularly if Montecito experiences a fiveinch rain over, say, a 24-hour period.
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such as tree trunks (though there aren’t many of those left higher up), ash residue, and fast-moving water, all of which will or can descend on their way to the ocean at speeds of 35 to 40 mph, producing flash floods and possible damage. The good news is that the creeks have been widened significantly by the January 9 event and will likely contain most of the fall within the creek beds. A caveat is that private bridges and small culverts can easily become jammed with material. Once they do, of course, the spill can become dangerous. Montecito does not seem to have a large enough separate area to develop and construct a $30-million project such as Carpinteria’s Santa Monica Basin, which successfully prevented a similar debris flow from rolling into Carpinteria, even if it had the money or inclination to do so. The Conservation Corps with the help of Army Corp of Engineers (who also constructed Montecito’s debris basins, though on an “emergency” basis after the Coyote Fire) built the Santa Monica debris basin to handle a possible water and debris flow. “It was extremely effective this time around,” Chip says, but he doesn’t believe there has been a study to figure out what kind of engineering would be required to retrofit Montecito’s basins to hold the capacity of material in the watershed behind Montecito. He does reassure, however, that “All of our basins are clear and have been cleaned out,” in preparation for the upcoming rainy season. “We are entering into an intensive period of study with geologists and engineers trying to establish risk levels,” Chip counsels. “Some water courses might only have ten contributors, but some may have twenty-two. Right now, we have this half-inch-per-hour threshold, but we’d like to refine that and determine what is at risk with each tributary.” A study is ongoing to look at the next rain year’s threshold. So far, there’s been less than 10-percent regrowth. “What we’ve got now,” Chip warns, “is all we’re going to have come the rainy season. He adds that we’ll need to have 50-percent regrowth before we can consider ourselves safe, so that may be as far as three years off.
The Parra Grande Situation
Days before going up in the helicopter, Chip and I drove Montecito’s back roads above Mountain Drive. Along the way, we stopped to see what progress had been made at the intersection of Parra Grande and East Valley Road. Not much. “The fire department had three homes on the property on Parra Grande: a one-bedroom, a two-bedroom, and a three-bedroom home,” Chip recounts as we gaze at the devastation. The three-bedroom house, which was vacant at the time, was the old Montecito bar and was built in the late 1800s; it is completely gone, but the other two are still standing. The two-bedroom was occupied by a fire department employee who had to flee for her life. She couldn’t open the doors and had to go out a window with her husband, her daughter, and her two pets. “She proceeded to go up to the station and spent the next three days there as dispatch. It was a close call,” Chip says. This area is where many of the deaths occurred and where the same water and debris made their way down Olive Mill, to Casa Dorinda, Montecito Oaks, to Highway 101 and eventually stopping near the Coral Casino and the Biltmore. Just as a note: the female firefighter, her husband, her daughter and their two pets continue to search for a place to live, so if a reader has a rental, please give Chip a call at the fire station: (805) 969-7762.
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ENTERTAINMENT (Continued from page 18) New this year is a special pre-fest Thursday night show with Michael Franti & Spearhead, led by the musician and filmmaker who funky folkbased music and positive vibes will kick off the weekend in style, as they play the outdoor stage just three weeks after kicking off their Stay Human tour at BottleRock Napa. Meanwhile, one of the festival’s long-standing favorites is returning to the fold after several years away from the fray (see Q&A below). Tickets range from $45 to $215, and (mostly) include camping. Visit www.liveoakfest.org for the details and schedule, or call 781-3030.
Cache-ing up with the Drifters
Genre mash-ups aren’t as unusual as there were back in the early 1970s, when the Cache Valley Drifters (CVD) first got together in Santa Barbara to bring more than a touch of modern-pop sensibilities to bluegrass and country-folk music. The band began as a quartet, recorded three albums for Flying Fish Records from 1979-83 and then went on hiatus for almost a decade before re-forming in 1992. Shortly after that, CVD launched a residency at Cold Spring Tavern, regular regulars and visitors for three long sets every Wednesday for five years. For the last quarter-century, it’s been the same personnel: original mandolinist Bill Griffin, plus guitarist Mike Mullins and bassist Wally Barnick, who replaced Mike’s brother, Tom, when CVD got back together. Although the trio played increasingly sparingly after the turn of the century, they always kept another standard gig playing an early-morning set on Sunday mornings at Live Oak, where Griffin was the head of the volunteer security team for 20 years, though that came to a close in 2014. The mando man dished on the details over the phone last weekend: Q. You’re back at Live Oak for the first time in a few years. A. Yeah, when we stopped playing there three years ago, it was in our minds to retire altogether. But we got a call from Kate Wolf’s family to play her 75th birthday anniversary at the Fright & Salvage (in Berkeley) last year. (The Drifters collaborated with Wolf after serving as her back-up band on her 1977 album, Lines on the Paper.) We had such a good time, we decided to keep on playing. What we realized is that you can’t retire from friendship, and it’s always good when we get together. Some guys go bowling; we play music. Speaking on behalf of your other fans, I’m grateful. It’s always fun for us too. We have a good time and I think
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that shows. What we do is special, at least for us, and it’s great that other people like it too. But it’s more than just fun. You guys were on the forefront of making bluegrass safe outside of the South, what with arranging pop songs for the group. Your version of Cream’s “White Room” was a revelation. We were one of the first to do music from our own generation, playing the stuff we grew up with in a bluegrass style. We’re from the West Coast, not Tennessee. We couldn’t help but bring those influences. “White Room” got a lot of attention when it came out in the mid-1990s. We had a friend who was doing a roadie gig on tour with Eric Clapton and he played our version for him. He sat there with headphones on it and just smiled. So that’s one of my favorite stories. I like (Paul Simon’s) “Boy in the Bubble” from the ones that I sang because, at least to me, it was a very successful adaptation of a song that sounds very different in the original version but still does a good job of capturing the essence. Coming out of “retirement,” are you still writing and arranging new songs for the group? Mike is still writing, and Wally and I pretty much do what we always did: bring stuff we like to the trio. After all this time, it’s like riding a bike. It all falls together. We can take just about any song and do it our way. It doesn’t take a lot of practice. What about your relationship with the festival? Are there fond memories or interesting stories? Just like with the band, it was really about friendships. We spent so much time together over 20 years, and I can’t wait to be back there with the family. (As far as playing), we haven’t been on the main stage since the day that O.J. [Simpson] was being chased around the freeway in L.A. (June 17, 1994). But that was by design. We like playing in front of intimate audiences like we had up at Cold Spring Tavern. So, we used to do the Sunrise Licks stage, but we’re not all that excited about getting up to play at 8 am anymore. So, it’s Stage Too for us, but at 4 pm on Sunday, June 17.
Pen-ning Yourself in: a Week with Writers
The Santa Barbara Writers Conference (SBWC) hasn’t changed all that much in its four decades-plus history, aside from a shift in leadership caused only by the death of the co-founder, and changing its headquarters from the Miramar after the beachfront hotel “closed for renovations” back at the end of the century, plus perhaps making a tweak or two,
including allowing some aspiring writers to attend for just a single day rather than the full five days-plus, an innovation that began just last year. The SBWC is now hunkered down at the just-across-from-the-seaside Santa Barbara Hyatt, where up to 200 writers and wanna-bes gather to connect with fellow storytellers, rub elbows with well-known authors, network with publishing professionals – but most importantly spend a bunch of hours writing, re-writing, reading, and editing. “This is a very special conference because it’s for people who are interested in improving their craft,” explained Grace Rachow, a 25-year SBWC veteran who took over as director in 2016. “We’re an immersion program, almost 24 hours a day, from 9 am to the wee hours of the morning for a full week, if you want. Wherever they are with their writing, those who come to the conference improve as writers by being here.” That’s why scores of scribes have been attending the conference faithfully for decades, including some bigname book authors – Catherine Ryan Hyde (Pay it Forward) and Fannie Flagg, the actress-turned-author (Fried Green Tomatoes) who credits the SBWC with helping her avoid the fate of “sitting on a rerun of The Dating Game somewhere.” Not to mention Sid Stebel, the writer and instructor who, at 94, has only missed one conference since attending the first in 1992. You don’t have to commit to an extreme degree to be part of the SBWC, though. Lots of local residents just drop by the afternoon and evening speaker and panel events, which cost just $10 each and this year features authors Steven J. Ross, Eric Puchner, Simon Van Booy, Starshine Roshell, Janet Fitch, and Dara Horn, plus appearances by Pico Iyer, who will receive the Ross McDonald Award, and Flagg, who will anchor a tribute to the late Montecito mystery writer Sue Grafton. But taking the deeper dive – attending ongoing workshops in nearly two-dozen categories every morning and afternoon, plus the Pirate workshops that start after the evening events and continue “until everyone has finished getting feedback on their work, perhaps when the sun comes up,” Rachow said – is a sure-fire way to amp up your author-hood. The week of wordsmithing begins Sunday, June 17, and runs through Saturday afternoon, June 23. Visit www.sbwriters.com for registration, schedule, workshop, and other details, or call (805) 568-1516.
This Week at Music Academy of the West
Season 71 of MAW’s Summer Festival gets underway this week, the
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first forays of more than 200 events on campus and in downtown Santa Barbara, featuring the 140 instrumental and vocal Fellows in wide-ranging combinations and constructs, plus nearly 70 faculty and guest artists, almost all of whom will both teach and perform. We’ll have a full feature focusing on the festival’s orchestra, chamber music, opera, guest recitals, conference, live competition, and masterclass offerings as next week’s cover story, but for now buckle up and take a bite of what’s coming our way starting Monday afternoon. (For more, call 969-8787 or visit www. musicacademy.org.) Monday, June 18: As has been its wont in recent summers, the season opens with just a single masterclass – in this case, collaborative piano – before forging straight on with the first faculty recital of the festival. Veteran ivory instructor Jonathan Feldman shepherd the Fellows for early performances in front of the supportive audience, focusing on the pianists instead of the other instrumentalists as they pair up for sonatas and concerto excerpts (2 pm; $10). Then the Takács Quartet, the venerable foursome that has spent at least a week at Miraflores on and off for more than a decade, welcome faculty pianist Natasha Kislenko as special guest for a program of works by Mozart, Dvorák, and Dohnányi in the cozy confines of Hahn Hall (7:30 pm; sold out). Tuesday, June 19: It’s a double dose of Two-for-Tuesday as the daytime features no fewer than four master classes, including trumpet (Charles Geyer in his only appearance), oboe (Eugene Izotov, who will alternate all summer with Cynthia DeAlmeida), percussion (Joseph Pereira, who opens and closes the series) and viola (Karen Dreyfus), before Jerome Lowenthal, the 86-year-old pianist who still chairs the department at the Juilliard School and is still remarkably engaging as a teacher and historian, celebrates his 49th season at the Music Academy with a solo recital covering 11 different selections (7:30 pm; Hahn Hall; $10 & $35). Wednesday, June 20: The march of the masterclasses goes on as the Academy offers its biggest blast to date, with six different sessions on the schedule. Cello, French horn, bassoon, and double bass (with Alan Stepansky, Julie Landsman, Dennis Michel, and Nico Abondolo, respectively) launch in the daytime, with Lowenthal’s first solo piano class also on the schedule (various venues; free to $10), while the voice program introduces its slate of singers who will demonstrate their immense talents via a combination of songs and arias at Hahn Hall at 7:30 pm. •MJ 14 – 21 June 2018
On Law by Steven A. Blum Steven A. Blum received a law degree from Yale Law School in 1987 and has practiced real estate litigation, specializing in landslides, over the past 30 years in law firms big and small. He lives in Montecito and his website is www.cal-landslidelaw. com. He is a partner of Blum Collins LLP.
Divine Intervention
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t was an act of God,” is a phrase I hear from time to time. Not from preachers but from landowners, and sometimes their insurance adjusters, trying to avoid liability for injury caused by a natural condition on their land to neighbors. The question arises: Does a landowner have the duty to remedy a natural condition of land to prevent harm to his or her neighbors? A look back in recent legal history gives us the answer. In March 1978, heavy rains triggered a major movement of a landslide on a Malibu property owned by the Adamson Companies. The landslide had been evident since the area was first developed in the early 1900s. Just downslope of Adamson’s land, Peter Sprecher had a lovely beach front home, which was destroyed by Adamson’s earth movement. The landslide was a natural condition of the land. Sprecher sued Adamson, and the case eventually made its way to chief justice Rose Bird and the Supremes. Until that time, the traditional rule was that a possessor of land was not liable for harm caused by a natural condition of his land to anyone outside the premises. While the possessor’s liability for harm caused by artificial conditions was determined by ordinary principles of negligence (a duty to act, a negligent act or failure to act, and resulting damage), the common law gave him an absolute immunity from liability for harm caused by conditions considered natural in origin under the traditional pre-Sprecher rule. No matter how great the harm threatened to his neighbor, or to one passing by, and no matter how small the effort needed to eliminate it, a possessor of land had no duty to remedy natural conditions. Over time, the law changed. Not surprisingly, it started with cases of
fallen trees. In the early (1896) New York case of Gibson v. Denton, the court held a possessor of land liable for damage caused when her decayed tree fell on the home of her neighbor during a storm. After noting that the defendant clearly would be liable for the fall of a dilapidated building, or artificial structure, the court stated that there was “no good reason why she should not be responsible for the fall of a decayed tree, which she allowed to remain on her premises.” The courts jettisoned the old common-law rule in its entirety and replaced it with a single duty of reasonable care in the maintenance of property. Nowadays, a possessor of land may be subject to liability for harm caused not just by trees but by any natural condition of the land.
“It was an act of God!” – but that’s no defense to property damage claims
What guides whether the landowner will be held liable? The question is whether in the management of his property he has acted reasonably under all the circumstances. The major factors are: (1) the likelihood of injury to plaintiff, (2) the probable seriousness of such injury, (3) the burden of reducing or avoiding the risk, (4) the location of the land, and (5) the possessor’s degree of control over the risk-creating condition. All these factors apply not just to trees but to other natural features of land. The modern rule doesn’t only apply in urban and suburban areas. Rather, the duty of reasonable care for the protection of those outside the premises against natural conditions applies
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landowner is responsible for any injury caused to another by his or her lack of ordinary care or skill in the management of his or her property. Mere possession of land with its attendant right to control conditions on the premises imposes an affirmative duty to act, and the historical justification for the rule of nonliability for natural conditions has lost whatever validity it may once have had. A person’s life or limb or property does not become less worthy of legal protection nor a loss less worthy of compensation because that person has been injured by a natural, as opposed to an artificial, condition. If your neighbor’s failure to maintain his or her land has resulted in damage to your property, don’t assume that its an act of God (or of Edison). You may have recourse against your neighbor, who likely has liability insurance to cover your loss. The California Supreme Court doesn’t believe in the “act of God” defense. So, if your neighbor’s debris flowed onto your property on January 9, you may want to talk to a landslide lawyer. This is the 10th in a series of articles about the law and the Montecito mudslides. You can read the first nine articles on montecitojournal.net and cal-landslidelaw.com, or email me: blum@blumcollins.com. •MJ
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even in rural areas. In other words, you can’t just let nature take its course. Where a planted tree has become dangerous to adjoining land, and causes harm, the fault lies not in the planting of the tree but in permitting it to remain after it has become unsafe. Historically, the consideration most frequently invoked to support the rule of nonliability for natural conditions was that one should not be obligated to undertake affirmative conduct to aid or protect others. This doctrine rested on the common law distinction between the infliction of harm and the failure to prevent it, or misfeasance versus nonfeasance. Liability for nonfeasance, or the failure to take affirmative action, was ordinarily imposed only where some special relationship existed between the plaintiff and defendant. In the Sprecher case, the Supreme Court rejected that idea when it came to natural conditions of land. Whatever the rule may once have been, it is now clear that a duty to exercise due care can arise out of possession alone. Possession ordinarily brings with it the right of supervision and control, which, as justice Stanley Mosk once stated, “goes to the very heart of the ascription of tortious responsibility.” So, where does this leave us? Every
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County Adopts Recovery Strategic Plan for Montecito Roadmap to guide Thomas Fire, 1/9 Debris Flow recovery The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors has approved a strategic plan for the Thomas Fire and 1/9 Debris Flow that will guide Montecito recovery efforts for the next several years. The County of Santa Barbara Thomas Fire and 1/9 Debris Flow Recovery Strategic Plan outlines a comprehensive, unified response to the Montecito disaster. The Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the Recovery Strategic Plan on June 5, 2018.
“This strategic plan is an important part of the recovery effort,” said Das Williams, Chair, Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors. “It will serve as an action plan and a communications tool to let the public know what to expect as the recovery moves forward,” he explained. A central focus of the plan is coordinating the efforts of various government, business, nonprofit and community groups that are involved in the recovery. The recovery is a team effort, from local government, public safety agencies, community groups, Cal OES and FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency). The strategic plan captures these efforts and ensures that the various teams are working together in a coordinated, efficient way.
by Matt Pontes, Assistant County Executive Officer and Director of Recovery Santa Barbara County mpontes@countyofsb.org
The plan covers eight critical areas:
• Storm preparation and evacuation protocols • Long-term flood control mitigation • Rebuilding of structures on private property • Addressing debris on private property • Financial impacts of the disaster and long-term economic recovery
• Infrastructure repair and modifications • Protection and restoration of natural and cultural resources
• Community engagement and communications Within each area, the Recovery Strategic Plan details specific action items, target completion dates and responsible parties or individuals.
The plan addresses the specific needs of the community, he noted, while adhering to FEMA guidelines.
It was very important to include accountability in the plan. The agencies and groups involved in the recovery should be accountable to each other and to the public.
As we transition from crisis response to long-term recovery, this plan will serve as the roadmap to rebuilding a more resilient Montecito. Resilience, the ability to better prepare for future disasters and recover more quickly when they occur, is a key feature of the strategic plan.
The public can view the Recovery Strategic Plan at the County’s preparedness and recovery website www.ReadySBC.org.
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For more information and assistance: Visit ReadySBC.org or contact the Montecito Center for Preparedness, Recovery and Rebuilding at 805-845-7887 montecitocenter@sbcoem.org or visit in person at 1283 Coast Village Circle Montecito, CA 93108
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don’t tell me with a straight face that wars haven’t been the biggest waste of our tax dollars. 4) To answer Mr. Hornbuckle, that the U.S. is the best place to live, anywhere, anytime, is debatable. I believe the Renaissance in Europe was the best time to live. 5) Whether “these liberals” as you put it, call the president fascist and can legally vote, sorry, they have a right to vote like anyone else. 6) Mr. Hornbuckle, I have a question for you. When Christ said, “If anyone asks for your cloak, give him your tunic also,” was he a conservative or a liberal? Thomas Carlisle Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: I’m going to stay out of this, but, seriously: the Renaissance? While many beautiful things came out of that era, it was also a time for the Black Plague and short and brutish lives for most. – J.B.)
Affirmative Action Flight Plan
Here’s something to make you feel all warm and fuzzy, especially if you fly a lot, or live under a flight path as I and millions of other Americans do. For decades, the selection process for the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) air traffic controllers was rigorous. After all, one minor mistake could cost hundreds of people their lives. But a new report from Fox News host Tucker Carlson revealed the Obama administration modified the FAA’s candidate selection process to value workplace diversity over competency, experience, and skills. According to Carlson, due to changes implemented during the Obama administration, air traffic controller candidates are now required to complete a “biographical questionnaire” before even being considered for a job with the FAA. If they don’t pass, they aren’t considered for a position, no matter how much experience they have or how qualified they are. Fox News obtained a copy of the questionnaire and how it is scored. According to Carlson, candidates whose worst subject in high school was science, and candidates who are unemployed, receive the most points possible on the test. In contrast, licensed pilots and those with extensive air traffic control knowledge aren’t highly scored. Fox News spoke to an FAA spokesperson, who told Carlson’s show he was unsure of why the FAA screens candidates for diversity over competency. Unsurprisingly, the FAA never offered Carlson an explanation. Is there any explanation? Michael Pearson, an attorney representing a man suing the FAA over its diversity test, told Carlson the test is
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intentionally designed to “weed out” experienced candidates, especially those with an aviation background. Carlson noted that hiring less-experienced candidates to control air traffic puts millions of lives at risk. So, why would the FAA make the changes? Pearson’s answer suggests the reason is just as egregious as the changes. “A group within the FAA, including the human resources function within the FAA, including the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees, determined that the workforce was too white. They had a concerted effort through the Department of Transportation in the Obama administration to change that.” Pearson likened the situation to the Department of Veteran Affairs hiring physicians who didn’t graduate from medical school and claiming the VA can train them better. I have had extensive experience with this sort of thing at the VA, and in my opinion, it is nothing less than pure unadulterated racism. Larry Bond Santa Barbara
Going South
In his Guest Editorial (“Re-Considering Home Rule for Montecito,” MJ #24/22) Bob Hazard again repeats an inaccurate point that has appeared in MJ before. That is that the reason the 101 southbound on-ramp was removed was because the “… mayor of Santa Barbara and transportation guru fought for Milpas Street improvements... that gobbled up the precious funding needed to keep the southbound 101 on-ramp open and operating.” That simply is false. The Caltrans plans for 101 eliminated the southbound on-ramp due to safety concerns (i.e., slow traffic entering on an up-hill blind ramp into the high-speed lane). The Caltrans plans always included enhancements to the Milpas interchange, which they said would alleviate the loss of the Cabrillo Boulevard on-ramp. The City disagreed, but Caltrans stuck to the position that enhanced signage to the Milpas on-ramp would direct drivers to use that on-ramp, which we know has never happened. The issue that the City had at that time with the Caltrans plan was the lack of pedestrian and bicycle access under the railroad overpass, which Caltrans at first said would be taken care of in a subsequent funding effort but later said that no funding was available, so nothing could be done. That is now being planned in the next 101 round. Art Thomas Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: You make a good point. There was nearly unanimous agreement at
the time between SBCAG [Santa Barbara County Association of Governments] and Caltrans that the 101 southbound on-ramp at Cabrillo would have to go. We objected editorially but had no voice or vote in the decision. Caltrans may have suggested that “safety concerns” were their focus, but whatever led them to make what turned out to have been the absolutely bone-headed decision to remove that entry point, we’ve been living with the results of it for way too many years. – J.B.)
The Day America Died
I worked for Bobby Kennedy. There were six if us on his plane weeks before his death on June 5, 1965: Rosey Grier, Rafer Johnson, Dick Tuck, a stringer for The New York Times, Bobby, and me. I was so fortunate as to be with him on many quiet occasions. Times when there were no press, no cameras, no crowd. He cared so much. About people. From Appalachia, from Bedford Stuyvesant, from Delano, from all over America. He believed in us and he believed in America. Words cannot describe the loss. We are such a different country than we would have been if he had lived. We owe it to him to resurrect and fight for the values he lived and died for. Ray Bourhis San Francisco Santa Barbara
Time for Cityhood?
Montecito needs competent experienced insurance claim experts at our Recovery Center to help us. The only helpful insurance gathering for victim claimants that I’ve attended was organized and led by private citizen and former Montecito Planning commissioner J’Amy Brown. J’Amy proved herself as our valued leader during the Tea Fire. Montecito claimants attended this public meeting only because we know information is power, strong personalities can cut through the mud, and J’Amy doesn’t waste time. She is an expert facilitator, gathers essential information, compartmentalizes issues, and knows where to go to get results. No bureaucrats, politicians, or attorneys were allowed: only victims with Thomas Fire debris flow claims willing to share to help their neighbors and identify what info and assistance is needed to recover. The waste and cronyism at the Recovery Center and the District 1 Office sickens many too fearful or vulnerable to openly complain. Simply look at the absence of qualifications of those on our payroll starting with the newly hired “insurance expert,” without one day’s insurance experience. (She is former secretary to a local politician gifted a high-paying job
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justified by a fancy title without any requisite job qualifications. ) There was no open application process to find an expert insurance attorney or claim adjustor to help us become better advocates. Hiring is inside trading between youthful friends at our expense: keep the positions under $100K, or offer $99K on a six-month contract to avoid public scrutiny. When the Recovery Center closes, we must collectively seek improvements as “Das’s Visionary” and then the “Re-build” phases begin. In the absence of cityhood, who interviews and appoints the expert talent within Montecito that we need, want, and deserve? — Joe Cole as head of the Montecito Planning Commission? A committee of elected heads of our special districts who are Montecito residents? Montecito’s “visionary” leader is about to be hired by supervisor Das Williams, who represents a large geographic area. There are Montecito resident architects who are experts and have offered their talents as volunteers or paid consultants. Why are they being overlooked? Montecito residents want locals who have lived in Montecito for decades and know our community – J’Amy, Susan, Don, Abe, resident architects, and others, along with the best technical experts anywhere, such as those privately hired by Joe Cole. Who oversees expenditures of our public county, FEMA, and other grant money intended to help and benefit Montecito residents? I’ve yet to see or hear the County CEO at a public meeting. At the six-month junction with maps due to be released any day, access to experts in the following areas would be welcomed: insurance claims, appeals, non-renewals, cancellations; insurance payments for future evacuations; community planning; home construction; lending sources for cost over-runs; and resident safety. Priority areas need leadership as we face the next two to five years. Is now not the time to look again into cityhood: independent governance to be in control of our community’s future? Denice S Adams Montecito (Editor’s note: Montecito cityhood is just what Bob Hazard suggested needed to be discussed last issue, and it’s a development likely to come under serious consideration once again. – J.B.)
USA Quiz
Answers to last week’s USA Quiz are from 1 to 10: Oakland, Long Beach, Anaheim, Santa Ana, Fresno, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Jose, San Francisco, Sacramento. Sanderson Smith Carpinteria •MJ 14 – 21 June 2018
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be assisted by Somatic teacher and yoga instructor Laura Towne at the gathering slated for 12:30 to 5:30 pm on Saturday, June 16, at Yoga Soup, 28 Parker Way. Admission is $65 in advance, or $85 on Saturday. Call 9658811 or visit www.yogasoup.com.
Q. Most people don’t think of meditation as a body experience but rather one where we transcend the physical plane. But somatic meditation takes a different approach. Can you elaborate? A. Meditation as staying in a mindful space is a misnomer for what meditation really is. It’s important to achieve spaciousness as a way to witness what’s happening, but that’s just one step on the journey. In somatic meditation, it’s the whole being experiencing. We’re being in the body, not merely witnessing it from a removed space. We’re bringing our awareness into the body, and from that place becoming present to what is happening in a very physical and emotional real-life plane. So, rather than viewing meditation as ascending and removing ourselves from our regular existence, we’re going deeper in and becoming more intimate with our everyday experience of life, the sensations and emotions included. That seems almost diametrically opposed to the concept of connecting to a higher consciousness, the universal energy or spirit, and achieving a state of almost mental emptiness. How are that compatible with the somatic approach? It’s a common misconception. People are looking for a sense of peace where the mind becomes quiet, so the intention is to rise above or go beyond into a state of spiritual awareness, while the body is perceived as something lower. From my perspective, the body is not only an expression of awareness, it is your awareness. But layered on top is what is almost a false body that’s laden with the reactions of the mind: the conceptual left brain that creates stories about who I am and who you are and works on a basis of separation. Moving into the right brain, it becomes of the body and the experiences without the fixation on time and ego. We’re then connected to each other and the universe. To get there, instead of going up and out, we go down and in and connect deeper to the body itself. The body is already awake and aware; how do I bring myself into that space and make it more accessible? Have you created these techniques on your own or are you working with an existing field? Yes to both. I’ve developed quite a bit, having been a student of Buddhism and Taoism over many years, as well as through my own body experiences and experience as a somatic therapist. 14 – 21 June 2018
Over time, I’ve learned how to be in the body. What I have found is that there is also a somatic (thread) in Tibetan lineage that dates way back, and much of what I bring comes through that lineage that from the lay tradition, not the monastery, so it’s about being in society, not in the cave or mountain top. We practice this way so that we can actually be in the world. The workshop combines those experiences with my 20 years of work as a somatic therapist. It’s a meditation class – how does therapy show up in a training like this? It gives me a sensitivity to be aware of how people show up and what they may need to settle into meditation. The workshop will also have some therapeutic exercises to see what’s in the way to relaxing and finding your way in meditation, seeing what we’re resisting, and working with it directly. To play Devil’s advocate for a moment, what happens in a live workshop like this that might not be available from videos or talks online? No doubt the Internet is a great resource. But direct experience in our bodies is the best way to learn, especially in group. We’re pack animals, so when we get together we learn through each other through our limbic systems. During our guided somatic meditation, you get to ride on my experience as a long-term meditator, piggy back on it, and maybe experience something you wouldn’t on your own. The presence of being with others really matters. When I sit with teachers, that download is pretty tangible for me.
It’s Miller Time for Medicine
With How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, the new book from Michael Pollan – who previously tackled the implications in our eating habits in The Omnivore’s Dilemma and Food Rules – racing up the bestseller charts, scientific and medical investigation into the potential of psilocybin and other psychedelics for spiritual, psychological, and emotional transformation is currently all the rage. This weekend, EntheoMedicine Santa Barbara taps into a source with even deeper and longer-standing credentials for the third event in its debut speaker program, which eagerly embraces the revival of psychedelic research and the discovery of new therapeutic uses for the medicines. Dr. Richard Miller has been a clinical psychologist for more than 50 years, as well as a faculty member at Stanford University and University of Michigan, an advisor on the
President’s Commission on Mental Health, and a member of the National Board of Directors for the Marijuana Policy Project. He is also the author of Psychedelic Medicine: The Healing Powers of LSD, MDMA, Psilocybin, and Ayahuasca. Miller, who is also a nationally syndicated host of the NPR program Mind, Body, Health & Politics and the founder of Cokenders Alcohol & Drug Program, will talk about how micro-dosing can boost creativity and cognitive ability, how psilocybin potentially powerfully relieves anxiety and depression, how MDMA may open the heart and enhances deep connection with others, and how ayahuasca can help heal old traumas and enhance spiritual development. The talk will be followed by a Q&A session and book signing. Miller time begins at 6 pm Saturday, June 16, at Unity of Santa Barbara, 227 East Arrellaga St. Admission is $30. Visit https://entheomedicine.com.
Games are Going, Going, Gone
Authentic Relating Games (ARG) has been holding regular gatherings to deepen relationships of any kind at Yoga Soup for a couple of years following a first year at private homes and smaller spaces. But after this Friday, it’s all coming to a close, at least for the present time. But first, co-founder Simon D’Arcy is joined by Deneen Elizabeth for a final event with the theme “The Art of Connection” slated for 7 to 9:30 pm on June 15. The aim, as with all of the ARG events, is to activate aliveness. The evening of connecting through games and exercises that facilitate remarkable moments elicits the marvelous feeling when “the present moment is hot with truth.” The space is turned into a communal field offering the opportunity to lean in, stretch out, and find the edges of yourself. The invitation is to bring you – all of you, as you are right now. Admission is $18 in advance, or $25 on Friday.
Sangha at All Saints
Hansavedas Sangha’s Self Enquiry Life Fellowship moves off-site from its regular gathering space near the Bird Refuge for an evening of “Discourse, Singing, Chanting & Meditation” with His Holiness Swami Vidyadhishananda at All Saints by -the-Sea Church Parish Hall here in Montecito at 6 pm Saturday, June 16. A teaching based on Patañjali Yogasutra will be followed by a guided meditation with the Himalayan monk, who will discourse on other methods besides breathing to calm the mind, and how to make the mind contemplative and reflective based on routine experiences, helpful for deepening a
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meditation practice. Participants will experience authentic yoga-sutra teachings, pranayama breathwork, mantra chanting, devotional singing, blessing line (darshan), and blissful meditation. All Saints is located at 83 Eucalyptus Lane. Entrance is free, pre-registration is encouraged, love donations appreciated. Call (909) 543-6003 or visit www. meetup.com/hansavedas.
Phillips Back from Pilgrimage
Bodhi Path Santa Barbara resident teacher Dawa Tarchin Phillips, back from leading the 30-day “Pilgrimage Around the World to the 7 Chakras of our Planet”, returns to the 102 W. Mission St. center for a special oneoff teaching titled “Meditation: The Why, The What and The How” this Thursday, June 14, from 7 to 9 pm. Phillips will hold a personalized guidance session to help with daily practice. On June 21, local sangha members and guests who joined Phillips on the pilgrimage will share their stories of the adventure. Between the two Thursdays, Book Club members will continue studying, discussing, and putting into practice the mind training instructions from “The Path to Awakening” by Shamar Rinpoche, from 12:30 to 2 pm on Sunday, June 17, after the weekly Joy of Practice, and at 7 pm Tuesday, June 19. Admission to all events by donation. Refreshments served during the break on Thursdays. More info at 284-2704 or www.bodhipath.org/sb.
Getting Free with (and a New Book from) Ms Brenner
Veteran practicing psychologist Gail Brenner’s Living in Truth, Peace, and Happiness/Santa Barbara Advaita, Non-Duality, Satsang Meetup gathers at her home (11 La Cumbre Circle) for the first time in a couple of months at 6:30 pm Thursday, June 14. With the aim of discovering true happiness, and based on nondual teachings, Dr. Brenner leads the group through meditation and conversation to see through the false identities that limit us in many painful ways and wake up to our true nature – infinite peace, overflowing with love. New members always welcome. Free admission; donations accepted. Info: www.meetup.com/Living-inTruth-Santa-Barbara. Brenner’s new book, Suffering Is Optional: A Spiritual Guide to Freedom from Self-Judgment and Feelings of Inadequacy, was just published on June 1 and is available locally or on Amazon.com, as well as her comprehensive website, http:// gailbrenner.com, that features weekly blogposts, online meditations, and more. •MJ MONTECITO JOURNAL
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percent of the pre-January appraised value of the current structure (not including the property value). “The updated FEMA maps are a key tool to rebuild Montecito,” said Matt Pontes, Santa Barbara County’s director of recovery. “The decision of whether or not to rebuild rests entirely with the private property owners of Montecito,” Pontes said. “The FEMA maps will help guide how that process takes shape.” The updated flood advisory recovery map is not being used for evacuation purposes; County staff is currently revising evacuation procedures, maps, and rain total thresholds for next winter. Property owners are encouraged to attend a community meeting at 6 pm on Thursday, June 14, at the County Administration Fourth Floor Hearing Room, 105 E. Anapamu Street. Pontes will speak and answer questions, along with the County director of planning and development and flood control officials. They should also schedule meetings with their case planners to understand the flood risk on their own property, said Frye. The SB Board of Supervisors will consider adoption of the map on Tuesday, June 19, at its regular meeting to be held in Santa Maria. To view the map, visit: https:// readysbc.org/maps/.
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Montecito Association Meets
At this month’s Montecito Association (MA) Board meeting, Coast Village Association president Bob Ludwick addressed board members to give an update on the CVA’s initiatives and mission. Representing about 125 businesses, 85 of which are retail or restaurants, as well as nearby residents, the CVA has three active committees, including Beautification, Events & Promotion, and Traffic & Safety. “We see room for collaboration with your organization,” Ludwick said. “The Montecito Association is very supportive of what you’re doing,” said MA board president Charlene Nagel. During Community Reports, MFPD chief Chip Hickman reported that fire season is in full swing, and that some of his crews have been in Southern California helping fight fires. “They came to help us and we are going to help them,” he said. He noted residents will be receiving the District’s Annual Report in the mail, as well as a hazard abatement postcard. Hazard abatement inspections will take place the first week of July. Chief Hickman also reported that residents will be asked to vote again on Prop 4; if it fails the District is set to lose 30 percent of its revenues, in addition to the 13 percent decline in revenue from the Thomas Fire and January 9 debris flow. “It’s a challenging financial time for the District,” Chief Hickman reported, adding that it cost the District $11 million to fight the fire and subsequent debris flow. The majority of that money may be able to be recovered from state and federal monies. On a more positive note, Chief Hickman invited everyone to attend the Annual Pancake Breakfast at the fire station on the 4th of July. Dr. Amy Alzina, superintendent and principal of Cold Spring School, reported that a celebration was held on campus in May, when a memorial bench was installed near the playground in memory of the two Cold
Spring students lost in the debris flow. The bench was created from a local member of the community, out of a fallen sycamore tree that fell during debris flow. “It gave us great closure as a school community,” she said. Dr. Alzina also reported that preliminary test scores are up; those numbers will be released in September. The school is open for two weeks for summer school, for 30 students who need a little help. Montecito Union School superintendent Dr. Anthony Ranii also reported an increase in test scores and said the board is looking into increasing campus security and adding 30 spots to the parking lot using reserve funds. The Montecito Sanitary District (MSD) approved its next fiscal year budget; general manager Diane Gabriel said the District has earmarked $2.9 million for several projects. Those include the facilities project for the new Essential Services building on the MSD campus, as well as a pilot facility for recycled water to be used for District landscaping. “We’ll be able to demonstrate to the community how using recycled water will work on our own garden,” Gabriel said. The budget is on the MSD website at www. montsan.org. Several members of the Montecito Community Foundation were in attendance at the meeting, as the Montecito Association donated $10,000 to the Foundation to help pay for the replacement of street signs in Montecito. The funds were raised through the purchase of Montecito Strong shirts and ball caps. Pat McElroy, representing the Partnership For Resilient Communities, reported that the group recently funded its first project: a geo-mapping study of local drainages. “We are looking at the technology, engineering, and science to help mitigate the scale of another debris flow or flood,” he said. The group is enlisting university-based scientists and engineers. The board discussed hosting a series of community forums to discuss the idea of cityhood, which was last seriously discussed about 10 years ago.
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“We are not advocating cityhood, we just want to learn about it and share that information with our community and our membership,” Nagel said. The board discussed the pros and cons of scheduling the forums, and the decision was made to form an ad-hoc committee to continue to research the idea and come back to the full board with ideas on how to move forward with hosting educational forums.
Montecito Rotary’s New President Todd Smith has been named new president of the Rotary Club of Montecito
Todd P. Smith has been chosen as the new president of the Rotary Club of Montecito beginning July 1. Smith, a retired residential real estate broker-owner with a lengthy resumé of nonprofit leadership and consulting activities, will guide the service club in fulfilling its mission to provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace. With a degree in business administration from the University of Arizona, Smith pursued a career in the motion picture industry and has worked in various capacities on more than 45 feature films before retiring to Austin, Texas, in 1991 to work in real estate and raise his family. Smith was elected president of the Rotary Club of Austin for 2014-15. A member of the Directors Guild of America, Smith is a self-proclaimed cinephile and serves in a volunteer leadership role with the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Additionally, Smith volunteers for the Downtown Holiday Parade committee, Kiwanis of Santa Barbara, and other civic organizations. Formed in 1953, the Rotary Club of Montecito supports the efforts of Rotary International to achieve world understanding and peace through international humanitarian, educational, and cultural exchange programs. The Rotary Club of Montecito currently meets at noon on Tuesdays at the Hyatt Centric Hotel, 1111 E. Cabrillo Blvd. Those interested in more information on the non-profit organization may email Smith at tps.rotary@gmail. com or visit the organization’s website at www.MontecitoRotary.org. •MJ 14 – 21 June 2018
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EDITORIAL (Continued from page 20) The vegetation is scarce at the top of the mountains above Montecito
Across the way at the top of Ashley, this home narrowly escaped complete destruction as a 20-foot-high wall of mud and debris swept by
Chip advises. He says too that he has “no idea if this water course (Montecito Creek) is in its natural state, but it’s not likely.” According to records, these tributaries have come down and brought sediment throughout the Santa Barbara area. Rocky Nook Park is a prime example, as is the city of Santa Barbara and elsewhere. With enough sediment in the water, its specific gravity is no less than rock, so boulders move with the material because the material is much the same weight as rock. Velocity pushes it too. Montecito experienced severe flooding in 1983, ‘95, and again in ‘98. In all those cases, there was no concomitant debris flow, just water and rocks. The January 9 event, however, was different. “It was a perfect storm,” Chip notes. “The fire denuded the land including the roots of the trees. Then, you add a rain event that comes directly over the burn scar at the rate of .7 inches in ten or fifteen minutes. I’ve seen boulders the size of VW buses in ‘95 but this was much worse, perhaps ten times worse.”
Pre-Positioning Fire Crews
Fortunately, Montecito Fire Department had pre-positioned resources that helped them rescue nearly “nine hundred folks” during those first critical 12 hours. “Had we not moved a swift water rescue team up from Long Beach and placed them in Montecito,” he says, “had we not set up a Search and Rescue Team... all fifty MFD employees were on duty, and placed in three pods. Nobody could come and help us, other than in helicopters...” Is Montecito prepared for the upcoming rainy season? “I can say this: When evacuation orders go out, people will need to get out of the way.” Chip also says he’ll be pre-positioning fire crews in the event of a forecast of a hard rain, “probably spending $250,000 a day to do so,” with 50 people on duty. He says too that he and his team will be “surgically” making their decisions for evacuation by identifying properties lateral to the waterways, rather than linear (which makes sense for a fire, but not for a flood or debris flow). Chip would like to have a good grasp of what the risk model looks like. “Our biggest hope is to provide as much safety as we can with the very minimal impact we can afford. We don’t want to displace people; we want to make an analysis based upon the best science available of what’s feasible, what’s timely, and what other agencies think is the best, including the Sheriff’s Department. We’ll have to secure the area until the evacuation order is over. We’ll have control points, then repopulation. There will be lots of decisions, such as when, how long, to what extent.”
Controlled Burns
Is there any serious talk about controlled burns? “Yes, but obviously any time you burn standing brush, there is a risk you lose control of that burn. So, anything like that would have to be very well-calculated. There’s discussion about things of that nature. We have to make places where we can make a stand against wildfire. There was virtually no place
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where we could make a stand from Ventura to here [in the Thomas Fire] that was realistic. It’s probably because we tend to lean on the side of environmental impact. I’m not saying environment is not important, but when we can’t put fire breaks in because of environmental restrictions then... what does the environment look like now? “A fuel break is not a passive thing,” Chip explains. “It’s a defensive line to work from, but it is an active part of the process of putting out fires. For forty miles between Santa Paula and the back door of Montecito, there was no opportunity to put out the fire. We need more fuel breaks in the future. They give firefighters a place to make a stand. What we do is put a bunch of bulldozers, a bunch of crews, we make a bunch of safety zones, we put a bunch of hose lines, we take big old aircraft – DC-10s and whatever we can get our hands on – and we treat the non-fire side, and we light that thing off with the hope that as the fire burns into the fire that we light that we are going to be able to hold that fire. That’s what works and it works quite well,” Chip expounds. “And, that’s what happened back here,” he continues, “because Montecito had the presence of mind to put in some good fuel management behind, and we had a good fuel break at the top of El Camino. As a community, I think we need to look at making more fuel breaks to keep these things from happening.” Who would be opposed to creating more fuel breaks? “Environmental groups are opposed to them. Other opposition includes chaparral advocacy groups, creek advocacy groups, forest advocacy groups, bird advocacy groups, I would invite some of those from the various groups to take a walk up San Ysidro Creek right now. Anywhere within the 280,000 acreburn area. How many birds survived?”
Swiss Nets
There was a meeting at the home of Susan and Palmer Jackson a week or so ago that served to introduce the Partnership for Resilient Communities, headed up by Brett Matthews, Joe Cole, Gwyn Lurie, Les Firestein, Pat McElroy, Mary Rose, and Alixe Mattingly. During that meeting, Les pleaded that something should and could be done before the next rainy season. “Debris flows are fairly frequent events around the world,” he says. “There’s been something like nine or ten flows here in Santa Barbara over the past hundred or so years. I think it works out to one every eight or nine years, actually; this last one happened to be a humdinger. And there are going to be more. We know this.” He suggests that rather than reinventing the wheel, Montecito should “import the global best practices and just... do those. We’re not powerless. We just need to get going. First off,” he suggests, “we need better monitoring. Better warning. And better evacuation. Where are precise instruments we can put up on the hill that will give us a lot better warning than we got on January ninth? It’s stuff you buy; it has no environmental impact; it goes in a box, and you put it on the hill. There’s also real-time computer modeling done by the geo-nerds that will give us a much better idea when things are ‘ready to roll.’ “Then, a huge one for us because we’re all saying, ‘What’s going to actually keep the rocks up there?’ is these Swiss steel nets that go in the creeks, basically
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The $30-million Santa Monica Debris Basin saved Carpinteria from the same fate that befell Montecito on January 9
a series of ridiculously strong – I call them brassieres – that catch the boulders and trees with the intent to decrease the volume and velocity of what’s coming down the hill. These things work and they’ve been deployed all over the world. They’ve even been deployed successfully as close as Camarillo, where they saved an entire development.” Les says his group is working with the county to see if it can upgrade and supplement the existing debris basin network “because when they are adequately sized, they work.” Another idea includes what is called Japanese Sabo engineering, “essentially a more rigid ‘debris rack’ closer to town. This is in contrast to the nets, which are most valuable in the hills, arresting the development of the ‘surge wall’ long before it gets going.” Other ideas include organically accelerating re-growth, capturing water better, keeping the mountains better hydrated. As for the Swiss nets – or “flexible shallow landslide barriers” – they could be installed by November if we get on this now. These simple devices are made of re-enforced steel and are placed astride the various rivulets that lead to the creeks. During a rain event, they’ll collect whatever rocks and debris that come down and will fill up. After the storm, there are two options: emptying them ahead of the next rainstorm, or leaving the material in the nets to become part of the terrain, and installing new nets some distance from them.
The Danger Zone
How long before fire becomes a danger again? “The Thomas Fire stopped at the burn scar of the Tea Fire,” Chip responds. “And, how old is that? (For the record, the Tea Fire took place in 2008.) The Thomas Fire did not significantly carry through that new field. It took some runs when things were really in alignment. Embers would fall out at the bottom of the drainage, and it would have enough heat in it to carry up the hill toward the homes along Coyote, so it would make some runs. But, even though we had down-canyon winds and the same relative humidity, the same fuel moistures, it would not continue to carry toward Sycamore Canyon Road. That tells you we have some time.” What else can be done? “Is there a better mousetrap, like a shaded fuel break that is more sustainable, such as a depth of oak trees two or three hundred feet deep instead of chaparral? We don’t want a big scar running across the mountainside. A lot of fires have stopped because of a change in fuel. The Gap Fire stopped because there were orchards along the front country. The fire ran right into them and stopped because they were hydrated.”
What We Can Do Now
So, without the Swiss nets in place, we’re still in danger? “There’s plenty of material still up there,” Chip says. “The San Ysidro watershed is enormous. The creek above Ashley was perhaps twenty yards wide; it is now 200 yards wide. The mud level reached as high as twelve feet in the trees and ran out as much as 160 yards from the center of the creek. “Conditions will incrementally improve, depending upon what kind of rain we get and how baked the ground is. There are places where the mountain is still completely bald, and elsewhere there is green vegetation. The soil is hydrophobic right now. If we get a big large event and then nothing for a couple weeks, that won’t do much.” So, maybe after this rainy season we’re out of the woods? “We have to plan on three to five years of dealing with this. We’re still going to be in the game three years from now. The potential is there for debris to come off the hillside if we don’t have vegetation holding it up. We’ve dealt with water, before but it was never washing hundreds of homes off the hills.” The immediate solution, as we see it, is to contact Geobrugg and order up some of those “flexible shallow landslide barriers,” better known as “Swiss nets.” And to order them yesterday and to have them installed the day before. Note to Les Firestein: Let’s get on this now! •MJ 14 – 21 June 2018
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on picturesque Orcas Island, between prominent hotspot cities Seattle and Vancouver. The 7,303-sq.-ft. property has a three-story main house, built in 2007, with 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms, while a guest house, built in 1980, offers the same number of bedrooms and bathrooms in a more compact area. What a success story.
Takin’ Care of Business Social gridlock reigned at the Hilton, formerly Fess Parker’s, when 620 guests packed the ballroom for the 24th annual South Coast Business and Technology Awards, which raised $271,000 for the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara.
KEYT’s C.J. Ward, Beth Farnsworth, John Palminteri, and general manager Mark Danielson (photo by Isaac Hernandez)
Anne Towbes and Craig Zimmerman, president of the Towbes Group (photo by Isaac Hernandez)
(from left) Barbara Robertson, interim president and CEO of the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara; Janet Garufis, SFSB Board member and chairman and CEO of Montecito Bank & Trust; SFSB scholarship recipient Carl Swindle; Tosha Lewis, SFSB director of programs and evaluation; and Danna McGrew, SFSB Board member and partner at Bartlett, Pringle & Wolf (photo by Isaac Hernandez)
The gala, co-chaired by uber realtor Renee Grubb and Yardi Systems honcho Arnold Brier, presented the Excellence in Service award to KEYT, KCOY, and KKFX, for their sterling work during the Thomas Fire and the devastating mudslides, and the Entrepreneur of the Year trophy to Guy de Mangeon, founder of The Berry Man, which serves more than 2,000 clients. The ubiquitous Janet Garufis, chairman of Montecito Bank & Trust, received the award for executive of the year, while Rusty’s Pizza Parlors was lauded as company of the year, and UCSB faculty member John Bowers, a world-leading researcher in the areas of silicon photonics, optoelectronics and energy efficiency, received the pioneer award. Among the mass of masticators at the bash were Anne Towbes, Don Logan, Maryann Schall, Henry Dubroff,
Randy Weiss, Mark Danielson, Beth Farnsworth, C.J. Ward, John Palminteri, former mayor Helene Schneider, Virgil Elings, Theresa Borgatello, Duncan Mellichamp, Dilling Yang, Nancy Ransohoff, and David Edelman. Summer Time Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s latest exhibition Summer Nocturne: Works on Paper from the 1970s has lots of sets appeal! Centerpiece of the show is Koreanborn Nam June Paik’s TV Clock, on show for the first time in nearly a decade, which features 24 color televisions mounted upright on pedestals arranged in a gentle arc and displayed in a darkened space. The exhibit, which runs through October 14, also features 25 works on paper by a number of artists, includ-
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7:30 a.m. - Pancake Breakfast at the San Ysidro FirehouseThe best breakfast in town! 11:30-12:00 p.m. Parade- Upper Manning Park (Kids, Veterans, dogs, firetrucks and much much more) To sign up for the parade, call 969-2026 by Thursday, June 28th, 2018 12:00-2:00 p.m. Join us for a cold beer, wine or soda and lunch from Feast and Fest. We have games, face-painting, a photo booth and our pie baking contest! Pie entries can be dropped off in Lower Manning Park between 8:30am and 11:00am on the morning of July 4, 2018. We have live entertainment from the fabulous Bryan Titus Trio. Something for everyone! 14 – 21 June 2018
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Hickman, Lori Luhnow, Richard Weston-Smith, John Thyne, Thomas Tighe, and Greg Hons.
SBMA presenting historic video art of Nam June Paik’s “TV Clock” and sharing the detail are Charlie Riley, curator, with Nora and Les Charles, SBMA Board member (photo by Priscilla)
Gina Benesh, SBMA director of Development; Tom Marioni, artist; and Larry Feinberg, SBMA director with Tom’s artwork in the background (photo by Priscilla)
What’s Cookin’
In front of “Simplex Munditis by Hans Hofmann is Tom Marioni, just about to project his sculpture (photo by Priscilla)
Josh Cohen and artist John White, explaining his exhibition of “Golf Course Notations” (photo by Priscilla)
ing Robert Beauchamp, Huguette Caland, Richard Dunlap, Tom Marioni, Michelle Stuart, and Joan Tanner. Among the guests at the VIP reception were Henry and Gwendolyn Baker, John and Jill Bishop, Dan and Robin Perf, Firooz Zahedi, and Beth Rudin DeWoody, Larry Feinberg, David and Anne Gersh, and Joanne Holderman. Pat on the Back The Kick Ash Bash, thrown at polo-playing hotel magnate Pat Nesbitt’s sprawling Summerland estate in February, certainly lived up to its name as checks totaling more than $1.3 million to first responder organizations, including the City and County fire departments, the Montecito Fire Protection District, SB City Police, Direct Relief, and SB County sheriff, were handed out. Much of the funding from One805 is for the purchase of mobile command units and other emergency equipment not covered in normal budgets. Supporters attending the presentation ceremony at the city fire station were Eric and Nina Phillips, Diana Starr Langley, Alex Broumand, Joanne Funari, Mindy Denson, Chip
LaVon Fisher-Wilson and Dayna Jarae Dantzler star in the Ensemble Theatre Company production of Cookin’ at the Cookery: The Music and Times of Alberta Hunter now playing at the New Vic Theatre (photo by David Bazemore)
Ensemble Theatre Company has clearly found the recipe for success with the fifth and final show of its season at the New Vic. Cookin’ at the Cookery: The Music and Times of Alberta Hunter, a production about the extraordinary life of an extraordinary woman infused with jazz and blues, is written, directed, and choreographed by Marion J. Caffey with music direction by George Caldwell. Forced to retire at the age of 82, Hunter, who was a singing sensation in the 1920s through the 1950s, experienced a remarkable rebirth at New York’s celebrated music venue The Cookery, finding a new generation of fans. The highly entertaining show, which features such hits as “Sweet Georgia Brown” and “Darktown Strutters Ball”, shines brightly with a truly dynamic duo, LaVon Fisher-Wilson as the older Hunter and Dayna Jarae Dantzler in the role as a younger version, who also multi tasks in a number of other parts, including a very credible Louis Armstrong. The energized production, which (from left) Paul Cashman, ONE 805 executive board; John Schock, SB Search & Rescue; Eric Phillips, ONE 805 co-chair; and Greg Hons, board member (photo by Priscilla)
The attentive and curious audience listening to Tom Marioni, artist, about to release his “ One second sculpture” (photo by Priscilla)
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14 – 21 June 2018
$100K is A-OK Better late than never! CADA – Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse – held its 7th annual gratitude lunch at the Biltmore, with the 100 guests raising more than $100,000 for the nonprofit’s 23-year-old mentor program, which matches fourth to eighth graders with adult help. The boffo bash had originally been scheduled for February, but Mother Nature’s wrath delayed the popular repast. Ed Stonefelt, president and CEO, described the program, which has helped more than 2,000 youngsters over the years, as a matter of “time, patience, and love” with 75 percent of children showing significant improvement at school and 92 percent resilience to substance abuse challenges. “We paint a picture of possibilities,” he concluded. Anne Towbes, founder of the KEYT-TV mentor marathon, and Janet Garufis, chairman of Montecito Bank & Trust, emceed the event, with Sally Green, retired principal of Canalino Elementary School in Carpinteria, receiving the Penny Jenkins Mentor Champion of the Year award. Among the supporters turning out were Merrill Brown, Lois Capps, Catherine Remak, Terry Ryken, Steve and Caroline Thompson, Joyce Dudley, Frank and Tricia Goss, Nina Terzian, Mark Danielson, Susan Keller, Bob and Patty Bryant, Dana and Andrea Newquist, Judi Weisbart, Arlyn Goldsby, Alan Rose, Jean Schuyler, Kenny Slaught, and Nancy and Carrie Ransohoff. Cover to Cover Antipodean author Leanne Wood celebrated her first book, The Power of Things Unseen: Tales of Choosing Crazy Over Normal, with a socially gridlocked bash at the Float Luxury Spa, just a tiara’s toss from the Lobero Theatre.
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Leanne, an editor for the Journal’s glossy magazine, spent six months writing the riveting true story about a woman whose inner voice leads on her on an enthralling and nerve-wracking journey, pursuing what is written in her heart, going from an aid worker in post-Communist Romania to a business entrepreneur in the U.S. with few resources. The New Zealander, who has also lived in Canada, Switzerland, and Ireland, is now pondering her next project. Bilt to Last Karen Earp, manager of the Biltmore, hosted a media bash at the beachside hostelry’s Ty Lounge for local scribes to welcome the Four Seasons hotel’s re-opening after five months of closure due to the catastrophic mudslides in January. “It is so good to be back!” enthused Karen. “There was a lot of cosmetic damage, and everyone has worked so hard to bring the Biltmore back to what is was.” Among the journalistic scrum were KEYT-TV tony twosome Joe Buttitta and Kelsey Gerckens, Bill and Barbara Tomicki, Joan Tapper, and John Dickson.
Cellular phone billionaire Craig McCaw, who paid a world-record price of $35 million for a rare Ferrari 250 GTO six years ago, obviously made a good investment. Chicago-based David MacNeil, founder of WeatherTech, just paid a hefty $70 million for a model, of which only 39 were built between 1962 and 1964, and now joins an elite club of owners including Polo fashion tycoon Ralph Lauren and Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason. McCaw’s 1962 Ferrari formerly belonged to British race car driver Stirling Moss. Curious George(s) It will be a stylish July 4 village parade when Santa Barbara Polo Club promoter Charles Ward and I don our costumes as George Washington and King George III. This year, the dynamic duo will be riding in a $400,000 Rolls Royce Dawn
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16th Annual Graduation Edition
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ontecito YMCA pre-school, El Montecito Early School, Cold Spring School, Laguna Blanca Lower School, Montecito Union School and Our Lady of Mount Carmel School held graduations the week of June 4. Crane Country Day School graduation Friday, June 15, will be in the next issue. Congratulations to our town’s graduates and their families.
YMCA Preschool
to be when they grow up was read by the teachers, along with receiving their diploma. Miss Suzy said, “What an incredible group of children – they are ready for kindergarten! I am grateful for the incredible team of talented teachers who have poured into each child during this past year. Our school community and community as a whole showed so much resilience. We are honored to be a part of their preparation for kindergarten and beyond!” The preschool teachers are Melanie Cuxil and Megan Jarrett. Following the ceremony, the students received a white rose and a Bible. A reception was held in the Parish Hall. El Montecito Early School graduating class: Abigail Victoria Dilbeck, Arian Entezari, Ava Noelle Padden, Benjamin David Loya, Brooke Annalise Adler, Camille Adrienne Blanc, Christopher Robert LoMonaco, Claire Anne Bermudez, Colton Matthew Bryant, Ella Iris Arconian, Genevieve Cora Bragg, Greyson B Hamdy,Harrison Bradley Barlow, Helene Draper Eldred, Lillian Marie Schock, Louisa Wharton Walmsley, Lucia Larissa Lopez-Solis, Mila Paloma Hernandez, Osborne McCoin Whitworth, Rayna Marie Braverman, Renee Lucia Overgaag, Rose Noreen McQuade, and William Alexander Sweeney.
Cold Spring School
The Montecito YMCA Preschool 2018 graduates with school director and teacher Annie Fischer
On June 5, the Montecito Family YMCA had its pre-school graduation at their Event Center. The grads with handmade caps on, sang songs, recited three poems, received diplomas and presented their parents with a preschool memory book. Mrs. Annie Fischer, preschool director and Room 3 teacher of 27 years said, “This is celebratory as well as a year of gratitude. The children have had a wonderful year of discovery and learning in preparation for kindergarten, they have played, grown, and learned so much about kindness and love. They enjoy their friends, being outdoors, their families, and God. It has been an eventful year, but we are so glad to be here. We pray for all of those families that have been affected by the fires and floods. May God bless you all. We are so grateful for this year’s graduates.” Teacher assistants are Mrs. Ruth Ambriz, Mrs. Mindy Andrade, Ms Shianne Motter and Mrs. Janet Langley. The YMCA Preschool 2018 graduates are: Sebastian Cheverez, Nolan Conlin, Charlotte Friedman, Matthew Herrera, Jonathan Klare, Mateo Martinez, and Greysen Tenold.
El Montecito Early School
The El Montecito Early School graduation was held on June 6 in the El Montecito Church Sanctuary. Following prayers and speeches, school director Miss Suzy Dobreski called each student by name to the podium where the meaning of their name, a personalized scripture passage and what they want
The El Montecito Early School graduates with Miss Suzy and their teachers
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The Cold Spring School graduates with CSS superintendent/principal Dr. Alzina and teacher Justin Pierce
The Cold Spring School (CSS) sixth-grade graduation was held June 7 at the school’s auditorium. The ceremony commenced with a slide show of the graduating students’ years at CSS. New this year was the wearing of fresh flowers by the students, girls wore a flower crown in their hair and boys wore a boutonnière. The students sang the song “Remember Me”. CSS superintendent and principal Amy Alzina, Ph.D. welcomed everyone, “As I reflect upon this resilient group of Cold Spring School sixth-grade students and their faith in a brighter tomorrow, my heart is filled with hope because I know our children have seen and now understand how true empathy, problem-solving, and teamwork lead to a cohesive community, centered around what truly matters – loving one another! The Thomas Fire and January 9 debris flow may have destroyed many of their homes and took the life of their beloved classmate, but it didn’t destroy their motivation and desire to make the world a better place! I am so incredibly proud of them! Congratulations, Cold Spring Students!” Student speeches by Maya Hayashida, Madelyne Herbert, Sophia Orwig, and Haven Lindsey focused on quotes from Maya Angelou – in particular, getting along with “no judgment.” Their teacher, Justin Pierce, talked about the graduating class with both tears and a smile as he reflected on their capacity to grow up emotionally so fast and come together to help one another as family, given the tragedies of their last year at CSS and loss of their classmate Sawyer Corey, whose diploma was given to a family member after the graduation. Also present was the school’s therapy dog, Sage. Dr. Alzina, Justin, Board of Trustees president Jennifer Miller, Rebekah Prato (special education teacher), and Lindsay Stark (instructional assistant) presented the diplomas. As per tradition, a statement about where they would be 10 years from now and character strength was read for each student. A reception was held in the school courtyard. The CSS graduates are: Oliver Andrews, Sophia Blake, John Contakes, Summer Corey, Amelia Dektor, Hugh Diehl, Luke Fenton, Jack Garcia, Jordyn Garcia, Griffin Garfield, Macie Garfield, Maya Hayashida, Madelyne Herbert, Aiden Kneafsey, Sofia Kramer, Haven Lindsey, Ingrid Lu, Cole Miller, Valentina Navetta, Samantha Nestlerode, Sophia Orwig, Sebastian Salsbury, James Shiach, Jacob Sturm, and Dana Whitney.
I should no longer define myself as the son of a father who couldn’t or hasn’t or wouldn’t or wasn’t. – Cameron Conaway
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Laguna Blanca Lower School
The Laguna Blanca Lower School graduates with their teacher, Ms Farrah Martin
The Laguna Blanca Lower School Fourth Grade graduation was held at the Lower School Campus on June 7. Presenting were the head of Laguna Blanca School Mr. Rob Hereford, chair of the Board of Trustees Mr. Hani Zeini, head of the Lower School Dr. Andy Surber, and fourth-grade teacher Ms. Farrah Martin, instructional assistant Ms. Amelia Ribbens and members of the Lower School Faculty. Dr. Surber said, “I could not be prouder of this year’s graduating fourth graders. This is a talented class of thinkers and do-ers. Given the events we all faced in Montecito this year, these Laguna Blanca Owls have proven that we can learn and grow from difficult experiences by using a growth mindset and a positive attitude. We wish our fourth graders much success as they move to the Middle School on our beautiful Hope Ranch campus!” Each fourth grader was given a diploma and the traditional owl necklace. The fourth graders performed the song “Light in the Darkness” and concluded the ceremony with their parachute performance. Laguna Blanca fourth grade graduates are: Kona Castillo, Beckett Clark, Evie Comis, Sarah Conviser, Niccolo D’Agruma, Skyla Delwiche, Nahum Duron Angeles, Brandon Fuladi, Charlotte Haimerl, John Hereford, Julian Kocmur, Isidora Moller, Isabelle Regeer, Veronica Tate, Tomas Tkacik, and Sadie Young.
Montecito Union School
The Montecito Union School (MUS) sixth grade graduation was held June 8 in the school’s auditorium. The ceremony began with the traditional slideshow of student memories following the procession of the students. Students Benjamin Richmond and Mila McGonigal welcomed the guests and led the Pledge of Allegiance. Students Lily Kozlowski, Sienna Boyce, and Georgia Brown gave addresses, and the mic was passed around for various student comments. Music director Pam Herzog conducted the graduates in songs including “America The Beautiful”, “Together Wherever We Go”, and the “For Good”. The MUS String Ensemble performed “Pas”. Fifth grade teacher Doug Bower gave a commencement message. Presenting the diplomas with Mr. Ranii were MUS principal Nicholas Bruski and MUS Board members Gwyn Lurie, Kate Murphy, Marilyn Bachman, Chad Chase, and Peter van Duinwyk. Sixth grade teachers are Mrs. Kim
The Montecito Union School graduates
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Berman, Ms. Kim Fuller, Mrs. Patty Malone, Ms. Katie Nimitarnun, Mrs. Danielle Weill, and Mrs. Jennifer Wilson. Superintendent Ranii said, “Although they have been outstanding every year, this year our sixth grade students showed resiliency, leadership, and incredible strength under extraordinary circumstances. We wish them all the best in their future endeavors and know they will go on to change the world for the better.” Ending the ceremony, the students sang the “MUS Graduation Song” by Kenny and Eva Loggins. The MUS graduates are: Angelina Adams, Jesus Salas Arriaga, Talya Zohar Asayag, Caio Mota Baril, Izadora Mota Baril, Ava Elizabeth Benhayon, Lain Moran Biles, Elizabeth Whitney Blakeslee, Sienna Rose Boyce, Georgia Marie Brown, Maxim Buymov, Lucia Catherine Camp, Victoria Karsu Chow, Sawyer Jane Baker Corey, Summer Sloan Baker Corey, James Couvillion, Bella Louise DeJohn, Michael Patrick Denver, Sasha Chance Drucker, Andreas Dybdahl, Sienna Dybdahl, Caitlyn Emily Early, Cassidy Asher Ebbin, Isabella Delfina Fabio, Minnie Marcelle Fehr, Diego Alessandro Gianni, James William Glanville, Dashiell Hamilton, Ryken Sawyer Hammond, Ford Harman, Will Harman, Sophie Hernandez, Phil Ittstein, Raglan Kear, Cosima Kerber-Snyder, Max Roberson King, Lily Kozlowski, Joseph Rowland Lechuga, Louis Leclercq, Amelia Linnea Lundgren, Jayna Melayne Malmsten, Andreas McClintock, Mila Mae McGonigal, Penelope McKean, Mac Walker McKittrick, Christa A. Moelleken Lezama, London Madison Moro, Alexander Murren Doherty, Cierra Rogers Nervo, Owen Noble, Ella Lillian Pennestri, Olivia Pires, Rowan Bruno Rapp, Robert Kristian Reyes, Lily Gene Rice, Benjamin Richmond, Nico Scibird, Cole Sharpton, Levin Philip Smith, Alice May Sperling, William Robert Stoll, Addison Kehaulani Sweeney, Helen Rose Twining, Emerson Werner, and Drake Strummer Young.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Our Lady of Mount Carmel (OLMC) eight grade graduation was on June 8 at the OLMC Church. Principal Tracie Simolon, 8th grade teacher Angela Sturdivan, and new pastor Lawrence Seyer, followed the graduates’ procession into OLMC Church for Mass and the graduation ceremony. Graduates were the readers for the Mass. Student Body president Julianna Forry gave the graduate address. Ms. Simolon said, “This year’s graduating class is highly spirited and blessed with a variety of gifts and talents. Many of them have been together since kindergarten and have become a second family to one another. While their last year at OLMCS was a trying one, it has brought them closer as a class and saw them serving as role models to their younger schoolmates. It is with pride that we send them forth and congratulate them on their graduation!” The ceremony ended with their class song, “Lean On Me” by Club Nouveau. The students and their families gathered on the front courtyard of the church for hugs and congratulation wishes. The OLMC eighth grade graduates are: Sebastian Alvarez, Halie Bissell, Athena Bow-Graham, Charlotte Caesar, Kaed Caesar, Maliah Cortes, Richard Escoto Ortiz, Matthew Fernandes, Natali Flint, Julianna Forry, Gavin Gettman, Mateo Handall, Nicolas Hernandez, Caitlin Hubbs, Luis Huerta, Aryana Mahboob, Rowen Manriquez, Riley Peterson, AiYan Shefflin, Miguel Unzueta, Juan Valtierra Moros, Mia Velazquez, Anthony Villa, and Chloe Wilcox. •MJ
The Our Lady of Mount Carmel School graduates with principal Tracie Simolon, 8th grade teacher Angela Sturdivan, and pastor Lawrence Seyer
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ORDINANCE NO. 5836 RESOLUTION NO. 18-033 A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA DECLARING ITS INTENTION TO LEVY PARKING AND BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT AREA ASSESSMENT RATES FOR THE 2019 FISCAL YEAR, AT A PUBLIC HEARING TO BE HELD ON JUNE 19, 2018, AT 2:00 P.M. WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 36534 California Streets and Highways Code, it is the intention of the Council of the City of Santa Barbara, to conduct a public hearing to determine whether to fix and assess a Fiscal Year 2019 Downtown Parking and Business Improvement Area (hereinafter referred to as PBIA), as such benefit assessment area has been established by Chapter 4.37 of the Santa Barbara Municipal Code, adopted on September 10, 1991; WHEREAS, upon the completion of a public hearing, it shall be the intention of the City Council to Levy and Collect a benefit assessment within the PBIA as that area is described in the Final Engineer’s Report, approved by the City Council on October 5, 1999, and in the 1999 PBIA Area Map, on file with the City Clerk of the City of Santa Barbara; WHEREAS, for Fiscal Year 2019, the improvements and activities to be provided shall consist of a transfer to the City’s Transportation Division, which shall be exclusively used to support the maintenance of the low hourly parking rates to all persons who park automobiles within the Cityowned or operated hourly public parking lots within the PBIA area; and WHEREAS, a more detailed description of the improvements and activities to be provided to the Downtown area of Santa Barbara and the benefit to the assessed businesses may be found in the Final Engineer’s Report, the Addendum to the Final Engineer’s Report of Formula and Methodology of Assessments dated April 7, 2010, and the 2019 PBIA Annual Assessment Report (hereinafter referred to as Annual Report, attached as Exhibit), which was reviewed and approved by the City’s Downtown Parking Committee, serving as the PBIA Advisory Board, as required by Section 4.37.145 of the Santa Barbara Municipal Code, and which Annual Report is on file with the City Clerk and available for review or copying by the public.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AMENDING CHAPTER 4.52 OF TITLE 4 OF THE SANTA BARBARA MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO CITY PURCHASING PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on June 5, 2018. The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara, California.
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA:
/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager
SECTION 1. It is the intention of the City Council to levy and collect assessments with the PBIA for the Fiscal Year of 2019, within the boundaries of the PBIA, as such boundaries were established upon the enactment of Chapter 4.37 of the Santa Barbara Municipal Code on September 10, 1991, as amended by the City Ordinance No. 5126, adopted October 5, 1999, and by the approval of the related map on file with the City Clerk. It is also the City Council’s intention to confirm the method and basis of assessment as established by the City Council upon the enactment of Santa Barbara Municipal Code Chapter 4.37, and as described in the Annual Report. SECTION 2. The proposed improvements and activities to be provided within the Downtown PBIA for Fiscal Year 2019 will consist of the benefit of reduced on-site parking requirements due to proximity to a public lot, and the maintenance of the low hourly parking rates for those persons using the City’s Downtown public off-street parking facilities, as more fully described in the Annual Report. The actual assessments to be levied and collected are described in more detail in the Final Engineer’s Report, approved by the City Council on October 5, 1999, and the Addendum to the Final Engineer’s Report of Formula and Methodology of Assessments, approved by the City Council on May 25, 2010. SECTION 3. Time and place for the public hearing to consider the intention of the City Council shall be during the 2:00 p.m. session of the Council’s regularly scheduled meeting of June 19, 2018, in the City Council Chambers, located at the Santa Barbara City Hall. SECTION 4. Written and oral protests to the proposed 2019 Downtown PBIA Annual Assessments, as described in the Annual Report, may be made at the above-described public hearing provided that such protests are in the form and manner required by Sections 36524 and 36525 of the California Streets and Highways Code. SECTION 5. The City Clerk shall give notice of the above-described public hearing by causing a copy of this resolution of intention to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the City, no less than seven (7) days prior to June 19, 2018.
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) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced May 22, 2018, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on June 5, 2018, by the following roll call vote: AYES:
Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Eric Friedman, Gregg Hart, Randy Rowse, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo
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RESOLUTION NO. 18-033 A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA DECLARING ITS INTENTION TO LEVY PARKING AND BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT AREA ASSESSMENT RATES FOR THE 2019 FISCAL YEAR, AT A PUBLIC HEARING TO BE HELD ON JUNE 19, 2018, AT 2:00 P.M. The above captioned resolution was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on June 5, 2018. The publication of this resolution is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara, California. (Seal)
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on June 6, 2018.
/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager
/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager
RESOLUTION NO. 18-033 STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA CITY OF SANTA BARBARA
I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on
) ) ) ss. ) )
June 6, 2018.
/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing resolution was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on June 5, 2018, by the following roll call vote: AYES:
Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Eric Friedman, Gregg Hart, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo
NOES:
None
ABSENT:
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ABSTENTIONS:
Councilmember Randy Rowse
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on June 6, 2018. s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on June 6, 2018. s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor Published June 13, 2018 Montecito Journal
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Published June 13, 2018 Montecito Journal
F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Movegreen Franchising, 1811 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Movegreen Franchising, INC., 1811 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with
the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 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 Jazmin Murphy. FBN No. 201814 – 21 June 2018
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bids will be received and posted electronically on PlanetBids for: BID NO. 5659 DUE DATE & TIME: July 9, 2018 UNTIL 3:00P.M. Gasoline Engine Replacement for Harbor Patrol Boat #3 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. 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 June 13, 2018 Montecito Journal
0001668. Published June 13, 20, 27, July 4, 2018. F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ariza Construction, 936 Mission Canyon Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Alpine Lake Homes, Inc., 15841 Woodbridge Lane, Truckee, CA 96161. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 17, 2018. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN No. 20180001482. Published June 13, 20, 27, July 4, 2018. F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: El Bajio Landscaping, 674 Sheridan Way, Ventura, CA 93001. Alberto Duarte, 674 Sheridan Way, Ventura, 14 – 21 June 2018
CA 93001. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 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 Adela Bustos. FBN No. 20180001003. Published April 4, 11, 18, 25, 2018. F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 126 E. Haley Tenants A15, 126 E. Haley, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Ameravant INC, 2634 Hacienda Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 22, 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.
Hillman. FBN No. 20180001531. Published May 30, June 6, 13, 20, 2018.
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F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Innovative Security Coatings Systems, 449 Old Coast Hwy Suite B-6, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Paul Allard, 449 Old Coast Hwy Suite B-6, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Refugio Flores, 1701 North H Street, Oxnard, CA 93030. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 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. F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Back to Earth Landscaping, 44 Portola Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Jaime Nava, 44 Portola Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This
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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. F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 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
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expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Connie Tran. FBN No. 2018-0001397. Published May 23, 30, June 6, 13, 2018. 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
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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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(from left) Rebekah Tang, Karen Robiscoe, Ashley Arnold, and Craig Prentice, executive director of the YMCA with daughter Landon
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(from left) Mackenzie Hopkins, Andrew Aleman, and Nancy Roman
unning is fun. Running a beautiful route makes it that much better. Add a running buddy, a dog, cheering spectators, and a bannered finish line, and you have a recipe for foot-falling bliss. The State Street Mile staged on June 3 had all that – times a thousand. The grass roots race that started in 1983 has blossomed into a premier event attracting hundreds of locals, and yes, their canine companions. Dog-friendly, family-oriented, and geared toward runners of all ages and athletic abilities, the State Street Mile warrants an ovation. Categorized by Dog, Family, Elite, Masters, and Amputee divisions, everyone was welcome, and after going the distance personally, I can attest the dash from Pedregosa to De La Guerra is a community competition that embodies the best of our fair city. Revamped as a fundraiser in 2000 by the Victim Witness Assistance Program, a department of the Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s office, all proceeds go to benefit the Crime Victim Emergency Fund. Providing such necessities as food, clothing, and emergency lodging expenses, the result of the entrance fees rival the time results of the runners by a mile. All wordplay intended, it’s this underlying cause that contributes to the positive energy program director Megan Rheinschild finds so inspiring. “One of my favorite parts about it is just how much fun the families and children have running down State Street together – all closed off as it is,” or perhaps it’s her own participation. “I’m a runner myself, and I run the Family Fun Mile with
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(from left) Noah Guillen, Curly Guillen, and Mackenzie Guillen
my husband, Eric, and our two teenage boys.” It’s the class in which I also ran, courtesy of the uptown YMCA. Part of a group of Y staff, the nonprofit is a big presence at the popular event – giving out free totes at the finish line, and running with the best of ‘em. YMCA kickboxing instructor Rebekah Tang was happy to tell me what brought her out that morning: “I’m prepping for a 5K, but I just want to enjoy myself today. Seeing so many people I know is great” – a sentiment echoed by many of those I asked. Triathlete Carl Parker, who marked this year as a third-time entrant, said: “It’s fun. Everyone comes out to support each other. Young runners, old runners… you can’t really beat it in the middle of SB.” And it might be a stretch, but I think 9-year old Twinkle, a mixed
Twinkle and Michael LeBold
The reverend Larry Gosselin
breed ready to run her first race with owner Michael LeBold, was barking up the same tree, too. “I’ve heard so many great things about the event.” Michael told me when we spoke prerace. “Twinkle and I are going to pace ourselves. This will be the farthest she’s ever gone at a clip.” A truth unique to the pair, as I journeyed from my parking space close to De La Guerra to the start line, I saw more than a few runners streak by in their heat – then jog leisurely back to Pedregosa to take part in another division. Jake Ballantine was one such athlete – placing 2nd in his age class and 1st in the Family Fun Run – he modestly admitted: “I’m going to run the Dog Mile with my friend and his pooch next.” Not as gung-ho, I was nevertheless motivated to go all out when the gun fired my group into motion – if only for the one pass. I don’t know about you, but once I fasten a bib to my shirt, I want to run as well and as fast as I’m able, whether it’s a mile or a marathon. The blocks flew by as I ran, the encouragement from onlookers music to the ears, and the experience of running smack in the middle of our busiest thoroughfare a novelty to relish. I had just established my pace, really, when I found myself flying through the archway erected at the finish line. A drum section underscored the achievement, and after
grabbing a provided cold beverage, I glowed with post-race endorphins, ready to do some cheering of my own. What wasn’t to love about watching a fully cassocked priest cross the finish line? The reverend Larry Gosselin – who spontaneously joined the runners after delivering mass at the Mission – received many a hurrah. His statement that “Running is receiving the breath of the spirit” was testimony to his days as a one-time avid runner, while witnessing Andre Barbieri set a personal best was equally heartwarming. Sporting an abovethe-knee prosthetic on his left leg, the four-time race veteran credited the “Cheetah Bladerunner” with his improved stride. “I ran it in just under 6 minutes,” he enthused, ebullient as he added: “It’s the easiest race of the year. It’s all downhill!” Bumping into well-known elite runner Curly Guillen was just icing on the cake. In the midst of preparing for the 2020 Olympic trials, the nationally acclaimed athlete had his two tots in tow for the Family division of the event. “I’m not running the elite mile today,” he said laughingly, beaming the way proud fathers do. “I am definitely watching them, though!” Yes, much fun was had by all – adults, children, and spectators alike. I know I’ll be running in next year’s State Street Mile. Won’t you lace up and join us? •MJ
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convertible lent by the O’Gara Coach Company in Westlake. TV personality Tara Gray, a former Miss Alabama, will also be joining us.
In Memoriam On a personal note, I mark the passing of chef and masterful storyteller Anthony Bourdain, who died in Paris at the age of 61 after committing suicide. Bourdain, who was the culinary star of CNN’s award-winning series Parts Unknown, and used to date an old friend New York Post writer Paula Froelich, visited our tony town just last month to speak at a UCSB Arts & Lectures gala at the Museum of History.
A sad end to a glittering peripatetic career. Sightings: Actor Ryan Gosling at Lotusland...Actress Janelle Odair Bottleson at the Santa Barbara Polo Club...Dennis Miller at Starbucks on CVR Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmin eards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal. To reach Priscilla, email her at pris cilla@santabarbaraseen.com or call 969-3301. •MJ
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C ALENDAR OF Note to readers: This entertainment calendar is a subjective sampling of arts and other events taking place in the Santa Barbara area for the next week. It is by no means comprehensive. Be sure to read feature stories in each issue that complement the calendar. In order to be considered for inclusion in this calendar, information must be submitted no later than noon on the Wednesday eight days prior to publication date. Please send all news releases and digital artwork to slibowitz@yahoo.com)
THURSDAY, JUNE 14 Mesa Music Nites – The bluff top neighborhood that is home to SBCC, Lazy Acres and the Wilcox Property (officially Douglas Family Preserve) is throwing a monthly festival of its own this summer. The events feature live music from local musicians at another of the Mesa’s fantastic open spaces – Singleton Pavilion at Elings Park, the huge area that hosts soccer and rugby games as well as wedding and many other events all year round. Admission is free, and food and drinks will be available for purchase as you enjoy the music and some of the best views in all of Santa Barbara. This month’s artist is Rick Reeves, the tireless troubadour long famous locally for slinging blues, jazz, and classic rock songs on trusty acoustic and electric guitars. Reeves sold out Carpinteria’s Alcazar Theatre for a B.B. King tribute concert last year and is slated to perform at the venue’s Johnny Cash and Friends show marking the Man in Black’s 50th anniversary of the Folsom Prison show. Bring family, friends, lawn chairs, and blankets, and feel good knowing that proceeds benefit future Mesa area safety and beautification projects. WHEN: 5:30 to 7:30 pm WHERE: 1298 Las Positas Road COST: free INFO: www. mesabusinessassociation.org GreenScreen Films – UCSB’s hands-on, project-based environmental media production program finds students from a variety of disciplines – the arts, humanities, social sciences,
and sciences – working in teams to leverage their collective production skills and environmental knowledge in creating short documentaries and other films focused on eco-consciousness. The goal of the program is not only to increase awareness about the environment, but to expand the ways that the issues are represented and communicated. The students work with local environmental organizations on critical issues that affect Santa Barbara County. The world premiere program of this year’s films features four student-produced films with various subjects, all about nature and the environment, including Trial by Fire, which examines the experiences of local inmate firefighters who battled the recent blazes in Santa Barbara, and Trail Heads, which follows several trail communities who are working to rebuild the front and back country routes that were devastated by the Thomas Fire and debris flows. Also showing are A Brief History of Waste, a comedy/drama ensemble piece that explores the metaphysical and aesthetic notion of how trash is created and reflected upon, and Our Last Trash, about plastic pollution and how some individuals are redefining trash through a “zero waste” lifestyle. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Pollock Theater, UCSB campus COST: free (reservations recommended) INFO: 893-5903 or www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock FRIDAY, JUNE 15 The Seven Deadly Sins – Dance with Harout Performance
THURSDAY, JUNE 14 Slackers in Paradise – That’s the name of the current tour featuring Hawaiian slack key guitar masters Jim “Kimo” West and Ken Emerson, and while that might not fly when the duo appears in Bakersfield or Fresno, SOhO in Santa Barbara surely qualifies as a little slice of Eden. West took a rather unexpected route to the acoustic guitar tradition that features loosening some of the strings (slackened) from standard tuning with the bass, melody, and improvisation played at the same time. He arrived in Hana, Maui, in 1985 following a long summer on the road as guitarist for famed pop satirist “Weird Al” Yankovic and immediately fell in love with the slack key sound. Over the ensuing three decades, West honed his own brand of the style, retaining the heartfelt essence of traditional slack key while blending in much of his own musical heritage, which now includes writes and producing music for film and television, lays both Hawaiian Slack Key and lap steel guitar, inflecting the standard approach with his influences from the folk and blues scene in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960s. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $15 INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com
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FRIDAY, JUNE 15 Damien’s Omens – Violinist Damien Escobar, who graduated from Juilliard at 13, performed with his brother, Tourie, in a duo called Nuttin but Stringz, and went from subway sensation to winning a talent contest at the Apollo Theater, to appearing in the film Step Up and taking third place in the 2008 season of America’s Got Talent. But when the glory faded, Escobar made the decision to retire his violin and subsequently struggled with his identity, depression, and trying to find success in non-creative endeavors. The process evolved to where Damien wanted to “unbury” his talent and reconnect with his love of playing the violin. He released his first album as a solo artist, Sensual Melodies, in 2013, garnering more than 200,000 downloads and heading out on the road as a solo act for the first time. Escobar’s escapades including appearing in magazines and newspapers, on The Today Show on TV, and as part of Oprah Winfrey’s “The Life You Want” tour. He soon created a line of custom-designed violins and established partnerships to develop a wine line, perfume, and fragrances, and a nonprofit organization including a music program for children. With the release of his second album, Boundless, his first featuring all originally produced material, Escobar is back on tour, including playing and sharing his uplifting message and his unfiltered personal stories at theaters across the country. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: 33 East Canon Perdido St. COST: $49 INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com
Company’s summer show presents a sultry production that actually offers two more pieces beyond what the title would indicate. The nine dance numbers combine hip hop, modern dance, and burlesque to offer a different perspective on sin and sinful storytelling. A guest performer joins the cast for Saturday’s show. Choreographed, directed, and produced by Harout Aristakessian, who teaches classes regularly in town and elsewhere. WHEN: 8 pm today & tomorrow WHERE: Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo, upstairs in the mall COST: $32 general in advance, $42 day of show INFO: 963-0408 or www.CenterStageTheater.org SATURDAY, JUNE 16
Fiddlin’ to Film – Santa Barbara Symphony music director Nir Kabaretti was probably only halfkidding when he told me at opening night of Ensemble Theater’s new Cookin’ at the Cookery Alberta Hunter musical that he had been hoping that guest conductor Carolyn Kuan wouldn’t be able to lead the ensemble at this weekend’s pair of performances of John Corigliano’s Academy Awardwinning score for The Red Violin, accompanied by François Girard’s engrossing film, with Canadian violinist Lara St. John as soloist. The concerts were originally scheduled for mid-January, but the Montecito debris flow forced the five-month delay, meaning Kabaretti was now I lost my father this past year, and the word feels right because I keep looking for him. – Mark Slouka
available. Still, he plans on being in the audience for the performances, not only for the rare opportunity to hear the symphony play from a different perspective but also because the music is marvelous, the film is genuinely stirring, and the talented St. John is a vivacious virtuoso who was the first to premiere the performance-to-film show – which more or less amounts to a two-hour concerto – up in her native Canada last year. Kuan is no slouch, either: the first woman to be awarded the Herbert von Karajan Conducting Fellowship has been the music director of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra since 2011 (recently extended through 2022) and has also served as a guest conductor of the symphonies of Baltimore, Detroit, Milwaukee, San Francisco, and Seattle, as well as many top-notch opera companies. It’s multimedia at its high-brow finest. WHEN: 8 tonight, 3 pm tomorrow WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street COST: $29 & up INFO: 899-2222 or www.granadasb.org MONDAY, JUNE 18 Light on Their Feet – Momentum Dance Company’s (MDC) fourth annual summer showcase carries a special message for both the audience and performers: Let Your Light Shine, perhaps a reference to emerging from the darkness engendered by the area’s recent twin tragedies. Momentum’s director Betsy Woyach presents her recreational dancers, as well as her award-winning performers from MDC’s 14 – 21 June 2018
FRIDAY, JUNE 15 Groovin’ in the Goodland – The Goodland Concert Series gets going this weekend out at the trendy hotel in Goleta, where bands will be dropping by all summer to play at the Good Bar, the hotel’s hidden cocktail joint. Kicking things off tonight is Kah-Lo, a Nigerian-born dance sensation whose 2016 including the chart-topping hit “Rinse & Repeat”, a collaboration with London-based producer Riton. The song sold 400,000 copies in the U.K. and received 35 million streams on Spotify, as well as a Grammy nomination for Best Dance Recording. Although she relocated to the U.S., Kah-Lo is currently doing a festival-filled summer at Pukkelpop, Reading and Leeds, and found her latest single, “Fake ID”, earning BBC Radio 1’s hottest specialist record of the year. Next up is singer-songwriter Dana Williams on July 29. The Goodland also welcomes area DJs, including the seemingly omnipresent Darla Bea, every Saturday and Sunday afternoons from 1 to 5 pm at the hotel’s poolside bar. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: 5650 Calle Real, Goleta COST: free INFO: 964-6241 or www.thegoodland.com
Competitive Company in a combined show that features dancers aged 7-18 presenting pieces ranging from tap, hip hop, and jazz to contemporary and ballet. Choreography comes from Woyach plus L.A. and Santa Barbara up-and-coming dance educators Whitney Bezzant, Nicole Russo, Pablo Gatica, Meghan Buddy, and Quinn Oliver. Feel free to let your own light shine as you feel the beat and clap hands to any dance that inspires you. More information online at www.MomentumDanceSB. com. WHEN: 7 pm today & tomorrow WHERE: Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo, upstairs in the mall COST: $30 VIP, $20 general INFO: 963-0408 or www. CenterStageTheater.org Belly Laughs at Brass Bear – Comedy has been making a massive resurgence in Santa Barbara in recent months, what with the new series at Carrillo Recreation Center every
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second Friday of the month, and the relaunching of Comedy Hideaway at the new Flightline restaurant in Goleta just this May. Also joining the fray is Brass Bear Brewing – the husbandand-wife led company located just a block from the beach in the Funk Zone – which hosts a special Open Mic night, a pop-up comedy & dinner show. Uriah Wesman produces the event, which allots just five minutes for hopeful humorists to deliver a short set, with bonus time for out-of-town comics and those who are working on material for a scheduled show. Also performing are professionals Tré Lamb (Laughology, Levity Live), Jasmine Harman (Laughology), and Michael Steinburg, plus unannounced special guests. You must be 21 to imbibe, but all ages are welcome to come listen get on stage and do your thing. WHEN: 6 to 9 pm WHERE: 28 Anacapa St, # E COST: free INFO: 770-7651 or www. brassbearbrewing.com •MJ
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Butler’s Doing It – A couple of awesome Aussie roots music purveyors are headed our way, a don’t-miss, Down Under double-bill at the Granada. John Butler Trio is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, two decades of roots and jam music led by the titular singersongwriter-guitarist who has captured an armful of awards back home in Australia. Their most recent CD, Flesh & Blood, won “Best Blues & Roots Album” at the 2014 ARIA awards, the Aussie equivalent of the Grammys, and finds the front man turning even more inward than the cerebral writer generally has with his lyrics. But it’s the live stage where Butler’s popular activist anthems such as “Earthbound Child” and “Fire in the Sky” come alive as one of the political of the jam band genre. Opening is Mama Kin Spender, which features Australian singer-songwriter Mama Kin (Danielle Caruana) and soul-power producer Tom Spender in a duo that favors brooding guitars, primal drums, and howling harmonies. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street COST: $34-$54 INFO: 899-2222 or www. granadasb.org
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Director of homeless guest services Stacy Ralston spoke to the group, telling us their mission “was to preserve human dignity.” One way they do it is in the life development center, where the women learn about computers; another is the medical gap program. A recent graduate from SBRM’s Bethel House, Karla, told us, “I was an addict for many years. I used to dig a hole near here to hide in at night so I wouldn’t be attacked. Now, I’m a productive member of society. I am a grandma. I have my family back. My grandchildren won’t ever have to visit me in jail. I’ve been given a chance to heal – and I have never been offered that in my life.” The honorary committee was: Pam Beebe, Sue Birch, Patty Bryant, Renee Curtis, Janet Garufis, Anna Grotenhuis, Penny Jenkins, Gerd Jordano, Kay Schofield, Helene Winter and Beth Wood. Montecito Bank & Trust president/ CEO Janet Garufis came looking exactly like Rosie in blue overalls and a polka-dot head scarf, ready to do the paddle raise. Many paddles were raised and many thousands of dollars. If you’d like to add to the coffers, call (805) 966-1316.
La Primavera 2018
La Primavera means “spring” in Spanish, and in Santa Barbara it means the beginning of Old Spanish Days (OSD). There’s always a Fiesta party to unveil the poster and pin that will be
La Presidenta Denise Sanford with husband Kirby at the Primavera fête
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La Presidenta Denise Sanford introducing the 2018 OSD’s poster at La Primavera soirée
the symbol of this year’s celebration. Fiesteros gathered at the Carriage & Western Art Museum in costumes for margaritas, wine, food, and song. La Presidenta Denise Sanford unveiled this year’s beautiful official Fiesta poster and pin to much applause. Denise said, “I first saw Old Spanish Days board members David Bolton and first vice president Barbara Carroll with Gonzalo Sermiento
Saint Barbara Anne Petersen (center) flanked by past Fiesta Presidentes Josiah Jenkins, Joanne Funari, Rogers Aceves, Herb Barthels, Rhonda Henderson, and Ricardo Castellanos at the Primavera party
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ing sponsor was COX represented by Kirsten McLaughlin. Tom Bateman ran the live auction, much of which was signed posters with the big prize being a VIP throughout Fiesta, including a ride in the parade. The theme this year is to celebrate traditions, so I hope you will raise a glass to yours. Viva la Fiesta!
A gaggle of scholarship recipients (photo by SFSB)
the image I selected for my poster in 2008. I was immediately drawn to it because it looked happy and was very traditional to me. I thought if I ever became La Presidenta, I would want that as my poster.” The original image for the poster was found at SullivanGoss and OSD board member Debbie Oquist helped with the design, while Steve Lipman at Pincrafters assisted with the pin design. For the pin, Denise wanted to use the courthouse because it’s a favorite building of hers. She remembers seeing the dancers of all ages on the Sunken Garden stage, so why not put the poster dancers and the courthouse together on the pin? The poster artist Jesus Enrique Emilio de la Helguera Espinoza was born in Chihuahua, Mexico. He spent his childhood in Mexico City and then moved to Cordoba, Veracruz. His family fled the Mexican Revolution to Spain, eventually to Madrid. He spent much time in the famous Del Prado Museum and by age 14 was in an Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes. He married and raised two children. Because of the Spanish Civil War, he moved back to Veracruz. He became famous (the Norman Rockwell of Mexico), and his work could be found on many things from calendars to cigar boxes. Both the Junior Spirit of Fiesta Georgey Taupin and the Spirit of Fiesta Jesalyn Contreras McCollum danced for us. There was also a special performance by Grupo de Danza Folklorica Quetzalcoatl. The present-
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with the Santa Barbara Foundation presented its 2018 awards at a ceremony in the Courthouse Sunken Garden. More than 600 folks, including students, parents, educators, and community leaders, gathered to witness or receive awards. This year, SFSB awarded more than 2,700 college and vocational scholarships totaling in excess of $8.3 million to students throughout the county. Their first year, they awarded $900. I’d say they’ve come a long way. The SFSB board chair Don Logan and Santa Barbara Foundation board chair Diane Adam both spoke. Don told the recipients, “We want you to know that the community is investing in your future. College grads earn one million more than non grads.” The Santa Barbara Foundation has contributed nearly $1.2 million in scholarship funds this year and is the SFSB’s largest partner. Some of the facts are pretty amazing, such as the SFSB is the nation’s largest community-based provider of college scholarships, having cumulatively awarded in excess of $100 million to more than 47,000 county students since it was founded in 1962. Not only dollars, they provide free financial aid advising services. That would be to some 20,000 individuals a year. And SFSB award recipients have a six-year graduation rate of 81 percent, while the national average is 63 percent. Way to go! For additional information, visit www.sbscholarship.org. or call (805) 687-6065. •MJ 14 – 21 June 2018
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Sliced Steak Salad, 6 oz., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $27. arugula, radicchio, endive, sautéed onion
Arugula, Radicchio & Endive, reggiano, balsamic vinaigrette 12. Caesar Salad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12. Farm Greens, balsamic vinaigrette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12. Jimmy the Greek Salad, french feta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12. Giant Shrimp Cocktail (3 pcs) or Crabmeat Cocktail . . . . . . . 18. Grilled Artichoke, choice of sauce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12. Burrata, tomatoes, arugula, le sorrelle’s evoo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15. French Onion Soup Gratinée . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12. Matzo Ball Soup or Today’s Soup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10. Lucky Chili, cheddar, onions, warm corn bread . . . . . . . . . . . . 14. Fried Calamari, two sauces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.
Seafood Louie, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29. shrimp, crab, egg, romaine, tomato ,cucumber, avocado Cobb Salad, roquefort dressing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20. Chopped Salad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18. arugula, radicchio, shrimp, prosciutto, beans, onions Charred Rare Tuna Nicoise Salad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27. Old School Chinese Chicken Salad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20. Chilled Poached Salmon Salad of the day, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22. Lucky’s Salad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18. romaine, shrimp, bacon, green beans, avocado and roquefort
• Tacos and other Mains • Chicken, Swordfish or Steak Tacos, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $22. beans, guacamole, salsa, tortillas
• Sandwiches • Fries, Farm Greens or Caesar
Lucky Burger, choice of cheese, soft bun or kaiser . . . . . . . . $20. Range Free Vegetarian Burger, choice of cheese, . . . . . . . . . . 20. soft bun or kaiser (burger patty is vegan) Sliced Filet Mignon Open Faced Sandwich, 6 oz., . . . . . . . . . 27. mushroom sauce
Fried Chicken Breast, boneless & skinless, coleslaw and fries . 19. Chicken Parmesan, San Marzano tomato sauce, . . . . . . . . . . .22. imported mozzarella, basil Salmon, blackened, grilled or steamed, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22. lemon-caper butter sauce, sautéed spinach Sautéed Tofu, Japanese vinaigrette, green onions, shiitakes . . 18. Sliced Prime NY Steak Frites, 7 oz., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29. red wine shallot or peppercorn cream sauce
Reuben Sandwich, corned beef, kraut & gruyère on rye . . . . . 20. Meatball Sub, mozzarella, basil, D’Angelo roll . . . . . . . . . . . . 20. Pulled Pork Sandwich, Carolina bbq sauce, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19. topped with slaw, D’Angelo Roll
Smoked Scottish Salmon, Toasted Bialy or Bagel, . . . . . . . . . 20. cream cheese & condiments
Chili Dog, onions, cheddar & kraut - all on the side . . . . . . . . 14. Maine Lobster Roll, warm buttered D’Angelo roll . . . . . . . . . 29.
Skinny Onion Rings or Herbie’s Potato Skins . . . . . . . . . . . . $9. Lucky’s French Fried Potatoes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9. Lucky’s Home Fries or Fried Sweet Potatoes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9. Lucky’s Half & Half . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10. Sautéed Spinach or Sugar Snap Peas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.
• Sides •
Our Corkage Fee is $35 per 750ml bottle with a 2-bottle limit per table • 20% Gratuity added to parties of six or more